Mantra

Chapter 279
The crazy subordinates of the man in black suddenly made the man in black feel angry, he roared "presumptuous", then stretched out his hand, imitating me, and threw a dagger!
Unlike my dagger, the dagger (harmony) he threw was purely aimed at the man's face, and it was extremely accurate!

In the flash, I only saw the movement of him throwing the knife, and then I didn't see any piercing light or knife marks at all, and the knife pierced the forehead of the man in the blue mist!

After the sound of "poof", the man's head was split in two, the brain and half of the head flew out obliquely, and the whole body also limp on the ground.

This knife, so to speak, scared my ass to pee.

In terms of sword skills, I am not as strong as him, and in terms of mind, I am not as ruthless as him.Maybe he did it for the sake of his prestige, maybe he didn't like that subordinate a long time ago, or maybe he didn't deal with that person's sudden arrival and the woman's messy behavior.In short, he swung his knife and ended up with his own men.

The death of that man seemed to have caused quite a stir among his subordinates. The subordinates brought by the man in black immediately grinned at the man with an expression of dissatisfaction. The man in the suit jumps here.

Because of the man's knife, the surrounding atmosphere suddenly became serious.

This is my first thought.

After killing his own subordinates, the man in black turned his head to look at the other deputy with complicated expressions, and after a sneer, he pointed to the corpse on the ground and said: "Whoever you are dissatisfied with and acting recklessly, just fight with him." It’s a fate, if you don’t believe me, welcome to try.”

These words of the man in black are low-pitched, arrogant and poisonous, and at the same time publicly proved my idea: the man in black has some conflicts with his subordinates who don’t know the foreign language, and the quarrel between the two sides is very deadlocked, and it has reached a point where the sword is on the verge of breaking out. the point.

I saw these things in my eyes, and it made me feel that there should be some problems between them and hidden secrets that I don't know about, but I can't think about it for the time being.

At this time, the man in black walked over more gentlemanly, patted Xian Hongye, who was still in shock, and said: "Ma'am, this person is not educated, don't be angry, get up and help Lao Tian take a look at the tripod, after reading it, I will I promise to let you go."

Xian Hongye was slapped on the shoulder by the man and turned her head abruptly. She looked at me, then at the man wearing the iron mask. After a little thought, she supported her body on trembling legs and walked towards me.

Standing beside me, she supported Lin Shaosong who was moaning with a broken arm, and at the same time, under the cover of his moaning, she whispered to me: "This person may know you well, otherwise I wouldn't call you Lao Tian."

I nodded, expressing my understanding.

It is only in very familiar situations that one can blurt out other people's idioms instead of their full names as soon as they meet.Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible to call me "Old Field" and "Old Field".

But who is he... I can't figure it out, and... I don't dare to think.

Under the double oppression of others, Xian Hongye and I exchanged glances. We all thought that resistance was futile, and all we could do now was follow the instructions of the man in black to look at the cauldron, taking every step and talking.

So, Xian Hongye and I turned on the flashlight together, and carefully looked at the black tripod body pattern.

As for the "pattern" on the top, there are indeed some problems.

This time I just realized that the patterns on this tripod are all in the shape of ghost faces. Those things are half-human and not ghosts, extremely abstract, but I can still barely see that the patterns are telling a certain story. It can probably be seen that some two people are being swallowed by a monster in the painting, while the other person is standing next to the two unlucky ghosts and smiling coldly.

I don't know anything about cultural relics, so I can only helplessly ask Xian Hongye: "What is this ghost drawing? Can you understand it?"

Compared with my ignorance, Xian Hongye is very smart, and I found that she has the talent of Xian Yundu. Even if she is in a difficult situation, as soon as she sees cultural relics, she still quickly enters into meditation and exploration In this state, the previous fear was swept away.

Xian Hongye carefully and cautiously looked at the black cauldron, then suddenly pointed to a corner under the cauldron and said, "There is an inscription on this cauldron! It is a golden letter from the Zhou Dynasty. It says... the ancestors of Heilanbo City. Stories. There is also a reference to a book... The Weekly Fasting!"

"Food prohibition?!" I said dumbfounded.

This book, I heard from Zhao Shuihe when I held the funeral for the old squad leader in Lunan, it is said that this book was compiled by a master in the Zhou Dynasty, and it recorded many puzzling methods of making poison and Gu in ancient China. The cat demon King of Lantern who smashed Lunan came from this book.

Later, with the passage of time, this book was gradually forgotten by the world, but in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, because of the need of Emperor Yongle to study the Yongle Grand Ceremony, time was rediscovered again.

Later, as time passed by, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the book was taken out of the Forbidden City by Zhao Huo, one of the three brothers of the Zhao family, during the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Zhao Huo used the book to create many cat demons for self-protection. Thinking of being self-defeating, the cat demon took his life back.

After being tossed and turned several times, this week's food fasting law disappeared in the long river of history, and no one has seen or mentioned it since then.

But today, Xian Hongye found an inscription recording that book and its story on a large cauldron in the northwest of Guizhou, which naturally surprised me.

Or... it wasn't an accident.

Eagerly, I asked Xian Hongye: "Yezi, what is said here, can you read it to me exactly?"

Xian Hongye nodded, then took out a pair of gloves from her schoolbag, and found out a pair of brushes. After carefully cleaning the surface of the tripod, she read it to me word by word: "It is said that the Heilanbo people The ancestors migrated from the ancient country of Ailao, but many generations ago, they were Han people in the Central Plains, and their ancestors were called 'Ku', and they belonged to... a clan of the Zhou Dynasty."

According to the inscription, this Kusheng was born in the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and was a brother of the Emperor Zhou. He was not interested in poetry, books, rituals and music, but he was crazy about eating. It was he who wrote a book called "Zhou Tianzi". For the first time, the ancient book "Food Taboos" completely sorted out and recorded all the dietary taboos of the Zhou Dynasty.

Although Rong is a talented person, his character is really not good. Because of his enthusiasm for food, Rong hangs out with the imperial cook all the year round in the forbidden palace of Emperor Zhou, and uses his skills as a cook to flatter Emperor Zhou for a long time. That's why Zhou Tianzi liked this clan brother very much.

According to the records in the inscription, when this clan brother and Zhou Tianzi were at their best, they had already reached the point where they were thrown together and even ate together.

But after being favored for a long time, this person will inevitably have two minds. Seeing that Zhou Tianzi is addicted to food and sex, and faintly looks like King Zhou of Shang and King Zhou You, he feels that he is a foolish king, so he feels that his opportunity has come, so he thinks Following the example of his ancestor King Wu of Zhou, he contacted some princes with foreign surnames, overthrew his elder brother by force, and took him further.

But... his plan was completely shattered when it was still in its infancy.

(End of this chapter)