"Ha, haha, hahaha......"
At first, Tan Wenbin just laughed briefly, and then he couldn't help but laugh more and more exaggeratedly, and gradually drove Runsheng and Xue Liangliang to laugh together.
Li Chaiyuan didn't deliberately perform gregarious this time, and he did not laugh out loud, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
After experiencing danger, seeing the mystery, and after many tosses, he finally escaped death.
No matter how hard it is, after surviving, the brain will help you deliberately dilute the negative perception, and even let you taste the sweetness similar to picking up the stamens on the way to and from school when you reminisce.
Tan Wenbin now feels a top-down heartiness.
Adventurous, it is indeed addictive.
Just laughing and laughing, the surroundings trembled.
Tan Wenbin was startled: "Did you laugh out of resonance?"
It was definitely not laughing, but it did shake, and the stones on it began to roll down.
The four of them immediately got up and headed to the flat area below.
After a while, the tremor disappeared and calm returned, but a large piece of the place where the four people were before was dented, and the stone crack that crawled out also disappeared.
In fact, even if you can still find it, it is meaningless, because the passage below must have been blocked.
Xue Liangliang: "It should be a chain reaction caused by the collapse of the underground palace."
Tan Wenbin was puzzled: "Is that big thing so ruthless, did you go back and demolish the house and bury it yourself?"
Xue Liangliang shook his head: "I don't know, maybe I want to go back to my mother?"
Hearing this, Li Chaseyuan couldn't help but think of the snake-faced woman sitting on the bed.
Xue Liangliang found a high point again to observe and determine the direction, and then led everyone towards the camp.
The distance is actually not too far, but the road is not easy to walk, and it is delayed for a long time.
Fortunately, when I walked to the afternoon, I saw a militia team, carrying guns and explosives.
It should be the first batch of support from the rear after the attack.
After learning that the four people were the "missing persons" of the expedition team, the opposite side immediately arranged for someone to send the four people back.
After chatting, I learned that somehow, what happened that night was that Xue Liangliang led a few people into the cave and saved the big guy.
Xue Liangliang hurriedly explained that the big thing took the initiative to run into the cave, and they were forced to flee for their lives.
But obviously, those colleagues just nodded and said they understood, but they didn't believe it.
This made Xue Liangliang a little anxious, he didn't want to take this honor.
Tan Wenbin muttered to Li Chaiyuan: "If you have this honor, can you get extra points in the college entrance examination?"
After returning to the town, they were arranged to go to the hospital in Wanzhou City for a detailed examination.
During this period, many relevant personnel came to visit, and some people came to take notes.
According to what was discussed in advance, the underground palace below will be temporarily kept secret.
Xue Liangliang and Li Zhuiyuan were ready to report the matter to him after Luo Gong arrived, and he would decide how to report upwards.
Unlike in the past, there was a death in the village, in order not to affect his life, he hid it after the matter was resolved, and now it has been involved in the national project, and he must be honest.
After seeing Xue Liangliang, he held his hand tightly, and then went to the room to look at Li Chaiyuan and others, and kept muttering: "Thank you, thank you."
Thank you for coming back alive.
After the incident, he never closed his eyes and was under huge mental pressure, and if temporary workers and supernumerary workers were included, his subordinates would have lost eight people at once.
Now that the four of them came back alive, he finally felt a little better.
As soon as Ma Yiming left on his front foot, Luo Tingrui came with two people, which should have been deliberately staggered.
Xue Liangliang entered a room alone with the two entourage and told him everything about the underground palace, of course, concealing Li Chaiyuan's special role during this period.
After finishing questioning Xue Liangliang, the two personnel entered the room again, asked Li Chaiyuan, Runsheng and Tan Wenbin a few questions before leaving.
In the room, there were five people left.
Luo Tingrui grabbed Xue Liangliang's shoulders hard and shook them back and forth several times: "You worried me to death."
It is no exaggeration to say that at his age, the status of the inheritor is often more important than that of his own son, especially since he has no son yet, and his only daughter is not studying this major.
Immediately afterwards, he walked up to Li Zhuiyuan, bent down and hugged the boy hard.
