071. Zhu Jingyi, the Demon King of the South Gate
071, South Gate Demon King Zhu Jingyi
Shi Buquan didn't come back that night, and the dining table was less fun, which made it even more weird. Eight people, including Zhuang Mengzhou, all held a stone and ate with chopsticks with their backhands. Zhuang Mengzhou had to drink some wine every day for dinner, put down the chopsticks when holding the cup, and put down the cup when holding the chopsticks, making it a little busy.
After eating, everyone went back to the room to continue thinking about the stones. Ding Qi pulled Ye Xing to wash the dishes. Why don’t others wash the dishes? It’s inconvenient to hold the stones in their hands! Ding Qi put it down for the time being, and Ye Xing was useless to hold it. He ate ready-made food every day, so he had to make some contributions.
There was nothing to say that night. The next morning, Ding Qi sat on the terrace holding the stone in his hand and watching the scenery. Tan Hanchuan and Xian Hao were all beside him. They could not always stay in the house. It might be better to "sacrifice" the stone in the outdoor environment. This is also Ding Qi's suggestion. The three of them seemed to have found their feelings and were all experiencing them carefully.
But there were also some people who couldn't help it. Shang Ni ran to the backyard pavilion to see Xiaojing Lake. Zhuang Mengzhou came early today. After entering the door, he went directly to the backyard. When he saw Shang Ni standing there with her opening door, he asked, "Little Junior Sister, have you seen Xiaojing Lake today?"
The door was open. I could see the mountains in the distance in the courtyard, but now my vision was blocked because there was a bamboo forest outside the wall. I looked up and saw the bamboo shadows swaying. Shang Ni replied: "I saw it when I pushed the door, but I didn't know if it was seen instantly, because I had entered the country when I walked to the door."
Zhuang Mengzhou: "Teacher Ding is the purpose, it seems that you have done it."
Ding Qi on the terrace looked at Tan Hanchuan and Xian Hao with questioning eyes. The two of them nodded slightly, meaning that the situation of Shangni was similar. It was precisely because Ding Qi's method had been proved that they would continue to "sacrifice" their respective Jingshi with all their hearts, even holding it when they were eating.
Shang Ni from the pavilion said again: "Mr. Zhuang, don't always hold stones. Come on, try my new cloud-kneading hand so that you can also see it!"
Zhuang Mengzhou had just sat down at the beauty's back, and when he heard this, he quickly stood up and waved his hand and said, "No, no, I don't know how to do it, you'd better find A Quan to try it... It's okay to find Lao Tan."
Shang Ni: "Don't be polite, let's work together."
Zhuang Mengzhou: "Am I polite?"
Shangni: "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you... Or you punch me first and see how I intercept your fist force in the air to relieve the force."
Zhuang Mengzhou shook his head: "No, no, no, I will never do it!"
Shang Ni: "Then I will slap you, let you feel the control of your strength, pat your shoulders, don't flash... Oh!"
The three people on the balcony suddenly heard Shang Ni scream, and then Zhuang Mengzhou shouted again: "Little Nizi, are you okay? Hey, where did you fall down like this!"
Ding Qi and others quickly ran downstairs and rushed into the yard. Zhuang Mengzhou stood at the door in a daze, and there was no Shang Ni's figure outside the door! Shang Ni insisted on showing off her newly practiced cloud-knit hand with Zhuang Mengzhou. While Zhuang Mengzhou was unprepared, he suddenly jumped over and patted his shoulder. Zhuang Mengzhou dodged to the side, raised his hand and placed it on her wrist and led it back...
Shang Ni does know how to do kung fu, obviously she has practiced it. She has a good body technique, but she has not mastered the strength well. In order to relieve the strength, she turned forward and turned out the door directly. It was said that the person should have fallen into the bamboo forest, but she disappeared. In just a blink of an eye, where can the person run to?
Everyone searched around the bamboo forest outside the door, and Shang Ni was not seen in the mountains outside the bamboo forest. In such a short time, she could not fly out of this area. Ding Qi suddenly said, "Has she entered Xiaojing Lake?"
Everyone suddenly realized. Thinking of this possibility, they took out the stones and stood in the pavilion to use secret techniques to look into the Xiaojing Lake. Sure enough, they saw Shang Ni's figure. They flipped into Xiaojing Lake and Shang Ni was also a little confused. When she realized what was going on, she suddenly felt another surprise and was still shouting excitedly: "I'm in, I'm finally in!"
