Chapter 12: The Cicada
As soon as I looked down like this, I saw a square opening on the ground under the bed, and a faint light came out of the opening, and then half of my head was exposed, and the white hair was revealed.
"Yes, Xiao Lengyan!" I said excitedly.
In the past two years in Qinghong, Xiao Lengyan rarely appeared in the store, but whenever someone wanted to bully me, he could always come out inexplicably to relieve me, which is why no one in the pawnshop dares to bully me now.
Others are speculating behind their backs whether I am the illegitimate son of the Hongru family, so the shelf is so big, and I have to ask the White Rakshasa to protect me.
I wanted to explain all these crazy words for a while, but then I realized that the more I explained, the more they felt that it was as they thought, so I just let them talk nonsense.
"Get down!"
The cold, warm voice came to my ears, and it was the first time I heard him speak.
Zhuo Yifan also recognized him and hurriedly motioned for me to go down first, I hurriedly got under the bed, got off my feet first, and then moved towards the square entrance little by little.
"Someone came in." Zhuo Yifan said and immediately got under the bed.
Xiao Leng simply hugged me and hugged me directly.
The bottom is the same layout as the room above, it is the second floor, and it turns out that the two floors are connected.
"Let's go." As soon as Zhuo Yifan jumped down from above, Xiao Lengyan spoke again.
"Ah, White Rakshasa, you're not dumb!" When Zhuo Yifan arrived at this time, he was still in the mood to ridicule this Xiao Leng.
Xiao Lengyan didn't pay attention to him, but tilted his head sideways to listen to the movement outside, Zhuo Yifan and I also followed his example, only to see Xiao Lengyan move towards the outside of the living room step by step.
I noticed that he didn't make a sound when he walked.
After moving to the door, he suddenly opened the iron door, Zhuo Yifan and I were startled, and then he waved at us, signaling Zhuo Yifan and me to follow him downstairs immediately.
There was a lot of commotion on the upper floor, and the three of us ran out of the corridor in one go, and there was a police car parked in front of the building, and the body was scraped decently, and it is estimated that the police were forced to drive the car into the shantytown after receiving the report.
"These people are very hard, so positive?" Zhuo Yifan took a flashlight and shone it on the scratched police car and said.
"Turn off the flashlight! This is the third caesarean section case in the city, and they are working hard to solve it. After Xiao Leng finished speaking, he quickly ran towards the dark path ahead.
In such a dark night, Xiao Lengyan's back was like a vigorous cheetah, and the speed was so fast that Zhuo Yifan and I couldn't keep up at all.
"Fat Jiu, you, you, why did you say that the white rakshasa appeared there so coincidentally? He wouldn't have killed those people, right? Zhuo Yifan's pace became slower and slower, and he asked a little breathlessly.
"No, it won't." I didn't even think about it, and immediately denied Zhuo Yifan's statement.
Zhuo Yifan stretched out his hand, grabbed me, and said, "That kid, I have been protecting you in the pawnshop, and you are also speaking for him now, what is your relationship?" ”
"I don't have anything to do with him, it's just that I don't think he's the kind of person who is ruthless." I believed in Xiao Lengyan completely out of instinct.
Hearing me say this, Zhuo Yifan immediately showed a helpless smile, raised his hand and slapped the back of my head.
"Fat Jiu, say you're stupid, you're really stupid to show me, aren't you?" After Zhuo Yifan finished speaking, he glanced in the direction where Fang Cai Xiao ran coldly, and said, "Do you know how his name of White Rakshasa came from?" He's really ruthless, I guess? ”
Before Zhuo Yifan's words were finished, I saw Xiao Lengyan who appeared in my field of vision again.
He hung upside down on the beam of an eaves like a bat all the time, staring coldly at Zhuo Yifan, his eyes glowing with a strange blue light in the dark night.
Zhuo Yifan saw me staring directly behind him, so he turned his head, held up a flashlight, and saw Xiao Lengyan jumping from the eaves.
"Goo-dong" he swallowed, and smiled awkwardly.
"Let's go!" Xiao Lengyan spit out a word.
"White Rakshasa, you go back first, Fat Jiu and I will go back by ourselves." Zhuo Yifan seemed to be really wary of Xiao Lengyan.
Xiao Leng's eyes were very deep, and after staring at Zhuo Yifan for a long time, he spoke again: "Let's go together, there is danger." ”
"It's only with you that you're in danger, White Rakshasa, I know you're not good at stubble, but I'm not easy to mess with, and Fat Nine him?" As Zhuo Yifan was talking, I had already walked out from behind him.
"Xiao Lengyan, why are you here?" I looked at Xiao Leng and asked.
"Blood Jade Cicada." He only said three words.
"You also know the Blood Jade Cicada? Do you know about my family? "I was shocked, I didn't expect him to know about the Blood Jade Cicada.
"Let's go." Xiao Lengyan didn't answer my question, but, after saying a word, he quickened his pace and walked towards another fork in the road.
I chased after me as fast as I could, and Zhuo Yifan also screamed and followed behind me.