The top people in the industry can basically see that the country will launch many large-scale construction projects in the future, but this kind of project takes a lot of time from design to completion.
Luo Tingrui smiled and waved his hand: "Let's go, I'll take you to have supper."
The supper stall is not far from the guest house and is a Wanzhou grilled fish.
Luo Tingrui looked at Xue Liangliang and the three of them and asked: "Do you want to drink, I can drink with you."
Tan Wenbin immediately waved his hand and said: "We don't drink."
In fact, Binbin will occasionally have two drinks with his grandfather at home, but the person with the highest status at the wine table doesn't want to drink, and he won't be uninteresting.
"Then get some drinks."
"Okay."
Tan Wenbin got up and took out a basket of soy milk inside: "Hey, this is the only one for sale in this store."
Saying that, he took the bottle opener and opened the bottle for everyone one by one and placed it in front of everyone.
Luo Tingrui said to Xue Liangliang: "Don't get cold, talk while eating."
Everyone picked up their chopsticks and started eating fish.
Xue Liangliang told Luo Tingrui about the underground palace again.
After listening, Luo Tingrui just nodded and smiled.
Tan Wenbin immediately said: "Look, teacher, this is the person who has seen the world."
Luo Tingrui took a sip of soy milk and said: "Don't talk about this matter anymore unless people from relevant departments come to ask."
The four of them nodded immediately.
Immediately afterwards, Luo Tingrui smiled again:
"Indeed, I have seen this happen several times before. We contemporary people just walk on this land, and we can't imagine how much history and mystery are buried in the land under our feet."
There is never a shortage of mysterious events on the construction site, especially large projects and large projects, which are often dug wider and deeper, and it is easy to encounter strange things.
The beginning of many strange rumors in society is that my father, a relative, and a friend of mine once dug up a ...... at the construction site of a certain project that night.
In Luo Gong, the protagonist is himself.
He told the four of them about his experience back then.
That was many years ago, when he had just started working and was temporarily sent to Jilin to participate in a project, he thought it was quite strange at the time, although the whole country was playing a game of chess, but at that time, as the eldest son, the northeast exported talents and industries to the mainland, when did the mainland need to send an engineering team there?
Although the place is in the mountains, it is not remote, close to Ji'an.
After arriving there, I received the corresponding task part, which was not planning and design or construction, but reviewing an existing underground building.
This was originally supposed to be a secret project, most likely a personal air defense project, quite large, but for some reason, it was seriously leaking.
They were also divided into many teams to inspect various nodes, and some key areas were marked at the time, and they were not allowed to approach, and others would be responsible.
One day at work, Luo Tingrui and his companions found a dry water outlet with a large opening that could pass a cow.
It stands to reason that with the quality of the project at that time, even if there was damage due to natural reasons, it would not have such a big opening, and the most important thing was that when they inspected this section yesterday, this opening did not appear.
Leaving a companion to guard the cave entrance, Luo Tingrui and another companion went directly in to check.
Speaking of this, Luo Tingrui smiled:
"I was also young at that time, I didn't understand what it meant to be afraid at all, anyway, looking at the slogans painted on the wall of the engineering passage, the big guys were very motivated and courageous, and the one who stayed at the entrance of the cave still lost the guess boxing, and he was so aggrieved."
The gap was very deep, and the narrowest part was only enough for one person to pass sideways, but it seemed that no matter how much he walked, he couldn't get to the end.
It stands to reason that the scope of the project has long passed, but the surrounding situation does not seem to be caused by mountain cracking or geological movement.
The two young people were so excited that they thought it was sabotage from enemy agents.
But as I continued to go inside, I felt more and more wrong, not only did there appear on the ground, but there were also some blood stains, and after going a little deeper, I heard a voice coming from deeper depths.
Then, the people over there seemed to hear the movement of someone approaching, and obviously a string of footsteps running towards this side, and they also vaguely saw the dynamic firelight, they were holding torches.
Although the two of them were not afraid, they thought that they had to pass on the news, so Luo Tingrui asked the companion to run first, and he was jogging while paying attention to the back to prepare for the break.
At that time, the two young people still preferred to have enemy agents deliberately sabotaging this place.
