Chapter Forty-Seven: Substitute Witchcraft, Three Years' Covenant
Returning to the real world for the second time, Granny Zhang was indescribably excited and excited in her heart, and she couldn't wait to tell her nephew what she had discovered.
But after seeing Zhang Xiangjun, Zhang Xiangjun's attitude was not as enthusiastic as before.
Facing his mother-in-law lying on the hospital bed, Zhang Xiangjun said three things.
First, when he rescued Granny Zhang from the bottom of the well for the second time, Zhang Xiangjun went down in person, but there was no accident, he did not faint, and he did not see any underground palace.
Second, Granny Zhang was admitted to the hospital twice, and no matter what the reason was, it had already had a very bad impact on Zhang Xiangjun. Rumors have begun to circulate outside that Zhang Xiangjun abused his own parents and forced the old man to jump into a well or something.
Three, no matter what Granny Zhang saw after she fainted, or what she felt was happening to her, don't say it again. Moreover, the matter of exploring the tomb of Guqiu ended here, and Granny Zhang was not allowed to go down the well again.
After saying these three things, Zhang Xiangjun left.
If the average old man encounters this kind of thing, I am afraid that he will be so aggrieved that he will cry, make trouble, and hang himself. But Granny Zhang is a person who came over in the wind and rain, can people who have been criticized back then still care about this grievance. She didn't care about Zhang Xiangjun's attitude at all, because at this time, all she was thinking about was going back to the underground palace to have a look. However, the impact on Zhang Xiangjun's reputation abroad cannot but be considered.
After some consideration, Granny Zhang made an important decision, which was to practice a kind of stand-in witchcraft.
This kind of witchcraft is similar to the legend of "the high monk sits on the relics and the soul goes out of the body to do the ancient". When the mother-in-law's soul detached from the body, her body shrank and deformed into a grassy person.
Practicing this kind of witchcraft is extremely risky and not easy, one is to learn to go out of the body freely, and the other is to make one's body change. Looking at the situation of entering the underground dragon city the first two times, it was very similar to the situation of passive soul out-of-body, which reduced the difficulty of cultivation by half, so my mother-in-law finally made such a decision.
As long as her cultivation is successful, she doesn't have to worry about being discovered by others after she throws herself into the well, and no one knows. Naturally, it will not have an impact on Zhang Xiangjun.
In the days to come. While Granny Zhang was looking through ancient books to find records related to that underground dragon city, she hurried up her time to practice that kind of stand-in witchcraft.
When she finally succeeded in cultivating one day, Granny Zhang immediately couldn't wait to throw herself into the well for the third time.
Entering the dungeon for the third time, the mother-in-law's focus was on those terracotta warriors. The last time I ran away with them. Let my mother-in-law have a strong curiosity about the people who make these earth and stones.
As a result of this in-depth study. Granny Zhang found that the terracotta warriors in the underground palace could not only act like ordinary people, but could even speak human words. Every time the mother-in-law finds a batch of terracotta warriors, she can hear some fixed words from the mouth of the leader of this batch of terracotta warriors. When these words were finally said in series, the picture that the mother-in-law finally constructed in her mind was actually the Chu and Han fighting for hegemony.
The more information you know, the bigger the mystery of this dungeon......
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In the next few years, whenever my mother-in-law is free, she will come to this underground palace. At first, it was to explore the secrets, but later the mother-in-law gradually liked to talk to these wooden terracotta warriors, and it didn't matter what kind of mounds and tombs or underground dragon cities were.
Of course, sometimes my mother-in-law doesn't just want to come here. Even if she used stand-in witchcraft, it couldn't stop someone with bad intentions from investigating her whereabouts. A few of them, the mother-in-law threw herself into the well was exposed, and the news was poked out again, causing trouble to Zhang Xiangjun.
In desperation, Zhang Xiangjun could only get a certificate of mild mental disorder for his mother-in-law, and sent his mother-in-law to a psychiatric rehabilitation center for treatment from time to time, so as to block the rumors of "elder abuse" circulating outside.
It was also at this time that Zhang Xiangjun, the nephew, gradually alienated Granny Zhang, and the investigation of Guqiu's tomb was completely closed.
When the mother-in-law said this, she let out a long sigh and stopped. I was a little stunned when I heard it, and I couldn't understand why my mother-in-law didn't speak. On the contrary, the fat man next to him reacted quickly, and he didn't know where to get a bottle of mineral water, and hurriedly handed it to Granny Zhang.
I like the fat man, there is something in his eyes, there is work in his hands, there are people in his heart, no matter what the situation, he can use the opportunity to unite all the forces that can be united.
While my mother-in-law was drinking water, I took out my phone and looked at the time, it was already eleven o'clock, and there was still an hour before the next board reset. The time is neither long nor short, but it is no longer enough to listen to Granny Zhang tell her past story little by little, so it is better for me to quickly ask what I want to know directly.
As soon as I thought of this, I opened my mouth and asked, "Mother-in-law, you have been to this underground palace so many times, have you found out how this place appeared?"
"Alas, no. I felt that the answer should be on the other side of the river, but after all these years, I couldn't find a way to cross the river. ”
My mother-in-law sighed, but the question she said was really not a difficult problem for me, and I could consider bringing her over later if I could. But in this way, it proves that I can't get more useful information from my mother-in-law.
Slightly disappointed, I was unwilling to ask again: "Mother-in-law, then what are you entering the dungeon for this time, did you get other clues?"
"Other clues? Well, almost. It's just that exploring the secrets of this dungeon is secondary, and I'm actually here for an appointment. ”
"Go to the appointment, go to what appointment?"
That's a long way to say. Do you remember what I told you just now, when this underground dragon city was flooded, only three trees, two wells, and one mountain remained?"
"Yes. ”
"Well, that mountain is actually a place on the ground called Guqiu Mountain. Three years ago, someone occupied the Guqiu Mountain and started repairing the Dayu water control site there. Originally, I didn't take this seriously, but during the time of the renovation of the ruins, I met another person here. ”
"Anyone else has been in here before?"
"Yes. It was a high-ranking monk with the Dharma name Ten Directions, and we had dealt with him in the early years, and he was a few years older than me. When I met him, it was by the river, and he was meditating in the pile of bones, and I was stupid when I recognized him. Later, I learned that he was the one who planned to repair the relics of Dayu's water control. I asked him why he wanted to repair the ruins and how he got into the palace. He only said that he had known this underground palace for a long time, and everything he did was to wait for someone destined to come here in three years. I asked him again about the origin of this underground palace, and he only said that he wanted to know the answer, and he would come here again in three years, and then he jumped into the river. (To be continued.) )