Ghostly Tomb

Chapter 345 Black Cat
"By the way, Xiaozhi. I'm going to your house to find you." Liu Xiaohong's mother said, "A few days ago, when I was packing up old things, I found a stone cat that your mother kept with me. It's been many years. I forgot, do you want more?"

"Stone cat?"

When Chen Zhi heard the mention of his mother, he immediately became sensitive, "What kind of stone cat? When did this happen?"

"That was more than 20 years ago, when you were still young!"

Liu Xiaohong's mother smiled and said, "If you want more, I'll bring it to you."

After she finished speaking, she turned and went to the warehouse. After a while, she came back with a black cat-shaped stone sculpture.

"I had forgotten about it. If I hadn't tidied up the warehouse that night and saw the black cat's eyes sparkling, I would have forgotten that there was such a thing."

Hong Ma said, and handed the black stone cat to Chen Zhi.

Chen Zhi took the stone cat and looked at it carefully. The cat was not too big, not much different from a normal tabby cat. It was black and sticky all over, like a black mud cat, with two black spots embedded in its eyes. The stone, tinged with green, looks like cheap glass.But the black cat's figure and posture are portrayed vividly. It raises one right paw, arches its body forward, and opens its mouth slightly. The expression is so realistic that it almost meows.

Chen Zhi knew that although the cat's appearance was crude, its carving was extraordinary, and it was definitely not a vulgar thing.He weighed the weight of the cat with his hand, it was very heavy, the overall volume and gravity ratio inferred that the material was very dense, which was quite different from ordinary stones, but this can be seen from the carving style of this stone cat , this intaglio technique is very old, like the product of official kilns in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

"Aunt Hong, didn't my mother say what it was when she gave you this black cat?" Chen Zhi asked Liu Xiaohong's mother.

"No, wait~~", Liu Xiaohong's mother seemed to remember something,
"I remember that it was raining very hard that day. The heavy rain was very unusual. City Z had never experienced such a heavy rain, and it almost caused a flood. The city issued an orange warning for heavy rain, and all the roads outside were blocked by rainwater. No one dared to go out. But your mother sent this stone cat over in the heavy rain that day, saying that I would keep it for her, and told me not to give it to anyone else, but to wait for her to take it back with her own hands. I wondered at that time what made her come here on purpose. After that, your mother seemed to have completely forgotten it, and I forgot it too. At that time, the broken cat was drenched by the heavy rain, I thought she picked up the junk somewhere."

What Liu Xiaohong's mother said immediately aroused Chen Zhi's curiosity. He wrapped the cat in a cloth, said goodbye to Liu Xiaohong's mother and son, and left their bun shop.

When he walked to the door, Gou Zhengfei had just finished his work. He washed off the black charcoal all over his face, and was about to go in to find Chen Zhi.

"Brother, why did you leave so quickly, I still want to have a good chat with you!" After Gou Zhengfei finished speaking, he said with a bit of embarrassment, "Well, I was helping you take care of Xiaohong all the time, but later It's been a long time, Xiaohong and I..."

"I have something to do, I'll go back first",
Chen Zhi stopped Gou Zhengfei from finishing his sentence, he patted Gou Zhengfei on the shoulder, "You look like a man now, your business is doing well, do it well! Call me if you need anything."

After Chen Zhi finished speaking, he turned around with the stone cat in his hand. After walking past the bun shop, Chen Zhi quickly returned home. Fat Wei and his father ran out again to play chess with no one. Without a trace, only Chen Zhi was left in the house.

Chen Zhi carried the stone cat up to the second floor. He washed the whole black cat with clean water first, and soon discovered that the cat's body was actually covered with a thick layer of muddy film, while the cat's The weight mainly comes from the material inside the body, that is to say, the black appearance of the cat is just an illusion, and the material itself is very dense, which is likely to be a kind of precious metal.

Chen Zhi pulled out his dagger and scratched the black cat's body twice. As expected, after a few scrapes, the black cat's body revealed a shiny golden color.

"This is actually a cat made of pure gold? No wonder it's so heavy!" Chen Zhi said in surprise,
"If this cat is made of pure gold, then it must not be an ordinary utensil. My mother entrusted someone to keep it at that time, so it couldn't be a meaningless act, but why did my mother send this cat to Liu Xiaohong's home? What about it? Could it be that you know that your home is no longer safe and you might be attacked?" When Chen Zhi thought of this, he couldn't help but think of the ghost mother and those terrifying Motorola (a demon that can change into a human form, once changed Cheng Chen Zhi's mother).

"After my mother died, the ghost mother who pretended to be her didn't know the existence of this stone cat, so she didn't come to Liu Xiaohong's house to ask for it. It happened that Liu Xiaohong's mother also forgot about it, so this stone cat has been preserved until now. If my mother hid the cat in Liu Xiaohong's house because she was afraid that people would find it, it would prove that the cat was hiding a very important message, could it be..."

Chen Zhi once read a piece of ancient material from the Tang Dynasty. Because there were no institutions such as banks and bank accounts at that time, many wealthy families stored their belongings in their own homes, so they were often looted by thieves.In order to prevent theft, the nobles and rich people at that time made a very special storage device.

This storage container looks like an ordinary stone sculpture, it may be a stone dog, it may be a jar, but the inside is empty, they seal precious gold and silver softly inside, and then paint black on the outside of the container. The mud makes the storage container look like an ordinary decoration. In this way, many ancient treasures have been preserved, which is called a treasure niche.

If this black cat is a treasure shrine, then there must be something hidden in its belly.

Chen Zhi picked up the black cat and shook it. Sure enough, he heard some very subtle movements. The black cat's stomach must be empty.

It took Chen Zhi about half an hour to carefully scrape off all the black mud on the black cat's surface.The golden cat's golden body was revealed, and he soon realized that he had thought things too simply. This golden cat was not only completely incapable of speaking, but it was also engraved with dense incantations. These incantations faintly It exudes a cold aura, which is very painful when it touches people's skin.

Chen Zhi opened his palm, and it turned out that from just now, the right hand he used to shave the black cat has been oozing blood, and it is full of incisions.

Chen Zhi closed his palms and looked at the golden cat engraved with spells again. If he guessed correctly, the spell on the golden cat was a powerful curse that prohibited humans from touching it.

(End of this chapter)