Chapter 41: Grandma's Xiaolou, Fatty's Gold(1/2)
After a long time, the few of us calmed down a little... The fat man said: "Miss, what did your father say before? He said this is a cemetery, but did you build the cemetery like this?"
Is it possible that every room up here is filled with coffins and dead people?”
I was also a little puzzled. Although there were very few clues about the Fantasy Snow Forbidden City, Dad and the others were very sure that this place was a cemetery. I thought about it, "Actually, it doesn't matter whether I think it is a cemetery or not.
With such a layout, I don’t think it has anything to do with the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period where Qixing Longyuan is located. Yanran, take a good look at it, what period do you think this building looks like?"
The fat man had seen the scene in front of him many times and immediately said: "This has nothing to do with any dynasty, but there are many countries around West Kunlun. Maybe the Central Plains people who came here absorbed the local culture.
Not necessarily in a place like this."
"Impossible." Peanut suddenly said.
"Why is it impossible?" Fatty hated to see others directly contradict him.
Peanut didn't care about the fat man's face, and continued: "A city of this size, no matter what period in ancient times, cannot be completed within a period of time. I think this place was gradually expanded from generation to generation. It is estimated that those
People should have lived here for thousands of years, otherwise, just a cemetery would never reach such a scale."
I continued: "So you mean that people from that country are not only buried here, but they have also been living here before?"
"Now it seems that you have to go in and see whether Fantasy Snow Forbidden City is a cemetery. However, these houses should be more suitable for living people to live in." Peanut said.
The fat man suddenly patted Boss Sun: "Boss Sun, you must have been to many countries doing business. Have you ever seen such a building?"
Boss Sun looked longingly at the houses outside the Fantasy Snow Forbidden City for a long time, "Well... I haven't seen them abroad, but I took a look at the shelves in the attic and the carvings on the roof.
Yes, it always feels...a bit familiar."
"Do you remember those pavilions outside?" I said.
"No, no, no, it's not that pavilion, hiss... I've seen it somewhere before, tsk, it feels very familiar." Boss Sun thought hard, and when we all started to get impatient, he suddenly
He jumped on the ground, "Oh, I remembered, yes, yes, I have seen this kind of attic."
As he spoke, Boss Sun pointed to a four-story flat-roofed square loft not far ahead. The style of that loft looked very simple, with some European medieval architectural styles. The roof was completely flat and taller than the building body.
One-third larger.
"Where have you seen it? Tell me quickly." The fat man urged.
Boss Sun continued: "It didn't exist before. Then, the year before my grandma died, she suddenly built a small building in the yard of our ancestral house. She didn't tell us what it was for. As a result,
After the building was built according to his requirements, we all felt very strange.
The building was very similar to the one we see now, but it was smaller. I still remember that after the building was completed, my grandma insisted on painting the building red no matter how much her family tried to dissuade her.
, our family has made people in the neighborhood laugh for several years, saying that when other families build new buildings, our family lives in a ghost building."
When we heard this, we couldn't help but start to doubt the relationship between Boss Sun and these things. The fat man asked: "Then what will your grandma use it for after she builds that building?"
Boss Sun said: "She uses it to worship gods."
"Worship God? What God do you worship?" I asked.
"This thing is extremely unreasonable to say. My grandma is a person who has studied abroad and is considered a high-end intellectual in our country. She has never believed in any gods or ghosts. But after she built that building, she found another
People follow her wishes
Qiu made several statues of gods. The strange thing is that no one has ever seen the statues she made. However, in the year before her death, my grandma spent every day like a hard-core religious believer.
I worshiped God in the building for several hours."
I thought this was quite interesting. There might be some other reason, so I continued to ask Boss Sun, "When did your grandma suddenly start to believe in God? Did anything happen before, or were there any signs?"
Boss Sun's expression suddenly became gloomy, "Hi, my grandma has always been very kind. After she retired, besides taking care of me, she stayed at home and continued to do academic research. I remember that she was particularly cheerful at that time.
, but since she picked up that old book at home, she seems to have changed. She has a very weird temper and is prone to acting up at every turn.
She locked herself in the room and was bored for more than ten days, as if she had been possessed by something evil. After that, our book was always in her hand. From the morning up every day, grandma was alone.
When I was studying those things, I would sometimes draw the words and pictures in the book on the wall at home, which scared my parents and took me to Yanjing."
"Damn it, if you say it like that, your book is really not that simple." Fatty said, "But it looks like something modern to me, regardless of what's on the book, the paper and the surface.
The signs of distress are too obvious.”
"Hi." Boss Sun waved his hand, "Originally, my grandma never saw that book. My grandpa took it with me at that time and accidentally discovered it. So, my grandpa feels sleepy all day long now.
It seems that he killed her old man, lying down
There was never a peaceful day in the hospital. But...my grandfather said when he was very ill and confused, he said that my grandma must have seen some problems from that book, and he also said that grandma might have put something into it.
I stayed in that small building."
"Then did you go look in that building later?" the fat man asked.
"Looking for it. Alas, in order to make my grandpa feel at ease, I really want to break my head. To be honest, if it weren't for the relationship between our family members, I would have disposed of the book. Even if there is something in it,
It's definitely not a good thing. It has already harmed two elderly people in my family. Oh, don't talk about it. I'm so angry just talking about it."
