Chapter 36: The Ancient Corpse of Western Sichuan
Xie Yuchen continued: "I have sent someone to verify that Wang Baqiu did have a cerebral hemorrhage and was hospitalized, and he is still in a coma, if he can't wake up, there is a high probability that he will become a vegetative person." β
"But the falconer will one day be pecked in the eye by the eagle, and his godson is not simple."
"As far as I know, the reason why Wang Baqiu was hospitalized was because his godson Wang Baichuan made a lot of moves in it, and Chen Yaxiang also participated." The fat man touched the stubble on his chin,
"This Chen Yaxiang is Wang Baqiu's daughter, isn't it?"
"I don't know, it's very likely that Chen Yaxiang has her mother's surname, and her mother's surname A Hong is Chen, who was once Chen Pi Ah Si's subordinate." Xie Yuchen said.
The fat man hissed,
"It seems that this Chen Yaxiang and Xiao Wang Ba are doing this because they want to find us naΓ―ve to avenge her mother." Wu Xie nodded, thinking of a deeper layer,
"Not only that, their purpose is never as simple as revenge, how can there be immortals in this business, even if it is to get the news of the ancient tomb, they have to swallow it and eat this secret loss." The fat man sneered at the gang,
"You said that he is a horse plate, and he doesn't think about how to sell things out all day long, and he always thinks about what to do with the position of the iron chopsticks. Although this kind of person is rich, he has been pressed under the supply chain, and he is angry everywhere, so he naturally wants to change the status quo.
But they didn't know what kind of work they were doing, thinking that as long as they had money, they could organize a team and skip the iron chopsticks in the lead to get the money directly, so they secretly wanted to take revenge to bring down Wu Xie who inherited Wu Sanye's position.
"Those people are staring at the fat man in Banai, I'm afraid they are still going to Zhangjia Gulou." Wu Xie's eyes were slightly cold, and he sneered lightly,
"What a big appetite." Xie Yuchen pondered for a few seconds,
"Do you think that if you really came to Zhangjiagulou, will there be those people behind these people?"
"It's hard to say, but we have to guard against it." Wu Xie's face was condensed, he had to deal with all the entangled things behind him before he went to Motuo.
He looked at the fat man and said,
"But it's just right, you can take advantage of this investigation of the tomb of King Tusi of Yongning to hang their attention out of Banai and directly catch them all." Xie Yuchen also had this intention, the fat man knew that Wu Xie already had an idea, and the three of them got together to discuss countermeasures, and rehearsed the plan formulated no less than three times until it was confirmed.
On the second day, Wu Xie and the fat man went to western Sichuan first, Pan Zi stayed in the base camp to be their backing, Xiaohua arranged sufficient manpower for western Sichuan in advance, and at the same time continued to monitor those people in the bright place, and the black blind man was their next step to protect the dark chess.
In the afternoon, they arrived at the place, and the fat man took them to find a small hotel to live in, and in the evening they found a meal at the fly restaurant downstairs.
In this kind of small shop, most of the hearsay gossip that can be heard is mostly hearsay, which is useless, but what Wu Xie wants to extract is the essence of it.
Among them, there is a strange thing worth his attention, saying that not long ago, there was a medicine farmer who went up to the mountains to collect wild medicinal herbs, and when he stayed on the mountain at night, he saw a very terrifying strange thing.
There were monkeys robbing the tomb, and it is said that it was a very large monkey, commanding his monkey group, in the middle of a pile of dead trees, digging up the earth, and carrying out a wooden coffin from it, and the monkey directly lifted the lid of the coffin and took away the unknown things inside.
There are different opinions, some say that the group of wild monkeys is crazy to pluck the graves of the dead to eat the corpses, and some people say that the monkeys are spiritual, and they may have found something good, such as some strange things called Shi Lingzhi will grow on some old corpses.
It is said that Ganoderma lucidum, but in fact, the bones of the ancient corpse are damp and are drilled into it by some kind of stone mycelium to multiply and expand, so that the whole bone will grow like a large mushroom ball, and the bone will become harder than a stone with the mycelium.
This thing is relatively rare, and the effect is quite mysterious, just like the black donkey's hooves in Taoism, it is said that the body wears a stone Ganoderma lucidum grinding powder soaked in the object, after entering the ancient tomb, your body will exude the smell of ancient corpses, even if you meet the essence of the zongzi, it will also go around you, it can be said to be a very rare treasure to ward off evil spirits.
