Chapter 14: Return to the Navel
"Ke'er, don't kill innocents indiscriminately, they are still young, they are the flowers of the motherland and the successors of the communist cause." The tall man shouted righteously.
"Xianggong, they overheard our conversations, and they can't stay alive anymore." The bald man argued.
"Who are you two, why are you hiding here to peep?" The tall man asked with a serious expression.
Youliang told him calmly: "My name is Youliang, she is Erya, and we hid in this Fengling Temple because we escaped from the bad guys." ”
"Oh, now that the social order is so bad, haven't the local public security organs launched a crackdown?" The tall man frowned and said dissatisfied.
"What 'strike hard'?" The bald head asked.
"On July 19, 1983, our country began a campaign to 'crack down, sentence, and enforce all kinds of serious criminal offenses in a severe and swift manner, and to strengthen the party's dictatorship,' and all adulterers were shot there."
"Giggles" The bald man couldn't stop laughing when he heard this, and asked with a crimson face, "In the "Great Qing Law", the adulterer is only ninety rods, and the adulteress can be resold by the husband, but not to the adulterer, and you all killed the adulterer and adulteress?" ”
"Of course, adultery corrupts the people's morals and corrodes the body of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and not killing is not enough to anger the people." The tall man said loudly.
"What is it that wants to hunt you down?" The bald head asked.
"It's chasing and killing Erya." There is a good way to correct the way.
"How can this be reasonable, who dares to ignore party discipline and state law and chase down a little girl?" The tall man was indignant.
"His name is Sun Yifeng, and he is a retired professor."
"Ah, there are still such scholars and old hooligans in society, look at how to get it if you don't crack down hard, how can the flowers of the motherland tolerate such destruction?"
Arira thought it was funny to hear it, although this man was born tall and powerful, he didn't seem to eat the fireworks of the world and lacked social experience.
At this moment, Erya's courage seemed to be bigger, and she asked them in a low voice, "Who are you?" ”
"This girl is Guo Ke'er," the tall man introduced, "As for me, just call Secretary Xing." ”
At this time, Ke'er smiled lovingly at Secretary Xing and said, "Xianggong, the world is impermanent, don't be angry." ”
Secretary Xing nodded: "That's what I said, 'not in his position, not in his politics', what are your two children's plans next?" ”
"We want to avoid the limelight at Mr. Guo Ruchang's." Arara said bluntly.
"Do you know my father?" Kerr asked.
"I went to the navel a few years ago and met Mr. Guo."
Ke'er and Secretary Xing looked at each other, and both of them were surprised.
"Since it's your father's old acquaintance, let's take them to the navel." Secretary Xing said happily.
Youliang and Erya hurriedly went back to the room to pack their bags.
The entrance to the white fruit tree was very high, and Secretary Xing and Ke'er each carried one on their backs, and climbed up and burrowed into the tree hole effortlessly.
It was pitch black underground, and Er Ya lay on Kerr's back, but she felt the sound of wind whirring in her ears, so frightened that she closed her eyes tightly, and after about half an hour, Kerr's footsteps finally stopped.
Er Ya slowly opened his eyes, and found that there was light in the navel, and now he was on a small island, surrounded by an underground lake, and the top of the stone wall was inlaid with large pieces of green fluorite, like a bright star in the night, scattering a faint green light to the ground, and the lake was reflected as a faint cyan, and there was no wind underground, so the water surface was like a mirror, and the ripples were not rising.
The island was overgrown with tall stalagmites, like a white forest, and an old man with long wrinkled hair and waist-length sat cross-legged on a bluestone.
"Dad, Ke'er brought back two children for you." Guo Keer put down the second girl and said.
"Grandpa, this kid said he knows you." Secretary Xing motioned for Youliang to step forward, he was a worm man planted by Li Dihuo, so he naturally wanted to call Guo Ruchang his grandfather.
"Old man Guo, I'm good, last time I came with the Void Wind Dao Chief, and I gave you a bottle of cologne." Youliang only recently discovered that Guo Ruchang's eyes were blind.
"Well, the old man heard it, you are Guo Ni's friend, and you fell into the wind mound with the little master at that time. Who is the girl next to her? Guo Ruchang sniffed and smelled that it was a girl.
Er Ya took two steps forward tremblingly and said, "Grandpa, my name is Er Ya." ”
Guo Ruchang nodded and complained: "Youliang, the old man's cute little granddaughter Nizi who has been valued for many generations is good now?" Alas, they never came to see me. ”
"Alas," Arira sighed, "she and Shen Cai went to the Blue Moon Valley. ”
"Oh, Nizi is with the little master, so the old man will be relieved, Youliang, what is the matter with your return to the navel this time, right?"
"Grandpa, he was chased and killed to hide here, and now the security above is too chaotic." Secretary Xing said angrily.
"Who is so bold as to hunt down and kill Niko's friend?" Old Man Guo said angrily.
"It's a retired professor of traditional Chinese medicine named Sun Yifeng, he has a group of black cats who kill people without blinking, and Erya's father and grandfather have been killed." Arara told him.
"Black cat?"
"Those aren't ordinary cats, they're cat demons."
