The crescent moon was buried in the clouds, the stars blinked and disappeared into the night sky together, the pine forest was blown by the wind, and Lu Jianxiang was a little scared.
It was almost half an hour, but there was still no movement from Zhao Jianxing. He thought to himself that some evil spirit had taken out his heart. He wanted to climb up the wall and have a look, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't reach the top of the wall. He was on the wall.
He was pacing anxiously outside.
Suddenly he heard a woman's cry, and he was alerted. As the wind blew, he faintly heard Zhao Jianxing's roar.
At this time, a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and the night bat hanging in the corner was frightened and flew around.
Lu Jianxiang felt something was wrong and knocked on the courtyard door hurriedly: "Jianxing, we don't want the baby anymore, come out quickly!"
However, the only person who responded to him was Men Lei.
Lu Jianxiang was anxious and scared at this time. He had been honest since he was a child and did not have as many clever ideas as Zhao Jianxing, but he had known since he was a child that following Zhao Jianxing, who was one year younger than him, he would not suffer. But at this time, he saw that Zhao Jianxing was not moving inside.
Feeling furious, he took a few steps back and bumped straight towards the courtyard door.
The rotten courtyard door failed to withstand Lu Jianxiang's desperate impact and fell to the ground.
Lu Jianxiang couldn't hold himself back and fell to the ground along with the rotten courtyard door. Before he could get up, he saw Zhao Jianxing staring fiercely at a little girl in the corner.
Through the peripheral vision of lightning, he saw that the girl in the corner was Zhang Yanan, whom he and Zhao Jianxing often talked about.
"It's so late, why are you here?" Lu Jianxiang was surprised.
"Hurry up and take out that string of beads. It's raining heavily. Don't even think about it!" Zhao Jianxing yelled at Zhang Yanan in a vicious voice.
"If you take it away, our village will be doomed! My mother has been here for forty years just for this string of beads." Zhang Yanan looked miserable.
Lu Jianxiang endured severe pain and got up from the ground. He didn't understand what they were talking about. He just saw a string of fluorescent beads in Zhang Yanan's hand. Then he realized that Zhao Jianxing wanted the string of beads in her hand.
He had heard the old man say before that there was a treasure in the village, which was made of a turtle spirit shell. If that thing left the village and the turtle spirit got angry, it would collapse the river embankment and flood the village.
But no one could tell clearly what the treasure looked like and where it was buried. But he never expected that the female ghost Wu Laizi was talking about was Zhang Yanan and her mother.
When he saw Zhao Jianxing trying to snatch the rosary beads, he knew something was wrong. He was about to step forward to stop him, but was frightened by a welding thunderbolt that made him unable to move. When he saw that the door panel in front of him was struck by lightning, a big hole was made.
Zhang Yanan yelled and was about to run out in the chaos, but Zhao Jianxing was not willing to let him go. He shouted angrily and chased after him. Lu Jianxiang caught Zhao Jianxing who was running, but he cursed and threw him aside.
The sky was thundering, and heavy rain suddenly fell with flashes of thunder. Lu Jianxiang hugged his arms and chased out. He saw Zhao Jianxing chasing Zhang Yanan towards the back mountain.
Zhang Yanan ran into the pine forest in the back mountain and ran wildly on the path in the forest. Zhao Jianxing chased after him relentlessly. Lu Jianxiang stumbled step by step and followed them closely.
Lightning continued, and Zhang Yanan continued to look for a way out with the help of lightning. The mountain rain caused a burst of water mist on the ground. Lu Jianxiang wanted to call out to Zhao Jianxing in front, but he had no strength.
Zhang Yanan, who was running at the front, slipped and fell to the ground, but she still crawled forward with all her strength.
Zhao Jianxing quickly ran up to him. He didn't know what he said, but Zhang Yanan just half-knelt on the ground and begged.
Lu Jianxiang also ran forward and was about to stop him, but it was too late. Zhao Jianxing snatched the luminous rosary beads from her hand.
He raised his foot again and kicked Zhang Yanan in the face.
Zhao Jianxing held up the rosary, opened his mouth, and laughed wildly.
Looking at Zhang Yanan on the ground, she was lying in the puddle. Her body twitched twice and then stopped moving.
