Zhang Zixuan asked a few more questions, but I answered them vaguely. He knew that I didn't want to answer, so he didn't continue to ask.
About half an hour later, we set off. A group of luxury cars drove into the village. At the end of the village, there were more than a dozen prefab houses on a relatively flat land. Many villagers stood at the gate to watch. Dragons and snakes are mixed, some people are dressed plainly, they look like local farmers, and some are well dressed, probably outsiders like us.
We are the first to openly put up prefabricated houses in the village. Does Zhang Zixuan want to protest this high-profile move? Clearly tell the people here that my Zhang family has taken a fancy to this place, and if you are interested, get out!
There are 12 prefabricated rooms in total, one of which is for cooking, two for Cheng Dong and others, one for me, Zhang Zixuan and others, and the remaining four for bodyguards. Four board houses are enough for them to live in.
The furnishings in the prefabricated houses are very high-end, the rich are different, even the prefabricated houses can be decorated in such a fashion.
The prefabricated room I lived in had only one big bed, and the prefab room arranged for Xu Xiaoling and the others had bunk beds, I said to Xu Xiaoling: "Miss Xiaoling, it's uncomfortable to sleep on the upper and lower bunks, why don't we squeeze together? "
"Who wants to squeeze with you?"
"Think about it, Cheng Dong definitely wants to share a room with his girlfriend, don't you want to share a room with Wang Jianhua? I don't agree!"
Xu Xiaoling gave me a blank look and said: "Cheng Dong and Wang Jianhua share a room, and Doudou and I share a room." Doudou is Cheng Dong's girlfriend.
"But the upper and lower bunks are uncomfortable. How about this, you sleep in my room, and I will sleep on the upper and lower bunks." I said with concern.
Xu Xiaoling said softly: "How can I be so hypocritical? It's okay, it's good to have a place to sleep, you, just sleep in the big bed by yourself, if you really want to find someone to squeeze, go to Cheng Dong. "
Just after lunch, Xu Xiaoling and others were about to go out to collect antiquities, and I followed.
Zhang Zixuan sent several bodyguards out to collect intelligence and inquire about the news.
Xu Xiaoling and I walked side by side, and Wang Jianhua was furious. We talked and laughed and came to the first family in the east of the village. The house was small and dilapidated. The old lady opened the door, and Xu Xiaoling said politely: "Grandma, we are from the Qiling City Museum. This is my ID, please have a look." Xu Xiaoling handed over his work ID.
The old lady said: "I don't know how to read, do you want to rent my house? I am old, afraid of noise, and the house is small, so I don't rent it out. You can go elsewhere. If you want to collect antiques, you can come in." have a look."
"Grandma, we want to take a look at your family's antiques, and collect them into the museum and keep them there for safekeeping, so that future generations can see more complete antiques." Xu Xiaoling said gently.
The old lady invited us into the house, took out a yellowed rice bowl and said, "This is the only one left. I have used it for decades to eat. Someone offered 5,000 yuan a while ago, and I am not willing to sell it."
Cheng Dong put on white gloves very professionally, took the small bowl carefully, looked at it with a magnifying glass, looked at it repeatedly for a minute, Cheng Dong nodded and said: "It's blue and white porcelain from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, official kiln, very valuable High, but the preservation is not complete, so the value is greatly reduced, I estimate that the value of this bowl should be around 200,000, you can take a look."
The old lady was shocked when she heard Cheng Dong's words: "Young man, do you think my bowl is worth 200,000 yuan?"
I was afraid that the old lady's mood would fluctuate too much, so I hurriedly said: "Grandma, this is just a preliminary estimate, please don't get excited, but I am a little curious, why are you so surprised?"
The old lady said tremblingly: "I, my family originally had three antiques, but the other two were only sold for 8,000 yuan. Those two are porcelain vases, with similar patterns to this bowl."
I was speechless for a while, it seems that the old lady was cheated by unscrupulous small traders.
Of course Xu Xiaoling understood what was going on, and she said, "Grandma, we are legitimate, and we will never deceive people like those unscrupulous traders."
After being appraised by Xu Xiaoling and several people, he finally offered a high price of 220,000 yuan, and asked the old lady if she would like to sell the bowl. The old lady was very excited and said yes repeatedly. While chatting with the old lady, Xu Xiaoling learned that the old lady had a son. Her son found a wife in the city and gave birth to a little girl. Ten years ago, they had a car accident on the way back here for the Chinese New Year. Only the little girl He survived, his son and daughter-in-law both died, the old lady brought up his granddaughter, but the granddaughter mysteriously disappeared two months ago, the old lady almost went blind from crying, and then, the village lost many women in succession , Even the women from outside lost a few, the old lady told Xu Xiaoling and Doudou to be careful.
