Urban Hidden Dragon

Wang Han was speechless for a moment.

"You always come to protect me, right?"

Crow Man gnawed on the bones, "Not really, more of them just come to watch the fun!"

Wang Han was confused when he heard this, "What is there to see here?"

Yao Lao used chopsticks to pry out shreds of meat that were hard to bite off the bones, "Someone wants to plot against Sao Sao, Sao Hao will definitely plot back! Now just wait and see the popular three zombies jump into rage!"

Wang Han still didn't understand. These big guys talked like the Riddler.

Ya Lao took a sip of wine and said, "That little girl is calling you!"

Wang Han looked over and saw that Duan Muying had already finished eating and was walking over.

"Cousin, I'll take you to your room!"

Duan Muying glanced at Crow Lao, who was still eating meat and drinking wine calmly.

There were hundreds of people in the village, and it was impossible to know them all, so Duan Muying didn't ask any questions.

He took Wang Han to the rest room.

Duan Muying sat down, his eyes a little hollow.

"Cousin, why did those uncles and uncles cry a little at first, but soon they started talking and laughing."

Wang Han raised his head and held a cigarette in his mouth.

"They are already old. When children cry, an adult will wipe their tears. When they cry, the person wiping their tears has already laid down."

Duan Muying stared at the ceiling, the brother and sister said nothing.

Soon.

Duanmu Mingliang walked in.

"Uncle Seven."

Wang Han put the cigarette butt into the ashtray and stood up.

After Duanmu Mingliang came in, he walked to the window and took a look outside, and then closed the curtains. He was so mysterious that he didn't know what kind of plane he was going to make.

After closing the curtains, Duanmu Mingliang looked at Wang Han.

After making a series of sign language, Duan Muying followed the interpreter and said, "Cousin, Uncle Qi said he has something for you, but this thing cannot be known to others."

Wang Han didn't know what he was doing.

Duanmu Mingliang took out something wrapped in yellow silk from his arms.

After opening the thing, I found a mask inside.

The shape of this mask looks a bit strange. If you look closely, you will find that there are four faces on the four sides of the mask. When I stared at it, I still felt a little bit nervous. It was not eerie. It felt like looking at the more efficacious statues of gods in temples. The masks were somewhat like those used in Nuo operas to create facial expressions.

Duanmu Mingliang handed the things to Wang Han and signed again. Duanmu Ying's expression gradually changed.

Wang Han looked at Duanmu Mingliang's sign language.

Duanmu Mingliang's meaning was very simple, asking Wang Han to hold this mask and not tell anyone, even the closest people.

Wang Han didn't know what he was doing.

He also started to make small calculations in his heart. Wang Han didn't want to get involved in the Duanmu family's farce, but then he suddenly thought of what Uncle Zang Dian said, it would be fine if the Duanmu family gave Wang Han something to hold.

Duanmu Mingliang handed the mask to Wang Han's arms again.

Wang Han took the mask without thinking much.

The mask looks very heavy, but after I got it, I found it to be very light. After looking at it carefully, it looked more like it was made of slightly hard leather. With a little force, it could even be crumpled into a ball and stuffed into a pocket.

Wang Han played with the mask. I don’t know if everyone is like this. When he was standing by the building, there was always a voice in his head saying to jump. When he touched the fire, there was also a voice in his head saying to jump in. Take this. When I was wearing a mask, an inexplicable idea of ​​putting on a mask flashed through my mind.

Duanmu Mingliang stood by the window and looked out through the gap in the curtains.

He signaled to Duan Muying again, and then walked out.

...

Duanmu Mingzhi held a mask in his hand.

Standing behind them were Duanmu Mingli, Duanmu Mingwen and Duanmu Mingwu.

"Fourth brother, is this an heirloom of our Duanmu family?" Duanmu Mingwu looked at the mask curiously.

The mask is exactly the same as the one Duanmu Mingliang gave to Wang Han.

Duanmu Mingzhi held the mask, "Yes, this thing is also the condition for the Zhao family and the Sui family to assist us this time!"

"What's the use of this thing?"

Duanmu Mingzhi smiled and said, "This thing is called Nuo noodles, also called Jin noodles. There is also a more mythological name called Human Emperor Mask."

Duanmu Mingwu was confused, "What the hell, I can't understand a word."

After hearing this, Duanmu Mingwen finally stopped talking, "You know about Nuo opera, right?"

"I know, this thing is not a living fossil of opera. It is something that existed in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. It is similar to the one that dances with the Great God, right? But what does it have to do with this? What is the thin noodles that the fourth brother just mentioned?"

"Jin is a witch, a woman is a shaman, and a man is a witch. You always know the witch."

