Chapter Twenty-Six: The Villagers' Secrets
The rain stopped silently, and the villagers had not yet left, counting the gold bars in their bags, and everyone had a look of greed and ecstasy on their faces.
Qi He finally understood why these villagers knew that there were treasures in the pool but let outsiders make a fortune, after all, it was easy to go down to the pond to find treasures, but there was no risk in picking up gold bars in the rain, what they had to do was to keep the secret of this golden rain.
Why is there such a strange golden rain in the village of Charbagh? Qi Lu didn't know, he further thought of the peach trees buried in the stone walls surrounding the village, and the strange points of light he saw in the mysterious pool......
Old Sun's words suddenly exploded in his mind: "This is a village ruled by evil gods, and he uses treasures to tempt the world!" ”
Could it be that this village is really ruled by some evil god? Could he be the guy he saw who easily defeated Manjoo?
The more Qi Lu thought about it, the more chilled he became, and then he heard the village chief say to the surrounding villagers: "The old rule, half of it is distributed to everyone, and half is confiscated according to the gods......
Myth! Qi Lu was taken aback, and quickly looked at the village chief, only to find that the villagers had dispersed in twos and threes, and now only he and the middle-aged man were left. Half of the gold bars seemed to have been distributed to the villagers, and the middle-aged man carried the cloth bag in his hand again.
"Go and give the gold to Xiao Zhang, tell him to work hard tonight, and he must work hard." The village chief's words sounded gentle, but they had an irresistible force.
"Okay." The middle-aged man walked away with the bag, and the village chief first looked around vigilantly, and then left with his hands behind his back.
The huge grain field instantly showed an oppressive silence, and Qi Lu only hesitated for a few seconds before tracking the middle-aged man away.
But what Qi Lu didn't expect was that the middle-aged man didn't go home, but went to the Taoist temple dedicated to the Jade Emperor.
This low and dilapidated Taoist temple suddenly had an indescribable weirdness in Qi Lu's eyes at this moment.
The middle-aged man looked behind him in front of the door, and after making sure that no one was following him, he took out the key and unlocked it, gently pushed open the door with the patent leather peeling off, and walked in softly. Qi Lu waited for a moment and saw that he hadn't come out yet, and he also flashed into the door.
There was not the slightest movement in the temple, and the dull air made Qi Lu feel a little impatient, he circled around the statue, carefully observing the movement of the room, but strangely found that the middle-aged man was missing.
He can't be a ghost, and there is no back door in the view, how could he be missing? Qi Lu stood in front of the statue and felt that it was staring at him with gloomy and lifeless eyes, and his body couldn't help but tremble slightly.
Just when Qi Lu was guessing the mystery of the middle-aged man's disappearance, there was a "squeak", although the sound was not very loud, but Qi Lu had heard it clearly, and he was keenly aware that the sound was coming from the back wall.
A crack opened in the wall, and a faint light came out of it. Qi Lu's heart was about to fly to his throat, and in a hurry, he sneaked in front of the statue and looked at the back wall with cold eyes.
Everything was different from the previous one, except for the extra door on the back wall facing the door. Qi Lu finally saw clearly, it turned out that there was a fake wall blocking the door in front, and now the wall had moved to the side.
Just when Qi Lu was surprised, the door was completely opened, and the middle-aged man walked out of it, and Qi Lu saw that he was empty-handed, and the cloth bag containing the gold bar was gone.
I saw his hand touch somewhere on the left side of the false wall, and the door squeaked shut again, and the wall returned to its original state.
Qi Lu realized that there must be a dark room behind this door, and he only then understood why Qi Jinghan disappeared in this temple, it turned out that she also entered the dark room, no wonder he couldn't find her trace.
Qi Lu swallowed his saliva and secretly scolded Lao Wu a few words, he was a rare locksmith in the world, and it was really dereliction of duty that he failed to discover this secret door.
Just when he was restless, the middle-aged man was already walking towards the door, and Qi Lu hurriedly walked around the idol to avoid his gaze, in case he was discovered by him.
The middle-aged man didn't notice that anyone was following him, so he locked the door and went home to sleep after he made his debut.
Qi Lu squatted in place for a long time, until he was sure that the middle-aged man would not go and return, so he sneaked out from behind the statue and walked to the secret door, and also learned from the middle-aged man to grope on the left side of the wall, he wanted to find out the hidden door opening mechanism.
In the darkness, Qi Lu finally touched a loose brick, he pulled it outward, the brick stretched out halfway, the false wall suddenly moved to the side, and the secret door appeared in front of Qi Lu's eyes again.
Qi Lu slowly pushed open the door, and an indescribable strange smell came out. Inside the door was a passageway, a long passage that could not be seen at the end of the tunnel.
Qi Lu couldn't put into words his shock. There was a glow in the passage, a bewitching glow, from the top and sides of the passage, even the stone steps, everything was glowing.
