I was stunned, I didn't know why Qiqi suddenly said such a thing, but before I could ask anything, she had quietly stepped aside and waved her hand to me gently. This wave is like saying goodbye, but I can feel that this wave is also about giving up something.

I turned around and walked away, not looking back at her. The three of us left the Sansheng Temple like a smoke, and when I walked on the road, I kept thinking, Tongling Mountain Octagonal Tower, I have never set foot in that place, but I have a slight impression, I don't know when I heard someone talk about it. Where's the person I want to meet? I was still a little excited at first, because I thought of my grandfather for the first time, I thought of the old ghost, the people I met, could it be them?

But then, my mind suddenly lit up, and I suddenly remembered that the octagonal building of Tongling Mountain was the ancestral land of the Tang family in the Seven Gates of Heyanzi. When I listened to Qiqi's words, I really planned to go to Tongling Mountain to see who the person I wanted to see was, but when I thought of this, my thoughts were immediately dispelled. Regardless of whether the big-headed Buddha or Lei Zhenren is a mortal enemy with the Seven Gates of the River, although the Tang family has no male members, but after all, he was once a member of the Seven Gates, and I must not lead the big-headed Buddha over to harm the Tang family.

Thinking about it like this, it suddenly became clear in my heart, the person I want to see will be the aunt of the Tang family? She should also have some secrets.

"Boy, don't stick a stick in the middle of the rope again, and honestly go find medicine." The big-headed Buddha said: "You will be a little girl, Lao Tzu still has to give you the wind, do you want a woman to die?" ”

"Actually, it's not that serious." Lei Zhenren stretched out his tongue, and then said: "Now it's just that the root of the tongue is purple, and there is still some time." ”

If you are hit by the same death Gu, there will be round purple spots at the base of the tongue, if there is no antidote to the Gu, the longer the days go, the bigger the purple spots, once the whole tongue is completely purple, the same dead Gu worm will be firmly integrated with the human body, and it is useless to have medicine. The time for the tongue to turn completely purple varies from three to five months to ten months in six months, depending on the individual's circumstances. There is some time, but when I think of my life being connected with this obscene old Taoist priest, I feel extremely uncomfortable.

"And you! Old miscellaneous hair! The big-headed Buddha said to Lei Zhen: "If you want to grind again, you won't find medicine, Lao Tzu will peel your skin!" ”

"To be honest, the other flavors of medicine are not very difficult, the most important thing is the primer of the medicine, and there is no rootless water." Lei Zhenren spread his hands and said: "That's not something that can be found if you want to find it, you have to meet." ”

"Don't fucking deceive Lao Tzu! Think Lao Tzu didn't study? The big-headed Buddha tugged at Lei Zhenren's collar and said, "Isn't rootless water snow and rain!" ”

Rootless water, as the name suggests, is when the snow and rain fall from the sky, it is directly caught with a utensil and does not touch the ground. When the plum blossoms bloom, they rush to the plum forest in the early morning, collect the snow on the petals, turn it into water and accumulate it in a jar, seal it and bury it in the ground. This kind of water does not touch the ground, whether it is used to cook tea or as a medicinal guide, it is the best product.

"No, no, no." Lei Zhenren's feet were pulled off the ground, his face was flushed, and he reluctantly argued: "It's not that kind of rootless water." ”

The rootless water mentioned by Yinshan Dao is a bit weird and evil. In the past, there was a shortage of soldiers, or water disasters were repeated, the people on the river beach were in danger, and human life was as cheap as grass, and when they went to any remote corner, they could see innocent people who died horizontally, and no one cared about the corpse when it was rotten, sometimes by chance, the skull of the corpse rolled to the side, and it happened to meet the rain again, and a little rain accumulated in the skull, and after a long time, a layer of green hair faintly grew in the water, such water is the rootless water of Yinshan Road, and it is a necessary medicine for preparing the same death Gu. The rootless water of Yinshan Road is yin and evil, but it is very particular, if you artificially find a few skulls and put it in the rain, there is a chance that you will not be able to grow that layer of green hair.

The current river beach, although it is still a bit chaotic, but the world is calm, the days of casually disregarding people's lives are gone, and rootless water is even more difficult to find. Although there are still mass graves, the bodies are buried in the soil. After Lei Zhenren explained tremblingly, the big-headed Buddha threw him to the ground and said, "There's no place to look for it, right?" Lao Tzu cut off your head to catch the rain and grow green hair! ”

"Yes, yes" Lei Zhenren was afraid of the big-headed Buddha to death, and immediately said: "There may be only one place to go." ”

"Where!"

Lei Zhenren swallowed his spit and said, "Transformation field." ”

When I heard these three words, even I was a little frightened. For today's people, the human field may be very unfamiliar, and they have never heard of it, but for the older generation of river beach people, it is a lingering shadow. Anyone who has been to the field in person will have nightmares for at least a few days.