"The witchcraft one? The one who dances with great gods?" Duanmu Mingwu asked.

Duanmu Mingzhi, who was holding a mask, took over the conversation, "After thousands of years of ups and downs, the word witch is indeed inextricably related to the dancing master or superstition.

But what is witch?

It is explained in "Shangshu Lu Xing" that the emperor grieved for the innocent people and killed them, retaliated with violence and used power to suppress the Miao people. He had no world under his command, so he ordered Li Chongli to be unstoppable and have no divine power.

Wu is also explained in "Guo Yu·Chu Yu Xia". In ancient times, the people and gods were not mixed, and the people's spirit was not mixed with others, but they were able to be solemn and righteous, their ability to compare meanings up and down, and their righteousness could be far-reaching. Xuanlang, his name can illuminate him, his intelligence can listen to him clearly.

Witches can control the heaven and earth, communicate with ghosts and gods, distinguish truth from falsehood, understand things, understand yin and yang, and law all things.

To put it bluntly, in my personal opinion, witchcraft is not only the embodiment of the superstition of the ancients, it is the spiritual support of our ancestors in primitive society, the scientific civilization produced in that era, the embodiment of wisdom, and the reflection of that era. Of course, being the answerer to the world's most difficult problems of our time is inevitably shrouded in mystery.

During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the power of witchcraft was the power of the gods, an existence second only to the power of the king but also taking orders from the king! The Qin Tianjian under the royal power, and even the Si Tianjian in later generations, were also derivatives of the witch powers. In the middle of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the witch powers and royal powers began to merge into one. Until the Zhou Dynasty, the witch powers and royal powers still merged into one.

You have always heard the words "mandated by heaven", right? The person at the top of the king's power calls himself the emperor. Isn't this a manifestation of divine power? And the masters of this kind of divine power are also witches. But after the First Emperor, they began to crazily suppress the witchcraft power. It was the royal power that completely crushed the witchcraft power. To put it bluntly, the alchemists also attributed their roots to witches, while those who practiced martial arts traced their roots. It is also inseparable from witchcraft, which has a great influence on the religions of later generations.

But witchcraft not only represents the existence of dancing masters and communicating with ghosts and gods, but also covers all disciplines, astronomy, calendar, medicine, law, agricultural technology, philosophy, history, literature, art, etc., all of which are inseparable from witchcraft. ! Wus were the wise group of that era! The emperor is the leader of this group.

Witch doctors, shamans, and divination are all witches, and the originator of witchcraft is Fuxi, one of the Three Emperors. "

Duanmu Mingwu was stunned for a while.

"Fourth brother, what does your whole day have to do with this mask?"

"You know the story that the Yellow Emperor has four sides, right?"

Duanmu Mingwu looked confused again, and Duanmu Mingwen took over the conversation.

"Lao Ba only immerses himself in practicing martial arts all day long. How could he know these things? That is to say, the Yellow Emperor has four faces. Do you know the "Nuo Yi Tu"? There are four-faced gods in it."

"Four faces? Real or fake? How can a person look like this?" Duanmu Mingwu was like a poor student, completely listening to the scriptures.

Duanmu Mingzhi smiled and said, "In ancient times, there were legends about the four faces of the Yellow Emperor, but legends are legends after all. The legend of the four faces is greater than reality. There is such a passage in "The Corpse". Zigong asked Confucius, "The ancient Yellow Emperor Four sides, do you believe it? Confucius said: The Yellow Emperor took four people who joined him and made them govern the four directions. They were coupled and formed without agreement. This is called the four sides. He also said: Yu has a long head, a bird's beak, and a bad appearance. The world follows The wise learn from it.

There are also records about the four sides of the emperor in the "Sixteen Classics". In the past, Huang Zong (Huang Zong, the Yellow Emperor) was very trustworthy. , ginseng on the left and ginseng on the right, ginseng on the right and ginseng on the right, so that it can be the four sects of the world. "

"what does it mean?"

"It means that the Yellow Emperor did not have four sides, but had capable people around him to help him govern the four sides. In ancient times, divine power was a means of royal power. With the help of divine power, people developed respect for the king's power, so the saying of four sides would spread. Come down."

Duanmu Mingwu didn't quite understand it at first, but when he saw Duanmu Mingli and Duanmu Mingwen both nodding, he also nodded thoughtfully.

"Then what does this mask do?"

Duanmu Mingzhi took the mask and showed it to several people. There were four faces around the mask.

