Book 2: The Bronze Hanging Coffin of the Ba People Chapter 25: The Cliff Hanging Coffin

On the way, I briefly summarized and told the fat man about the ghost and Lan Xin, and the fat man also asked me what I thought of the manuscripts just now, and asked me if I had any plans?

"What do you mean?" I asked knowingly.

The fat man squinted at me and said, "Ngawang, you said that you were foolish for a while, didn't you see that those manuscripts just now were related to the tomb under the hydropower station?" ”

In fact, I know all of this, but I deliberately tested the fat man "How can I see it?" ”

The fat man said, "The same manuscript records that Nuwa Shi drew a topographic map of the hydropower station, don't you think it's already obvious?" ”

I knew that the fat man had made another mistake, so I responded, "What! My hands are itchy, and I want to go to the grave. ”

The fat man didn't see that I was deliberately teasing him, so he said to me seriously, "Ah Wang! You have to know that we are not going to the tomb this time for anything else, even if it is not to solve the case, we have to go to the tomb for you, don't you want to find out the identity of Yanyu? From the manuscript, it can be seen at a glance that this tomb is related to the Gu girl, and it must be related to the smoke and rain. ”

In fact, even if the fat man doesn't say it, I have to go to this tomb, originally just to find out the secret behind the hydropower station back then, but now it's even more for the smoke and rain, for the past I couldn't let go of two years ago.

The two of us chatted and chatted, and then we had already walked out of the cave, the entrance of the cave was just the opposite of the position I had just climbed up, and then I found that there was a hidden path at the entrance of the cave here, leading to the foot of the mountain, and I almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood when I boarded, and secretly said in my heart, "Grandma's, I just climbed so hard, like a second goods."

Seeing that I didn't speak, the fat man gently slapped me in the face with his hand, "Second brother!" Why are you stupid? The fat man also spoke with a particularly heavy tone when he said the word "two", and he continued, "Hurry up and find out where the purple fairy plant is, don't pose (pose)!" ”

At this time, the sky was bright in the morning, and everything was bathed in the sun, and the best way to find the purple immortal plant was to find a place for yin and yang to communicate, but now the sun rises early to drive away the yin energy, so I can only rely on the method of feng shui to determine yin and yang. Feng Shui is the power of nature, the scientific theory is the great magnetic energy of the universe, the wind is the vitality and field energy, and the water is the flow and change, all of which can be seen through the shape of the mountains, the shape of the river and the situation of the five elements.

According to the display of the needleless compass, a radius of 100 miles, the most gathering of yin and yang intersection belongs to the cave where we are now, after the big location is confirmed, the next thing is to look for it according to the habit of the growth of the purple fairy plant, because the purple fairy plant likes to grow on the cliff most in the cliff, so I and the fat man started to find it from the cliff wall of this cave, the emperor paid off, and finally we found a purple fairy plant in the southwest of the cliff at eight o'clock, fortunately the fat man came prepared, so he had a climbing rope and a wire lock in his backpack.

Now it's different from the past, now I and the fat man use these things, it's already practice makes perfect, three times five divided by two to get everything ready, because I am more flexible than the fat man, I went down to pick medicine, the fat man is on the top to help me see the direction, the purple fairy plant is just two meters away from us just out of the cave, I took one step, picked the purple fairy plant, just when I was about to go up, the fat man above seemed to have found something, squinted his eyes, and exclaimed, "Wang Zai, there seems to be something on your back?" ”

I was about to reach out and touch it, when the fat man suddenly exclaimed, "Wang!" Don't move. I knew something was going to happen when he was nervous, so I didn't dare to move as he said, and he continued, "You have a scorpion on your back, only a centimeter from your neck, and you should be careful if the scorpion stings you." When I heard this, I suddenly felt a sigh in my heart, and I didn't dare to act rashly.

"Wang! Now at my command, use the shovel in your hand to quietly reach on your back and slap the scorpion off. Since I can't see the position of the scorpion, I can only let the fat man be my eyes, I fully believe in the fat man, so he asked me to listen to the left or the top point, and wait for the fat man to say, "This is the position, shoot!" "I shook the shovel face, the scorpion on the back of the scorpion away, after a false alarm, I just changed my breath and found that the climbing rope tied to my body has climbed a scorpion at some point, this scorpion and my face is close at hand, thick and long tail is raised high in front of my eyes, although I can't tell what kind of scorpion this is, because there are more than 1,700 kinds of scorpions, but no matter what scorpion is poisonous, since ancient times the ancestors called the scorpion the first of the five poisons, especially the pincers with thin tails are huge poison, can make people extremely painful, Convulsions, paralysis, and even cardiac arrest or respiratory failure.

