Chapter 22: The Secret of the Dungeon
The second uncle nodded and said, "Yes, so I'm going to ask you for help!" As he spoke, he handed me a red cloth, "Quick, find a place to get some ashes and put it in there." I'll go over there to support it, you hurry up! ”
"Huh?" I was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but shake my head, "Second uncle, how did you come up with such a bad ...... I can't think of a good idea even if I search my stomach! ”
"Stop talking nonsense!" The second uncle pulled me up, "Go quickly!" ”
I hurriedly put on my clothes and prepared to leave, and when I was about to go out, my second uncle reminded me, "Break it!" Don't let people see it! ”
In this era, there are fewer and fewer people who make their own stoves, and I found a lot of places to get some furnace ashes, I smashed the furnace ashes and wrapped them in red cloth, put them in my arms and went straight to the old house of the Ma family.
In this way, Ma Jun was buried without danger, and from now on, there will be no more Ma Jun in the world, and people will gradually forget him after a while. But who would have thought that such a crazy person would have had such an unbelievable, strange and terrifying experience. However, it was the unknown experience that brought him a tragic ending, and he didn't even leave a whole corpse after his death, let alone a whole corpse, which can be regarded as completely wiped out.
After dealing with Ma Jun's affairs, the three of us returned to the village, when the mobile phone of Lantern Festival rang, and I saw that the caller was Sisi. Lantern Xiao walked to the side and answered the phone, although I couldn't hear what he said, but I clearly saw Lantern Xiao's hippie smiling face and appearance.
After hanging up the phone, Lantern Festival said goodbye to us, saying that there were a lot of things backlogged in the store and we had to go back quickly. But I know it's probably because Sisi blames him again. I smiled and nodded. Lantern Xiao left in a hurry. Looking at the eager and happy expression on Lantern Festival's face when he left, I was very relieved. Lantern Xiao lost his father and left the Tang family, and now he can be said to be alone. At this time, someone is willing to accompany him and take care of him, and I am really happy for him.
Unconsciously, Kong Xue's beautiful smile resurfaced in my mind. Lantern Festival has found its own happiness, so what about me? When I think of this, I can't help but sigh.
The second uncle seemed to see my thoughts and patted me on the shoulder, but did not speak.
After a while, the second uncle asked me, "Eldest nephew, what are your plans for the next step?" ”
When the second uncle suddenly asked, I didn't know how to answer, as if I really didn't know what I was going to do next. After thinking for a moment, I raised my eyebrows, "What can I do next?!" Go home and sleep on the Internet, find a job by the way, and live a normal life. ”
The second uncle smiled, "What, aren't you living a normal life now?" ”
I smiled wryly and raised my hand, the wound on my hand had not fully healed at this time, "Do you see this like a normal person's life?" The second uncle also nodded helplessly.
"Second uncle, what about you?" I asked the second uncle, "Where are you going?" ”
The second uncle pointed to the village, "I'll go to the second uncle to have a visit." Then I went back to the pharmacy, I haven't been back for a while, I have to go back and have a look. ”
I know that the second uncle referred to by the second uncle is the second uncle, and I am reluctant to participate in the conversation between the elders. So I told my second uncle that I was going home, and the second uncle took me to the road at the entrance of the village and watched me get on the bus back to the city.
As I sat in the car and looked at the distant Turtle Back Mountain through the trees on both sides, a thought flashed through my mind, as if I had forgotten something important.
I quickly got up and stopped the driver. Fortunately, the car didn't drive too far, so I walked back on foot, and after ten minutes, I came to the entrance of the village again. At this time, the second uncle had already gone back.
After I entered the village, I went straight to the door of the ancestral house, although the second uncle said just now that he would go to the second uncle to sit, but I have a hunch that he didn't do that at all, he is now in the ancestral house. The two doors of the ancestral house were closed, but I stepped forward and pushed hard, and with a "squeak", the two heavy doors opened.
At this time, it was afternoon, and the time in the village was the quietest, and the huge courtyard in front of him also seemed quiet and far-reaching.
