Xiang Wanli sighed: "Of course we know this, but that family of farmers has been farming for generations. How do they know so many things?"
Not long after, all kinds of strange things started to happen in Yan Daocheng's house!
For example, in the middle of the night, when the old man came out to pee, he suddenly saw a man wearing a bronze mask standing in the yard.
For another example, his daughter-in-law often hears whispers in an incomprehensible language.
In the end, his family didn't even dare to drink the water from the well.
The water was obviously clear and sweet, but they sometimes had hallucinations, and what they saw was a bucket of blood, with all kinds of dark and strange faces reflected on it.
When Yan Daocheng's family was about to be driven crazy, his grandson began to cry loudly every night, looking horrified, as if he had seen something terrifying.
Finally, he found a doctor to see a doctor, but he only said that the child was in a panic, and it turned out that no matter how much medicine he took, he didn't get better.
One day, while changing the child's diaper, Yan Daocheng's daughter-in-law suddenly discovered a small piece of something like toad skin appearing on the child's leg!
She was so frightened that she scraped off the piece of toad skin, but the next day, the toad skin grew back again, even more.
Not only this child, but not long after, Yan Daocheng's family had more or less dense toad skin on their hands and legs. They had to drink a lot of water, otherwise they would feel thirsty and have dry skin. It's about to burst.
At this time, Yan Daocheng could no longer sit still and quickly asked the village goddess for help. After the goddess explained the method, she asked him if he had ever done anything wrong?
He could only tell about the discovery of the strange jade artifacts.
The goddess told him that because he disturbed the peace of the deceased, the family was punished.
So Yan Daocheng no longer dared to keep those jades, and he sold all the jades at home to those cultural relic dealers at low prices.
According to common sense, the number of old objects in a village is limited, so cultural relic dealers travel back and forth between villages and towns.
How had they ever seen a family selling so many jade items overnight? !
These two large boxes full of jade were definitely not handed down from the previous generation, because they were so old that they didn't even know which era they were from, but they only knew that they were very genuine and valuable.
The goddess was not a tight-lipped person either, and she inadvertently leaked the news that many gems had been dug up in the fields of Yan Daocheng's family.
All of a sudden, all the cultural relic dealers in Guanghan County were in a panic, and they were gathering here!
These bizarre unearthed jades are also sold all over the country as they continue to change hands. But the strange thing is that these jades seem to be cursed. Many people who handle them will die badly, and everyone has the same cause of death. : Throw yourself into the river.
This incident caused quite a stir, but a small part of the jade items still found their way to Yanjing City, including this jade toad.
The owner of Qingxiang Pawn Shop took it in. According to his recollection, there was a crazy homeless man who came to the pawn shop and turned around every step of the way, as if there was a ghost chasing him behind him!
He threw the jade toad, together with a box of broken jade, in front of the pawnshop owner like a hot potato, exchanged it for a hundred yuan, and left as if he had been granted amnesty.
The pawn shop owner felt that he had picked up a big leak. Although all the jade in the box was broken, the quality of the jade toad was extremely good.
He thought he could buy it even if he bought it several times, but he didn't expect that collecting this jade toad would bring disaster to his whole family!
When he took the jade toad home, he was so happy that he played with it every day. But three days later, his wife suddenly went crazy and wanted to go back to her parents' home. On the way, she saw a river. She desperately got off the carriage and threw herself into the river.
And the pawnshop owner himself became mentally abnormal, just like the madman who entered the store.
Finally, he found Mr. Xu's home based on his connections. He wanted to show Mr. Xu what kind of evil thing it was and how harmful it was.
Unfortunately, as soon as the things were handed over to Mr. Xu, something unexpected happened to him the next day.
"What happened?" I asked.
Xiang Wanli said with an ugly face: "Without that jade toad by his side, his crazy condition was instantly cured, and he felt refreshed. He was so happy that he was about to go back to the pawn shop that day, but he suddenly changed direction. ”
"You know there is no river in Yanjing City. He came specifically outside Yanjing City that day and committed suicide by throwing himself into the river! When the body surfaced, his eyes widened with a weird grin, exactly like this jade toad!"
In other words, this is a cursed object, and everyone who handles it will die a bad death, and everyone will find a river to commit suicide!
"So you suspect that this jade toad contains a curse?" I asked.
Xiang Wanli's eyes became serious, and his tone became more solemn: "It's not just a curse, this Jian Shou is a most dangerous thing that has never been seen or heard before!"
Lao Jiang let out a meaningful laugh at this time and said to Xiang Wanli: "You have been a professor for so many years, how come you haven't seen similar vicious things? Just find a piece of soil to bury this kind of thing, find a river Throw it away, even if it’s burned.”
"Unless...it has other secrets hidden in it!"
This sentence hit Xiang Wanli's weakness, and Xiang Wanli sighed: "I knew I couldn't hide it from Mr. Jiang."
It turned out that after Mr. Xu found Xiang Wanli, they both agreed that the jade toad and the broken jade pieces were from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. But the problem is precisely that they compared all the cultural relics of the same period and used various identification techniques, but they got an incredible truth.
"It does not belong to the Shang Dynasty, nor does it belong to the Zhou Dynasty, nor does it belong to any small country of that period that we know of... but it comes from an unprecedented foreign civilization!"
"That civilization has never appeared in all dynasties, but because of a heavy rain, a farmer accidentally came into the world."
Since this thing may contain a curse, they did not dare to ask their colleagues to observe it. Besides, as the Taishan Beidou in the archaeological world, Xu Jingsheng couldn't figure it out, so what could others find out?
Xiang Wanli strongly recommended Qilin at this time. Having experienced life and death in the Desert of the Dead, he thought Lao Jiang would not refuse. So they found Qilin and came to ask for help!
"If there is anyone in this world who can find out the secret hidden behind it, it must be Qilin!"
When Xiang Wanli said this, he couldn't help but cup his hands.
