Chapter 49: The Rotting Rat
The old slippery head laughed dryly, and said to the third brother in a strange tone:
"That's right, it's the jade that has become a fine, and when you find it, you feed it with your blood, and the jade essence with a big white face will become a charming big girl, and she will follow you for the rest of her life!"
I said impatiently, "Don't talk nonsense, now that you've seen that monster, you should know where it's hidden, right?" ”
As I spoke, I wiped a handful of my hair and showed him some of the red powder.
The old slippery head smiled, "I know that I can't hide it from you, master, as soon as I saw that thing appear, I immediately spilled the black dog blood mixed with realgar." It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it is stained with dog blood realgar, it is guaranteed that it has nothing to hide! ”
As he spoke, he took out a bamboo tube with the thickness of his arm from his arms, pulled out the stopper, and put his mouth to the palm of his hand.
This thing looks like a full-term mouse cub, but it has no tail, and its nose is turned upwards like a pig, fluffy, and it is very cute. It's just that a pair of eyes are glued together, unable to open, and from time to time some bright yellow mucus oozes out.
Ji Yayun was surprised: "This is a hamster? ”
Seeing that she couldn't help but want to reach out and touch the thing, I opened her hand, "If you don't know what it is, don't touch it!" ”
I've never seen this strange 'mouse' either, but once I know the details of the old slippery head, I immediately think about what it is.
It was an extremely rare rotting rat.
It is said that this rotting rat grows deep underground, does not see the sun and moon all year round, and feeds on the rotting carcasses of animals or people.
This thing is not as strong as rats, nor is it like ordinary rats to live in groups, hiding deep underground, as soon as they find the carrion of people or animals, they will live in the carrion as a whole, and the rotten flesh will be devoured, and the bones will be gnawed through the bones, burrowed into the bones and sucked the bone marrow. Therefore, it is also called the tarsal rat.
In the eyes of ordinary people, rotting rats are dirty and unbearable, and they are afraid to avoid them, but for the shepherds who hold back their treasures, they are difficult to find treasures.
This thing can't see with the eyes, but its sense of smell is ten times more sensitive than that of a hunting dog, and it is said that it can even smell the smell of corpses that have been buried for thousands of years dozens of meters underground.
The heavenly spirit and earth treasure that the treasure people ask for is said to be conceived by heaven and earth, but in fact it is still born in insects or animals, such as centipedes that have been in the body for thousands of years, and foxes that have a path to give birth to fire cloud pills, and the most unfortunate dogs to give birth to dog treasures, cows to give birth to bezoars, mussels to give birth to pearls, etc., are all this truth.
The treasure holder is to use the carrion rat gluttony to distinguish the attributes of the carrion corpse blood and bones, and rely on the carrion rat to determine the specific location of the treasure.
Recognizing the origin of the carrion rat, I remembered one thing. Before leaving, I bought the barrel of sesame oil from the old slippery head, saying that it was mixed with human bone oil. Those human bones used to refine oil could not have been found by him using rotting rats, right?
The old slippery head felt a roll of red silk thread, tied one to the hind legs of the rotting rat, and then threw the rotting rat into the snow.
The rotting rat is not afraid of the cold, but it is the nature to gluttonize carrion, and the old slippery dog's blood meal, in addition to realgar, is mostly mixed with something like dry bone powder, and as soon as the rotten rat lands, it immediately follows the smell into the snow.
Listening to me say what a rotting rat is, Ji Yayun almost didn't spit it out on the spot.
Although Tang Yi also looked disgusted, he still couldn't help asking: "The silk thread is so thin, the rotten rat is really going to drill deep, won't the thread be torn off?" ”
I motioned for him not to ask any more questions, and pointed at the old slippery head.
At this time, the old slippery head slowly put the long silk thread around one hand, and the other hand except for the thumb, all four fingers were on the silk thread, and the eyes were slightly closed, which looked a bit like the appearance of Chinese medicine when taking people's pulses.
In fact, he's really taking the pulse. However, it is not to give people a pulse, but to spy and grasp the leyline.
This method of 'diagnosing the pulse of the suspensory filament' has a special name in the treasure industry, which is called the art of listening to the truth.
Legend has it that Di Ting is a psychic beast that lies under the Jizo Bodhisattva Sutra and can identify everything in the world by listening. In the chapters of the real and fake Monkey King in Journey to the West, the first person to recognize the origin of the fake Monkey King is this truth.
This method is in the name of Di Ting, which shows that it is miraculous.
I suddenly thought, as a fellow shepherd, will the deceased Gu shepherd also listen to this stunt?
Thinking about it, Gu Shepherd's methods should not be inferior to the old slippery head, but the old slippery head relied on this rotten rat to explore the leylines; And Gu Yangqi is even more swordsman, and uses a wisp of my spiritual sense to refine the little grass head immortal.
It is said that holding the sheep and holding the treasure is the chief of ten thousand thieves, the respect of the thief, but no matter how legendary it is, it cannot be separated from the word "thief". In the eight outer lines, among the thieves, there are not many good people. Of course, you can't knock it all down with one shot, and if you can't say it all, you can score people again.
Seeing that the silk thread was at least fifty or sixty meters away, and it was about to come to an end, the old slippery head suddenly opened his eyes, and hurriedly felt out something, and threw it into the bamboo pipe that originally held the rotting rats.
We didn't see what it was, we didn't smell anything, we saw the rotting rat go and come back, and burrow back into the bamboo tube like lightning.
It was at this time that a loud cry of "ah" suddenly came from the direction of the house.
"It's not good, it's Uncle Dog!"
The third brother stomped his feet and ran back in a hurry.
The old slippery head also jumped high, "Damn, what you dare to find is in that room!" ”
The third brother was worried about Uncle Dog's safety, so he was the first to run over, but he collided with Uncle Dog who was coming out of the house in a hurry.
I followed up and grabbed Uncle Dog, and went to the house to inspect it, but I didn't see anything unusual.
Uncle Dog was shocked and said, "It's a big white face!" I see a big white face! ”
As soon as I heard Uncle Dog say it, I realized that he was coiled on the kang just now, and suddenly felt cold all over, as if there was a yin wind swirling into his clothes.
Uncle Dog listened to the conversation between me and the old slippery head before, and felt that it was surprisingly cold, and immediately thought that there might be some kind of ghost and spirit to appear. In fright, he shouted a few times but no one answered, so he had to struggle to get off the kang and run out.
How do you know that one leg only went down to the edge of the kang, and as soon as he lowered his head, he saw a black thing drilling out of the kang hole.
The thing was like a charred dried corpse, and it seemed to notice that someone was looking at it, and suddenly its neck turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and it twisted its face towards Uncle Dog.
At this time, Uncle Dog saw a big white and miserable face with no facial features!
Uncle Dog was already injured, and this time he was even more frightened, and he fainted on the spot.
When he woke up, although he didn't have a big white face, he still let out a cry in panic, trembling and wanting to run out, but was hit by the third brother who rushed to the rescue.
The old slippery man's face was a little distorted, staring at the round eyes like a coin, and he gritted his teeth and said:
"Damn X, it took more than three years to harm Lao Tzu in vain, and that thing has always been under Lao Tzu's nose!"