Chapter 18: Gu Making
[The book continues from the above, and the last book said that Mu Qingming and Mo Hanye talked for a long time, and finally decided to let Kyaukyun participate. And the abbot of Yingkong, who was far away in Tanhua Temple, felt unwilling and helpless that he could not avenge his junior brother and monk Leprosy. After thinking about it, the abbot of Yingkong still decided to let the leper monk enter the earth first. Just when he was about to turn the other party into powder, he suddenly saw something cut out of the nostrils of the leper monk. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a horsehair. The abbot who drew out Yingkong saw a horsehair slipping out of the nostrils of the leper monk, and he was puzzled, but he still decided to tell Mu Qingming about this discovery. Seven days later, the hens in the small courtyard of the Mu family laid eggs at noon. Miao Le took Kyaukyun and Long Gu and took the eggs to Hongyu's residence and began to prepare for Gu making. 】
The candle flickered twice and settled.
The abbot of Yingkong, who stopped his tears, still had tears on his suspicious face.
He leaned down and picked up a second hair-like thing that had slipped out of the nostrils of the leper monk from the ground in front of the bed. Then I took something like hair in my hand and twisted it, and the touch was the same as that of a horse's hair.
The only difference is that the first one is pure black. And this second root is maroon.
Abbot Yingkong studied a bit of veterinary medicine in his early years, and he was not proficient in it, but he was also compassionate and often delivered cattle and horses to the villagers under the mountain. This kind of helping others is fun, accumulating virtue and doing good deeds to do more things have obvious benefits, what is horsehair and what is cow hair, he can recognize it when he touches it.
The two hairs in his hands could not have been hair, they looked like them, but they were definitely horsehair.
But because of this, the abbot of Yingkong was even more confused.
His junior brother just ate some Tai Sui to save his life, according to Mu Qingming, but his appearance and physique will become the same as plants and trees, like plants. In that case, how does it come out of the nose and be classified as the horsehair of an animal?
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if his junior brother has some reason, during the period of disappearance, he has strangely turned into a horse, and the horse has no horsehair in its nose.
Horse's mane is the long hair that the horse has from the top of the head along the back of the neck to the shoulder blades, that is, the mane, which is called horsehair. Who had ever heard that horsehair could grow in the nostrils?
After thinking about it, Abbot Yingkong always felt that this matter was weird beyond common sense, but it was also a clue. Although he didn't know what happened when the horsehair came out of the nostrils of his junior brother's body. But the abbot of Yingkong thought about it for a while, and decided to personally hand over the horsehair to Mu Qingming, and then explain the reason. That Mu Qingming will definitely give him an answer and solve his confusion.
Thinking of this, the abbot went to fetch an empty cloth bag containing the scriptures, carefully put the two horsehair into it, and squatted in front of his brother's body.
The abbot of Yingkong, who stood up with his head high, saw the big nostrils of his junior brother at a glance.
After looking at it for a long time, it was also dark, and he couldn't see anything in his nostrils, so he got up again, went to get an oil lamp, and when he came back, he shone it into his brother's nostrils.
This time he could see clearly, there were still a few horsehair left in the nostrils of his corpse. This small clue was not even discovered by Mu Qingming, but it was inadvertently discovered by the abbot of Yingkong.
Joy rose, and the sadness that lingered in the heart of the abbot of the sky was slightly lightened. He cautiously reached out and pulled the horsehair out of his brother's nostrils one by one.
The movements are slow, and they dare not have the slightest impatience.
After a while, he pulled out a total of seven horsehair from the nostrils of his junior brother's body, all of which were about the same length and about half a foot, but they were of various colors. With the addition of the previous two, no more, no less, exactly nine.
The abbot of Yingkong carefully held these horsehair in his hand and put them in the cloth bag without leaking.
"I'll go into the city tomorrow and send these to Mu Qingming. He should be able to give me some answers. Thinking like this, the abbot of Yingkong tightened the mouth of the cloth bag and put it away......
The sunlight spread out in the small courtyard of the wooden family, drying the morning dew left on the bluestone slab.
Mu Qingming, who didn't have to go to work today, went out on the street after breakfast and came back, took a book and sat on a rocking chair under the tree, and flipped through it.
The corpse baby Hanquan and the cunning snow leopard are chasing and playing in circles in the courtyard yard, having a lot of fun. And Mo Han sat in the main hall, killing time carefully and seriously.
As for Kyaukyun and Long Gu, they all squatted at the kitchen door on the first floor of the east house, staring at the old hen nested in the chicken coop, and did not take their eyes off for a moment.
"Mu Da." After running for a long time, Han Quan, who couldn't make a clear statement, threw himself on Mu Qingming's leg, and called out after a few rough breaths: "Mu Dada." ”。
"What? I don't have any sugar in my pocket today. Mu Qingming's hand fell on his head with thick black hair and rubbed it, making the cold spring giggle and then said in a low voice: "Give you candy again, your mother Mo Han has to scold me." Look at your teeth, they're all worms. ”。
Hanquan still giggled, unimpressed.
The cunning snow leopard lay down on the ground beside Mu Qingming, and when he was panting roughly, he raised his eyes and glanced at the cold spring that was still lying on Mu Qingming's lap, and breathed a sigh of relief.
The look was tired, and his eyes seemed to be complaining to Mu Qingming: "I finally made this little ancestor happy." "Same.
"Don't sugar, fly books." Hanquan climbed up, sat on Mu Qingming's lap, and looked at the scroll in Mu Qingming's hand.
