Chapter 65: The Missing Statue
What exactly are these figurines? When I was at a loss, Sasaki gave the answer again, and the other statues were statues of dragons.
Ryuko? Longzi, I've heard of the third prince of the dragon king who was cramped and skinned by Nezha in the story of Nezha Naohai, but the third prince didn't look so strange. Sasaki's Chinese is not very good, and he stumbled to tell us the reason for this.
Legend has it that the dragon has nine children, and about the names of these nine children, there are many versions, and one of the more widely circulated sayings is the sting, the kiss, the gluttony, the eye, the relent, the pit pit and the pepper and the pulao, the other saying is the sting, the kiss, the pulao, the sling, the sluggourgon and the pixiu, but no matter which version, the dragon's nine sons have not become dragons in the real sense, but each has its own good, and has become a "monster" in a certain sense, Of course, these monsters are not necessarily bad guys, on the contrary, most of them have been endowed with various accusations and symbolic meanings, and have become the Rui beasts of Chinese myths and legends.
I was once again impressed by Sasaki's erudition, but that's all Sasaki knew, after all, he studied Chinese feng shui, not Chinese folk tales. We had to pin our hopes on Lao Zhao, a great accomplisher in the study of ancient Chinese culture, Lao Zhao smiled, stepped forward and looked at each statue separately, and gave explanations one by one.
The leftmost one of the fishtail dragon heads, looking around for the cocktail kiss, is often arranged on the ridge of the building, next to the cheek kiss lying on the top of the bell for the Pu Lao, because the Pu Prison is good by nature, so it is carved on the top of the bell, the shape of the Pu Prison next to the tiger is like a tiger, the front foot holds the tiger head card for the ferophyll, the ferophyl is in charge of the prison, often decorated on the door of the prison, the left is only these three, and the dragon king statue on the right is gluttonous, Jianxi, Jiaotu three brothers, gluttonous nature is delicious, with a big mouth, twisting the fat body, It is the pioneer of delicious taste, the eyes like to kill, standing at the head of the road, murderous, Jiaotu has a withdrawn personality, resembles a snail, bows his head and rings, and is often decorated on the door or engraved on the door panel.
Lao Zhao explained each dragon one by one, but I counted and counted that there are only six statues here, doesn't the dragon have nine sons, could it be that the other three ran away from home? I am also a person who can't hold back my words, and I put my questions out at the moment, and when I finished the question, several people also expressed their strangeness, even the most knowledgeable Lao Zhao also dragged his chin and didn't say a word, the loss of the dragon must have a hidden secret, it is impossible to try simply because I don't like it, so I only carved six sons.
"Could it be that someone moved away?" Zhao Xiaoxu said timidly.
Zhao Xiaoxu said this, I also think that there is such a possibility, but this statement was quickly denied by us, because from the perspective of the entire space, there is not enough space to accommodate the statues of the other three dragons, and we checked each statue, each pedestal is deeply embedded in the ground, does not complement the blue brick abutment laid on the ground, and there is no trace of being moved, so this means that it will not be the other three cages that have been rearranged after rearranging the pattern.
Just when we didn't have an idea, there was a loud laugh outside the temple gate, and we hurried out to see a few people walking towards us on the flat ground, the leader of which was armed with a pistol, and the others all held long-barreled shotguns with reloading. It's not good, the person who came is not good, we quickly reached out to touch the pistol in our waist, and the man at the head raised the pistol and fired a shot at the sky, shouting: "Don't move, don't move for Lao Tzu." ”
One of his minions came up and collected the weapons in our hands, and the imported pistols that we had just equipped were confiscated by others before they could be used. The leader swept the gun in his hand and said slyly: "I can't see that I still have to pay for it, so I will accept this gun." ”
Although I haven't seen the person who spoke, I knew at a glance that it was Greenbeard who had been following us, Greenbeard was five big and three thick, wearing an earth-colored old-fashioned suit, with a pair of white sneakers on his feet, very out of tune, if I usually saw such a costume, I would only think that it was an honest peasant brother, no one would have thought that this was a vicious tomb robber, and there were two other people I had seen, it was in the hot pot restaurant that Kaoru and I saw two tomb robbers, one fat and one thin, That is, the two people who sneaked into my house and kidnapped me that night, I didn't expect to meet the two of them here, it's really a narrow road.
We have all heard Lao Zhao talk about Blackbeard, and at this time I am afraid that we have already recognized the person who came as the hero of the story, and a handful of dark green beards are stuck upside down on the chin, which has become the most obvious feature. Usually we are more than a dozen people together, there are many people, Greenbeard does not dare to act rashly, at this time a few of us alone on the cap, this is he seized the opportunity, killed us a surprise, although the weapon in our hands is more advanced than him I don't know how many times, but I was pointed at the gun, no matter what kind of weapon has no chance to play.
