Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 606 The year in Niandao Lake is no more than 6

The potted plant fell down without warning, the candle went out for no reason, and the people inside left one after another.

I looked up, rubbed my eyes, and thought I was seeing things.

I witnessed a scene I will never forget.

Four large black birds were flying towards them from the sky. The largest one was nearly a meter tall. The four strange birds had ropes tied around their bodies, and something resembling a "baby stroller" was being dragged by the birds as they flew.

There was a dark figure on the stroller; it looked like a person.

The person had long, silver-white hair that flowed freely in the wind.

I was stunned, Xigua Tou was stunned, and even the well-informed Ba Tou and Xu Tongshan seemed shocked by this scene.

The entire Jiang family knelt down on the ground.

In a short while, four strange birds flew over the courtyard and then slowly descended, flapping their wings until the stroller landed steadily on the ground.

This stroller is made of wood, just like the kind I used to ride in when I was a child.

The person sitting in the car was very thin, dressed in a blue cloth, and short in stature. Her silver hair was past her waist and appeared smooth and lustrous in the moonlight, as if it had been dyed. Judging from her wrinkled features, she was an elderly woman. Her limbs were withered and thin, and she looked to weigh only about 60 or 70 pounds.

It wasn't until the person slowly opened their eyes that I dared to confirm that what was in front of me was not a lifeless doll, but a living, real person.

The person sat in the stroller, and her gaze swept over me, as if she could see right through all the secrets I kept in my heart.

Her facial features were also unusual: an oval face, thick lips, long and narrow eyes, wide-set eyes, and upturned corners. From my knowledge of physiognomy, this was neither tiger eyes nor three-white eyes, but a special kind of unusual face. This kind of eye shape gives people an extremely cold and sad feeling, as if they do not care about anything in the world.

The person stretched and got up to get off the stroller.

A strand of silver hair blocked her view. She looked up at the moon and said in an old and hoarse voice, "Another year has passed."

"Ancestor!"

"Xue'er! Kneel down now!"

Jiang Zhaoxue did as instructed.

The man walked up to Jiang Zhaoxue and stopped.

"Looked up."

Jiang Zhaoxue did as instructed.

She said in a hoarse voice, "The last time I saw you, you couldn't even walk. You've grown up so much. Not bad. You have a high nose bridge, fine bones and smooth skin, and your ears are higher than your eyebrows. You are a smart and good child, but you are reserved and quiet, and you have a lot on your mind."

"Get up."

The old man hurriedly stood up and said excitedly, "Ancestor! You have not concerned yourself with worldly affairs for many years, why have you appeared here tonight? If it is for these people, please rest assured, Ancestor! I can handle it."

Only after hearing those words did I dare to confirm the identity of the person in front of me.

This person will never reach sixty.

The world's top feng shui master.

To my surprise, she turned out to be a woman? Because some information I had gathered from my previous investigation indicated that both Liu and Wu were men, it seems that the old rumors were wrong.

She said coldly, "If I hadn't come, I'm afraid the family's century-old foundation would have been destroyed by someone else."

Grandpa Jiang Zhaoxue quickly wiped his sweat, not daring to refute, and it was clear that he was very nervous.

At this moment, he took the initiative to speak.

"Wang Xiansheng, a successor of the Northern School of Wang Pingzi, greets his senior."

“Wang Pingzi... I think I’ve heard of this person before, but I don’t quite remember. You had someone calculate my birth chart before, and the results were calculated.”

Upon hearing this, the headman's eyes widened in surprise, and he said, "The saying 'a hundred years is but sixty years' is truly well-deserved. Senior can foresee everything and is a true master. We do not wish to destroy your legacy, but we have come here because of some conflicts with your family. We have just reached a preliminary agreement with the family head."

I thought to myself, "A hundred years have passed, sixty years have passed, Chen Ci... Is this person's real name Chen Ci? Since he didn't refute it, it means he agreed. Is he afraid? Afraid of this skinny old woman who flew in in a stroller?"

When she was explaining, the boy with the watermelon head kept staring at her, and she squinted and scanned him.

"What are you looking at?" asked the boy with the watermelon head.

"I'm looking at your face; you're a pitiful fellow too."

"Hahaha, damn it, this is the first time I've ever heard anyone say I'm pitiful in my life. I don't believe in fate."

Faced with the watermelon-headed man's retort, she did not show anger, but calmly said, "Everything is predestined, and nothing is up to us. You will believe in fate in three years."

At this moment, Xu Tongshan stepped forward, shielding the man with the watermelon head behind him, and said, "Young people speak without thinking, please don't take it to heart. As Chief Wang said, we are here to negotiate with the family head on some matters."

