Chapter 35: stone wall
There is a saying that there is no eternal friend, there is no eternal enemy, only eternal interests. Huang Lao wants to use my great fortune, I want to use Huang Lao to find Lin Bachi and Fatty Liu, so it is ironic, the other day the two groups of people, now even strange into an ally, which between me and Huang Lao, it seems that not the first time, but the Liu family seems to be very embarrassed, I heard Lei said this morning the Liu family old man cursed, when the Liu family to shoot to kill me is the old man of Huang, and now you want to work together! The first thing I've done with Huang is to get rid of the old man, and now I want to cooperate with him, but I'm not sure if I can do that.
The first thing I want to do with Mr. Huang is to ask him about my uncle Lin Bachan. He said that my second uncle had met an untimely end how much credibility was there to this news, when I asked Huang Lao with this question, he smiled at me and said, "The latest news is that he may be dead or dead, of course, this news is interpreted on another level is that the White Lotus Sect's people haven't been able to find your second uncle's body either."
"So it's still life or death?" I asked. My heart was a little cold, my second uncle was dealt with by the White Lotus Sect, he was treated as a "traitor" during the White Lotus Sect's meeting, so many people were present at that time, was it really that easy to escape?
"Well, I don't think Zhao Wuji will die. Don't forget, a certain person has always had a guilty conscience because of the Li Family's three ghosts, including the matter of making Zhao Wuji's childhood miserable, and he is the one who is most concerned about karma, he will definitely help to fulfill that karma." Huang Lao said.
"Mr. He?" I asked a bit excitedly, I've seen how powerful He Zhenran is, if he will come to the rescue of Uncle Er, then maybe it's the only hope that Uncle Er is still alive. This is probably the best news I've gotten lately.
After that, we moved, the target Jiu Li Mountain, Huang Lao this person, in the end, how sophisticated I until now to really see, he seems to be fundamentally aware of the previous everything is wrong, I thought he would not know the entrance into the core of that place, but he this time, completely prepared to fight the battle, we went to the Jiu Li Mountain, go to the place, it is that dug out a lot of stone place.
Huang Lao stood there, commanding people to continue digging on the remains of yesterday, until a stone wall was dug out, which was a large sculpture, like the stone sculptures in the square, with patterns carved all over it, from Huang Lao to here to command to continue digging, all of which seemed to indicate that this old man knew at the very beginning that underneath the ground, there were things buried that were more valuable than those stones, but he still spent a large sum of money for those stones back. This was a bit strange.
"You know it's down there, but you still bought those stones, do you have money to burn?" I really couldn't help but ask him.
"I'm a businessman, never do a losing business, those stones, from the time I cut the first one, I knew all of them were not what I wanted." Huang Lao laughed.
"Then you still buy them? Something wrong with it?" Now I understood even less about his previous move.
"A stone that can cut out an ancient corpse that was intact hundreds of years ago, and this ancient corpse can also disembowel a child that oddly resembles a living child, do you think that this stone has no value because it's not the one I want? Do you know how much of a stir this stone will cause if it is publicized? I've collected less than twenty stones in total, how much did I spend? Now I still have ten in my warehouse, I sold ten stones, do you know how much I sold them for? So you think it was a stupid move on my part, do you know how much money I've transferred from this tiny Lotus Basin village in just under a month? A billion, or dollars. That's still some I'm reluctant to bid, afraid to bid too much to affect the price, and the ten in my warehouse, the value will only go up, not down, now do you understand? The business opportunity was right in front of you, but you let go of an opportunity and gave it to me, I should be thankful that this time it was you who was there, not your second uncle, Lin Bachan that person, who just happens to have no concept of money again." Huang Lao smiled.
He is still the same as before, a man who extremely loves to show off his wisdom, but this time, I myself can't help but marvel and want to fucking smack myself with a big ear, why the fuck didn't I think of this? Even engage in a, not to mention selling, is to open a museum to collect tickets, this life are not worried, before I got a million are feeling themselves against the odds, but this month, I watched how much money from under my nose slipped away?
I feel that my IQ is really crushed, simply do not speak, and at this time, that stone carving is basically cleaned by the workers almost, this is a record of the stone carving, it is very large, but the things carved on it are also unusually large. So the content was very limited.
The first picture, is an old man, the old man's side child around a lot of people, seems to be listening to the old man preaching, these people's clothing and so on at a glance looks like Taoist priests, but can not distinguish the dynasty, because all the Taoist priests are coiled bun. It is not possible to distinguish the dynasty purely from the headdress.
The second picture, on the other hand, showed an old man standing on a not-so-lofty mountain, with more people kneeling below. Like a pilgrimage.
The third picture, is a palace, in this palace, there is an indescribable in the end how big the lotus flower, the middle of the lotus flower has a lotus flower, and the old man is standing on top of the lotus flower, the surrounding people are still kneeling.
And the last picture, kneeling people no longer, that old man also disappeared, the lotus appeared on a child, wearing a bib, white and chubby looks very cute, this picture I found I instantly understand.
"This old man, through this lotus returned to childhood?" I asked Huang Lao Dao. Lotus flower, because of the reason that Nezha is a lotus incarnation reborn in Feudalism, and perhaps the reason that the lotus can still take root after a thousand years, it has always been considered to be a reborn flower.
Therefore, the meaning of this stone sculpture is very obvious, that is, the old man through the lotus flower, turned into the same person as Nezha, reborn into a baby.
Huang Lao stared at the last picture with a deadpan look, his eyes wild, it was the first time I had ever seen this expression on Huang Lao's face, and perhaps, at this very moment, I understood exactly what Huang Lao had been so obsessed with because of!
Rebirth, rebirth through the lotus?
Mr. Zhai said that the older you get, the more you are afraid of death, it is because Huang is too old, so he is looking for this place, through this weird lotus flower, to achieve the purpose of rebirth?
His eyes were so hot that it was a bit frightening, I kept calling him several times before he reacted, nodding his head, "That should be the meaning, here, it seems to be the place where the White Lotus Sect originated. White Lotus Sect White Lotus Sect, Lotus Lotus, could this religion, in fact, be this?"
"What did you say?" I asked.
"If you take this old man as the supreme head of the White Lotus Sect, judging from the first few pictures, it means that he's presiding over the White Lotus Sect congregation in a meeting, this shouldn't be hard to see, right? After that, the congregation embraced him and came on top of this lotus flower, eventually, this old man turned into a child, this transformation process can be tentatively understood as a return of old age to a child, but you carefully compare these two pictures, did you find anything?" Huang Lao asked me.
"The person is gone, the kneeling person is gone." I said.
"This picture, can it be interpreted to mean that this Sect Master's one man's return to old age has left all of these congregations dead? The people are gone, gone is dead, isn't that what it's telling us?" Elder Huang seemed to be talking to me, and as if he was talking to himself.
"The furnace raises a hundred scriptures, and one person ascends to heaven?" Old Huang chanted softly.
Old Huang had been standing right in front of this stone wall, looking at it for a long time, what he was pondering no one could tell, but this was the first time I had seen an Old Huang that made people feel not nasty, but rather terrified, an image even automatically surfaced in my mind.
A child, holding a lollipop in his hand, said to me, "Uncle San Liang, my name is Huang Fengtu."
The image was normal, yet it gave me a feeling of vertigo.