But gradually, the sound and footsteps on the other end disappeared at some point.
Knowing that the reinforcements would arrive soon, Luo Tingrui simply stopped walking out but took the initiative to march in.
As he walked, he felt that he was starting to feel dizzy, his steps began to weaken, and his vision gradually blurred.
"At first, I thought it was thin oxygen, but in hindsight, I should have been ...... at that time."
Luo Tingrui paused and looked at the four people sitting in front of him.
Tan Wenbin and Runsheng were fascinated by the story, and Xue Liangliang answered: "Poisoned?"
Luo Tingrui turned to look at Li Chaiyuan and motioned for him to guess.
Li Chaiyuan smiled shyly and asked, "Are you asleep?"
Hearing this answer, Luo Tingrui opened his mouth slightly, as if he was a little surprised.
"Xiaoyuan, how did you guess this?"
"Because when I'm sleepy, it's the same."
Luo Tingrui nodded noncommittally and continued: "In hindsight, I should have fallen asleep because the companion who rescued me told me that I was unconscious in the crack at the time.
But I don't think it's a dream because everything is too real.
I stumbled to the deepest part, I saw a magnificent hall, I saw singers and dancers performing, I saw people drinking and having fun.
I was also invited to join them, they asked me a lot of things, and I asked them some.
I just can't remember what was specifically asked and answered, I only remember that we talked for a long time and drank a lot, and in the end, I was so drunk that I passed out.
When I woke up, I found myself lying in a tent inside the camp.
Is it like "The Peach Blossom Spring"?"
Tan Wenbin nodded: "It is indeed similar, and they are all very narrow at the beginning, and then suddenly enlightened, and the later development is also very similar.
Xue Liangliang asked: "Then teacher, have you reported it?"
"Naturally, it was reported, but there were many people reporting in those two days, and some people saw soldiers wearing ancient armor and strange women wearing ancient costumes in the passage."
"What about the investigation after that, the crack?"
"Later, the water rose, the project was flooded, and there seemed to be an accident in those key areas.
Our task was stopped halfway, and there was no feedback on my report."
Xue Liangliang: "Do you not believe it?"
Luo Tingrui shook his head: "It's likely that I believe it, but I still feel that it doesn't matter."
Tan Wenbin said: "That's not like "The Peach Blossom Spring", your afterwards sounds a bit gloomy, "The Peach Blossom Spring" is a beautiful story."
Li Chaiyuan said: "Maybe the place recorded in "The Peach Blossom Spring" is not a village for the living."
"Xiaoyuan, why did you say that?" Luo Tingrui looked at the boy curiously again.
"I just feel it, teacher, can you tell me more details?"
"Details? Yes, do you have paper and pen, I'll draw it."
"I have!" Tan Wenbin immediately took out the notebook and pen he carried with him and handed it over.
Luo Tingrui began to draw, his brushwork was very good, the details were very well drawn, first he drew a piece of clothing, then a knife, and finally a set of armor.
Obviously, although this matter has been in Luo Gong for many years, it has been lingering in Luo Gong's heart, ruminating from time to time, otherwise he would not still remember it so clearly to this day.
The four of them poked their heads over to look together, but for the other three, they could only see that it was something ancient, and no matter how much they had, they couldn't see it.
After Li Zhuyuan looked at it twice, he said: "Goguryeo?"
Luo Tingrui crossed his hands and asked seriously: "Xiaoyuan, do you really not consider changing your major?"
The boy shook his head immediately.
"I'm just afraid of burying your talent." Luo Tingrui reached out and touched the boy's head, "How many things are in this little head?"
Tan Wenbin wondered: "What is Gao Gou Liv?"
Xue Liangliang reminded: "The wrong pronunciation is Gao Juli."
Tan Wenbin suddenly thought: "Oh, I understand this, I know. Fortunately, history doesn't test pinyin."
Luo Tingrui continued: "Later, I drew some of the things I saw in my dream and interviewed many people, and finally asked some clues."
Goguryeo, a separatist regime in the Northeast, has existed for a long time and has a high historical reputation, but its popularity mainly lies in the background of Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Gaozong of Tang.
