Chapter 8: The Curse of the Jade Wrench
"But curses don't happen overnight, do they?" Although I am not an atheist, I think that just putting a baseless curse on a person I hate can really 'make my wish come true' to harm others, and this idea itself is really ridiculous. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Hearing my suspicions, Xiaozhi immediately waved his hand and explained to me: "You listen to me first, in fact, it was not grandpa's supervisor who speculated, the curse was the truth." Grandpa bought the wrench because of the curse. ”
"Oh?" Although it sounded chilling, I was very curious about the curse carried by the wrench itself, and I couldn't help asking, "Xiaozhi, but if I'm not mistaken, that wrench has always been kept by you, if there is a curse, the two of us should have seen your parents in heaven a long time ago, right?" "If the curse is true, then it's simply unscientific for the two of us to be alive in this world.
Xiaozhi patted the back of my hand angrily: "Don't interrupt me. His tone didn't sound very happy, and I stuck out my tongue and immediately shut my mouth and listened to her explain to me.
"That's right." Seeing that I closed my mouth, Xiao Zhicai continued to sit upright and said: "Almost all the people who know about this matter have disappeared from this world except me, in other words, they are dead - they killed by my grandfather, and they just don't want to let the disgusting things they do get out of the way." Xiaozhi then looked at me with complicated eyes, and his expression was a little unnatural, "I'm sorry to describe him with this kind of thing, but what he did did make me feel disgusted." Without mentioning that, let's move on to the knuckle thing. The wrench was stolen by tomb robbers from the tomb of a Song Dynasty prince. You have seen that jade wrench, very good expectations, there is also a dragon carved on it, but because of the age, and the preservation is not very good, the dragon's pattern has become a little blurred after many changes, but compared to the general jade carving is still much clearer. If it weren't for the blurred era name on the inside of the wrench, it would be hard for you to imagine that it had existed in this world for almost 1,000 years, changed hands so many times, and experienced the not-so-good storage during the war years, and still looked exquisitely transparent, you can imagine what kind of identity his original wearer would have. ”
It has nothing to do with half of it, I just want to know about the curse on the wrench. I interrupted Xiaozhi's rambling and asked bluntly.
Xiaozhi showed an apologetic smile and kept apologizing: "I'm sorry, when I think of the delicacy of that jade wrench, I want to show off it to others, although that wrench is cursed and doesn't belong to me, but I still feel very amazed by the craftsmanship and materials." But speaking of curses, if you mention the name of the class system itself, this curse can really be said to be very famous, and it is said to be as famous as 'Black Oloff' and 'Star of Hope'. However, because it was bought by my grandfather, it has not appeared in public again, and decades have passed, and the curse of this wrench has been heard as a myth by everyone. But, in fact, before this wrench was bought by my grandfather, it was a hot potato in the underworld. The reason for this is because, like the two more famous 'Cursed Stones' I just mentioned, it only tastes good and brings untransformable doom to its owner. The reason for the bad luck may be related to the experience of the tomb robbers. Tomb robbing is not a clean profession in itself, and the objects brought back are more or less contaminated with evil spirits, and if the owner of the tomb opened by the tomb robber has cursed, then the things stolen from this tomb will be even more evil. This wrench is, didn't I say before that the owner of the wrench was a prince of the Song Dynasty, that is, the tomb robber stole this wrench from the imperial mound, not to mention the hidden weapon mechanism in the imperial mound, just the imperial mound itself, it seems to carry some kind of curse, although the age can not be verified, but it is rumored that the tomb robbers did not enter the tomb from the main gate of the tomb at that time, but entered with gunpowder in the middle of the tomb, as if because the cemetery is far away from the city, So the sound of gunpowder explosion did not depend on anyone's attention, and it is said that the first time a tomb robber entered that tomb, it was still the Ming Dynasty, when people did not want to download the nightlife so rich, and the tomb robbers chose to start in winter, although they were relatives of the emperor, but not in the Song Tomb, but in a depression in the deep mountains, few people usually go