Chapter 476: The Suzaku Clue Emerging
Zhu Mengmeng thinks Chu Ge is an idiot.
How can you just tell the other party that there is no ghost in the house? How can you bargain for the price? Is he really a scholar? If he does business, he will lose a lot.
But what Chugo wanted more than a house was a story.
Although we cannot directly conclude, for example, the mural and the pendant do not look too much like Suzaku but more like Bifang, but this matter may indeed be related to Suzaku. Any possibility is of utmost importance.
Because this is the first time that we have found a clue that may be related to Suzaku, both inside and outside the book.
In fact, when the owner heard that there was no ghost in the house, he became even more scared.
If there is no ghost in the house, then some of the strange things he saw were directed at him... Let's not mention anything else, just the fact that a ghost that comes after people can make a mansion of several hundred square meters become stuffy and hot, how scary is this ghost?
A small-scale drought demon is no more than this, right?
He instantly attributed all the recent business setbacks to being haunted by vengeful ghosts. Even the lack of toilet paper, the missing seasoning packet in his instant noodles, and the argumentative people he encountered online were all attributed to this.
The more he thought about it, the more scared he became. His face turned pale and he asked in a trembling voice, "Is it really a ghost that has been following me all the way from Southeast Asia? Then why have I been fine all these years? Is it starting to become uncontrollable?"
Chu Ge said coldly: "I said I'm not sure. If you don't explain the whole story, how can we catch this ghost for you?"
The householder wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, slumped weakly on the sofa, and remained silent for two or three minutes.
Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji looked at each other again, without urging him, and sat quietly opposite each other waiting.
Zhu Mengmeng suddenly felt like an outsider.
After a long while, Chu Ge finally slowed down his tone and asked, "Since we've come to see your house, we're destined to meet... What's your name, bro?"
The householder said, "Zhang Xinghu."
Chu Ge was stunned for a moment. Where had he heard of this name before? Why did it sound a little familiar?
Qiu Wuji nudged him quietly and said, "Remember Zhang Qiren's father was named Zhang Xinglong."
"What the hell, is this such a coincidence?" Chu Ge looked at the head of the household again. This face full of flesh had nothing to do with Zhang Qiren's handsome appearance...
He couldn't help but ask, "What do you call me, Brother and Zhang Xinglong?"
Zhang Xinghu was also stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "We are distant brothers, with the same generation name. The dragon and tiger are just a coincidence. We are both only children in our family, so we are not real brothers. It is because of this coincidence that we became closer in the early years... Do you know each other?"
Chu Ge hesitated for a moment: "I don't know him, I just heard of this name."
Zhang Xinghu nodded: "He is famous, how can he become famous without cheating?"
Chu Ge: “…”
Fortunately, there was no relationship. It seemed that the brothers had a falling out, or at least they were not close anymore.
However, this is often the case with Chinese people. A originally unfamiliar area can instantly become familiar because the topic can be brought to a person they know in common.
Zhang Xinghu started talking, leaning back on the sofa and lighting a cigarette: "Speaking of my Southeast Asian affairs, it actually has something to do with Zhang Xinglong. The story is not complicated, just telling it casually. About five or six years ago, my brother and I went to Indonesia together. At that time, we wanted to get some Dalbergia latifolia..."
Chu Ge thought to himself that judging by the brothers' conduct, this business might not be legal, and might even be smuggling... However, he didn't know much about wood, so he didn't respond and just waited for the next words.
"Some of our family had settled there. Some people went there in the late Qing Dynasty, and many went there in the 1980s and 1990s. During the anti-Chinese movement in 1998, many people died, but our family survived... When we went there, business was already better, the negotiations went smoothly, and the wood was ready to be loaded onto trucks. We took the opportunity to go around and take a look, just like traveling."
Zhang Xinghu paused here, and seemed a little afraid to look at Qiu Wuji and Zhu Mengmeng, and slightly lowered his eyes: "At that time, we were not in a good mood, and while playing... we dragged the female tour guide into the woods and forced her to play."
Chu Ge: “…”
Damn, five or six years ago, Zhang Qi was already in college, and his father was still so old...
