Coincidentally, six of the seven members of the grave team were carrying things. Either they have done something shady or have a murder case, in short, they all left their hometown and fled to Henan, and they didn't talk about each other, and honestly hid here to make a living.

There is a man surnamed Wu who is about forty-five or sixteen years old and has a Shaanxi dialect in the team, because he is the oldest and has been working in the grave team for the longest time, so he naturally became the captain of the grave team, and other people call him Lao Wu or Wu Boss.

It is said that after a long time when the grave team has been working for a long time, there will be a muddy smell on the body that cannot be washed away, which is not the smell of the soil brought by the crops who work in the field all year round, but the unique smell of the old graves, which is generally like the smell of tomb robbers.

Lao Wu has this smell since before he entered the grave team, and later he dug a lot of graves, and no one noticed this smell, but the big guys all knew in their hearts, and they all knew that this old Wu used to be a grave robber who dug graves, but any of the seven people in the grave team had nothing to do, or could they hide in this ravine and dig graves.

Early one morning, Officer Liu, who was in charge of the task of driving the graves, came by bicycle from the county, parked the car and opened the door and entered the dormitory to find Lao Wu.

After the liberation, the landlord was beaten, the land and houses were confiscated, and part of it was distributed to local farmers, so that part of it was state-owned.

Lushi County is located in the west of Henan Province and Shaanxi Province Luonan, Danfeng, Shangnan three counties border, the county has a total of 4037 large and small peaks, more than 2400 rivers and streams, the highest altitude of 2057.9 meters, the lowest altitude of 482 meters, the average altitude of 1221 meters, the geomorphological characteristics can be described in one sentence "three mountains, three rivers and two basins, eight mountains, one water and one field." ”

In the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there was a rich man who started selling smuggled salt, made a windfall and returned to his hometown, forcibly bought a large piece of land in the town, and then rented it to farmers, and the local farmers became his tenant farmers.

It was not until after the liberation that the landlord's house was raided, the family property and land were returned to the hands of the peasants, the rich man's own ancestral grave was also dug up, and the money and silver for the burial were also robbed by the peasants.

After the field was divided, the large granary used by the landlord to store grain was also abandoned, and the county felt that it was a pity that such a large space was abandoned, so it added a partition in the granary, and the right part was changed into a dormitory for the grave team, and the left side was used as a warehouse, which was also handed over to the grave team.

Said that this Officer Liu pushed the door into the house, almost didn't let the smell of stinky feet in the house smoke out, he used to be a clerk in the army, and he has always been very clean, how can he stand the smell of sweat and sweat of the feet of the big men in this house, hold back his breath, raise his feet and go into the inner room to find the old Wu who was still snoring on the Chase Shop, Officer Liu pinched his nose, pushed the old Wu who was sleeping with a stuffy head and said: "Hey Comrade Wu, Comrade Wu wake up, the county has another task to get up quickly." ”

Lao Wu gave Xiao Qikan his previous scenery last night, talking about his hometown in Shaanxi, a rich man gave his father a 70th birthday, that scene was full of 70 tables of wine banquets, and invited the local opera troupe to sing for two days and two nights in a row, that lively.

Lao Wu said: "At that time, the rich man had a request for me, and he specially invited me to come over to eat a big banquet, oops, the eight meat and eight vegetables on the table were swinging in a circle, and a roasted whole sheep was placed in the middle, the sheep was just roasted and still dripping with oil, you just smelled the aroma of the vegetables, then you had to be full." We are scene people, I have seen a lot of this kind of small scene, I didn't take it seriously, so I used a knife to cut a few pieces of fine meat on the leg of lamb and ate it, and the other mouthfuls didn't move. ”

The seventh child of the grave team is a young man who has just turned eighteen years old, he is a native of Henan, and his family has starved to death since he was a child, leaving him to wander around. Later, he worked in the grave removal team and persevered until the end, he was the youngest, so he was the seventh in the team, and his brothers called him Xiaoqi.

Xiao Qi had never eaten mutton at all, and he didn't know what the roasted whole sheep tasted like, so he asked Lao Wu: "Big brother, what does the roasted whole sheep taste like?" Is there a roasted green monkey that is delicious? "This green monkey is the dialect of grasshoppers, that is, roasted grasshoppers.

The taste can't be described, only the people who have eaten it themselves know, Lao Wu he thought, how to say this mutton flavor, but the more he thought about it, the more hungry he became, the more hungry he became, the saliva flowed down unconsciously, he wiped a handful on his mouth, took a sip and said, "What is a roasted grasshopper?" That's like eating melon seeds, how can it be compared with sheep, wait for my brother and I to mix it in the future, please eat a whole roasted whole sheep! ”

As soon as he said this, he passed three watches, Xiao Qi especially likes to listen to Lao Wu Hukan, it is like listening to a commentary, he is addicted to listening, and he pesters Lao Wu to let him talk about it if he has nothing to do.

Before going to bed, Lao Wu said that he had a big banquet at the rich man's house, but Xiao Qi was a hard-working child, and he had eaten those things, just listening to a happy one. As a result, Lao Wu told himself to be greedy, and the gluttony was almost gone, and it was not easy to fall asleep after tossing and turning, but he had a dream and ate a big feast in the dream.

