Book 1: The Cave of Snow Ridge Chapter 23: The Secret of the Haunted House
When we arrived at Uncle Zhang's village, it was already more than 4 o'clock in the morning, and the chickens began to crow, so we could close our eyes and sleep.
Before going to bed, I discussed with the fat man about going to find Xiaojing tomorrow, seeing that Uncle Nine and Lan Xin were also tired for a day and a night, we were embarrassed to ask them to go with us again, so we decided to sleep first and wait for the fat man and I to go up the mountain again after dawn, anyway, it shouldn't be too dangerous in broad daylight.
After I made up my mind, I was about to leave the fat man's room and go back to my room, when the swallow knocked on the door of the fat man's room and walked in.
Because Uncle Zhang's house was too small, there was no room for us to live in, so I, Fatty, Lan Xin and Uncle Nine all came to live in Yanzi's house, which is a big family in the village, and it is said that it is a big family, but in fact, there are four rooms in the house.
Lanxin and Yanzi are in one room, the fat man is in one room with Uncle Jiu, and I am in one room, because Yanzi's father said that I am the benefactor who saved Yanzi, and I have a wound on my back, so I insist on letting me live in one room. Yanzi's father is the head of this village, if it weren't for the fact that it was too late when we came back, Yanzi and her father would have had to set a table for us, and we couldn't stop it.
After Yanzi came in, he didn't see Uncle Jiu, so he asked the fat man, "Where is Uncle Jiu?" The fat man replied, "I'm going to WC, are you looking for him?" The swallow hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No!" I'm looking for him. ”
Swallow pointed at me, and since she had never had time to tell her my name, she didn't know what my name was.
The swallow stuck out her tongue, shrugged her shoulders and said to me, "Excuse me! Still don't know what your name is? "I just wanted to talk, and the fat man took the lead," his name is Wangcai! It's the dog's prosperity," I kicked the fat man in the ass and said, "Fuck your uncle." Then he smiled and said to Yanzi, "My real name is Wu Nian, they all call me Ah Wang, just call me Ah Wang." ”
Yan Ziyu covered her fingers and smiled, "Hehe!" Isn't that the name of the dog? I smiled awkwardly and was speechless.
The fat man came up to me and said to the swallow, "Little Nizi! It's so late, what's the matter with finding our family Ngawang? ”
"Of course there's something, let's go! Go to your room," Swallow said, taking me by the hand and going to my room.
I was stunned for a moment, like a monk who was confused, and the fat man looked at me with a wicked smile on the side, and then deliberately muttered, "Oops! I don't have this life, go to sleep. With that, he climbed into bed.
As soon as the girl who was so smart as Yanzi heard the fat man's words, she understood what she meant, and her cheeks immediately turned red, and she replied shyly, "It's not what you think, I just want to give Ngawang medicine." As he spoke, he took out a jar of medicine from his pocket.
The fat man was embarrassed to see the swallow, so he deliberately made it bad and said, "Oh! What do we want to look like? As soon as some words came out, the swallow's face turned red, and I saw that the swallow looked embarrassed, and I was quite embarrassed, so I said to the fat man, "The dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth, it's you, sleep your sleep!" ”
At this time, Uncle Nine came back conveniently, and after greeting us, he climbed into bed, and the fat man saw Uncle Nine coming, and quarreled with Uncle Nine on a whim, so that Uncle Nine told him about "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts", and then waved his hand to me and Yanzi and said, "What should I do, why do I go." ”
On the way back to my room, Yanzi obediently lowered her head, and still walked beside me with a flushed face, which made me very uneasy, thinking that Yanzi, this little girl, would not really have to make a promise just because I saved her, right? I can't bear this, not to mention that I've been thinking about my family's smoke and rain, and I don't know what happened to the smoke and rain now? But the phone is out of battery, and there is no signal in the poor countryside where this bird doesn't, so it seems that I have to find Xiaojing quickly and go back early.
In the room, Yanzi introduced me to the medicine, and I learned that the medicine in her hand was an authentic Yunnan Baiyao, which was especially useful for my skin trauma.
When the medicine was applied, the swallow said to me, "Ngawang! I'm sorry to hurt you to save me. Since I was lying on my stomach, I couldn't see the swallow's expression, but her voice was ashamed.
I hurriedly said, "Yanzi, don't say that, I can't do anything if I don't save myself, not to mention that I'm fine, isn't it, this skin injury is nothing, it's okay." ”
The swallow said sweetly, "Ngawang! You're so nice. I just laughed dryly, and the two were silent for a moment, I thought it was embarrassing, so I casually found some topic and asked Yanzi, "Yanzi!" Tell me about you and Ah Niu. ”
Yanzi said slowly, "I have nothing to do with him, in fact, I don't like him, I always want to go out to see, I don't want to stay in this village all the time, and I don't want to marry Ah Niu, in fact, my father is deliberately embarrassing Uncle Zhang before he said that he wanted two thousand." ”
Listening to Yanzi's tone, it seems that he didn't know that his father had matched her to Ah Niu, and I didn't dare to tell Yanzi so I didn't tell her.
