By the time the bustard and I woke up, it was already noon.

The sunlight outside the window shone through the paper-pasted window paper, and I rubbed my eyes, and the candlestick at the head of the bed was already half-extinguished, and a large amount of candle oil flowed down the pillar onto the table.

I pushed the bustard, and he was in a state of half-awake and half-asleep, and I pushed him like this, muttered a few times, rubbed his arms and got up. I got dressed and went downstairs.

There was no one in the hall, and when I went out of the gate, I saw Tang Haitang standing on the edge not far away, making a basin of water, bending over and washing his hair with his neck on his side. The water drenched her hair, making it a little crystal clear, and it ran down her neck, wetting her clothes, which stuck to her skin, outlining her newly saturated figure. I couldn't help but blush on my face.

At this time, Tang Haitang's face turned around, his eyes just touched me, and seeing my stunned look, he naturally knew that I was looking at something, and quickly turned his head back. I came back to my senses, immediately lowered my head, and tried my best to pretend that nothing happened, but I was actually panicked in my heart.

After washing my face with cold water, I went to eat the lunch that Uncle Bai prepared for us, but in fact, it was just that I and the bustard got up late. When I felt the entrance of the kitchen, I saw that the bustard was already eating there, holding a flatbread in his hand and eating it with sauce.

I didn't speak, I sat down and picked up the chopsticks to eat the pickles, when I suddenly felt a tingling pain in my calf, the source of this inexplicable pain I know, and quickly pulled up my trouser leg to see, the bulging pimple has crawled to my leg joint!

"What's wrong with Xu Xuan?" The old bustard realized that something was wrong with me, and the things in his mouth hadn't been swallowed yet, so he hurriedly leaned his head over to check, and then his face changed, "Miss Tang has already tied a red rope stained with black dog blood on your thigh, and it should be quite yang Qi can suppress the yin energy on the little demon's body, I didn't expect this insect to be able to move, it seems that this little demon is unusual!" ”

I looked closely at the pimple, and it stuck like a tumor in the popliteal part of the back of the joint, and I bent my foot, and there was a slight pain, not so obvious, but it was uncomfortable. In less than a day, it has moved more than three inches, and at this rate, it seems that it can crawl into my stomach in four or five days, let alone ten days!

I suddenly lost the desire to eat, and my face was bitter.

Seeing this, the old bustard also comforted me: "Brother Xu, don't be afraid, with my little master Liu, we will use this red rope to calm down slowly, and if there is no effective method in three days, I will take you to the county seat, there are many folk masters here in Zhengzhou who are my old acquaintances, and they will definitely be able to find a way." ”

After a while, I looked up and said, "Hey, if I don't eat, this skin-cutting mantis that lives in my legs won't have nutrition, and won't it be able to crawl?" ”

The old bustard smiled bitterly: "This kind of demon is like a mosquito, as long as you don't die, as long as your blood doesn't dry up, it can absorb nutrients from you for survival." ”

I didn't speak when I heard it, and the bustard patted me on the shoulder and said, don't think about it so much, there will be a way to do it slowly, be happy. I nodded, looked down at the pimple on my popliteal area, and continued to pick up my chopsticks and get up to eat.

After eating, when we got up to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, we saw that Tang Haitang was already standing behind us without knowing when, holding a stack of rice paper in his hand, and then put it in front of us: "You see, this is the literature that Uncle Bai found for us about the village." ”

I picked it up and looked at it, and it was written about the history of the village. I couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that the village had existed hundreds of years ago, probably in the early years of the Jin Dynasty, when all parts of China had not yet been unified, and the land of Zhengzhou was also a place that passed through the Yellow River, which was not included in the jurisdiction at that time, and was occupied by an unknown tribe, this tribe was still slavery, that is, at that time, it was rumored that there was a big demon living in the Yellow River, advocating heaven and earth was the culture at that time, and the tribal leader would take slaves as sacrifices in order to seek good weather in the coming year. This Liu Da crooked mouth also told us that this demon at the bottom of the Yellow River has a quirk and likes human skin, so the leader ordered people to kill the slaves, peel off the skin from their faces alive, put them in coffins, and throw them into the river. Later, this tribe was slowly overthrown, the feudal class was established here, there was no cruel slavery system, and there was no more sacrificial behavior of the river demon, and then probably from the Qing Dynasty, the rumors of the river demon going ashore again to cut human skin began to spread, and it was not until later that the people in the village developed the habit of lighting the lamp all night, and this matter subsided.

