Yin Yang Tomb Raider

Chapter 1

I never thought that a routine ghost market or a sudden fire would change my life drastically. In fact, the fire did not hit me too hard.

I was eight years old that year, and my mother had just passed away. My relatives looked at me with knives in their eyes, especially my grandma, who cried and poked a finger on my forehead: "You have a bad character, you are unlucky, why? Take my daughter, my poor daughter!"

In order to pick up the ball that fell on the road, I stood on the road. The moment the speeding truck was about to hit me, my mother pushed me away. I watched her fall in a pool of blood, and the wheels of the car ran over On her head, one eyeball protruded, hanging on her deformed head, white mist diffused from her body, and gradually turned into a human form. I saw my mother was just hanging in the air as before, no one was there. Take my word for it, I was considered unknown, even my grandmother.

Grandma became more and more agitated, saliva fell on my face, behind her was my mother's coffin, she slept in it, she couldn't hear or see, I bit my lip tightly and said nothing , Finally someone took my hand and took me away from here, it was Grandpa.

He is a famous fortune teller in the small town where I was born. Since I was sensible, he always likes to hold a hard fruit candy with his withered hand and let me call him godfather. He always smells like an old man. The children dislike him, and only I will sit at his feet, crunch the fruit candies, and listen to him say some strange words.

What he talked about the most was that when the iron horse traveled in the desert, he would meet two dragons after thousands of miles.

Now, he pulled me out of the house, someone saw me with complicated eyes, then hurriedly brushed past my body, and left in a hurry, the godfather sighed: "My good grandson, people with light characters are easy to see Clean things are heavily tainted with yin qi, and offsetting yang qi will make people feel dizzy and inattentive, which makes them appear extra unlucky. In fact, it’s not a problem. When you grow up, you won’t be able to see it. Here, this is for you."

This is a piece of jade strung together with a red string. It is not complete, just a small piece of jade. Grandpa hung the piece of jade around my neck with trembling hands: "My child, what is destined cannot be stopped!" Yes, the people and things you meet are doomed, don't run away."

He stretched out my hands and smiled: "You have severed palms in both hands. A man's left palm is severed to hold a military talisman, and a man's right hand is severed to hold a treasury. Both hands are severed. As long as you guide it on the right path, you will be able to make a difference."

I couldn't understand, so I remembered every word he said.

Grandpa Gan’s fortune-telling has always been accurate. Children don’t like him, but adults regard him as a living fairy, and he looks like a living fairy when he gets old. The dimples on his face are like works of art, so he The way he died was also unusual. When he was standing on the edge of the only national road in the town, an iron fork fell from a passing agricultural vehicle, and the iron fork pierced his neck impartially, blood like It spewed out like a fountain, his body was held up by the iron fork, and he stood there all the time, his eyes wide open, looking at me standing across the road!

Yes, I witnessed the death of Grandpa Gan with my own eyes. I will never forget his wide open eyes, but I was uneasy, inexplicably uneasy. He let out a long sigh when he said that he would meet two dragons, and he patted my head: "Son, Grandpa has leaked the secret, and he will die a terrible death."

Looking at the wide-eyed eyes of the god-father, and the blood-stained clothes, the words "don't want to die" sounded in my young mind. The god-father died because of me. Tormented by this guilt, I finally decided to hide this matter in my mind. My mother died, my godfather died, and my father finally decided to take me out of that town.

Eight years later, I sent my father away, and I scattered my father's ashes into the river. This time, no relatives pointed at me and scolded me. It was much cleaner. I spread my palms and looked at the two lines Crossing the palm of my hand, I was actually relieved, from now on, I don't have to implicate anyone anymore, I will only live for myself!

I, Lin Tianyi, have been collecting leaks for a living since I was 16 years old. I have been in the antique industry for ten years. In ten years, I own the largest antique shop in this city. My character is not very good. I love money and collect , I love picking up leaks more. The so-called leaking is to buy valuable antiques at a very cheap price, and the seller is unaware that he has sold the leaks.

The night wind is slightly cool. This is the antique night market in N City. It is already two o'clock in the morning. Although it is late at night, there are a lot of vehicles coming to this area. Many people are wandering around with backpacks on their backs, and some people put their hands in their pockets. Here, with my eyes shining, I snorted coldly, you are also my opponent?

