Chapter 8 Chapter Eight Luoyang Ancient Tombs

Blind Laoyi knew a Taoist who set up a stall at the gate of Tianjin Acropolis to tell fortunes. The old Taoist’s surname was Cui. Sophisticated fortune-telling—nine out of ten hexagrams are inaccurate", his tricks are all tricks of fools in the world, and usually they can only deceive outsiders. In many cases, fortune-telling can't make money, so he makes a living by commenting on storytelling, especially in "The Legend of Zhongzhong Yuefei". "Speaks the best, but it's not at the level of a storyteller in a teahouse. Some elderly people mention Cui Laodao, but say that he is unfathomable and has real abilities. Cui Laodao's own bizarre experience is more attractive than the baggage in storytelling. Can't say enough.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the old Taoist Cui was doing fortune-telling and storytelling at the South Gate. When the times were not good, the money he earned was not enough to support his family. , I can't afford it because of my poor fate. It's okay not to use it, but it's unlucky to use it once. This day, I came to a job to make money. What happened? It turns out that there are three brothers surnamed Du who are educated, and their family background is middle-class. The legs are circled, the second child is limping badly, and he has to touch the ground with his right toe to walk, the third child drags his right leg on the ground, and drags his legs all day long. He is in his twenties and has not married a wife. It's too late not to get married at the age of 10, and the conditions are not bad, but because of poor legs and feet, it was delayed. The three brothers were very angry, and made a vow that a girl who is not good-looking will not work. A girl who is good-looking is not a lady of everyone. It doesn't work even if the family has no money or power.

Based on the conditions of these three people, they insisted on marrying three wealthy Xishi back. Whether they were high or low, they kept procrastinating. The three brothers recently fell in love with a family. There happened to be three daughters in the rich man's house in the city. He is young, handsome, and well educated. The key is that the rich man Gao is a wealthy family. He has plenty of money at home. No matter how he thinks about it, he thinks it is suitable. The three brothers heard that the Gao family is also looking for a son-in-law, so they hurried to ask the old man to go Helping to lobby, ordinarily, you need to find a matchmaker for marriage proposals, but the three brothers are so lame, and any matchmaker shook his head when they saw it, and advised them to stop wishful thinking. Find the old Taoist, there is nothing impossible for the Taoist priest to do."

Cui Laodao is known as the iron-mouthed overlord, and his fortune-telling is accurate. In fact, he is always inaccurate in saying good things, and he is always accurate in saying bad things. He is called "Black-mouthed Overlord". ?Helping the King of Wu to defeat Zhou, beheading Jiang Shang Jiang Ziya, the prince who was named God for eight hundred years, do you think he has Jiang Ziya's great ability, what is it to go to the rich man's house to say that the matchmaker proposed a marriage? Seeing that the three cripples gave a lot of money , urged the old Taoist to see that Qian's eyes were open, and promised to say: "Don't worry, the three, the poor Taoist will wait to drink the wedding wine of the three."

Cui Laodao usually relies on fooling people for food, and he is used to talking. In this line of work, he is so soft-spoken in front of his face that he can't suppress people. He wears a Taoist robe and has a beard. He speaks and behaves well, and understands all superstitions in the world , Talking about marriage is also a set of routines, he shook his head and pinched his fingers to calculate, muttering words in his mouth: "chickens and monkeys do not reach their heads, white horses attack green cattle, heaven and dragon rush to earth rabbits, tigers and snakes are like knives and files, once sheep and mice rest... ..."

Anyway, Cui Laodao said most of these words to traffickers and pawns, and those people didn’t understand if they said it deeply. The rich man is very superstitious. If the birthday horoscope matches well with my three daughters, I will be rich and honored in the future. To be on the safe side, the rich man still proposed that he should meet these three people first. After all, his words were unfounded. The old Taoist reminded him that he had already made arrangements. The two parties agreed to meet and drink tea together. He and the three brothers arrived early in the morning , When the rich man came, he got up and saluted together, then sat down and talked, and each talked about the situation at home. Not frivolous, I was very happy in my heart, and I even backed up a generous gift to thank the old man.

