Brother Chu's statement made me feel that he knew a lot of things, and I couldn't help but get nervous, so I urged, lest he, like the third uncle, stop talking about it in the middle of the story.

This time I couldn't help but show timidity, Brother Chu looked at me and smiled: "Don't worry, I will tell you everything I know, but you have to promise me a few things first." ”

"What is it?" I asked. The heart said: Should I temporarily increase the price?

He looked at the door and said with a shudder: "You can't tell others, I told you these things, after all, I can tell you the things of the dumb Zhang, and I can also tell you the things of other people for money, and I can't imagine that someone will hear the news and find someone to do it to me." I'm not going to go out indefinitely, and it's not as safe as I thought. If I hadn't been cornered, I wouldn't have sold these messages. ”

I nodded, which I can understand, that's why he asked me to come to see him, and to branch Pan Zi, the less people know about this kind of thing, the better.

"I have been friends with your third uncle for many years, so I carried out a lot of things in the early years, such as investigating Chen Wenjin. So, I know a lot more than you think. "I know how deep the water is behind it." You may not know, your third uncle often mentions you, so I know about you, you are not a Taoist, so I dare to sell you news. ”

Oh, my heart churned, which would explain why he had that picture. He asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

He continued: "I don't know if your third uncle has ever told you about those people? ”

"You mean the expedition?" I said, and what the third uncle said sounded in my head: they are all normal. "Some, but not much."

"Your third uncle has been investigating the whereabouts of that group of people all his life, and when I was messing with him before, I often listened to him nagging, but the more I checked. He found that the more abnormal this group of people became. Brother Chu finished smoking another cigarette, took out one and continued to smoke it, "These people seem to be dúlì, dúlì in this world, and have no connection with this society at all." Where they come from. What kind of person. No one knows what exactly is being examined. ”

"I know that."

"At that time, I persuaded him to give up, and he told me that he absolutely did not believe that such a person existed in this world. In those years, we used up almost all methods, and there was no progress, and in the end, your third uncle still listened to me and gave up. I thought that was the end of it. Unexpectedly, a year ago, after your third uncle, you, and the mute Zhang came back from going to Shandong, your third uncle suddenly told me that the mute Zhang was also one of those people, and he had never been old. Surprised, we immediately started to investigate, and the target was naturally dumb Zhang. ”

I sat up straight and saw Brother Chu light another cigarette. I don't know how many of them are. He took a deep breath anyway. "Dumb Zhang was from the fourth grandfather at the time, and your third uncle borrowed it from the fourth grandfather, so I asked someone to inquire about his background, and I heard some unbelievable things." He paused, "Supposedly." The situation of the fourth grandfather seeing the mute Zhang is quite peculiar. That happened four years ago, during a corpse hunt in Guangxi. Have you ever heard of corpse hunting? ”

I nodded, corpse hunting was a matter of the old society. It usually happens when there is some kind of disaster, and there are zombie legends in places where it is more popular, and fighting drought is one of them. At this time, the graves are often dug up, and there are also times when the corpses are really disturbed, and the villagers pick out the bold, drag out the ancient tombs with lasso and zongzi, and expose them to the sun to eliminate the harm.

Chen Pi Ah Si's people and Brother Chu talked about the corpse hunting are different from this, Chu Ge said, this starts with Chen Pi Ah Si's business in Guangxi.

Guangxi has always been a place where the cultures of various ethnic groups gather, and there are many cultural relics and historic sites, but because the cultural differences are too big with the Central Plains, the Central Plains people are completely useless in Guangxi. Because Guangxi shares a border with Vietnam, over time, some Vietnamese people discovered this way of making money, and these people crossed the border to China to steal some ancient tombs. Guangxi has Lingnan culture, there are many ancient tombs, and many of them are open burials, Vietnamese people don't know how to rob tombs, dig indiscriminately, but they can still get some things.

The business of the Central Plains generation in Changsha and Shaanxi is actually very difficult to do, you say that there is no bucket, there are indeed still, there are a lot of oil buckets, stolen more than a dozen times, there are still things left in it, and it will not be empty-handed when you go in. But there are real things, there are really too few dragons' backs, and if you want to open a new bucket, several companies are squatting to grab goods, such a situation must change, so many scoops are fighting the idea of other provinces. For a period of time, there were many gold graves in Heilongjiang, and Guangxi was also a line.

