Chapter 202: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada, and the Yellow Sparrow Follows
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Hulai is naturally the Tokugawa after the disguise.
Because Tokugawa lived outside Tokuyama Castle, he got up early this morning, but there was still a long distance from his house to Boss Cai's shop, so it was still late to come over.
Boss Cai rushed over from afar and saw a large group of people waiting in front of the store, just when he heard Ye Jian raising his voice and shouting "Hu Lai", he suddenly remembered that his signature was Hu Lai a few days ago, so he agreed from afar.
Ye Jian and Nie Liya remained silent, and took a closer look at Hu Lai, although the two of them only had his portrait, but through age, height, posture and other characteristics, combined with the previous description of the people in the Monument King Valley, they could basically match.
Hulai entered the small room, where there were other people who were watching the original text and commentary of the "Bile Tablet", and when he looked up, he was surprised to see that the original text on the stone tablet was written on the white paper on the wall:
"Sanskrit is bold, and Chinese is subtle. First received the secret precepts, then traveled to the West Tianzhu country, visited the monks, and received the scriptures. ”
Hu Lai looked at its annotations again, it was really exquisite, he had studied the inscription in the Valley of the Tablet King, and many places could not understand it, and now he looked at the annotations on the white paper on the wall, and there was a feeling of enlightenment, and a breath of calligraphy slowly entered the body.
The success of the calligraphy initiation naturally proves the correctness of the inscription annotation.
Although he had obtained the correct annotation, Tokugawa stared at the blank paper on the wall, and still tasted it many times, and did not want to leave for a long time, if there was a commentary on the entire inscription, how many would there be.
Most of the other people around Tokugawa who were looking at the inscription left one after another after receiving the feeling of being enlightened by the bookish qi and proving the authenticity and correctness of the inscription and commentary, and by the time Tokugawa was ready to leave, there were already three groups of people around him.
This reaction of Hulay. It also confirms Ye Jian and Nie Liya's speculation about his bookworm's character, Hu Lai must be Tokugawa.
After Tokugawa came out of the hut, he pulled Boss Cai and asked, "Boss Cai, the annotation of this entire inscription." When is the auction?"
"Don't worry, the seller said that the annotation of the inscription of the "Bile Tablet" was obtained by accident from an ancient ancient book, in order to eliminate everyone's doubts. That's why there is the second confirmation observation today, and the specific auction time should be a week later, but this inscription annotation is worth a lot of money, you have to go back quickly to make up the money, haha. ”
Tokugawa was taken aback, he was obsessed with calligraphy, and all he thought about during this time was the annotation of the entire inscription, but he did not think about it, and the annotation of the inscription may require a large price to buy.
Boss Cai's words reminded Tokugawa. Tokugawa suddenly felt dizzy, where can I get such a large sum of money? If I really participate in the auction, there are more than 100 people here, a large part of them are representatives of some cultivation institutions and organizations, and among them, there are some people from ancient families, how can I have the financial resources to compete with them?
Thinking that it was impossible for this inscription to be bought by himself, Tokugawa had a feeling of despair.
Tokugawa walked out of Boss Cai's shop in a trance, passing by a restaurant, only to remember that he hadn't eaten this morning, so he entered the restaurant and ordered a few side dishes. And because he didn't have enough money to buy the inscription annotations, he was upset, so he ordered a pot of soju.
Before I knew it, a pot of soju went down. The person also became more trance-like, unaware that Ye Jian and Nie Liya were secretly following him from a distance.
Ye Jian was afraid that Tokugawa would hide the stele at home, so he wanted to follow him home and then do it, and they didn't want to have an accident in Tokuyama City, there are now many masters in this city, in case Tokugawa finally took out the "Bile Stele" he carried with him and was known by others. Ye Jian and the others were really worried that they would not be able to protect this artifact from being snatched.
The small mountain village where Tokugawa lived was about 10 kilometers away from Tokuyama Castle, and Tokugawa was depressed after drinking, and his walking speed was naturally slower.
Ye Jian and Nie Liya separated and followed Tokugawa.
After more than an hour, Tokugawa finally returned home, and when he was about to open the door, he suddenly felt a powerful bookish aura coming from behind, and he was suddenly startled, and suddenly woke up most of the wine, and hurriedly turned around and punched.
Bang!
Tokugawa felt his body thrive, and the whole person slammed into the wall.
There was a "click", and a large hole was knocked into the wall.
Ye Jian learned from Nie Liya's mouth that Tokugawa was a second-stage cultivation in the growth realm, so as soon as he made a move, he used the Shiyun hand, Ye Jian had already cultivated to the fourth level of the Shiyun hand, and he could increase the cultivation of the second stage with just one palm, and Tokugawa hurriedly faced the battle, and his power was naturally reduced, and he was not Ye Jian's opponent.
At this time, Neriyah also caught up, and the two formed a siege of Tokugawa.
Tokugawa touched the blood on the corner of his mouth, and looked at Ye Jian and Nie Liya in horror, aren't these two guys in Boss Cai's shop?
