Chapter 18 The Yellow River Tailor
My name is Wang Zhen, a tomb robber, and the reason why I started this bizarre experience is because of the fat man. The fat man's surname is Xu Mingbao, and he was jokingly called "the old bustard" by the Taoist. He has a stinky problem, hiccups, grinding his teeth, farting and digging his nose, and doing all kinds of disgusting things, but these are not tight, what is important is that he will have a good skill in robbing tombs, dividing gold and setting acupoints, compass divination, everything, how many coffins are in this tomb, how many bones are in the coffin, he can calculate it with his eyes closed, and he is a veteran of a few brushes.
Ten years ago, I still remember that day, the lower reaches of the Yellow River flooded and drowned many people, the government was alarmed, I didn't care how many people died, but what made our eyes shine was that at that time, the local villagers found many coffins floating up in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, all the same color of mahogany, the fat man learned the news at that time and concluded that there was definitely a big tomb hidden under the Yellow River!
Why do you say that, although the mahogany coffin is a very common thing in ancient times, people with a little savings at home can afford it, but once the mahogany coffin appears in groups, it will be terrible, there is such a saying in the tomb robbery line, the salty land does not grow artemisia, there must be sediment. What does that mean? That is to say, if there is any movement on the earth, there will be something strange underground. A large number of mahogany coffins illustrate two possibilities, there are group tombs buried under the Yellow River, if not, it is a slave pit, these two have one side, then it means that the origin of the owner of the underground tomb must be not small, either the princes or the generals, no matter how bad it is, it is also a doctor's hat. The flow of sediment from the flood caused the structure of the tomb to loosen, and it was only then that the coffin poured up.
The fat man and I hit it off and immediately got up and headed for the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The place where the incident occurred is called Liujia Village, which is a small village that existed during the Qing Dynasty. The economy is very backward, ten years ago there were department stores in the coastal cities, but it was not even connected to electricity here, every household used kerosene lamps, and at night there was a flickering candlelight of white flowers in the dark patch, like a ghost fire, and it looked desolate and desolate.
We spent a lot of energy to find a place to stay, and the journey was tiring, and it was already dark at night, and the fat man and I were very tired, so we climbed into bed and closed our eyes and wanted to sleep.
At this moment, there was a sudden shout from outside the village:
"Someone! The coffin is coming out of the west of the village again! ”
The fat man and I were in a hurry and knew something was wrong. The two of us hurriedly straightened our clothes and rushed out the door, running towards the source of the sound.
After a few steps, we saw a few fires surging in the direction of the west entrance, and when we got closer, we saw a circle of villagers around the river, all holding torches or kerosene lamps in their hands, padding their feet, poking their heads, as if they were looking at something.
"Excuse me, excuse me, thank you."
Using the fat man's huge body as a shield, I managed to squeeze in and came to the river.
I saw three people sitting by the river, and there were rows of white candles in front of him, mysteriously not knowing what to do.
At the front sat an old man, with his eyes closed and his fingers pinched, like a fortune teller on the side of the road. The remaining two people gathered around him, neither of whom spoke. The villagers also seemed to be taboo about something, bowing their heads to the whispers of their mother-in-law.
After a long time, the old man finally opened his eyes, and his shriveled lips opened and closed, "It's time." ”
The young man beside him also said at this time: "Old man, this big night is so scary, is it reliable?" ”
The old man didn't raise his head, and snorted: "The white candle attracts the soul, as long as the coffin in this river has spirituality, it will be hooked ashore." ”
The young man still seemed a little uneasy, and said with a smile: "Forget what kind of treasure you have caught here, if you fish out a big zongzi, the big guys will have no good fruit to eat!" If you want me to say, it's not too late for Sheming to do it, and you can't grasp it. ”
"Fart!" The old man was angry, "I haven't seen any posture, you are still eating in your mother's womb when I fight!" ”
The silent stubble face on the side finally spoke: "Stop bickering, it's coming." ”
At this time, a whirlpool swelled in the center of the originally turbid river, which was small at first, but slowly grew larger and larger, like a rushing waterfall, splashing water and mud.
"What's going on?" I said.
The fat man shook his head. His experience doesn't explain this phenomenon.
Poof!
But I saw a fiery red strip popping out of the whirlpool, and if you look closely, it is a coffin!
There was an uproar in the crowd, and some timid villagers were ready to run away.
"Dick!"
I saw the old man stand up, and at the sound of an order, Stubble Face quickly took out a rope from his arms, and threw it towards the coffin with the end of the loop, the rope was tightly tied to the coffin, and Stubble Face took a horse step, tightened the rope, and pulled it to the shore with a red face.
