The flames were swirling, I spit out the green smoke in my mouth, and then said: "I was the same as you thought at the beginning, I felt that Ah Guang had found the wrong object, if you want to buy it, then the foreigner will take Ah Guang to negotiate the price by himself, if you want to steal, then Lao Tzu is not a thief." As a result, Ah Guang told me that they originally wanted to buy it, but something happened to the family. The old man who had promised to sell the tank to them suddenly died suddenly in the past few days, and the cause of death was said to be a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, and the person fell down the stairs and hit his head against the wall, and there was no one at home at the time, so he went. As soon as the old man died, he naturally had to divide the family property, and this cylinder became part of the family property. Ah Guang made the idea of going out for the old man, finding someone in the circle to scare and scare them, get some small spells, and if he didn't make a ghost out to scare people, others would naturally be willing to sell. But unexpectedly, the person Ah Guang found was not right, and after scaring the family, the family immediately felt that there was something wrong with the tank, so they lost the tank, and the person Ah Guang found picked up the tank. But he didn't hand it over to the foreigner, but asked the foreigner for money, which is not uncommon in the circle, and half of the river crossing and bridge demolition business raised the price, and it was shameless. Ah Guang also received money from foreigners, the so-called collecting money for people to eliminate disasters, consciously lost face, so he talked to that person, but the man bit to death and asked for a large sum of money or not to hand over the cylinder, the two sides could not talk, Ah Guang wanted to find a master in the circle to take down the person, and then bring the cylinder back. ”

"Holy shit, that sounds a little mysterious." The fat man was also interested, and spoke.

I smiled and said: "I thought that this order could be accepted, and I also figured out the details of that person, he is not a master, but he still has some ability, and he is also the number one person in the circle." I took the order that day and went to Nanjing. It didn't take much effort to find the man's residence, originally I still thought of a salute before the soldiers, as soon as I came up to try not to do it, I could reason reasonably, if the other party really refused to hand over the cylinder, I will do it. But what I didn't expect was that when I arrived, I found that the man was also dead! ”

"Dead? What's going on? Yuan Feng supported his chin with his hand and asked puzzledly.

"I was the first to find the body, and after examining it, the man was also strangely dead, with a red face, a big hole in his head, and a hammer on the side of the wall next to it, which was stained with blood. The house is the kind of temporary house that I rent, and I don't seem to have found much of it, so I look at it as a mess. I think it might have been some kind of fight, someone knocked this guy to death with a hammer. But the doors and windows are all good, and it has nothing to do with me to find a murderer to solve the case, it is the job of the police comrades. I walked around the house, and if I could find the tank, my mission would be complete. Hehe, don't mention, I saw the jar in the corner of the house that the foreigner desperately wanted. Covered under the black cloth, smaller than the water tank I usually see, from the outside it seems to be a different shape, there are handrails on both sides, I walked over and lifted the black cloth like this, do you know what I saw? Speaking of this, I saw the fat man and they shook their heads, I smoked a cigarette and said with a smile: "This is not a cylinder, but a ding!" ”

There is a big difference between the appearance of the jar and the tripod, and the use is also different, the former is a vessel used to hold things, and the latter has always been a certain representative of religious beliefs. But when I was young, when the level of knowledge and culture was not particularly high, many people would confuse these two things, and they almost thought that Ding was also a cylinder, and they often made jokes and laughed generously!

"What's Ding? What's the matter? "The fat man's eyes are bright, but he is excited at the mention of the baby.

"I can't say anything about this tripod, the left and right sides are engraved with the appearance of auspicious beasts, the two handles on the big tripod are two entrenched snakes, the snake head is coming out, the bottom I touched it at the time and estimated that it is copper, the four feet supported below are also engraved with bat lines, and the front of the copper tripod is engraved with some words, but the age is worn badly, and only a few lines of words can be seen vaguely. I think it was probably something like an inscription, as if it was used to record some major events that happened in a certain dynasty. I wasn't interested in history, so when I found Ding, I immediately called Ah Guang and asked him to send someone to take Ding away, and then call the police. But when I called, I found that something didn't look right. ”

"What's wrong? Got youkai? Luo Qiong's words were very funny, at that time, the Journey to the West TV series was still popular all over the country, he said this and looked quite like Sun Monkey, the funny Yuan Feng and the fat man grinned, and the original solemn atmosphere was also diluted.

"There's a monster." I nodded and said, "When I came back, I found that the two snakes on the armrests were gone!" ”

"How could the carved snake not be seen?" Yuan Feng asked strangely.

"I looked left and right carefully, and the handrails on the tripod looked smooth, not like there were signs of chipping, and the two snakes were missing. I searched for it, and the people who knew Ah Guang were there, but I didn't find any trace of the two snakes. Ah Guang's people didn't know much either, so they took Ding back, and I followed. I bought a train ticket back to Shanghai, but as soon as I returned to Shanghai, Ah Guang found me. Saying that what I found was wrong and that the money could not be given to me. I was a little angry at the time, and it wasn't like that, so I wanted to turn my face, so I asked him what was missing. He said that this tripod is worth not because of the tripod itself, but because of the two snakes on the armrests of the tripod. Those two snakes are two demons named grouper python. It is a relatively rare earth beast that tends to be close to a demon. Usually don't like to move, because the skin color is similar to bronze or stone, so it will hide in large rocks or iron tools and do not move. If you meet someone who doesn't know how to do it, you will think it is a pattern carved on it. When I heard this, I realized that what I saw at that time was not a carved pattern, but a grouper. After careful interrogation, I found out that the foreigner was also a knowledgeable person, and he began to do research on special creatures a few years ago. The special creatures they are talking about are actually Chinese demons. But where can the demon be caught so easily? But to be able to catch a rare earth beast is satisfied. Earlier, when he was traveling in Nanjing, he saw this copper tripod in the old town, and found the grouper python on the copper tripod at a glance. I thought about it, but the old man was still alive at that time and refused to sell. Only then did he find a way to find a spy in a circle like Ah Guang to pave the way and be a middleman. I will tell you the reason, and then everyone's faces showed a sudden expression.

"And then?" Luo Qiong hurriedly asked.

"This grouper python is not a good thing either, they are a small branch of the python, but the origin is very early, although it is a python, it does not have vestigial fangs and venom glands. The venom secreted is a neurotoxic poison, and the poisoned person will hallucinate, and with the hallucination, he will enter a state of madness, and eventually die in the hallucination. I guess the guy Ah Guang was looking for at the beginning didn't know about the grouper python, and he didn't pay attention to the tripod, and the grouper python crawled out and bit him, so he died. For the 100,000 yuan, I had to go to Nanjing again. It took a lot of effort to catch the two escaped grouper pythons. took 100,000 yuan, and there was some joy in my heart. Unexpectedly, I met Ah Guang again two months later. I asked him what happened to the foreigner after returning to China with the grouper python? Ah Guang told me that the foreigner had returned home with the grouper python and had not been able to contact him for less than two days. He later asked a friend in the United States to inquire, and guess what? This grandson was also bitten by a grouper python, and when he died, he was holding a gun and firing indiscriminately, almost breaking the next-door neighbor. By the time the police and ambulances arrived, the two grouper pythons had already fled, and now they are estimated to be breeding on the territory of the Great American Emperor. ”

I finished talking about this story, but the fat man dug his nostrils and said with a smile: "In the end, it is our Chinese snake, it can't bite their big Americans, and in the future, we will breed an army of snakes and sweep through North America." ”

I smiled and said, "It's just dreaming, okay, it's time to rest." Ming'er has to hurry! ”