Chapter 51: Hoarseness
After rubbing his eyes, Zhang Guozhong also came to the window, but because his eyes were stimulated by quicklime when he was down the mountain for too long, his vision was always blurry. He could only vaguely see a black shadow sneaking into the bottom of the low wall of Zhou Wenqiang's house. Although the short wall was short, it was still 1.67 meters tall. Unexpectedly, the black shadow was actually "pulled onions on dry land". He jumped over, and even his hands were useless. You must know that ordinary high jump athletes, after thinking about this height, they would at least have to run a few steps and then take a "leapfrog" style. It was basically impossible to jump over in the spot. The limit of Master Ma Zhenren's "pulled onions on dry land" back then was only 1.56 meters! But with this jump, Zhang Guozhong concluded that this person's kung fu was not inferior to Master Ma Zhenren, and even said that he was a little stronger.
"The person you see is him?" Zhang Guozhong rubbed his eyes and looked carefully. He found that the person did not turn on the light or flashlight after entering the yard. The yard was dark and could not see anything clearly.
"It's this person who looks at his figure, but this time he looks like he's holding something in his hand..." Zhang Yicheng also widened his eyes, obviously seeing it clearly than Zhang Guozhong.
"You are waiting here and don't move, I'll go over and take a look..." Zhang Guozhong said as he pulled out the Juque Sword wrapped in cloth from his big travel bag.
"Dad, can you beat him?" Zhang Yicheng seemed quite worried.
"I won't fight him, I just go over and take a look!" Zhang Guozhong took the sword and wiped his eyes with horse manure paper, "You little bastard, see who it is in the future and throw it away..."
After sneaking and lurking outside Zhou Wenqiang's yard with his waist, Zhang Guozhong showed his head from the wall. With the vague moonlight, he could roughly understand the layout of Zhou Wenqiang's yard: the yard is not large, at most ten meters square, there are two tile houses in the north, and a vegetable cellar and a kitchen near the southwest corner. Next to the kitchen is a large stone mill, but it seems that it has not been used for many years. There is no one in the yard at this moment, and the person who jumped in was obviously entering the house.
Listening to Xiao Zhu's narration, shortly after finding the bloody clothes in Tianjin, the local police had searched the room and even used the police dog, but they still found nothing. According to the situation at this moment, it seems that there is still some secret in this room. Zhou Wenqiang and the current person who climbed the wall did not know what method they could use to hide from the police dog's nose.
"Let me see what you want to do!" Seeing that there was no one in the yard, Zhang Guozhong tiptoed back to the tiled house. He thought of listening to the movement under the window, but just as he took a step, he suddenly felt his feet soft and he fell down. At the same time, his legs were not strong enough, which was similar to when he was dealing with the "Quo Chi" in Li Village and his master.
"Damn it, how could this thing be there in this place??" After falling down, Zhang Guozhong's first reaction was "There is 'Quo Chi'!" But then he thought about it. Theoretically, Qiu Chi is a spiritual animal. Modern biology believes that snakes are cold-blooded animals and have no "IQ" to say. Although "Quo Chi" is classified as "bad animals" in terms of Taoism, modern science can also be interpreted as the so-called "gene mutation" in nature. This thing not only has IQ, but also very high. There is even such a record in "Maoshan Shuzhi": Qiu Chi is a spirit, and his heart is like a jackal, and he cannot be tamed. It means that the IQ of "Quo Chi" can be comparable to that of canine animals, and can have an IQ equivalent to or higher than that of "wolf", but it is as untactic as a jackal.
Although "Qiu Chi" is very powerful, he himself knows the power of human beings: snake gallbladder has been regarded as a spiritual medicine since ancient times. Although "Qiu Chi" is a leisure animal, it is also a snake in short. According to legend, Taoist metaphysics was developed during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because of the rumor that Shuang Huaizi* used "Qiu Chi" to refine elixirs and became immortals after taking it, a trend of arresting "Qiu Chi" for alchemy. Even many wealthy and powerful people have become addicted to it. The market price of each "Qiu Chi" was "fried" to 3,000 taels of silver. This was a sky-high price at that time, and it was enough for an ordinary person to buy a house and buy land and have no worries about food and clothing for a lifetime (the silver consumption ratio in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was: at that time, in the most luxurious restaurant in Jiankang, the capital, a table was enough for ten people to eat a banquet for Haisai, and only three to five taels of silver was needed).
Driven by high rewards, many ordinary people who do not know how to do things have taken the risk of arresting "Quo Chi". The result is needless to say, but at the same time, many people with high-quality channels also wanted to ascend to immortality but could not afford 3,000 taels of silver to buy "Quo Chi", and they also joined the tide of finding and arresting "Quo Chi" in person, and there were many successful people among them.