This is the antique night market, also known as the ghost market. Every Saturday night, after two o’clock in the morning, it will be quiet and full of people, just because it will be crowded with antique dealers or antique lovers from all walks of life. This is the place where luck is tested, where ability is tested, and where I used to live.

Although I am not short of money now, I still can't change the habit of coming here to pick up leaks. This is where my interest lies, and I will never throw it away just because I have a few extra money in my hand.

I am standing here alone, no one talks to me, maybe they recognize me, many people point at me, I don’t need to listen to the wind, I can also know that they are saying that I am difficult, or that I am someone who makes them The opponent with a headache, the thing I fancy, I have to get it at all costs. At this moment, I don't know that this problem will make me spend the rest of my life, fighting for the rest of my life for an illusory thing.

On the bare square just now, various stalls were set up, and the lights on each stall were turned on, and the area was immediately lit up, and the crowds who had been waiting poured in. I was not in a hurry, who said they could run away Hurry up to get enough to eat?
However, just as I was about to lift my feet, a hand grabbed me, Nima, the beggars still go to work in the middle of the night, this economic acumen is too good, when I turned around, I saw a young man with a handsome face, under a thin white shirt His small body made people feel distressed, his lips were tightly pressed, and he looked at me stubbornly, as if I had offended him.

"What's the matter?" I was baffled: "Little brother, did you admit the wrong person?"

"The ends of the eyebrows are diverging and the eyebrows are intertwined." The boy said, "You have to be careful recently."

As the saying goes, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and men are afraid of getting into the wrong line of work. Fortunately, this young man is so fair-looking that he learns fortune-telling from others. His future is bleak. I sneered, took out my wallet, and pulled out a hundred-yuan bill: You are lucky."

I stuffed the banknotes into his hand, and hurried away, the hand that was holding me did not intend to let go: "If the eyebrows appear to diverge at the end of the eyebrows, and the eyebrows intersect, it will definitely be bad luck recently, you be careful."

I turned around and glared at him: "How old are you this year, do your parents know what you're doing? Be good, just take the money and leave. I'm going to go in and pick up the leak. You're here to touch me. Thanks to my good temper, otherwise you would have become panda-eyed."

The young man stared at my face and sighed faintly: "It seems impossible."

"Of course it won't work. Fortune-telling also requires some skill. Go home and study the Book of Changes before you come out. You can't make money like this." I'm mean, I know.

"I mean you can't hide from your misfortune. If you want to help you change your luck, you can't."

I felt that I had been demoted, and was about to retort, but he gave up on his own initiative and loosened the corner of my clothes.Turning around and leaving, being delayed by him for so long, I couldn't wait to walk into the ghost market. The stalls were full of jade and porcelain, some ancient calligraphy and paintings, very few gold and silver wares, and diplomas and textbooks from the Republic of China period.

Many people who came to pick up the leaks were competing with the stall owner. They wandered around inside if they didn't like anything. I'm not in a hurry. I only know one truth. It's like selling your mind.

Looking around, I didn't see anything I was looking for, so I shrank in the corner, took out a cigarette, and was about to light it, but found that I didn't bring a lighter, and I was going to borrow a light, when I saw a ready-made It was a lamp. After seeing its structure clearly, I hesitated for a moment. I said to the boss wearing a peaked cap: "Boss, borrow a fire."

The boss was sitting there listlessly. He hadn't opened yet today, and he was in a bad mood. He pointed at the lamp angrily: "Isn't that ready-made?"

It is true that the lamp is ready-made, but it is a lamp for the dead—an ever-burning lamp. Inside a container is filled with lamp oil, the wick is soaked in vinegar, and the outer layer is filled with water to cool the lamp oil; this is because the oil consumed by the oil lamp is mainly It is not ignited, but volatilized by heat. The wick soaked in vinegar can not only keep the temperature low, but the water outside the oil lamp can also effectively prevent the oil temperature from rising, and the burning time of the lamp will be prolonged.

Most of this lamp was stolen from the tomb. To attract people, the boss specially lit it and put it here. Unfortunately, no one noticed it. When the addiction to cigarettes got up, I couldn’t take much care of it. I lit it with that fire. Taking a sip of the cigarette in his hand, he felt refreshed physically and mentally. With this energy, he started a conversation with the boss: "Boss, haven't you distributed one tonight?"

