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Chapter 119 I am in the world, creating a myth (2 in 1)

Yizhong County.

The rain has become lighter, and the light rain is like a layer of tulle.If someone looks down from a height at this moment, this ancient city is like a peerless beauty who has been trained by gunfire, wearing a seductive gauze, looming, and quite hazy beauty.

Two or three ravens stood on the eaves, bowing their heads and pecking at the crow's feathers with their beaks.

Sijia.

The living room is brightly lit.

Si Youqing looked at Ye Weiyang's newcomers, both of whom were stars, and secretly felt Zheng Xiu's connections in his heart.

It never occurred to them that the Si family in Shuzhou was in charge of the Zheng family's branch chamber of commerce, and they had been working hard to avoid getting involved with Ye Weiyang.

But now Zheng Xiu himself has a relationship with Ye Weiyang's December.

Mrs. Si served the cakes in a friendly manner, with the attitude of a virtuous and beautiful wife.

"Yeweiyang, Yueyan,"

"Ye Weiyang, a newly promoted 28 stars, and also Ye Weiyang's youngest star, Dou Xie."

Yueyan wished she could sew Dou Xie's mouth shut with thread, feeling extremely ashamed.She hastily interrupted Dou Xie and said, "Director Si, excuse me."

Yueyan and Douxi introduced themselves respectively, and after clasping fists and bowing to each other, they landed on the guest seats.

Si Youqing looked left and right, and always felt that this Ye Weiyang girl named Yueyan seemed familiar.

But with his wife at his side, he didn't want to ask too many questions.

Under Fengbei's instruction, Yueyan pretended to evade a few words, and after fulfilling her duties, she smiled and told the information they investigated in Yinping.

Yueyan slowly told the experience of the two of them detouring Yinping.

When they arrived in Yinping, they first went straight to Yeweiyang branch, revealed their identities, and investigated the case.

To Yueyan's surprise, Xushu and Jinniu didn't leave any footprints here.

They checked the files. On the day of the incident, a young man who claimed to be a descendant of Gongsun Mo pawned an ancient painting bound with oilcloth.

According to the rules of the pawnshop, there are two ways of pawning, namely "jue pawn" and "living pawn".

Absolutely means that once the goods and money are settled, the head of the household will never redeem the goods, and the goods will completely belong to the store, and the store will dispose of it by itself.

On the contrary, the contract will indicate how much money is required to redeem the goods before a certain date on a certain date.Once the deadline has passed, it will be changed from "living" to "absolute".

"You mean, for Gongsun Mo's painting, the head of the household signed 'Judang' from the very beginning?"

Hearing this, Zheng Xiu frowned and poked Yueyan into his mouth, asking.

Yueyan nodded, and answered obediently: "Yes, Lord Zheng...Hou."

Yueyan knew that Zheng Shan planned to pretend to be Zheng Xiu long before she came, but she didn't expect to be able to hide it from Si Youqing so smoothly, so Yueyan almost forgot to change her address.But for some reason, when Senior Zheng Shan pretended to be Zheng Xiu, once the two had a connection, every time Yue Yan looked at Zheng Shan's face, she always felt that Zheng Xiu's eyebrows and Zheng Shan's eyebrows overlapped from time to time, making it gradually difficult for her to distinguish, as if they were It's true that Mr. Zheng took all kinds of supplements, and he grew into a handsome and majestic man sitting there overnight.

No wonder Si Youqing believed Zheng Shan's words so quickly.Because the two are so similar, even Yueyan gradually imagined the similarities between the two of them once she accepted this setting.

After a pause, Yueyan continued: "I went to check the deed, and the painting was pawned at ten taels of silver. For Gongsun Mo's authentic work, this price is really too low. Maybe it's because of the other party's strong demands. The reason for opening the picture scroll to verify its authenticity, and the fact that the store accepted the picture scroll at that time was more of a gamble."

"Someone heard a scream in the pawnshop that night and reported it to the official overnight. It is said that the shopkeeper locked himself and the painting in the treasure room. When the lock was opened, the shopkeeper was found missing, leaving only a pair of paintings on the ground.”

"At first, the yamen was just an ordinary burglary case, and the scroll was taken back to the yamen."

"Before night, the person in charge of the evidence screamed again, but this time, the person and the painting disappeared together."

"It was only then that they realized that the painting was weird, and urgently contacted Ye Weiyang."

Zheng Xiu nodded and didn't say much.

This kind of case should be regarded as a typical secret room case in modern times.Whether to kill or not is another matter, because the paintings and people are gone, so it is difficult to define.

Yueyan smiled slightly: "Let's talk about the painting later. Then the two of us went to investigate and found some interesting things."

"First of all, the 'Descendants of Gongsun Mo' who were originally painted can no longer be found, and the dossier is unclear. So we went door to door and asked. We found that there was no family named 'Gongsun' in Yinping City. Unless Gongsun Mo's descendants don't even keep their ancestral surnames, it doesn't make sense. An old man said that the Gongsun family has long been extinct, and it is impossible to have so-called 'descendants'."

