Chapter 7 Chapter 6 Yangshan

Using zombie meat as medicine is a folk prescription that has existed since ancient times.In the past, many people believed that zombie meat had miraculous effects, and dug graves and coffins everywhere just to get a piece of it to make medicine.Especially in the concept of Taoism, if the alchemy is properly made from zombie meat, it can even be transformed into the immortal medicine of immortality.We touched Captain Jin and went to the ground only to seek money, and we have always avoided destroying corpses and disturbing the sufferer whenever we can.So when he heard Ah Song say that the Lin Family Cottage used zombie meat as medicine, he felt a little disgusted in his heart.Seeing the change in my complexion, Ah Song said with a wry smile: "Mr. Hu, why make such a fuss? Aren't taking money or medicines all disturbing business? I don't believe it. You guys in the antique business haven't touched your hands yet." fishy?"

When he said that, I suddenly felt guilty.Although these words sounded unpleasant, they were all true.Seeing that I was silent, A Song didn't dare to talk anymore, so he lowered his head and drove honestly. "Since that place is dangerous, isn't it a little too abrupt for the three of us to go up there?" Qin Siyan probably remembered the black-skinned old men he met in the woods. He poked his head up from the back seat and asked me, "Let's You don’t even have a shotgun, so if you really go up like this, isn’t it self-inflicted?” Ah Song caught the topic, and immediately explained: "Oh, I heard that you are people who have seen the world. The black skin is old and stiff, it is an evil thing that has been tempered with voodoo. How can it happen in an ordinary corpse? Yes? There are famous mass graves around the village of Ming Chengzu. Because of the way of burial and the special geographical environment, some ancient corpses will not rot for a hundred years, and then become dead. They are called zombies in name, but they are just dry and dehydrated ordinary corpses. It's very different from those fierce red-haired people who can suck people's marrow. If Mr. Qin is really worried, there are two black donkey hooves under the car seat, just use them for self-defense."

"Donkey hooves?" Qin Siyan was startled, "You chopped off the donkey's hoof and put it on the cart?" The four-eyed brother changed his usual calm and composed barrister's appearance, sat back and stopped talking, and said God Amen.I had to say a lot of good things to explain to him the mystery of the black donkey's hooves against zombies.In the end, he still half-believed and announced that he would wait to see the effect.I said, "Bah, bah, bah! It's better not to watch it. Just the three of us entered Yangshan with bare hands. If we encounter zombies, there is no way to go back. Let alone two black donkey hooves, two baskets are useless."

The three of them chatted all the way, and within an hour, they had already entered the boundary of Yangshan Mountain, surrounded by barren stones, sand and gravel all over the ground, not even a single grass.A Song pointed to the gray sky above his head and said: "Taking advantage of the strong sun at noon, let's go to the village to find someone. After the sun goes down in this place, except for the locals, even ghosts don't want to stay here." As soon as I got out of the car, I stepped on the sandy soil under my feet.Looking around, the sky and the distant stone mountains are connected into one piece, without end.Ah Song took out two bundles of tightly packed long objects from under the car and carried them behind his back.

"This place has been deserted for a while, and no one lives there all year round. The government has long since ignored it, and the road is not open, so you can only rely on walking. Your gold-toothed brother really knows how to find a place, if it is not for the guy who collects medicinal materials Speaking of which, it is estimated that no one will be able to find him if he hides for another year or so." I looked at the road sign on the side of the road. The thin iron plate had already rusted to pieces, and there was only one word "grave" that could barely be seen.A Song threw two water bottles to us respectively: "Yangshan looks short, so it's not that easy to climb up. The road is full of stones, and you have to turn over the southern foot to enter the village. Let's travel light, at least two hours Only then can you see people.”

