Chapter 83: Ancient Paintings
Siamese babies?
How is it a conjoined baby again?!
These three incomparably strange words are like a lingering haze, always pricking our nerves in our ears all the time. Looking back on it, wasn't it this conjoined baby who lured Lao Lu and the old man into Lu Long's tomb in the first place?
The death of Aunt Braid......
Granny Zhuang's Death ......
Han Benchu's death......
Lao Lu's death......
Thinking of this, I suddenly realized that it seemed that everyone's death was related to this conjoined baby. This freak doesn't seem to be the protagonist, but when I think about it carefully, I find that it seems that in every terrible event, there is a strange figure of him! What exactly is he? What the hell is going on? Could it be that this conjoined baby is the key to unlocking all the answers?
The piece of living dead jade in our hands, there is not enough information, only talking about a pair of brothers and sisters, close relatives had a relationship, gave birth to a freak conjoined baby, and then the story suddenly ended, it seems that if we don't find the other three pieces of living dead jade, it is impossible to unlock the secret of the conjoined baby, and I can't figure out what the living dead jade records what this thing wants to express......
The inscription that the old man found in the country of Elephant in his early years recorded in detail various miracles about the "jade of the living dead". The inscription says that the jade of the living dead can bring those who are close to it into a mysterious state of "life is also death, and death is also life". In that state, man attains eternal life in the true sense of the word.
Eternal life?
Siamese babies?
What is the relationship between the two?
Why is it that the Jade of the Living Dead does not write the "Way of Eternal Life", but a Siamese Infant who has nothing to do with it? What's going on here? "Siamese Baby...... Siamese Baby ...... "I kept silently reciting these three words in my mouth, and my thoughts were flying chaotically, but I couldn't think of the relationship between Siamese Baby and the Living Dead Jade even if I broke my head?"
Just as I was confused, I suddenly saw the bracelet on Pudding's wrist, wasn't it the one she had brought from the pigtailed aunt's grave? I suddenly remembered one thing, I also had something in the tomb of Aunt Braid, which was a calligraphy and painting of the Tang Dynasty! And I distinctly remember that the scene depicted in the painting was that of a woman in a strange robe holding a terrifying-looking conjoined baby!
Don't......
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but gasp! I have always carried that ancient painting with me, lying in my suitcase, I was thinking, this time I came to Beijing, just to go to Panjiayuan, to give me a price for this hard goods, if it weren't for the word "conjoined baby" to appear again, I would have sold it......
So I hurriedly told everyone the news, and Zhou Boren and the old man were shocked when they heard it. Because according to our speculation, the pigtail aunt appeared in Lulong, Hebei Province for no reason, and died in an ancient tomb for no reason, all these abnormal behaviors are likely because her pigtail aunt was also looking for the living dead jade in her later years!
There is no doubt that the pigtail girl is faster than us. Through some information, she learned that there was a piece of living dead jade in the ancient tomb of Lu Long. And she really found it! But unfortunately, after the pigtail girl succeeded, she was about to exit the ancient tomb, but she encountered something unclean, and she was defeated by the other party, and finally died tragically in the tomb.
From our point of view, we don't really care why Aunt Braided is looking for the Living Dead Jade. What we are concerned about is: how did she know that Lu Long's ancient tomb contained a piece of jade of the living dead? Let's assume that if Aunt Braided got something by chance in her later years, and this thing recorded the whereabouts of the legendary artifact "Living Dead Jade", this caused her to go into Hebei alone, and finally killed Lu Long. If that's the case, it all makes sense.
But where would this thing that had guided her to find the Jade of the Living Dead now?
We suspect that this thing is definitely in her grave. The reason is simple:
After her death, her descendants put her relics and a large number of artifacts into the mausoleum built for her. No one knows where Aunt Braided died, and the descendants had no choice, so they used the "human skin puppet" made of her own flesh to replace her body, and begged to be buried in the ground. And in order to pay tribute to her, a braided temple was also built on the mountain.
After her death, her descendants put all of her relics into the tomb built for her. It's the rule. When a person dies, the things she used in her life must be buried in the loess with her.
So the ancient painting that I came out of the tomb was a very strange picture of a conjoined baby. So we guessed that this painting was probably the source that guided Braided Aunt to find the living dead jade!
Zhou Boren asked me excitedly: "Third child, where is that painting now?" ”
I said, "I have been in the box since I came out of the tomb of my braided aunt, my box is in Beijing, I didn't bring it when we set off, but it doesn't matter, I was going to take this painting to Panjiayuan for valuation, so I took a photo, and the photo is in my mobile phone!" ”
Everyone was overjoyed, so I quickly turned on my phone and found the photo of the old painting with a conjoined baby. The old man took my phone, his eyebrows furrowed, and he looked at the painting carefully. After a while, he suddenly exclaimed, "That's right, it's really a fucking map!" ”
When everyone heard the old man's words, they all poked their heads out and leaned over to look. I saw that in the ancient painting, except for the woman wearing a robe in the middle holding a conjoined baby in her hand, there are four small paintings in the four corners of the southeast, south, north, west, and north!
Although these small paintings are deliberately painted by the author as somewhat abstract, the wonder of abstract paintings is here, if others don't tell you what is painted on the painting, you may not be able to figure it out after looking at it for a long time. But once you know what you're depicting in a painting, you feel like it's so much like it.
The old man said: "In the ancient paintings, the four corners of the south, east, west, and northwest are painted with abstract objects, which are "dragons", "people", "fish" and "ghosts". ”
I can't see it if the old man doesn't say this, but when he says that, I think it's really like that! Not to mention, the patterns painted in ancient paintings, if you look closely, they are really the four things of "dragon mermaid ghosts"!
The old man smiled and asked Zhou Boren: "Director Zhou, do you know the four things of "dragon mermaid ghost", what do you refer to?" ”
Zhou Boren was ashamed of himself, and shook his head helplessly, saying that he didn't know, and hoped that the old man would teach him.
The old man laughed, so he said to us: "Lu Zixuan's "Typhoid Fever on Sparse Money and Gold" Zhongyun: People don't see the wind, dragons don't see stones, fish don't see water, ghosts don't see the ground, and the lustful don't see the disease!" ”
I asked, "What does that mean?" ”
The old man said, "That is to say, people live in the wind, and their eyes cannot see the wind." Fish live in water, and their eyes cannot see water. Ghosts live underground and cannot see the ground with their eyes, so that's why ghosts are always floating. And the dragon lives in the air, so the eye cannot see the stone. Although the four corners of the south, east, west, and northwest corners of this painting are "dragon mermaid ghosts", what they actually want to tell us is that there are four places where the jade of the living dead is buried, namely in the earth, in the stone, in the water, and in the wind! ”