Chapter 59: The Statue of the City God
In ancient times, there were many city gods, and the city gods enshrined in various places were different, but most of them could be divided into two categories, Wen Chenghuang and Wu Chenghuang.
The city god temple in Anyang is dedicated to the Wu city god.
The statue of the city god is tall and mighty, holding a long knife, and his demeanor is majestic.
After entering the main hall, Yan Yufei did not speak, but took someone to carefully inspect the main hall, and did not find the statue of the general who punished the evil that Ye Qing said, not even a painting, and found nothing.
After returning to the main hall, he found that Ye Qing was still staring at the statue of the city god, looking serious, Yan Yufei's heart moved, walked to Ye Qing's side, and hurriedly said, "Wu Huan, how is it?"
Ye Qing said lightly: "Yes, it's very powerful!"
Yan Yufei: "......" Is this what I asked?
"Wuhuan, I'm asking you, have you found anything?"
"Oh, my lord, you are asking this, I haven't found it yet, I'll talk about it later!" Ye Qing shook his head, put his hands behind his back, and slowly swayed in the main hall, with a leisurely attitude.
"My lord, I didn't find out!"
"We didn't find it here either!"
After a while, some people returned one after another to report to Yan Yufei, but no statues, portraits and other items similar to those of the punishing general were found, so it can be said that nothing was found.
"Wu Huan, did you guess wrong!"
After listening to the report, Yan Yufei raised his eyebrows, walked to Ye Qingshuo's side, and asked in a deep voice: "We searched everywhere, and we didn't find the general you said about punishing evil, not even similar sculptures and portraits. ”
"No?" Ye Qing frowned, and then shrugged: "No, then turn around again, maybe there will be!"
"I'm going to go around too!"
Yan Yufei was stunned for a moment, he didn't know why, and Ye Qing had already turned around and left.
When he walked to a place where no one was around, Ye Qing took out the treacherous scripture from his arms, bit his finger, dripped blood on it, and asked, "Punish the evil general, where is it hidden?"
He is very sure that the one who does chaos and harms people must be to punish the evil general, and the evil general is definitely hidden in this city god temple, although everyone did not find it, it does not mean that there is none!
Of course, just because others can't find it doesn't mean he can't, he's a tricky man!
If you don't decide anything, ask the scriptures!
"I encountered a problem, I found the murderer of the serial murder during this time, and chased it to its lair, but I haven't found its hiding place for the time being?
Blood dripped, and passages of text appeared on the scriptures, still familiar tastes and ways.
"Perhaps, that statue of the city god can give me some clues, I always think it's weird!"
"Is there a problem with the City God's statue?" Ye Qing frowned, but he had observed it for a long time just now, and he didn't find any problems!
However, although the answer given by the Sophistry is ambiguous every time, it will never be wrong, so the Sophistry says that the city god statue is strange, then there must be something strange!
After putting away the treacherous scriptures, Ye Qing turned back to the main hall, just in time to see Yan Yufei walking back and forth in the main hall, although his expression was calm, his heart was obviously very anxious.
"Wu Huan, what did you find?" When he saw Ye Qing, Yan Yufei's eyes lit up and he greeted him.
"Well, there's a discovery!" Ye Qing said truthfully.
"Oh, what discovery?" Yan Yufei was overjoyed.
Ye Qing pretended to touch his chin profoundly, looked up at the tall and majestic statue of the city god in front of him, and said with a solemn expression: "This statue of the city god is a bit weird!"
"Weird, what's weird?" Hearing this, Yan Yufei followed Ye Qing's gaze and looked at the statue of the city god in front of him.
"I can't say it, but I just think it's a little weird, a man's sixth sense!" Ye Qing's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said plausibly.
What the sophistry says, absolutely true, as for what's weird, that's the problem of you professionals, if I can find out, what else do I want you to do?
Yan Yufei didn't speak, although he was not very satisfied with Ye Qing's answer, but he couldn't deny that sometimes a person's feeling was really accurate.
And to solve the case, although you can't rely on feelings, you can't ignore feelings!
"What a big statue of the city god!" At this time, Yang Guan walked in and found that Ye Qing and Yan Yufei were staring at the statue of the city god in front of them, and they also glanced at it by the way, and said with emotion.
"Yang Guan, what did you just say?" Suddenly, Yan Yufei's eyes lit up, and he suddenly looked at Yang Guan.
Yang Guan was taken aback, thinking that he had said the wrong thing, but under Yan Yufei's scorching gaze, he still stubbornly said, "I just said, what a big statue of the city god, what's wrong, my lord?"
"Yes, that's it!" Yan Yufei stroked his palm and said happily: "Just now Wuhuan said that he thought this city god statue was a little weird, I looked at it carefully, and I did think it was a little weird, but I just couldn't think of it for a while, after you mentioned it, I finally understood what the weirdness was?"
"What is it?" Yang Guan answered, and Ye Qing on the side also tilted his head slightly, waiting for Yan Yufei's explanation.
