Chapter 2: The Black Pit
Li Lao Er sat on the loess piled up on the side and said: "Don't worry, don't worry about the little things you left at home in the future, I estimate that the goods here are no worse than our hometown, at least they are thousands of years old." This place is full of people with foreign surnames, there are few families, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, let's do it for a few years to avoid the limelight and then go back. ”
"Hey, okay!" Listening to his younger brother's description, Boss Li's hoe swung harder.
The day is about to dawn, on the hillside, two figures sneakily up and down, from time to time the loess accompanied by the mud and sand is lifted by the shovel.
"That's it!" Boss Li excitedly unraveled a few green bricks, and a black hole the size of a hard manhole cover appeared in front of him.
Li Lao Er knocked his pipe to the soles of his feet a few times, spat at the loess on the side, rubbed his hands and said to his brother: "Before dawn, those people will go down to the ground for a while, hurry down and take a look, pick the one to take first." ”
Boss Li tied a hemp rope to his waist, held a kerosene lamp in his hand, and pinned a white cloth bag to the back of his buttocks, which was used to hold the spiritual weapon.
The Li brothers are not very particular about robbing the tombs, even if it is the gold tooth embedded in the mouth of the dead, they have to break it off and take it away, usually the pit that these two brothers have visited is a mess, and they will never stop until they destroy the corpse. Especially this boss, Pingli is a fierce and evil lord, not to mention a dead corpse, even if he treats the villagers, he is also an unceremonious lord, and people give him the nickname "ghost sorrow". With a beard on his face, he looks like he is flying violently, and his eyes can usually scare people into shaking their legs by glaring at children.
This pit is used by the second master for proofing, and it is not the best in this ancient tomb he picked, judging from the rammed earth mixed with the soil that was hit, this is likely to be an ancient tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Boss Li vertically drilled down a wellhead more than six meters deep, according to the usual experience, they also needed to drill a ventilation shaft, but the second master felt that there were only a few mountain people here would not be too much of a hindrance, and even if something happened at a depth of more than six meters, they could be dragged out.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, China was full of vicissitudes, and the most important thing in this land that had just regained its calm after a hundred years of war was weapons, and the Li brothers also had guys in their hands, two box guns.
Made in Germany, fifteen rings, this is still before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Li family brothers took a Song Dynasty official kiln and a group of bandits in exchange, the probability of doing their business is extremely high, even if it is a brother in front of the treasure, there will be a brother buried the younger brother in the column.
The boss of the Li family has been on the ground for ten minutes, and according to the tacit understanding between them, the first batch of goods will be sent out of the ground after fifteen minutes. The second master smoked two puffs of cigarettes, and the smugness in his heart was mentioned: Lao Tzu fled all the way from Henan to Zhejiang, but he didn't expect to hit the luck in such a place where birds don't, and he can be regarded as finding a place to eat in the second half of his life.
Later, it turned out that the second master did have a vision. A joint archaeological operation in the 80s counted that there were no less than 200 large tombs with sealed soil alone, and countless were buried deep underground.
After another two minutes, the rope trembled, the second master took a puff of cigarette, the red cigarette butt stained his eyes to bleed, the excited second master grabbed the rope and hung it on his waist, and was about to pull it, only to see the rope suddenly tremble at a very distance, and then a gunshot rang out from the ground!
There was a muffled sound of "bang", and the second master was shocked, no, this is going to be an accident! The rope in his hand was bundled around his waist, and then put on his shoulder, and the second master rushed forward when he took a step. Although he was thin, he had a lot of strength, and he felt the rope loosen after a few steps of humming and pulling it hard.
Looking back, the eldest of his family had been dragged out of the ground, and he saw that his neck was entangled by a small cyan snake the thickness of a water pipe, and the snake was "hissing" towards the second master with its mouth open and spitting scarlet cores.
The two were only four or five meters apart, and when the second master saw that his brother was about to be strangled by such a small snake, his natural reaction was to get rid of the snake, so he picked up a stick from the ground and prepared to go over.
said that it was too late, it was fast, and when he bent over, the snake suddenly turned its head and opened its mouth to bite the boss's throat, which made the second master anxious.
