Chapter 122: Si Jia Zhong Di

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The anniversary of the death is not until tonight; the theater troupe is setting up a stage in the village square, rehearsing "The Flooding of Jinshan" to be performed tonight.

Zhang Wei had nothing to do in the village, so he came to the square to watch the troupe rehearse.

Originally, he wanted to find the source of the resentment and destroy the strange entity directly, but Li Biao felt this was too dangerous and did not agree.

Zhang Wei did not insist; after all, that strange entity was very powerful, and no one knew how many years the corpse had been there.

Zhang Wei found a spot and saw the dan actress on stage rehearsing with someone else.

However, before long, Shi Chun arrived with Chen Longshi and Li Jingwen.

Shi Chun suspected that this theater troupe was a front, and that they were actually trading contraband with the people of the Three Families Village.

But the troupe members did not know what Shi Chun was there for, and the two groups were talking at cross-purposes.

Zhang Wei did not step forward; he just watched the drama from the side.

Just as Shi Chun was communicating with the troupe leader, the curtain behind them was pulled open by someone.

A man rushed out holding a dagger and shouted: "You slut, I'm going to kill you!"

Sister Jiu, who was to the side, was pushed away, and Shi Chun hurriedly steadied her.

The man rushed straight toward A A Mei; seeing that someone was about to be killed, Zhang Wei kicked a stone on the ground, hitting the man's wrist.

The man let out a cry of pain, the dagger in his hand fell to the ground, and A A Mei was so frightened that she collapsed on the ground.

Li Jingwen hurriedly rushed up and asked: "Miss, are you alright?"

He muttered under his breath: "What huge breasts."

A A Mei rolled her eyes, pushed Li Jingwen away, and cursed: "Get lost, you pervert."

Having said that, she immediately jumped off the stage, ran to Zhang Wei's side, held his arm tightly, and said: "Thank you so much just now, you really scared the life out of me."

As she spoke, she patted her chest; seeing the surging waves, Li Jingwen said enviously: "Who is that guy? I'm so jealous!"

The man clutching his wrist saw A A Mei fawning over Zhang Wei and flew into a rage: "I'll hack you to death!"

Shi Chun hurriedly let go of Sister Jiu, quickly stepped forward, swept the man off his feet with a kick, and then subdued him, shouting: "Don't move! In broad daylight, you actually dare to hack people in front of me? Speak! Why are you hacking people?"

The troupe leader immediately said: "A A Jia, for the sake of the troupe's reputation, you mustn't talk nonsense."

A A Jia endured the pain and said loudly: "Troupe leader, don't worry, affecting the troupe's reputation means affecting the troupe's business; for the sake of the troupe's business, I won't say a word even if you beat me to death!"

Shi Chun said angrily: "Fine, you won't talk, is that it? Li Jingwen, Chen Longshi, take that woman and this man back to the police station for interrogation!"

Shi Chun left with A A Mei and A A Jia; the troupe leader was dumbfounded, and Sister Jiu was gloating about becoming the dan actress tonight.

Zhang Wei saw that he had watched a farce, shook his head, and left.

At night, everyone in the village arrived at the square, and Zhang Wei and Li Biao sat under the stage watching the people on stage perform "The Flooding of Jinshan."

Little did they know that at this time, Little Xiang's mother's lover had arrived at the mountain behind the village with his accomplices to search for the village's treasure.

On stage, when Sister Jiu and A Qiu were singing the part about the flooding of Jinshan, Sister Jiu felt unbearable abdominal pain, as if something was about to burst out.

She hurriedly leaned toward A Qiu, gritted her teeth, and whispered: "My stomach hurts, I need to take a dump!"

A Qiu said anxiously: "Just hold it in and finish the performance."

Sister Jiu gritted her teeth and said: "I can't hold it anymore!"

A Qiu was desperate and had no choice, so Sister Jiu changed the lyrics: "Oh my, pain on the left, pain on the right, it must be time to give birth!"

"Oh my, Sister Qing, I'm going to go have a baby first!"

The audience below was stunned; was this scene in "The Flooding of Jinshan"?

"What giving birth? Is this part of the play?"

"What is this? Are you just making this up?"

"Who invited these people? What kind of garbage is this?"

Zhang Wei watched the farce on stage and also felt it was inexplicable; in just a short while, not only was the White Snake going to give birth, but the Green Snake was going to give birth too, followed by Fa Hai.

Zhang Wei muttered: "Is this not just needing to take a dump?"

The troupe leader, who had just finished his own bathroom break, came out and saw the situation spiraling out of control, immediately shouting: "Stop fighting, hurry up and drop the pagoda to end it!"

"Yes, troupe leader!"

Just as everyone was questioning what was happening, the pagoda fell down, covering both Sister Jiu and A Hua.

But the next second, screams came from inside the pagoda.

The people below complained: "The show is over, what are they still screaming for?"

What they didn't know was that Sister Jiu and A Hua were terrified by seeing a man covered in blood.

