Chapter 2 The Strange Bamboo Tube
Uncle was so sure of the location of the noodle jar, Onijiu really didn't believe it. But looking at his serious appearance, it doesn't look like he's making things up.
For his uncle to show people feng shui, look at the face, look at the eight characters or something, the ghost has never believed it for a long time, and he has never paid attention to it seriously. In Ghost Jiu's heart, his uncle is the "God" who can bring food to Onijiu, and Onijiu follows his uncle just to have a few delicious meals. You know, the ghost has had this opportunity to eat for a long time, and I don't know how many people are envious. "Life in the world, eating and drinking" seems to be really the main pursuit of people in this era, at least the friends in the village think that "eating" is the most important.
Onihisa followed his uncle on foot to the col where the hut was found, and the sun was still high in the western sky.
"Uncle, why don't we go get the noodle jar now?"
My uncle sat on a tree stump, looked up at the sun, squinted and didn't reply to the ghost for a long time. That reminds Oni of the neighbor's big yellow cat.
After about five or six minutes, the uncle finally turned his head to Ghost Jiu: "Xiao Jiu, some things are in a hurry, the time, the place, the people complement each other, and slowly you will understand."
The ghost has been in the fog for a long time, what kind of heaven and earth people, the teacher has only taught "an inch of time and an inch of gold". Of course, Ghost Jiu is not stupid enough to refute his uncle in person, offending his uncle means that there will be no good food in the future, Uncle is Ghost Jiu's long-term meal ticket, and Uncle's set of Chinese medicine theories did make Ghost Jiu worship a little.
The uncle dragged the ghost to find a small cave near the foot of the mountain and rest temporarily.
The uncle sat cross-legged at the entrance of the cave, calm and relaxed, with his eyes half-closed, looking like an old monk sitting in meditation. Oni Jiu went around to the cave, and simply lay down, and the sleepiness gradually pulled Oni Jiu into his dreams.
"Get up, Kojiu." Onihisa was woken up by his uncle.
When I opened my eyes, it was dark in front of me, and I remembered that today was the 30th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the day of the dark moon head.
"It's time for us to act." The uncle turned on the flashlight, then wrapped the front with a cloth, and the light was suddenly retracted, and it could only shine a meter range.
Onijiu didn't expect that he had slept for so long, and strangely enough, he hadn't been bitten by a mosquito. Could it be that my uncle helped the ghost drive away mosquitoes for half a night? Hey, Onijiu suddenly thought of a strange thing: I didn't seem to have been bitten by a mosquito when I slept on the mountain last night!
The uncle pointed out a more difficult path based on the location of the wooden house that Onihisa had guided during the day, and Kihisa thought that it might be that the people who were afraid of the wooden house would find out their whereabouts too soon.
Uncle walked in front, the faint light of the flashlight swayed like a ghost, the surroundings were quiet, there was no wind, and occasionally there was a bird or two in the distance, and the sound echoed in the valley a few times, and then returned to dead silence.
Oni Jiu always felt as if something was following behind, and his heart became more and more frightened, and he quickened his pace and just followed his uncle.
There was still a distance of more than 200 meters from the wooden house, and the uncle gently reminded the ghost to stand for a long time. The uncle turned off the flashlight and handed it to Onijiu: "You lie here and don't move, I will lure the people and dogs in the house away in a while, and you hurry up to the place where I told you to put the jar."
"I don't dare to ...... alone" Ghost Jiu is really scared, how can this ghost who is blind in the black light have that guts!
"If you can't get the jar, your friend will die" Uncle didn't give the ghost any room to go for a long time.
Thinking that Wang Si would die, Oni Jiu finally mustered up courage in his heart, and he didn't know how long this courage could last: "Okay! Uncle, where do we meet? ”
"You don't have to worry about me after you get the jar, you can go back to the village by the same road, I'll wait for you at the entrance of the village"
After the uncle finished speaking, Onijiu became even more scared, and asked Onijiu to walk through the mountains for more than 10 miles in the middle of the night by himself, Onijiu was still a 9-year-old child, how could he have that guts.
