Chapter 168 Commoner Fish
I was puzzled and asked the master: "What are they doing?"
The master looked at Huang Changsheng and the others and said, "This is called 'looking fish', which is a craft passed down from the ancestors of the old Huang family. The old Huang family was originally a private salt dealer from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At that time, they were not only a private businessman who sold salt, but also a fisherman who relied on the sea to eat the sea. This craft was passed down from that time. However, when the people of the old Huang family invented this craft just to wrap their belly, but after hundreds of years of evolution, this craft has been improved by the descendants of the old Huang family. Most of the time they were used to point dragon holes to measure Feng Shui."
At this time, Huang Yulian also said from the side: "When our ancestors established Huangjiazhuang, they raised 72 pieces of cloth in the river. Once there was an abnormal movement in the underground palace, the cloth would react."
"What is a commoner?" I asked.
Huang Yulian explained to me patiently: "It is a fish that was originally only born in the water tomb. This fish is very strange. Once they leave the cemetery, they will die. I heard that the ancestors also spent a lot of effort to make these 72 cloth clothes survive. Once they adapt to the river water of Baishuidu, as long as there is no major change in the underground palace, they can survive for hundreds of years."
I was thinking in my mind that a fish can live for hundreds of years is a bit contrary to scientific common sense, right?
At this moment, Huang Changsheng and Huang Changrong suddenly turned their heads and shouted at us: "Pree fork!"
Before I could react to what they meant, my master had already rushed to the river with a harpoon, and rushed towards the water surface and picked it up. A can of huge waves suddenly rose in the water, and I saw something very large surface.
Judging from my master's appearance, he seemed to want to pick that thing up ashore, but the thing was obviously extremely heavy. My master tried several times but couldn't get it up ashore.
I, Liang Houzai, and Liu Shangang also quickly picked up the harpoon and went to help. Huang Yulian was behind us and shouted: "Be careful, the toxicity of the fish is very strong!"
No wonder the harpoon was made so long, it turned out that it was because the fish was poisonous.
Just as she was calling, the three of us had already arrived at the Master, and at the same time raised our harpoon and stabbed the things in the water.
It was only then that I realized that the thing was a living creature. When the harpoon was pierced on it, it was still twisting its body wildly. Its power was extremely powerful and we could hardly control it.
At this time, Huang Changsheng and Huang Changgui began to slap the two harpoons standing on the river bank again.
As the buzzing sound of the tuning fork spreads in the air, the thing we were stuck in slowly stopped twisting.
The master shouted, "Pick it out!"
The three of us worked hard with our master and tried our best to pick up the things in the water.
What we got ashore was a big dark green fish that was one and a half meters long. The fish had no scales, but it was attached with a very soft shell. In fact, I was not sure if it was a shell. It looked more like a dark green, thick cloth, wrapping the fish body like a shroud, with two gaps on it, revealing the fins and tails.
The moment I saw this fish, I knew that it was the "common man" in the mouth of Huang Yulian.
After Huang Changsheng and Huang Changrong stopped beating the harpoon, the Buyi fish flew on the shore for a while, and finally died of hypoxia for more than twenty minutes.
Huang Changsheng came to the body of Buyiyu and looked carefully at the "shrub" on the body of the fish. When he and Huang Changrong flipped the fish with harpoons, I saw a very deep hole in the "shrub" on the other side of the fish's body, which was deep enough to see the bones.
My master also leaned over and looked at the wound for a while, frowned on the spot. At this time, Huang Changsheng said anxiously: "The underground palace has really changed. Master Chai, what should we do now?"
My master pondered for a while, looked up at the other side of the river covered by heavy fog, sighed, and said, "Changsheng, Changrong, you guys prepare for it. When the fog dissipates, everyone will follow me to the underground palace."
Huang Changrong asked my master: "Master Chai, the whereabouts of the old man are unknown now. We don't have Yin-Yang Drum. Even if we go to the underground palace, we can't open the door, right?"
My master lit a dry tobacco, first spitting a mouthful of clouds, and then said, "To put it bluntly, it is to enter the evil tomb."
Huang Yulian seemed a little unbelievable. She asked my master on the side: "It's impossible. Great-grandfather has been trying to find the Jinding Monk these days, just because he is afraid that the evil tomb will be opened..."
Before she could speak, the master interrupted her: "Old Master Huang is not afraid of the evil tomb opening, but is worried that the evil tomb cannot be opened. I understand him. For him, the safety of the Huang family is more important than anything else. This time, he was determined to enter the evil tomb. It can be said that he has been doing one thousand ways and ten thousand. What he did is to continue the bloodline of the Huang family. The evil tomb is in turmoil. If the things in the tomb are not suppressed, once the blood evil formation is turbulent, your Huang family may no longer exist."