For a time, "Quo Chi" was once arrested to a point of almost extinction until the Eastern Jin Dynasty destroyed the world. Although it was unknown whether it could really become an immortal after eating it, this tide of capture made the entire "species" of "Quo Chi" have a mentality of staying away from humans. Just like if a wolf died of a hunting rifle, the entire wolf pack would be afraid of "gunshots". For a long time, Qiu Chi and humans have always been in a state of "well water not over the river". Unless humans provoked on their own initiative, this thing would never take the initiative to cause trouble for people. The Qiu Chi of Wang Zihao's family was led to the Wang family for many years because of "poisonous jade". This is the reason.
Theoretically speaking, most of the "Quochi" in nature live in low-rise areas such as deep mountains, old forests or ancient tombs and caves. There is basically no possibility of living in ordinary families. If Wang Zihao's family did not have that "poisonous jade", "Quochi" would never settle down. When Liu Dongsheng was in the mountains, he was understandable. How could this thing be in this village now?
No matter how confused he was, his legs could not move, which was true. Because the purpose of lurking over was to track living people, Zhang Guozhong had no materials and tools to cure wronged people except Juque Sword. If you want to treat people who were "Qiu Chi" and "Qiu Chi", the only way was to find the location of "Qiu Chi" who "came the accident" and kill him, but at this moment, there was not even a compass on his body, so what should I find...?
At this moment, Zhang Guozhong wanted to ask his son to come and help, but then he thought that even the master had fallen into the way in Li Village. At this moment, he lost his combat power and called his son. If something happened again, Li Erya would have to strangle him to death when he returned home. In desperation, Zhang Guozhong had to close his eyes and wanted to open his eyes. Although "Quqi" is a "bad beast", his body's yang energy is not very strong, and he can't see it a little farther away or a little deeper underground, but there is no other way at this moment. If he opens his wise eyes, he still can't see it. He can only climb back first and make plans tomorrow morning. If it really doesn't work, he can only go to the hospital to be a patient with Liu Dongsheng and call Old Liu to solve the problem...
It took about three minutes to close my eyes, and colorful lights and shadows appeared in front of me, but the red yang lights and shadows were either like mice or hedgehogs, and none of them looked like "Qiuchi". Not to mention, what made Zhang Guozhong most confused was that around Zhou Wenqiang's house, there were many colorful air masses. Depending on the situation, they should be alive and dead (the wild souls, even the souls of animals, can be seen in the eyes of wisdom), but there was no air mass in Zhou Wenqiang's house, no alive or dead, and even the breath of a bug.
"It's weird..." Zhang Guozhong lay on the ground, closed his eyes and frowned. No matter what, there should be a living person in the house. Even if it is separated by a wall, the yang energy of humans is stronger than that of ordinary animals, and the penetration power is different. At night, the yin energy is strong and the yang energy is more prominent. Even if it is separated by a wall, it should be able to see it. But at this moment, I didn't see anyone coming out of the house, and I didn't hear anything, but I couldn't see anything in the house...
Just as Zhang Guozhong closed his eyes and thought about it, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck. "Who!" Zhang Guozhong opened his eyes suddenly and touched it with his hands instinctively. A faint pain suddenly came from his fingers. At this time, a cool sharp blade had already crossed his neck, and his fingers had been cut at the same time as he touched it. Judging from the sharpness and cold feeling, the one on his neck was definitely not an ordinary kitchen knife and sickle, but it was probably a Juque-level treasure blade. He moved his head with a slight move...
"Who are you? What do you want to do...?" Zhang Guozhong immediately gave up his resistance and asked in a low voice, for fear that he would alarm Zhang Yicheng. This person appeared behind him and did not make any noise. It was obviously not something he could deal with. If his son's head was hot and then he rushed out and threw smoke bombs, wouldn't he be seeking death?
"Don't move! Don't look back!!" A hoarse and sharp voice came from behind Zhang Guozhong. He heard it and suddenly got goose bumps in his body. He hated that he wanted to cough for this brother.
In Xizi Village, Bashan, Li Erzhuang, the grandson of Li Village, had also spoken in this voice, but Li Erzhuang's voice was only hoarse. At this time, the voice behind him was not only hoarse, but also a heart-wrenching sharpness, as if his voice was thundering* and then he was talking in a fake voice.
"Who are you? What do you want to do??" The "honey voice" behind him repeated Zhang Guozhong's question, almost making Zhang Guozhong happy. He thought to himself that he belonged to Brother Wu. Why do you ask what I asked?
"Are you a policeman?" Before Zhang Guozhong could speak, the "honey voice" behind him asked again...
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Shuang Huaizi: whose surname is Zhang, whose name is Lu, whose courtesy name is Xiaofeng, his nickname is Shuang Huaixianren, and his name is Shuang Huaizi. He was from Jiankang, the Eastern Jin Dynasty (now Nanjing, Jiangsu). It is said that he became an immortal in the 12th year of Ningkang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (384 AD), but there is no proof.
Brother : Passerforate, Starling family, also known as Qin Ji, Jiugong Bird, Hainan Werford, Hainan Teng, Indian Gerrek, etc. are better at imitating human speech than starlings and parrots, and are also good at imitating the call of other birds and animals.
The throat is thundering: the "honey voice" caused by permanent vocal cord damage has become "thundering" among the people.
Chapter completed!