Oops, a thousand cautions, still hit the trick.
Although Tokugawa was obsessed with calligraphy, he was extremely intelligent, and he instantly figured out that the so-called annotation of the inscription of the "Bile Stele" was a scam from beginning to end, and the purpose of this scam was to lure himself to appear, and who else in this world wanted to get the annotation of the inscription more than himself?
Thinking about it like this, the other party was naturally sent by the Monument King Valley to hunt down and kill his own people, but the two people in front of him were extremely strange, and he had lived in the Monument King Valley for more than 20 years, and he had never seen them?
"Huh!"
Tokugawa smiled bitterly twice and looked at Ye Jian and Nie Liya.
"It's really a matter of Li Lingzhi, after a lot of calculations, I still haven't been able to escape, I just want to know, are you from the Tablet King Valley?"
"Tokugawa, you are ungrateful, my stele Wanggu is not thin on you, you actually took advantage of my grandfather's outing and stole the "Bile Stele", my grandfather fell ill in bed because of this, do you ever have a trace of guilt in your conscience?"
Neliya scolded, revealing his identity at the same time.
As soon as Tokugawa heard Nie Liya's girl's voice, and heard Nie Liya say that Nie Bin, the king of the stele, was her grandfather, he naturally understood, although Nie Liya was not usually in the Valley of the Stele King, Tokugawa had seen two sides when she was young.
"It turned out to be the eldest lady, Tokugawa was disrespectful, I don't know if the master and his old man are in good health now?"
Tokugawa still had some feelings for his master Nie Bin, although this feeling was later overwhelmed by the selfish desires in his heart, and when he heard that his master was sick, he still inevitably cared.
"Because you stole the stele, my grandfather fell ill in bed, don't you know that this stele is my grandfather's life? ”
Tokugawa had some feelings for his master. But compared to the stele, he loved the stele more, otherwise he would not have made the act of stealing the stele in the first place.
"Hehe, Miss. It's not that you don't know that your Nie family has owned this stele for more than a hundred years, but in the past hundred years, have your Nie family ever cracked the ancient text on this stele?"
"This stele is one of the crystallization of the ancient civilization of the ancestors and the treasure of human calligraphy. This was originally supposed to benefit the people of the world, but it has been privately hidden by your Nie family for more than a hundred years, does your Nie family have a clear conscience?"
"You? ”
Neriya didn't expect Tokugawa to be able to say such a thing.
"Hehe, that's right. ”
Ye Jian, who was standing on the side, opened his mouth and said: "This "Bile Tablet" is indeed a treasure of calligraphy of the human race, although it belongs to the entire human race, does that mean that everyone can have it? Where will future generations have the opportunity to appreciate this treasure of calligraphy?"
"Besides, after all, the Stele King Valley is the owner of the stele, and what is your stealing? Are you promoting the art of calligraphy? Aren't you still hiding the stele? Satisfy your selfish desires and try to keep it for yourself?"
Ye Jian's words made Tokugawa's face red and he was speechless.
Tokugawa's face changed several times, and he sighed: "That's it, the master is not thin on me, the Tablet King Valley has raised me for more than 20 years, and I will return this artifact to you." ”
Nie Liya and Ye Jian were shocked, they didn't expect this Tokugawa to agree to return the stele so quickly.
"Still. I have a small request, I hope you can meet me, I have followed the master for more than 20 years, and I know that no one in the Nie family has completely deciphered the ancient text on the stone tablet. However, you posted two inscriptions in Boss Cai's shop in Deshan City, where did they come from?"
Ye Jian smiled: "The annotation of the inscription is naturally obtained by us after consulting a master, but that master only cracked these two small inscriptions, if it weren't for the purpose of luring you out." We won't make this decision, now the inscription annotation is in the world, which has brought a lot of hidden dangers to the stele king valley, you better hurry up and hand over the stele to the eldest lady. ”
Tokugawa was obsessed with calligraphy, and although he usually copied the stone tablet, he only knew how to copy its ancient characters, and could not understand its connotation for the ancient texts in many places, which also led to the fact that the calligraphy copied could often only resemble the form, and the spirit was insufficient.
Tokugawa originally wanted to get all the annotations of the inscriptions from Ye Jian and the others, but he had been wishing for decades, but when he heard it, it turned out that there were no annotations of all the inscriptions, and he was deeply disappointed in his heart.
Tokugawa took out the "Bile Tablet" from the storage bag and prepared to hand it to Neriyah.
Tokugawa stroked the bile stele, his face was full of reluctance, as if stroking his lover, as an obsessive person of stone tablet calligraphy, his obsession with the "bile stele" is not much lower than that of the master Nie Bin, if it is said, this "bile stele" is also Tokugawa's life, even more important than life, it is not an exaggeration.
Thinking that he has been obsessed with calligraphy for decades, he has studied hard with his master in the Valley of the King of Steles for more than 20 years, and when he saw this stele for the first time, he did not sleep for three days and three nights, and his mind was full of the calligraphy shadow of "Bile Stele".
