Chapter 16: Jade Pendant
On a sunny afternoon, Xu Xing came to the Wang family's villa in the suburbs, Wang Yuelin greeted him at the gate of the courtyard in person with a cane, he looked at the young man who was smiling towards him in the sun, and suddenly felt that the dark clouds that had shrouded his heart for many days were dispersed, "Mr. Xu, you are very punctual." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"I'm just thinking about your good bottles." Xu Xing smiled and helped Wang Yuelin into the courtyard.
Wang's mansion is an antique Chinese courtyard, at first glance it is solemn and quiet, but a closer look reveals that it has a meaning beyond life behind its magnificent door, these flowers are red and willow green, strange mountains and stones, small arch holes, small bridges and flowing water, forming a picture of idle clouds and wild cranes.
Xu walked to the front of a bonsai full of white flowers, and gently stroked a small crystal clear flower on it with his hand, "This is ...... Apple tree? ”
Wang Yuelin's voice softened, "This is a bonsai planted by Wang Qian before his death, he named it Manshu Honeysuckle, how about it, isn't it beautiful?" ”
"The trees are full of silver flowers," Xu Xing said, "It's really a flower and a world." ”
Wang Yuelin suddenly lost his mind for a moment, as if he saw Wang Qian standing in front of this bonsai, and whispered in his mouth, "One flower, one world, one thought, one pure." "That man, that voice, he hadn't heard or seen in thirty years, is it now that God has mercy on him to send back to him a man who looks so much like him?
"Elder Wang, what's wrong with you?" Xu Xing saw that Wang Yuelin didn't speak for a long time, and couldn't help but ask.
"You always remind me of someone," Wang Yuelin smiled gloomily, and then his demeanor returned to normal, "Come on, please inside, I gave the workers a day off, so there are only two of us here today." ”
Xu Xing walked into the room and found that the food had been set on the carved wooden table in the dining room, he sat down at the table with Wang Yuelin, picked up the wine glass in front of him and sniffed it gently, "Sure enough, it's good wine, I'll salute you first." ”
Wang Yuelin smiled heartily and drank the glass of wine, he looked at Xu Xing, his voice suddenly became low, "Mr. Xu, although I am here to thank you today, there are still some things I still want to understand, after all, I have two children who lost their lives on the cruise ship, what is the relationship between you, and Qijun?" I hope you can be open and honest with me. ”
"I do owe you an explanation," Xu Xing put down the wine glass in his hand, "Actually, Qi Jun is not Qi Jun, he is my senior brother, named Lin Sheng." Thirty years ago, he killed Wang Qian and his wife in order to get the token of the Wang family, but because they kept each other with their lives, the token finally fell into Lin Sheng's hands. But he was not reconciled, so he accompanied Wang Chen as a jun three years ago, and his purpose was of course the Five Thunder Order. Sadly, Wang Cheng and Wang Chen were unaware of Lin Sheng's conspiracy, and finally ended up cutting off his hand. ”
"It's also to blame them for being greedy, and they don't even let go of their own siblings," Wang Yuelin closed his eyes and sighed deeply, "However, that token was still taken away by him after all, do you think he will use it to do bad things?" ”
"Fortunately, the Five Thunder Orders can only be controlled by the Wang family, so it can't play any role in Lin Sheng's hands."
"In other words, I and Xiaofei Xiaoqi are now the only people in this world who can control the Five Thunder Orders?"
"No, there is no one in this world who can control the Five Thunder Orders. The token is passed down from generation to generation, and when you give it to Wang Gan, its owner has already become Wang Gan, and you have lost control of it. Unless he gives it to someone else, or someone snatches the token from him, he can become its new owner. ”
Wang Yuelin looked at the desktop for a long time, and after a long time, he finally raised his head, "Okay, if you don't have it, there will be no one, my three children died because of it, and the Wang family can be regarded as fulfilling their promise." ”
"Promises?" Xu Xing paused, "What promise?" ”
"An ancestral motto, that is, the descendants of the Wang family must swear to protect this token to the death, because this token once suppressed this extremely terrifying monster."
"Once...... What is the meaning? ”
"You don't know, before my generation, the profession of the Wang clan was grave keepers. My ancestor Wang Feng was a great general of the Ming Dynasty, he fought in the north and south in his life, fought countless victories, and the famous Battle of Tuen Mun was won under his command. He has a token in his hand, the Five Thunder Order, which has helped him win countless battles. But there is also a legend that General Wang Feng almost lost this token before he died. ”
"Why?" Xu Xing moved the stool forward and looked at Wang Yuelin intently.
"Because of the Monkey."
"Monkey?"
According to genealogical records, when Wang Feng was old, he was sleeping peacefully on the couch one day, but suddenly, he was woken up by a sound of rustling in the room, and when he looked up, he found a monster with a snake body and a human face covering the beam of the house, and was secretly observing him with squinting eyes. Wang Feng was startled, and shouted at it, and attracted the two guards guarding the door at that time, but the monster did not panic when he saw this, and lifted the two of them from the ground with a slight curl of his tail, and devoured them in two bites, without even spitting out the bones. Seeing this, Wang Feng hurriedly grabbed the token in his coat, recited a few words of mantra and threw it at the monster, which was hit by the token and rolled to the ground, turning into a piece of white jade in the shape of a carp. Later, someone asked what this monster was, and Wang Feng told him that it was a monster with a ferocious personality and a desire to eat humans. And the reason why Qiqi came to attack him was precisely because it was the head of all demons, and he saw countless spirits die under this token, so he intended to avenge them. A few days later, Wang Hong suddenly contracted a cold and died within a few days, and before he died, he told his son to bury this carp jade under his coffin, and then put the token in his coffin, so that he could suppress the monster forever. ”
"And then, that piece of jade was stolen?"
"It's not stealing, the Cultural Revolution period was not broken, and the tomb of General Wang Feng was not spared in that political wave, although my father protected him with his life at the time, but he still couldn't prevent the Red Guards from burning down the ancient tomb that the Wang family had been guarding for generations, and the carp jade pendant disappeared in that fire, but fortunately, the token was kept by them as a worthless thing, and it still fell into the hands of our Wang family."
"What about jade?"
"It disappeared, and I haven't seen it since, and in the heyday of Wang's business, I sent people all over the world to look for it, but unfortunately, I couldn't find it anywhere."