Just said, "I'll take you out to see if I have a chance, as long as my uncle doesn't object." When the swallow heard me say this, she blossomed and said, "Really? ”。
"Hmmm! Really, how could I lie to you, little girl. I turned to look at the swallow and answered her.
Yanzi pursed her lips and said, "I'm not a little girl, I'm almost twenty years old this year." ”
I have to admit that the swallow is really smart, and she is definitely a big beauty if she dresses up a little.
The swallow's big watery eyes looked at me deeply, and I was most afraid of such a look, because I had no resistance, so I quickly went back to lie down and continued to take the medicine.
After the swallow gave me the medicine, I went back to my room to rest, and I was already exhausted, so I fell asleep on my stomach.
By the time I woke up, it was already noon, the sun was warm and cloudless. The fat man got up early, brought his equipment and waited for me, this thing usually sleeps better than pigs, so he must be in a hurry to find Xiaojing when he gets up so early.
I didn't say a word, I brought simple self-defense tools, as well as the backpack that Xiao Jing used before, so I set off with the fat man to the forest in the back mountain before Uncle Jiu and Lan Xin got up.
On the way, the fat man asked me, "Ah Wang!" What do you say if you really can't find Xiaojing? "I didn't answer the fat man's question, because I didn't know what I would do if I couldn't find Xiao Jing again, as the fat man said. I've never thought about it, and I don't dare to think about it.
Seeing that I didn't answer him, the fat man pushed me and said, "Did you hear me?" Why do you always like to forget your brain when you go out now, what's wrong? ”
I said, "It's all this time, why are you still in the mood for bullshit?" Think about how to find Xiao Jing is real. As we spoke, we had reached the mouth of the woods, and the fat man looked blankly at the endless woods and muttered, "What you said is Ah! Where do you find this? ”
I don't think I can look around like a headless fly. It was a thankless and a waste of time, and besides, who knows what danger awaits us in this forest, I want to go to the cabin last night, I have a strong feeling that the cabin holds the secret I want.
I told the fat man all about my thoughts and about someone following us last night, and finally we both agreed to go to the cabin last night.
As soon as I got to the cabin, I felt that something was wrong, because I closed the door when we were going back last night, and this door was piled up from the outside, so last night I didn't worry about whether I would get in today, so I closed the door.
But now the door is open, and what's even more strange is that there is a dead branch at the bottom of the door that is plugged between the crack of the door and the floor to prevent the door from accidentally closing, which is obviously artificial, how can animals have this intelligence.
I patted the fat man and pointed to the dead branch under the door, and the fat man immediately understood, and then there was a footstep sound from the second floor rubbing between my feet and the wooden floor, and I pointed to the second floor to the fat man, and the fat man nodded knowingly, and then stretched his head over and whispered in my ear, "Ah Wang!" Let's catch turtles in an urn. ”
Then I went up to the second floor with the fat man lightly, and the mechanism on the stairs was triggered by Uncle Nine last night, but the fat man didn't know that the staircase I had moved my hands and feet didn't know, and the fat man was always in a hurry, and he ran in front of me in a hurry, and as a result, he stepped on the wooden board with one kick and "squeaked".
After the fat man stepped on the "alarm", the footsteps on the second floor became urgent, it seems that we have been exposed, I didn't say a word, I ran up, just arrived at the door of the room on the second floor, I saw a black shadow flying down from the window on the second floor, the back turned to ashes, I recognize, it is the back of the mysterious man in black, as long as I catch the man in black, everything will be revealed.
I made a quick decision, and jumped directly from the second floor, the second floor is not too high, about three meters, I can still get this height, I only need to bend the body in the air, fall naturally, land on the ground with the soles of the feet, and the heels must not land on the ground, otherwise the chest will be concussion, and the cervical vertebrae in the waist will be broken.
After landing, the body rolled to the ground, this roll was not to be handsome, but to play the role of buffer, and the fallen leaves in the forest were relatively thick, so I easily jumped directly from the second floor.
The fat man didn't have my skills, so he had to scold anxiously at the window on the second floor, "I'm grass!" Are these all fucking monkeys? Then he reluctantly chased down the stairs.
As soon as I reached the ground, I rolled up and took off the folding sapper shovel directly from my waist, threw the sapper shovel away, and chased after me.
Who knew that the man in black walked like a fly, as fast as thunder and lightning, and he disappeared without a trace before chasing a hundred meters.
