Chapter 17: The Secret of the Bagua Village
Qi Lu smiled reluctantly, and returned to his seat to drink-
It was only a few glances just now, but it was enough.
This is a genuine gold ingot, and the two characters Fu Ji engraved on the bottom indicate that it is a gold ingot cast by a merchant in the Qing Dynasty. The only thing that made Qi Lu a little puzzled was that there were twisted three characters at the bottom of the Fu Ji font, like the number that the naughty rich kid added on his way when he got the ingot of gold.
Qi Lu tried his best to maintain a calm expression, but Lao Wu couldn't sit still, he put the picture into his arms, stood up and said to Qi Lu: "Let's go, let's go and get rich." β
"Brother, I wish you a great fortune in advance." Boss Du said with a smile: "But I advise you, don't be greedy if you get rich, come back quickly." β
Lao Wu shook his head with a sad face and said: "It is difficult for people to withstand the test, how can you tell me not to be greedy?" β
Greed is punished by God. Of course, it is good to be rich, but if you lose your life, you will have nothing. Boss Du sighed, a sympathetic look in his eyes.
"Someone has died for this, so beware." Xiao Li continued, his voice full of sentimentality.
But Lao Wu could hear it, and he had already pulled Qi Lu out of the hotel quickly.
Following the guidance of the map, they made it to the pond.
Qi Lu stared at the front with wide eyes, but then became very calm again, and said slowly: "The boss didn't lie to us. β
There were seven or eight boats rowing on the surface of the pool, and there were many people standing on the shore, all of them had a common feature, that is, they were all over, and from time to time someone wiped the sewage on their faces, and plunged into the icy pool water.
Qi Lu was about to get closer to watch, when he heard a cough from behind.
"Well, even you are here."
Qi Lu looked at it when he heard the sound, and found that he was the nervous old man Sun he met last night.
"Why, shouldn't we come?" Qi Lu's heart moved, and he hurriedly went over to talk.
"A man comes for money, and God comes for a man, so take heed." The old grandson coughed and said something inexplicable.
"Uncle, what do you mean by that?"
Old Sun Tou suddenly shut up and stopped talking, his eyes staring straight behind Qi Lu.
Qi Lu looked back and saw a villager-like person walking over, and said to Qi Lu with a flattering smile on his face, "Does Mr. want to rent a boat?" It is more convenient to have a boat to go down to the pond to fish for treasure. β
"Hehe, no need, we're here to see the excitement today." When he replied, Qi Lu suddenly heard a slight sigh from Lao Sun's hair.
It was just an ordinary sigh, but it made Qi Lu's heart twitch violently, and his sixth sense sensed that this sigh seemed to contain the breath of death. Just when he was surprised, the old grandson had already bowed away.
The villager earnestly advised: "It is necessary to get rich as soon as possible, and the treasures in the pond will only become fewer and fewer, unlike the crops that will grow more and more." β
Qi Lu casually asked, "How much does it cost to rent a boat for a day?" β
"Eight thousand."
"So expensive?" Qi Lu was taken aback.
"It's a little expensive, but you think, if you get a baby, you won't care about this money."
"That's true." Qi Lu handed him a cigarette and asked, "Is the old man surnamed Sun just now a doctor?" β
"You said the old grandson." As soon as Qi Lu mentioned the old man, the villagers' faces showed a look of disdain, and he lit a cigarette and said, "This old guy knows that he is pretending to be a ghost to deceive strangers, so don't be fooled." β
"Since he's not a doctor, why is he wearing a lab coat?"
"Ignore him, he is playing tricks, pretending to be crazy all day long, saying that he is a miracle doctor who can heal the hearts of the world. In fact, we all know that we don't know a few old things, so how can we be doctors. If the village chief hadn't seen him alone, he would have been kicked out of the village a long time ago. β
Qi Lu was stunned, when he first met the old grandson, he also read an ancient poem to himself, why did the villagers say that he didn't know a few big characters, could it be that someone taught him? After thinking about it, he said perfunctorily: "Your village chief is really a good person. β
"Of course, he's done a lot of good for us." At the mention of the village chief, the villagers' tone became flattering, "If it weren't for him, our village would still be poor and white." β
"Hehe, I want to get acquainted with your village chief when I have time."
"It's easy to get to know him, he's here every day to keep order." The villager pointed to an old man standing by the pond and said to Qi Lu, "That's our village chief." β
Qi Lu turned his head, but he could only see a gray-haired back, he was wearing an inappropriate robe, talking to the person next to him.
Qi Lu laughed and said, "He's the village chief?" I don't believe it. β
"You think the village chief is wearing strange clothes, don't you?" The villagers were surprised and said, "This is a shaman's robe, of course no one from the city has ever seen it." β
"Your village chief is a shaman?" Qi Luqi didn't expect that there were people in this remote village who believed in such an ancient religion.
