Chapter 72. Go to the evil and distinguish the good
When he sat down in the tent, a few female maids casually, and brought him a pot of West Lake Longjing, in Shaanxi Shanxi and other places, the people are not as particular about drinking tea as Lingnan Kung Fu tea, generally scoop up some clean water that can be boiled in the stove and pour it into a pot, plus a few pieces of tea that are usually used to drinking, simply brew a bubble, so that the tea brewed out is very strong, it can really play a role in refreshing the mind and eliminating fatigue, The old housekeeper thought that it was already good to have a pot of tea to drink at a critical time to implement such a big project in the mountains, and it was very important that as soon as the taste of this tea was touched on his mouth, he suddenly came to the spirit and did what he thought was very important. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After drinking, the old housekeeper moved the pot to his hand, the palm of his hand was infected with the temperature on the copper kettle, rubbed his eyes, gently put it on the table, lifted the curtain of the tent, and walked out, at this time the sun was shining directly on the ground, the clouds in the sky were like snails crawling, walking slowly, the olive trees, wind flower trees, and sunflower trees around were stained with the morning dew all evaporated by the sun, the air became transparent and clear, and the nose moved slightly, and you could smell the fresh earthy smell and floral molecules in the windThe shallow grass on the ground erects small grass stalks like cow's ears, and the branches of the trees squeak and chirp forever on the two wings of birds, and the sunlight sprinkled is just like rice.
Seeing the old housekeeper walk out, the supervisors in front led hundreds of migrant workers behind him up the slope, the old housekeeper turned around and looked around, only to see that the surrounding migrant workers were lying on their cheeks with bean-sized sweat, trouser legs were rolled up to their knees, braids were coiled on their heads, and they were wearing some light clothes, some of the migrant workers had white satin wrapped around their arms, and there was a circle of cyan sweat around their waists. Each of them held a shovel, an awl, a hoe, an iron drill and an iron hammer, and a car behind him had a four-wheeled trailer, as well as an ox cart and horse-drawn carriage invented by Kong Ming in the Three Kingdoms era, and a wheelbarrow that was good at walking rough mountain roads, and a two-board long cart.
Seeing that the thousands of migrant workers were all hard-working faces, the old housekeeper was very satisfied with the attitude and performance of these people, standing in front of them, he twisted his throat, stood in the crowd, and shouted: "I am the old butler of Mr. Provincial Chairman." It is a great honor to be able to meet you here today, my husband is a generation of sages in Pu'an County, you are also the fathers and villagers on the land where he was born and raised, my husband wants to build a large village that belongs to us to live and reproduce, after the completion of the construction, my husband will also be here to retire and send him to the end, which in itself is a great thing to work in the spring and autumn and benefit future generations, and the villagers who stand here today can witness this grand occasion in front of them in front of them in the future. First of all, this is also a rare joy in Pu'an County for hundreds of years, today I am ordered by the provincial chairman of Mr., as the general person in charge of the project, I hope that everyone can work with one heart and one mind, hard work and self-encouragement, do not slack off, relax yourself, we implement more work and more gain, do less and get less, you shed every inch of hard sweat here will get the due income, let go to do it. ”
Among the tens of thousands of migrant workers, they all shouted in unison, and with the words of the old housekeeper, they suddenly felt that their whole body was full of strength, and their whole body had inexhaustible strength, and they couldn't wait to do it immediately.
The old butler waved his hand at the dozens of overseers in front of him, and the dozen or so overseers all took orders and returned to the various valley entrances to guard.
Even though the sun was scorching, the grass on the mountain was sprinkled to the waist, and the cicadas on the trees were screaming as if they were saying, "It's hot, it's hot, it's too hot" to come down from the trees and dive into the stream.
In the Middle Ages, there was a poet who wrote two lines like this: "Cure the sores in front of you, dig up the flesh in your heart" These words are also a portrayal of the hard life of the peasants, they are hard, hard work, they only get a thin income, long life in a hard life, as long as there is income, enough to support them to eat, they are willing to work.
I, the migrant workers, walked in groups to the foothills and forests, raised the hoes in our hands, and the shovels dug up the rocks, loaded them into the trucks, and carried them to the low-lying valley floor in front, and pushed down the soil from the carts, filled them in the ravines, and every time the cycle was repeated, we could go to the overseers to receive five copper plates.
