Chapter 47: The Family Crisis
Ouyang Sicong decided to betray the town's tomb beast Nine Colors.
The daughter had never seen a prostitute, but she had read Alexandre Dumas's La Traviata and Maupassant's Ball of Sheep Fat, and knew that her father was quite fond of it.
Ouyang Sicong was furious, seeing his daughter's eyes from a foreign country, he couldn't even scold him since he was a child, and he could only shake his head angrily: "I decided to sell the small town tomb beast, not only because the price of Haneda Taishu is high enough, but because - this treasure dug up from the tomb of the prince of the Tang Dynasty has become a hot potato-no!" It's just a dynamite bag. ”
"How?"
"Don't feel it yet? Since the town tomb beast came to the house, the first time that the Dharma Mountain on the sea has been stolen. Hongkou patrol house massacre, don't look at your father's usual decisiveness, but I am very afraid of falling into this muddy water. Our Green Gang has never provoked foreigners in the concession, and many of the gang brothers are also Chinese inspectors who patrol the house. Once the Ministry of Industry became suspicious of me, my position in the Green Gang was in jeopardy. On top of that, the Assassins wrote blood on the wall......"
"Dad, is it that serious?"
"When you grow up, you will understand that there are only icing on the cake in this world, but there is no charcoal in the snow. Brothers, affection, and knives in the ribs, when it comes to a critical moment, the wall will fall down and everyone will push it. Four years ago, the assassination of Song Jiaoren implicated a number of Qinggang bosses, but fortunately I was able to clean it up. But this time, it is a hundred times more dangerous than back then! Our family is at stake. ”
"Could it be that the rumor that is still implicated in the hometown of Dharma Mountain?" Anna played an accent on the keys, "Gengzi indemnity - a million silver?" ”
Ouyang Sicong immediately blocked his daughter's mouth: "I didn't get a penny!" But if it leaks out, our whole family will die! ”
"Ten years ago, there is still someone to investigate the headless case?"
"For the past two months, I have had trouble sleeping every night, with a loaded pistol next to my pillow, and the slightest misfire will blow my head out."
"I'll go get that gun!"
Anna closed the lid and was about to go upstairs, but was dragged back by Ouyang Sicong.
"The warlords of the north and the south are fighting in Hunan, and Wang Shizhen, the 'dragon of the North Ocean', took over as prime minister and army chief, and President Feng Guozhang issued a armistice order between the north and the south. Sun Cannon wanted to protect the Northern Expedition of the French Army. Duan Qirui's Anhui main battle, Feng Guozhang's direct main peace, the two largest factions in Beiyang have fallen out, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang overseers are about to go to war! ”
"Shanghai will also go to war? The Sea Dharma Mountain is in the public concession, so it should be safe. ”
Ouyang Sicong waved his hand and stroked his daughter's black hair: "Not necessarily!" Wang Shizhen has personally led the army of his direct family to the south, and he will be killed in Shanghai in the next few days. Perhaps the target of the crusade also includes me, as well as the old case on the Dharma Mountain in the East China Sea...... In the troubled times, the person I am most worried about is actually you. ”
"Although the situation is turbulent, Anna does not want to leave her father."
"You are wrong, dust to dust, dust to dust, our Ouyang family came from the sea, and we have to return to the sea after all. This year's 'Evil Dragon Festival' is back again. ”
Anna broke free of her father and her eyes widened, "I don't want to go back to that island again!" ”
"Bodhidharma Mountain hides endless secrets. And the fate of people is always determined by these secrets. Me too. Ouyang Sicong walked back and forth frantically, "Let's take another look at the small town tomb beast...... Maybe the last time I saw it. ”
Ouyang Anna didn't dare to disobey her order, so she could only silently pray that Jiu Se would not be naughty, and took out the key to open the door of the private museum on the second floor.
Under the light, the young Qilin Town Tomb Beast was sitting in a glass cabinet, with snow-white antlers soaring into the sky.
She squeezed her eyes at Nine Colors. The conversation between the father and daughter next door just now may have been overheard by this agile young beast over the wall.