For more than a year, Tokugawa had to look at the stone monument for several hours almost every day, and he couldn't sleep at all without looking at it before going to bed.
Tokugawa suddenly put the stele in the storage bag again and shouted:
"No, this stele can't be given to you, it's mine, the treasure of the world, everyone can have it, why can only you have it in the Valley of the King of the Stele? Why do you become its master, can you annotate this stele? What do you say to protect the stele, you are also robbers, what's the difference between you and me, a thief, but it's just to satisfy your own selfish desires, haha!"
Ye Jian and Nie Liya didn't expect things to change suddenly, Tokugawa was ashamed just now, saying that he wanted to return the stele, and he changed his mind in the blink of an eye, the charm of this stele is really not small!
"Since you have no repentance, you are not to blame us for being rude. ”
After Ye Jian finished speaking, he turned his hand and slapped a move Shiyun Hand, he wanted to end this matter quickly, he didn't want to have many dreams at night, the ghost knows how many people are still paying attention to this artifact, and it is difficult to say whether someone is following him.
A strong bookish spirit poured into Tokugawa.
Since Tokugawa had made preparations for not handing over the stone stele, he was naturally prepared, and he jumped and dodged away with great speed.
It turned out that although Tokugawa only had the second stage of the growth realm in the realm of calligraphy, he was the same as Ye Jian, and he had learned a body similar to the finch step, which was also one of the reasons why he dared to suddenly change his mind, and he felt that with his own body technique, there was no problem in escaping.
Still, he miscalculated.
I only heard a coquettish shout: "Where to escape!"
Neriya's body was even faster than him, and he quickly seized the direction he was about to flee and slashed at him.
"Chase the wind!"
A wind blade hit Tokugawa, and Tokugawa screamed, spitting blood from his mouth, and flew more than ten meters away.
At the same time, only a "bang" sound was heard, and a big hole was punched in the house behind him, which penetrated directly from the front of the house to the back of the house, which was naturally Ye Jian's Shiyun hand that slashed at Tokugawa just now, although Tokugawa avoided Ye Jian's Shiyun hand, but the bookish spirit of this Shiyun hand did not stop, and directly penetrated several walls of the house.
Tokugawa fell to the ground, knowing that he could not escape again today, and laughed miserably, he was obsessed with calligraphy, and finally fell victim to calligraphy, which was really a pity, ridiculous and pitiful.
Nie Liya's calligraphy is the fifth stage of the growth realm, and that move chasing the wind and slashing Tokugawa has caused Tokugawa's sternum to be broken, and his internal organs are seriously damaged, if he is not rescued, it is difficult to have any hope of survival.
Tokugawa gulped up blood, reached out and took out the storage bag around his waist, and gently tossed it to Neriya.
"Miss, Tokugawa returned the stele to you, Tokugawa was wrong, but Tokugawa has no face to say goodbye to the master, please apologize to the master on my behalf, cough, cough ,,,"
Nie Liya picked up the storage bag and opened it, and checked the piece of "Bile Stele", to make sure that it was genuine, this bile stele Nie Liya has been watching and learning from her grandfather since she was a child, and she is very familiar with it, even if there are any dents on the stele, she knows it clearly.
Nie Liya herself is a kind girl, although she has suffered a lot in hunting down Tokugawa, but now once she retrieves the stele, Tokugawa is seriously injured by herself, and most of the hatred in her heart is gone.
Nie Liya took out a porcelain bottle from his body: "Here are a few pills that can keep you from dying." ”
Tokugawa struggled to sit up, blood still pouring out of his mouth.
Tokugawa smiled bitterly: "Thank you, Miss, Tokugawa has been obsessed with calligraphy all his life, and he doesn't want to be harmed by calligraphy today, and he is confused and misguided, but in this life, Tokugawa still has no regrets, the only thing I regret is stealing the master's stone tablet, I should pay the price, but for calligraphy, even if there is an afterlife, I still like it, "Bile Tablet" is the master's life, and it is also my life, and now that my life is over, I should also go." ”
After Tokugawa finished speaking, he used up the last bit of bookish energy, raised his palm and hit his head, with a muffled bang, his brain burst, and he was the king in the end.
Ye Jian and Nie Liya looked at this scene, gasped, and were speechless for a long time.
Tokugawa was obsessed with calligraphy all his life, and once enjoyed the joy and sense of accomplishment from it, but in the end, he lost his nature and was victimized by calligraphy.
Nie Liya was kind-hearted and wanted to bury Tokugawa's body, after all, he was also a disciple of the Tablet King Valley.
The two of them were about to bury Tokugawa's body when they heard a scream in the distance, "Wow!"
Ye Jian was startled, looked up, and saw a red flying falcon hound flying towards here from a distance, and behind it, there was a figure of a dragon horse flying away, and the rumbling sound of breaking the air was also heard immediately.
"Ye Jian, you can't escape, you were finally caught by me, haha!"
Zuo Feiyang's smug laughter was heard in the air. (To be continued.) )