That man took out a treasure map and said: "This is the treasure map for the pagoda; the map contains the incantation for the entrance. Wealth across the world, private restricted area!"

After speaking, he lost his strength, fell straight down, and broke the pagoda.

Fortunately, Sister Jiu was quick-witted and snatched the treasure map from A Hua's mouth.

Suddenly, a corpse appeared on the stage, and the people below exclaimed in succession.

As it happened, Shi Chun was hiding among the crowd watching the play; he immediately stood up, ran toward the stage, and shouted: "Police! Nobody move, I suspect the murderer is right here!"

Zhang Wei also immediately stood up and went on stage; he looked at the victim's wound and immediately shouted: "Officer Shi, Uncle Biao, evacuate the crowd immediately."

Shi Chun said in surprise: "Officer Zhang, why did you reveal your identity?"

Zhang Wei saw the corpse Qi on the victim at a glance and immediately said: "This case is extremely urgent, I will handle it personally!"

He turned to look at Li Biao and said: "Is this man one of your people?"

Li Biao looked carefully and shook his head: "No, this should be an outsider."

Zhang Wei deduced: "An outsider, killed by that thing; why would he go to that kind of place for no reason?"

Shi Chun hurriedly asked: "Officer Zhang, this must be Li Biao killing to silence a witness!"

Zhang Wei frowned: "Officer Shi, we must rely on evidence when handling cases! Take the body away, we are going back to the police station first."

Shi Chun was somewhat puzzled, but he still followed instructions; however, looking at the people from the opera troupe, he said, "This person is not from the village, and you are the only ones who arrived today. I suspect the deceased has some connection to you!"

Jiu Jie hurriedly defended, "That's not it, we didn't kill him."

Shi Chun said, "Regardless of whether you killed him or not, until the matter is cleared up, you cannot leave Sanjia Township!"

The troupe leader was also helpless and had to rent a few rooms in the township to settle the members of the opera troupe.

Upon learning they could stay, Jiu Jie was ecstatic.

That night, she said to A Qiu, "Hahaha, with this treasure map, we're going to be rich!"

A Qiu said with a worried face, "But we can't understand these few lines of the incantation."

Jiu Jie laughed, "We can't understand it, but Lin Laoshi definitely knows, hahaha, we're going to be rich!"

A Qiu hurriedly stopped the ecstatic Jiu Jie and said, "No, if we take this to ask Lin Laoshi, won't he know? Then we'll have to give him a share."

Jiu Jie looked at the incantation on the treasure map and immediately thought of a way; she deliberately wrote down the incantation one character at a time and then scrambled the order.

Immediately after, Jiu Jie brought A Qiu to see Lin Laoshi.

Lin Laoshi looked delighted, thinking he was going to have a romantic encounter tonight, and hurriedly asked, "What do you two want with me? If it's that kind of thing, I need to prepare."

Jiu Jie said excitedly, "What thing? Stop daydreaming, hurry over here, we have something we need your help with."

Seeing Jiu Jie take out a pile of cards to show him, Lin Laoshi's expression turned ugly as he recognized a few characters.

But he said with some impatience, "Take them all out. Doing it one by one like this is delaying my sleep."

Jiu Jie was helpless and had to hand all the cards to Lin Laoshi.

Lin Laoshi spread the cards out, and unconsciously, he arranged them in order; very quickly, he had sorted out the incantation.

Jiu Jie asked in surprise, "You figured it out?"

Lin Laoshi laughed, "You want to stump me with this kind of child's play?"

Feeling somewhat proud, Lin Laoshi suddenly felt something was wrong; he looked suspiciously at Jiu Jie and A Qiu, saying, "No, you two coming to find me in the middle of the night with an incantation, there must be a problem!"

"Ah, I know, did that dead person give you this incantation? Is that it!"

Jiu Jie was very surprised and hurriedly shook her head, saying, "No, we just happened to see it."

As soon as Lin Laoshi saw Jiu Jie's expression, he knew he hadn't guessed wrong, and he immediately said, "If you don't tell me, then I'll tell the police officer."

A Qiu hurriedly stopped him, "Don't, we'll tell you."

Jiu Jie reluctantly took out the treasure map and the incantation, saying, "You can join in, but it's agreed: we split it three-seven, we get seven, you get three."

Lin Laoshi shook his head and said, "I help you solve the incantation, and I only get thirty percent?"

A Qiu said with dissatisfaction, "Thirty percent is not little. A Qiu and I share seventy percent, it's not much more than you."

Lin Laoshi nodded, "Thirty percent is fine. Let's go find the treasure now."

Very quickly, the three of them arrived at the south side of the village; according to the incantation, the treasure should be on the south side of the village.

The three arrived at the south side of the village, sat on stone stools, and analyzed the incantation; Lin Laoshi quickly deduced from the incantation that the stone table and stone stools were the Stone Plum Blossom.

Then, Lin Laoshi used the stone table to listen to the sound of flowing water underground and soon discovered the general direction of the Si Jia Zhong Di.