Talking about marriage in the old society is really troublesome. It is simple and simple. After urging the old way to tell the truth, the marriage was quickly settled. The rice was already cooked, and it was too late to regret it, but just two days after the visit, it was the birthday of the rich man, and the new son-in-law was going to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law, so what should I do? There was a bad move. On the day of celebrating his birthday, the three brothers rode to Gao’s house. The rich man Gao brought all his relatives and friends to the door to welcome the three noble sons-in-law. As soon as he took a step, he revealed his secrets. According to the old Taoist's instructions, the eldest brother first cupped his hands at the rich man: "Father-in-law is on the top of the mountain, and I will be worshiped by my son-in-law first. Today is your old birthday. My son-in-law is not talented, so I dare to give you my blessings." Draw a few rounds of full moon on the ground to celebrate your birthday, this is called full window moon." As he spoke, he swung his right leg to draw circles, and walked all the way from the gate into the hall, leaving circles of marks on the ground.

The second elder brother said: "Father-in-law is old Taishan, my son-in-law is very polite. My elder brother did a good job painting the window full of moons to celebrate his birthday, and my son-in-law also showed his hands to celebrate your birthday. I have practiced light kung fu since I was a child. This is called Yan Chaoshui. "After speaking, he touched the ground with his right foot, and quickly rushed into the front hall, and there were several more spots on the ground. It was the turn of the third brother, and the third brother said: "Father-in-law, today is your birthday, you see my two elder brothers are so confused, they dare to show off their tricks in front of you. I call it sweeping light..." While speaking, he dragged his lame leg and wiped away all the marks on the ground.

The three brothers cheated the sky and crossed the sea again, until the new daughter-in-law came back and told the matter to her parents, but she couldn't hide it. The rich man was so angry that he yelled at the old-fashioned eighth-generation ancestors. At that time, the married girl It was the water that was spilled, and it was not recycled, but I couldn't swallow it. The three good girls are cheap and the three are crippled. I have to find someone to interrupt the old man's leg. The old man did not expect this rich man to be so narrow-minded. , but he couldn't offend him because he was rich and powerful. He heard the wind was wrong, and fled out of the city overnight. He has a few sworn brothers in other places, thinking about crossing the Yellow River, find those brothers who have kowtowed, and join hands to rob ancient tombs for treasure and make a windfall.

Cui Laodao was the first to think of his sworn brother "Da Shen Whip Yang Fang", because of his agility like a civet cat, able to explore eighteen holes in the mountain, so he got the nickname "Sai Limao", and his handiwork is serious It was taught by the master Guanzhong, those who go up to heaven and earth, can do everything, and the elders in the rivers and lakes mention him, and everyone knows about him. There is a legend that cannot be verified. It is said that before Yang Fang was born, his father had a dream at night, and in the dream, he walked into a hall with flying eaves and brackets with golden dragons and pillars.In the hall sits an old man wearing a python robe and a jade belt. There is a cat curled up in the corner. That cat is good for anything, but it has no eyes.Pointing to the fox, the old man said to Father Yang, "This is your child." Father Yang shook his head and said, "It's better not to have such a child." Hearing this, the old man picked out two golden dragon eyes from the coiled dragon holding the pillars in the main hall. , Pressing it into the eye socket of the cat, Yang's father woke up with a start, and the next day his wife gave birth to a son, his eyes were shining brightly.

In fact, Yang Fang is an orphan picked up by his master, and he doesn't even know where his parents are. This kind of legend itself is groundless and cannot be taken too seriously. However, since there are such rumors, it also shows that Yang Fang's eyes are real Well, the sky is getting darker and brighter, and his eyesight is extraordinary. His master is called Jin Abacus, and he often haunts both sides of the Yellow River. Later, his whereabouts are unknown. It must be a little soiled. This is a jargon, which means dead. Fang has a four-segmented seven-section corpse-beating whip, but it is not a soft whip used by Jianghu people for self-defense, but a seven-section hard whip made of refined steel, like a weapon used by a horse general, heavy and without blades, it hurts people with strength, It is said that when Wu Zixu excavated the tomb of the king of Chu and whipped three hundred corpses, the zombies were afraid of being whipped. It is both like a mace and a