First-class Celestial Master [Rebirth]

This matter is indeed a bit mysterious.

The method of picking lacquer like this kind of natural lacquer tree is "cutting lacquer". Cut a crescent-shaped opening on the natural lacquer tree and insert a container under the opening. The lacquer in the lacquer tree will flow down from the opening and flow into the container. In this way, high-quality paint can be collected. However, the requirements for cutting paint are relatively strict, and the amount of paint produced is not high, so there has always been a saying that "a thousand dollars and a catty of paint".The collected paint will change color after precipitation and oxidation, and the consistency will change accordingly. "White Saixue, red like blood, black like iron" means that the color of the oxidized color changes, and it will become a color like blood seeping It's normal, but finding human bones is really a big problem.

Zhou Tong asked again: "Did you discover it after digging out the statue?"

"That's right." Zhengzheng said, "The time difference between before and after is not more than two days, it should be a problem with the statue."

"Are there any special local customs or legends?"

"I don't know about that." Duanzheng was taken aback, he hadn't thought about it yet, and said, "I'll call and ask."

"No need." Zhou Tong shook his head and said, "I'll have a look tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Duanzheng said, "You will go as soon as you land? Are you not tired?"

"Afraid of accidents." Zhou Tong said, "Before I experienced the 'breaking the four olds', there were some strange beliefs everywhere. Some backward places did not have a deep understanding of metaphysics, and often believed in some wild gods. These wild gods are not What kind of orthodox gods, not to mention the lack of blessing ability, will absorb the local aura, and even use the people to do evil. Evil rituals such as sacrificing virgins and virgins are typical of them. Later, more and more people began to advocate science , Abandoning some of the old so-called feudal ideas, and also abandoning these wild gods by the way."

Zhou Tong's eyes fell on the God of Wealth enshrined in Zhengzheng's home, and looked at the painted pottery god statue he bought. Even though Zhengzheng was well maintained, this statue still lacked a bit of spirit: "The worship of the orthodox gods is not as good as before. Let alone these wild gods, if things go on like this, they will develop resentment, either to take revenge on the locals, or to find some means to regain their faith. I think that there are such strange things in that place, which may be caused by wild gods. Can not be sure."

"So that's it!" Zheng Zheng looked at Zhou Tong with admiration, "Why didn't I think of this?"

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "I don't know what you know, and I bought a villa by myself so quickly, it's amazing."

"No way!" Duanzheng was embarrassed by the praise, scratched the back of his head, and smiled.

Zhou Tong still had to temporarily store the puppet cat here, and Zhengzheng invited a special pet caregiver to take care of the puppet cat, and the three of them flew to L City, which was out of the city, the next day.

Pingshan County is a small town under City L. The villagers in the county live in the mountains, and the conditions are not good. The whole county is basically in a state of self-sufficiency. The only place that creates wealth is the small area to the west of the village. Wild sumac woods.

That piece of lacquer forest is mixed with other tree species, and its luxuriance is not high, but the quality and purity of raw lacquer are very high. Some high-end furniture manufacturers are in great demand for this kind of raw lacquer. He was obsessed with cultural relics himself, so he discussed with the villagers to sell the lacquer forest here. This matter was actually a business of his own, without any help from his family, and he paid for it all by himself from the beginning to the end. Thinking about how many lacquerware cultural relics such a good lacquer can save can be regarded as accumulating some virtue for yourself.As a result, I didn't expect that something happened not long after the market was placed, and before the season of picking paint was reached.

Zhou Tong bumped all the way into the village. On the way, Zhou Tong glanced out the window and said to the driver: "Master driver, please stop the car."

"What's wrong with Xiaotong?" Duanzheng asked suspiciously, stretched his head and looked straight out of the window.

Zhou Tong said: "I saw something." Zhou Tong opened the car door and walked out, and Zhengzheng hurriedly followed behind. Zhou Tong said, "I will go with Ling Yuan. This road will lead to Pingshan Village. Bar?"

"Ah?" Duanzheng was stunned, pondered for a while, and said, "Let me stay with you, just in case you get lost..."

"Don't get lost." Zhou Tong said, "The road here is not easy, you go first, the other side is still waiting for us, you go and say hello, I will be there soon."

