One hundred and eighty nine chapters first revealed
Chapter 189: The first clues
Chapter 189: The first clues
Xiang Xiaotian pointed to a groove on the two broken pieces of the pottery tripod and said, "Brother, does this piece of gold juice look familiar to you?"
Chen Mengsheng saw a small piece of golden melt embedded in the groove of the pottery tripod, and there were black ink dots in the melt. Chen Mengsheng was shocked and said: "It turns out that the golden beans found in Zang Laosan's house came from this pottery tripod."
It seems that Zang Kui is also related to the gold in Hulu Town."
Xiang Xiaotian rolled his eyes and said: "Everyone is dead, who are you asking to go? Judging from the melting marks on the pottery tripod, the last pot melted in the blacksmith shop should have been the gold. Otherwise, it wouldn't have happened.
With such a fragment of debris left in the groove of the pottery tripod, could it be that someone had an evil intention to see their wealth and killed their whole family?"
Chen Mengsheng took out the Demon-Conquering Ruler and took out the remaining gold fragments in the pottery tripod. He smiled and said: "Brother is right, but if we can't ask questions about the dead, we can go to Zang Jiu. As the mayor of Hulu Town, he will definitely know that someone
These things, it depends on whether Zangjiu can solve this mystery..."
In the afternoon, there was a mourning hall in the front hall of Zang Jiu's mansion. Zang Jiu sat in the hall and put pieces of fire paper into the iron pot. Under the firelight, Zang Jiu looked older. Chuni led Chen Mengsheng and
Xiang Xiaotian walked into the hall. When Zang Jiu saw someone coming, he wiped his tears and stood up to greet him.
"You haven't left yet? Alas! My eldest sister died so miserably!" Zang Jiu murmured to himself.
Chen Mengsheng bowed and said, "Old man Zang, please forgive me. People cannot be resurrected after death. We brothers came here today to ask about something. Are there any secrets hidden in Hulu Town that cannot be revealed to others?"
Zang Jiu's eyes flashed towards Chen Mengsheng and said: "Sir, why are you saying this? How can there be any secrets in Hulu Town? It's really hard for me to understand what you said!"
Xiang Xiaotian said angrily: "Old man Zang, I wanted to talk to you because you were in mourning. But you are pretending to be confused with us here. You think the dead people in your town are still here?"
Not enough?"
Zang Jiu frowned and said displeasedly: "Little old man, I don't understand what you mean by saying this? My sister met with an accident last night. She is the only eldest sister I have left in the world. People's hearts are full of flesh.
Yes, how could I bear to watch my people die one by one?"
Seeing Zang Jiu's uncontrollable expression of grief and anger, Chen Mengsheng had nothing to say. He took out the piece of gold from his sleeve, spread it in his hand and asked, "Old man Zang, does he know about this? It's in Zang Kui's blacksmith shop.
What I found should be Zang Kui or the last thing someone smelted in the blacksmith shop."
When Zang Jiu saw the piece of gold, his face suddenly turned pale, and he gasped: "I don't know what this thing is, and I don't know why this thing appeared in Zang Kui's blacksmith shop. I think you guys are doing it."
Wrong, I'm not feeling well today, so I can't stay with you two. You'd better go, Chunni will see you off!" Zang Jiu tightly grasped the piece of gold given by Chen Mengsheng in his hand, waved his hand and walked in with his sleeves.
Inner hall.
Xiang Xiaotian cursed in the front hall of Zangjiu: "Old man, what do you mean? Grandma, I didn't read the almanac before going out today, and I was kicked out twice without incident. Brother, let's go!"
When Chen Mengsheng looked around and saw no one else, he quietly asked Chunni: "I wonder if the girl has heard about gold in Hulu Town? The tragedy in the town may be inextricably related to this gold.
I hope the girl can tell me." Chunni was about to speak, but she looked at Xiang Xiaotian, a stranger, in embarrassment and became hesitant again.
"Haha, don't worry too much, girl. Although my eldest brother is a bit outspoken, he is a truly good person. He scolded your grandpa because he was worried about the disaster in Hulu Town." Chen Mengsheng said in a persuasive way.
Chuni thought for a while and then said quietly: "There is a legend in Calabash Town, but it is just a legend after all. No one knows whether the legend is true or false. There have been people in the town to explore it for thousands of years.
We have lived through the legend, but no one has ever been able to find the legendary treasure."
Chen Mengsheng frowned and said, "What kind of legend is that? Why is there a treasure involved in it?"
"I heard that the elders in the clan often mentioned that our ancestor was the famous general Zang Pei of the Northern Yan Kingdom. At that time, the Qin Army's general Wang Jian led the Qin army to occupy most of the Yan Kingdom. My ancestors and the King of Yan retreated to Liaodong, but what happened?
In the end, we were defeated by the tiger and wolf Qin army. King Yan was killed. My ancestor did not want to surrender to the Qin army, so he led more than 200 members of his clan to fight through the siege. He was chased all the way to Qi State. Later, he was killed in the Yangtze River.
She sank all the family's treasures into the river and prepared to fight to the death with the pursuers. Unexpectedly, a heavy fog broke out in the river, and my ancestors were able to come here through the thick fog." Chunni said this as if she was in the golden age of that year.
Ge Tiema was in a state of panic, with a feeling of uneasiness in his chest.
Xiang Xiaotian sighed: "Then the gold we found in the blacksmith shop should be the treasure that your ancestors sunk at the bottom of the river?"
Chuni shook her head and said: "I don't know about that. They say that the treasures were thrown into the river to honor the Dragon King, so the river was protected by the heavy fog. When my grandfather's generation came around, the town was full of people.