When people are in a hurry, they will subconsciously think of the fastest way to solve it, and the second master's right hand, which has not yet touched the ground, also turned in a direction and touched his waist, and pulled out the box cannon like a flint.
Five meters, this distance is really close, and the second master can clearly see the scales on the snake with the help of the stars in the sky. In addition to robbing tombs, the second master also has a good marksmanship, with this box cannon, he can break a match at a distance of thirty meters.
Turn around, draw your gun, aim, shoot, fire!
There was a crisp gunshot, and the second master could see it clearly, and before the snake's mouth could bite down, he fired first. But at the moment when he opened fire, his eyes suddenly flashed, and his hands trembled, as if he had seen something......
A cloud of blood mist exploded, and the Li family's boss was shot in the head by his younger brother without even snorting, and he only understood at the moment when the second master shot: Where is there a green snake on his neck,
It's just an old tree root wrapped around it!
In this way, he killed his brother with his own hands, and the second master knew that he was on the road this time, and he often walked by the river, how could he not get his shoes wet. The second master had to secretly throw his brother's body into the pit, and refilled the sealed soil, and hurriedly went down the mountain after cleaning up the scene.
After going down the mountain, the second master packed up and prepared to run away, maybe he was busy**, he fell asleep on **, and had a dream.
In the dream, he dreamed that his brother's eyeball was burst, and he was standing outside the house covered in blood, dragging a coffin board in one hand and a small green snake in the other.
Seeing that his brother came to find him, thinking that he was here to seek revenge and ask for his life, the second master immediately knelt down and explained to his brother that he did not intend to commit a black hand, but because he was on the way, he was fascinated by unclean things and killed his brother by mistake.
The boss of the Li family said that he didn't come to blame him, but just to tell him that he was haunted by an evil ghost, and the evil ghost asked his family to send three meat and three vegetables, gold and silver paper money to the archway at the entrance of the village on the fifteenth day of every month, otherwise he would toss him below, he came to beg his younger brother not to leave, otherwise the evil ghost would also be entangled with the second master of the Li family.
The second master didn't believe it, but he didn't want the boss to say that if you don't believe it, you can see if there is an extra red line on your chest, if you wait for the red line to grow into a circle, it will be the time for you to die.
The second master woke up, sweating profusely, looking at the size of the package that had been sorted out on the side, remembering what his brother said in the dream, he hurriedly took off his coat and looked in the mirror.
This photo doesn't matter, it almost scared the second master of the Li family directly, there really is a thin pink line on his chest, but the two ends have not been connected, this line was indeed not there before, and this can frighten him.
The boss of the Li family was originally a vicious person, but he didn't expect to be bullied like this after death, so you can imagine how fierce that evil ghost is. The second master of the Li family looked at himself in the mirror, and then thought back to how his brother was killed by a shot yesterday, and thought of that dream again, and knew in his heart that this time he really couldn't escape the difficult master, so he had to follow the promise in that dream.
Fortunately, the third day was the first day of the new year, and in the evening of the same day, the second master came to the entrance of the village with a meat and vegetable bowl and gold and silver ingots, lit incense and candles, burned paper money, and kowtowed again. After going back, that night, his brother had a dream again, in which the eldest of the Li family said that the man had received it, and his life was a little better, and told his brother not to forget to continue on the fifteenth.
The second master woke up early the next morning and looked in the mirror again, the red line on his chest was gone, but a faint line began to appear again after another day, the color would gradually deepen every day, and the joints would get closer and closer. Burn the paper money will disappear, and then start again within fifteen days, cycle after return, he does not dare to go, stay and dare not stay, counting the days of the yellow calendar, for fear that he will forget the day of the day. On the fifteenth day of the first month of each month, no matter the wind or rain, the second master will definitely appear under the archway at the entrance of the village, and later the people in the village have known his habit, but no one has ever known why he did that, so that many new migrants later thought that the second master was the only aboriginal in Hong Village, thinking that he was incense to the ancestors.
Since then, Li Erye has never left Hong Village, and he has not married, so he built two bungalows in the village. As for his skill of robbing tombs, he has never performed it again, but he often gives people a look at the feng shui yang house, which is actually to accumulate some yin virtue for himself, so that he can atone for his sins when he goes down in the future