In the following years, my grandfather followed the tomb robber to the north and south, and the tomb was dug a lot, but the tomb robber's promise of eating and drinking spicy food was never fulfilled, and the two often ate the last meal without the next meal, and even grabbed the land with the beggar.

I thought it was strange to hear it, because you know, in that era when there was no awareness of the protection of cultural relics, which tomb robber was not rich and flowing? How can it be that you are so poor that you can't even afford to eat?

This is not the strangest thing, the strangest thing is the grandfather, because at this moment he actually showed a proud expression......

After listening to what my grandfather said later, it dawned on me.

It turned out that the tomb robber he worshipped was actually a thief who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and the people in the rivers and lakes called "Ghost King Li".

Ghost King Li, formerly known as Li Luoyang, was born in Luoyang, Henan Province in 1905 in a family of tomb robbers, to his ancestors have been doing tomb robbers for generations, the earliest can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, it can be said that it is a family of tomb robbers!

Although Li Luoyang has been talented since he was a child, he is different from his ancestors, he doesn't like to touch shovels and guns.

So when Li Luoyang was twenty-three years old, he secretly went to serve as a soldier without telling his parents, and in 1928 in the same year, he also participated in the "Tanglin Treasure Theft" incident led by Sun Dianying.

Later, in 1930, the Central Plains War broke out, Li Luoyang was seriously injured and abandoned by his subordinates on the way to retreat, so he had to ask for food all the way home.

Unfortunately, because the war spread to my hometown, the whole family died.

At that moment, Li Luoyang hated the warlord, the war, and the gun in his hand......

So there is one less soldier who carries a gun to fight on the rivers and lakes, and there is one more ghost king Li who robs the rich and helps the poor.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression from 1937 to 1945, Li Luoyang dug up the tombs of warlords and bandits and bullies after their deaths, and half of the money was donated to the soldiers on the anti-Japanese front line, and half was distributed to the poor people.

By the end of the 50s, Li Luoyang was thinking that it was time to accept an apprentice.

Then I met my grandfather......

The two got along together for seven years, but Li Luoyang suddenly disappeared on his grandfather's sixteenth birthday. All that was left was the gold talisman and a stack of hand-copied notes.

Speaking of which, Grandpa slowly took out an old book with a strange cover, and when I took it, I was immediately frightened by the title!

Pig Breeding!

That's right, the cover reads "Pig Breeding" four big characters, and there is also a smiling old man, holding a round little piglet, and I see that I am a black line......

Grandpa coughed embarrassedly, and hurriedly said, "Stinky boy, don't just look at the cover, look at the content, this is my master's hard work." There are many types of ancient tombs, and the amount is ...... And some of his experience! ”

After listening to it, I realized that this old book called "Pig Breeding" was actually a "Tomb Robbery Notes".

The reason why there is such a cover with a bull's head and a horse's mouth, in fact, is to hide people's eyes.

Grandpa said that the cover of this book has been changed countless times, and after he quit the tomb robbery circle, he hid the book, and he didn't bother to change the cover again.

Straight to the point.

An honest man is an honest man after all, grandpa knows that tomb robbery is not a long-term solution, not to mention illegal, just say that once it is known by the people around him, it is estimated that he can scare away a bunch of people. So he took a carpenter as his teacher and became a carpenter.

Ten years have passed in a flash, and my grandfather borrowed money to rent a shop in his hometown, making furniture to earn money, and occasionally received some large orders, such as helping people decorate houses, or build temples, and make coffins.

At night, I would look through the notebook alone, reminiscing about the former master of thieves.

Sometimes fate loves to play tricks on people, the more you think about someone, the more you can't see him, and when you are about to forget him, he suddenly appears again.

That's right, Li Luoyang is back......

Grandpa was twenty-six years old at the time, and Li Luoyang was seventy-one years old.

Grandpa asked each other, where have you been in the past ten years?

But the other party didn't answer, just said that he has not been in good health recently and wants to take a break here.

Grandpa noticed that since Li Luoyang came back, his face has been pale and scary, not to mention a little blood, and even if Li Luoyang is wrapped in a military coat in the summer, his hands and feet are still shaking, which shows that his physical condition is not ordinarily bad. Li Luoyang refused to go to the hospital again, grandpa couldn't screw him, but he couldn't say anything, and soon grandpa found out some of Li Luoyang's weird behaviors!

After careful observation by his grandfather, he found that Li Luoyang had three problems, first, he slept during the day and went out at night; Second, every time before going out, there would be a "squeaky" chewing sound in his room; Thirdly, every time he came back, he would carry a heavy basket.

All this was done quietly by Li Luoyang, for fear of being known by outsiders.

Once grandpa was really curious, so he took advantage of the daytime when Li Luoyang was sleeping, and used an awl to dig a hole the thickness of a little thumb in his door and hide outside to peep.