When everyone saw her in the pavilion, she had already walked to the grass to find the moon Ganoderma lucidum she had found. It was daytime now, and she seemed to have not found it. Then she took out her cell phone from her pocket and took a lot of photos towards the direction of the backyard door and door Liang Fang, which looked like she was taking photos for Ding Qi and the others.
Next, Shang Ni turned around for a while, and her figure was sometimes blocked, disappeared from her sight, and then the mountain went up and could no longer be seen from the pavilion. After such a thing happened, everyone first informed Zhu Shanxian, who was in the district government team. When Zhu Shanxian rushed back, Shang Ni's figure appeared in everyone's sight again.
Seeing her going down the mountain to the lake in the distance, Ding Qi suddenly turned around and walked out of the pavilion. When he came back, he carried a pair of tripods and a box. It was the instrument they used when they first entered Nanqi Mountain to survey and map.
Ding Qi opened the box to install it on site and asked, "District Director Zhu, I don't know much about surveying and mapping, so I didn't ask in detail what kind of instrument is this?"
Tan Hanchuan replied: "This is an old-fashioned optical theodolite, a product from the 1970s, but the quality is very good, and there is no problem at all."
Zhuang Mengzhou: "Such an old instrument has long been eliminated. Now it uses a total station with laser ranging."
Zhu Shanxian: "It was because of the elimination that I could take it out of the warehouse of the District Water Conservancy Bureau. I forgot to return it for so long and no one cared about it... Teacher Ding, are you using it as a monocular telescope?"
Ding Qi: "Yes, I used it as a telescope. Shang Ni walked a little far so that she could see clearly."
Xian Hao: "Can you see Xiaojing Lake even with a telescope?"
Ding Qi: "Yes, I saw it, you can try it too."
Xian Hao tried it and wondered, "I didn't see it."
Ding Qi reminded: "Stone, you forgot the stone. If there is Xiaojing Lake outside the door, it is the same if there is a telescope or not. What you see from the telescope should be Xiaojing Lake."
When she was working on the instrument just now, Xian Hao put the stone in his pocket, and took it out again, closed his eyes and opened his eyes again for a moment, and came to the instrument and exclaimed: "Yes, I saw it! The little girl is actually playing with water. She won't forget to come back, right?"
Fortunately, Shang Ni did not forget to come back. It seemed that she just wanted to explore the way. She walked to the lake and tried the water with her hands, took a few more photos, and then got up and went straight to the backyard door. When she reached the door, she looked confused again. At this time, she was already very close to the people in the yard, only a few steps away, facing each other, but her eyes were a little wrong.
Zhu Shanxian: "It's bad. She doesn't seem to see this place. I don't know what she is looking at. No wonder she can't come in and out?"
Tan Hanchuan: "How did she get in just now? Do we need to try to get in and bring her out?"
Xian Hao: "Don't worry first, see what kind of solution can Junior Sister Shang Ni think. If you can't get in, will it be the same if you go in? Stone... Junior Sister Shang Ni, take out the stone quickly!"
Ding Qi: "She can't hear it, it's not heard it if she can't hear it. No matter how loud she shouts, it's useless."
Shang Ni was not stupid either. She frowned for a while, and then touched the stone out of her pocket. Just now, when she and Zhuang Mengzhou tried to show their skills, they put the stone in their pockets, turned it over and turned it over, but it had not fallen off, and they were always carrying it with them. After taking out the stone, Shang Ni's eyes suddenly lit up, and the focal length of her eyes seemed to have changed, and she waved to everyone: "I see you!"
Xian Hao shouted, "When you see it, come out quickly and try to see if you can come out!"
Shang Ni jumped forward and jumped into the pavilion with a whoosh. The four of them in the Pavilion quickly reached out to support her. Zhu Shanxian asked quickly, "Junior sister, what happened just now?"
But when Shang Ni's expression changed, she looked confused, and seemed to be frightened, looking at everyone and said, "Can you teleport? Why did you suddenly appear here? Senior Brother Zhu is also here... What's wrong with me? Why are you holding me?"
Ding Qi suddenly reacted and said, "She has lost her memory!"
Shang Ni: "Who is on eleven? I'm twenty!"
Ding Qi: "Do you still remember what happened just now?"
Shang Ni: "Mr. Zhuang and I tried the newly practiced Yun Tong hand just now. I reached out and patted it. He flashed to the side. I used my strength and fell forward, and my eyes were blurred... Then you caught me. Why are you moving so fast... Hey, what expression is this? Why are you stupid?"