Xiao Lengyan was in the fork in the road, turning left and right, and the speed was very fast and disappeared again like a ghost, and a street appeared in front of me, it turned out that this was a small road that could go out of the shantytown.
"You, you, slow down." Zhuo Yifan stumbled out.
There were cars on the street, but Xiao Lengran was completely gone.
"Xiao Lengyan is gone." I said, frowning.
"Let's go back to the pawnshop first." Zhuo Yifan raised his hand and stopped a car as he spoke.
While I was still looking, he dragged me into the taxi and immediately reported Qingru's address to the driver.
In the car, all I was thinking about was going back to the pawnshop to find Xiao Lengyan and ask about the blood jade cicada, and Zhuo Yifan didn't care at all about what I said.
After waiting for the taxi, Zhuo Yifan was still paying, so I hurriedly got out of the car and went straight to the pawnshop.
The door of the pawnshop was still lit, and there were people guarding the door, and they didn't stop us when they saw us.
I quickly ran towards the backyard on the right side of the pawnshop, where we pawnshop guys lived, Xiao Lengyan lived in the only row of isolated rooms in the backyard, because of his name as a white rakshasa, so that no one dared to approach him.
"Xiao Lengyan? Xiao cold? I called his name and tapped his door hard.
There was no response in the room, I looked through the crack in the door, there was not even a light inside, could it be that Xiao Lengyan hadn't come back yet?
"Fat Jiu, what are you running?"
I was still looking at Xiao Leng's door, and Zhuo Yifan also came.
"Are you really on the same page as the White Rakshasa ? As I said, he's not a good stubble. Zhuo Yifan frowned, his expression was really anxious.
"Blood Jade Cicada." I couldn't explain it for a moment.
Zhuo Yifan's face was gloomy: "Is it difficult, you also know about the blood jade cicada?" ”
"Actually, I have one on my hand." I didn't hide it from Zhuo Yifan, so I simply said it directly: "However, I don't know what the origin of the blood jade cicada is, so I want to ask clearly." ”
"You have a blood jade cicada on your hands?" Zhuo Yifan's expression was shocked, his eyes stared at me, and he didn't say the next sentence for a long time.
"You don't believe it? It's true. "I'm in a hurry.
Zhuo Yifan was silent, I immediately turned around and went to my room, and from under the bed in the room, I found the bag I brought two years ago, this bag I carefully hid under the bed, and in the compartment of the bag, there was a blood jade cicada sewn on.
Because I was in a hurry, I directly bit off the needle and thread that I had sewn up with my teeth, and then touched the blood jade cicada from inside.
But when I raised the blood jade cicada in my hand to Zhuo Yifan, I found that the jade cicada in my hand had actually turned white, and it no longer had the blood-like bright dripping before.
Zhuo Yifan turned on the light in my room and looked at my palm, his expression was very serious, and he didn't look like he was giggling on weekdays.
"It's true, I'm not lying, it wasn't originally this color." I thought Zhuo Yifan thought I was lying to him, and suddenly became even more anxious, in the past two years, he has made such a real friend, if he thinks I am lying, maybe he will ignore me again in the future.
Zhuo Yifan didn't say anything, walked towards me step by step, and finally reached out and took the blood jade cicada in my palm and shone it on the light.
"Fat Jiu, I know you're not lying, but how can you have a blood jade cicada?" His eyes were complicated.
"This is my grandfather's, in short, I'll tell you the reason later, now I just want to ask Xiao Lengyan to find out, does he know the origin of this blood jade cicada." I said as I reached out to take out the blood jade cicada.
Zhuo Yifan held the blood jade cicada in the palm of his hand, as if he wanted to take the blood jade cicada away.
"This thing belongs to my grandfather, you can't take it." I panicked.
"Fat Jiu, it's not safe for this thing to stay with you, sooner or later it will be snatched away, I'll keep it for you, can you rest assured of me?" He looked me straight in the eye.
I hesitated, after all, this was my grandfather's relic.
"Do you know why this blood jade cicada has no color?" Zhuo Yifan spread his hand again and sent the blood jade cicada to me, seeing my dazed face, he paused and said: "This blood jade cicada is an extremely evil thing, it is raised in the mouths of the dead, and in the flesh and blood of the living. ”
"The mouth of a dead man? In the flesh and blood of the living? "I thought carefully about my grandfather when he turned his back, could it be that he took this blood jade cicada out of his mother's mouth?
This thing, also called "Yin Cicada", after a person dies, he can hold this thing in his mouth to keep the body from rotting. "Zhuo Yifan talked to me about the blood jade cicada carefully.
Because the cicada came down from the ground, the ancients believed that the cicada was something that belonged to another world, and that it broke through the ground to represent new life.
When a person dies, it does not mean the end, but he goes to another world to continue living, so with the jade cicada in his mouth, it is to let this yin cicada guide the person after he dies.
Of course, most jade cicadas are white or cyan, but my grandfather's one is the best among them, and my mother was buried because of it in her mouth, so that her body could not decay.