I walked through the courtyard to the hall in the middle, but saw that the room was empty, and then I knew where the second uncle was.
I stepped into the backyard and sure enough, I saw that the door to the utility room was not closed. When I walked in and saw that the flap on the floor was also open, I knew that my guess was correct.
I squatted on the ground, looking at the open flap, and was hesitating to go down, when I suddenly heard movement from below. So I squatted aside and waited quietly, and after a while, the second uncle poked his head out from below, suddenly saw me, was unprepared, and then glared at me, "You kid, scare me!" Aren't you gone? It's okay, what are you doing at the door of the cellar! The second uncle deliberately said the word cellar very loudly.
I'm not in a hurry to show the second uncle, "Second uncle, what about you, what are you doing in the cellar if you have nothing to do?" ”
The second uncle, the old Jianghu, is still very smart, he knows that I am afraid that I came prepared, so he didn't answer but stared at me for a while, "What do you want to ask?" ”
I smiled, "Second uncle, it's just our uncle and nephew here, what are you worried about?" I just want to know, what is the secret of our Zhuo family? ”
The second uncle came out of the cellar and patted the soil on his body, "If you are referring to the dungeon under the ancestral tomb, I can tell you that it has nothing to do with the Zhuo family, but it just happened to be discovered by the Zhuo family." ”
I then asked, "What's the secret in the dungeon?" The Zhuo family has been operating there for so many years, it is impossible not to find out, right? ”
The second uncle pondered for a while and said, "Eldest nephew, have you ever thought that if I tell you everything, maybe you will never be able to go back to your original peaceful life?" ”
I sneered in my heart, the second uncle was scaring me again, I waved my hand, "It's okay, I'm not living a normal life now." ”
"But you're my own nephew after all." The second uncle sighed, "Let's go, since you want to know, let's have a good chat." ”
I followed my second uncle and returned to the hall. Although the construction of the ancestral house has been completed, the interior has not yet had time to be cleaned up. There were only a few randomly arranged chairs in the room.
After my second uncle and I each found a handful and sat down, the second uncle first told me a story recorded in the "Northern Qi Five Households Chronicles" during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
It is said that there is a small city built on the mountain near Tuoshui called Wujia, which originally lived peacefully without quarrel with the world, but bad luck fell from the sky, the plague broke out, and more than half of the people in Wujia City died of illness. The government ordered the city to be closed, and the people in Wujia City were left to fend for themselves. For a time, mourning was everywhere, corpses and bones were piled up, and the conditions of the people in the city were extremely miserable.
But suddenly one morning, the soldiers guarding the gate suddenly found that the city gate, which had been locked for many days, had been opened, and a huge pit appeared in front of the city gate, which was unfathomable and white mist.
At first, the government thought that the people who were locked in the city had escaped, but after a check, they found that the people in the city not only did not decrease, but increased. To their horror, many of the people who had already died had come back to life. The generals defending the city felt that something was wrong and reported the matter to the imperial court.
At that time, Emperor Wucheng Gao Zhan felt that this was a demon, and ordered the water of the Tuo River to be diverted and the Wujia should be flooded. The army split the mountains and opened the rocks, opened the river as fast as possible, and part of the turbulent river was diverted and rushed down to Wujia City. The turbulent river loosened the rocks, causing a large landslide to collapse, and the entire Wujia City, along with the people in it, and the huge potholes that suddenly appeared, were buried by the river and earth and rocks overnight.
After talking about this, the second uncle looked at me and said, "If I see such a record in the book, I will definitely think that this is a fabrication of the legends of the ancients. However, it is not a legend, it really exists, and when I first saw it, I was stunned. ”
The second uncle's description was not very clear, but I still understood it at once. "The dungeon under the ancestral tomb is the buried Wujia City recorded in the book!"
The second uncle nodded, and I said with some surprise: "Could it be that the dungeon was cleared by our Zhuo family?" ”
The second uncle shook his head with a smile, "How is it possible!" Such a big project depends on our Zhuo family? Even if he hadn't been discovered, he would have died of exhaustion! ”