The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 227 Set the Storm (1)

"If you can guess which bowl the stone is in, I will tell you a story." Bu Xiangkong sat behind the desk in the police station, dunked a white stone into a small bowl, and then kept moving the three bowls on the table. place for a small bowl.

My eyes, Ji Mingmei's, and Bu Ying's were all following his hands. He was a bit mysterious, but now that he was in this posture, he looked more and more like a charlatan.After he moved the position of the bowl for a long time, he finally stopped and motioned us to guess which bowl the stone was in.

Ji Mingmei had quick eyesight and quick hands, and was about to turn over the small bowl that she had been staring at, when I grabbed her.She turned around and looked at me with questioning eyes.I told her: "Don't be fooled by this little trick of running around the rivers and lakes. In fact, the stone is not in any bowl—the stone is in his palm, and it has not been put into the bowl."

"Really," Bu Xiangkong said with a smile, "Are you sure? I've decided to leave."

I nodded affirmatively, Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei both nodded upon seeing this.After placing the bowls, Bu Xiangkong's hands never approached them.At this time, he spread his hands, loosened his fingers, and showed us his hands.We all looked carefully, and there was nothing in his hands.

"Why don't you open the bowl yourself." Bu Xiangkong showed us his hand, thought for a while and said again.

I was also afraid that he would play tricks when opening the bowl, so I opened the bowls one by one. Unexpectedly, I was stunned as soon as I opened the first bowl - the stone was lying quietly in the bowl, which was exactly what Ji Mingmei was going to open earlier. that bowl.

"Many times, smart people are more likely to be deceived." When we were in a daze, Bu Xiangkong suddenly said, "Because they think they are smart enough to see the truth more easily than others. But what is the truth? If The truth is exactly what others want you to see, so is it still the truth?"

He spoke a little cryptically, as if foreshadowing something, so we all calmed down and waited for his next words.Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, he fell silent. After the three of us stared at him for a long time, Ji Mingmei opened his mouth and asked, "And then?"

"Then you were all fooled." Bu Xiangkong said flatly, "There is a smart person among you who thinks he has seen the truth, so he stopped a person who thought he had seen the truth. And the third person Out of trust in the first person, I also believed him, and in the end all three were fooled. You see, sometimes you want to deceive many people, and you only need to deceive one of them."

"So what are you trying to say, don't trust others?"

"In fact, what I want to tell you is, don't trust anyone, including yourself."

"Including myself?" Ji Mingmei said a little funny, "Didn't I guess which bowl the stone is in?"

"Are you sure you guessed it right?" Bu Xiangkong stared at her.

"This bowl has been opened, what is there to be sure about?" Ji Mingmei became even more amused.

"Oh." Bu Xiangkong rubbed his chin, showing his favor to the non-existent beards, "Then you open the other bowls to have a look?"

Hearing this, Ji Mingmei looked around Bu Ying and me suspiciously, then reached out and opened the other two bowls.As soon as she lifted the bowl, the three of us were stunned again, because there was a stone lying in each bowl on the table.

"That's not right," Ji Mingmei shouted after being stunned, "Since there are stones in every bowl, doesn't it mean that I guessed it right if I just opened one?"

"Really?" Bu Xiangkong re-covered the three bowls, changed their positions and opened them again, "What now?"

The three bowls are all empty, and the three stones have disappeared.We didn't know that Bu Xiangkong still had this move, so we were all surprised, "So no matter how we guess, the result is always wrong?"

"That's right, so what's the crux of the problem?" Bu Xiangkong smiled inscrutably, "It's not about the bowl or the stone, but about the person. Because the result is in my hands, so no matter how you guess, They all lose. Well, then this little gentleman is going to ask, how can we not lose in this round?"

As he spoke, he paused again, pretending to be closed on purpose, and winking at us.We saw that his manner of speaking was really hateful, and he always talked to himself, so we deliberately didn't answer his words.Bu Xiangkong waited for a long time and saw that none of us spoke, so he didn't feel annoyed, he lowered his head and cleaned up the bowls on the table, shrugged his shoulders and was about to leave.

We didn't ask, but he really didn't say anything.Bu Ying had no choice but to stretch out his hand to hold him, and asked him: "Then how can we not lose?"

"If you didn't stop me, then you didn't lose too much in this game. But you see, young people just can't hold their breath." Bu Xiangkong showed a mocking expression on his face, and then said meaningfully, " As soon as you start participating, there is no way not to lose. The only thing that can keep you from losing is not participating in the first place."

"I always feel that your words seem to mean something." I was also a little angry by him, "We did lose, but what about the story, can you tell us?"

"I found that you young people are not only restless, but also thick-skinned." Bu Xiangkong had a kind face, showing a look of helplessness against us, "But who called me an elder, you have to be shameless I have no choice but to say it. By the way, during the Zhenzong Dynasty of the Northern Song Dynasty, because the queen passed away..."

He said that because the queen passed away during the Zhenzong Dynasty, and the two concubines Liu and Li in the harem were pregnant at this time, whoever gave birth to the prince first might be succeeded as the queen.Concubine Liu was afraid that Concubine Li would give birth before her, so she colluded with Guo Huai, the chief eunuch, to replace the newly born prince with a skinned civet cat while Concubine Li was giving birth.