Lu Jianxiang hurriedly knelt down and helped Zhang Yanan up on the ground. However, seeing the yellow mud soup constantly dripping from Zhang Yanan's mouth and nose, he knew that she was in death.
Thunder exploded in my ears. Looking at Zhao Jianxing still standing wildly in the rain
He was laughing, but his expression was frozen at that moment. He was seeing streaks of red thunder in the distance striking towards him against the ground.
Lu Jianxiang looked at the red thunder that was about to strike in front of him, shook Zhao Jianxing's body vigorously, and shouted angrily: "You are not a human being, you have been punished by God! That toy cannot be taken away by us!"
Zhao Jianxing glared at Lu Jianxiang, threw him aside, and said hurriedly: "What are you afraid of? Quickly take off her clothes."
Lu Jianxiang didn't know what to do at this time. He listened numbly to Zhao Jianxing's instructions and took off Zhang Yanan's pants. The two of them hurriedly took off her clothes. Hong Lei walked over, and the ancient pines on both sides of the mountain road broke. The two of them
While dodging falling branches, he ran down the mountain.
It was pouring with rain, and there was no way forward. Occasionally, from the corner of my eye, I saw lightning striking the ground and flames bursting out.
However, God couldn't do anything to them, so they stopped roaring, but the yelling and cursing still didn't stop.
When Lu Jianxiang saw that the thunder had stopped, he wiped the rain off his face, and he and Zhao Jianxing supported each other and walked down the mountain, but his eyes had turned into a vast ocean, and he could not see the ruined temple or the cornfield of Zhao Jianxing's family.
The village where they had lived for more than ten years disappeared on that thundering rainy night, and in the muddy yellow Ussuri, the homesick cries of the two could not be heard.
Zhao Jianxing still held the rosary beads without any regrets. Lu Jianxiang, his voice hoarse from crying, followed Zhao Jianxing numbly.
When the rain stopped, Zhao Jianxing led him over countless mountains and stole a carriage in a town. They lived by sneaking along the way. After traveling for more than half a month, the two of them arrived in Nanping.
But Lu Jianxiang wanted to go further, to stay away from the village, and to feel less guilty.
The two got a carriage and stayed in Nanping for a few days. They quickly spent all their money. They wanted to sell the string of beads but didn't know where to get it. It would be better if it were gold and jade, but this thing has been around since then.
After the night is over, it looks like a piece of wood, with a rough bead surface and no longer shines.
The two discussed it, and that night they boarded a train full of wood and headed south. When the train stopped occasionally, they would go to the trash can at the station to dig through some peelings and eat leftovers, and then move on to other trains.
In short, the further away from that, the better.
They didn't calculate how many days they spent on the train, and they didn't remember whether there were more trains loading wood or more coal. They just felt that the air was getting hotter and hotter. The two divided the rosary beads on the carriage.
Second, it is a commemoration.
A few days later, the train arrived at Nanjing Station. Lu Jianxiang got off the train to look for food. He was so hungry that he snatched a betel nut from a woman and was caught by the police.
But Zhao Jianxing on the carriage was eagerly hoping that Lu Jianxiang would come back soon.
The roar of the train separated the two brothers in distress. They separated the rosary beads that were originally a string.
"I worked in the Nanjing Welfare Institute for two years. Later, Zhao Jianxing found me in Nanjing. He said that he had arrived in Chongqing by train and was doing well. Later, I wrote to him and he wrote back to me,
He said that he used the half string of beads to exchange a high-ranking job with a man."
"He also asked me to send him this half string of beads, and let me make a fool of myself. But that string of beads is the only thing left in the village, and I can't give it to him even if he dies."
"There was no news from him after that, but later a man named Shui Xiaoliuer came to me and asked me where I got the half string of beads. I don't know how he knew that I had these beads and didn't tell him."
"Do you know who the person who exchanged beads with Zhao Jianxing is?" I asked.
"I don't know, but my leg was chopped off by a man covered in sores, and half of the string of beads was taken away. Later, Zhao Jianxing found out about it and took me here. Only then did I know
, Zhao Jianxing changed his name to Zhang Zhifang, and became the helmsman. If you listen to the accent, you really can’t tell that he is from the north."
