Episode 1 Stand-in
If the sky is abnormal, it is regarded as a disaster! If the corpse is abnormal, it is regarded as a demon! If a man is perversely regarded as a thief!
My great-grandfather was such a thief! A true grave robber!
However, he never wanted to admit that he was a tomb robber! In his own words, he was a graveman! A profession that only lives with the dead! He will deal with any corpse, burial, and grave moving. However, no one in the family had seen him do it a few times. On the contrary, tomb robbing has become commonplace!
Speaking of grandpa, everyone in the tomb robbery industry at that time knew about it, and everyone knew it!
Whether you're a climate veteran or just starting out! As long as the words "Old Ghost Joe" are mentioned, there will be a feeling of awe!
My grandfather's real name is inconvenient to reveal here. However, as for why everyone calls him Old Ghost Qiao, there are two reasons. First, because my grandfather has a strange personality, it is difficult for ordinary people to guess his mind. Second, because he has been mixed in ancient tombs all his life, and has basically lived with dead people all his life. On his body, there are more or less corpse qi and yin qi glued to it! It feels a little eerie!
It is said that my grandfather is a man with great skills! What to find the dragon's lair, look at feng shui, fight the walking corpse, break the mechanism, there is simply no one he can't do! Moreover, every time Grandpa Tai entered the ancient tomb, he would put three pieces of yellow paper at the entrance. Then he bit his finger and dripped blood on three pieces of yellow paper. If these three pieces of yellow paper are safe and sound, then, that is, this tomb can be entered. However, if the three yellow pieces of paper are instantly stained with blood and melt into blood water. Well, this tomb is definitely not to be provoked! There must be something most evil in it! Should leave immediately.
People rob tombs, at most, they are content to find out some things from the Ming Dynasty.
However, my grandfather liked to pick some of the most evil and vicious tombs to rob. Naturally, the things you take out are the most valuable!
It is precisely because of this that Grandpa Tai put his life on this.
Grandpa's death remains a mystery to this day!
After my grandfather died, my grandfather naturally inherited my grandfather's business. It's just that grandpa's ability is a world of difference compared to grandpa! The best thing is just to find the dragon point! As for the rest, it's just scratching the surface! The opportunity to enter the ancient tomb is naturally pitiful!
The prestige of our Qiao family in the tomb robbery world has also quietly disappeared!
In my dad's generation, it has changed dramatically! My dad was a man of culture. I also love the country from the bottom of my heart! In his opinion, a tomb robber like my grandfather was almost no different from a traitor. Selling one's own country's national treasure to foreigners is undoubtedly selling the country!
With the experience of the previous two generations, my dad chose to join the archaeological team. And the archaeological team is like a fish in water! And found the other half of his life in the team. That's my mom!
Then, there was me.
Influenced by my family, I have had a preference for antiques since I was a child! I like to study their age and value. And at the age of sixteen, he can already master the writing of Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and even longer history. That's enough for my parents to be proud of!
However, because of their work, they often run around the country. I'm getting used to staying at home alone!
No, I heard that another ancient tomb was found in Xinjiang, which is preliminarily estimated to be a mausoleum of the Yuan Dynasty. So, the two of them had already gone to Xinjiang a month ago. I haven't come back yet!
I didn't have much to do at home, so I just packed up and prepared to go to my grandmother's house.
My grandmother lives in the countryside. And it's the kind of rural area that is relatively remote! It also took more than three hours to get from my house to her.
After my grandfather died, we planned to take my grandmother over and live with us. However, he was rejected by his grandmother!
Whenever I asked my grandmother why she didn't live with us, she always said, "Our village is not peaceful!" Your grandfather has been in this village all his life. Now, he's gone. I should have guarded it for him! ”
Although I don't understand what my grandmother is saying about keeping on. I've asked her more than once. However, she always laughed and did not answer! In the end, it's over!
After more than three hours, I arrived at the entrance of my grandmother's village.
As soon as I arrived, I felt that the atmosphere here was a little different from before! In the past, when I came back, there were more than a dozen puppies running and jumping around here every time. However, today is unusually quiet! There was no movement at all!
What's going on?
Just when I was puzzled, I suddenly noticed another group of people coming from a distance.
When I looked closely, I realized that it was actually a team of burning lotteries.
In the countryside, as long as it is a dead person, a large number of colored offerings will be prepared. The so-called color offering is to tie a corn stalk into the shape of something that people want. Then paste a layer of paper on the outside.
