Chapter 11: The Story of Xiaoguo

Fang Rui sat beside Bai Jingjing and twisted his body a little uneasily, this was his first time on a special plane, but Bai Jingjing beside him was still leisurely eating potato chips, and looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window from time to time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The special plane was arranged by Lin Mo, and the state agency really made a big deal, and without saying anything, he carried Fang Rui and his party to the sky. Lin Mo sat alone on the seat on the side of the cabin and looked at the data, this is the schematic diagram of the coordinates just sent by the Eagle Eye Department of the society, and they detected abnormal spatial changes in Lop Nur. Lin Mo speculated that this was the place Yu Kun was looking for after being taken away by those people. Therefore, in order to rush for time, Lin Mo called the special plane in the club to prepare to fly over directly. Putting down the information, Lin Mo frowned with some concern, and he didn't know if the decision of the bookstore clerk to take him on this action was correct. I wanted to use force to obtain the blue stone in the hand of the full moon, but the moment I saw the full moon and the few of them, I dispelled this idea. The strength of the full moon is not below him, and adding a white bone spirit is not something that Lin Mo can deal with alone. What's more, there was a human being next to the two of them, although Fang Rui could be seen at a glance that he was an ordinary human, but the aura hidden in him made Lin Mo a little jealous. For the sake of safety, Lin Mo finally chose to cooperate. After all, it's not without precedent for Inhuman publishing houses and bookstores to cooperate.

Xiaobao had been looking in the direction of Lin Mo for a long time with a on his face, and the full moon looked at Xiaobao and asked him with a smile: "Do you like her very much?" ”

"Huh? Not at all! Xiaobao turned red like an innocent little boy who had been rubbed out of his heart, and hurriedly waved his hand and lowered his head.

"She's pretty too!" Full Moon smiled and touched Xiaobao's head like a big sister who doted on her little brother.

"Sister Full Moon, you are also beautiful!" Xiaobao immediately patted his ass, but the expression on his face was very serious.

"Really? Thanks for the compliment! Full Moon smiled happily.

Yu Nana, who was separated by a passage, looked at Full Moon and Xiaobao enviously and a little sentimentally, these two reminded her of the time she used to get along with her brother Yu Kun. My brother always pampered himself so gently, thinking that he would make himself a bridesmaid at his wedding, but now, only a handful of ashes remained. Yu Nana turned her head to look out the window, she had lost her brother, so this time, her adoptive father had to find him no matter what. Even though her adoptive father's past made Yu Nana very confused, she still wanted to find him and tell him in person that no matter what his intentions were to adopt her in the first place, his kindness in raising her was enough to offset everything. Therefore, Yu Nana insisted on coming with her this time, she could have stayed in the hotel and waited for Lin Mo and them to bring Yu Zhenbang back.

Fang Rui asked Bai Jingjing beside him with some concern: "Did you call back and tell the store manager that we were going to help Xiaobao find a home?" Did the store manager approve it? ”

"Originally, we were going to be counted as absenteeism and deducted our salary, but when I told him that there was also a Stranger Publishing House, he agreed." Bai Jingjing replied as she opened another pack of potato chips.

"Do you have any instructions from the store manager? He is a well-informed old man, does he know what is going on with the blue stone in Yu Kun's ashes? Fang Rui continued to ask.

"The store manager, Grandpa, he doesn't know very well, but Xiaoguo told me a very interesting thing after he found out." Bai Jingjing finally put down her potato chips, "Xiaoguo is a zombie, you know, but if you think he is really a zombie from the Qing Dynasty, you are very wrong." Wearing Qing Dynasty clothes was just a little bad taste for him. ”

"Huh? He's not from the Qing Dynasty, huh? Fang Rui was a little surprised, maybe he had watched too many Hong Kong-made zombie movies before, and he always thought that the people wearing Qing Dynasty clothes were Qing Dynasty people.

"He has never answered me directly about how old Xiaoguo is, but I know that at least he has experienced the Ming Dynasty. Xiaoguo said that when he was a little zombie in the Ming Dynasty, he worked as a buddy in an antique shop in the capital one year. One day, an old man came to the antique shop, saying that he was looking for a shopkeeper to sell a good thing. It happened that the shopkeeper was out that day, and Xiaoguo asked him to come back tomorrow. But the old man said that he would sell the things today, as if he was in urgent need of money.

Although Xiaoguo looks very young, it is also more important for the shopkeeper in the store, and usually if the shopkeeper is not there, Xiaoguo will judge whether the goods coming in are worth it. So that time, Xiaoguo also planned to take a look at things by himself as usual, and if it was not bad, he would accept it. The old man brought over a small box, and told Xiaoguo very mysteriously that it was a treasure that his ancestors had passed down all the way from the Song Dynasty, and if it weren't for the fact that life couldn't go on now, he would definitely not sell it. Xiaoguo didn't pay much attention to the old man's words, after all, the sellers who came here to sell things all blew their things to the sky first, so that they could get a good price. Xiaoguo opened the small box and saw that it was a small blue round box, and the carving of the small box was very delicate and very hot. The material is the first time Xiaoguo has seen it, it should be a stone, but the blue stone is not very common even if it is a small fruit that has lived for a long time. Moreover, after Xiaoguo touched it, he felt a little goosebumps all over his body. You know, after becoming a zombie, this feeling is never felt again. At that time, Xiaoguo thought that this small round box was strange. The old man said that this small round box is a rouge box for women, and the cheeks will be particularly rosy and beautiful when painted with rouge in this small round box. Xiaoguo pretended not to look down on this small round box and bargained with the old man, and finally bought this small round box for only two taels of silver.

