Chapter 29: The Tombstone (text)

When the chicken farmer saw Meng Changqing's dress, he was stunned and sighed: "It's really a Taoist priest." ”

The rural people couldn't keep their mouths shut, and the slightest little thing would spread out, and in less than an hour, many villagers came to see us.

There are two people in the chicken farmer's family, the male owner is called Ye Erhu, and the female owner is called Zhang Xiaorui, a middle-aged couple, they are very kind, and they will bring us tea and water when they enter the house.

Xiaoxiao woke up at this moment, looked around with a teacup, and then turned her head and asked where her uncle was.

The uncle she said was naturally Meng Changqing, a few days ago she was all wary and jealous of Meng Changqing, and now after leaving for a while, she began to ask where Meng Changqing was, I thought that Meng Changqing was just pleasing us, but now it seems that everyone likes him.

I told Xiaoxiao about the situation, and then asked Ye Erhu about my grandfather's traces, since this walking corpse is chasing my grandfather, it means that my grandfather has also been to this place, maybe they have seen my grandfather.

I asked casually to know, the name of this village was originally called Yejiawan, more than half of the more than 20 households living in the village surnamed Ye, when I inquired about the whereabouts of my grandfather, there was a slightly older villager who listened to my description of the grandfather's appearance, they said that they had not seen the good thing after asking about the grandfather's name, I said that my grandfather is also surnamed Ye, called Ye Jiafu, the old man heard it, immediately pulled out the cigarette pouch in his mouth and said that my grandfather used to be their people here, and he left here when he was communized, and my grandfather was famous at that time, and the old people in the village knew it.

I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked him about Grandpa, but to my disappointment, they didn't know as much as Grandpa Ye.

After they asked some questions and went to work in the fields, this was the time to work.

I fell asleep on a chair because I was so sleepy, and before I went to sleep, Xiaoxiao was lying on my lap and muttering to me that she missed her grandmother, and asked me to take her to her grandma.

Because I was walking all night last night, I was a little sleepier than usual, and I naturally slept more than usual, and when I woke up, the sun was already shining outside, and my sleeping place was also shifted from the chair to the bed. Most of the time Ye Erhu carried me into the house.

As soon as I got up and went out, I listened to the villagers chirping and discussing us and Meng Changqing, and the villagers all knew that Ye Jiafu was my grandfather, and Xiaoxiao and I were both regarded as his grandsons.

After I went out, the villagers asked me to call them, either grandpa, uncle, uncle, or aunt, and I will call this chicken farmer Uncle Ye.

In this village, all my grandfather's former relatives are also my relatives, I don't lose a voice, and when I finish calling one by one, Meng Changqing just came in from outside, holding a hat in his hand, after coming in, I asked him if he found it, he shook his head, and then took out the hat and showed it to me.

This hat belongs to Uncle Zhang, and if his hat is left here, it means that others must have been here. Grandpa is chasing him, and the walking corpse is chasing grandpa, and all three of them are most likely here.

Meng Changqing showed me the hat and asked the villagers if there was anything yin near the village, and he had to find the walking corpse before tonight, he was injured by the blood of the rooster in the morning, and he would definitely come out to forage for food at night.

Although the villagers had never seen the walking corpse with their own eyes, they saw that Meng Changqing was extremely true, and even if they didn't believe it, they believed half of it.

I asked Meng Changqing why he didn't use the method last night, and he said that the yang qi was heavy during the day, and he couldn't use the clear water search method to find people.

The villagers then took Meng Changqing to the gloomy part of the village, and Xiaoxiao and I were still left at the chicken farmer's house by him.

By the evening, Uncle Ye and the others had already cooked the meal, and Xiaoxiao and I were naturally invited to the table.

During the meal, I learned that Uncle Ye's father and my grandfather are cousins, and we are still relatively close.

They asked me and Xiaoxiao a lot of questions, and I answered them all, some of which I could say and some of which I couldn't.

When they asked about Meng Changqing, I said that Meng Changqing was my master, a Taoist priest, but he was amazing.

They said that it can be seen that some people can see whether they are powerful or not by looking at their faces, and Meng Changqing's faces belong to the extremely powerful group.

