Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Re-entering the Ancient Tomb

Grandpa was an enthusiastic person. Before he left, he looked back at Lai Pihan and Liu Laoba, thinking that after all, they were from his own village. After going out, he had to find a way to find someone to pull them out and find a place to bury them. .But when he looked back, he found that Lai Pihan was still there, but Liu Laoba was gone.Grandpa couldn't help but feel the hairs on his back again, wondering if Liu Laoba cheated on the corpse. Although my grandfather also heard from my great-grandfather that fraudulent corpses might be encountered in the tomb, this phenomenon generally rarely occurs.Grandpa didn't dare to stay in this tomb anymore, so he hurried forward, but when grandpa raised his legs to climb up, he was held back by something, which was far stronger than the big green snake just now. strength.

Grandpa looked back, and suddenly found Liu Laoba under the tomb looking at him with blood on his mouth and a strange smile on his face.This smile seemed to have been seen somewhere before.Grandpa didn't have time to think about this, Liu Laoba had already started to pull down hard.Relying on the tension of the rope, he and Liu Laoba were in a stalemate. Due to Liu Laoba's amazing strength, just like Guan Gong was alive, Grandpa was quickly defeated and was dragged to the ground of the tomb.After Liu Laoba grabbed his grandfather, he didn't bite his neck, but picked up his grandfather and threw him on the ground, like throwing a vase.After the grandfather suffered several falls, his sanity was also a little blurred, but he also realized that if he continued like this, he might die.

Fortunately, there was still a big kitchen knife hidden in the grandfather's back so that it didn't use the heat. In desperation, the grandfather swung the kitchen knife and hit Liu Laoba who was doing repeated movements.That Liu Laoba yelled in pain after being stabbed, picked up his grandfather and threw him against the wall. Fortunately, because this hug and fall went upwards, Liu Laoba threw his grandfather to the entrance of the robbery cave.Grandpa realized that this was the only chance to survive, so he endured the pain and climbed desperately.It may be because the hole is relatively narrow, Liu Laoba couldn't bend his body, but this time he didn't catch up. Grandpa reached the ground in less than a minute.In order to prevent Liu Laoba from coming out, he quickly found stones to seal the entrance of the cave.

After coming out this time, Grandpa suddenly felt that he had returned to heaven.Although there was no moonlight outside, he felt that there was light everywhere.After returning to the construction site, Grandpa was in shock all night and did not sleep well.Thinking that his flashlight and kitchen knife were still left in the ancient tomb, he felt useless. He couldn't find the foreign money, and he even got into the guy who was eating. After dawn, Grandpa slipped back to the entrance of the cave again while no one was paying attention, and found that the stone was still there, so he was a little relieved.The next day is a holiday, and everyone is going to go home.Although my grandparents had been married for several years at that time, my grandpa was a model husband, and he had to go home every time he was on vacation, and it was the same that time.

After returning home, Grandpa sat on the bed in disgrace, without saying a word.Grandma saw that Grandpa's face was different from usual, so she sat over and wanted to see him.But she didn't know it was okay if she didn't look at it, she was shocked when she saw it, and found that her grandfather's forehead was dark black, his arms and legs were sprained, and his eyes were not as energetic as before, as if he was seriously ill. Grandma asked Grandpa if he had gone somewhere he shouldn't have gone.Grandpa didn't shy away from it, saying that he went to the ancient tomb last night.

Grandma was taken aback and asked him what he was doing there.Grandpa said that I want to see if there is any foreign money in it, exchange some money, and buy her some delicious food.As soon as grandma felt hot, she didn't blame him.So grandpa told grandma how he found the robbery cave, how to get in, how he found Liu Laoba and Lai Pihan. Grandpa said: "I thought that big green snake was going to bite me!" Grandma said: "That big green snake didn't bite you, but ran for its life." "Escape?" Grandma said: "After Liu Laoba cheated on the corpse, the big green snake immediately sensed the danger in the tomb. It didn't care about biting you, so it could only run for its own life."

"Then why Liu Laoba cheated on the corpse, and Lai Pihan didn't cheat on the corpse?" Grandma said: "That rascal also cheated on the corpse." Grandpa was taken aback, and asked why Lai Pihan didn't come after him. Grandma said: "There are four knives where they are lying. I guess Liu Laoba got hit by one of the knives, or there was no knives on his body at all, and Lai Pihan got so many knives on his body that he couldn't move for a while. If If you stay inside for a while longer and provide more yang energy, his yin energy will rise, and you are afraid that you will not be able to stand in front of me now."