"He might be angry with me, so he threw me here a few years ago. If I didn't have some rats and cockroaches to satisfy my hunger, I would have starved to death."
"Twenty years seems like one day, and the energy of Qijueling is almost exhausted!"
He looked at the skylight, leaned against the cold wall, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, as if he was remembering the two people talking to each other under the Populus euphratica when he was a child.
The chasing doll.
I couldn't calm down after listening for a long time, but I was already sure that the half string of rosary beads he took at the beginning should be Xuanwu's inner elixir or something like that.
"Azure Dragon, Suzaku, White Tiger, Xuanwu, do these four mythical beasts really exist?" Thinking of this, I shook my head unconsciously, "This should be a misunderstanding of mine. The so-called four mythical beasts are not the ones in the legend.
Those mythical beasts, but extremely rare creatures that are close to the images of these mythical beasts."
I think these creatures have been mythologized by a certain group. They are relatively independent of the outside world's ideological system and have their own set of ideologies. For example, they regard the giant anaconda with golden scales as a green dragon and worship the giant turtle as Xuanwu. This
It shows that they have had a certain intersection with our common ideas and concepts, but they only absorbed and borrowed some things, and patchworked these "imported products" labels onto creatures such as big snakes and giant turtles.
"If it is true as I think, it can explain why the mysterious man called the big python 'Blue Dragon'. This shows that his ideology also intersects with this place. It seems that this matter is really complicated.
.”
It seems that the person who exchanged with Zhao Jianxing back then is the mysterious person today. No wonder he is so familiar with Evergrande Shouzhuang and found it before us.
Now I even begin to suspect that Xiaoyaozi's death may not be accidental, because Xiaoyaozi also has a deep connection with Hengda Shouzhuang.
"Hengda Shouzhuang is inextricably linked to the mysterious person. Is it possible that there are shares of the mysterious person here?" I secretly speculated.
Lu Jianxiang, twenty years seems like one day. But I stayed in this stone room for one day, but it seemed like a hundred years had passed. I watched him punctual for three meals, whistling when he had nothing to do, and staring at the skylight in a daze.
My eyes were so hungry that I sometimes wanted to catch one and beat it as a sacrifice when I saw him eating cockroaches, but I was intimidated by the look on his face when he was eating cockroaches.
I spent two days and nights in the stone chamber. When I woke up, I saw Lu Jianxiang half-kneeling on the ground, raising his head to catch the water drops dripping from the ceiling.
Seeing his miserable appearance, I didn't want to die like this, so I kept looking left and right in the stone room, hoping to find some secret passage mechanism.
But except for a few mouse holes in the corners, there are no gaps. The skylight hangs above the head, and the sun is divided into many parts by the window frame, casting mottled light, so harsh that I dare not open my eyes.
"Don't be afraid, I was scaring you yesterday, you won't die yet!" Lu Jianxiang chirped, still not finished.
After hearing this, I looked straight at him. I didn’t know if this man was crazy, but I still felt a lot more at ease. I quickly asked him, “Why can’t you die?”
"I just had one meal today!" He chewed the flower seeds and groped on the ground.
"What does the number of meals you eat have anything to do with my life or death?"
He glanced at me, looked at the skylight, and said to me with a smile: "I don't understand the celestial phenomena, and I don't know how to chant the incantation with my fingers, but since you came here, I haven't had a full meal. Rats and cockroaches are all here."
He’s fucking hiding!”
Although he didn't say it explicitly, I heard what he meant.
"Maybe the kiln is about to collapse, or the oxygen in the well is about to run out, and the rats will rush around, looking for an exit." I found a reason to fool him. The scientific explanation is that rats have sharp senses and can sense.
To dangers that humans cannot detect.
"But Qijue Ridge looks like a rare treasure in the world. How could there be any natural disaster?" He smoothed his disheveled hair and let out a long sigh of relief.
"I don't know what you are talking about. I think you would rather live by eating rats and cockroaches. Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"
"good!"
"What wish?"
He didn't answer for a long time, staring straight at the ray of the setting sun.
I stepped forward and poked him twice with my fingers. Seeing that he didn't respond, I yelled in his ear again. He slumped down in my arms, like a homesick child. I tried his breathing, and it turned out that
Only then did he realize that he was dead.
Chapter completed!