The next few days of recuperation at home were relatively peaceful.

My eldest brother and sister-in-law heard that I was injured and came back to visit me once.

Then Yan Xiaoying called me and told me that Lao Fei had woken up, but there was no way to leave the hospital for the time being.

One more thing, the grimace mask was missing, I don't know if it was lost in the dark river, or if someone took it.

For this reason, Lao Feicha didn't think about eating and was indignant. said that he was born and died and entered the Shuanglong Cave, and almost lost his life, but he couldn't even get a single hair out, which was really not worth it.

For the symptoms of old fat, Yan Xiaoying naturally has a way to treat it.

On the fifth day, my injuries were almost healed, and at least I was able to live a normal life.

After that, I went to visit the eldest patriarch of the clan, and asked what kind of history our clan had.

The answer we got was: our clan didn't originally live here, but later migrated, and as for when we migrated to this place, the clan elders can't say for sure, because the time is too long.

I asked the clan elders, where did our original ancestors migrate from?

The patriarch shook his head and told me that he didn't know, but he thought it was from a long way away.

After thinking about it, he told me that our clan had gone through several migrations before settling at the foot of the Heavenly Mountain. As far as he knew, the clan also had an ancestral shrine on Heavenly Mountain, and we all moved down from Heavenly Mountain.

I wonder in my heart, if there is an ancestral shrine of our clan on the Heavenly Mountain, why do we never go up the mountain to worship? Moreover, I usually patrol the mountains, and I don't see the so-called ancestral shrine of the Lao family.

The patriarch explained that we had moved down from the mountain a hundred years ago, and at that time, the construction of the reservoir on the mountain had not yet begun.

Legend has it that at that time a gang of robbers suddenly came to the mountain, drove away all the people who had lived on the mountain, and seized their houses, and it was at that time that our ancestors were driven down, and many people died.

Later, during the anti-bandit operation, we came with the army, and the army entered the mountains to suppress the bandits and never came out again, and the group of bandits did not reappear.

It is said that the army and bandits met the Yin soldiers crossing the border in the mountains, and they were all taken down and sent to the underworld.

It is also said that the reason why the bandits suddenly appeared was because there was a mountain treasure in Heavenly Mountain, and the army and the bandits were in a gang, and they dug through the entire mountain in order to find the mountain treasure.

When the mountain god Niangniang found out about this, she was furious and buried all those people alive in the belly of the mountain.

Of course, these are all handed down, and no one knows whether the truth or falsehood of the matter is.

It is not even known whether there were bandits in the mountains.

With the passage of time, many things have disappeared in the long river of time.

Maybe there is the ancestral shrine of our Lao family on the mountain, but after such a long time, the traces left by those ancestors may be long gone.

We once went up the mountain to look for the traces left by our ancestors, but found nothing, and in the end they were gone, and later generations gradually forgot about these things......

I was stunned when I heard this, I really couldn't imagine that there was such a thing on the Heavenly Mountain.

But it doesn't seem unreasonable to think about it, Heaven Mountain is on the edge of 100,000 mountains, Xiangxi belongs, at that time, bandits were rampant in Xiangxi, and everyone was a robber.

During the day you see a group of people working hard in the fields, and at night these simple farmers can turn into ruthless robbers and bandits.

This is not an exaggeration, but it is real.

As the so-called poor mountains and bad waters are full of people, this place is far away from the king's law, plus the terrain is complex, deep mountains and wild forests, even if you want to manage it, you can't manage it.

Even, at that time, the warlords stationed here, together with the robbers, did many things that hurt nature and reason, and people and gods were angry.

Speaking of which, this is also the reason why the corpses are circulating in Xiangxi.

At that time, in the land of Xiangxi, there were often murders and goods.

In particular, businessmen, merchants, and uprooted people from other places entered Xiangxi, and most of them encountered bandits who robbed the road.

When the number of dead people increased, there was the rise of righteous villages and corpse chasers.

At that time, people's thinking was more superstitious, believing that it was unlucky for relatives to die in a foreign land, and the body had to be transported back to their hometown for burial, and the fallen leaves returned to their roots.

They raised money to build a village to store the corpses of the dead in a foreign land.

The bodies were smeared with arsenic, embalmed, and then transported home by chasers.

This is the reason for the real rise of corpse chasers in Xiangxi.

To this day, the theory of chasing corpses in Xiangxi is still circulating, but with the stability of public security, almost no one has seen the corpse chasers, and those righteous villages are also vacant.

In the past, bandits were rampant in Xiangxi, and Heavenly Mountain was regarded as a gateway barrier to enter the 100,000 Great Mountains, and the terrain was complicated, and it was reasonable to say that bandits occupied it.

As for what mountain treasure...... But it's a bit of a fantasy.

Of course, time has wiped out everything, if Jingmei is still around, she should be able to know the truth of the matter, right?

As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't stay in the village any longer, and I went up to Heavenly Mountain that day.

When I came to the mountain, I wanted to invite Lin Miao to go into the Shuanglong Cave to investigate the situation again, but unexpectedly, Lin Miao told me an unexpected news.

He told me that the passage into Shuanglong Cave had collapsed, and he had tried to excavate it, but it was unsuccessful, and the entire passage was blocked, even if an excavator was transferred, it would not be possible to dig it for more than ten years.

The news was like a bolt from the blue, and I was at a loss for a moment.

The passage to the Twin Dragons Cave to the Heavenly Secret Realm actually collapsed......

How is this possible......

I didn't give up, so I dragged Lin Miao up the mountain again to check and confirm.