After chasing after the man in black, the fat man also followed out out of breath, and said "Ouch! I...... Grass! I'm tired of the fat man, people...... What about people? Did you run away? ”
I nodded, and the fat man continued, "Then why are you still stunned, running in that direction?" Chase after you. ”
I said, "Forget it!" Don't chase it, the horror of this forest is not something the two of us can handle, let's go back and see what secrets are on the second floor of the wooden house, the man in black actually appeared in the wooden house, which means that there is indeed something wrong with the house, maybe there are any treasures. ”
After hearing this, the fat man first nodded to show that what I said was reasonable, and then became excited and said, "If there is really any treasure, then the relationship is good!" Fat man, I will casually follow it for twenty or thirty pieces, go back to Tumen Street in Quanzhou and sell it, maybe it can be sold at a good price. ”
Tumen Street is an old street of antiques in Quanzhou, the fat man and his father are upside down, naturally know some friends who play antiques, the fat man always went to Tumen Street with his father when he was a child, so he naturally understands better than me in terms of antiques.
After the fat man finished speaking, he couldn't wait to walk back to the wooden house, and when we arrived at the wooden house, we went straight to the second floor, and when we arrived at the room, the fat man didn't say a word and stretched out his hand to grab the door to open the door, and I immediately stopped him, "Are you looking for death?" Just do it without looking, and take a good look at what's behind this doorknob. ”
After I finished speaking, the fat man probed his brain to look at the doorknob, and then said in surprise, "I'll go!" It's fucking thief enough to put such a thin blade behind the doorknob. ”
While the fat man was looking at the doorknob, I also carefully inspected the doorknob, and then said to the fat man, "Fat man, you see that there is a very thin steel wire on this doorknob, and if we turn the doorknob, it will definitely trigger the mechanism." ”
The fat man asked curiously, "What is it?" ”
"How do I know, just look for it." As I spoke, I followed the route of the steel wire, which was so thin that if it wasn't in broad daylight, I wouldn't be able to see it at all.
The wire was pulled all the way to the door and disappeared, but there was a gap on the side of the door that was obviously installed later, because the gap was all wood slag, and the gap was about 30 to 35 cm long.
I said to the fat man, "The mechanism is in here," and the fat man nodded in realization.
Then we both took a step back, I pressed the sapper shovel on the doorknob, pressed the doorknob hard, the doorknob just turned halfway, the gap on the side of the door suddenly "whoosh", a silver-white light flashed out of the gap quickly, hit the sapper shovel, the sapper shovel surface was cut out of a trace, emitting the crisp color of steel and steel collision, but also sparks.
Then the silver-white light fell to the ground, I looked, only to see a dagger about 30 to 35 centimeters long, the blade has a magnificence, I was surprised and delighted, this damn baby, this dagger is called Nepal * saber also some people call it Nepal * scimitar, my father used to see it when he was a soldier on Mount Everest, and once told me about this knife.
The southern slope of Mount Everest is in Nepal, and Nepalese soldiers are equipped with this dagger, and the cold snow blade of the Nepo* scimitar first showed its power in 1814 when British soldiers stationed in India fought the Gurkha soldiers in western Nepal, and since then this knife has produced countless legends.
Don't look at its strange shape, but it is extremely sharp, it is undoubtedly a terrifying weapon, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the king of daggers.
I picked it up and rubbed it on the back of the knife with my sleeve, the knife has been transformed, or should I say that it is not a Nepal * scimitar, but the shape is similar, the back of this knife has an extra row of serrations, and the blade is engraved with strange ancient runes, which at first glance looks a bit similar to the tattoo on my back, the silver light on the blade is cold, and it is well preserved,
It's just that I think it's strange, what is the connection between the runes on this knife and the tattoo on my back, and the tattoo on the palm of the black bear? Whatever, I'm going to settle on this baby, and I'll put it in my backpack when I think about it.
The fat man didn't understand the power of this knife, but when he saw me in his backpack, he frowned and said to me, "Awang! What baby? Show me too. ”
I said, "What kind of treasure is it, just a broken dagger, you go to the dollar store and buy a handful, it's nothing to look at." ”
The fat man didn't think it was true and said, "You are stupid for me!" Look at that steel is a good knife, don't be so stingy, take it out and take a look. "I don't know about the fat man, show him to see it is a meat bun and beat the dog, and there is no return. So he said to the fat man, "The real baby is in this room, go!" Go inside and have a look. ”
When the fat man saw that I had picked up the baby, he also itched, and grabbed me in front of me, and I followed suit.
The room was the same as the one I recorded on my phone last night, with only a wardrobe and a locked box.
The fat man opened the wardrobe directly, maybe because it hadn't been opened for too long, and as soon as he opened the wardrobe, there was a smell of wood and mold. The fat man waved his hand in front of his nose and tossed it in with an ice axe, but there was nothing but a few torn clothes and a few early gas shields.
