"Want to run?"
The girl in green shirt raised her lips slightly, took a step forward, and her slender figure was already ten feet away.
Seeing this, Qi Jingzhi hesitated for a moment and had no choice but to follow.
When he was in Jiao Mansion, he had the idea of leaving and wanted to rush to Liaozhou as soon as possible, so he left the house with Mu Yingxian. He didn't really want to find the short and fat mountain man, but he wanted to say goodbye to the girl. He had already chased after him, but he didn't even have a chance to speak.
The two quickly chased for more than ten feet and found the end of the cyan spiritual light thread. They saw that it was still on the long street in front of Jiao Mansion, and it went straight into a square bluestone used to pave the ground in the middle of the road. Inside.
Seeing the girl in green shirt stopping next to the bluestone, Qi Jingzhi rushed towards her. The strange and ferocious face was so frightening that pedestrians along the way ran away.
He looked down and saw that this piece of bluestone had been eroded by wind and rain and looked obviously much worn out than the surrounding bluestone paving. There were actually four characters engraved on the bumpy stone surface.
Qi Jingzhi examined it carefully and saw that the inscription on it was not "Such Stones" but "Ancient Nest Road".
He thought about it for a moment and realized that just as Linzhou was named after Linshan Mountain, Chaozhou was named after Chaojiang River. If it was really like what was engraved on the bluestone, then the place where the two of them were standing at this moment was unknown how many years ago. The old channel of Chaojiang River in front of the river.
The changes in the world and the vicissitudes of the world are all described by this silent and immovable bluestone.
The girl in green shirt glanced at the bluestone inscriptions, raised her head and looked around, while her slender fingers in her sleeves moved silently.
After a moment, she stared at a well at the corner of the street in front of her. She flashed and walked away again.
Qi Jingzhi, who was about to speak, had no choice but to shut up. The Crane Technique suddenly started to work, and a strong wind was brought up by his step.
In this way, they successively inspected the stone pulley frame next to the well, the bluestone millstone of the tofu shop, the stone pots for pounding medicine in the medicinal shop, the stone lotus bases of the pillars on the stage outside the City God's Temple, and even the water suppressor on the top of the arch of a stone arch bridge. Animal head.
Qi Jingzhi noticed that most of these places had the words "Ancient Nest Old Road" engraved on them inconspicuous places, and even the windlass frame, stone pillar base and water-restraining animal head themselves were similar to the evil-restraining stakes outside Jiao Mansion. The overwhelming thing.
This arrangement is not so much a mark of the old river course as it is the use of countless overwhelming objects to pin this ancient nest path to the earth.
After a long time, the two finally saw the familiar figure in a green turban and cloth robe in a deep and narrow alley.
The short and fat Shangulang squatted at the door of a house, unaware of the visitor. He was digging the soil hard with both hands. At this moment, he had dug out a very deep pit.
In the pit was a stone mound that was mostly buried in the soil.
Qi Jingzhi and the girl in green shirt looked at each other and walked closer. They saw that the stone pier was roughly cylindrical, with a big bottom and a small top, and a round hole-shaped groove in the center of the top.
This thing existed in the village in front of the mountain. Qi Jingzhi had seen it a lot since he was a child. It was a weight on a stone roller, also called a stone roller. Unexpectedly, it was buried here and became a stone pier for resting in front of the door.
He remembered what the girl had said before, and took a closer look. Sure enough, he found a long series of unclear inscriptions on the lower half of the stone roller on the side facing the alley. However, the content of the inscriptions was quite different from what Qi Jingzhi had thought before. Same.
While he was trying to identify it, he recited softly: "The teacher is a fierce tiger, the stone is brave, and the invincible dragon is still young."
In addition, there is another string of small characters under these twelve inscriptions, which are not only more blurry and difficult to read, but are also mostly covered by black soil.
Qi Jingzhi was about to take a closer look when he heard the girl in green shirt say softly: "This is the "Emergency Chapter", which is used by some ancient sects to enlighten their children."
"Each character in these four sentences is a separate surname. The three surnames in the second sentence taken together happen to be the name of the legendary ancestor of the Shi clan, the ancestor Shi Zhizhi respected by the stone spirits of Qi State. Fenru is its descendant. Engraving this name on bluestone also has the effect of suppressing evil spirits, but ordinary families cannot bear it. As for why the other three sentences should be engraved here, I can’t think of it at the moment. I don’t even have any clue..."
"Ancestor of the Stone Clan? Do you dare to be a Shi?" Qi Jingzhi's thoughts turned and he paid attention secretly.
He raised his head and looked at the house in front of him, but no matter how he used his spiritual aperture, he couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. It was just an ordinary residence, which was far different from Jiao's Yunxiang Hou Mansion.
"No need to look, this evil-suppressing stone has been buried here for who knows how many years. It may have been placed here when the city was built, or even when it was still submerged by the water of Chaojiang River."
As the girl in green shirt spoke, she suddenly squatted down, stretched out her hand to brush off the soil stained on the string of small characters, and identified them word by word: "Shi's veins, in Wei there are paraffin, stone mai, and stone evil, in Zheng there are stone systems, in Zhou there are stone Hurry, there are a lot of rocks here, avoid them and don't collide with them!"
After reading, the girl's eyebrows were slightly frowned, and her expression became solemn: "I was still surprised just now, why this evil-suppressing stone is so hard, even Shan Gulang can do nothing but dig the soil honestly. After all, the name of the ancestor of the Stone Clan is only to suppress evil spirits, but it will not embarrass his descendants. This idiot is obviously a person who does not recognize his relatives and has no respect for the name of his ancestor..."
"It turns out that an expert specifically added these few words at the end. Not only did it greatly increase its ability to ward off evil spirits, but it also warded off the descendants of the Shi family."
After saying that, the girl in green shirt looked at the short fat man who was digging the dirt at her feet, and her eyes gradually brightened: "I don't know what is under this evil-suppressing stone, but it requires such a huge array!"
Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi could only secretly lament that the girl had so much knowledge and knowledge, and how many secrets there were in Chaozhou City.
Next, both of them remained silent and silently focused their gazes on Shan Gulang without interrupting rashly. After all, we had seen it when we were in Jiao Mansion. Once this short fat man decided to do something, at best he was focused and unyielding, at worst he was mentally deficient and foolish.
Fortunately, it has very strong arms. It dug the soil with two fat hands like flying. It first squatted on the ground, stuck its butt high, and thrust its upper body into the pit. Then it simply lay down on the edge of the pit, with its two arms in front of it. Reaching down, the black soil was splashed everywhere.
Not long after, it dug out the entire stone wheel.
Under the stone roller, a lifelike stone turtle with eyes closed gradually emerged.
This stone turtle was as big as a grinding plate. The turtle shell and the stone roller were so close together that it was impossible to tell for a moment whether the stone turtle was carrying the stone roller or whether it was being suppressed by the stone roller.
It wasn't until most of the stone turtle was dug out that Humpty Dumpty finally stopped.
It was lying on the edge of the pit, its eyes widened, and it stared at the stone turtle motionlessly for a long time. Suddenly, it stretched out its hand and poked the stone turtle's closed eyes with its stubby fingers.
Unexpectedly, the previously silent stone turtle suddenly shrank its neck and put its head into the turtle shell.
At that moment, Qi Jingzhi felt the ground beneath his feet tremble slightly.
It's just that the tremor came and went quickly. Before he could sense it carefully, there was a loud shout from behind, like thunder exploding: "What a bunch of monsters! How dare you tamper with the animals and plot evil!"
