Chapter 9 Murder in the Shadows

I stopped Xiaozhi's chatter and asked another question that I was interested in: "How did your grandfather know about this story?" Also, how did you know this story? ”

Xiaozhi hesitated to tell me, she frowned, and the look of wanting to say something made me a little anxious. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info she sensed my unpleasant emotions and decided to tell the truth: "He listened to an archaeologist. At that time, he was worried about his mother and father's love, just like going out for a walk alone, but he found a person lying on the side of the road, looking like he had fainted, neatly dressed, not like a desert or a beggar, so he saved people on a whim. Actually, I think it's like to see how this person is going to use it. Xiaozhi smiled bitterly, "Grandpa has always been like this, he does everything with a purpose, he doesn't trust anyone, he doesn't make friends with anyone, his relationship with others is just an exchange of interests." At that time, he thought that the man was the son of a high-ranking official or a nouveau riche, but he suddenly fainted on the road due to illness, so that person was originally a tool for him to make friends with people in the upper echelons. After all, that person's dress didn't look ordinary at all, and it was completely reasonable for my grandfather to have this association. ”

"People who put their interests first." I concluded.

Xiaozhi nodded approvingly: "That's true." But after the person he saved woke up, he realized that he had lost his eyes, and the man who was fainting on the side of the road was not a high-ranking official, but just an ordinary student of the archaeology department, and the reason why he wore it looked expensive was only because this person's uncle got a few treasures some time ago and sold them for a lot of money, so he bought some expensive outfits for his family. But when he heard the baby, my grandfather also understood the truth, because the fainted man said that he was from the archaeology department, and the family suddenly got the baby, and my grandfather immediately thought of the man's details. I also said that my grandfather hated touching dead people's things the most, and he was unlucky, so he wanted to send that man away, but he was an eye-catcher and considered himself unlucky. And I didn't have a deep communication with the man, so I naturally didn't have to worry about the other party's details, but when I wanted to wave someone to blow the man away, the man's words suddenly made my grandfather change the decision he had just made. Xiaozhi stopped at this point, as if he was selling Guanzi, and suddenly stopped saying anything.

I know that time is very tight now, if I can't wake up quickly, I don't know if the young master raised in the greenhouse outside will poke out some basket, and the movement I felt just now is definitely something abnormal. But now I can feel that there is still a calm outside, so I think the trouble has been solved, right? I thought like this while urging Xiaozhi; "Don't sell it, if you're delaying time, I can't guarantee that Hao will solve the class in advance on a whim, and then I won't even have a chance to save the person you like." What did the man say that made the old man change his mind? ”

As soon as Xiaozhi heard me mention Banque, he suddenly became anxious, and quickly continued: "That, be polite, don't call the elders like that." Xiaozhi corrected me, but seeing the way I stared at her with wide eyes, she shrunk her neck again and continued, "That man laughed at himself and said that he was in such a beautiful dress, that he was almost dying, and that he was really not blessed to receive such blessings. At that time, my grandfather was a little curious, but under the influence of the TV series at that time, my grandfather also thought that this kid might be seriously ill, after all, with a sallow face, no one could say that he was a healthy person. casually cared about what kind of disease the man had. This question doesn't matter, and then the story of the jade wrench is introduced. As my grandfather had guessed, the man's uncle did handle a batch of illegal antiques, most of which were dug up from ancient tombs. His uncle had his own antique shop to cover up for a dirty business, so the business had been going fairly well, but recently, after the latest business, it was as if he had finally received retribution, and suddenly everything went very badly, and a few creepy things happened. First of all, the man's aunt, that is, the uncle's own mother, suddenly fell into the bed one morning, and after being sent to the hospital, she was diagnosed as paralyzed. When everyone was still comforting themselves with the excuse that the old man was old and everything was easy to happen, another strange thing happened to their family, his uncle's wife, that is, her aunt was taking the bus home, just stepped on the bus door when she just stepped on, the door suddenly closed, she hid, the person jumped out of the car, but the arm happened to be stuck by the door, the conductor saw it and asked the driver to open the door and park, but the driver didn't hear it at all, and when he drove dozens of meters away, he heard the screams of the passengers, When she stopped the car, her aunt was out of breath. After that, it was himself, who recently fainted inexplicably, went to the hospital and was diagnosed with leukemia, and his life was not long in coming. This made the family realize that something was wrong, and of course, the first thing the family thought of was that his uncle's business had finally ushered in retribution. Although everyone in the family knew it in their hearts, they still thought of a way to crack it, so they went to the temple to ask the gods, but the effect would not be very good. He himself studied archaeology, the purpose is to be able to take over his uncle's business in the future, but who would have thought that he would not even have a chance to live until graduation, as if he was doing something else in life, when his family was looking for a way to crack it, he went to his uncle's antique shop, wanting to see those objects one last time. At this glance, the source of all misfortune was discovered, the jade wrench. ”

