Chapter 7: Countless Bones
I walked to the side of the black lacquered nanmu coffin and looked carefully, my heart swelled with turbulence, I couldn't wait to open this coffin to see what was going on! I reached out and grabbed one end of the coffin lid and lifted it up hard, only to find that I had underestimated the weight of the coffin, and the coffin lid still didn't move even though I lifted it with all my might.
I thought maybe the coffin lid was nailed, and I looked at the coffin lid again, but when I saw the sixteen cinnabar marks on it, it was like a basin of cold water on my head, and the whole person instantly calmed down, and I told myself not to be impulsive. The coffin marked by the sixteen thorns of the clavicle is probably not a master to be messed with, so I don't want to get into big trouble because of curiosity!
Suddenly, I felt something strange in my injured palm, and I quickly took my hand off the coffin. I looked at my hands, and there didn't seem to be anything unusual, but when I looked at the coffin, my scalp instantly went numb, and I saw that the blood stains that had just been rubbed on the coffin lid were now seeping into the coffin at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Sure enough, there was a problem! I hurried away, nervously looking at the strange coffin. Fortunately, after a while, there was no movement in the coffin, which made me feel a little reassured. I always comfort myself that the coffin of my own family and the people of my own family, even if they become zongzi, they are also the zongzi of the Zhuo family, and they should treat their own people with a little face!
However, I decided not to provoke this coffin, no matter what was in it, it was not something I could handle alone. I'm going to take a cursory look around, so I'll quit first, this place makes me feel eerie for a while!
I left the coffin and walked towards the back of the burial chamber, here I found a doorway, this doorway did not seem to have a tomb door, and the inside of it was pitch black, I used my mobile phone to shine inside, and I found that the inside of the door hole had been blocked by a large amount of earth, apparently the back of the tomb had collapsed, flooding the original passage.
Despite this, I still found traces of excavation on these soils, which should have been done by the people who came here, and I think they should be people from our Zhuo family.
I followed the excavation trail to the other side of the doorway, and found that the excavation had stretched far ahead, and I guessed that it was another robbery hole.
I bent down and walked forward, half on my knees and half crawling. I didn't go long before I noticed a strip on the wall of the cave next to me. I looked at it curiously, then took out the knife on the key and pried it out of the soil on the cave wall.
I roughly wiped off some of the dirt on it, revealing its true appearance, and I realized that it was actually a human thigh bone. Although there are not a few bones I have seen, but at this moment, in such a place, seeing such a thing, my heart still trembles.
I quickly tossed this thing aside, settled down, and moved on. I didn't go far when I saw a round thing near the wall of the cave, and I was shocked, and I immediately thought of what this thing could be based on the thigh bone I had just found, and my back began to feel cold.
I was right, and when I got closer, I could see that it was indeed a human skull. Why are there human bones in these soils? Could it be the slave who accompanied the funeral back then?
While thinking, I looked carefully at the surrounding cave walls, and at this glance, my whole body froze, my whole scalp was numb, and I saw that all around me, countless bones, large and small, were embedded in the soil of the cave walls. Some are human bones, while others don't look like human bones as if they were some kind of large animal.
I don't have a phobia of density, but when I saw the dense bones in front of me, I still got goosebumps all over my body, and I felt like my hair was blowing up. Could it be that I have fallen into a burial pit? I don't know how long this passage is, but since there is a dug passage, it means that someone has been here. Maybe it's grandpa, maybe it's the second uncle, I endured the strong chill in my heart, and I was really unwilling to quit, so I forced myself to only look ahead, not around, gritted my teeth and continued along the passage.
I walked a short distance before the passage came to an abrupt end, and I don't know why I didn't continue digging. But there are still a lot of bones buried in the soil. I don't know how long these bones will continue to go forward, but the disappearance of the passage has given me a reason to convince myself to leave.
Although nothing came of it, I felt relieved that I had accomplished a difficult task, and without hesitation, I turned my head and crawled backwards, running straight out of the burial chamber and returning to the cellar along the cave.
It wasn't until I got out of the flap on the floor in the backyard utility room that I breathed a sigh of relief. I quickly re-locked the entrance to the cellar and put the key back in its original position.
