Black Gold Chapter 5: The Tomb of the Tomb Master

"You know the Four Heavenly Kings, right?" Qiu Ying asked.

"The Four Heavenly Kings? You know, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Liming, Aaron Kwok, but what do they have to do with these pottery pieces! The youkai opened its mouth.

Qiu Ying ignored this guy who couldn't talk at all, and he said to me: "If you have been to the temple, you will definitely see a heavenly king holding a big umbrella in his hand, and this is the northern Duowen heavenly king. The clay sculptor who pays attention to it will refer to the stone carving in the grottoes of Fengxian Temple in Longmen, Luoyang, to sculpt a small ghost at the right foot of the Northern Heavenly King, which bears the great weight of the Heavenly King, but has not been stepped on to the brain, the flesh and blood are blurred, so it is called the weight-resistant ghost. Legend has it that the heavy-duty ghost, three thousand years to find a stand-in, if the stand-in is sitting to die, then after three thousand years the stand-in can find the next stand-in, but if the stand-in is trampled on the back of the broken, lying down to die, you can never get liberation, not even the qualification to find a stand-in. ”

"You mean, it's this thing that is hurting me?" I touched my lower back again, feeling a chill down my spine.

"This is a specially treated tomb king figurine, but this figurine is not for the blessing of the king, but for the heavy ghost, which is quite evil...... In the end, it is a tomb master, and it is ...... exquisite," Qiu Ying said.

"That's not right, speaking of which, I actually broke this figurine, why did that thing follow the fourth?" The youkai interjected.

"Hold out your hands." Qiu Ying said.

We held out our hands, and in the light of the flashlight, I noticed a wound on the outside of my left index finger, and blood was oozing from all around. The others had no wounds on their hands.

"Oh my God, did you leave your blood on it?" The youkai grabbed my hand and said.

"Who do you think it doesn't look for?" Qiu Ying stared at me.

I was panicked by what he said, "So, what should I do now?" ”

"I can only try." Qiu Ying took out a piece of yellow paper, drew a villain on it, then asked me to wipe the blood on it, and asked me to write the name on the back of the villain.

"You burned this piece of paper." He turned his back with the others.

I took the yellow paper and squatted beside the pile of rotten pottery. It took several firecrackers to set the paper on fire. When I burned paper, I could always feel someone staring at me in the corner, but when I turned my head, there was no one there.

What Qiu Ying told me was a simple way to find a stand-in, and let the little paper figure take my place. But I was still very scared. Even though I burned the stand-in, the feeling of being watched didn't diminish. I told myself in my heart that this was just a psychological effect, that everything would pass, and that I would just get through today.

"Or ...... I, I'd better go up and wait for you, just in time to tell Boss Ying, we've already entered the main tomb......" I said worriedly.

"Eagle, I'll call him. Fourth, when did you become so cowardly! Think about it, when we were in the subgroup tomb, four or five mandrills were not our opponents, so what was there to be afraid of a ghost! Besides, you go up and stay with the eagle, there are only two of you, and we stay together with five people below, do you say that the ghost likes to do it when there are many people or when there are few people? Don't worry, I'll cover you next, buddy! If that thing comes again, my brother will invite him to eat peanuts! The youkai said, putting his arm around my shoulder.

It's better to talk than to sing! I muttered to myself.

It was just after half past one o'clock in the morning when we entered the main burial chamber, which was a very small, shabby, messy, musty burial chamber. The lid of the coffin leaned against the coffin, and the rusty nails were discarded on the ground and almost stuck in the soles of my shoes.

There is no doubt that this is another tomb that has been stolen.

"Thief, I really didn't expect that there were people rushing to patronize such a broken tomb! Uncle's is one step late! The monster cursed.

"Boss, you just said that this tomb master has a fatal flaw, what is it?" I looked at this messy tomb, and I couldn't help but think of the life experience of the owner of the tomb who was interrupted by "Hu Sanye" in the middle of Qiu Ying's speech. Such an inconspicuous Qing tomb has been patronized several times, it must be impossible to make money, is it an enemy...... What kind of person is this tomb owner?

Qiu Ying sighed and said, "This Zhang Xiang Tomb Master, although he is talented and keen on studying Feng Shui, is too rigid and self-serving. ”

"So he offended a lot of people?" I asked.

"No, he's breaking the rules." Qiu Ying shook his head. "Every industry has its own rules, at first, Zhang Shuozhi also obeyed his duty, but because of his reputation, he became self-righteous and uninhibited. It's not surprising that many people have this problem after they get started. But he ...... Hey, the main reason is that the rules are broken, and the most serious one is that he didn't 'avoid burial' after he became famous. ”

"What is a burial shelter?" I continued.