Yun is a lingo in the antique circle, but it actually means the same thing as selling, so it must be more elegant.

A pair of gloomy eyes appeared under the peaked cap: "No, this ghost market is getting worse and worse, and business is hard to do!"

My heart seemed to be scratched by a cat's paw: "I'm missing a lottery, I'll open it up for you."

My eyes looked around at his stall, what is a ghost?Thinking about it afterwards, it was as if I was blindfolded by something at the time, and I didn't care about it at all!

That's right, I just paid 1000 yuan to buy that lamp, and the boss of the peaked cap immediately regained his spirits and treated me a lot more attentively. The time in the ghost market was passed like this. In my career, tonight was the strangest night.

When I left the ghost city, I saw the boy in white again. He was staring at me with a compassionate expression. I turned my head away from his handsome face and held the lamp tightly in my hand.

The antique shop is my business and my home. The first floor is the storefront, and the second floor is my home. I nestle on the sofa and stare at the ever-burning lamp on the coffee table. No one knows if there is an ever-burning lamp in this world. It is said that The everlasting lamp in Qin Shi Huangdi is eternal. No one has ever entered the Diling Mausoleum, so it is impossible to verify whether it is true or not. I am very playful. When I come out of the ghost market, the everlasting lamp is always on. Now, I plan to let it Keep it on!

After tossing around in the middle of the night, I was tired and didn't have time to take a shower, so I nestled on the sofa and fell asleep. The window was open, and there was a cool breeze blowing in, so comfortable!

I had a dream. In the dream, my mother who died at the age of six and my father who died at the age of 16 appeared together. They looked at me with smiles, pointed at the broken jade on my neck and said something. I could only see Their lips are moving, but no sound can be heard. The strange thing is that it is clearly a dream, but my memory seems to return to my childhood. Holding a long stream of snot, and holding a broken biscuit in my hand, tears flowed down, and the snot slipped to my mouth, I sniffed vigorously, took a bite of the biscuit, and the tears fell again: "Mom ,Mother……"

My legs twitched, I felt my legs twitching, the dream was so sad, the fusion of reality and illusion made me unable to distinguish the situation, the world in the dream could move instantly, I saw it again The father lying on the hospital bed is not very old, but his temples are already graying. I feel sore in an instant. His eyes are full of compassion when he looks at me, just like the eyes of that boy. Thinking of that boy, I wake up from my dream. Immediately, I smelled a burnt smell, and when I opened my eyes, I saw thick smoke!

There was water and a fire, I jumped up from the sofa, the floor was so hot that my feet were hot, I saw the long burning lamp rolling on the ground, everything that could be burned in the room was already on fire, I didn't care much , Thinking of having his ID card on him, he rushed downstairs, and was forced back by the smoke downstairs on the steps. The downstairs was even more burning than the second floor!

I started to grow up hard at the age of 16, and finally became a decent person. If I become a roasted person today, how embarrassing would I be?The window is open, this is the second floor, if you jump down, you will be lame at most, I have to risk it today, I don’t have Liu Xiang’s starting speed, but I have a strong desire to survive, relying on this strength, I passed the window lightly , and then... "bang" fell to the ground - buttocks landed!
I am not dead, I took out my mobile phone and called 119 first, looking at the flames soaring into the sky in the antique, I knew, it was over, I wasted the past ten years...

Grandpa’s words sounded in my mind: “My good grandson, people with light horoscopes are easy to see unclean things, and the yin qi that is contaminated is heavy. If it offsets yang qi, it will make people feel dizzy and dizzy when doing things. Concentration makes you look extra unlucky, but it’s actually not a problem, you won’t be able to see it when you grow up, come on, this is for you.”

Yes, after the age of 16, I seem to have changed my luck. With the addition of left and right palms, it is like a tiger with wings added. All the horoscopes are rolled aside. Unexpectedly, ten years later, because of an ever-burning lamp, my horoscope will be restored again. Mentioned on the desktop!
When the firefighters rushed over, they saw me surrounded by neighbors. They told me afterwards that although my face was dark, I was like a pale paper man who could fall down with a light touch. It's a big problem, but I seem to have a soul out of my body, and my body is not my own. Every time I take a step, I will lightly, give me a balloon, and it can take me to the sky...

(End of this chapter)