Chen Pi'a has a large plate, so he also has contact with the Vietnamese in Guangxi, and that time he sent people to Guangxi, because the people over there said that a group of Vietnamese Yankees found Dadou, I don't know what the origin is, it seems that the scale is quite large, and they want to send people here to "guide", they don't know what is worth and what is not.

At that time, there were three people who followed the Vietnamese into the rainforest and saw what the Vietnamese were doing. The Vietnamese were heavily armed, and it is estimated that this group of people not only engaged in this kind of business, but also carried a basket and asked them what they were loading, and they said that it was "Ah Kun" inside. The people of Tan Pi Ah don't know Vietnamese and don't know what it means.

It took them three days to reach that place after three days of walking through the forests on the border between China and Vietnam. The tomb was almost open, and they covered the entrance to the discovery site with plantain leaves, as if it were a cellar, and just as they were about to enter, the Vietnamese stopped them and gestured to them, presumably meaning "be careful".

said that a Vietnamese person moved out the things in the basket, and then they realized that the basket was filled with a man covered in [**].

The man's hands and feet were tied, his hair was scattered, and he was covered in mud, and the Vietnamese carried him through the entrance.

Below the entrance is the tomb road, all the way down the stone steps, the Vietnamese have pulled out their knives, Chen Pi Ah Si people are also ready to pick up the black donkey hooves, walking on the discovery of this ancient tomb is very large, walked for more than ten minutes to the tomb, down to the bottom of the smell of rancidity. They searched for the smell and found that the zhōngyāng of the burial chamber had a square well the size of a basin. The smell comes from below.

This is a two-story tomb, and it is a group burial tomb of Lingnan Kingdom, the flashlight shines down, and the well is a rather low burial chamber, only about 1.5 meters high, and you can see the sun-like arrangement of wooden coffins immersed in stagnant water. A strong stench permeated from underneath.

The Vietnamese directly pushed the tied man down. Then he hung down the noose and shone it with a flashlight, as if waiting for some prey.

Chen Pi's four people knew at a glance that there must be something wrong in this ancient tomb, maybe they had already died when they went in, so this time, they brought people in. This person may be the equivalent of a bait, and they want to lure something out of it with a living person. Then put the rope down and hang it up. This is indeed a practice of corpse hunting.

Listening to this, it's too cruel, stealing cultural relics is nothing more than asking for money, and the matter of taking people's lives will deteriorate, but there are historical reasons for things over there, and it is difficult to generalize. The people of Tran Pi Ah knew that the Vietnamese were outlaws, and this kind of thing could not be interfered with, otherwise they did not know what they would do.

But they waited for a long time, and there was no movement at all. The Vietnamese were very strange, and after discussing in Vietnamese for a while, the leader forced a Vietnamese to go down and check it out.

The man went down and looked around, then beckoned, meaning that it was all right. A few other Vietnamese also went down. began to hang things on it, and Chen Pi Ah Si's people were also careless at that time. Didn't follow. As a result, two pieces were not hoisted, and suddenly something happened below. I heard someone screaming, and blood spilled out of the well.

These Vietnamese were quite strong, and immediately some people fled up, and two of them escaped, and then, at once, a corpse hand with unusually long nails came out of the well, and almost caught the leader. They were so frightened that they had no choice but to seal the mouth of the well with stones, build a dozen large stones, and then flee in a hurry.

This matter was later known by Chen Pi Ah Si, for such an experienced scoop handle, it is impossible to give up this ancient tomb just because there are a few zongzi in it. So Chen Pi Ah Si personally led people back to Guangxi, and when they arrived at the ancient tomb, it was already a week later, and after they moved the stones, they found that the bottom was a mess, full of stumps, and the stench was overflowing.

Chen Pi Ah Si thought that all the people had died, but when he went down, he saw more than a dozen zongzi poured on one side of the tomb, and his neck was all broken. A man with [**] body sat on the coffin in the middle of the zongzi, looking at him expressionlessly.