Lao Wu had just finished eating a whole roasted whole sheep in his dream, wiped the oil on his face, and felt that it was not enough, so he beckoned the cook, and if there was anything to eat, come up again. I heard the cook say above his head: "Comrade Wu, Comrade Wu." Lao Wu felt strange, why is this name so familiar, it seems that he has heard it somewhere, but his mind can't turn in his dream, and he can't remember it, and then he heard the cook say: "There are human bones in the salty again, get up and eat quickly!" ”

When he heard that there were human bones in the salt, he was stunned, what kind of human bones? I also let myself eat quickly, and at this time, I saw the cook come out from behind, and he was still holding a large plate for roasting whole sheep, and there was a bunch of human bones with a little skin and flesh on the plate, and they were put in front of him, which startled Lao Wu and jumped up with a sigh.

Lao Wu was about to sit up when a fish suddenly hit on the bunk, and Secretary Liu was leaning over at the time and telling Lao Wu to get up, and the two heads collided together.

In the innermost part of the shop, there was an old erhu who was sleeping, and when he heard the voice, he turned over, closed his eyes and said vaguely: "Did I say everything?" The melon is round and can't be put down, it must fall to the ground, and no one moves, and it's broken. ”

Lao Wu hit it not lightly, covered his head and squatted on the bunk grinning and rubbing his head, and didn't listen to the second child muttering anything, he opened his eyelids and looked at the person lying on the ground, the person's clothes looked familiar, and after a closer look, this was not Secretary Liu in the county, and then I understood, the feelings were dreaming just now, and this time I got up and bumped into Secretary Liu.

He hurriedly helped Director Liu up with his bare feet, and on the door of Officer Liu's head, he let him knock out a big swollen old Gao, and quickly rubbed the bag with his hand, and said while rubbing: "Oh, is the official okay?" Why don't you find a place to sit, and lie on the ground, how dirty it is. ”

Director Liu knew that he was committing a denial, and he didn't bother to bother with him, so he stood up and patted the dust on his clothes, and said to him: "Recently, some people have reacted that there is always trouble on the side of the tomb, and they are talking about those ghost things that are not important, which is not good!" It's all new China, and you don't want to talk about the feudal superstitions of the old society, so Comrade Wu, the organization has assigned you to move the ownerless graves near the grave slope, so that the people can feel at ease. ”

As soon as Lao Wu heard that he was going to move those deserted graves again, his face pulled down, but he was eating this bowl of rice, and he couldn't say anything in front of the leader, so he agreed to the complete task.

Generally speaking, there are burial goods in the ancestral graves in the fields in the countryside, and in the old days, there was an old money to press the bottom of the coffin, although it was said that the poor were generally poor at that time, but the old people in the family passed away, that is, to borrow money and have to add a thin coffin, and the coffin also had to put some things that the old people liked to use as burials, which were more or less something. I really don't have money to buy a coffin, so I can only sweep it with grass, so I have to put a few old coins in the straw mat.

When the coffin was first dug out, sometimes family members were watching from the side, and they did not dare to open the lid of the coffin on the spot and go inside to get the burial goods.

But all the coffins will be pulled to the back of the grave team dormitory for storage, which was originally the empty space where the granary dries to dry grain, but now it has become a temporary storage place for the coffin bones.

For a while, the grave team has been digging up the long-standing deserted graves, and those graves usually do not even have coffins, so they dig out a pile of bones and put them in burlap bags, waiting for cremation in the future, and then bury them together.

Those who are tired of digging all day and night are covered with stinky sweat, they can't get any oil and water, and they don't have the motivation to work, but there is also a good thing that the coffin is not cleaned up quickly, and the tasks assigned by the county can be completed in a few days, and the team members go to the county to play when they are idle.

After informing the task, Officer Liu covered his head and pushed the bicycle and left. The fourth Li Fude also got up at this time, and he also listened to the tasks assigned by Director Liu and Lao Wu, and he didn't delay planning to wash his face and go to the county town to find everyone else back to work.

The fourth child squatted at the door to brush his teeth, and when he looked up, he saw Xiao Qi coming back in the distance, carrying a lot of things in his hands. When I walked in, I saw Xiao Qi carrying the wine jar in one hand and a few oil paper bags in the other.

Xiao Qi saw the fourth brother greet him: "Fourth brother is early, I should buy some food early, hurry up and come into the house to eat." ”

The fourth child sniffed his nose and said, "Did you buy roasted sweet potatoes?" Let's eat with Lao Wu in the house, I'm here again, I have to go to the county to call those people back. ”

Xiao Qi said: "Fourth brother, why are you so powerful? Every time I smell it, I know what I'm holding, anyway, it's nothing, I'll go to the county with you to find someone? ”

The fourth waved his hand and said no, he would be back in a while. After speaking, he wiped a handful of tooth powder from his mouth, raised his leg and left. The fourth is a stuffy gourd, usually doesn't talk much, only works with his head stuffy, and he can talk more to the people in the team.

This is not until the evening everyone comes back, after eating, everyone is busy, some sleep, some gather next to the candle flame to sew clothes, Xiao Qi asked Lao Wu to talk about it at this time.

Lao Wu has been thinking about the grave all day long, and when he heard Xiao Qi ask him to tell a story, he naturally thought of the grave, and he didn't notice it when he saw that everyone around him was busy with his work, so he told Xiao Qi a paragraph about the past of robbing the tomb in his hometown in Shaanxi.