The old man shook off Lao Lu's hand and said nonchalantly: "By the time you figure out which is right and which is wrong, my old man will have starved to death a long time ago." He in turn grabbed Lao Lu's hand and urged: "Let's go, although it is a little strange that there are people stewing hot pot in this deep mountain and old forest, the great people's mentor Comrade Lu Xun said: No matter whether there is a peach meeting or a Hongmen banquet ahead, if you can eat a bite, you will eat it first." ”

Lao Lu was dragged away by him and said angrily: "Lu Xun didn't say this......

Because of the strong aroma of hot pot, and the downhill road, the two of them walked quickly, and after a while, they came to the entrance of the cave located halfway up the mountain. The old man opened his throat and shouted inside: "The golden melon seeds don't go down the mountain, the rice flowers and fish are staggering, and there is no one at the gate at noon. ”

These words of the old man are black words on the rivers and lakes, which roughly means: "Don't panic, the brothers inside, don't worry, whether you are an outlaw murderer or a porter who sells drugs, we are all like-minded people, and we are definitely not slivers." It's just passing by here and getting hungry and begging for food. If it doesn't work, we'll go. ”

A person like the old man, who is both black and white, has dealt with all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods in his life. There are inexplicable caves like this in the mountains, don't go into them until you figure it out. It is likely that the people who live here are wanted criminals who have killed people and trafficked drugs. They are very sensitive to the outside world, and if you don't identify yourself and let him let his guard down, it is very likely that he will kill you by taking advantage of your unpreparedness. So don't look at the old man's big grin, in fact, his mind is finer than anyone else, and he is better than anyone else. Let's use a few black words to set up porcelain, if what comes out of it is just ordinary mountain people, he can pretend to be crazy and stupid and say that he just read Tang poems, and laugh it. And if it really is a villain, he is not afraid, he has seen more villains in his life than he rubbed down in the bathhouse the day before yesterday.

At this time, there was some movement faintly coming from the dark cave. A figure stood in the darkness and stared straight at them. Although Lao Lu and the old man couldn't see each other's faces clearly, they could see through the silhouette that the other party was an old woman. In this way, the two immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the person living in the cave is just an old man left behind.

Lao Lu shook the red 100 yuan in the old man's hand, and shouted to the old man inside: "We are hungry, we smell you cooking, and we want to ask you for food." We have the money and can pay for it. ”

In the dark cave, the old man did not move. Lao Lu and the old man glanced at each other, they were a little blindsided, they didn't know what the other party meant, this is not going, and it is not staying. After a long time, the old woman in the darkness beckoned to them and said coldly, "Come in." ”

Lao Lu and the old man walked into the cave in the dark. The structure of this cave is very strange, and after entering it is a twenty-meter long passage. The passage was pitch black, with no lights or fire, cold and damp. Lao Lu and the old man could only grope their way forward against the wall. The floor in the passage was uneven and soft, like stepping on a Simmons mattress.

In just twenty meters of passage, Lao Lu and the old man walked for a full five minutes before they came to the end. After walking out of this passage, the two of them were greeted by a square space of about 80 square meters. There was a table in the middle, and there was a hot pot steaming hot on the table. There are some ingredients around, such as mutton, hairy tripe, tofu and bean skin.

There was a kang in the southeast corner of the house, and the old woman sat on the kang, but she said coldly to Lao Lu and the old man, "Please eat whatever you want", and then she didn't say anything again.

The old man was famously skinned as thick as a city wall, and his heart as black as coal. Not only did she not care about the old woman's cold attitude, but she even asked if anyone had vinegar. Lao Lu's face was not as thick as that of the old man, he was very embarrassed to put the 100 yuan on the kang where the old woman was sitting, and then returned to his seat, safely picked up a piece of mutton from the pot and stuffed it into his mouth.

But at this time, the old man on the opposite side suddenly grabbed Lao Lu's wrist and shouted softly: "Don't move!" ”

Lao Lu was startled by the old man's actions, he looked up, and saw that the old man's face was as white as paper for some reason, and it was full of cold sweat, his eyes were bigger than a bull's eye, and his trembling hand grabbed Lao Lu's wrist tightly, as if he had seen something extremely terrible.

Lao Lu secretly screamed in his heart that something was wrong, this old man must have discovered something.

He asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

The old man's lips trembled and he said, "We're done." ”

When Lao Lu heard this, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The old man said in a low voice: "This is not a hot pot eaten by the living, it is a yin and yang pot eaten by the dead!" ”

When Lao Lu heard this, his pupils widened in shock. He and the old man froze, and no one dared to move. The old man tilted his head slightly, quietly glanced around, gritted his teeth and said softly to Lao Lu: "You take a closer look at the patterns of the bricks on the walls around us. ”

When Lao Lu saw it, he immediately gasped, lowered his voice and exclaimed, "Damn, it's a cloud pattern!" What kind of cave is this, this is a tomb! ”

The old man also lowered his voice: "You are looking at the kang under the old woman's ass." ”

When Lao Lu heard about it, he found that it was not a kang at all, but a blood-red coffin!

The old man hurriedly covered Lao Lu's mouth: "Shhh, shhh, be quiet." Let's slowly withdraw...... Slowly exit the ...... Slowly exit and go to ......"

Lao Lu and the old man slowly stood up, moving their steps little by little, for fear of making a little noise. The old woman sitting in the coffin stared straight at them. At this moment, the small burial chamber could be heard silently with a needle drop, and the two of them could even hear each other's violent heartbeats.

Yin and Yang cauldron is a kind of spiritual ritual between the living and the dead in the ancient Bashu region. The living eat red soup, and the dead eat white soup. If the iron sheet separating the red soup and white soup in the middle of the round pot is "S" shaped, it is called a mandarin duck pot. But if it's the opposite, it's the yin and yang pot. The yin and yang pot in the Bashu region, the underworld marriage in the north, the corpse chaser in Xiangxi, and the pen fairy in the south of the Yangtze River are essentially a ritual related to the dead. And among these witchcraft rituals, the most terrifying is this yin and yang cauldron.

Lao Lu and the old man slowly retreated to the entrance of the cave, and the old woman sitting on the coffin who didn't know whether it was a person or a ghost was still motionless. The two of them winked at each other, held their breath, and held their strength to run. But as soon as he turned around, an old woman's face as white as paper suddenly appeared in front of the two of them. Lao Lu's whole body froze, because he clearly saw that the old woman's eye sockets were not eyeballs at all!