whip, the color is like brass, very heavy, two feet five inches long, divided into seven sections, four corrugated concave surfaces, engraved with the incantation of subduing demons and suppressing corpses, and the handle of the whip is wrapped with dragon scales In addition to suppressing corpses to ward off evil spirits, you can also measure the land to find acupoints. It is usually taboo to mention dead corpses, and it is called "beating the magic whip" to outsiders. Yang Fang was able to teach the magic whip. With his knowledge of all kinds of customs, he carried a copper whip on his back to rob tombs and collect treasures. Since then, I have never missed a hand. It is the early years of the Republic of China. Natural disasters and man-made disasters continue. The world is in chaos. It is the year when bandits appear everywhere. Bandits are called generals in western Henan. It is very common for warlords to make a fortune by robbing tombs to expand their troops in those years. It is very common for warlords to make a fortune by robbing tombs. Tu Heihu also often does this kind of thing. It is not a big deal to make money from dead people. He wants more lives from living people. Not long ago in Kaifeng, Henan There was a war with another warlord nearby, and the battle was stalemate. In order to win quickly, he dug up the Yellow River and caused floods, which drowned tens of thousands of innocent people. At that time, Yang Fang, who was playing the magic whip, went to other places to step on the plate. He heard that Kaifeng in Henan Province was the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and the legacy of the Northern Song Dynasty still existed. Rolling like a boil, the vastness flows eastward, and a sense of grandeur and boundlessness suddenly arises. However, after crossing the river, we saw countless victims fleeing for refuge along the way, and the selling of children and daughters can be seen everywhere on the road, all of which are left behind by the flooding of the Yellow River. The desolate scene, mourning is everywhere, there must be a great funeral after the catastrophe, too many people died, those victims who had no owners to keep their corpses in the wild, were all gnawed into bones by wild dogs and crows, I only found out after asking someone. The warlord Tu Heihu dug open the mouth of the river. Fighting the God Whip Yang Fangduo had heard of Tu Heihu's notoriety, and knew that the leader of this warlord was a ruthless and murderous bandit. The phase, after a long time will lead to chaos in the world. At noon that day, Yang Fangxin stepped into the city of Kaifeng. The old saying goes well-"the Yellow River has three feet of waves without wind, and the city of Kaifeng has three feet of sand without wind." Dust filled the sky outside the inner city, Yang Fang felt emotional: "It is said that the wind outside the mouth is strong, and the strong wind blows along the Yellow River, and it is also driving people around, almost blowing people to the Queen Mother." He walked while thinking, and came near the gate of Kaifeng City. The local people are accustomed to wind and sand, and the streets are still full of traffic and people. Hurrying to both sides, one of the streets flashed out, Yang Fang heard the sound of horseshoes, squeezed into the crowd and looked up, it turned out that the cavalry of the warlords had entered the city gate. This cavalry team is well-equipped, people are like dragons and horses like tigers, and they come and go like the wind. Among them is a thick and strong man like an iron tower, about forty years old, with a Chinese character face like a black god, black and bright, and transparent. Fierce, with a gloomy face, thick beard and short beard, full of murderous looks, dressed in military uniform, with a command knife hanging from his waist, a pistol slung across his shoulders, and riding boots on his feet, he galloped all the way to the city gate on a tall horse. Yang Fang could see clearly in the crowd, without asking, he knew that the black-faced general on the horse must be Tu Heihu, the leader of the warlord, and he was very skilled in this mountain-like posture on the horse. Yang Fang also has unique skills, but people with great abilities often think highly of themselves and are somewhat arrogant. When he saw Tu Heihu passing by, it was a good opportunity for him, so he couldn't help but reach out to touch the magic whip on his back. Thinking: "This guy is so lucky, if I face him head-on, I may not get it cheap, but at this time, I am prepared and unprepared, I jumped out of the crowd and hit hard, and I am sure to whip Tianling Gaier who slaughtered Heihu. In the end, no matter how good this man's foreign skills are, he will be beaten on the spot, and he will be sent to Yan Luo for safekeeping. Today, he will do justice for the sky, get rid of this warlord leader, and then escape out of the city in the chaos. Who can hold me?" Yang Fang showed his courage for a while, and wanted to take advantage of the wind and sand in Kaifeng city to pull out the copper whip and