"Hmm." The villagers nodded and said: "His family has been shamans for generations, and the village chief has a deep ancestral heritage, and his divination and begging are very effective. Whenever there are some happy events in the family, we will go to him to calculate a hexagram. β
At this time, a few more outsiders who wanted to make a fortune came, and Qi Lu saw that each of them was holding a treasure map in his hand. The villager saw that he couldn't get any oil and water from Qi Lu, so he hurried to pull these new businessmen.
Qi Lu's eyes were attracted by the pattern behind the village chief's robe, which was a very strange animal pattern, it had no head, but behind it there were two pairs of fiery red wings like a phoenix.
"It's Dijiang." Lao Wu's expression changed as he spoke.
"Yes." Qi Lu only felt that his whole body was cold, and he remembered those past events of blood and fire.
Dijiang is also known as chaos, the ancients said that it is only a six-legged and four-winged, chaotic faceless, good at singing and dancing, living in the Tianshan Tang Valley of the strange gods.
But the world doesn't know that Dijiang is more noble than the twin gods of time and space, Zhuhai and Taizhang, and after the god queen retired during the barbarian period, Dijiang took over the position of emperor as expected. He is the most mysterious of the five god kings, and he lives in seclusion on weekdays, even if it is the Kunlun gods, few have seen his true face.
The records about Dijiang in human books are all hearsay, so much so that later the descriptions of him became more and more outrageous, and some books even said that Dijiang was a monster that looked like a dog and a bear. It has eyes that cannot see, ears that cannot hear, and if it encounters a person of noble character, it will resist it with brute force; When encountering a wicked person who is rampant and domineering, he will lie down and stick to him. This is very different from Dijiang's original appearance, and in the minds of later generations, he has unwittingly become the image of a fierce beast.
Qi Lu was pondering, but Lao Wu suddenly laughed, "A shaman actually believes in the god king Emperor Jiang, is there anything more funny than this?" β
"I don't think he knows what the pattern on the robe represents." Qi Lu's answer was obviously a lack of confidence.
"No, I'm just the opposite of you, maybe this old man knows the origin of Dijiang." Lao Wu sighed, "Forget it, let's go." β
Qi Lu grinned and said, "You were clamoring to get rich, why did you change your mind now?" β
"Of course I want to get rich, but I'm even more afraid of losing my life." Lao Wu whispered to him: "There are strange things in this village. β
"Yes, weird and counterintuitive. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. β
"Let's go, let's go to that place." Lao Wu pointed to a hill not far away.
"Where to do what?"
"You'll know when you get there." Lao Wu sold Guanzi.
Qi Lu frowned, but still followed him to the top of the mountain. It is a small dirt hill 100 meters high, and the top of the mountain is bare, and not a single tree can be seen.
"Sure enough, exactly what I had in mind." Lao Wu took out the treasure map from his arms and muttered to himself while looking at it. Qi Lu was angry when he saw this drawing, and reached out to grab it and was about to tear it up.
"Hey, don't get nervous!" Lao Wu yelled at him and snatched the drawings back.
Qi Lu said angrily: "Everyone has a treasure map, what's the use of you keeping it, this is obviously a thing for the villagers to cheat money." β
"You're right, but now it's working for me." Lao Wu took out a pen, "There is no wall in this picture, I will add it now, and you will know the mystery in it." With that, he drew a circle with his pen along the outer edge of the village.
Qi Lu fixed his eyes and was taken aback, as Lao Wu drew the circle, this map turned out to be a gossip map!
"Are you saying that the architecture in the village of Charbagh is arranged in the style of a taijitu?"
"Yes." Lao Wu nodded and said, "As soon as I entered this village, I noticed that something was wrong, and sure enough, there was a mystery in it. β
Qi Lu stood on the dirt mountain and looked down, the shape of the nine palaces and gossip of the entire village was immediately and completely displayed in front of him, and the waterhole with the buried treasure at the bottom of the mountain was in the center of the village. With it as the core, there are a total of eight alleys in the village radiating outward according to the direction of the gossip, and all the houses are scattered among the alleys and alleys in the village, and the whole village is like a labyrinth from a distance.
Qi Lu couldn't help but praise: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it!" It is amazing that the ancestors of the villagers had such wisdom. β
Lao Wu said again: "Yin and Yang Pisces are formed, if you look at the north and south positions, where are the two fish eyes in Taiji Village?" β
Qi Lu followed Lao Wu's prompt and set his eyes on the village below the mountain, and once again saw the mystery.
To the south, the fisheye is the Shangri-La Hotel, the tallest building in the village, crouching alone like a monster, the sun shining on the blood-colored faΓ§ade, revealing an eerie color.
And the fisheye to the north is just an inconspicuous small house, which looks so cold compared to Boss Du's hotel.
Qi Lu chuckled and said, "You mean, it's necessary for us to visit that house in the north?" β
"Yes, I have a hunch that there must be something weirder in that place."
While the two were discussing, a deep male voice came from behind: "Both of you are extremely clever people, and I know that the secrets of this village cannot be hidden from your eyes." β
Suddenly hearing someone talking behind him, Qi Lu didn't even look back, because he could hear who was coming from this familiar voice.