The three of us didn't talk too much along the way.Firstly, the mountain road is rugged, and walking is quite strenuous. If you have the strength to chat, it is better to watch the road under your feet; secondly, I have a new view on the Lin Family Cottage. Taking stiff as medicine is by no means a business that ordinary shops dare to do When Mrs. Lin heard that I was wanted, she didn't even bat an eyelid.What does this mean? It can only mean that the Lin family has also done a lot of shady deals in secret, and they don't take smuggling seriously at all.I have long since washed my hands and vowed not to rob tombs again. If I continue to be friends with the Lin family, there is no guarantee that something will go wrong, so it is better to be a dewy friend, so that we can get together and break up.

After climbing like this for a long time, until the pot of water was exhausted, I finally saw some scattered buildings in the valley.Ah Song rubbed his nose: "This is it. You see there is still cooking smoke over there, let's go down and ask, you can't hide a face here." I looked around and saw that Fentou Village was surrounded by a large stretch of strange rocks and strange peaks in the valley.The whole village forms a huge "prisoner" pattern.Worst of all is the rotten smell that can't be concealed, we can smell it even standing on the top of the mountain.This place used to be a mass grave where corpses and bones were buried, and a village was built to live in it. Isn't that looking for burials?Qin Siyan's physical strength has not been very good all the time, so he put his hands on his knees and gasped for air at the moment.I said that the village is right in front of you, or you can rest here, where the ass is so big, you can pull out the big gold tooth in the blink of an eye, so don't join in the fun and climb up and down.Four eyes refused, he said that he came, so naturally he wanted to see it.Ah Song said that there are many homeless people around, they are all unreasonable and brutal men, if they see money and hurt Master Qin, that would be inappropriate.Let's go into the village together, for peace of mind, let's slow down our pace.The mountain road into the gully is probably because people often come and go, so it is much smoother than when it went up the mountain.In some particularly steep places, a row of rough handrails were laid down with wooden stakes by caring people.Asong said it was done by local refugees.I can see that the village is deep in the mountains and ravines, and it is inconvenient for farming and farming around, and there is no infrastructure.Just ask him why some people are willing to live here for a long time, what do they rely on for a living, does the local government ignore the villagers?

"Hey, they are all idle and unemployed. The government planned to build a tourism project here a few years ago. The construction team came and left, changing and changing, but it still couldn't be done. The foundation was laid during the day and filled in at night. It's flat, as if the soil has never been touched. To tell you the truth, this place is really evil. We get 'medicine' here all the year round, so we naturally know a little more than outsiders. I came here to make medicinal materials in the summer of the year before last. In the event of heavy rain, I didn’t dare to take the risk of going back to the city, so I planned to make do with the night in the village. Guess what, when I got up at night..." Ah Song was talking vigorously, when suddenly there was a sound like killing a pig in the valley The screams, like skinning and picking flesh, made my gums ache.A Song and his four eyes were stunned for a moment, and they looked towards the village in unison.The four eyebrows tightened and said: "No, there is a fire below!"

I looked down and saw that in the blink of an eye, the light wisp of cooking smoke just now had turned into a soaring flame, and the frighteningly black smoke was so full of energy that it shot straight into the sky. "Go down first, it's important to put out the fire." Although I didn't know what happened, there was a sudden drumbeat in my heart for no reason, and I always felt that something big was going to happen.Without waiting for Siyan and A Song to react, I tightened my legs, took a big stride, and headed straight for Fentou Village.After running, I realized that the downhill road into the village was not ordinary dangerous. Several times, I almost turned over and rushed downhill.Four eyes behind me shouted to the shopkeeper, let me wait for him.After a while, the sound disappeared. I looked back and saw that he had become a small dot on the hillside, so I shouted: "A Song, watch him for me, don't run around."

"Master Hu, take it easy, there are only a few shabby thatched houses in the village, and the fire will be extinguished when it burns out, so there's no need to go all out!" I waved at them to show that I understood.However, his feet were still non-stop, and soon he rushed into the village alone.The mountain was too far away just now, and I couldn't tell what happened. When I got closer, I realized that something was wrong. There was more than one place on fire. In about ten minutes, most of the village had spread into a sea of ​​flames. The black smoke made people unable to open their eyes.The fire couldn't be suppressed without a fire truck.There are many people around, shirtless, carrying washbasins watering around.I shouted at them: "This little water can't put out the fire. It's important to run up the mountain to save your life."