Grandpa was sweating all over when he heard it, and suddenly remembered something, and asked, "How do you know so clearly?" Unexpectedly, grandma didn't answer, but the great-grandfather who was standing outside the door came in, and he said, "How could she not know that your wife is the descendant of Qiu Wensheng, the Twelve Secret Agents of the Qing Dynasty!" Grandpa was taken aback when he heard this.He never thought that grandma was also a descendant of the spy.Grandpa asked grandma why she married him, and grandma explained the reason. It turns out that grandma's grandfather, Qiu Wensheng, was also a secret agent looking for the tombs of the world, just like our ancestors.After Cixi's death, Qiu Wensheng retired to his hometown of Kaifeng.After Yuan Shikai became president, he invited Qiu Wensheng again.In the residence arranged by Yuan Shikai, Qiu Wensheng met his ancestor, and the two talked very speculatively.During the conversation, they found that each of them compiled a booklet, the one compiled by the ancestor was called "Compendium of Mausoleums of Princes", and the one compiled by Qiu Wensheng was called "Yin and Yang in the Booklet of River Map".

After grandma finished speaking, she took out a box from under the bed. From the box, she took out a yellowed booklet with seven lowercase characters written on it: "Yin and Yang in the Booklet of River Map".This pamphlet is an old manuscript, but it is incomplete, only a general outline.In terms of content, it is similar to "Compendium of Mausoleums of Kings and Dukes", except that "Compendium of Mausoleums of Princes" is sorted according to time, while "Hetu Booklet of Yin and Yang" is classified according to regions. Grandma said that this book was written by her ancestor Qiu Wensheng, and the original work had already been burned, because if all the tombs in the world were known, they would definitely be excavated.This is not only detrimental to their offspring, but will surely bring more scourges.But it was a pity to think that all the information on so many mausoleums would be destroyed, so I wrote the general principles again. This is the manuscript of the general outline.Grandpa said with emotion that the ancestors also burned the "Compendium of Mausoleums of Kings and Dukes", but later regretted it and only kept half of the general compendium.

Grandma continued to say that after Yuan Shikai's death, Qiu Wensheng no longer returned to Kaifeng, but bought a house in Luoyang City.Later, when the Japanese invaded China, Qiu Wensheng did not want to be a subjugated slave, so he committed suicide. Unwilling to be humiliated, Qiu Wensheng's descendants all joined the Kuomintang army.However, those who participated in the Kuomintang army died during the Anti-Japanese War. When the People's Republic of China was founded, Qiu Wensheng's descendants were only his grandmother's father.Grandma's elder brother is very poor in understanding and doesn't know anything about the theory of Yin and Yang. Grandma's father is unwilling to have no successors, so he thinks of the descendants of his ancestor Li Chengfeng.Because Zushang and Qiu Wensheng had mentioned his hiding place when they parted, so grandma's father came to find him.

