There is a trick

Chapter 38: The King of Treasures
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As Zhou Changyan finished his words, strands of iron threads flowed out from the tips of his fingers that were pinching the transverse bone behind his head, and instantly wrapped around the transverse bone.

"Humph……"

He moved quickly, but before that, Paper Face snorted softly, and a gust of cold wind passed through Zhou Chang's fingers, like a woman's smooth black hair.

Zhou Chang came up empty-handed.

There was no abnormality with the transverse bone that was wrapped around by the thread of thought.

In the hole of the ring on his hand, Ao Duoji also whimpered a few times.

"I hid so secretly that I had completely restrained my breathing, yet you were able to find me?
Where did you learn this trick?"

Paper Face's smiling voice came from the side again.

Zhou Chang looked in the direction of the sound and saw a yellowed and curled picture pasted on a wall covered with filth and dirt.

The picture showed a woman with fashionable wavy hair, an oval face and big eyes. The woman had bright eyes and was wearing a slim cheongsam. Even in this yellowed picture, it was difficult to conceal her beautiful appearance.

In the upper right corner of this poster, there are two columns of artistic words:
“Butterfly Frost scented powder.

A piece of white skin like fragrant snow, the raw material is rare and natural, it is a wonderful beauty product and a famous social item.

Ms. Zhang Xueli has a beautiful face. "

Ms. Zhang Xueli in the picture was looking at Zhou Chang at this moment. She stretched out a pair of slender hands and stroked her face with a smile. Her nails suddenly pierced into her cheeks, tearing open her oval face and bright eyes.

Under the torn face skin of Ms. Zhang Xueli, a "paper face" with thin eyebrows, phoenix eyes, and a proud nose was revealed.

Her black hair was scattered around her cheeks, and among her loose black hair there were strands of braids dotted with turquoise, red and yellow gems.

She was wearing a bright red silk robe with a right lapel and a wide waist, which was similar to Han Chinese clothing but with many differences. The robe was embroidered with beautiful flowers, and the long 'lapel' with strings of dzi beads, agates, ancient jade, turquoise and other treasures hung down to her waist.

Clothes make the man. The paper face wearing such a precious Tibetan robe has a very different temperament from the paper face reflected on Bai Xiu'e's face.

The paper faces in today's illustrated magazines are incredibly beautiful and radiant.

“What a beautiful painting…

Take it back and stick it on my bedside!"

Even Zhou Chang was amazed at the increasingly beautiful paper face in the painting. He walked a few steps closer to the painting and reached out to tear it off the wall.

When his fingertips touched the picture, strands of thoughts began to spread across the picture.

The beauty in the painting is still as bright and beautiful as ever: "My dear, why are you wasting your energy?

Now, in this painting, there is only a trace of "thought" that I have placed here. Thoughts are like smoke, even if you catch them, they will also dissipate between your fingers...

If you have this energy, you might as well think carefully about how to deal with my stepmother's eldest and second daughters.

The one whose eyes you poked out before was just her useless second daughter. Especially, the second daughter hadn't put on her "weird skin" yet, so it wasn't difficult for you to hurt her.

But when it and the eldest daughter put on their strange skins and come looking for you, you will be in a precarious situation."

Zhou Chang looked at the picture on the wall and looked into the eyes of the beauty in the painting.

He listened to the other person's words and blinked: "Can you take me to find the strange skins of the eldest and second daughters?"

"I am a sister to them, how can I do such a thing to betray them?"

"I've already betrayed you once before, so it doesn't matter if you do it again."

“…Nonsense.”

"Look at you, you say one thing and mean another!" Zhou Chang looked at the paper face whose expression turned cold, and curled his lips, "You obviously don't want your second sister to kill me, so you pretended to help your second sister before, but in fact you secretly teamed up with me and trapped your second sister.

I can tell the good from the bad, the true from the false.”

It was true that Zhou Chang had previously planned to overturn the table to force Paper Face to compromise, but it was also true that Paper Face gave him a break and let him cut off the heads of the two women.