Everyone was really stunned and their hands couldn't help but let go. Shang Ni didn't remember what had just happened. From climbing into Xiaojing Lake one after another, to going out of the door and returning to the pavilion, this memory disappeared so far.
Shang Ni also noticed something was wrong, and pointed to the tripod and theodolite and said, "Why did this instrument come here? It was clearly not there just now!"
Xian Hao said carefully: "Sister, take out your phone and open the album to see the recent photos."
Shangni: "Want to see my album? There are many private photos in it!"
Xian Hao said: "We won't look, you can see it yourself first. After reading it, you may understand what happened just now."
Shang Ni took out her cell phone in confusion, and after opening the album, she changed color. Her expression became more and more serious, and her pretty face gradually turned pale. Without looking at the phone, Ding Qi also came to the conclusion that although the memory disappeared, the photos taken by the mobile phone were still there. He understood Shang Ni's feelings at this moment. He could not think about this kind of experience, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt inexplicable fear.
Ding Qi also had the experience of losing his memory, but his impression only once since he was a child. It was last year's New Year's Eve. He drank the whole article and woke up early and didn't remember what happened that night. The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became, the more uneasy it would make people feel very uneasy. A memory disappeared as if he had disappeared, and he didn't know what he had done.
Ding Qi's situation was fine that time. He knew that he was drunk and that he was the only one in the house at that time. But if it was on other occasions, such as when various things might happen, it would make people feel more and more uneasy.
After a long time, Shang Ni turned her phone screen over. She looked at a photo she took in Xiaojing Lake and said in a trembling voice: "What happened just now, where did these photos come from?"
Ding Qi tried his best tone and said in a gentle tone: "Junior Sister Shang Ni, don't be afraid first, go into the house and sit down and say slowly..."
Everyone did not enter the house, and the most suitable place for chatting was the second-floor terrace, which had a shed to shade the sun and rain, and the place was spacious enough. It took a lot of effort to accept the fact that she accidentally flipped into Xiaojing Lake but lost her memory. There was a laptop on the dining table, and the newly taken photos of the mobile phone had been entered into the computer, and everyone was magnifying and watching them one by one.
Tan Hanchuan narrowed his eyes and said, "The pixels are pretty good, the shots are quite clear."
Shang Ni stared at the screen and said absent-mindedly: "The new love crazy fork."
Xian Hao: "In the mountain behind this gate, there is actually a manor, which is invisible from our perspective... Sister Shangni, is there anyone living in the villa?"
Shang Ni said with a sad face: "How could I know, I don't remember at all!"
Zhu Shanxian: "Fortunately, you have the habit of taking photos wherever you go, otherwise these records would not be left... By the way, did you post on Moments at that time?"
"Friends?" Shang Ni was stunned and quickly took out her phone to look at it, then said, "I didn't post on Moments, nor did I post on Weibo. I should have been sober at that time, not that stupid. I'm going to publicly release this kind of thing... Besides, there's probably no network signal inside, right?"
Zhuang Mengzhou: "What do you still remember?"
Shang Ni replied with some uncertainty: "I didn't remember anything, but I thought I was working with you, and I was shaken. But after you said this, it seemed like a little bit of an impression. I recalled a scene where I waved to you through the door, and you stood in the backyard pavilion...
But I don’t know when this happened, but the memory seems to have an impression, as if I had a dream like this.”
Tan Hanchuan: "This is what just happened."
Ding Qi analyzed: "If a whole memory disappears and only some subconscious impressions will cause a confusion of the sense of time. I don't know when that happened, as if I had dreamed of it."
Xian Hao: "Can you hypnotize Shang Ni and then awaken this memory?"
Ding Qi: "In my experience, this possibility is not great. If I am in her subconscious scene, it is also the result of consciousness reprocessing. Moreover, the significance of doing so is not great. Junior Sister Shang Ni has no psychological abnormality, nor does she have mental abnormality. She already knows clearly what happened, and we have seen it."
Zhuang Mengzhou pondered: "It makes sense. Let's study what's going on inside. It seems that we need to be cautious."
Tan Hanchuan: "Look at the photos carefully, it seems that there is no one in this manor..."
Shang Ni took a total of forty-five photos, twenty of which were taken of the scenery in the manor and its surroundings. The other twenty-five photos were taken of the scenery of the mountains and the lakeside. Shang Ni was probably sober at that time. Although she went down the mountain and went to the lakeside, she did not walk far away, nor did she stay in Xiaojing Lake for too long, and she came back soon.
