Chapter 38: The Strange Tale of the Orchard (Text)
"If you don't let you take care of it, you just tell me what the story of this ghost vein is?"
Zhang Meng asked with a grim face.
"No way, even if you say it, you don't understand."
"Just tell me, or tell me where you've seen this?"
Lai Zi hesitated for a moment, seeing that Zhao San did not stop him, so he brewed for a while and said slowly.
"This thing, I have seen it before, when my master and I just went to the sea and went to Xinjiang, and now this market, whether it is a large tomb or a small tomb, has basically been washed away, and if you don't get it right, you have to be charged with selling cultural relics. So my master always said, if I wasn't afraid that all my skills would be buried in the soil, he wouldn't have taught me the craft of thunder splitting at that time. So we got our own orchard over there, specializing in processing raisins, and after processing, we sold them to Taiwan and Japan, which is not a bad business, right? ”
Raiko seemed to be caught up in the memories and muttered.
Zhao San actually didn't know very much about the mystery of Zhang Meng's ghost vein, the only thing he came into contact with this ghost vein back then was that he, Zhang Shaohong, and all the elites of the six doors all went out to Lop Nur to find the secret that the big man wanted. In the end, the Zhang family folded in the Peacock River, two dead and one injured in six doors, the good hands under the door were almost lost, and only a few capable tigers came out of their mouths, Zhao San never had that feeling of powerlessness, if he was given a choice, he would rather face an army than face that strange experience.
"Finally, one day, this peaceful day was broken. That day, my master packed up his tools for making a living, and then went out with a few friends. At that time, I just thought that the few of them had encountered some interesting earth caves, but I didn't expect that they would be there for half a month, and when I came back, the master brought me a strange feeling......"
Lai Zi showed a look of horror on his face, as if he still had palpitations when he thought about it.
"What does it feel?" Zhang Meng and Zhao San asked almost at the same time.
Zhao San's face was a little red, he also had to stay calm in front of his juniors, but seeing that Zhang Meng didn't pay attention to him, he was relieved.
"I don't know, it feels very strange, as if my master has changed all of a sudden, he used to be a good old man, and he is usually very enthusiastic, and he has to babble a few words when he meets anyone. But when he came back, he became very irritable, and a Hui man came into our orchard to pick grapes to eat, and these old men knew about it, but that day ...... That day, he arrested the Hui man, picked up the knife and chopped off ten fingers without saying a word! ”
Zhang Meng shuddered, mother, what kind of person is this, Zhang Meng shuddered at the thought of cutting off his palms alive.
"The most important thing is that the old man is becoming more and more strange to me, as if he is deliberately alienating me. This situation would never have happened before, I have been an orphan since I was a child, if it wasn't for the master to pick me up, I'm afraid I would have starved to death on the streets now, and we have been like father and son since childhood. But in the eyes of that man, I saw that he was cruel to me. ”
And he behaved more and more strangely, and he did not look after the orchard, but slept during the day and wandered about at night. Someone from the village came to me and asked me if my master had gone out at night. It turned out to be a man who went to a neighboring village to drink, and when he passed by my orchard, he took a curious look, and this sight was almost scared to death, my master was swallowing an owl alive! ”
"And then?" Zhang Meng heard that his hair exploded a little, and swallowed a live owl into his stomach in one gulp, is this still human?
"And then? Naturally, I can't admit it, and I don't want to believe it. One day while I was sleeping, I suddenly heard a slight sound under my bed, and I kicked the bed open, only to find the old man underneath, holding an axe, and if I had fallen asleep at that time, I was afraid that my body would have to split him in half. I knocked him unconscious and took him to a local hospital to check his mental condition, but the results showed that the old man was normal and not schizophrenic at all. ”
Laizi took a breath and continued, "I can't say that he wants to kill me, can I? It was a charge that would go to jail, but when I got home, I didn't dare to be with this old man again, and I had a showdown with him that night, saying that I was leaving. He didn't say anything, just sneered at me. ”
"I had planned to leave the next day, but that night the old man burned everything in the house, including all the plants in the orchard. I didn't know what was going on that night, I slept in a daze, but I didn't notice such a big movement, and when I woke up the next day, the old man didn't know when he left, so I slept in an open space, and I thought it was the old man who moved me out of the house, or I would have become a piece of black coal. ”
Zhang Meng listened to Lai Zi seems to have finished speaking, he is a little inexplicable, what does this have to do with the ghost vein on his wrist?