This is also why, when Li Chaiyuan recognized this thing, Luo Tingrui would be so surprised.
"After that, due to work and personal reasons, I have been to Ji'an many times, and the last two times, I went to find experts who specialize in excavating and studying Goguryeo culture, and also went to the museum there, which confirmed that what I dreamed of that night was not false, because before that night, I had never been in contact with anything specific about Goguryeo culture, and I had never seen it in reality, so how could I imagine it?"
Xue Liangliang asked: "Teacher, what about that project?"
Luo Tingrui lit a cigarette and took a puff: "I checked back the year before last, and I only knew that what happened to the project at that time was much more serious than I knew, but the relevant information and files of the project were sealed and could not be accessed."
Tan Wenbin smiled and said: "You really don't forget it, just like treating Bai Yueguang."
Luo Tingrui was also amused by this metaphor: "Indeed, after all, I was young at that time, and I started working early, not much older than you are now.
In fact, in my later work, I encountered several more serious and unbelievable things."
Tan Wenbin said expectantly: "Tell me more."
"I can't tell you, I don't have the right to access the archives at that time, and the next few things are part of the archives that should be protected."
"Alas, what a pity." Tan Wenbin sighed in disappointment.
"You will encounter this kind of thing in the future, and you will be asked to keep it a secret when the time comes.
Okay, let's talk about the current situation, not to mention the underground palace or anything, the underground river you found alone is enough to kill the plan Ma Yiming advocated."
Xue Liangliang said: "Actually, this matter has nothing to do with Team Leader Ma......"
"It's clear above, but if something happens, someone must be responsible, of course, I won't really focus on punishing him, the main thing is to see if he can get out of it.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, many martyrs' monuments have been erected next to roads and bridges, and I have witnessed many of them with my own eyes, and the best way to comfort them is to continue to build their homes."
Saying that, Luo Tingrui raised the cup containing soy milk in his hand, and everyone also raised the cup and touched it.
Tan Wenbin took a bite of soy milk and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: After all, he is a big leader, and he is much more natural than his own father when he is valued.
"Liangliang, you will go to another group with me in two days, we will focus on the plan and strive to complete it as soon as possible."
"Okay, teacher."
"Xiaoyuan, what about you?"
"Huh?" Li Chaiyuan pointed to himself, "Can I continue to go?"
"I want to ask you, after just experiencing this kind of thing, do you need to take a vacation?"
"Okay, rest." Li Zhuyuan nodded, he also felt tired, and he had to go to Fengdu.
"Well, you are still young, you should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and you should also actively exercise your body.
"It's not that exaggerated, teacher, but I remember your words."
Xue Liangliang took the initiative to mention something: "Teacher, we didn't take the initiative to attract that thing to save people at that time."
"I know, didn't you just say it?"
"I don't want to take this honor."
"Liangliang...... And you, listen, sometimes we all dream of being absolutely pure and flawless, but in this world, there will inevitably be dust, and sometimes even wind and sand."
"I understand this truth, but the teacher ......"
"If this happens, if there is an advanced model that can be established, Ma Yiming and the others can be much better."
"I understand."
After the supper, Luo Tingrui left first, and the four of them returned to the guest house.
Tan Wenbin was a little unsatisfied and said: "The taste of Wanzhou grilled fish is really good, I think I will definitely make money if I learn the skills here and open a branch in other places."
Xue Liangliang: "If you have this idea, I can invest in you."
"Don't, don't, I'll just mention it, it's important to learn to make money."
Immediately afterwards, Tan Wenbin asked in a low voice: "This, honor, can I add points?"
"Our Haihe University is not difficult to take the exam, and this matter will be kept secret from the society."
"Oh." Tan Wenbin lowered his shoulders.
Runsheng asked: "Can't you think of other ways to add points?"
Tan Wenbin shrugged: "The other way is that my father is honored in his position."
Runsheng was choked.
The large ball of rotten straw that Tan Wenbin brought out was packed in a bag, and Li Chaoyuan handed the bag to Xue Liangliang along with a piece of paper.
"Brother Liangliang, what is written on the paper is the restoration method."