Ordinarily, after many years, it was difficult for grandma's father to find the descendants of his ancestors, but he went to the border of Anhui and Xuzhou alone, begging from house to house.After more than three months of begging, grandma's father found our village. He saw that although our house was dilapidated, its Feng Shui pattern was very different from others.After questioning, he found out that our family used to be a local landlord. At the same time, he also found out that our family was inherited in the village fifty years ago, so the old man concluded that this is the residence of Li Chengfeng's descendants.However, he didn't expect our family to be so destitute. Seeing that grandpa was kind-hearted and still had the demeanor of being a secret agent, he married his daughter to him with confidence. Grandma said that the reason why she didn't tell grandpa about it was because it was not the right time.Grandma, who has experienced ups and downs, also wants to live an ordinary life. If she doesn't mention the past, she doesn't want to mention it either.At this time, grandma opened the dowry box that grandpa had never seen grandma open. The box was full of weird things, stacked on top of each other, which was very eye-catching.There are all kinds of strange-shaped knives and bowls with strange symbols, and many are even amulets used by Taoist priests. Grandma said that her grandfather Qiu Wensheng was able to judge the location of some cemeteries and knew which tombs were about to surface due to rain, so their family had accumulated a lot of antiques.But when the Japanese invaded China, they confiscated all the antiques in their home, even their relatives were checked.In order not to let go of any place that might have antiques, the Japanese also demolished grandma’s house and dug up their house, even the antiques hidden in the vegetable field in the yard were dug out. After listening to grandma's dreamlike narration, grandpa was a little discouraged. He said that he thought his father-in-law had just happened to arrive at the door of his house, and it turned out that he had inquired about it.Grandma smiled and said that before she married grandpa, she was worried that grandpa would be ugly and ugly, but now that grandpa is quite handsome, it feels like a gold ingot has fallen from the sky.But she didn't expect her grandpa to go to the tomb when he was in a hurry. He was really quite courageous. Grandpa was still very angry at the time, saying that grandma shouldn't have kept it from him for so long.But great-grandfather felt that he was in the right family. He thought that if grandma hadn't married in, great-grandfather would have forgotten that his father was Li Chengfeng. In the next few days, Grandpa still couldn't sleep well, for fear that Liu Laoba and Lai Pihan would suddenly jump to his door.Sometimes, when a gust of wind blows at night, he wakes up, and he cannot fall asleep until dawn.Grandma asked grandpa to spend more time in the sun, saying that it could get rid of the evil spirits on his body. Three days later, Grandpa went to the construction site again.But this time grandma came too, and she brought her own suitcase.The main task this time is to get back the kitchen knife and flashlight, and then burn the two zombies.Seeing grandma took out two sets of night clothes from her box, grandpa was very surprised. He asked where the night clothes came from, and grandma told him that they were prepared by grandpa's father-in-law before marrying him. To be honest, Grandpa really didn't want to go there anymore, it was his eternal nightmare, and once he went there, he couldn't sleep for a few days.The last time he was able to escape from the ancient tomb was already blessed by his ancestors. If grandma can't subdue that old Liu this time, he will really be gone forever.But grandma seems to be very confident, if grandpa doesn't go, he won't be a man enough. In order not to be discovered by others, they still chose to enter the tomb at night.Grandma prepared a big thick rope, two flashlights, a mahogany sword, a bag of raw glutinous rice, and some paper charms.These talismans were drawn by grandma's father, and it is said that they can drive away the soul.Grandpa wanted to borrow the bird-shooting gun from Li Laowu's family, but grandma refused, saying that it was difficult for him to answer people's questions. It was dark again, and there was no moon again, along the river bank, going to the same place.Standing by the rock, Grandpa could hear the bare tree trunks of the weir clinking against each other.They removed the stones, tied the rope, and grandpa entered the cave first, while grandma lit a handful of sandalwood, and behind grandpa, along the sides of the robbery cave, inserted one at a distance.When they all reached the entrance of the cave, a strange thing happened. They found that Liu Laoba and Lai Pihan in the tomb had disappeared.The two looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment. After confirming that Liu Laoba and Lai Pihan were gone, grandma turned off the flashlight.She asked her grandfather to wait for her at the entrance of the cave, and she jumped into the tomb with paste and fire paper.Since she was already familiar with the terrain, grandma skillfully brushed the paste on the wall of the tomb, pasted the fire paper on it, and then grandma rolled forward in the tomb room, lighting four candles at the four corners of the tomb, and instantly , the tomb became brightly lit. It