Chapter 61 Chapter 3 Thief Liu

After hearing old man Liu's story, I thought he should know the contents of Ye Mingzhu, but he said, "I don't know at all." I have a feeling that I have been tricked. Just relying on this untrue story, let us take him to Guanling, Guizhou. It is a daydream.If I had known that he would say this in the end, I wouldn't have bothered to listen to these ghost stories like Liaozhai, it's just nonsense. "I just said, Brother Wanzang, he is a liar!" Xu Shaode said angrily. "Uncle Liu, you don't know the content, so take a look first, what is carved in this bead?" I still didn't give up.

"Let's be honest with you, the craftsmanship of my ancestors has been passed down to the present, and I don't have the ability of my ancestors at all. I can't understand this bead." When Old Man Liu said this, he was confident. "Then what do you say, going to Guizhou?" I questioned. "That's because..." Old man Liu played tricks again. "If you don't say anything, we'll leave. It's a waste of time." I can't stand people who don't say anything. "Don't worry, don't worry, I'm just about to say something, I really don't respect the old man, the old man speaks slowly." Old man Liu looked innocent.

We listened to the show, so we sat down again.I saw that old man Liu took out a small gray cloth bag from his arms, and poured out the contents.That thing is a night pearl, shining faintly in seven colors, just like mine.I thought to myself, it’s broken, this damn old man is still a godly thief, and actually stole my beads.However, I looked down and saw that the bead was still in my hand. From the story old man Liu told, it can be known that his ancestors did not get the Ye Mingzhu from the fox fairy woman, but only memorized the content.That being the case, how could old man Liu also have one?Could it be that there is more than one such luminous pearl, and it is very worthless, so you can pick it up casually?

"Old man, why do you have one too?" Albert asked. "This one was left with me by a man named Xu Qian, and it hasn't appeared since then." Old man Liu had a melancholy face when he said this, as if he was very sad. After I heard it, I wonder if Xu Qian's name is very popular. Why are there so many people named Xu Qian?Xu Qianer said in Meili Snow Mountain that his father Xu Qian went to Yunnan at that time, captured Nakamura Hiroshi, and later married a beautiful woman in Deqin County.After the war, Xu Qian returned to Deqin, but his mother died, but one of the twin brothers was adopted by Yaofu, and the other was taken to Inner Mongolia.

Xu Qian'er has been living with Yao Fu in Meili Snow Mountain, collecting medicine for a living.He never saw his father—Xu Qian again. He just heard from the neighbors at that time that his father came back to look for them, but he disappeared later. Xu Qianer still doesn’t know where his father is. , and Xu Qianer never had a chance to know. (See Chapter 23 of Part Two) We were all waiting for Old Man Liu's words, and he finally didn't hold back any more, and told us in every detail: "I... stole this luminous pearl..." "Stolen?" I was a little surprised that such a flamboyant old man actually has such a habit. It seems that he should keep his wallet tight.

"The thing is like this. I remember that many years ago, I met a man on the road. My hands were a little itchy, so I tricked him into my house and let him stay for one night. Anyway, he was looking for a place to live at that time, so ...At night, as you know, I got acquainted with him very quickly. He told me that he came back from Guanling, Guizhou, and found a treasure there. In order to prove that he was not lying, he asked Show me this luminous pearl, I remember at that time, my saliva flowed out, I like that pearl so much..." "Wait, old man Liu." When I heard this, my heart suddenly became terrified. This old man must have had evil thoughts when he saw the money and killed Xu Qian. No wonder Xu Qianer said that he never saw Xu Qian again.

"No, I don't do that. I like stealing things, but killing people is impossible." Old man Liu hurriedly defended himself. "Then...his things are gone, so he didn't think to come back to you?" Xu Shaode couldn't believe it. "You are really contradicting me. I said that if you didn't kill someone, you didn't kill someone. If you don't believe me, get out immediately!" Old man Liu looked very annoyed when he was accused of killing someone. "Okay, okay, you didn't kill him, so what happened next?" I hurriedly asked Xu Shaode to stop.

"Later? That man left and never came back. I even closed the shop on purpose, wasting my business for a week." Old man Liu didn't feel guilty. Although Xu Shaode is not as greedy as old man Liu, but he was stolen once by old man Liu, so he is very cautious.While we were talking he checked his belongings in case they were looted again.When he was tossing and turning, he accidentally dropped a golden knife on the ground. Just as he was about to pick it up, old man Liu shouted loudly: Stop! "What's the matter, old man?" Albert was startled by Old Man Liu's shout.

"Why do you have that knife?" Old man Liu got up and went to pick up the golden knife. "This is..." I don't know how to explain it, because it belongs to Xu Qianer's adoptive father.At that time, I found a pair of skeletons and a golden knife under the boiling spring.After Xu Qianer died, I originally wanted to bury the golden knife in Meili Snow Mountain, but Xu Shaode felt that he had suffered too much along the way and had to use some material things to make up for it.Therefore, this knife fell into the hands of Xu Shaode. "I know this knife. There is a ruby ​​on it, and there is a crescent-shaped scratch on the gem. If you don't believe me, look at it!" Old man Liu pointed out to us while talking.