The coffin is getting closer and closer to the shore.
The surrounding villagers also scrambled to look over there.
It didn't take long for the coffin to be pulled ashore.
With a panicked face, the young man hid behind the old man, poked his head out like a turtle on his side, and kept muttering, "Be careful, be careful."
The stubble face glanced at him with disdain, spat out the phlegm, rubbed his hands, picked up the shovel on the side and walked towards the still wet coffin.
"Second brother, be steady, don't go wrong."
Hu Stubble smiled and said, "It's very stable, Master Shao, you can rest assured." As he spoke, he stuck the head of the shovel in the crack of the coffin board, stuck it, let his hind feet step on it, pried it hard, and with a bang, the coffin board was lifted, and the dust that had been buried in it for thousands of years flew away.
"Ahem, ahem." The stubble face coughed, scratched his face, and looked into the coffin, "Yo, master, nothing!" ”
"What?" The old man, who was called Master Shao, stepped over with an arrow step, and also looked inside, and sure enough, there was nothing, and there were no clean bones left.
The young man smiled gloatingly: "It's blind, it's all said, where is there a map of the secret realm in this poor place."
At this time, the fat man and I were shocked: did they also come to find the map of the pre-Qin secret realm? At this time, the fat man suddenly noticed something and whispered to me: "Wang Zhen, look at that old man's hand."
I turned my head to look and saw that Master Shao had a purple anise flower tattooed on his arm.
I sighed in my heart: I am a member of the Buddha's Hand Society!
The Buddha's Hand Society is a notorious tomb robbery organization in the tomb robbery industry and the largest cultural relics smuggling organization in China, and the anise flower is the symbol of their organization.
Why is bergamot notorious? Because there is an old saying in the tomb robbery industry, that is, the dead are bigger than the sky. When we touch a corpse that has not turned into a dumpling, we will not move it, and only take the money inside. The people of the Buddha's Hand Society are different, tomb robbing is like a gang fight, it is crazy, it is robbing, smashing and burning, the tomb is to be made into a chicken nest, and the bones are to be ground into steamed buns.
"The people and horses of the Buddha's Hand Society are here, it seems that the origin of the tomb under the Yellow River is not small!" The fat man said.
At this time, I saw Master Shao wave his hand and said to the two people: "Forget it, there is nothing useful in this coffin."
Stubble shrugged his shoulders and went to clean up the candles on the floor. At this moment, he seemed to feel a little dizzy, and buried his head motionless.
"Dick?" Master Shao shouted that something was wrong and screamed, but he didn't answer, "Third child, go up and have a look." ”
The young man looked impatient and walked up, "Don't pretend to be dead, pull a coffin and tire you like this?" ”
But seeing that the stubble face did not move, the young man shook his shoulder.
Boom!
The stubble face fell to the ground. The young man looked at his face with fear on his face and let out a woman-like scream.
At the same time, there was also an uproar and screams among the villagers. The fat man and I were also scared.
We clearly saw that the flesh and blood on the stubble face were blurred, the muscles were one by one, and there was blood flowing in the exposed cyan veins! It looks terrifying!
"Dick!" Master Shao shouted, and hurriedly stepped forward to check, the whole skin of the stubble face was torn off by something, and the skin of the face was bloody and hung on the corner of his clothes.
"It's the Yellow River tailor!" At this time, there was an excited shout from the crowd, and an old woman came out of it tremblingly, and she trembled and said, "It's the Yellow River tailor who is doing it!"
The Yellow River tailor I also inquired about before, the legend is that there was a tailor in the lower reaches of the Yellow River in the Qing Dynasty who was very famous, and the sewn clothes were very exquisite in terms of style and material. In the early morning of the next day, all the people in the official's house, including the family members, died mysteriously, and their faces were completely cut off alive. Later, a Taoist priest said that this tailor was too resentful, and he had become a powerful ghost, specializing in cutting people's faces.
That Master Shao also fell into deep thought after hearing this, and it was obvious that he had also heard this story.
Then he stepped forward and said to the mother-in-law, "Old man, what is the origin of the Yellow River tailor you are talking about?"
I saw that the mother-in-law's eyes were wide open, and her hands were dancing everywhere: "That thing is a terrible ghost, it lives under the Yellow River, a few days ago when my wife went down to the river to fish, the whirlpool in the river was swept in, and when I found him on the bank, my face was also cut by the Yellow River tailor!"
"Did you find anything unusual when you found your wife?"
"Anomalous? I also found some broken porcelain pieces in his trouser pocket......"
