Chapter 37 I Want to Be a Good Person
Xu Chuchu used a compass to re-determine their location and found that they were now on the southwest side of the mausoleum, quite a distance away from the main tomb chamber, but in a completely different direction from where they had come down before.
Seeing that Xiao Yu had not fully recovered yet, she asked him to hold up the tinder to light the way, while she quietly moved the stone in front of her, leaving just enough space for one person to facilitate their entry and exit.
In this way, even if the corpse silkworms come back, they will have enough time to hide again and seal the entrance.
"Let's search this ear chamber first, and make sure not to look outside." Xu Chuchu said, feeling around the walls of the tomb based on his previous experience.
In fact, she had no experience in going into tombs frequently before. She had only gone there twice with her master when she first became his apprentice, and learned the skills of finding tombs and identifying mechanisms.
At that time, Master was an advisor to the national archaeological team. Because the team was worried that rashly using machinery to excavate tombs would destroy cultural relics or encounter monsters and cause casualties, every time they found an important tomb, they would ask Master for help, asking her to divide the gold and set the blood, and fight the monsters in the tomb.
The archaeological team had limited funds. Although food and accommodation were provided, the remuneration given each time was not much, not even enough for the master and apprentice to travel around the local area.
Xu Chuchu was very young at that time. Every time she saw the archaeological team moving out the priceless burial objects, she felt sorry for her master, because she knew that her master was capable of going into the tomb alone and getting these burial objects himself.
Even if he had only taken one item and not damaged any other cultural relics, the master would not have lived in such poverty all his life.
Later, she secretly asked her master why he never wanted to be tempted or seek wealth. The master only told her that people should do good.
Master said that the most important thing for a person is to have a kind heart, especially for those in their line of work, who must do good and eliminate evil, and cannot use their own Taoism to act according to their own impulses.
But Xu Chuchu didn't take these words to heart at that time. She felt that people's hearts were unpredictable and there were too many evil people in the world. If you were nice to him, he might not be nice to you, and might even hurt you in return.
You should not do anything illegal or criminal, and there is no need to do things that are thankless.
She felt that her master suffered from being a good person and wasted too much time, which was why he only had the fifth level of cultivation until his death.
After her master passed away, she no longer had to follow her master around to do good deeds, and could focus more on her cultivation. Because of her extraordinary talent, she became the only seventh-level physiognomist in nearly a hundred years, and also the youngest seventh-level physiognomist in their school's recorded history.
She no longer dealt with the archaeological team, nor did she take a five or six-hour bus ride to towns and villages to perform free exorcisms on tombs like her master. Instead, she moved around in the gray area, took jobs from wealthy businessmen, and made a lot of money.
At the beginning, she remembered her master's teachings before he passed away, which asked her to do more good deeds, and tried to donate some money.
Some of the money disappeared after being donated, and some students she sponsored used her money to take their girlfriends on trips and nightclubs. Over time, she gave up these ideas and put all the money into her own piggy bank.
Until the end, she saw her two uncles being involved in an unknown force, one disappearing, the other dying tragically, and she herself being punished by heaven for forcibly changing the fortune of the gambling king, and none of them had a good end. Only then did she gradually understand some of her master's ways of dealing with the world.
Doing good deeds does not mean being a saint and sacrificing yourself indiscriminately for the good of everyone. Rather, the greater your ability, the greater your responsibility. Don't give yourself an excuse to avoid doing good deeds because of a small number of ungrateful people.
Although Master never enjoyed a happy life, she helped countless families overcome difficulties, and her contribution to the country's archaeological cause is immeasurable.
Xu Chuchu knew that she might not be able to reach the level of her master if she started over again, but her pursuit of fame and fortune had long been much weaker than before, which is why she went alone to expose the illusion of the Dragon King's sacrifice without knowing that Xiao Yu would intervene.
If it were in the past, she would never take such a big risk to do something that had no benefit.
"Master Xu?" Xiao Yu called out.
Xu Chuchu: "I want to be a good person."
"What?"
"No, no..." Xu Chuchu quickly came back to her senses, "What's the matter?"
Xiao Yu didn't care about her distraction: "Come and see, there are words on this wall."
Xu Chuchu hurried over and found that there were hundreds of words densely engraved on the wall in front of Xiao Yu. This wall happened to be the place that was blocked by the stone tablet they had pushed down before.
"Jade cicada! There's a jade cicada! Look!" She spotted the jade cicada logo painted on the top at a glance and shouted excitedly.
She finally remembered the main purpose of going to the tomb this time, which was to find out the meaning of the jade cicada marks in County Magistrate Zhang's home.
Xiao Yu looked at her with a tired and foolish look, indicating that he had discovered it a long time ago.
"What's written on it?" Xu Chuchu had not been in ancient times for long, and she could barely recognize the characters. The font of the previous dynasty was slightly different, and she could not understand a single word.
"It's about this prince's life story. Why is it deliberately hidden?" Xiao Yu frowned and continued reading. "...What is the evil spirit?"
"What?" Xu Chuchu had never heard of this term.
Xiao Yu sneered, "It says here that this prince is called Liu Cang, and he did something great. He is the son of destiny, the reincarnation of an evil spirit. Even if his physical body dies, he will eventually be resurrected and return to this world."
"So weird." Xu Chuchu frowned, "It's resurrection, not reincarnation?"
"Resurrection." Xiao Yu pointed to the last two words.
"It's impossible for the dead to be resurrected." Xu Chuchu said firmly.
"Regardless of whether it can be resurrected or not, this jade cicada proves that the case of County Magistrate Zhang is inextricably linked to the previous dynasty," Xiao Yu said. "It seems that the forces of the previous dynasty have not been completely eliminated and are trying to revive."
Xu Chuchu also nodded, thinking that if it was for the cause of restoration, it would make sense that County Magistrate Zhang and Master Xiang would join forces to sacrifice women. They did these evil deeds not for their own cultivation, but to bring benefits to the forces behind them.
After reading the words on the wall, she and Xiao Yu each searched the ear chamber to see if they could find an exit or other clues.
"Here!" Xu Chuchu found traces of movement on the ground. He pushed away a few messy empty wooden boxes and indeed found a hole blocked by broken soil.
She used her wooden sword to dig up the dirt, and a narrow and deep tunnel appeared before her eyes.
"You're smart, Xiao Yu. You're the one who reminded me." Xu Chuchu praised him generously. "We can go out now."
"I don't know where this tunnel leads to, or how far it is from where we came down." Xiao Yu asked, "We still need to notify Brother Shao to come and pick us up."
"No, no need for support. This tunnel leads directly to the ground." Xu Chuchu smiled happily, "Trust me."
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