Unfortunately, no one answered me. In the panic, a person came out from nowhere and knocked me to the ground in a panic.I scolded my mother, and immediately received several kicks on my body, all of which were stepped on by those who were in a hurry to escape.The guy who knocked me down also rolled under the feet of the crowd and was trampled by the rushing crowd.When there was a fire, the most feared thing was the stampede, and there was only one way out of the village. I immediately rolled on the spot, hugged the man and rolled all the way to the side of the road.The man coughed for a long time, and when he raised his head, his face was covered in black ashes, and his nostrils were constantly opening and closing.I saw that he was agitated, and just wanted to say something to comfort him, but unexpectedly he cried out in a very familiar Beijing movie: "Master Hu, run, run, the village is haunted." He just wiped his face with tears like this, and I jumped up immediately: I'm fucking, big gold tooth!Before I could understand the meaning of his words, there was a bang behind me, and a thatched hut exploded out of thin air, creating a frightening heat wave.The already panic-stricken crowd burst into screams.I smelled the smell of formaldehyde in the air, and I was shocked, so I dragged my big gold tooth along the way I came and ran for my life.The clothes on Da Jinya's body were already torn to pieces by the lingering fire. Although the two of us reunited after the catastrophe, neither of us had time to stop and talk at this crucial moment.I don't know how long we ran, but we slowed down a little when the heat wave behind our buttocks gradually receded.I shook off his sweaty and dirty hands, and looked back at the deserted village in the valley. It was surrounded by thick smoke and fire, and I couldn't see it clearly.Those "villagers" who escaped before us have long since disappeared. "Master Hu, Master Hu!" Asong and Siyan quickly ran down the mountain. Qin Siyan was sweating profusely. Seeing that my body was so black from the smoke, he rushed up and tore my waist apart. collar. "Take it off quickly, there is a hole in your back. When the blood clots on it, it will hurt more than peeling the skin." After he mentioned it, I felt a stabbing pain in my back. I turned my head and looked for a long time, only to know that a large piece of my shoulder was torn and my clothes were burnt. When I got down, my back was burning with pain.Being pulled by Siyan, half of the skin was directly torn off, and Siyan covered me with his coat a few times, his hands were covered with blood, the pain made tears flow from the corners of my eyes, and I almost greeted his family. "Take it off, take it off." Ah Song chimed in, "Wait until the flesh and clothes stick together before taking it off, it will be a big trouble. Master Hu, how did you save the wound from the fire, who is this little brother?" Ah Song had never seen a big gold tooth, so I said this was the unlucky one we were looking for.After I finished speaking, I gave Da Jinya a slap on the head: "What's the matter with you, you can see something wrong when you look at the store. Now I'm being chased all over the street, and I almost didn't go in." Da Jinya did not defend himself for the first time, with a face like a grandson, two lines of cat peed, hugged me and cried loudly: "Old Hu, my dear brother, I am sorry for you, I am sorry for you, you beat me!" I'll forget it, ouch, my dear brother..." His tears rubbed against my wound, not to mention how uncomfortable it was, I twisted several times, but I couldn't break free from his arms, and seeing his bear look, I couldn't bear to say anything else.I had no choice but to comfort him by saying that as long as people have nothing to do, they will not be afraid of running out of firewood if the green hills are left.Qin Siyan said: "The fire is still expanding, and we can't do it alone. Let's go out first." I was right when I thought about it, now that our identities are sensitive, if the fire officers and soldiers who fight the fire come up to ask questions later, we will not be able to tell how many tongues we have.Da Jinya seemed to have a lot to say to me, but he stuttered for a long time, and he didn't seem to know where to start.It seems that things are not simple, even his starling mouth is stumped.I said you should sort out your thinking, and take it easy, let's go down the mountain now, there is a car waiting below. Don't want Da Jinya to shake his head desperately: "I can't go, I have something in the village." "What time is this?" I lectured him shirtless, "I'm almost dead. What precious bump do you have to worry about!" "It's not a baby, it's evidence. I was framed, and someone