As soon as the uncle finished speaking, "I'll wait for you at the entrance of the village", he suddenly got up and ran towards the wooden house, ignoring Onijiu's feelings at all. The sound of my uncle's footsteps was more than 100 meters away. At this time, Onijiu heard the crisp sound of breaking branches, which seemed to be a deliberate sound made by his uncle. With the sound of tree branches, the sound of dog barking also sounded, and Onijiu faintly heard an old cough, and a chaotic footstep, moving in the direction of the dog's barking. All the voices faded away.
Onehisa quickly got up and ran to the back of the cabin.
People tend to fear the most when they don't act, but when they really start, they forget about it because they focus on action. Onijiu only has the idea of getting the jar quickly in his heart now, so he can't care about being afraid.
Climb up the hill behind the hut, but fortunately the slope is not very steep and it doesn't take much effort to climb up. I looked up at the Big Dipper, set the direction, and began to look for the hole along the meridian direction. Stargazing is basically the way people in the village know, nothing unusual.
After climbing for a few minutes, I didn't find any caves, but my fingers were cut out by the rocks, and it is estimated that my pants were worn out, but the ghost didn't dare to turn on the flashlight for a long time.
After two more minutes of searching, I still didn't find the hole. I had climbed 200 meters away. Could it be that my uncle miscalculated? Oni Jiu began to feel a little impatient, so he simply pulled the cloth off the flashlight, and then pushed the switch forward. A ray of light illuminated his feet, and Oni Jiu began to look back at the bright light, throwing the flashlight to the left and right from time to time.
As I walked, I felt a cool air blowing from the left side of my body, which was not very obvious, but in the sultry weather with no wind tonight, Onijiu's thirst for cool air was magnified dozens of times, so my body reflexively sensed a faint cool air in time. Oni tried to get closer to the cool air, and after taking a few steps, the cool air disappeared inexplicably. Oni Jiu shook the flashlight and shone around, but still didn't find anything unusual that could emit cold air.
It's really weird, is there a ghost! Onihisa's hand holding the flashlight began to tremble, and the flashlight also trembled, shining on the rocks and trees. When he was sick and went to the doctor, the ghost remembered a gesture his uncle made when he pretended to be a ghost, and shouted out in his mouth: "Imperial Decree". However, as soon as this sound came out, Onijiu felt that it was too uncompromising, and the "edict" in his uncle's mouth came out of Onijiu's mouth, all of which became trills. No matter what, let's finish the gesture, Onijiu handed the flashlight to his left hand, and his right hand pinched a gesture that his uncle said was a sword finger.
Shining a flashlight on himself, it doesn't look like he's scaring ghosts, he's just a clown, and I don't know if I can laugh ghosts to death. But think about how your uncle is so presentable when he compares? It looks like flowers are easy to embroider and difficult to embroider! Uncle's talent for acting is not something that Onijiu can learn.
Nothing was around, still dead.
There are no ghosts in this world! are all telling stories, no one has seen it with their own eyes, and the ghost has been cheering himself up for a long time. But thinking so in his heart, his legs did not obey the call, and finally rubbed next to a big tree, and the ghost shrank against the tree for a long time.
The coolness soaks down from the head, and it feels so comfortable.
"Huh", no, where did the cool air come from!
Oni Jiu was shocked, and with a sudden start, his body bounced up, took a few steps back, and raised his flashlight to shine on the tree. On the trunk of a tree more than 4 meters high, there is a 40-centimeter tree hole. And the place where Onijiu is standing now is exactly where he feels the coolness.
Onihisa finally understood that this tree hole was the source of cool air, and the cool air flowed out of the tree hole, partly in a line at an inclined angle, and partly down along the trunk of the tree.
Doesn't it mean that there are no ghosts in this world?
My uncle said that there was a cave, but I didn't find it, but there was a tree hole. Could it be that the cave that my uncle said was this tree hole? Since I haven't found the cave, why don't I climb up and have a look. But looking at the trunks of the tree that these two men are not clinging to, how to climb up is a problem.
Onijiu shined a flashlight next to him, and came up with an idea. There was a large tree with a diameter of less than half a meter next to it, and the branches sticking out of it intersected with the branches of the big tree. I can climb over the tree next to here.
Climbing trees is usually a game for children in mountain villages, and Oniku climbed it easily. Approaching the tree hole along the branches, the cool air became thicker and thicker.
