The fat man's words suddenly made Gao Chao completely drunk, and he immediately became nervous, so he couldn't help but ask the fat man: "Tell me, what do you see?" ”

The fat man squinted and looked at Lao Lai who was paralyzed in the chair again, and then whispered to Gao Chao: "No wonder I always think that he is yin and yang, like he has mad hair on his face, and there is a cold air in his bones, it turns out that this grandson is a corpse toucher who chases the grave." ”

The corpse toucher, also called Tufuzi, was originally a legitimate occupation, the old Tufuzi refers to the businessmen who sell yellow mud in Changsha, these people make some living money by selling the yellow mud to charcoal-burning merchants, so at that time Tufuzi were the hard-working people at the bottom of the society, but later because there was a need for charcoal burning high-quality "glutinous rice mud", so there was a Tufuzi who started the idea of sealing the soil in the tomb, because the sealed soil of the ancient tombs of the Tang and Song dynasties in Changsha is generally mostly glutinous rice mud, so these ancient tombs were excavated by Tufuzi, At first, they only dug mud for money, but then they occasionally dug up some tomb artifacts, which attracted the surrounding antique dealers to come to the door to receive and pay, and their income was more than selling mud, so in this way, the soil masters saw that it was profitable, so they no longer did dredge labor, but changed to steal and dig ancient tombs for a living, and became professional tomb robbers.

Therefore, this Tufuzi is the name of the common people in Hunan for tomb robbers.

After all, when it comes to the soil, no one does not dislike it, they all know that they are doing the craft of the partial door, digging pits into the hole in the middle of the night, opening the lid of the coffin, touching the gold and picking up treasures on the corpse, up and down their hands, coming and going, people who do this line of work call themselves "touch the ghouls", quite a bit of self-deprecation, and then after a long time, there are more rules, "touch the ghouls" was included in the eight lines of thieves, and then slowly have the unique title of the corpse toucher.

After the fat man finished speaking, he disdainfully "puffed" and spat on the ground, as if he looked down on Lao Lai very much.

Gao Chao saw him like this, and immediately said: "Touching the corpse, what a fart are you?" Isn't your ancestor also a corpse toucher? ”

The fat man said disdainfully: "Lao Gao, you don't understand this, people are divided into three, six, nine, etc., and the meat is divided into three layers, and there is also a level in this corpse toucher, you see that although our old Zhao family is also from touching corpses and robbing tombs, but we all have family laws under the ancestral teachings, for which tombs can be stolen, which ones cannot be stolen, how to take them if they are stolen, how much to take, what kind of to, that is very strict regulations, to put it bluntly, we are reasonable and lawful to touch the corpse, in order to bring those who were looted by the feudal emperor out of the ancient tombs, It is an extremely noble and great thing to let them be made known to the world and then returned to the people, as the so-called taking from the people and using them for the people......"

The fat man sprayed here, and glanced at Lao Lai with disdain, and then said: "We are not like these grandsons, I have seen a lot of people like them, they are all soil rats who dig graves when they see them, and drill holes when they see them, not to mention the burial objects in the tomb, they can't wait to drag out the zombie dumplings in the coffin and sell them together, they have no professional ethics at all, and they actually smear our ancestors' industry, I really fucking look down on this kind of person!" ”

The fat man said a lot of indignantly, but Gao Chao said to the fat man disapprenorovingly: "Don't be hypocritical, your family is no better than three generations up, don't say that your own family touching corpses and robbing tombs is the same as charity, who in our two families doesn't know who?" To be serious, now that you say that he is a corpse toucher, there must be some theoretical basis, you can't just pat your head and button someone's hat casually, but tell me, how did you see it? ”

The fat man was a little unhappy when he heard Gao Chao say that, but at this moment, when he heard Gao Chao give him a chance to explain his judgment, he pouted his lips and said arrogantly: "Gao Chao, since you asked me, then my fat man has to give you a good talk for the honor of the family, so that you can also be convinced by my fat man, and in the future, you will always say that I brag and don't see the sky, pretending to fart and not spicy, I also let you know this time that our old Zhao family is also a big family of corpse touchers with inheritance, connotation, and ideology...... ”

Hearing him start talking nonsense again, Gao Chao's eyes scolded: "Do you say it or not?" ”

The fat man saw that Gao Chao was in a hurry, so he hurriedly said: "Say, what are you anxious about!" Lao Gao, you see this grandson's hands, even the palms of his hands are calluses, which can explain at least two problems, one is that this grandson Luoyang shovel is good, the sapper shovel is also good, even his palms are full of calluses, it means that the years are long, he has used experience, when holding the shovel in his hand, even his palms are strong, increase friction, a shovel down at least more than half of the footage of ordinary people who have not practiced, and the second is that this grandson must use the shovel very frequently, can grind out such calluses on his hands, I estimate that he has to do at least two times a month to touch the corpse of the business is about the same, but you see that he is in the mountains of Yunnan, how can there be so many tombs for him to touch, so I think this grandson must be no matter whether the new grave or the old grave, all of them have been ruined by others, in short, there is no less evil in this place, it is estimated that the cemeteries in the surrounding mountains have been plagued by him, but you look at his poor and sour appearance, at a glance, you will know that he has never found any decent grave, otherwise as long as he finds the right place to do a vote, I'm sure this grandson won't want to stay here again! ”

After all, the fat man drank wine, and he said so much in a rambling manner, Gao Chao could barely understand it, although he felt that what the fat man said made some sense, but he still felt that it was not enough to explain the problem.

