Judgement

Chapter 180 IX

Chapter 180 IX

Xiang Xiaotian pointed to a groove on the two broken pieces of the pottery tripod and said, "Brother, does this piece of golden juice look familiar?"

Chen Mengsheng saw a small piece of golden molten liquid embedded in the groove of the pottery tripod, and there were black ink dots in the molten liquid.Chen Mengsheng said in amazement: "It turns out that the golden beans found in Kurasan's house came from this pottery tripod. It seems that Zuo Kui is also related to the gold in Hulu Town."

Xiang Xiaotian rolled his eyes and said, "When everyone is dead, who do you ask? Judging from the traces of the pottery's melting, the last pot of melting in the blacksmith's shop should be the gold. Otherwise, it wouldn't have happened." There is such a piece of debris left in the groove of the Tao Ding, could it be that someone saw that Cai had a different intention and killed their whole family?"

Chen Mengsheng took out the subduing magic ruler and took out the gold fragments left in the pottery tripod, and said with a smile: "Brother is right, but if you can't ask the dead, we can go to Kuru Jiu. As the mayor of Hulu Town, he will definitely know something If you can solve this mystery, it will be up to Kuraku..."

In the afternoon, there is still a mourning hall in the front hall of Kuraku's mansion.Kuroku sat in the hall and put pieces of fire paper money into the iron pot. Under the light of the fire, Kuroku looked older and older.Chunni led Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian into the hall, and Kuru wiped away his tears when he saw someone coming, got up and greeted them.

"You haven't left yet? Alas! My eldest sister died so badly!" Kukuo muttered to himself.

Chen Mengsheng bowed and said: "Old man Kuru, I would like to express my condolences. People cannot be resurrected after death. Today, our brothers have something to ask, is there any secret that cannot be revealed in Hulu Town?"

Kurojiu looked at Chen Mengsheng with a flash of eyes and said, "Sir, why do you say that? There are no secrets in Hulu Town. The little old man is really puzzled by what you say!"

Xiang Xiaotian said angrily: "Old man Kuro, I only consulted you because you were in mourning. But you are pretending to be confused with us here, do you think that the dead people in your town are still Isn't there enough?"

Kurojiu frowned and said displeasedly: "Little old man, I don't understand what you mean by saying that? My sister was in an accident last night, she is the only eldest sister I have left in this world. People's hearts are fleshy. Yes, how could I have the heart to watch my people die one by one?"

When Chen Mengsheng saw Kurojiu's grief and indignation uncontrollably, he had nothing to refute for a while.He took out the piece of gold from his sleeve and spread it in the palm of his hand and asked, "Master Kuru, do you know this thing? This was found in the blacksmith's shop of Zuo Kui. It should be the last one smelted by Zuo Kui or someone in the blacksmith's shop." thing."

When Kurakui saw the piece of gold, his face suddenly turned pale, and he gasped and said, "I don't know what this thing is, and I don't know why this thing appeared in Kurakui's blacksmith shop. I think you are messing with it. Wrong, the old man is not feeling well today, and it is really hard to accompany you two. You should go, Chunni will see you off!" Kuo Jiu tightly held the piece of gold that Chen Mengsheng gave him, and walked in with a flick of his sleeves. inner hall.

Xiang Xiaotian scolded in the Kujiu front hall: "Old man, what do you mean? Grandma, today I didn't read the almanac before going out, and I was kicked out of the house twice. Brother, let's go!"

Chen Mengsheng looked around and asked Chunni quietly: "I don't know if the girl has heard about gold in Hulu Town? The tragedy in the town may be inextricably related to this gold. I hope the girl can tell me." Chunni was about to speak, but looked at Xiang Xiaotian, a stranger, in embarrassment and became hesitant again.

"Hehe, girl, don't worry too much. Although my big brother is outspoken, he is a really good person. He scolded your grandfather because he was anxious about the disaster in Hulu Town." Chen Mengsheng said in a persuasive and persuasive manner.

Chunni thought for a while before saying quietly: "There is a legend in Hulu Town, but it is only a legend after all. No one knows whether the legend is true or not. For thousands of years, people in the town have searched for it. There is that legend, but no one has ever been able to find that legendary treasure.”

Chen Mengsheng frowned and said, "What kind of legend is that? Why is there a treasure in it?"

"I heard that the elders in the family often mentioned that our ancestors used to be the great general Zou Pei of the Northern Yan Kingdom. At that time, the general of the Qin Army Wang Jian led the Qin soldiers to occupy most of the Yan Kingdom. My ancestors and the King of Yan retreated to Liaodong, but what happened? In the end, it was defeated by the Tiger Wolf Qin Army. King Yan was killed, and my ancestors did not want to be surrendered by the Qin Army, so they led more than two hundred people from the tribe to fight the heavy siege, and were chased and killed all the way through the Qi State. Later, in the Yangtze River Sink all the treasures of the family into the river, and prepare to fight to the death with the pursuers. I didn’t expect that it was the thick fog in the river, and my ancestors could come here through the thick fog.” Chunni said here as if she was in the Jin Dynasty. Ge Tiema was like an agitation in his chest.

Xiang Xiaotian sighed: "Then the gold we found in the blacksmith's shop should be the treasure that your ancestors sunk at the bottom of the river?"