Oni Jiu leaned into the cave and shone a flashlight into the hole, and a rotten smell rushed straight up, similar to the rotten smell of dead cats and dead dogs, but it was stronger.
Suddenly, Oni Jiu felt something squirming in his legs, and touched it with his hand, and the cool silky feeling spread to his brain: it was a snake! Onihisa was so frightened that he scurried forward, apparently forgetting that he was half in the hollow of the tree, and plunged headlong into the hollow of the tree, falling down at great speed......
Onihisa was hung on his shoulder by something, and the speed of his fall slowed down, and with a bang, the thing that was holding Onehisa's shoulder broke, but then several rope-like things stopped Onihisa. The flashlight in Onihisa's hand never let go, and when he looked closely, he realized that these were the whiskers of tree roots. They were intertwined, holding Onehisa in mid-air. The ghost shines downwards for a long time, and it is more than 10 meters above the ground. If it weren't for the roots of this tree to stop Onijiu, and Onijiu's big head fell down, how could he still be killed!
Onijiu carefully adjusted his body posture, put the flashlight in his trouser pocket, and grabbed the fibrous roots and walked down little by little. It took about ten minutes for a ghost to be more than ten meters high. I didn't expect that the space below is still very large, about 50 square meters. It is intertwined with dense roots, some of which fall all the way to the bottom of the cave and then plunge into the ground. The entire space was filled with an extremely unpleasant smell of decay, which made people feel suffocated.
Oniku walked forward carefully, his feet were very soft, and he felt like he was stepping on mud. Compared to the sweltering heat outside, it was getting colder and more damp here, and Onijiu sneezed several times in succession. Walked to the edge and touched the wall of the cave with his hand, it was wet and there was a lot of moss. Onihisa walked along the cave wall for a while, and found that the cave was in a circular structure, and the only strange thing was that there was a ditch in the corner where the cave wall touched the ground. Looking at the uniformity of the width and narrowness, it seems to have been artificially repaired. Turning around, suddenly the front of the hand was empty, the flashlight shone, and it turned out that a hole appeared in the cave wall.
When Oni looked into the cave, he found that it was one and a half meters high, and the walls of the cave were completely stone and smooth, especially the floor of the cave seemed to have been polished. The ghost saw that there was no movement, leaned into the cat's waist, and after walking more than 20 meters, his eyes suddenly opened up, not only the space, but also the light source. Onihisa looked at the light source, and it turned out that Onihisa had entered a larger space. There is a large stone slab in the middle of the hole, and there is an oil lamp on the slate, and the flame is much larger than the ordinary oil lamp, nearly 20 centimeters, and the spirit is gently swaying, giving the ghost a long feeling of being a little strange.
The presence of a lamp proves that someone exists, but the cave is silent, and there is no sound of people. Onijiu walked towards the stone slab, but his heart became inexplicably nervous. Fear began to slowly rise and permeate every cell of the body.
Walking in front of the stone slab, Onijiu realized that the shape of the stone slab was obviously a coffin, and the oil lamp was not placed on the stone slab, but hung from above. The height of the stone slab is more than one meter, and the ratio of length to width is simply the ratio of a coffin. Onihisa looked inside the sarcophagus, which was covered with white powder, and he didn't know what it was. I tentatively pinched it, smelled it, tasted it again, and it turned out to be flour! What's the matter, the coffin is filled with flour for a while, is there such a perverted way to store flour? Besides, it's so damp that the flour isn't moldy. By the way, this flour is dry, and it must have been put in for a short time. Ghost Jiu couldn't help but look around again alertly, but found nothing.
"Bell, bell......" The sound of the clock suddenly remembered, and the ghost was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. There was such a powerful bell in the cave.
The clock rang twelve times, and Onihisa's heart trembled twelve times. After the bell rang, there was silence all around, and it felt even quieter than before, and Oni Jiu listened to the sound of his heartbeat that had increased due to fear, and he had a feeling of lack of oxygen, and opened his mouth to gasp for breath a few times. The strange smell of decay in the cave penetrated the entire lobe of the lungs and the entire stomach at once, and I almost vomited.
Quiet, quiet makes people feel that their existence is superfluous, there is not a trace of noise, there is no birdsong on the ground and the wind blows. A young man, a sarcophagus, and an oil lamp are frozen into a painting.
