Anyway, I've lived in Higashito Village for a while, and I don't think I've seen this person, or even heard of this person.

The second uncle had been looking at the direction in which the white snake had disappeared, and only then did he turn around.

"Lao Hu! Don't say anything and forget what happened to you......"

The old beard shook his head, smiled at his uncle, said no more, but turned and walked in the direction of the village, and only then did I notice that he was still lame.

"Old beard...... That's not all there is to it! ”

A man in the crowd shouted at the old beard's back.

The old beard never looked back, limping out of sight.

At this time, everyone began to "besiege" the second uncle again.

"Uncle Song, why don't you let the old beard finish!"

"Yes! What's going on with cockscombs? ”

The second uncle didn't pay attention to them, but politely addressed the few people who were digging the grave just now: "I have to trouble a few people to continue digging - dig another shovel deep, and it should be about the same." The latter half of the sentence is as if it were spoken to the three gravediggers, and it is like talking to oneself.

The three of them seemed to be a little stunned, and looked carefully around the grave boy, and after laughing twice, they bent down and went down to the pit.

I followed my second uncle to the edge of the grave.

The strange thing is that at this time, not only is there no more water in the pit, but even the water that just came out has seeped down.

This is really evil, it's only been a few minutes! Could it be related to the cockscomb white snake that suddenly appeared just now?

The more I thought about it, the more I felt my scalp tingle.

According to the local funeral customs, the new grave is completed, and filial piety and filial piety are needed to "smoke the grave", which is simply to take a bundle of lit yellow incense, and then light a pile of burning paper, and circle around the grave a few times, which means that it is probably to help the ancestors who are about to enter the soil to smoke away the insects and ants.

My aunt and cousin are long gone, so I have to do it as my nephew.

I hurriedly held a bundle of yellow incense and walked around the grave, when I suddenly heard a crisp sound of "clang" from the grave, which was clearly the sound of a shovel hitting a hard object.

Stone?

Brick?

I subconsciously looked to the bottom of the pit.

Several people in the pit were also stunned, and one of them reacted and pulled a few times with a shovel.

"It's a metal box!"

The man bent down and touched it, and excitedly shouted to the second uncle outside the pit.

The neighbors who had been frightened by the white snake and retreated more than ten meters just now surrounded them again, and in an instant, the shouts came and went one after another.

"It can't be a treasure!"

"The Song family was a big landlord in their old life? I haven't heard of it! ”

"In the box is the treasure left by the ancestor of the old Song family!"

"Now you can make a fortune!"

A philosopher once said that curiosity is the primordial driving force for human progress, and I feel the meaning of this statement again.

At this moment, my heart also hung in my throat.

Staring at the metal box dug up at the bottom of the pit, the two neighbors bent down and pulled the dirt around them to one side with their hands, and then worked together to pull out a patina-stained box, about the size of A4 paper, and vaguely saw that the surface of the bronze box was originally engraved with patterns, but at this time it was so rusty that it was no longer recognizable. 20

The box was picked up, and everyone swarmed around, but was scolded back by the second uncle.

"If you want to live, don't get too close!"

Although the uncle's facial features were severely distorted, and even his vocal cords were seriously damaged, his words at this time still carried great weight, and all the neighbors looked at each other, and then retreated again.

"Big nephew, this thing has to be kept by you for the time being!"

I was caught off guard by this: "Me? ”

Uncle nodded: "Yes!" This is also your uncle's will. ”

That's a lot of information!

It seems that the uncle has long known that there is such a bronze box buried in this place, and even all this may have been planned by the uncle a long time ago - what kind of character is the uncle, he can pinch and calculate, and he is like a half-immortal, everything he does will not be for no reason.

After the second uncle finished speaking, he looked at a few neighbors in the pit: "Okay! Level the bottom of the pit and start pouring cement into the brick walls! ”

Standing to the side, I was a little overwhelmed, and stared at the bronze box for a full minute before I remembered that I should have picked up the bronze box first at this moment.

The box looked not small, but it was not heavy, I held it in my arms, and only then did I notice that the surface of the bronze box was wrapped in a layer of transparent linoleum paper, and at this time the linoleum paper had been glued to the metal.

I couldn't help with the grave building, so I took a few steps back, put everyone's thoughts on the bronze box in my bosom, and carefully peeled off the linoleum paper on the surface.

Perhaps it is because of the protection of this layer of linoleum paper that the degree of rust on the bronze box is not as serious as it seems, and the pattern engraved on the surface of the box can be basically recognized.

It's a dozen or so lifelike animals, but they look a little strange.

After glancing around, he saw that one of the animals looked a little familiar, and then his eyes glanced at the She Ring in his left hand.

Hey?

It's exactly the same as the mysterious animal on She's Ring...... This is...... It was one of the dragon's nine sons, and I don't remember what it was called.

Quickly counted, there are nine animals on it, some like dragons, some like tigers, and some like cows and other animals, if I guess correctly, these are the nine sons of the legendary dragon.

The box is engraved with the nine sons of the dragon, which shows that this box is not ordinary!

During my uncle's burial, I was in a state of "distraction" almost the whole time, and my attention was basically on the bronze box in my arms.

The surrounding onlookers also kept staring at the box in my arms, perhaps because of the presence of the second uncle, they only watched from a distance and did not dare to approach.

Finally, after the funeral was over, and when he returned to the small courtyard of his uncle's house, the second uncle spoke again.

"Great nephew, I know you must be very curious at this moment, right?"

I nodded busily and helped my second uncle to sit on the bench where my uncle used to sit.

When I was helping him, I smelled an extremely unpleasant foul smell coming from my second uncle's body, which should be due to the fact that the skin on the surface of his body had been damaged and there were no sweat glands.

"Let me explain the white cockscomb first! That is actually the guardian of the ancestral tomb of our old Song family, and also the guardian of the 'Jiuding Bronze Box' in your arms, if the person who dug out the box is not the person recognized by the Song family, then ...... That fate is at least the same as Lao Hu. ”

"Old Hu? You...... You're talking about the lame old man with his left hand missing? ”

The second uncle smiled bitterly and asked me, "Do you know how his left hand is missing?" How did he get lame? ”

Two questions in a row, I didn't know how to answer them for a while, so I had to shake my head woodenly.

"His hand was cut off with a knife, and the tendon of his left foot was cut off by himself......" Because the second uncle's face was severely disfigured, he couldn't see the change in his expression, but there was a trace of panic in his eyes, as if the terrifying scene that happened at the beginning had reappeared in front of him.

"Ahh Why? ”

I just felt my scalp explode and my back was cold.

"Because he doesn't believe there is a white cockscomb snake under the village, and he wants to try it for himself."