There's nothing wrong with it

Chapter 157 Secret Invitation

Chu Xiu glanced at her and said, "Don't underestimate the intelligence network of the tomb robbers, maybe King Gui or his descendants have left some other clues."

"How is it possible?" She denied it intuitively, "Wang Gui even killed the craftsman who embroidered that embroidery, how could he leave other clues? Did you forget? Wang Gui has an inexplicable possessive desire for General Zining, absolutely No one else will know where General Zining's body is hidden."

"Since this is the case, he probably won't let anyone into that secret room. Why can you go in?" Chu Xiu asked back.

How did she know? "Maybe you know I'm the reincarnation of General Zining, so you let me in?"

"But I went in too." Chu Xiu reminded.

"This..." She laughed dryly, "Maybe, you are also a relationship person!"

Chu Xiu rolled her eyes and said nothing.

"Brother Chopsticks, even you can't find the exact location of that secret room?" she asked.

Chu Xiu shook his head. "Are you sure that the body in the secret room is the body of General Zining?" After more than 2000 years, the body has not been corrupted at all. What method was used to preserve the body?

"Sure." She replied almost immediately, "I have seen the appearance of General Zining, and I can still see traces of stitches on the corpse."

"If Qin Shuang is still there, maybe he can know something." Chu Xiu said, "He is a ghost who has been trapped in the general's tomb for many years. Maybe he will know about the secret room."

Isn't that white talk?Qin Shuang was all out of his wits. "Then should we check the historical materials of the village? Didn't Brother Xiuwen say that his family has a map handed down from a long time ago? Moreover, this village is also related to returning to the country. Maybe we can find some clues." She suggested road.

"Alright." Chu Xiu didn't object.Since you have come all the way, of course there is no reason to return empty-handed.

There is an ancestral hall in Xiuwen's hometown, which was originally a place to enshrine the spiritual tablets of the ancestors. Later, because more people left the village to develop outside, when there were important festivals in the village, those villagers who left would bring their families and even bring them with them. Friends returned to the village together. At this time, their own house might not be able to accommodate so many people. The enthusiastic villagers built another house behind the ancestral hall to entertain guests from afar for free.Not only that, this ancestral hall also preserves various antiquities handed down from the village from ancient times, including various documents.Zigui was very surprised when he knew that these precious documents were not kept in the museum, but only in the study of the ancestral hall, and the people here did not seem to use special preservation methods, but regularly cleaned and sorted the books and antiques inside. It has to be said that it is a miracle that these ancient things are still intact.

The room where ancient books are stored is very ventilated. Although a ventilated environment can better preserve books, after all, it is not easy to be damp and moldy, but in this winter, it is more cold and shivering than in other rooms. "Wow, it's really cold here, and the wind is so strong." Zigui rubbed his palms together, "Can you close the window?"

"Of course." Zhou Bo, the administrator in charge of the management here, is more than 50 years old, with gray hair and beard, and his whole face is wrinkled like a chrysanthemum when he smiles, very kind.After Zhou Bo explained, he asked them to be careful not to damage the things here, "I'm in the front hall of the ancestral hall, just call me if you need anything." Then he went out.

There was no paper in the Spring and Autumn Period, so Zigui first started looking for books that were not recorded on paper. As for whether there are records about Guiguo or General Zining in later generations, he can only find a needle in a haystack from those books.Zigui sat on a chair and looked at the scrolls of bamboo slips on the shelf. The contents can be described as varied, including Jinshi medicine, water conservancy construction and even some miscellaneous notes. "My God, the collection of these historical documents is simply richer than the museum." She breathed a sigh of relief.If these materials are all left by those who returned to China, then this village should be the site of those who returned to China back then. "Senior brother Xiuwen, is there any legend about the evil spirit beast here?" She suddenly remembered that there was a clothes tomb not far from here, where she met the evil spirit beast.If the tomb of General Zining was sealed with evil spirit beasts, there might be some rumors about evil spirit beasts in the village.

"I don't know if it's an evil spirit beast." Xiuwen tilted his head and said, "I just heard that someone has seen a strange beast in the nearby mountains."

"What does the beast look like?" Zigui asked.

Xiuwen scratched his hair and said: "The head is a bit like a legendary dragon, the body is a bit like a lion, and the body is a bit like a horse, with gray and white hair, ah, there are two horns growing on the head, and wings on the body! It's very strange. Right? Everyone said that the person who saw it must have misread it!"

Dragon head, horse body, lin feet, shaped like a lion, with gray and white fur, short wings, two horns, curly tail, mane connected to the front chest, protruding eyes, and cold fangs - this is not evil Is it characteristic of a beast? "Did you see it in the mountain where we went to the general's tomb yesterday?" Zigui asked.

"Yes." Xiuwen nodded.

Grandpa once encountered evil spirit beasts in Guangxi. According to the geographical location, Brother Xiuwen’s hometown is in Guangdong. Jiling Mountain, where General Zining went to suppress the bandits, is a karst landform, and should be located in western Guangdong and Guangxi. — Could it be a coincidence?Many question marks floated in Zigui's heart, is there any connection between the evil spirit beast, General Zining and Bian Yulei?
"Do you think the evil spirit beast has anything to do with this?" Chu Xiu asked her.