At this moment, the back mountain was filled with yin energy, and after some trekking, the three arrived quickly.

The three saw the Eight Trigrams diagram on the ground and instantly laughed; Jiu Jie immediately climbed onto the yin-yang eye of the Eight Trigrams diagram to look inside.

She saw a pagoda below and laughed loudly, "Hahaha, we're rich."

A Qiu hurriedly asked, "Jiu Jie, what did you find?"

Jiu Jie immediately said, "Didn't that person say before he died that the treasure was in the pagoda? Hahaha!"

A Qiu immediately became excited as well.

And Lin Laoshi hurriedly took out the incantation, analyzing that the following lines were the method to open the treasure.

Lin Laoshi was immediately somewhat dejected and said, "Stop messing around. According to these lines of the incantation, the three of us cannot open the treasure, unless there is a hunchback and someone with 'Immortal' in their name."

Jiu Jie said anxiously, "Then what do we do?"

Lin Laoshi said helplessly, "What else can we do? Of course, we go to the township tomorrow to look."

Jiu Jie was helpless and had to take A Qiu and leave with Lin Laoshi.

The next morning, Jiu Jie took A Qiu and Lin Laoshi to the street early to look for a hunchback.

Very quickly, they arrived at the ancestral hall of Sanjia Township; in front of the ancestral hall, there was a hunchback holding a birdcage.

The three thought the hunchback was the person who could help them, so they immediately stepped forward to ask.

The hunchback thought Jiu Jie and the others were selling something, so he and the others talked at cross-purposes for a while.

It turned out to be a misunderstanding, and the hunchback cursed a few times and left.

"What, I'm a pimp? Are your eyes blind!" Lin Laoshi couldn't take it and immediately cursed back.

He lifted his head to catch his breath and prepare to continue cursing, when he saw the bead above the ancestral hall; right next to the bead were the Eight Immortals.

This made him have an instant epiphany, discovering that what he was looking for was not a person, but this bead.

However, this was the ancestral hall of Sanjia Township, and he couldn't take it now, so the three had to wait until night to take it.

Not far away, Zhang Wei watched the three acting suspiciously and frowned slightly.

He had intended to see if there were any problems in the township today, but ended up discovering these three suspicious people.

Zhang Wei murmured, "There's a problem."

Zhang Wei immediately took out a paper crane and cast a spell, letting the paper crane watch Jiu Jie and the others.

At night, Jiu Jie, A Qiu, and Lin Laoshi arrived at the ancestral hall again; they brought a ladder and climbed directly onto the roof to take the bead.

But the bead was embedded inside, and no matter how they tried, they couldn't pull it out; A Qiu had to kneel and bow, and ended up hitting the roof tiles in front.

The tile was a mechanism button; once the tile moved, the area under the bead popped up directly, pushing out the pillar that the bead was embedded in as well.

The three immediately covered their mouths and gasped; Lin Laoshi immediately said, "Let's go!"

They took the pillar and immediately rushed to the Si Jia Zhong Di.

Zhang Wei also followed behind them, watching as they opened that Eight Trigrams lock in front of the private restricted area.

Zhang Wei secretly thought it was bad and hurriedly revealed himself, saying, "Don't move!"

Lin Laoshi, A Qiu, and Jiu Jie were all startled.

Seeing it was Zhang Wei, Jiu Jie hurriedly said, "Officer Zhang, this is a treasure; we can give you a few shares of it."

Zhang Wei frowned and said, "Treasure? I think you have the life to take it, but not the life to spend it."

Upon hearing this, Lin Laoshi's face instantly turned pale, and he said, "No way, Officer, are you going to kill us to silence us?"

Jiu Jie and A Qiu shrieked, immediately collapsing to the ground in terror, sobbing.

Seeing that his words had caused a misunderstanding, Zhang Wei hurriedly explained, "It's not what you think."

"Yin energy is gathering under this treasure, and there is something eerie down there. If you open the treasure and let the eerie thing out, won't you be dead for sure?"

Lin Laoshi said with some disbelief, "Officer, you actually believe in this?"

Zhang Wei took out an Eight Trigrams Mirror and said, "I am a disciple of the Maoshan Sect; I came to Sanjia Village this time specifically to resolve the eerie occurrences here. Didn't you know that there was a vampire incident a while ago?"

A Qiu hurriedly nodded and said, "I know, I heard that an officer even died, and the police station established a Ghost-Catching Unit."

Zhang Wei nodded and said, "Correct, I am the consultant for the Ghost-Catching Unit."

Lin Laoshi said in surprise, "No way, is there really an eerie thing under this treasure?"

Zhang Wei nodded and said, "Otherwise, how do you think the deceased who appeared in the tower died?"

Jiu Jie widened her eyes and said, "He was killed by the filthy thing down below!"

Zhang Wei nodded and said, "Correct, you still have some brains. Hurry and leave this place, it's very dangerous!"

(End of this chapter)