But this is already very good, five money of copper plates, in the North Gate Street of Hongyang Town, a bowl of kueh juice is only one copper plate, five copper plates, maybe the income of the villagers in the town to plant crops for a day, this comparison, how distinct, these migrant workers really think that this is a good way to make money, they are all scrambling, and they are in full swing.
Some took hammers to smash the stones covered in the yellow mud to powder, some used shovels to shovel away the thorns and grass thorns in the surrounding area, and some let the basket be loaded with mud, and soon this place was dug deeper and deeper, according to the old steward's intention, to make this mountainous area a flat field, and the valley into a horizontal line, clearly the terrain on the mountain is much higher than the valley bottom, and the old steward's proposal can only be done here.
Slowly, springs appeared on the mountain, but these springs were pale yellow, and when everyone was suspicious, one of the migrant workers shouted, "Oh, what is it, come and see." ”
It turned out to be some medieval costumes, only to see that some are inlaid with yellow, embroidered with a variety of patterns, some are white crane pine, some are tiger howling forest, some are green ox towing monks, although the age is old, but at a glance, or vividly, everyone can not help but exclaim, people who can wear these clothes must be either rich or expensive, because the lines on these clothes are woven by the famous Yipin knitting hall in the south of the Yangtze River, here was once in the medieval period, is to think of the country on the place of clothing and clothing, In addition to the royal majesty that contributed to its very prominent reputation, there are also official costumes that have always been made here.
Some migrant workers started to think crookedly at that time, these clothes are buried in the deep ground, presumably there are hundreds of years of history, when it is really a precious cultural relic, if you get it to the pawnshop, maybe you can exchange it for a big ingot of silver, several migrant workers with hoes and shovels in their hands passed their eyes to the companions in front of and behind them, everyone understood, put down the tools in their hands, and lowered their bodies in civilian clothes to lift these clothes and clothing, but a few people who had just gathered at the beginning have not been able to lift it up, and these costumes are still connected with a few ancient carpets.
Several people had sweat on their faces, and they stood next to them panting, "Hey, brother, you can't lift these things up, I think it's okay to call a dozen more people to come in our life" The speaker spat on the palm of his hand.
A dozen more people were called, all scattered in the direction of the south, east, west, and north, and leaned down to grasp the edges of the ornaments, and in the midst of three hey-yo sounds, the carpet and the costumes were lifted.
Oh my God, I don't know, I was startled, everyone hurriedly squeezed to the side, only to see skeletons and white Sensen, cold bones, some are three or four corpses gathered together, a few large mouths with teeth exposed into an oval shape, as if enjoying the sacrifices of the underworld, and some places are sparsely scattered, the bones are broken into several sections, I can't see where the arms are and where are the thighs, and there are some corners, only one rib is placed, like the corpse of a bison on the grassland, eaten by lions, Wisps of wind around these bones were also hunting, but more often, the skull, lumbar vertebrae, and shoulder blades were half exposed to the ground, and one came out, and the yellow dirt was a little clayey, fooling around the bone chips of these things.
A migrant worker pinched his crotch and said with fear: "Oh no, when I was shoveling the soil just now, I was in a hurry to urinate and sprinkled a soak of urine on the ground, which happened to spill on this place, I don't know what will happen." ”\
"Hehe, what else can I do, at most I took a knife from the palace, the bird fell, the big scar of the spoon, what are you afraid of" Some people said very indifferently.
"Okay, okay, brothers, don't be stunned here, this mountain is a little strange, and it is inevitable that you will encounter something evil, but there are so many of us, just because people get together, we can scare what mess to death, I see, just now the old housekeeper said that more work is more, less work is less, let's not stand stupidly, or make money."
"Well, this brother is right, Mr. Provincial Chairman built the clan's village here, and when the construction started, it was not strange to dig out these things, if you don't dig out this thing, then it's called strange, do you say it's reasonable."
Everyone nodded, to go back to the place that had just been dug, but at this time there were some small things crawling in the pile of skeletons, and the migrant workers standing on the side looked at it, some dung beetles were dragging some sticky yellow juice and were drilling around on the bones, with a heavy shell, two long tentacles stretching out pores on their heads, four pairs of small feet crawling in the skull, and the small tails dragging on the ground were the color of bananas, and some of them were forked, these little reptiles may be when these dead people were buried here, They were buried with them underground, perhaps on a rainy day, when the mountains collapsed, and these little insects got into the cracks in the ground and were trapped in this dark and obscure underground.
These dung beetles have made a lot more losses than the same type that ordinary people have seen, and they have the prototype of this little poison in their minds, and they are accustomed to looking at these things with one eye, and they suddenly feel that these are behemoths.
