Chapter 55: The Tomb Robber's House
As we spoke, we came to another hillside, which was originally a mountain forest, and there may have been a forest keeper, but for some reason only a small abandoned house remains.
Lao Huang looked around with his hand blocking the sunset, and said to Mrs. Mingyue: "Senior sister, this hillside and that ancient tomb are yin and yang, and they are a living door!" ”
Master Mingyue nodded slightly and didn't say anything.
I haven't closed my eyes for two days and one night, and I've been so sleepy that my eyelids are fighting, but fortunately there is a big bed in the abandoned house, and I'm not polite, so I said hello to the three of them and lay down on one side and fell asleep.
I don't know how long I slept, but in a daze, I heard someone call my name.
"Who?" I was taken aback and hurriedly asked.
"Little evil - you have no conscience, you can't even hear my voice?"
"Xiaoni? You...... Where are you? But I'm worried about it......"
"I'm in the ancient jade around your neck, but now you can't see me."
I hurriedly touched the ancient jade on my neck, which was still blood-red.
"I ...... What can I do to save you? ”
"Ask the two masters! They must have a way - but it should be difficult to save me, you have to 'go against the sky'. ”
"You...... Don't worry! As long as I can save you, let alone go against the sky, even if I poke a hole in the sky, I'm not afraid! ”
"Little Evil ...... You...... It's so good for me! ”
I was a little embarrassed to be praised by Wang Xiaoni like this, and after being embarrassed for a while, I asked her again: "Why did you just talk to me?" ”
"I'm just a wisp of soul now, and I can't communicate with you unless you're asleep......" As soon as Wang Xiaoni's words fell, she heard the harsh sound of masonry rubbing on the side.
After a moment's pause, I opened my eyes suddenly, and it turned out that I was still asleep just now.
When I opened my eyes, I saw Lao Huang and the three of them squatting in a corner of the house with their backs to me.
I looked out the window, and it was already dawning, and there were still a few rays of sunlight shining in. I rubbed my eyes: "What are you squatting there looking at!" ”
The three of them turned to look at me: "Look what this is." ”
I walked over and saw that there was a hole of about half a square meter in front of the three people, the hole was pitch black, and I couldn't see it at a glance, and there was a huge bluestone slab next to it, and there were traces of the stone slab being moved on the ground.
"Little evil, you slept too hard last night...... I heard a strange noise in this corner, and only later did I discover the hole. Lao Huang said.
I took a look at the hole, it was not big, but it was very deep, and there were obvious traces of tamping around the hole, indicating that the hole may have been dug by hand, at least it had been artificially modified.
"Why is there a hole here?" I asked.
Lao Huang smiled slightly: "Don't you think this house is also very strange?" ”
I looked around and saw that there were more than a dozen shovels erected on one side of the house, all of which were rusty, and there were also piles of steel bars, pickaxes and other utensils.
"Look out the window again." Uncle Wang pointed to the small window on one side.
Outside the window is a small hill of stones, which seems a little abrupt.
A flash of lightning flashed through my head, and I casually exclaimed, "Isn't this the house where the forester lives?" ”
Lao Huang sneered twice: "I guess it's a tomb robber!" This should be a robbery hole, and if you don't get it, you can get to the ancient tomb we used to go by! As he spoke, he glanced at Mrs. Mingyue again, "Senior sister, now you know who those people who were torn apart in the tomb, right?" ”
Master Mingyue nodded: "Most of these tomb robbers should have died in the tomb, but not all of them died, at least one escaped." ”
"How so?" Lao Huang asked.
"Look at this bloody handprint, it was obviously left by moving the bluestone slab from the inside out."
After looking at the time, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, and a few people had just eaten some compressed biscuits yesterday, and they were already hungry. Lao Huang said: "Little evil! When I came here yesterday, I saw a lot of hare activity in this area, so you can go out with me to catch one! ”
I know that Lao Huang and Mingyue are too taboo to meat and wine. It didn't take them ten minutes to catch a fat rabbit, remove the internal organs and skin it by the nearby stream.
Lao Huang roasted the hare very skillfully, and what I didn't expect was that in addition to the magic utensils, there were also salt, cumin and other spices in the earthy yellow bag he carried, which in his words were necessary for outdoor activities.
Although Master Mingyue has become old, she has a good spirit and appetite, and she has eaten most of the rabbit legs, but Wang Qianmo has always been preoccupied and has no appetite.
When everyone returned to the ancient burial mound again, the black water was gone, the black snake eel in Professor Liu's mouth and the corpses of the neighbors of the ancient burial village were gone, and there was a black hole of seven or eight square meters in the original burial package, which was bottomless.
Maybe it has something to do with a recent experience, when I saw the black hole, I felt uncomfortable and unconsciously took a few steps back.
Lao Huang said: "The villagers and the black snake eel originally belonged to the underground, this is the so-called ninety-nine to one, where it belongs, it still has to go back to where - maybe we can still see Xiao Wang ......"
Wang Qianmo looked at everything in front of him in a trance, and tears the size of beans flowed down his cheeks.
Master Mingyue gently patted her shoulder: "Girl! All the "fruits" of today are the "causes" of yesterday, and everyone has a life, which is your life and your father's life. ”
Mrs. Mingyue's words are actually like a mystery, especially the sentence "We may still see Xiao Wang".
"Girl, it's fate that we can meet, so let's do it! If you wish, I will take you as a disciple. ”
When I heard that I was unwilling, I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "That's not good!" If you become your apprentice, won't you also become a ...... became a Taoist aunt...... That's not ......."
Seeing that I was anxious, Mrs. Mingyue and Lao Huang laughed.
"Little evil! You probably haven't understood the rules of this sect, I am a Taoist priest, and the two senior sisters are Taoist aunts, but it does not mean that our apprentices are Taoist priests or Taoist aunts, we are just cultivators, but we are not taboo about any rules and precepts. ”
When I heard it, my heart was happy.
Master Mingyue continued: "That's it! Xiaoxie, you are the grandson of your junior sister, in fact, grandson and apprentice are nothing more than a title, in the future, you will call me uncle, call me uncle, Momo, of course, call me master, you two can be regarded as a new generation of disciples of this sect. ”
As he spoke, he heard the roar of a car in the distance.
"This is the mountain patrol team coming...... I probably heard that there was an earthquake here, so let's take a look! More is better than less, let's get out of here! ”
We followed Lao Huang along the mountain road all the way east, and when we went around to the original location of the ancient burial village, we saw that there were many military vehicles parked around the black water, and there were about twenty or thirty people in uniform shuttling back and forth, as if they were very busy.
Seeing that my village had turned into a black water again, Wang Qianmo and I felt sad again.
Lao Huang dragged us around the trail for a few hours, and I realized that I had left the Yin Valley.