Chapter 971: Psychic

at dusk.

Marina City.

A taxi stopped slowly.

"Grandpa, can I help you? Don't be shy." The taxi driver asked enthusiastically.

"Hehe, it's okay, it's not heavy, I can still carry it, thank you." A thin and handsome old man waved his hand with a smile, and got out of the car carrying a small suitcase.

Judging from his appearance, the old man is at least eighty years old, with a gray beard on his chin. Although the passers-by around him have changed into thin clothes, he is wearing an old-fashioned cotton robe as if he was afraid of the cold. Like just walked out of the troupe. However, in stark contrast to his age and old-fashioned attire, he still used his mobile phone to pay for the taxi fare, which surprised the driver, because many middle-aged people in their forties and fifties still only use cash payment.

The driver would be even more surprised if he knew that there was another cat that he couldn't see sitting all the way in the back seat and got out of the car with the old man.

The taxi drove away, the old man dusted off his cotton robe, looked around a little, and saw that everything around him didn't seem to have changed significantly from before he left.

Meow.

The cat purred softly.

The old man lowered his head and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

It was a Persian cat with a black top, black back, and black tail, and everything else was snow-white. However, if measured by the appearance standards of modern Persian cats, this cat would undoubtedly be evaluated as a disqualification. After all, it Not a cat from modern times, the most popular cat in the upper class during the Song Dynasty was a cat from Persia.

It ran to the old man's feet with short legs, as if it was going to get into the cotton robe to take refuge, and stared at the street in the twilight with wide eyes. The trembling of its body made the old man's cotton robe tremble slightly, as if Extremely frightened.

The old man's brows were deeply furrowed by his cat's unusual behavior, and he also looked suspiciously into the depths of the half-dark street, but found nothing unusual.

The commuters who got off work dragged their tired bodies home, the children after school rode their bicycles like the wind, and the small businessmen who only set up stalls at night to avoid the urban management set up their stalls and started business one after another. The old days were no different.

He looked up at the two-story antique building in front of him. On the front of the shop was a vermilion lacquer gate inlaid with brass nails. On both sides were a pair of fine vermilion lacquer columns with buckets. A gilt plaque with a blue background was hung directly above it, which read "North Korea" Things are picked up at night" these big characters.

The red lacquered gate was closed and locked.

There was a layer of dust on the door knocker.

This is the first time he has returned to Binhai City in several months since leaving last fall.

In the past few months, what interesting things happened in Binhai City?

He is old and his body is not cold-resistant. When winter comes, he always chooses to lock the store door, go to the villa Maodong in the farther south, and come back when the spring is warm and the flowers bloom in the next year. Anyway, he does not point to this house. Shops make money.

Binhai City is the retirement city he chose by himself. It is not as noisy as a big city, and it is not as inconvenient as a small city. Apart from being a bit cold in winter, the climate is quite pleasant. There was more than one city with the same conditions. He drew a lot among the cities he could choose, and he happened to win Binhai City. Since then, he has settled here for half of the time every year.

This is not the first time his cat behaved abnormally. The last time it behaved abnormally was when someone gave him a bronze imitation cat god statue. When it saw the cat god statue, it was very scared and always kept away , dare not approach.

The old man likes cats and things related to cats very much. He was very happy after receiving the statue of the cat god, because he has come into contact with many antiquities, and he can see that the statue of the cat god is not just a simple imitation.

However, his cat's fear of the cat god statue made him wary.

He has come into contact with a lot of antiquities and has collected a lot of antiquities. The antiquities in this shop are just a drop in the ocean. No one would display the truly valuable antiquities outside for others to enjoy.

Maybe it was because the ancients poured too much emotion into it, or maybe it was because of the long time, some very few ancient objects occasionally show abnormalities that cannot be explained by common sense.

In other words, "psychic".

Psychicism is not necessarily a bad thing, sometimes you can feel a magical tacit understanding from the psychic antiquities, as if the soul met the original owner of the ancient objects across time and space at that moment.

However, among these very few psychic ancient relics, there are very few original owners of the ancient relics who were not good, and seemed to be able to communicate with evil spirits.

Whenever this happens, his cat will always behave abnormally, warning him in time to stay away from those ancient relics haunted by evil spirits.

Other psychic antiquities have some peculiar phenomena, such as abnormal noises, abnormal movements, and strange light and shadow changes, but at first he did not find similar signs in the statue of the cat god. It was just a very lifelike artwork, and he thought it was his own. The cat's nerves were a little sensitive, so he temporarily left the statue at the entrance of the store to keep his cat away.

He used to feed the stray cats nearby, but since the statue of the cat god came to the store, those stray cats dared not approach it, which made him reconsider this question. Maybe the statue of the cat god has something to do with the psychic thing he encountered before. All are very different and cannot be judged by past experience.