kill Tu Heihu, but before he pulled out the magic whip, he felt his hand being held down, and he didn't know who it was. Turning his head to look, behind him was an old Taoist wearing an old robe with a gourd hanging on his waist. It was none other than his sworn brother Cui Laodao.Yang Fang was quite surprised: "Master Dao, why is it you?" Cui Laodao leaned into Yang Fang's ear: "Brother, I saw you as soon as you entered the city as a brother. The street is not a place to talk. If you have anything to say, let's talk in another place." With such a blundering effort, Tu Heihu was already surrounded by the army and rode his horse far away, so Yang Fang had no choice but to leave the city gate with Cui Laodao first, and found a secluded small restaurant on the corner of the street, the two sat down and talked The situation just now. Cui Laodao is also a man of the rivers and lakes. He set up a stall at the South Gate in the early Qing Dynasty. He made a living by reading faces and reading characters. Zhi Duoxing Wu Yong is a person like that, who came here just to find the bad luck of Tu Heihu, and also wanted to take the opportunity to make some money, just happened to see Yang Fang in the crowd about to make a move, so he hurried forward to stop him, dragged him into the small restaurant and said: "Brother, Tu Heihu is the governor of a province. Look at how many guards are rushing around him. His guns are fast and horses are fast. How can you get close to him? Let me listen to my brother, this Tu Heihu is full of evil, causing anger and hatred. You don’t need to do anything today, sooner or later God will accept him.” Yang Fang said: "My brother is right, but this warlord leader has done a lot of evil. If I hadn't given him a whip on the head, he would really think that there is no one in the world." Cui Laodao said: "Brother, you are Yang and he is a tiger. If you are guilty, there is no chance of winning in a head-to-head confrontation. Besides, I think Tu Hei is a majestic tiger with a perfect appearance. If he is not a hard-fated man, how can he be a warlord leader? Zhongkuiyuan? This man's appearance is extremely high, and he is walking a step of luck. We won't be able to move him for a while. Now, I have a plan for my brother. Why don't we go to Luoyang Mang Mountain and dig this place? The ancestral grave of Tu Heihu will cut off the feng shui of his fortune." Hearing this, Yang Fang raised his thumb and praised: "Brother, your head is not in vain, what you said is exactly what I want." Cui Laodao smiled, and said: "Brother, your brother and I have a beautiful stomach, full of strategies to secure the country and the world, no less than Jiang Ziya in the Western Zhou Dynasty. I set up a stall at the south gate to tell fortunes. It's just that it's not the right time. I'm going to deal with Tu Heihu, a mediocre man. It's not enough." Yang Fang said: "Little brother understands, the Taoist priest must have planned it for a long time, otherwise how would he know that Tu Heihu's ancestral grave is in Mangshan." Sure enough, Cui Laodao heard that the leader of the warlord, Tu Heihu, did many injustices, but the tiger and wolf division under his command had guns and cannons. After searching, I found out that Tu Heihu's ancestral grave was in Mang Mountain, Luoyang, and Tu Heihu's ancestor was a general of the Qing Dynasty. People in those days were deeply superstitious. Apparently, Cui Laodao dug up this general's tomb altogether, which is considered to be doing justice for the heavens, and he can also take the opportunity to make some evil money. Even if the theory of Feng Shui is not completely credible, Tu Heihu must be furious when he learns that his ancestor's grave has been dug up. Difficulty sleeping and eating, it is bound to decrease. Cui Laodao said to Yang Fang: "The job of stealing and slaughtering Heihu's ancestral grave is not too big, but it is not too small. We need to find a few more helpers." Yang Fang said that I know two people nearby, both of whom are our sworn brothers, one is Caotou Taisui Meng Ben, and the other is the god thief Kuaishou Feng Dianchen. That grass-headed Taisui Meng Ben, who has learned Henglianer's hard qigong and can smash his head into a millstone, is now serving as a platoon leader in the warlord army for a living. Kuaishou Feng is a well-known local thief in Luoyang City. It is said in the Jianghu that digging a hole is called "opening a peach garden". Kuaishou Feng does this kind of work the most beautifully. He is shrewd and capable, more proficient in organ layout, and knows how to use gunpowder. Cui Laodao listened to Yang Fang's words, squinted his eyes, stroked his beard and said: "If you find these two people to help, this job will be sure, and this matter should be done sooner rather than later. After dinner, we will go to Luoyang City. " The short section said that the two went all the way to Luoyang, leaving the Yellow River flood area, the population gradually became denser, and the road was easy to go. In ancient times, Luoyang was connected to Luoshui in the