Chapter Eighty-Seven: The First Entry into the Grave of the Underworld
Hearing him say this, I was busy casually saying a few nonsense, how to regulate a frail woman, and how to eat more jujubes and celery for anemia......
Xue Chunshan nodded as he listened, in fact, I knew that he didn't hear it in his ears at all.
After eating, Liu Ruyan and Wang Qianmo also helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks, while Xue Chunshan and I carried the table.
"You guys have a lot of tools here! Especially the teacup we drank water last night, looking antique, it seems that it has been some years, and it will not be brought together when we eloped! ”
As soon as these words came out, Xue Chunshan and Xiaoyu laughed embarrassedly at the same time.
Xue Chunshan pointed to the other end of the valley and said, "Twenty miles away from here, there is a cottage, in which five or six hundred people live, and most of the things are exchanged for prey in that cottage - but I advise you to stay away from this village, and the people in the village, they ...... They're all weirdos, and they're dangerous......"
Stockade? I wondered even more, there was a stockade of five or six hundred people at the end of this valley? If there are so many people, Uncle Huang should know!
Who should I trust? For a while, my mind was a little flustered.
After a few more people chatted for a while, Xue Chunshan kept telling us inside and out. We said goodbye. Before parting, I could see that Xue Chunshan seemed to want to say something, but the words still stopped when they came to his lips.
At this time, my heart was already full of doubts, according to Xue Chunshan's guidance, this place was still fifty miles away from the other exit of the valley, and it was only twenty miles away from the ancient village where they often went to change tools—that is, the ancient village was about thirty miles away from the mouth of the valley.
What is the concept of fifty miles? If you drive on the road, it won't take half an hour at all; Even if I walked, it wouldn't take me a day, but in the valley where I went, I didn't count.
Xue Chunshan said that every time he went to change things, it would take more than half a day to travel back and forth, which meant that we should be able to get to the ancient village that morning.
The existence of the ancient village makes me very puzzled, this is very different from what Uncle Huang said before, it can't be that this village also suddenly appeared six or seven years ago! Absolutely impossible, and what makes me feel very strange is the name of the village, which is called Yin Tomb Village.
I grew up in the ancient burial mound village, and I deeply realized how awkward the name of this village is in the eyes of outsiders, it is really taboo to have the word "tomb" in the name, and this village is a village, and it is "ancient burial tomb" and "yin tomb" respectively, if you are a timid boy, you will be terrified when you hear the name.
Sure enough, around noon, we saw on a hillside a field of houses of varying heights in front of us, needless to say, this is the Yin Tomb Village.
When approaching the mouth of the village, Wang Qianmo found that there was a half-broken stone tablet erected on the side of the road, with two seal characters "tomb" on it, and there should be a "yin" character on the missing piece of the stone tablet, which should be a village tablet.
What puzzles me is that this is what age it is, this stele is not only dilapidated, but also uses seal characters, you must know that this kind of writing was abandoned after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries.
"Little evil, I still think that more things are better than less things, or let's take a detour and leave!" Wang Qianmo looked at the stockade not far away and frowned slightly.
"It's too much time, isn't it just a village, Brother Xue just said that the people here are very weird, but no matter how weird they are, they won't eat people, right? Raise your hand and don't hit the smiling person! Let's be polite, be cautious everywhere, and besides, just pass by their stockade, and it will be fine......" I replied.
In fact, I didn't want to walk into this village that was strange when I heard the name, but Xue Chunshan said that the heavy rain the day before yesterday washed away the other road, and if you want to get out of the valley, you need to walk around the road for two more days, otherwise you can only pass through the Yin Tomb Village.
There is no way to do it.
Before leaving, Xue Chunshan introduced a friend of his, who lived in this village. Lao Ba's family lives under the big willow tree after entering the village, which is very easy to find.
In addition, Xue Chunshan also reminded us that two-thirds of this village are women, and the status of women is much higher than that of men, so we should be careful everywhere. At the time, I could tell from what he wanted to say and stopped saying that things might not be so simple. I concluded that there must be something particularly strange about this village, but I don't know why, he didn't say it explicitly.
Along the old stone road, we walked to the mouth of the village. At the entrance of the village, there was a small old house that looked like a temple or a sacrificial hall, and a hunchbacked old lady with a wrinkled face sat on a stone in the doorway, still snorting dry tobacco in her mouth.
I felt particularly uncomfortable seeing this old lady for some reason, especially when I saw her face wrinkled and smoking.
But people have to bow their heads under the eaves! I walked over politely and politely, and asked with a smile, "Grandma, we are going to leave this valley, how should we go!" ”
The old lady seemed to be very indifferent to the sudden appearance of a few strangers, and kept her eyes closed, and pointed to the village with a cigarette stick, but did not speak.
It's really weird! I thought to myself. When I think of Xue Chunshan's words—the people in this cottage have weird personalities—I don't feel surprised.
I smiled politely and entered the village.
Liu Ruyan and Wang Qianmo also noticed that the old lady was abnormal, and they also followed me closely, so frightened that they didn't dare to squeak.
In fact, the so-called asking for directions, I am more polite, the road is at the foot, we are not blind, but the old lady's reaction makes us feel weird in our hearts.
After walking more than 30 meters, I couldn't help but look back, and suddenly I was shocked that my heart was a spirit, and the old lady at this time actually opened her eyes wide, looked at us with a smile, and slowly puffed out a puff of smoke from her mouth.
it! This is a crazy woman!
Entering the village, I felt more strange in my heart, I saw that this was an ancient village, the stone road under my feet was a little smooth, and the houses on both sides were also very old, and the most puzzled thing for me was that the door of each house was closed, and a small white flag was inserted on the door.
Liu Ruyan whispered beside me: "Little evil, you may not know that there is such a custom near Sheephorn Mountain - whoever dies in the family will plant a small white flag on the door for three months, which seems to allow the soul of the deceased to visit home in the underworld before reincarnation." ”
I glared back at her, "You don't speak, no one is dumb when you're — don't you see the white flags on the door-to-door here?" Has every family ever died? Also...... Maybe it's just the customs of this ancient village! ”
I said that, but my heart still shuddered. Damn it! It won't be so evil! I scolded secretly, so I had to use Xue Chunshan's sentence "The village is very weird, and the people are even more weird" to explain to myself.