Chapter 549: A Kind of Stone
This is strange, under the sunlight, we obviously see that there is no shadow in these houses, but Mr. Chen's wife said yes, what is going on?
After we entered the house, we found that Old Man Yuan, Old Man Ouyang, and two Japanese female assistants were having dinner, and there was nothing abnormal, and a few of us were a little relieved.
I wanted to talk about these strange things I encountered today, but my cousin took a flashlight and said that he wanted to take a look outside, and we didn't know what he was looking at, but looking at his expression, we felt that he must have thought of something, so we also came out with my cousin.
It's still sunny during the day, but at night, it slowly becomes muggy and cloudy, so is it going to rain? The sultry air makes people feel a little restless, since we came to Mr. Chen's place, it seems that we have never encountered such a sultry weather, although we have experienced a few rains, but it seems that it is not as hot as this time.
On a cloudy day, the night is particularly dark.
When my cousin came out with a flashlight, he didn't explain anything to us, and we didn't ask much, but after getting along for so long, everyone knows better, and we know that for this kind of thing, if my cousin wants to say it, even if we don't ask, my cousin will take the initiative to say it.
Supposedly, we already know that there are a lot of amphibians around, and that these amphibians are likely to come out at night; And going out at night, once you encounter them, is very dangerous, it is impossible for my cousin not to know this, but at the same time, my cousin has always considered things, has always been careful and rigorous, and will not take risks for no reason, in this case, since he still wants to go out, he naturally has his reasons.
Everyone silently followed my cousin, and when we got out of the yard, my cousin went in a strange direction - we thought that my cousin should go in the direction of the crater, because it was behind the house, and there were all kinds of mysteries and strange things, all related to the crater, but to our surprise, my cousin went northwest.
We just wanted to say something, but we heard my cousin say in a low voice: "Don't shine the flashlight around, and you can't shine it far away, you can only shine it on the ground." β
As you know, this is done as little as possible to avoid detection, because if you look around with a flashlight, you can easily see it from a long distance, but I still don't know much about this - if there are amphibians in the distance, they can smell the distance between us and it by their sense of smell alone, even if they don't look at the light.
In this way, as my cousin said, we carefully shone our flashlights on the road under our feet, not daring to shine in the distance, and we didn't even dare to speak loudly.
Although we had been staying here for a few days, we had never been to the northwest direction, and we only knew that there was a very high hill here, so it was very difficult for us to climb up, and a few of us young people supported the older ones from time to time.
When we climbed, we were afraid of encountering amphibious people, but we were lucky, and we climbed up for about twenty minutes, and we were still as usual.
"Climb a little further up and you'll come to a flat land where I've cultivated plants before?" As Mr. Chen climbed up, he panted and said, sure enough, after two or three minutes, we reached this flat land on the hillside.
At this time, my cousin whispered softly: "Okay, this is where we came, sit down and rest for a while, but put out the flashlight first." β
When the flashlight went out, we felt that it was pitch black in front of us, and we could not see anything, and after a while, after our eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness, we could see the outline of the nearby hillside and flat land, and at this moment, we heard my cousin say, "Everyone look in the direction of the courtyard from here." β
When my cousin said this, we hurriedly looked over the hillside to the courtyard, and we were all shocked by what we sawβin the dark night, the northwest corner of the house emitted an extremely faint beam, which loomed so faintly that we would not have seen it if it had not been so dark.
My cousin also looked over into the courtyard and muttered to himself, "It seems that my conjecture is correct, it's incredible." Before we could speak, my cousin said a little eagerly, "Let's go back now, there's no need to stay here any longer." β
Saying that, the first one went down the mountain, and we followed closely behind, could it be that my cousin came up the hill just to see these few glances and go down? But seeing that he was in such a hurry to go back, we didn't say anything. By the time we went down, the cold raindrops had fallen, and by the time we got back to the yard, the pair was already a little wet.
But my cousin did not enter the house at once, but went to the northwest corner of the courtyard, and told us to put out all the flashlights, but strangely, but strangely, the faint light source we saw on the hillside was not seen at all, only in total darkness.