Night gradually fell, and when the pointer fell to twelve o'clock, Li Luoyang opened his eyes and sat up from the head of the bed like a corpse.

This scene came so suddenly that Grandpa couldn't help but shudder.

In the dark, Li Luoyang lit the kerosene lamp, bent down and found a dilapidated enamel jar from under the bed.

Although the other party had his back to his grandfather, his grandfather knew that the enamel jar should be fragrant meat, because the other party took out a piece from time to time and put it in his mouth to chew vigorously, and even heard the sound of teeth biting crispy bones and tendons.

Now the grandfather is very uncomfortable, and the master gets up in the middle of the night every day, is he stealing meat behind his back?

Grandpa didn't dare to say anything to Li Luoyang, so he could only hide outside secretly every day, thinking that even if it was too much. After three or four days, grandpa hid outside and peeped as usual, this time Li Luoyang changed a copper basin, and the meat was piled up, and grandpa swallowed saliva when he saw it, and he couldn't help but want to go in and eat it.

But before his grandfather pushed the door open, Li Luoyang was thirsty and looked for water, so he inadvertently turned his body towards his grandfather.

Seeing this, the grandfather was so frightened that he sat on the ground, crawled back to his room, and shrank in the quilt trembling.

Because grandpa can see it clearly, where is the fragrant meat in Li Luoyang's hand? It was a human palm, only half the size of his own palm, and there was blood on it, and Li Luoyang just stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it!

Grandpa had heard of cannibalism when he was a child, but he only thought it was all to scare children. Who knew that not only did he see it now, but it was his master who did it, and Li Luoyang was clearly eating those dead babies who were abandoned in mass graves.

After about ten minutes, Li Luoyang finally wiped his greasy mouth and went out of the door, and the grandfather's heart was pounding with a "click" of the door lock, but he couldn't help his curiosity, so he got up and quietly followed.

Li Luoyang carried a hoe, a basket, and a dim kerosene lamp in his hand, sneakily went out of the county seat, and turned back from time to time, and almost found his grandfather several times, but fortunately, his grandfather was not tall, and he was not found in the ditch on the side.

followed all the way to the abandoned baby mountain outside the county, and grandpa's heart couldn't help but beat the drum.

Abandoned Baby Mountain is a mountain in the middle of the intersection of several surrounding villages, even if it is a daily visit, the villagers would rather go around the road more than from here, because there are a lot of dead babies buried in this place, it is really terrifying!

Looking at the dense grave buns all over the mountain, Grandpa couldn't help but retreat, but when he saw Li Luoyang carrying a hoe, he also stubbornly followed.

The abandoned baby mountain is full of ghosts, except for the sound of insects, only their own panting can be heard in the silence around them, and even the ground under their feet is a lot softer.

Li Luoyang put down the basket and lamp familiarly, came to one of the graves, and dug out the body of a baby with a few hoes.

With a "bang", the corpse's stomach was sliced open and the bloody internal organs were removed.

"Hmm! ～”

Grandpa didn't spit it out directly, so in order not to be discovered, he swallowed it back stiffly.

I remember watching a Hong Kong movie called "Human Meat Barbecued Pork Buns" when I was a child, where the owner of a steamed bun shop killed someone, and in order not to be discovered by the police, he chopped the corpse into meat sauce and made it into steamed buns. The scariest thing is that this movie is based on a real case in Hong Kong in 1978!

I don't know how my grandfather felt at the time, but my scalp was tingling when I heard it.

Straight to the point.

After Li Luoyang stood up a severed thigh, he shaved off the meat on it piece by piece with a knife and put it into the basket one by one.

At this time, the grandfather who was hiding in the dark suddenly felt that his buttocks were cold, as if something was drilling into his pants, and he subconsciously pulled it out with his hands, but his butt was bitten, and the grandfather who was in pain screamed "ahhhhh

"Who is it!!"

Li Luoyang turned his head and let out a loud sigh, his eyes were like ghost fire, shining with green light! Seeing this scene, grandpa still had the kung fu to take care of what was in the crotch of his pants, and he got up and ran away, for fear that the next person to be eaten would be himself.

But at this moment, Grandpa suddenly felt dizzy, and fell into the grass and lost consciousness.

When Grandpa woke up, it was already dawn, and he was lying on the bed, the bed in his room, to be exact.

Crunch, the door was pushed open. Grandpa was so frightened that he rolled off the bed at that time, because it was Li Luoyang who opened the door and came in!

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you."

Seeing Li Luoyang walking towards him, his grandfather shouted, "Don't come here!" Don't come here! ”

"Okay, okay, I'll just stand here, you calm down."

Li Luoyang retreated to the door, lit a cigarette for himself, and said, "You were bitten by a poisonous snake last night, but fortunately I carried you back in time to heal, otherwise your kid would be a dead man." ”

This is obviously not the point, Li Luoyang said: "The reason why I became what you saw last night is because I went to that place, which is a place that only the dead can go. ”