Awakening Day Collection

Chapter 24 Tai Sui (5)
Feng Si smiled lightly, but did not answer.After a long time, he suddenly said, "I've always wanted to ask you a question. Although we were classmates in junior high school, our relationship back then was just average, except that we didn't quarrel and fight, and we didn't contact each other for several years in high school. But after I met again in college, I always felt that you treated me like an old friend who skipped classes and played games with me for many years. You were willing to help me with everything, and you would even suppress your temper to comfort me, just like you As I said just now, be careful and cautious. I am not a narcissist who likes to indulge in self-indulgence. I know how much I have, and I don’t think I am super attractive. Better than that junior senior who is chasing you now..."

Wen Xiaolan blushed: "Why do you look like you know everything..."

"So, what is it for?" Feng Si said, "Please accept my disgusting line that is necessary in all vulgar romance films, and give me an answer: why are you so nice to me?"

Wen Xiaolan bit her lip lightly, and smiled lightly at Feng Si: "Then I'll also give you a necessary line: This is a secret, so I won't tell you."

It turns out that Wen Xiaolan looks so pretty when she smiles, Feng Si thought blankly.Compared with Lin Jinglu's mysterious and charming smile like the bright moon, Wen Xiaolan's smile is like golden sunshine.

He still wanted to continue to ask, when a person came from the other end of the corridor.The man was in a police uniform, but the last time Fons saw him he was in plain clothes.This is the policeman who let Feng Si into the library and decisively sent Ning Zhang to the hospital in a police car.The man had a very kind face and small eyes, which at first glance seemed to be awake.

"Sit, sit, I just came here to chat with you casually." Seeing that Feng Si wanted to stand up, he waved at Feng Si casually.

"I haven't had time to thank you yet," said Fons.

"It's a small matter, not worth mentioning." The policeman nodded at Wen Xiaolan, and sat down beside Feng Si, "Criminal Investigation Brigade, Zeng Wei."

"Does the murderer have any clues?" Feng Si asked.

Zeng Wei turned his head and gave him a meaningful look: "Your question is very casual, and there is almost no emotional color when your friend is seriously injured. It is like a routine question. You have already guessed the murderer. Is it hard to catch?"

Feng Si chuckled: "Are you planning to play Sherlock Holmes?"

Zeng Wei also smiled and did not continue this topic, but suddenly asked another sentence: "You hadn't entered the museum at that time, and you didn't see the injured person's face. Why are you so sure that the injured person is your friend?"

"I heard a passerby talk about his appearance and clothes outside, and that's when I realized he was injured." Feng Si didn't change his face and his heart beat.

"Oh, that's the case." Zeng Wei smiled lightly, but still didn't ask any more questions, as if every question he asked was just to test Feng Si's reaction, just to taste it.He looked at Fence for a while, and then said, "I remember your face. Two months ago, your father was murdered. This case is handled by our branch, but not mine."

Feng Si froze for a moment.Zeng Wei took out a pack of cigarettes from his body. Remembering that it was in the hospital, he had to stuff it back: "Your luck seems to be not very good. First your father was killed, and then your friend was killed."

Feng Si was silent for a while, carefully choosing his words: "This is probably life, there are unpredictable things."

"Yes, life! Unpredictable things happen!" Zeng Wei patted him on the shoulder, "You should also be more careful. If there is anything I need to know later, I will come to you again."

"No problem, welcome anytime." Feng Si nodded.

Zeng Wei stood up and left unhurriedly.Feng Si looked at his back, his eyebrows curled into a ball, and realized that he had encountered another difficult opponent.

"Go back and rest first," Wen Xiaolan said, "I'll be watching here."

"Go back," Feng Si said. "We can't help you here. Leave it to the doctors and nurses. I have to go to bed early and go to Guotu tomorrow."

"Don't worry about..."

"Holding the head is a knife," Feng Si said, "Besides, no matter which side the opponent is, it seems that they still have some scruples about me. While they still have such scruples, I have to do more work."

The National Library of China was forced to close that afternoon, and when it reopened the next morning, Fons was almost the first person to enter.

He successfully borrowed the "Kongzhai Transcript".This is a collection of strange stories from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. The author's name is Kongzhai Wumingsheng, who was probably an unknown scholar at that time. The so-called "Kongzhai" is probably the nickname of the broken thatched cottage where he studied.This book records many bizarre country legends, but the author's writing is rough and boring, and there are many typos and grammatical mistakes. No wonder no one in the future has heard of it. It only has the value of photocopying and archiving in the national map.

Feng Si looked carefully at the catalog, and suddenly, two large characters came into view: Tai Sui.He couldn't help his heart skipping a beat.The so-called Tai Sui is another name for Shirou.He understood that Ning Zhangwen must have read this story and found some different information from it.He took a deep breath and began to read the story carefully.He found that the author actually used "Tai Sui" as the title to collect eight different legends related to flesh-seeing.Six of them are ordinary stories about eating Tai Sui to prolong life, or fables about ordinary people fighting each other in order to get Tai Sui, resulting in tragic death and losing their lives, but the other two are quite different, and they are different from the direction he wanted to find. Coincidentally.