We waited in the dark for ten minutes, but still did not see any light flicker, and then we returned to the house, and changed into dry clothes, and when we gathered in Mr. Chen's house again, the rain outside was already heavy, and the wind mixed with raindrops, crackling on the window, and the wind coming in through the crack in the window made the candlelight on the table flicker, which added to the uneasiness and tension in our hearts.
My cousin frowned, stared at the candlelight with his eyes, as if he was still thinking about something, and when he saw that we were all here, he coughed, cleared his throat, and said slowly: "Many of these things we encountered today are accidental, but I have made a heavy discovery in these seemingly accidental events, and this discovery is of great significance to us to get rid of the blind man, those Japanese, as well as Zhang Liangchen, amphibious people, etc. β
When we heard my cousin say this, we were both happy and shocked, and we were glad that my cousin had made a new discovery; I was shocked that these discoveries of my cousin were so significant.
When my cousin said this, he paused for a moment before he continued: "In your minds, there must be a series of questions, for example, why are there no shadows in the few houses in this courtyard from a distance? Why did those amphibians surround this courtyard? Wait, then I'll explain it to you in detail.
First of all, when we look at them from a distance, we can't see the shadows of these houses in the sunlight, but when we look near the houses, they are normal, just like the sister-in-law of the Chen family said, when she comes out of the house, the projection of these houses in the sun is as usual, what is going on? β
When we wanted to hear the reason for this strange phenomenon, my cousin did not continue to explain, but changed the topic and said, "Have you heard of the Night Pearl?" In fact, the night pearl is the momentum of a luminous substance, and in the dark, these stones can emit light.
And at the northwest foot of the house, that large piece of stone, very different from ordinary stones, but a stone that can emit a strange light, however, this light is very special, it is very weak, it is a very special band of blue light, however, this blue light, whether day or night, when seen at close range, can not be seen, but must be seen from a certain distance to see.
This is because this light can only be seen by the human eye if there is a considerable thickness of air refraction through guΓ², especially the more humid the air, the clearer it can be seen when we look at it from a distance, and when we look at it on the hillside during the day, we actually see this light, but the light during the day is too strong, our eyes can't distinguish this light, we just see the shadow of the house disappearing, I say this, do you understand? β
Hongmei, Crazy Six, Mr. Chen, and Xiao Lei, etc., all nodded again and again, while Old Man Yuan and Old Man Ouyang were at a loss, maybe their modern scientific knowledge is still relatively lacking, in fact, what my cousin said, I can probably understand.
The cousin continued: "Actually, this kind of stone has an extraordinary origin, it is the most commonly used stone used to build their own mausoleums by the small princes and monarchs of our generation in the Spring and Autumn Period, why use this stone to build mausoleums?
Do you remember? My master once said that when he was young, he visited a Taoist priest, and that Taoist priest also helped him deal with the blind man, and the Taoist priest also arranged my master's marriage, but unfortunately, my master's wife was also killed by the blind man, and she was killed in an extremely cruel and obscene way. β
When my cousin reminded us of this, we all remembered that it was true, my cousin's master, that is, a feng shui master, once mentioned a Taoist priest when he told about his love and enmity with a blind man, and that Taoist priest was good at feng shui, and his kind of feng shui could keep the body from rotting for decades, or even hundreds of years.
My cousin saw that we all remembered, and hurriedly bowed his head and said: "That's right, I'm talking about that Taoist priest, that Taoist sect, the reason why the Taoist priest can keep the corpse from rotting, of course, there are many secret techniques, but the most important of them is related to the glowing stone in the northwest corner, because that kind of stone can keep the corpse from rotting, which is also one of the reasons why many monarchs of our generation in the Spring and Autumn Period used that kind of stone as a tomb to build;
In addition, at that time, it was already a troubled time, the world had been torn apart, and there were constant wars for many years, and those monarchs also knew that their small country might be destroyed at some point, and their tombs had to be built extremely hidden and would not be discovered, so as not to be destroyed, but at the same time, they must also let future generations know the location, so as to provide sacrifices for themselves, and ensure that they can also have food and clothing in the underworld, so the strange light emitted by this stone has become a special mark.
But this kind of secret, which is known only to the relatives of the king, and not to outsiders, can be accurately located by the descendants of the king according to the characteristics of this light. But in addition to this, this stone has an even more magical effect. β