there, let alone the cold winter. It is said that the owner of the tomb, although he was a prince during his lifetime, was not very fond of fighting for fame and fortune, and he was low-key and hated to be disturbed by the world, so after aging, he gave up the struggle for the throne and hid in the deep mountains and old forests, living a life without fighting with the world. By the way, in the Song Dynasty, people regarded death as life, thinking that after death was just to continue their original life in another world, so whether it was the construction of the tomb or the arrangement after death, there was almost no difference between it and before death. Therefore, I know how much resentment the person who consciously quits because he hates fighting with his brother before his death, and enjoys himself in the deep mountains and old forests, with the thickness of the silk and the thieves who spy on his tomb. According to rumors, the reason why the web page wants to arrange his tomb in the deep mountains and old forests, instead of being buried in the north like other princes, is to not be disturbed by outsiders after death, and in order to reduce future generations to dig his tomb because of greed, his burial is not very rich, and the more valuable thing is some of the treasures in his coffin that he has carried since he was born, and that wrench is one of them. Although the prince himself has been low-key enough, his status as a prince still makes his tomb targeted by tomb thieves. However, at that time, the prince seemed to be trying to escape the fate of being disturbed by tomb thieves, and invited a feng shui master to show him the tomb. Miraculously, the Feng Shui gentleman's speculation was so accurate that he even calculated through Zhou Yi that the first time the tomb of the prince was stolen was five hundred years after the burial on the website. Sure enough, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, five hundred years after the burial of the prince, the prince's tomb was blown up from the outside, and a group of tomb robbers entered his posthumous residence and took away the valuable treasure, after the destruction was almost done, the group of tomb robbers did not give up, and wanted to see if there were any more valuable objects, they walked to the main entrance of the tomb, and then the faint and even light, saw the inscription engraved on the back of the tomb door, which clearly stated the life of the prince. In the end, the time when the prince's tomb was opened, and the place where they opened it were also engraved on it, and finally the curse was attached: 'Those who move my tomb will die within a hundred days, and after death, a hundred ghosts will obstruct it.'" It means that if you understand the things in the tomb of the prince of Wow, you will definitely die violently within a hundred days, and the road to the next life after death will not be possible to reincarnate like everyone else after death, and you can only fall into the path of hungry ghosts. You know that the ancients believed in the past and present lives, reincarnation, and these things, so the curse behind the tomb gate involves the afterlife is very serious, and it can be regarded as a very poisonous curse, the purpose is to let the tomb robbers put down the stolen things in their hands, and return them to the people in the tomb, so that he will not be disturbed. But human greed can easily defeat human fear since ancient times, so even though the tomb robbers thought that the prophecy carved behind the tomb gate was very magical and coincidental with their actions, they did not take it seriously and still took the treasure out of the tomb. It was also from that time that the curse of the monkey at the gate of the tomb was fulfilled one by one, and when he left, one of the tomb robbers touched the mechanism, and was devoured by a fool of the tomb ** on the spot, and never came out. However, tomb robbers will always have such a situation, so although those people chuckled in their hearts and thought of the curse, they still didn't take it seriously, and after leaving the tomb, sure enough, within three months, the group of tomb robbers passed away one after another. Some fell off the cliff inexplicably, fell to their deaths in the deep mountains and forests, and some died of violent illness, anyway, none of them had a good end, the curse was initially fulfilled, and these people did not deserve sympathy or pity, after all, they were given the opportunity to exchange these things back, but they still acted recklessly, so they deserved it. But the curse did not slowly disappear because of their deaths, and the curse continued. ”
"It's because you didn't change the things back on the page, right?" I thought about it and roughly understood the reasoning.
