Seventy Buddha Cannon Fodder

Chapter 163

After bidding farewell to the third sister, Gu Mingdong was not in a hurry to do things, but instead started to stroll around Xiyuan Town.

Xiyuan Town has changed very little. Many people are working at this point, and there are few pedestrians on the road, but the supply and marketing cooperative is very lively.

Turning around, Gu Mingdong was surprised to find that in a remote alley on the edge of Xiyuan Town, there was actually a small black market, and everyone was in a hurry, whether buying or selling, they were cautious.

As long as there is any trouble, these people will quickly get into the surrounding alleys. This place extends in all directions, and it is really a good place for black market.

Gu Mingdong went in for a stroll, he hadn't done this business for a long time, he was a little unfamiliar.

After finding out the situation, Gu Mingdong walked towards Lao Lu's house.

Lao Lu's house is located in a remote place, no one is seen during the day, no shadows at night, no matter when he walks in, it is quiet.

Gu Mingdong didn't go in directly, but took a detour to a nearby forest.

When everything was ready, Gu Mingdong took out a palm-sized object from his arms, which was the small incense burner.

Before Xie Nanshan appeared suddenly, although Gu Mingdong sent him away, he was not so at ease in his heart. He thought that Xie Nanshan would come to him again sooner or later, but he waited for several months.

As soon as Xie Nanshan left, it was as if he had completely disappeared, without even any insinuations, and Gu Erdi and Gu Sanmei never "coincidentally" met him in Xiyuan Town again.

This really exceeded Gu Mingdong's expectations. He felt weird in his heart. From that day, Xie Nanshan was not someone who would give up when he hit a wall.

Since the other party has identified him as a member of the Gu family, the two of them should stand in the united front, how could they give up so easily.

Gu Mingdong's curiosity was aroused, and he finally had the time to come to town when the farming slack came down.

Compared with the gloomy and dark appearance of the past, today's small incense burner has changed greatly. The silver-gray color covers the surface of the incense burner, making it look very "new".

If the small incense burner in the past brought men with evil spirits and gloom, now this small incense burner only makes people feel round and cute.

Gu Mingdong dawdled with the performance of the censer, and the next moment, the supernatural ability understood the master's mind, and quickly got into the censer.

The silver-gray coating disappeared quickly, but the abilities wrapped in it boiled up, and small packets bulged up.

After a long time, Gu Mingdong frowned slightly.

"There are no relics here, are you sure?"

The ability waved his tentacles angrily, as if he would make a mistake if he said something else, but he would never be wrong when it was about rations.

Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows and looked at Lao Lu's house: "Could it be that the distance is too far, so I can't sense it?"

The ability swayed again.

Gu Mingdong sighed helplessly, and had no choice but to put away the incense burner first. Since the ability said that there are no relics here, then there really are none.

But logically speaking, since Xie Nanshan came here to return the pearl, how could he not bring the protagonist?

When the plan failed, Gu Mingdong hid the incense burner, walked over and knocked on the door.

"Knock knock knock!"

There was no response from the door.

Gu Mingdong frowned, could it be that Xie Nanshan had already left?It shouldn't be, he worked so hard to find Shanghe Village, how could he leave without doing anything?

"Knock knock knock!"

Gu Mingdong knocked on the door again and shouted, "Xie Nanshan, it's me, Gu Mingdong."

There was still no movement inside the door, just when Gu Mingdong thought that Xie Nanshan was really not there, suddenly there was a sound from inside the room.

Gu Mingdong's complexion changed slightly, he looked up at the courtyard wall, saw no one around, he simply backed out a few steps, took a quick run-up, and with his hands propped up, he climbed over the wall and fell to the ground.

He looked up at Lao Lu's yard, and it was almost the same as he remembered, even with the same sundries. It can be seen that Xie Nanshan's purpose of buying this house was definitely not for business.

"Xie Nanshan?"

Gu Mingdong yelled again, and there was a snap, and the sound of something being thrown came from the room again.

The house was tied, but it didn't bother Gu Mingdong. He swept it casually and walked over to pick up a bamboo piece in the yard.