Xiaozhi pointed to the thumb: "It's the wrench that my grandfather bought later." When the man saw it for the first time, he found that the jade wrench was the treasure that had been stolen from the tomb of the legendary cursed prince. He is from the Department of Archaeology, and the most he usually comes into contact with is the burial in these ancient tombs, and he knows a little about their legends, and of course he has heard of the curse of the jade wrench. It's just that he never imagined that he would see it with his own eyes, and he also felt the curse from the wrench. When he saw it, he immediately thought of a series of misfortunes that had happened in his family recently, and he immediately told his uncle about it. Doing tomb robbery is more or less superstitious, as soon as he heard what his nephew said, the man's uncle was naturally frightened, and he had already heard of such a cursed jade wrench, so he naturally understood the meaning of his nephew's words, he wanted to let himself get rid of the wrench within three months, and also learn from their family's bad luck and have a chance to change. His uncle naturally thought the same way, but at first they threw the jade wrench to the outskirts far away from the store, but the jade wrench would always be picked up and brought back to his shop in the name of appraisal or sale, if his uncle refused to accept the ring in the name of worthlessness, he would also find that the ring was left in the store by the customer when he cleaned it that night, and the ring seemed to be unable to be lost, and the curse followed them like this. After the man was diagnosed with leukemia, another uncle of the man was also found to have an incurable disease. Now the whole family was in a hurry, and since they couldn't throw it away, and they couldn't get rid of the curse, they thought about simply finding a wronged boss to sell, so they put their bet on the ghost market. The ghost market is actually a place where stolen things that are not seen are traded from the second half of the night until the early morning of the next day. Many tomb robbers would dump some of the small items obtained from tomb robberies through the ghost market, and the man and his uncle decided to go there and sell the jade wrench to the new boss. But I don't know how, whether they are mixed with other antique objects or sold alone, this wrench is not cared for. It was like this for several days, his condition was getting worse and worse, and his heart was getting more and more anxious, but no one bothered about this wrench. One night, an old man came to their stall to look at the objects, but they were attracted by the jade wrench, they thought that a fish had been hooked, but they saw that the old man just shook his head, and looked at them and said that it was a pity, which made both of them a little surprised. The old man compared one with his finger in the faint light, and then said that within a month, one person would die in their family. They were stunned at the time, because they were prepared again, but they still couldn't accept it when they heard others say this. But at the same time, he also realized that the old man not only knew the origin of the jade wrench, but also probably knew some other things, so the two of them held the last glimmer of hope and asked the old man if there was any way to crack it, the old man shook his head, just let them prepare for the future, and he had not heard of it if the ring could be safe and sound and save his life. So he and his uncle were completely desperate, so they resigned themselves to death and waited for death, after all, his uncle himself did the immoral thing of digging graves, and he deserved to be cursed, but he didn't expect to be retributed on his family. At one point they thought that the old man was a messenger from hell sent by Lord Yama to remind them that the hour had come, because the day after they met the old man, his uncle was thrown into the hospital by a falling object. At this time, the family was completely resigned to their fate. He was going to see his uncle again today, and by the way, he helped another patient in the family get medicine, but he didn't expect to faint on the side of the road again, thanks to meeting a kind person like his grandfather, he took him to the house to help, but it didn't help, he would eventually be cursed. The man told his story with self-deprecation. But my grandfather had a different idea because of his story. He specially sent the man home in person, secretly wrote down the man's address, and then began to inquire about the jade wrench in many ways, and after confirming what the man said, his grandfather hit the idea of the jade wrench. Grandpa can very much need something to kill people invisibly, poison can't work, if the mother wants an autopsy, this method of killing will be exposed at once, bringing trouble to himself and the organization, what he is most afraid of is that his daughter will desperately expose the existence of the organization in front of everyone because of love. If it is not even feasible to poison it, let alone violently attack it. So although the curse sounds very, but if it really works to the point of horror as he heard, he is willing to give it a go, anyway, he knows that as long as he stuffs the jade wrench finger to his father, his father will never return it to him, so he doesn't have to worry about the curse, after all, he has no blood relationship with his father, and the curse will definitely not be fulfilled on him. So after he thought about all the possibilities and arranged his plan, he found the man and said that he wanted to do them a big favor, and he wanted to be the one who was wronged and bought the jade wrench. ”