south, and it was located in the Yang of Luoshui, so it was named Luoyang. It was the ancient capital of nine dynasties and ten provinces. The thoroughfare is a great place to go, but it was during the war, and all businesses in the city were inevitably depressed. First go to the local area to find those two people, Cui Laodao, the iron-mouthed king, Yang Fang, the whipping god, Feng Dianchen, the fast-handed thief, and Meng Ben, the grass-headed Taisui. They gathered together and asked for a private room in the inner room at Shengyuan Restaurant in Luoyang City at night.After hitting the magic whip, Yang Fang took out a few ocean dollars, and wanted to invite a few brothers to drink and eat, and let the staff decide what to eat. In the early years of the Republic of China, prices were very low, and a few yuan was enough for a table of high-end banquets. After a while, the waiter delivered dishes. The Luoyang Water Banquet of Shengyuan Restaurant was famous far and wide. Sauce-flavored beef, tiger skin eggs, five-spice smoked hoof, ginger-flavored green lotus, green spinach, snowflake jellyfish, emerald green beans; followed by four big pieces and eight middle pieces, peony jelly vegetables, whole chicken with ingredients, spicy fish nuggets, fried eight-treasure rice, braised in soy sauce Two kinds, Luoyang pork slices, hot and sour squid, fresh stewed large intestine, multicolored chicken shreds, raw boiled meatballs, honey sweet potatoes, hawthorn sweet dew, the four dishes on the table are strips of pork, mushrooms and vegetable gall, Luoyang water balls, Egg fresh soup, all the dishes are soup and water, and the dishes are served and withdrawn continuously. These twenty-four dishes are cold or hot, meat or vegetable, sweet or salty, sour or spicy. The menu of today’s water banquets, as far as Luoyang’s time-honored brand “Really Different”, is different from that of the past. Speaking of which, this is the old imperial calendar from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. There are no lobsters, abalones, chickens, ducks and fish. But in those days , Eat these things even if you have eaten to the end. The brothers don’t talk about business, just talk about friendship, after three rounds of wine, five tastes of food, Cui Laodao put down his chopsticks, picked up the wine, shook his head and sighed: "If you want to know the ups and downs of the world, please just look at Luoyang City , Alas... this Luoyang city is the capital of thirteen dynasties and the accompanying capital of eight dynasties. Ninety-five emperors ruled the world here. It was destroyed once by the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, once by the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Western Jin Dynasty, and once again by the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, and Luoyang became a ruin again..." Caotou Taisui Meng Ben said: "Brother, don't talk about it. When I saw you came to us and set up this table again, I knew there was work. Just say it, we have no outsiders, brothers who have kowtowed When we are together, we still talk about ancient and modern times, and we don’t go around in circles about any stories. What kind of work is it? To open a peach garden or to climb a high mountain?" Cui Laodao laughed and said: "Dele, it's my stupid brother who understands my brother's thoughts best. This Luoyang city has Mang Mountain in the north and Dragon Gate in the south. It can be said that tigers occupy the dragon's plate. The situation is extraordinary. There are ancient tombs in Mang Mountain. There are grottoes in Longmen, what can we do here?" Kuaishou Feng Xi changed his color: "Brother Daochang, is it the job of opening Taoyuan?" Cui Laodao played tricks, pointed at Yang Fang and said, "Let Yang Lao Liu tell you what's going on." Yang Fang got up to see that there was no one outside the single room, and then came back, closed the doors and windows, and told Caotou Taisui and Kuaishou Feng about the whole thing: "The warlord leader Tu Heihu did a lot of evil, dug up the Yellow River and drowned There are countless people, but this guy is too powerful, and there are many soldiers around him. It is not easy to pick off his head directly. Brother Daochang and I thought about digging out the ancestral grave of Tu Heihu. All the rain and dew are shared, and each part is shared, and the other part is given to the victims of the disaster. If there is no treasure, we will add some disgust to Tu Heihu, which can be regarded as doing justice for the sky and making the green forest famous." Caotou Taisui and Kuaishou Feng Qi claimed: "Luoyang is also the site of slaughtering black tigers. This guy kills people like stepping on ants, and the people hate them to the bone. Since it is an act of doing justice for the sky, what I should do in my generation, then do it. Let's dig up Tu Heihu's ancestral grave. It doesn't matter if there are any treasures in the grave. Anyway, we are already tired of this place. From now on, we brothers will tie up and do it together. In a few years, we will drink in big