"We spent a few days in Yinping and found a lot of history books. Later, little brother Xie finally did something practical. He deduced the location of Gongsun Mo's tomb through the clues left by a few pages of fragments. The two of us, directly After running to the city for two days, I finally found an unnamed grave."

"There are not many burial objects in the tomb, and there is an empty stone coffin among them. Judging from its shape, the lost painting should have been placed inside."

"In the center of the tomb, there is a two-person coffin, and the identity of the owner of the coffin is recorded on the epitaph."

Si Youqing asked, "Is it Gongsun Mo?"

Yueyan shook her head: "Yes, but not all. The epitaph reads 'Gongsun Mo and Xie Luohe's Tomb'. The signature is...Xie Yunliu."

heard here.

Feng Bei and Zheng Xiu coincided with each other, and looked at each other with a tacit understanding.

They all saw four words in their eyes—that's why.

Si Youqing had to think about it: "Xie Yunliu...Xie Yunliu? This old man always thinks this name is somewhat familiar."

Zheng Xiu smiled: "Monk Hua, Xie Luohe, Xie Yunliu, it seems that the clues point to the same place."

Feng Bei nodded, agreed, and said softly, "Yunliu Temple."

Si Youqing slapped his thigh: "I see!"

Seeing a few people, Yueyan suddenly realized, and continued: "But what I just said is still not the most interesting part."

Zheng Xiu's eyes were fixed: "Say it quickly, don't play charades."

"At the time the epitaph was written, Gongsun was strange in the 13th year of Tianxuan and died in the 36th year of Deyao."

Hearing this, Zheng Xiu's expression changed slightly, and he made some calculations in his heart.

After a while, Zheng Xiu said in surprise, "A person from more than 200 years ago?"

Yueyan replied: "If what the epitaph says is true, this Gongsun Mo actually lived to be 150 years old."

"The next thing I want to talk about is the strangest thing the two of us found out in Yinping City." Yueyan took a deep breath and said without hesitation, "That coffin bottle is empty! "

In the living room, the air was suddenly quiet.

All eyes were on Yueyan's face.

Yueyan touched her smooth face, wondering: "Why are you looking at me like this?"

Zheng Xiu asked: "You actually opened the coffin?"

Yueyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "So what if I open it? Am I not here to investigate the case?"

Feng Bei nodded: "So you opened it?"

Yueyan hooked her ten fingers together, and a suture was as flexible as a snake. It slid out of her fingertips along her arm and wrapped around her fingertips several times: "It's not necessary. I used the 'thread' to probe into the coffin jar, I'm sure , which contained only rotting clothes and no bones."

"That tomb is clearly a clothes tomb."

In other words.

Is the coffin bottle empty?
No bones?

Where did the bones go?

If it was normal, the skeleton would be gone.

But it was Gongsun Mo's tomb, and a strange painting was born out of nowhere.

At this time, a cold wind blew in and the candles flickered.

The connection among them makes people think about it, thinking of the horror, Dou Xie couldn't help shivering.

"Zheng... What are you thinking, Master Hou?"

No one answered, Yueyan didn't get the response she deserved for a long time, and she felt depressed. At this moment, she saw Zheng Xiu still frowning and thinking about something, so she took the initiative to ask questions.

"I just thought it was kind of weird."

Zheng Xiu glanced across Feng Bei's face.

What surprised him wasn't why Gongsun Mo was buried with a person named "Xie Luohe".

It's not because of why Gongsun Mo's tomb is a clothes tomb.

What surprised Zheng Xiu was that the epitaph recorded that the year Gongsun Mo died was 120 years ago.

This figure does not seem special at first glance.

But Zheng Xiu has always had a puzzle in his mind.

21 years ago, the "change" of Baili Village brought about various changes.

Twenty-one years ago, Feng Nantian had a "mutation" in Baili Village. If Zheng Xiu hadn't interfered with that "past", Feng Bei, Feng Nantian, Treasure King, and Wei Chen would all have died in Baili Village.

And the time of Gongsun Mo's death was not too far away from the bloody case in Baili Village.

A full 100 years.

"Is it... a coincidence?"

Zheng Xiu wears [Intuition] all the year round, and he will not let go of this strange "touch". Instead of believing that the "100 years" is a coincidence, Zheng Xiu would rather believe that there may be some kind of incomprehensible hidden in it... connect.

Suppressing his doubts for now, Zheng Xiu asked Si Youqing to help prepare a few fast horses.

Now the clue points to Yunliu Temple, no matter whether the painting is there or not, this clue cannot be let go in vain.

Investigate separately and peel off cocoons.Zheng Xiu seems to be getting closer and closer to the truth of the "cannibal painting", but there is still a lot of fog.

Zheng Xiu became more and more curious about who this Gongsun Mo who lived for more than 100 years was, who Xie Luohe was buried with him, and who was "Xie Yunliu" who set up a tomb for them. Where is it, and who is the "flower monk" who has never been found.

The clue of "Flower Monk" was dug out alive by Zheng Xiu from the mouth of a blind man in the Incomplete Building through drugging, and judging from the fact that the Incomplete Building did everything possible to obstruct this, the credibility of the clue "Flower Monk" is very high.

