Chapter 16: Grave Digging
Early the next morning, I submitted my resignation to Mrs. Gu, the Chen family's ancestral house has been decided, and I don't have to deal with small things, I have nothing to do here, I want to go back to Dulong Mountain.
"Xuanji, do you want to think about it, now you are alone in Dulong Mountain, and you still have to come out to break through when you are young"
Gu Nian persuaded me and said that she could give me a good job and let me have no worries about food and clothing in the city.
"Forget it, Miss Gu, I still like Dulong Mountain"
I shook my head and refused, I used to hear people in Qinghe Town, at the foot of Dulong Mountain, say that there are many urban routines, I still don't believe it, but now I believe it, and it has also reduced my interest in the city.
As for the Gu family's work, I don't want it either, the mouth of eating people is short, and the hands of people are short, if I accept it, it will be similar to the ancient gate valve offering to the doorman, and the disciple of Yang Tianshi still disdains to be someone else's doorman.
Seeing that I refused, Gu Nian did not force it again, and arranged for someone to drive me back, after a day of running, I once again returned to Dulong Mountain, where I had lived for ten years, but there were no more people on Dulong Mountain.
The past ten days have been a dream for me, the master passed away suddenly, and I was tricked and calculated when I went down the mountain, which made me feel what is called the sinister rivers and lakes.
The first thing I did when I returned to Dulong Mountain was to pay homage to the Master, but when I arrived at the Master's grave, I was directly dumbfounded, because a hole appeared in the Master's grave.
My master, is this a grave dug up?
"Who did it, who did it?"
My mournful voice echoed in the valley, digging graves, which was the most vicious thing.
I hurriedly called the senior brother and the second senior brother and told them about the incident, and the senior brother and the second senior brother also came back within a day, standing in front of the master's grave with me, and the atmosphere was a little solemn.
"Boss, looking at the appearance of this hole, it looks a bit like a thief hole, and the technique is still dug out from the inside, you say, it won't be the master who climbed out."
"Second brother, you are really sharp-eyed, this is a thief hole, and it was dug from the inside to the outside, I'll go, master, this is a corpse?"
"Boss, what should we do?"
"Dick..."
"Senior brother, second senior brother, what are you talking about?"
The conversation between the senior brother and the second senior brother once again made me confused, what a cave robbery, what a corpse, the master is a generation of heavenly masters, and this is not a pure yin place, even if it is, it will not be so quick to cheat the corpse.
"Ahem, little junior brother, don't panic, our master is a heavenly master, if there is such a catastrophe after death, the master will have already arrived, as for this matter, let's open the tomb and take a look."
The senior brother had a strange face, looked at me and said, I want to open the coffin for the autopsy, I frowned, but think about it carefully, the coffin is not the same, what I am most afraid of now is the hole made by some wild beasts, if that is the case, the master's body may be destroyed.
Neither the second brother nor I rejected the offer, we found hoes and shovels, and soon dug up the grave soil, and I was relieved to see the coffin intact.
"Little junior brother, you decide whether to open the coffin or not"
"Senior brother, there are no good days and auspicious days, no ceremonies, this is not good"
Digging here, in fact, I don't want to open the coffin anymore, the coffin is intact, then it's fine.
"Boss, third, let's open it, there won't be an extra hole for no reason, right, aren't you curious?"
"Second Senior Brother, if you are curious, you can't open Master's coffin."
"Third child, then you can explain what is going on in that hole"
"I..."
Where can I explain clearly, the second senior brother jumped directly into the grave, picked up the hoe to open the coffin nails, and the senior brother also jumped down to help, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence.
"I'll go, Master."
"I ask you, Master?"
"Boss, you ask me, who do I ask, the third, Master?"
As soon as the lid of the coffin was opened, it was empty, and there was nothing except a set of shrouds when the master left, and the senior brother asked the second senior brother, and the second senior brother turned his head and asked me.
"Senior brother, second senior brother, master, master was stolen?"
My mind is full of question marks now, the master is gone, the corpse is gone?
"How is it possible, most of the corpses that are stolen now are used for yin marriage, Master's eighty-year-old old man, who would want an old man to marry yin?"
The senior brother shook his head, tomb robbing is very common, and stealing corpses is also occasional, but the people who steal the corpses are basically looking for the corpses of those young men and women, in order to take them for marriage, but how old is the master, the tomb robbers are not blind.
The second senior brother leaned in the coffin and sniffed it, and said, "It's summer, normally speaking, the corpse will stink in three days, and there must be a corpse smell in the coffin, but the master's coffin doesn't, so with my Sherlock Holmes-like reasoning ability, I can deduce that either the master was stolen as soon as he was buried, or the master crawled out by himself."
"I said it all, no one wants Master, and you can see that the burial goods in the coffin are still there, plus the coffin has not been destroyed, I think Master crawled out by himself"
The senior brother shook his head, he still emphasized that no one wanted the master, so it was only the master who climbed out by himself.
"Wait a minute, senior brother, second senior brother, I have a question"
"What's the problem, little brother?"
"That is, you have a problem, whether the master was stolen by someone or crawled out by himself, why do you all act like a calm and breezy person, haven't you been with the master for many years?"
I looked at the two of them and said, Senior Brother is forty-two years old this year, Second Senior Brother is forty years old, they have been with Master for more than 20 years, and Master is very good to us, do they still have a little conscience?
"What are you doing, little junior brother, flying with a face, crying out is it considered filial piety to the master, aren't we analyzing the problem?"
"That's it, the third child, you have to know that Mount Tai collapsed before and did not change, this is the momentum that a master should have, don't worry, besides, it's not the first time that the master has died."
The senior brother and the second senior brother looked at me innocently, they are also in their forties, they can't cry like Xiao Young, right?
"Death, second senior brother, what do you mean?"
I didn't care so much, but I heard a key word, death, fake death to get out?
"Ahem, it's an old thing, don't mention it, in short, I don't think there's much of a problem with Master, at most, Master crawled out and walked around, maybe he will come back one day"
"I think the second junior brother is right, the third junior brother, don't be surprised, what a big deal"
The tone of the senior brother and the second senior brother shocked me again, the master climbed out and walked around the matter, and he was not afraid of scaring everyone down the mountain to death?
"Boss, I also asked someone out at night, how about filling in the soil?"
"What the second junior brother said is very true, I still have a female pilgrim waiting for me to come to her to approve the eight characters, time is pressing, hurry up"
The elder brother nodded, and the two of them looked at each other, both of them showed lewd smiles, and then closed the lid of the coffin and filled the soil back in.
"Little junior brother, I see that your Yin Tang is black, and you are riddled with cause and effect, this time you went down the mountain and was pitted, I told you, don't go, hey, why don't you listen to Senior Brother's words"
The elder brother clapped his hands, walked up to me, shook his head at me, and said, with an unteachable expression.
"The third brother, listen to the second senior brother, don't stay on this Dulong Mountain, it's not interesting, you are still young, you haven't enjoyed a good life, go down the mountain, go down the mountain by the way, do more good deeds, accumulate some yin virtue, and go to the cause and effect on your body, otherwise the cause and effect will attack, then the unlucky things will be one after another, senior brother, I will leave, see you in the rivers and lakes in the future"
The second senior brother also walked up to me and patted me on the shoulder, and then the two laughed and walked down the mountain, leaving me alone, looking at everything in front of me blankly, this, could it be another dream?