Yang Lao said to show me something, and then mysteriously led me into the Tianzi No. 1 room, took out a scroll of paintings in the shrine, and after opening it, I saw the characters on the scroll, and immediately took a breath of cold air, and my mouth was dry for a while, and I didn't know what to do.

The person in the painting is particularly strange, the whole body is very delicately drawn, even the muscle lines are very expressive, but the facial features of the characters are very blurred, like a mosaic. What makes me nervous is not the face of the character, but the majestic tiger tattoo on the character's exposed chest!

I suddenly felt dizzy at the first glance, because I was too familiar with this tiger tattoo, and the tiger's posture and expression were almost the same as my father's tattoo. For a moment, I even thought that the person in the painting was my father, but the faces of the characters in the painting were blurry, and I don't know if it was artificially destroyed or the painter didn't want others to see the faces of the characters at all, and at the same time, I felt that this Yang Lao was not simple, he must know something.

Yang Lao squinted at me for a long time, without any movement, I took a breath, tried to calm my emotions, and asked, "Who is the figure in this painting?" Yang Lao shook his head and said that he didn't know, this painting was brought out by him from an ancient tomb in the Northern Wei Dynasty, when due to the sudden change in the weather, the torrential rain poured, causing the ancient tomb to collapse into the water, he took a lot of effort to escape, and brought out this bronze statue, at that time, this painting was held in the arms of the bronze statue.

Yang Lao took the painting to the side of the wall lamp, and as the light penetrated, I was surprised to find that there were many words in the blank space of the painting, not so much words, but also the Book of Heaven, because those words were not words at all, just like the charms drawn by Taoist priests, and at the same time, I vaguely felt that these words were very similar to the red charms in the ghost stone room, but I was not sure, this is the same as people who don't know foreign languages looking at foreign languages, French, German, and English can't be distinguished at all.

I looked at Yang Lao suspiciously, to see what his opinion was, the so-called master of Chinese studies, but I didn't expect him to shrug his shoulders and say: "I have checked the ancient books for more than 30 years, and I have not found a record of this kind of writing, maybe it is not a text at all, but a symbol, which is not the most important thing." Then he put away the scroll and asked me, "What is your relationship with the Siberian tiger?" ”

I was stunned for a while, and said in my heart that he really knew something, otherwise he wouldn't have mentioned the Siberian tiger, I don't know why he asked me this question, but I'm in an uncertain situation now, it's better to pretend to be stupid, although I thought so in my heart, my mouth didn't keep up with the train of thought, and stammered: "East what? Siberian tigers, no, it doesn't matter. ”

Seeing the corners of Yang Lao's mouth curled, I knew that I didn't pretend to be good, and I was exposed, and I muttered in my heart, it would be nice if Lei Zi was here, if his lying magic skills were second, no one would dare to rank first, if it was him, he would definitely say this: "Siberian Tiger? Haha, you really know how to scold, although Lei Ye is a **silk, his sexual orientation is quite normal, how can he have anything to do with brutes? "This kind of foolish rhetoric, even if others know that you are perfunctory, they can't ask questions.

People are like that, as soon as they find that what they say is not perfect, they suddenly think of more perfect words, but it is too late.

Elder Yang snorted and said, "In the Inverted Dou world, especially in the Northern Sect, there has always been a saying of 'ghosts see sorrow', I don't know if you have heard of it, little brother." ”

I "chuckled" in my heart, and said that it was really an old fox, he must know what I was, but he was not sure, so the words were full of sets, Made, thinking about what I said in the chat with him before, it became clearer and clearer, this old guy was not talking nonsense at all, there was a set in every sentence, I even found out now, but unfortunately I have fallen in, and I can't save the defeat if I lie.

But I still don't know what his purpose is to set me, but he hasn't pierced me now, obviously there is something he doesn't know, so he doesn't dare to rush to the point with me, this is a mental game, if you are not careful, you will lose everything, and now I can use what he doesn't know or are not sure about, which is exactly the trick he used to deal with me just now.

I smiled slightly and said, "How can my knowledge be compared to yours, I know that ghosts are worried, can the eyebrow Taoist in Hong Kong zombie movies still have anything to do with tomb robbers?" ”

The corners of Old Yang's eyes closed, and he squinted at me for a long time before he said, "It seems that you are doing your favor, I can't help the old man, you can do whatever you want." With that, he turned away from me and put the scroll into the shrine.

I said in my heart that good guy, come here again, today Lao Tzu will be on the bar with you, you come to this trick, Lao Tzu will return blood for blood, anyway, I also have something you don't know here, who is afraid of whom, and immediately said: "Then I will disturb you today." After saying that, I got out of Tianzi No. 1, stood in the corridor and shouted: "Senior sister, I'll wait for you in the car." "It doesn't matter if the senior sister hears it or not, she goes downstairs directly.