Greenbeard stepped forward, walked around us twice, and said with a wicked smile: "Zhao Pinchuan, your equipment is getting better and better, but the team is getting worse and worse." After saying that, he continued to laugh, and the wrinkles on his face twisted together.
Lao Zhao did not answer, but closed his eyes and turned his face to the sky, as if praying.
Greenbeard approached Lao Zhao and said sharply: "You still haven't changed, I know what you're thinking in your heart, but my Greenbeard is no longer the me I was a few years ago, look at it, you don't have anything now, how can you fight with me, if I move my fingers lightly, you will die." After speaking, Greenbeard raised his gun to Lao Zhao's forehead, and then made a "bia" sound in his mouth, laughing wildly.
Although Greenbeard tried his best to tease Lao Zhao, Lao Zhao did not react at all from beginning to end, even when Greenbeard put a gun on his forehead, his body did not even move, as if everything seemed to have nothing to do with him, standing like a log.
Lao Zhao's zero reaction made Greenbeard a little self-conscious and bored, glared at Lao Zhao a few times, and then began to patrol a few of us, and finally stopped in front of me, and Greenbeard had close contact, my heart was very nervous, after all, I didn't have Lao Zhao's concentration, and I couldn't do it to respond to all changes. Greenbeard looked at me for a long time and sneered, "You are Ling Yue? ”
I didn't know how to answer, so I nodded instinctively, and after getting my affirmative answer, Greenbeard laughed, and then turned back to Lao Zhao's side, and said, "Zhao Pinchuan, you really have exhausted your skills, but you still haven't calculated that my Greenbeard will copy your back road." With a wave of his hand, a few minions stepped forward and escorted us towards the temple.
Humpty Dumpty stepped forward and poked me hard in the back with a gun, I grinned in pain, this thing was taking the opportunity to avenge the original lamp, this fell back into the hands of this Humpty Dumpty, I have a hard time. As soon as he entered the temple gate, Greenbeard also saw the statue of the dragon king, looked at the statue of the dragon king, and actually smirked, walked on the base of the statue while laughing, circled around the statue of the dragon king, and then kicked the turtle prime minister next to him, the statue of the turtle prime minister was not big, this foot pedaled down, and the statue immediately tilted.
Greenbeard spat on Prime Minister's statue and turned to several other statues of dragons, but the statues of dragons were buried in the ground, and Greenbeard did not try to kick these statues.
After looking at the statue, Greenbeard continued to interrogate Lao Zhao and said, "Say, where is the entrance to the tomb?" ”
As before, Lao Zhao never said a word, Greenbeard glared, and asked me instead, I shook my head, saying I didn't know, and then Greenbeard asked Zhao Xiaoxu and Kaoru Mochizuki respectively, as well as Sasaki, but he was disappointed that he never got an answer, Greenbeard was anxious, and after turning around twice, he stopped in front of me, grabbed my collar, and pulled me up, "Say, where is the entrance to the tomb?" ”
I said ** ask me, I don't know who to ask, I was out of breath, pretending to pick up Greenbeard's hands. Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Greenbeard pushed it away with a grasp and shouted, "Take it away, take it away, take it all away." ”
A group of people escorted us out of the broken temple, and just ran into the pit and Song Jin's group that had just caught up, and surrounded a group of people in the temple with a pistol, and the pit stood up first and said: "Fuck, what kind of bird, the people who dare to rob us, the acquaintances surrender their guns, Niu Ye, I will spare you a way out." "The pit has a gun in his hand and a lot of people, so he is naturally unscrupulous.
Greenbeard relied on the hostage in his hand, and naturally he was not to be outdone, he pushed Kaoru Mochizuki to the front, put a pistol against his back, poked his head out and looked at the pit, and said, "This brother looks like a face, I don't know what to call it in the industry?" "Greenbeard didn't know about the pit before, so he asked.
The pit waved his hand: "Don't talk nonsense from your mother, just call Grandpa Niu, you let me go first, and then talk about anything else." ”
"Grandpa Niu, Grandpa Niu" Greenbeard muttered twice to himself, and then said: "My Greenbeard has been on the road for so many years, and I really haven't said that I am called Grandpa Niu, isn't it indiscriminately fooling me?" Listening to Greenbeard's words, I almost couldn't help laughing, maybe because of the accent of the pit, it made him sound a little difficult, but a little bit of brain, know that this is a curse, Greenbeard said twice, this is equivalent to being a grandson of the pit, it seems that although this Greenbeard is extremely evil, but the mind is very simple.
"Lao Tzu, I don't care if you've heard of it or not, release people, or I'll shoot."
After saying that, the pit raised the pistol in his hand, and the person behind him also raised the pistol in his hand, and for a while, the whole atmosphere was tense to the extreme, and a shootout could start at any time.