"It is recorded in the county annals that eight hundred years ago, heavy rains fell continuously for five days and five nights. The rivers in our county burst their banks, and the flood almost spread to our entire county. However, when the flood reached the entrance of our village, it changed its course, and our village
It became the only county in our county that was not flooded by floods.
The flood did not change its course for no reason, but for a reason. When the flood was about to enter our village, the villagers saw a huge ant emerging from the ground, transforming into a beautiful beauty, waving its sleeves several times
, the water flows against the current, keeping our side safe.
The villagers at that time were so grateful to the queen that they built a statue of the queen, which is the one we have in the west room. It is eight hundred years old and can definitely be considered an antique.
Moreover, this kind of gratitude has continued to this day. In addition, we will also ask the ant queen for blessings if anything happens, so we do not offer sacrifices to gods or Buddhas, only to this queen ant."
Wang Tiedao said, "Whoever is the village chief will put the queen ant statue in his home. However, on the 15th day of every lunar calendar, the villagers will come to worship the queen ant with their own thoughts."
After hearing Wang Tie's explanation, Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing looked at each other.
Under normal circumstances, there are two types of people who sincerely worship spirits, one is worshiping Baojiaxian, and the other is possessed by spirits.
It is rare for an entire village to devoutly worship a spirit like this. This kind of worship is very beneficial to the spirit. The power of worship can help the spirit penetrate the meridians and improve the spirit's ability to understand the laws of nature.
In this way, the spirit's cultivation speed will be accelerated.
The queen ant mentioned by Wang Tie was probably the queen who fought with the centipede spirit five hundred years ago and whose strength was in the fifth stage of the third realm.
If this is really the case, even though the queen ant is dead, when someone worships the statue, the power of worship will still act on the corpse of the queen ant. Through the corpse of the queen ant, it will then enter the underworld.
The charisma of the queen ant will be beneficial to reincarnation in the next life.
If the queen ant has been reincarnated, this power of worship will affect the reincarnated person, making his or her luck better and better.
But no matter what the situation is, they have to go through the corpse of the queen ant, which undoubtedly provides Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing with another possible way to open the iron box.
"Tomorrow is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. I am responsible for this worship ceremony, so I may be a little busy. In addition, according to the rules left by our ancestors, meals must be eaten after twelve noon, so tomorrow cannot be like today.
, I’ll have lunch at half past eleven, and I’ll ask the two masters to look after me for a while.”
Wang Tie said with an embarrassed look.
"It's okay, I'm just half an hour late for dinner."
Zhang Fan waved his hand indifferently, and then gave Wang Tie a reassurance, "The day after tomorrow is the day when your village will deliver the trees to the merchants. We have already made a plan. If nothing happens, we will be able to deliver the trees in the woods tomorrow.
The evil spirits caught me."
As soon as these words came out, Wang Tie looked happy and quickly picked up the wine glass, "Thank you two masters, thank you two masters, I respect you both."
Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing also drank the wine in their glasses.
After lunch, Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing returned to the private house. This private house was actually the guest house in Hanjiagou Village. The layout was exactly the same as the standard room in the hotel. The standard could not reach five stars, but four stars could definitely be achieved.
"Xiaofan, what should we do next?"
Nangong Qingdao.
"We have also seen the patterns on the iron box clearly. There is no point in going to the woods. Now we can only look for clues from the iron box."
Zhang Fan replied, "When they pay homage to the queen ant tomorrow, let's see if we can find some clues from the power of the offering to the queen's body."
"Well..." Nangong Qing responded.
After the two rested in the room for a while, they began to think about the situation of the iron box. When they got tired of looking for clues, they practiced for a while. When the practice became boring, they started to think about the situation of the iron box again.
Soon, it was six o'clock in the afternoon. Village Chief Wang came to ask Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing to have dinner again. This time Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing refused. They planned to go to the county town to have dinner and take a walk to change their minds.
After half a day of thinking, the two of them were really confused.
Have a meal, go shopping, maybe you will get an unexpected harvest.
After Wang Tie left, Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing went to the county seat of Wei County and arrived at the largest shopping mall in Wei County.
Zhang Fan hasn't bought any new clothes for a while. In the mall, Zhang Fan bought five new clothes, three pairs of shoes, and ate some desserts.
Nangong Qing also bought a lot of things and drank several large cups of tea.
Finally, the two of them had a hot pot meal in the dining area on the fifth floor of the shopping mall. Except for Zhang Fan's special status as a member of Xuanmen, he was no different from ordinary people.
The two got in the car and on the way to the booked hotel, Zhang Fan's eyes suddenly lit up and he said in a deep voice: "I understand... I understand..."
Nangong Qing, who was driving, glanced at Zhang Fan and asked, "Xiao Fan, what do you understand?
Is it about the iron box?"
"yes!"
Zhang Fan nodded.
"Tell me quickly..." Nangong Qing said enthusiastically.
"There are a total of nine trees on the land where the iron box is located, and it is normal for none of these nine trees to grow."
Zhang Fan said.
"right!"
Nangong Qing recalled for a while and said, "The tree in the middle is completely rotten. The ones around it are better. Some also show signs of rot. Some are just bent or low. I think they are iron boxes."
The spells on these trees have affected them, which is why these trees are like this."
"The spells on the iron box are only within the range of the iron box. I have carefully sensed that the evil spirit that occasionally escapes from the iron box is no more than one centimeter away from the iron box.
The distance between the ground and the iron box is three meters, and the rhizomes of these trees, after going down two meters, no longer go down deep, but extend horizontally, leaving one meter between the rhizomes of these trees and the iron box.
distance, so the spell on the iron box cannot affect the trees above it at all.
Also, if the spell on the iron box can really affect these trees, 20 years ago, these trees were still in the sapling stage, when they were least likely to survive, these trees died and there was no way they could have grown so big.
"
Zhang Fan expressed his thoughts.
After hearing Zhang Fan's explanation, Nangong Qing nodded in agreement. After thinking for a while, he raised the question in his heart: "Since the spell on the iron box cannot affect these trees, why did these trees turn into this picture?"