I collect cultural relics in the human world

Chapter 4 All things have spirit
"Would you like tea?" When he returned to the small courtyard, Qin Jian ignored the small stones that rushed out to look for snacks. Instead, he sat down at the stone table in the courtyard and asked leisurely.

The sound of water in the small courtyard was still there. He Si looked at the familiar scene and remembered that the first thing he said to her seemed to be to invite her to drink tea. She couldn't help but laugh a little. It seemed that she could never get around this.

"Okay," she thought for a moment, then added, "I have to stay up until the early morning anyway, so some tea will just refresh me."

"Bastard."

Qin Jian seemed to be very dissatisfied with her idea of ​​drinking tea. He first patted Xiao Shitou's head to indicate that the snacks were in He Si's hands, and then went to make tea on his own.

"Sister," the boy called Xiao Shitou had a clear voice. He jumped up to He Si's side. He was not afraid of strangers at all. He directly put his chin on He Si's knees, raised his head and asked, "Snacks!"

It really looked like some kind of small animal. He Si's whole body softened. She opened a pack of butter potato chips and a can of multi-flavor chocolate beans, and tasted them together with the small animal.

Not long after, a cup of hot tea was handed to her hand. The snow-white porcelain contrasted with the green tea soup, which was really beautiful.She held the tea cup in her hand, lowered her head and took a sip. It was a little hot, and the hot air dispelled the coldness. Even her ankles, which had been exuding cold air, seemed to feel warm.

"Um," He Si looked up and saw Qin Jian leisurely sipping tea. He seemed to be in a good mood and couldn't help but asked tentatively, "Gao Lan and Yan Yan are the anchor and the one who has been typing on the keyboard. Girls have all had their feet scratched by foreign objects, but none of them seemed to have the same reaction as me. Could it be because I saw that thing?"

"Did you see that thing?" Qin Jian's expression changed slightly. He put down the tea cup and frowned.

He Si also immediately returned the teacup to its place, sat upright and nodded.

"what?"

"I just saw it from the corner of my eye. It was fluffy and hunched over, like some kind of small animal."

"Could it be a hallucination caused by a fright?"

"No, I saw it before that."

Qin Jian tapped his index finger on the table twice, seeming to be thinking: "About when?"

"Well..." He Si recalled, "before everyone arrived and the lights dimmed."

"I mean, when did this hallucination of yours begin?"

He Si didn't expect Qin Jian to ask this question, and stumbled back: "It's... quite early. I had it when I was in high school, but it wasn't serious. I went to the hospital after the college entrance examination. The scientific name is very complicated, it's called Charles Bond." Nadine's syndrome is actually a disease of the eyeballs. It was never serious before, but recently, there have been more hallucinations."

"When did it become serious? Do you remember?" Qin Jian seemed to be very interested in this topic and followed the lead.

Wasn't it just after I met you that day?He Si complained in her heart, but of course she didn't dare to say it out loud, so she could only reply implicitly: "After coming to the hotel in the past two days, maybe the hotel has bad feng shui."

"Feng Shui?" The old Chaofeng in front of him still looked serious, but his slightly raised eyebrows showed that he was in a good mood: "Isn't it about eyeball disease? Why is it related to Feng Shui?"

"Don't lie to me. My hallucination and this... this animal are clearly two different things. Can hallucinations really come out to grab people's feet?"

He Si summoned up the courage to finish speaking. Seeing Qin Jian's silence, He Si came closer and lowered her voice and asked, "Really?"

"Come on, take me to see it."

"Don't we have to wait until the early morning?" He Si said this, but her body was very honest and she followed her.

"It's a different matter if you can find something." Qin Jian said without looking back.

The cafe was still dark, and the dim light from the mobile phone flashlight was like a boat drifting in the dark, unable to protect itself.But He Si was not afraid. She followed Qin Jian step by step. The figure looked thin, but it made her feel much more at ease.

"Do you still remember where that little animal appeared from?" Qin Jian looked around with the help of the meager light, but didn't see anything suspicious.

"By the door, that," He Si said, walking towards the direction in her memory. She wanted to point it out to Qin Jian, but the wall was changing in the intertwining of darkness and light, as if it would open up in the next second. Open your mouth wide.He Si felt terrified and suddenly retracted her hand, "That's probably it."

Qin Jian was not affected by the surrounding environment at all. He took a step forward, guarding He Si behind him, and touched the wall with his fingers.