secretly tripped Yiyuanzhai." Da Jinya waved his fist and shouted, "It's the bamboo pole that kills thousands of swords!" When I heard the word "bamboo pole", my head exploded.Qin Si raised his eyes and asked him what was going on.I had long thought that there was something wrong with the closure of the store, but unexpectedly it had something to do with bamboo poles.It seemed that we had to listen to what Da Jinya had to say on the spot, but the driver, Asong, was not a guy in our shop, so it was really dishonest to ask him to spend time with us in the wilderness for no reason.So I told him to go down the mountain first, wait in the car, and watch out for us by the way. "No, you guys are not familiar with the terrain here. If you get lost in the mountains, it's no joke. Besides, there is no traffic here. It will take at least three or four hours for the fire brigade to come in. I It’s better to stay with you guys.” Seeing Ah Song's sincere attitude, I agreed.Asked what happened to Da Jinya with four eyes, Da Jinya simply sat cross-legged, spitting Xingzi and told us the history of the revolutionary family.Da Jinya snotted and burst into tears, until his intestines were crying green.It turned out that on the day of the Antique Festival, he did pay a high price for the things brought by the Xinjiang guys.It was a piece of ancient jade, but as long as any jade was produced in ancient soil, there must be mercury intrusion. Experts often judge the age of jade by the age of mercury.If it is an old jade of more than three generations, there must be mercury agglomeration inside, dry, stagnant, and uneven; The ancient jade that has been buried in the soil is bright and lively with mercury, forming pieces and knots.These characteristics are natural products that cannot be imitated. Da Jinya is proficient in this way, and he can tell at a glance that this piece of jade in the hands of Xinjiang people is a high-quality piece that is rarely seen in a century.The price he gave was not low, and he calculated that the price of ancient jade has been rising all the way recently. With this thing in his hand, the harvest will increase dozens of times within two years.Thinking about it this way, the price he offered was not high but low, taking advantage of it. "It's bad after the fact," Da Jinya said to me with a sad face. "A few days after the antique festival, three middle-aged people came to look at the goods. They looked at the costumes. They were very rich. I handed over a few fancy ones first. I didn’t expect that there would be a young man who knows how to hide behind them.” The young man was extremely tall and thin, and he didn't show the slightest expression when he spoke, which exposed the little tricks of Big Gold Tooth's tricks. "I saw that if I didn't bring something out to calm down the scene, I wouldn't have the face to do business in the Confucius Temple when I turned around. As soon as I became ruthless, I sacrificed the ancient Xinjiang jade collected a few days ago." Speaking of this, Da Jinya sniffled, wiped his cuffs, and continued, "Guess what, the leader's eyes lit up, and he took out a pair of handcuffs from his arms. Before I figured out what was going on, several burly men rushed up at once..." "Robbery?" "public security……" Da Jinya beat his chest and said, "They said it was a cultural relic stolen from the Palace Museum two years ago. Enthusiastic citizens reported it to the police and said they saw it in my store. Master Hu, listen, is this plausible?" I nodded, things happened too strangely.So many coincidences came together that it was hard not to suspect that it was a conspiracy.Why did the thing that was stolen two years ago appear for no reason, and it was so desperate that the big gold tooth hit the barrel of the gun.The tall and thin young man he was talking about sounded so familiar to me.Siyan sighed, probably thinking of going with me.He asked again how the big gold tooth escaped. "Hey, thanks to Secretary Sun, he is really loyal. It is only because of his secret arrangements that I have the opportunity to be released on parole..." "You shouldn't have run away." I criticized Da Jinya, "You ran away, you did not invite yourself, and you even made Secretary Sun messed up." "Mr. Hu, I'm no better than you and Mr. Fatty. I'm all heroes. In the past, something happened, and after paying two fees, it was over for a few days. If it doesn't work out this time, it's a matter of losing my head. I don't Run, can you not run!" Big Gold Teeth scoffed at my proposal.Four eyes said: "This is your mistake. When you bought jade, you didn't know that it was a national cultural relic. Why didn't you confess those people from Xinjiang? You ran right into the arms of a