Jianwen Mystery Chapter 36 A Sword in a Sword

"Zhang Banxian, ...... are you?" After pulling Zhang Guozhong out of the hole, Li Lao 2 was also a little stupid, only to see that the half-immortal who was still in a state of jerk just now was no different from a deserter, and his head shape, which was quite neat just now, seemed to be good with Han Jiān tea at the moment.

"Quickly seal the hole" Zhang Guozhong didn't pay attention to Li Lao 2, he took the lead in lifting the stone, seeing Zhang Guozhong so flustered, the others present hurriedly buried the hole with their hands and feet, the efficiency was twice as high as when they were digging, and the hole was buried more tightly than before in less than ten minutes.

"Demi-Immortal, is there something unclean in this cave? Did you bring back all those messes in my house? After patting the soil on his body, Li Zhen cautiously approached Zhang Guozhong, "Do you think you can crack it?" ”

"The things below this are not just 'not clean', everyone listen, I have to go back to Tianjin, I will come back soon, before I come back, no one should go into the hole, absolutely not go in" Zhang Guozhong said solemnly, "Today's matter, everyone must keep it secret and don't talk to anyone"

"Hey, I know, I know" Looking at Zhang Guozhong's expression, Li Lao's sideburns were sweating, "Can you tell me, what's down there?" Demon jīng? Dead person? ”

"Sticky" didn't wait for Zhang Guozhong to speak, and Li Shuai's fierce voice behind him scared everyone present.

"What?" Zhang Guozhong turned his head violently and saw Li Shuai looking at him with straight eyes, "Young man, what did you just say?" ”

"What are you talking nonsense?" Li Zhen hurriedly took his son's hand, "What are you talking about?" What's that? ”

"Huh?" Li Zhen rolled his eyes and suddenly realized, "What? What did I say? ”

"Oh, it's here again," Li Zhen's face was full of sadness, "Zhang Banxian, you see, he usually does this all the time, do you think this is evil?" The big guys heard him, and he didn't know it."

"Can you remember what you just said, young man?" Zhang Guozhong walked up to Li Shuai and squatted down, touching Li Shuai's head with his hand, to be honest, this Li Shuai's eyes happened to be on the same level as Zhang Guozhong just now, but it was the look at each other at this moment, and the strangeness in the middle did not escape Zhang Guozhong's eyes, which was by no means the eyes that an eight-year-old child should have or could pretend to be.

"I ......" Li Shuai shook his head and retreated, at this time, Li Shuai's eyes seemed to have returned to his usual sluggish and wooden look.

"You just said ...... Sticky? Did you say that? Zhang Guozhong actually heard the word clearly, but he didn't know what it meant.

"No...... It's not ......" Li Shuai hid behind Li Zhen tremblingly, "I didn't say ......"

"I'll leave Brother Yang now, can you please give me a trip?" Zhang Guozhong stood up and turned to Yang Zhou.

"I didn't ...... No problem," Yang Zhou nodded vigorously, "Where are you going?" ”

"Airport" Zhang Guozhong is categorical, to be honest, although it has been a while since he was rich, but when he goes far away, Zhang Guozhong generally chooses to take the train, mainly because it is cheap, but at this moment Zhang Guozhong has no care about saving money, time is the most important, and now this matter must go back to discuss a solution with Lao Liu Tou, and it is no fun to rely on himself.

Under normal circumstances, the controlled knives can't get on the plane anyway, even if it's consigned, it's no fun, but the long-love sword has successfully gone through the consignment procedures, because the staff in charge of security check does not believe that this is a sword, let alone believe that this is a cultural relic......

After getting off the plane, Zhang Guozhong took a taxi from the airport to kill Tianjin, and the old Liu Tou who had passed the phone in advance also rushed back from Shanxi, and listened to Zhang Guozhong tell the story of the "Eight Immortals Town Demon" and the "deeds" of a person who broke into the "Cold Bone Cave" alone, but he was also afraid of Zhang Guozhong, but after being afraid, Lao Liu Tou expressed a strong interest in the long-love sword that Zhang Guozhong brought back from Wutai Mountain, according to Zhang Guozhong, he had observed this sword with his eyes before, and the "Sword Evil" was more than an order of magnitude different from the Seven Stars of Juque, It's not even as good as the iron chopping that was brought back from Bashan back then, but in the Cold Bone Cave, it can drive away the skinless Zhao Jinzhou, theoretically speaking, the only thing that can be explained is "coincidence", because in a "strong yīn qi" environment similar to the Cold Bone Cave, even if it is a giant sword, its "sword evil" will be greatly reduced, even if it can still cut the grievances, it is impossible to scare the wrongs away at once.

"Guozhong, do you think this is possible......" Weighing the rusty pimple in his hand, Lao Liu looked at Zhang Guozhong with a mouse's eyebrows, "The thing in the cave is not afraid of the 'sword brake', this broken sword is not evil, I suspect that the thing is afraid of the sword itself"

"Afraid of this sword? Why? Zhang Guozhong was puzzled.

"Haven't you heard about 'Yang Fu Fearing Bamboo'?" Old Liu Tou pursed his lips and looked at Zhang Guozhong.

"Yang Fu is afraid of bamboo?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned.

Yang Fu, is the most famous Jiangyang thief in the Northern Wei Dynasty, ruthless and ruthless, strong in martial arts, absolutely killing the rich and not helping the poor, because of the rate of 200 iron cavalry to rob the official silver 3.5 million taels and shocked the government and the opposition Quartet, the Northern Wei Dynasty Xiaowen Emperor Tuoba Hong has posted the emperor list four times to hang 35,000 taels of gold to want this Yang Fu's head, but never succeeded, but did not expect that this three successive thwarts of the imperial court 10,000 people army of encirclement and suppression, countless times to avoid the green forest peers to seek rewards and assassination of a generation of heroes, When crossing the Yellow River, he was poked to death by an old boatman with a bamboo pole to support the boat. After Yang Fu's death, his body was buried in Hujiaopo, 35 miles northeast of Luozhou (now northeast of Luoyang City, Henan Province).