"I can't tell, but I don't think it's such a coincidence." She was about to put the bamboo slips back on the shelf, when a line of small characters suddenly appeared on the bamboo slips like a sand painting - tonight is the right time, the stone monument at the entrance of the village.

"Huh?!" She widened her eyes, but the line of words disappeared like countless fine sands just as it appeared just now.

"What's wrong?" Xiuwen asked her.

"This..." Could it be her eyesight? "Nothing." She shook her head.It won't be vertigo, if it's just misreading, it's impossible to see such clear content.Zhengzi time, that is, twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, is there anything at the stone monument at the entrance of the village?Did someone ask her to go there?She carefully put the bamboo slips back on the shelf and secretly made up her mind.

At this time, there was a noise outside, Zigui and the others locked the door and went out together to see what happened.

"What is there to do in such a poor country?!" A familiar sharp soprano voice was shouting outside the ancestral hall, "You want me to live in such a dilapidated house? Is there a mistake?! I would rather sleep on the street than sleep This kind of house!"

Uncle Zhou rubbed his hands in embarrassment. Seeing Zigui and the others come out, he came forward as if seeing a savior, and said to Xiuwen, "Master Chu, look at this..."

"Uncle Zhou, what happened?" Xiuwen hurriedly supported Uncle Zhou and asked.

"Why are you guys here?!" Seeing them, the soprano raised her voice again.

"Ouyang Xia?" Zigui was a little surprised. Didn't this woman be so messed up by Yu Wugui's little uncle Yu Zhanxiang that she couldn't even get a job?How would it appear here?Alas, her eardrums can't stand this woman's ghostly screaming.

"This lady came to the village and asked what kind of hotel she wanted to stay in." Zhou Bo sighed and said, "Where can we find a hotel in our village? The village chief asked her to stay in the ancestral hall for a few days, and there are many rooms in the ancestral hall." , during the Chinese New Year and holidays, people can also stay for people, but this lady..."

"Do you think this place is crappy?" Xiuwen smiled and said to Ouyang Xia, "Excuse me, if you want to stay in a hotel, why don't you go to the city? You can choose the hotel there."

"That's right." Chu Xiu smiled coolly, "Didn't you say that you would rather sleep on the street if you were to live in such a dilapidated house? Then it would be fine if you slept on the street, and no one is forcing you to live here. "

"Master Chu, it's getting dark today, how can she go down the mountain and go to the city as a girl?" Uncle Zhou said anxiously, "And your friend is the same, it's so cold, how can he sleep on the street What? This day is going to freeze to death!"

"Uncle Zhou, she doesn't want to live now, so we can't force her?" Chu Xiu spread his hands and said.That kind of woman deserves to freeze to death!
"This...Master Chu, can you think of a way?" Uncle Zhou looked at Xiuwen begging for help.

Xiuwen said: "Uncle Zhou, it's not that I don't want to. You also know that even if it's my house, isn't it similar to the one in the ancestral hall? And..."

"Go to live with Chu Xiuwen at your house?" Ouyang Xia yelled, "Are you kidding me?! I won't live in a haunted house where so many people died!"

Chu Xiu clearly saw that cold anger flashed across the face of Xiu Wen who was always smiling foolishly, but it disappeared immediately.

"Hey! Be more polite!" Zigui crossed his waist and said angrily, "Who do you think you are? The ancestral hall and Brother Xiuwen's house are not for people like you who don't know what's good and what's wrong!" Hmph, she You should make a phone call and tell Yu Wugui to go and let the little uncle make Ouyang Xia unable to stand up!
"Oh, why are you talking like that, girl?" Uncle Zhou couldn't stand it either.

"But letting a woman go down in this cold weather is equivalent to murder." Xiuwen said nervously.

Zigui winked at Chu Xiu, Chu Xiu smiled coldly, walked over to Xiuwen and said, "I said classmate President, I will help you deal with this matter."

"Really?" Xiuwen looked very happy, "Xiao Xiuxiu is really reliable, I'm counting on you!"

Chu Xiu glanced at Ouyang Xia contemptuously, then glanced at the faucet outside the door of the ancestral hall, with a smirk.

Zi Gui was quite curious about what Chu Xiu would do. At this moment, the water from the faucet suddenly sprayed out, and it was all poured on Ouyang Xia in an even way.Chu Xiu smiled at Ouyang Xia leisurely, and said, "Miss Ouyang, you are completely soaked now, so you don't plan to just go down the mountain like this?"

"You damn bastard!" Ouyang Xia was shivering from the cold, but she still kept cursing.

"Is this your method?" Zigui glanced at him.Judging from Ouyang Xia's situation, he would probably be frozen before he left the village, so he had to stay here.

"If she is willing to sleep on the street like this, we have no choice but to do as she pleases." Chu Xiu gloated and smiled.

As a result, while cursing, Ouyang Xia commanded Uncle Zhou as if he was ordering his own servants, and asked Uncle Zhou to take her to the room.Fortunately, Uncle Zhou didn't bother with this impolite Ouyang Xia, he nodded to them and greeted Ouyang Xia to go to the guest room behind the ancestral hall.

"Why is this woman here?" Chu Xiu didn't understand. He also heard from Zigui that Ouyang Xia couldn't get any job because he offended Yu Zhanxiang. But if Ouyang Xia didn't have any job, how could he run away? To this remote village?

(End of this chapter)