I looked at the printout of the silk book full of words, and then looked at the expression of the third uncle, I didn't understand what he was talking about, could it be that the uncle had detached himself to the point that he could see the "painting" from the "words"? How do you look at this old indecent eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling on weekdays, and there is no fairy root.

The third uncle counted me down, and at the same time took out his reading eyes to look at this thing, saying that this is called the Eight Arrays of Calligraphy (calligraphy and painting, also known as Tibetan paintings), which is to write the detailed geographical location of a place in a special grammar, which looks like a bunch of meaningless words, but in fact, the information in it is very rich, and it is a kind of password used when marching and fighting in ancient times. I said that you don't know a few big characters, where did you hear these skills, he said that this is not learned, this is experience.

I laughed when I heard it, this third uncle is a reckless character, the closest to my grandfather in terms of conduct, and his ability to brag is first-class, it is estimated that this eight-array book map must be what his friends told him, how much he knows, it is still a question.

The third uncle stared at a few of the words, and said to himself: "Those few halfway monks are lucky, why have I never touched this kind of thing, this time I really picked up a bargain for you." ”

I asked him what was the place on this map? The third uncle frowned and looked at it for a long time before he said a few words that shocked me: "It seems... It's a fucking tomb! ”

The Warring States Silk Book is not a special book, but something similar to a diary or impression record in the style of notes, some of which I came into contact with in my early years, the content is very miscellaneous, although it has a high value for researching the humanistic life at that time, but I am not archaeology, so it did not arouse my interest, this time it is special, I was busy and asked if I could see whose tomb it was?

The third uncle shook his head and said to me, "I can't fully understand it now, but this tomb should be a nobleman of the Lu State during the Warring States Period, you see that the location of his tomb was recorded in a silk book with calligraphy and painting, indicating that this person's status should be quite high, and this cemetery must be very secret, it is a good cave, and it is worth visiting." ”

As soon as I heard that it was the Warring States Tomb, my heart turned up, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were treasures in that bucket, but that could only be said to be ingenious at most, but the royal tombs of the Warring States Period were too old, and you could never estimate what was in there, maybe you could get a few ancient treasures for you, this temptation is not something that money can erase, and the attraction to tomb robbers is naturally infinite.

But I thought about it, I didn't have a chance to go anyway, it's useless to be excited, my tutor is very dead, my dad insists on making our generation completely out of the bottom, this business, I and my two cousins have never touched, even the Luoyang shovel is a contraband, when I was a child, I just took a needle shovel to insert fish in the river, and the result was not killed by my father.

The third uncle is the only one in the family who has not married and had children, and his personality is more uninhibited, and he has always had opinions about my father's approach, and now when he looks at me like this, he shook his head: "I said that you are a child, and you are really honest enough, your father said that you are not allowed to go down, you really dare not go down, what are you afraid of when you are in your twenties, afraid that he will beat you?" Beat it, beat it, and I can't kill you, when I'm as old as you, I can go wherever I want, and I can do whatever I want, and your grandfather can't control it. ”

I said yes, who are you, Hangzhou Sanli Pavilion who doesn't know that your Wu Sanye fart is fragrant.

The third uncle glanced at me, lit a cigarette, and said that he had the opportunity to take me to see it, and secretly went to prevent my father from knowing that the Wu family had been begging for a living underground for hundreds of years.

I don't know if he took it seriously, and he didn't go to his heart, the two chatted for half a night, and before I knew it, I also drank half a pound of liquor, and I couldn't go back when I saw it, so I got up and said goodbye, and I didn't even drive the car, and went home directly.

I went back to the small house I rented at the end of Shiqiao, when the sky was white, I sent a message to Wang Meng, asking him to open a shop by himself, and lay down on the bed, and fell asleep in a flash.

I slept until the afternoon, and I didn't sleep very well, and there were a lot of dream-like pictures in my brain, what ancient tombs, zombies, mixed with some peach-colored pictures, it was just a hodgepodge.