In July 553 A.D., the Yellow River flooded open the tomb of Yang Fu located in the Tiger Prison Slope, causing his soul to plague the township for several months, the local government hired a number of well-known masters to do so without much effect, until later a Taoist priest named Chen Xianzun inquired about the cause of Yang Fu's death, buried a bamboo pole deep in his tomb to stop the ghost trouble, so that later in the local spread of the first to fifteenth day of July every year, each family in front of the door of the custom of hanging bamboo poles, its origin also lies in this.

In the Taoist circle, this allusion is called "Yang Fu is afraid of bamboo", and its theory refers to the fact that no matter how difficult the evil ghost resentment, as long as he is killed by a sharp weapon, he will be afraid of killing his "murder weapon".

"You mean, that Zhao Jinzhou's death is related to this sword?" Zhang Guozhong frowned, shaking his head like a rattle, "Impossible, absolutely impossible Zhao Jinzhou died during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and this long-love sword was cast by Zhu Di, there are two generations of emperors in the middle, Zhao Jinzhou's death cannot be related to it"

"How can you be so sure that hole must be the 'Cold Bone Cave'? How can you be so sure that the thing in the cave must be 'Zhao Jinzhou'? Old Liu Tou frowned, "Why are you so sure, this rusty iron bump must be the 'long-love sword' you said?" ”

"This ...... This is all obvious" was asked by Lao Liu, Zhang Guozhong was also a little speechless, "Otherwise, how can there be so many coincidences?" ”

"Hmm...... Guozhong, we have to think about this matter in the long run, and let's not be blindly optimistic, what the thing in the cave is afraid of is this rusty bump, and ......" was halfway through speaking, Lao Liu frowned violently, "Guozhong, what are you cutting with it?" ”

"I ...... I just cut down that statue......" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, "What's wrong?" ”

"Look at this" Lao Liu took out a magnifying glass from his pocket, came to the desk with the sword of Changqing, and turned on the iodine-tungsten lamp used to study antique goods, and the light in the room suddenly increased several times.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Guozhong hurriedly came to him, not knowing what new world Lao Liu Tou could discover from this broken iron lump.

"Look here......" Old Liu Tou pointed to a dent in the blade of the sword.

"This is what I jumped off when I cut down the statue...... What's wrong? Zhang Guozhong was stunned.

"What do you see here?" Lao Liu Tou opened the drawer, took out a knife, and with a click, plucked off a whole piece of rust about the size of a fingernail and a penny of steel twin.

"This ......" Zhang Guozhong couldn't believe his eyes, only to see that after Lao Liu Tou pried off a layer of rust, a flat metal texture was revealed under the rust, "Could it be that there is another layer inside?" "To be honest, Zhang Guozhong has never heard of such a cast sword, there are two layers inside and outside, the outer layer is rusty, and although the inner layer is also a little rusty, it is at least visually intact.

"Come with me" Lao Liu Tou picked up the sword and walked to the toilet, picked up a handkerchief from the rope, and then opened the door and went out of the house, wrapped the handkerchief around the tip of the sword and held the sword upside down.

"Senior brother, it's almost ......" to put it bluntly, although it is a rusty iron lump, after all, it is also a well-known "long-love sword" in history, watching Lao Liu Tou use it to "smash" white marble so hard, Zhang Guozhong is really a little distressed, stone is different from metal, tough xìng and extended xìng are basically not, it is a word "hard", especially hard stone like marble white marble, even if it is a high-end goods like Juque Qixing, like this, cut a few swords, and the edge is basically wasted.

"En......" Lao Liu Tou picked up the sword and looked at it, only to see that this long-love sword was thinner than just now.

"Guozhong, you go to the shop around the corner in front and buy me a bottle of orange juice*" Old Liu Tou pointed to the store on the side of the building.

"Tangerine juice?" Zhang Guozhong thought he had misheard.

"It's okay with orange juice and orange soda" Lao Liu didn't raise his head, and vigorously picked the remaining rust on the blade of the sword with his fingers.

"Oh" Zhang Guozhong hurriedly went to the commissary to buy two bottles of orange soda, only to see Lao Liu Tou take the soda and pour a drop of it on the sword, and then use a handkerchief from beginning to end, only to see that the sword flashed a trace of cold light under the street lamp, although there is still a little rust, but the gloss has even surpassed the ancient goods of Juque Qixing......

"What the fuck...... Incredible" Receiving the cold and shining sword from Lao Liu's hand, Zhang Guozhong couldn't believe his eyes.

"Senior brother, what do you think this is?" Just about to play twice, Zhang Guozhong suddenly noticed that there was a line of seal characters faintly engraved on the sword, the words were relatively shallow, there were both sides of the blade, and there was a circle of patterns around it, because the light of the street lamp was relatively dim, and there was a little rust left in the sea in the texture of the lettering, and for a while I didn't know whether these words were decorated or deliberately engraved.

"Oh?" Lao Liu Tou took the sword, he was also stunned, and took out his reading glasses from his pocket, "It's too dark here, come into the house"

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Note*:

Lao Liu sent Zhang Guozhong to buy orange juice: orange juice contains a lot of citric acid, which is a weak acid with a good rust removal effect. In addition to citric acid, white vinegar can also be used to remove rust, but the effect is slightly worse.