Chapter 226: Hornets are afraid of water
Come to Lijiatun. Lao Li and Lin Mengchen have been waiting for a long time.
I saw Lin Mengchen when I sent Lao Li home before, at that time it was just a simple glance and did not leave a deep impression, today I found the difference between her and ordinary peasant women, although the face is frosty and the clothes are simple, but the elegant temperament of everyone's ladies is naturally revealed, smiling without showing teeth, and behaving decently.
The meal is also very simple, two meats, two vegetables plus one soup, after I sat down with King Kong Pao, Lao Li accompanied, Lin Mengchen washed and cleaned in front of the stove and did not sit down.
"Auntie, come over and eat together," King Kong Cannon turned his head to Lin Mengchen and said. Fugui called me and King Kong Cannon the eldest brother, and King Kong Cannon didn't have any shelf, so he called her by his own generation.
"Niu Zhenren, don't be polite, I have to go to the West Courtyard to have a look later. Lin Mengchen walked over and smiled at King Kong Cannon and me.
"Auntie, you bring this to the little one, and we won't bother you. "I took the small box that I had prepared a long time ago and handed it over, inside which was a golden and jade longevity lock that I had prepared for Lao Li's grandson.
"We can't accept such a valuable gift, and we appreciate the kindness of Yu Zhenren. Lin Mengchen looked at the small box in my hand and waved his hand again and again.
Lin Mengchen knew that the contents of the box were very valuable just by looking at the box, which I didn't feel strange, because she knew the financial resources of the King Kong Cannon and me, and if she didn't give it away, it would be a precious object.
Then there is the small box made of rosewood, although it is not the best chicken blood rosewood, but it is also very valuable. Lin Mengchen was born in a family of tomb robbers, so he naturally knew this kind of wood.
Seeing that Lin Mengchen didn't accept my gift, I turned my head to look at Lao Li, who nodded slightly, and Lin Mengchen thanked him, took the box and left.
Eating is eating, I didn't eat enough at noon, I was already hungry at the moment, and when King Kong Cannon and Lao Li pushed the cup to change the lamp, I had already eaten two bowls of rice and put down the chopsticks.
"Lao Li, if you call Niu Zhenren in the future, I'm going to be angry, so I'll call Niu Xiao. King Kong Cannon talks a lot as soon as he drinks, and at this moment he is no longer the half-person he was back then, and the title of a real person makes him feel awkward.
"That's not right, Niu Zhenren's Taoism has reached its peak, except for Yu Zhenren, I'm afraid no one in the world today has this cultivation. There was no element of false compliment in Lao Li's words, and his expression showed that he did think so, although he didn't think it was right.
"Pull it down, we haven't beaten the old bald donkey in Jiuhua Mountain. King Kong Cannon drank all the liquor in the cup, raised his sleeve and wiped his mouth.
"Huh. Lao Li smiled and didn't ask me about the troubles between King Kong Cannon and me, but he didn't change his name, and always called me and King Kong Cannon real people.
"Lao Li, tell us how you cured the hornet, Lao Yu and I were almost stung to death by that thing. The King Kong cannon was half-lying on the kang and lit a cigarette.
"Those hornets are not afraid of fireworks, and explosives can only blow them up but not kill them," Lao Li picked up the table, returned to the kang and began to tell that after the mysterious Taoist priest left that day, all the problems fell on Lao Li's head, and the map in his hand only indicated the location of the ancient tomb, but there was no specific way to enter the tomb and break the formation. The smoke and fire had no effect, and in the end, even the use of explosives only attracted more frantic attacks from the hornets, and the gaps opened by the explosives would be filled by the hornets in a very short time.
Ordinary wasps die shortly after stinging, but this is not the case with those hornets in Kunlun Mountain, and after a few days, these two dozen people were stinged with blue noses and swollen faces, but there were very few wasp corpses on the ground.
Later, Lao Li used a silver needle to nail a wasp for an experiment, and found that the wasp here can grow new stingers immediately after losing the stinger, and the wasp will die after growing thirteen times in a row.
"One can sting a dozen stitches, ten is more than a hundred stitches, and a hundred is a thousand stitches," King Kong Cannon calculated fearfully.
"Why aren't those hornets afraid of fire?" I turned to look at Lao Li. I've never seen the hornets up close, and the captives I've captured are always wrapped in robes.
"Their wings and bodies are very similar to metal, but they are alive and have the organs of ordinary wasps," Lao Li shook his head and said, "so I suspect that they may have eaten some kind of metal to cause this strange phenomenon."
"Aren't bees pollen, how can they eat metal?"
The question of the King Kong Cannon made Lao Li shake his head again and again, indicating that he didn't understand the reason, but I felt that wasps don't eat metal, and the weirdness of their bodies and wings was probably related to the environment in which they lived.
"What did you use to restrain them in the end?" I was more concerned about the way Old Lee restrained the hornets.
Hearing my question, Lao Li was silent for a long time, and waited until the cigarette butt burned his fingers before throwing away the cigarette butt and opening the cavity to "set up a formation with a living person"
Lao Li had previously said that he was expelled from the Maoshan faction because he used evil magic to kill seven people, but when I listened to his specific process, I couldn't help but feel chills all over my body, and my hairs stood on end.
When Lao Li found out that the wasp would die when he ran out of stingers, he began to try his best to catch the prey and let the wasp sting, but later found that this method had no effect, because the prey that was caught was easily stung to death by the wasp, and the wasp would stop attacking as soon as the prey died, so a group of people tossed for many days without achieving any tangible effect.
Lao Li was in a hurry, and finally went astray!
He took advantage of the night's rest to fix the souls of the seven people in his body with the spell of silver needle soul fixing, and then sealed his yang aperture with a spell to make the seven people have no breath, and then lied that the seven people had been stung to death by a wasp, and encouraged those companions to carry the seven people to the vicinity of the hive for the hornet to sting, and consume the hornet's stinger.
