"Cough, cough, cough......" The old man with the goatee was probably choked by the smoke, and he couldn't stop coughing, and the little fat had eyesight, so he hurriedly handed the old man a bottle of mineral water, and the old man waved his hand, coughed for a while before stopping, and said: "On the edge of this desert, water is more precious than gold." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"I see that the mineral water you sell in your store is very cheap, and it is similar to other cities. I chimed in.

The old man shook his head and said, "I'm here to atone for my sins, and you can understand the reason for this, just now......"

"Yes, yes, go on, just said that you have been on the run outside for more than twenty years, and your brother Su Ziwen is still alive after you come back, and he told you what happened next, and also told you a secret. Chubby couldn't wait for the old man to continue to tell what had happened.

"Hmm" the old man with the goatee nodded, and then said what happened: " My brother told me that after he was arrested by the rich man, the rich man wanted to harm him, fortunately, among the people who guarded him at that time, there happened to be one of his brothers who used to worship the master, and this person secretly released my brother when others were not paying attention, my brother originally wanted to go and fight with the rich man, and rescue my sister-in-law, but how could he be alone, not only could not save my sister-in-law, but he also had to be sent to death, he said that the brother was good to say, and finally persuaded my brother, the rich man saw that my brother had fled, so he sent people to search my brother everywhere, the rich man was very powerful in this area at that time, this is a small place, my brother can't hide, no way, and also fled to a foreign land。 ”

Hearing this, Chubby unscrewed a bottle of mineral water, took a sip, and asked, "What happened later?"

"My brother didn't have much money on him, and he didn't know where he was going to flee, so he went on while asking for food. I don't know how long I walked, my shoes were worn out, and one day, I walked into a big mountain, and he didn't know what place it was, but he remembered that the mountain was full of black forests. The big trees cover the sky and the sun, those trees are old trees that many people can't hug, there is no human population in that place, he goes around in the mountains, turns confused, how can he not get out of the mountain, my brother has not eaten for a few days, only to find some wild fruits to survive, and finally the hungry eyes are spent. One was not careful, and planted down the hillside, and below the slope was a big river, and he rolled into the river, and he only remembered that the river was bitterly cold, and he passed out without taking a breath. ”

"Your brother must have been saved. Chubby said, "Otherwise, he won't have a chance to tell you about these things." ”

The old man nodded: "He was indeed rescued, when he wakes up." I found myself in a stockade full of very strange people. He had never seen such a person before, they had deep eye sockets, dark skin, and were dressed in fat clothes, with strips of leather on the men's heads and feathers on the women's heads. Those people all looked around him, and he couldn't understand what he was saying, and then a person came over, and the people in the stockade were very respectful when they saw this person, and they seemed to be a little afraid. They all fell to the ground to give a salute to this man, and this man was not like the others in the stockade, he was tall, with a mask on his face, and he couldn't see his face, but what impressed my brother the most was that this man had a strangely long and thick index finger. ”

"Strange and thick index finger!" I heard the old man describe this man with a mask, and I was taken aback, in the line of inverted buckets, there is a mythical character, it is said that this person has a strange and thick index finger, in addition, in the Phoenix Village where I went to the Tiangang Tomb last time, there is also a young man with a strange and thick index finger in the mysterious archaeological team described by Zhao Daya, are they the same person? However, the time when Su Ziwen arrived at that village was before liberation, and judging from the era, they could not be the same person, who were they? What is their relationship with the legendary figure in the inverted fighting industry? I wondered in my heart.

I glanced at Chubby, whose uncle was also a well-known figure in the upside-down bucket line, and he should have heard of the man with a strange and thick index finger, but Chubby didn't seem to react, just stared at the old man with a goatee in a daze, and listened to him talk about things with relish.

The old man continued: " The man wearing the mask actually spoke Chinese, which made my brother overjoyed, but the man didn't talk much, just asked my brother to have a good rest, and after a few days, my brother's body gradually recovered, and the man wearing the mask sent someone to find my brother and asked my brother how he got there, and my brother didn't hide it, so he told the person wearing the mask how he was chased and killed by the rich man, so that he fled to this place, and went into the mountains and got lost, and told the person wearing the mask the original way, and the man with the mask nodded, saying that he could teach my brother a secret technique, and let my brother go back to take revenge。 ”

"Did the masked man teach your brother how to raise a corpse?" did your brother say who he was?" I asked.

The old man with the goatee nodded: "My brother's corpse raising technique is indeed taught by the person who wears the mask, but my brother doesn't know who he is, he rarely talks to my brother except for teaching my brother the corpse raising technique, my brother just heard that the people in the village call the person wearing the mask "Yama", and then I was also curious, and asked some people, it is said that "Karma" is Tibetan, which translates into Chinese to mean 'shaman'."

I know that "shaman" is the title of the high priest of Tibetan shamanism, but I don't know why this person wearing a mask and having a strangely thick and long index finger is called a "shaman" by the people in the village.