Although Shang Ni no longer remembers it, based on the observations of everyone and the angle of the photo taken, she can roughly infer her whereabouts and encounters in Xiaojing Lake. After walking out of the backyard door, she looked back and saw that it was not a door, but a stone wall on the hillside, but the stone wall "drawn" a door.
This door is also painted in a very good manner, with a gateway, a door beam, and a lintel. There is no door panel, so it looks a bit like a archway. There is also a couplet written on the left and right door posts, and a five-character poem is connected to the bottom: "The gate of the cave opens itself, and the dust and guests travel back and forth. Flowers in the fairyland fall, and the moon in the lake can hold their arms."
There are four large characters on the side of the door lintel: the door outside the square. There is also a line of small characters under the left door post. Zhu Jingyi, the demon king of the South Gate. The calligraphy is very beautiful, full of monster charm, and it is self-contained and unique.
This coincides with the secret passed down by Zhu Shanxian's ancestors throughout the ages. It is said that Zhu Shanxian's ancestor Chen Mianzhu met an immortal in Xiaojing Lake in the Ming Dynasty. The immortal's name was Zhu Jingyi. However, everyone did not know that this legendary immortal Zhu Jingyi actually called himself the Demon King of the South Gate.
Shang Ni muttered, "Why is it called the Demon King of the South Gate? Our door is facing south, and his door should face north."
Xian Hao analyzed: "There is a villa in there. The location that cannot be seen here is in the same direction as us. Compared with the location of the manor, this door should also be in the south."
If you walk out of the backyard door and turn around, you will see the stone wall of the door yard. There is a small stone path on the right side of the stone wall leading to the mountain, and there is a manor. There is a flat ground in front of the manor door, and there is also a four-corner pavilion on the flat ground. The shape is similar to the pavilion in the backyard of Zhushan’s family, and even the location is similar.
If the two spaces could overlap, the pavilion would be hanging on the square of the pavilion. There was a shelf on the pavilion, and there was a bright Ruyi on the shelf. Shannette took this Ruyi and enlarged the photo and looked carefully. It seemed to be pure gold.
Shangni: "Will this be pure gold?"
Tan Hanchuan: "I found out after I took the actual product and weighed it with my hand. It should be gold, which is consistent with the legend. Taking the juice of the moon Ganoderma lucidum is to use gold to touch the top of it. This gold Ruyi should be used for this."
Xian Hao: "The surface color seems to have a transition from depth to shade, why do you have hand claw marks on the surface?"
Tan Hanchuan: "That was filled with dust and dirt. The finger marks were from Junior Sister Shang Ni. She should have reached out to grab them."
The pavilion is open, and things placed in the open air usually do not cover too much dust, because the dust will be blown away when the wind blows. However, over the years, a layer of patina-like dirt will form on the surface of the object. This shows that this gold Ruyi has been placed on the shelf for a long time and no one has moved it.
Looking at other photos, the shape of the manor is quaint. After preliminary identification by everyone, it should be the shape of the Ming Dynasty. You can wait for A Quan to come back before further accurate identification. That kid is the expert in this field.
I don’t know if there are people living in this manor, or how long it has been uninhabited, but there is no sign of decay. The black tiles and white walls seem to be half new and half old. Even the vermilion paint on the door is intact, and the copper nails do not have green rust, but the color is slightly heavy.
Shang Ni obviously pushed the door open and took a few photos of the courtyard. There were four tall osmanthus trees in the courtyard, with very dense canopies, and the height was more than two floors. The courtyard should be paved with stone slabs, but now there is no stone slab, covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves and flowers. The bottom was probably silted into mud, and there was no place to put it on.
Shang Ni shouldn't have stepped on the thick layer of flower mud, she just turned around the corridor, maybe she shouted a few times if there was anyone, and then she might have come out and did not continue walking in, at least she did not take photos of the deeper part of the manor. The next photo became the scenery of the lake and mountain in the distance, which was similar to what everyone saw at the backyard door.
However, many nearby scenes that Shang Ni took when she went down the mountain were impossible for everyone to see before. There were many flowers and plants. Ding Qi downloaded a plant identification software on the spot and scanned the photos to identify them. Many of them were identified. Some were difficult to judge because the answers given by the software were obviously different from the original picture, but they were just similar.
After Shang Ni went down the mountain to the lake, she took several photos of the lake, and they were taken in the same location in succession. Ding Qi pointed to the screen and said, "It seems that there is something in the lake, try to enlarge it..."
Chapter completed!