bamboo pole, and you pushed the boat along the way and cheated the shopkeeper." .” "I was really panicked at that time, and I didn't care about so many things. I planned to flee back to Beijing overnight, but I didn't expect that there were arrest warrants posted at all major traffic points. I saw that I couldn't escape the long distance, so I went to the vicinity of Tangshan. Originally, I planned to find a remote place, and then wait for the opportunity to get out. Unexpectedly, this place is too dilapidated. After hiding for more than two months, my hair is almost white, and there is not a single car passing by. Master Hu, do you have any cigarettes? I'm almost suffocated to death in this ghostly place." I saw Da Jinya's embarrassed appearance really funny, so I asked Ah Song for a pack of cigarettes and handed it over.Da Jinya spat out a mouthful of white circles, pointed at the village where the fire was gradually receding, and said: "I finally figured it out, someone deliberately wanted to destroy our signboard, the young man back then, the more I thought about it, the more I looked like the one you said Bamboo pole. When I was collecting jade, I kept my contact information in mind and kept it close to me after the accident. After I got here, I was afraid that it would be wrong, so I put the paper in clay pots and buried it under the bed. After a while, when the fire subsides, let's go down and get it, no matter if it's useful or not, it's...it's a piece of evidence." Asong and Da Jinya shared a cigarette, and within two puffs they asked where the fire in the village came from.After hearing this, Da Jinya shook his hand and burned the cigarette butt directly on his trouser legs.I said why are you panicking, and suddenly remembered that when he was in the village just now, he told me that the village is haunted!Qin Siyan didn't know our previous conversation, he just thought it was the big gold tooth that caused the trouble, and comforted him by saying that he would go down and destroy the evidence of arson, and no one would know when he kept it.I said that barrister, your behavior is self-stealing, and if it spreads out, don't you want to hang around in the circle.As a result, the man sneered angrily: "I'm working on Wall Street, so I don't care about you here." I saw that Da Jinya was restless, as if he had been greatly stimulated, so I didn't rush him.After he waited for a long time, he finally said tremblingly: "Master Hu, I dug up something earlier, it may not be clean." dig?Tomb?I said you kid is really a dog who can't change eating shit, you can stir up right and wrong wherever you go.Da Jinya hurriedly defended: "I really don't blame me for this matter. If you saw the situation in the village at that time, you must have taken the lead." It turned out that not only the unemployed and landless homeless people gathered in the village of Tombou, but also a few old and weak households in extreme poverty.It is said that the ancestor was a craftsman who opened stones in Yangshan. Later, too many people died while repairing the stele, and the wild beasts on the surrounding mountains were often attracted to eat the corpses.Of course, the imperial court didn't care about it, and some craftsmen's family members volunteered to serve as night watchmen around the cemetery.After coming and going, Fentou Village gradually became a climate.After Ming Chengzu gave up building the monument of filial piety, the site gradually fell into disrepair, but the family members who lost their loved ones still stayed.Today, if their descendants can walk, they will naturally disappear long ago.Only the last two or three elderly households who could not walk remained in the local area, relying on providing thatched huts for the night and collecting some meager rent to survive.When Da Jinya first arrived here, he was so hungry that he couldn't even walk, and fell down from the mountain after rolling and climbing.Fortunately, he was rescued by an old man in the village and poured down a bowl of rice soup, which brought him back to life.Only later did he know that this bowl of soup, which couldn't even be inserted into the chopsticks, was the old man's last ration.We are all people who have experienced major disasters, so we naturally know what it feels like to be hungry.I saw that Da Jinya's eyes were red, and I knew that he really didn't do it for himself this time. A Song scratched his head: "In the past, when we came to collect medicine, we would bring food and salt in exchange. The eldest lady often said that it is not a long-term solution, and this is not something the Lin family can worry about." I understood what he meant, but I had no idea what to do next.Just concerned about what