Gula, a small town located in the foothills of Mount Gula.

In the northernmost part of the town there is an old mansion in which an ancient craft family lives.

Craftsmen, also known as craftsmen, make a living with specialized skills, and we have heard a lot of craftsmen with "craftsmen", and there is nothing else in this family's craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation, which is tomb robbing.

My name is Wu Ping, the sixth generation of the Wu family, there are seven and eight from the sixth generation, and the first generation is not old, because the ancestors migrated from Hubei. The father's generation bragged and said that the real ancestor was Wu Yuan, that is, the madman who dug the tomb of King Chuping in the late Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu. Let's not talk about the authenticity, trace back to the source, the surname Wu has survived to this day, and people with the surname Wu must have a certain blood relationship.

In times of peace, the ancestors became craftsmen who were both stonemasons and carpenters, and painters, and the house covered an area of 1,000 square meters, brick by brick, including the paintings on the walls, the carvings of pillars and eaves.

My father and uncles learned the trades and experiences of the older generation, and they went around to take on the work of civil engineering and construction. What is taken out of the ancient tomb must be old objects, but there is only one thing that the Wu family still has to do with old objects, that is, the uncle who does the antique business.

To get back to the point, the south and the north are respectively called Tufuzi and the gold touching faction, and the jargon is inverted fighting and touching gold, while the Wu family has its own faction - the Tibetan gold faction, and the jargon is to hide gold or look at the disease.

These two jargons have a lot of origins and a little deeper meaning.

Zang, refers to the collection, storage, the other layer means the depth, from top to bottom or from the outside to the inside of the gap, Tibetan gold, there are two meanings of collecting treasures and looking for treasures in the depths. In this way, the Tibetan gold in the Tibetan gold faction is not so noble, and there is no difference between inverted fighting, tomb robbery and gold touching, and the hidden gold is nothing more than to get the treasure and look for it in the depths.

Seeing a doctor is to see a doctor, and the doctor is generally expected to smell and cut the four steps of the patient, which are to observe the complexion, listen to the breath, ask about the symptoms and feel the pulse. The same is true of the program of tomb robbing, which refers to the observation of feng shui, which is called knowing the dragon. Smelling, hearing and sniffing, the master of smelling gold can smell the soil to determine the age of the tomb and whether it was first taken by other tomb robbers, which is usually called smelling gold. Asking, asking about stepping points, often called a pretty mouth. Cut, looking for the most convenient way to reach the main burial chamber, that is, to straighten the hole, there is also another saying, fishing for treasure from the corpse, called digging for gold, also called touching the corpse.

In order to avoid internal contradictions, the ancestor passed on the "disease" to four people, who mastered the four crafts of recognizing the dragon, smelling gold, pretty, and touching the corpse. What I learned is that the Wu family specializes in the art of knowing dragons, and the other three have lost their surnames, and so far, there is no reservation for the art of knowing dragons. However, I recently heard an important news, there are not four diseases, there is another one, that is, the shopkeeper, responsible for contacting buyers, collecting money and dividends, among the four doors, the life of the person who touched the corpse is the saddest, first no heirs, and then broken arms.

Where did the news come from, it has to start with a person with a foreign surname.

He has lived in the Wu family's old mansion for most of his life, and he still has a wicked scar on his face, and his left eyelid is covered by this scar, which extends to his left ear. For as long as I can remember, he used to sit in a rocking chair outside the house, with a swarthy hand on his temple, in a trance, always talking to himself and muttering something confused. For this reason, you have to come up with a false name - Lao Tou Tou, which means to touch.

Speaking of fear, whether it is a scar or a mental state, it is not as good as being afraid of the black left hand. The left hand was wrapped in white linen, like a mummy, and the white linen was so worn that it was yellow, yellow, and black, and it had shed one layer at a time, as if it could never be finished, or that his hands might have been corrupted and maggots.

No one else wanted to see that hand for what it really was, but my heart was full of curiosity. A few years ago, Lao Tantou was sick and hospitalized, just out of the dangerous period of surgery, in a coma, I happened to follow my father to take care of him, so I thought about secretly opening it to take a look.

After a morning of waiting, the opportunity finally came.

When I started to dismantle it, like an old grandmother dismantling a footcloth, I didn't finish it after more than ten turns, and the color of the burlap became darker and darker. When I saw the black juice coming out, I started to panic and had to rewind it. But at this time, I looked up and found that the old man had woken up, and I don't know when he woke up, he didn't say a word, just stared at me. I was so frightened that I burst out of the room, not even daring to look back, and I still can't forget his eyes that shimmered with strange colors, dull like a dead fish, but with a ghostly glow like a night owl's eye.

The more you don't want to see a memorable scene, the easier it is to see it a second time. This year's summer was very hot and dry, and after completing the school leaving procedures in early July, I was at the end of my studies, no longer had campus life, and became a social person who lived for the sake of living, but I didn't find a suitable job, and I stayed at home for a month. Today, I am still sitting in front of the window as usual, with many books on various exams on my desk, but I am reading idle books and playing with my phone.

The Wu family's mansion is composed of a combination of earth foundation and wooden pillar frame, counting the canopy of two and a half floors, and the window on the second floor looks down diagonally, just in time to see the old man's house, he asked someone to move the rocking chair into the house. I didn't intend to glance at him, but I noticed that he was lying in a rocking chair with his eyes staring straight up, and the only remaining right eye glowed with a strange light. I was suddenly startled, chilled, at this time I had to lower my head and continue to play with my phone, I couldn't play anymore, and slowly glanced up, but this time completely broke my psychological defense, and he was still staring at me!

We all thought that he was a bandit leader when he was young, and he was cut half-body, which is the origin of his evil appearance, and now his hair is gray and he is old, but this appearance makes people even more frightened. But the strange thing is why he keeps staring at me, could it be that I don't like it, or has something to say? The latter is impossible, because from beginning to end, he will not say anything to any junior, not even a noisy scolding. Since it is not pleasing to the eye, then at this time I am a little angry, I can't find a job, relatives and friends are looking at me unpleasantly, whether it is unpleasant to the eye, it is good, how can I still let an old man in a trance look flat, thinking of this, I mustered up the courage to glance at the old man with wide eyes, and then got up and went downstairs.

"Don't read the book, come down and mutter." When my father saw me coming down the stairs, he turned off the wood planter and said.

"The machine is too noisy to see."

"Pretending to be a fool, don't watch the noise? Staring at your phone all day long, playing with your phone can you get a job? Speaking of this, my father sighed, "It's really hard to find a job, there is no shortage of talents in the society, and I can't blame you for driving out so many college students in one sweep, don't follow the trend to grab the iron rice bowl, wait for your grandfather's board to be well-up, and go to the county town with Lao Tzu to decorate in a few days, and ask for a daughter-in-law for hard money." (The board refers to the coffin, and the board is the meaning of making the coffin.) ）

When it comes to such a topic, the feeling in my heart is not good, after all, I still blame myself for not working hard enough, not good enough, and complaining about others. Looking at his appearance, he can live for decades, alas, I don't understand why you make his board, and his children? ”

"How can there be any children, I heard your grandfather say before, although he is not surnamed Wu, but he has to be closer than the surname Wu, and he should also be treated as a relative, he is old, and we naturally need to consider the future."

In this way, the old man is pitiful, he has lived in the Wu family's mansion for most of his life, and he is crazy, even if he has a child to claim it, he has to ask the people of the Wu family if he agrees.

"How old are you?" I asked.