Lost only women? Is there a trafficker here? Impossible? You know, good and evil are mixed here, and there are quite a few people with special abilities. This incident must have aroused their suspicion, so have they tracked it down? So I asked, "Grandma, didn't you call the police?"
"No, we are in a remote village here. How can there be any police? However, the village head organized young people to go out many times to find nothing, and it was not done by outsiders, because the girls were lost at night, and at night , Those outsiders don't go out." The old woman said.
Everyone in the village has an alibi, so it's strange. Could it be some monster
It seems that this place is not easy, in order to avoid danger for Xu Xiaoling, I must be vigilant! If I knew it earlier, I would have asked my eldest sister to come here. With my eldest sister here, I will definitely be able to help a lot.
Back in the board room, I said seriously to Xu Xiaoling: "Sister Xiaoling, this place is very dangerous, if it's not possible, you should share a room with me, don't worry, I won't take advantage of you."
"No need, Xiaolong, I just try not to go out at night."
In the evening, I moved a chair and sat in front of Xu Xiaoling's doorway to doze off. I'm used to this way of sleeping, probably because of my relatively strong physique, so it's okay if I don't sleep for two consecutive days.
Although there were five bodyguards with guns patrolling the night, I still felt uneasy, so I sat at Xu Xiaoling's door in person.
According to my inference, there are three possibilities for the frequent disappearance of women.
First, it was done by human traffickers, but how can human traffickers come and go without a trace without being discovered
Second, those women were all deceived by ghosts when they went out at night, and perhaps walked into the deep mountains.
The third is to be dragged away by a ferocious beast, but this possibility is too small. If it is a ferocious beast, it is impossible to kill a person at once. It will definitely leave a chance for the woman to call for help, but no one in the village heard it. This sound, and there is no trace of blood.
So the second possibility is more likely, and Xu Xiaoling brought the amulet I made, ghosts dare not approach, but for the sake of safety, I still have to guard here personally to be at ease.
Fortunately, Xu Xiaoling didn't have the habit of getting up at night, so I sat until three o'clock the next morning. I stood up and moved around, jogged for a while, and did 500 push-ups. The bodyguards stared at me.
Just after I finished my push-ups, when I was about to meditate, Ma Dehua came out, and he said hello to me: "Xiaolong, you are really hardworking, how about you come and practice a few moves?"
"I wish I could!"
After practicing with Ma Dehua for a while, although I was abused by him all the time, I also gained a lot of experience. Masters are all born from abuse.
During the day, Zhang Zixuan discussed with me and said that he wanted me to go to the nearby mountains to look for clues. He estimated that there must be some ancient tombs nearby, and those village names should also know the location, but they refused to say it, so he While looking for a breakthrough from the villagers, I went up the mountain to look for it.
He said so, how can I not agree? He could only nod helplessly. Then find Xu Xiaoling and tell her to be careful.
Xu Xiaoling touched my face and said, "You have to be careful."
"Don't worry, haven't you seen my skills? I will try to come back as soon as possible and have dinner with you." I said with a smile.
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Zhang Zixuan asked Uncle Jiang, the gossip serial palm, to accompany me into the mountains to investigate, and we have a mutual support.
This small village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and I was stunned when I walked up the mountain. Who the hell knows where there are ancient tombs
I suddenly thought of Feng Nianke, if she was here, she would definitely be able to quickly find out the location of the tomb, no matter how bad it is, Miss Jiang can do it too, she was the one who found Long Chen's tomb back then, but I guess she will soon become Chen Haotian's wife How can I have time to help here? As for Feng Nianke, I wish I could hide far away, how could I take the initiative to find her.
We were walking aimlessly on the mountain, and Uncle Jiang asked: "Xiaolong, I read that in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", the main characters are all looking at Feng Shui and looking for graves, but we seem to be walking around."
"Uncle, do you also read novels? But you also know that they are novels after all. Besides, I am a descendant of Taoism, not a tomb robber, so I don't know that kind of technology."
I don't know if I don't talk about it, it's amazing to talk about it. It turns out that Uncle Jiang is also a wonderful person. He is in his forties. He also likes to read tomb-robbing novels. He kept telling me about the plots of various tomb-robbing novels along the way. I tried it myself, and said that if I went to catch ghosts again in the future, I must take him with me, and he also wanted to see and see.
The chatterbox opened up, and our relationship became much closer. I asked some questions about martial arts. Uncle Jiang was not stingy, and told me some skills in detail. He also said that if I am interested, I can learn from his gossip chain Palm, of course I am willing to do this kind of thing, so I agreed on the spot.