Chapter 47: Liao Qi
Old Liu Tou took out the dagger and scrutinized it carefully, and found that the end of the dagger's handle was engraved with two hidden seal characters: ask the sky.
"This... "Old Liu Tou was too excited to say a word, this is a legendary treasure blade, some say yes, some say no, according to legend, back then, when the Warring States sword casting master Ou Yezi (Note ①) was building the Pure Jun Sword, the cold iron used to build the sword was left over by one catty and two taels, and so he built this dagger by the way, and after the After the dagger was cast, suddenly the sky fell red rain, Ou Yezi did not know what was going on, they named this blade "Ask the sky", and later this dagger became the royal family of successive generations of the guy, do not do anything else, specifically used to cut the meat of the "important ministers".
According to legend, Liu Bang promised Han Xin that he would not kill him with a knife, so he used a bamboo stick to stick Han Xin alive, but in the wild history legend, the bamboo stick is only Liu Bang's face to cover up the ears of the people, the son of heaven does not count for fear of the world's people laughing, but in fact, Han Xin was executed by lynchings, and the execution of the guy is the "ask the sky", to the Song Dynasty, the lynchings had been used for a long time. In the Song Dynasty, lynching torture was once abolished, "ask the sky" is just the court's plaything, and to the end of the Ming Dynasty, used to execute the famous general Yuan Chonghuan, will be this "ask the sky". In fact, the emperor is not afraid of the sky, according to ancient legends, ministers are all the stars in the sky, kill these important ministers, their grievances are not the same as ordinary people, so the use of such a deadly weapon of execution, expect to be able to use the deadly deterrent to the grievances of the dead. Legend has it that when Han Xin and Yuan Chonghuan died, there was red rain in the sky. Perhaps this is the answer to Ou Yezi's unanswered question, "Ask the sky", there will be the grievances of the country.
Zhang Guozhong at the moment weighing this ask the sky, size than the "dragon scale" and "chop iron" are shorter than a cut, the weight is also light, in order to test whether the legendary ancient blade is the real thing, Zhang Guozhong opened up the eye, only to see a strong green-black fury hovering in the his own hand, and the Dragon Scale Chopping Iron immediately paled in comparison.
"People use mahogany swords, you guys use the real thing, I thought you guys are not ordinary..." the seventh uncle looked at the two of them with a smile, "And I invited no less than ten of the most famous masters from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and even Japan, and all of them were at their wits' end, and you guys were surprisingly Can see the cracks..., if you two can really let me move back, this dagger will be treated as a gift, but the ugly words in front, if I can't move back, you two will have to return the jade to Zhao!"
"Thank you uncle seven," Zhang Guozhong is also not polite, took the ask the sky on the waist, old Liu head eyeballs are almost staring out, there is no way, the senior brother also has no hobby, from Bashan with the life in exchange for the treasure of two words are given to their own, at this time is not good to reach out. "Guozhong, that dragon scale ... is not ..." old Liu head thought also good, can put their own family guy to come back, also worth it. At this point, Chopping Iron completed its short-lived mission in Old Liu Tou's hands and became a permanent reminder.
At this moment, the seventh uncle sighed, "I didn't expect that this surnamed Zhao would treat me like this! I'll give up my old life, but I'll also let you die a good death!" Said and began to cough violently.
The seventh uncle is called Liao Qi, according to the generation, and patriot Liao Zhongkai can be related to some of the first degree of kinship, the seventh uncle's ancestors are doing the land business, while the grandfather at the age of 30 years old, but began to do the steel and rubber business, and later involved in paper and plastics, to the grandfather more than 50 years old when he founded Liao's enterprises, after the father of the seventh uncle generation of painstakingly management, the Liao's enterprises to the seven uncles in the hands of the largest in Southeast Asia, rubber traders and steel traders, the seventh uncle's father's father's generation of painstakingly management, Liao's enterprises to the seven uncles in the hands of the biggest rubber traders and steel traders. In 1976, Uncle Liao was knighted by the Queen of England together with the King of Boats, Mr. Pao Yuk Kong, so he was qualified to buy a black Rolls Royce.
Seven uncle's mouth that surnamed Zhao, real name Zhao Kuncheng, orphanage grew up, the birth is unknown, used to work under the seven uncle, because of its shrewd and strong, soon became the seven uncle's most trusted person. Five years ago, Liao's enterprises and the French did a big business, known as the largest non-ferrous metal transactions in Southeast Asia at the time, which Uncle sent the most trusted Zhao Kuncheng fully responsible for negotiation matters, leading the other members of the board of directors to negotiate with the French, they are personally located in Hong Kong, from the enterprises in Africa, the Americas belong to the mine to raise resources. Can make the seven uncle never expected is that this Zhao Kun Cheng was contrary to the usual loyalty, in order to a mere 200 million francs of the benefit of selling the entire Liao's enterprise, so that the seven uncle sat down to lose billions of dollars, all of a sudden hurt the vitality.
