The waiter didn't say much, and let the way signal the two of us to go in, blocking the door of the house, and the image was really indecent, so I didn't ask much. When I entered the building, I saw that there was an empty platform in the middle, and there were already a lot of tea parties under the stage. There were some leisurely tea guests sitting in twos and threes, looking at the empty platform frequently, as if they were waiting for some performance. Now there are many teahouses, and some actors will be invited to perform cross talk, sketches or something.

The waiter led us all the way to the second floor, pushed open an antique carved hollow wooden door, and entered a large house, divided into two rooms by a landscape screen, with a bed on one side and a tea table on the other.

The room was empty at this time, the tea table was placed by the window, the wooden window was open, and from here, you could just see the tea guests and the empty table on the first floor. It seems that this is a private room in a teahouse.

There were a few plates of dried fruit snacks on the table, and the waiter helped us serve a pot of tea, saying that the shopkeeper had something to do temporarily, and asked us to drink tea and eat snacks later, and tell us at any time if there was anything. After saying that, he retreated, leaving me and Tofu looking at each other.

Tofu wondered; "What kind of door is this selling, doesn't it mean that we have been waiting for a long time?"

I said, "That's a kind word." "However, since the old man has returned safely, presumably the ghost rent did not dare to find him. People are good at being bullied, horses are good at being ridden, is it possible that my luck is really low to this point, even the dead ghost knows that persimmons pick soft pinch.

Thinking so, I was idling with Tofu while drinking tea and eating melon seeds, and I waited for a long time and no one came. We didn't have any arrangements today, but we didn't care about waiting a little longer, but after a while, we heard a burst of applause and applause from below, and when we looked down, there were a few plays on the empty stage, babbling, and it was a Teochew opera.

Cantonese people like to watch dramas and prefer to drink tea.

On our side, if a poor family can't eat, they won't spend money to buy tea. But Cantonese people are different, no matter what the family conditions are, no matter how poor they are, they will buy tea, only good and bad.

We can't understand the tide opera, Tofu is a person who can't sit still, except when painting, let him sit in a regular manner for two minutes, that is more difficult than killing him, so it didn't take long to start wandering around the house.

The furnishings here are very exquisite, but they are all dead things, and after looking around, they are tasteless, so Tofu grabbed a newspaper on the shelf next to him. After opening it and reading it for a while, I suddenly sighed, looked a little wrong, handed me the newspaper, and said in a low voice: "This is actually a newspaper from 04, you look at this news." ”

I took the newspaper and looked at it, and sure enough, it was an old newspaper. , not a regular tabloid, but some gossip tabloids, with an irresponsible attitude towards the news, specializing in reporting some eyeballs and chasing after the wind.

And the news that Tofu refers to, the title is a line of small print: Tomb robbers robbed a woman's corpse at night, and blue spots grew on her body, is it corpse poison or a ghost?

The name is eye-catching, but the regular newspaper will definitely not report this kind of thing, and it will not be such a misleading name. I followed the content and looked down, and there was a photo of the person in the photo, with bruises on his arms, exactly like the one on my body!

This is a young man from a mountain village, who had the evil idea of digging the old grave in the village, and as a result, he dug up an incorruptible female corpse, and had evil thoughts and hid the female corpse at home. In this way, a few days later, a large number of blue spots grew on his body, and there was no way to go to the hospital for treatment, and his body gradually decayed with the blue spots, and he committed suicide by taking sleeping pills under unbearable severe pain.

Tofu obviously saw the door, and he was difficult to be clever and said: "This newspaper must have been deliberately placed here by the old man, you say, what does he want to do?" Perverted Chen, is your corpse poison really so powerful? Will it be the same as the people in this newspaper? That's miserable, don't worry, I'll buy you the best sleeping pills then, you can rest in peace. ”

I was so angry with this kid that I was about to kick him twice, but the door was pushed open from the outside, and the old man we had seen before walked in slowly, and the big man and the young man I had seen before stood at the door, and they closed the door and stood outside.