Hearing what Boss Sun said, I was actually quite envious and admired him. Because Boss Sun did not indulge in those mysteries like me and only wanted to help his family wholeheartedly.
"That's right." The fat man sighed, "If we want to know something early, we must go to your small building first. Maybe this trip won't be as embarrassing as now."
"It's useless to talk about it now. I think we should go in quickly and look for people." I couldn't help but start to worry about Dad and Qin Feng again. The Fantasy Snow Forbidden City is so big, even if they are inside, we may have to look for them for a long time.
Time, and I don’t know if they have enough food and water.
The fat man knew that I was impatient, so he packed up his things and took the lead to walk to the alley between the two buildings in front.
There are no city walls or towers in the Fantasy Snow Forbidden City. The buildings are very dense. Looking at it at a glance, it seems that it is full of intertwined alleys. After walking a few steps, the fat man started making marks on the wall. We brought professional road sign chalk.
This kind of chalk painting not only
It has a nighttime fluorescent effect and will never fade even if it is exposed to heavy rain for three to five days. The marks drawn by the fat man are also very special and eye-catching. I took a look at them and suddenly felt that the marks he drew were particularly interesting. They seemed to be a
The word "Cao" is very simple.
"Yanran, what are you painting?" I couldn't help but ask.
The fat man said expressionlessly, "This is my family's crest, do you understand?"
I almost lost my joy after hearing this, "As you said, your family with many poor people can still have a family emblem? Even if it does, it should be steamed buns, sweet potatoes or something, but I think your drawing seems to have it.
The doorway."
"Miss, if anyone else were to say this, I would have to take action. What's the matter? If your family is poor, you can't have a family crest? Damn it, I even plan to apply for the world's intangible heritage with our family emblem."
After the fat man finished speaking, Boss Sun and I both laughed. "It's still intangible heritage, peanut, you..." I smiled and just turned my head, only to find that the peanut that was around me just now was gone.
The three of us turned around and found Peanut standing not far behind us, looking attentively at the mark that the fat man had left before.
"Did you see it?" The fat man immediately patted my chest, "I still know what I'm selling. The emblem of our Cao family is a work of art. It's worth a lot of money if you put it in a museum. Right, brother?"
Peanut did not respond, standing there without even moving. At this moment, the alley was extremely dark, and the light of the flashlight was all smeared with blood by the surrounding red walls. Peanut stood in the dim light and shadow, with long hair.
Damn, looking like that really makes me feel cold.
"Not bad." After saying three words, Peanut walked towards us. As he walked, he tore off a strip of cloth from his military coat, and then tied all his hair behind his back. He looked like that, but
Really like those people in ancient times.
This time, Peanut did not walk in the front, but fell behind. I looked back at him from time to time, and found that Peanut’s eyes were looking directly at me. I am not the kind of person with stalking phobia, just
Peanut's eyes are so sharp and strange, I always feel like he wants to do something to me behind him.
However, Peanut may also be afraid that the previous situation will happen again. Maybe he still doesn't understand why he, Fatty and Boss Sun completely forgot about me before.
The alley is not straight, and we have already walked very far in. The fat man led the way and never turned, because in such a place, we are likely to get lost if we turn, even if we keep marking on the wall.
.
Several of us had discussed before that after entering, we would go to those buildings to take a look. But the strange thing was that there was not a single door in the alley we were walking in. At first, everyone suspected that these buildings had no doors, but soon
Soon we saw an unobstructed doorway in the alley turning next to us. In order to avoid getting lost, we were not in a hurry, thinking that if we kept going forward, we would definitely see a door next to it. But we all left.
It's been more than ten minutes and I still haven't seen a door in this alley.
"It seems to be the design of this place. All the direct alleys coming from outside the city have no doors. This is also for the convenience of entry and exit. Please pay attention to this corner. We don't know where we will turn in the future." As he said, the fat man
I walked into the alley on the left.
The alley was very dark. After we walked in, it was still bright red. The buildings on both sides of us had six floors. Two doorless doorways looked like two dark eyes, staring at us strangely.
The fat man walked into the doorway on the right first, and we followed him. The space inside was smaller than we thought. It can be seen that the red walls are very thick. The room on the ground floor was empty, but the strange thing was
, there is not much dust here, as if it has just been cleaned. The stone staircase in the corner is semi-curved, and we walked up the steps after looking at it for a short time.
I have to admit that the structure of these buildings is still very simple. There is nothing else on the second floor except three red jars lined up on the wall.
However, even these inconspicuous jars are enough to make our nerves tense.
"I wonder if there are corpses in there?" the fat man said in a low voice.
"That's not true." I frowned, not daring to be the first to confirm.
"Then there's nothing here. Why are there three jars there? Why don't you go and take a look?"
There are times when emotional fat people are timid, "Hey, where did your enthusiasm for getting rich go? You're still on top." I took the opportunity to scold the fat man.
"I'm not afraid, I'm just worried that the stuff in the jars will stink and scratch me all over later." The fat man waved his hand, "Okay, okay." With that, he walked over to the three jars.
We actually didn't think there would be anything in the jar, so, like peanuts, we looked above our heads and on the surrounding walls, trying to find if there were any sculptures or murals.
To be continued...