When I woke up, I suddenly panicked, and I don't know why, I got up and washed my face and wanted to have fun on the Internet, but I found that it was not good to go up, so I had to light a cigarette and run to the balcony to smoke, and see the rural women landlords below rubbing mahjong in the courtyard.

After pondering there in a daze for a long time, I found out that I was thinking about the ancient tomb that the third uncle said, so I called the third uncle and asked him how to prepare it, ask his subordinates to go or go by himself, what can I help with, the third uncle said that he would wait until he thought about it himself, and hung up the phone.

In the next few days, I didn't know how, I always felt uncomfortable, so I called the third uncle every half a day, and asked him about the situation of the ancient tomb in a different way.

The third uncle heard some signs on the other end of the phone, and laughed there: "Don't fucking talk nonsense, I know what your kid is thinking, to tell me the truth, is it itchy to tell me, want to go down to the ground to see it?" What's so hard to say about this, he's been babbling there like a bitch for a long time. ”

As soon as I heard it, it seemed that this was what I originally meant, and I didn't even notice it, so I was a little embarrassed, so I said that the devil knows if what you said last night counts, and you drank so much, maybe you forgot about it. The third uncle laughed on the phone for a long time, and said that if you really want to go, come over immediately, there are many things to prepare. When I heard it, I almost didn't go crazy, and shouted okay, let me pull the ox cart.

I rushed to the third uncle's side, he was calling the Bishan side, saying that he was going to transfer a few experienced guys over, and he wrote a note to me as he spoke, asking me to help him make some things. He also instructed me: "Don't buy fakes, and prepare to travel out, otherwise we will be detained before we get to the place." I nodded my head in agreement, and went our separate ways.

The things that the third uncle wants are more tricky, I'm afraid he wants to embarrass me, the things in this list are really not available in the store, such as what split waterproof miner's lamp, rebar pipe, archaeological shovel head, multi-use saber, folding shovel, short-handled hammer, bandage, nylon rope and so on. It cost nearly 10,000 yuan to buy 1/2, and some things have to be ordered first.

But these are still good, the most troublesome thing is to buy a gun on the list, the third uncle estimates that this time to go into the old forest, no gun is not a thing, not to mention the demons and monsters, encountering a wild boar is enough for us to bear, the gun must be bought, and can not be bought*. I had no way out, so I ran around the thrift market all day, asking around in black and white, and finally managed to get a few second-hand double-barreled shotguns. Gun.

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Three days later, a group of five of me got on a long-distance bus bound for Linyi, Shandong.

This time, the third uncle brought a total of three people, two of whom I had seen before, they were all real people, and they chatted very openly, and the third was the kid I saw with the sword box downstairs under the third uncle, and I didn't know what the relationship with the third uncle was, so I also came. But this kid is very annoying, the whole thing is dragging the oil bottle, and he didn't let out a fart along the way, so he just looked at the sky, as if the melancholy sky would fall! I had a few words with him at first, but then I simply ignored him and didn't even know his name.

The car was speeding on the highway, the journey was long, and we passed the time with sleep, all the time in a daze. After twelve hours of bumpy ride, we arrived in Linyi.

Linyi is the location of the ancient Lu country, located in the hilly area, located in the sun of Mount Tai, the third uncle compared all the terrain within the scope of the Gulu country and the Qi country, and set the main goal in the Mengshan of Linyi and Yimeng mountains. Because of the lack of information, we don't know whether that place was in the territory of Lu or Qi at that time.

Mengshan was called Dongmeng, Dongshan in ancient times, standing in the territory of Pingyi County, Shandong Province, located in the northwest of Linyi, Shandong, a branch of the Taiyi Mountain Range, across the Pingyi, Mengyin, Fei County and Yinan four counties of Linyi City, northwest and southeast, stretching for more than 70 kilometers, there are several places where the tourism development has been relatively perfect, we bought some tourist maps, after comparing and found that the map in our hands does not match, we are looking for the place, I am afraid that it is more inside the mountain.