That thing Wu Xie remembered that he had seen it once in the hands of the third uncle when he was very young, and it was polished out of the strongest part of the center of the stone lingzhi, the size of a sheep's eyeball, and one piece had to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, which was valuable.
No one can say what the monkey took away, so I won't mention it for the time being, but I only said that some curious people went into the mountain to see it, and the place where the coffin was originally placed became a bottomless hole.
In the evening, the people arranged by Xiaohua here were also in place, there were four or five people, and the guy who took the lead was called Nie Xiaoba, yes, it was the guy who killed the pig in the cave of the four girls.
Since the fat man was scratched by the monkey and returned to the capital, they have been sent by Xiaohua to the west of Sichuan to investigate, and naturally they have also heard about the monkey's tomb robbery, and they have already gone to that place to investigate, and they have got the equipment for the next fight.
The monkey tomb robber is strange, but it is true. Nie Xiaoba said: "Little Third Master, our people have found that place and confirmed, the coffin was washed into the deep pit below by the rain, and there is a wooden tower building underneath, which has been blistered into a state of water. Wu Xie asked him,
"Is there anything special about the coffin?"
"I went down to see that the coffin was indeed empty, and the corpses inside were nowhere to be found, probably eaten by monkeys or some other wild beast, or dragged somewhere else." Nie Xiaoba showed him the photos he took after going down,
"Here, little third master, take a look, I feel it, the coffin itself is still a little weird." As soon as Wu Xie looked at the photo, he knew that they had found the right place by mistake this time.
The empty wooden coffin itself is not big, it belongs to the skinny coffin, the thin-skinned kind, the coffin wall is very brittle, and the fat man can break it immediately when he sits on it.
It stands to reason that this should be the coffin of a poor family, but Wu Xie still recognized it at a glance, and the pattern on the inner wall of the coffin was an ancient picture.
It's not that people who do this business can't see it, but Wu Xie and they have seen too many coffins, and they can know at a glance whether the door is open smoothly or not, and whether the coffin board is straight or not.
The photo is taken quite clearly, the pattern on the inner wall of the coffin is very exquisite, with a strong minority color, not for ordinary people to use, it is the pattern totem that the Tusi family will have after being rewarded by the emperor.
And the most noteworthy thing is that in the center of those intricate patterns, there is a scorpion sitting and lying on a nine-petal lotus.
The fat man laughed when he saw it,
"Zhen Teniang crossed the river and met the ferryman, and rushed to the point, this little broken coffin came out at the right time." Wu Xie also smiled,
"Our speed has to be accelerated, the story of the monkey tomb robbery is getting more and more intense, and those who know the industry will definitely be able to detect the catty inside, whether it is an ancient tomb or not, people will come to take a look." Nie Xiaoba said: "Then do you want people to lock up the news?" β
"Not yet." Wu Xie spoke to everyone,
"Hurry up and rest tonight, and go straight to the fight tomorrow morning." The crowd responded, and soon dispersed, leaving the vigil in the car outside the hotel.
Back in the room, Wu Xie called Xiaohua to talk about the matter here, and asked,
"How are you there, are they moving?" Xie Yuchen replied to him,
"The news on both sides of the capital and Changsha is still pressed for the time being, and those people have a little movement, after all, you and the fat man left suddenly, they will definitely react, but before they are sure that the news is true, they still choose not to move."
"That's good." Wu Xie nodded,
"After the fat man and I find out what is going on here, then we will act according to the plan." At the end of the short call, the fat man brought two bowls of noodles with double pepper sauce and gave him one bowl.
"Eat some, Nie Xiaoba has a new discovery over there."
"What did Nie Xiaoba find over there?" Wu Xie mixed the toppings with chopsticks, and when he saw the red chili soy sauce in the fat man's bowl, he suddenly felt a little pain in his stomach.
"You eat less spicy food, and be careful of bad stomach." The fat man was eating noodles and said vaguely: "That can't, if you want me to say that this spicy is an appetizer, what kind of spicy fat sausage did the fat man eat last time, that's called enough flavor, and he breathes fire in his mouth after eating." Wu Xie himself is not very good at eating spicy, but fortunately, the fat man knows that he has a light taste, so he only added a small spoonful of sharp chili peppers to the noodles he made, and that's it, he felt numb and numb after eating and wiping his mouth.
"Those boys went out to eat cold noodles and found a place where a female corpse was exhibited." The fat man sweated on his forehead as he ate bare-chested.