Zhengzheng took a look at the densely packed forest in front of him. It was really difficult for him to do things inside. He knew that his body was immobile and upright. He didn't want to cause trouble for Zhou Tong and was worried that Zhou Tong would get lost. After hesitating for a long time, he finally nodded and agreed: "Then be careful and watch your phone at all times. Call me if you have anything to do, and come back quickly if you have nothing to do."

Ling Yuan sneered, Duanzheng immediately shrank his neck and stopped talking, hey, my mouth!Meddling in other people's affairs again!

Zhou Tong smiled and shook his head.

Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan got out of the car and walked into the woods. Ling Yuan said: "There is such a big formation in this small place. I don't know what happened before."

"Yes." Zhou Tong walked up to a big tree, squatted down and pulled out a wooden stake about half an arm's length nailed into the ground. Under the wooden stake was a half piece of almost corroded talisman paper. , the cinnabar characters on it can't be read clearly, "Can you tell what kind of formation this is?"

"No." Ling Yuan shook his head.

Zhou Tong walked a little further, and found a few pot-bellied clay pots stuck in the mud on the ground, with a layer of paint peeling off, and it had been a few years ago. , There are also talisman papers between the cracked tiles, because they are placed in clay pots, less exposed to wind and sun, and one or two words on them can be vaguely recognized, but it is still impossible to tell what kind of talisman they are.

"Clay pots, wooden stakes, are there copper nails?" Zhou Tong was just joking, but he actually saw copper nails on a tree stump.

The copper nail was nailed very deep. Ling Yuan pulled out the copper nail and handed it to Zhou Tong. The copper nail was covered with rust, and there were scraps of paper and copper rust mixed on the top. The paper scraps were all on the paper towel, red and white, and it was still amulet paper.

Zhou Tong lowered his head in thought, staring straight at the scraps of paper, "What's on the mountain..."

Looking into the depths of the forest, he felt that the mountain was unfathomable, and it seemed that some ferocious beasts were sleeping, but these formations that suppressed the beasts became rotten with time, and sooner or later, there would be Can't suppress the fierceness in the mountains.

Zhou Tong walked straight ahead and smelled a strange smell. He looked at the crescent moon marks on the tree trunk and said, "Have we come to the place where the lacquer is picked?"

"Yeah." Ling Yuan looked back, they walked a long way, the small woods before were obviously not visited by people, the herbaceous plants on the ground were very lush, common mushrooms grew in piles, and no one set foot on them However, this area is different. Herbaceous plants all grow under the tree trunks, and they are not too tall after being stepped on. Some wild mushroom plants are even more pitiful.

"Statue." Ling Yuan pointed to the dense forest in front, and said, "The evil spirit is very heavy."

Zhou Tong also saw the evil spirit coming from there, and walked forward. Now that we have come here, let's go to see what the statue is first.

The statue was inserted obliquely into the soil and stuck on the edge of the bottom of the pit, similar to the one in the photo, as black as ink, but looking at it from a different angle, there was a little redness in the eyes, Zhou Tong went down to the pit Here, looking at the wolf-like sculpture carefully, he said with certainty: "It's a wild god, but this wild god died long ago, and was still entangled to death by some evil spirit. Its eyes are the evidence."

"Nonsense!" Suddenly there was a soft shout, Zhou Tong looked back, but saw a young man in his twenties walking over, holding a compass in his hand, wearing a decent Tang suit, With big and lively eyes, he stared at Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan, glanced left and right at them, and asked, "Who are you? Why did you come here? Who allowed you to move this stone sculpture?"

Looking at his attire, Zhou Tong reckoned that he was a fellow of the same kind, but this young man's spirit was scattered and not gathered, obviously he had not yet entered the Tao, in other words, he was a liar of Lan Dao.

There are two kinds of people who rely on this to make a living. One is the red way celestial master who has really entered the Tao and can observe Qi and use talismans to do practical things. Road liar.

The young man in front of him obviously belonged to the latter, and he was not on the same side as them at all.

Zhou Tong stretched out his hand to Ling Yuan, and Ling Yuan pulled him out of the pit. Zhou Tong clapped his hands and said, "We were passing by, looking curiously at the statue."

"It sounds like your accent is from a foreign country?"

"Aren't you too?"

The young man stared, looked Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan up and down, rolled his eyes, and asked tentatively, "What did you mean when you said that the wild god died early?"

