Chapter 10 A Letter from the Prairie (I)
I've never heard of the legend of the tomb robbers like "Mud Meeting", it's the first time I've heard of it when I'm so big, but I have heard a little about the fat man in the "Yiguan Dao" she mentioned, the people in this door in order to make alchemy, they cut off the boy's genitals as a medicine primer, and after liberation, they were suppressed and no longer existed.
In this deep mountain and old forest, there are lonely mountains as far as the eye can see, and the opportunity to listen to the old people talk about the ancient times of the first three emperors and the last five emperors is definitely a heavy entertainment activity for us, not to mention that I and the fat man and others in the ground manhole in the Wong Tai Sin Temple, I have also seen the corpse similar to the "mud club", which is dressed as a bandit, which adds a bit of curiosity, and immediately begged the four aunts to talk about the "mud meeting" in detail.
But the fourth aunt doesn't know much about the "mud club", she only picked up what she knew and told us some, that was the old thing before the liberation, at that time the northeast was very chaotic, there were many bandits in the mountains, like "covering the sky" and other big locks not to say, there are many bandits are scattered bandits, a group of two people beat the house and cut off the house, and there are fast tickets, that is, to tie those who are about to pass the door, and the big girl who is about to get married, because the kidnapping can not stay overnight, once the night of the in-law's family must not be this family business, Therefore, the family members of the meat ticket must do their best to make up money to redeem people on the same day, so it is called "tied to the fast ticket", "Mu'er Hui" is the big cabinet of the house is such a bandit who tied the fast ticket, not only that, he also learned witchcraft in the Daomen, the legend has the ability to escape, even if he commits a crime, the official face can not hold him at all, may actually just be a "digging army" such as a sapper, good at digging tunnels, but what is going on, outsiders don't know at all, are all random guesses, and later he found that the excavation of the ancient mound can make a windfall, So he started the business of tossing the dead.
He dug more graves, and his name increased day by day, and he received a lot of apprentices, forming a group of bandits, and began to report the name, because he did all the work of digging the soil and digging the mud, he and his apprentices were mostly born in the poor mud babies who dug the mud in the river.
"Ni'er Society" rose from the end of the Qing Dynasty, nominally with the master and apprentice portal as the body, in fact, it is exactly the same as the organizational structure of the "four sorghum and eight pillars" in the Hu bandits, and has always been evil, ruthless, not to mention the dead, even many ordinary people in the mountains have been harmed by them, but the government has repeatedly suppressed to no avail, and has really stolen a lot of ancient tombs in the past few decades, and later it is even more blatant, because there are many corpses in the old tombs, or the body of the tomb owner is filled with mercury embalming, they are in order to take the pearls and jade contained in the mouth of the ancient corpses, He dragged out the remains of the tomb owner with hemp rope from the tomb, hung the bones upside down on the crooked neck tree to run pure mercury, and then broke his mouth and intestines, sometimes the ancient tomb was very close to the inhabited tunzi, and he still fought with open fire, or tossed so much in broad daylight, and did not shy away from it, and there was no one who did not make a windfall in this business, so these people all had real guys in their hands, and no one dared to care about them at all.
They dug up the grave and poured out the valuable things inside, leaving behind the ruined coffin corpses, and the common people all sighed when they saw it, those ancient corpses were also poured blood mold for eight lifetimes, and after death, people were so tormented, this situation was really cruel.
"Mud Meeting" this strand, are in the size of the Xing'an Mountains in the deep mountains and old forests haunted, in the three mountains and five mountains in this mountain, where there are remnants of the monument can be found in the ancient tombs, they have to find ways to dig up and steal the secret weapon in the tomb, because of the perennial business this kind of business, do thieves with a weak heart, so there are a lot of superstitious doorways, they wear a black dress, in order to reduce the yang energy on the living when working, the ancient tombs are a long-accumulated obscure place, has always been taboo to leave the yang energy of the living in it, in addition to talking about evil spirits, hats, socksand the belts were all very red, and they were all stained with the blood of pigs.
There are not many people who can still talk about their deeds now, after all, it was all decades ago, and the reason why the fourth aunt knew so clearly was because before liberation, her brother was caught by the bandits of the "Mud Society" to do coolies, and when digging graves and graves, he sifted through the mud and scooped the soil, and finally escaped from the bandits' nest with his life, and told her some experiences in it.
According to the memories of the fourth aunt and her brother, the bandit leader of the "Ni'er Society" once took the whole gang of bandits to dig many holes in the "Tuanshanzi" area, and finally dug out a Huang Tai Sin's cave temple from behind the Huangpizi tomb, they wanted to find a treasure from the dark passage in the temple, but they annoyed the big fairy and took several lives, but the "Ni'er Society" is not vegetarian, and if it can't be done, it will be a trick, and the result is that they still have their hands, and dig out a box with gold and jade inlaid from the secret passage under the temple.
After the bandits of the "Mu'er Society" succeeded, the mountain people who were caught to help dig the hole were dragged to the ravine to kill people, the fourth aunt and her brother were shot, the gun pierced him, picked up a life and crawled out of the pile of dead, and the gunshot wound has not healed after returning to Tunzi, and he was greatly frightened, and he didn't last a few years, so he died, as for the whereabouts of the big box that the "Ni'er Society" dug out of the Wong Tai Sin Temple, and what treasure it contained, no one knows, and since then," The "Mu'er Society" also disappeared in the deep mountains and old forests, and no one has ever seen this strand again, it must have suffered retribution, and there is no place to bury it.
The fat man and I listened attentively, what is hidden in the Wong Tai Sin Temple, which is guilty of letting the "Mud Society" toss so bloodlessly? Where did they get that box? What happened to the bandits in the "Mud Society"? We are very curious, and we can't wait to get to the bottom of this matter, otherwise we won't be able to sleep well at night, but the fourth aunt only knows so much, and even the authenticity of this content cannot be guaranteed.
I saw that there was really nothing to inquire about, so I had to go with the fat man to cut the grave bricks, at that time I advocated changing customs, leveling the graves and opening up fertile fields, because cremation was not realistic in many remote areas, and it was still necessary to implement burial, but it was very different from the old society, the first was a thin burial, followed by a deep burial, and the burial was twenty feet under the cave, and the burial mounds were not sealed, and crops could still be planted on the tomb.
However, in the deep mountains and old forests of ours, there are sparsely populated, and we can't worry about the area of the cemetery and crops, just flatten some deserted tombs and ancient tombs, and replace building materials with tomb bricks, but this tomb brick is extremely difficult to sharpen, these green bricks are invaded by the smell of corpses in the ancient tombs, the smell is not approachable, although it is a long time, it still does not dissipate, after cutting and leveling, it is necessary to use soju to mix lime to get rid of the peculiar smell.