Chapter 34 Sealing the Mud
I asked these questions one after another, and asked Qin Yiheng one by one. He also shook his head, lit a cigarette, and said, "Now I can only dig out the soil and see." "After that, you want me to help you do it.
The two took a short break and then got to work. The old man didn't have any tools at home, so I flipped left and right and managed to find a frying pan, so I could make do with it. After working for a long time, I finally dug out a lot of soil. But digging and digging, I felt that something was wrong.
Because the soil gets wetter and darker the further you dig down. I always had the feeling that if we dig like this, we will be able to dig up oil in a while.
Qin Yiheng also wondered when he saw this, touched the soil, and asked me to get out of the way. I also enjoyed having a good time and just smoked a cigarette next to me.
He squatted down and dug for a while, then stood up and lit a cigarette, and did not speak for a long time.
When he finished his cigarette, he suddenly told me that this thing was getting more and more interesting, and there was a layer of sealing mud under the cabinet, so there was a door god on the outside of the cabinet, and there must be some connection between them. Although this soil is called the mud of sealing the door, it does not necessarily have to have anything to do with the door, because this sealing of the door means "closing the door and closing the household". The so-called closure of the door does not mean that the family has been killed or cut off the incense, but that the family with this surname, for some reason, collectively changed its name and changed its surname and hid in the sea of people.
Now because of the social composition and many reasons, there are few big families full of people in the old days. Even if there is, it doesn't necessarily mean that we have to live together. However, in many remote villages, there is a village where there is only one household, and it is basically difficult to find it in the town. In the news, it was said that there was a village with a related name, and after the supernatural incident was discovered by a traveler, there was a lot of uproar, and then no one was found in the village, and it is very likely that the whole village closed the door for some reason and scattered to various places. However, the reason for this is not that the parties may never guess.
Sealing the door sounds simple, but it doesn't mean going to the police household registration office to register, and changing the household registration book is over. Chinese have a deep family concept since ancient times, and many families worship their ancestors as gods, so there is also a specific process for changing the surname to such a big disrespectful thing.
First of all, this mud is not a simple mud, but to be prepared with loess and a little well water, and a large amount of lamp oil to be mixed in, to obtain the meaning of native, draught do not forget the well; Then the tribesmen will symbolically make a stroke on their hands and drop a few drops of blood into it; Finally, the family tree was burned, and the ashes were put in the mud, and the whole clan wept, and after sealing the mud in a specific place, it was scattered to the ends of the earth.
Secondly, different family customs are different, so the place where the mud is buried is not the same. He had heard of some buried under the threshold of the gate, and that after the burial he would burn the old one and replace it with a new one; I've also heard that it is to be buried under the upper horse stone, in short, it must be buried in the soil. This is very much in line with the situation in the closet.
After listening to Qin Yiheng's explanation, my head was already wooden, and I didn't even have to ask questions, which was really incomprehensible. I discussed it with him, and he also said that there were many mysteries, so I had to dig out all the mud from the door to see if there was anything inside.
The process of dredging is the same, but this time I didn't get started, Qin Yiheng was also afraid that I would get into something, he used a frying pan to shovel the mud outside, and I used a plastic bag next to it. The mud is sticky, it is much more difficult to dig than the soil, and the weight of this mud is not small, after digging a few times, Qin Yiheng let out a "huh", and then stopped.
I thought he had dug something, but I didn't see anything after two looks, but I was surprised by the mud look, because from the details of the excavation, it seemed that it was hollow inside, and it wasn't very solid anyway, and it was a bit like a stalactite cave.
I asked Qin Yiheng if he had found anything.
He stretched out his hand and pinched something out of the soil, but I didn't see it clearly, and when he handed it to me, I realized that it was a black ant, the kind that can be seen on weekdays, very ordinary. I don't know if I was pinched and crawled very slowly.
I saw that it was an ant, and my heart said that this wardrobe was gnawed by ants? But this thing is obviously not as good as termites can gnaw wood.
When I looked down, I saw that there were many identical ants crawling around in the dug mud.
I asked Qin Yiheng, is this ant hidden in the cabinet?
He nodded, sighed and said, "I was in a hurry just now, I wasn't too cautious, and now I may have dug this thing up." ”
As he spoke, he explained to me that this mud must have been said before, on the surface it looks flat and neat, but under the level, someone must have done something special. Now it seems that it is very likely to be based on some layout or terrain, or even simply the shape of the map. This kind of ant is definitely not an ordinary ant, even if it doesn't look amazing, it must not be ordinary what was fed before. He made a bold guess and said that it was very likely that this kind of ant had eaten corpses before. The corpse wasn't necessarily human, it was supposed to be a small animal.