I agreed with his words, and only two or three minutes later, Meng Changqing came in from outside the house, and Uncle Ye hurriedly invited him to the table, and then asked, "Did you find that walking corpse?" ”

Meng Changqing shook his head and said: "Generally, walking corpses can't move during the day, unless someone controls them, Zhang Shike's ghost is around here, I'm afraid that he will encounter a walking corpse and move in, and it will be even more terrifying when the time comes." ”

After that, Uncle Ye said: "Could it be that you are mistaken, it is just a slightly larger weasel, there are many weasels around here, and there are often chickens thrown away, and the weasels did it." ”

Meng Changqing said maybe, and then pondered, Uncle Ye saw that Meng Changqing didn't think about tea and dinner, so he said: "Don't think about it, it's the weasel who did it, we have a big weasel here, and it has been living in other people's graves, every time we go to pick it up, it runs into the grave to hide, and we can't dig the grave, so we can only let it go, the weasel probably ate the flesh of the dead man inside, and looks like a dog." ”

Meng Changqing heard it or said that he would go out to look for it after eating, for fear that the villagers in the village would be harmed, Uncle Ye saw that he was thinking about the safety of the villagers, and looked at Meng Changqing more kindly than just now.

After the meal, it was already dark outside, and Meng Changqing fiddled with the compass in the room, and even the compass pointer didn't turn

Meng Changqing sighed and muttered, Is it already gone?

At this time, some villagers ran to Uncle Ye's house in a panic, and as soon as they came in, they shouted to Uncle Ye: "Erhuzi, go to the tomb and take a look, someone is digging your ancestral grave." ”

When Uncle Ye heard this, he shouted that it was okay, and immediately went to the tomb with a flat pole.

Meng Changqing listened to me and said, "Let's also go and see if it will be a walking corpse." ”

After that, Meng Changqing took Xiaoxiao to follow, and I also followed all the way, walked up the slope for about a thousand meters, and stopped on a flat ground.

When the villagers got the news, they all rushed to this place one after another, either carrying hoes or carrying flat burdens, all with anger on their faces, and it was strange that so many people were so angry if one person was fine.

Meng Changqing also saw that there was a problem in the middle, so he asked what was going on.

When the villagers saw that we were not outsiders, they said: "In the past few months, there have been grave robbers digging graves here, and the ancestral graves of several families have been dug up. ”

In this poor and remote country, there are no burial objects at all, and tomb robbers with a little intelligence will not come here, but it is a little strange that they say that it is often frequented by tomb robbers.

When the villagers came, the grave digger had already left, and Meng Changqing took advantage of the discussion here on how to chase the grave robber.

When he got to the bottom of another high hill, he returned and asked the villagers, "Is there a grave on it?" ”

The villagers told Meng Changqing that there was a tomb on it, which was very well repaired, but no one took care of it, and now it was going to collapse.

Meng Changqing asked who the tomb above belonged to, and they said to Meng Changqing: "This tomb is a tomb built by Ye Jiafu when he came back at the age of twenty-two, there are no buried people in it, only a few clothes, Ye Jiafu said that he was a very good friend who died outside, and the body could not be brought, so he repaired a clothed tomb for him." After Ye Jiafu moved, this grave was left unattended. ”

Later, Meng Changqing proposed to go up to take a look, and the villagers saw that he was a Taoist priest, thinking that he should have seen something, so they went up with him.

Meng Changqing was afraid that Xiaoxiao and I would be scared below, so he dragged us up.

When I went up, I saw a dense grass, so deep that I could only show my upper body when I walked in, and among these plants and trees, stood a lonely grave.

It just so happened that the villagers were all carrying hoes and other tools, and dozens of people removed all the plants and trees in three strokes and five divisions, and the place suddenly became a lot clearer.

After the grass and trees were hoeed, Meng Changqing glanced at the direction of the grave, then glanced at the scenery below, and then frowned.

I saw that the orientation of this tomb was extremely strange, the tombstone was facing inward, and the tombstone was only two or three steps away from the ridge wall. Although I don't understand Feng Shui, I also feel extremely inappropriate when I look at this layout.

"This coffin was really repaired by Grandpa Ye Hai?" Meng Changqing asked after reading it.

The name of the village said yes.

"This tomb faces the mountains and waters, and the miasma cannot be discharged, so it is a foul mouth. In addition, the tomb faces north and faces south, and the emperor's mausoleum faces north and south, so this tomb naturally becomes a subordinate. The deceased lived in such a place, and it was difficult to have no grievances. ”

The villagers didn't understand this, but asked, "Why did Ye Jiafu do this?" ”

Meng Changqing shook his head and said he didn't know, and then walked to the tombstone to see the name on it.

I also followed, and when I arrived at the tombstone, Meng Changqing wiped the soil off the tombstone, and when I could clearly see the words on it, Meng Changqing was stunned.