But what to do with the statue of the cat god?

His heart is very contradictory.

On the one hand, Confucius said: If you can't serve people, how can you serve ghosts. If you don't know life, how can you know death. When dealing with ghosts and gods, the sage's teachings are to ignore them, because there are many more important things to explore in the world, how can there be time to pursue the illusory theories of ghosts and gods?

On the other hand, Zhu Zi also said: Scholars must know how the sky can be high, how the earth can be thick, how ghosts and gods can be hidden, how mountains can be integrated, this is the way to study things. The study of things and knowledge advocated by Zhu Zi also requires scholars to be curious about everything in the world, and to give scientific and reasonable explanations to ghosts and gods in the form of philosophical speculation.

The two sages had a subtle disagreement on this part. Not to mention him, even Zhu Zi himself, who inherited the past and ushered in the future in the history of Confucianism, was troubled by this problem all his life.

He inquired a lot of information, but there are too few credible information about ancient Egypt, and only a handful of them have been passed down to the present. He still doesn't understand why the statue of the cat god representing the good god in ancient Egypt is tainted with hostility.

Zhu Zi said that if one is a monster, most of them will not die, and their spirit has not dissipated, so they become a monster due to stagnation. According to this statement, the statue of the cat god does not have the prerequisite to become an evildoer.

Those who stretch out the Qi are called gods; those who bend the Qi are called ghosts. The so-called ghosts and gods are originally just the ebb and flow of yin and yang. The same is true for the human body, so when the heart moves, it can communicate with ghosts and gods.

I think it can only be attributed to the fact that the statue of the cat god has been buried underground for a long time and has been soaked by too much yin.

The cat god statue itself is very precious, and it would be a waste of money to destroy it. There is nothing unusual about the statue at present, so it is better to save it for someone who can hold it.

What's more, Zhu Zi also said: The aura of gods is constantly bending and stretching, while the aura of humans and ghosts dissipates without leaving anything behind. Its dissipation is also different for a long time. There are people who will not subdue their dead, so even after death, this qi does not dissipate, which is called a monster or a monster.

The cat god statue was contaminated with a lot of Yin Qi when it was buried underground, but the Yin Qi will eventually dissipate, it's just a matter of time. So he often pushes the statue of the cat god to bask in the sun at noon, so that its yin energy will dissipate quickly.

Everything in the world is formed by yin and yang, and humans and ghosts have the same origin. In addition to using the sun's yang to dispel yin, human yang can also have the same effect. He feels that if the statue of the cat god is placed in a shop with a lot of people, it may further accelerate the dissipation of its yin. But his shop is definitely not good. This second-hand antique shop is very popular, and there will not be many customers in it.

When he met the lively and cheerful female anchor, he heard from her that she wanted to give the statue of the cat god to someone as a gift for the opening of the store, and that the business of the other party's store was booming, which seemed to be a good place to use the yang to drive away the yin, so he Sell ​​the statue of the cat god to her at a very low price, and especially tell her some taboos.

Whether it's the female anchor or her gift recipient, they don't seem to care much about the ghosts and gods, especially her gift recipient, who claims that even if the ghost is blowing, it's just an air conditioner, which is really big...

But this is also good, "not believing" is the best way to avoid evil, but the old man has long been unable to "not believe", after all, even the ancient sages "believe", how dare he run counter to the ancient sages?

It was getting darker and darker, but his cat was still staring at the darkness in the distance, meowing non-stop, and constantly pawing at his cotton robe, warning him to leave the city as soon as possible. A hundred times more when the statue of the god appears.

"The statue of the cat god has already been given away, so what are you afraid of?" He asked gently.

However, his cat couldn't tell. It could only tell him that a great evil had come to this city, and it was best to leave as soon as possible for safety's sake.

He pondered for a while, if the evil was around him, such as some ancient artifacts with evil spirits, he would definitely try to persuade them to send them away, bury them deeply or destroy them, but since the scope of the evil is so wide, it seems There is no urgent need, no matter how serious the situation is, with his cat around, he can always stay away from evil one step ahead.

"We're exhausted from the journey, let's go in and rest for a while, at least after tonight, and then decide where to go." He comforted, then took out the key, unlocked it, and pushed open the door with a bang.

The stale air that had not circulated in the store for several months was quickly blown away by the influx of night wind.

Everything is exactly the same as when he left, including the half-opened "Zhu Zi's Collected Works Occasionally Read Random Notes" on the table case, which is densely marked with his comments and reading experience.

In the night, the pages of the book rattled and flipped, and finally stopped on one of the pages.

Don't you see the cat catching the mouse? Standing on all fours, head and tail straight, eyes not blinking, and mind without other thoughts. But if it doesn't move, the mouse won't escape if it moves.