Tomb Raiding: My Family's Last Clan Chief is Little Brother

Chapter 415 Tusi Wangzang
Those were two very neat "Wu Xie" characters written in the slender gold script.

The implication is obvious: that guy obtained the information from Jin Wantang under the identity of Wu Xie, and then operated in Nepal under the identity of Wu Xie.

And after blowing up the Ma residence, he brazenly left such obvious clues in the Buddhist temple without any intention of concealing them. What exactly does he want to do?
Wu Xie even had a vague feeling that his entire experience of coming to Nepal and donating money at the Buddhist temple had been foreseen by that person, and that the reason he left this name was so that the person could see it.

It can be said that the person understands you very well. He must be someone who has been by your side for a long time. Who could it be?
Wu Xie went through all the people who had been around him in his mind, but couldn't find anyone who matched this criterion.

No, it's not that there isn't someone suitable, but rather that he doesn't dare to think about that person.

"Sir?" someone called to him. "Sir, is there anything else you need?"

Wu Xie looked up and saw the monk staring at him strangely, as were the members of the expedition team around him.

Xiao Hua's entourage stepped forward and supported his arm, apologizing, "I'm sorry, my friend isn't feeling well, and I apologize for disturbing you all."

Wu Xie heard him urging him in a very soft voice in his ear, "Hurry up, too many people are noticing you. We can talk about it later."

Wu Xie desperately wanted to tie up the monk and find out what had happened, but reason told him he couldn't.

Following the support on his arm, Wu Xie turned around and left the charity hall with the people arranged by Xiao Hua.

Back at his lodgings, the man closed the doors and windows tightly, checked the room as usual, then poured Wu Xie a glass of water and asked, "Mr. Wu, what did you find just now?"

Wu Xie took a sip of water, paused, and then said, "I found the name left by the person who was impersonating me."

The person Xiaohua arranged was named Peter. He often travels abroad and is considered a semi-freelancer. He can take on jobs privately, but he must prioritize his boss's mission. His main purpose in coming to Nepal this time is to protect and assist Wu Xie's operations.

Upon hearing Wu Xie's words, Peter immediately replied, "What do you need me to do?"

“There are several monks who oversee the donations at the charity. There aren’t many Asian faces here in Nepal, and this person donated such a large sum of money all at once. The monks must remember him,” Wu Xie analyzed.

“Understood.” Peter nodded. “Leave it to me.”

Peter lived up to his reputation as one of Xiaohua's elite subordinates; he had a strong ability to execute orders. The next day, after they finished listening to the sutra, a young monk came to invite them.

Wu Xie and Peter followed the young monk to a separate small room at the back of the charity hall, where someone was already waiting—the same person who had presided over the donation yesterday.

Peter handed a bulging little package to the monk, who, who had been expressionless and feigning composure while holding his prayer beads, immediately broke into a smile. "What would you like to know, sir?"

The monk spoke excellent English, and Wu Xie could communicate with him without any problems. He asked directly, "I want to know what the Easterner named Wu Xie in the notebook looks like."

East Asian?
The monk pondered for a moment, then took out the register from the drawer, found the page with "Wu Xie" written on it, pointed to the name and said, "Is this the person you're asking about, sir?"

Seeing Wu Xie nod, the monk continued, "That person is not old, about twenty-four or twenty-five years old. By Eastern aesthetic standards, he is very handsome, with kind eyes and eyebrows, a very pleasing appearance."

Wu Xie immediately recognized that the person was still using his face, so he asked again, "What exactly happened at the Ma family mansion? Why did it explode? Have you investigated?"

The monk shook his head slightly. "This is not within my jurisdiction."

"Did that person say anything? Do you remember what you were talking about?" Wu Xie persisted, even if it was just a small clue, it was better than running around like a headless fly.

The monk recalled carefully, “That benefactor was quite generous, so I chatted with him a bit more. After all, for a kind person like him, we would make a Buddha amulet for him, and his name would be recorded in a separate merit book.”

"He asked me about the culture and history of Buddhism in southern Tibet, and his words revealed that he wanted to go to Medog in southern Tibet."

Wu Xie's feelings grew stronger. He was now quite certain that the person was waiting for him to discover these things. He knew that the person would definitely come here, so he deliberately revealed these things to others. He was luring him to a place called Motuo in southern Tibet.

Regardless of whether the other party is friend or foe, the trip to Medog is inevitable.

