"Then who is the person who revealed the mystery ten years ago?"
Jin An asked the question in his mind.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Yiyun shook his head.
"Some people speculate that that person should be the first group of people to discover clues about the cornucopia in Chang County."
Jin An lowered his head and pondered.
Unexpectedly, this person’s identity is quite mysterious.
But yes.
After all, this happened ten years ago.
Ten years is not a long time.
Not short.
Many historical truths have long been buried in the long river of time.
Jin'an thought carefully about Master Yiyun's words, and he quite supported the speculation about the identity of the mysterious man. He should be the first person to discover clues about the cornucopia in Chang County.
Because the matter of Qingqianliu involves secrets from thousands of years ago. If a lot of manpower, material and financial resources had not been spent on deliberate investigation, ordinary people would have no idea about such secrets that have been buried under the long sands of history.
Before Jin An could take the initiative to speak this time, Master Yiyun had already continued: "After talking about the reason why Qingqianliu was so magical one night ten years ago, let's talk about the relationship between the cornucopia and Qingqianliu..."
"What does Mr. Jin An think the cornucopia should look like?"
Facing Young Master Yiyun's question, Jin An looked thoughtfully.
"pot?"
"Tree?"
Listening to Jin An's wild guesses, the faces of Master Yiyun and Qi Bo showed that everything was exactly as I had guessed.
Jin An naturally saw the changes in the expressions on the master and servant's faces in front of him, so he tilted his head and thought: "Potted plants?"
Well?
Mr. Yiyun and Qi Bo, who had originally looked so sure, almost choked on Jin An's words.
Surprise and astonishment appeared on Mr. Yiyun's jade-crowned white face with delicate features: "Why do Mr. Jin'an think that... the cornucopia will be, uh, a potted plant?"
Jin'an's reason is simple: "The green money willow plant thrives in a pot. Isn't it a potted plant?"
"It's that simple?"
"It's that simple."
Mr. Yiyun snorted again.
"Of course, according to what Mr. Yiyun just said, the group of assassins, Zhiyin masters, and monk Pu Zhi want to blow down the tree and dig a cornucopia, but in fact there is no cornucopia under the soil where the green money willow is planted, so I don’t think the cornucopia is a potted plant.”
If you sit for a long time, you will easily get backache, neck stiffness, and buttock pain. Jin An stretched his waist and said in a lazy voice.
"Master Jin An, be more confident and remove the word 'should'."
Young Master Yiyun glanced sideways at Jin An, who was stretching regardless of his appearance, and then his face changed to a solemn expression, and he said: "The cornucopia has another name, it's called the gathering basin."
"This cornucopia is a coffin."
coffin?
Jin An was startled.
This is indeed a bit unexpected.
"It is said that a long time ago, before the world was unified, there was a small country called Shanzhou. One day, there was a loud sound like fire and thunder in the sky, and a star fell in the west. The ground was turned into stone, and the light of fire shone brightly in the sky. You could see it from far and near. . Three days later, the fire died out, and the Shanzhou Kingdom obtained a meteorite, which was named a sacred stone."
"Since then, the national power of Shanzhou State has been growing day by day. It has vigorously opened up its territory and expanded its territory. Its soldiers are good at conquering and fighting. There is an endless supply of troops. It has annexed the territories of neighboring countries everywhere and soon annexed most of the small countries. There are rumors among the people that Shanzhou State has secret soldiers to help. , every time we march and fight, it is only at night, and wherever the army passes, there are strong winds, and every attack is invincible, and every battle is invincible."
"But just when Shanzhou Kingdom was fighting everywhere, annexing neighboring countries, and was about to dominate the world, the King of Shanzhou fell ill. Knowing that he didn't have much time left, he summoned all the craftsmen from all over the country overnight to polish the sacred stone and create the It was a coffin, but because it was unlucky to call it a coffin, it was named a cornucopia. Before his death, King Shanzhou called all his children and concubines to his bedside, and issued an edict. After his death, his body was buried in the coffin. treasure bowl."
"However, the King of Shanzhou had just passed away, and a dozen of his sons began to rush to seize the throne. There were internal fighting among the parties, and blood flowed. Everyone was coveting the huge territory that the Shanzhou Kingdom had acquired, and no one cared about the King of Shanzhou at all. The body of the King of Shanzhou was left rotting in the palace and eaten by rats, but no one cared about it."
"It wasn't until the Shanzhou Kingdom fell into internal strife that the neighboring allies, who shared the same hatred, took the opportunity to break through the royal city and enter the palace. Only then did they discover that the body of the Shanzhou King was rotten and smelly, and one of his legs and hands was almost eaten by rats. Bare, only the bones remain.”
"That night, all the countries formed an alliance to attack the Shanzhou Kingdom. In the chaos of burning, killing, and looting in Shanzhou, many royal family members of the Shanzhou Kingdom fled, and the whereabouts of the cornucopia were lost."
