Chapter 249: Old Stories of the Yellow River
Since the day of the fight, the farmer has never seen his father and mother again, and the corpse collector has not heard from him since. But they didn't leave a trace, the people in the village disappeared, no matter how bad the relationship was, this is also a matter that can be cared for, although no one knows what they are thinking about.
The corpse collector lives on the edge of the Yellow River, and the old man has no children, no daughters and no family, but he lives by himself, and he has three big tiled houses.
The old man was not far from the door of his house was the shore of his exclusive use, and the farmer's father and mother were from this bank that night, and the villagers listened to the words of the farmer who was still a cub at that time, and the next day they arrived at the house of the corpse collector, but they did not have to enter the house, and they saw that the blackened willow leaf boat was parked on the shore, but the boat was upside down.
There was no one in the old man's house, and the villagers searched the old man's house, but in addition to the items of daily life, there were only five half-person-high red lacquered wooden boxes left. The box is locked, and this lock has a history, it is purely cast iron, and it cannot be opened at all.
On the other side, a few strong men from the village turned the overturned black wooden boat back, and there was something underneath, but this thing surprised everyone.
It stands to reason that the boat was on the shore, and even though it was overturned by the water, the man did not expect any serious trouble. At most, some of them were unlucky and washed downstream, but it is estimated that there were three people on the boat, and they would not come up on this wave and all the people would be gone.
There was a gelatinous thing under the overturned boat, and a few brave people found an iron fork, but they went up with a fork, but they didn't expect it to be like a piece of fat and oily fat.
The villagers didn't dare to get their hands on it, and in a few clicks, the piece of glue that was two people in size was forked into pieces by a sharp fork. The gum doesn't smell like a cold powder mixed with pea flour at home, but it's still obviously stained with oil.
Finding that there was no clue to this place, the others focused their attention on the five large mahogany boxes that they had taken out of the old man's house.
In fact, everyone present understands this kind of thing, what is looking for clues, people must have happened in the river, looking for clues to find someone's house, who doesn't have a soft box with sundries, this time it comes out, and they are all around, isn't it also to get a piece of the pie. It's just that in those years, it was difficult to fill the stomach, and in this remote mountainous area, in fact, no one thought this kind of thing was immoral. The Yellow River floods every year, the people who grow crops face the loess, God is merciful, and they will reward a few hundred catties of food, and if they are unlucky, the land will be blown away by the yellow pulp of the river.
The villagers were silent, they already had a tacit understanding, and several strong men didn't look for anything else, and directly took the fork of the earlier fork rubber block and stabbed the big lock of cast iron.
The villagers have actually seen all the things in the five boxes, but they have not seen so many of them, and they have lived on the edge of the Yellow River for several lifetimes, whether they are playing in the river or casting nets to catch fish, they can always catch one or two strange things. These things are called yellow syrup by the locals. Most of these things are not well received, and it will be unlucky to touch them for a year or two, and the reason for this is because of the strange form of these things.
To put it bluntly, the yellow syrup is the size of the stone statues fished out of the Yellow River, and not all, the yellow syrup refers to a kind of stone statues that make people scratch their heads. There are many other things, regular figurines, porcelain, silverware, goldware, and even someone has fished out the whole big gold and silver cake, this kind of thing The villagers say that they are not to be seen, but most of the results are also digested internally, and this yellow syrup is almost just caught and thrown away.
The only thing these stone statues have in common is that they are strange, there is no similarity in appearance, what a dog with nine heads, a rabbit with horns, in short, it can be as strange as it can be, but these things are obviously old objects, but they cannot be modern products.
Open the box everyone for a while, have dodged to the side, a stunned head directly grabbed a hen-sized stone statue out, this thing has no body, just a head, but the head is full of eyes, this thing carved quite anthropomorphic, stunned to look at, shivered all over the body and threw it back, a large group of people are obviously a little unhappy, for a while the idea of finding someone is gone, these boxes were going to be thrown into the river, but I didn't expect to leave a few young people didn't have the heart to spend that effort, was directly carried back to the house of the corpse salver, and then everyone returned disappointed.
But it's not that there is no follow-up, just when everyone has no choice but to go home, there is a person who secretly went out of the village and rushed to the city, this person is not a good thing, the people in the village call him the second head, this person is not very old, with a goatee, he is a person who has the same disease as the farmer, but he has no father and mother since he was a child, and no one cares, and he grew up and lived until that year.
This kid went to the county seat and found a person, and it can't be said that this person alone can be regarded as their group, which is the early form of the earliest antique artifact midstream system in Nanfang, Pingchuan County.
The second head is used to messing around in this place, and in the early years, I saw that people making a lot of money by engaging in antiquities, and I wanted people to take it with me to make a handful, but people didn't want it.
