I never expected that those eyes, those eyes...
I remember that pair of eyes, I remember it too well, and I can always think of it. They were the eyes of my high school classmate. They were really, I will always remember those peach blossom eyes, the peach blossom eyes that once bewitched me. That was a female classmate, she was pretty, I liked her, especially those eyes, which bewitched me for a moment when I was in high school. I was confused the first day I saw her, I was at a loss, as if I had lost my position.
Ji Yihe looked at me.
"Do you recognize these eyes?"
I nodded.
"It seems that the hanging coffins in this cave have eyes and people we are familiar with. So, how can it be that these small coffins are full of eyes, and they are not the eyes of the corpses from the Qing Dynasty?"
"I don't know. I want to find this classmate of mine and see what happened."
"Yes, but the eyes I saw were also familiar, but I really can't remember them. Anyway, I have seen them before, but I don't know whose eyes they are."
I called other classmates and asked about that female classmate, and they told me that she fell into the water and drowned the year she graduated from high school. She had been dead for many years, and I didn't even know about it.
I stood there dumbfounded, my heart aching. Actually, I had always liked this female classmate, my deskmate back then, but she had died many years ago. So how could her eyes be here? In the small coffin? What was going on
I couldn't figure it out, and Ji Yihe couldn't figure it out either.
"I think we have to go to the cave and see what those little coffins are about, and find out how those people got into that little house."
I think I should go, otherwise I won’t be able to figure this out.
Ji Yihe and I went to the cave again and looked at the corpses in the room. Most of them died while sitting against the wall. It seemed very quiet.
We didn't see anything, nor did we understand how they got in. After entering the small coffin room, Ji Yihe went in first, shouted loudly, and then started cursing.
"Crazy He, you scared me to death."
I didn't expect that He Dana would be here. It seems that there is nothing that cannot be hidden from him.
"Let me take a look. You, Ji Yihe, are the most interested in these small coffins. There are so many of them, and no two are alike. And based on the carving skills, I'm afraid you, Ji Yihe, should give them some praise."
"Yes, it is good indeed, I like it, but what is inside is evil."
"I looked, they are eyes. Those eyes seem to be the eyes of some people. I know one of them. This is quite strange. I asked about it. The person I know died, but his eyes are here. Logically, this small coffin box has been around for two or three hundred years. It shouldn't be their eyes. The strangest thing is that these eyes are still alive. Look at the wood of the small coffin."
"To be honest, I don't recognize this wood."
"It's strange that you, Old Ji, have played with wood all your life and you don't recognize it."
"I find it strange, too. I can say that there is no wood in the world that I don't know. This is a bit exaggerated, but it is basically true."
"You don't know him, but I do."
He Dana took off a small coffin box and rubbed it with the corner of his clothes. In an instant, a strange fragrance came out. When you smelled it, you felt extremely comfortable.
“So fragrant?”
"This is fragrant wood. Of course, there are tens of millions of kinds of fragrant wood, but this kind of fragrant wood grows on cliffs, and it can only be found in Dongdu. Dongdu is an ancient place name, which is a mountain in Yingzhou today. Only there can this kind of fragrant wood grow. Legend has it that if this kind of fragrant wood is made into a box, no matter what you put in it, it will not go bad over the years. Even if you put a piece of meat in it, it will not go bad for ten or twenty years, and it will be the same as when it was fresh. Of course, this kind of fragrant wood can only be used by the emperor. It can be used for incense, or it can be eaten. After eating, the whole body is fragrant. It is extremely precious. Now this kind of tree has disappeared."
I didn't expect that He Dana knew so much.
"Is this the fragrant wood that the Fragrant Concubine in history ate, which gave her a strange fragrance that attracted butterflies and bees?"
"right."
"How much are these small coffins worth?"
I was so stupid as to ask this question.
He Dana and Ji Yihe both laughed.
They looked at it for a long time and then sat aside.
"What about the eyes?"
"I found that these eyes are quite beautiful. I counted these small coffins and there are 160 of them. I think the eyes in each coffin belong to women, and they are beautiful eyes. There may be empty small coffins here. If there are beautiful eyes, they will come here. So who did it?"
After saying this, He Dana glanced at Ji Yihe.
"I only make coffins. I don't know these things. I want to ask you."
"I think there should be something in one of the small coffins. Let's look for it together. Of course, remember to close the small coffin box."
We started looking, and I never encountered the eyes that I was familiar with again, but each pair of eyes had its own characteristics, and it seemed that my heart was hooked when looking at them. This kind of eyes really should not be looked at too much.
He Dana said.
"Don't look for it, it's here."
He Dana took off a small coffin.
"Let's get out of here. We shouldn't stay here any longer. I'm afraid something might go wrong."
We went to He Dana's place and the small box was opened. Inside was a book, a very small book with words written in traditional Chinese characters with a soft brush. The font was very small and the writing was quite beautiful.
“Nice calligraphy.”
He Dana looked at it. It was only a dozen pages. After a while, he finished reading it and handed the book to Ji Yihe.
"Look, what does this mean?"
Ji Yihe looked at it for a long time and shook his head.