bowls and eat meat in large pieces. , In terms of the happy days of sharing gold and silver, death is not in vain." Cui Laodao said: "What I'm waiting for is the words of the brothers, brothers, don't worry, the old man, I found out the truth, there must be good things in Tu Heihu's ancestral grave." Caotou Taisui and Kuaishou Feng Wenyan scratched their ears and cheeks with joy: "Brother, tell us quickly, what valuable things are in that grave?" Cui Laodao said that the ancestor of the Tu family was a military officer who followed Seng Gelinqin to destroy the Nian army. This man had a nickname, "General of the Four Treasures". After half a year of mortuary, I went to Mangshan in the north of Luoyang City to find a good grave for burial. I don’t know if the BMW of the Four Treasures General was buried with him. Anyway, dead horses are not worth much. A treasure helmet, a treasure armor, a treasure sword, and the treasures bestowed by the imperial court are all in that coffin. The four of them worked together until midnight, choosing a day is worse than hitting the sun, that is to say, do it right away, go back to prepare separately on the same day, and go out of the city to go straight to Mang Mountain at dawn. Mang Mountain is located in the north of Luoyang City, and the south of Luoyang City is Longmen Mountain. There are countless models of emperors and generals buried in Mang Mountain since ancient times. There are tombs everywhere on the mountain, but there are also many tomb robbers. The ancient tombs have been robbed countless times, and there is nothing left. Digging, bumping into an ancient tomb with few robbed holes, maybe you can pick up something. The tomb of General Four Treasures that everyone wants to dig is located on the west side of Mount Mang, and it also belongs to the remaining veins of Qinling Mountains. He built an ancestral temple in front of him. He colluded with foreign powers, robbed ancient tombs, exchanged national treasures for guns and smoke, and used them to expand the territory of the armed forces. Not many people know about it, but in order to guard against bandits and thieves, he still stationed troops nearby. Soldiers came to patrol every day during the day. The old grave behind the ancestral temple was surrounded by thick stone bricks and tomb bricks. The gaps are reinforced with molten iron, which cannot be cut with a steel chisel. If someone wants to blow up the tomb bricks in the middle of the night, it will also alarm the defenders at the foot of the mountain. Cui Laodao has already inquired about these things clearly. The four brothers bypassed the defenders and hid in a ravine waiting for the sun to go down. According to superstition, it is taboo to let the dead body be illuminated by the moonlight. The moon is dark and the wind is high. Temple, the layout here is almost the same as that of ordinary land temples. In the middle are three main halls the size of private houses, with side halls on both sides. Kuaishou Feng saw that the two had succeeded, lit a lantern, pushed open the gate of the ancestral temple, the four of them entered the main hall, looked up through the light, and there were several yellowed portraits hanging in front of them, among them was a helmet A military general with full armor straddling a horse and bowing a bow. There are several tablets on the altar table in front of him. There are offerings such as dim sum, melons, fruits, pig's head and roast chicken. The warlord Tu Heihu was at the time when he gained power. Also just changed. Caotou Taisui Meng Ben grabbed the roast chicken on the table and gnawed a few mouthfuls, rubbed oil on his clothes with his hand, pointed at the general on the portrait and cursed: "Your mother, the painting is quite majestic, wait Grandpa wants to see how you look in the coffin later." Cui Laodao and the others stood aside and sneered, thinking: "The leader of the warlord, Tu Heihu, also led his troops to rob graves and made a fortune. If he wants to see this situation, I don't know what face he will have." Yang Fang's body is exquisite, after watching in the hall for a long time, he jumped onto the altar, moving like a civet cat, without making a sound. Cui Laodao and others applauded secretly, but they saw Yang Fang picked up the portrait of the Four Treasures General from the ancestral temple, rolled it up and carried it behind his back, wondering: "Brother, what are you doing with this portrait?" Yang Fangdao: "One day, I will hang the portrait in Tu Heihu's commander-in-chief's mansion, and let that fellow learn my methods." Both Caotou Taisui and Kuaishou Feng said: "Sixth brother Yang is a bold man, Tu Heihu must make you mad to death." Cui Laodao persuaded: "Brothers, don't be too emotional. It is important to dig out the buns from the grave first, so as not to have long nights and dreams. The old man just calculated it. Tonight, if you commit Tai Sui, the evil star will take the lead." Cui Laodao fortune-telling, nine out of ten hexagrams are inaccurate, and occasionally the last one is accurate, it is well