A few days later, the four cadres from Changdao County were conducting investigations in a decent manner around the two young men who died in Hongguang Village some time ago. I asked Li Menglan to monitor them secretly, and asked Gao Xiang to return to the county.
He asked his father where these people were from.
I know that Gao Xiang's father, the county magistrate of Changdao County, doesn't know our exact identity. But I'm afraid he also knows something about us. Logically speaking, he shouldn't let anyone come to investigate the village where we live. I guess this
Although the four of them are officials in Changdao County, most of them are not within the jurisdiction of Gao Xiang's father.
Li Menglan came back on the third night and told me that there was indeed something wrong with these four people. They pretended to investigate in the village during the day. Every night, a shorter young man would sneak out of the residence and use a gossip to
The compass was positioned everywhere in Hongguang Village. Whenever the young man walked to the river, he would look at the woods on the other side of the river for a long time, but he would never go in. This happened every night for three days in a row.
Gao Xiang also came back from the county. He told me that these four people also have great backgrounds. I heard that they were independent committee members sent from the provincial government, and his father did not dare to mess with him. Gao Xiang secretly asked me if they were coming for us.
. I smiled and said that they were just here to inspect the work. Of course Gao Xiang couldn’t lie to me for such an obvious lie. In the past few days, this kid has been like Sherlock Holmes, going back and forth to Hongguang Village and Changdao County to inquire about news about us and them. Regarding this
I also turned a blind eye. In fact, I really hoped that he would ask something.
On the surface these days, I am still jogging in the morning and practicing swordplay in the afternoon, as usual. But in fact, everyone is very busy these days. Everyone knows that we are going to search for the next life stone during this period. Everyone seems to
Everyone is preparing for this.
Fatty Wang prepared a military backpack that was half his height. He drew a lot of talisman papers every day and selected some fine ones to put in his backpack. Later, I opened it and saw a lot of excellent quality Bagua discs.
Soul-calling flags and other Taoist magic weapons, I thought that this guy did have some background.
Liu Qizhen is the busiest one. He doesn’t see anyone except when eating. He stays in the house all day long tinkering with something. Ever since he heard the news that we were leaving for Sichuan during this time,
He asked each of us for his birthday and horoscope. Then he gave up going to the mountains every day to dig dirt and collect spiritual stones. We were all curious about him locking himself in the house and wanted to take a peek, but this little son of a bitch closed all the windows.
It was sealed, as if it was deliberately cut off from the outside world.
I practiced swordplay on the flat ground behind Liu Qizhen's house every day, and I always felt like he was looking at me through the crack in the window in the room.
That afternoon, Liu Qizhen, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, mysteriously called the three of us to his room. Liu Qizhen seemed to have stayed up all night last night. He hid in the room and was making noises. He didn’t know what he was doing. When we entered
When I checked into his room, I found that his room was in a mess. There were discarded blueprints everywhere on the floor. I also found some waste paper with array diagrams, and all kinds of weird tools scattered everywhere. The scariest thing was the wall with
The brush painted random symbols that I don’t know what they were. They looked like ancient writing.
Fatty Wang thought Liu Qizhen had asked us to clean up his room, so he had a straight face as soon as he entered the room. I guess as soon as Liu Qizhen opened his mouth, this damn fat guy would definitely be the first to run away.
Liu Qizhen looked down upon him, and then carefully placed five crescent-shaped wooden pendants on the table. He looked at us with a pair of black eyes, which were extremely bright. There was a sense of pride that was difficult to conceal.
These five wooden pendants were obviously driven out by Liu Qizhen all night last night. Judging from Liu Qizhen's proud expression, they were probably little treasures.
Liu Qizhen said: "Don't say I'm stingy, each of you can help me."
Fatty Wang picked up a wooden pendant, looked at it for a long time, and said: "What the hell is this? You, a descendant of Luban, can just carve a crescent moon out of ordinary wood for us. I'm not bragging, Fatty.
Just these five crescents, Fatty, I can cut them out with a knife in an hour, don’t tell me that you’ve been doing these five little gadgets all these days?”
"You... you are such an ignorant fat man." Liu Qizhen's mental state was very unstable. Wang Bao said a few words to him, and he sat on the bed and trembled angrily. But he couldn't beat Fatty Wang, so
Sitting sullenly on the bed, I almost went crazy and pulled my hair.
I picked up one of the wooden pendants and found that the wood was no different from ordinary wood at first glance, but it was faintly emitting blue light. I opened my Yin and Yang eyes and found that the wooden pendant was surrounded by a circle of blue light, very much like a blue star.
colored gemstones.
"I can't believe that you are willing to use that box to make things for us." I smiled slightly. These five wooden pendants were obviously made by Liu Qizhen by taking apart the Linghuai wooden box. The drawings and formations were scattered all over the room.
, I’m afraid it’s all Liu Qizhen’s hard work on these five pendants.
Putting the wooden pendant under the sun, and taking a closer look, you can vaguely find that it is covered with extremely subtle and complex formations. I simply can’t imagine how Liu Qizhen carved this formation into a piece of wood that is smaller than a little thumb.