Mu Qingming didn't say a word, threw the scroll in his hand to the top of his head, and then quickly pinched a sword trick, pointed to the scroll that flipped up in the air, and drank: "Fixed." ”。
The scroll immediately rested about three feet above his head, and he clapped his hands and laughed even more cheerfully.
Carefree, he likes to watch this kind of technique, and in his opinion, it is as wonderful as Mu Qingming taking him to the street to see the tricks.
"Grow up quickly, I'll teach you this when you grow up." Mu Qingming pointed to the hanging book and said to Hanquan.
"Good, good." While clapping the cold spring, he replied repeatedly.
"Then let me read. Why don't you go play with your pile of toys? After a while, Mu Qingming said again.
"Good, good." Hanquan replied again, jumped off his lap, stood firmly on the ground, and then turned around and ran towards the inverted room.
Many of Cold Spring's toys were put in the inverted room by himself for the cunning snow leopard to watch, as if a snitch would steal his toys such as spinning tops and Kong Ming locks.
"Chicken thief, toys are always hidden in the kennel, is it a gold bar?" Looking at the back of Hanquan leaving, Mu Qingming retracted his gaze after asking such a sentence, and fell on the cunning snow leopard who was still panting, paused, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, snow leopard." ”。
Hearing this, the snow leopard climbed forward a few steps before standing up, leaning its huge dog head on Mu Qingming's knees and wagging its tail.
Mu Qingming touched its head, looked back at the two disciples not far behind him, and asked jokingly, "You have been staring at that chicken coop for a long time, what are you looking at?" Did the hen lay golden eggs? ”。
The breeze blew, and the canopy above his head shook and shook off a lot of fallen leaves, whirling with the wind.
"Master, Aunt Miaoyu said that this hen will lay eggs on time at noon today." Long Gu stood up and said excitedly to Mu Qingming: "If we don't star, how can we know if it is an egg laid at noon." ”。
"yes, yes." After the bright clouds beside Long Gu echoed, he said, "I've fed it the elixir for seven days, so it's time to lay eggs today." I'm going to see if it lays eggs at noon today. ”。
"Do you know what time it is?" Mu Qingming removed a fallen leaf that had fallen on the snow leopard's nose and touched its head again.
On the other side of the inverted room, Han Quan had already turned out his toys and sat down under the ring corridor, playing with them. I'm not curious about this side at all.
Behind Mu Qingming, Jiaoyun and Long Gu were stunned for a moment, and then they all shook their heads in unison.
"Take it." Mu Qingming took off his pocket watch from himself and threw it to Long Gu, saying, "Take this timer; The noon mentioned in the operation should be at eleven o'clock on the watch. ”。
With that, Mu Qingming looked up at the boxy sky above the patio.
It's almost sunshine.
Long Gu took the pocket watch impartially, opened it and saw that it was still three minutes away from the eleven o'clock that Mu Qingming said.
She hurriedly crouched down and stared at the chicken coop again with Kyaukyun. But this time, Long Gu didn't forget to glance at the pocket watch in her hand from time to time.
Time slowed down in the eyes of the two of them. Mu Qingming continued to look through the book in his hand, while Hanquan was still playing with his toys with relish. As for the cunning snow leopard, it also lay on the ground again, bathed in the gentle breeze, and snoozed with its eyes closed.
After a while, eleven o'clock in the afternoon arrived, but this wait made Long Gu and Kyaukyun seem to have experienced a century.
The time had come, but the hen in the coop was still lying motionless on her stomach.
Long Gu and Jiaoyun Fox were suspicious, they raised their hands and scratched their cheeks, and their mouths let out a sound in unison: "Huh? Could it be that the elixir is not effective enough? So you didn't lay eggs at noon? ”。
Just as the words landed, Miao Le walked out of the kitchen. She glanced at the motionless hen in the coop, leaned over and opened the cage door, reached in and took out the old hen.
On the chicken coop made of straw, one by one, the blunt and slightly pointed eggs lay quietly in the chicken coop.
Kyaukyun hurriedly reached over and picked up the egg. When you hold it in your hand, you can feel the residual warmth on the epidermis.
"The medicine prepared by Miaoyu, as long as it can prescribe the right medicine, has never missed." Miao Le said this, and put the hen back again: "If you eat the elixir of 7749 days, this hen will only lay eggs at noon in the future." ”。
After that, Miao Le closed the cage door and walked to the well, fetched water and washed his hands, and said to Mu Qingming: "Then young master, let's send the eggs to Hongyu so that she can start making Gu as soon as possible." Hopefully, she's ready for the coffin, lid, bronze mirror, and other things. ”。
"Go ahead." Mu Qingming said, still staring intently at the open scroll in his hand.
"You guys come with me, put away the eggs, and don't show your face." Miao Le called Miao Le of Kyaukyun and Long Gu and walked towards the gate.
Kyaukyun hurriedly put away the eggs and carefully held them in his arms and followed. After Long Gu returned the pocket watch to Mu Qingming, she also chased after her.
After they left, Mu Qingming slowly closed the book in his hand, stared at the shadow of the tree on the ground in front of him, and after being stunned for a moment, he took out a few horsehair from his sleeve and looked at it in his hand.
At this time, the horsehair in his hand was sent to him by the abbot of Yingkong himself on the night six days ago. It is said that it was found in the nostrils of the remains of the leper monk, no more, no less, exactly nine.
What clues can Mu Qingming find in the horse's mane? Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.