After staring at the funeral procession in the distance for a while, Lin Lao turned his head to me and smiled slightly: "The customs of your village are really interesting, this is the first time I have seen a funeral at this time." ”

I touched my chin and ignored Old Man Lin, thinking about what was going on with the two red coffins, not to mention that he had never seen such a custom, it was the first time I had seen it in our village.

Just as I was thinking about it, Xiangzi suddenly called out outside my house: "Village chief, Granny Wang has passed away, you should hurry up and take a look." ”

Li Changgui heard Xiangzi's call, and hurriedly asked in the house, "When did it happen?" ”

"Just ten minutes ago, Granny Wang was still feeding the pigs, and I don't know why a Granny Wang is gone." After Xiangzi finished speaking, he continued: "I'm going to inform the others, village chief, hurry up." ”

Li Changgui hurriedly changed his clothes, and told my aunt to take a good look at Li Yan and Li Yang and hurriedly went out.

When I heard that Granny Wang had passed away, I vaguely felt in my heart that things might not be so simple, and Lin Lao saw that something was wrong in the village, so he didn't bother too much, and led his students to prepare to return to the ruined temple to continue his excavation work.

At this time, the woman Xiaoxue also asked to continue to work, and Lin Lao hesitated for a moment and asked me: "Little brother, if you have time, you can also go over with us to have a look." ”

After hearing Lin Lao's words, I thought for a moment that I would go over later on Granny Wang's side, and at present, it is still mainly Li Yang and Li Yan, thinking of this, I immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I also want to go over and have a look." By the way, Lin Lao will call my country strong in the future. Lin Lao also nodded slightly when he heard this.

When we came to the broken temple again, we didn't rush in, and after standing outside the cordon and observing for a while, Lin Lao asked me: "Guoqiang, you just said that there are strange things here, do you think our excavation work can continue?" ”

Seeing that I hadn't answered Lin Lao's question for a long time, Xiao Ding couldn't help but say to Lin Lao: "Teacher, how can you say that you are also a master in the archaeological field, why do you want to seek the opinion of such a rural baby now?" ”

I ignored Xiao Ding's taunt, stood outside the temple gate and looked into the temple, and found that it was empty, I couldn't help but ask Lin Lao Dao beside me: "Lin Lao, where is the big coffin in the middle?" ”

"Oh, you said the coffin? Just now, when we went to your house, we ordered someone to transport the coffin back to the county and open it, because the conditions for opening it here are not enough, I am afraid of damaging the cultural relics inside. ”

"You also said that you still avoid some things about archaeology, don't you think there is something wrong with that coffin?"

"Well, I know, you don't have to worry about that, since we have a way to transport it back to the city."

Xiao Ding saw that I didn't pay attention to Lin Lao, and he said to Lin Lao a little angrily: "Teacher, why are you so respectful to him? What is he here? ”

Lin Lao immediately glared at Xiao Ding and said, "From now on, Ma Guoqiang is the technical advisor of our archaeological team. ”

I was a little stunned for the identity that Lin Lao suddenly gave me, and after being stunned, I didn't pay attention to Xiao Ding's unreasonable trouble, and continued to ask: "Since the coffin was transported away, what are you still doing here?" ”

Lin Lao did not shy away from saying directly: "According to my guess, there should be a bigger ancient tomb here, but I don't know where that ancient tomb is." ”

"Oh? Why are you so sure? I asked, puzzled.

"I guess this temple should not have been a temple earlier, but a burial tomb, but it is unknown where the underground palace of the main tomb is."

"Any evidence?" I then asked.

"Guessed by the reliefs on the walls."

I scratched my head a little embarrassed and said, "That relief seems to be a bit similar to me, how does this prove that he is a burial tomb?" ”

"My teacher said that there is, what do you know about dirt buns?" Xiao Ding suddenly interjected.

"Ding Chao, if you do this again, even if your grandfather comes to beg me, I won't keep you." Lin Lao also said angrily.

Xiao Ding was drunk by Lin Lao and snorted and didn't speak, this will I no longer ask about any evidence or evidence, I know that if Lin Lao continues to say some professional terms, I will not be able to understand it, so it is better not to ask.

Seeing that Xiao Ding didn't speak again, Lin Lao continued to say to me: "Guoqiang, does this temple have anything to say? I also think there's something strange about the mural. ”

Seeing that I didn't speak, Lin Lao had no choice but to continue: "But wherever there are ancient tombs, there are always some clues to be found in the local area, maybe a legend is a clue, you grew up in this village, haven't you heard of any legends?" ’

After Lin Lao finished speaking, I shook my head, but this will remind me of Uncle Li's words, I guess the emperor's tomb that Uncle Li said is the underground palace that Lin Lao is looking for now.