"Don't worry, I will go to that group to meet the teacher in two days, and I will drive back to the mountain city in the next two days and find a unit to help you deal with this matter first." Xue Liangliang glanced at the things needed on the paper, "The materials are not difficult to obtain, most of them are ready-made, but since you want to keep it confidential, you definitely can't go to the cultural relics unit, my friend can do it, but it will take him longer."
"It doesn't matter, let's take it and deal with it slowly for recovery, the main thing is that this thing can't be left in the external environment for too long after being taken out, and I don't have good storage conditions here."
"Okay, leave it to me. Then you will go to Fengdu next?"
"Brother Runsheng will change the medicine again tomorrow, and we will go the day after tomorrow."
"Pay attention to safety on the road, contact me when you want to go back, and I will book you a ticket."
"I will tell you when I leave, brother."
Early on the morning of the third day, Li Chaiyuan went to Fengdu with Runsheng Tan Wenbin, first taking a car on the way, and then taking a boat and getting off directly at the Fengdu County Wharf.
In fact, the most trouble-free way is to call the Ding family and ask the Ding family to help them find out if the person from the Fengdu Yin family is still there, but after all, it is Grandma Liu's relationship.
Since the dock, it has been very noisy, and the streets all the way up are crowded with people and vendors, which happens to catch up with the Fengdu Ghost Festival Temple Fair.
Tan Wenbin was very excited, looking here and there: "Hey, don't say it, the temple fair here is indeed much more lively and fun than our temple fair in Nantong, no, our family is incomparable to others at all."
Li Chaiyuan: "Brother Binbin, traveling is originally to go from a place where you are tired of staying to a place where others are tired of staying."
"Oh, yes, I almost forgot, your return to Nantong is equivalent to traveling."
"Well, it's almost."
"But Xiaoyuan, I really think that people here in Sichuan and Chongqing love and know life better.
Ha, I want to eat that, do you want to?"
All kinds of local specialty snacks are dizzying, and the prices are very cheap, even Runsheng, who has always been diligent and thrifty and doesn't like to eat out, doesn't feel sorry for money this time.
The three of them tasted it everywhere, and it was considered lunch, and in this atmosphere, Runsheng's behavior of eating was not eye-catching.
Tan Wenbin came to a grimace mask stall, two masters were drawing, he stood on the side and looked at it for a while, and then asked the master to draw a mask of Sun Wukong for himself.
He didn't dare to buy the grimace mask and take it away, otherwise he would be frightened into a cold sweat when he peed at night.
After drawing and giving money, Tan Wenbin put the mask on his face and gestured with a monkey gesture:
"Tie, monster, hand over my little man!"
Next, I came to a tea stall, which is very popular in temple fairs nowadays, which often contains sugar or various fruit crystals.
It's just that the gaiwan tea here is obviously different from other places, it is brewed on the spot, you can't smell what kind of tea it is, but the taste is very strong, the left side of the horizontal sail is written as "ecstasy tea", and the right side is written as "Meng Po soup".
Tan Wenbin bought three cups, and the three of them sat on a small bench and drank slowly, the taste was okay, very strong but not bitter.
The temple fair is mostly local, but there are also many tourists attracted by the ghost festival, and you can also see some foreigners.
"Xiaoyuan, is this really the Hall of the King of Hell?" Runsheng pointed to the building complex above and asked.
"It is the Emperor of Fengdu, in charge of the underworld, and he is the sect of returning souls in the world."
"That sounds amazing." Tan Wenbin took a sip of tea, "Is he a local?" "There is a saying that Emperor Fengdu is Yin Changsheng, he is the younger brother of Yin Lihua, the queen of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who is not greedy for the wealth of his family and thinks about cultivating the Tao, and finally gets the fate, and ascends in Fengdu in broad daylight."
"The queen's brother?" Tan Wenbin smashed his mouth, "If you don't enjoy glory and wealth, what kind of Tao do you practice?"
"Everyone pursues differently, didn't you also refuse Brother Liangliang to invest in you to open a Wanzhou grilled fish branch the day before yesterday?"
"So I was so out of the mud without getting dirty."
Runsheng asked: "Xiaoyuan, why do you have to put a small water tank in front of every store here?"
Li Chaiyuan: "It should be some kind of custom."
