Mantra

Chapter 221 The Mystery of the Gourd
Although I was not reconciled, I couldn't say anything in the face of the "joint dissuasion" of Grandma Sailiu and Xian Hongye, but with a sudden inspiration, I still made a compromise request to Grandma Sai.

I said to Sailiu Po: "Grandmother, since the gourd has already been punched out by Old Nineteen and the others, can you let me take a look from the outside, I just don't want to open it."

Sailiu Po ​​muttered for a while, and finally nodded, agreeing with my thoughts.

After getting permission, my heart was satisfied, and then I walked to the gourd, ready to pick it up.

The gourd in the medicine king's hand had a jade-like yellow luster, was about the size of a human arm, and looked unpretentious from the outside.

I don't see anything special about it other than the skull flower on it.

But I dare not underestimate it, and because I am a cook, I know something about gourds.

In the Wu Zang Temple, the newly grown gourd is called "Qingpi", because the gourd at this stage can be cooked and eaten, so it is also called "Caiqingpi".

Vegetable green skin is suitable for stir-frying or making soup. I don’t know if it’s good or not, but it’s said that it’s quite hot and can be used as a medicinal diet.

Older gourds cannot be eaten, and the outer skin of the old gourds will start to dehydrate, and then the wood will become fibrous, turning yellow and hard, so this kind of gourd is called "yellow skin" in Wuzang Temple.

Yellow-skinned gourds can only be beaten to make scoops or used as containers for grain and wine, and cannot be eaten, so the Wuzang Temple calls it "dead yellow-skinned".

And in front of me is a veritable "dead yellow skin" gourd.

In addition, I also know that although the gourd is strong, it is made of wood with a low density after all, so it is difficult to preserve it for a long time. Gourd products that are more than a century old are rare. If there is no special treatment, It must not survive the more vicissitudes of the years.

In contrast, the gourd in the Yaowang Temple is very "powerful". It has not only survived the years, but also has a jade-colored luster, like a spiritual creature that has attained the Tao.

I think that this gourd, like the statue of the Buddha in the body of the Medicine King, must have been deliberately treated to preserve it.

In all fairness, this is a very important clue, the whereabouts of Grandpa Xian Hongye, the death of my old squad leader, and the conspiracy of Old Nineteen, I'm afraid you can get a glimpse of it, but you can't open it, it's almost fatal.

In apprehension, I bent down and stared at the gourd carefully.

After the chaos just now, it seems that everyone has formed a tacit understanding, and no one cares about it for a while, so it is still in place. I know that everyone does not touch it, because it is busy, and because of the rumors of the flower demon , no one wants to touch this mold.

The legend of the flower demon is also taboo to me, but out of the desire to find out, I still bent down and picked up the gourd.

The gourd was lighter than I thought, and when I picked it up from the ground, a series of crisp sounds came from the floor at the same time.

"Pa ta ta ta..." After the sound of beads falling into the jade plate, I was sure that something had fallen out of the gourd and landed on the ground.

Out of curiosity, I raised my flashlight and looked at the ground.

Where the sound finally disappeared, a few slender glutinous rice grains were scattered, slightly yellowish and had a musty smell.

I frowned, and suddenly there was a trace of familiarity and surprise in my heart.

Is it moldy glutinous rice again? !I suddenly realized something.

Then, I quickly turned the gourd upside down and shone the flashlight on the bottom of the gourd.

I suddenly realized.

It turned out that in the fight just now, the gourd was kicked away several times by the man in black and us. After a hundred years of wind and rain, it could no longer withstand such a toss, and it had cracked from the bottom under the impact of the kick, revealing There was a big black crack.

I shook the gourd, and further found that the gourd was already empty. Except for a few grains of glutinous rice that hadn't fallen out in time, the gourd was empty.

This also means that the thing sealed in the gourd has already "run" out during the fight just now.

It is no exaggeration to say that when everyone saw the crack at the bottom of the gourd, their faces turned blue.

It seemed that everyone quickly realized that the "flower demon" contained in the gourd actually "run" out, the deadliest thing in the legend, "run" out!

In the dead silence, everyone was overwhelmed by the new problem before them, sweating profusely.

I looked at everyone hot all over, smiled awkwardly, and broke the situation: "Let's stop standing there, look around, see where the 'fairy' in the gourd has gone, don't let it harm you people."

"It's easy to say." Lin Shaosong looked at the glutinous rice on the ground, frowned and said, "How can I find it!"

"Look for the glutinous rice! These glutinous rice must be a buffer for the things in the gourd~" As I spoke, I stared down at the glutinous rice that fell out of the gourd, and couldn't help adding: "Why is it glutinous rice again... Could it be that this Is it the method of the Temple of the Five Viscera?"

During our journey, this kind of slightly musty glutinous rice was everywhere. It was found in Zhao Qingshan's story, eaten by Shi Rengu's "yin soldiers", and now found in the medicine king's gourd.

This cannot be explained by a simple coincidence.

In my anxiety, I didn't have time to tell everyone what I was thinking, but everyone still followed my instructions and looked down for the traces of glutinous rice in the gourd.

After a while, Sailiu Po's grandson, A Rui, suddenly raised his hand and motioned to me, "Brother Tian! I have a lot of glutinous rice here!"

Ari's words brought all of us together to watch what he found.

What A Rui found was a pile of glutinous rice gathered in the corner.

Take a flashlight to see that pile of glutinous rice collapsed in the corner, exactly where it was just now, and now when Wang Hou was fighting with the man in black, the rice in the gourd "flowed" out together with the things, coupled with the continuous After a few snatches and tumbles, the gourd was empty.During the whole process, everyone was highly nervous. Everyone focused on dealing with the man in black, but they didn't see what happened in the gourd.

I looked at the pile of glutinous rice, and suddenly realized it, and said to Sailiu Po: "That, mother-in-law, everything in here has escaped, and we can't do it if we don't look at it."

Sailiu Po ​​obviously didn't expect things to develop to such a point. In desperation, she burst into tears again, and hurriedly turned around and knelt down to the statue of the King of Medicine, kowtowing and saying, "Grandfather of the King of Medicine, bless you, King of Medicine." grandpa bless"

When the old lady prayed to the Buddha, I was not idle. After I asked Brother Mao and Gou for a pair of tweezers for collecting plant specimens, I tossed the pile of glutinous rice.

If there is a beautiful flower demon in the glutinous rice or the gourd, I definitely don't believe it, but I feel that this pile of glutinous rice will never exist in the medicine king gourd for no reason, let alone a handful of glutinous rice. Make up a weird story.

Moreover, just when my tweezers just penetrated into the glutinous rice, I did feel a strange resistance.

There are hard things one by one, just in the pile of aged glutinous rice.

(End of this chapter)