Both jade and jadeite can support people, and the jade that can support people is called living jade. Like humans, living jade has pores that are invisible to the naked eye, and we usually call this thing "Tumen", which is a pipe that excretes impurities inside the jade. When jade comes into contact with the human body, the human body temperature gives it nutrients, so that it has life, and it will continue to change, which is tantamount to changing people and jade, jade raises people, and becomes people raise jade.

There are few people in the industry who specialize in raising jade for a living, after all, this thing is too time-consuming, and there is no change in the close-fitting wear of one or two decades, but it is not necessarily that everyone who does old jade has a hanging jade on his body all day long, so the jade that is really cultivated is usually a family heirloom, unless it is a last resort, or meet a loser, otherwise it is difficult to spread to the market.

With Professor Gu's knowledge, I believe that even if he has never seen such a thing as raising jade from a living person, he may not have heard of it, but looking at his serious face, I know that the matter in Hezi Village is definitely not so simple.

Professor Gu looked at me and said, "Do you know anything about the cultivation of this blood jade?" ”

When I heard this, my heart chuckled, my eyes swept over the tablets in front of me, and I asked in a low voice, "You mean, this Hezi Village is raising blood jade?" ”

Seeing Professor Gu nodding silently, I was not calm all of a sudden: "Blood jade is priceless, but everything is deadly." ”

When I was in Liuzi Lane before, I answered Jin Zhenbang's question about blood jade, and I didn't expect that blood jade would be mentioned again in this poor and remote place today. A piece of good blood jade takes hundreds of years for the living and the dead to be nourished together, even if it is the most inferior blood jade, as long as it is taken from the dead person, it is priced according to the quality, as little as 100,000 yuan, and as much as millions, not to mention the things that are raised by the living and the dead.

Thinking of this, I probably understood what Professor Gu wanted to say, so I asked: "The so-called river god sacrifice is to let some girls who have been selected in advance wear jade from the moment they are born, and when they are fifteen years old, they will throw these girls into the river, and after a hundred years, their bodies will be dug up, refined into blood jade, and then sold at a high price in the market, so the people of this village don't have to do anything, and they can have no worries about food and clothing for hundreds of years." ”

Professor Gu did not fully agree with this view: "Almost every year in this village, as long as it is a girl, she will choose a piece of jade to wear when she lands, and when she is fourteen or fifteen years old, she will choose a suitable candidate for worshipping the gods, but this decision is in the hands of the patriarch." ”

"Fourteen or Fourteen Years ......"

I shook my head, the so-called blood jade is rarely called this in the industry, and it is customary to call it Xueqin, which is caused by the decaying blood of the corpse into the jade, and the living wearing jade can also produce the effect of blood Qin. This is related to the carrier's physique, the closer the physique is to anemia, the more it can cause the effect of blood staining, which is an inexplicable truth, and it can be seen in about ten years.

I pondered that the old man's criteria for selecting candidates for sacrifice should be this, if nothing else, if Wu Xiaomei is confronted now, he will definitely be able to find blood stains in the jade on her body.

But why did they throw these girls into the river, the water of the Haihe River was diverted by the fish mouth beach at Erdaokou, the water potential was extremely large, and people were washed away when they threw it in, how could they wait until a hundred years later to dig her out, not to mention, although I often hear people say that cold water stores jade, but you also have to find something to wrap people, one can not rot quickly, and the other can not be eaten clean by fish and shrimp.

At this time, I suddenly thought of several female corpses in the coffin.

