Chapter 231: Scooping up corpses
Fa Dian and I walked very slowly, like a little couple walking, the moon and stars were scarce, and from time to time there were a few strange chirps from unknown birds and beasts in the darkness around us, and I actually understood his story at this point.
After listening to the story calmly, I couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
"You...... What did you do with it? ”
I couldn't help but ask.
Fa Dian smiled: "Guess what? ”
I thought for a moment and replied, "It won't hurt it, will it?" ”
As soon as the words came out, I felt that it was not very appropriate to use the word "harm", Fa Dian is a mage who drives away evil and destroys demons, and the other party is a hedgehog who is against the sky, who is good and who is evil, there seems to be no controversy, but at this time, deep down in my heart, I pity this hedgehog who is bent on repaying his kindness.
All things in the world originally lived in this world equally, there was no distinction between high and low, and they all followed the rules of nature, but later the animal of man walked at the forefront of biological evolution, and gradually evolved into the so-called advanced animal, and since then has become the master of this world, and even set a lot of rules for this world, so as to rule all things.
In order to repay the kindness, a hedgehog has lived as a benefactor for more than 20 years, during which he has not done anything hurtful, just like that Jiao, after becoming an adult, he has done so many good things for the neighbors, but he has always borne the infamy of "great rebellion".
Is that fair?
Perhaps good and evil are always relative.
The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I became, Fa Dian stopped talking, and after entering the village, neither of them spoke, and after returning to the village branch, they each went back to the house.
I had several dreams that night, like a serial drama, first dreamed of a little hedgehog running slowly along the Yellow River, and then ran out of a big yellow dog with grinning teeth, chasing the hedgehog, I wanted to shout but couldn't shout anyway.
When I opened my eyes suddenly, I saw Wu Jinghan looking at me with sleepy eyes.
"Nightmares? You...... You almost pushed me under the bed......"
I smiled wryly and touched the beads of sweat on my forehead.
When I woke up, I remembered that today was the day when my uncle asked me to accompany him to retrieve his body, and I went to his house for dinner in the morning I had made an appointment, and then went to the Thirteen Ghost Caves of the Yellow River after the Bai family came.
"What time is it?"
Wu Jinghan took the phone and glanced at it: "There are still a few minutes and six o'clock, are you still sleeping for a while?" ”
I shook my head: "There's no time, my uncle has something to do with me today, or let's go together?" ”
Wu Jinghan smiled and shook her head: "No! I have something to do today. ”
As I got dressed, I replied, "Do you have something?" What can you do? ”
"Han Jianjian asked me to accompany him to the town to buy a few clothes for Zhou Yinuo!"
The phone I just picked up fell to the ground with a "click": "What are you talking about?" To give...... Buying clothes for Monday? ”
Wu Jinghan smiled and shook her head: "I see that your nervous system has been too tight these days!" It's a sacrifice! At last...... It's a shroud! He wanted to take it to the river and burn it, which was a ...... It's the last gift for Zhou No! ”
"I see! I really didn't expect this kid to be so emotional this time. I picked up my phone and took her in my arms, "If I die, will you do the same?" ”
Wu Jinghan broke free of my arms: "Bah, bah! What nonsense? ”
After saying that, before I could react, he threw himself into my arms again......
The two of them got tired of it for a few minutes, and then I hurried to my uncle's house, and saw five cars parked outside my uncle's yard from a distance.
There were more than a dozen strong men standing next to the car, all of them looking like they were in their twenties and thirties, all wearing suits and sunglasses, and they looked like thugs or bodyguards or something.
When I entered the hospital, they would not stop me.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I heard an unbridled laughter from the house: "The Bai family will not treat you badly, don't worry!" ”
Then came the uncle's deep voice: "I'm not interested in money, you just need to pay according to the rules, this is the rule, I don't want a dime more, this is also the rule - but that double-faced bronze Buddha statue, your Bai family should return it!" ”
The other party laughed again: "Please rest assured of this!" Our Bai family still doesn't like that thing! ”
Hearing this, I walked in and recognized at a glance that the person sitting opposite my uncle was the fat man from before.
The fat man crossed Erlang's legs, with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, and a posture of not taking anyone in his eyes.
"What are you doing?"
The fat man glanced at me, spat out a puff of cigarette, and asked coldly.
"This is my nephew, you Bai family should know that ordinary people can't enter the Thirteen Caves at all, even if it's me, I don't have full certainty, otherwise I would have helped you get the bones up."
