Chapter 1: The Spiriting Flag

I sat on the sofa, flipping through today's newspaper, the whole Yuan private detective office was a little depressing, if this continues, I will starve to death from boredom sooner or later. I didn't have much talent since I was a child, and I barely graduated from a third-rate university. However, college students are really worthless these days, so after graduating from college, I have not been able to find a job.

With the help of a friend, I rented a store near Panjiayuan, and opened a small private detective agency with a little ancestral martial arts, usually helping some people find lost cats and dogs, and even helped a primary school student find a lost pencil case. The days went by in such absurdity and boredom......

"Huh!" My eyes were drawn to a row of small words in the middle of the Beijing Daily, a batch of precious antiques about to be auctioned at Beijing Guardian Auction House. Of course, it wasn't the auction news that caught my attention, I wasn't rich, and naturally I didn't have much money to buy an antique collection. Rather, there was a quirky auction item that caught my eye.

The black-and-white picture is really not clear, it should be a small pennant, but the small words next to it aroused my interest - the spirit flag.

I shook my head and smiled bitterly, according to reports, this spirit flag seems to be something from the Tang Dynasty, it is indeed an antique, maybe it is the signboard of a certain fortune teller in the Tang Dynasty, just like the door of my private detective office, the stall set up by the blind man Chen, and a few words are also written on a piece of black cloth?

Perhaps, Chen Blind's signboard will be preserved for hundreds of years, and it can be regarded as an antique. However, for some reason, the more I looked at the pennant in the black and white newspaper, the more familiar I felt, as if I had seen it somewhere before. I looked down and tried to remember......

Suddenly, the telephone bell next to me rang sharply, which startled me, I was busy grabbing the phone, and just said the word "hey", a trembling, old voice came from the other end of the phone: "Fei'er, it's me!" ”

When I heard this, I sat up straight from the sofa and smiled respectfully, "Grandpa, is there something wrong with you?" "Yes, it was my grandfather Mr. Yuan who called, please forgive me for calling him that, because I don't know my grandfather's surname Yuan, it's ridiculous enough that I don't even know his name.

My surname is Yuan, a single name is a "fly" word, naturally, my grandfather is also surnamed Yuan, my parents died when I was a child, and my grandfather raised me single-handedly, but, for this old Mr. Yuan, who has depended on each other since childhood, I don't even know his name, it's not that I'm confused, but my grandfather is really a little weird.

Grandpa was obviously silent on the other end of the phone for a moment, and then said for a long time: "Fei'er, do you have time to come over?" ”

"Good! I'm coming! "I agreed neatly, anyway, my private detective agency is very busy, and there will be no big business coming to the door. When I went out, I ran straight back to my hometown, my hometown is in Panjiayuan, but I don't do antique business, and the house at the door is rented to someone else to open a shop.

I went straight to the backyard, where my grandfather, Mr. Yuan, was leaning on a wicker chair, lazily basking in the sun - he was very old, so old that all that was left on his face was a layer of yellow-black skin and bones, and his body was bent. In fact, I don't even know the exact age of my grandfather.

"Grandpa!" I screamed softly.

"Fei'er, you're here!" Grandpa didn't know what he was thinking, but when I called him, he seemed taken aback, and after a while he got up from his chair tremblingly, and said, "Let's go inside and talk." ”

I helped my grandfather into the room, my grandfather ordered the door to be closed, I was puzzled, but I still closed the door according to his wishes, grandpa did it himself, the curtains were also closed, the whole room was darkened all of a sudden, I was afraid that grandpa could not see clearly, and I was busy pressing the switch of the fluorescent lamp.

My grandfather walked into his room with my shoulder, and there was nothing in my room, except an old-fashioned wooden bed, a three-legged table with a missing leg and had to be placed on the wall, and on the table was an old-fashioned radio, and now, next to the radio, stood today's Beijing Daily.

When I saw the newspaper, I couldn't help but be stunned, in the past two years as a private detective, I have also learned some reasoning to solve cases - to my grandfather's time, there are too many illiterate people, and since I was a child, I have never seen my grandfather read the newspaper, in my heart, my grandfather, like many, many old people, is illiterate.

However, the newspaper on his desk now seems extremely abrupt, could it be that my grandfather is literate?

Grandpa said, "Fei'er, close the door too." ”

I closed the door as I said, and I felt even more wrong in my heart, grandpa was so weird today. Grandpa leaned on the table, sat down on the only wooden chair, and ordered, "Fei'er, you go under the bed and drag out that gold-painted red lacquered box, I have something for you......"

There is a red lacquer and gold chest under Grandpa's bed? I was curious, and I didn't care that there was dust under the chuang, so I immediately got in, and sure enough, as my grandfather said, there was a red lacquer box under the bed, and there was gold paint all around it with a very simple pattern decoration, but it was dusty, and the red paint was mottled, and it was no longer as gorgeous as it was. I glanced at it, and since I grew up in Panjiayuan, Beijing, I decided that this box should be a product of the late Qing Dynasty, which is considered an antique.

I dragged the box out from under the bed, and to be honest, it was quite heavy, and I didn't know what it contained. I crawled out from under the bed and asked curiously, "Grandpa, your box is an antique......"