"This statue of the city god is too tall!" Yan Yufei said slowly: "When I was traveling abroad, I went to many city god temples and saw many city god statues, whether it was Wen Chenghuang or Wu Chenghuang, but all the city god statues were no more than two zhang two tall and no more than one zhang three wide. ”
"Why?" Ye Qing was also curious, he really didn't know this, and the so-called weirdness was also the answer given by the Sophistry, anyway, he didn't see it at all.
Yan Yufei explained: "According to the "Folk Customs": the city god is the yin god, that is, the ghost god canonized after death, so the statue should not be more than two zhang two high, and the width should not be more than one zhang three. ”
"But you look at this statue of the city god, the height and width exceed the regulations, and far exceed the regulations, although it seems to be tall and mighty, but it gives people a sense of oppression and disharmony, obviously wrong!"
"Although I don't understand, it makes sense!" Ye Qing nodded, sighing in his heart, this is a real reader, much better than a half-person like him!
"This city god seems to be a little weird, but what does this mean, and what does it have to do with the case we investigated?" Yang Guan touched his head and said honestly.
“......”
Yan Yufei was stunned for a moment, as if, it really doesn't matter much!
"It's still a little related, right?" Ye Qing suddenly flashed a thought in his mind, and blurted out.
Yan Yufei and Yang Guan looked at him at the same time.
Ye Qing licked his lips and said, "I can be sure that the Evil General is hiding in this City God Temple, but we have searched all the places, but we have found nothing, there is only one possibility, that is, what means of covering up and camouflage the Evil General is there." ”
"And the statue of the city god in front of you is a lot taller than the ordinary statue of the city god, you say, is it possible that the general who punished evil is hidden in this statue of the city god?!"
"Huh......"
"Ah......h
Like, it's not impossible!
Not to mention that it's okay, as soon as he said this, Yan Yufei looked up at the statue of the city god in front of him again, and felt more and more that it was possible!
"Is it possible, just give it a try?" Seeing Yan Yufei's hesitation, Ye Qing said lightly.
"How to try, Wuhuan do you have any good way?" Yan Yufei asked.
Ye Qing smiled: "It's very simple, just smash it!"
"No!" Hearing this, Yan Yufei was startled and hurriedly stopped, after all, this city god statue is a grand scene in Anyang County, so unprovoked damage, if there is really a monster, it is fine, if there is no monster, not only will it be embarrassing, but the key is that it is difficult to explain to the people.
Ye Qing smiled lightly: "Don't be afraid, if you break it, I will pay for it, I have money!"
Yan Yufei smiled dumbly, is this a matter of money? was about to explain the stakes to Ye Qing, but before he could speak, he saw Ye Qing suddenly stretch out his hand and put it on the jaw of Yang Guan's knife beside him, his thumb nudged lightly, and the long knife came out of the sheath and let out a soft sound.
"No joy, don't be impulsive......"
"Wow"
Before the words fell, I saw the long knife fly out suddenly, turning into a long rainbow and slamming into the statue of the city god.
"Boom ......"
The statue of the city god exploded, but the next moment, a brilliant golden light burst out, dazzling.
"Not good!"
The statue of the city god was shattered, and the moment the golden light burst out, the temple Zhu, who was originally standing in the courtyard, with a slightly rickety figure and old age, who had just been asked by Yan Yufei, slowly raised his head, a sharp and cruel light flashed in his eyes, and raised his feet and walked towards the main hall.
"Stop, what are you doing?" Seeing this, the catcher in the courtyard hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.
"Get out of the ......"
Miao Zhu snorted coldly, and a terrifying and gloomy aura suddenly gushed out of Rickets's body, and the people who came up couldn't help but shudder.
Then, in the frightened eyes of everyone, the nose of the temple cup slowly disappeared, followed by the mouth, ears, and finally eyes, all disappeared.
No nose, no mouth, no ears, no eyes, that is, no face!
"Woo ......"
As the facial features of Miao Zhu disappeared, all the noses, mouths, ears, and eyes in the courtyard slowly disappeared, and when all the facial features disappeared, everyone collapsed to the ground and lost the breath of life.
"Forget it, the matter has been revealed, you can't stay for a long time, it's better to go first!"
However, after walking a few steps, Miao Zhu stopped again, seemed to feel that something was wrong, hesitated for a moment, and finally stomped his foot hard, jumped onto the roof, and disappeared.
At this time, in the City God Hall, as the golden light slowly dissipated, a brand-new sculpture appeared in front of Ye Qing and the others.
This statue is shining with gold, cast in gold, with two heads, four eyes and six arms, one with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, one head is hideous and terrifying, lifelike, and the six arms are holding axes, hooks, forks, swords, and six weapons, which are like majesty, and are full of strong incense and wishing power.
However, in the majesty, within the mellow incense wishing power, the whole body of the statue seems to contain a kind of eerie and evil, majesty and evil coexist, giving people an extremely contradictory and distorted feeling.
"Punishing the evil general, really punishing the evil general. Yang Guan's eyes widened.
"Privately cast a golden body, gather incense, what a boldness!"
Suddenly, a terrifying aura erupted from Yan Yufei's body, his face was majestic, and he rebuked loudly.