Guo Ruchang pursed his lips and whistled, and the big civet cat known as the "White Tiger" jumped down from the high platform, but there was no tail, which was truncated by Shen Cai with the eighteenth style of Zhu You.
"Are they the same as the big civets?" Guo Ruchang asked.
"No, those are the size of a normal domestic cat, but they possess bodies, make people lose their minds, and can even bring the dead back to life." Youliang remembered Lady Liao, so he explained.
"Oh, they have the same ability as Kerr, and don't they avoid the sun during the day?" Guo Keer asked curiously.
"I'm not afraid of the sun." Arira replied.
"Yes, they are indeed cat demons, good, you can get in trouble. Since ancient times in the Central Plains, in addition to people, there are ghosts and demons in the world, but if the soul with great resentment does not disperse and survives the 7749th day and does not go to reincarnation, it will become a lonely soul and wild ghost wandering in the two worlds of yin and yang, just like Ke'er. And the demon is different, all the animals in the world can be cultivated into demons as long as they happen to coincide with the chance, haven't you read Feng Menglong's "White Lady Yongzhen Leifeng Tower" in the previous dynasty? That Bai Suzhen, who turned into a human form, is a snake demon, to seduce Xu Xian, who sells medicine, to have sex and absorb yang energy, it is simply a traitorous adulteress, a shameless thing" Guo Ruchang became more and more angry the more he spoke, and finally scolded him.
"Grandpa, now it's called "The Legend of the White Snake", the love of the White Lady and Xu Xian's loyalty is very admired by our young people." Erya couldn't help but retort.
"Yes, grandpa, you are under the influence of the residual poison of feudal thought, Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian are free love, and in New China is to encourage the destruction of old traditional concepts, of course, the correct orientation of the government is not to promote premarital sex, if it is malicious adultery, it is the target of the crackdown." Secretary Xing also upholds justice and fights for reason.
Youliang saw that the more they talked, the more off-topic they became, and quickly interjected: "Old man Guo, did the cat demon also cultivate for many years and then come out to harm people?" ”
Guo Ruchang thought for a while and said, "It stands to reason that except for demons, ordinary little demons don't easily harm people, I don't know how you offended them?" ”
At this point, Youliang had to tell about Erya's life experience, and Sun Yifeng's purpose was to find the tomb of the Medicine King.
"Oh, it turns out that the little girl is a descendant of Sun Simiao, the famous medicine king of the Tang Dynasty, and the old man is disrespectful," Guo Ruchang suddenly realized, "It is said that Sun Simiao lived to be 168 years old, and his "Thousand Golden Prescriptions" is a compulsory course for every Langzhong, as for where he will be buried after his death, there are different opinions. ”
"Is there any secret in the Tomb of the Medicine King? Even the cat demon is in a hurry to find it. Guo Ruchang was puzzled.
"It is said that there are 'Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate' from the ancient Wuxian in the tomb, which is called 'Devouring Needle'."
"That's a forbidden needle, the Qing Dynasty once explicitly forbade Lang to use the 'Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate', so as not to block the cycle of cause and effect and anger the ghosts and gods, and the caster himself will die."
Youliang Wenyan was taken aback: "Are you saying that learning the 'Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate' will lead to a short life and infertility?" ”
"Exactly."
Arira was silent for a long time.
Erya quietly asked Ke'er, "What are you eating under this ground?" ”
"There are a lot of fish and shrimp in the lake, and sometimes I will catch some mice to eat."
"It's all raw?"
"Of course, it's delicious."
The second girl stuck out her tongue, thinking to herself, isn't that the same as the wild man? I can't stand it.
"Old man Guo, isn't your work of guarding the Fenghou Tomb already over, why do you have to stay under this ground?" Arira asked.
"Alas," Guo Ruchang said abruptly, "The old man's life is approaching, and his eyes are blind, so he is waiting for the deadline in the navel, but it is bitter for Ke'er and Secretary Xing." ”
"Yes, don't you still have an ancestral house in Fenglingdu, you can let Secretary Xing and Ke'er go there to live, and come to the navel to visit from time to time?" I have a conscience and thinks that if Secretary Xing and the two are by their side, they should be able to deal with Sun Yifeng.
Guo Ruchang was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, the pair of men and women who invaded the Guo family's ancestral house have extremely high martial arts, I don't know what the origin is in the rivers and lakes, even the old man is planted in their hands, where will you be an opponent." ”
Youliang was surprised when he heard this, Mayor Guo and his wife were just ordinary people, so he said: "That person's name is Guo Youcai, he is a town mayor, and neither of them knows martial arts. ”
"Impossible," Guo Ruchang insisted, "That night, the dog man and woman were doing something in the house, and they happened to be broken by the old man, but when they saw the white-fleshed woman's arm, the room was dazzling with golden light in an instant, and I don't know why the secret weapon was so powerful that it destroyed the old man's eyes." ”
Youliang was stunned for a long time, and suddenly "poofed" and said: "Old man Guo, you have been fooled, it is not a hidden weapon but an electric light, and of course you can't stand the stimulation of electric lights after staying underground for more than 200 years." ”
Secretary Xing also answered: "That's right, the white-fleshed woman should be pulling the light wire switch when she waved her arm." ”