Chapter 29 Changes in the Old House
The expression on Zhang Zuo's face was both excited, confused and fearful, as if the old house in front of him was not just a house in his eyes. He Xiaojianqiang and I had known the extraordinary old house for a long time. Even now, we don't know the whole secret of the old house. The question is how could Zhang Zuo know this? This made us more affirm the previous guess. Zhang Zuo did not seem to know the old house, but must know the old house. As for whether he knew the secret, it is hard to say now.
He Xiaojianqiang and I looked at each other. The two of us had a very tacit understanding and did not ask Zhang Zuo if he had ever seen the old house. There was no reason. It was purely a feeling. We felt that he would not tell us this. Instead of doing this, it was better to pretend not to know. Perhaps we could use this opportunity to find out more things in the future.
So we all pretended to be nothing and continued to look at the old house, without saying a word, nor did we say where we were going next, but our eyes were secretly paying attention to Zhang Zuo's every move. Sure enough, after waiting for a while, we didn't see what we did, Zhang Zuo couldn't hold back and asked: "Where are we going?"
He Xiaoqiang glanced at Zhang Zao without answering him. Zhang Zao looked at me, and I turned my head and continued to stare at the old house without answering his words. Zhang Zao didn't know what to do for a moment, and was silent for a while and said, "Where is that house?"
He Xiaojianqiang and I looked at each other and thought to myself that we finally spoke on our own initiative. This was even more certain that Zhang Zai definitely knew the strange house of the old house. He Xiaojianqiang looked at him with a smile and simply said, "I don't know." But even if the expression on his face was blind, he could tell that he was a lie.
Zhang Zuo's face indeed showed anger, but he was suffering from the fact that He Xiaojianqiang took off his arm, and he had to tie a rope around his waist and couldn't get rid of it. He had to whisper: "Do you want to take me there? Can you leave now?"
I thought to myself that you should never show that expression in front of He Xiaojianqiang. Later, I even expressed my thoughts of going to the old house to see it. With a little fox like He Xiaojianqiang, if he didn't seize this opportunity to ask something from you, he would have been in vain for so long.
Sure enough, He Xiaojianqiang still had that expression on his face that he deserved to be beaten (of course, this expression seems really cute to me now). He looked at Zhang Zuo with a smile and shook his head, saying, "It was, but I don't want to go now."
Now I was stunned for a moment, thinking why is this? Sure enough, Zhang Zuo immediately asked, "Why?"
He Xiaojianqiang said with a smile: "It's nothing, I'm just happy."
Zhang Zuo was very anxious and said, "What should I do? You are unwilling to take me away or taking me to that house. Do you just throw me here? What if some beast comes? I don't have any self-defense ability now!"
He Xiaojianqiang opened his eyes wide and looked innocent: "What's the matter with me?"
Zhang Zuo was angry and anxious, and couldn't help but curse, but the words were just that. This made me feel despised. I thought I didn't know how you have been in China for more than ten years. I didn't learn such a rich and colorful swearing culture at all. After cursing for a while, seeing He Xiaojianqiang's disapproval, Zhang Zuo finally became convinced, sighed, and said, "Tell me, how can I take me to that place?"
As soon as I said this, I despised Zhang Zao even more, thinking that if the "Holy Rose" sent by the Vatican is at your level, let alone hundreds of years, even if you give it to hundreds of years, you will not be able to find the place of the shroud. How could it be so simple to take out your bottom line? If He Xiaojianqiang doesn't squeeze you to only have a pair of underwear, I will take your surname, not Zhang, but a long list of foreign languages with special surnames.
Sure enough, He Xiaoqiang laughed more and more like a fox and said, "What can you give me?" Seeing Zhang Zuo's lips moving, he immediately added: "Equivalent exchange, transactions are about fairness. The things you give me should be worth the same as the things I give you. Of course, if you can't tell what is valuable, you can take them out first, real estate deeds, gold, silver, jewelry, moonlight treasure box, and Holy See's classics, everything is fine, I will help you distinguish, as for the cost, I'm waived, I've always been very fair."
Zhang Zuo's whole face turned red. I guess he had the intention to vomit blood at this time. In fact, He Xiaojianqiang and I wanted to know where the shroud was, but I guess we couldn't ask any useful information. It's better to be realistic and see what he had to know about the old house that we didn't know. But He Xiaojianqiang just refused to say it himself. I also looked at Zhang Zuo excitedly, thinking about what he would say in a while. At this time, Zhang Zuo's face turned redder and the blue veins on his forehead suddenly rose. Obviously, he was angry to the point. Finally, he couldn't help but curse: "You idiot, you are still smiling here, and something is going to happen in that house soon!"