Fishing was the main occupation, and no one went to look for the treasures in the river. People in the town gradually forgot about it, saying that it was just a legend. That is to say, from that time on, the clan members took a vow, and no one could
Go and touch the treasures that are filial to the Dragon King. If anyone dares to violate the oath, he will be punished by the clan members..."
"Chunni, what did you say to them? Why don't you come into the room quickly! You're talking nonsense and you're not afraid of having your tongue pulled out. Why is this dead girl still standing here?" Zang Jiu didn't know what it was.
Shi walked into the front hall with a livid face. Just as he was about to reach out to hit Chunni, Xiang Xiaotian stepped forward and pushed her away.
Zang Jiu said angrily: "You foreigners should stop taking care of our affairs in Hulu Town. I thought you could break the curse for us at first, but you are still causing trouble in this town. Even my sister was killed."
, what else will you do besides asking around?"
Seeing Zang Jiu's furious look, Chen Mengsheng couldn't help but smile and said: "Old man Zang, everything that happened in this town shouldn't be a curse, right? I think you already knew about it, right?"
"You...you...are talking nonsense, how would I know? Don't spit on people with blood here, get out of the town..." Zang Jiu shouted with all his strength.
Xiang Xiaotian walked to Chen Mengsheng's side with his eyes wide open and said softly: "Brother, how do you know that this old guy knew about the weird things in the town and wasn't cursed? What you said confused me. Are the people in the town wrong?
Did he kill them all?"
Chen Mengsheng stared into Zang Jiu's eyes and said, "Brother, don't you think it's strange? When he held the gold, he only showed anger but no trace of surprise. At that time, I wondered if he had seen this before.
It's gold. Just now Miss Chunni was telling us about the family's treasure buried in the river, and he immediately came out to stop it. I became more and more convinced that he was just afraid that people would know that the gold was related to the treasure in the river."
Xiang Xiaotian pointed his finger at Zang Jiu and shouted: "Old man, it turns out you are the one who committed evil. As a clan leader, you are vicious-hearted and have killed so many clan members. I must make your actions public to the world.
, let your tribe know your true face. Come on, let’s go to the town and talk to everyone.” Xiang Xiaotian said as he stepped forward to pull Zang Jiu away.
Zang Jiuda hurriedly blurted out: "It's not me, I have never harmed anyone in the town."
"Who else is it if it's not you? Come and tell me the truth, what is going on?" Chen Mengsheng shouted sternly, causing Zang Jiu to fall to the ground in shock.
"I...I...I don't know, I really don't know. I just have a different intention after seeing money, but I haven't harmed anyone. I just ask you not to drag me to the town. I can do anything.
Let me tell you." Zang Jiujiu never thought that even if he got the gold given by Chen Mengsheng, he would see the flaw.
"Come on, I'm not very patient." Xiang Xiaotian cursed.
Sitting on the ground, Zang Jiu felt like his back had been ripped out, and he shivered into a ball. "After my eldest son Zang Hong was killed by a strange fish in the Yangtze River, I screamed for him every day on the riverside.
Unexpectedly, one night, when I was shouting for my soul by the river, I saw a man floating in the river. I hurriedly got into the water, lifted the man up to the river, and then I saw clearly that it was a strange fish that had knocked over the town.
Zang Ji Zang Lao San got off the boat and fell into the water. Most of Zang Lao San's skin had been peeled off by the strange fish, and his face turned into a bloody mass. Originally, I wanted to send him back to him.
House, but a piece of gold Ruyi rolled out from his clothes. The gold Ruyi was engraved with the mark of our ancestors of the Zang family, so I...I...got confused..."
Chen Mengsheng snorted coldly: "Then it was you who killed Zang Laosan and killed him?"
"No... I haven't... killed anyone... When I took Jin Ruyi, Zang Laosan woke up and called Uncle Jiu and passed out again. I was afraid that he would kill me Jin Ruyi.
When the incident was revealed, I wanted to push him back into the river. But at that moment, the two brothers Zang Da and Zang Gui passed by home, so I had to hide behind the big rocks by the river and wait for them to send Zang Laosan away.
I dare not come out until I go back. I really have never killed Mr. Zang..."
Chen Mengsheng nodded and said: "Then Mr. Zang came to you later to ask for Jin Ruyi?"
Zang Jiu said dejectedly: "Yes, that boy did come to me a few days later to ask for Jin Ruyi, but if there is a mark on the gold Ruyi, anyone in Hulu Town can recognize that it is an ancestor of the Zang family. If so,
The tribesmen would be punished if they found out. Zang Lao Sanyi and I had no choice but to melt Jin Ruyi so that no one would know about it. It happened that the youngest son of Zang Kui's family in the blacksmith shop was eaten by the strange fish.
We secretly took him to a deserted place and told Zang Kui about melting gold. Unexpectedly, he was even more greedy and insisted on getting all the treasures of his ancestor Shen Jiang. Zang Laosan meant that there were strange fishes in the river.
If you try to get the treasure again, you will undoubtedly get killed. It is better to get rid of the strange fish first and then get the treasure. In this way, Zang Kui, who is usually penniless, built an iron cage overnight."
"Ah, it turns out that boy didn't strike the iron cage to avenge his son? Did he do it to covet the treasure at the bottom of the river?" Xiang Xiaotian exclaimed.
Zang Jiu twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "Zang Kui regards wealth as his life, and he has more than one son. It didn't take long for us to catch the strange fish, and the night after killing the strange fish, we melted Jin Ruyi
The three people divided the gold, but they never thought that the blacksmith would hang himself at home in mysterious circumstances. From then on, the town became increasingly miserable..."