Under Bai Wei's supervision, Zhao Qian's mother and I carried the female corpse wrapped in the quilt out of the grave, and Bai Wei called the four quilt corners before, and asked the four people to use the coffin board to put the female corpse in the quilt, and followed Zhao Qian's mother back to Zhao's house first.

Then, the fifth master came over with two other white cloths stained red with blood, and asked Bai Wei: "There are also two white cloths in the grave bag that are also red, how to deal with them?" ”

Bai Wei glanced at the cloth strip and asked, "Where are the owners of those two tombs?" ”

The fifth master replied: "I have seen the tombstones, one of the old graves is also from the village of Liuzi, and the other is just buried for more than a year, which is the ...... of our Huangjiagouzi."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Bai Wei calmly ask, "What is buried in these two graves is an old man and a middle-aged man in his thirties, right?" ”

The fifth master was stunned, quickly nodded, and asked Bai Wei how did she know?

"I've seen all three of them in the wee hours of the morning, and of course I know them." Bai Wei smiled, and continued: "But these two grievances are not too heavy, and they are much easier to solve than the daughters of the Zhao family, Fifth Master, you and Xiao Liuzi find a way to persuade the families of these two tomb owners, first let them agree to dig the grave and open the coffin, and then use the seven people I just opened the coffin, and do it according to the method I just did, as long as the corpses are dug up before dark......"

"Where do you put the bodies that were dug up?" The fifth master asked again.

"Just put them on the edge of the grave, these two will be handled by me tonight, but the daughter of the Zhao family will not be easy to do......"

Bai Wei looked at me when she said this, her eyes were meaningful, but she didn't say anything.

After handing over all the things on this side of the cemetery to the fifth master, Bai Wei took me back to the village, but she didn't go directly to Zhao's house, and asked me to take her to the old courtyard where my grandmother lived alone.

Bai Wei said at Huang Erxian's house that she asked her grandmother to go home by herself to find the copper drum hidden in the kang cave, and meet at her grandmother's house in the afternoon.

I took Bai Wei into the courtyard to see, it was my second aunt's little grandson who was crying, my parents, two aunts and grandmother were all there, and they were coaxing around the child.

As soon as she saw us walk in, my grandmother was the first to greet us, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "What do you call this, this kind of knot, this child is still making trouble, crying endlessly......"

Bai Wei glanced at the crying child who wiped away her tears, and then asked, "When did this child start crying?" ”

The grandmother replied: "When I was planing the kang, he had to watch from the side, I thought about it and watched, just don't make trouble, but as soon as the kang hole was dug open, the child cried when he wow, no matter how he coaxed it, he was almost out of breath for most of the day......"

After listening to her grandmother, Bai Wei frowned and thought for a while, and then asked her grandmother, "Do you have alkali at home?" Bring me a bowl of lye. ”

When the grandmother heard this, she hurriedly went into the house to find the alkali, and Bai Wei walked towards the courtyard wall by herself.

At that time, there was no tiling on the walls of each family's courtyard, at most it was to scrape the wall to look good, my grandmother was thrifty, my father said that the money to give her a scrape of white she was too expensive, so he found a worker to brush a layer of lime powder on the courtyard wall, and the wall was white and clean and quite smooth, and she was satisfied.

Walking to the wall, Bai Wei picked up a small shovel used by her grandmother to dig wild vegetables, and then squatted under the wall and began to scrape the white ash powder on the wall.

Bai Wei put the scraped white ash powder into the bowl, and after the fingers were mixed evenly, she brought it to the little grandson of the second aunt's family, she first reached out and patted the top of the child's head three times, and then scooped some white ash in the bowl with her hand and wiped it on the child's forehead.

Bai Wei smiled and said softly to the child: "Come, you take a sip, it's not bitter." ”

The child seemed to listen to Bai Wei's words, she let her drink, and the child actually drank a mouthful of alkaline water in the bowl, and stopped crying at all after drinking.

Bai Wei wiped the child's tears and asked him, "You tell my sister, what did you see just now?" ”

The child replied, "I saw a child lying on his stomach in the kang, and as soon as the kang was chiseled, he climbed out and ran......

