But after a while, he asked me again: "Hey, if you don't know, I heard that a few months ago, you took Li Ergou to the southwest border to look for a chrysalis village, is this true?" ”

I nodded, "Yes, that's where I found this Nether Treasure." ”

Bao Youyou and Xing Wei glanced at each other, and then said to me: "If I knew it was true, I should have sent you to Savage Mountain, it just so happened that Xing Wei and they didn't find the ancient tomb, otherwise you would trouble again......

Before Bao finished speaking, Zhuang Youxue's voice came from the castle: "Senior brother, come here!" ”

Bao Youyou threw the cigarette in his hand to me, turned around and ran towards the castle, and Xing Wei followed.

The two of them left, and it was not interesting for me to stay alone, and I happened to be curious about what Zhuang Youxue found in the fort, so he also took a step and quickly followed Xing Wei.

As soon as he entered the fort courtyard, Bao Yongyong saw Li Huaishan lying on the ground on all fours, and then turned around and asked me, "What's wrong with this buddy?" ”

I spread my hands: "Scrapped." ”

When Li Huaishan heard my words, he immediately raised his arm and stretched out a middle X finger towards me.

Bao Yongyong was immediately happy: "It's quite energetic." ”

At this time, Zhuang Youxue began to urge again: "Senior Brother Bao, come over quickly!" ”

Bao Youyou didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly followed the sound to the narrow gate in the northwest corner of the fort.

Xing Wei and I followed him to the narrow door, Zhuang Youxue happened to come out of it, he held a karma stone in his left hand, held the door frame with his right hand, and said to Bao Youyou: "Look at what material this thing is made of." ”

As soon as I saw the karma stone in Zhuang Youxue's hand, I was shocked, and immediately asked, "Where did this thing come from?" ”

Zhuang Youxue smiled at me: "Dig it out of the ground." ”

Hearing him say this, my heart that had just been hung up fell again.

Fortunately, it was dug up, and if he said that the stone had risen from the ground by himself, it would mean that the matter had not been resolved here, and the altar was still functioning.

Bao Youyou looked at the karma stone carefully, raised his head and said to Zhuang Youxue: "This thing is made of granite stone powder pressed and bonded, and it is also mixed with salt. It is said that most of the things like karma stones are naturally formed, and this is the first time I have seen them artificially glued. ”

Zhuang Youxue: "Is there anything special here?" ”

Bao Yong pondered for a moment and shook his head: "I can't say." Hey, it's not like you don't know, I haven't studied these things much before, why don't you take this stone back and let the second master take a look? ”

Zhuang Youxue waved his hand: "Don't bother, if you haven't handled things very cleanly, let's send soul Zhuang no more horizontal sticks." ”

The listener was unintentional, the speaker was intentional, and I couldn't understand what the so-called horizontal stick meant.

After that, Zhuang Youxue turned his head and said to me: "Tell me, what you have experienced in the past two days, the more detailed the better." ”

If these words come out of Bao You's mouth, I will have to weigh and weigh, what to say, what not to say, I have to be careful to go around and then speak, but Zhuang Youxue's senses are so good that people are not wary at all, in front of him, I didn't think much about it, and restored the experience of the past two days as it was.

When I spoke, Zhuang Youxue kept a smile on his face, but Bao Youxue frowned from time to time, and I didn't know why he frowned.

It wasn't until I finished speaking that Zhuang Youxue spoke, and the first thing he mentioned was Chen Laohan's Shantang: "In the past ten years, the people of Shantang have disappeared, and the people in the industry also think that Shantang's rune paper has become out of print, but I never thought that the foundation of Shantang was rooted in Xihaigu, and I didn't expect that the last descendant of Shantang was still alive in the world." ”

When he said these words, Zhuang Youxue glanced at Bao Youyou from time to time, and Bao Youyou only smiled slightly every time he met his gaze.

A messenger like Bao Youxue should know that Shantang is in Xihaigu, but looking at Zhuang Youxue's expression, you can know that Bao Youyou has never mentioned this matter in front of him.

Later, Zhuang Youxue mentioned Boss Huang again: "If I guess correctly, the Boss Huang who does the Niu Bao business, his ancestors should be people in the industry, even if they are not people in the industry, at least they are half clear." By the way, this Boss Huang also knows about the ghosts pressed in Rhubarb's body, right? ”

I nodded: "According to Chen Laohan, apart from the Chen family, before we came, the only one who knew about this was Boss Huang. ”

Like Zhuang Youxue, when I speak, I will subconsciously glance at the bag to be useful.

Bao Youyou even knew that there was a snake spirit in this place, and he must have known that the Chen family had used a spirit ox to suppress ghosts.

But this guy is hiding too deeply, no one knows what kind of way he mastered the situation here, probably even Chen Laohan himself didn't expect that in addition to Boss Huang, in Xihaigu, there is such an insider as Bao You.