After reading it roughly, I became more or less clear that the river demon written in this document is probably a ghost.

The bustard also picked up a piece of paper to read. It was a newspaper, a daily newspaper in Zhengzhou, with an eye-catching headline:

Red lacquer coffins appear in the lower reaches of the Yellow River! It is suspected that it is caused by the loosening of the tomb at the bottom of the river!

The old bustard looked at the date, it was the fifth day of the lunar calendar, and it had been more than four months since now. The above is a reprint of the Xinhua News Agency report:

"In recent days, when the villagers in the lower reaches of the Yellow River were working by the river, they frequently found several red lacquered coffins floating on the river for several days, and after reporting to the county government, the county government sent a group of archaeological teams to the lower reaches of the Yellow River to investigate, and after arriving, they salvaged all the coffins on the river, but found that all the coffins did not contain bones in them, and they were empty. After sampling and observing the coffin wood, it was found that its age was very old, but it was impossible to determine what dynasty it was. This reporter interviewed Mr. Zhang, an expert from Zhengzhou City, who pointed out that there may be ancient tombs hidden under the Yellow River, because the flow of the river water has formed loose soil, which causes the coffins in the tombs to float. ”

The old bustard grinned and snorted when he saw it: "It seems that the people in this government also deliberately concealed the fact that human skin was hidden in the coffin, which is not as valuable as the gossip!" ”

Tang Haitang interrupted him: "I don't want to say that, this report also provides us with very important information, that is, archaeological experts in Zhengzhou believe that there are tombs hidden under the Yellow River. I don't think this judgment is wrong, maybe the tomb of the charming woman is hidden under the Yellow River. ”

I blinked and blinked, and I didn't understand what she said: "The mound is hidden under the river? Wouldn't that become the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea? Even so, Miss Tang, won't we drown if we go down? ”

Tang Haitang's originally more serious face burst out laughing when he heard my words, and the bustard also glanced at me with a roll of his eyes, and I realized that I might have said it wrong, but I still didn't understand, so the bustard explained to me: "There is a tomb hidden under the river, and it is not submerged in the water as you stunned young man thinks." There is a bottom to this river, and there is a rock layer below the bottom, and this tomb is built in this rock layer, and the water will not soak into it. This is a special burial chamber structure, in ancient times, some princes would meet to build their tombs under the river, because water represents wealth, and they wanted their family business to be rich. Boy, tomb robbers and demon grave robbers are inseparable, you have to dabble in this knowledge! ”

I listened suddenly, but soon the question arose as to how I could cross the bottom of the river into the tomb. The bustard said that this was not very clear, and that the tombs of people usually had secret passages and were attached to the shore, but as for the demon mound, he had never heard of them.

We moved our gaze to the last map, which was a map drawn with a brush and strokes, and the paper was sallow and looked a little older. Tang Haitang said that this is the territory of the entire village during the Qing Dynasty, because the village has not received any support, so from the Qing Dynasty to the present, the pattern of the entire village has not changed much.

At this time, I noticed a small red circle in the upper left corner of the map, which was a piece of land facing the Yellow River, and I asked Tang Haitang: "Miss Tang." What does it mean to be circled here? ”

Tang Haitang took a look: "It is a newly built building, two or three hundred meters away from the village, the owner of the house is also from the village, five years ago he went to Shanxi to dig coal and made a fortune, a few months ago he returned to the village, built a building and pulled wires, yesterday the house was just completed, I heard Uncle Bai said that tonight to invite the whole village to have a banquet." ”

As soon as the old bustard heard that there was wine and meat to eat, his eyes immediately lit up, and it seemed that he was about to flow out: "I didn't expect this kind of broken lump to come out of the landlord, master, I haven't had a good tooth sacrifice for some days." With that, he patted me on the shoulder, and continued with a smile; Xu Xuan, let's also go to join in the fun tonight and eat him as our reception. ”