Chapter 1: The Mystery Box

This is a story passed down by word of mouth, a legend that has been told countless times by the old man.

The thirties of the last century. In the cemetery of a small town on the coast of Jiangsu, a group of young men dressed in black dug up a new grave, the new grave owner was in good condition, just held a funeral in the town in the morning, several young people burned incense and kowtowed, then opened the coffin, and stole the jewelry on the body that was already a little decomposed.

A few people are not professional tomb robbers, just a few idlers on the street, who have no money to use, so they thought of such a thing. They were not bad-hearted, and in the spirit of respect for the deceased, they closed the lid of the coffin together, trying to restore it to its original state, when they suddenly found that the soil on the top of the coffin had been washed open by water, and the hole seemed to be connected to something, and the water kept flowing out.

Originally, a few people didn't pay attention, but with a flash of golden light, a hard object hit the coffin plank with the flowing water, making a "pass" sound. Originally, it was a matter of chickens and dogs stealing, and in the middle of the night, at the junction of yin and yang, several people couldn't help but panic.

"What's that?" The leader raised a torch and shone it over, and was thrilled to find a huge gold ring. Several people dug along the cave of flowing water, but it was connected to a huge tomb, this tomb does not know how many years have passed, the sarcophagus has already been rotten and hollowed out, open the sarcophagus, it is full of gold and silver treasures. When a few people saw the wealth, they had bad intentions, and as the first person made a move in the dark, the situation became uncontrollable.

It is true that people die for money, and birds die for food. Killing people for money has been around since ancient times, not to mention this ownerless wealth, the leader was originally a mess on the street, so he was naturally ruthless, and he was left alone after a desperate fight. In the wilderness, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the leader who has just killed people is naturally terrified in his heart, and his pants are full of feces and urine, which is the physiological reaction of people under the fierceness and fear.

The leader did not care about this, and took off the clothes of the few people who had already taken his breath, and packed up the gold and silver treasures, thinking in his heart that he would flee abroad and never return. But he accidentally found a gold sticker in the middle of the treasure. The gold sticker has no shine, as if there is some luminous substance in it, the words on the gold sticker are like those printed by today's printers, and it reads, "The remnants of the Book of Mountains and Seas: Money and Rats, Resembling Rats, but Not Rats, Gold Threads from the forehead to the tail, and shining brightly in the moonlight." This thing is a flash in ten thousand years, and the handwriting behind this thing is ......already blurred, although the young man is illiterate, he also knows that this gold sticker is not ordinary, so he specially stuffed it into his underwear pocket, and he didn't even have time to clean up the scene, so he left in a hurry.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or a ghost. Originally, it would not have been known that the grave had been dug up, but the night tide was so fierce that it broke through the embankment and flooded the villages, and the cemetery was not spared. After the tide, it was a mess, how could you still see where it had been dug up?

The young man didn't dare to go home when he killed someone, so he hurried to the county seat to find the boss of the rivers and lakes, and sold all the gold and silver treasures at a low price, and never appeared again, some people said that he might have died, and some people said that he went abroad to make a fortune with this, but where he went, it is unknown.

This story was supposed to be lost in the sea, and no one knew about it. But if no one ever knew about it, this story would not have been passed on to the old man today.

Ouyang Ting was born in a family of teachers since he was a child, and his life is not rich but he does not worry about food and clothing. I heard my parents say that the family used to be a landlord, so the family was ruined as a cow, a ghost, a snake and a god during the special period, and his father Ouyang Yuan was set as a descendant of the landlord class, and he could have stayed in Shanghai, but he came to the coast of Jiangsu as an ordinary teacher. After falling in love with his father, who was also a teacher at the time, he married and had children, Ouyang Ting.

Ouyang Yuan is a feudal person, he has to return to his ancestral house in Shanghai every year to worship his ancestors, and Ouyang Ting will naturally go with him. This summer, the family took a long-distance bus to their ancestral home on the outskirts of Shanghai, where they cleaned up and prepared for a few days as usual.

Ouyang Ting's child's heart, when he arrived in a strange environment, his excitement was self-evident, and he rummaged through boxes and cabinets everywhere, without stopping for a moment. Ouyang Ting was indifferent to his mother Chen Ting's several reprimands, often saying that the relationship between mother and son is deep, and it is not false. Ouyang Ting was only afraid of his father Ouyang Yuan since he was a child, and he was not afraid of his mother Chen Ting.

This ancestral house is every year, but in Ouyang Ting's eyes, it is different every year, and as he grows taller, he will naturally be interested in a lot more things. When I was young, I liked to go to the house next door to see pigs, dogs, cows and sheep, but now when I am older, I like to play some games such as gunfights and hide and seek.

This ancestral mansion has been destroyed by the Red Guards many years ago, and it was originally intended to be confiscated as state property, but later Ouyang Yuan's father dredged up the relationship and kept the old mansion, and the gold jewelry and some mahogany furniture were handed over to the state. It didn't take long for Ouyang Yuan's father to pass away, leaving no property behind, just a word, keep the house and come back often.

This house is not very big, there are three tile houses in front, three warehouses in the back, and a courtyard in the middle, which is a suburban property purchased by Ouyang Ting's grandfather. Shanghai was always at war at that time, and it was sometimes unsafe to stay in the city, and the prosperous places were the targets of the Japanese bombing, so they took a few concubines to settle here.

Ouyang Ting ran wildly in the courtyard, holding a wooden grab in his hand, and simulating the sound of a gun in his mouth. Ouyang Yuan and his wife packed up their things and began to make a fire to cook, which was also very lively.

Ouyang Ting's battlefield was slowly expanding, he got into the locked warehouse door cracks, and found that the warehouse was empty, originally thought that there would be a lot of fun things in the locked place, and immediately felt very disappointed, but he didn't know that this warehouse had been locked since Ouyang Yuan was a child, and after the Red Guards searched here, Ouyang Ting's grandfather locked it up again, and ordered him not to enter here. It's just that it's been a long time, and Ouyang Yuan has also neglected such a place.

Ouyang Ting looked around boredly, and suddenly found that there was a red box on the roof, this box was already covered with dust, and the corner was exposed, if it weren't for the child's good eyesight, this exposed corner would definitely be regarded as a corner of the beam, and no one would notice.

Ouyang Ting was very excited when he saw the box, and he wanted to climb up along the edge of the wall, but after all, the child was weak and weak, and Ouyang Ting didn't give up until Ouyang Yuan and his wife called Ouyang Ting when their meal was ready, but Ouyang Ting kept thinking about the red box in his heart.

After dinner, it got dark. Ouyang Yuan and his wife were enjoying the shade at the door, and several neighbors around them also gathered with fans, and the atmosphere of chatting on Kung Fu Square was hot for a while, and everyone was talking all over the world. Ouyang Ting took advantage of this gap to sneak to the back warehouse, and squeezed in, this time he brought a long stick and stabbed desperately at the red box, and when the box was slightly shaken, a black shadow came out from behind the box and came straight to Ouyang Ting.

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