"'Burial avoidance' is 'burial prevention of grave master', which is the most serious taboo in the grave master industry. There are two theories about this taboo, one is that the grave master's misbehavior will offend the ghosts and gods and destroy the five elements of yin and yang, and the other is because there is some mysterious induction relationship between the tomb master and the Tibetan land. Rumor has it that he did not shy away from it, but even recorded the hiding place of each tomb owner for research. After his death, this booklet was buried with him"

"So...... So after his death, many people wanted to get this legendary record...... "It dawned on me that those people must have thought that the record was buried with Zhang Shuoyi, so they kept visiting his cemetery." Then it occurred to me that the purpose of our trip must have something to do with this record.

"Don't you know?" Qiu Ying asked me strangely.

"I ......"

"For such an unreliable record, it is really a crime to come to this place in the middle of the night to fool around!" The monster snatched my words and said impatiently.

The monster's words confirmed my suspicions, and sure enough, it was for the record.

"How many people rack their brains to find this record, and you don't care." Qiu Ying looked at the monster and said.

"Boss, let's tell you the truth, this thing, may fool my boss and the eagle, our brother wants money, this record for us, it's like drawing a cake, it looks good, but to find the record, you have to find the grave, how difficult it is to find this grave, to understand feng shui and look at the terrain, is to find the grave, there is no value in it is not necessarily, is not in vain...... In short, it's too troublesome and too bad to get money, so it's better to do something else. If it weren't for my boss's insistence that I come, I wouldn't want to wade into this troubled water, no matter how much money you give me. The youkai said with a nonchalant face.

"Since you're so reluctant, you don't have to participate." Qiu Ying snorted coldly·····························································.

"Well, the boss's face still has to be given. The main reason is that I am skilled, careful and courageous, and especially righteous. You don't know, the last time we went to the subgroup tomb, if it wasn't for my protection, the eagle would have been torn apart by the mandrill! This Ye Feng and Ning Fanzi can testify......" the monster said with his eyebrows fluttering.

I couldn't help but glance at Ning Fanzi, his appearance was very calm. It seems that he was aware of the record. Could it be that he and the Eagles came together because of this record? Why did he look for this record? I couldn't help but think about it.

We quickly lifted the lid of the coffin, and the condition inside the coffin was very bad, the bones of the tomb owner Shuozhi had already been turned into a mess, and most of the bones were piled up on one side of the coffin with the cloth from the time of burial. On the other side of the coffin, there were some broken porcelain vases and boxes, scattered copper coins, fans, hair, and so on.

I rummaged through this pile of miscellaneous items for a long time, and there was no doubt that there was nothing of value in it, but I found a metal-like object in the corner of the coffin, which was large and small at the top, smooth on the surface, and looked like a pistol chicken leg on the whole, and the large one looked like a carved duck's head on the top, which was very vivid, and the small part below was narrow, like a handle held in a hand.

"What is this?" Youkai took this "chicken leg".

From what I know about texture, it's probably just a piece of lacquered wood.

"It turned out to be a piece of wood!" The youkai took a bite on the handle and said.

Sure enough, it was wood.

"Could it be the key to some mechanism?" I guess what if the record was hidden in a secret compartment in the tomb and needed such a key to open it?

"Fourth, you don't understand, from ancient times to the present, have you ever seen a wood as a key?" The youkai smacked its lips and threw the pieces into the coffin.

Qiu Ying saw us discussing, so he picked up the "chicken leg" handle, observed it for a while, and laughed strangely.

"What are you laughing at?" The monster looked at Qiu Ying in confusion.

"You really want to know what this thing is for?" Qiu Ying raised his eyebrows.

Qiu Ying's anomaly piqued our interest.

"This thing is called Zu, generally there are more copper, this one is made of wood, it is called Muzu. Originated from the cult of male reproduction. Qiu Ying grabbed the duck's head, held the handle of the duck's head upward, pointed to the handle and said, "What do you think this thing looks like?" ”

I looked at the bare "handle", which still had the tooth marks of the monster, which was particularly conspicuous.

It turned out to be a ...... Ancient ...... Well......

"Brother, how does this thing taste?" Galuhan, who has always been bad at words, asked with a smile.

The monster's face was bruised, and without saying a word, he walked to the corner and began to retch.

"I don't think he's Tan Tianshi's master at all, he's Kong Xianmin's master, he's gag-"