Due to the temporary departure, it was difficult to book tickets, so we took a long-distance bus and arrived at the destination around eight o'clock in the evening.

Since Tan Jian was present, I naturally didn't finish talking about it before, so I couldn't ask for a while, so I temporarily suppressed it, planning to ask again in private.

At about six o'clock in the afternoon, the car arrived at Hedong Town, but we are going to a village under the town, that is, the village where Ke Xiangu is located, called Xiaogudun, the name is a little strange, but it is called like this from generation to generation, as for what is the meaning of these three words, there are many sayings, the most widely spread in the mouth of the local old people, is to say that this village is leaning on the depths of the mountain, there is a buried bone belt, it is said that a Hou Ye was buried, and I don't know which dynasty it is.

When the marquis was buried, a lot of living people were buried together, so there were a lot of human bones around the tomb, in ancient times, the people living in this area often went into the mountains to hunt, occasionally saw those bones, and did not dare to say that it was human bones, for fear of colliding with something, it was called a small bone, and over time, the times changed, and this village was called a small bone mound.

When we arrived at Xiaogudun, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, there were large areas of farmland around, although it was in the rich land of Guangdong, but it was located in a remote area, there were no high-rise buildings, some were just buildings with blue tiles and white walls, every household turned on the lights, dogs barked and cats barked near and far, insects and frogs roared at night, showing a rural atmosphere.

At this moment, it is late, out of the small bone mound, surrounded by mountains on three sides, black and numb, we naturally can't enter the mountains now.

Tan Jian took us and groped to find Ke Xiangu's residence, he just heard Zhou Xuanye say that he hadn't really come to this place, we went all the way in, and the old people in the village who were enjoying the cool in the original materials asked where the guests came from, and they were extremely enthusiastic.

We inquired about Ke Xiangu's residence, and an old man with a stiff figure showed us the way: "Go to the west, the farthest house is, and it will take a while to walk in the past." ”

Looking in the direction he pointed, it was black and numb, and I couldn't see it at all, the light source in this village relied on the light from each house, and it was not as far away as Ke Xiangu's residence, and it seemed that we still had to walk for a while.

Fortunately, we had enough equipment in our hands, flashlights and anything, so we went all the way to the west of the village, passing through large rice fields and country roads, and walked for more than 20 minutes, when we saw a faint light in the darkness ahead, and the music smelled the smell of food.

Closer to see, it is a four-room connected large tile house, the pattern is not bad, but the location is too remote, and the people in the village are far away.

We walked out into the courtyard and could only see the dim light coming out of the stove.

Ke Xiangu's family didn't have a dog, so we came quietly and didn't cause any movement.

"Anyone?"

In order to arouse the master's idea, I shouted.

After a while, a middle-aged man in his thirties, with dark skin, came out of the stove room, sweating profusely, and it seemed that he should be cooking on a fire.

When he saw us, he couldn't help but be stunned, and asked who we were in a somewhat distorted Cantonese.

Even if it is the same language, the accents of different parts are different, I have a little difficulty listening, but I can still understand, if I guessed correctly, this man should be Ke Xiangu's family, so we asked the master's family and explained the intention.

As soon as I heard that we were looking for someone, this man was busy inviting us into the house in some non-standard Mandarin, the house was cleaned up inside and out, only a room on the west side, and the door inside was also locked, and when he saw that I was looking at the door, the man said, "The house of the immortals." ”

Only then did I realize that the house was for the corpses, and there was a series of preparations before the corpses were driven to the mountain, and it should have been done in that room.

Immediately afterwards, the man poured us tea and began to chatter: "Oh, I told her not to do these things, what age is it now, but she just doesn't listen, saying that the things handed down by the ancestors can't be broken." You said that a good house, often get some dead people, bad luck, turn the mountain, there is not much money, and the work is delayed. Hey, don't talk about this, I'm dying. ”

He said that half a month ago, Ke Xiangu quietly came down from the mountain, went home and told him that there was an accident, the body was lost, and he wanted to go outside to ask a great power to help, and the next morning he took that great power, that is, Zhou Xuanye showed up once, and the two went into the mountain.

In the past, it was about ten days to go back and forth, and occasionally there was an accident, the rain was very strong, the landslide detoured and the like, and he came back in twelve or three days, but this time he didn't come out for more than half a month, and he was going to die in a hurry, not only that, but the people who turned the mountain also came to ask from time to time, why the people and corpses hadn't come back yet, and he could only lie and press it down first.

He originally thought that if he didn't come back, he would tell the truth to the people in the village, organize people to find him, and call the police if he didn't work.

As soon as he heard that we were also looking for someone, he immediately asked us if there was anything we could do, Tan Jian said: "They did have something in the mountains, but there is no danger to their lives for the time being, you hide this matter first, don't call the police, let's go in and find someone." ”

That night, we stayed at Aunt Ke's house.