However, Liu glanced at Xu Tongshan and said indifferently, "He doesn't believe in people in this world, nor in religion. His hands are stained with the blood of too many innocent people. You are no different. You are destined to die a bad end."

Xu Tongshan smiled and said, "Speaking of the blood of innocent people, you, a feng shui master, have just as much blood on your hands as we gangsters. We usually kill people to take their lives, but you kill people and seal their souls, provided that such a thing as a soul exists in this world."

"You're from the Qing Dynasty, may I ask how old you really are this year? One hundred and twenty? Or one hundred and thirty? How did you manage to live so long?"

However, the six stood silently.

Xu Tongshan's face instantly turned cold: "A hundred years is but sixty, how impressive! You're not the only one in this world who can tell fortunes. May I ask if you've predicted... that tonight will be your death day?"

After saying that, Xu Tongshan snapped his fingers.

In an instant! The door to the dark room across the way was kicked open, and more than a dozen people rushed out, all wielding double-barreled shotguns! The leader was none other than the one-eyed Jiang family member who had led us up the mountain!

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The situation changed so quickly that I didn't even have time to react before Grandpa Jiang Zhaoxue shouted angrily, "Who are you! What are you doing here!"

"When did these outsiders get in! Fourth Brother! What do you want!"

The one-eyed man, who was called the fourth brother, remained silent and turned to look at Jiang Zhaoxue.

The old man immediately looked at his granddaughter.

Jiang Zhaoxue, who had been kneeling on the ground, silently stood up.

She suddenly burst into tears and cried.

Facing a group of people pointing snipers at him, Liu stood with his hands behind his back, his wrinkled face showing no sign of panic.

Jiang Zhaoxue was in tears. She pointed forward, her voice trembling, and said, "Grandpa! Why don't you realize it! The treasure wasn't cursed at all! The Jiang family wasn't cursed either! The reason we've become like this is all because of this person! It's all his fault!!"

"You've gone mad, girl! Our Jiang family's achievements today are all thanks to the help of our ancestor! Kneel down before the ancestor!"

"I don't!!"

"I've knelt enough! From now on, I will never kneel again!"

"Grandpa, you're confused! And Second Grandpa! And Fourth Uncle! You're all confused!"

"Yes! This person helped our family find the treasure back then! But he did it to satisfy his own interests! Think about how many people we've secretly harmed for him over the years!"

Jiang Huize's face turned deathly pale. He raised his cane to strike, but because of his leg injury, he lost his balance and fell to the ground. Veins bulged on his forehead as he said, word by word, "These people found the location of the escape route and escaped. It was you...it was you who stole the blueprints and gave them to them!"

"That's right! I did it!"

Upon hearing this, I instantly realized what was happening.

No wonder!

No wonder Uncle Cha said he couldn't calculate the birth position! Even the leader of the Jingmen Sect couldn't calculate the birth position! So how did the leader know to blow up the wall from that position?

I looked at the foreman standing to the side.

He turned his head and remained silent.

No wonder the boss was so confident, bringing me here in the middle of the night! It turns out this wasn't a negotiation at all! It turns out there are blueprints for this compound! Jiang Zhaoxue revealed them to us!

So that's how it is! Jiang Zhaoxue deliberately let me take her hostage that night, and she deliberately let me go! No wonder the foreman didn't come to rescue me; he had already predicted that nothing would happen to me that night!

Jiang Zhaoxue took out her sunglasses and put them on. She said coldly, "The ancestor of the Jiang family was surnamed Jiang, not Chen. Grandpa, your health is not good, it's time for you to retire. From now on, I will be in charge of the Jiang family."

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

Xu Tongshan clapped his hands repeatedly and said, "Flawless, brilliant! Miss Jiang is so young, yet her ability to use people and her wisdom are no less than mine and Wang's. Your plan to blow up the mountain has indeed forced this guy to show himself. This three-way alliance has been going on for months, and it's finally going to have a result."

"Crack, snap, snap!"

Three more rounds of applause followed, but this time it was the six men who were surrounded by guns.

However, Liu looked at Jiang Zhaoxue calmly and said, "Child, I actually foresaw eighteen years ago that I would face a calamity today. Heaven wanted to take me away, but Heaven was powerless to do so. I have come to face this calamity. As long as I get through tonight, I can live for several more decades."

"I'm not afraid of you! You can't scare me! Because I've been blind since birth!"

"So what if you foresaw it! In the end, you're just a human being! I've been secretly plotting this for so long, hiding it from my family! All for tonight!"

"Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!"

The emotions that had been hidden deep in her heart for many years finally erupted at this moment, and Jiang Zhaoxue hysterically shouted three times to fire.