The bamboo slices go in, and when you lift it up, you can quickly open the primitive wooden bolts of this year.

Gu Mingdong pushed open the wooden door, and there was a strange smell coming from inside, which prevented him from covering his mouth and nose subconsciously. After walking a few steps, he saw Xie Nanshan lying on the bed with a clean face. less posture.

"What's the matter with you?" Gu Mingdong stepped forward quickly, stretched out his hand to touch it, and asked if he was still angry.

Xie Nanshan smiled wryly: "It's an old problem."

Gu Mingdong looked around and asked in surprise, "I'm sick, so you locked yourself in the house and waited to die?"

Xie Nanshan wanted to explain, but before he could open his mouth, he coughed violently, as if he wanted to cough up his heart, liver and lungs.

Gu Mingdong frowned, turned around and found salt and brown sugar in the house, quickly mixed a bowl of nutrient solution and poured it down for him. The conditions were limited and there was no time to boil the hot water.

The taste of salty, salty and sweet is blended together, the taste is simple, but Xie Nanshan felt that his drowsy body was injected with vitality after eating the cold sugar and salt water.

After drinking a big bowl of sugar and salt water, Xie Nanshan finally recovered a bit.

Gu Mingdong wiped his forehead, and said strangely: "You don't have a fever, why are you lying at home half dead, trying to starve yourself to death?"

Xie Nanshan smiled wryly and said, "If I said that I was fine before going to bed, but after I fell asleep I couldn't move and was almost starved to death, would you believe me?"

This sounded too mysterious: "Did the ghost press the bed?"

Xie Nanshan's eyes flashed a trace of coldness: "Almost."

"I told you before that before I came to Xiyuan Town, I had a serious illness. I almost didn't survive it. It was almost the same at that time. When I was not sick or disaster, I fell asleep suddenly, couldn't get a drop of water, and almost starved to death."

Maybe it was a walk before the gate of hell, Xie Nanshan didn't play tricks anymore, he just wanted to tell the person in front of him.

"At that time, I thought I was going to die, but one day, the feeling of being unable to move my body suddenly disappeared, and I came back to life."

"After taking care of my body, I found a way to come to Xiyuan Town. Before my father died, he told me that the root node is here. If you want to completely get rid of the fate of tragic death, the answer is here."

Gu Mingdong posed for him in a comfortable position, motioning for him to continue talking.

Xie Nanshan continued with bitterness on his face, "Since I was young, I don't know how many times this kind of thing has happened."

"I've always been unlucky and injured a lot, but it's the first time I've been let out like that and it's like -- someone's taking my life away."

"When I came to Xiyuan Town, this situation suddenly disappeared. I'm still not lucky, but finally I don't get injured often, and I can live like ordinary people."

"I thought it was over."

Gu Mingdong raised his eyebrows slightly, he understood why Xie Nanshan tried many times last time, but lacked a bit of eagerness.

It turned out that he thought that living in Xiyuan Town would have escaped the fate of tragic death.

Xie Nanshan looked even more distressed: "Who would have thought that when I came back from Shanghe Village that day, before I reached Xiyuan Town, I fell directly into the gutter and almost drowned, but a kind person passing by saved me."

"A lot of things happened one after another in the next few months, and I stayed in the hospital for most of the time, until this time..."

"If it weren't for you, I might starve to death in this room."

Xie Nanshan looked at Gu Mingdong with mixed emotions, feeling grateful from the bottom of his heart, but more envious.

Gu Mingdong met his gaze calmly. He rejected Xie Nanshan's invitation to cooperate, but Xie Nanshan was unlucky, but it had nothing to do with him.

Although I went out today with the idea of ​​relics, didn't I not get it?

In other words, he came here today and rescued Xie Nanshan by mistake.

"Hearing you say that, then you are quite unlucky."

Gu Mingdong said lightly, and then asked: "Didn't your ancestors tell you the reason?"

Xie Nanshan sighed helplessly. After this time, all his thoughts were blown away. After all, if a person loses his life, he still has to figure out what to do.