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The first story happened in the Yuanzhen reign of Yuan Chengzu.This summer, when a farmer in Henan was digging a well, he dug up a Tai Sui. For a while, the villagers were amazed and flocked to his house to watch this rare thing.After a young man saw it, he went home and told his grandfather about it, but the grandfather didn't think so, shook his head and said: "The so-called Tai Sui, the so-called food can prolong life, is actually just a rumor spread by the world. Whether it is reliable or not is very important." It’s hard to say. People with the right way may not think that Tai Sui is a good thing, but they may think that Tai Sui is unlucky.”

The young man was very surprised and asked his grandfather why he said that. The grandfather pondered for a long time and told a story about the past.It turned out that when he was young, he had entered the Taoist sect and worked as a Taoist boy in the Baiyun Temple in Dadu.At that time, the most respected Taoist priest of Baiyun Temple was Master Chongxu Yu Zhike.Yu Zhi was the disciple of Qiu Chuji, the Immortal Changchunzi who attained Taoism, and he went to the Western Regions with Qiu Chuji to accept the summoning of Genghis Khan.He was simple and self-disciplined all his life, and when he died, he was buried with no burial objects except the robes that he carried with him, so he won the admiration of the Taoist priests of Baiyun Temple and the people of Dadu.

On Yu Zhike's [-]th birthday, princes and aristocrats in the metropolis presented generous gifts one after another, but he politely declined them all, but Emperor Meng Ge couldn't refuse the gift.Therefore, on the birthday day, Taoist priests of Quanguan greeted the arrival of the imperial envoy in front of the mountain gate.The young man's grandfather was also in the queue. He watched as the imperial envoy read Meng Ge's edict, and then took off the yellow silk cloth from the tray held by the entourage behind him, revealing the imperial birthday gift: a precious piece of Tai Sui.

What happened in an instant shocked everyone.Just as Yu Zhike's line of sight touched this Tai Sui, he suddenly panicked, shouted, and staggered back a few steps, with a very terrified expression on his face.The disciples hurriedly supported him, and a disciple whispered in his ear, "Master, don't lose your composure in front of the imperial envoy."

Yu Zhike took a few breaths, then slowly calmed down, and apologized to the imperial envoy.Of course the imperial envoy knew that Yu Zhi was a respected and respected person by the emperor, and he was not qualified to embarrass the other party in his capacity, so he laughed and comforted him warmly, without any blame.

As a result of this curious incident, the whole birthday ceremony was cast in an air of melancholy.That night, Yu Zhike developed a high fever, and the young man's grandfather was sent to accompany Yu Zhike.Yu Zhike was old and frail, and even more delirious when he was sick. He kept talking nonsense throughout the night.The young man's grandfather heard him repeat a few words over and over again: Xie Misigan Dacheng, Shirou, Yaodao, monster, Yaoxie, and two feet high.

After ten days, Yu Zhike's illness slowly recovered.He didn't give any explanation, and the whole audience never mentioned this matter, and the sight meat bestowed by the emperor was also stored away, and was not handed over to Yu Zhike for consumption.

A year later, Yu Zhike passed away suddenly, and the young man's grandfather also chose to return to secular life. He left Baiyun Temple and returned to his hometown in Henan, married a wife and had children. The short period of Taoist priesthood gradually became blurred in his memory.But he will always remember that incident, and Yu Zhike's frightened expression as if his soul has been dissipated.He said to his grandson that Tai Sui is definitely not a good thing in people's impression. Yu Zhike must have encountered some disaster related to Tai Sui in the big city of Xiemisigan when he traveled west with Qiu Chuji. Unlucky.He also said that the family who dug up Tai Sui may also have difficulties.

A few days later, my grandfather's words really came true.The family divided the Tai Sui and ate them, and as a result, all eleven members of the family died suddenly.

The second story is much older, taking place in the first year of Yuanshou in the Western Han Dynasty.At that time, there was a thief named Wang Zhi who lived in Shouchun. He took a fancy to a rich businessman surnamed Yang in the city and wanted to sneak in and steal.He picked a dark and windy night for a month, and sneaked into the backyard of the Yang family through the dog hole.Just as he slipped into the room he had checked and selected in advance, he heard a burst of chaotic footsteps from outside, as if a lot of people had come in.He looked out through the crack of the window and was shocked: a wealthy businessman named Yang Lu really welcomed a visitor with many servants. This visitor was none other than the owner of Shouchun—Huainan King Liu An!

And when Liu An and Yang Lu walked towards the room where he was hiding, he realized that he had made a big mistake.He got in the wrong direction and got into the study room that Yang Lu usually used to receive important guests.At this time, he couldn't think about it, so he could only hide in a corner of the study, shrinking his body behind a big vase as much as possible, praying that he would not be discovered.

All the servants stayed outside the house, only the host and the guest walked into the study, and the next scene left Wang Zhi, who was hiding in the corner, dumbfounded: one of the host and the guest sat down, and the other stood aside.However, what is not commensurate with their identities is that the person sitting on the couch is the rich businessman Yang Lu, and the majestic Huainan King stands there respectfully with his hands down!

