Chapter 18: The True Dragon of Jiuzi Town
This sentence made me almost jump out of bed, not to mention the problem of whether you can demolish such a huge house there, if we start working without the promise of Six Fingers, in case of a lawsuit, we will lose a lot of money. I hurriedly got dressed and chased after him, but fortunately Qin Yiheng didn't walk very fast, and I finally stopped him on the side of the road. I tried to persuade him to calm down, but it didn't work, so I had to get into a taxi with him. We hired seven or eight workers at the edge of the renovation market, and then we hired a van, and the two cars drove back to the house at a brisk pace.
After a night, standing in front of this courtyard again, even if the sun is strong, my mood is depressed. Qin Yiheng commanded the workers to knock and beat in the yard, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was busy with. I walked to the side of the house and tried to knock on the wall with my hand. This house must have been built with a lot of money, and it is completely impossible to have the problem of tofu slag project, so even if a few of them use all the strength of milk, I don't think they will be able to smash a wall, let alone dig the entire house three feet into the ground. Thinking about it this way, I was relieved, so I found a place where the sun was comfortable to smoke.
When I was about to smoke the cigarette, I suddenly heard one of the workers inside shouting, "Boss, dig it." I suddenly became curious, could it be that Qin Yiheng did everything possible to come back, did he calculate what treasure was buried under this house yesterday?
I looked over and found that it looked like a stone statue, but most of the stone statue was still in the soil, and I couldn't tell what it was carved. Qin Yiheng commanded several workers to dig out the stone statue and place it in the courtyard.
I just got closer to see, this stone statue is not very big, only about half a meter, the color of the stone is not bad, it should not be very old by feeling, but what is carved, I can't tell it.
If you look at the head, it is somewhat similar to a dragon, but the body is like a pug, which is a bit ridiculous and has no artistic beauty. However, no beauty does not mean that it is not worthless, and I said to my heart that if this is an antique, such a well-preserved and strange-shaped thing will definitely fetch a lot of money if it is put on the auction market.
Just as I was thinking about it, several workers worked together to bring over a statue. The statue was stained with a lot of mud and was not dusty. I took off my coat and dusted the dirt off the statue so I could see it in its entirety.
Compared to the first one, this statue failed in modeling. This one outrageously replaced the dragon's body with a big fish with an upturned tail. It reminds me of a famous sphinx in Singapore, and in short, it looks indescribably weird.
After looking at the two statues in a row, my doubts became even greater. I turned my head to look at Qin Yiheng, who was still directing the workers to continue digging in the yard, and the entire yard had been turned beyond recognition by a few of them.
I asked Qin Yiheng what these two things were. He didn't answer, he just told me that I would know when everything was dug up.
Listening to his tone, it seemed that there were more than one or two, and my curiosity was thoroughly aroused. Anyway, I didn't need to help, so I was at ease, so I just supervised the work by the side.
Since the first two statues were excavated, the later excavations seem to have gone much more smoothly. I watched as one statue after another was dug up, and the ground in the yard had been cleared so that crops could be grown. At first, I was interested in taking a closer look at the statues, but after looking at a few of them, I became less interested and went straight back to the car to close my eyes and recuperate. After almost an hour, when I returned to the courtyard, the statue had been almost excavated, and several workers were working together to move the last one.
After the last statue was erected, Qin Yiheng stood in front of the statues arranged in a row and was silent for a long time. I stood by and watched for a long time, thinking that he was brewing some emotions and was ready to explain to me the origin of these statues, but who knew that he didn't look back after a long time. I went over and patted him, and then he slowly turned his head to look at me, his expression as serious as a statue.
I never thought that his face could be stiff to such a point, I was exposed to the sun, and my mentality has been adjusted quite leisurely, this is good, my heart began to accelerate in an instant, obviously in the big sun, my whole body is still chilling for a while.
The shock that Qin Yiheng told me about me can no longer be described in words. I always thought that I had been doing this with him for so long, and I already knew something about other things like art, but in fact, I was too much to watch the sky, and I never thought that there were so many incredible ways in this world to help human beings achieve such a malicious purpose.
Qin Yiheng stood in the sun, first brushed the nine statues one by one, and then he stopped in front of the last one that was dug up and asked me, do you know what this is?
I shook my head.
The workers on the side were not interested in these statues, but we had not yet paid them, so we had to stand aside, and when they saw me shaking their heads, they all shook their heads.
This is Pixiu, Qin Yiheng looked at me and said.
Pixiu is a thing that makes money and wards off evil spirits, and it is usually kept on the desk, and many literati will also choose to use it as a paperweight. If a single one is placed here, it must have the function of a town house and a wealth, but here are nine ......
Qin Yiheng pointed to the other eight with his fingers in turn, and said, these are 赑屃 (bìxì), 螭kiss, 狴犴 (bì'àn), 蒲幕餮, 睚眦, 狻猊 (suānní), and Jiaotu.
As the saying goes, dragons give birth to nine sons, each of which is different, and these nine are the so-called nine sons, and usually they don't get together. In architecture or life, they are scattered and placed in different places and locations. However, it is no accident that there are nine sons buried under this building, and they are surrounded by equal distances, but they are deliberately buried here. I would venture to assume that the person who buried these things in the yard was the one who killed the young man in the house before, and he did so for one purpose. Qin Yiheng paused, as if he was hesitating to say it.