"I didn't lie to you last time. The ancestor left early, and I don't know much. I only know that the root of everything is in Shanghe Village."

"Back then, my grandfather borrowed three Buddha bones from here, and made an appointment to return them after everything was over. He cared about the world and never thought of occupying the Buddha bones. The bone has become a sharp sword chosen over the heads of my Xie family, and at some point it will kill us and break the roots of the Xie family."

After getting the information he wanted, Gu Mingdong asked strangely: "Since the Buddha bone is a hot potato, why not return it?"

"It's not that I won't pay it back, it's that I can't pay it back." Xie Nanshan let out a sigh of relief.

"The Buddha bone has disappeared."

Gu Mingdong was very surprised by these words.

Zheng Tong once said that Buddha bones are relics, which are extremely hard, incompatible with water and fire, and are difficult to be damaged by external forces.

"How did this thing disappear?"

Xie Nanshan shook his head helplessly: "I don't know, I was not born at that time."

"According to my father, after leaving Shanghe Village, the Buddha bones gradually shrunk. Because the speed was very slow, they didn't notice it at first."

"When it was discovered, the Buddha bone had shrunk in half. Grandpa was shocked at the time, but at that time the battle was chaotic, and he didn't have time to find the bead keeper."

"He sent many letters, but the Pearl Keeper didn't hear from him."

"Then one day, the three Buddha bones seemed to have been weathered a little bit, and disappeared one by one."

The more Gu Mingdong heard it, the more surprised he became, but the supernatural ability drooped down in disappointment. If the Buddha bone had disappeared, he would never be able to eat it again.

Xie Nanshan's eyes showed a bit of gloom: "When the ancestors took away the Buddha bone, the beadkeeper once said that it must be returned on time for a period of 30 years, otherwise the Buddha bone will be damaged, and there will be a catastrophe in the world."

Gu Mingdong glanced at him: "Obviously the Xie family didn't believe it."

Xie Nanshan heaved a long sigh: "So now I have suffered a lot."

Gu Mingdong frowned, feeling that there was something wrong with it.

He suddenly asked: "The Buddha's bone has been deserted, but what about the deserted ashes?"

Xie Nanshan was taken aback, he didn't expect him to ask such a question, but he still replied: "It should go with the wind."

"Anyway, there is nothing left in my life."

Gu Mingdong's eyes flickered slightly, and he thought of the silver ash in the incense burner.

Xie Nanshan vomited quickly, and after saying this, his mood improved, and most of the pressure of being threatened with his life seemed to have dissipated.

Xie's family members withered, and after the death of his parents, Xie Nanshan had no one to tell his thoughts to. Now that he spoke out, his depression also dissipated a lot.

He looked at Gu Mingdong, and said quietly: "I know, I have already told you."

"Now can you tell me why the old Gu's family can live in peace?"

Before, Xie Nanshan felt that it was a painful thing to stay in Xiyuan Town for the sake of his life, but after going through this incident, he felt that he could survive, even if he was confined here for the rest of his life, it was nothing.

He was really fed up with the fear and torture of lying in bed, unable to move his body.

Gu Mingdong looked at him, and said in a very bachelor way: "How would I know that?"

Without waiting for Xie Nanshan to speak, Gu Mingdong continued: "My dad died early, and he didn't leave anything behind."

"I only know that since my grandfather's generation, the Gu family has lived in Shanghe Village. Maybe they have done something."

Xie Nanshan's face changed slightly: "What? Then you can leave Shanghe Village?"

Gu Mingdong shrugged: "I've been to Daishan City, and my brother is in the transportation team. He often goes to different places with the car, and I haven't seen him encounter any bad luck."

It doesn't count if he encounters robbery, because Gu Mingnan got a blessing in disguise, not only became a regular worker, but also got the gratitude of Master Qian, and later got a partner by accident.

If this is considered unlucky, it is estimated that many people in this world want it.

After hearing these words, Xie Nanshan looked at Gu Mingdong uncertainly: "Impossible, if you don't know anything, then how did you know the name Xie Ling?"

"Oh, this." Gu Mingdong hooked the corner of his mouth, and threw the notebook in his hand to him.

