Chapter 3: Floating corpses appeared in the grain river

[The book continued from the previous one, saying that the eldest young master of the Mu family in Shuzhong, from the land of Bashu Tianfu thousands of miles away, rushed to Kunming lightly, and inexplicably found a murderous ghost house to buy and live in. Since then, Mu Qingming has lived and worked in peace and contentment in the city of Kunming, but he doesn't want the dam in Kunming to be peaceful, and Young Master Mu seems to be gentle and elegant, but in fact, he is a 'good man' in his bones. This led to the young master Mu into Kun Bao Zhai, did the palm of the eye and never went away, there was a floating corpse on the grain river suddenly appeared, and the dragon lock man next to the Daguan Building met the beautiful fox fairy for the first time. 】

The news that Mu Qingming bought the ghost mansion and lived in it soon spread to everyone in Kunming City, which was not too big at that time.

But soon after, another big news about him spread in the city of Kunming; I heard that someone had seen it, and this kid didn't know where he got a lot of Ming Dynasty furniture, and he shipped it to the house in three batches.

It is said that all of them are impeccably well-proportioned and coordinated, regardless of height and length, thickness and width. The value was invaluable, and even the wealthy businessmen in Kunming at that time couldn't help but sigh.

Among the furniture, there are five-screen thrones and hollow-type door covers, interstitial seat screens made of mahogany, carved lattices and square corner frames of cypress, and round tables and four-open poufs of red sandalwood. It made the thieves on the border of Kunming at that time not only itchy their hearts, but also their hands.

But when they thought of the tall mastiff that Mu Qingming carried, and the notoriously haunted place in the gloomy Shala Alley, these objects were all in the haunted house, and the thieves could only look away with regret.

Since then, the rich son Mu Qingming has become a talking point for people in Kunming after dinner. They often get together in twos and threes, the woman knocks melon seeds, and the man carries a hookah, and they all guess how long this kid can live in the haunted house? Will you be scared?

I never thought that Mu Qingming not only lived, but also lived in peace and stability, there was nothing to do in the past three months, his face was full of red light all day long, and he gained a little weight.

People can't help but be puzzled, but they can't guess how this kid can not invade a hundred ghosts? As everyone knows, this Mu Qingming is a dragon lock man, and what he does is the work of subduing demons and eliminating demons, so he naturally knows the method of arranging the array.

Before he moved in, he dug up the four corners of the courtyard and the floor tiles in the middle, and dug a small hole one foot deep under the bricks. Then put a copper coin with the sunny side (the wordless side) facing down at the bottom of the hole, on the copper coin at the four corners of the east, west, north and south, and then put the bronze statue of the green dragon and white tiger that is not the size of a fist in order, and the bronze statue of the Vermilion Bird Xuanwu, each facing the middle of the small courtyard.

On the copper coin in the middle, there is a palm-sized finely carved copper gourd, covered with evil runes, and the gourd is tied with yellow satin on the waist. It was then filled with soil and covered with floor tiles to restore the original state.

Whether it is a gourd, a bronze statue of the four spirits, or the five copper coins, they are all made at noon on the noon day of the lunar calendar, specifically to overcome ghosts and evils; And Mu Qingming used them to lay down the Four Spirits to ward off evil spirits that had been passed down from generation to generation by the Dragon Lock people, so that the Yang Qi of the Four Directions was continuously absorbed along the earth's veins, filling every corner of the entire mansion.

Then ask someone to dig a well in the northeast corner of the courtyard, and under the harmony of yin and yang, the murderous house has become auspicious, and the ghosts have retreated.

In the end, he was still on the right side of the steps outside the gate, next to the wall and put a bowl with paper money ashes at the bottom, and a bowl with a pile of sharp rice grains in the bowl, and three sticks of incense that were never lit were inserted into it, for the hanging ghosts and producing ghosts outside to eat.

Not only that, but he seems to be young, but he actually found a job in an antique shop called Kun Bao Zhai on Dongsi Street.

At that time, on Dongsi Street, the roadside was full of connected street shops, selling all kinds of small commodities, food and clothing, and it was a trading market for Kunming people to buy and sell groceries. Kun Bao Zhai is the largest antique shop on this street, and it is also the largest antique shop in the old Kunming City before liberation.

