"That's right, Ash. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info I'm going to your house to look for you", Liu Xiaohong's mother said, "I cleaned up the tattered old things a few days ago, and turned over a stone cat that your mother deposited with me, it's been many years, I forgot about it, do you still want it?" ”

"Stone cat?"

When Chen Zhi heard the mention of his mother, he immediately became sensitive, "What kind of stone cat?" When did this happen? ”

"That was more than 20 years ago, when you were young!"

Liu Xiaohong's mother said with a smile, "If you want more, I'll bring it to you." ”

After she finished speaking, she turned to go to the warehouse, and after a while, she walked back with a black cat-shaped stone sculpture.

"I had forgotten that if I hadn't been tidying up the warehouse that night and seeing the black cat's pair of cat eyes sparkling, I would have forgotten that there was such a thing."

As she spoke, Mama Hong handed the black stone cat to Chen Zhi.

Chen Zhi took the stone cat and looked at it carefully, the size of the cat was not big, not much different from a normal flower cat, it was black and sticky, like a black mud fetal cat, and there were two black and slimy stones inlaid in the eyes, revealing a little bit of green, which looked like worthless glass. But the shape and posture of this black cat are vividly depicted, it raises a right paw, the body arches forward, the cat's mouth is slightly grinning, the mood is extremely real, and it almost meows.

Chen Zhi knew that although the appearance of this cat was rough, the carving was extraordinary, and it was definitely not a vulgar thing. He weighed the weight of the cat with his hand, very pressed, the whole volume and gravity ratio deduced that the density of the material is very large, which is very different from ordinary stone, but from the carving style of this stone cat, this kind of carving technique is very ancient, like the product of the official kiln in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

"Aunt Hong, didn't my mother say what this black cat was when she gave it to you?" , Chen Zhi asked Liu Xiaohong's mother.

"No, wait~~", Liu Xiaohong's mother seemed to remember something,

"I remember it was raining very heavily that day, it was very unusual, there had never been such a heavy rain in Z city, and it almost caused a flood, the city made an orange warning for heavy rain, and the roads outside were all blocked by rain, and no one dared to go out. But your mother braved the heavy rain that day to send the stone cat over, and said that I would help her keep it, and told her not to give it to anyone else, and to wait for her to take it back herself. I wondered what could make her come in what weather. After that, your mother seemed to have completely forgotten about it, and I forgot about it too. At that time, the broken cat was drenched in heavy rain, and I thought she had picked up the rags somewhere. ”

Liu Xiaohong's mother's words immediately aroused Chen Zhi's curiosity, he wrapped the cat in a cloth, and then said goodbye to Liu Xiaohong's mother and son, leaving their bun shop.

When he walked to the door, Dog Shifei had just finished his work, he washed off the black charcoal on his face, and was about to go in to find Chen Zhi.

"Brother, why did you leave so quickly, I still want to have a good chat with you!" After the dog finished speaking, he said with a somewhat embarrassed face, "That, I have been helping you take care of Xiaohong, but after a long time, I ...... Xiaohong."

"I've got something to do, so I'll go back first",

Chen Zhi stopped the dog right and wrong and didn't finish speaking, he patted the dog right and wrong on the shoulder, "You look like a man now, business is doing well, do it well!" Call me if you need anything. ”

After Chen Zhi finished speaking, he turned around with the stone cat and immediately, after walking through the bun shop, Chen Zhi quickly returned home, Fat Wei and his father ran out again and didn't know who to fight chess with, the ghost knife has disappeared since the morning, and Chen Zhi is the only one left in the house.

Chen Zhi walked up to the second floor with the stone cat, he first cleaned the whole black cat with clean water, and soon found that the cat's body was actually covered with a faint layer of muddy thick film, and the weight of the cat mainly came from the material inside the body, that is to say, the black appearance of the cat was just an illusion, and its own material density was very high, and it was likely to be a precious metal.

Chen Zhi took out the dagger and scraped it twice on the black cat's body, and sure enough, as he expected, after a few scrapes, the black cat's body revealed a shining golden color.

Is this actually a cat cast in pure gold? No wonder it's so heavy! , Chen Zhi's heart exclaimed,

If the cat was pure gold, it would certainly not be an ordinary vessel, and it could not be a meaningless act for my mother to entrust it to someone at that time, but why did my mother send the cat to Liu Xiaohong's house at that time? Do you know that your home is no longer safe and that you may be attacked? When Chen Zhi thought of this, he couldn't help but think of the ghost mother and those terrifying Modara (a demon that can transform into a human form, once transformed into Chen Zhi's mother).

After my mother died, the ghost mother who pretended to be her didn't know about the existence of this stone cat, so she didn't come to Liu Xiaohong's house to ask for it, and it happened that Liu Xiaohong's mother also forgot about it, so this stone cat can be preserved until now. If my mother was afraid that this cat would be discovered, so she deliberately hid it in Liu Xiaohong's house, then it proves that this cat is hiding a very important information, is it ......

Chen Zhi once read an ancient document from the Tang Dynasty, because there were no such institutions as banks and ticket numbers at that time, so many large families stored their belongings in their own homes, so they were often looted by thieves. In order to prevent theft, the aristocracy and wealthy people at that time were popular to make a very special kind of storage.

This kind of storage looks like an ordinary stone carving, it may be a stone dog, it may be a jar, but the inside is empty, they seal the precious gold and silver in the inside, and then apply black mud on the outside of the vessel to make the storage look like an ordinary ornament, in this way, many ancient treasures are preserved, called treasure shrines.

If this black cat is a treasure shrine, then there must be a hole in its belly.

Chen Zhi picked up the black cat and shook it, and sure enough, he heard some very subtle movements, the inside of the black cat's stomach must be empty.

Chen Zhi spent about half an hour carefully scraping off all the black mud on the surface of the black cat. The golden cat's true body was revealed, and he soon found that he thought things too simply, this golden cat was not only completely unable to speak, but also the whole body was engraved with dense incantations, which faintly exuded a cold aura, and it hurt very much when it touched people's skin.

Chen Zhi opened his palm, it turned out that since just now, the right hand he used to shave the black cat began to ooze blood, and it was full of knife cuts.

Chen Zhi closed his palm and looked at the golden cat engraved with incantation again, if he guessed correctly, the incantation on this golden cat was a powerful curse that was forbidden for humans to touch. (To be continued.) )