The palm-sized notebook was impressively written with the information he knew.Gu Mingdong, obviously you came prepared, the IOU is in the notebook, it seems that they were together in the first place.

"Although my dad didn't leave anything behind, I have this."

Xie Nanshan stood up straight, opened the notebook, and when he saw the year, his heart was shocked, and his eyes shot out hope, but after he finished flipping through it from beginning to end, he lay back down disappointed.

"It's all useless information."

Hope turned into disappointment, Xie Nanshan sighed: "I thought I could always find a beadkeeper when I arrived in Xiyuan Town, but now it seems that I was naive."

"Who is the Pearl Keeper?" Gu Mingdong asked the question he wanted to know the most.

Xie Nanshan fell into deep thought, and looked up at him after a long time: "I don't know."

Gu Mingdong frowned slightly, obviously not believing this.

Xie Nanshan explained: "I really don't know. The only words handed down by the ancestors are the three characters of "Zhouzhuren". What are their surnames, what are their names, and who are they? The important task of guarding the pearl is to stay in Xiyuan Town and hide from the world."

Because of this, after the Xie family found out that something was wrong, there was nothing they could do.

"When the Buddha bone disappeared, the ancestor once visited Xiyuan Town in person, but found nothing."

so mysterious?

Gu Mingdong suddenly thought of that letter from home.

The letter also mentioned that my ethnic group has always taken the responsibility of guarding the beads, and even the hatred of the country and the family cannot leave. What is it? Just a few broken beads are worth a family. Did the ancestors spend so much effort to protect them?

Suddenly, the bronze tripod full of sinister resentment flashed in Gu Mingdong's heart.

Seeing him pondering, Xie Nanshan said, "Perhaps the beadkeeper knew that the Buddha bone had disappeared, so he avoided seeing it."

He guessed: "The ancestors of the Gu family had the foresight to return the Buddha bone early, so that future generations can live in peace."

Xie Nanshan didn't completely trust Gu Mingdong, but the offspring of the old Gu family had reproduced well, with a large population, so it didn't look like they were affected.

He thought in his heart that maybe it was the generation of the Gu family's grandfather who had already returned the borrowed Buddha bone, and did not leave after returning it. He took root in Shanghe Village and had the current Gu family.

With such a guess, Xie Nanshan frowned: "Tell me, maybe the Pearl Keeper is in Shanghe Village, but they avoid it, so I can't find it no matter how I look for it."

Gu Mingdong glanced at him: "Unless they live in the deepest part of the mountain, it is absolutely impossible."

Gu Mingdong is still very familiar with his territory.

In the mountains of Shanghe Village, there is nothing else except the ten boxes of gold and silver treasures.

Xie Nanshan let out a breath, feeling that it was impossible in his heart.

No matter how isolated the family is, it is impossible for them not to show any traces. After all, people need salt, and there are no salt wells and fields in Shanghe Village, so they have to come out to buy it.

The two looked at each other, and Gu Mingdong also felt that Xie Nanshan was very unlucky, and he had to pay the debt owed by his ancestors.

Xie Nanshan added: "Probably my luck is really bad. If I had come a few years earlier, at least I could have found the Du family."

"The Du family is still alive, and they will find it sooner or later." Gu Mingdong said.

Xie Nanshan smiled wryly, "I don't know if I have the fate to wait so long."

And he knew from the bottom of his heart that even if he found the Du family, he might not be able to find the Pearl Keeper. Didn't Xie Ling find the Du family back then, and the result was still the same.

Gu Mingdong suddenly asked: "Do you know Yuan He?"

Xie Nanshan tried his best to recall, but still shook his head: "I have no impression."

Gu Mingdong was a little disappointed, if he knew it would be a clue.

I went for a walk today and found nothing, but saved the dying Xie Nanshan. Gu Mingdong looked at his condition and was surprised to find that Xie Nanshan seemed to have fully recovered.

Xie Nanshan got up and moved around, and also frowned: "All of a sudden it's fine."

It was the same last time, he struggled to wake up, and everything disappeared except that he was weak due to hunger for too long.

