Chapter 18 The Burning-Eyed Snake God
“I heard from Ning Zhe and the others that you are dead.” Zhang Yangxu still had some caution in his eyes: “That girl Ye Miaozhu cried so sadly, your daughter Friends?"
Gu Yunqing shook his head: "My sister, we are a reorganized family. Her biological father once had some assets, but they were all lost in the casino in Yizhou. After that, she and her mother went abroad to avoid debts, and there is still no news."
"Then, my stepmother took the two sisters and reorganized the family with my father. Oh, I didn't know that before. I told you that Ye Miaozhu has a younger sister, a little girl, who is still in junior high school."
Gu Yunqing briefly introduced her family situation to Zhang Yangxu. Perhaps it was because of family misfortune, or because Gu Yunqing himself had a gentle personality and was a central air-conditioner. The two sisters had a good impression of him, a brother who was born from heaven. After several years of getting along, their relationship became even better. Among them, the elder sister Ye Miaozhu went out of her way to He and he applied for the same medical university, and when graduation was approaching, the two of them went to the medical point in Gubei Town for internship together.
Then we came to Hejiacun, fuck.
However, Gu Yunqing talked about these family affairs not out of his own desire to share, but because he wanted to gain Zhang Yangxu's trust in this way and make him further let down his guard.
After all, it’s hard for a ghost to take the initiative to make up stories.
Sure enough, after hearing about the complicated relationship in Gu Yunqing's family, the guard in Zhang Yangxu's eyes gradually relaxed. He was no longer as nervous as before, but instead joked with an expression that all men understand: " You have a good life."
"I have another girlfriend in college." Gu Yunqing said helplessly: "Please be careful, Mr. Zhang, our relationship is not good enough to joke about this kind of thing. ”
"Okay." Zhang Yangxu shut up decisively and changed the topic.
Zhang Yangxu asked Gu Yunqing several questions in succession:
"Others, including Ye Miaozhu, said you were dead, but you are still alive. What's going on? "
"Why are you all wet?"
"You said that the snake god is going crazy and time is running out. What is going on?"
Gu Yunqing closed the door and raised his hand to signal Zhang Yangxu to go into the He Mansion: "Let's talk as we walk."
"Where to go?"
"Go to my sister."< br>
The two of them passed through each other one after the other. Among the flowers in the courtyard of the He family, there was a faint sound of noisy voices coming from the gate of the front yard. A few hurried footsteps hurriedly walked from the gate to the side yard, where the kitchen was, which seemed to belong to the He family. The cook and servant are getting ready to make breakfast.
The He Mansion faces south, and the overall structure is in the shape of a 'back'. The three-story main building is in the middle. It has a stone foundation, a bamboo building, and the top is covered with sapphire blue glazed tiles. Growing a place can be considered a luxury.
Directly south of the main building is the gate of the mansion, and directly to the north is a green garden and vegetable garden. Kitchens, warehouses, woodsheds, servants' quarters, etc. are arranged in categories on the east and west sides of the main building, filling up the entire word "Hui".
Different from the old courtyard houses in Jingquan in Yongzhou, the structure of the Hefu mansion has more of the local southern characteristics of Qinzhou. It is a special variant of the Hakka earth building, but it pays more attention to ostentation and downplays the prototype earth building's defense against bandits. function.
Even in the eyes of Zhang Yangxu, a veteran in the real estate and construction fields, this is an excellent architectural design that will not be outdated. This cultural sense is expected to be very popular among arty landlords and wealthy people.
Gu Yunqing pushed aside the lush flowers and walked forward, unlocked the screen with one hand, and showed a photo to Zhang Yangxu.
In the photo, there is a slender, white and beautiful hand, gently holding a mobile phone with the screen on. Zhang Yangxu recognized it as Ning Zhe’s hand at a glance. This guy is as beautiful as a girl. They, and a photo was also displayed on the screen in Ning Zhe's hand. That's a photo from the almanac, showing good or bad luck today:
【Suitable:】
【Taboo: Traveling, burial, funeral, offering sacrifices】
“When you turn over the almanac to check whether today is good or bad, have you ever thought about it? I have had such a question." Gu Yunqing asked, cold water dripping from the corner of his clothes: "Why is there only 'Ji' in the almanac and no 'Yi'?"
"I have thought about it, but I have no clue. ." Zhang Yangxu replied.
"Because the snake god is sick." Gu Yunqing said, enlarging the photo in his hand.
In the photo, Huang Li was nailed to the tongue of the snake god with a nail. When Ning Zhe took the photo of it, he also included half of the snake god’s head. If you look closely at the background , you can still clearly see the lifelike flying posture of the snake god, as well as a pair of lifeless and stereotyped eyes.
The statue of the snake god looks solemn, but in fact it cannot withstand closer inspection. The ancestral hall in Hejia Village has long been in disrepair. Even the roof is leaking, and the door beams and pillars have become damp and moldy in the humid environment. The snake god carved from camphor tree roots is no exception.
The carving technique of this root carving can be said to be very exquisite, and the processing level is also quite high. The scales on the snake god's body are layered in layers and arranged finely and neatly, giving people a self-evident sense of hierarchical beauty.
However, under the bright appearance, there are layers of black mold spots accumulated at the roots of the scales, and milky white mycelium protrudes from the gaps in the snake scales, exuding the rotten smell of wood deterioration—— This was Zhang Yangxu’s impression of the snake god statue when he and Xie Sining entered the ancestral hall to look at the almanac.
In this photo of Gu Yunqing, it can be seen vaguely that the head of the snake god is also covered with decaying hyphae, the left eye socket is completely filled with black mold spots, and the right eye is also covered with mold spots. Eye sockets.
“The snake god’s left eye is blind.” Gu Yunqing said at a very fast speed:
“The snake god’s left eye sees good luck and his right eye sees bad luck, but since he got blind 18 years ago As a result of his madness, his body collapsed and one eye became blind. From then on, the almanac could only give Taboo, I can't tell you what to do today, because the snake god himself can't see it, so he has no comment."
"So that's it..." Zhang Yangxu felt awe-inspiring, but also a little confused. Still did not let down his guard, keeping a certain distance from Gu Yunqing who was leading the way.
Zhang Yangxu asked: "If the truth of the matter is like this, how did you know about it? Also, I witnessed a ghost pretending to be you in the ancestral hall before and went to read the Tomorrow Almanac, why are you still alive, how did you survive? ”
Ning Zhe may have lied about Gu Yunqing's life and death, but Zhang Yangxu believed that "it is a taboo to read tomorrow's almanac" itself should be correct.
"Then it's a long story." Gu Yunqing sighed helplessly and led Zhang Yangxu through the garden of He Mansion.
The two of them avoided the cooks and servants who were preparing meals and arrived in front of a row of small buildings on the west side of the main building of He Mansion. Gu Yunqing gestured to Zhang Yangxu and slipped in first. In a warehouse with an unlocked door.
【My sister sent me a message, and she was hiding in it. 】
Zhang Yangxu lowered his head and looked at the text message from Gu Yunqing. After waiting for a long time, he tiptoed forward and carefully opened the door of the warehouse.
The next moment, Zhang Yangxu's body fell down.
He is dead.
(End of this chapter)