"Those people weren't dead at that time?" King Kong Cannon looked at Lao Li in horror.
"They can't die if they want to, and their souls are fixed by me," Lao Li raised his hand and pressed his forehead, "Although they can't speak or move their bodies, their minds are awake and they can feel the pain." ”
"Why are you doing this?" I looked up at Lao Li, the method he used was no longer enough to describe the viciousness, this was simply a crazy moral degradation, no wonder his master would throw him out, if it were me, I might give him a sword directly!
"The time is almost up," Lao Li put his head in his hands, "I agreed on a period of three months, and if I can't save anyone by then, the marriage will fall through." ”
"You're not doing it right. "I can understand the pain of men and women who love each other but can't be together, but I still don't dare to agree with Lao Li's radical approach. This is different from me being an enemy for Wang Yanpei's soul and Minghui, Lao Li killed unrelated people.
"If you owe anything, you will kill it, and those people are not good birds anyway. King Kong Cannon took out a cigarette and handed it to Lao Li, but he agreed with Lao Li's approach.
"If Fugui hadn't been pregnant with Fugui at that time, I wouldn't have done that," Lao Li took a few puffs of his cigarette to calm his emotions.
"You didn't know your sister-in-law was pregnant before you left?" I asked.
"I didn't know at the time, I only found out when the Taoist priest went back to get opium and brought back that letter," Lao Li shook his head with a wry smile, "At that time, Fugui and his mother had already been locked up by Lin Xiong, if I couldn't do it, Lin Xiong would kill our children." "Don't ask, you can know that Lin Xiong is Lin Mengchen's father.
"The tiger still doesn't eat its own children, and the Lin family really doesn't have a good person. King Kong Cannon said hatefully.
"They are businessmen, and people who have no use value are nothing in their eyes. "I remembered what Lin Yicheng had done. Lin Yicheng is very willing to invest in people with use value, and he is perfect in controlling people.
"What happened?" asked the King Kong Cannon eagerly, "Is the hornet dead?"
"Except for the two big ones who ran away, they all died, and we blew open the hive and entered the tomb. Lao Li finished the remaining cigarette and vigorously extinguished the cigarette butt.
"What's in there?" I stopped King Kong Cannon from entering the tomb three times and twice, so he was eager to know what was going on in the tomb.
"It's very dark inside, I opened my eyes to see the situation inside, the people they led all died in the tomb, Lin Mengxuan and Lin Mengtian died at the door. Lao Li shook his head with a wry smile, "It's starting to stink." ”
"Did their hands fall off?" King Kong Cannon probably recalled the details of the watch brought out by the hornet, as well as my analysis at the time.
"No, Lin Mengtian left a dagger on the stone slab of the tomb road before he died. Lao Li denied the speculation of the King Kong Cannon.
"What's written?" asked King Kong Cannon, who was in a hurry, and he almost didn't need me to open his mouth when he was present, and asked him all the questions.
"Bring Beijing Lin Xiong, 10,000 yuan heavy reward. Lao Li said word by word very slowly.
"What a slam," King Kong pouted and shook his head.
"What is he going to bring back?" I asked.
"At that time, the wages of workers were only about 20 yuan a month, and there were not many 10,000 households in the whole township," Lao Li answered my questions and those of King Kong Cannon one by one, "and they had a diary and a sword next to them." ”
"There is a word written on the sword, and the diary is written in code, there are more than a dozen pages, and I can't understand the content. Lao Li knew that we would ask, so he directly said what he knew.
"Can't understand it at all?" The sword engraved with the word Wu knew what was going on, and he was more concerned about the contents of the diary.
One of them didn't use the codeword, and I regretted it after reading it. Old Li let out a long sigh.
"Could it be that the ancient tomb has been stolen?" King Kong Cannon glared at Lao Li.
"No, it says that hornets are afraid of water!" Lao Li sighed again and again, "Actually, I should have thought that things that are not afraid of fire are likely to be afraid of water, but unfortunately I was anxious at that time, and the truth of the five elements of yin and yang was all left behind." ”
"What happened?" I looked at King Kong Cannon and wee, both smiling bitterly.
"Where did that dragon in the mountain behind Yu Zhenren come from?" Lao Li did not answer my question, but asked rhetorically.
"After the hornet died, did a lot of dragons come over?" I immediately guessed what Lao Li wanted to say. The lake where the Sanyin is located is not far from the beehive, and it is likely that the relationship between the wasp and the Sanyin is mutually restrictive.
Lao Li nodded solemnly, "They eat people." ”
"Their favorite thing is fish. "King Kong Cannon is a big expert.
"So you only entered the tomb and didn't go any further?" I waved my hand to signal the King Kong Cannon not to talk too much.
"I escaped with the ancient sword and the diary with another person. Lao Li nodded.
"That person knows the Dao?" I asked, it was certainly not easy for someone to escape under the attack of the Three Yin Floods.
"No, he was able to escape because those dragons didn't attack him," Lao Li pondered for a moment, "The dragons were able to let him go, and it was probably related to the big scorpion in his bag." ”
"Will he catch scorpions?" I asked, confused. Scorpions have a yin nature, which can cover the yang energy of humans, and the three yin and water will not attack such things.
"He won't, he has a good relationship with the Taoist priest who escorted us, both of them smoke a lot, and the scorpion was given to him by the Taoist priest. Lao Li recalled.
"That Taoist priest likes to catch scorpions?" I pulled out my cigarette and lit it.
Lao Li nodded, "He will go to look for places with scorpions along the way, but every time he shakes his head and comes back, once I asked him what he was looking for, and he said what he was looking for."