The drunkard commanded us to come down, and we went to work.

Taking advantage of the night, no one noticed us, Sun Blind and Grandma carried shovels, and I carried the sacrificial corpse on my back and went up the mountain together.

Grandma was most familiar with the situation in the mountains, and she took us to the depths, to find a wasteland that few people visited.

It is really not an easy task to dig a pit that can bury a person, especially among us, an old man and a blind man, basically can't help much.

I dug for a while, and I was also tired and sweaty, after all, I had been studying, although I looked tall and big, but I still couldn't do this kind of tiring work.

What I didn't expect was that the drunkard Qi was quite energetic, holding a shovel alone, his face was not red and he was not panting.

Sun Blind was on the side, and couldn't help but praise: "Brother Qi, you are good at this body, and you are more energetic than young people in their twenties." ”

"Hahaha." The drunkard laughed and shook his head.

It took about three hours to dig a pit, and two-thirds of it was done by the drunkards.

When he was done, he threw down his shovel and said inexplicably: "Don't look at you calling me brother, in fact, I am younger than you, this little work is nothing to me at all." ”

We were all stunned, and we didn't quite understand the meaning of the words.

Sun Blind was the first to react and asked, "Then how old are you today?" ”

"Thirty-seven!"

This answer is really surprising.

Looking at the appearance of a drunkard, if he is seventy-three, he is believed by anyone, but if he is only thirty-seven, then this person is too old.

Grandma and Sun Blind should be respected, and they both called him brother, I thought that it might be a few years old, but I didn't expect it to be a generation behind.

As a result, the old brother can't scream.

Seeing the reaction of several of us, the drunkard laughed to himself, took out the leftover wine from the noon drink from his pocket, and poured it as if he were drinking water.

"Haha, I didn't expect it, I'm really only thirty-seven. The appearance of our treasure holders is not the same as normal people, and some women are seventy or eighty years old and look like an eighteen-year-old girl. ”

Looks, everyone cares, who doesn't want to look younger.

I was so curious that I asked, "Why is that?" ”

The drunkard replied: "This is the secret of our business, and it is not enough for outsiders." ”

Grandma also patted me in the back and reprimanded me in a deep voice: "Ping'an, don't talk too much, about Master Qi, even if you go out, don't tell others." ”

I knew in my heart that my grandmother didn't want me to make trouble, and she didn't want to make trouble for the drunkards, after all, if this matter spreads, it is likely to attract the covetousness of some people.

"I know, I won't tell anyone."

The drunkard didn't tell us not to tell others, after all, we are all sensible people, and we still have this awareness.

He took out the three-legged toad and got down to business.

Now that the sacrifice has been suppressed, even if it is strange, it cannot be performed, just like a normal corpse, at our disposal.

First, the sacrificial corpse is placed in the dug pit.

After that, the drunkard took out the prepared red cloth, spread it around the pit, and took out a black bottle with some powder in it.

I don't know exactly what the powder is, but the moment I opened the bottle, I smelled a strong fishy smell.

He didn't explain, and we didn't ask.

I saw him pinch a little powder with his fingers, slowly spill a piece on the red cloth, and then let go of the three-legged toad.

The toad jumped on the red cloth, very interested in the powder, and did not run around, but stretched out its long tongue and began to lick it all the way.

To be honest, it's kind of disgusting.

Moreover, the toad licked the powder, and did not even withdraw its tongue, as if its tongue was infinitely long, and after stretching out and licking the powder, it directly circled it and became a large round ball.

When its tongue licked the last bit of powder, the drunkard grinned, and he didn't see where he had pulled out a delicate knife.

A flash of cold light.

The tongue sticking out of the toad's mouth was instantly cut off.

This is not the end, the drunkard Qi moved extremely fast, instantly grabbed the meat ball that was cut off, and then grabbed the chin of the sacrificial corpse, pinched its mouth open, and stuffed the tongue meat ball in.

While we were stunned, he did something even more unexpected.

The drunkard opened his mouth wide, stuck out his tongue, picked up his hand and wiped it on his tongue violently, causing saliva all over his hands. Then he slid the saliva water across the mouth of the corpse.

At this time, the toad, whose tongue had been cut off, jumped up next to the mouth of the sacrificial corpse, as if trying to get in, but it couldn't get in, just circled around the mouth.