When I walked to the backyard, I looked at the time, it was already past five o'clock in the morning, but it was very late in the morning, and it was still very dark. I took a deep breath of the cold air and immediately felt refreshed, and I really felt how good it felt to be back on the ground! I feel like I'm back in the world!
I looked down at myself, covered in dirt from my head to my feet. I slapped it a little, and left the ancestral house carefully, fortunately I didn't meet acquaintances along the way, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to explain it!
I didn't dare to linger in the village, so I had to walk more than ten miles to the town. At this time, I was really tired and sleepy, hungry and cold! I was looking for a place to eat, but it was the second day of the Lunar New Year, and there were no shops open on the road.
I curled up and walked on the road, hating this in my heart, why did I make myself like this during the New Year! I've found that ever since I've been involved in all this, bad luck has been one bad thing after another! I looked up to the sky and sighed, "God, can you please let me go for the Chinese New Year!" ”
I don't know if it was a coincidence, or if my prayers had an effect, but after I had turned a corner, I found a breakfast stall in front of my eyes. An old man was standing in front of a tricycle converted into a dining car, holding a scoop to add water to the pot, I don't know what was in the pot, it was steaming, and I was so excited that I almost burst into tears!
I ran over in three steps and two steps, and the old man was startled when he saw me rushing towards me, and he couldn't help but clench the water scoop in his hand. When he saw my expression and unkempt appearance, the old man's eyes instantly changed from vigilance to pity.
I rushed to the breakfast stall and asked, "Uncle, what do you have to eat here?" ”
The uncle nodded, "There are few people during the Chinese New Year, and I only have wonton baked cakes." ”
Actually, I don't care what I have to eat, I just have to eat it! So he opened his mouth and said, "Bring me a bowl of wontons and two baked cakes!" ”
When the steaming wontons arrived in front of me, I couldn't wait, but I still got into my pocket, "Uncle, how much?" ”
Unexpectedly, the old man sighed, "This is a big New Year, what is not money, eat quickly!" ”
I was stunned for a moment, and then it occurred to me that the uncle might mean to give money after eating, so I stopped talking and ate in a big gulp.
Suddenly, I saw the uncle turn around and shake his head, "Alas! What a poor child, he can't even eat during the Chinese New Year! ”
"Poof!" A mouthful of old blood in my chest almost spurted out mixed with wontons, "I'll go, I'm actually going to be begging for food!" ”
However, I don't care about explaining anything now, and I feel much more comfortable after eating everything on the table in two bites.
I walked up to my uncle and took out ten dollars and handed it over. Unexpectedly, the old man waved his hand again and again, "Forget it, I don't need money this time!" ”
I was really helpless by him, so I had to speak: "Uncle, I don't want food, I have this on my body, this is accidentally dirty just now!" ”
Hearing me say this, the uncle took the money suspiciously, "Why did you make yourself like this?" Got into a mud puddle? ”
I smiled bitterly, "Uncle, if I say, I will go to the vegetable cellar at home, can you believe it?" ”
Looking at the uncle's stunned eyes, I didn't want to explain anything, so I quickly turned around and left, and walked a long way before the uncle came to his senses, "Hey, the young man is looking for your money!" ”
I waved my hand and walked away without looking back.
After that, I struggled to find a taxi that would take me into town. The driver still looked at me weirdly, but I got used to it. But this driver didn't say anything polite to me, he opened his mouth and asked me for a hundred yuan, if it was usually up to fifty, but this kind of price from the ground, I can't help it, I really don't have the energy to find another one, and another one is the same, and it may even be more ruthless. I had to agree in order to get home quickly.
When I got home, my parents had already gone to my grandmother's house, so I hurried to change my clothes and take a shower.
Along the way, I began to think about the discoveries in the ancestral house, I don't know where the tomb under the ancestral house, the coffin and the passage full of bones came from, and what secrets are hidden behind them, and most importantly, I want to know whether there is any connection between these things and the disappearance of the second uncle, the Qilian Mountain, the ancient tomb of the island and even the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan! Although it seems that these things are unrelated, I vaguely feel that it is not a coincidence that these things are revealed one after another at this time.
I desperately want to see my father, and I want to get some news from him.
When I arrived at my grandmother's house, I found an opportunity to be alone with my father, and asked directly: "Dad, let me ask you something, do you know that there is one called Chengyang on the door of the Zhuo family, and it should be called Zhuo Chengyang?" ”