And now I am stalemate with this is this kind of scorpion with a thin tail and thick pincers, scorpions living in the wild usually live in natural stone crevices, and like yin and fear of yang, day and night, it is estimated that I just picked the purple fairy plant, the action is too big, and the scorpion alarmed to the crevice, so now this scorpion is sheltering from the sun in the shadow under my face, its tail is in front of my eyes, as long as the slightest carelessness, its poisonous needle can immediately sting my eyeballs, I have been sweating with it for dozens of seconds, The cold sweat has wet my clothes, and even the swallowing saliva has to be gentle, for fear of alarming the head of the five poisons, the beads of sweat the size of beans slipped down my forehead and cheeks, itching very much, but I can only endure it, who said that this is not a fucking torment.

The fat man watching from above was also anxious, and he said "Wang!" You must not move, I have heard people say that in this case, you can make a scorpion fall asleep just by whistling, and I will blow you a lullaby. ”

I was shocked when I heard this, and secretly scolded in my heart, "The dead fat man blows your sister!" Didn't you watch the movie and get bitten as soon as you whistle? "But I didn't dare to speak, because scorpions don't have ears, and almost all of their actions rely on the sensory hairs on the surface of their bodies, which are very sensitive, and can feel the activity of cockroaches within a meter of a meter, and can detect extremely weak vibrations, and even the weak movement of the air flow can be perceived, so I have been holding my breath, but fortunately, I am good at water-based kung fu, and holding my breath is not a problem, but this is not a long-term solution after all.

I was afraid that the fat man would whistle, so I immediately gently stretched out my left hand and gave him a middle finger, which meant to shut him up, so that he could come up with these bad ideas here, it was better to quickly think of a real way, and after stretching out the middle finger, I was surprised to find that the scorpion did not have any reaction, which was my overjoy, so that I could quietly approach it with my hand, and then bounce him away.

When my fingers were quietly approaching the scorpion, he nervously shouted "Yes!" Right! Very good, Wang, a little closer, come on! Come on...... "I shouted so much that I went crazy in my heart, thinking that I had to pick off a layer of skin from the dead fat man in a minute, what the fucking ghost was called, and I was restless and unable to concentrate."

And just when my fingers were about to get close to the scorpion, I don't know where to fly a red-headed fly that does not have long eyes, that is, the so-called wild fly, it spun around and stayed on my eyelids, flapping its wings and wiping its feet, the sound was so loud that I could hear it clearly, not to mention the scorpion that felt the hair was particularly sensitive, at the same time, the alarmed scorpion immediately stung me in the eye, and in a hurry, I naturally reacted to close my eyes, and suddenly a stinging sensation came into my eyelids, followed by a feeling of paralysis.

I was stung because of the fright, the body leaned back, pulling the climbing rope, causing the scorpion to fall to me, this repaid, panicked, I immediately danced with my hands, waved my hands and slapped the whole body, due to the action was too large, the climbing spikes tied to the climbing rope immediately popped out of the rock cracks, and so I reacted too late, only to hear a crisp sound of "ding", instantly I fell from the cliff weightlessly, fortunately the fat man was quick to move, and immediately took out the sapper shovel with one hand to jam the last climbing nail, And with the other hand, I grabbed the climbing rope that tied to my body, and it was thanks to the strength of the fat man that I was able to save my life.

I stopped falling, and I was hanging back in the air, hanging by a climbing rope, but coincidentally, it was precisely this posture that made me see two rectangular things hanging on the side of the cliff, I don't know what?

"Ngawang! How are you? The fat man shouted in a hurry.

"It's okay! But I found something down here, you can come down and take a look. After the fat man came down, I moved the position with him to the position where I had just seen something, and when I got close to the place, I recognized that it was two coffins, but it was very strange, why were the coffins hanging on the cliff?

The fat man said, "This is the hanging coffin of China's unsolved mysteries." Since he was a child, he likes to touch the business of Captain Jin, so he is more knowledgeable than me in these things related to funeral arts.

"Hanging coffin? How fresh. "I'm getting more and more curious.

The fat man made a serious expression and responded seriously, "Wang!" Do you not know, this hanging coffin is big, it is mainly a mysterious burial method of the ancient people in the southwest of the people, we have this kind of hanging coffin in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, and as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this has to be put aside before the noble burial of famous nobles, of course, it is all over the country, especially in the area of Sichuan and Shu. The fat man was full of praise when he said this, "Tell me how the ancients transported these coffins weighing hundreds of pounds to this cliff that is hundreds of meters high, and the apes can't climb it, and the birds are worried about it?" Not to mention the ancients, even the current technology is difficult to do, which is difficult from human and financial resources to the environment, so this has always been a puzzle. ”

"Some people once thought that the coffin was hung from the top of the cliff by pulleys and slings, but this speculation was quickly overturned, because it was a question of whether the ancients had pulley technology thousands of years ago, not to mention that this method could not make some details of the hanging coffin."

When I heard this, I felt that it was indeed magical, and I thought that the creative ability of the ancients had too many mysterious colors, so that people today could not guess the mystery, and the mysterious culture left by the ancestors was worthy of our contemplation, understanding, and reverie.