The matter is already obvious, and the fat man and I have already understood, this village is so poor that it has no food to eat, and there are no broken bricks and tiles, and there is still hope for porcelain? This piece of porcelain was apparently brought up from a tomb under the Yellow River.
Master Shao was not stupid, he also reacted, and said to the young man who was so frightened that he almost peed his pants: "Find a boat and go to the river to have a look."
The young man cried with a face: "Master, when is this coming, if you toss it again, your life will be gone......"
"Don't!" Master Shao scolded irritably and kicked him hard, "Hurry up and get out!" ”
The young man wept and reluctantly got up.
Soon, they were about to come to a dilapidated wooden boat, rowing towards the center of the river.
The fat man said, "What should I do?" The oil and water are going to flow into someone else's pocket. ”
I looked and saw that there was still one left, so I said hello to the villagers and rowed in the direction of Master Shao on the boat.
It was very cold on the river, so I put on a kerosene lamp on the boat, and I could barely see the direction outside, and I walked for about ten minutes, but I didn't see any trace of Master Shao.
The fat man was a little impatient and complained: "These two people went to the thatched house to, they haven't even seen a ghost for so long."
Before he finished speaking, a faint flash of fire suddenly appeared in front of him.
"It's a member of the Buddha's Hand Society! Bustard, keep up! ”
"Okay." The fat man was about to slash towards the firelight. But after a few steps, I realized that something was wrong, "Wait! Wang Zhen, they seem to have found out. ”
Sure enough, the light stopped for a moment, and then rowed towards us.
"Turn around!"
I hurriedly spoke, and as soon as I finished speaking, I heard a whoosh, and a very fast air flow passed through my ears, and then there was another boom, and the water suddenly splashed.
"Damn, they have guns!" The fat man was surprised.
"U-turn around!"
The fat man slid desperately and swiped in the opposite direction to them.
Woohoo!
A few more shots, almost hitting the fat man's head.
The fat man paddled desperately like a mad dog, followed by bullets that kept coming in.
At this time, I suddenly heard a commotion in my ears, as if something was roaring.
"Bustard, did you hear that?"
"What?"
"It's a bit like the sound of water."
The fat man didn't care about this, after all, there were still people chasing after him, and all he could do now was to row desperately.
I followed the sound with a kerosene lamp, and there was a surging wave not far in front of me, and I began to realize that something was wrong: "Bustard, bustard!"
The fat man ignored me, but still played with his life.
Soon, I saw the outline of the wave in front of me becoming more and more obvious in the light of the kerosene lamp, and on closer inspection,! It's a vortex!
I shouted, "Dead bustard, turn around!" Ahead is a whirlpool! ”
But it was too late, and the pull of the vortex pulled us in like the hands of a pair of water ghosts, and soon the boat capsized.
The whirlpool of the fat man and I continued to sink to the center, no matter how much we struggled, the water of the Yellow River, mixed with a large amount of sediment, kept choking into my mouth, and soon, I felt that my eyes were dark, and I lost consciousness.
When I woke up, I found myself in a cave soaking wet, surrounded by red coffins, and the fat man lying next to me, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
I reached out and poked his nose out, and it was okay, still breathing. So I woke him up, and the fat man opened his eyes in a daze, spit out a few mouthfuls of water, and his consciousness began to recover almost, and he said, "Where are we?"
I shook my head, "Maybe it's in that tomb."
The fat man looked surprised: "You mean that the vortex sucked us into the bottom of the Yellow River?"
I don't know how to explain it, but looking at the dense piles of coffins around me, I couldn't explain better.
Then I suddenly heard a saudi noise, and it was very fast, and then it was gone.
"Bustard." I became vigilant, "Did you hear that?" ”
"What?"
"There's movement in the coffin."
The fat man instantly panicked: "Wang Zhen, don't scare me, where is there any sound?"
Before he could finish his sentence, he heard the sound of salsa coming from inside a coffin. Now I can hear it clearly.
I looked towards the nearest coffin, and saw a thumb-sized thing crawling out of the crack in the coffin board, and on closer inspection, it was a yellowish insect that looked like a seven-star ladybug.
The worm crawled towards the fat man. The first time the fat man saw this thing, he didn't know whether it was good or bad, and immediately a big foot went over and trampled the insects into mud.
"There's no such thing in this coffin, can you?" The fat man said. Then he walked cautiously towards the coffin and put his hand on it, "Mine is open?" ”
I nodded.
With a bang, the coffin board was lifted by the fat man. When the fat man saw what was inside, he immediately collapsed on the ground in fright.
I hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, only to see a grimace appear in the coffin, looking at me with a blank look!
Wait a minute!
It's not a grimace. I take a closer look, and it's a bloody face! And it's still that stubble-faced cheek!
". Why is that thing here? I said in disbelief.
I looked at the face again, although it was a little bloody and blurry, I could clearly see the edges of the face corner by corner, jagged, and it looked like it really wanted to be cut by a tailor!
The fat man pulled my sleeve: "Damn Wang Zhen, I want to vomit, let's go quickly."
I was also a little disgusted when I said this, so I quickly closed the coffin board and walked towards the end of the cave.
On the way, the fat man asked, "Could the two people from the Buddha's Hand Society also come in?"
Me: "I think it's still behind us, otherwise we would have done it a long time ago."
"It seems that there are also people looking for the next way of the pre-Qin secret realm, or the people of the Buddha's Hand Society, this trip is not easy!"
We walked for about ten minutes, and the vision became clearer, and at the same time, we found that we had reached the end of the cave, and at the end of the cave, we found a mound with a large number of coffins piled up. In the center of the mound is a transparent crystal coffin!
Inside the crystal coffin lay a skeleton that looked like a woman, but there was no inscription on it, so it was impossible to find out the life and life of the tomb owner.
"Wang Zhen, look!" At this time, the fat man seemed to have discovered something, and hurriedly said to me, "That corpse has something on its hand!"
I looked in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, there was a round stone slab in the bosom of the skeleton lying in the crystal coffin.
The fat man climbed up on the coffin pile, and when he saw it, he was excited to see it: "Wang Zhen, it's a map!"
When I heard this, I climbed up and looked closer, and sure enough, there were some subtle lines carved densely on the stone slab.
The fat man hurriedly took out his mobile phone, fortunately it has a waterproof function, and the mobile phone can still be used. The fat man took a picture of the map on the coffin.
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded behind him:
"Don't move!"
I subconsciously looked back and saw that it was Master Shao and that young man! They were standing in front of us, soaked, looking a little embarrassed.
Master Shao had a cold face, the gun in his hand was pointed at the fat man, and his shriveled lips closed one by one: "Give me the things in the coffin."
The fat man stepped back vigilantly and did not speak.
"I repeat, give me what's in the coffin!"
Seeing that Master Shao was about to pull the trigger, suddenly there was a sound of salsa in the mahogany coffin, and then a yellow tide gushed out!
If you look closely, it's not a tide, but a lot of dense bugs like the fat man and I saw before!
The young man's coffin pile was near, and it was swallowed by the tide of insects in an instant, and those insects climbed on his face one after another, and then after hearing the voice of Qi Qi, the young man's face was directly cut off!
It turns out that the so-called Yellow River tailors are these bugs!
I yelled at the fat man, "Bustard! Come on! ”
The fat man made a bitter face: "Damn it, where are you running, the road is blocked by these insects."
At this time, I looked at Master Shao again, and after firing a few shots at the insects, a few arrows rushed up to the crystal coffin, and in two moves, the two of us were knocked down, and the coffin board of the crystal coffin was lifted, and the stone slab inside was taken out.
The moment he got his hands on the slate, the whole dissolution suddenly collapsed, and the pile of insects that were approaching us immediately dispersed and disappeared without a trace.
Wow!
The rock wall above the cave cracked, and a large amount of river water and sediment poured down from above!
Seeing this, Master Shao immediately jumped off the crystal coffin and ran back towards the original path.
"What should Wang Zhen do?" The fat man looked anxious, "It's going to be flooded here!" ”
I was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, when I suddenly had an idea and shouted at the fat man, "Hide in the coffin, hide in the coffin!" Float to the surface of the river with the buoyancy of water! ”
So the two of us hurriedly dragged out the bones in the mahogany coffin, and the two of us hid in a coffin, closed the coffin board, and covered it tightly.
Wow!
The stone walls of the cave had completely collapsed, a large amount of river water had hit down, the coffin shook for a while, I hid in the dark confined space, I felt like I was being dragged up by an invisible force, spinning, shaking, I felt dizzy, I wanted to vomit, and I was surrounded by the sound of gurgling water.
After about two minutes, the coffin floated to the surface of the river, and I no longer felt the pressure of the water. I pushed open the coffin board and saw the starry sky overhead.
Poof!
There was a splash of water next to me, and a coffin jumped out, and then the fat man lifted the coffin board and threw up.
As for the whereabouts of Master Shao later, no one knows, I don't know what the origin of those insects is, maybe the truth is vague.