There are also many types of lottery offerings. However, the most common things in Grandma's village were ox carts, horse-drawn carts, boys and girls, and offering tables. The reason why it is called a color offering is because these paper things are colorful.
However, the offerings in front of me were all blood-red! It was a layer of cinnabar that was tightly touched on the outside of the color offering!
This red is unusually dazzling! It makes people feel uncomfortable all over the body when they look at it. I feel a little uneasy too!
All of a sudden, I didn't know what to do! I could only watch as the whole team walked past me. Then, it burned in a clearing at the head of the village.
It's all silent, without a single sound! No one spoke, and no one cried. Even the flames burned on the offerings without any sound! The whole scene looks so unnatural, so weird!
I just stood quietly and watched stupidly.
Until all the offerings were burned, people began to turn around and walk back. Same as when I came, there was no sound!
Just as I was hesitating whether to follow them into the village, I suddenly saw my grandmother in the crowd. I couldn't help but scream, "Grandma! ”
Hearing my voice, my grandmother stopped. However, there was no turning back.
I ran over in two steps and said to my grandmother, "Grandma, whose family is this dead?" Why is it so scary? ”
Instead of speaking, my grandmother handed me a note.
I took the note and opened it. I found a few words written on it: Don't talk, and don't look back!
Seeing this, I was stunned for a moment! I don't understand what the hell are they doing grandma?
Thinking about it, I subconsciously turned my head and glanced behind me.
Just by looking at it, I immediately screamed!
Because, I saw behind me, a man with a cloak and a man or a woman, lying quietly on my back. What's even more terrifying is that I can't feel any of his weight!
Just when I was frightened, I suddenly felt that my eyes were dark. The whole person passed out!
By the time I woke up, it was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon. I sat up from my grandmother's clay kang and rubbed my swollen head, not sure if the man with the mantle was real or if it was my dream.
When my grandmother saw that I was awake, she couldn't help but reproach me: "Tell you not to let you turn back, you want to turn back." It's hard to suffer now! ”
I smiled, then turned to my grandmother and asked, "Who was burning the offerings just now?" Why does it feel so scary? Also, I seem to have seen a man with a disheveled hair just now, who is that? ”
"Phew! Bah! Bah! ”
As soon as I finished speaking, my grandmother spat three times in a row. Then he said to me, "Don't mention that person again." ”
Looking at my grandmother's appearance, I was even more puzzled. I couldn't help but ask, "What the hell is going on?" ”
Grandma looked at me and said, "You really want to know?" ”
I nodded urgently.
"Alas! All right! Even if I didn't say it, you'd hear about it from other people in the village! ”
As she spoke, Grandma paused and said, "Those colorful offerings just now were burned for Zhang Daring!" ”
"Zhang Daring?"
I was taken aback! If it were someone else, I wouldn't be fine. However, what grandma said was actually Zhang Daring! I was a little shocked!
Zhang Daring is a villager in this village. As the name suggests, people are usually very bold! However, they are not doing their jobs. Doing nothing every day. Usually, when he needs a wake for someone who is dead in a nearby village, he will run upside down. Not only do you have good food and drink, but you can also make some money to spend!
Generally, the people who find people to replace the wakes are those who are well-off. Naturally, the reward will not be less! After coming and going, Zhang Daring's life has become different from before!
After Zhang Daring had money, the first thing he did was to marry a young daughter-in-law in her twenties.
The reason why she is said to be a little daughter-in-law is because Zhang Daring is in her early forties. Originally, his life was very enviable.
Until this time, the son of a wealthy family in the next village went swimming in the river and drowned. And the corpse floated in the center of the lake, and did not float away with the river.
People said that he didn't want to leave.
The wealthy family spent a lot of money and asked everyone to help bring the body out of the river.
But no one dared to go!
Zhang Daring heard about it. Faced with the tempting bounty, he didn't say a word, just took off his clothes and jumped into the river. Then he swam underneath the corpse, carried the corpse on his shoulder, and swam to shore.
In his opinion, there are no so-called ghosts and gods in this world! The corpse stood still, it must have been caught in the water weeds or something. There is nothing to fuss about at all!
However, just when he was only a few meters away from the shore, he suddenly felt that the corpse on his shoulder seemed to be a thousand gold. Directly crushed him into the river!
Zhang Daring kept fluttering in the river. However, no matter what he did, he just couldn't surface.
Gradually, he also lost his movement at all due to physical exhaustion.
Zhang Daring is dead! Death is so inexplicable! People in the village said that Zhang Daring was arrested by others and became a stand-in!