In the past, people practiced burial, but the Yellow River was plagued, and the Central Plains region was densely populated since ancient times, and floods were rampant, and it was a place where soldiers must fight. In disasters and battles, countless people died, and they couldn't be buried. The winter is better, and if the peak of death occurs in the summer, the corpses will rot in a few days, and there is a high probability that the plague will be born. At this time, there is no other way, the dead bodies are gathered in batches, sprinkled with lime, and then several large kilns are set up in very remote places, like the kind of kiln that burns gangue, which burns coal transported from Pingdingshan or northern Henan, and the bellows of more than one person are constantly operating, and a kiln can be stuffed with six or seven corpses, and the kiln door is closed, and it is burned directly into ashes inside. When the Huayuankou embankment burst, the Yellow River flooded for thousands of miles, and several large chemical farms along the river burned 24 hours a day, but there was no time to deal with the drowned people.

The crematorium is probably the same as the current crematorium, but it feels completely different. Outside the chemical field, there are some people pulling carts all year round, and no one collects the ashes burned in the kiln, and finally all of them are pulled by carts to the melon field on the river beach to be used as fertilizer. In that place, watching piles of dead people being burned to ashes, everyone will have the sadness of the death of rabbits and foxes.

After the liberation, several large chemical fields have been demolished, and the dead will generally go to the burial, unless there is a disaster year, it is really too busy, the floating corpses in the river, and the corpses that have been placed on the cliff for too long but are unclaimed, will be privately pulled to the chemical field in Sledgehammer Ditch to be burned. Lei Zhenren is right, think about it, the entire river beach, only around the transformation field, there may be some forgotten corpses in the open air.

To tell the truth, the incarnation field is not an easy place to go, it is even more gloomy than the cemetery, the dead bodies in the cemetery, no matter how good or bad they are, are still in the ground, but the dead bodies in the incarnation field are all burned and taken to the fertile fields. In a more superstitious sentence, that place is the place with the heaviest resentment, the firefighters in the field used to be richer than the ordinary small landlords in the countryside, this line of work is not someone who wants to do it, this money is not someone who wants to earn it, those who burn people must be hard and yang, otherwise it will not be long before they will be entangled in something.

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go!" The big-headed Buddha kicked Lei Zhenren, he was full of yang and bold, no matter where it was, as long as there was a doorway, he would go.

We rushed directly to the Hammer Ditch at the foot of the poor mountain, and the waterway was very fast, and by the afternoon of the third day, it was very close to the Hammer Ditch. That place is quite remote, unless the dead body is pulled over to burn in the past, it is usually inaccessible. I've heard that although the Sledgehammer Ditch Manification Field is deserted, a few old helpers who have been there for decades still refuse to leave, and a few old helpers were miserable when they were in WG, and they were afraid to die, so they didn't dare to go out when they hid.

Walk more than ten miles from the river beach to the direction of the sledgehammer ditch, a circular ravine appears in front of you, outsiders are very taboo to approach the human field when it is dark and cloudy, it is not safe, but the big-headed Buddha is anxious, forcing Lei Zhenren to hurry, from the circular ravine to the inside to walk four or five miles, the surrounding is completely barren, as if no one has been here for a hundred years, the wild grass is almost more than one person high, the people on the river beach say that the ashes burned out of the man-making field, the melon farmers can't finish pulling, they are all thrown nearby, the ground is very fertile, and anything planted will grow wildly.

Through this almost one-person-high barren grass, you can see three large kilns like nests in the distance, and the large kilns are built in a mountain nest, which is the Huaren kiln. Next to the kiln, there is a big house. This kind of small man-making field was basically built with donations from the squire and landlords in the past, and a symbolic house was built to pile up the corpses that could not be burned for the time being, in fact, when the man-making field was busy, a house could not pile up the corpses sent at all, and the big house had always been lived in by a few helpers in the man-making field. In the whole ravine, except for the wild grass, there are almost no trees in sight, only the four corners of the transformation field, and a locust tree is planted in one corner, which is to suppress the things in the transformation field and prevent them from leaving.

"If not, let's rest here for the night?" Lei Zhenren asked me tentatively.

When I walked here, I also vaguely felt that something was whining on the other side of the field, like the sound of the wind, and like the cry of a person, anyway, it was very infiltrating to listen to, and a terrifying aura always wrapped around the field, making people feel that they couldn't get close. There will be the last rays of the setting sun left in the sky, and it will be completely dark in twenty minutes at most.

The big-headed Buddha didn't listen to Lei Zhenren's chatter and insisted on leaving, and just as we were arguing, a tumbling dark cloud suddenly dispersed in the sky, making the already a little gloomy sky suddenly darken. Two blasts of thunder rolled in, and before we could look back and forth, the rain had already fallen.

"That's it!" Lei Zhenren looked at the raindrops and the thunder in the sky, and suddenly became happy, and said: "Thunder is the most sunny thing in the world, and on a thunderstorm day, nothing dares to make trouble." ”

The rain soon became heavier, instantly drenching the three of us, and the big-headed Buddha dragged Lei Zhenren and ran, wanting to take shelter from the rain in the house next to the big kiln. I had no choice but to keep up, the rain was pouring down, and it was pitch black all around, so we braved the rain and ran to the room in the transformation field, and stood under the eaves and shook the rain off our bodies. The house was unrepaired, the windows around it were rotten, and while standing here, a thunderbolt flashed overhead, and the earth was clear with silver and white thunder, and at that moment, I saw through the window that there was a person hanging quietly on the beams of the house.