The fat man continued, "This is also a method of embalming for our ancient Chinese, the coffins used in the hanging coffins of the ancients are some rare wood, which can prevent insects, and because it is off the ground, suspended in the air, and dried for many years, the corpse is not like the one that will rot in the soil, but it will become a dried corpse like bacon." ”

After the fat man finished speaking, he reached out and touched the two hanging coffins in front of him, and then put them between his noses, smelled them, as if something was wrong, and after thinking about it, he said, "Strange! Judging from the color and smell of the wood, these two hanging coffins were not left by the ancients, and in my opinion, they were only placed in the past two years. As he spoke, he frowned again, and muttered to himself with a puzzled face, "It's really strange!" This ancient and mysterious cliff burial has basically been lost, no one will use it, how can anyone still use it? ”

Since the fat man felt that something was wrong, he suggested that he should look around, and maybe there would be other gains. Sure enough, we found a small hole in the middle of the two hanging coffins, because the discharge of the hanging coffin is superimposed up and down, there is a space in the middle, and the hole is in this space The light is not enough to see what is inside, fortunately, the fat man brought a wolf's eye flashlight, through the wolf's eye, we immediately saw that there was a small incense tripod for worship in the hole, and there was a small spirit card behind the incense ding, and the card said "Guo family's spiritual position".

"Guo family! Isn't the mayor of the town who was burned to death two years ago surnamed Guo! "Suddenly, inexplicably, I have a feeling that this hanging coffin should have a relationship with Mayor Guo, and I have a bold guess, will this hanging coffin be the corpse of Mayor Guo's family of three?

I told the fat man my thoughts, and after hearing this, the fat man hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said, "It's not simple, let's open the coffin and do an autopsy, won't we know?" After finishing speaking, he seemed to suddenly think of something, "Huh", and added, "Let me tell you, as far as I know, Mayor Guo is actually born with long and short feet, his left foot is three centimeters shorter than his right foot, and if the male corpse is long and short feet after the coffin is opened, it can't be wrong." ”

What the?! Long and short feet! The fat man's words made me vaguely feel some important clues, but now I can't say what it is, in short, it feels very important, and all my attention now is on this hanging coffin, so I didn't think much about it, and I wanted to put it aside for now.

I said to the fat man, "Open the coffin!" How are we going to open it now? I don't have any guys or equipment. ”

The fat man waved his hand, "Of course it's not now, if there is a guy now, let's not talk about it now, it's not suitable to open the coffin today, it's easy to rush into anger, and it won't be good to get a corpse, and then we won't be able to eat and walk away on this kind of cliff that can't shake off our hands and feet." ”

I looked at the fat man in disbelief and didn't say a word.

The fat man saw that I was very suspicious of him, so he said "hey", "What, doubt me?" I'll tell you, we didn't understand before, just open the coffin, just unlucky, and then the fat man I learned from Uncle Nine to know, it turns out that this coffin depends on the day, but also to open the altar practice, this is to prevent bad luck, and the second is to respect the dead, you know. ”

"It's like it's true, why didn't Uncle Nine open the coffin before?" I thought that one sentence could block the fat man's mouth, but I didn't expect the fat man to return the head and say, "Are you sick?" Didn't we have that condition before, we didn't open the coffin much in the past, did we open it only because of urgency, is it possible that the adults have gone to the grave, and it depends on the day to go back and open it again? ”

I was so overwhelmed by the fat man's reasonable rebuttal that I didn't defend for a while, but just applauded and joked, "Okay! The fat man is getting more and more material now, it seems that Uncle Jiu, the master, you don't recognize it in vain, you're about to become a fucking fat god, or change Ming'er, our brothers and sisters will set up a stall on the street, I will bring a bowl, you shout, how about it? "Actually, I deliberately teased the fat man, and I absolutely believe what he just said.

"Fuck off! Less, let's go, do it in advance, change the fat man to I'll choose a day, let's take the guy and come back to open the coffin for an autopsy. After finishing speaking, he climbed up the climbing rope.

I didn't stay long, followed on, when I climbed to the top of the cliff, I found that there was a place with mud sticking on the cliff wall, I saw at a glance that this mud was black mud, the black mud on the edge of the glacial lake of the hydropower station, there was also a glacial lake in a radius of 100 miles, I immediately stopped crawling, checked the black mud, and saw the color and cracks that were left almost two days ago, no mistake, I used to make sculptures when I was not less exposed to this black mud, I understand it very well.

It seems that someone has been to this place two days ago, which makes me immediately suspect that it is either Dachangtong or Ha'er, because two days ago, I, Ha'er, and Dachangtong were all stained with this black mud, and the two of them were already among the objects of my suspicion.

If it's really one of them, then why are they coming back? I immediately thought of the small incense ding in the hole just now, so I went back, reached out and grabbed a handful of ashes on the incense ding, and found that the incense ash was still a few years new, it seems that one of them has a special relationship with Mayor Guo, otherwise why would he come back to worship.

"Wang Zai! What are you? Not to go yet. "The fat man, who had climbed to the top of the cliff, saw that I was not following and yelled at me.

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