After saying goodbye to the monk and returning to his residence, Wu Xie immediately told Jie Yuchen that he was going to Motuo. "There must be something he wants to tell me in that place. Since we know it's bait, it's better to follow this line than to bang my head against a wall and get nothing."

After a few seconds of silence, Xie Yuchen said, "Wu Xie, you may not be able to go to Motuo for the time being. The situation in Banna is a bit tricky and you need to handle it personally."

Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat, "Did something happen to Fatty?"

“Fatty got a little injured, and he’s found some clues. We’ll talk about it in detail when you get back,” Xie Yuchen said.

"Okay, wait for me, I'll be right back." Wu Xie said and hung up the phone. Peter had already started packing his luggage.

At noon, the two bid farewell to the leader of the inspection team, saying that there was an emergency at home and they had to withdraw from the inspection.

After paying a sum of money, the group leader very understandingly agreed to their withdrawal from the group and said that he would take care of all the formalities for them.

Upon returning to the capital, Wu Xie immediately went to Xie Yuchen's territory.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw that the fat man had several claw marks on his neck, which looked like they were caused by some kind of ferocious animal.

"What happened?" he asked hurriedly. "How did you get like this? How did it get like this?"

The fat man waved his hand awkwardly, "It's a long story. You should eat first, and we'll talk after you've finished."

After the meal, the three sat in the pavilion, and the fat man began to recount the events of the past ten days.

After splitting up, Fatty also put on a fake face and went to various acquaintances he had dealt with before to collect clues about scorpion totems and the like. After asking around for two or three days, he actually learned a story about a lotus-sitting scorpion from an old leader named Cai Laojiu.

This Cai Laojiu was an old gangster from Yunnan. He had been imprisoned once and had retired from crime many years ago. He had come to Beijing with his children and grandchildren to enjoy a life of luxury. The fat man found him among a group of old men playing chess. During their casual conversation, Cai Laojiu mentioned that when he was young, he had encountered a chieftain named Wang Zangmiao who sat on a lotus scorpion.

"The Tusi King's Temple?" Wu Xie asked, puzzled. "Where is it, and which Tusi King?"

The fat man, biting into his popsicle, mumbled, "It's over there, the Yongning Tusi King, but not one of the hereditary kings in history, but a self-proclaimed Gu King from folk legend."

The Tusi system originated in Yunnan, began in the Yuan Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Yongning Tusi (chieftain) system was hereditary, held by the A family for 22 terms. The last Yongning Tusi was named Aminhan. By the time the Tusi system was abolished in 1956 during the democratic reforms, it had existed for nearly a thousand years.

The Yongning Tusi (chieftain) was a descendant of the Mosuo people, who called themselves "Na Ri". The Mosuo people are an ancient and wise ethnic group and the earliest indigenous ethnic group in Yanyuan.

In the early days, the territory of the Yongning Tusi was very large. Later, the Tusi granted Muli to a Tibetan Buddhist lama. Emperor Kangxi then bestowed the lands of Zuosuo and Qiansuo to the Tusi's relatives. After that, the territory of the Yongning Tusi was greatly reduced. In the mid-Ming Dynasty, Yongning Prefecture was under the jurisdiction of Shuzhou Provincial Administration Commission.

The place the fat man inquired about was Muli Autonomous County in western Sichuan, located in the northwest of Yunnan Province. As the saying goes, the emperor is far away and the sky is high. At that time, the Yongning Tusi was almost a local emperor, and even in a semi-independent state. This family hereditary system made the power of the local Tusi a closed family system.

According to a folk legend recounted by Cai Laojiu, a strange thing happened to the Yongning A chieftain family at that time.

"What's wrong?" Wu Xie asked.

The fat man explained in detail, "It's the Gu King I told you about before. It's said that he was originally a monster born from the concubine of the chieftain. The reason was that when the chieftain was eliminating the Black Yi in his fiefdom, he was cursed by the Black Yi shaman, and the curse came true in his concubine's belly."

"At that time, the concubine was pregnant. The elders had originally divined that the child was the Big Dipper, but after the curse, another child appeared in the concubine's belly. In ancient times, having twins was considered very unlucky. After another round of divination, the elders said that the child's soul was cursed and split in two, and the Big Dipper had become the Greedy Wolf and the Honest Star. One child had become two."

If the two stars, Wood and Fire, which generate each other, originally echoed the ancestral mountain of Lianzhen from a distance of a hundred miles away, the resulting land would be extremely auspicious. Although it could not be as prominent as the Big Dipper, it would still be a good omen.