was the first time that grandpa discovered that grandma's skills were so good, and he felt ashamed of himself. After seeing grandma's gesture, grandpa jumped down. He asked why these fire notes were posted, and whether they were giving money to the dead.Grandma told him that this was not giving money to the dead.There are sayings about these Buddha statues. If the murals in the tomb are Buddha statues, the Buddha statues will be breathtaking.If there are dead people inside, the dead people will become zombies when they meet the tomb robbers, and then kill the tomb robbers to defend the tomb.Because Grandpa has seen Buddha statues, Liu Laoba and Lai Pihan attacked him. Grandpa thought it was evil, but still couldn't believe such a thing, and asked again: "Why are Liu Laoba and Lai Pihan gone, even our kitchen knives and flashlights? We won't be corrupted by Liu Laoba and Lai Pihan Bar?" Grandma didn't expect that grandpa would still be joking at this time, she said, "No, someone must have come here again." Grandpa asked, "Who could it be?" Grandma said: "Those who dug and robbed the tomb. These people may have been discovered by Lai Pihan and Liu Laoba when they robbed the tomb. They were afraid that the matter would be exposed, so they killed them and threw them here. You didn’t cover it up, so you came back. In order to prevent anyone from finding them, they came in again and cleaned up the place, and took your kitchen knife and flashlight by the way. These people are so capable that they easily subdued two Zombie." Just as grandma was talking to grandpa in a low voice, the fire paper on the left wall fell off.Grandma felt strange, so she asked grandpa if the paste was not well made.Grandpa said it was impossible, this paste is often made, there is no possibility of problems.While the two were talking, a gust of wind suddenly blew up in the tomb, which made them shiver.Affected by this dark wind, Grandpa felt that there was something wrong with this tomb.He looked back at the piece of fire paper that fell on the ground, only to find that the fire paper had been blown to the corner of the tomb by the wind.Because a candle was placed in that corner, the fire paper was quickly lit, and the whole tomb was filled with a smell of smoke. Grandpa was thinking about grandma's words, but he still couldn't help but look up at the murals on the wall, and saw that the strange smile was still on the face of the Buddha statue on the wall.At this time, Grandpa suddenly remembered something and said, "Go quickly, there is a big green snake inside!" Grandma said: "Don't worry, that big green snake should be tamed too." Unexpectedly, grandma's voice was lost, and a "hissing" sound came from under the coffin, which made grandma shiver again in fright.At this time, another gust of wind blew from the entrance of the cave. The cool wind penetrated into the bones and skin, and blew out the two candles inside. Grandma said "no", and then took grandpa to run outside.At this time, Grandpa heard that the hissing sound was made by the big green snake, so he was not as nervous as grandma. He held her back and said with a smile: "This big green snake doesn't bite, don't worry." Grandma said: "It didn't bite people last time because Lai Pihan and Liu Laoba cheated on the corpses and were busy running for their lives. I'm afraid it has more time to fight with us this time." Grandpa thought it was right, then turned around, took out sulfur and saltpeter from his pocket, and prepared to throw them at the big green snake.The "hissing" sound became louder and louder, and he crawled out from under the coffin. Grandpa saw that the tongue core of the big green snake was twenty centimeters long.Although grandma is not afraid of zombies and ghosts, she has an aversion to animals like snakes. Thinking of the appearance of snakes, grandma feels creepy.She took out a sharp knife, intending to stab the green snake at any time.Speaking of this knife, it can also be regarded as a treasured knife handed down in their family. The whole body of the knife is black, and the blade is black and bright, which is breathtaking. Corresponding to the light of the knife is the bright green light emitted by the snake skin of the green snake. This green light makes people feel horrible and disgusting.The big green snake ran straight towards the two of them. Grandma had nitric acid in her left hand and a knife in her right hand, ready to attack Qicun of the big green snake at any time.The green snake was getting closer and closer, but just when grandpa was about to sprinkle nitrate, the big green snake deliberately avoided them, went straight to the entrance of the cave, and ran away. Grandpa said with a smile: "Every time I come, it leaves. It's not hospitable at all. Ha ha, I've said it all, it doesn't bite." After finishing speaking, he paused and continued: "Shall we go back now?" Grandma said, "I can't go back." Grandpa asked in surprise, "Why?" Grandma said: "The big green snake often comes here, which means that there must be treasures here, otherwise it would not be guarding here. But why did it escape last time?" Grandpa said: "It's because Liu Laoba and Lai Pihan cheated on the corpse and scared the big green snake away." Grandma's face was cloudy, and she said: "That's right, last time it was because of the fraudulent corpse, this time the big green snake bypassed us and was in a hurry to escape, it must be because of danger." Grandpa saw that the tomb was clean and