Chapter 55: Iron Noodles
After listening to Qin Jiaoyun's reverie-inducing words, Li Chuanshui could only pretend to be deaf and smiled, and then quickly "escaped" from the door of Fenghua Hotel.
Then, Li Chuanshui took a taxi and quickly returned to his home, and the first thing he did when he got home was to take out the iron noodles he bought from Zhao Laibao, a cultural entertainment store.
Li Chuanshui didn't know why Xiao Jiu'er wanted this iron pot so urgently, but the more he didn't know, the more curious he became about this iron pot in his heart.
In that curiosity, Li Chuanshui gently tore open the packaging layer on the outside of this pot, and then ignored the black ash and rust of this pot, put up his hands, faced the headlights of the bedroom, and carefully observed the inside and outside of this black pot.
Roughly speaking, the pot that Xiao Jiu'er looked at was very ordinary on the surface, but when Li Chuanshui looked at it carefully, he found that there were many differences in this iron pot.
First of all, the shape of this pot is very special, it is not a traditional circle, but presents an almost nine-sided shape, each side has an intersecting obtuse angle between the edges, and on the plane of the obtuse angle, there are some hazy textures.
Although the large nine-sided shape is also very close to a circle in terms of geometric figures, it is not after all, and in the face of the shape of the nine-sided shape, Xiao Jiu'er, who was sitting on Li Chuanshui's shoulder, couldn't help but speak: "The reason why this thing is a nine-sided shape is because nine is the number of poles, and the people who make this kind of pot believe that it can be used to make delicious dishes." ”
After listening to Xiao Jiu'er's confession, Li Chuanshui thought deeply, nodded slightly, and then asked Chong Jiu'er: "By the way, you said that this pot is very magical, it is used to cook ghosts, what do you mean?!" ”
Asked, Xiao Jiu'er couldn't help laughing.
"Huh! The guy surnamed Zhao didn't understand the mystery of this thing, and we picked up a treasure! I'm smart! After Xiao Jiu'er boasted to herself, she couldn't help but say to Li Chuanshui:
"How to cook ghosts, I still won't tell you first, if you are interested, go find a pig hair brush, brush off the ash that has accumulated on the bottom of the pot for many years, look at the pattern on it, and understand!"
Xiao Jiu'er's selling, Li Chuanshui didn't like it, but after her reminder, Li Chuanshui remembered that the bottom of this pot was indeed engraved with many concave and convex textures, and those textures should be some regular pictures.
In Zhao Laibao's shop before, Li Chuanshui was very interested in the patterns that sealed the dust between the ashes at the bottom of the pot, but due to environmental restrictions, he did not study them carefully.
Now, it is indeed time to let those mysterious textures that are sealed in history and the dust at the bottom of the pot be revealed to the world!
Thanks to Li Chuanshui's occupation of brushing toilets in the past, he has accumulated a lot of brushes of various types of toilets at home, including the most difficult to find pig hair brushes on the market now.
After finding the toilet brush in the toilet, Li Chuanshui immediately rolled up his sleeves, turned on the faucet, and then carefully brushed the heavy and unrecognizable cast iron pot with detergent on the toilet.
This pot is very old, and I don't know how long it has been used, so it is very difficult to rub it, Li Chuanshui used that brush for a whole half of the night, and only then did he brush out the noodles at the bottom of the pot at about two o'clock in the morning.
Although all the black ash at the bottom of the pot has been washed, the unfortunate thing is that the pot is too old, and the iron under the whole pot has been smoked and scalded into a whole black color.
Therefore, even without the cover of the black bottom of the pot, the pattern of the nine-sided bottom of the pot is still difficult to recognize.
Therefore, after Li Chuanshui brushed the bottom of the pot for a long time, he looked at the light in detail and probably understood some patterns on the bottom of the pot.
This pot is just an ordinary wok, but from the bottom of this pot, there are a lot of stories and patterns.
This pot, perhaps because it has nine planes, also has nine consecutive and complete picture scrolls on it.
The nine pictures are arranged in a clockwise pattern, like the kind of comic book that Li Chuanshui saw when he was a child.
At the beginning of the first volume of the picture scroll behind the iron pot, a black dragon was drawn, of course, that dragon may not have been black in the past, but when Li Chuanshui found it, because of the stains on the bottom of the pot, he could only default to it as a black evil dragon.
In the picture, the dragon soars into the clouds, fierce and vicious, leaking only one head out of the clouds, as if swallowing smoke and rain.
And below the black dragon, there is the Taotao River, and there are many dense dots in the river, those little dots Li Chuanshui thought were fish and shrimp, but Xiao Jiu'er told him that those were people who were drowned in the water.
After the first sinister picture, Li Chuanshui saw the second picture, which showed a god standing on the clouds, holding a sword in his hand, and cutting off the head of a black dragon.
However, the black dragon was not waiting to be killed, and even its severed head by the gods was still raging on the ground, chasing and gnawing some humans on the ground and in the mountains.
The second picture is also weird and bloody, and at the same time, the head that has left the body, but can still eat people everywhere and kill people, adds a bit of weirdness to the whole picture.
However, while the second painting seems eerie, the content of the third painting is even more incomprehensible.
At this time, Li Chuanshui saw that in the third painting, the dragon head that was cut off by the sky gods in the mortal world seemed to be "refined"! It actually gave birth to a human body under its neck, and it was chasing groups of humans alone with a group of ghosts.
And between the more intense evil aura in this picture, Li Chuanshui became a little interested in the ghostly thing behind the "dragon monster" at the bottom of the pot.
In the picture, the ghost standing behind the human dragon-headed monster is very interesting, among those beasts, there are snakes, wild boars, there are rat-like big creatures, and there are many things he can't name.
Those things gathered together, standing behind the dragon-headed monster, like a huge army, reminded Li Chuanshui that this painting is obviously saying that the evil dragon has come back to life, mutilated the living creatures, and found the right creatures to be his subordinates, and the meaning of further strengthening the power.
It is only three paintings composed of cast iron lines, which already express a coherent and bloody meaning, but when Li Chuanshui went to see the fourth painting scroll with the mood of exploration, he was stunned.
Because, on the fourth picture scroll of the nine-sided pot...... Suddenly there was no trace of the dragon?!