"Until Shanzhou Kingdom was destroyed, some rumors suddenly spread among the people for some reason, saying that the flying stone from the sky can bring people back to life. After death, as long as a person touches the sacred stone, he can be resurrected, and an identical person will come out of the sacred stone. People. So this is why the Shanzhou Kingdom has been fighting for years, but it has an endless supply of troops. The more it fights, the more soldiers it has. It stretches across the world and annexes neighboring countries."
"This can also explain why Shanzhou Kingdom only marches and fights at night. Wherever it goes, there are gusts of dark wind, and it is rumored by the people that the evil soldiers are taking advantage of the way."
"At that time, the King of Shanzhou knew that his time was short, so he wanted to use the cornucopia to resurrect the dead. However, unfortunately, he married so many concubines and had more than a dozen sons, but no one buried him. They all fell into the killing of his relatives. In the end, even the Shanzhou Kingdom was lost.”
Jin An did not interrupt Young Master Yiyun's narration and listened intently with bated breath.
Can the dead be resurrected by being close to a meteorite?
Could it be that this meteorite carries strong radiation and radioactive materials?
Regarding meteorite radiation, Jin An has seen relevant reports in the news many times before.
Mr. Yiyun continued to tell the story of the origin of the cornucopia.
"Originally, with the demise of Shanzhou Kingdom, Shanzhou Kingdom has faded out of the public eye. But faced with the temptation of resurrection, resurrection, and even immortality, all the countries at that time were arresting the royal family members who escaped from Shanzhou Kingdom. , palace maid craftsman... At that time, the kings of all countries were crazy. In less than a year, as many as hundreds of thousands of people died due to direct or indirect involvement. The world was in a smog, and heads rolled to the ground every day. Everyone in Shanzhou Kingdom Naturally, no one of the royal bloodline is spared."
"This bloody storm lasted for seven or eight years. The countries could not find the lost cornucopia, so they slowly gave up and continued to search for the whereabouts of the cornucopia."
"Because this period of history was too bloody and cruel, there were not many records in later historical records and unofficial histories, and few people knew its secrets. But because of a cornucopia, it caused people all over the world to kill wildly, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed in vain. This cornucopia has since It was considered unlucky from the beginning, so it was written as the 'Pen of Rain' in some unofficial histories of later generations."
"In these thousands of years, the cornucopia has been going around in circles. After being depressed for a period of time, it will appear again. When countless people die fighting for it, it will disappear again. No one can keep the cornucopia with them all year round. .”
"Because anyone who gets the cornucopia will end up with a bad ending. Either the country will be destroyed or the family will be destroyed. Then the cornucopia will be lost again and disappeared, abandoning the previous owner."
"This cornucopia seems to be born with bad luck and ominousness. Everyone who gets it will eventually die a bad life and run out of energy. It seems that this cornucopia can absorb people's luck. After absorbing people's luck, they leave the owner and become depressed. After a period of time, it will be acquired by the next owner. Because it is too evil, later generations also call it the 'Yin basin', which means an ominous thing."
"But even so, whenever the cornucopia is born, it will always trigger a bloody fight, because immortality is too tempting for mortals with limited life spans. Everyone is afraid of death. As long as they are afraid of death, they will work hard to find it. That misty and boundless immortality. The cornucopia has such magic power, and it always makes many people bleed in rivers fighting for it. But whether it can really bring back the dead and live forever, no one in history has ever witnessed it, and the only record is It only exists in Shanzhou Kingdom, which has long since disappeared.”
Regarding the origin of the cornucopia, Master Yiyun did not hide anything and had already confessed it to Jin An.
She finally said: "I don't know when the news that the cornucopia was about to be born reappeared, and this time the clues pointed directly to Chang County, saying that the great scholar who was enshrined in Wenwu Temple received the cornucopia during his lifetime. "
"The Yin-thorn masters and the others want to blow up the tree. It's probably because they haven't found the cornucopia elsewhere, so they think the cornucopia is under the tree."
After listening to Master Yiyun's words, Jin An fell into deep thought.
"Then how will Young Master Yiyun deal with the Qing Qian Liu rebellion?"
"Since this is a Yin tree that eats people, let's just ask the Yin assassins and the others to blow up this evil tree, which can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people."
Jin An said.
Mr. Yiyun shook his head: "This Qingqianliu incident has been brewing in Chang County for a long time and has become a big disaster. It is not that simple to get rid of the evil spirit. Qingqianliu has invaded the people of the county with its evil spirit. , not one person can drive away evil spirits.”
"The Qingqianliu tree is relatively calm now. If the tree is destroyed, the Qingqianliu tree may be angered, and no one in the city will be able to survive overnight."
"I have reported the news about this place to Fucheng. I hope that Fucheng will know it as soon as possible. Fucheng will report the news about this place to Zhenguo Temple or Yujing Golden Tower in the capital as soon as possible, and send a large number of eminent monks or powerful Taoists to Chang County to kill evil spirits. Slay the devil.”