That's not all, after the two people turned against each other, this Zhao Kuncheng also designed the death of the only son of the seven uncles, is said to be the use of side ways to create a bizarre traffic accidents, the police have not been able to find any clues, although the instructions know that is Zhao Kuncheng, but there is no evidence. The seventh uncle because has been living in deep simplicity, only did not die with the same son.
Later, Zhao Kun Cheng opened a company, pulling away many big customers of Liao's enterprises, specializing in working against the seventh uncle, and this time hitting the attention of the Liao family's ancestral mansion, I don't know what kind of crooked ideas there are again.
"Outrageous!" Zhang Guozhong slammed his hand on the table, looking at the seventh uncle, this old man is also quite pitiful, he can't help but feel that that Zhao Kuncheng is very hateful, but when Old Liu Tou and the seventh uncle looked at himself strangely, he realized that he lost his temper.
"I'm sorry, I'm just very angry, how can one be like this?" Zhang Guozhong explained.
"Young man, if my son is still alive, he should be as old as you..." speaking of his son, the seventh uncle's eyes reddened, "You two sirs, I'm counting on you for my ancestral home, there's actually one thing that I didn't want to tell you guys but now I feel that there's no harm in talking about it. "
Zhang Guozhong froze, "Your ancestral home, is there any other secret?"
"As I said, my Liao family's ancestors were in the land business," Uncle Seven sighed for a while, "The land deed that was passed down from my ancestors is in that ancestral house, my grandpa died too suddenly, the place where he hid the land deed didn't have time to tell me, or else my grandpa wouldn't have switched to another line of work. Taipei, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Tokyo, Osaka, the whole of Southeast Asia, there are my Liao family's land, adding up to more than the whole of Hong Kong, now the Liao family failed, I can't fight that surnamed Zhao at this age, but as long as I can find those land deeds, I Liao Qi will be able to rise again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Said the seventh uncle even leaned on his crutches and stood up from the sofa, the veins on his face were exposed, "In my lifetime, if I don't let that surnamed Zhao lose his reputation, I won't enter the Liao family's ancestral tomb!"
"Seventh Master," after listening to Seventh Uncle's complaint, Old Liu's address was obviously much closer, "You're telling us this, it's not just as simple as wanting to move back to the ancestral home, is it?"
"Hey, Mr. Liu, truth be told, when you guys help me take back my ancestral mansion, I want you to help me find those land deeds, and I believe that Surname Zhao is looking for them right now as well, and I want us to get ahead of him." The seventh master's gaze was close to pleading.
Now Zhang Guozhong was also in a difficult position, looking for things is not the strong point of Maoshan arts, that land deed is just ordinary paper, is there any evil way, how can we find it...
"The two of you don't have to be difficult, we already have a contract in advance, you only need to help me take back my ancestral home, the rest of the matter I won't force you two..." the seventh uncle looked helpless.
"What is this Zhao Kun Cheng? How come he still knows those sideways things? Did he do it himself or did he get someone else to do it?" Zhang Guozhong was puzzled, theoretically speaking, how could this kind of person who knew how to use spells to harm people possibly mix with the business world?
"It's him who did it himself..." seventh uncle was helpless, "I don't know where he learned those side tricks, but I hired the triad forces in four places, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and Malay, hoping to find clues to my son's death, but after a long time of checking, there's not a single clues are not there, if it's really find someone else to get it, no matter how should find out something..." seventh uncle helplessly said.
"Why is it that if the person's last name is Zhao, they are so difficult to deal with?" Old Liu head was depressed for a while, the one who built the treasure cave is called Zhao Sange, the one who killed his master in the buried tomb is called Zhao Le, and this time another Zhao Kun Cheng popped up... "Guozong ah, do you think these three people, is it a family ah?" Old Liu Tou joked.
Old Liu said as a joke, Zhang Guozhong didn't listen to it as a joke, "Senior brother, I think and it is possible, you see, Zhao Sange in the latter Jin Dynasty has already invented the descending art, at least it is similar to the descending art spells, more than a thousand years earlier than that Luo Youchang, absolutely is a first-class master, that Zhao Le will know how to exterminate the words and in the case of not having any information from the outside world, even a person to burin dragon array broken Almost, it should not be an oil lamp, this Zhao Kun Cheng, since he can use spells to kill people, it means that this person's ability is also not small, and his heart is not right..." Zhang Guo Zhong paused, "Senior brother, I think that the one who breaks the burin dragon formation in the Qing Dynasty may also be from their old Zhao family, it is not possible that they are a family! This set of skills was passed down directly from their family! Do you think that... seal, could it be in Zhao Kun Cheng's hands?" Zhang Guozhong wanted to say the Seal of Transmission, but thought better of it and hid it, while Uncle Seven had no idea what they were talking about.