Xiao Guo, who bought the small round box, wanted to wait for the shopkeeper to come back and ask him if he knew the material of the box, but unfortunately there were other things for Xiao Guo to do that afternoon, so Xiao Guo returned to the antique shop the next afternoon. The shopkeeper told Xiaoguo that after looking at the blue rouge box, he felt that in addition to the good carving, it was not an object handed down from the Song Dynasty at all, and it was not worth two taels of silver at all. Xiaoguo thought that since it was not an antique, he thought that he would buy the rouge box at his own expense. Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper laughed and scolded him, and it wasn't a woman who bought a rouge box? The box had already been given to his wife by the shopkeeper. Xiaoguo thought that since someone had already taken the lead, he would give up.

Xiaoguo quickly forgot about this trivial matter, but not long after, something happened to the shopkeeper's house. After one of his very favored concubines had puscesses on her face, she felt disfigured and couldn't think about it for a while, so she hanged herself. Xiaoguo heard that this concubine seemed to have a rotten face after using the rouge given to her by the shopkeeper's wife, and others said that the shopkeeper's wife was jealous that the concubine was more favored than herself, so she poisoned the rouge and poisoned the concubine's face. The shopkeeper's wife naturally refused to admit it, and repeatedly complained about her grievances, and even went on a hunger strike. After a while, the shopkeeper's wife also committed suicide by jumping into the river, and it is said that she jumped into the river with the box of rouge that made the concubine have a bad face. Xiaoguo finally learned from the shopkeeper that the box that made the shopkeeper's wife and concubine both commit suicide was the blue rouge box he had taken back. Xiaoguo felt that there must be something strange about this rouge box. Unfortunately, the shopkeeper jumped into the river with it and was never found again. ”

"Uh... Why is it so cautious? Fang Rui shuddered, "Didn't the old man who sold the rouge box say that applying the rouge in the box will make people's faces more ruddy?" It seems that he lied, and he could really say anything in order to sell it for money. ”

Xiaoguo said that at first he thought the old man was lying. Then one day, Xiaoguo actually bumped into this old man in the capital, and immediately caught the old man in a hidden place to torture, the old man swore that the rouge box was absolutely not poisonous, and the women who used it on his ancestors were all ruddy and beautiful, because of this, the men in their family only loved their wives and never took concubines. Xiaoguo used a spell to test it this time for the sake of safety, and found that the old man was not lying, what he said was the truth. Xiaoguo continued to ask about the origin of this rouge box, and the old man said that this was also from his grandfather, his ancestor was a general, and this rouge box was a trophy he got. After the end of the war, the general gave this rouge box to his fiancΓ©e, who had been waiting for his return in his hometown, and then passed it down from generation to generation. The rouge box became a wedding gift given by the mother-in-law after every bride came to the door. The women of his family have used it for rouge for generations, and nothing bad has ever happened. Xiao Guo saw that the old man was telling the truth, so he didn't pursue it further, and could only blame himself for being too suspicious. Maybe it's really as others say, the shopkeeper's wife poisoned the concubine in rouge and disfigured it, and after the incident, she felt ashamed and embarrassed, so she committed suicide by jumping into the river. Bai Jingjing paused for a moment and then said, "However, Xiaoguo still doesn't know if this rouge box with a similar texture of stone will be the same thing as the blue pebble we are talking about. He just said that he suddenly remembered it and told me. ”

"I also think it's poison from the shopkeeper's wife." Fang Rui answered.

After listening to the story told by Xiaoguo, the store manager grandfather said that this blue rouge box is not simple. Because Xiaoguo is a zombie, his desire for one thing is much weaker than that of ordinary people. But Xiaoguo said that he had goosebumps all over his body when he touched the rouge box, and this feeling should have foreseen danger for zombies. Later, Xiaoguo even wants to buy it, which is very strange for zombies. Even if it was a momentary thought in his heart, Xiaoguo shouldn't have been ridiculed for proposing it to the shopkeeper. Besides, the shopkeeper's wife, although she didn't show much jealousy of the concubine before, but in fact, how could a woman endure her husband spoiling other women? Even if she is virtuous and generous, it is very likely that she is still very angry with the concubine in her heart. It's just that this anger hasn't caused her to do anything excessive. Bai Jingjing continued, "So, the store manager's grandfather feels that this rouge box seems to amplify the inner desires of people, and even creatures other than people. Like the small blue pebbles we found in Yu Kun's urn, it magnifies the resentment of Yu Kun's ghost. β€œ