The so-called dragon and phoenix cave may exist as long as the time and place are favorable, the dragon has a size, the phoenix has a poor and low, how big the pit is to plant how big the radish is, the coffin is small and can not sit in a sedan chair of eight people, everyone has a suitable piece of land for themselves.

Thatched Bay is the name of our locals, no one knows how many graves are buried on such a palm-sized hillside, and I am a little used to walking through the old grave nest now, and the black soil standing on the sole of the shoe is the only clue we have at present.

The land in northwest Zhejiang is alkaline, mostly earthy yellow, accompanied by gravel the size of a fingernail, and occasionally clayey laterite, but there is absolutely no black soil, so it is not difficult to find.

Sure enough, the black soil was found on a small hillside, because it was too obvious and too eye-catching.

The idiom "no grass" is contradictory to describe a mountain forest, because there are shrubs more than one person tall everywhere, and I have blood marks on my face on the way here. But when I got here, there was a wide open field, charred black, and I could recognize it.

The northwest of Zhejiang is a place with seven mountains, two rivers and one field, and there is an extreme lack of land, and the labor intensity of the people at that time is extremely high, and the little grain supplied by the grain stamps is completely not enough to eat, so it has to reclaim some wasteland. So the locals will choose some rarely visited high mountains to set fire to the shrubs, which can be used as fertilizer, and secondly, they can also grow some rations, mainly corn.

Seeing that this place has been burned for a while, it has not yet been sown, and it is now the spring ploughing season, so we deduce that Gao Cheng must have been here before, and it is very likely that this land was opened by him.

It hasn't rained for the past few days, and the footprints on the ground can still be seen, and it can be seen that someone has indeed been here two days ago, and the footprints have gone back to the middle of the ground. There was something special in the middle, the ground was a little higher than the periphery, and I looked over and saw that it didn't look like a grave bag, but strangely there were two round pits the size of bowls in the ground in front of the bag.

"What?" Cha Wenbin came over and asked me.

"Looking at this, I think it's a little strange, how do you think someone knelt down and left it on their knees." Saying that, I half-squatted down and wanted to test it myself, Cha Wenbin grabbed my arm and raised it up and said: "Don't kneel blindly, you really want something, if you kneel, you will surrender your identity, but it is easy to be provoked." ”

After a while, he went to the forest next to him to find a pillar, sharpened his head and pierced the bag a few times, this thing is the simplest Luoyang shovel, the bamboo hollow will bring up the soil below, but it can't be deep, but the inspection is enough. Cha Wenbin took the soil and put it under his nose, sniffed it and said to me: "Take some people up the mountain in the afternoon, preferably young and middle-aged, I'm afraid there are some bad things down here." ”

"What's that?" I asked.

He put his finger in front of me and said, "You see that the soil is brown, different from the black of the burnt surface, and it has a slight fishy smell, a bit like the result of blood drying up and coagulation. ”

"Red burial?" I also understood a little bit with him, this kind of burial method has been around for a long time, and it is mostly popular in the southwest border, but it is rare in the Jiangnan area.

Cha Wenbin is not very sure, but he is extremely careful about this burial method: "It's a bit like, red burials are mostly backfilled with cinnabar stirred in raw soil, but this one is more like soaked in liquid, to be honest, I feel a little worried when I see this thing." ”

Where has Boss Liu seen this kind of professional, in addition to admiring it again and again, he secretly sighed that fortunately, he didn't ask for this job to take it, and then went down the mountain together and immediately added fuel and vinegar to say something, what bamboo pole poked the ground and blood was ripped out, and everyone was in danger later, and almost couldn't even find anyone to help.

Towards two o'clock in the afternoon, I bought two cigarettes and distributed them everywhere, and finally got together seven or eight young people, many of whom were childhood playmates. I remember when I was a child, I used to run as fast as I could, and the children who took the lead often shouted: "There are ghosts in thatched bay, run!" "The one who came back usually ran back crying......

Cha Wenbin drew a rectangular frame on the black ground with lime, about two meters long and no more than half a meter wide, and within this range we began to pick up our arms and excavate. At first, everyone could still talk and laugh in their mouths, tearing each other's skins, saying what to do if they dig up a beautiful woman, then marry so-and-so and so and so on. After about half a meter of depth, not to mention laughter, those who can not pant without breathing and their calves without shaking are already considered tough guys.

I was smoking at that time, I was really smoked by the fishy smell, the soil is like the pig's blood received from the basin after killing the pig, and the palm of the hand can be dyed red by rubbing it, who can laugh at such a scene?