"You're right..." old Liu Tou also lit his cigarette, "like this, seventh master, we'll go to break the Ghost Gate Formation first, after the formation is broken you don't rush to move back first, we'd like to meet this Zhao Kun Cheng!"
"Uh-huh! Good! Good!" Hearing that there is a capable person who is willing to stand up for himself, the seventh uncle was overjoyed, in the past, he has also hired head masters from Japan and Malaysia, but he was unable to do anything about this Zhao Kun Cheng, and now he finally has a savior. "What do you two need, just tell me! As long as I, Liao Qi, can afford it, selling my old bones, I will also..." as he said that, Uncle Seven even called Ah Guang over, "Quick, arrange two cars for the two of you!"
Zhang Guozhong also froze, this old man how to say the wind is rain ah ...... "Seven uncle ... we do not know how to drive ..."
Old Liu Tou gave Ah Guang a list, Ah Guang went down to prepare, in Hong Kong, where Taoism flourishes, it is much easier to prepare these materials than on the mainland.
As the saying goes, the camel is bigger than the horse, although the Liao family is not as big as it used to be, but the strength to deal with a ghost gate array is still there, basically speaking, to break the ghost gate array is a laborious job, that is, you have to find a construction team to demolish the stone strips that lead to the ghosts, and the only place that has technical skills is to accurately find the location of the "Ghost Harnessing Pile", and then pull it out and smash it to pieces. The only technical thing is to find the exact location of the "Ghost Pile" and pull it out and smash it.
Although it has been affirmed that the "Ghost Pile" is in the ancestral home, but such a large mansion to find up is also like looking for a needle in a haystack, this "Ghost Pile" may be a person thick stone pile, or may be a jade chopstick, or even jade carving a toothpick can be. Find basically impossible during the day, so Zhang Guozhong old Liu head ready to act at night, at the moment Zhang Guozhong really regret did not bring the compass passed down by Ma Zhenren, although the new disk bought by Ah Guang is the best that can be bought in Hong Kong, but used to using the master of the compass Zhang Guozhong, but also difficult to use to the extreme.
After midnight, Zhang Guozhong old Liu head ready to one from the east, one from the west, from house to house carpet search, according to this speed, find the whole villa at least half a month.
This night, Zhang Guozhong ate and drank, took the compass into a hut, this hut black hole, just entered the house, only to see the compass needle will be thumping up, "Damn, out of order again ..." Zhang Guozhong just wanted to pull out the compass town rubbing and then installed back, suddenly felt a mass of silhouettes in front of them. It was gone in a flash.
"Who?" Zhang Guozhong quickly chased into the house...
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Note ①: The Yue master of sword casting, Ou Yezi, is the most famous and mysterious master of sword casting in ancient China, and there are countless legends about him in China.
Legend has it that he made five famous swords in his life, three long swords and two short swords, and the three long swords are "Zhanlu", "Pure Jun" and "Juque", and the two short swords are "victory evil", "fish intestine", these five swords are murder weapon, especially the "fish intestine sword", because the special Zhu assassination of Wu Wang Bureaucrat and fame (previously written as the assassination of the Qin, after Baidu post bar) (previously written as stabbing Qin, after the Baidu posting bar of friends reminded to have been corrected, thank you). The folk idiom "three long and two short" is derived from this allusion, meaning that, when encountering any one of the three long swords and two short swords, the person concerned should almost give up!
In fact, Ou Yezi made countless famous swords in his life, the more famous ones in ancient China are "Longyuan", "Tai'a", "Gongbu", "Zidian", "Moji", "Moji", "Moji", "Moji", "Moji", "Moji", "Moji", "Moji" and "Moji". ", "Mo Xie", and this article mentioned "ask the sky" and in 1965 in hubei jiangling unearthed Yue Wang sword, are rumored to be from the hand of ouyezi. (Because of the taboo on the word "Yuan" in the Tang Dynasty, the sword "Longyuan" was renamed "Longquan" in the Tang Dynasty, and this is the famous Longquan Treasure Sword in history. It is rumored that the Moxie Sword was made by Ou Yezi's son-in-law, Ganjun, when Ou Yezi's daughter Moxie jumped into the fire and was transformed into Moxie, and it is also said to have been made by Ou Yezi himself, which is said to be the case by many people).