there was nothing on the walls. He didn't believe that there were corpses there.While meditating, suddenly there was a bang in the tomb, and the coffin lid in the tomb rushed out. After reaching the top of the tomb, it met resistance and fell down again, making a dull sound. By the light of the flashlight, the two saw a middle-aged man with a haggard face sitting up from the coffin, with his head tied in a bun. There was still smoke coming out of his mouth. Grandma knew that it was corpse gas.The man was wearing ancient clothes, and he was a zombie from an unknown dynasty.They never expected that these tomb robbers came so many times and took everything away, except this treasure.It didn't even occur to him that this baby wouldn't come out at other times, but when they came, he came out to pick up the guests in person. In the words of the fourth uncle, he was too polite.Because the yang energy of men is stronger than that of women, grandma asked grandpa to draw a few ink lines on the far side of the coffin, and spread a thick layer of glutinous rice around the coffin. But the old zombie didn't seem to be so afraid of the ink thread, he walked out of the coffin, and the coffin was knocked over by the zombie.As the coffin was broken, Grandpa saw a clay pot and many bamboo slips.Grandpa thought that the clay pot might contain a pot of gold or silver, which should be what the big green snake has been guarding. In a daze, the zombie jumped over.But the space in the tomb is very small, how can grandpa hide there, in an instant, the ragged padded jacket on his shoulders was torn a large piece by the zombies, and his body was so sore from the fall. Just when grandpa fell down, he saw the old zombie with a bright object in his mouth, which looked very dazzling.At the same time, grandma began to sprinkle glutinous rice on the ground non-stop. Seeing grandpa fall, she dropped the glutinous rice and went to pull grandpa up.Unexpectedly, before grandpa got up, the old zombie made another big jump and jumped beside them.Grandma was smarter, she dragged grandpa to the glutinous rice on the ground.The old zombie looked very afraid of Nuomi, and kept jumping around Nuomi. Grandpa thought that they would continue to be in a stalemate, but how could he have underestimated grandma's strength.I saw grandma sticking the evil talisman prepared in advance in the palm of her hand. When the zombie approached the glutinous rice circle, she used a trick of lying on the ground, crawled out from the zombie's crotch, and then clasped the zombie's arm from the back .Ordinarily, this technique of locking corpses has always been invincible, but this corpse is really powerful, with infinite strength, it broke free easily. Grandpa didn't have any great skills at the time. Seeing the zombie pinching grandma ferociously, he was also anxious, so he sprinkled glutinous rice on the zombie.The glutinous rice also had an outstanding effect. After sprinkled on the zombie, black smoke immediately rose from the zombie.This time the zombie was annoyed, and he immediately locked his target on grandpa.The zombie kicked up the coffin lid, flew towards Grandpa, wiped past Grandpa's head, and nailed it directly to the wall of the tomb. The tomb chamber, which was originally small, appeared even smaller because of the addition of a coffin board in mid-air.Grandma took out the mahogany sword on her body and aimed at the zombie's forehead.The zombie seemed a little afraid of the mahogany sword, but it still rushed towards grandma.He grabbed Grandma's arm, intending to throw it towards the wall, so as to avoid direct contact with the mahogany sword.At a critical moment, Grandpa picked up the broken coffin board and smashed it at the zombie's head, but the zombie's head seemed to be made of iron, without any rupture or bleeding. However, after being hit this time, the force on grandma's shoulders seems to be much smaller.She used the corpse locking technique again to relieve the zombie's pressure, and went around behind the zombie.Grandma first supported the end of the zombie's spine with her knees, and then pierced the top of the zombie's head with the jade hairpin on her head. The zombie immediately exhaled a lot of black air, and the night pearl fell out of his mouth. Suddenly, there was a strange scene in the tomb. It stinks.Grandma asked grandpa to light a talisman and throw it on the zombie, and the zombie immediately burned. At this time, the tomb smelled of burning and stench. After dealing with this old guy, the two of them let out a sigh of relief, thinking that it was finally all right.They picked up the clay pot and planned to take it out of the hole.Unexpectedly, as soon as I arrived at the entrance of the cave, I found a pair of lantern-like eyes staring at the two of them in front of me.Grandma shone forward with the flashlight, but her back felt cold. It turned out that the big green snake had returned. Grandpa took out saltpeter and sulfur, ready to throw them at the big green snake.But grandma said that our family should not take things from the tomb anymore. Grandpa thought it was right, so he put the jar back.Only then did the big green snake bypass them and return to the scattered coffins. Grandpa never believed that grandma was very proficient in dealing with zombies, but what grandpa admired most was that grandma never said she was good.Thinking that I always want to show my face in front of grandma, but always miss, grandpa often laughs dumbfounded.