The light had a certain degree of transparency, Qi Lu looked at it in a daze, he walked into the passage, tentatively touched the wall with his hand, and found that it was a special stone wall composed of multi-faceted crystals.
His eyes gradually adjusted to the light in the darkness, and he felt as if he had stepped into a dreamlike world, and the light refracted from all angles filled the passage. Countless refracted rays of light are intertwined into a world of light, giving rise to endless fantasies, like a fairyland.
But Qi Lu only felt that his heart trembled, and his palms were already oozing sweat. Because this special crystal that catches your eye is not some kind of ore in the world, but a jade from the Kunlun Sacred Mountain.
He still remembers that he not only guarded the Kunlun Mountain Gate to prevent demons from entering, but also guarded the nine sacred wells in the mountain at the same time. The nine sacred wells were connected together, separated by intricately carved balustrades made of the jade he saw in front of him.
Why does Kunlun's unique Xuan Gem Jade appear in this ghost village? This is a capital sin in the age of the glory of the gods! Qi Lu couldn't figure it out, but he knew that there must be some kind of unknown relationship between Charbagh Village and Kunlun Divine Mountain.
Qi Lu frowned, not knowing what would be inside the passage. But in order to find out, he decided to go in anyway.
Qi Lu walked lightly and walked to the end of the passage, there was a half-hidden door here, and a very dazzling red light was revealed from the door, and the strange smell he smelled when he began to come in was even stronger, and Qi Lu was sure that the smell was wafting out of the door.
He cautiously walked to the door, peeked inside, and saw several people dressed as villagers busy in front of a fire. The gold bars in the sack were all poured on a smudge-covered table, and in the light of the fire, the gold bars stood out.
At this time, a fat man who was working inadvertently raised his head, and just looked in the direction of the door, Qi Lu quickly retracted his head.
"Looks like there's someone out there." That being said, the fat man wasn't sure if he was dazzled.
"Hurry up and work, you saw a ghost in the middle of the night." The other was making fun of him.
"I'll go out and have a look." After all, the fat villager still couldn't rest assured, he walked out, but as soon as he walked out of the wooden door, he felt that a black body in front of him fell straight forward. Qi Lu, who was hiding behind the door, hurriedly helped the villager who was knocked unconscious by himself to the side, and then lay down by the door to eavesdrop on the movement inside.
"Why hasn't this kid come in yet?"
"He must be lazy, he just likes to be clever."
"That's not right!" Seeing that the fat villager had not come in for a long time, the people in the house seemed to realize that something was wrong, and a villager put down the tools in his hand and walked out the door to find his companion, Qi Lu knocked him unconscious without hesitation.
There were only two villagers left in the house, and when they were muttering, Qi Lu, who was hiding outside the door, had already taken the initiative to attack, only to see him kick open the wooden door, and in the surprise of the two, he flew up a few times, and instantly kicked the two to the ground and fainted.
Qi Lu, who calmed down, observed everything in the house, only to find that the stove was a simple earthen furnace for smelting metal, and there were several molds scattered on the ground next to the stove.
This is the mold used to cast gold ingots, and what shocked him even more was that he saw that there were words in the mold, which were the Yin text of the two characters of Fu Ji!
Qi Lu's heart was cold, and he hurriedly bent down to pick up several other molds to check, and found that they were all gold ingot molds engraved with Fu Ji fonts.
The extremely unpleasant smell came to his face again, Qi Lu was a little outwhelmed by the smoke, he reached out to cover his nose, looked towards the place where the smell wafted from, and found a large glass jar in the corner, which contained a liquid that he could not identify for the time being. The liquid was so cloudy that he couldn't see what's inside.
Qi Lu frowned and walked to the glass jar, picked up a spoon placed next to him to scoop up a little liquid, he wanted to find out the use of this liquid. But when he put the spoon into the jar, he accidentally touched something in the jar. Qi Lu hurriedly fished out a yellow and clear metal object.
"Gold ingots!" Qi Lu screamed, he lowered his head with a slight tremble, and observed this ingots with a complicated expression, his heart became more and more excited.
This ingots are already a little old, there are not only two words of blessing at the bottom, but also an inconspicuous seven characters, crooked, just like the three words he fished up from the pool, it is obvious that they are all engraved by the same person.
Qi Lu scooped it up in the jar with a spoon again, and fished out several gold ingots in a row, all of which were cast in a mold, the only difference was that the number engraved at the bottom was different.
In an instant, Qi Lu understood everything.
It turned out that the liquid in this vat was a chemical solution used by the villagers to make old cultural relics. The village chief instructed the villagers to melt the gold bars they had picked up into ingots, soak them in liquid, and then pick them up over time to pass them off as gold ingots privately minted by the Qing Dynasty. Then these fake artifacts are thrown into the pool to coax tourists to go for treasure.
Why, why are they doing this? Qi Lu couldn't think of the motives of the villagers at all, his eyes stared straight at these ingots, forgetting the danger, maybe he had stayed for a long time, and he didn't feel the bad smell.