For the next few days, Qiu Yan stayed in her room, and Xiang Wei said that she was trying to find a way to restore the broken book.

I had nothing to do, so I went around Longshan County with Long Quan, and I saw that Long Quan was still holding the wooden stick, so I smiled and said:

"Is there anything special about your stick? Show me. ”

Long Quan subconsciously put the stick behind him, and then he seemed to feel that something was wrong, so he smiled at me and said:

"Hehe, it's just an ordinary cedar stick, I'm used to holding it in my hand, there's nothing to look at."

I saw that Long Quan had no intention of giving up the stick, so I didn't insist, and at this time, Long Quan asked me:

"Brother He, I heard that you found something in the coffin, what is it?"

I glanced back at Long Quan and asked:

"Why are you asking this?"

"Hey, what can you do, it's just curious, I saw that you and Mr. Qiu gave up all those valuable things to Uncle Peng, and I heard that you brought something back from the coffin, I guess it must be some rare thing, can you let me see it?"

To be honest, there is nothing to hide from what we brought back, but I don't want to say it, no matter how I say that the family has something to do with me, I don't want to mention the tragedy of the other family again, so I lied and said:

"It's nothing, it's just some old stuff, you Mr. Qiu said that you might find a clue, so you got it back."

Long Quan's face was calm, and he didn't continue to ask after I finished speaking, as if he really just said it casually.

Although Longshan County is no different from the county seat outside, but in the end, it is deep in the Tujia gathering place, and it is still a bit of a foreign style, Li Xianfu led us to visit a circle of nearby scenic spots, this circle walked down, everyone was also satisfied, and praised it for being worth the trip.

In this way, we spent three days leisurely in Longshan County, and at noon on the fourth day, when we went out for snacks as usual, Qiu Yan called me and asked me to hurry back.

I asked Long Quan and Xu Jinshan to take care of the others, and then returned to the residence alone.

When I came back, as I expected, Qiu Yan's book was repaired, or more than half of it was repaired.

Qiu Yan said that the book was badly damaged, and many fragments had been lost, although a lot of the restored content was lost, but it was finally able to be roughly understood.

Qiu Yan said that this book is not a book in the strict sense, at most it can only be regarded as a diary, and it is some handwritten content by the author, recording the ins and outs of that family.

"What's going on there?" I was a little anxious, so I asked.

Qiu Yan pointed to the desk behind her and said:

"The book is there, you can read it for yourself."

I walked to the desk between Qiu Yan and Xiang Wei, and saw an ancient book covered with scotch tape on it, Qiu Yan asked me to be careful, I nodded and buried my head in reading.

The words on the book are not very neat, it is a traditional calligraphy, although I don't recognize every word, but fortunately, the general meaning can still be understood.

At first, I was really not used to reading this kind of right-to-left vertical book, but when I integrated into the story in the book, I didn't take it seriously.

The book records the daily life of the family according to the date, but these daily routines seem so bloody, and I have burst into tears when I see the end.

At the beginning, it was stated in the book that the grandfather surnamed Peng was a corpse chaser, and his father was an apprentice of the corpse chaser, and he was learning the craft of corpse chaser from his grandfather.

In the book, he calls himself "I" in the first person, his grandfather is called Peng Yongkun, his father is called Peng Yeyuan, Peng Yongkun is a Tima in Guitou Village, and they have a total of 23 people.

Originally, the family was still living a happy life in the village, although there were conflicts between the clansmen from time to time, but because of Peng Yongkun Tima's identity, those disputes never affected his family.

However, there is an undercurrent underneath the surface of a peaceful life, and the author discovers that his grandfather has been often summoned by Toast lately, and it is very common for Toast to summon his own Tima, but once this kind of thing happens too often, it seems a little suspicious.

Tima is equivalent to a priest in the village, and Peng Yongkun is the Tima of the entire Baojing Division, mainly responsible for the sacrificial activities in the village, the author at first thought that the Baojing Division was going to hold some big sacrificial activities, until one day, he found that his father also went to see the Tusi with Peng Yongkun.

Since then, Peng Yongkun and Peng Yeyuan have gone to meet Tusi every once in a while, and every time they come back, they have a dignified face.

One night, the author heard the agitation of people outside the house, and when he went out to look, he found that it was the men in the stockade who were arming themselves, and generally speaking, if it was a fight between clansmen, these people would not be so fully armed.

The author hurried back to the house to wake up the adults at home, but found that Peng Yongkun and Peng Yeyuan had long since disappeared.

There was no way, so the author had to take the rest of the family to hide in the cellar with the remaining adults in the family.

This cellar was specially dug by Peng Yongkun and Peng Yeyuan to avoid fighting, and in the past, when something happened in the village, the family would hide in.

