I didn't expect the third uncle's narrative to start from fifty years ago. I didn't bring my grandfather's notebook with me this time, but I remember it very clearly. What happened that night fifty years ago was strange and abnormal, but Grandpa didn't write it down in the end, and we don't know anything about what happened after he fell into a coma. Now when I recall the words in it, I still feel an inexplicable feeling in my heart.

But when the third uncle said this, I suddenly didn't believe him, because my grandfather was very secretive about this matter, before he died, no matter how many of our juniors asked, he didn't say that the third uncle had a bad relationship with his grandfather since he was a child, and I believe that his grandfather would not tell him.

So as soon as he said that, I said, "Don't fucking fool me, Grandpa was bare-bottomed fifty years ago, and he was so tight-mouthed, how do you know?" Don't tell me any more stories, I won't be fooled. ”

The third uncle was displeased when he heard this, and said, "If I don't tell you that you are in a hurry, and if I tell you that you don't believe it, why can't I know?" If you don't believe me, I won't say it, I don't want to say it yet. ”

As soon as I saw that he was about to regret it, I immediately said: "Don't, I believe it, I just sighed, you can continue to speak." ”

The third uncle glanced at me, thought about it, and then continued.

As I listened, I realized that I had misunderstood him. But I really didn't expect it to turn out like this.

It was the notebook that started the matter, but the process was much more complicated.

The notes were kept in the glove compartment in the attic of my hometown until they reached me. It wasn't until I was literate and looked through old things that I happened to see it in my hands, and my father and third uncle had read this notebook when they were young.

When was the first time the third uncle saw the notes, he couldn't remember it clearly, but he remembered that he had been debuting for a while at that time, and he had a little bit of knowledge, and he had heard a lot of strange cloud legends among the elders. He knew that there was a saying among the Tufuzi in Changsha that "soil carries blood, and corpses bring gold", so as soon as he saw the notes, he thought that he had not touched anything particularly handy, and he was immediately attracted by the things recorded in the notes.

Almost immediately, he had the idea of going back to Dart Ridge to have a look. The ancient tomb will not leave, even if it is too many years, it should still be here. In addition, in the early days of liberation, there were bandits rampant in the depths of the mountains and forests, and not many people would enter. He believed there should be something left in the tomb.

However, Dart Ridge is just a local name for the place where my grandfather was a child. This kind of name can refer to a small dirt bag, or an entire mountain or even an entire unknown area of the primeval jungle, so it is unrealistic to rely on a place name to find that ancient tomb.

So, how can you determine the exact location of that place? The third uncle pondered for a long time, but he didn't have a clue until the year before he went to Xisha, and finally had a clue.

That year, he went to his grandfather's hometown in Changsha, his hometown was in the mountains, and he walked for four days to reach the remote countryside, where he inquired with the locals about the deep location of Yundart Ridge, although he did not get direct information that time, but he was greatly familiar with the customs and customs over there.

When I came back, I studied what was written in the notebook again, and it became clear. According to the other contents of his grandfather's notes, and the memories of the third uncle when he eavesdropped on his grandfather's speech when he was a child, plus some things he inquired about over there, he vaguely judged that the ancient tomb should be located near the devil's village in Mangshan.

Because the grandfather mentioned in the notes, when the grandfather and grandfather were in the python forest, they were bitten by a kind of "iron-headed snake", this snake is often coiled under the bushes, it is difficult to find, and the harm was very wide at that time, and later the snake fighting campaign was carried out, but this snake was beaten to the brink of extinction in one fell swoop. Of course, that's an afterthought.

At that time, the Tufuzi was born and raised, and after being bitten by a poisonous snake, he often just sucked out the venom, patted some tobacco leaves, and ate a few mouthfuls of local medicine, and there was no better way to deal with it. After this treatment, if after a few hours, the bitten person does not have a poisoning reaction, it will be fine; On the contrary, generally speaking, there is no room for recovery, only resignation.

At that time, the snakes that bit the two of them were small snakes, and the wounds were not deep, so the grandfather didn't care about them, and after a simple treatment, they didn't feel anything particularly wrong, so they continued to hurry without saying a word. Unexpectedly, after walking two miles away, Grandpa suddenly fell, and then fell unconscious.

They stopped to take a closer look, only to see that the grandfather's skin was blue and kept spasming, apparently the snake venom attacked, and then the grandfather drove dozens of miles of mountain roads to find the local mountain people, and only then did he use herbs to save his grandfather's life.

Grandpa and they rested in the same place for two days, and according to Grandpa's description of the waterfall at that time, it is certain that the place where they rested should be ghostly.

On the fourth day after this incident, they arrived at the place called Dart Ridge. The place was located in the plain of the valley, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the valley was full of python forests, especially many thousand-year-old vines, only the most hollow part of the valley, but there were no plants, revealing a blood-red bare soil, and the ancient tomb was under the valley.

The irony is now that the kind of snake that bit my grandfather is already endangered, and the export value of one of its adult snakes is more than a million, far exceeding the price of an ordinary Ming vessel. The clouds are deep and untraceable.

In this way, the hope of finding it is much greater, although the primeval jungle of Mangshan was vast at that time, far more than the current ghost Yuzhai Waterfall is located in the central part of the jungle, but the same landform is not very much, and it is not difficult to find.

The third uncle straightened up and set off again. The third uncle is used to being alone, because he is too young, the old man is reluctant to go out with him, and there is no one who can match him at the same age.

However, after he went through all the hardships and passed through the Mangshan jungle, which was almost uninhabited at that time, what caught his eye was a scene that he never dreamed of.