Zhang Xinghu flicked the ash off his cigarette and said, "It was originally fine. Zhang Xinglong paid the money and the female tour guide accepted it. It was supposed to end there and we would just come back after the business was done. But I was a mean person again... I thought she was easy to bully, so I dragged her out that night and played with her alone again."
Zhu Mengmeng grabbed the tea bag on the coffee table and threw it viciously.
Zhang Xinghu turned his head away and let him pass without saying anything, smoking silently.
Chu Ge couldn't help but ask: "So although it has something to do with Zhang Xinglong, it's mainly about the follow-up, right?"
"Yes, I just said that this matter has something to do with him, but I didn't say it was his fault." Zhang Xinghu said very straightforwardly: "Everyone has his own actions and is responsible for them."
Chu Ge: "Fuck, you are such a fool! Judging from the resentment he is carrying, he must be dead. Have you turned yourself in?"
"Turn yourself in..." Zhang Xinghu's expression became a little strange: "She is dead, but it's not what you think. I didn't kill her and she didn't commit suicide... We were staying in the temple that night, and we did it in the small woods behind the temple. Everything was fine at first, and she was half-hearted, but halfway through, there was a sound like a ghost crying in the woods, and I was scared to death on the spot."
Chu Ge: “…”
"I didn't know if it was an illusion or if there really was a ghost. I just felt that it was dark everywhere. The weather was getting colder despite being quite hot. It seemed like ghosts were floating in the depths of the forest." Zhang Xinglong looked terrified again. "The most important thing was her face. It became hideous and scary, as if she was possessed by a ghost. I pulled up my pants and turned around and ran."
"Possessed by a vengeful spirit?" Chu Ge whispered to himself, "Something is not right..."
It doesn't match the clues about Suzaku that I was looking for. Apart from the resentment which might be the same point, the rest is completely incompatible. Suzaku's expressiveness is not of this type.
Zhang Xinghu said that it might be an illusion, which was more logical. After all, he had a guilty conscience and it was the middle of the night. Any slight movement might make him imagine a lot of evil spirits.
Qiu Wuji interrupted and asked, "How did you solve it later? Were you chased by a ghost?"
"That's a temple." Zhang Xinghu said, "At that time, I heard something like Buddhist chanting, and there was a bell ringing in the temple. Then, the dark sky suddenly turned into a fiery cloud..."
"Fire clouds..." Chu Ge asked hurriedly, "Red? Flame-shaped?"
"Yes, it looked a bit like a firebird." Zhang Xinghu said, "At that time, all the ghosts seemed to be on fire, and soon they turned into dots and disappeared. The woman... the woman's whole body was on fire, and suddenly she disappeared."
"Gone? Burned to ashes?"
"She just disappeared." Zhang Xinghu said, "Later, the monks in the temple told me that she was possessed by a vengeful spirit, and her filthy body was purified by the Buddha's fire."
Zhu Mengmeng's eyebrows were raised: "What a filthy body!"
Zhang Xinghu ignored her and continued, "So I prayed to Buddha and asked for a fire bird pendant. I also used this kind of mural to ward off evil spirits when I renovated my house. If you say I killed someone, I really didn't kill anyone... But if you say her vengeful spirit will haunt me, I believe it."
Chu Ge and Qiu Wuji both nodded, seemingly thinking about something.
How the monks lied is another matter. Even according to this description, there is a certain possibility that the person was not dead at all.
The real point is that this time it has a bit of Suzaku flavor...
Chu Ge thought of the Buddha's eyes he saw when he was typing last night. It seemed like a revelation from the universe and a response from heaven.
It’s strange. According to the setting, the White Tiger is in the west and the Buddhist Kingdom is in the west. The ultimate goal of Chu Tiange’s trip is the White Tiger.
How come Suzaku is also involved in this...
Or is it that although the real Buddhist country is said to be located in the west, it is actually located in the south in terms of latitude?
If we continue to think about it in detail, according to the sphere, is south considered the southern hemisphere or the equator?
What is more troublesome is that the temples in Indonesia are not necessarily Buddhist. They also have Hindu temples and the differences are huge.
How to push this clue?
(End of this chapter)
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