He Xiaojianqiang and I were stunned at the same time, then looked at each other, then looked at Zhang Zuo. Seeing that the expression on his face was different from his name, it didn't seem like he was pretending to be a fake, and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
Zhang Zuo's expression was still extremely excited. It seemed that if it weren't for the rope tied to him, he would have rushed down alone. When he saw us asking him, he said unhappily: "Walk and say, go there quickly."
He Xiaojianqiang and I hesitated for a moment and immediately ran to the old house. Zhang Zuo followed closely behind and ran a few steps. He Xiaojianqiang hurriedly stopped and turned around to put his arm on, loosened the rope around his waist, and said, "Run quickly like this."
Originally, I wanted to run along the way to ask Zhang Zuo what was going on in the old house, but seeing that he was only focused on running, he was already out of breath and refused to slow down a little. His face was so pale that he was scary. I didn't know if it was because he was tired of running or because he found something. In short, he would definitely not answer any questions in this way, so he had to keep these words in his heart and follow him to the old house at the foot of the mountain.
It took about two hours to walk from that stone to the old house. It took us more than an hour to run. Even He Xiaojianqiang was pale and tired. Not to mention me, it would be considered a politeness to describe my current state as a politeness. However, despite his tired face, Zhang Zuo still insisted on walking to the door of the old house. Of course, this was not a force of **. It can only be said that the willpower of the crazy believers is really terrible, and he also overturned the view that the "Holy Rose" I had previously guessed was all a group of idiots. This can only show that the situation inside was very serious, so that Zhang Zuo had no choice but to take so many regulations. As long as he could arrive at the old house as soon as possible, it also added a lot of interest to the secrets in the old house.
I lay on the ground, and after a long run, I suddenly lay down and rested for a while, and my fatigue became heavier. At this time, even if someone whipped me with his braids, I couldn't move anymore. He Xiaojianqiang walked to me, kicked me with his feet, and gasped and said, "Get up quickly, go in."
I couldn't even move, and I muttered something in my mouth, even I couldn't hear clearly what it was. The general idea was that I was too tired and let He Xiaojianqiang go in first. I was so tired that I didn't even have the strength to speak. I probably couldn't understand what I was saying, so I felt that he kicked me a few more times. I was too lazy to pay attention to him, and continued to lie on the ground, closed my eyes and rest. Then I heard He Xiaojianqiang's footsteps walking past him, and then a creaking sound came. It should be that the door of the old house was opened.
I can't care so much anymore, and I don't want to care about what they will do next and find out. Anyway, He Xiaojianqiang is there, let alone Yuan Shushi inside. Our side will not suffer any losses. The fatigue comes, my eyelids are getting heavier and my sleepiness is getting stronger and stronger. Just when I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly heard a roar from inside. I was shocked and immediately woke up. When I heard the sound, it was vaguely sent by He Xiaojianqiang.
I was shocked. If something happened to He Xiaojianqiang, then I really don’t know what to do next. So although I was so tired that I was about to die, I still struggled to get up and moved towards the old house step by step with the mountain crane. I found that Zhang was standing alone in the front hall, staring at the old house in a daze, especially the part of the mechanism that He Xiaojianqiang had cracked before, with a look of regret and I didn’t know what he was thinking.
When I saw He Xiaojianqiang was not there, I didn't have time to think too much. The previous voice seemed to be coming from the backyard. I hurriedly accelerated my pace and moved to the backyard step by step. Sure enough, I saw him standing in front of the small black room in the backyard with a look of despair. I hurried forward and asked, "What's wrong?" I looked around but didn't find Yuan Shushi.
I felt something was wrong and hurriedly asked again what was going on. After a while, He Xiaojianqiang shook his head, but he didn't answer me a word. The despair on his face became even more intense, and a hint of ruthlessness seemed to have made up some determination. I was startled by the way on his face. At this time, footsteps came from behind me. I turned my head and saw Zhang Zuo walking in, I hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"
Zhang Zuo had previously said that something was going to happen in the old house soon, and now Yuan Shushi is gone, and He Xiaojianqiang looks even more desperate, but he doesn't want to say anything, so I naturally have to ask Zhang Zuo this question.
Zhang Zuo did not answer me immediately, but looked at He Xiaojianqiang first, then looked at me and said, "I have seen this building."
I thought I had guessed this a long time ago, but I knew he would definitely have something to say next, so I didn't interrupt. Sure enough, Zhang Zuo continued, "I read it in an ancient classic. In the classics, it has a very strange name." After saying that, I read a long list of foreign articles. I couldn't understand anything anyway, so I had to look at him blankly and wait for him to explain to us after he finished speaking foreign articles according to international practices.
Chapter completed!