The fat man said "Ao", and his body straightened: "This kid is only in his twenties, is it possible that he has any outstanding abilities?" ”
"He is a pure yin body, a natural Hades, do you think this ability is okay?"
As soon as the uncle's words were finished, the fat man stood up directly, and the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground, he looked me up and down with wide eyes, and his face showed an expression of disbelief: "Pure yin? The legend of a pure yin personality that can freely enter and exit the underworld? ”
Uncle nodded and said, "Yes!" ”
From this second on, the fat man's attitude towards me took a 180-degree turn, although I never understood the meaning of his conversation with my uncle.
"Haven't eaten yet?"
Uncle asked me softly.
"Nope!" I nodded.
"That's right, I've boiled the porridge, let's eat it together!"
After speaking, he didn't care about the fat man and the two black-faced strong men behind him, turned around and walked to the back room, and after more than ten seconds, he walked out with a black casserole.
When the lid of the pot was opened, the fragrance of eight-treasure porridge wafted out of the casserole, and then he returned to the inner room again and brought out a small basin with a few cooked corn and wowotou.
The fat man smiled awkwardly: "You guys eat first!" I went to the car and waited. ”
After the fat man went out, I asked my uncle softly, "What do you mean by what you just said?" What double-faced bronze statue? ”
The uncle replied: "It is a strange bronze statue, used to suppress the evil in the Yellow River, many years ago, it was stolen by the Bai family, and now it is time to return it." ”
I didn't understand, but I didn't bother to ask again, because I had a question in my head that I wanted to know the answer to.
"You just said that I was the king of Hades, this is ...... What does this mean? ”
My uncle ignored me, just urging me to hurry up and eat, and be sure to leave the Thirteen Ghost Caves before twelve o'clock at noon.
For my uncle, for the thirteen caves of the Yellow River, I have too many doubts, just like the old saying "lice are too much not afraid of bites", although I want to know the answer, just because I want to know too much, but I am not in a hurry.
After drinking the porridge, the uncle pointed to the kang and said: "Hold her and follow me, otherwise no one will be able to fish out the bones from the thirteen caves of the Yellow River." ”
I walked over with a "grace", just wanted to stretch out my hand, and after seeing what Uncle Kang asked me to hold, my heart trembled suddenly, it turned out to be a vivid fake paper figure, still a woman, about the same size as a life-size, with flower clothes painted on her body, and lipstick, heavy makeup, it looked very weird and awkward. Let's go slightly
"Hug ...... What are you doing with this? ”
"Swap! Trade it for the bones. ”
I heard my scalp tingling, gritted my teeth, closed my eyes, and picked up the dummy.
Leave on time at seven o'clock.
Dozens of neighbors have surrounded the uncle's yard, all talking about what the fat man is doing when he is there.
Several limousines left the village with their horns blaring, and the cars drove south for more than ten miles along the embankment of the Yellow River, turned west, and after driving a short distance, a hill appeared in front of them.
I know where to go.
The last time I followed my uncle into the 13 caves of the Yellow River, I was very puzzled, it is said that the entire lower reaches of the Yellow River are tens of thousands of years, the Yellow River sediment has impacted out of the new land, a horse and a flat river, it is said that there should be no mountains and hills, and within a radius of hundreds of miles, there is only this one, which is very abrupt.
The five cars stopped on flat ground near the hills, and immediately after getting out of the cars, the sound of rushing water was heard in their ears.
After getting out of the car, we followed the fat man and saw a boat parked by the river in the distance.
"I've got everything you want! Now it's up to the two of you to do it! ”
After speaking, he smiled at me, I don't know if it's a psychological effect, I think his smile is stealing bad, it's the kind of out-and-out bad.
The uncle didn't say anything, put the black bag in his hand on the ground, and then took out the compass and looked at it a few times, but didn't say anything, just frowned slightly.
"If you want to get your grandfather's bones, you need the most important thing!" Uncle said coldly.
"What else is needed?" The fat man's evil smile froze on his face, obviously surprised.
"A few drops of blood, the blood of the Bai family's man, without blood, it is impossible to accurately find your grandfather's bones."
The fat man's face changed suddenly.
"Want my blood?"
"Yes!"
"You...... You promise you'll be able to catch my grandfather's bones? The fat man asked with a trembling voice.
Uncle nodded: "Don't worry!" Although I have not been collecting corpses for more than 30 years, I remember the rules of corpse collectors clearly, and I have not let go of the art of corpse removal at all. ”
These words made my heart tremble again.
It turned out that the uncle had worked as a corpse fisher in the Yellow River, which is commonly known as the "river ghost".