Huang Changrong and Huang Changsheng obviously knew about the Blood Evil Formation. After hearing what my master said, the expressions on their faces became solemn.
But Huang Yulian was still asking: "But even if the Huang family is going to suffer a disaster this time, Grandpa Zeng would not open the evil tomb."
The master shook his head and said, "When your grandpa and his friends set up the Blood Evil Formation, you were not born yet, so I don't know many things, but I don't know about those past events. You can prepare with peace of mind these days, don't think too much about other things."
My master walked towards the wooden house as he spoke.
Huang Yulian seemed very reluctant to believe that the old man was about to open the evil tomb. After the master left, she kept frowning and staring at my master's back. It was not until Huang Changsheng took out some knives from his canvas backpack and called Huang Yulian again that Huang Yulian came to his senses and helped Huang Changsheng dismember the fish.
During the whole day, I practiced drawing talismans over and over under the supervision of my master. During dinner, Huang Yulian cooked the fish with a cloth, and finally there was a meat dish on the dinner table.
Like pufferfish, the Buyi fish has a poison gland in its body. The poison is enough to be fatal if it is touched a little bit. The difference is that when the Buyi fish is threatened, some venom will seep out of the skin surface. If the skin is touched with this venom, a large area of blisters will grow in an instant. After half an hour, the person will die in extreme pain.
From this point of view alone, the common fish is much more dangerous than the puffer fish.
However, when the skin and poison glands of Buyi fish are cleaned, its meat is a very delicious ingredient. The fish meat is very tough and tastes very fragile. After the topaz braised fish meat, it bites it in one bite, and the sauce soaked in the fish meat will gradually enter the mouth and exudes a soft and delicious taste.
I have to say that the pot of braised fish fillets made by Huang Yulian tasted as delicious as the broth made by my master.
In the next few days, the Huang family on the island were full of worries. Liang Houzai and I practiced with our master in the morning as before. Liang Houzai was still the same. In addition to practicing the magic and techniques taught me by my master, I also practiced the turtle breathing technique with Liang Houzai.
As for Liu Shangang, he still gets up every morning and runs in the morning. After the morning run, my master will be arrested to practice Qigong.
Time passed by day. In addition to occasionally coming out to eat something, Master Chengyun kept locking himself in a small house for a while. At first, I didn’t think the monk’s ritual had any effect, but in the past one or two days, I felt that the fog on the other side of the river had obviously faded a lot.
I remember one day I asked my master why he suspected that Mr. Huang was going to enter the evil tomb.
It seemed that I was eating or practicing martial arts at that time, but I couldn't remember it clearly, but I vaguely remembered that if I wanted to enter the back mountain of the Huang Family Ancestral Hall, I had to pass through the back door of the ancestral hall, which was always guarded by Huang Changsheng, and outsiders could not get through it at all. Moreover, that place was a forbidden land for the descendants of the Huang family, and Huang Changsheng could not go before inheriting the family business.
The master also said that when he returned to Huangjiazhuang last time, he checked the bricks and tiles left behind by the demolition of Mr. Huang's house, and found some gunpowder powder. Brother Bao did the test and the gunpowder powder scattered near the teeth was the same as the gunpowder powder scattered near the teeth. In other words, the person who broke the teeth was Mr. Huang himself.
According to my master's speculation, Mr. Huang should have exploded his teeth when he discovered something abnormal to the evil tomb. As for what abnormal movement he discovered, why he had to explode his teeth, the reason behind it is probably only Mr. Huang himself knows.
After hearing what the master said, I suspected that Monk Jinding had stolen, but it was actually Mr. Huang who was stolen by himself.
However, the master said that Old Master Huang did not need to do that. He could have summoned us to Huangjiazhuang for another reason, and to suppress the things in the evil tomb, my master would eventually need to take action. He had no need to tell such a huge lie and keep the master in the dark.
The same time when he returned to Huangjiazhuang last time, the master had discussed the disappearance of Mr. Huang with Senior Brother Bao. Senior Brother Bao speculated that Monk Jinding should have stolen it by the group of people who attacked Master Li. They probably had learned that the gate of the underground palace could not be opened without the Yin-Yang drum, so they managed to contact Mr. Huang. In order to open the entrance to the evil tomb, Mr. Huang had to cooperate with these people.
Therefore, Old Master Huang is most likely to be with those mercenaries at present. Those people are group of outlaws who kill without blinking. They are very likely to kill and silence them after using Old Master Huang.
Because of this, the most important thing for us now is to find Mr. Huang and rescue him.
Chapter completed!