And the palm eye is the person who identifies the authenticity of the plaything in this antique shop.

To be honest, this industry is not easy to do, you have to have experience if you can't have eyesight alone; If you encounter a master of a thousand doors and look away from an extremely real antique, it will be a lifetime of shame. It is not an exaggeration to say that this line of work is walking on thin ice.

At that time, the palms and eyes of the major antique shops in Kunming City were all old men who were nearly half a hundred years old, and they were only in their early twenties, and Mu Qingming was the only one.

And he is never like other palm-eyed masters, who have to look left and right for a moment to see the authenticity; It has always relied on three tricks, which are to look, smell and touch, and when the three tricks are used, you can see the authenticity of the antiques that come to sell, the origin of the year, etc., and what is even more strange is that he has never had a time to hit his eyes.

People are also curious, how can this kid see so accurately? After asking again and again, Mu Qingming naturally prevaricated: "My father likes to play and collects antiques, and he has reached the point of obsession; I learned this skill from my father. ”。

Because he is gentle and elegant, he speaks and acts very decently, and he is not allowed to offend and provoke right and wrong, and people naturally do not delve into it, and while they are convinced, they admire him even more.

Since then, he has another nickname, named Mu Sanyan, one move at a glance, three eyes and three moves can see the authenticity of antiques. Then he saw a lot, he often went in and out of the rich and noble to help check the authenticity of the antiques in exchange for a little extra money, and he never missed it, so the Kunming people of the same generation gave him another nickname - Mu Sanye.

Time flies, and a flash of wood has been in Kunming for three months. On this day, the temperature dropped suddenly, the sky was gray and cold, the wind was blowing, and the pedestrians on Dongsi Street suddenly decreased, and they all took shelter at home to escape the cold.

Rich people also get a Yunnan characteristic Sanqi steam pot chicken to warm up their bodies. It is used by Wenshan merchants to sell the best notoginseng and black-bone old hens from the villages around Kunming, and then spread ham slices, winter bamboo shoot slices and mushroom slices and other things to steam.

If the conditions are medium or a little worse, just make a casserole rice noodles, which can still warm up your body.

The gate of Kun Bao Zhai is half hidden, and the wooden pillar next to the door is hung with a long wooden sign with four traditional characters written "business as usual".

There were no customers in the shop where the cold breeze was blowing, Mu Qingming sat on the straw bench by the brazier in a small silk cotton jacket, staring closely at the bait baking on the brazier and swallowed.

In the past, Miao Jue brought him food on time, but when he went out today, he saw that the sky was gray and the cold wind was fierce, so he explained that Miao would never use it. Anyway, at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Rong Bao Zhai will be closed, and he can just rush back to have a lunch (most areas of Yunnan are five meals a day, namely breakfast, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late. )。

He never thought that the colder it was, the more he couldn't help but be hungry in the temple, and he wanted to go to the street to sell some food, but because it was cold, a hawker didn't come out, so he had to be hungry.

Fortunately, Mr. Zhang, who was in charge of the shop, was not a stingy person, and when he heard him grumbling with hunger, he hurriedly cut the bait and the ham, separated the tongs and put them on the brazier, and put the bait and ham on it together and roasted it.

"It's ready to eat." Seeing the bait swell under the baking, and after the ham was oily, the shopkeeper Zhang, who was wearing round-framed glasses and a small goatee, hurriedly handed a small plate of prepared hot sauce to Mu Qingming, and asked, "In the past, your little servants came to bring you food, why didn't you come today?" ”。 After speaking, he picked up a piece of baked bait and handed it to Mu Qingming.

"Thank you." Mu Qingming smiled and took the hot bait, and hurriedly threw it into the dish after feeling hot: "I was looking at the cold, thinking that he would run back and forth, in case he got sick, it wouldn't be good." ”。

"Young Master Mu is really considerate." Shopkeeper Zhang put a slice of roasted ham on his plate, and said with a smile: "Eat hard, I won't cut it anymore if it's not enough." ”。

"Miaojue and I grew up together, and we are like brothers." Mu Qingming stuffed the ham wrapped in hot sauce with the bait into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it, and took the opportunity to pat himself on the back and say: "Besides, isn't it all learned from the shopkeeper that you are good to your subordinates?" ”。

"You mouth, you can say that the dead are alive." Shopkeeper Zhang laughed.