The old man with the goatee continued: "My brother has learned the art of raising corpses, and has returned to Natenremu, and it has been two years since he fled, and when he returns, he finds that my sister-in-law is already a concubine of the rich man's family, and he is furious...... In a fit of rage, he killed my sister-in-law. ”

"There is no pity, a woman like this who does not keep her chastity and turns her back on her husband should indeed be killed. Chubby sighed.

But the old man with the goatee shook his head, sighed and said: "After my brother killed my sister-in-law, I realized that my sister-in-law is still alive in the world, just to wait for my brother to come back, she knows that my brother will definitely come back to save her." She was not defiled by the rich man, because the rich man mysteriously disappeared on the day he married her, and no one knows whether the rich man was killed or where he went, in short, if the rich man had not disappeared at that time, my sister-in-law would rather die than let him be defiled. But what my sister-in-law didn't expect was that when she came, she was killed by her beloved husband herself, and my sister-in-law died unjustly. ”

The old man said, his eyes were a little moist, and I felt sorry for the poignant love story of his brother and sister-in-law.

The old man with the goatee took two puffs of dry cigarettes, calmed down for a while, and then said, "My brother was grief-stricken when he found out that he had killed my sister-in-law by mistake. But it has already happened, and it is irreversible. My brother used the corpse raising technique he learned to hide my sister-in-law's corpse, and used the corpse locust to kill a total of 47 members of the rich man's family, which can be regarded as avenging my sister-in-law. At that time, my brother was also impulsive, and later regretted it, because many people in the rich family's family were actually innocent. What's even more terrifying is that the corpse locusts that my brother raised can no longer be controlled. The only way to kill the corpse locusts is to destroy my sister-in-law's corpse, but my brother can't do anything. In this way, every year people in the village are bitten to death by corpse locusts, and the villagers do not know the reason, thinking that outsiders have brought disaster to the village, so the people in the village are very afraid and repulsive to outsiders. ”

"I said that as soon as we entered the village, why did the villagers avoid us like ghosts? It turned out to be the bane planted by your brother. Xiaopang drank two sips of mineral water and said, "Needless to say, the abandoned mansion where we stayed is the rich man's house, and your brother used the principle of communication between the wells to hide your sister-in-law's body not far from the rich man's well." He used the locusts to kill the rich man's family, and he used the locusts to feed the corpse of your sister-in-law. ”

The old man with the goatee nodded: " My brother is very guilty about this matter, he is not willing to hurt the innocent villagers, but he is even more unwilling to destroy my sister-in-law's body, and he can't tell these things to others, after I came back, he told me these things, after a few years, I remember about seven years ago, I don't know where a group of people came from to take my brother away, after my brother left, I couldn't bear to destroy my sister-in-law's body, and I didn't know how to deal with those locusts, so every year there are innocent people who die because of the locusts, I also feel very sad to look at it, and when I got to the eighties, I made some money by doing fruit business, and I wanted to do something for the village to compensate the villagersThis is a poor place, materials are very scarce, especially the lack of water, I opened this store, bought some goods from other provinces, and sold them at a loss with a lot of money, and in the drought years, the villagers will be provided with food and drinking water for free, the price of a liter of water in other provinces is two yuan, plus the cost of shipping here will take seven yuan, I only sell it to the villagers for one dollar, and my savings have been almost lost in recent years, in order to be able to do something for the villagers, and I can have some comfort in my heart. ”

"You are also deceiving yourself by doing this, if you and your brother really thought about the villagers, they should have destroyed your sister-in-law's corpse and killed those corpse locusts a long time ago, you don't do that, or because you are selfish, you just think that your brother is sorry for your sister-in-law, and save your sister-in-law's body from decay, but you don't want to think about how many innocent people will be killed in this way, to put it bluntly, you are murderers in disguise......" Little Fat didn't show any mercy under his mouth.

When Xiaopang said this, the old man also felt very remorseful and bowed his head silently.

Seeing this, I hurriedly stopped Xiaopang: "Don't say that, those corpse locusts were raised by the old man's brother, and then they lost control, and the old man couldn't do anything, even if it was us, it was unintentionally and finally to eliminate those corpse locusts, what can the old man do? He is also more than willing but not enough, it is not easy for him to do something for the villagers, don't blame him anymore." ”

Seeing me say this, Xiaopang thought about it and thought about it, so he didn't blame the old man with the goatee anymore, and drank two sips of mineral water.

"You said your brother told you a secret, what is it? Can you tell us about it? "I digressed the subject.

As soon as Xiaopang heard the "secret", he immediately threw his grievances for the villagers out of the clouds, and asked with wide eyes: "Yes, what is the secret?"

The old man with the goatee did not answer our question directly, but said, "You must wonder why I know where you are going, and am willing to be your guide? (To be continued.) )