Afterwards, Concubine Li was cast into the cold palace for giving birth to a "monster", and Concubine Liu was established as a queen to cover the sky with one hand.Later, Concubine Liu's son died of illness, and Emperor Zhenzong had no son, so he brought the son of the Eight Sage Kings into the palace and made him the prince.However, this son of the Eight Wise Kings is actually the prince who was replaced by the civet cat back then...

When Bu Xiangkong told the story at the beginning, we all pricked up our ears and listened carefully, but the more we listened, the more something went wrong.Isn't this the well-known story of "The Civet Cat for the Prince"?But he had to talk until he was spitting, and we couldn't interrupt him even if we wanted to, so we had to listen to him finish the story with aggrieved ears.

Fortunately, Bu Xiang talked like a river, his mouth seemed to hide a waterfall, and no one within three feet could escape under his saliva, and his words were full of ups and downs and moving.We have the right to listen to the book again without spending money, so we patiently listened to him.

In the process of listening to him, I exchanged glances with Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei, and we both confirmed one thing, that is, Bu Xiangkong's nonsense was just to perfuse us.He didn't intend to tell us the original story at all, so he told us a casual story and sent us away.

So when we waited for him to finish speaking, no one answered.Seeing that our silence is golden, Bu Xiangkong asked in surprise, "Did I speak well?"

"Not bad, not bad." I also perfunctory him casually, got up and walked out, "The trick has been played, and the story has been told, shouldn't it be time to get down to business?"

"Hey, didn't you just go to see Han Yang's corpse?" Bu Xiangkong said indifferently, "The corpse can't run away. It will be a while later, what's the matter?"

When I was in the detention center, I promised Xiuhong that I would go to see Han Yang’s corpse for her and see him off, so after Bu Ying and the others sent the brocade flute to the police station and finished everything, I went to the police station. He proposed to visit Han Yang's body, and at the same time entrusted Bu Ying to buy a piece of land on the mountain outside the city, preparing to let him rest in peace.

But we didn't expect that when we found Bu Xiangkong, we would spend so long with him.I heard him dawdling again, as if he didn't really want to go, and I became suspicious, and asked him: "Aren't you delaying time? This person is dead, and you are afraid that he will run away with us?"

"Perhaps? I sometimes think that when I meet you group of unlucky children, it's hard to guarantee that I won't be able to bring my dead anger back to life." Bu Xiangkong blinked, looking preoccupied, in short, his behavior was very suspicious.Ji Mingmei and Bu Ying also murmured, not knowing what he was planning.

This person is much more cunning than Bu Ying, so after muttering to himself, Ji Mingmei couldn't help but go up and pull him away before going out.After all, Ji Mingmei was a young girl, and he was always a spoiled junior, so Bu Xiangkong didn't want to do anything to her, so he had to follow her out.

The police station has a place to temporarily store corpses. When our group arrived at the morgue, Ji Mingmei and Bu Ying were about to go in with me, but Bu Xiangkong stopped us.

"He promised to see Han Yang, but you didn't agree, why are you just joining in the fun? Looking at a dead face for no reason, is it bad luck? Don't go, let him go by himself. " Bu Xiangkong said.

What he said was not unreasonable, and the dead are indeed nothing to look at.So I said to Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei: "Then you stay outside the door, I will go in by myself."

There is nothing to dispute about this matter, Bu Ying and Ji Mingmei both nodded.I asked Bu Xiangkong again, "I want to bury Han Yang's body, what procedures do I need to go through?"

"Wait until you come out and ask Bu Ying to lead you to do it. Everyone is dead, and the family members were supposed to bring the corpse back. Since he has no family members, someone will take care of his funeral and save the trouble of the police station." Xiang Kong replied.

Hearing this, I turned around and opened the door and walked in. The morgue looked gloomy and cold because it avoided the light.As soon as I stepped in, I shivered involuntarily, and the door might have been out of balance. After I entered, it closed again by itself, making a dull bang, as if someone had pushed behind the door. Bundle.

Han Yang's body was placed on a wooden platform. I walked towards the wooden platform and stood still when I reached the front of the platform.Han Yang crossed his hands in front of his chest and closed his eyes tightly.I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that the face of the corpse is pretty good, much more rosy than the one I saw in the detention center when I had a quick glance.

Could it be that there is nothing to worry about after death, and even the mood will be happy?While I was thinking wildly, I said to the corpse: "Xiu Hong asked me to come and see you. You loved her, although it didn't work out, but at least she is not hard-hearted. Knowing your loneliness, let me see you off. "

As I said that, I felt a little touched, couldn't help but sighed, and actually said a few words for Xiuhong, "She was indifferent all her life, maybe she didn't care about anyone, but she didn't treat you alone. Fortunately, she was dying I finally thought about you before, and now she is also in prison. If you don't want to go to the cold, you might as well wait for her, so that she will not go on the road alone, lonely and helpless."

After I finished speaking, I felt that I had fulfilled Xiuhong's request, and I was relieved for a while. I was about to go out of the morgue to go through the formalities of picking up the corpse. Two lines of tears were shed.

The corpse... the corpse actually shed tears!

Immediately, my scalp exploded and the back of my head became cold, and then my whole back arched, my whole body was terrified, and I froze and didn't dare to move.When I thought of crying about the dead, I didn't know whether I should be proud or not.

And just as I didn't know what to do, the corpse on the wooden platform suddenly got up and sat up, then raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and slowly said to me: "Don't come here, Mr. Xiao."

(End of this chapter)