The old man glanced at the newspaper in my hand and said with a smile: "It seems that you have already read it." This is not to scare you, if your corpse poison is not dealt with, the end will definitely be worse than his. ”

I guessed right, sure enough, this old boy did it on purpose, but I hate being led by the nose the most, so I said, "So what, when I was scared?" You don't have to worry about my affairs, we have something to say, and if it's okay, then I won't accompany you. ”

The old man smiled, like an old fox, and said, "You young people, you are short-tempered, and in that case, I will not go around the bend with you." As he spoke, he took out a blue and white porcelain vase from his bosom, and plugged it with a cork, and then he pulled out the cork, shook it, and poured out a pill that was as red as blood, but the size of a soybean.

"This is the 'red pill' for detoxifying the corpse, eat it."

Tofu was skeptical: "Are you sure this is not poison?" ”

The old man smiled and said, "What do I do with the poison for you, even if you don't give it, the corpse poison will be in your body, and sooner or later you will die." ”

I pinched it up and put it on the tip of my nose, it smelled very metallic. Grandpa's work notes once recorded this kind of 'red pill', its full name should be called the corpse pill, but outsiders know what this medicine is for as soon as they hear it, so the jargon is directly referred to as red pill.

Legend has it that the development method of this thing has long been lost, and only in some ancient tomb robber families, there are still some left, and for those who mix this mouthful, a red pill can be sold for a sky-high price.

As soon as I smelled it, I knew it was the real thing, and I was surprised that it tasted exactly like my grandfather's description. I thought that this red pill preparation method had long been lost, and it could be described as a life-saving elixir, and if you eat one, you will have one less. What is the intention of this old man to give me so generously?

I'm a businessman, so I know that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But it is important to save your life, the medicine has been delivered to the door, how can there be any reason to push it back. Immediately pinched the pill and took it, only to feel that the entrance was spicy, but there was a fragrance rising from the beard, and you could smell it between the breaths, and it was really a miracle medicine.

When the old man saw me take it, a flash of praise flashed in his eyes, and he said, "It's so bold, it seems that I didn't find the wrong person when I looked for you this time." ”

"Nothing is done, nothing is done, and if you have anything to say, you can just say it. What is the relationship between my grandfather and you? What do you want to do now? ”

The old man smiled and said, "This matter is a long story, we have to start with three people, listen to me patiently, and you will understand." Then, he clapped his hands, changed the pot of Mao Feng, and several people listened to him while drinking tea.

This old man's surname is Zhao, and the Taoist is called Second Master Zhao, and the reason why he is called Second Master is not because he is the second oldest in the family. The second master is an honorific title, in the past, Guan Yu Guan Yunchang was called Guan Erye, so the heroes in ancient times made friends, and the most powerful and righteous among them were often respected as the second master.

Zhao Erye's family has been digging mushrooms for eight generations, and has accumulated a lot of family assets. Of course, now Zhao Erye rarely goes to the ground by himself, and most of the time, it is he who organizes manpower, finds graves, provides equipment, and conducts gang excavation. He ate the bulk of what he dug up, and the rest was distributed to the people who went to the ground.

In the tomb robbery industry, there are too many classifications, scattered thieves, gang thieves, family thieves, gang thieves, and even official thieves. Like me and Tofu, two people know each other and trust each other, and when they combine to dig mushrooms, they belong to thieves, while Zhao Erye is a combination of domestic thieves and gang thieves.

As for the official thieves, such gangs are very secretive and generally not known. If you encounter it, you have to go around, otherwise you will definitely be in trouble.

In Zhao Erye's own words, in the tomb robbery circle in Guangdong, he is a character who stomps his feet, and the whole circle will tremble.

Why did you find me this time? has a background, and it is related to Hu Lao's blindness.

This old blind Hu has always been active in Guanzhong, why did he suddenly come to Shenzhen? He was there to return to the tomb under the river. What was buried in the tomb was a civil official in the Daoguang period, who was upright and loved by the Daoguang Emperor.

When he died, Emperor Daoguang once gave a treasure to accompany the funeral, this treasure, called 'Ghost King Yulong Cup', according to legend, was made by a folk artist who made zuò jade during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The cup records a legendary experience of him, which is the so-called ghost king meeting the dragon, of course, what kind of encounter, there are many legends, it is difficult to know.

On the surface, you can't see anything in this cup, but when you fill it with wine and shine it with a candle, a comic book will appear in the center of the jade cup. The process of making zuò can be described as a masterpiece.