The ancient well in this temple is also very quiet, and there is no more strange sound, and I have been recalling the notes left by Ma Laodao in my heart, but there are too many contents on it, from feng shui to the five elements of gossip, fortune calculation and Taoist formation talismans, and many obscure spells, if you want to understand all the contents, it is even more difficult than taking the graduate school exam.

"That ......" Xiaoxue suddenly said to me, but she didn't know what to call me, I looked at her and smiled slightly: "It's better to call my country strong." ”

"Well, Guoqiang, it's the first time I've participated in the on-site excavation, and I've heard my father say some weird things, but I didn't believe it before, and I really thank you today." Xiaoxue said to me very politely.

I waved my hand and said, "It's fine." Then he turned his head to Lin Lao and said: "I'm afraid that the story of this temple is only known best to Uncle Li in our village, but he doesn't know why he refuses to say it, he only tells me that 400,000 troops were buried alive under this mountain in ancient times." ”

"400,000 buried alive?" Xiaoxue and Xiaoding exclaimed in surprise.

When Lin Lao heard me say this, he didn't pay attention to Xiao Ding and Xiao Xue, but stroked his gray beard and asked me, "Why don't we go and ask him about the old man again?" ”

"Hey, that's the only way, no one else knows except to ask him." I said with a sigh. After saying that, we didn't stop too long, and went directly to the direction of Uncle Li's house.

As soon as we came to the village, we saw a commotion in the village, and the villagers were also talking about it, Xiangzi saw that I was back and hurriedly ran over and panted and said to me: "Oh, something happened, Guoqiang, you are finally back, go to Granny Wang's house to see." ”

I frowned and asked, "What's so flustered?" ”

"Then Granny Wang is cheating the corpse." Shoko said with a look of horror.

"What nonsense?"

"Really, I didn't lie to you, the Granny Wang was hard, suddenly sat up and said that she was so tired, her shoes were worn out and she couldn't go out, at first we were all startled, thinking that Granny Wang was alive again, but when a few bold people looked at the Granny Wang, they found that she was just sitting there straight and not breathing, the boss with open eyes was still a dead man, how could a dead man speak? What is this not a corpse? ”

Seeing that I didn't speak, Xiangzi came over again and said mysteriously: "I specially went to see Granny Wang's feet, her shoes are really torn, and her toes are exposed, do you think you are alive?" ”

When I was a child, Ma Laodao did tell me so many stories, and it was really the first time I had heard of such a thing as Granny Wang.

Listening to what Xiangzi said so mysteriously, I didn't think about it and said to Xiangzi, "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”

Xiangzi said, "Just go, I have a stomachache, I want to go to the thatched house first." After saying that, he ran away.

Looking at Xiangzi's back, I didn't say anything, so I had to walk quickly towards Granny Wang's house, Lin Lao and they didn't bother to go to Uncle Li's house, and said behind me: "Guoqiang, wait for us, let's go over and have a look." ”

I didn't object when I heard Lin Lao's words, I knew that these intellectuals were trying to be fresh, and they wanted to go over and watch the excitement, so I simply didn't care about them.

When we came to Granny Wang's house, we found that there were many people standing outside Granny Wang's small thatched house, but no one dared to go in, Li Changgui stood in front of the villagers and said: "They are all from the villagers, and Granny Wang was also from our village before his death, even if he dies, can he still harm the people of our village?" ”

"Then why don't you go in?" At this time, a villager said to Li Changgui dissatisfied.

"I can't get it when I go in alone, so it's good to have a few people to help." Li Changgui said bitterly to everyone.

I pushed through the crowd and came to Li Changgui and asked, 'Abba, what's the matter?' ’

Li Changgui saw that the person who came was me, so he was a little relieved and told me the whole story, which was basically not much different from what Xiangzi said.

After Li Changgui finished speaking, I thought about it for a while and entered Granny Wang's house, Lin Lao and his students also stepped in with me, and Granny Wang was really sitting upright on the wooden board where she was lying, and the two wide-eyed bosses were staring at me, making Xiaoxue scream 'ah'.

Being stared at by this old lady like this, coupled with Xiaoxue's screams, scared me into a thrill, I looked back at Xiaoxue, she was covering her eyes with her hands and didn't dare to move away, Xiaoding would also stand there with a pale face and didn't dare to move.

How many ancient tombs has Lin Lao excavated? What kind of dead people haven't seen it? He smiled apologetically at me. However, as my pace moved, I realized that the place where Granny Wang was staring seemed to be in the direction of the West Mountain.

Seeing that Granny Wang was not glaring at me, my heart relaxed a little, this Granny Wang was also relatively poor during her lifetime, and now the thatched hut has also been simply cleaned up into a mourning hall, because Granny Wang left too suddenly, the coffin has not been sent yet.

After patrolling around the house, I always felt that something was wrong, and after thinking about it for a while, I found that it was the smell of corpses, and I looked at Granny Wang without understanding, how could the corpse show signs of decay when Granny Wang had just passed away? Could it be that Granny Wang has been dead for a while?