Hearing my words, Zhuang Youxue nodded thoughtfully: "Well, this Boss Huang may be a talent, but now in our industry, there are fewer and fewer talents." ”

I said, "Do you want to pull Boss Huang into the industry?" ”

Zhuang Youxue smiled: "To be exact, I want to trouble you to even let him enter the industry, but if Boss Huang is a person who has no way, it doesn't seem to be a wise choice to let him enter the industry directly, so it's better to ...... Just let him be a half-clearer. ”

It's easier said than done.

I shook my head a little helplessly: "It shouldn't be easy to pull people from outside into the industry." ”

Zhuang Youxue still smiled: "Boss Huang is a businessman, hehe, doing business, always trying to have a 'profit' word, if he can sell the Niu Bao in his hand to the people in the industry, the price can at least double." ”

I raised my eyes and stared at Zhuang Youxue's eyes, Zhuang Youxue did not retreat, and looked at me with a smile on his face.

I can feel that he is determined to pull Boss Huang into the industry, even if I don't do it, he will let others do it.

But I don't understand why he and Boss Huang are unmasked, why do they value each other so much?

Zhuang Youxue must have his own reasons, a reason that I can't see through anyway.

After looking at each other for a short time, Zhuang Youxue exhaled a breath of turbidity and said to me: "If you want to walk in the industry in the future, you always need some connections. When fate comes, you should fight for it, if you abandon it, you may suffer from it. Oh, by the way, didn't you ask me last night what the ship spirit is. ”

Since Zhuang Youxue has changed the topic, I can't continue to talk about Boss Huang, so I can only follow his meaning and say: "Isn't it only after the death of living creatures that there are spirits, and when the ship sinks, it can also become a ghost?" ”

Zhuang Youxue explained to me: "It is not the ship that becomes a person, but the obsession of the crew that attaches itself to the ship and gives life to the ship." After the ship sinks, the obsession attached to the hull will condense the yin energy at the bottom of the sea and turn into evil spirits. ”

I said, "Yin Qi at the bottom of the sea?" If such a ship sinks not to the bottom of the sea, but to the river, it will not become a ship spirit, right? ”

"Of course not," Bao Yong continued with a smile: "As long as the ship has obsession, it will inevitably turn into an evil spirit after sinking." At present, the first generation of the owner of this fort was a maritime merchant in the Guangxu period, and his family's fleet was sunk in the South China Sea. Didn't you say that there was a canyon under the fort, and that canyon was used to place shipwrecks in the early years, and the one hundred and forty-four ever-bright lights in the canyon were originally used to suppress the ship's spirit. ”

I'm a little overwhelmed: "The ship sank in the South China Sea, how did the shipwreck run inland?" ”

Bao Yong spread his hands: "You ask me about this kind of thing, and I don't know how to explain it." However, I checked a Bohai notebook in the late Qing Dynasty, and the notebook said that the reason why the maritime merchant brought his family to the Loess Slope was that he was afraid that the ship's spirit would absorb the yin qi of the seabed all the year round, and over time, he would return to the land to find his descendants to seek revenge, so I speculated that he should have let people salvage the shipwreck before moving home, and transported the shipwreck when he moved here. ”

Zhuang Youxue continued: "This maritime merchant surnamed Ma, is a Hui person, his ancestral home is Yunnan, and he is related to Zheng He by blood. If you guess correctly, Zheng He should have sorted out a copy of the "Ten Oceans" when he went to the West, otherwise with his identity, it would be impossible to think of using one hundred and forty-four corpse oil lamps to suppress the ship spirit, this technique was originally created by the Siamese Great Witch in the fifth year of Yongle, and Zheng He also went to Siam in those years, and had a secret conversation with the local Great Witch for several days. ”

I couldn't help asking: "The maritime merchant's surname is Ma, and Zheng He's surname is Zheng, how can these two people be related by blood?" Besides, a Ming Dynasty and a Qing Dynasty person, the two people lived too far apart. ”

Zhuang Youxue said: "Do you know why Zheng He is called 'the surname of the country', it is because his surname was given by the emperor himself, before that, his surname was Ma, his nickname Ma Sanbao, and he was also a Hui in Yunnan. ”

Bao Youyong smiled on the side: "This kid has a problem with him when he was a child, and he doesn't like to read history books." ”

Zhuang Youxue didn't plan to continue chatting on this topic, pointed to the narrow door behind him, and continued to say to me: "The keel pressing ghost array here is also very rare, although it is not that no one in the industry has suppressed ghost things with this method, but you must know that the keel is originally attached to the ship spirit, if it is not handled well, once the ship spirit has consciousness, not only can it not suppress other ghost things, but it will also break away from the big array on its own, and harm one party." As far as I know, the method of burying karmic stones under the keel, so as to lock the keel, suppress the hundred ghosts, and make the hundred ghosts sacrificed, should be Lu Ban's originality. ”

I followed his words and said, "I also remembered when you said this, the husband of the widow Wang is said to be a descendant of Luban, by the way, I heard that the man still has a volume of "Luban Book" in his hand. ”

(End of chapter)