Next, Li Chaiyuan was going to find a white shop to ask about the local corpse diggers.
After passing the large archway of "Fengdu Ghost Town", I saw a stone monument behind me, with a passage written on the stone tablet:
"If you don't walk at night, how do you know that there are night walkers?"
This passage comes from Ge Hong's "Baopuzi" in the Jin Dynasty, which is what Yin Changsheng once said, which probably means that after he became an immortal, he only knew how many immortals there were in the world, just like if you don't go out at night, you don't know that there are people who walk the same way at night.
Before he came into contact with the corpse picker, he didn't know that there was such a thing as death in the world, but after contacting and learning, he found that there were really a lot of them, and there were many peers.
Looking down along the stone tablet, there is a shop in front of it, and the store sign on it reads: "Yin Jun Coffin Shop."
There are two signs hanging at the door of the store, with the words "Rise to the coffin and get rich" and "Blessings will come".
Yin Jun is the honorific title of Yin Changsheng, so the shopkeeper may not necessarily have the surname Yin, but since it is a coffin shop, it should also have a bit of a relationship with a corpse digger.
For example, my grandfather used to have a good relationship with the upstream and downstream white affairs industry chain, but he didn't turn against me until he started to engage in the industrial chain.
Walking into the store, the inside is relatively deserted, with two coffins, one red and one black, and a variety of small coffins placed on the counter, like toy figures.
There are also different styles of patterns, including Ultraman, Astro Boy and Transformers.
Tan Wenbin picked up a coffin, opened it, closed it again, and praised: "It's really exquisite, and the boss is also very business-minded, but if you choose the wrong route, no matter how hard you try, it doesn't make sense."
It coincides with the temple fair, there is a lot of passenger flow in other stores, and it is still deserted here, whether it is locals or tourists, obviously few are willing to buy a coffin or a small coffin toy when visiting the temple fair.
Tan Wenbin switched on and off several times in a row, and asked with a smile: "Xiaoyuan, why don't we buy two and take them back as stationery boxes?"
"Hello, which one do you like, buying two together can be considered cheaper."
The curtain of the inner room was lifted, and a girl as big as Tan Wenbin came out with a noodle bowl, her skin was a little dark, but she was tall among the locals, and her whole body was full of hearty energy.
"Come on, these two, I want them."
"Yes."
Tan Wenbin knew that Li Chaiyuan was going to ask something, so he bought something first.
Runsheng asked: "Buy another one for Zhou Yunyun?"
Tan Wenbin was not angry when he heard this, but said intentionally: "Hey, don't say it, it's really romantic."
The girl boss smiled and said: "Or, there are couple models."
"Let's have a set."
"Okay, get it for you." The girl took out two small coffins from below, one black and one red, the workmanship was very exquisite, and with grooved buckles, the two coffins could be spliced together.
Tan Wenbin smiled and said: "It's so fun."
The girl boss responded: "That is, if I were a girl and received this from a boy I liked, I would definitely be very happy."
Li Chaiyuan wondered: "Aren't you a girl?"
"Ah, I am." The girl boss laughed, "It's wrong, it's wrong."
Seeing that Tan Wenbin really paid and wrapped the four small coffins, out of friendship at the same table, Li Chaiyuan still asked: "Brother Binbin, do you really want to give this to Squad Leader Zhou?"
"I just think it's fun." Tan Wenbin rolled his eyes, "Is it really a gift? I'm not stupid."
The girl boss said dissatisfiedly: "Why can't you really give it away, it means that the girl doesn't understand the connotation, this is the romance in our traditional culture."
Tan Wenbin nodded: "Although I still won't give it away, I think you're right."
"Listen to your accent, you are tourists from out of town, where did you come from?"
Tan Wenbin: "Nantong."
The girl boss wondered: "Where is Nantong from? Anhui or Jiangxi?"
Tan Wenbin: "Jiangsu."
"Oh, I know Jiangsu, Jinling, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an, and Xuzhou, all of which are famous for a long time, Nantong...... There are also famous ones."
Tan Wenbin asked deliberately mischievously: "For example?"
"For example...... the girl's boss got stuck.
