Chapter 41 The Red Candle Ghost Blows the Lamp
It was already a tense moment, but the wind came and the lights went out, and it was dark in an instant, you can imagine how the three people in this basement felt at this moment, and the most frightened person caused by such a change was naturally Gao Chao whose right hand was still in the corpse.
At this moment, Gao Chao reacted almost naturally, his muscles tensed, and he quickly pulled his right hand out of the corpse with one hand.
At the same time, he took two steps back and shouted, "Fatty, turn on the light!" ”
In this dark basement, where is there a light, the superb meaning is just to let the fat man hurry up and give the light, the incident happened suddenly, and the fat man didn't have time to slow down, but Xia Qing next to him had already turned on his mobile phone.
Although the light of the mobile phone was dim, when it was bright, it also made the three of them feel a lot more at ease, at least at this moment everyone saw each other, and the fat man reacted, and quickly reached out to touch the mobile phone in his trouser pocket and turned it on.
The light of the two mobile phones illuminated a small area around the three people, but it could not be compared with the brightness of the previous candlelight, so Gao Chao quickly found the extinguished candle again, and took out the lighter to light it again.
But who knew that the superb lighter, at the moment, it seemed that something was wrong, no matter how to fight, but no matter what, he couldn't hit half a spark, Gao Chao was annoyed, and scolded himself: "What a fucking fuck, a dollar is not easy to use, give me a chain at a critical moment!" ”
But at this time, the fat man stood aside, but suddenly said in a shocked voice: "Lao Gao, I'm afraid this is not a matter of lighters......"
Gao Chao squatted on the ground and hurriedly turned to look at the fat man, but found that in the cold light of the mobile phone, the fat man's face was gloomy, and the fear on his face was difficult to hide.
Seeing him like this, Gao Chao couldn't help but shudder and said, "Fatty, what do you mean?" ”
At this moment, the fat man's body stiffened, and he nervously looked left and right in the darkness, and then said coldly: "This...... It's a ghost blowing the lamp! ”
"Ghost blowing the lamp?" Gao Chao heard these three words, and couldn't help but gasp, of course Gao Chao had heard these three words, and knew what they meant, but he didn't expect to be on such an occasion, and he really let himself run into it.
The so-called "ghost blowing lamp", in fact, the original meaning is a folk legend of gods and ghosts, three lamps on the human body, one on the top of the head, one on the left and right shoulders, so three magic lamps, ghosts and gods have to avoid three points, but if someone walks at night at night, smells someone behind him shouting his name, at this time if he is watching left and right, then he blows out the two lamps on the left and right shoulders, and the soul of the person will be summoned by the evil ghost, and the person should die, even if he is alive, he will become a person who loses his soul.
And the fat man said "ghost blowing lamp", but there is another meaning, the antique businessman is familiar with the ghost blowing lamp, but refers to a strange phenomenon when the tomb robbery is upside down, legend has it that among the northern tomb robbery factions, there is a faction that claims to touch the gold school captain, according to legend, from the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the former Wei Gong Cao Cao to make up for the military salary as an excuse, set up the military rank of the general of the Qiu Zhonglang and the captain of the touch of the gold, specializing in the theft of ancient tombs, the Han book "for Yuan Shao Yuzhou" also mentioned: "Cao and special Faqiu Zhonglang general, touch the gold school captain, the abruptness." , no remains are exposed. It can also be seen that at that time, the matter of robbing tombs and digging graves has been rampant to what extent, so that the later generations of the gold school captain slowly evolved into a tomb robbery sect, and also produced a series of complex means and rules in the development, and one of the most important rules is "people light red candles and ghosts blow out the lamp, and things retreat to live", the meaning of this proverb is that when the captain enters the ancient tomb, he must light a red candle in the southeast corner of the tomb, and only after the flame is stable can the coffin be opened and the treasure can be touched, if the candle is extinguished, It is necessary to return all the treasures to the original place, not to take a thing, and then retreat with his back in order to get a way to save his life, so this "ghost blowing the lamp" can also be regarded as a contract between the tomb robber and the tomb owner.
There are many similar rules, Gao Chao and the fat man have been listening to ghost stories since childhood, of course, they are familiar with this kind of thing, but because the fat man's family is a corpse toucher in the eight lines outside, so he is more concerned about this kind of thing, and now in such a basement, there are both dried corpse dumplings and red rod candles, and the candle was blown out by the yin wind, which made the fat man inevitably think of the story of "ghost blowing the lamp", and suddenly came out of a body of white sweat.
Looking at Gao Chao again, it is not much better, although he has listened to such things as ghosts blowing out the lamp as stories since he was a child, but he didn't expect that in such an environment, he suddenly heard these three words, and he was so scared that he gasped.
However, Gao Chao is a veteran after all, how could the education he received in the army make him believe in such superstitious legends, so at the moment Gao Chao said that this must be the candle that has been placed here for too long, and the wax oil will suddenly go out when it changes, as for the lighter that can't be lit, it must be a quality problem, and it's all to blame Zhao Fat Man for being suspicious and suspicious, disturbing the morale of the army.
Thinking like this, Gao Chao grabbed the candle standing on the ground, and then said angrily to the fat man: "Fatty, don't talk nonsense, give me your lighter quickly!" ”
At this moment, the fat man was holding up his mobile phone, and he wanted to grit his teeth and take a picture of the dried corpse over there, but when Gao Chao said this, how dare he slack off, so he quickly took out the lighter from his pocket and handed it to Gao Chao.
Gao Chao took the lighter, and muttered a little in his heart, saying that the fat man's lighter is also a broken thing for one yuan, and I don't know if it's good or not, but if it still can't be hit this time, it's really a bit evil.
Gao Chao's heart was up and down, and his hands began to tremble a little, but he still took a deep breath and clicked to try to light the lighter.
This first time, I saw that the lighter in Gao Chao's hand was a few sparks, but it really didn't hit.
Seeing this, the fat man whispered in a low voice on the side: "Old Gao, hurry up and withdraw, this ghost blowing the lamp is not a joke!" ”
At this moment, the lighter still can't be hit, so that Gao Chao also suddenly feels cold hands and feet, but after all, this fat man's lighter has seen a few sparks, which is a lot stronger than his own just now, and Gao Chao hurriedly tried to light the lighter again, but he didn't expect this second click, and the lighter was actually ignited by Gao Chao.
Strange to say, although the lighter was lit, its flame was quite dim, as if it was about to go out, Gao Chao saw this and quickly used the candle to light the faint flame of the lighter, and then the red candle was lit again.
The flame of the candle changed from weak to strong, and everything around it slowly became clear from dimness, and the fat man and Xia Qing who were standing on the side at this moment also breathed a sigh of relief, somewhat relaxed, after all, this candle can be lit, which shows that the legend of "ghost blowing the lamp" is just a legend.
But just when the candlelight was not yet fully lit, the fat man suddenly shouted, "I grass! That...... The dumplings are gone! ”