In addition, Paper Face's intentional or unintentional reminder made Zhou Chang guess that Paper Face's fundamental purpose was not to send him to Li Xiamei's home to be slaughtered, but she had other intentions. With this in mind, Zhou Chang did not wait for Paper Face's response and asked her again: "Where is Li Xiamei now?"

Paper Face was about to say something, but when he heard Zhou Chang's question, he pursed his lips and said nothing.

"Oh, Li Xiamei is not at home now."

Zhou Chang instantly understood Paper Face's silence. He nodded and said, "So you brought me here now to deliberately induce me to kill its entire family - you are such a goddaughter, what a jerk!"

He deliberately imitated the Sichuan dialect and said "really scary" as "really scary".

The paper-faced man raised his eyebrows and looked angry: "Nonsense! Nonsense!"

Zhou Chang's facial expression restrained at this time, and he returned to his expressionless and calm look. He tore off the poster on the wall, rolled it up, and stuck it on his lower back. Then he picked up the knife and walked out of the room.

The paper face on the picture wrinkled its nose in disgust, but did not disappear into thin air.

Zhou Chang's silk and Bai Xiu'e's lotus root silk have the same origin. Although his silk has changed, it has not deviated from the basics.

Bai Xiu'e's lotus root silk could not completely cover the paper face, and the same was true for Zhou Chang.

It was pitch dark outside.

Zhou Chang walked out of the house, crossed the alley paved with blue bricks, turned around, kicked open the door of the house on the right side of the alley, and walked in.

The dimly lit room was empty except for an altar table placed against the wall opposite the door.

There were unlit incense sticks on the altar.

On the walls hung portraits of worshipped gods - the colors of the portraits were rich and heavy, gorgeous and varied, and it was obvious at first glance that they were not in the Central Plains style.

It is framed in the center of a yellow cloth embroidered with ingot patterns, with two ribbons hanging from both sides of the framed painting.

The deity in the painting has a golden body, a single head and two arms, wears a five-Buddha crown on his head, wears golden armor, and adorns himself with many jewels and necklaces.

It holds a pagoda in its left hand and a giant black-haired rat in its right hand. From the rat's mouth spew out various treasures, including gold beads and copper coins.

Beneath the god's throne, a snow-white lion was lying on the ground.

……

"The King of Wealth..."

Zhou Chang looked at the deity in the painting and muttered to himself.

The god in the painting is none other than the God of Wealth.

In Han Buddhism, it is called Vaiśravaṇa Deva.

The portrait on the wall is not the Vaisravana in the Han style, but the Vaisravana in the Tibetan thangka painting.

The reason why Zhou Chang could still recognize the gods in the painting was because Qingyi Town was adjacent to the secret treasure area, where people from the secret treasure area were often seen walking around and doing business.

The reputation of the God of Wealth, who controls wealth, will naturally spread everywhere.

Including the clothes and clothing that Paper Face shows in the pictures, they are all Tibetan style.

She should have been a person from the Secret Tibetan Domain when she was alive, but now she is mixed up with Li Xiamei's family.

And Li Xiamei's family seems to have some connection with the 'Treasure King'.

"The God of Wealth, the egg sheath of Natian, the lotus root spirit, Paper Face, Lao Feng, Bai Xiu'e..."

Names flashed through Zhou Chang's mind one after another. Those scattered clues that could not be connected before because of the lack of key points were now completed by Zhou Chang because he saw the portrait of "Treasure God" enshrined in Li Xiamei's home.

"The God of Wealth wanted to make Nezha born, so he used the corpse of a lizard as an egg sheath and made the strange lotus root into a spirit.

When the sperm and egg combine, the baby will be born..." Zhou Chang's mind brightened.

He pulled out the picture magazine from his waist, spread it out, and made the beauty in the picture face the Thangka of the God of Wealth. He opened his mouth and asked, "My wife, do you recognize it?"

(End of this chapter)