"Are you sure this is here?" After a long time, Qin Jian turned around, obviously gaining nothing.

He Si nodded affirmatively and said nothing.

"There is no dark cave. It is completely part of the natural mountain. It is impossible to hide anything." Qin Jian touched the slightly undulating rough wall again. "Of course, small animals cannot get in."

"This is not a natural mountain." This time, when it came to He Si's professional field, she immediately shook her head, "This area is artificially carved."

"Artificial?" Qin Jian was a little confused, "Didn't it mean that this hotel was built based on the natural landform, and the color gradation of the wall is exactly the same as the Danxia landform. Can it be done artificially to this extent?"

"Yes," He Si didn't expect that Qin Jian, an outsider in architecture, didn't understand the hotel at all, so she explained in more detail, "This is the subtlety of this building. I did some homework before coming here. Layers of red powder from local stones are added to the paint on the interior walls, allowing the hotel to blend in with the natural landscape everywhere, making it difficult to tell the real from the fake.”

"Red powder taken from local stones..." Qin Jian's eyes returned to the wall. This time he got closer. With the light of his mobile phone, his face almost touched the wall.

There shouldn't be anything strange happening.He Si imagined the image of fluffy claws flying out of the wall and reaching for Qin Jian's eyeballs. Her whole body tensed up for a moment, her hands clenched into fists, her nails almost embedded in the flesh of her palms, and even her breathing stopped.

"no……"

She had just mustered up the courage to pull Qin Jian two steps back when Qin Jian's voice rang out at the right time, "It's okay. Just go back and take a hot bath and get some sleep."

After saying that, he turned back and went out, but he didn't hear the footsteps following him.Looking back, I saw He Si standing there looking at him with a grimace.

Sighing softly, Qin Jianyu said softly, "What's wrong? Now you're not afraid of being alone in a coffee shop?" "I'm just afraid. How can I dare to go back to take a bath and sleep if I don't understand what happened."

Qin Jian sighed again. This time, he did not hide his helplessness. He carefully looked at He Si up and down for several rounds and made a compromise suggestion: "How about you go to my yard to rest for a while and wait for something to happen?" I’ll find you after it’s solved.”

He Si didn't answer or leave, she just looked down at her toes.

"You have to know what happened to feel at ease."

"It's rare to be confused but to be wise. Seeking clarity in everything sometimes only leads to bigger mysteries."

Lao Chaofeng's philosophy of life was also very old-school, and He Si didn't buy it: "I don't want to be confused about what happened to me."

"What if the truth will break your peaceful life? It will bring you more unknowns, force you to give up the smooth path, and drag you into eternal disaster. Do you still want to know?" Qin Jian's words no longer sound like the teachings of an elder, but more like It's a bit tempting to miss.

"Got to know."

She didn't say she thought, but used clearer words - must know, must know, and should know.Qin Jian looked into her firm eyes. This girl who had always been timid and unsociable in his impression actually showed a bit of stubbornness and responsibility.

In the baptism of tens of millions of years, not only have I been worn away, but she has also changed a lot, or maybe... Qin Jian coughed lightly, trying to cover up his confusion, but his thoughts still drifted along the original path - Or maybe, the woman who remains in my worn-out memory is also incomplete.

"Everything has animism," Qin Jian said in a calm tone after making up his mind, but his voice was charming and captivating, "One flower, one leaf, one world, one plant, one tree, one Bodhi, even if it's just a pen , a book, a round fan, all embody the hard work of the maker. Especially in ancient times, the cultural relics that have been passed down to this day are not only the carrier of art, but also the display of the spiritual world of the ancients, embodying their view of the universe, and even their way of communicating with heaven and earth. With the help of others. These objects have been circulating in time for a long time, and have been tainted with human feelings and worldliness. After seeing the vicissitudes of life, they will naturally transform into some spiritual energy, or evil energy, and begin to possess some specific power."

"Is it an ancient object like the Sea-Dinging Needle used by Dayu to control the floods? It was later taken away by Sun Wukong and made into a golden cudgel, or is it L's "Death Note", where as long as you write your name, you will be killed?" He Si suddenly became interested. , a pair of big moist eyes flashed with a strong desire for knowledge, "So you are secretly collecting these objects as a minister?"

"It's not that mysterious. It's just a low-end version of a myth, anecdotes and the like." Qin Jian smiled and shook his head.