"Didn't the man suspect it?" I asked Xiaozhi, and I was pretty sure that Xiaozhi should have come into contact with that man later, and the thing about the jade wrench should have been told to Xiaozhi by that man.

"Of course it's incredible." In the dream, Xiaozhi exaggerated and compared with me, "I knew all these things from that man's mouth, I later found him to confirm the authenticity of this matter, the man told me the whole story, and hummed sympathy for my experience, I only told him about the death of my parents." And then the man still can't understand why the Grandparents are so determined to buy the wrench, even if they repeatedly shirk it, hoping that the curse will end in their family, after all, they still want to do a good deed before they die. But my grandfather's attitude was very resolute, and after being rejected on the first day, he brought a group of brothers to their house to search the next day, and the movement was quite loud, and he once thought that his grandfather was not mentally normal. Normal people know that the curse can't be hidden, so who would go out of their way to provoke the curse? They were suspicious, but his uncle seemed to have some kind of hope, and felt that this was an opportunity for God to transfer him, so after thinking for a few seconds on the other side, he agreed to his grandfather's request, went to the store to retrieve the ring, and sent it to his grandfather himself. My grandfather was pleased with his uncle's decision, and the man told me that he would never forget the smugness that flashed in his grandfather's eyes as if he was bound to win. He was very frightened at the time, and he had his own doubts, thinking about whether his grandfather was going to do something bad with the curse of the jade wrench, he wanted to stop it, but the selfish idea of trying to get rid of the bad luck stopped him from stopping his uncle, so he let the jade wrench fall into his grandfather's hands. The curse has been transferred to us. Xiaozhi said this, his eyes were full of despair, "Grandpa would never have thought that the first person to be cursed was himself, right?" ”

I didn't know what to say, so I put my hand on Xiaozhi's shoulder in my dream and patted it comfortingly.

Xiaozhi smiled at me with a pale face: "I don't have a relationship, it's just that the passerby suddenly mentioned it for so long, it's like a scar that has been revealed, which makes me a little painful, but after so many years have passed, so many things have happened, I have long been relieved." When she said this, she didn't look relieved, but as if he was afraid that I would worry about her, he immediately changed his expression and said, "But it's a pity for those brothers who accompanied my grandfather to the man's house to make trouble." Although cursing this kind of thing will not leave a trace, my grandfather killed everyone who knew that he had been to the man's house, whether he knew about him buying a wrench or not, he would be killed to prevent future troubles. ”

"It's cruel." I sighed, but then a new question arose, "How do you know these things?" ”

Xiaozhi looked into my eyes and asked, "Why do you think I'm doing the file of the organization?" (To be continued.) )