Erdan said: "Grandpa Shun, just tell me what's going on?" ”

Shun Ye is one of the few eighty-year-old people in our village, the nickname is Da Dung, at the beginning of the said, the name at that time, the cheaper the better, there are many reasons for this, and the social form at that time has something to do with the poverty and backwardness of that era, it is not easy to raise a child from an early age, there are many children who die young, and every parent wants their children to grow up.

At that time, the names of some hard, firm, brave, fierce or even filthy and unclean things were consciously chosen as the child's milk name, which was believed to protect the child and make the ghosts and gods reluctant to mention it, so that the child could grow up healthily.

At that time, there was not only a name, but also a godmother who worshiped the stone mother-in-law, which meant that the child's life was as hard as a stone. I remember that the children of Bai Gan Niang, who were generally thin and often sick, would turn to the goddess for help, and the goddess would appoint an auspicious day of the zodiac, prepare fragrant cakes, fruits, vegetarian food, paper money, tin foil, etc., and borrow their names from the stones with spiritual energy. After praying with incense, he pasted the name of the scarlet paper on the stone and called the name of the house along the road to return home, believing that this would make the child strong and easy to grow up. In ancient times, there were many ways to name names, such as stealing names, bumping names, and giving alms to Taoist temples and temples, all of which reflected the low standard of living at that time, and people fought for a living.

Shun Ye lived to be more than eighty years old, and people said that Shun Ye's nickname was good, but Yin Si was reluctant to mention Shun Ye's name and forgot Shun Ye. Now Shun Ye has become the oldest old man, and everyone can't call him a nickname, so he calls Shun Ye. Shun Ye smoked a cigarette and looked into the distance, as if he was thinking about something with his heart, and said after a while: "This matter has to start from decades ago, if you want to say that this old soft-shelled turtle made a fortune, it is really a legend, when the old soft-shelled turtle fled from a foreign country, I heard that it was that place?" ”

Speaking of this, Shun Ye fell into contemplation, thought for a while, shook his head and said: "People are old and useless, I can't remember, it doesn't matter where it is anyway, I went on to talk about his wealth, he and his daughter-in-law, fled to us, because the daughter-in-law fell ill here, the old turtle couldn't go away, so he settled in the small broken temple in Zhuangtou, the villagers saw that they were pitiful, so they didn't drive him away, the old turtle asked for food during the day, and gave the things to the daughter-in-law to eat at night, so it took a long time.

One day the old soft-shelled turtle went to ask for food again, this time it was late to come back, when passing by a small mountain pass, it was already dark, the life of the person who wanted to eat was cheap, it was common to walk at night in the dark, the old soft-shelled turtle held a dog stick in his hand, this year the road robbery, there was no robbery of the beggar, the stick in the hand of the old soft-shelled turtle was not to prevent people, but to prevent wild dogs and lone wolves or something, and it was inevitable to encounter wild animals when walking at night.

The old soft-shelled turtle walked into the col, saw the black woods, although not very afraid, but after all, it is a barren mountain and wilderness, it is inevitable that he is nervous, he can't help but speed up his pace and walk forward, walking and walking, suddenly a golden light appeared in the woods, the old soft-shelled turtle looked at the golden light, startled, ran a few steps, suddenly felt wrong, the old people often say, this gold, silver jewelry and the like, are spiritual, buried in the ground, time will change for a long time, some put golden light at night, some will become animals, The golden light must have come from gold and silver.

So the old turtle stopped and hurriedly looked towards the golden light, and saw that this golden light was really beautiful in the dark night, and illuminated the woods next to it. The old soft-shelled turtle feels that it must be a baby, as the saying goes, the horse has no night grass and no fat, people have no windfall and no wealth, think about their own food, his wife is sick at home, if he does not find a doctor, he may die a whimper, he is also a rotten life, simply go with him.

While thinking about it, the old turtle carried his dog-beating stick and walked towards the golden light, which flashed in the woods, although it was night, but it was very easy to find. When the old turtle arrived at the place where the golden light was shining, he was stunned for a moment, it was a round ball, shining there. The light emitted was brighter than an oil lamp, and the old turtle was sure that it must be a treasure.