"You still have the face to see me!" Yang Lu snorted.He is usually a cunning and superficially kind person, with a fake smile on his face and a shrill voice.But at this moment, his voice was deep and hoarse, and every word he said seemed to be carved out with a knife.

"My lord, I, I don't want to do this either!" The noble Huainan King panicked and knelt down on the ground, "I'm just going by the way, by the way, by the way..."

He stammered and couldn't continue, Yang Lu sneered: "I gave you supernatural power, is it for you to satisfy your own selfish desires?"

Liu An was sweating profusely: "I'm actually doing this... for the sake of the Lord's great cause. After all, the strength of Huainan Kingdom is limited. If I can seize the world... if I can seize the world, then..."

"If I can have the strength to conquer the world, why should I come to raise your dog?" Yang Lu jumped up, "Is my brain not as good as your pig's brain! Since I promised to teach you the secret of immortality In the future, it will only be a matter of time to usurp the power and seize the throne. At that time, you and I will each get what we need, and you will live forever to maintain the foundation. What's wrong? You fool insists on starting conspiracy now, and now the plan has been revealed. People from the imperial court will arrive soon, and the task in my hand has not been completed yet, everything has been ruined by you!"

Liu An trembled all over, and buried his head deeply, not daring to lift it up.Yang Lu slowly regained his composure, sat back down again, and when he spoke again, his voice became indifferent: "I will leave here."

"You...leave?" Liu An was very anxious, "If you leave, what should I do? My lord, you can't leave me alone!"

"You will bear the bitter fruit you planted yourself." Yang Lu, who was called "the master" by King Huainan, said lightly.

Liu An slowly got up from the ground, stood up straight, and held the hilt of the sword hanging from his waist.Although Wang Zhi, who was hiding in the dark, couldn't see his expression, he could imagine that Liu An must have fierce eyes and murderous aura at this moment.

Yang Lu sat still, as if Liu An was just an empty air in front of him.He seemed to have inadvertently picked up the oil lamp on the table beside him with his right hand, and then put the palm of his left hand on the burning flame.Wang Zhi was very surprised, but after a while, he didn't smell the burnt smell that he expected, and Yang Lu's body remained motionless, without any pain.

"Do you really think you have the ability to hurt me?" Yang Lu's voice was steady, as expected, he wasn't hurt by the flames at all.

Liu An collapsed in an instant.He fell to the ground, crying in his voice: "Please Lord, save my life! Please Lord, save my life!"

"Save your life?" Yang Lu's tone was full of sarcasm, "What value do you have for me to save your life now?"

Liu An knelt down on the ground, crawled up to Yang Lu in an ugly crawling posture, and whispered a few words.Yang Lu pondered for a while, then said slowly: "Try it. Whether it can save your life depends on God's will."

Liu An is very grateful, and I can't afford it.Yang Lu did not know what mechanism he was pulling, and a big hole appeared on the ground next to the couch, and there was a strange sound coming from the hole, as if some large beast was breathing.After a while, an object slowly crawled out of the hole in the ground.

Wang Zhi desperately covered his mouth with his hands to prevent himself from yelling: A terrible monster crawled out of the hole in the ground!It was about the size of a pony, with no limbs all over its body, and it moved forward entirely by the wriggling of its body.He couldn't see the details clearly from a distance, but looking at the outline of that thing, it was somewhat close to Tai Sui, a treasure in folklore.But he himself has never seen Tai Sui himself, so he can only guess wildly.

Liu An seemed to have seen this monster before, but he didn't seem surprised.He moved his knees and kowtowed reverently to this creepy monster wriggling like a cabbage worm, as if he was praying for the protection of a divine beast.There was a piercing strange sound from Yang Lu's mouth, which didn't sound like a human voice, but seemed to be giving some order to the monster.After hearing the sound, the monster sped up and crawled in front of Liu An, leaning on Liu An's shoulder.

Liu An cried out in pain, as if he was bitten, but he still tried his best to hold back the pain, and his body kept shaking due to the extreme pain.After a long time, the monster left him, and made that "snoring" sound of panting again.Wang Zhi guessed that it must be exhausted.

"The rest depends on your luck. You can go." Yang Lu said.

The monster retreated into its burrow.Liu An respectfully kowtowed to Yang Lu on the ground, then got up, covered his shoulders and walked out the door. There was a bloody wound on his shoulder, which seemed to be a gift from the monster just now.

Wang Zhi waited for a long time, until Yang Lu closed the cave again and left, he dared to go out through the window secretly, and then quickly escaped from this main house that hides endless secrets, never daring to think about Yang Lu's property again.

Soon, Emperor Wu's special envoy found conclusive evidence of Liu An's rebellion in Shouchun, and King Huainan was forced to commit suicide.However, there are rumors among the people that King Huainan's suicide was just an illusion. When Emperor Wu sent troops to arrest him, he swallowed the elixir he had refined in advance, and together with the eight ministers who practiced Taoism together, known as "Eight Dukes", Shengxian flew away.

(End of this chapter)