A feeling arose in Onehisa's heart, as if something was about to happen. The two extremes of mountain rain and wind and storm are quiet for a long time. But Oniku couldn't guess what was going to happen in this cave. But I just feel hairy in my heart.
"Bang" Ghost Jiu felt something fall into his neck, it was cool, and it felt a little itchy. Onijiu reached out and grabbed it in his neck, and the fleshy thing actually fell into his clothes. Then a few more landed on the head and shoulders, and then crackled and densely packed, except for a few that landed on the upper body of the coffin that Oniku poked into the coffin, the rest landed in the sarcophagus. A few landed on the oil lamps hanging above the sarcophagus, making a "click" popping sound. Onijiu was so frightened that he hugged his head with his hands, closed his eyes tightly, and squatted on the ground, forgetting to dodge. These things landed in the face of the sarcophagus, making a "poof" sound, and Onihisa even faintly heard a small "hiss" sound.
After a few minutes, calm returned to the cave, and only the sound of "cooing" came from the sarcophagus. Onihisa timidly opened his eyes and found several things the size of little fingers squirming on the ground at his feet. It turned out to be a white and yellowish bug! Oniku stood up abruptly, desperately slamming his body. Then he looked at the sarcophagus, and the scene in the sarcophagus caused Oni to cover his mouth for a while. Countless insects wriggled in the noodles, and the mucus on the insects stuck to the flour and rolled bigger and bigger, reminding Onijiu of the Lantern Festival that was processed on the spot during the market. Since then, Onijiu has had a lingering resistance to eating Lantern Festival.
Onijiu suddenly remembered that he was only looking at the environment in his line of sight just now, and he didn't even look up. Onihisa raised his head and found a face facing him, Onihisa sat on the ground in fright, but his face never left that face, and then he recognized that it was a monkey hanging upside down, making a grimace at Onihisa, and there were two pinches of white hair on his face abruptly. Monkeys don't produce in Mulan, but there are monkeys in the cave!
However, there is an existence that can breathe, and the ghost is not too afraid for a long time. Sitting on the ground and shaking his arm at the monkey, the monkey also saluted Onijiu, but it was holding something in its hand, and Onijiu took a closer look, and it turned out to be a small broom used to sweep the kang. Onijiu stood up and looked down the monkey's other arm, and there was a round bucket hanging on it, the barrel* was about 2 feet long, and it was made of the kind of bamboo, and there was a finger-wide gap between the bamboo strips. To Oniku's surprise, there was a steady stream of insects crawling out of the cracks! Could it be that the worms in the sarcophagus fell from the bamboo tubes! Onihisa's throat couldn't hold it anymore, and he opened his mouth and vomited.
"Ahem......"
The sound came from above, and Oniku's scalp was numb for a while, Onijiu was sure that it was a human voice, and listened in the direction, the sound actually came from the bamboo tube, and with the coughing sound, the bamboo tube trembled slightly, and a few more insects fell, falling into the sarcophagus, and in the blink of an eye, it was drowned by the rolling ball of face.
There's a man in there who hasn't died! Ghost Jiu's first reaction was so frightened that he took a few steps back. When he looked at it again, the monkey actually swept the insects downward with the broom in his hand, and the insects fell into the sarcophagus one after another. A dull moan erupted from the bamboo tube.
Onihisa was completely stunned by the strangeness in front of him. With an "Ah" in his mouth, the monkey was indifferent to Oniku's cry, and instead rolled his lips and bared his teeth at Onihisa. Just as Oni Jiu was frightened, he found that the hanging bamboo tube was rising little by little, and then disappeared into the roof of the cave. The ghost went to look for the monkey again for a long time, and he didn't know when it disappeared. The silence of the entire cave returned, and Oni Jiu pinched his face hard, and the pain suggested that Oni Jiu was not dreaming. Now when I look at the sarcophagus, the disgust of the insects that have fallen from the bamboo tube has been completely replaced by fear. The oil lamp suddenly reminded Onejiu of the everlasting lamp he had lit when he was dead. As soon as this thought appeared, Onehisa subconsciously looked at the head of the coffin, because during the mortuary, the deceased would place an ever-bright lamp, offerings, and a water pitcher at the head of the coffin.