He raised his head and asked, "What's the matter with that black coffin in the river?" ”

Professor Gu said: "This black coffin should be the material medium used in Hezi Village to preserve the corpse and raise jade, which has been sunk to the bottom of the water all the year round, and the air pressure has sunk, coupled with the rising water potential for many years, resulting in the unstable water pressure in the riverbed, and the coffin was washed up to the riverbank by pressure. ”

I was stunned, looked at Professor Gu and asked, "Then why can the corpse in the coffin keep the body incorruptible, just like the living?" ”

Professor Gu said: "It is a coffin made of gloomy wood, with the cold temperature of the river bottom for many years, it is not difficult to keep the body from rotting, and according to my speculation, at the bottom of the Erdao River, there should be more than this black coffin, the tradition of sacrificing the river god has been built in Hezi Village since the Longqing year, and the bodies of those innocent girls who were thrown into the river to worship the god have stayed at the bottom of the river in addition to the blood jade, and the purpose of letting Tong Xiaomeng go down the river is to confirm the existence of these black coffins, and after we go out, Then directly end this Hezi Village. ”

"But once Tong Xiaomeng is put in a coffin and thrown into the river, are you sure she can come out alive?" I asked uncertainly.

Professor Gu smiled: "Tong Xiaomeng is the triple crown winner of the National Collegiate Swimming Championships, she grew up by the Ili River since she was a child, don't underestimate her ability in the water." ”

I nodded, saying that, but the green air that came out of the river always made me feel a little uneasy.

Looking around, the huge ancestral hall is only this pyramid-shaped confession, if each tablet on it represents a piece of fine blood jade, or even a flawless blood jade with a history of hundreds of years, then this ancestral hall is tantamount to an inexhaustible treasury, its value is incalculable.

"Did you bring anything?" Professor Gu asked suddenly.

I was stunned: "What is it?" ”

"Camera."

Professor Gu made an "OK" gesture at me, and his eyes were in the circle of his index finger and thumb, and I was about to cry when I saw it.

I didn't know how to explain it to him, so I asked, "What do you want it for?" ”

"Record it!" Professor Gu looked at me with hatred: "Record the ancestral hall and the process of sacrifice, and hand it over to the relevant departments when I return to Beijing, he can't run away from this village, you won't take it with you, right?" ”

"The phone doesn't work?" I took out my phone and handed it to Professor Gu: "There is also a camera function, but it is definitely not as clear as yours." ”

At this time, Professor Gu couldn't care so much, and after taking the mobile phone, he said to me: "You have to run again, Wu Xiaomei knows that Meng went to the river for her, and she has to go to the estuary to save people, you go to her now, and after you find it, take someone to the mouth of the river during the day to wait for me, and I will take you away." ”

I nodded, glanced at the tablet above my head again, and the cat's waist slipped out of the back door of the ancestral hall.

The human heart is always unpredictable. Three years ago, I once followed a master down to the Yellow River Ancient Road to collect some old objects, is also a remote river village, the people in the village are not rich, by the Yellow River every year to dig old things in the riverbed for a living, we took a fancy to a girl's broken bowl, Ming Jing period objects, originally not very valuable things, by us a bid, several brothers in the family for this opened the flower, and finally the bowl was broken, a brother was broken a leg, just the price of that leg, can buy two of these bowls.

When I left the ancestral hall, I could still hear the noise coming from the north side of the village, and it is estimated that this group of people had a disagreement over the choice of the sacrifice, which is no wonder, when taking the money, they must be easy to talk and laugh, and it is their turn to throw their daughters into the river to worship the gods, and there are a few people who can really be happy to be fathers and mothers.

At the mouth of the Erdao River, I didn't see Wu Xiaomei in Professor Gu's mouth, and Wu Xiaomeng didn't see it, which made me feel a little surprised, so I ran along the river to find it, and unconsciously, I don't know when I stood next to the black coffin.

I saw at a glance a few female corpses lying inside, I used to hide in the trees to watch, the fire and shadow were not real, but when I looked closer, I found that these female corpses did not show the slightest sign of decay or skin atrophy, the posture was graceful, the face was round and red, no different from the ordinary living people, and even more vigorous.

I sounded Professor Gu's explanation that the female corpse in the black coffin was not decomposed, and I didn't think it was like that, and I didn't dare to stay in this place for long, and when I turned around to leave, I saw the female corpse wearing green veil and opened my eyes.