Chapter Twenty-Four: Ancient Figures
In the school library, there were a few people sitting in front of the quiet desk, Wei Lai held the yellow scroll, carefully studied the ancient characters on the book, and placed a notebook next to him, recording the location of the wooden coffin.
After the lesson of the last time, Wei Lai planned to check the information first, wanting to find out which areas in ancient times were mostly buried in wooden coffins, so as to reduce unnecessary adventures, just like the ancient tombs of the Qing Dynasty This time, after a lot of hardships, the soul suppression nail was not found at all.
It has been more than half a month since the last tomb clearance incident, after Wei Lai and others were taken to the police station, after all aspects of review and judgment, Wei Lai, Huo Meng and Zhang Qiang were released, and the three were found not guilty, and Wen Xiu was also successfully released under the exoneration of Wei Lai and others.
The worst is Feng Jianguo, because he is the leader of this archaeological operation, and took the initiative to encourage everyone to enter the ancient tomb, under the isolation confession of the archaeological team members, Feng Jianguo is the biggest mastermind of this operation, and has been detained by the police for trial.
"If you want to find a soul nail, Xinjiang has the greatest chance." Wei Lai closed the book and analyzed the final result.
Wei Lai closed his eyes, slowly rubbed his temples, tensed his nerves for a long time, and his head often ached, and he would dream about the ancient tomb every night.
Wei Lai opened his eyes and happened to see Huo Meng coming, the latter's expression was excited, Wei Lai knew that the matter was done.
"How?"
"It's finished."
Wei Lai moved his position and sat inside, Huo Meng reached Wei Lai's position, picked up Wei Lai's kettle and drank it, and then whispered: "The ancient sword is hidden, and I will take the ancient figure with me." ”
After speaking, Huo Meng took out the silk from his pocket, and Wei Lai spread out the silk, revealing a map inside, the style is very ancient, very different from the current map, and it can be vaguely seen that the final destination is a tomb group.
"This is where, here in the shape of an ear." Huo Meng pointed to the central area on the ancient map and said.
"Ears? Could it be...... Lop. Wei Lai suddenly stood up and found a detailed map of the province, Wei Lai picked up the map of the province, carefully compared it with the ancient silk map, and found that the Lop Nur in Xinjiang was very similar to the ancient map.
"The address recorded in the ancient silk map should be near Lop Nur, Mengzi, do you dare to go to Xinjiang?" Wei Lai stared at Huo Meng, Xinjiang was exactly where he wanted to go, and there was a good chance that there would be a soul suppression nail there.
"What don't you dare, I'm General Huo." Huo Meng patted his chest and said proudly.
Wei Lai looked at Huo Meng gratefully, if Huo Meng didn't go, Wei Lai wouldn't complain about him, it was extremely dangerous to find the soul suppression nail, and he would die if he was not careful, and Huo Meng agreed without hesitation, Wei Lai's heart flowed with warmth.
"Then we'll go and get ready." Wei Lai packed up his books, stood up and said.
Huo Meng shook his head and said: "Don't, you want to be discovered by the police, we have just been released, you have to act, and you will definitely make others suspicious." ”
"What then?" Wei Lai felt that what Huo Meng said made sense, and he also felt that he was too anxious.
Huo Meng smiled: "I just want to go home, I think you can go with me, by the way, sell some things in the ancient tomb, or we won't have enough money to go to Xinjiang." ”
"Besides the Ancient Sword and the Ancient Figure, what else do you have?" Wei Lai remembered that Huo Meng and the two of them didn't bring anything else.
"It's not mine, it's Wenxiu and Zhang Qiang, they came out of the ancient tomb and handed it over to me, I hid it all, they mean to share it with us equally." Huo Meng's brows twitched, and he said proudly.
"Is that okay?" Wei Lai was completely speechless, he didn't expect the pie to fall from the world, but Zhang Qiang and Wenxiu are like this, and they also hope that everyone will get rich together, after all, they all know the roots, so as not to let others leak the news.
Wei Lai doesn't plan to go home yet, there are too many weird things in **, and when he doesn't find something to lift the curse, Wei Lai doesn't have the courage to go back, for fear that there will be other accidents.
"Okay, tomorrow we'll take a leave of absence, and we'll go to your house for a few days." Wei Lai said with certainty.
"Okay." Huo Menglisuo's response.
Huo Meng's hometown is in a remote mountain village, which is similar to Yunwu**, but Huo Meng's hometown has been built into a road, which can be reached directly by car.
Wei Lai looked at the scenery outside, thinking about what he had experienced, after coming out of the ancient tomb, his mentality became much calmer, no longer like before, although he usually took it for granted, he learned to act cautiously, rather than acting rashly.
"Here we go, let's get off." Huo Meng beckoned Wei Lai to get out of the car, and he had already arrived at Huo Meng's hometown.
Wei Lai got out of the car and first saw the cross-flowing river, leaning between the two mountains, turbulent and endless. The banks of the river are covered with verdant trees, and the towering branches shade the sunlight and cut out mottled fragments.
"Huo Meng, the scenery in your hometown is very good." Wei Lai breathed in the fresh air and enjoyed closing his eyes.
"Then you still need to say, when you get to our village, you will see it again, it is definitely more beautiful than here, to tell you the truth, our village is a good place for tourism, and many people drive to sightseeing every year." Huo Meng was proud, pointed to the nearby scenery and said.
The two walked on foot, and under the leadership of Huo Meng, they crossed the path, passing by a cemetery full of locust trees, huge locust trees blocking the sun, and the graves under the trees were of different sizes, there were hundreds, and there were many more in the innermost.
"It's a good place, it's best to be a mansion." Wei Lai looked at the nearby mountains and rivers and said to Huo Meng.
Huo Meng stopped, and said with an unnatural face: "This is the cemetery in our village, but then again, but this place is very unclean, and strange things often happen, I actually saw ghosts when I was a child, and this is why I am timid." ”
"What, it's not clean, this is an excellent place for the dead to rest, and there is no reason for haunting." Wei Lai shook his head in denial.
Huo Meng pulled Wei Lai forward, and said as he walked: "Tell you, you may not believe it, when I was five or six years old, just in time to go to the tomb on the Qingming Festival, I actually saw the ghost dressing up, and when their family came to worship, the ghost was very happy, and when their family left, they began to howl and cry, and after that, I became seriously ill, and it became a cowardly problem." ”
Wei Lai chuckled: "This is normal, you were young at that time, you were not vigorous, and it was reasonable to encounter unclean things." ”
Huo Meng glanced at Wei Lai and said, "I can compare with you, you grew up in **, and it is not uncommon to see many ghosts." ”
Wei Lai looked back at the locust forest again and said, "According to what you say, there must be something wrong in the depths of your graveyard, let me ask you, are there often young men or women in your village crying in the cemetery?" ”
"How do you know that there are often men in our village who come to the cemetery at night to cry and have nothing to do during the day?" Huo Meng asked in surprise.
Wei Lai frowned and said, "The man's cry is called the ghost son-in-law, and the woman's cry is called the ghost daughter-in-law, you have had many single women die here, and all of them are buried in the cemetery. ”