"I said fatty, did you make a preconceived mistake, you didn't like him in the first place, that's why you saw him with calluses on his hands, and thought he was a corpse toucher, but there are many people with calluses on their palms, so they may not be all tomb robbers, right? Maybe this old man used to be a peasant brother, he worked in the field every day with a shovel and a pickaxe, and he had to grind out calluses? No, no, I don't think your reasons are good enough, and your ideas are not very reliable. Gao Chao shook his head and said that he didn't quite believe the fat man's analysis.

Seeing Gao Chao like this, the fat man was a little anxious and said, "Hey, I said Lao Gao, how can you not believe buddy?" Looks like I'm going to have to teach you a good lesson! Just now I said that he has calluses on his palms, in fact, those are still secondary, the key problem is his fingers, you come and take a look......"

As the fat man spoke, he carefully grabbed Lai's right hand, as if he was afraid of waking him up at this moment.

The fat man pointed to Lao Lai's fingers, and then said to Gao Chao: "Lao Gao, look at this grandson's fingers, they are thick and long, like a small steel rod, and you look at his index finger and middle finger, the calluses on the belly of those fingers are about as thick as the soles of my shoes, do you know what this is called?" It's called yin and yang fingers, haven't you heard the old saying? Heaven and earth yin and yang are divided into two fingers, when the five watches of the rooster crow and close the coffin, fill in the soil and bury the pit do not create evil, the ancestors know under the nine springs. ”

Gao Chao was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's okay, fat man, you can still recite Tang poems?" ”

The fat man grinned and scolded: "Get out, what Tang poetry, it's really hard to talk to a layman like you, that's four sentences of the heart of the corpse toucher, which means that after the yin and yang fingers open the coffin and pick up the treasure, the coffin must be re-covered before the rooster crows, and when it comes out, it has to be filled with soil to fill the robbery hole, so that the ancestors under the nine springs will be at ease, understand?" ”

After listening to it, Gao Chao nodded and said: "I understand, I understand, do you mean that these two fingers of Lao Lai are the yin and yang fingers mentioned in the four sentences?" ”

The fat man said: "It must be, because this kind of yin and yang fingers that only the corpse toucher has, I am too familiar with it, my father's fingers don't know if you have noticed, he has yin and yang fingers, that is when he was young, he picked the coffin board and practiced, and Lao Lai's two fingers are exactly the same, but ......"

Gao Chao saw that the fat man suddenly hesitated, so he couldn't help but ask, "But what?" ”

The fat man touched his chin and said: "But then again, this kind of yin and yang fingers can rarely be seen now, it can almost be said to be lost, this is the kung fu of the older generation of corpse touchers, because of many conditions in the past, so the corpse touchers who go down to the tomb generally only carry two things, the same is a corpse rope, the same is a black cloth bag, the corpse rope is used to pull up the corpse, the black cloth bag can be used to prevent the dumpling from getting the corpse, and it can also be used to carry the coffin in the coffin, except for these two things, there is no equipment, So in the past, when the coffin was opened, it was completely relied on the craftsmanship of the corpse toucher, using the yin and yang fingers to touch into the gap of the coffin board, and then forcefully lifting the coffin lid, so I really can't figure it out now, this old man actually has yin and yang fingers on his hands, could it be that this grandson really has such two hits? ”

Speaking of this, Gao Chao naturally believed in the fat man's judgment, it seems that the comrade Lai Central in front of them is really an authentic corpse toucher, and it is very likely that he is still a corpse toucher with some old skills.

However, Gao Chao also felt that the fat man was too evil and exaggerated, and he said in his heart that the so-called old craftsmanship was actually just opening the coffin with two fingers, which was not a big deal, because most of the wooden coffins in the ancient tombs had already decayed, not to mention what yin and yang fingers were used, even if he kicked two feet hard, he could kick those coffins apart.

At this moment, Gao Chao and the fat man have already determined the identity of this old lai, whether he is an old craftsman or a new force, in short, he must be a grave chaser, so to treat such a person, Gao Chao and the fat man thought about it, so they came up with a bad idea with the strength of wine, and came up with a special sanction plan for the old man.