In fact, I shouted to Yang Lao, indicating my determination to leave, I am different from Lei Zi's way of resisting, he belongs to the confrontation type, that is, to strive for the maximum reaction at the first time, cut off the containment of others and then confront others, because only confrontation, you are qualified to talk to the other party about conditions.

I'm different, first of all, my weakness is thin-skinned, and it's very difficult to suddenly tear my face with the other party, so I'm used to borrowing the method of getting off the donkey, and then learn the other party's strategy to counter the other party, Lei Zi often says I'm yin, maybe because of this reason.

I was more confident to go downstairs, thinking that Yang Lao would definitely stop me at the first time, so that I would seize the initiative in an instant, but halfway up the stairs, I didn't hear Yang Lao call me, and my heart began to be bottomless, and I couldn't help muttering, did I misjudge, Yang Lao didn't want to know anything about me at all? But my sixth sense clearly told me that the old guy was watching me from behind, and that I should not show weakness.

Turning the screen, when I was about to walk to the door, I still didn't hear Yang Lao call me, I was immediately discouraged, very disappointed, it seems that I really misjudged, he didn't dare to be interested in me at all, now it's difficult to ride a tiger, and I'm embarrassed to go back.

I was just about to step out of the door, when I suddenly heard Yang Lao call me at the top of the stairs: "Boy, wait a minute." ”

It felt like walking on the way to suddenly hear the call of a relative, and suddenly I wanted to run back and hug his old face and kiss him, I was just about to turn around, and I saw Yang Lao's somewhat cold expression in the afterglow of my eyes, I immediately reacted, thinking that it was bad, this is the old fox playing with me. Yes, that's right, he didn't expect me to leave at all, in fact, he wanted to stop me, but if he opened his mouth, it would mean weakness, and the initiative would be transferred to my hands, and I would have the opportunity to ask, so he didn't stop me at the first time, but waited until I went out step by step, and called me when I gave up completely, at that time he caught my mental dynamics, so as to completely defeat me, and from the time he called me, my mental reaction confirmed his strategy, and I couldn't help but secretly call it dangerous, This old fox is very good at grasping other people's psychological weaknesses.

Thinking of this, I smiled to myself and said, "I know that you can't help you when you're old, so I'm sorry to trouble you anymore, goodbye." After speaking, I turned around and left, this time my steps were very firm, I thought I could completely defeat Yang Lao, but in the end I didn't hear him call me again.

As soon as I got into the car, my senior sister came out, and then she drove me back to the hotel. On the way back, I was in no mood to speak, and I wondered if I was using this trick too hard and hurting Yang Lao's face, so he didn't call me in the end. But thinking about it the other way around, it's not like it, Yang Lao spent so much thought and spared such a big turn, just to set out what I know, to make it clear that he is determined to get my information, and it is impossible to give up because of the matter of face, he is so old, not young and young, he knows what is important and what is not important. In this way, all my previous judgments were wrong, and Yang Lao didn't want to know anything, or said that he didn't know anything, and he really couldn't help me.

Thinking of this, I breathed a sigh of relief, but the figure painting eventually became a pimple in my heart, because the tattoo on the person's chest in that picture was the same as my father's touch, and I was absolutely sure of this, I had studied the tattoo photo of my father all afternoon, and many details were clear to my chest.

At first, I comforted myself that the ancients also liked tattoos, and maybe the same tattoo appeared. But think about it, it's not like that, the ancients paid attention to the left green dragon and the right white tiger, the front Vermilion Bird and the back Xuanwu, and stabbed the white tiger in the chest, didn't that become a reversal of black and white, contrary to the worldview at that time? Unless it is an ethnic minority, but except for the Khitan who stabbed the wolf's head in the chest, it seems that there are also ethnic minorities who stab tigers in the chest.

In addition, there were many regional cultures in ancient times, unlike the information developed now, many cultural inheritances were limited to a closed area, and there were no tattoo companies at that time, so it was difficult to have the same tattoos, and the ancients regarded tattoos as a kind of craft, just like painters, to complete a perfect work, which is unique and impossible to sell in quantities. Tattooing is even more difficult, not only do you need perfect work, but you also need people who are willing to get tattoos, because people are not paper after all, they are not what you say you can draw and draw.

The senior sister originally wanted to invite me to dinner, but seeing that I was not in a high mood, she only said a mouth, and didn't mention it again, and sent me directly to the hotel.

I stayed in the hotel for an afternoon, about six o'clock, the phone rang, I saw that it was a strange number, I was annoyed, and hung up directly, unexpectedly just hung up, the phone rang again, I said in my heart that the girl is not over, if you are an advertising Lao Tzu must scold you to death, thinking that I pressed the answer button, impatiently asked: "Who?" ”

"Little brother, it's me."

I was stunned when I heard this, and my brain immediately refreshed a lot, and I hurriedly changed my tone and asked, "It's Yang Lao!" Do you have something? ”

"Yes." Yang Lao lowered his voice very low and said: "Actually, there is a secret in that painting that I haven't told you, it is about the origin of the tiger tattoo, if you want to see it, you might as well come over." ”