I am very familiar with this kind of anti-gas mouth covering, we used to take a stone carving course for a period of time when we were in college, it was a real knife and a real * stone, what chainsaws, cutters, air drills, and this kind of anti-gas mouth covering we often use.
The fat man hooked up a gas shield with an ice axe, and said to me dissatisfiedly, "That's it?" It's still baby, I don't even bother to look at it again. ”
I didn't bother to pay attention to the fat man, I was only curious about what was in the locked wooden box, so I walked directly over to Duanxiang, the wooden box looked nothing special, it was made of ordinary wood nails, maybe it was a little moldy on it for a long time.
The fat man also came over, rubbed his hands, and said, "His grandmother's, the baby is all hidden here!" He said and prepared to do it.
I just checked, and there is no mechanism on the wooden box, but I deliberately said, "If you are not afraid of death, you will move, are you not afraid that there are any mechanisms on it?" "The fat man is not in a hurry, and the monkey is in a hurry to open the box. Instead, he looked at the box and said, "Ngawang! You're fooling me, what's the point? ”
"This is to make you grow your brain, don't be so impulsive every time, sooner or later it will kill you." The fat man was speechless, so he fiddled with the wooden box without squeaking.
The lock on the wooden box has been rusted very much, it seems that it has been a certain year, it should not be difficult to open, so I sapped the shovel at the position of the lock and slashed hard, did not open, and then I held my strength and slashed twice, and the lock was split.
There was a diary in the box, but it was not Uncle Shangguan's, and there was a thick layer of dust on it. I swept the dust off the diary with my sleeve and saw that it was old and old.
I opened it curiously to see what was written inside, and the fat man came over curiously, and the diary was all blank, except for the writing on the page bookmarked with a photo in the middle.
I looked at the journal and read it out loud, word for word.
"Lao Xu! Shangguan! Are you all well? I still miss the days when the three of us traveled together and stole the ancient tombs of emperors and generals, as if it was yesterday.
That will be in the same boat, life and death together, I don't know how many ancient tombs have been dug up, how many strange things have been encountered. But we have always fought side by side, never abandoned, although we are not brothers, Che Sheng is brothers, but I never expected that we parted ways here in the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
Maybe you don't understand why I want to disband our brave and warlike Captain Jin, and I have never dared to tell you, in fact, I can't do it anymore.
Since the last time I was bitten by the insect that I had never seen and heard in the ancient tomb, I began to feel that my body was constantly changing day by day, so I was so sad that I had to disband everyone.
Shangguan! Lao Xu! You are all already family members, so you should wash your hands in the future and spend time with your family. Shangguan, your little girl should be one or two years old by now, right? And Lao Xu, your big fat boy should already be babbling, right?
Since we parted ways, I haven't been willing to leave here, so I just live in the studio we set up.
I felt like I had a short life, and during this time, I often had black nosebleeds, my eyes were getting darker and darker day by day, and there were thousands of worms burrowing in my body. If I am going to die, let me die in our separate places.
Finally, there is the dog, although you were later harvested as an apprentice by Shangguan, and we are not familiar with each other, but after all, our life at that time was still due to you, and I would like to say hello to you here.
Don't miss your two pillars!
After reading the diary, I completely understood, I guessed correctly before, this Uncle Zhang must know that crazy man, or should I say "Erzhuzi". The dog mentioned in the diary should be Uncle Zhang.
All of a sudden, I had an indescribable feeling in my heart, I was really emotional, only to blame the creation of people, and the worldly drama.
I picked up the photo and looked at it, although the photo is old and yellow, I can still vaguely see the four people in the photo, namely Uncle Shangguan, Uncle Xu, Uncle Zhang, and a particularly tall man, it should be Erzhuzi.
After reading it, the fat man no longer shouted to find the baby, I believe that the fat man should be in the same mood as me at this moment. The fat man and I have been brothers for four or five years since the beginning of our freshman year, and we can understand the feelings of "Erzhuzi" for Uncle Shangguan and Uncle Xu, because we are also men and brothers.
I put my diary and photos in my bag to ease my mind. Then he said to the fat man, "Let's go!" It's better to hurry up and find Xiao Jing. ”
The fat man let out a long sigh and said, "We won't go too far last night?" Erzhuzi and my dad are good brothers, and they are my uncles, but we killed him last night. ”
The fat man usually looks like a big man, but in fact, I know that he is very emotional.
I patted him on the shoulder, "Fatty! Don't think so, after all, the second pillar is no longer the second pillar of the past, he is already a ghost corpse, instead of letting him go down like this, let's give him a good time, right? The fat man nodded in agreement.
At this time, there was a "squeak" sound from the stairwell, and the fat man had stepped on the "siren" before, so he knew that someone was coming up.
So the fat man and I immediately lay in ambush at the door......