Li Chaiyuan was about to ask about the matter: "Boss, do you know the nearby corpse diggers, who are in charge of fishing for drifters in the village."
"Corpse catcher?" The girl boss wondered, "Who are you trying to catch?"
"If you don't catch anyone, just inquire, do you know him, and to be more specific, do you know the corpse digger surnamed Yin?"
Soon, the curtain was lifted again, and she walked out with a shovel of the Yellow River in her left hand: "My surname is Yin, my name is Yin Meng."
Li Chaiyuan didn't expect that it would be so easy to find, but he continued to ask: "Does your family have a family tree?"
"What do you want to do with such details?"
"Send money."
"Yes."
"Is it convenient to take it out and let me see?"
"Will you give me money if I see it?"
"There must be a name of Yin Zhiwang on it."
"Yin hope, yes. That was almost two hundred years ago, I remember it very well."
"Huh?"
"It is recorded in the genealogy that there was a big man-eating snake in Wanxian, and he took people to catch the snake, but he went and didn't come back, I'll show it to you."
"No need." Li Chaiyuan looked at Tan Wenbin, "Give me money."
Tan Wenbin took out the money and put it on the counter, the money was tied with a red rope.
Yin Meng picked up the money first, and then asked in disbelief: "What's wrong, where did you meet him turn into a dead person?"
"Hmm."
"Huh?" Yin Meng hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Don't scare me, I was just careless."
Being able to hold a Yellow River shovel and say "dead" proves that he is indeed an insider, and he is much purer than the one of the great master.
In that case, there is no need to hide it too much.
"I owe him a favor, I came to pay it back this time, you can accept this money, and our business will be over."
"Hehehehe......" Yin Meng let out a series of laughter, and said while counting the money, "Ouch, this is really an ancestor who came to send money, I'm worried about how to pay the rent next month."
Tan Wenbin suggested: "If you buy and sell like this, the rent is really not easy to deal with."
"Then what can I do?"
"You can sell grilled fish in Wanzhou."
Yin Meng blinked her eyes.
Tan Wenbin said again: "Yangzhou fried rice is also acceptable."
Yin Meng pushed the remaining half bowl of noodles in front of him, and the noodles were poured, without toppings, just soy sauce.
Tan Wenbin nodded: "Understood."
"Have you eaten, let me make you noodles? I'll go to the opposite door to buy a few dishes and invite you to drink."
Li Chaiyuan: "We have eaten."
"Then stay for dinner, come all the way to send money, I have to keep you for a meal, anyway, I think my ancestors probably couldn't help you anything."
"It helped."
"I don't believe it, if he can help you, he won't die and won't be able to go home."
"And this jade pendant." Li Chaiyuan took out the jade pendant and placed it on the counter, "I'll give it to you too."
Yin Meng looked down twice, and then pushed the jade pendant back: "One yard is one yard, I will accept the money, this jade pendant is yours."
"Okay." Li Chaiyuan did not refuse, and took back the jade pendant, "Then let's go."
"Hey, why don't you go up there and play for a while, the attractions are on top."
"I'm going."
"The boat stops early, since you come out to play, don't rush, play slowly, stay here at night, sleep in my bunk, and save money on opening a hotel."
I was out to play, and the other party repeatedly warmly invited me to stay, so Li Zhuiyuan did not continue to refuse: "I'm causing you trouble."
"Hey, are you really not a big man who crawled out after waking up from under some water burial?"
"Me?"
"Yes, come on, I'll try." Yin Meng took out a talisman paper from her pocket and pasted it on Li Chaiyuan's body, seeing that Li Chaseyuan did not respond, she pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh my God, it's so scary, are you so fierce!"
Everyone knows that she is joking.
"It's rude to come and go, tie, goblin, I'll put one for you too!"
Tan Wenbin took out a "Chasing the Secret Scroll" talisman and pasted it on Yin Meng's forehead.
The next moment, the talisman paper turned purple.
Tan Wenbin was so frightened that he jumped up and screamed: "I'm a big!"
Yin Meng was a little puzzled.
Li Chaiyuan stood on tiptoe, stretched out his hand to remove the talisman paper, and said: "Brother Binbin, the talisman paper has been in the water, and it will turn purple when it encounters grease."