In this way, the author and his family hid in the cellar for one night, and the next day, the author squatted in the corner and slept soundly, when he suddenly heard the door of the cellar being kicked open, and then, the author's father, Peng Yeyuan, got in, and he couldn't help but pull the author and other family members out.

When the author went out, he found his grandfather standing weakly at the door of the cellar, and his own home, not far from the cellar, was blazing at this time, and the author could see figures moving in the firelight, and these figures seemed to be holding weapons.

After Peng Yeyuan came out, he discussed a few words with Peng Yongkun, and then beckoned everyone to flee from here.

The author was very scared and confused, but no matter how he asked, Peng Yeyuan just didn't bother to deal with him, Peng Yeyuan just said that the stockade was over, it was very dangerous here, and they needed to flee to a safe place to hide.

This escape is more than ten days, more than ten days, these 20 or so people are hungry to find wild vegetables, thirsty to drink stream water, but in these more than ten days, the author also heard some information from the words of his father and grandfather.

They mentioned that the Liangjiangkou Tushe Peng Da Worm Keyi, and also mentioned what great cause was not accomplished, it seems that the grandfather Peng Yongkun wanted to complete some great cause for the Tusi, but it was discovered by the Liangjiangkou Tusi Peng Da Worm Keyi, and then the big worm Keyi led people to attack the village.

The author seems to be very puzzled, all along, he has always regarded the meritorious Peng Da Worm Keyi as an idol, and Peng Da Worm Keyi has always been the right-hand man next to Tusi Yonglie Gong, why would Da Worm Keyi oppose Yonglie Gong and even lead troops to attack?

Of course, these are only the author's thoughts, and he has not been able to bring them up, and he knows that his father will not necessarily answer them.

Finally, more than ten days later, the family arrived at Pujiling, and the author found that his grandfather had already prepared here, and there was a thatched hut with some grain stored, and the author found that his father did not seem surprised by this.

At that time, there were not many people in Xiawan Village, and most of them fled to this mountain to escape the war, so these people were not much surprised by the embarrassed arrival of this family, on the contrary, these people also gave the author's family a lot of help.

In this way, more than 20 members of the author's family began to live again in Pujiling, and they went up to the mountains to hunt, cultivate fields, and build houses, and slowly, the author also adapted.

There is just one point, no matter how the author begged, Peng Yongkun did not allow him to take a step out of Pujiling, not only the author, but other family members were not allowed to go out, except for the author's grandfather Peng Yongkun and his two sons.

One day, the author's uncle, who was out hunting, Peng Yongkun's other son, discovered the cave of the white-haired monster, but they hadn't found the white-haired monster at that time.

Peng Yongkun seemed to be very satisfied with the cave, and immediately asked his two sons to clean up the cave with their families and put some furniture inside, saying that if there was an accident, this would be a good hiding place.

The author, who had gradually let go of his curiosity, heard his grandfather say this at this time, his curiosity was aroused again, and he pestered his father to ask what was going on, why they didn't live in the big mansion and wanted to live in this mountain.

Father Peng Yeyuan flickered, just saying that there was a war in the stockade, and he was afraid that there would be danger, so he hid.

At that time, the people of Xiangxi were fierce, and fights between villages and villages and villages occurred from time to time, so Peng Yeyuan's reason sounded reasonable to the author, and the author did not continue to pursue it.

Finally, one day, while the author was playing in the cave, he heard shouts outside, and he quickly climbed up the crack to look, and saw six big men chasing and killing his family outside.

The author was about to run out to help, when he suddenly saw a man chasing his mother, who took a knife and cut off the head of the author's mother.

A few men in the author's family who could fight only resisted for a while, and then they were slaughtered all over the house.

The author saw that the six men had finished killing, and then walked to the tombstone that the author's grandfather had erected that had not yet been inscribed, and one of them put something on the ground, and then they burned the body and the house with a fire, and then left the place.

The author sat on the ground for three whole days, without moving, without a drop of water, and finally fainted from hunger.

I don't know how long the author was unconscious, but suddenly he felt something in his mouth, and when he woke up, he licked it, and found that it was a sweet and delicious liquid.

At this time, he felt something moving around him, and when he turned his head, he saw a large monkey crouching beside him, holding some fruit in his hand, and squeezing juice into his mouth.

The author was taken aback, but he was so weak that he could not escape, so he had to stand still to see what the monkey was going to do.

The monkey ignored it, squeezing the juice into the author's mouth vigorously, and after squeezing one fruit and changing it to another, the author gradually recovered his strength.

In the end, the author also realized that the monkey had no malicious intentions, on the contrary, the monkey was still saving himself, so he did not resist and rested in place for a while.