After the four of them met, Dou Xie and Yue Yan did not stop, and started their journey to Yunliu Temple again.

Yunliu Temple is about 120 miles away from Yizhong County.

Ignoring the road conditions, it takes at least two days to walk.

This time there was plenty of time, so they decided to take a horse-drawn carriage together.

In Yueyan's words: She was scared of being bumped on horseback for the past ten days.

Zheng Xiu guessed that she was in pain, and expressed his deep understanding.

Since he was going to Yunliu Temple by carriage, Zheng Xiu didn't need to be Fengbei's groom anymore, so he naturally found a reason, saying that he was going to investigate other matters, and meet up again when he was close to Yunliu Temple.

Feng Bei eagerly proposed to follow, but Zheng Xiu declined.

"By the way, nephew Zheng Xian."

Before leaving, Si Youqing pulled Zheng Xiu aside.

"There is one thing that I am somewhat concerned about."

"Uncle Qing, please tell me."

"I'm wondering if the person who stole the scroll you're looking for from Gongsun Mo's tomb might be a tomb robber."

"Huh? Then?"

"Nephew Zheng Xian doesn't know something. As the saying goes, there is a clear way, and there is a secret way..."

Si Youqing came slowly.

According to him, if it is related to "thieves", we have to mention a loose organization - the League of Gentlemen.

The name Junzimeng sounds nice, but in fact, it has gathered a bunch of shady businesses.

Retired green forest hero, former mountain bandit, gentleman on the beam, street swindler, and even a wanted criminal wandering in the wild.

But this League of Gentlemen does not have a fixed gathering place, but there are secret ways of contacting the members of the League of Gentlemen.

"I met a friend a few years ago. He inadvertently disclosed the contact information of the Gentlemen's League to me. To be honest, I don't know if that person is still alive. He is just a young man in the Gentlemen's League. , but if you see this symbol on the street, you may be able to find them nearby."

Si Youqing's face showed a bit of hesitation. The reason for his hesitation was not because he was unwilling to tell Zheng Xiu about this matter, but because he felt that there was no need to deal with these strange people as Zheng Xiu.But Si Youqing could tell that nephew Xian was very concerned about Ye Weiyang's case, so he let go.

well!A hero is sad for a beauty!

Si Youqing sighed with emotion, looking at Fengbei's back, he always felt that he understood everything.

With that said, Si Youqing tapped three times in Zheng Xiu's palm, forming a regular triangle.

"Three o'clock?"

"Yes, this is the contact code of the League of Gentlemen."

Si Youqing solemnly warned: "There are quite a few thaumaturges in the League of Gentlemen, once they see Ye Weiyang's attire, they will never approach them. If you really want to find them, hey, nephew is so smart, there must be a way." But, dear nephew, remember not to make friends with them, after all, Shuzhou is not our Zheng family's territory! Be careful that you, a tiger, fall into Shuzhou and be bullied by dogs!"

"Didn't you suffer at their hands?"

Zheng Xiu asked curiously.

"How is it possible! Hahaha... I don't even look at who the old man is!" Si Youqing laughed and slapped him, and waved his hands to laugh.

understood.

Si Youqing suffered a lot.

Zheng Xiu blinked at Si Youqing, knowing it in his heart.

The exquisite carriage left the city, and Dou Xie was the driver, shivering in the rain and cursing.

Fengbei and Yueyan each had their own concerns, sat in the carriage and went to Yunliu Temple.

After Fengbei left, limited by the scope of fugue, Zheng Xiu took a chance and disappeared in green smoke.

Back at Zheng's house, Zheng Xiu called Qing Shisan and asked him to continue to inquire about the movement in the city.

The strange talk about "Infernal Purgatory" is becoming more and more fermented. Accompanied by his female relatives, Zheng Xiu is shopping and inspecting properties on the surface, but secretly... Zheng Xiu was ecstatic to find that he was walking on the street. There is a "feeling of bondage"!
That's what it's like to be in prison!
Although this feeling is vague, even Zheng Xiu can't use the stunt in prison, but this is finally a good start!
The folklore of "Infernal Purgatory" has made some people believe that there is a place called "Infernal Purgatory" underground in the imperial city!

Zheng Xiu looked up at the sky, the sky was clear and the sun was warm.

A strange idea came to mind.

"If this legend is deepened in the long run, will this city, this great country, and even the sky and the earth become a conceptual 'prison'?"

No!If the scale of "Folk Tales" is further expanded, will it no longer be limited to "Folk Tales"?
But a kind of... myth?
Zheng Xiu suddenly realized that what he was doing now was clearly borrowing the public opinion of the common people and the fear of the wicked to create a "false myth and legend" over time!
He is creating a false myth!

But for [Prisoner], once this false myth is believed by everyone, it will become a real myth.

[Prisoner] The depth of the doorway and the ubiquitous "purgatory on earth" can turn false myths into reality.

A myth called "Infernal Purgatory"!

What will happen if it happens?
"I just became..."

Zheng Xiu, who had figured this out, had a strange expression on his face, and mumbled a character from a fairy tale in his previous life.

"Ksitigarbha?"

(End of this chapter)