The problem lies in the imbalance of the two children's destinies, one strong and one weak. The Greedy Wolf star is stronger than the Honest Star star, which means that it is very likely that after ten months of pregnancy and childbirth, the Greedy Wolf star will devour the Honest Star star.

Even if they both survive by chance, if these two children are born, Lianzhen will be no match for Tanlang and will be suppressed by Tanlang. At the same time, Tanlang will also harm all living beings because of his own greed and desire.

Knowing the power of the Black Yi witchcraft, Chief A discussed with the elders the idea of ​​killing the one with the Greedy Wolf destiny at birth, since the Greedy Wolf element belongs to Wood, and Metal overcomes Wood.

But the irony is that, being cunning and treacherous, only one child was born from the womb of the chieftain's concubine during the ten months of childbirth; the other one disappeared without a trace.

Hearing this, Wu Xie understood that this was a story about twins competing for nutrients in the mother's womb, with the stronger one absorbing the weaker one. This kind of thing is actually not that rare.

But judging from the fat man's expression, things didn't seem to be that simple.

The fat man said slowly, "Although only one was born, the other two are actually still alive."

As mentioned before, Tanlang is cunning and deceitful. He hid himself, meaning that he was born with the shell of Lianzhen, but inside was the soul of Tanlang.

The wolf was hidden so well that neither the chieftain nor his men noticed anything amiss until one day a Tibetan lama or deity came to the place. He saw the difference in the child and, after discussing it with the child's father, took the child to Muli, where they built a Tibetan Buddhist temple to subdue the evil nature in the child through good deeds and merits.

"And then?" Wu Xie asked.

"Later, naturally, he couldn't control himself. Not only did he fail to control the child's murderous nature, he turned him into a monster," the fat man said.

"A monster?" Wu Xie asked in surprise. "What kind of monster?"

The fat man lowered his voice, "According to folklore, the little prince turned into a snake-man with two heads and four arms."

Snake man?

Wu Xie was puzzled. "Didn't you say that Cai Lao Jiu told you about a temple where the Lotus Scorpion King was hidden? How is it related to snakes now?"

“I haven’t finished yet, don’t interrupt.” The fat man glared at him. “That Gu King is a snake man. The totem he worships is a lotus-riding scorpion. I showed the old leader the picture, and he said he had seen such a pattern in that Tibetan temple. I reckon it’s pretty much true.”

Wu Xie frowned and pondered for a moment. The scorpion pattern in the snow pearl was definitely not a coincidence. It seemed that he still had to take a look at this place himself.

"You still haven't told me what happened to your neck," he said, looking at the fat man.

The fat man coughed and said, "I didn't check the almanac before I left home. Mercury was in retrograde. After hearing the news, I went to western Sichuan to find out where it was. I originally planned to go into the mountains first to scout out the way, but I ran into a monkey and got scratched twice."

Wu Xie pulled down his collar to take a look. The wound wasn't deep; it was just a minor cut. He was relieved.

He asked Xie Yuchen, "Xiao Hua, how's your investigation going? What's the specific situation in Banna? Who's monitoring Fatty?"

Xie Yuchen nodded. "You know, part of Guangxi used to be Chen Pi Asi's territory. I had someone check the signal of Fatty's cell phone and A Gui's landline, and pinpointed the approximate range of the listening signal. Then I sent someone in disguise to investigate, and found out that the person was one of Wang Ba Qiu's men under your third uncle."

"You bastard Qiu!" Wu Xie's voice rose slightly at the end as he frowned and said, "Didn't that bastard have a brain hemorrhage and be hospitalized a while ago? Pan Zi had someone go and see him in person. He was half-dead in the intensive care unit. How could he still sneak out and cause trouble?"

"I remember after that guy got sick, his stores were taken over by his godson. That young man seemed ruthless, but unfortunately he was all brawn and no brains. How did he suddenly get in touch with the remnants of Chenpi Asi's gang in Banna?"

“This is what I wanted to tell you,” Xie Yuchen said. “Not only are there Wang Baqiu’s people, but also his mistress Ah Hong, whom you tricked into dying in the tomb. Her daughter, Chen Yaxiang, is from the Chen Pi Asi lineage.”

With the help of his second uncle, Wu Xie dealt with those disloyal people in his third uncle's business. Ah Hong was a pawn that Wang Ba Qiu sacrificed to save the king. Wu Xie also took the opportunity to consolidate Ah Hong's business. Wang Ba Qiu was severely weakened and stayed quiet for a long time.

It seems that the old guys who have close ties with Wang Baqiu are still not giving up.

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