Zhou Tong: "How can there be any wild gods in this world, isn't it just dead?"

The young man obviously didn't believe Zhou Tong's rhetoric, and looked at Zhou Tong cautiously, probably considering Zhou Tong as a competitor.

The law that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers is the same everywhere, especially in this industry, even in the face of the same Feng Shui bureau, different gentlemen use different methods, and some methods even counteract. Naturally, it is very taboo for others to intervene. The smell was as choking as gunpowder.

Sure enough, the young man probed again: "I heard that this lacquer forest was taken down by a local boss?"

Zhou Tong: "..."

The local boss refers to correctness?Zhengzheng's family has been in business for three generations. It is said that his ancestor was an official scholar in the Qing government. How did he become a local boss?However, Zhengzheng's figure and style of talking and doing things are indeed different from his family, and he really looks like a local boss.

Zhou Tong held back his laughter and said, "I've heard that too, cough, Boss Tu."

The young man probed again: "Are you also here for that local boss?"

"Ah, it's not..."

"No, that's right." The young man snorted and said, "I advise you not to think about this statue, do you know who I am?"

"Who are you?" Zhou Tong asked amusedly.

"Qiyunze Chu family, do you know?"

"Are you from the Chu family?" Zhou Tong was a little surprised. If this person really belonged to the Chu family, his leg would have been broken if Mr. Chu found out that he was cheating outside.

"Yes." The young man snorted triumphantly, "You should have heard of Zhou Tong of the Chu family, right?"

Zhou Tong: "..."

Ling Yuan: "..."

Zhou Tong looked at each other in surprise. The young man raised his chin mysteriously and waved behind him. A man came out with his long hair hanging down to his waist. He stood behind the young man without speaking. , looked at them with a sullen face, and the young man said: "You should know my identity when you see him, right?"

Zhou Tong was speechless for a moment, when did Ling Yuan become a symbol of his identity?

Ling Yuan looked at that person expressionlessly, his eyes full of disdain.

It looks too ugly.

Seeing their expressions, Zou Fei was even more proud.

"You are... Zhou Tong?" Zhou Tong felt a little strange when he called out his name.

"Yes." Zou Fei hit the compass, the pointer on it turned, and then made a gesture of bowing, nondescript, a bit like the Chu family, "It is Zhou Tong of the Chu family."

"Okay." Zhou Tong's mouth twitched, Ling Yuan couldn't stand it anymore, and said to Zhou Tong: "You are here to accompany him to make trouble here because you have nothing to do."

"It's fun." Zhou Tong couldn't help laughing.

Seeing this, Zou Fei raised his eyebrows: "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing." Zhou Tong suppressed his smile, but still couldn't help curling his lips, and said, "It's a great honor to see you here. I have something else to do, so I'm leaving first."

Seeing that he was leaving in the direction of entering the village, Zou Fei hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go to the village, there are friends waiting for me."

"By the way, let's go together." Zou Fei shouted at the long-haired man beside him, "Let's go."

The long-haired man followed Zou Fei without saying a word, not to mention Ling Yuan's dying expression between his brows, Zhou Tong couldn't help but look at him a few more times and laughed out loud.

Ling Yuan: "...you are enough."

Zhou Tong: "Hahaha."

Zhou Tong didn't mind that there was an extra Zou Fei and they went down the mountain together, that Zou Fei talked a lot and was quite good at chattering, and he wanted to test Zhou Tong's details along the way.There are still many retail investors in this business, and it is impossible to get to the bottom of it. Zou Fei wants to know whether Zhou Tong is competitive, so as not to feed the cooked duck to other people's mouths.

As soon as the phone call ended, Zou Fei's mouth was dry. After a long time, the other party seemed to be different from him. It seemed that he graduated from university and came to do scientific research or something. He had no education and didn't know much about it. Zhou Tong talked about the history and tricks of the sculpture in a cloud, but finally he felt at ease, and began to talk nonsense with Zhou Tong about what he had seen along the way.

Zhou Tong listened patiently. Although Zou Fei belonged to Lan Dao, some of the things he had seen were quite interesting. Zou Fei didn't realize that he could directly kill him, but he narrowly escaped.

