chewing dragon

Chapter 128 The Old Nest
"Want to run?"

The corner of the green shirt girl's mouth was slightly raised, and she took a step forward, her slender figure was already a foot away.

Seeing this, Qi Jingzhi hesitated a little, but had no choice but to follow.

When he was in the Jiao Mansion, he had the idea of ​​leaving, and wanted to go to Liaozhou as soon as possible, so he went out of the mansion together with Mu Yingxian. She had already chased after him, but she didn't give him a chance to speak.

The two quickly chased for more than ten feet, and found the end of the blue spiritual light thread. They saw that it was still on the long street in front of the Jiao Mansion, and went straight into a square of blue stones in the middle of the road for paving the ground. Inside.

Seeing the green-shirted girl stop by the bluestone, Qi Jingzhi rushed up to her, his strange and ferocious face made passers-by run away one after another.

He looked down, and saw that this piece of bluestone had been eroded by wind and rain, and it looked obviously much more dilapidated than the surrounding bluestone paving. There were actually four characters engraved on the pitted stone surface.

Qi Jingzhi carefully identified it, and saw that the inscription on the top was not "Variety of Stones", but "Ancient Nest and Old Road".

After a little thought, he realized that, just as Linzhou was named after Linshan Mountain, Chaozhou was named after Chaojiang River, if it was really like what was engraved on this blue stone, then the place where the two of them were standing at this moment was unexpectedly many years old The former Chaojiang River.

The changes in the world and the vicissitudes of life are all told by this silent and unmoving Qingshi.

The girl in the green shirt glanced over the bluestone lettering, looked up and looked around, and at the same time moved her fingers silently in her sleeves.

After a while, she stared at a well at the corner of the street ahead, and with a flash, she walked away again.

Qi Jingzhi, who was about to speak out, had no choice but to shut up, but the Crane Crying Technique suddenly began to work, and a gust of wind was brought under his feet.

In this way, they successively inspected the potter's wheel stone frame next to the well, the bluestone millstone in the tofu workshop, the stone pot for pounding medicine in the medicinal material store, the stone lotus base of the stage column outside the Town God's Temple, and even the water town on the vault of a stone arch bridge. animal head.

Qi Jingzhi noticed that most of these places are engraved with the words "Old Nest and Old Road" in inconspicuous places, and even the potter's wheel frame, the base of the stone pillar, and the head of the water-suppressing animal are similar to the evil-suppressing piles outside the Jiao Mansion. The overwhelming thing.

This arrangement is not so much a mark of the old river, but rather a way of nailing this ancient nest to the ground with countless overwhelming objects.

After a long time, the two finally saw the familiar figure in the green scarf and cloth robe in a deep and narrow alley.

The short and fat man Shan Gulang was squatting at the door of a house, unaware of the visitor, he was digging the soil with both hands, and at this moment he had dug out an extremely deep pit.

In the pit was a stone pier that was mostly buried in the soil.

Qi Jingzhi and the green-shirted girl exchanged glances, walked up to it lightly, and saw that the stone pier was roughly cylindrical in shape, with a big bottom and a small top, and there was a round hole-shaped groove in the center of the top.

This thing exists in Shanqian Village, and Qi Jingzhi has seen it a lot since he was a child. It is a mound on a stone roller, also called a stone roller. He didn't want to be buried here, and it was used as a stone pier for resting in front of the door.

He remembered what the girl said earlier, and took a closer look, and sure enough, he found a long string of unclear engravings on the side of the lower half of the stone roller facing the entrance of the alley, but the engraved content was quite different from what Qi Jingzhi thought before. Same.

While trying to identify, he read softly: "Master Menghu, Shi Gandang, what does not invade, Long Weiyang."

In addition, there is another string of small characters under the twelve inscriptions, which are not only more blurred and difficult to read, but are also mostly covered by the black soil.

Qi Jingzhi was about to take a closer look, when he heard the girl in the green shirt say softly: "This is "Jijiuzhang", which is used by some ancient sects for the enlightenment of younger generations."

"Each character in these four sentences is a separate surname, and the three surnames in the second sentence are combined, which happens to be the name taboo of the ancestor of the stone clan in the legend, the ancestor of Shi Zhi, the ancestor of the stone spirits in Qi State. Fenru is its descendant. Engraving this name on the bluestone also has the effect of suppressing evil spirits, but ordinary courts cannot bear it. As for why the other three sentences are also engraved here, I have no idea I don't even have a clue..."

"Old Patriarch of the Stone Clan? Can you be a stone?" Qi Jingzhi's thoughts turned and he paid attention secretly.

He raised his head and looked at the mansion in front of him, but no matter how he used his spiritual aperture, he didn't see anything unusual, it was just an ordinary residence, which was far from Jiao's Yunxianghou mansion.

"Don't look at it, this evil stone has been buried here for an unknown number of years. It may have been placed here when the city was built, or even when this place was submerged by the Chaojiang River."

The girl in the green shirt said, then squatted down suddenly, reached out to wipe off the dirt stained on the string of small characters, and identified each word word by word: "The veins of the Shi family, in Wei there are paraffin, stone, and stone evil; in Zheng there are stones; in Zhou there are stones. Hurry up, there are many stones in Qi, dodge when you see this, don't collide!"

After reading, the girl's brows were slightly furrowed, and her expression became serious: "I was just wondering why this evil-suppressing stone is so hard, even Shan Gulang can't do anything about it, so he can only dig the earth honestly. After all, the name taboo of the ancestor of the Stone Clan is just to suppress evil spirits, but he will not embarrass his descendants, and this idiot is obviously disowned by his relatives, and he has absolutely no respect for the ancestor's name taboo..."

"It turned out that some expert added these few words at the end. Not only did it greatly increase the ability to ward off evil spirits and suppress evil spirits, but it also blocked Shi's descendants."

After all, the girl in the green shirt looked at the short fat man who was digging happily at her feet, and her eyes gradually brightened: "I don't know what is under this evil stone, but it took such a big battle!"

Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi could only secretly lament the young girl's knowledge and knowledge, and the fact that there are so many secrets in Chaozhou City.

After that, both of them kept silent, and at the same time silently focused their eyes on Shan Gulang, without interrupting rashly.After all, I had seen it when I was in Jiao Mansion. Once this short fat man decided to do something, at best he would be single-minded and persevering, but at worst he would be mentally deficient and foolish.

Fortunately, it has arms and strength, and its two fat hands are digging the soil like flying. First, it squats on the ground with its buttocks sticking out high, and its upper body plunges into the pit vigorously. Reaching down, the black soil was planed and splashed in all directions.

Not long after, it dug out the whole stone roller.

Under the stone roller, a lifelike stone turtle with closed eyes gradually appeared.

This stone tortoise is as big as a grinding pan, the shell of the tortoise and the stone roller are so close together, it is impossible to tell whether the stone tortoise was originally carrying the stone roller or whether it was suppressed by the stone roller.

It wasn't until most of the stone turtle was dug out that Humpty Humpty finally calmed down.

It lay on the edge of the pit, with its eyes wide open, staring at the stone turtle for a while without moving, then suddenly stretched out its hand, and poked the closed eyes of the stone turtle with its stubby fingers.

Unexpectedly, the stone tortoise, which was completely silent before, suddenly retracted its neck, and actually put its head into the tortoise shell.

At that moment, Qi Jingzhi only felt a slight tremor on the ground under his feet.

It's just that the tremor came and went quickly, and before he could feel it carefully, there was a loud shout from behind, like a thunderous explosion: "What a group of evildoers! How dare you act rashly and plot evil!"

(End of this chapter)