I remembered that after I came out of the Thirteen Ghost Caves with my uncle a week ago, he went deep into the water with his bare hands for more than three minutes and caught a Yellow River carp weighing a few pounds.
In fact, I should have thought a long time ago, even ordinary fishermen don't have this ability.
The fat man gritted his teeth and nodded, and asked in a low voice, "Where did you drop the blood?" ”
The uncle took out a white handkerchief and handed it over: "Drip it on it!" ”
"Take the dagger!"
The fat man shouted, and the black-faced man behind him immediately pulled out the dagger from his waist and handed it over respectfully with both hands.
The fat man bit his lip vigorously, and slashed the dagger on his left index finger with his right hand, and with his low roar, red blood dripped onto the white handkerchief.
My uncle and I got on the boat, and my uncle looked at the fat man coldly: "You can come out in an hour, and during this period, everyone must not step into the grotto." ”
After speaking, he turned around and rowed the boat and headed towards the Thirteen Caves.
"Uncle, you ...... You're a corpse digger? ”
Uncle smiled bitterly: "Forget it!" In fact, your grandfather wanted to train me to be a corpse collector in the Yellow River when I was a few years old, but later, ...... Forget it, you don't need to know these things. ”
As I spoke, the boat had already arrived at the entrance of the Thirteen Ghost Caves, perhaps due to psychological effects, and I faintly felt a cold wind blowing in my face.
"Uncle, how could this grandfather surnamed Bai Fat die in the Thirteen Caves?"
The uncle smiled coldly: "Self-inflicted, don't live!" More than 20 years ago, he wanted to be buried in the ghost coffin of the Yellow River like his ancestors, so as to protect the descendants of the Bai family to continue to live a rich life, but it's a pity! Finally, he entered the Thirteen Caves with the Yellow River ghost coffin. ”
After the uncle said this, the boat also entered the thirteen caves.
"Whatever strange things you see, don't make a sound!" After the uncle finished speaking coldly, he sat down on the side of the boat, took out a white handkerchief with the blood stains of the fat man, and fiddled with it.
Curious, I leaned behind him, and saw my uncle skillfully folding the handkerchief into the shape of a boat, and then gently lowering it into the water.
What kind of craft is this?
In the process, my uncle was muttering something, and after listening to two sentences, I could tell that it was one of the spells that Bragu had "forced" me to recite before.
A magical scene appeared, the small boat made of fabric actually floated on the water, as if it had life, and sailed towards the thirteen caves, the speed was not slow, if it wasn't for my uncle's warning before, I would definitely shout at this time.
The uncle rowed his oars and followed the little white boat, neither in a hurry nor slowly.
This time it was a revisit to the old place, but I was even more scared in my heart, I always felt that something was going to happen, and soon I reached the third grotto, and the little white boat suddenly stopped, and then turned around in the same place, and suddenly sank.
The uncle rowed the boat over, then picked up the paper woman and threw it to the place where the little white boat sank just now.
At first, the paper figure floated quietly on the water, but after half a minute, the paper figure swayed from side to side as if it had come to life.
Seeing this scene, the uncle's face suddenly changed:
"Not good! I don't want to change things in the water...... Fast! The eldest nephew drops a few drops of blood on the paper man, otherwise...... Otherwise, it will be too late. ”
This time I reacted quite quickly, after all, I had almost the same experience, after reaching out to take the dagger in my uncle's hand, I gritted my teeth, cut the middle finger of my left hand, and took advantage of two or three seconds to aim at the paper figure in the water and threw it away.
A few drops of blood were thrown on the paper man, and the paper man suddenly stopped moving as if it had been pointed.
What's the situation? I couldn't help but be stunned, and I wanted to ask my uncle what was going on in front of me.
Glancing at my uncle, he was staring at the paper figure in the water without blinking, and I could only be patient and fix my gaze on the paper figure again.
After about half a minute, the paper figure shook violently a few times, and then sank suddenly, just like the little white boat just now.
Seeing this scene, the uncle's frowning brows relaxed.
"That's it! The blood of the eldest nephew is really the blood of the treasure, and it is a pass below! ”
After speaking, before I could react, he took off his coat and threw it to the side, and jumped into the water in a graceful position, only splashing a small wave on the surface of the water.
This is the second time I've seen my uncle act so awesomely, but my heart still trembled suddenly, and I secretly said in my heart: Sure enough, he is a real corpse collector in the Yellow River, and this skill is not comparable to water conservancy station staff like Lao Hong and Li Guozhi.