Chunni shook her head and said, "I don't know about that. It is said that throwing treasures into the river is a tribute to the Dragon Lord, so that the river will be protected by the thick fog. When my grandfather's grandfather's generation, the town is full of Fishing is a profession, and no one has ever searched for the treasure in the river. People in the town have gradually forgotten it, and they all say it is just a legend. That is to say, since then, the clansmen have sworn a heavy oath, and no one can Go and honor the treasure of the Dragon Lord, if someone dares to violate the oath, he will be punished by the tribe..."

"Chunni, what did you say to them? Hurry up and get me into the room! You're not afraid of being pulled out of your tongue by talking nonsense, why is the dead girl standing here?" Kuroko didn't know what it was Shi Shi walked into the front hall with a livid face, and was about to reach out to hit Chunni when Xiang Xiaotian stepped forward and pushed her away.

Kurojiu said angrily: "You foreigners don't come to meddle in the affairs of our calabash town. At first I thought you could break the curse for us, but you are still causing troubles in this town. Even my sister was killed , what else can you do besides asking around?"

Seeing Kuro Jiu's furious look, Chen Mengsheng couldn't help but smiled and said, "Old Man Kuro, what happened in this town shouldn't be a curse, right? I think you already knew about it, right?"

"You...you...what nonsense, how would I know? Don't spew blood here, get the hell out of town..." Kuroku hissed loudly at the top of his lungs.

Xiang Xiaotian walked to Chen Mengsheng's side with staring eyes and said softly: "Brother, how do you know that this old guy knew that the strange things in the town were not cursed? I was confused by what you said, did the people in the town Did he kill them all?"

Chen Mengsheng stared into Kuroko's eyes and said, "Brother, don't you think it's strange? When he was holding the gold, he showed only anger but not the slightest surprise. At that time, I wondered if he had seen this before. Gold. Just now Miss Chunni was telling us about the family’s treasure in the river, and he immediately came out to stop it, and I became more and more convinced that he was afraid that people would know that the gold was related to the treasure in the river.”

Xiang Xiaotian pointed at Kojiu and shouted: "Old man, it turns out that you are the one who did evil from it. As the patriarch, you have a vicious heart and killed so many clansmen. I will make your deeds known to the world , let your clansmen know your true face. Let’s go to the town and talk to everyone.” Xiang Xiaotian was going to pull Zuojiu while talking.

Kuroko blurted out anxiously: "It's not me, I haven't harmed anyone in the town."

"Who is it if it's not you? Hurry up and tell me the truth, what's going on?" Chen Mengsheng sternly roared, and Kou Jiu fell to the ground in shock.

"I... I... I don't know, I really don't know. I just have a strange heart when I see money, but I didn't hurt anyone. Just please don't drag me to the town, I can do anything Let me tell you." Kuro Jiuwan never thought that he would see the flaws when he got the gold from Chen Mengsheng.

"Hurry up, I'm not very patient." Xiang Xiaotian scolded.

Kuraku sat on the ground as if his spine had been pulled out, shaking into a shivering ball. "After my eldest son Kurohiro was killed by a strange fish in the Yangtze River, I cried out for him on the riverside every day. Who knew that one night, when I was calling out the soul by the river, I saw a person floating in the river. I hurriedly got into the water, picked up the man and went to the riverside to see that it was the third child in the town who was overturned by a strange fish and fell into the water. The whole body of the third child was covered by the monster. Most of the fish was peeled off, and its face turned into a bloody mass. I wanted to send him back to his house, but a gold ingot rolled out of his clothes. Jin Ruyi engraved us The imprint of the ancestors of the Kuro family, I... I... just got confused..."

Chen Mengsheng snorted coldly: "Then you were the one who killed Kuro San Mie later?"

"No... I haven't... killed anyone..., when I took Jin Ruyi, the old man just woke up and called Uncle Jiu and passed out again. I'm afraid he'll kill me Jin Ruyi When the matter got out, I wanted to push him back into the river. But at that moment, the two brothers Zouda and Zougui were passing by home, so I had to hide behind the big rock by the river. Only dare to come out when I go back, I really never killed Kuro San..."

Chen Mengsheng nodded and said, "Then Kuro San asked you for Jin Ruyi later?"

Kuru Jiu said dejectedly: "That's right, that kid did come to me a few days later to ask for Jin Ruyi, but Jin Ruyi has a seal engraved on it, as long as anyone in Hulu Town can recognize that it is the ancestor of the Kuru family. The clansmen will be punished if they find out. Kuro Sanyi and I can only melt Jin Ruyi so that no one will know about it. It just so happened that the youngest son of the Kurui family in the blacksmith shop gave the strange fish to eat. So we secretly took him to a place where no one was around and told Kurakui about the melting of gold. Unexpectedly, he was even more greedy and wanted to get all the treasures of his ancestor Shen Jiang. Kuro Lao San meant that there were strange fish in the river Harmful people who want to get the treasure again are undoubtedly going to die. It’s better to get rid of the strange fish first and then go to get the treasure, so Kurakui, who is usually indifferent, built the iron cage overnight.”

"Ah, so the boy didn't hit the iron cage to avenge his son? He wanted to covet the treasure at the bottom of the river?" Xiang Xiaotian exclaimed.

Kuroko twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Kukui regards money as his life, and he has more than one son. Not long after that, we caught the strange fish, and we melted Jin Ruyi down the night after we killed the monster fish." Yes. The three shared the gold, but never thought that the blacksmith would hang himself at home in a strange way. Since then, the town has become more and more miserable..."