At this moment, the door was pushed open from the outside, and the cold wind suddenly roared in, Mu Qingming and the shopkeeper turned their heads to look, and saw that the little face was flushed, and the food box stood at the door and said urgently: "Young master, I'm sorry I'm late." ”。

"Didn't you stop coming?" Mu Qingming smashed his fingers that were stained with hot sauce, and while complaining, he went to pull Miao Jue into the house: "Go to the fire to warm up." ”。 There was also a deliberate look of indifference on his face.

"I'm not cold, I was delayed when I went to buy chickens." Miaojue, who smirked, handed the food box to Mu Qingming. Mu Qingming opened it and saw that there was a steam pot inside, containing fragrant chicken soup.

Mu Qingming hurriedly called Shopkeeper Zhang over, and after letting Miao Jue sit down, the three of them sat around the brazier, drinking chicken soup and eating Shopkeeper Zhang's bait and ham, so unhappy!

"I'll go back after eating, and there's no business coming to you on a cold day." The empathetic shopkeeper Zhang pushed the sliding glasses and said with a smile.

"Okay." Mu Qingming was not polite, and agreed to come down.

Half an hour later, after eating and drinking, he got up and said goodbye to the shopkeeper, and walked in the direction of home with Miaojue.

"In the future, when it's cold, don't come if you don't come." Along the way, he was complaining and wonderful: "It's still running blindly on a cold day." In exchange for a wonderful smirk.

Before I had gone far, I saw a sudden crowd of people on the deserted street with few people, and people rushed to tell each other: "There are dead people on the grain river." He went out to the west of the city.

The grain river is the Daguan River in the spring city later. At that time, all the goods and grain transported from western Yunnan would be transported by boat to the fishing village of Caohai (Dianchi Lake) Gaoyao Wharf, and then transported to the Daguan River by waterway, and sailed into the Zhangtang River near Xiaoximen, which was dug out by Wu Sangui. Therefore, the Daguan River is also called the grain river.

Hearing the shouting, Mu Qingming, who was a dragon lock person, couldn't help but be suspicious while being alert, and suddenly his face was solemn, and he said to Miao Jue urgently: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”。

In those years, dead people were commonplace, the medical conditions were not good, and the soldiers were in chaos, and it was impossible for a dead person to be so sensational; Mu Qingming vaguely felt that there was something earth-shattering in this.

"Hmm." Miao Jue nodded and hurried to follow.

They walked quickly with the flow of people, and after a while, they came to the Daguan River near the Daguan Tower, and saw a lot of black-skinned policemen under the willow tree driving away the noisy crowd of onlookers, but there were too many people and they couldn't catch up, and they were so anxious that their heads were sweating.

Mu Qingming squeezed to the front of the crowd with Miaoju, and saw a floating corpse lying flat on the ground about half a foot behind the policeman.

He looked through the gap in the armpits of the police officers surrounding the scene, but saw that the floating corpse was a middle-aged man, slightly chubby due to swelling, and a shoe that he didn't know where to go.

But the skin exposed outside the wet clothes is dark blue.

Mu Qingming was startled, and was about to take a closer look when he was stopped by Miaojue, and whispered in his ear: "Young Master, I smelled the fox fragrance that seemed to be nothing." ”。

Mu Qingming straightened up and looked in the direction pointed by his wonderful fingers, only to see a seventeen or eighteen-year-old fair woman standing not far away.

The woman with crisp breasts and willow waist was just a head shorter than Mu Qingming, and on her elegant and delicate and slightly red face, there were two bends that seemed to be frowning and not frowning, and a pair of bright eyes under the eyebrows that seemed to be happy also looked towards Mu Qingming, which made Mu Qingming stay in place for a while.

Where did this floating corpse come from? Why is the skin dark? What is the purpose of the beautiful fox fairy in the crowd? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.