Grandpa smiled, showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, nodded and said, "Yes, twenty-five years, twenty-five years, Fei'er, you have also grown up, there are some things that should be known to you, you open the box." ”

I heard that, wipe off the thick layer of dust on the red lacquer gold box, from this thick dust can be seen, this box has indeed been no one touched for many years, grandpa said that there are twenty-five years, presumably true, but, next I am worried, this red paint gold box, there is actually an old-style copper lock, the box is locked.

Although this kind of lock is not too difficult for me, but this is my grandfather's thing, and I don't dare to borrow a gut. But grandpa was really strange and asked me to open the box and didn't give me the key.

Grandpa seemed to see my hesitation, knocked on the table with two fingers, and said lightly: "Fei'er, I taught you martial arts since childhood, can't you even open such a copper lock?" ”

I was stunned, thinking to myself that I was just afraid of destroying your copper lock, where is there such a bad, such a lock, let alone one, ten will not be difficult for me. My eyes rolled and I was looking for tools to pick the locks all over the room, and my grandfather said, "Fei'er, don't use brute force, the things inside are very valuable." ”

Valuable? When I heard this, I couldn't help but have a golden light in my eyes - what could it be, porcelain from the Song Dynasty, or mutton fat and jade? Yin Shang's bronzes? Painting ...... by Huizong of the Song Dynasty You can't blame me for being cranky, you know, I grew up in Panjiayuan since I was a child, and I can see that it is all antiques, although it is a hundred false and one true, but it can be regarded as a child. Since my grandfather said that brute force could not be used, I could only use the method I had learned from the wood over the years to take out my own keychain, which had a small thin wire hanging from it.

I put the wire into the keyhole of the copper lock, rotated left and right for a moment, as my grandfather said, the copper lock has not been opened, the inside has been rusted, I twisted for a while, but I was not able to unscrew, all over the house searched, but did not find lubricating oil anything, helpless, can only wipe the wire on his head - human hair naturally secretes oil, in the absence of lubricating oil, can only use this.

"Bang", the copper lock made a crisp sound, I was in high spirits, a little impatient to remove the copper lock, both hands held the lid of the box, slightly forcefully lifted up, the lid of the box was easily opened by me.

"Ah......h

Inside my grandfather's gold-painted red lacquer box, where are there any antiques, and at the top, there is actually a white skull, and two black holes are staring at me coldly......

I never dreamed that there was a gold-painted red lacquered box hidden under my grandfather's bed, and I never imagined that there was a dead man's skull hidden in the box. After all, I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and I have opened a private detective agency for two years, so after the initial shock, I quickly calmed down, and simply sat on the ground, looking at the dead skeleton that was placed in the box.

I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief as the skeleton had turned yellow on its bone, which was clearly not recent. Although it is not normal for grandpa to hide a skull under the bed, as long as grandpa does not murder someone. On the face of it, the skeleton must be at least twenty or thirty years old.

I looked up at my grandfather, and I realized that I didn't know much about the grandfather who had brought me up.

"Fei'er, take out that skeleton and bring me the things underneath......" I don't know why, Grandpa's tone became cold, and the eerie echo in the room.

I was shocked, but I still followed his meaning, carefully held the skull with both hands, and looked at its black hole eye sockets, I couldn't help but feel cold in my heart, not that I was timid, but I was afraid that any normal person, when he suddenly knew that the home where he had lived for twenty years, actually treasured such a thing, I was afraid that the courage would not be greater than me.

With trembling hands, I put the skull on the ground next to me, only to realize that there was something else in the box, yes, such a big box can't just contain a dead man's skull, right? Underneath the skull, which was originally cushioned, was a yellowed blue and white cloth bag, which seemed to wrap this thing.

"Wrap that blue and white cloth for me!" Grandpa's eerie voice rang in my ears.

I cautiously reached into the box, and took out the blue and white cloth bag, the cloth bag was very light, and it was not loud that there was something valuable, I pinched it with my hand, a thin layer, like a book. Immediately and respectfully delivered to grandpa.

Grandpa took the blue and white cloth bag, put it on the table, and carefully opened it layer by layer. Finally, Grandpa opened the last layer of the package, and I couldn't help but gasp for air inside—what is this?

Conjuring flags?

However, grandpa's blue and white cloth bag, wrapped in a small triangular flag, the original apricot yellow color seems to have dimmed a lot, the small flag has two words "Kaiyang", grandpa seems to be very excited, trembling hands holding the small spirit flag, handed it to me and said: "Fei'er, this is our Yuan family's ancestral treasure......"

I couldn't hold back the curiosity in my heart anymore and asked, "Grandpa, what's the use of this little flag?" ”

When Grandpa heard this, he didn't answer, and handed me another thing under the package, and all my mind just now was attracted by this small spirit flag, and I didn't notice that there was anything else in the package, but when Grandpa handed me the thin, thread-bound ancient book, I couldn't help but be stunned, and instinctively took it and looked at it, and was dumbfounded in an instant—

The cover of the ancient book has been yellowed, but the handwriting on it is clear - Seven Stars Summoning Spirits, and there are four small words next to it: "Mountain Mover".

I don't know what this seven-star soul attraction is, and I don't know who the so-called "mountain movers" are? I was curious, and I was about to open the ancient book to see what was going on, but I heard my grandfather say: "Fei'er, don't be busy reading, let me ask you, today's newspaper, have you read it, is the pennant auctioned by the auction house the same as the small flag in your hand?" ”

My head was booming, what did Grandpa want to do?

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