"Let me tell you, that widow's village is the feng shui of yin and yang. The white tiger moves extremely high, and the sand rides on the high ground. It can't get lower at all. The men in this village have been covered by the yin of the white tiger for a long time. If you don't live a short life, you'll be damned... Hey, I said, why did you stop suddenly?" Zou Fei stopped, looked back at Zhou Tong, and asked suspiciously.

Zhou Tong and Ling Yuan stopped at the same time. Zhou Tong looked to the east, but Ling Yuan looked to the west. The two looked left and right. A gust of wind blew by. Zou Fei tightened his coat and shivered. I asked again: "What's wrong with this?"

Zhou Tong turned his eyes back from the east, afraid that Zou Fei would bump into him, and said to him: "Come here, there seems to be something carved on the ground, what is it?"

"What is engraved on it?" Zou Fei looked under Zhou Tong's feet, but he didn't see anything. He took a step forward suspiciously, but suddenly he was hit hard by something behind him.Fortunately, Zhou Tong had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and pulled Zou Fei over without bumping into him. Looking back, an old lady with small feet was looking at him with a sinister smile. Zou Fei didn't want to care about it, but when he saw the old lady He frowned suddenly, and scolded, "Why don't you have eyes when you walk? Are you still so horizontal?"

Seeing that the old lady stopped walking, she just stood there looking at them, her eyes were a little gray, she suddenly waved at Zou Fei, Zou Fei was out of his mind, his consciousness was a little loose, he felt like he was drunk, The footsteps trembled a little.

The long-haired man who had been following Zou Fei and pretending to be cold couldn't bear it any longer. He grabbed Zou Fei and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Zou Fei said in a daze, "I'm a little dizzy."

"I'm sorry for delaying Daxian's journey, I'm sorry, just be careful." Zhou Tong handed over a jade, and the old lady turned her eyes away from Zou Fei and landed on Zhou Tong's jade. She stretched out her hand to wipe the jade, raised the corner of her mouth and laughed, the laughter was very strange, "It's still you, the baby, who has eyesight."

The old lady was holding the jade pendant into her sleeves, and was about to leave when Zhou Tong stopped her. Zhou Tong asked, "Where is the Immortal going? Why are so many immortals in such a hurry?"

"Here." The old lady raised her chin in the direction of the lacquered forest, and said, "There is a big person to be born there." After finishing speaking, seeing that several other earth immortals had surpassed her, she hurriedly shook Zhou Tong's face: "I want Let's go, boy make way."

Zhou Tong knows the temperament of these earth immortals, they have always been extremely angry, and if they can't get over it, they will make you feel uncomfortable secretly, and they won't stop them, let the old lady go.

Not long after the old lady left, Zou Fei's shaking body stabilized, but he looked at the long-haired man in confusion as if he had lost his memory: "What happened just now? Why don't I remember anything?"

"You bumped into it." The long-haired man named He Chou said.

Zou Fei was still a little dazed, but he understood what He Chou meant by bumping into each other, so he immediately shook his body and said, "Show me quickly, is there anything else?"

He Chou glanced at her and said, "It's all right."

"That's good."

Zhou Tong looked at this He Chou, and was a little surprised. This He Chou was different from Zou Fei. He was a person who had entered the Tao. He was hiding so deeply before that he didn't even see it through his yin and yang eyes. What method did he use? Do you use a device to cover your breath?But since they came out to cheat, it is much better to have the blessing of real ability than to talk nonsense, so why cover it up?

But this is someone else's business, Zhou Tong is too lazy to take care of it, just don't cause trouble under his nose, he said to Zou Fei and He Chou: "The great immortal has already left, let's go too, it's getting dark, we It's time for my friends to hurry up." Earlier, Zhengzheng made a phone call, worrying that he would go astray, and if he didn't make it in time, he might send someone to find them.

"Did you see the Great Immortal?" Zou Fei became nervous and felt that Zhou Tong was a potential opponent.

Zhou Tong nodded and said, "It's the old lady you bumped into just now, that's Xiangu Hu."

As soon as you talk about Hu Xiangu, you will know that it refers to the red fairy fox among the four immortals of red, yellow, white and green. The female fox is also called Hu Xiangu.

All of a sudden, the trust and thin layer of friendship were gone. Zou Fei felt that he was deceived by Zhou Tong's easy-talking and gentle appearance, so he immediately put Zhou Tong in the column of enemies, and didn't say a word to Zhou Tong again. If so, he also deliberately walked left and right.