"Haha, little guy, your tongue has been saved for your daughter-in-law, you can guard her here."

After speaking, he took out another red thread, turned his head and asked his grandmother, "Do you know how to needlework?" ”

Grandma nodded.

And said: "Okay, to put it mildly, no one dares to break the red line of the old widow!" Come, use this red thread to tie the back leg of this toad and the left thumb of the sacrificial corpse. ”

The old widow's red line dare not be broken!

This old saying is true, but it is somewhat inappropriate to say it in front of a widow.

But grandma didn't care, nodded immediately, and according to what the drunkard said, she used a red thread to connect the toad and the sacrificial corpse.

After doing this, the toad actually settled down, lay on the face of the sacrificed corpse, hibernated, and did not make any more trouble.

The drunkard put the red cloth that had fallen on the ground over their bodies.

"Licheng, bury the soil!"

Let's do it yourself and fill the soil with a shovel.

"Peace, help." Grandma gave me a push.

I came back to my senses, grabbed another shovel, and began to help, asking as I filled in the soil, "Master Qi, what were you doing just now?" That is, to marry a toad? ”

"Hehe, these three-legged toads are human. I took its tongue in a special way to keep it, and this tongue has a special meaning for it; My saliva, on the other hand, restrained it, so that it could not take out its tongue; As for marrying it in the end, it is to completely reassure its heart. This kind of toad's habit is very interesting, once there is a other half, it will not be reluctant, no matter what the other half is, as long as it is the mother. ”

I was stunned.

If someone else said this to me, I would definitely scoff at it and think it was nonsense, but this was said by the drunkard, and the facts were in front of my eyes.

As the saying goes, there is a way in everything, and the more special the creature, the more special the habits.

Qi drunkard said again: "This three-legged toad is a 'treasure', its habits and functions, I can tell you about it for a day, today we came to the town to sacrifice the corpse, in fact, it is really overkill." ”

I didn't answer, but Blind Sun answered on the side.

"The treasure holder, as expected, is a treasure in itself, worthy of being one of the most mysterious inheritances, and being able to explain Master Qi's friend, I, a blind man, can be regarded as a worthwhile life."

At this moment, I became curious about the treasure holder, it was so mysterious.

However, the drunkard Qi said that I can't become a treasure-bearer like him, so I can only look up to him after all.

Filling in the soil is easier than digging a pit, so we quickly filled it in and treated it so that it didn't look much different from the surroundings so that it didn't look much different from the surroundings.

After finishing, we sat down to rest, I looked at the buried place, and asked: "Master Qi, you told me that this toad has sucked corpse qi and can suppress evil for a hundred years, can it live for a hundred years?" ”

The drunkard shook his head: "I don't know!" ”

"Don't know?" I was stunned.

"I haven't lived for a hundred years, so I don't know, but it's recorded in the classics, this thing is very weird, maybe it can really live for a hundred years, and I'm also going to record it here, and when my descendants come here to check it out after a hundred years, maybe there will be unexpected discoveries."

Hearing the words of the drunkard Qi, I hurriedly asked, "What about the sacrificial corpse?" This thing has been underwater for hundreds of years, but it is not rotten, and if you stay here for a hundred years, you may still be there. ”

He patted me on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't care so much, in a hundred years, you will die a long time ago, and it has nothing to do with you." ”

Me: "......"

After resting in the mountains for a while, we descended home.

Because of my curiosity about the treasure holders, I asked Qi the drunkard a lot of questions, and at the cost of a few bottles of wine, he only answered some of my questions that were not painful. As for the secrets of the treasure-holders, they don't tell me at all.

Drunkard Qi rested at my house for one night and left early the next morning.

Before leaving, I left us a word.

"This is a fate, but also a cause and effect, he will definitely come again in the future, because I still owe him three things, and if there is a violation at that time, I will also bear the cause and effect."

There is something threatening about this statement.

As a mysterious treasurer, he does have a price for saying this, of course, I don't plan to pay the bill, nodding in response, saying that I will be waiting at any time.

After sending off the drunkard, my grandmother and I went to breakfast.

After the meal, Mr. Liu's people came, and the corpse digger brought news of my mother.