"We call it 苋面 because the methods of Nuo opera and witchcraft are from the same origin. The functions of 觋面 and Nuo noodles are always the same. They are even more advanced than Nuo noodles. Nuo noodles only invite gods to ward off evil spirits through singing and dancing. Blessings, and this mask, can really make a person's strength skyrocket! How should I explain this to you? It is almost the same as the methods used by shamans to invite gods, or to invite immortals to the gods, or to the methods of jitong and others!

But what they invited was the dying Qi body of the deceased. The strength of the Qi body they invited was greatly reduced compared to when they were alive, and this mask was the Qi of the Nine Provinces Ancestral Dragon! Therefore, it is also known as the Mask of the Emperor of Fame.

This is why the Sui family and the Zhao family are keeping an eye on the heirlooms of our Duanmu family.

When the Japs came in, the reason why our grandfather was targeted was also related to this mask. Those Japs also coveted this family heirloom of ours! Our grandfather had to endure hardships in order to keep the Duanmu family alive.

But later he was killed by that person, leaving no trace behind! If it hadn't been for a mysterious man's words back then, the Duanmu family would have been wiped out by that old madman. "

The brothers all stared at the mask, their eyes filled with greed.

"Fourth brother, try this thing for me!"

Duanmu Mingzhi slapped Duanmu Mingwu's hand.

"Don't move. If you want to use this thing, you must meet three conditions. First, you must have pure Yanhuang blood. Second, you must be recognized by the Ancestral Dragon Qi! Third, you must be above the Three Flowers Realm. use!

Otherwise, it will definitely be counterattacked! "

"Three Flowers Realm? Then this thing is not very useful. The Three Flowers Realm is not the Dragon Elephant Realm. Ordinary people can't reach that level!"

Duanmu Mingzhi smiled and said, "I just said that this thing can make the strength skyrocket. With the help of the ancestral dragon's energy, it can cleanse the essence and cut the marrow, strengthen the body. Wearing it in the early stage of the Three Flowers Realm can reach the middle stage, and the middle stage can reach the late stage. And this thing The most terrifying part is that you can use it in the later stages of the Three Flowers Realm to reach the terrifying Chaoyuan Realm!

You all know how terrifying Chaoyuan Realm is! "

The eyes of several people became intense again.

"Fourth brother, let's ask the Zhao family and the Sui family to help us kill our father this time. The price is to give them this thing. Isn't this a bit of a wolf?"

Duanmu Mingzhi glanced at Duanmu Mingli and said, "Third brother, what are you thinking about?"

Duanmu Mingli, who was in a daze, came back to his senses and raised his head, "No... nothing?" He lowered his head for a moment, "Fourth, it was me who killed our father. The Zhao family and the Sui family clearly agreed to only severely injure our father, but They just killed our dad! I am nothing!"

Duanmu Mingli slapped his big mouth hard.

Duanmu Mingzhi grabbed Duanmu Mingli's wrist and said, "Third brother, you have also seen our father's body. Even without today's incident, it would have been a matter of time before he left. There is no need to blame yourself too much!"

Duanmu Mingli held his head in his hands, scratched his head hard, his eyes were red, "I am a beast! I am not a human!"

After a moment of silence, Duanmu Mingwen said, "Okay, third brother, everyone is gone. It's useless to talk so much. You have also seen the state of our father. The news came that Wang Han is coming back. You see, he has become a mature man." What's going on? I wish I could give everything in the Duanmu family to Wang Han.

Now that everyone else is dead, it's a done deal. It's useless for you to blame yourself. Don't think about that. Think about the things in front of you. Mingwu was right just now. Now the Zhao family and the Sui family are staring at this thing. Give it or not. ? "

Duanmu Mingwu smiled and said, "Fourth brother is currently in the middle stage of the Three Flowers Realm. With the help of this object, he can reach the peak of the Three Flowers Realm! If the two of them are too eager, they will directly wake up the sleeping uncle. The uncle wearing the mask is Chao Yuan. We are in such a state! Are you still afraid of them?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Mingwen shook his head, "This consumes too much money and is inappropriate! If those two families tell the uncle about what we are doing, I'm afraid the uncle will have to clean up the family!"

Duanmu Mingzhi smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. This is only something we do when we have no choice. It doesn't matter if they confess. Let's just say that they are trying to divorce each other. Of course, the third brother is right. This consumes too much, so we have to Think of another way to divert trouble to the east."

"Diversion of trouble to the east? You mean to tell the Zhao and Sui families that the things are at the second brother's place?" Duanmu asked Mingwen.

Duanmu Mingzhi then smiled and said, "Although my second brother always has the kindness of a woman, in the final analysis, he is one of his own family members, and he will still protect the Duanmu family in all matters of right and wrong. How could you have forgotten that we have a complete Outsiders!”