"They went in and found that there were indeed a lot of ancient corpses inside, and one of them was very likely to be the one that was lost in the monkey tomb robbery on the mountain before."
"Yes." This was an unexpected joy, Wu Xie suddenly had no intention of sleeping, walked to the door to change his shoes, and urged the fat man to finish eating quickly,
"Hurry up and eat, let's go over and see how it is going to be after eating."
"What's the hurry, those boys are clever, they just told me that they have controlled the boss in the shop." The fat man finished shaving the rest of the noodles in three or two, grabbed his short sleeves and fanned while walking.
The two soon arrived at a place similar to a hair salon, and there were many strings of lights wrapped around the side of the triangular pillar, which were dazzling.
Xu is to create some terrifying atmosphere,
In the "Millennium Female Corpse Exhibition".
Behind the advertising cloth of the word "female corpse" are two red light bulbs like ghost eyes, which look weird and funny.
There were two guys squatting on the road, and when they saw Wu Xie and the two coming, they came up.
"Little third master, the person has been caught, just at the head of the house, there is an old monkey San'er in the cage in the backyard, who looks like a human." The fat man sneered and joked: "You kid probably watch a lot of police movies on weekdays." And the lad was amazed,
"Hey, do you know what the fat man?"
"It's so capable." The fat man learned his Sichuan dialect and praised it. When I entered the room, I saw a sign on the counter.
"Monkey Head Snake Body". The fat man muttered,
"It's not that the thousand-year-old beauty corpse, this boss is obsessed with the sun, and he can't tell whether he is a person or a ghost." The store in front is very lame, and the small wattage yellow bulb deliberately lit in the house is drowsy, and it feels like the breath is not good when standing three or two people.
Walking around the counter and going to the back, you can see more than a dozen dried corpses in the glass case in the hallway, all of them looking like the screaming figures in Munch's abstract paintings, pouting mouthlessly.
Wu Xie swept over with a flashlight, and identified that several corpses inside were from those dry ownerless graves in the desert, wilted and devoid of any moisture.
The air in this place is humid, and in order to preserve the corpse for a long time, there is a lot of clumping soda lime around the dried corpse.
Among them, there are four civilian female corpses of the Qing Dynasty, wearing very wide cotton and linen coarse cloth clothes, the color has been oxidized and cannot be seen clearly, the women at that time are not tall, and they can see that the wrapped little feet have been deformed.
Soon walked to the end of the glass display case, Wu Xie's gaze froze, and the fat man on the side also hissed and gasped, this ancient corpse looked extremely unusual.
Indeed, as the store sign says, this is an ancient corpse of a monkey snake, which is made up of the upper part of the human corpse that looks like a monkey and the lower part of the big snake are forcibly connected together, and obvious splicing traces can be seen on the waist, after all, it is rare to have a python as thick as a human waist.
The hair on the face of the ancient corpse is terrifying, the head is very small, and the proportions are very abnormal compared to the body, as if the face of a normal person is turned upside down, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, the forehead is deeply sunken in, and the frontal bone seems to have been cut out of a triangular hole.
The corpse resembles a monkey curled up with its arms in its arms, the bones protrude under the shriveled skin, and the corpse has been carefully treated before burial, and bamboo strips have been woven under the skin, forming many bulges that support the shape of the body, so that the corpse does not appear particularly shrunken and dry after drying.
The fat man squatted under the glass cabinet, tilted his head to look in, didn't know what he saw, turned his head to Wu Xie piupiu twice,
"Naive, come and see this." Wu Xie also squatted down in the past, and the fat man shook the flashlight, and pointed to him with an aperture to a large area exposed by the tattered clothes on the side of the ancient corpse, and through that gap, he could see many black and red intertwined patterns.
Because of the shriveled skin, it looks like a twisted tree pattern, densely packed together.
These totems are very complex, and they are definitely only owned by the ancient ethnic minorities here, and only their wizards and priests are qualified to tattoo such large patterns.
Wu Xie and the fat man glanced at each other, and they already had a rough idea in their hearts, so they immediately got up and walked to the backyard.
There were still two guys standing in the backyard, Nie Xiaoba was squatting in front of a large iron cage, holding a bamboo pole in his hand, with a few cloves of apples stuck at one end, teasing the hairy monkey in the cage.
The owner of the ancient corpse shop had a blue nose and swollen face and fell to the side, his eyelids kept trembling, obviously pretending to be dizzy. Wu Xie walked up to him, put his hands in his pockets, and said coldly: "Give me a big mouth to wake him up, I have something to ask." β