As a result, as Lin Miao said, the passage collapsed and it was impossible to enter it again.

In this regard, Lin Miao comforted me and said: "The Heavenly Secret Realm may not be a real isolated secret realm, maybe it is just a more mysterious place, and the Shuanglong Cave passage may not be the only way to enter there, when we came out, wasn't it washed out by the dark river?" ”

I smiled bitterly and said, "What you said is good, but even if that Heavenly Secret Realm is somewhere in the mountains, no one has found it for hundreds of years, and only the Shuanglong Cave is a passage to enter, how can we find its location in a short period of time?" ”

I stayed outside the mouth of the cave for a long time, until it was dark and night fell, and then I went down the mountain and returned to my house by the embankment.

After eating something to satisfy my hunger, I returned to my room sullenly and locked myself inside.

Looking at the spiritual table in front of the offering table, as well as the black coffin placed under the bed, I felt even worse when I saw things and thought about people.

For the next few days, I had nothing to do but go up the hill to patrol and just stay in my room.

I have to say, Paradise Mountain is huge, and there are many places that I have never set foot in, so I have been exploring these days......

The day was so greedy for the road that by the time it was time to turn back to the reservoir, it was already dark.

I was on the other side of the Heavenly Mountain, not far from the foot of the mountain, and I saw a river at the foot of the mountain, and there was a stone bridge over the river, and on the other side of the stone bridge was a village, and the smoke was curling.

I remember that the second master seemed to live in this village.

It was already dark, and I don't know how long it would take to go back to the reservoir the way I came.

Coupled with the rugged mountain road, I climbed for a day, hungry and physically exhausted. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to go down the mountain to find the second master and spend the night at his house.

There was no way down the mountain, so I pulled the wild grass, climbed the vines, and squeezed a way out. I don't know how many openings have been cut by thorns, and I finally got down the mountain.

The river is flowing with reeds and pickaxes.

The river flows from another mountain range, connected to Paradise Mountain.

I went down to the river and washed my face with a handful of cold river water, and I only felt very comfortable.

When I went ashore and wanted to cross the stone bridge to the opposite village to look for the second master, I suddenly saw a hunchbacked old man crossing the bridge with a flashlight.

This old man looks to be in his fifties, and his hunchback is a bit severe, but his figure looks very strong, and even if he is hunchbacked, he is about the same height as me.

Dressed in an old-fashioned tunic and with liberation shoes on his feet, he hurried across the bridge.

For some reason, I felt an extremely uncomfortable aura from this old man. His countenance, no matter how you look at it, is gloomy and compassionate, and it is very penetrating.

"Hey, who are you? It looks like you're very raw, what are you doing in our village so late? ”

Naturally, the hunchbacked old man also noticed me and was the first to speak.

"That uncle, I'm here to find the second master, may I ask if he lives in this village?" I asked.

"Oh...... It turned out that he was looking for the second master, was he looking for something to do? ”

"Speaking of which, the second master and I are also partners, little brother, if there is really a law, I can also help you."

"You ......"

"I'm a strong guy, I specialize in carrying coffins, usually the second master will call me when he does the work, he does things, I carry the coffin ......"

"Oh, I see."

It dawned on me why I felt a sense of compassion in this hunchbacked old man, who turned out to be a strong man, the so-called coffin bearer.

Coffin bearers, who specialize in digging coffin pits and carrying coffins, are also responsible for the burial of the deceased.

Speaking of which, in addition to the makeup artist who makes up the dead and the mage of the murmur, the coffin bearer is considered to be the profession that has the most contact with the dead.

This kind of work is not something that ordinary people can do, you must be bold and have enough strength to do it.

If you don't have the strength, how can you lift a coffin weighing hundreds of pounds?

That's why these people are also called strong guys in our hometown!

The old man in front of him was seriously hunched on his shoulders, and he thought it was the reason for carrying the coffin all year round. And the gloomy aura on his body may be contaminated by too much contact with the corpse.

To put it nicely, this is called professional temperament!

To put it mildly, it is contaminated with the breath of the dead!

"Don't look at my uncle, I'm old, but I still have a lot of strength, oh yes...... My dinner guy hangs under this stone bridge, if you don't believe me, little brother, I can take you down to see it. ”

"Faith! Letter! Letter ......"

I wiped a cold sweat and said embarrassedly, "That...... I didn't come to the second master to do things, but to discuss something with him. ”

"That's not the same?"

The old man smiled, but that smile was so eerie in my eyes.

"His family lives next to my house, you look at the small dirt slope in front, there are two tiled houses on the slope, and the tiled house on the left is the second master's house, you can go there yourself. I'm going to pick up my daughter, so I'm not going to take you there!" ”

"Pick up your daughter?"

"That's right, my daughter is out of luck, she is the only college student in the village, isn't it a March 3 holiday these two days, she just came back from the provincial capital."

The old man is talkative and has nothing to say.

In fact, rural people are so simple, and they don't have as many scheming and routines as urban people.

Bidding farewell to the old man, I followed the direction he pointed, passed through several houses, climbed the dirt slope, and saw two tiled houses on the dirt slope. The premises are all lit.

In the house on the left, with the door open, an old man was sitting on the threshold, holding a tattered fan to cool off.

"Second master, long time no see!" I shouted from afar.

The second master looked sideways at me and said in surprise: "You are ...... Xiao Yan on the Heavenly Mountain? Why did you come to my place, is there something wrong with the cemetery of Li Guofeng? ”

I nodded and shook my head, "It's true that something happened, but it's been resolved......"