After eating corpses for a long time, the yin qi is naturally very heavy, coupled with the ant's instinct to forage for food, after being sealed in the closet, it is likely to rely on instinct to find their so-called way out or location.
That's probably why these ants were put here. The reason why the soil is covered on the top is very simple, that is, to seal the yang energy outside, so that the ants are not affected by the environment outside the wardrobe; I'm afraid the door god is also a similar reason, which is to prevent anything unclean from entering the closet.
I listened to him and barely understood.
At this time, the night was already very deep, and my head was a little dizzy, so I lit a cigarette and thought about it for a while.
Are these ants co-authored for wayfinding? If so, this door clay was a three-dimensional map earlier?
Damn, this is too advanced, right? I asked Qin Yiheng, assuming that his speculation was correct, then what was this using ants to find? Besides, even if the ant finds it, won't he have to dig it up? How do you check this?
Qin Yiheng pursed his lips and said What to find, we can't guess, but it is estimated that we will definitely not find it.
As he spoke, he scooped up the mud with a frying pan and told me that although he hadn't dug it to the end yet, he was afraid that there was a glass groove embedded in the wardrobe, and if he took out the whole glass groove, he would be able to see it clearly.
I thought about it for a moment, and I thought maybe he was right. Then he used the pan to dig along the edge of the closet a few more times, and sure enough, he found the edge of the glass trough.
At this point, I can only take out the whole glass trough to see what is going on. I asked Qin Yiheng, and he also planned to do the same.
After we rested for a while, we began to move the glass trough outside.
The glass groove must be tempered glass, so you don't have to worry about breaking it when you move it, but the mud inside is very heavy, and it is a test of waist strength to move it out.
It took a lot of effort to get it out, and before waiting for a few breaths, the two of us barely raised the glass trough, and Qin Yiheng lay down and stretched his head into the gap between the cushions to see.
He looked at it for a while, then withdrew and told me to come in and take a look.
I was already very curious, so I quickly drilled into it as if I was doing a brain CT scan and looked at it with a flashlight. After a few glances, I understood why he wanted me to check it.
Because although the top has been partially dug up, the shape of the bottom is still very well preserved, and this shape could not be more obvious, it is a pair of palms, and the palms are very large. I don't know much about the proportions, and I don't know how many times it's magnified, but the palm of the hand is clear and easy to read.
I withdrew, and went to verify my guess with Qin Yiheng. Before I could open my mouth, he nodded first and said, "That's right, most of these hands are made according to Yuan Zhen's hands, otherwise there is no need to go to great lengths to do such a game." Now the mud has not been dug up, and I don't know if there are still things related to Yuan Zhen buried in the mud, such as the eight characters of birth or the hair and blood book. ”
After speaking, Qin Yiheng drilled back and used his mobile phone to take a picture of the bottom of the glass trough, it is estimated that the glass trough is reflective, he took several photos before he was satisfied, and when he quit, he lit a cigarette and pondered.
When he thinks about it, I'm just idle, it's not that I don't want to help, it's that my brain is too messy.
From entering the industry to the present, I feel like I'm about to be surrounded by this kind of thing.
After standing there for a while, I got up and walked around the house, first, I wanted to get a bottle of water to drink; The second is to take a walk and clear your mind. As I walked, I unconsciously looked up and looked at the skylight, at first I didn't look carefully, but when I reacted, I immediately shivered - on top of a skylight, there was a person lying on his stomach, staring at me with his head outstretched. I couldn't see his face, and I couldn't see what this man looked like, and I regretted that I didn't bring the flashlight.
When the man saw me look up, he didn't react. I controlled it for a while and didn't scream, worried about startling the snake, so I pretended to be casual and walked back to Qin Yiheng, wanting to remind him. Who knew that as soon as I stood still, I saw him glaring at me.
I immediately panicked when I saw him like this, and he must have noticed something, so I asked him in a low voice. He didn't squeak, but decisively stepped on the mud in the glass trough. When he finished stepping on it, he dragged me into the living room, shouting at me as he ran: "Don't look back, don't stop!" If you really can't do it, you can pee your pants! It can save your life! ”