As if seeing Zhang Meng's doubts, Lai Zi grabbed Zhang Meng's fingers with some solemnity.
"When I went to the hospital back then, my master's wrist also had a pale cyan vein exactly like yours, so when I saw it before, I was surprised!"
"Did your master have it before?" Zhao San, who had been silent, suddenly asked.
"When I was a child, I would have paid attention to this thing, but in my impression, it should not be, it is very likely that it was that time when I went into the dirt pit that I provoked this ghostly thing. I'm 90% sure that this is what turned my master into the living dead! ”
Lai Zi said coldly: "So I don't want to see this thing again for the rest of my life, do you understand?" ”
"You're saying I'm going to be like that, too?"
Zhang Meng's face was shocked, if he became like Master Laizi, it would be better to shoot him directly.
"What are you thinking, your ghost vein has been with you for eighteen years, if you want to go crazy, you will go crazy a long time ago!"
Zhao San's words immediately put Zhang Meng at ease.
"And then?" Feel. ”
And he behaved more and more strangely, and he did not look after the orchard, but slept during the day and wandered about at night. Someone from the village came to me and asked me if my master had gone out at night. It turned out to be a man who went to a neighboring village to drink, and when he passed by my orchard, he took a curious look, and this sight was almost scared to death, my master was swallowing an owl alive! ”
"And then?" Zhang Meng heard that his hair exploded a little, and swallowed a live owl into his stomach in one gulp, is this still human?
"And then? Naturally, I can't admit it, and I don't want to believe it. One day while I was sleeping, I suddenly heard a slight sound under my bed, and I kicked the bed open, only to find the old man underneath, holding an axe, and if I had fallen asleep at that time, I was afraid that my body would have to split him in half. I knocked him unconscious and took him to a local hospital to check his mental condition, but the results showed that the old man was normal and not schizophrenic at all. ”
Laizi took a breath and continued, "I can't say that he wants to kill me, can I? It was a charge that would go to jail, but when I got home, I didn't dare to be with this old man again, and I had a showdown with him that night, saying that I was leaving. He didn't say anything, just sneered at me. ”
"I had planned to leave the next day, but that night the old man burned everything in the house, including all the plants in the orchard. I didn't know what was going on that night, I slept in a daze, but I didn't notice such a big movement, and when I woke up the next day, the old man didn't know when he left, so I slept in an open space, and I thought it was the old man who moved me out of the house, or I would have become a piece of black coal. ”
Zhang Meng listened to Lai Zi seems to have finished speaking, he is a little inexplicable, what does this have to do with the ghost vein on his wrist?
As if seeing Zhang Meng's doubts, Lai Zi grabbed Zhang Meng's fingers with some solemnity.
"When I went to the hospital back then, my master's wrist also had a pale cyan vein exactly like yours, so when I saw it before, I was surprised!"
"Did your master have it before?" Zhao San, who had been silent, suddenly asked.
"When I was a child, I would have paid attention to this thing, but in my impression, it should not be, it is very likely that it was that time when I went into the dirt pit that I provoked this ghostly thing. I'm 90% sure that this is what turned my master into the living dead! ”
Lai Zi said coldly: "So I don't want to see this thing again for the rest of my life, do you understand?" ”
"You're saying I'm going to be like that, too?"
Zhang Meng's face was shocked, if he became like Master Laizi, it would be better to shoot him directly.
"What are you thinking, your ghost vein has been with you for eighteen years, if you want to go crazy, you will go crazy a long time ago!"
Zhao San's words immediately put Zhang Meng at ease.
"And then?"