I found a few local mountain guides and asked them about the ancient place names mapped on the map, but to no avail, there was no result, there was a long war in that area, and many villages were burned down by devils during the anti-Japanese war, and it was very difficult to explore. Five people had nothing to do, went around a few times in several scenic spots, decided to go into the mountains and then said, we got on the local earth bus, sat until the Guazi Temple and then more than 40 kilometers to the west, and then changed to the dirt motorcycle and then went to the path, and finally took the ox cart to turn the dirt road of the mountain. When we came down from the ox cart, we saw nothing modern in sight except for the hills in front of and behind us.

We thought we had arrived at the place, so we all jumped off the ox cart, at this time a dog ran in front of us, my third uncle was happy to see it, and patted the old man who drove the cow and joked with him, "Old man, let's ride this dog on the next trip, I'm afraid this dog is enough!" ”

"How can you ride a dog?" The old man laughed: "This dog is used to report the news, this last journey, there is no car, you have to make a boat, the dog will bring the boat over." ”

So saying, he drove the ox cart down a slope, and we hurried down. The hills here are different from those in the south, the altitude is high, because there has been no human activity for many years, the shrubs are very dense, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of corrosive soil, and the mud is black, and sometimes it can reach your knees when you step down. We cut off a few branches to use as crutches, and explored the path as we went, walking very carefully.

After descending into the valley, there was a turquoise mountain stream in front of us, five or six boats wide, and the bottom of the water could not be seen, and on both sides of the stream were towering cliffs, except for a flat rock where we stood, and the rest of the place was a towering cliff, on which the canopy of trees was covered with foliage and thick shade, which obscured most of the sun, and the temperature around it dropped several degrees.

The third uncle leaned on the back of the ox cart and asked the old man, "This dog, can also swim?" ”

The old man sat in the car and knocked the dog's head with a cigarette gun: "Donkey Dandan, go swim and have a look." ”

The dog was really spiritual, and jumped into the river with a "Wang" and swam in a circle. When he came up and shook his hair, he fell on the ground and stuck out his tongue.

We were all happy, and the old man looked at the sky and said to us, "It's still too early, the boatman must not have started yet, let's rest for a while and smoke a cigarette." ”

I looked at my watch: "It's not started at 2 p.m., what is your work and rest time as a boatman?" ”

"We have a boatman here, he is the most powerful, when he gets up and when he starts work, sometimes he doesn't start work for a day, he can make people die." The old man smiled: "There's no way, ten miles and eight villages, just a boat family like him, he can do whatever he wants, and the village chief can't do anything about him." ”

"Then you still have to hold a congress, remove him, and replace him with a Lisuo?" The third uncle asked him.

"We also think, you are from other places, I don't know, the mountain god here only sells his face, as long as others enter the cave, they will definitely not be able to get out. As long as he can go over, he doesn't know how to prepare the ground. ”

"Ah, this is ahead, you have to go through a cave?" The third uncle was taken aback, and immediately took out the map, and after looking at it, he seemed to suddenly realize: "It's really a river cave, how can the old man, this cave can still eat people?" ”

The old man smiled: "That's the words left by the previous generations, I can't remember clearly, I heard the family say it, but I don't know if it's true." ”

As soon as we heard this, we thought that it might have something to do with the ancient tomb, so we hurriedly asked him to talk about it, and the old man saw that we were interested, and he also became energetic, and after smoking a cigarette, he gave us a chatter.

It turned out that when the village was not yet, the hole was already there, but unfortunately no one knew that the two ends of the hole were open, this hole was very weird, people could not get out when they went in, and over time, the village said that there was a snake spirit in the hole, and they made a hidden pile in the water, and they did not let the boat in......

Then one day, suddenly a man came out of the hole and appeared on the edge of the village with a small boat, saying that he was a merchant from outside, but the people in the village did not believe him, and they all said that he was a snake spirit and wanted to kill him. Fortunately, at that time, there were several daughters-in-law from the next village in the township, and when they heard this person's Xiangxi accent, they recognized him, saying that he was really a merchant, and he went to the next village every year, and he sold all the rouge from other places.

