Ghost Blows Out the Light

Old Liu said that Professor Sun and the others had just been there for a long time. The Shiqiao store is not far from Gutian County, but the place is far away, and those who have never been there may not be able to find it. I will find someone to take you there, so I called There was a ten-year-old boy on the street. He was his grandson. He usually lives in Henan with his parents. Every year during school holidays and summer vacations, he would come to Gutian County to play. The stone tablet shop is very close to the county seat. This kid often goes there to play. .

Old man Liu greeted the child: "Second Xiao, don't play tricks, take your uncle and aunt to the stone monument shop, they are looking for Professor Sun from the archaeological team"

Er Xiao’s head was scratched, he may have just finished fighting with other children, his body was covered in dirt, and he dragged a line of green snot that was about to flow across the river. Seeing that old man Liu asked him to lead us, he led us Shirley Yang and I went to the Stele Shop.

The road to Shibeidian is indeed very difficult, full of bumpy trails, Er Xiao told us that it is not far away, but the road is not easy to walk, and we will arrive after walking through the highest hillside ahead.

Seeing that the child was too dirty, Shirley Yang couldn't bear to see it, so he took out a handkerchief and wiped his nose, and asked him kindly, "Your name is Erxiao? What's your last name?"

Er Xiao wiped his nose and replied, "My name is Er Xiao, and my surname is Wang, Wang Er Xiao."

As soon as I heard the kid's name was interesting, I joked with him and said, "Your kid is called Wang Erxiao? Don't you think you're going to treat us as devils and bring us into the ambush circle?"

Wang Erxiao said to me stupidly: "Uncle, what is an ambush circle? That's right, who is that woman? Why is she so good-looking?"

I peeked at Shirley Yang walking behind, and whispered to Er Xiao: "What is good-looking or not? You little brat, why didn't you learn well at such a young age? She is my wife and has a bad temper. No one but me Let's see, you'd better not mess with her."

Shirley Yang walked behind, although my voice was quiet, she still heard the second half of my sentence downwind, and asked: "Old Hu, who did you just say not to provoke?"

I quickly patted Wang Erxiao on the head, and said to Shirley Yang: "I just said that this brat is very naughty, and at such a young age, he knows that the flower girl is good-looking at work. Now these children, don't mention it, there are not many of them. It was like when I was a child, with great ambitions and good plans since I was a child..."

Before I finished speaking, a strong rural man with a white sheep belly towel on his head, a belt tied around his waist, and a stick in his hand suddenly turned out from behind the hillside, and shouted to us: "Stop, it's Miss Hua's work!" ? Are you Japanese?"

I was taken aback by him, although this is in a ravine, but in broad daylight, is there still a strong man who cuts the path?He hurriedly put Er Xiao and Shirley Yang behind him, and said to the man, "Don't get me wrong, fellow, we are all from our own family. We are not the Japanese army, we are the Eighth Route Army martial arts team."

The fellow with a white towel on his head looked the three of us up and down: "What about the Eighth Route Army? I don't think you look like good people." Then he drove us away with a stick, saying that the place was under martial law by the militia and no entry was allowed. .

I thought to myself that there is no strict discipline without disasters and wars. Besides, I have never heard that the militiamen use wooden sticks to enforce martial law. What is wrong with this grandson? The farmer hurt someone.

I was about to go over to put it right, but I didn't expect that this villager who claimed to be the leader of the militia platoon in Shibeidian actually knew the second child among the three of us. They all stood still and spoke.

The militia platoon leader had a clumsy mouth and a heavy local accent. After talking to us for a long time, I finally understood what was going on.

It turns out that the name of this stone tablet shop comes from an unknown stone tablet nearby. .

Speaking of the stele shop, the most famous one is not the broken stone stele, but a time-honored coffin shop in the village. There are only one coffin shop in the nearby villages, including Gutian County, because the other coffin shops are not as good as his According to legend, in the earliest days of this old coffin shop, the shopkeeper was a good carpenter, and the first business was a carpentry imitation.

Once this master carpenter built a coffin for a family. The coffin had just been finished and hadn’t been painted yet. In the carpenter's shop.

In the evening, the master carpenter sat in the middle hall and drank a few glasses of old wine. Thinking that the business was not easy to do, he took on this job for more than half a month. He felt a little depressed, so he patted the coffin and sighed. Before he knew it, he fell asleep on the coffin.