But how can you catch this treasure? These things are spiritual, and if they are slightly alarmed, they will run away, and they can only be beaten with a stick, and they will be unprepared. So the old soft-shelled turtle raised the dog-beating stick in his hand, and slowly walked towards the round ball, when it was almost gone, the stick could hit the round ball, the old soft-shelled turtle shouted, and a stick hit the round ball, this time the old soft-shelled turtle thought that it was nine out of ten, but he didn't expect the round ball, all of a sudden, jumped up from the ground, and jumped directly to a place outside the zhang.

As soon as the old turtle saw that the glowing ball had run away, he directly carried the dog beating stick, and chased after it. The ball ran, the old turtle chased behind, I don't know how far it was chased, and when it reached a ravine, the ball suddenly disappeared without a trace. The old turtle was very strange, so he went to the place where the ball disappeared and looked for it, and then he saw by the moonlight that there was a lot of rotten wood on the ground. How could there be more of this rotten wood for no reason? The old turtle wanted to see clearly, so he squatted down, found hay, took out a fire sickle, and slowly lit a fire.

After the hay was gone, the old turtle picked up some rotten wood on the ground and let the fire grow slowly. After the fire was bigger, the old turtle saw the place clearly, this was a tomb, due to the age, the soil on the grave was gone, and a coffin was exposed on the outside of the soil layer, and the coffin had rotted. The old turtle was first surprised, and then his heart was overjoyed. Why is the old soft-shelled turtle happy? This has something to do with the secret of a thief's treasure at the time.

Some Jiangyang thieves, in the capital of the city, stolen gold, silver and jewelry, want to transport out of the city, it can be described as a difficult and boundless, there are officers and soldiers guarding the city at the gate of the city, bring too much gold and silver, will be caught by the officers and soldiers to lose their heads, so the thieves came up with a good way to transport money out. They bought a coffin in advance, and then hid the stolen gold, silver and jewelry in the coffin, pretending to be a filial son to help the coffin out of the city, at that time the deceased was big, there was no definite evidence, if the coffin was opened for autopsy, it was a capital crime, and the coffin was a thing used by the Yin people, and the living people would feel very unlucky, so under normal circumstances, no one wanted to care about this idle matter.

After the Jiangyang thieves transported the coffin out of the city, they would transport it to a remote and secret place, bury the coffin, and dig it up later. However, what these river and ocean thieves did was the crime of killing their heads, and the government would definitely die after they were caught, so the gold, silver and jewelry, buried among the barren mountains, became ownerless.

The old turtle thought to himself, if there is this coffin of gold and silver, it will not be able to eat it in a few lifetimes, when his hand touches the rotten coffin, he suddenly feels uneasy in conscience, this stealing the grave and digging the grave is a hurtful thing, and if it is not good, it will affect future generations. Thinking about it, I am a beggar for food, and I may not live much in this life, so how can I have any ability to raise the next generation. After figuring it out, the old turtle dismantled the coffin board with his hands. ”

At this time, the second egg said, he grinned and said: "Grandpa Shun, you lie to us ignorance, everyone knows that after the coffin cover, it will be suppressed with seven descendant nails, so that the descendants can prosper, that old soft-shelled turtle is a person who wants food, can he pull out the coffin nails with his hands?" ”

When Shun Ye heard this, he knocked two eggs with a cigarette pouch and said, "What do you know about Xiao Huanghuang?" Do you know three long and two short? ”

Erdan covered his head and said, "Can I not know this?" ”

Shun Ye said: "Although you know the three long and two short, but I don't know its origin, when I was in school, the old gentleman of the private school said that the ancient coffin has no nails, so it is tied with leather." It is said that in ancient times, coffins did not use coffin nails, and the bottom of the coffin was tied together with the lid with leather strips. Three lanes are tied in the horizontal direction, and two lanes are tied in the vertical direction. The horizontal direction of the plank is long, the longitudinal direction of the plank is short, and the three long and two short are derived from this. ”

Erdan hurriedly said: "Shun Ye, how can I know as much as your old man." ”

Shun Ye said: "Young people need to know a little more, I will continue to talk about that thing, when the old turtle opened the rotten wood on the coffin, looked at the contents of the coffin, and sat on the ground in fright, what do you guess the old turtle saw?" ”