The strange thing is that these animals have been buried in the ground for a long time, but not only do they not die in it, but they have become strong and powerful in their limbs, their shells are black and shiny, and their bodies are huge and fat. And these people who have lived in the pile of dead people for a long time are even more evil and poisonous.
Seeing these dung beetles, the surrounding migrant workers shivered, and some of them dripped sweat on their backs, most of these people have not yet come into contact with this kind of poison in the mountains, there is such a performance, but it is not from fear, but I think that looking at these things makes me feel disgusting, but these things that are disgusted by them, if they are seen by the corpse keepers of Zhulou Minxiang in Xiangxi or the witches of ethnic minorities on the border of Yunnan and Guizhou Province, they will definitely like it very much, and they will immediately lie on the ground. Holding the loess mud in their hands and putting this poison in the box, they will definitely feel very valuable afterwards, because especially these special poisons, as long as they are allowed to practice Gu worms, they can almost do whatever they want, do evil, and earn ill-gotten gains, as long as these Gu worms are ground into powder, some of them are taken up on their fingernails, and sprinkled into an ancient well around the countryside, they can use the evil sect's left path technique in the dark to control the life and death of the person who drinks the water of this well.
The bones of the skulls shimmered silver in the scorching sun, but these terrifying dung beetles waved their sharp pincers through the bones, and the skeleton had two big eyes, and one fish penetrated and crawled to the ground.
"Wow, these disgusting things, crawling to the hand, what are you doing here in the fire, quickly kill them, it's disgusting to look at, and if you bite them, you may not know what will happen." An older farmer cried out.
Everyone suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly picked up the tools in their hands and walked over, three or four dung beetles rushed towards an old migrant worker unscrupulously, Ken Neng has been under the ground for too long and too long, smelling the breath on the human body, the two tentacles on their heads pointed to the pair of smelly feet of the person in front of them, and crawled over.
Three or four peasants took hoes and hoeed them fiercely, but they saw that these dung beetles were only stuck in the soft mud, and only a little yellow juice flowed out of their bodies, and other than that, all parts of their bodies were intact, and a person approached the past, and the dung beetles were still waving their double pincers.
Everyone watched the hoes hoe the body of these poisons without destroying them, and they didn't come up with a way to make these things die quickly for a while, but in order to prevent these poisons from harming the human body, they still took rakes and shovels and crawled over fiercely, letting these poisons sink into the dirt first.
There are still many yellow mud on this mountain, although under the fierce sun, it is still as loose as boiled egg kernels, watching the dung beetles trap in, several people have gathered around, they are holding in their hands, sharp cones and hammers, just now, there are some stubborn stones and corners spread on the ground, they are holding these tools, hand in hand these huge and hard stones, large and small, small and melted.
"Small, I don't believe in evil, I can't kill with a sharp cone or a hammer" Several young migrant workers around put the tail end of the cone on the dung beetle's shell, raised the hammer and smashed it down, but only to see a small pit appear on the ground, three or four people glanced into the pit, but did not see any damage to the dung beetle.
"Hehe, this must be a monster in the mountain forest, I think if you want to smash these to death with an awl, you have to put a fast stone slab on the ground, otherwise as long as it is a hammer, these monsters will be stuck in the mud." Several people had the initial fear turned into a prank, and they didn't stop to watch a big show and gasp for breath.
The news that these dung beetles can't die with hoes and hammers reaches the ears of the hard-working migrant workers in the bamboo forest, and the crowds are surging here, just to see what is new and satisfy the curiosity.
The foothills here were soon filled with people, but it was definitely not a good thing, and dung beetles stuck in the mud were moving on a large scale in the pits.
They dragged their long forked tails, climbed up, and walked up and down the ground, and when they saw the exposed toes, heels, and insteps of the crowd, they jumped up, climbed up, and fiercely stretched out a small needle in the middle of the forked tail that shimmered silver-gray, probed into the skin of the people, and then stabbed down quickly and accurately.
"Oh, it hurts me" The voice echoed in the sky above the forest, and several young and strong young migrant workers with large chest muscles fell to the ground at once, their hands and feet kicked up in a mess, and one or two mouthfuls of white foam spat out on the side of their mouths, the whole face became pale without any blood, both eye sockets were dark and black, the air filaments on the wings of the nose looked very weak, and the flesh on the whole human body was constantly twitching.