He did this for only one purpose, and that was to use the Nine Sons to suppress the True Dragon. The young man who died in this house before must be the so-called reincarnation of the true dragon, who is destined to become an emperor. And killing him in this mansion, dismembering his body, and letting his soul be scattered, and using such vicious means to suppress his soul and prevent him from being reincarnated, the purpose and method are really chilling, and the most important thing is ...... Qin Yiheng's tone suddenly sank.
We've been tricked this time.,This array was designed for us to break.,Now,I don't know what the consequences will be after the Lu Dao array is broken.,Presumably from the beginning of the six-finger contact us.,We've been put into a trap.。
After Qin Yiheng finished speaking, he subconsciously wanted to take out a cigarette from his pocket, and when I saw this, I hurriedly threw my cigarette to him. He clicked it and took a deep breath. I also wanted to pull out a cigarette and smoke, but I found that my hands couldn't help but tremble. I tried to breathe deeply, because this is the only way to relax myself. I looked at Qin Yiheng, who seemed to be trying to stabilize his emotions. The whole scene is very similar to the moment of waiting for the charge before the decisive battle in an American movie.
I saw that several workers next to me were also dumbfounded, and I didn't know if Lu Dao really understood what Qin Yiheng said, or if he was completely suppressed by the abnormal momentum of the two of us. I patted my face, maybe the matter was complicated by our thoughts, maybe this array was broken and it was just that the real dragon could be reincarnated, and it didn't have much to do with the two of us. But if you think about it, you don't think it's right, if that's the case, then, what will lead us to break this formation? Is it that he can't break it himself? I looked around the courtyard, and nothing happened while the workers were digging up the statues, so this array didn't need special magic to crack, just a few young and strong workers carrying shovels, and it could be done anyway.
I sorted out my thoughts and wanted to analyze the context of the matter. First of all, I have to figure out a question, who put my birth date under the statue of Zhong Kui, and how did he get it.
Thinking back to the details of that night, this should be completely a ploy, in order to lure me and Qin Yiheng away, and then push down Zhong Kui's statue in the chaos, so that we can find the coffin board that was pressed underneath, then, presumably the other party must know us very well, because they dare to conclude that Qin Yiheng will definitely turn the entire courtyard over because of that coffin board, so as to break the true dragon formation of Jiuzi Town in the courtyard. However, I don't know what we're going to do after that. It's just that the more I think about it, the more certain I can be, that Six Fingers is in the same group as the person that night, and even he is one of the participants in the implementation.
I told Qin Yiheng my analysis, and he agreed. It's just that everything is not clear now, and we can only take one step at a time. Qin Yiheng sent the workers away, paced a few more steps in the courtyard, and still didn't seem to have a clue, so the two of us had to go back to the hotel first.
Back at the hotel, Qin Yiheng and I took turns to make countless phone calls to Six Fingers, still prompting to turn off the phone, and we even called Yuan Zhen, but Yuan Zhen only had the phone number that Six Fingers couldn't reach.
I was always apprehensive in my heart, however, strangely enough, from that night until we decided to leave, everything was uneventful and nothing strange happened. I think, even Qin Yiheng didn't expect this, a few days ago, his expression was still very gloomy, after a few days, he saw that there was no vision, and he measured that there were no evil things around us by using a bowl, and he was relieved.
Although those questions were not answered, life still went on as usual. Occasionally, I feel a little uneasy that we are on a path that has been designed. I don't know if I was scared, but in short, although I didn't get sick after I went back, my body was much weaker. I turned off the phone and rested at home for a few days. I've been thinking about a lot of things during this time, and to be honest, I've been thinking about it for a long time, can I still do this business? On the one hand, I feel that my income and small business are on the right track, and I am not short of money to spend. However, on the other hand, I felt that the previous days were not so terrible, and it seemed that the money was very easy to earn in hindsight.
Looking back at that house, to be honest, I'm really a little reluctant. If you want to take advantage of it, you will fall into the trap, it seems that this is not wrong at all. After going through such an unbelievable thing, I even regret that this house was not taken down. Later, I carefully recalled the dark shadow I saw that night, and my memory was more blurry than what I saw at the time. I think it may be because I went to the temple that night, and the yin qi is too heavy, so maybe what I saw was just a lonely ghost and a wild ghost.
Qin Yiheng came to me a few times during my recuperation, and the chats were basically about some of his new thoughts on that matter, and in summary, even I don't think there are many reliable ones, so there is no need to repeat them here. But there is one thing he said that I am very impressed, but I can't verify the truth or falsehood. He told me that the soul of a person can also be cut off, which is why the young man's body will be dismembered, which is also well documented in the scientific community, but today's science does not come up with a reasonable explanation. I've seen some reports on TV that many amputees will suddenly feel a strong pain in the amputated limb for a certain period of time, some of which is continuous and some of which are intermittent, but the leg or hand they feel pain is long gone. The pain cannot be relieved by modern medical treatment, and the only way to relieve it is to take painkiller injections.
And the most outrageous thing is that many patients not only have pain, but also other sensations (such as feeling cold, hot, itchy, etc.), and the most surprising thing is that there are some very strange examples.
Most amputated limbs should be incinerated, but there are also hospitals that try to save money and dispose of limbs as medical waste. There was once a patient who often felt that the amputated leg was unbearably frozen after the amputation, and then at his repeated strong request, he actually found his amputated leg in the trash can, which had been frozen stiff. Qin Yiheng said that this makes sense in metaphysics. It is not difficult for us to find in many film and television dramas or rumors that many people who are disabled when they are alive, or who are disabled when they die, have their souls that remain disabled after death, because the soul of the corresponding part of the body has been separated from the body. It may seem tedious to say this, but to use a simple analogy, it's like a blister being split.