This time, he knew that there was something in the corpse man's house, and he didn't care about the old things, so he went to them with the thoughts that these people might want.
The second head added oil and vinegar for a while, and even said to those who originally looked down on themselves, just before it got dark to the village, there was inevitably something moth, and only entered the village that night, and touched the house of the corpse collector.
These people know how to do it, although they don't know what it is, but they should always be able to see that it is an old object, and in the early years, there were people from several other places who fished out of the Yellow River, not big, and I heard that in the end they bought the yellow hair of a chicken called something in the United States, and the price was a lot, five hundred yuan, or a beautiful knife.
These tomb robbers looked at the five large boxes of strangely shaped stone statues, each of which showed the eyes of the thief, and planned to kill the second head when there were few things, so as not to leak the news of this person, and now there is no need to make a move, when the time comes, the payment for picking up a thing and giving it to this grandson is enough for him to squander it for a long time.
But then there was a problem, they came five or six people, not a few, but if they want to move these five big boxes, I'm afraid it is impossible, there is no way for a while, at this time, I saw the second head pointing to the boat on the side of the Yellow River outside the house.
This boat is completely used for loading, it is small, but it is enough to load people to cross the river, enough for more than 20 people, estimated weight, five boxes are not loaded, but three boxes may be enough, and the others are not enough, in fact, as long as no one comes to investigate for a few days, it doesn't matter if you come again.
These people put the two pointed black lacquered wooden boats into the water, and the boxes were loaded for them one by one, the Yellow River went down, passing through the county seat, it was indeed a waterway, but the river was turbulent, and the rainy season was even more terrifying, so if it wasn't for the boldness, few dared to go down.
In the first section, the ship was very stable, and the three large boxes of stone statues pressed against the cabin were quite stable. The water rose a bit that night, and the waves were a little heavy, but the weight made the boat surprisingly stable.
About halfway through, there was a problem, the moon could still be seen, Mao is a little hairy, but how can you see other people's faces by the moonlight, but the boat walks, the sky is dark, the moon is gone, even the surrounding river banks, these people seem to be invisible, the water surface is foggy, this should not be the scene that should appear on the Yellow River, the Yellow River because of the height difference and the direction of the river, all the way is turbulent, plus there is a lot of sediment in the water, water vapor is difficult to condense, so the water surface is foggy, On the Yellow River is simply impossible. Of course, in some places, the water area is open, and it is normal for some places with smooth and slow currents. But everyone understands that this place is full of rapids, and it is good to have a range of 100 meters.
The boat slowed down, and the sound of the torrent soon disappeared, and when a few people touched the water, the water stopped flowing, and someone put something in the water, and there was not even a wave.
This is a ghost hitting the wall, people who do this line of work know in their hearts that dealing with dead people, there is no reason not to meet them, but even in the tomb, I have a little down-to-earth confidence, this is the middle of the Yellow River, and now I don't know where to go, everyone is panicked.
For a while, the two heads became everyone's punching bag, and those tomb robbers were the most superstitious back then, although they had never encountered it in the ancient tomb, but they also heard that they gave the old ghost some sweetness, and it didn't need to do anything desperately.
Several people looked at each other, and the two heads were dead this time. But these people also underestimated the second head, he saw that something was wrong, and in a hurry, he pointed to the direction of the bow of the boat and shouted: "Something is coming." ”
The rest of the people's hearts were lifted, and as soon as they turned their heads and saw the black mist, they knew that they were soaked, and when they turned their heads, their heads had already jumped into the water with a bang.
The two heads are accustomed to water, a few fierce men plunged down, and there was no trace of them, but the others were not calm, there were no oars and bamboo supports, and they were useless at all if they paddled by hand.
Just when a group of people were distressed, they didn't know who noticed first, and some abnormal shadows appeared in the fog around them. Those things were of a peculiar shape, but they were definitely not boulders on the shore, and it was not until they had half a cigarette that they could see that the things that had come up from all sides were all big turtles that were two or three feet tall.
Seeing this scene, several people who had originally run across the Yellow River had already knelt down in the boat, shouting in hysterical words that they were wrong, the head was not a local, he didn't understand, he pulled up and asked, and the man didn't say anything clearly for a long time.
Until the head saw clearly what was floating from the water, he also knelt in the cabin, this man did not know the things in front of him, knelt down, completely frightened, the water came up with the appearance of a turtle, but every place on the turtle's body was covered with dense eyes, each of those eyes was the size of a horse's head. As soon as they were near, the head and the others saw that among the eyes the size of a horse's head, there were not round eyes, but dead heads stained with bright red blood.