Xiaozhi nodded: "In fact, that's the case, because outsiders don't know that these treasures that look very valuable with them are the income of tomb robberies, and they all think that they are just treasures stolen from those big families, especially the wrench, because it is carved with dragon patterns, although it is different from the dragons of the Ming Dynasty, but from the shape of it, it can also be confirmed that it is indeed a dragon." You know that in ancient times, the dragon-shaped pattern could only be worn by the royal family, but the regiment was different from the dragon-shaped regiment at that time, so some people speculated that it was obtained from tomb robbery, but it was not very certain, and the Jade Emperor Mountain was handed over to the reputation of being rebelled, so this wrench was like a hot potato, no one dealt with it, and then I don't know how it was taken to the black market, and it was brought back to the Central Plains at the end of the Qing Dynasty. However, the reason why he was arrested was also because someone picked it up on the side of the road, and then brought it to the Central Plains, wanting to sell it for a good price. This wish is very good, but the truth is very hurtful. After the seller brought back the wrench, he had just arrived in the Central Plains for less than a month, and suddenly contracted the wind chill and died, it is said that the wind chill was not enough to kill people at that time, but the seller was bizarrely infected with the wind chill during the summer solstice, and it became more and more serious, and it didn't take long to lose his life. Thinking that he was staying in an inn at the time, the innkeeper took the coil he was carrying with him as the cost of accommodation for himself. Although it seems to be a very domineering behavior now, but looking back at that era of war and chaos, not everyone can get out of the mud without being stained. But not long after the boss took away his belongings, maybe two months later, he was killed in his inn because of the chaos, and the contents of the inn were also looted, and the whereabouts of the jade wrench finger were unknown. It is estimated that he was taken away by the so-called rebel army who killed him at that time, because not long after, the rebel army that had been to the inn was defeated by the Qing soldiers, and the jade wrench with the dragon-shaped pattern was found on the leader's body. Thinking that the carved pattern of the inner dragon, the leader was soon convicted of rebellion and dragged to the execution ground to cut off his head. The jade wrench was also handed in, but it seems that it was not sent to the palace, and the person who sent the wrench was killed on the road, and the whereabouts of the jade wrench are unknown again. However, it can be seen from this experience that no one who has a jade wrench has survived the three-month limit. The curse has never lost its potency, the curse of 'death in less than a hundred days' has never failed, and those who possess it are bound to die in a very bizarre way. ”
"But how do you know all these things?" I asked a very naïve but crucial question.
Xiaozhi didn't answer me, but continued: "Later, the jade wrench disappeared from people's sight again, and in the troubled era at the end of the Qing Dynasty, people were worried about saving their lives, eating and closing, and they had no time to take care of this kind of hating their own good dance partner relationship. The jade wrench finger has become a rumor on the rivers and lakes, but in that era when the country was ruined and the family was ruined, who else would explore the truth of this rumor, everyone was living a frightened life, even if they really had a jade wrench, who would really think that their tragic fate was caused by a small half, and everyone had a hard time in that era. Later, when the ship was lost, there was a group of people who lived a good life by making a fortune in the country. Because there are no rumors of jade wrenches, those who have become wealthy and live in small western-style buildings, in order to erase their despicable past, began to search for treasures that can show their identity. There was a man who made a fortune as a refugee and swindled this jade wrench from a farmer for a small amount of money. He thought he was running out of time, but in fact he cost him the lives of his family. A month after buying the wrench, his wife was suddenly killed in the house for no apparent reason, and he became the most likely suspect, because he was pursuing a rich lady at the time, and was believed to have killed the wife of the chaff in order to go to the rich lady, and he had no alibi. Anyway, all the evidence pointed to him, and in the end he was sent to the gallows. Since then, the wrench has been used by various wealthy merchant families, but all of them have brought disaster to those who have owned it. This wrench has become a very terrifying existence, once in order to break the curse, the wrench was thrown into the deep mountains and old forests, but soon, this wrench will appear in people's sight after people begin to forget the terrifying legends about it, and become a curse that people avoid. It was after my grandfather learned about this legend that he asked someone to buy this wrench. ”
I sneered, "He's really good at solving problems for others." ”
When Xiaozhi heard me say this, her face changed instantly, and she looked at me a little bit: "Yes, I heard that the person who sent the wrench saw his grandfather as if he saw a savior, and he threw half of it to his grandfather as if he wanted to throw away something dirty, and then he didn't even have any money, so he left in a hurry." Later, I told people that my grandfather didn't even want his life for the sake of the baby. Xiaozhi smiled bitterly, "Why doesn't he want his own life, that person doesn't know at all, grandpa spent money to buy him to harm other people's lives." (To be continued.) )