After hearing this, Jin An always felt that this rhetoric was very familiar.
The Taoist priest Wu Zang told him the same thing about the trumpet, urn, and coffin temple back then. Keeping the coffin in the temple would harm people's lives, but it wouldn't cause serious trouble. He just needed to avoid it on weekdays.
But if the temple is really demolished by force, it will be like letting a hungry tiger out of its cage, helping the tyrants to do evil, and more people will die.
Just at this moment, several government officials walked into the courtyard outside the study.
"Your Majesty the County Magistrate, the bodies of Jin Kuan and Lin Mingcheng that you ordered us to find have been brought here."
At this time, Magistrate Zhang's majestic voice came from the study: "Well, thank you for your hard work. Please step back and rest first."
When the government officials turned around and left, Jin An looked at the two black coffins placed in the courtyard outside the study with surprise.
One of the coffins was naturally familiar to him.
When his soul left his body last night, he had just seen Jin Kuan's coffin in Yi Zhuang.
Jin An looked at Mr. Yiyun with puzzled eyes.
"Master Jin'an, aren't you very confused as to why I keep preventing the tree from blowing up, and why I keep worrying about angering Qingqianliu? This Jin Kuan's body is the answer."
"I know that Mr. Jin An will definitely ask about Qingqianliu tonight, so I have just ordered people to transport two corpses to Yizhuang."
Young Master Yiyun led Jin An out of the study.
It was late at night, the surroundings were dark and very quiet, but there were two black coffins in the courtyard. Although the Yamen is the place where the fate of millions of people in the court is inherited, and righteousness is the most important, usually the Yamen will not cause trouble, but this I still can't suppress the terrifying atmosphere of facing a coffin at night with a dead person lying in the coffin.
Jin Kuan in one of the coffins has been dead for more than a day. The image of rigor mortis has disappeared. The dead man's face is gray, his lips are blue, and his eyes are closed. The corpse is lying flat in the coffin. The weather has begun to heat up, and the inside of the corpse has already begun to heat up. It started to rot, and when one got close to the coffin, the temperature smelled unpleasant.
"Master Jin'an, does he know how Jin Kuan died?"
Although he didn't understand Mr. Yiyun's intention in asking this question, Jin An still replied: "He died suddenly in a gambling stall after the Qingqian Liu absorbed all the three souls and seven souls."
Young Master Yiyun first glanced at Jin An in surprise. She did not put too much energy into such trivial matters. Young Master Yiyun continued: "Since Young Master Jin An already knows the true cause of Jin Kuan's death, then Young Master Jin An Can you see any difference between Jin Kuan’s corpse and ordinary people?”
When Jin An heard this, his heart moved.
He held his breath and endured the smell in the coffin, and began to lean over and carefully observe the dead body in the coffin.
But when the incense stick passed by, Jin An found nothing. It was no different from an ordinary dead body.
At this time, Qibo walked to the coffin.
Qi Bo smiled at Jin An and said, "Master Jin An, let me do this dirty work."
"Actually, the people in these two coffins all died of Qingqianliu. They died suddenly after being sucked out of their three souls and seven souls by the evil energy in the Qianqian."
"Normally, there is nothing abnormal about these corpses. They are quite peaceful, just like the corpses of normal people after death. But if you put them together, then a problem arises..."
Qibo took out the two corpses in the coffins and spread them flat on the ground of the courtyard. As a result, a horrifying scene occurred.
The two corpses on the ground actually moved on their own. Their bodies were twisted and entangled. The two corpses were tightly stuck together. Their hands, feet, and spine were completely broken and stretched out to the back, entangled!
Click, click, click, all the bones in the body were twisted, crushed, and exploded under the load!
A large amount of foul-smelling black liquid was secreted from the inside of the corpse, but it was not corpse night, nor was it the blood of a dead person, but it was extremely stinky.
Finally, after the two corpses were twisted and entangled like old tree root statues, they stopped changing and returned to a still state.
At this time, the surface of the corpse was already filled with the stinking black liquid secreted from the body, like tree sap, adhering the two corpses together.
"help me……"
"help me……"
The two corpses were twisted into a lump like tree roots. Their eyes were obviously closed and their mouths were not opened, but they made painful and struggling sounds for help from their throats.
There is a night breeze blowing into the courtyard at night.
The wind blows.
Goosebumps stood up on my arms.
"Young Master Jin An should know that no matter whether it is flowers, plants or trees, once they take root in the ground, they will continue to grow more grass roots and tree roots every year... So, Young Master Jin An, does he know that in the ten years since Qingqian Liu has turned into a shady tree? , how widely do its roots spread underground?”
Mr. Yiyun finally expressed her worries.
root?
spread?
When Jin An reacted, he was stunned, and a chill climbed up his back from his tailbone.
In this way, all the people who died in the Qingqianliu eventually became the root system of the Qingqianliu. So how many twisted roots of the dead were buried under the Qingqianliu tree in Man Mo Temple?