All the way to the village in silence.

The village secretary was welcoming them at the door, and the middle-aged man in his forties looked around at the people on both sides, and finally met Zou Fei's side.

Because Zou Fei was wearing a Tang suit jacket with a silk surface, and coupled with the deliberate appearance of a fairy, he was more like a celestial master than Zhou Tong, and there was a long-haired man behind him, exactly the same as the information found by the village party secretary.

The village party secretary rubbed his hands and said, "Mr. Zhou, please come inside, it's getting late, we have prepared a feast for you."

Zou Fei was taken aback for a moment, and the set of tricks he had prepared hadn't been used yet, so he stammered and asked, "You, you know I'm coming?"

The village party secretary was also taken aback, and asked, "Didn't you come here with Boss Duan? Boss Duan said you had something to do on the way and you were delayed. Let me pick you up here."

Zou Fei: "..."

This is going to be bad.

Zou Fei cast a wink at He Chou, and He Chou's look clearly meant "wait and see what happens". Zou Fei calmed down, coughed and said nothing, making his attitude ambiguous.

The village party secretary also couldn't understand what the other party meant, so he turned to Zhou Tong and the others and asked, "Who are you? Outsiders from this village have to register. Let me see their ID cards."

Zhou Tong took off his backpack and took out his ID card. Ling Yuan was a criminal, so of course he couldn't have an ID card. There was only a fake ID issued to him by a proper relationship, but the ID card was real, and he passed it along to Zhou Tong. .

The village party secretary was taken aback when he got Zhou Tong's ID card, and asked, "Your name is Zhou Tong too?"

Zhou Tong smiled and said, "Yes."

The village party secretary was stunned. Of these two Zhou Tongs, which one is Boss Duan's friend?

When he was in a panic, he heard Zhengzheng's voice, and Zhengzheng came over with his fat body twisted. Seeing the stalemate, he asked, "What's the matter, are you all standing here?" After he finished asking, he didn't care about the answer, and looked at Zhou. Tong, "Xiaotong, why did you come here? Didn't you go hiking in the past two hours?"

Now which one is true, the village party secretary immediately understood, and he hurriedly apologized to Zhou Tong: "I'm sorry, my eyes are dumb, I didn't recognize you."

Zhou Tong waved his hands indifferently, and the village party secretary's pent-up anger and embarrassment were all thrown at Zou Fei and the others, and he said angrily, "What's the matter with you two? Are you pretending to be Mr. Zhou to deceive people?"

This trick was exposed before it even started. Zou Fei’s face was not good-looking, but he resisted the attack and replied with a straight face: "What are you lying about? You speak so badly! I am not pretending, you Wasn't it called Mr. Zou just now?"

"What Mr. Zou, my name is Mr. Zhou!" The village secretary blushed with anger.

Zou Fei said aggrievedly, "It's Mr. Zou."

"Mr. Zhou!"

"What Zou Zou Zhou Zhou, what are they talking about?" Zhou Tong frowned suspiciously, and Zhou Tong, who knew the whole story, suddenly laughed, and said, "It's nothing, let's go, I'm hungry."

"You still know that you are hungry. I am almost starving to death. I will wait for you to eat. Let's go for a walk. The chefs in this village cook really well. He dug it over to cook for my hotel, and I'm sure it will make him famous."

The whole group of people was bustling, and they didn't care about Zou Fei.

Zou Fei and He Chou looked at each other, and Zou Fei rolled his eyes at Zhou Tong's back and complained: "Come on, I set up a good game, and I really made a wedding dress for someone else."

"It's not that simple." He Chou said, "This game is half-truth, half-false, and he may not be able to break it. Let's find a place to live and see."

"Half-truth, half-false?" Zou Fei asked, "Brother Chou, didn't you say that all of this was a fake? Aren't the human bones in the lacquer bucket the chicken bones you threw in?"

"Yes." He Chou nodded, "But the trouble is real, there are problems in this mountain."

Zou Fei immediately tugged He Chou's sleeve: "Then shall we stay here?"

"It's all right now." He Chou said, "I still want to see if this Zhou Tong is as powerful as the legend says." He Chou took off the wig, revealing a neatly shaved body, The whole person became more energetic, he stuffed the wig into the bag casually, pulled Zou Fei and walked to the village.