"I really like this young beast and use it as the treasure of the Dharma Mountain on the sea. But the tomb beast is to guard the mausoleum palace, only the dead emperor and general are worthy of it, and we ordinary people can't suppress it at all, but will be eaten by the tomb beast. In the Siam Kingdom of the South Seas, there is a demonic creature named Kuman Thong. The tomb beast is a hundred times more powerful than Gu Man Tong, and it will make the originally prosperous Yang Mansion become an underground Yin Mansion Tomb. ”
"Some people say that ancient statues, whether they are wood, stone or bronze, are very terrifying things - once any substance is molded into a human form, it can have a soul similar to the body."
Actually, this is what Qin Beiyang said. Anna thought about it, and a short French poem crossed her mind--
Shaping inanimate matter into human form
Imprison the soul in the eyes of death
Transform endless praise and lifelong glory into a mummified existence.
"Maybe, I really shouldn't have collected anything dug up from an ancient tomb. Why don't I sell the town tomb beast as soon as possible and send this plague god away, maybe I can save this house and save the lives of you and my father and daughter. ”
"Dad, you're right, we can't suppress this tomb beast. But there is one person who can hold it down and make it very obedient, even becoming a big dog. Ouyang Anna had done everything she could to keep the Nine Colors, and she saw the Nine Colors quietly winking at her, "He is Qin Beiyang who repaired the tomb beasts in the town." ”
"Don't mention that name again!"
Ouyang Sicong raised the iron gall in his hand, and angrily smashed the glass cabinet around him, and even the Song Dynasty Jun kiln porcelain bottle was broken.
"Dad, you're crazy!"
The first time Anna saw her father so out of shape, she stood in front of the glass cabinet of the town's tomb beast, ready to desperately protect the nine colors.
"At the beginning, the first time I saw Qin Beiyang here, he actually had the ability to repair antiques and tomb beasts, and I already felt that he was different from ordinary people. The second time, he fought off the thieves and saved the town's tomb beasts, which was even more impressive. The third time, this boy rejected my good intentions and did not want to be my apprentice, and I felt that he must have a bad heart. Young people who have just arrived in Shanghai, everyone has ambitions, but they will be smashed in a few months, but Qin Beiyang is different, especially compared to Qi Yuanshan. ”
"If I hadn't come out to play the round that day, Dad, you would have shot him on the spot, right?"
"Yes! For the sake of my precious princess, I left him on Mount Dharma on the sea, and I also wanted to see what he came from. Next, when I received a call from the Sheriff of Hilton in the Public Concession, I had a hunch that it might have something to do with him. After inspecting the scene of the murder, it was learned that Qin Beiyang's parents were actually victims of the same group of assassins. There must be more secrets in him, either he hides them and won't tell them, or he doesn't know anything about them. Ouyang Sicong looked at the moonlight outside the window dejectedly, "This young man came to Dharma Mountain on the sea almost at the same time as the small town tomb beast. The real curse and danger came from him. The ancients have caused Xiao Wall, and I have to be suspicious. ”
"Dad, do you suspect Qin Beiyang?"
Knowing a daughter is not as good as a father, and vice versa, the motto in Ouyang Sicong's heart is Cao Cao's sentence "I'd rather bear the people of the world than the people of the world bear me". The last Axe Party assassination incident was caused by a split within the Green Gang. Ouyang Sicong escaped, the rebels fled in a hurry, and he had just been arrested from Hong Kong a few days ago - the eldest disciple who had followed him for many years, and when he died, he scolded the master for being full of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, but he was a hypocrite with a sweet mouth and a sword. Ouyang Sicong waved the British polo stick in front of his apprentices, shattered every joint of the betrayer's body, waited until the other party's breath was dying, and then smashed the skull with his own hands, and the brains splashed on the spot. Qi Yuanshan was responsible for going to the wilderness to bury the body, and he couldn't eat for many days afterwards......
"Daughter, don't meddle in this matter, I intend to get rid of him, and his helper, Qi Yuanshan."
Speaking of which, Ouyang Anna's face turned pale, and her fingers trembled on the nine-colored glass cabinet: "Dad, you must know, where did they go tonight?" ”
"At this moment, they should be in heaven!"
"Heavenly?"
Anna accidentally smashed the second Song Dynasty Jun kiln porcelain vase, and the scattered ancient porcelain pieces made a bright red cut on Ouyang Sicong's cheek.