Of the two rooms, Tan Guimao naturally occupies one room, and I and the natural one are squeezed into one.

The house is very poorly insulated, and since the two rooms are connected by a wall, I can clearly hear the sound of Tan turtle hair turning over and over.

For a person like him who has a contact cleanliness fetish, it doesn't matter if he sleeps in a mud pit, but it's definitely hard to stand sleeping on someone else's covered quilt.

I don't know if these quilts are washed or not, anyway, there is an indescribable smell, and they don't smell very good.

I don't have a human body contact with Nature, so the patience is over, but Tan Jian can't bear it, and finally I heard him stumbling up, and there was no movement for a while.

I happened to be in a hurry to urinate, and when I got up to take a look, I found that this girl was simply lying on the table and sleeping, looking at his huge body, leaning on a small square table for an unknown number of years, I immediately felt quite sympathetic, and had to dig out the sleeping bag from the equipment bag and throw it to him: "Boss, in fact, you can get into the sleeping bag." ”

Tan Jian's eyes lit up, revealing a look that you still have a little usefulness, and he couldn't wait to get in, the whole person was covered inside, at first glance, the bag was straight and straight, which reminded me of the kind of bag that contained corpses in the hospital, and I suddenly felt quite mad, so after putting the water, I quickly went to bed.

I don't know if it's due to the geographical environment, it's obviously summer at this time, but this mountain makes me feel very cold, and it's even colder in the middle of the night.

Naturally stay has been living in the snowy mountains, the body is quite cold-resistant, not covered with a quilt at all, straight asleep, only occupies a small position, I thought he was afraid of squeezing me, only to find out later, he slept like this, this straight and straight posture, it is really uncomfortable to look at.

When I got up early the next morning, I found that I was sneezing, and Ke Xiangu's man listened to it and said, "Is it cold, we are cold at night here, and we have to cover the quilt in summer." ”

I said, "A little, but it doesn't matter. Why is the temperature so low in this place? ”

"Winters are even lower," he said. ”

He got up early, made us noodles and told us to eat before we hit the road.

This sentence is somewhat like what is said to death row prisoners in a costume TV series, so I feel quite speechless.

While eating, he said: "I won't tell you, I am a door-to-door son-in-law, my parents gave birth to six brothers, I am the youngest, I really can't cover me." This house is the ancestral home of my daughter-in-law, their family has been doing this for generations, because they have to collect corpses often, so they chose a special location, I heard what it is called Nayindi, I don't understand...... Anyway, the yin qi is very heavy, and the night is cold and cold, and normal people will get yin disease and lose their life if they live for a long time. When I first got married, I really didn't dare to live. ”

When I heard this, I almost didn't squirt out the noodles in my mouth, and I lost my life, my life has been broken enough, can't you keep it for me for a few years.

I said; "Wouldn't it be ...... you to live here all year round?"

He said: "There is always a way to deal with it, every once in a while, stew a pot of yang soup, and it will be fine." ”

I know Yang Tang, Zhou Xuanye told me, and even he drank it himself, I tasted it, and it tasted good.

This is actually an ancient medicinal soup, the corpse walker often deals with the corpse, stay in the place where the yin qi and corpse qi are very heavy, the body is easily eroded by the yin qi, drinking yang soup can force out the yin qi and corpse qi, it is a common decoction that people who practice alchemy must drink.

Of course, normal people can't drink this thing, it has a lot of minerals in it, such as cinnabar and other things, similar to those Taoist alchemy in ancient times added some strange lead and mercury, normal people drink it, but they will be poisoned.

We slept for one night, and naturally there was nothing to worry about, and after eating noodles and filling our stomachs, the three of us decided to go into the mountains.

Because I got up early, it was only half past five, standing at Ke Xiangu's house and looking at the past, I saw that the morning mist was shrouded in the mountains, the shape of the mountain was not abrupt, the lines were large and soft, this kind of mountain shape, at least it can be determined that it is not a fierce mountain.

I've been in the office for so long, I've never eaten pork and I've seen pigs run away, and I still understand these basic things.

The three mountains in this place are embraced, the terrain is gentle, the mountain shape is large and beautiful, the living live, it is definitely a longevity township.

Since Ke Xiangu's house is right at the foot of the mountain, it is very close, and the closer it is, the more difficult it is to observe the whole, so I dare not make a conclusion.

This place still uses firewood, so at the foot of the mountain you can see the traces of firewood and some people stepping out of the wild path, Ke Xiangu's man drew a map of the mountain for us, the distribution of the mountains behind the mountain was drawn, and the position of the mountain was standard, but the painting skill is really not flattering, I really don't understand.

But finding someone is really not a difficult thing for Tan Jian, so if you can't understand it, you can't understand it, and after leaving him, the three of us began to follow these wild paths to the mountains