Chapter 81 Jade Guanyin
As soon as the sound was heard, Xiaopang sat down on the ground with a thud. Lin Yuxi ran faster than a rabbit, but she didn't run away. Instead, she hid behind me, holding my arms tightly with both hands.
This mummy looks like the old man, both are "yin corpses". There are two types of yin corpses, one is a dry corpse and the other is a wet corpse. The dry corpse is called "the eight evil spirits of hatred" and the wet corpse is called "the eight evil spirits of evil". This situation is not uncommon among the people. Many of them are caused by problems in the cemetery, resulting in the body not decaying. For example, there is moisture on the old man's body, and his nails have grown more than half a foot long. Once a yin corpse is formed, it will bring disaster to the descendants. If it runs out of the coffin, it will eat the descendants and make the whole family die.
The formation of dry corpses and wet corpses is determined by the evil spirits in the cemetery. However, it is unprecedented for a family to have two Yin corpses. Although I don’t know what the relationship between the dry corpse and the old man is, it must have a special relationship with him since it is hidden in his cellar. And there is a talisman on the forehead of the dry corpse, which is to prevent it from running out and returning home to harm future generations. From this aspect, I suspect it should also be an ancestor of the Lu family.
While I was thinking, the corpse opened its mouth and began to move, making a muffled sound from its throat, and the wooden box was shaken even more violently. I quickly called Xiao Pang to help lift the old zongzi out, but the boy was so scared that his legs were weak and he couldn't get up. In desperation, I had to carry the old zongzi out by myself and put it on the ground, and I was covered in corpse fluid.
Then he turned around, grabbed a handful of sticky rice and stuffed it into the open mouth of the mummy, which immediately spurted out like popcorn. At the same time, it was trembling all over, and black smoke came out of its seven orifices. Zombies are most afraid of eating sticky rice. No matter how high-level the stuff is, eating sticky rice is equivalent to eating a deadly poison. Once the corpse qi is exhausted, they will die. The black smoke that came out of the seven orifices was the corpse qi. It sprayed for several minutes, and the whole cellar was filled with a layer of black fog. Only then did the mummy calm down.
The three of us covered our mouths and noses again, and waited until the corpse gas dissipated before we dared to breathe. I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this mummy was quite obedient and did not cause me any trouble. Yin corpses are not easy to deal with. Sometimes when you put glutinous rice in their mouths, it will all come out, and it will not cause much damage. If this is the case, it will be enough to make us drink a pot.
Lin Yuxi asked in a crying voice: "There will be more rice dumplings left in a while, when will it be over tonight?"
I patted her shoulder and said, "You can ask Xiaopang about this."
"What's the use of asking me? Why don't you just say it directly?" Xiaopang had a bitter face and it looked like he was about to cry.
I said to Lin Yuxi, "It shouldn't be. We'll be completely safe if we hide here until dawn." As I spoke, I leaned into the wooden box. It was actually a simple coffin, not a coffin. I looked at the corpse carefully with a flashlight. The clothes on its body were basically rotten, revealing its dark and shriveled muscles. There were no burial objects on it except for the rotten shroud, but a dark red pattern was seen on its chest.
I put on leather gloves and pushed aside the rotten pieces of clothing. I was immediately stunned. The pattern on the chest of the mummy was a blood-red ghost tongue!
Although the skin of the corpse turned dark red, it still looked so eye-catching and terrible under the flashlight. Seeing that my face was not right, Lin Yuxi was very curious and stretched her head to take a look inside, and said in surprise: "Ghost tongue!"
Xiao Pang had just gotten up from the ground, but when he heard the words "ghost tongue", he was so scared that he sat down on the ground again and said, "It seems like there will be no end to this night, right?"
I nodded with a sullen face and said to Lin Yuxi, "Before he died, this man was cursed by the Seven Poisonous Ghost Tongues. The mark on his chest is still there after his death, which means he was not killed by the curse, but died before the seven years were up. He died for other reasons, and the ghost tongue poison curse will remain in his body forever. The reason why he became a mummy and did not decay is because the curse was not solved, so he could not rest in peace even after his death."
Lin Yuxi looked at the mark of the ghost tongue and calmed down. She sighed and said, "Life and death are determined by fate. Su Chengda was not cursed by the ghost tongue, but he died earlier than us, and his death was so tragic."
"Are you still obsessed with him?" I said as I tore away the pieces of clothes around the ghost tongue mark. Suddenly, I saw that there seemed to be something in his throat, causing his Adam's apple to protrude high.
"No way!" Lin Yuxi denied hurriedly, "I've already told him... Hey... what is that?" She was startled when she saw me pinch the corpse's throat hard, and then something came out of its open mouth.
I stretched out my right index and middle fingers and took the object out of the corpse's mouth. It looked like a stone, cold to the touch, and because of years of being contaminated by corpse qi, the surface was covered with a layer of dirt like ink, so I couldn't tell what it was. I wiped the dirt off with leather gloves, and it turned out to be a light green transparent jade Guanyin!
We were both stunned. Lin Yuxi asked puzzledly, "Is this the jade Guanyin that Mr. Lu mentioned?"
I am not sure. First, the jade Guanyin is intact, and second, it is not in the old man's possession. It is hard to say. Maybe there are two jade Guanyins. Besides, this kind of jade ornament is not worth much. The key lies in whether it has been consecrated. Only the consecrated Guanyin statue has magical power. Otherwise, it is just an ordinary thing.
When Xiao Pang saw the two of us holding a jade pendant and muttering, he lost his fear, got up and walked over, tilted his head to look left and right, and asked Lin Yuxi: "You are a cultural relic agent, can you tell how much this jade is worth?"
Lin Yuxi put her eyes almost close to the jade Guanyin, and said as she looked at it: "This is not an ordinary green jade, it is transparent and has a uniform color. It seems to have water ripples in it, and it is very valuable." She raised her head and saw that we were confused, so she explained to us that this kind of jade is called "Shui Ze Jade", which is an extremely rare variety. She has only seen it once, and it was dug out from an ancient tomb. This kind of jade is priceless in the market. If you have to estimate its price, it is more than one million.
Xiaopang was stunned at the time, and I was also excited. What does a million mean? We may not be able to earn that much even if we run a fortune-telling stall for a lifetime. Although there are many wealthy people nowadays, a million is not a lot of money, but for poor people like us, it is a huge sum of money!
"So what you mean is that we got it?" Xiaopang was stunned for a long time before he said a word.
Lin Yuxi snatched the jade Guanyin from my hand and said with a smile: "It's working time now. You have to hand in anything you find. This jade Guanyin will belong to me from now on, not us."
"No, you can't eat it all by yourself. This was discovered by Brother Yu. Even if you eat the meat, you have to leave some soup for us." Xiaopang said with a bitter face.
"Okay, it was found by Ding Yu, and it has nothing to do with you, so you don't have to drink the soup." Lin Yuxi rubbed the jade pendant on her body, then looked at it in front of her eyes with joy.
"It's fine to have Brother Yu's share. He's a kind man. I know he will give me some." Little Fatty tried to please me with a smile.
"Then don't dream about it. He said he would make money to support me, so his share also belongs to me." Lin Yuxi immediately poured a bucket of cold water on him.
Xiao Pang lowered his head and said, "I have finally seen the true colors of the two of you. You said that there was no possibility of having a relationship, but you secretly kept me as your mistress. It seems that you have planned this to trick me."
Lin Yuxi was anxious: "What's going on? What's the meaning of keeping someone? It's so ugly. We are good sisters, he is a man, of course he has to support... me." After she finished speaking, her face turned red, as if she felt that this reason was not sufficient.
