"Alas, what should come is always coming," said the old man with a sigh. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

I was confused as I watched from the side, I didn't know which play Xiaopang and the old man with a goatee were singing, and I seemed to have heard the name "Su Ziwen" when Chubby said? And why did the old man with a goatee act so panicked when he heard this name? What is the relationship between him and this name?

Chubby smiled and said, "Do you still need me to ask? ”

The old man slowly sat down on the chair behind the counter, sighed again and said, "Is it really the will of heaven?" That Taoist priest is right, alas, what he said is not wrong at all, what should come is always coming, and you can't hide from it. As he spoke, he touched his bosom as if he was about to pull something out, but hesitated for a moment and stretched out his hand again.

This made me even more confused, I don't know what the old man was talking about, and where did a Taoist priest appear? He always said that he should come and come, but what did he mean? What did he have in his arms? Why did he hesitate to take it out?

I only heard the old man continue: "Well, since it is providence, I am willing to take you to that place." ”

I heard it even more strangely, as if the old man knew us and knew the purpose of our trip, and he said that he was willing to take us to that place, did he mean the ancient city of the sun?

I glanced at Xiaopang, and Xiaopang seemed to be delayed, but it was only for a moment, and then he said smoothly: "Hey, old man, at first glance, you are a person who understands righteousness, that's right, since we met, I felt that I had a special fate with you." ”

I don't know if Chubby understands what the old man with the goatee meant, but when he says this, it seems that he knew in advance that the old man wants to help us.

"Do you know where we're going?" I asked.

The old man nodded: "The Ancient City of the Sun is just a legendary thing, no one knows if it really exists." I've heard of driftwood 3000, it is said that there is such a place, but no one has ever been there, this place of Sun Mound was there once when I was younger, but it was ......"

The old man spoke, wanting to stop talking. When I mention the place "Sun Hill", I seem to be particularly nervous.

"Just what?" Fatty asked.

The old man frowned and said, "It's just that that place is very evil. ”

"Oh, what's the evil method? Tell me about it. "Xiaopang has always been a person who is idle when he has nothing to do, and when he heard the old man say that Sun Mound is very evil, he immediately aroused his interest.

"It was when I was seventeen or eighteen years old, and I was very young and curious, and once I heard from the old man in the village that there was a place in the desert called 'Sun Hill', and I heard that this place was a relic left by someone who did not know it a long, long time ago. Buried in it is a treasure that a thousand camels can carry for days and nights, but no one has ever found that place for hundreds of years. When we young people heard this, we were very excited and curious, and wanted to go and find the treasures, and just like that, I and the other five young people in the village. Plus I was a total of six people, and borrowed a camel. Carrying water and dry food into the desert. We all grew up on the edge of the desert, which is mysterious and very dangerous to outsiders, but for us, it is not very difficult to enter the desert, but. We also had a great time finding Sun Hill, walking in the desert for more than ten days, and just when we were about to give up, we stumbled upon that place. ”

Chubby listened attentively, and I listened to it with relish. The old man took out a dry tobacco pouch from the drawer on the counter. Stuff some tobacco leaves into the tobacco bag pot.

"What happened later?" asked Chubby, impatiently.

The old man with the goatee lit the pot of the cigarette bag, took two puffs, and continued: " When we arrived at that place, we were stunned by the scene in front of us, only to see that there were sand dunes one after another, and we couldn't see the edge at a glance, and each sand dune was surrounded by black stones, and those stones shone black under the sun's rays, and in this way, the black stones surrounded the sand dunes one by one, forming circles, and there were black stones connecting into a line between the circles, standing on a high place and looking at it, it was like countless black suns placed in the desert, and I will never forget that scene in my life. ”

"We were very excited," the old man continued, taking a puff of dry cigarette, "and this scene is exactly the same as the legendary Sun Hill told by the old people in the village, and it seems that the treasure is right in front of our eyes, and the only thing we were worried about at that time was how to transport it back." I remember that we were too tired to do anything, but we couldn't care about being tired, so we ran to a sand dune with a shovel and pickaxe and started digging down from noon until the sun went down. ”

"Did you dig up the treasure?" asked Chubby, anxiously.

The old man shook his head: "Not to mention the treasure, there is not even a little valuable thing, only some bone racks have been dug up." ”

"What? Is the so-called Sun Mound actually a cemetery?"