known, so Yang Fang and others didn't take it seriously, and asked: "What if the evil star is in the lead?" Cui Laodao said: "Brother, I just calculated that the three o'clock crimes are not a good omen. We can't delay this work. If it is delayed for a long time, something will happen. Brothers, come and have a look first..." Immediately dipped his fingers in his saliva and placed it on the altar. While gesturing, he said: "There are several graves behind the ancestral temple. Behind the wall of the main hall is the grave of General Sibao. It was just a very inconspicuous grave, or it would have been taken away by tomb robbers. The warlord leader Tu Heihu was a bandit earlier. He didn't care about the ancestral graves at all. The Northern Expeditionary Army gained power in the past few years, and then began to rebuild the ancestral graves. Judging from this ancestral temple, this person is extremely superstitious, and he attaches great importance to the ancestral graves. Dare to dig out the coffin to rebuild the tomb, but wrap the grave soil with huge stones. It is not easy to dig his buns. However, although Tu Heihu also led a team to rob the tomb, it is a stick, and his method can only prevent sticks. Experts who can't resist fighting, we can open a peach orchard in the main hall of the ancestral temple, dig a robbery hole and dig in diagonally, and pull out the coffin from the grave. You can finish the job before it gets deeper." As soon as this remark came out, Yang Fang and others all said that it was good. In the former Qing Dynasty, the coffins of civil servants and generals were particular about how to arrange the coffins. The heads of civil officials faced west and their feet faced east, while the heads of military commanders faced north and their feet faced south. Calculate the grave from the height of the bun The four people worked together to pry open the bricks and stones on the ground of the main hall. Feng's ability to dig out the soil was unmatched. In less than two bags of cigarettes, he had already dug the robbery hole into the grave. The other three people widened and strengthened the earth hole, and without moving, Kuaishou Feng touched the bottom of the coffin, which was where the soles of the corpse's feet were facing. At this time, the grass-headed Tai Sui Meng Ben went in and chiseled the bottom of the coffin. The bottoms of the coffins from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China were all filled with ruyi auspicious clouds and lotus flowers. It is also possible to drag the entire skeleton out of the robbery hole. This is a technique only used by experts in inverted fighting. A layman cannot dig a robbery hole so accurately. The level of Taoyuan's craftsmanship depends on this. Caotou Taisui Meng Ben chiselled off the bottom of the coffin, and did not smell the smell of the corpse, only the bad luck that had not circulated. The four people inside and outside the robbery cave couldn't help wondering, what's going on? It has been fifty or sixty years since the Iron Hat King Seng Gelinqin led his troops to wipe out the Nian Army. In the eyes of these veteran tomb robbers, a few decades of graves is not a long time at all, and it is not short at all. After so many years, several people have passed away. It is impossible for a large coffin to be buried in the grave without the breath of corpses. Caotou Taisui Meng Ben was impatient, and said don't worry about it so much, let's see what treasures the general is carrying. He was lying in the robber's hole, reaching in from the hole dug at the bottom of the coffin, and he wanted to use a rope Pulled the corpse out, but when he reached out his hand to feel something was wrong, he said "Huh". The three knew something was wrong as soon as they heard it, and hurriedly asked Caotou Taisui Meng Ben in the robber's cave: "What did you touch?" Caotou Taisui Meng Ben withdrew, with a surprised expression on his face: "It's strange, it's cold and hard when I touch it, I don't know what it is." Kuaishou Feng saw that Caotou Taisui Meng Ben didn't bring a candle, and the burglar's cave was so dark that he couldn't see anything. He couldn't tell what was in the coffin, so he simply took the lantern and went in, looked carefully, and came out after a while , also had a strange expression on his face, shook his head and said: "I have never seen such a thing in my life, let alone seen it, I have never heard of it." Yang Fang and Cui Laodao became more and more curious as they listened, and asked: "What is in the coffin? Isn't it the general's bones?" Kuaishou Feng said: "It's evil, the coffin in this grave is not a corpse, but a copper coffin." Cui Laodao pretended to be calm: "It's not surprising that the coffin is inside and outside the outer coffin." Kuaishou Feng said: "Brother, since I debuted, I don't know how much soil I have dug out and how many holes I have drilled. Although I can't see clearly, I can tell when I smell it with my nose that it is an ancient relic that is more than a thousand years old." Caotou Taisui Meng Ben counted with his