Chapter 104: Words in the Picture
Many fell to the ground on all fours, wailing and wailing. The monk also lay in the grass, motionless.
Erhei looked around and felt a little familiar. He tried to think about it for a long time, and then he remembered that this was actually the backyard of the Yamen of the Procuratorate! Only at this time, there were no more wooden monsters in the courtyard that were missing hands and feet. The courtyard was full of cloudy winds, and the sound of insects sounded from time to time.
Erhei and Xiaomei stood hand in hand in the soft moonlight, looking at each other and smiling.
"I didn't expect to see you again......" Erhei said, "I thought I'd never see you again." ”
"yes, I didn't expect ...... either," the little sister said.
The faint moonlight sprinkled on the two people, and Erhei looked up at the sky and said, "This feeling is like a dream." ”
The little sister smiled lightly: "It's like a dream......"
"Uh-huh......" A voice suddenly broke the silence around him. The bearded man glanced at the two of them and asked, "You guys, when are you going to be involved?"
Only then did the two react and quickly let go of their hands.
The violent shaking had already stopped, and the little sister turned her head to see that the row of rooms had collapsed into ruins. But after all, this is a legendary haunted mansion, plus the scene of flying into the sky just now, so even if they heard the sound, no one dared to enter this courtyard to take a look.
The little sister turned back to the bearded man and said, "You go and check it out to see if anyone is hurt." ”
After saying that, she turned around and walked to the house with only a row of low walls, which was full of bricks, mud and dust, and a corner of her clothes loomed in the clods.
Erhei walked over, said strangely, and said, "Why is there still a portrait of that statue here?"
"It was originally hung in the house, didn't you see it when you came in?" asked the little sister.
Erhei shook his head: "No, I was dragged in by that group of wood monsters." ”
The little sister said "oh" and said: "This is a divine prayer in folklore to ward off evil and avoid evil, called 'Fang Xiang'." ”
She patted the dust on the painting and held it in her hand, the divine prayer in the painting was still the same majestic appearance, but its eyes were no longer bright. Not only did it lose its radiance, but its four eyes had become four hollows, as if they had been cut out raw.
"Its eyes...... Strange ......" The little sister shook her head again and again.
Erhei looked at it several times, but he didn't see anything unusual, so he asked, "Is there anything special about its eyes?"
The little sister glanced at him and said, "Look." ”
Holding the scroll in both hands, she flipped it over and shone it into the moonlight, four rays of light casting onto the ground through the holes in her eyes.
Several shadows with strange outlines suddenly appeared on the scattered clods of earth.
"What is this?" asked Erhei.
"This is the 'Book of Heaven', which is a font used by people before Shi Huang's character was created. ”
Erhei bent down curiously, looked at it carefully for a while, and asked, "Shi Huangshi, isn't that Cangjie? People used other fonts before Cangjie made characters? Is it a character used by the gods? That's why it's called 'Book of Heaven'?"
Xiaomei said: "'Book of Heaven' is just a synonym for it, just like you people here call us 'Peach Blossom Spring' there." ”
Erhei nodded and asked, "Then what is it said in the book of heaven?"
Xiaomei looked at it carefully for a while and said, "There is a person who entrusted a very important thing to another person, saying that he will come back to pick it up one day in the future." Then the person who took it buried it in the ground in order to protect it, and made a mechanism and a statue to guard it day and night. Unexpectedly, a procuratorate yamen was built here. ”
The little sister put away the painting and said, "The Sichuan and Yunnan areas are popular for the Nu sacrifice. The image of the deity is on top, and perhaps the statue has been affected below, and subtly it has become like that, or it has been that way. However, I find it strange how these things could be recorded on this painting......"
Erhei didn't care about these details, but asked curiously: "It turns out that this four-eyed ...... It turned out to be a god! Is there really a god in this world? Is it true that a god has such great power?"
Xiaomei said: "It's not so much the power of the gods as it!"
She spread out her hand, dragging the object she had taken from the statue's hand less than the size of a palm. In the moonlight, the thing shone brightly. The faces of both men were unusually bright in the light.
Xiaomei said: "Although I don't know what this thing is, I think it must be related to the Peach Blossom Spring." ”
Erhei stared at it curiously and said, "This thing is so magical? But, such a magical thing is that someone would hand it over to someone else for safekeeping, isn't he worried at all that this person will take it and not return it to him?"
Xiaomei said: "I think, this person who took over the thing should not be a villain, if I guess correctly, this person is likely to be the legendary originator of carpentry - Lu Ban." ”
"Luban??"
The little sister stretched out her hand and dug in the clod of soil for a while, and dug out a piece of sawdust, and a groove was recessed in the middle of the sawdust, and the little sister said: "This is used for arrangement, it is a mortise, and it is used to connect the tenon." The reason why I think this entrusted person is Lu Ban, in addition to these organs, there is also that statue. I don't think there are many people who have been able to do this for thousands of years. ”
Her eyes looked at the small thing in her palm, and said: "There was such a record in the book "Mozi": 'The male loses the bamboo and wood and thinks that it is a magpie, and it flies into it, and it does not fall for three days. Perhaps, some things are not just a legend. ”
And the most certain reason for her is that in the "Book of Heaven", it is said that this entrusted person is called Gong Loser, Lu Ban, surnamed Gong Loser, Mingban, known as "Gong Loser".
She put away the strange stuff on that side. The light suddenly stopped, and suddenly the surroundings were much darker.
Erhei looked at the little sister strangely, and said hesitantly: "You say...... The person who handed over the things to Lu Ban and said that he would come back to pick them up in the future, could it be ......?"
He didn't continue, but a pair of eyes glanced at the little sister.
The little sister smiled and said, "How can I be? I haven't lived to be two hundred years old today, how can it be me? And I've never entrusted anything to anyone." ”
"But as soon as the statue saw you, it ripped off its head and handed it to you. Erhei said.