Chapter Forty-Nine: Dry Corpses

Dry corpse (it is strictly forbidden to reprint without the permission of this site, and the site reserves the right to pursue its legal responsibility)

I made a look at the big gold tooth and the fat man, and took Li Chunlai to a dumpling restaurant on the adjacent street, this mutton dumpling restaurant is well-known in the neighborhood, the owner and his wife are loyal businessmen, the dumplings are full of filling, the flavor is unique, not only affordable, the environment is also very clean.

At this time, it was almost noon, and it was almost time to eat, and there were more and more people eating, I often came here to eat, and the shopkeeper was very familiar with the two of them, and said hello, the proprietress of the dumpling restaurant took us into the warehouse behind the kitchen, set up a table for us, put chairs and chopsticks, and went outside to work on business.

This place is a single room for me to talk about business, and there is nothing else in the warehouse except for a bag of flour, and every time I finish eating, I don't let the shopkeeper make change, which is a single room fee.

I said to Li Chun: "Brother Chunlai, you see if this place is quiet enough, it's time to show me that little flower shoe, right?" ”

Li Chunlai had already been hooked away by the smell of dumplings wafting in from outside, and he turned a deaf ear to my words, and couldn't wait to eat.

Seeing this, I was helpless, but with a wry smile, I pushed his arm and said, "Don't worry, the proprietress will bring it in for us when it is cooked in a while, if your shoes can be sold at a good price, it will be no problem to eat whole meatballs and mutton dumplings every day." ”

Li Chunlai came back to his senses after being pushed by me, listened to my words, and shook his head again and again: "No, no, when the money is exchanged, I will marry an aunt and have a baby." ”

I laughed and said, "You haven't married a daughter-in-law yet?" I didn't marry, what's the hurry to marry a daughter-in-law, when you have money, you can marry a rice fat aunt, don't you say rice fat's mother-in-law Suide's Han, you tell me about this rice fat aunt what's good? ”

Li Chunlai was no longer as restrained as before, and when he heard me ask, he replied: "Hey, that Mizhi's mother-in-law is like the red-colored window flower, if you can marry Mizhi's mother-in-law, it will be very good." ”

While talking, the proprietress brought up the steaming dumplings and brought in two bottles of beer.

As soon as I saw this shelf for him, the two catties of dumplings were not enough, so I quickly asked the proprietress to cook another two catties, and then poured some vinegar into the small dish in front of Li Chunlai, and said to him: "Brother Chunlai, there are no sour soup dumplings that people like to eat around here, so you can make up and eat this, there is vinegar, and drink some beer." ”

Li Chunlai stuffed several dumplings in his mouth, just buried his head in eating and drinking, and stopped talking, I waited for him to eat almost enough, and then talked to him about the embroidered shoes.

Li Chunlai trusted me very much at this time, and took out the embroidered shoes from the broken leather bag for me to see.

During this period of time, I have not been less in contact with antique Ming ware, already half of the connoisseurs, I took the embroidered shoes in my hand to watch, the front of the shoe is less than a hand, the front end is pointed like a bamboo shoot, green satin bottom, the top is embroidered with blue, gold and red silk thread peony flowers, sandalwood soles, there is a sandwich in the middle, and spices can be loaded inside.

Judging from the appearance and embroidery pattern, it is a thing of the Ming Dynasty, Shaanxi women do not wrap small feet much, if there are, most of them are large families, so the craftsmanship of this shoe is quite exquisite.

If the big gold tooth is here, he sniffs it with his nose, and he can know the origin of the shoe, but I don't have such a clever means, I can't eat accurately, look at the color and workmanship does not seem to be imitation, this three-inch golden lotus embroidered fragrant sole shoes, is a hot item, very collectible.

I asked Li Chunlai where the shoes came from, and Li Chunlai didn't hide them, and said them again in 1510:

In their place, there has been nine droughts in ten years, and this year there is a big drought, and there is not a single rain star in the sky.

Before the liberation, the Central Plains was mostly used, and the remote areas of Henan, Shandong, and Shaanxi provinces had this custom.

Li Chun came to their village to beg for rain, and used all kinds of tricks, and there was a blind man in the village who could tell fortunes, and the blind man said that this was a drought and that it would only rain if there was a drought.

At this time, a baby who herded sheep said that when he herded sheep, in the cemetery that had long been abandoned in the east of the village, he saw a child with a whole body green, and ran into an ownerless coffin, and the coffin did not know which one it belonged to, and no one in the village had buried people in that cemetery for a long time, and this broken coffin did not know why, and it has not yet been buried in the ground.

As soon as the blind man who knew how to tell fortunes heard this, he insisted that the droughts were hiding in this coffin, and as soon as the villagers discussed, they were ready to open the coffins with their hands to see if there were any droughts.

When the village chief heard this, he disagreed, saying that the blind man was talking nonsense, and the blind man also lost his temper, and made a bet with the village chief that if he could not find the drought fish in the ownerless coffin, he would let the blind man's son herd sheep for the village chief's house for a year.

As a result, the villagers went to the deserted grave in the east together, and no one said where the coffin came from, and few people came to this cemetery.

As soon as the lid of the coffin was opened, only a fishy smell was smelled, like the smell produced by a large pile of stinky fish after being exposed to the sun.

There were a few bold and those who were not afraid of death, pinching their noses, and they were all in front of them, and then they were startled when they looked inside, there was a female corpse lying in the coffin, and the clothes and jewelry on the body were very well preserved, all of them were the same as new, but look at the dress, they are by no means all modern, this is an ancient corpse.

Although the costume was intact, the corpse was dry, and the muscles and skin were like dead tree bark.

Just above the head of the female corpse, there was a small monster with green hair all over his body, naked, only more than seven inches long, and the little green-haired monkey was still alive, curled up in a ball and sleeping.

After listening to what the villagers said, the blind man insisted that this green-haired little monster was a drought, and that he must kill it immediately, and then whip it, and it must be fast, otherwise it will run away at night, and it will be difficult to find it again.

There were a few brave villagers who caught the little monster with green hair all over the coffin, smashed it to death with a hammer, and then beat it with a whip, the strange thing is that this monster did not bleed, and when it was whipped, a lot of black gas came out of its body, and finally it was whipped to rotten, and no more black gas came out, so it was burned to ashes by a fire.

At this time, it was already dusk, and the villagers asked the blind man what to do with the female corpse in the coffin. The blind man said that if he kept it sooner or later, it would be a disaster, and that it would be better to let people burn it as soon as possible, and no one should take anything from it.

At first, everyone was still a little hesitant, after all, the corpse in this coffin was not modern, and there were many gold and silver jewelry, so it would be a pity to burn it.

While the villagers were still hesitating, the dark clouds in the sky were thickening, and there was a faint sound of thunder, and it seemed that it was going to rain heavily.

Since the blind man said that the coffin must be burned, then it must be burned, and finally the village chief decided to let Li Chunlai stay and burn the coffin.

In order to burn the coffin before it rained, he hurriedly brought a few bundles of dry firewood, piled them under the coffin, lit a fire, and burned it.

Li Chunlai squatted next to him and stared, he was a poor bachelor, he was almost forty years old and didn't have the money to marry his mother-in-law, at this time thinking about the gold and silver in the coffin, he couldn't help but feel a little moved, but unfortunately he didn't dare to take it just now, now the fire has burned, and he can't get it if he wants to, and he doesn't know if it's worth it if it's burned.

Li Chunlai was feeling extremely sorry, suddenly the white light flashed, three or four thunderbolts hit the sky one after another, and the heavy rain poured down, immediately extinguishing the half-burned flames.

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