A few sect chiefs ran to the next village to ask a few legs, and sure enough, they let him go. Since then, the cave has been as if it were a person, and only the boatman's family has been able to go straight in and out, and nothing has gone wrong for hundreds of years.

"Is the dog okay?" I wondered, "Didn't you use it to report the news?" ”

"Then I don't know the old man, I say that it is a few generations of words, who knows if it is true." The old man knocked on the dry pipe on the ground. "We walk very little on this waterway, there is a mountain road on the mountain, we generally walk from there, but you have too many things, this mountain has not been very peaceful in recent years, and the stones are always falling down, this does not smash down several, let's not fight for this breath, wait and so on."

I looked from below, and found that the mountains here were tall, the mountains were stacked, and I couldn't see other passers-by, and I didn't know if what he said was true, the third uncle listened to the old man's words, he thought for a while, and clapped his hands: "Donkey Dandan, come here"

The dog was really obedient, and he ran over, and the third uncle picked him up and smelled it, and his face changed: "My grandma, why is this smell..."

I also picked it up and smelled it, and I coughed all over the way because of the smell of dogs, and the owner of the dog was really lazy, and I don't know how long I hadn't bathed the dog.

A guy named Pan Zi laughed: "You want to learn from your third uncle, you are still tender." ”

"This dead dog, why does it stink so much!" I only grinned in disgust.

"Panzi, come over and smell it too!" The third uncle beckoned.

"I, don't want it," Pan Zi said: "I can't stand the smell of dogs the most, and it will be embarrassing to spit it out after a while." ”

"Don't be wordy, come and smell it, the smell of this dog is too weird."

Pan Zi had no choice but to walk over, picked up the dog and shook it in his nose, and suddenly his face changed: "This, it's the smell of corpses..."

"No," my frightened hair stood upside down, and even the muffled boy's face changed.

The third uncle lit a cigarette, looked at the dog with a frown, and said to us, "Take all the guys with you, the cave in front of me is probably a corpse cave, cheer me up." ”

My third uncle's other buddy was a big man, we called him Aqua, and seeing that he was about the same size as the ox pulling the cart, but he had little courage, and asked softly, "What is that corpse hole?" ”

"I don't know, a few years ago I also found such a hole in Taiyuan, Shanxi, where the Japanese slaughtered and piled up corpses, where there is a corpse hole there must be slaughter, this is for sure, at that time it was fun to look at the experiment there, put the dogs, ducks on the bamboo row, and then set up a camera, push it in, the hole is more than 1 kilometer at most, I prepared a long enough cable, but when the cables are pulled out, the bamboo row has not come out, it is dark inside, I don't know where to drift, Later, I wanted to pull out the bamboo chop, but I pulled it a few times, and suddenly the bamboo chop turned over, and then..."The third uncle spread his hands, "In the end, I only saw half of the face, and I was too close to the screen to see whether it was an animal or something." To pass through this kind of hole, in ancient times, there was a row of dead and living people in one go, and if it was a living thing, it would not be able to get out if it went in! However, I heard that people in a place in Xiangxi have fed children to eat dead human flesh since they were children, and accumulated corpse qi in their bodies, and when they grow up, they are no different from dead people, and even ghosts can't see him. Old man, your shipwright ancestor came from Xiangxi, right? ”

The old man's face changed slightly, and he shook his head: "I don't know, that was his grandfather's time, and there was not a dynasty." As he spoke, he looked at the sky and barked at the dog, "Donkey Dandan, go and bring your boat!" The dog whined, jumped into the water, and swam to the back of the mountain.

At this time, I saw that the third uncle glanced at Pan Zi, Pan Zi secretly took out a backpack from the luggage and carried it on his back, and the young man who was sitting on the side also stood up and took out his bag from the luggage pile. ”

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