During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the great talent Ji Xiaolan was deeply trusted by the emperor, and many anecdotes of his family were also talked about by everyone, although some of them were only short in the parents, but now if they are deeply tasted, they seem to reflect a lot of social reality.
One of Ji Xiaolan's aunts was surnamed Gao, and her father's name was Gao Rongzhi, and the Gao family was also a family of official eunuchs, and Gao Rongzhi had served as a county commander in Lingchuan County, Shanxi.
There is a folk song in the Qing Dynasty called "Three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", although Gao Rongzhi was still a clean official, he also accumulated a lot of family property.
After retirement, Gao Rongzhi was also at ease to be a husband at home, often drinking wine and tea with friends, or taking out some antiques and utensils collected in his life to comment on each other, but also relaxed.
Gao Rongzhi's most precious family treasure is a jade horse. The horse was carved from a single piece of white jade, and the hair on its body was clearly distinguished. However, the whole body was faintly covered with many red blood spots.
Friends all praised each other when they saw it, saying that the jade horse was also a sweat and blood BMW, which made Gao Rongzhi have a lot of face. After all, retiring at home is a world of difference compared to when you were in office.
Therefore, Gao Rongzhi made a base for the "sweat and blood jade horse" with rosewood, which was specially placed on the coffee table in the living room, but whenever a guest visited, he could see this "treasure of the town house" at the first sight, which was also a matter of face.
This morning, after Gao Rongzhi got up, he sat in the living room drinking tea according to the custom, and looked at the baby on the coffee table at random, this look did not matter, Gao Rongzhi was actually frightened.
Originally, the two front feet of the jade horse sculpture were originally kneeling and about to get up, but now what I saw was that one of the left feet was straight, and the horse's hooves had even gone far beyond the edge of the rosewood base.
You know, such a jade carving, of course, it is impossible to change its posture, and now that such a strange thing has happened, how can Gao Rongzhi not be afraid in his heart? So he asked some so-called noble people everywhere, only to ask them to give themselves a reasonable explanation, and they did not know whether it was an auspicious omen or a bad omen, and they were afraid and uneasy for a long time.
But it is a pity that although Gao Rongzhi has a lot of knowledge and consulted many high-ranking people, none of them can explain this strange thing.
On this day, an old servant of the family came out to speak and told Gao Rongzhi that if some objects were stored for too long, because they were with people for a long time, they would also become demons under the accumulation of people's spirits, and the old master should not be surprised by this.
Seeing that the old servant explained reasonably, Gao Rongzhi was slightly relieved, but the family was not very relieved, everyone talked about it, and the last suggestion was to break this jade horse, lest it continue to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, if it really cultivated into a goblin, I don't know if it will harm the family.
Everyone had just agreed that the next morning, the jade horse's left foot had returned to its original state, exactly the original bipedal appearance.
Seeing this scene, Gao Rongzhi no longer hesitated, so he asked his family to pile up a thousand pounds of charcoal to burn the raging fire, and then threw the jade horse in.
Strange to say, the moment the jade horse was thrown into the fire, everyone still faintly heard the hissing of the horses inside the fire, but soon there was no movement.
The fire burned for two days, and after the fire was extinguished, the jade horse in the ashes did not melt, but broke into two pieces, and the horse's head was almost completely damaged, but the second half of the body was still basically visible.
It is also strange to say that since the jade horse was burned, the Gao family has not done anything very smoothly, and Gao Rongzhi's body is not as good as a day, and when it comes to Gao Rongzhi's son's generation, it is basically an ordinary family.
This story also shows that it is really possible for all things in heaven and earth to absorb the essence of aura or the sun and moon, and those so-called strange things may not all be explained by the theory of ghosts and gods.