Chapter 30 Introducer

Under the autumn wind, the dead trees swayed and the shadow of the moon swayed.Two figures, one tall and one short, appeared on the mass grave. "Uncle, here... it stinks..." said the shorter figure. Another figure said: "What are you afraid of, you have never seen anything more stinky, hold the shovel for me." "Uncle, it's so dark in here." Uncle said: "There are no street lights in the cemetery, so it's dark in the middle of the night! Don't disturb me!" "Then... what is that, blue-green light! It's fluttering!" Uncle shouted, "Don't scare me! It's just wildfire."

"It's a will-o'-the-wisp." "Whatever you say, that will come out of the dead man's bones. Well, the coffin is exposed. Do me a favor and pry the nails off the board." "My hands are shaking..." Uncle said: "If you tremble again, I will chop it off for you." "Where are the nails?" "The side ones are on the east side and one on the west side. They were nailed by filial sons and grandsons. When they were nailed, they would shout 'Your old man, hide the nail towards the east' or 'Your man, hide the nail towards the west'. This is a rural folk custom. It is believed that if the dead Resurrected in a coffin, untouched by nails."

"Can the dead be resurrected?" "Country people are ignorant. I said whether you are going to work or not. I didn't bring you here to fool around!" "Uncle, do you hear, there seems to be a sound in the grass next to you." The uncle was annoyed: "You are looking for a fight!" "Really, listen!" The hands that were busy stopped, and the shovel clattered to the ground, and the sound was heard far away in the empty night. It was late autumn at this time, the weeds on the loess hills were swaying, the autumn wind blew into people's trousers with chills, and the insects had already burrowed into the thick pile of fallen leaves to keep warm, and the graveyard was eerily quiet.Huangtugang is a mass burial mound, and there have always been many strange things. Only brave wild dogs dare to come here to look for food, and eat a few leg bones of dead people exposed outside the graveyard to satisfy their hunger.

The two people who came to Huangtugang at this time were uncles and nephews, and they came for the dead in the cemetery.During this period of time, the epidemic was prevalent, and many people with low resistance died in the village. Since cremation was not popular at that time, most of the dead bodies were buried.The generation of Huangtugang has added a lot of loess bags, and some graves even buried more than one dead person.The desolation of the scene can only be understood by those who have seen it with their own eyes. The two uncles and nephews run a dog farm in a town more than ten miles away. Prices have skyrocketed these years. In previous years, you can only buy more than a catty of pigskin for three catties. They have to feed the dogs vegetarian food. The dogs all lost weight by coincidence.Skinny and not much fatter than a poker.Seeing that the season for buying meat dogs was approaching, my uncle was in a hurry and came up with a bad idea. He called his nephew to come to this loess hill to look for corpses. Dead people always have meat on them.One hundred catties for a dead person is enough for a dog to eat for a while.It's just that this work can only be done in the middle of the night. I heard from the old people that the loess hills have always been unclean, but at this time, for the sake of making a living, I don't care much about it.Digging up graves, digging up corpses, and if you're lucky, you can still find burial items. Selling them for a hundred or ten yuan won't be a problem.

But the nephew was timid, and he had been paranoid since he entered the cemetery. He was expected to finish the work in two hours, but it dragged on for half the night.Uncle looked at the luminous watch, and it was almost three o'clock. Rural people get up early, and if they see someone digging up dead bodies in the cemetery at dawn, they will definitely be arrested. The nephew said that there were strange noises in the grass, so the uncle put down his work and listened with bated breath. In the dark night, he couldn't see his fingers, and the blue phosphorescent fire was fleeting.Apart from the sound of the wind blowing the blades of grass, there seemed to be no other sound.

In the middle of the night, when he came to the mass grave to dig up the corpses, the uncle's nerves were already extremely tense. At this time, he couldn't bear it any longer, and slapped his nephew across the face.The nephew touched his face, and was so wronged that he was about to cry. "Cry?! If you want to cry, I'll kill you!" Uncle grimaced, and ordered his nephew to pick up the shovel. The nails on the coffin were pried open, and the thin wooden cover made a sound when it was lifted. "Squeak———" With a hoarse voice, the contents of the coffin appeared in front of them.