On the pendant. And if you look carefully, you will find that many ancient texts painted on the wall are mixed with these formation patterns. I have never seen such an formation, but I just vaguely feel that the energy on it is very huge.
It just so happens that the center of my hand is engraved with the character '张'. If my guess is correct, the other three are also engraved with '王', 'Liu' and 'Li' respectively. They were taken from the names of the four of us.
As for the fifth one, I have some vague answers in my mind, but I’m not sure yet.
After Liu Qizhen heard my compliment, his energy returned a little, and he said proudly: "Zhang Tianju still knows the goods. Let me tell you, you damn fat man, this pendant you are holding in your hand, but apart from me, there is no one else in the world."
It's something that no one can make. This is a 'joint formation' engraved on it that the master drove out alone overnight using each of your birth dates. As long as you bring the wooden pendant with you, use your own spiritual energy to nourish the formation.
, activate the formation, and the 'joined formation' is equivalent to another derivative of your fortune. Its front line will show the level of your fortune within a period of time."
Wang Bao said: "What's the use of that? After a long time, it still has no use? You might as well just give me the amulet."
"What a fool." Liu Qizhen said, "Can you see how good your fortune is? You still don't know how to make use of your strengths and avoid weaknesses? If your fortune is high, just do things vigorously. If your fortune is low, just stay at home and watch TV. This doesn't matter.
Understand?"
The three of us suddenly fell silent. This was also the first time that I felt that Liu Qi was really a capable craftsman. If it is true as Liu Qi said, then the value of this crescent moon pendant is not even comparable to that of a high-end amulet. The amulet's
No matter how obvious the effect is, it still cannot avoid putting him into danger. But the Crescent Wooden Pendant...if you are obedient enough, you can almost have smooth sailing for your whole life.
Liu Qizhen picked up one of them and said to Li Menglan: "This one is yours."
The crescent wooden pendant was pierced with black thread. We hung it around our necks and put it in our clothes one after another. But in fact, when we put it on, there was nothing special about it. It was just like ordinary wood.
Li Menglan held the wooden pendant and looked at it for a long time, frowning and asked: "What kind of wood is this, and why does it emit blue light?"
Liu Qizhen said with some embarrassment: "Linghuai Mu."
"Soul!" Li Menglan suddenly became excited. This was the first time since arriving at Wuling Mountain that he had seen such a big mood swing in Li Menglan.
Liu Qizhen quickly waved his hand and said: "Don't think too much. I haven't found the locust tree yet. This wood was taken from the box containing the killing stone last time. That box happened to be locust wood, but the quantity was too large. I couldn't make it at all."
I can’t get what you want.”
Li Menglan hummed and lowered her voice and said, "No matter how long it takes, you must make it for me."
Liu Qizhen smiled awkwardly and deliberately avoided Li Menglan's sharp gaze.
Suddenly Liu Qizhen seemed to have remembered something, and said with a smile to us: "That's right! I haven't told you the name of this baby yet."
We looked at him. He was so proud that he told us the name of his newborn son and said: "Crescent Moon!"
"I firmly believe that it will be able to guide us in the most correct direction on our rugged road in the future. It is like a lighthouse on the seaside and the new moon at night. So I specially made it into the shape of a crescent and named it 'New Moon'.
moon'!"
Liu Qizhen was very excited when he said this. Wang Bao asked with a smile: "Then why don't you make it into a lighthouse?"
I reached for the fifth 'Crescent Moon' on the table. Liu Qizhen didn't reach out to stop me, but looked at me with a strange smile, as if he was expecting me to pick up the 'Crescent Moon' and read the words engraved on it.
.
As soon as I picked up the wooden pendant, I heard Ping Wazi shouting hurriedly downstairs: "Brother! Are you at home! Brother?"
I frowned. I didn't have time to carefully discern the words on the pendant. I put the pendant back on the table and walked towards the door.
Ping Wazi was standing in the living room, sweating profusely, waiting for me. I walked up to him and saw how hurried he was, and asked him what was going on.
Ping Wazi first looked around cautiously and found that Wang Bao and Li Menglan were standing on the second floor watching us. He whispered to me: "Brother! I have something to tell you alone. It's urgent."
I turned my head and nodded to Wang Bao and Li Menglan, and then said to Ping Wazi, "Then follow me."
We walked to the backyard where I often practice martial arts. Ping Wazi looked around and said to me mysteriously: "Brother, it's really weird! Master Pu Zhen actually left his Taoist temple today and came to my house."
Got it!"
"Perhaps the guests who came to his house in the past few days have finished the food you sent in advance and come to buy food from you?"
Ping Wazi patted his thigh and said, "Brother! You are so awesome! Master Pu Zhen came to us to buy food because he ran out of food."
I sighed and said, "Why are you so mysterious about this matter?"
Ping Wazi looked around again and found no one. He breathed a sigh of relief and said to me: "But Master Pu Zhen knows you. When he left, he asked me to give you a separate note." As he said, he
He carefully took out a crumpled note from his bag. Apparently, Ping Wazi had always cherished this note in his hand.
I took the note, spread it out, and wrote on it: 'Tonight, when we talk in the woods, please remember to come alone.'