fingers: "The great-grandfather of Tu Heihu, the general of the Four Treasures, died in the second year or the fourth year of Tongzhi. This... this... how can this count not be enough for thousands of years?" Cui Laodao said: "It is also possible to use ancient coffins to place today's people. Let's stop guessing and just pull the copper coffin out of the robbery hole to see what's going on. It's almost three o'clock. , let’s do it without delay.” The four people widened the hole again. Caotou Taisui Meng Ben, who had the strength to lift a tripod, went down and grabbed the animal ring under the copper coffin, while the other three pulled the copper coffin out of the hole slowly with ropes until Tired and out of breath. Panting heavily, the four brothers approached with a lamp and looked carefully at the copper coffin. There are ancient patterns all over it, but it is rusty and mottled, making it difficult to identify. Yang Fang saw the strange shape of the copper coffin, thick rust and mottled moss, as if it was fished out from the bottom of the river, he felt even weirder, and asked Cui Laodao what advice he had? Cui Laodao said: "Brother, I can't figure it out. How could this thousand-year-old copper coffin be buried in Tu Heihu's ancestral grave?" Caotou Taisui Meng Ben saw that the copper coffin was still locked with chains, and thought it was because he was afraid that the tomb robbers would dig out the contents. He was thinking about the treasures in the coffin, so he went up and pried it vigorously. Cui Laodao suddenly changed his expression, and shouted in a low voice: "Wait a minute, this coffin cannot be opened, we have been fooled..." Yang Fang's brain was also spinning quickly, three times and two times, and he suddenly came to his senses, but it was too late. The copper coffin was old and had been eroded by water and soil all the year round. The copper cover came loose when pried away, and a thousand-year-old yin energy emerged from it, and the light of the lantern suddenly dimmed. The four of them were taken aback, and hurriedly retreated to avoid the gust of wind. Yang Fang had extraordinary eyesight, and in the darkness, he saw a strange white-haired hand protruding from the coffin. The "creaking" sound, heard late at night, is enough to make one's hair stand on end. Caotou Taisui Meng Ben also had sharp eyesight and quick hands. When he saw the zombie stretching out its claws from the coffin, he immediately chopped it with an axe, but it was like copper and iron. Zombie!" Yang Fang, Cui Laodao, and Kuaishou Feng also thought of this matter in a flash just now. It is said that people have three souls and seven souls. The soul is good and the soul is evil. Scattered like a lamp goes out, sometimes the soul is scattered and the po is still there, the po is the rough and turbid yin energy of the human body, if the soul is scattered, it will become a walking corpse when it meets the yang energy. In the Song Dynasty, there were tomb robbers in Luoyang Excavating an ancient tomb in Mangshan, I encountered a zombie with flesh like iron. I don’t know which generation of dead people it was. Several people were killed on the spot. , because it is a lingering ghost, so it is day and night, and it is also afraid of donkeys, but this kind of statement is unfounded. At that time, the zombie was chasing the last tomb robber, and it just jumped on the tree, inserted its nails into the trunk and pulled it out. Can't come out, after the cock crows at dawn, someone found it and reported it to the government, the government sent someone to check, and saw that the zombie's clothes were ashes, hair and nails growing on its own, copper skin and iron bones, invulnerable to knives and guns, and could not be burned even if it was set on fire. I had to lock it in a copper coffin and put it in the Longmen Mountain Gate in the south of Luoyang City. The iron corpse in the copper coffin sank to the bottom of the Yishui River. There are various changes in the corpse, and there are countless strange things among them. However, few people have encountered walking corpses or walking corpses that can jump on people. "Zombie", very few people don't know it, but they never expected that the ancient zombie that sank under the dragon gate would appear in the ancestral grave of the warlord Tu Heihu. In fact, Yang Fang and the others vaguely guessed the truth, but it was just a sudden change. They had a good idea, but they were tricked by Tu Heihu. The warlord Tu Heihu, a bandit, was able to steal many ancient tombs.其身边必有异人指点，人家早把祖坟迁走了，而且料定会有高手来盗屠黑虎的祖坟，便从龙门山阙下捞出这口千年铜棺，埋到原来的坟中，又造祖庙殿堂，每天派兵巡逻，一般的毛贼不敢接近，真有本事盗墓取宝不隔夜的巨贼，天底下屈指可数，谁来谁就得遇上“邙山僵尸”，死上几个贼子，也就没人敢再打屠黑虎祖坟的主意了。 纵然在坟里埋设炸药，有快手冯殿臣这种盗墓贼入伙，也能应付得来，可没人想得到屠黑虎会在祖坟里放一具千年僵尸，单凭这点，杨方这伙人已先输了一大截，崔老道暗骂自己大意，这地方要真是屠黑虎的祖坟，怎么可能大修祖庙，夜里又不驻兵看守，这不是有意招贼吗？ 这些念头，在脑中电闪而过，四个人招呼一声，一同压住棺盖，不料邙山僵尸怪力无穷，早裹着一阵阴风从棺中撞了出来。 崔老道和快手冯发觉按不住了，急忙往两旁闪躲。孟奔那么大的力气，也被揭了一个跟头，金钟罩铁布衫那口气儿没运过来，连同棺盖重重摔落在地，张口喷出鲜血，半天挣扎不起。 杨方见势不好，一纵身跳起来，抱住了横架在殿顶的木梁，躲得快侥幸没让棺盖压住，再看棺中那僵尸长发披散，指甲如爪，赤身无衣，遍体的白毛，祖庙殿堂中尸气弥漫，阴风大作，扔在地上两盏马灯摇晃欲灭，那僵尸起身时已然抓住了快手冯殿臣，爪子插进胸膛，掏出血淋淋一颗鲜活跳动着的人心。