happened in the village.Da Jinya cleared his throat: "Uncle Lu said that there is no plowing and no labor in the village, and when all these old bachelors are dead, this place will be the real grave. I don't give up, I always feel that the sky is endless On the road of people, I just wandered around the mountains around the village. Finally, I ran into a guy who went into the mountain to collect medicine. After chatting carefully, I found that this place was rich in zombies. I tossed and turned at night, thinking that there was a reason for this. There are a large number of ancient corpses on the stele material in Yangshan, and they were discarded as soon as they were said to be discarded. There have been folk legends that Zhu Di used the name of repairing the stele, but in fact he built the tomb for his nephew, and wanted to bury his little invisible secret. There is no guarantee that there is some kind of imperial tomb hidden in this place, even if there is no such thing, the ancient corpse can be exchanged for a lot of money. Why don't you give it a go, it's better than sitting and waiting to die." Although Da Jinya is very fond of antiques and artifacts, if he is really asked to dig a grave, it would be quicker to ask a sow to climb a tree.However, he has no other skills, and he has no shortage of words to attract friends. In a few days, he has become very familiar with the homeless people who come and go.These people are begging for food in the surrounding villages on weekdays, and spend the night in the village of Fengtou at night.Hearing that Da Jinya has a way to get rich without investing any capital, they all geared up and expressed their willingness to join the group. So a large group of people, led by Da Jinya, went up the mountain and down to the sea, digging all over the mountain and digging in the sea. After ten days of hard work, they finally found something. I said, aren't you cheating the masses? You dared to shovel without even knowing where the grave was, that is, the wilderness was left unattended, and you were caught in another place.Da Jinya smiled proudly: "We are no better than Master Hu, but our luck is not bad. What was dug out of that soil was a batch of Song Dynasty porcelain, most of which were bowls and ladles in folk kilns. Count them down , There are about four or five pieces that can be exchanged for money. Although it is not a treasure, it is considered an unprecedented treasure for this poor village." Da Jinya is used to this business, and knows that things have to be released slowly. If too many similar items appear on the market at once, the price will have to drop, which is not worthwhile.He divided the pottery into several grades, picked a medium-quality orchid tea bowl, and handed it to old man Lu to exchange for money, and repeatedly told him not to reveal his details.Old man Lu found a small shop according to Da Jinya's instructions, and lied that he was a countryman, and wanted to exchange his ancestral treasures for two coins so that he could marry his stupid son a wife.This kind of buying and selling jokes is comparable to the old three in the antique world, and no one will doubt it.The other party looked at the goods and said that the bowl came from a private kiln in the Qing Dynasty, and they only gave two hundred.Old man Lu asked for another 20 yuan before returning to the village contentedly. Although two hundred is the sale price for jumping off a building and spitting blood, what Da Jinya wants is such an effect that will not attract people's attention, so as to avoid being suspected and traced in the future, and there is nothing more to do. I listened to what he said for a long time, but I didn't realize the point. I couldn't figure out what was unclean.I urged him to hurry up, Da Jinya took out my water bottle, and drank a lot: "The storyteller still has an intermission, so I don't need you to be in such a hurry. Besides, what happened later was so sudden that I didn't even think about it myself. Think about it." He hesitated for a long time but couldn't explain what happened later, so he simply dragged us into the village and let us see for ourselves.Qin Siyan said that the dilapidated houses in the ravine had almost burned down.Since Da Jinya can't tell clearly, there is nothing wrong with going down to have a look, not to mention the written documents are still buried inside. Da Jinya got up from the ground: "Let's take the paperwork and leave as soon as possible, that thing is really scary." As I walked, I asked what kind of creepy thing I had unearthed. The big and small rice dumplings we have beaten have at least one reinforced row.He quickened his pace and said, "It's a corpse. What we dug up is a gasping corpse!"