I picked it up and read it, but I didn't understand it. It seemed like the words had no meaning at all, and I felt that the writing was a bit messy.
"It seems like there's no connection between what they say."
"Okay, take it back and study it."
He Dana handed me the book and I went home. Gujuan and Xiaozhe were playing. After their father's death, they seemed to have become calmer, as if they had lost their support and they felt unhappy.
I was reading a book and thinking about something. Yun Bai actually came. I frowned.
"I came to see Xiaozhe and bought him some clothes."
Xiaozhe and Yunbai are very nice. I ran over to hug them. That’s the hug I wanted the most, but I will never get it, maybe not until I die.
I glanced at Yun Bai and she looked away.
That day Yun Bai told me that she was leaving here and might not come back for a year or half a year. I didn't say anything, I wanted to get as far away from here as possible.
I pondered over it for half the night but still couldn't figure it out. Maybe it doesn't make any sense at all. It's just a book written randomly, or maybe it's just showing off the handwriting. The handwriting is indeed beautiful.
I went to sleep, and at two o'clock in the middle of the night, I suddenly figured it out. The book was not thick, with a total of 68 sentences, each with six words. Think about it, what is it? A curse, a curse, it should be a curse.
I am sweating. What will happen if I chant this mantra? What kind of mantra is this
I didn't know, so I went out and went to He Dana's place. I knocked on the door and He Dana started cursing from inside.
"asshole."
He opened the door, saw it was me, and glared at me.
"I figured it out. It's a curse."
He Dana, who was walking in front of me, stopped for a moment, turned back and stared at me. I felt very scared when I looked at his eyes.
"Really, it is indeed a curse."
We entered the room, He Dana picked it up and looked at it, then he slammed the table and said, "Fuck you!" I screamed in fright.
"Are you ill?"
"Bring some wine and food, drink."
"It's already the middle of the night, and you're still drinking?"
"Happy, stop talking nonsense."
I'll take the wine and let me drink with you.
"Boy, you are very capable. You will be stronger than me in the future. This is the Great Qing Mantra, do you know? I have been looking for it for many years and finally found it. I didn't expect that it would be so close to me. It's just that the Great Qing Mantra is written in a mess. Every other word is staggered and written backwards. I say, write it in order."
He Dana said, I will write it, and I have finished it. He Dana looked at it and spoke for a long time.
"Yes, it really is."
After he finished speaking, he gulped down a glass of white wine. It seemed that He Dana was really happy.
"Okay, you sleep here for a while. You still have to go to work when the sun rises."
I went to sleep, and He Dana actually burst into laughter. That laughter was happy. I rarely heard He Dana laugh so happily. I don’t know what the Great Qing Mantra is, but I think it should be an important thing!
The next morning I went to work. When I left, He Dana told me to go to Xilailou after get off work.
I'm at work and my partner is already here.
"Didn't you sleep well, Master Ke?"
"Yeah, I didn't sleep well."
Work went smoothly that day and there wasn't much work to do.
After get off work, I went to Xilai Building. Dong Jun was standing at the door. He saw me and said.
"It's Chef Ke. I haven't been here for a while. Come in. I asked the chef to prepare a delicious dish today."
"Wait a minute, He Dana will be here in a while."
"He's already here. Let me wait for you here."
I didn't expect that He Dana would come so early. We entered the private room and the dishes came.
Dong Jun toasted with a glass of wine and left.
The dish is indeed unique and very good, and I like it very much.
"Son, I'll show you today."
When He Dana calls his son, it sounds like he is scolding someone, which is awkward to hear.
After drinking a glass of wine, He Dana asked me to lock the door.
"Son, let me cast a great clearing spell on you today and see the effect."
I didn't say anything. I didn't understand the evil of the Great Qing Curse. I was afraid of curses. There were many curses used in ancient times, and many of them cannot be broken until now. I didn't know what curses they were. He Dana took me to a big tomb and said that it was a cursed tomb. Whoever went in would die miserably. He didn't know what curse it was. He just told me not to disbelieve in the curse. The curse doesn't care who you are. Only by breaking it can you be safe.
As for the Great Qing Mantra, I don’t understand it at all.
"I curse this lamp."
I thought, He Dana, are you kidding me? No matter how powerful the curse is, it can't be this bad. The light is broken? I think you are crazy. I just thought it in my mind, but I didn't dare to say it out loud. If I say it out loud, my brain will come out. He Dana will hit you with a brain cannon, and it will definitely cause a big bruise.
He Dana was muttering something, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Suddenly he stopped and the light went out. I was startled. I didn't expect that the light was really broken.
Oh my God, what kind of spell is this? How could it be so effective
"I'll try again. If it works, then I'm not wrong."
I'm a little trembling, please don't curse me.
"I curse Dong Jun to fall down soon."
"You can't do anything else. Dong Jun has no grudge against you."
"I can't think of anything else, how about you ..."
I immediately waved my hands, this was not a good thing.
He Dana started reciting it again, and seemed to be more proficient in it.
That day, Dong Jun really fell and his face was scraped. When we saw him, he was still cursing.
"I saw a ghost. I fell down on the flat road."
He Dana laughed so hard that he couldn't stop laughing. (To be continued)