C42 (1/2)

”Why should I?” The sailor began to get excited again.

”The CAA issued a document last year,” Shen Dexu said. ”This stretch of river is outside the range for sand mining, you guys have violated the rules. Show me your operating licenses. ”

Shen Dexu was an old cunning fox, he immediately knew that there was something fishy going on, and told his subordinates, ”Investigate the registration number of this ship of theirs.”

The subordinate immediately understood Shen Dexu's intentions and loudly said: ”You probably don't have an operating license, right?”

The sailors were all stunned. They were no doubt dark dredgers. Shen Dexu was spirited, he snorted: ”Are we going to detain the boat, or take the money and leave? ”If you don't decide, I'll call the authorities.”

However, Xu Yunfeng walked to the sailors and said to them: ”Don't waste your time, you won't be able to earn anything with this. This is not what you think. ”

The sailor began to give in. ”Forget it, take the money and go. I can't win against you.”

Shen Dexu explained: ”This is really not the wood you guys want, it is definitely a Gloomy Wood, but it isn't a naturally formed Gloomy Wood. Someone in ancient times deliberately buried this wood under the Yangtze River.”

Although the sailors didn't understand what was going on, but the sinking of the water was a kind of magic to suppress evil. Those who ate on the water had more or less heard of it.

”A coffin!” Xu Yunfeng said with certainty, ”That's right, it's a coffin, a coffin made from Paulownia Wood.”

Upon hearing this, the sailors who were sitting on the wooden log immediately slipped down, staying away from the wooden log just like the others.

”There's no need for me to lie to you, or else I wouldn't have to pay you.” Shen Dexu's tone was gentle, ”Wang, bring them to the city, and collect the money from the Finance Department.”

The sailors seemed to have no other choice, the leader walked to the side of Shen Dexu's subordinates and planned to return to the ship. However, Xu Yunfeng stopped them, ”Look at your palms, does it look black?”

The sailors all stretched out their hands, and sure enough, their palms were black. One of them said, ”This is made of wood.”

Xu Yunfeng extended the finger that he had touched on the wood, ”En, I can't rub it off.”

The sailor, who was sitting on the log a moment ago, looked at his own thigh. However, before he had even taken off his pants, he saw that his ankle had already turned black when he took off his shoes.

These sailors were all dumbstruck. Looking at Xu Yunfeng, they knew instinctively that he was an expert.

”Wash it with tung oil. Once it's washed, it will fall. If it's not washed, find a three inch long centipede and bite your index finger.” Xu Yunfeng said, ”Don't be afraid, just do as I say. You won't die.”

These people completely understood that this piece of wood really didn't belong to them, so they left in a fluster. The boat often had to maintain its wooden boat to prevent it from being torn apart by the sun's immersion, so there was a lot of tung oil.

Xu Yunfeng walked in front of Shen Dexu and showed his pitch-black fingers to him, ”Poison lacquer, it hasn't dispersed even after staying underwater in the silt all these years.”

”Who do you think was in the coffin?” Shen Dexu asked.

Xu Yunfeng said: ”He's definitely a great figure from two thousand years ago, and he's eating our food.”

”Let's get it back first.” Shen Dexu sighed, ”I wonder if this thing will be good or bad for Superintendent Wang.”

”Who knows?” Xu Yunfeng laughed bitterly.

Three hours later, the wooden coffin was placed in a remote warehouse. Shen Dexu, Xu Yunfeng, Huang Kun and a few other staff members were all wearing gloves and masks. He looked at the gloomy wood that was placed in the middle of the warehouse.

Xu Yunfeng had circled around the piece of wood a few times. Now, everyone could see clearly that the wood was still in the shape of a Primordial Pickle Tree. It didn't even manage to cut off the branches.

On the way over, Huang Kun heard from Xu Yunfeng that the ancient Chu State Realm Warlocks who took charge of the sacrificial ceremony and read wild divination would find a baobab tree before they died. After that, the later generations would split a part of the baobao tree apart, but because the baobab tree was hollow, they placed the body of the Warlock in and kept it in a standing position. Then fill in the split again, and the poplars will close the gap again. This was one of the ways Warlocks wanted to ascend in ancient times.

It was just that this method was very unorthodox and only a few people knew about it. Furthermore, the person placed in the corpse would keep this secret for the rest of his life. If it was more particular, he would kill himself. After the Han dynasty, the burial was lost.