"This is mine, don't make any wrong decisions." Xu Shaode said vigilantly. "No, I didn't want this knife. In fact, when that person named Xu Qian came to live with me, I stole this knife, and he found it later, and I gave it back to him." Old man Liu smiled. He explained, "However, I remember that he met a person when he went out, and I followed him. I remember that a person gave him the knife. When I stole it, I accidentally dropped it on the ground, and the gemstone was scratched out. Because of this, the trace was discovered by him, so the knife was not stolen."

Xu Shaode and I looked at each other after hearing this.If old man Liu did not lie about the origin of the golden knife, then the skeleton in Meili Snow Mountain probably did not belong to Yaofu!Because, Xu Qianer said, the golden knife is Yaofu's belongings, and he watched the mountain where Yaofu entered with the golden knife.If Yao Fu sneaked out from the mountain, met Xu Qian here, and then Xu Qian walked into Meili Snow Mountain with a golden knife, then that skeleton belonged to Xu Qian! No wonder Xu Qianer said that his biological father never appeared again, no wonder old man Liu said that Xu Qian did not come back to look for the stolen Ye Mingzhu, it turned out that he had died in Meili Snow Mountain. If the above inferences are true, where did the medicine man go? I vaguely felt that things might be more complicated, but I couldn't tell what was wrong, so I had to ask old man Liu why he asked us to take him to Guanling.Only then did he bring out the main point of the matter. It seems that he is really a good storyteller, and it is really a waste of talent to do miniature sculptures. It turned out that old man Liu liked to steal and cheat since he was a child.He lied that he was from Guanling, Guizhou, and took the opportunity to get close, and then he couldn't get enough enthusiasm for Xu Qian one night, and this honest Xu Qian really believed in Liu Tianhua. That night, Xu Qian was given a few sips of wine by old man Liu, and then he talked about himself.At that time, the war was basically over, and many soldiers suddenly lost their usefulness, and their lives were very difficult.He has two children. Although he was adopted at the time, he really wanted to give the children some compensation.Under the guidance of a fellow villager, he went to Guizhou with a group of dealers who specialize in reselling cultural relics, and worked for them, doing odd jobs and watching the wind. Xu Qian knew only nine out of ten senses of ancient culture, and he didn't understand what the group of dealers said. He only said that it was a big deal, and it was a mythical treasure about Gu Yelang.This treasure is very special, different from ordinary gold, silver and jewelry, but the dealers didn't say much in front of him, and he couldn't understand it.The reason why he can remember Gu Yelang is because during the war, a comrade-in-arms always scolded his boss with Yelang's arrogant idiom, so he had a little impression.As for what Yelang is, he doesn't understand at all. They went to a small hill in Guanling, Guizhou, not far from Huangguoshu Waterfall, and the waterfall could be seen from a distance.Xu Qian was only in charge of sentry at the time, so he didn't know what the traffickers had done.That night, the moonlight was mighty, and in the middle of the night, there was no cry of frogs, and the silence was scary.Unexpectedly, he waited until dawn and did not wait for the dealers to come back.So, curiously, he walked into the woods in the hills, but unexpectedly saw the traders lying on the mud.Xu Qian didn't think much about it at the time, but felt that it was a bit exaggerated. Could it be that these people were tired from work, so they all fell asleep. Unexpectedly, when he walked over and pushed these people away, he found that all of them were out of breath.Xu Qian killed countless people during the war, so of course he didn't feel scared.He took his earthen gun, thinking that something was near, but he examined all the bodies and found not a single wound.The only strange thing was that one of the dealers held his hand very tightly. When he opened it, it turned out to be a night pearl. Although Xu Qian had no education, he knew that the thing was valuable, so he took it and ran away without stopping.When he left Guanling, he still kindly reported the case to the local police station, because he wanted to use the hands of the police to give those traffickers a safe haven, but he just said that he happened to come across the bodies of those traffickers.As for how the trial of the case went, he didn't know, because he had already left Guizhou and returned to Yunnan. When old man Liu heard what he said, he felt itchy in his heart, but because he was alone and couldn't take his grandson to hunt for treasure, he had to treat it as a dream.The reason why old man Liu believed Xu Qian’s story was because Xu Qian took out a luminous pearl that Mr. Cheng Yu had told about, and secondly, the death method of the dealers was the same as that of the fox fairy woman, so he firmly believed in Guizhou. There must be a mysterious treasure in Guanling, and there must be a fox fairy guarding it. However, I didn't have much interest in these things. At that time, what I thought in my heart was: Fan Li, he must know that there are good things hidden there, or why would he suddenly run to Guanling, Guizhou, where he has no relatives? ?At that time, I didn't find anything on Meili Snow Mountain implying that there were good things in Guizhou. At most, I could only say that the little fish and bears were introduced to Meili Snow Mountain from Guizhou.I was thinking about it, and suddenly remembered something.At that time, Fan Li didn't leave Meili Snow Mountain empty-handed, he took a green wooden stick with him! In this fan, there must be many secrets that I haven't told me!