Siheyuan: I am a big capitalist after the founding of the People's Republic of China

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When the old man saw that his aura frightened his grandson, he quickly retracted his aura and his eyes softened.

His tone softened, thinking that even if his grandson usually appeared mature and steady.

But he is only in his teens, so you can't discipline him too harshly.

The old man stood up and sat next to his grandson, touching his head and whispering.

"Grandson, don't say these things to others in the future. It will kill people."

Li Zihang finally came to his senses and nodded, saying he understood.

The three people over there were first scared half to death by Li Zihang's words, and then they were frightened by the old man's aura, and their hearts were pounding.

At this moment, the cold sweat on my back had soaked my clothes.

The old man glanced at Gou Wuye and the other two and said lightly.

"Since my grandson is curious, tell me everything you know."

Only then did the three of them feel relieved and dare to wipe their sweat with handkerchiefs.

Master Gou Wu was the first to speak. After all, among the few people, he was the one who had visited tombs the most and had experienced the most strange things.

Before he could open his mouth, the auction officially began with the announcement by the host.

For auctions, invitations and auction brochures are sent out in advance. Anyone who wants to buy something has to think about it in advance.

So you don't have to keep watching after the auction starts.

Besides, there are so many servants around. If they see something that their master likes, they will automatically remind them in advance.

The old man motioned to Gou Wuye to continue.

Only after seeing the old man's signal did he dare to continue.

"My dear, I don't know where you heard those things. Some of them really existed."

"Some of this stuff is fiction, and some of this stuff is real but exaggerated."

"Things like zongzi do exist, but they are extremely rare. The probability of that happening is not as high as the probability of someone being killed by thunder and rain."

"Also, zongzi isn't that magical."

“Have you ever heard of the wireworm?”

Li Zihang nodded to indicate that he understood.

"Wireworms hatch in water, and when they grow up, they parasitize various insects."

"Then it slowly eats away at the insect's internal organs and nerves."

"When the insect is eaten until only the shell is left, the wireworm will manipulate the insect's body back to water and lay eggs."

"Zongzi is in a similar situation, except that the corpse is controlled by artificially cultivated parasites."

"Those worms are made into pills and swallowed before a person dies. The parasites in the pills will wake up after the person dies."

"Once the parasites have eaten all the organs in the human body, they will go dormant again. They will not wake up unless someone disturbs them."

"So when tomb raiders dig into the graves and open coffins to search for gold, they will touch the corpses, and the parasites hidden in the corpses will wake up and control the corpses to attack people."

"It's magical, but it's not magical either."

"As for the rumors, they say that zongzi have great strength, are invulnerable to swords and guns, can jump several feet high, and can even fly. Among them, the invulnerability to swords and guns is true, and the rest is all nonsense."

"Invulnerability is not a magical thing."

"Think about it, young master. It's like bacon, which has been air-dried for hundreds or thousands of years. If you use a knife to chop a dried pig's trotter, it will take you a long time to chop it."

"Besides, the ancients had burial objects when they were buried. He was a general and was buried in armor."

"The scholars and the wealthy were also buried wearing soft armor and jade armor."

"The corpse was in a special environment, and the armor, soft armor, and jade armor on its body had already merged with the flesh and blood."

"Besides, tomb robbing makes people feel guilty. Seeing a corpse that has been dead for hundreds or thousands of years moving in the coffin will scare them to death. How can they have the strength to fight with Zongzi? Even if they are brave, they will lose 70% of their normal strength."

"Plus the various armor plates that have been fused to the corpse. A knife is useless when it comes to chopping at Zongzi's body."

"Another point is that a zongzi is not like a living person. It doesn't feel pain. No matter how many times you chop it, it will still attack."

"Also, the body has been in the bucket for such a long time that all kinds of bacteria and viruses are all over the body. It only takes a little damage for the virus to infect the person. It won't be long before they die."

“That’s why it’s said to be so miraculous.”

Just as I finished explaining the matter of the rice dumplings, I heard the auctioneer downstairs reading out the information about the next item to be auctioned.

"Everyone, next up is a monk's robe that he wore when he was alive. The starting price is 5 large yellow croakers."

Li Zihang heard that it was the robes that a great monk wore when he was alive, so he immediately asked the person next to him for a brochure.

It doesn't matter if you take a look at it once, but if you look at it again it will open up the memories of your previous life.

In his previous life, he saw such a thing in a strange news forum.

During the Ming Dynasty, there was an enlightened monk who was too poor to make a cassock. So he found a piece of cloth embroidered with Buddhist scriptures on a barren mountain on the outskirts of Beijing.