"That's what we thought," said the old man, nodding his head, "and we were so disappointed. ”

"What about later? Didn't you mean that you didn't find the treasure, but did you say anything else?" I asked.

The old man with the goatee frowned, took a puff of dry smoke, and said slowly: "We were very depressed because we didn't dig up the treasure, and we were really tired, so we slept under a sand dune, and as soon as my head hit the ground, I fell asleep, and when I woke up, I ......" The old man said this.

"What happened when you woke up?" Fat and I asked almost in unison.

The old man took another puff of the tobacco pouch and said, "When I wake up, it's all gone." ”

"What, what's gone?" asked Chubby, surprised.

"The hill of the sun and the five young men who had come with me were all gone overnight, leaving me alone in the desert. ”

"How could this be? So a big mound of the sun disappeared out of thin air? And the five people who went with you, where did they go?"

"I don't know" the old man shook his head, "It's like having a nightmare, and when I woke up, it was all gone." Fortunately, the borrowed camel from the peak was still there, and the water and dry food left on the camel did not move at all, as if God had taken them away and left me on purpose. I relied on the camel and the water and dry food it carried, and with the experience of surviving in the desert, looking at the sun and the stars, and walked for an unknown number of days before I walked back to the village. ”

After hearing this, Xiaopang and I both felt that it was indeed quite evil, and sighed, but the old man continued: "The more evil ones are still behind, and after that, the five young people who went to the Sun Hill with me never came back, and their families and relatives all died one after another in the following six months. ”

The old man said that my hair is straight and fried, is there really such an evil thing in the world? I have heard about the archaeology of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt before, about the people who participated in the archaeology of Tutankhamun's tomb, and died one after another after an accident not long after returning home, some people say that they were cursed by the pharaoh, and some people say that they were infected by a bacterium in the tomb, which caused their brains to be uncontrolled and suffered an accident, and the old man described their experience of going to the Sun Mound was more evil than the tomb of Tutankhamun, and I don't know what secrets exist there.

The old man continued: "Less than a year after returning from the Sun Hill, there was also an accident in my family, first my parents died one after another, and then my brother and sister-in-law also got into trouble. ”

"Your brother is Su Ziwen?" chubby interjected.

"Well, since you have seen those things, I won't hide it from you, indeed, my name is Su Ziwu, and my brother is Su Ziwen, and he is the last corpse keeper. ”

As soon as the old man said this, I finally remembered that "Su Ziwen" was the text that "grew" on those corpse locusts.

I wondered how Chubby knew that this old man with a goatee was the owner of those corpse locusts, the younger brother of the corpse keeper outside the plug, but it was not good to ask Chubby directly in front of the old man, so I listened to the old man continue.

"At that time, before the liberation, my brother worked as a long-term worker in a rich man's family in the village, this rich man was a cattle seller, not a local, I heard that he was a relative of a warlord in Shanxi, at that time, the war in the hinterland, Xinjiang was relatively peaceful, many people ran from the hinterland to escape the war, my parents and this rich man were like this. Since they all came from the mainland, the rich man took special care of my parents, and my brother has been working in his house for a long time since he became an adult. Speaking of this is still a bit legendary, my brother once saved a woman on the way to send livestock, this woman also fled the famine, met bandits on the road, her parents were killed, the bandits were about to snatch her away, at that time I was met by my brother, the bandits saw that my brother brought a lot of people, there were guys in their hands, they didn't dare to fight hard, so they left the woman and fled, this woman is my sister-in-law later. ”

"It must be that the rich man took a fancy to your sister-in-law, and then something happened, right?" Xiaopang interjected without waiting for the old man to finish.

The old man took a puff of dry tobacco and nodded.

"Alas, since ancient times, there have been many disasters and waters! Chubby said with a sigh.

The old man didn't seem to want to mention more about his brother and sister-in-law, but said: "The thing happened that in the year I came back from the Sun Hill, the rich man wanted to occupy my sister-in-law, but my sister-in-law swore to die, so the rich man threatened my brother and arrested my brother, I was young at the time, my brother was afraid that something would happen to me, so he let me flee to a foreign land, and this escape, I fled for more than 20 years, until after liberation, when I was more than 60 years old, I returned to this place." ”

"And how is your brother and sister-in-law, are you still alive?" I asked.

The old man nodded and said, "When I came back, I saw my brother, but I didn't expect my brother to be alive. He told me what happened and told me a secret. (To be continued.) )