"Like many believers believe that the shroud of Jesus still retains the power of his resurrection from the dead?"

"You can also understand that old objects generate some special magnetic fields over time due to the obsession of the maker or user. Sometimes this magnetic field is too strong, or by chance, when you meet the right person at the right time, the two will be broken. The boundary between the three-dimensional, three-dimensional and four-dimensional worlds. This magnetic field will turn into a certain ability of the object, thus briefly affecting humans. I am responsible for collecting these cultural relics and eliminating this influence."

He Si opened her mouth, but hesitated - Could it be that I am the right person at the right time?

"This kind of situation is very rare, and not everyone can encounter it." Qin Jianxiang could hear what she was saying in her heart, and immediately added, "Originally, the magnetic field was easier to sense during the transition between yin and yang, so I I was planning to come here early in the morning to investigate, but I didn’t expect that you were the right person, so I saved you the time of waiting.”

"Then...what is it this time?"

"Didn't you say that the exquisiteness of this building lies in the fact that the craftsmen used red powder extracted from local stones as paint? The surrounding landforms are rugged and crisscrossed with ravines. Such sedimentation and evolution took thousands of years. I suspect there were some The murals were attached between the rock formations and were no longer identifiable after being exposed to the weather for a long time. They were peeled off together and turned into the paint here.”

"Mural? The theme of the mural is stuffed animals?"

"Do you know the pigments used in murals in ancient times?" Qin Jian did not answer her directly.

"I have learned some," said He Si, who was very good at academics. Although she was an architecture student, she was also involved in extended subjects. "Humans in the Paleolithic Age had the artistic behavior of decorating caves. The pigments used at that time, Most come from minerals, such as red from hematite, green from aluminosilicate clay, and black from charcoal.”

"Some of those pigments are derived from animal or plant extracts, such as white." Qin Jian added with approval.

"The white color... seems to come from limestone or ground bones, ground bones..." He Si sensed something interesting.

"To put it simply, there were animal bones in the rock formations. From your description, it is most likely a primate. It was originally crushed and ashes were used for decoration. I didn't expect that it would be like this thousands of years later. This fate has happened again, and no one can avoid being angry."

"Did the monkey spirit grab my feet?" He Si felt cold all over and immediately wanted to hide her feet under the warm quilt.

"It's here again. They say it's just a change in the magnetic field of the ancient object. It's just a false alarm to others, but it seems particularly intense on you."

"Why?" He Si also felt strange. She had asked Yanyan before and he was indeed not feeling unwell.

Qin Jian was also a little confused about this, so he had to say vaguely: "Maybe it's because you can see it. Originally, after a thousand years of hard work, it became nothing more than an abnormal fluctuation in the air, but now it can be seen. To them, It should be a great relief.”

"So it specially left a souvenir for me? How polite." He Si muttered.

"Throw a plum and give a peach in return." Qin Jian answered seriously.

"Is it really not going to turn into something else, into a human form or an animal body, into a fairy or a monster?" He Si didn't care. The more she listened, the more excited she felt. She actually gave up her fear and started looking forward to it.

"No," Qin Jian paused and replied seriously, "Anyway, I have been serving as a court official for so many years, and I have never encountered any object that can transform into life."

"Hey," He Si was a little disappointed, "I really thought for a moment that the little stone was the pair of stone lions at the door, but now that I think about it, it's really ridiculous."

Even though Qin Jian had seen strong winds and waves, he couldn't help but change his expression.Fortunately, he was standing in the shadows and He Si didn't notice. She asked again: "Then what would you normally do when encountering such a magnetic field?"

"You just said that you need to know what happened to you, so I told you, but what to do is my business, so it's not convenient for me to tell you."

He Si pursed her lips, unable to find anything to refute, so she decisively gave up the entanglement and nodded readily: "Okay, then I would like to thank you in advance for helping me get rid of this influence."

As she spoke, she took two steps back to her room, then turned back. After the stimulation, she still felt scared, so she had to ask timidly: "Then, can I still go to your place to rest?"

"Please." Qin Jian felt funny and narrowed his eyes slightly. There was a feeling of peach blossoms blooming on his old face.

It's over, it's over, I must have been poisoned by that girl Yan Yan. He Si shook that peach blossom face out of her mind and ran quickly towards the small courtyard full of security.

(End of this chapter)