That night, the master carpenter had a dream. He dreamed that there was a ball of ice in the coffin, which made it tremble all over the body, as if it had fallen into an ice cellar. Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door, which woke him up. A family, someone passed away at night, came to him to order a coffin.

It is rare for a job to start a new job right after the end of the job. The carpenter is very happy, but it is difficult to show it. After all, he is a birthday material for other people's daily affairs. On the surface, he has to show a little bit of sadness. Expressing deep sympathy, the master carpenter patted the semi-finished coffin again, then received a deposit and started to work.

The sun had just risen to the top of the head, and the master carpenter was rushing to build the birthday materials. Suddenly, someone came to order the coffin. This is really strange. Only a dozen people die in the village every year, and two people died in a row in a short time.

The more the carpenter thought about it, the more wrong he became. He recalled the dream he had at night. Could it be that those people died because he slapped the coffin with his hands?So I tried to pat the half-finished coffin again, and before dark, someone died again.

The carpenter was both surprised and happy. He was surprised because he didn’t know what was going on. When he slapped the coffin with his hand, someone died nearby. The happy thing was that he didn’t have to worry about running out of business this time. This master carpenter was originally A poor and frightened master, how can he control other people's life and death at this time? Is it because of those people who have nothing to do with each other that they are not going to get rich?Of course not, the carpenter saw that there was too much work to do, so he went to another coffin shop overnight and bought some ready-made birthday materials.

Since then, the shop of the carpenter master has been completely turned into a coffin shop, and he also discovered a secret. When shooting the coffin, the harder you shoot, the farther away the place of the dead is. The money for the dead is easy to earn. , The more money he made, the darker his heart became. He annexed all the nearby coffin shops. Just pat the half-finished coffin twice and wait for the money to be counted.

But he didn't dare to shoot endlessly, who knows what's going on here, and he has never leaked this secret, but there is no impenetrable wall, and these things are still known by everyone, but this kind of catchy It's hard to say, and there is no evidence, so there is no way to bring him to court, but everyone who sees him hides away like a god of plague.

I didn’t even get a wife until I was old. Not long ago, this former little carpenter and now the old shopkeeper of the coffin shop died in his own home. When people found his body, it was already rotten to the sky. There is only his coffin shop, all the birthday materials in the shop are sold out, and only the half-finished coffin in the hall, the villagers are also worried when they think of those rumors, but the village committee can't ignore it, it can't let it go The old shopkeeper of the coffin shop rotted into his home. The weather is hot. If there is a plague of corpses, it will be terrible. Although cremation was practiced at that time, the concept of burial in the countryside is still deeply rooted, so the village chief hired a few brave militiamen to The corpse was wrapped in a woven bag and prepared to be buried in a coffin.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the coffin was removed, there was a thin crack on the ground under the coffin. I pried open the bricks and stones on the ground, and found that there was indeed a cave underneath, and it was very cold inside.

The platoon leader of the militia volunteered to go down to find out. He was hung down with a basket. After a short time, he was pulled up by the rope desperately. It was paved with blue bricks, with a stone bed underneath and a stone box on top. The stone box was not big, flat and flat, with many strange characters engraved on it. The militia platoon leader took the stone box up.

Everyone opened the stone box and saw that there were six unknown jade beasts that were bright red like blood. According to the militia platoon leader, there seemed to be another layer under the cave, but it was too dark and gloomy to dare to go in again.

Due to the presence of village cadres, the villagers showed a high level of awareness, and immediately notified the archaeological team of Gutian County. After hearing the news, Professor Sun knew that the discovery might be very important. He didn't dare to delay for a moment. come over.

In this kind of rural place, nothing major happens all year round, so the news spread quickly, and even people in the county rushed to watch the excitement. In order to maintain order, Professor Sun asked the militia in the village to stop the idlers outside the village They went in to watch, because the scope and scale of the cave, as well as the background, were unclear. Once it was destroyed, the loss would be irreparable.

So the militia platoon leader took chicken feathers as arrows and led people to set up checkpoints at each entrance, declaring that the village had entered a state of military martial law, and then stopped Shirley Yang and me for questioning.

I listened to what the militia platoon leader said, and I knew that to deal with small peasants of their power, I had to say something nice and give him some benefits, so I could go in and find Professor Sun, so I said to the militia platoon leader: "Comrade company commander , we are all acquaintances of Professor Sun, and I really need to find him urgently, so please help me." He said and handed five yuan to the militia platoon leader.

The militia platoon leader took the money, but before he could see the denomination clearly, someone from the village came to greet him, saying that the old cadre who brought the archaeological team had died.