He thought it was the Buddha who gave him the cassock, so he went back and burned incense and prayed to thank the Buddha.

Then the piece of cloth embroidered with scriptures was made into a cassock.

After the monk passed away, the robe was lost for some unknown reason.

It was auctioned as a treasure, but failed to sell at the first sale. Twenty years later, it was sold at the second auction for over 100,000 yuan. After research, it was discovered that it was a Dhūta Sutra quilt used to cover the corpses of Qing Dynasty emperors.

Then it was auctioned again, and it was sold at a price of over 100 million yuan at the third auction.

The photo of that Dhula Sutra Quilt was later included in various strange stories.

So this robe was exactly the same as the one he remembered and saw in the photo.

I guess it will fail this time.

Then it will be auctioned for the second time after it is opened. Don't rush and wait and see.

If you sell it at a low price, you'll make a lot of money.

After putting down the flyer, he motioned to Gou Wuye to continue.

After drinking some water, Gou Wuye cleared his throat and began to tell a story.

"As for the thousand-year-old six-winged flying centipede you mentioned, I have never seen it and I don't know anything about it. As for the others, I know a little bit."

"The corpse turtle is a mutated creature that was artificially bred."

"There used to be a species of water turtle in the south. After it was discovered, people bred and fed it in various ways. It was gradually discovered that feeding the water turtles with various animal carcasses would make them more ferocious and have a strong desire to attack people. It is especially terrifying when they are in groups."

"Later, some people put them in cemeteries as coffin guards."

As soon as Mr. Gou Wuye finished speaking, no one bid for the following items, and they were about to be sold at a loss.

Li Zihang quickly signaled his secret guards to make an offer.

After the secret guard confirmed it, he rang the bell and the bid was officially completed.

The old man didn't quite understand his grandson's intention, but the item was not worth a large amount, so he just let him go.

As he expected, he was the only one who made a bid. After waiting for a while, he bought the robe at a low price.

"Go on, Angkor."

"As for what you said, the Qilin tattoo and the Zhang family's ancient building, you have to ask Master Buddha. That is their family secret, I don't know."

"I've heard of other plant species like the Nine-Headed Insect Cypress."

"These creatures are all very similar. Some are extinct plants and animals."

"Those who dreamed of becoming immortals found it in all kinds of remote and dangerous places where few people have ever been."

"Then cultivate them and raise all kinds of strange things and put them in the tomb. They will become beasts that guard the cemetery."

"As for the Eight Trigrams and the mechanical beasts, they all really exist."

"But it's not that weird. To those who know what's going on, those things are just decorations. Usually, such devices will kill the ignorant local masters."

"There are also some supernatural things that are all man-made traps."

"Like some extinct creatures kept in special tombs. There are also some artificially cultivated poisonous creatures, which are kept in tombs using special means and a unique balance, allowing them to kill each other for food and then reproduce. This creates a food chain."

"There are also some that are made from various plants that are extremely rare in the human world, using special processing methods to make various poisons."

"Some people will relapse and die immediately after touching them, while others will make people fall into hallucinations without knowing it."

"Others can make people slowly lose consciousness or sense of direction. Coupled with the various creatures, poisons, and mechanisms in the tomb, it becomes extremely dangerous."

"I know of a poison called corpse-scented arum, which can make people fall into hallucinations without realizing it."

"Then the desires in people's hearts are aroused and magnified, causing tomb robbers to kill each other. Or they lose their minds, fall into various traps, and die an unnatural death."

"Some mushrooms are very poisonous. Ancient people would dry their spore powder and add other poisonous powders to sprinkle in tombs."

"Since the tomb has been without ventilation for many years, when someone enters, the airflow from their movements will carry the poisonous powder in the tomb and allow them to inhale it into their lungs. When a certain amount is reached, they will die. Even if not much is inhaled, it will cause various physical discomforts."

"For example, dizziness and weakness. These conditions are not a big deal in normal times, but they can be fatal in a tomb full of dangers."

"Some ancient people would coat burial objects with various poisons, so that anyone who touched them would die."

"Some cemeteries have been sealed for too long, or something unexpected has happened, and various dangers have arisen due to various coincidences."

"These are the very few tombs I'm talking about. Most of them are just to find a good feng shui location, dig a hole, build a tomb chamber, bury the soil, and that's it."

"If every tomb was so dangerous, people like us would have died long ago."

While Gou Wuye was explaining, the following auction items had already gone through seven or eight rounds.

Until then, the auction reached a deadlock.

Then both sides put up life and death cards and fight to the death.