It's a good thing to be alive, but Xie Nanshan is still distressed: "I don't know when the next time will be."

Gu Mingdong suddenly mentioned something: "You said just now that you have been in good health since you came to Xiyuan Town. Did anything strange happen before this time?"

Xie Nanshan suddenly complained: "I went to Shanghe Village to look for you."

"What about other than that?"

Xie Nanshan thought about it hard, but still shook his head: "Nothing happened."

"To tell you the truth, since I was a child, I have suspected and investigated countless times. I always feel that someone is harming me, but the result of every investigation is an accident."

Seeing what he said, Gu Mingdong couldn't help but frown.

Is it true that the ancestors did the crimes and the descendants suffered?

He always felt that it was not that simple, and he couldn't find a reasonable explanation.

Suddenly, Gu Mingdong looked at Xie Nanshan: "Do you know anyone from the Qian family?"

"The Qian family?" Xie Nanshan looked strange.

Gu Mingdong nodded: "From the Qian family in Beijing, there is an educated youth in our production team named Qian Zhiyi, who is from there. He is very strange, always looking for something in the mountains."

Hearing this, Xie Nanshan immediately became vigilant.

But soon he frowned and shook his head: "I don't know anyone from the Qian family, and I don't know any Qian Zhiyi. If I have seen or heard of it, I will definitely have an impression."

Could it be that he thought too much, that the Qian family's forbidden technique of borrowing luck had nothing to do with Xie Nanshan's misfortune?

Gu Mingdong's keen sixth sense made him unwilling to give up this clue: "If you think about it carefully, you are both from Beijing, and you may have met."

But Xie Nanshan thought for a long time, still shook his head and said: "I really don't know."

Suddenly, he remembered something: "There is an educated youth who has some connection with Xie's family."

Gu Mingdong looked at him.

Xie Nanshan explained: "Is there a female educated youth in your village named Wu Mengting, who is from the Wu family in Beijing. The Wu family is not considered prominent, but the boss of the Wu family is very good at making money, and fled abroad before the incident happened."

"When my father was still alive, I saw Boss Wu bringing his daughter to visit, so I have some impression."

"Wu Mengting?" Gu Mingdong was a little surprised.

"She and Qian Zhiyi are very familiar, and they appeared in Shanghe Village together."

Xie Nanshan frowned: "Maybe they also came for the Pearl Keepers, but what does it have to do with me?"

"I hope they can find it. If so, I can have a good time."

Gu Mingdong laughed. From Bai Xiaohua's memory, it is not difficult to know that Qian Zhiyi must have found those big boxes and got the relics in them, but the Pearl Keeper?It just never showed up.

If there was no such letter, Gu Mingdong would doubt whether the Pearl Keeper existed or not.

Xie Nanshan did some activities and felt much better. He thanked you and said: "Thank you very much today. At least I can live for two more years. Unfortunately, I have nothing to repay you. As long as there is something you like in this house Just take it away."

Lao Lu's house is not too big, but it is full of things.

Gu Mingdong didn't move either, instead he said: "Has the Buddha bone borrowed by Xie's family really disappeared?"

Xie Nanshan couldn't help but smiled wryly and said, "Could it be that I'm still making fun of my own life?"

He has never experienced the mysterious benefits of Buddha bones, but there are a lot of disadvantages. If they are still there, how could they not take them out.

"From childhood to adulthood, I have searched the old house in my house countless times, and this thing would have been discovered long ago."

Gu Mingdong sighed, and said, "Xie Nanshan, I want to visit the old house."

Xie Nanshan was surprised in his heart, he didn't think it was worth the trip, but meeting Gu Mingdong's gaze, he suddenly felt that this guy who claimed to know nothing might know more than himself.

Maybe this guy really has a way!

This idea suddenly appeared in my mind.

For a long time, Xie Nanshan only said: "If there is a chance, yes."

Gu Mingdong laughed and didn't stay any longer.

He originally planned to wait and go to Beijing after he let go, but who knew that an opportunity fell into Gu Mingdong's hands not long after.