Someone was the first to crawl out of the pit, then the second, the third, no one was willing to do this work, I said ruthlessly: "After pulling it, I will take you to the county seat to dance disco at night, and I will pay!" ”

Disco was just popular in those days, and I went shopping with fat people when I was in Guangzhou, and the consumption was not low, and the young people in our small mountain village had only heard of it. This trick really worked, there must be a brave man under the heavy money, and the three or three jumped in and returned. However, it only took a few shovels to reveal a stone stele, and then continued to pull down until it was completely exposed, and a few words were written on it in small seals, I didn't know how to read it, but Boss Liu read it out: "The trespasser is dead!" ”

"Scare people!" I shouted to the people in the pit: "What can this thing do, smash it, let's build it for a while, and tell it that it is now New China, and the land belongs to the people, let's dig it if we want, go to it!" ”

One of the people who came was named Da Niu, who was also my elementary school classmate, and he was a little stunned since he was a child. He raised his pickaxe and smashed it, and he took the lead, and the others followed Thunderbolt Bala and soon began to reveal the green bricks.

This kind of green brick is different from ordinary houses, it can top the size of ordinary bricks four or five pieces, and it has been dug about one and a half meters at this time. There are still carved patterns on the green bricks, there are clouds, there are birds and beasts, and they may be cultural relics today, but where to manage these at that time, use the iron drill to hit the green bricks down, and two or three men take turns to smash them with a hammer, which shows its firmness.

Lift the blue brick below is the tomb, the area is not large, through the black opening you can see that there is a coffin inside, at that time in fact, they have been carried away by the blood, someone immediately jumped down, there is nothing in it except the coffin, empty. I thought it was a civilian cemetery, and Cha Wenbin thought so at the time, and he suspected that this so-called "red burial" might be a coincidence.

The coffin was taken out smoothly, it was a wooden coffin, but the weight was beyond our imagination. Eight men hung themselves from wooden sticks with ropes, and the four of them worked together to barely pull them out. To say that according to Cha Wenbin's practice, it will be over if we find this thing and burn it, but when we are busy with this, the sun will go down.

What is this place? Thatched Bay mass grave, who has nothing to do with burning a fire here at night? Besides, just like this, the coffin still has to chop a lot of dry firewood, and at six or seven o'clock in the evening, the Gao family has to do something to send Gao Cheng for the last time, and Cha Wenbin has to drive down the mountain. So he used an ink fountain to play a grid on the coffin, with seven lines horizontally and seven lines vertically, and he was not afraid of anyone touching it in this ghost place, and planned to come up and burn it again tomorrow during the day.

When I got to the bottom of the mountain, it was already dark, my group of fox friends and dog friends immediately shouted to go to the city to be chic, each went home to take a shower and change clothes, a friend also followed in the afternoon, he was running a black car, there was a big van, I told Cha Wenbin and pulled a group of people to the city.

It was only six o'clock when we left, and there were no such high-end street lamps in the countryside at that time, and the highway was along the river, and for some reason it was foggy that night. The driver of the car was called Lin Baobao, I was sitting in the co-pilot, and he drove out less than two kilometers and muttered to me: "Xiaoyi, let's go back, the smoke is too big, it's not easy to drive." ”

The group of people behind the car immediately coaxed: "The baby is ruining your fun, because I am afraid that your daughter-in-law will go back to fix you." ”

I see that the fog is really very strong, the baby's car lights are not much stronger than the flashlight, shining out of the whole blind, I turned back to the person behind the car and said: "If it really doesn't work, don't force it, or another day?" ”

Da Niu Hula said: "That's not good, you Boss Xia can't see it a few times a year, how do we know when you will leave again, it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, let's just go today, and go to the city." ”

"It's ......, let's go!"

I didn't bother to take care of the group of goods, so I just asked the baby, "Can it work?" ”

"It's enough, I'm quite familiar with the road, or let's move slowly, maybe it's good to cross the mountain bag in Huangling, it's not along the river." Lin Baobao said that Huangling is the only way for Hongcun to go to the county seat, it is a long uphill and downhill of about four kilometers, I saw that he wanted to try and told him to slow down a little: "There are nine people in our car, but they are all in your hands, slow down." ”

"It's okay, don't worry." He held the steering wheel and stared at the road in front of him and replied: "You miscalculated, we don't just have nine, there are ten." ”

When he said this, I didn't pay attention to it, and I leaned against the window and started to smoke, and the fog on the ground didn't seem to fall from above, but from the ground, but it still didn't get my attention, and I thought that if I had insisted a little bit, maybe I wouldn't have been out of that gear......