As soon as the child's words came out, our whole family was shocked, but Bai Wei was calm, holding the child and asking, "What is that child?" ”

"Wearing a yellow jacket and a big tail on his buttocks, he crawls very fast......"

"And where did he crawl, did you see it?"

After Bai Wei asked, the child suddenly turned around and ran to the middle hall, Bai Wei hurriedly followed, and our family followed closely into the house.

The child took us straight into the east room where my grandmother usually lived, and when we went in, we saw that the kang mat and futon that had been covered on the kang were rolled aside, and a big hole had collapsed in the middle of the kang, which was obviously dug out by my grandmother in order to find the copper drum.

The child didn't take us to the kang, but took us to the TV cabinet opposite the kang, raised his hand and pointed to the wooden wardrobe on the left side of the TV cabinet and said, "He climbed inside......

After listening to the child, Bai Wei opened the cabinet door and began to turn over, there were some clothes and sundries in it, turning over and turning, and turned out a cloth bag from the depths of the cabinet, Bai Wei didn't speak, opened it directly, and there was a piece of animal skin full of yellow hair neatly stacked inside.

Bai Wei turned around and asked my grandmother, "What is this?" ”

"A few years ago, my old man killed a yellow wolf in the courtyard, this is the yellow wolf skin ......"

After my grandmother finished speaking, I also had the impression that it was not long before my grandfather died, and then my grandmother came in and saw the yellow wolf skin hanging in the courtyard, and she was so frightened that she cried and laughed......

At this time, my grandmother said: "Others say that this kind of thing is too evil, I originally wanted to throw it away quickly, so as not to invite disaster, but then I thought about it, after all, this is the old man's thoughts, I, I am reluctant to throw it, so I have been pressed under the cabinet and have not moved, if you didn't turn it out today, I forgot about it......"

After listening to her grandmother, Bai Wei smiled, rolled the skin back into the bag, handed it to her grandmother and said, "I want to think about it, but it's really not good to have this kind of thing at home, let's put it in the stove for a while......"

After speaking, Bai Wei glanced at me, her eyes were full of curiosity and smiles, and she said with a smile: "I can't see that your grandfather is quite a wave, and he has so many things on his back, what is it that he wants to offend all the cows, ghosts, snakes and gods all over the mountains?" ”

I didn't know how to answer, so I could only deal with it twice.

Then Bai Wei asked her grandmother for the copper drum that was taken out of the kang hole, and the grandmother remembered to get down to business, ran to a pile of quilts scattered on the kang and began to dig it out, and soon took out a dirty bag, opened the bag to see, inside was a rusty brass tambourine, about eight or nine inches in size, like a thick piece of flour burned on fire.

The pattern engraved on the copper drum is more special, and it has been introduced before, so there is no need to say more, and after Bai Wei turned the drum over and over again, her eyes finally fell on the pattern of the human-faced monster sheep eating grass on the drum surface, the animal in that picture, looking at the body is obviously a fat sheep, but the facial features on the face are portrayed like people, and they are lowering their heads to gnaw on the grass on the ground.

When Bai Wei stared at the pattern, her face was so solemn that we didn't even dare to breathe when we waited next to us, and then after a few minutes, Bai Wei finally frowned and spoke: "This thing is evil enough, shamanism is an animal immortal, and the twelve immortals have always been listed as immortals, but you see on this drum, not only the twelve immortals of shamanism are engraved on the edge of the drum, but each immortal family bows their heads and does not dare to look up, there is a meaning of bowing their heads......"

Listening to Bai Wei's words, I also took a closer look, indeed, there are twelve different animals depicted around the drum, foxes, toads, hedgehogs, centipedes, snakes and the like, each animal has a different posture, but no matter how the posture changes, their heads are hanging down.

Bai Wei turned the drum over again and saw that there were a total of twenty-four ghosts with different shapes carved at the bottom of the drum, each of which had a distorted posture and an angry and painful expression, and even a few of them could clearly be seen in their postures......

When she saw this, Bai Wei suddenly exclaimed-

"Could it be that this is what Sister Huang once mentioned to me...... The Great Sacrificial Vessel of Shamanism in Ancient Times? ”