"Oh no, it's a big deal, someone on our side has been bitten by these disgusting guys, you see" Everyone looked at their companions who had fallen to the ground in a semi-conscious state, and the heart beans on everyone's chest were fluttering, and at once they immediately felt how powerful the little things crawling in these dirt pits were, and they all spread out in the four directions, south, east, west, and north, the empty woods and valley bottoms, for fear of being touched by these dung beetles.
But in fact, this is not the most powerful, if these things go to the hands of witches, as well as the yin and yang ghost masters who are full of evil spirits, and the earth masters, let them refine the Gu worms of the king of gambling, then it will be more yin and evil than this, more terrifying than this, a mature man with strong limbs and a strong body will let them bite it, and they will immediately fall to the ground, the muscles of the whole body contract violently, the bones will become soft, and the brain juice will be eaten up by these Gu worms, and the nerves will continue to shrink, and finally turn into a thick pool of blood, As long as someone touches these blood waters, the body will also be infected with Gu poison, although the condition is much slower than the first person, but out of the profound cultivation of mana, it is difficult for ordinary people to escape the doom, only waiting for death.
And these were bitten by dung beetles that were not refined into Gu poison, but they were also very bad luck and evil poison, and the situation was very serious, and a dozen or so people who had completely comatose felt that there was never pain, and they screamed one after another, just like killing pigs. The old butler was soon alarmed, and he came here in a hurry.
When the old butler saw the wounded man lying on the ground, he was very anxious, scratched the hair on his head, and shouted: "The situation is very serious, and we can't afford to miss the opportunity like this, so I quickly brought the stretcher and placed these bitten people in the tent before." ”
The old butler glanced up in front of him, pointed to a dozen or so young peasants, and said, "Yes, it's you, hurry down the mountain, ask the doctor to go up the mountain, you can't waste time, you can go as fast as you want." ”
As soon as the group of people in front of them left, a hundred or so laborers who were hoeing soil and carrying stones on the Tuibei Mountain and the grave of the hundred ghosts rushed here, "Report, sir, sir is not good, something happened, we are working in the mountains in front, digging soil blocks on the ground, and when we are almost two meters deep, we found that there are piles of bones and puppets for burial under the ground, which are innumerable, and Mr. Overseer, who is guarding the land at the mouth of the valley, ordered me to wait to tell Mr. whether to dig and fill the pit around." ”
"Yes, you are right to do this, I think this matter must be dealt with decisively, otherwise it will definitely slow down the progress of the project, come, let me ask you first, you dug up the pit of skeletons and bones, and whether you have also found any poison in the mountain jungle."
"Mr. Qiyu, without these things, after dozens of us dug up the skeletons buried in the ground, we stood on the edge of the pit and watched closely for a long time, and we didn't find any feather insects or scale insects in the pit," a few people looked at the pit here and said.
The old butler twisted his beard under his chin and said, "Well, I have taken note, you have collected all the bones of any of your places, loaded them in baskets, and poured them on this side, and I will order some people to sprinkle some sulfur, lime powder, sawdust, and alum into these piles of bones, and burn them clean with a fire, and it will be all right." ”
The people were ordered to immediately push the wheelbarrow and the longboard cart through the bank of the creek to bring the bones, but fortunately no poison was found in these places.
In fact, the bones of the two places on the other side were once exposed on the field, but fortunately, there are also rich people who cultivate good hearts and do good deeds for them to collect the corpses and bury them, as the saying goes, "into the soil for peace" in those two places, relative resentment, anger, and yin qi are lower, not like here, but these bones are covered by a hundred herbs, and all along, they are left to fend for themselves, and there are no kind-hearted people who have buried them, resulting in the potential of all kinds of evils and hidden poisons.
Soon, the bones dug out of the grave in the two places were loaded onto the car by the migrant workers, and the sound of the car was endless, and the pit of the peach blossom slope where the old housekeeper was standing was filled, like a hill, piled up to three or four zhang high, the timid people felt dizzy when they looked up, and the bold people also felt their hearts pounding, as if they had entered the hell of the underworld, and the yin wind surrounding them from above these skeletons made people's scalps numb, and the shining mountain of bones, There is much more dry firewood than in the firewood houses of each family, and if these are dry firewood, a family of five may not be able to burn it for half a year and ten months, and the skeletons that stain the ground are listed as a phalanx, during which there is a continuous sound of rustling, and the teeth of these skeletons fall on the black soil from time to time, and the finger bones are generally intertwined with the branches and leaves on the trees, and they can always be seen scattering one ring after another.