Brother Chu said: "This person is the Ah Kun who was used as bait by the Vietnamese before, which is now the mute Zhang." That's the first time they've met. ”

I took a cool breath: "This is too dramatic." ”

"There must be exaggeration in this, and it's easy to convey the spirit in this industry." Brother Chu said this, and seemed to enjoy it, probably feeling back to the time before he was imprisoned, "It is said that the group of Vietnamese found the mute Zhang in a village in Guangxi, and he was delirious at that time, and they thought he was a fool and tied him up as bait. However, this should be the case, and the exaggeration may be the number of zongzi and the like. After that, he became the companion of the fourth grandfather, and this matter was widely spread among several powerful people under the fourth grandfather, but they didn't say it to the outside world. ”

"What happened before this?"

"No one knows, the dumb Zhang is quite powerful, and the fourth grandfather values him very much, but I think the fourth grandfather probably doesn't know the ins and outs of him, there are rules on the road, and no one will ask much about this kind of thing."

I said in my heart, it's useless for Chen Pi Ah Si to know, he doesn't know where he is now, so I asked him where to go.

"Although this incident is just a legend, it at least gives your third uncle a direction." Brother Chu said, "However, things have taken a turn for the worse, your third uncle went to Xisha in a hurry, so I went to Guangxi on his behalf, and took the dumb photo to that area to ask for news." That fucking person doesn't work on the ground at all, it took me two months to get some clues in a small village called Banandi in Shangsi."

That village was mountainous, close to the Sino-Vietnamese border, and someone there recognized the mute Zhang, whose local name was Ah Kun, and took Brother Chu to Ah Kun's place of residence.

I sighed, but I really didn't expect: "You mean he lives in the countryside of Guangxi?" ”

"It's quite remote, but that place is Chen Pi Ah Si in Ditangkou, Guangxi, there are a lot of Vietnamese, he should live there, but I'm not 100% sure. When I went to Changbai Mountain, I contacted him through the fourth grandfather, and he should have spent most of his time outside and in the field, so it can be seen that Zizi didn't live much, perhaps, he didn't go back when he left Guangxi. ”

"What is he like?" I asked. I'm a little curious about what the home of the stuffy oil bottle will look like.

"It's very ordinary, it's a stilted house, just like the earthen house where the local ethnic minorities live, inside is the bed board and a table, there is glass on the table, and there are a lot of photos pressed underneath, I sneaked in, because it was the territory of the fourth grandfather, I didn't dare to be presumptuous, I didn't dare to bring things out, so I just rummaged in it, and took one of the photos out of it is the one I gave you, and I was going to wait until I discussed it with your third uncle before deciding what to do." But I didn't expect that Chen Pi'a Si had been eyeing me a long time ago, and before I got out of Banai, I was arrested, and you know what happened next. He paused, and then said, "My own feeling, when I inquired about the mute Zhang in Changsha, the fourth grandfather had already noticed me, and he probably knew some things, so I was stared at as soon as I arrived in Banai." At that time, I had no choice but to deal with your third uncle with him. ”

I asked, "What is the big secret behind this?" ”

Brother Chu looked at me and trembled again: "I can't say this......"

I snorted, I hate it when someone plays me a dumb riddle and says, "What can't you say, don't you think you don't have enough money?" ”

Brother Chu trembled: "Little third master, don't hide it, when your third uncle is here, the most taboo thing is for you to find out the roots." Now his life and death are uncertain, it is difficult to guarantee that one day he will suddenly appear, and you can find out these things yourself, if he knows these things I told you, I am afraid that my life will not be guaranteed. Your third uncle is not a good man and a woman, I betrayed him once, but that is excusable, but if this matter betrays him again, it is morally unjustifiable. You also said that there is a Taoist thing to be particular about, and if you want to know this, you go to that house and look at the other pictures pressed under the glass on the table, and you will naturally understand why I asked you to stop. That's all I can tell you, the specifics, and never come out of my mouth. ”

He still wanted to light a cigarette, but the cigarette was gone, and he coughed, his eyes were dazed, and it turned out to be a little similar to the eyes of the stuffy oil bottle.