"Oh...... Oh!" Tan Wenbin scratched his head a little embarrassed.
Runsheng leaned over and said: "I will say it smells like a water corpse."
Yin Meng smiled directly and bent over: "I almost thought I was really dead, hahahahaha!"
When the three of them walked out of the coffin shop and came to the door, Li Chaiyuan pointed to the small water tank at the door and asked: "What is the reason for this at the door of every store?"
Yin Meng: "This is Fengdu Ghost Town, this street is called Ghost Street, it is not just living people who like to go shopping, they will come out at night.
In the past, there were no light bulbs, and when it was dark, the candles could not illuminate through, and when merchants counted copper coins behind closed doors, they would often count them made of paper.
Later, a custom gradually formed that a water tank was placed at the door of the store, and the copper coins received were placed in it, and the floating money was fake money, so I didn't do the customer's business."
Tan Wenbin asked: "Then now they are all banknotes, they have all floated up, shouldn't every family have a banknote detector?"
Yin Meng: "That thing is expensive, but you can't afford it."
Tan Wenbin was stunned for a moment: "No, can you still receive it now?"
Yin Meng stretched out his hand and pulled out the drawer under the counter, and took out a small stack of paper money from Tiandi Bank from it:
"Well, this is what I have received since the beginning of this month, which was enough to pay next month's rent, who knows that it is not a living business."
Tan Wenbin carefully touched the paper money with his fingertips: "Are you kidding? Add a sense of immersion to our tour?"
"That's it, what era is it, where are the ghosts, I don't see the drifters much, I haven't opened a corpse hunting for a long time."
"Can't you even see the drifter? It shouldn't be, you have so many water systems here, so no one will stumble and drown, right?"
"They are all looking for fish in the village, and they rarely come to me, and they think the shops on the street are expensive."
"Actually, you are very cheap?"
"It's really expensive." Yin Meng said of course, "The price is cheap, wouldn't it lose my face, anyway, we are also serious corpse hunters."
Tan Wenbin nodded: "You deserve to be unable to pay the rent."
"Let's go, Brother Binbin."
"Hey, here, wait for me, Xiaoyuan."
The following afternoon, Li Chaiyuan took Runsheng and Tan Wenbin to visit the Fengdu ghost town very carefully and seriously, there are many sculptures and temples here, and it is not scary to visit during the day.
Halfway through, I also met two performance teams, and the three of them watched the performance, which had a strong traditional folk atmosphere.
Runsheng and Tan Wenbin looked at it very seriously, wishing they had to look at the explanation board under each sculpture.
Li Zhuiyuan walked slowly, admiring some old-fashioned architecture and sculpture styles, as for the explanation signs, he didn't need to look at them, because he had a lot of stock in his head.
When Li Lan didn't hate herself so much when she was a child, she could still stay in Li Lan's study while she was working.
When it was getting dark, the three of them went down the mountain and returned to the ghost street.
There are still a lot of people on the street at this time, and many nearby residents have things to do during the day, and many people can only come to the temple fair at night.
Furthermore, the atmosphere of the ghost town has to be matched with the night to be more flavorful, especially the red and white lanterns on top, which are lit up after nightfall, which is definitely very appropriate.
At the door of the coffin shop, there was still no one there, and even Yin Meng was too lazy to stay behind the counter again.
"We're back." Tan Wenbin greeted loudly.
Yin Meng lifted the curtain and poked her head out: "I stewed the hoof flowers, let's have a good meal in the evening, Ba Shi is good!"
Li Chaiyuan: "Yes."
Seven o'clock, it's nightfall.
Yin Meng came out with a large pot of pig's feet, and everyone sat around a small table.
The pig's feet melt in your mouth and are stewed very well.
The premise is that you have to ignore the prickly sensation in your mouth, because Yin Meng forgot to deal with the pig hair.
She is indeed a lively and cheerful person, it seems that because of the small business, there are few people to talk to, and she happily set up a dragon gate formation during dinner tonight.
Runsheng only focused on eating, Li Chaiyuan occasionally answered a few words, his main force was Tan Wenbin, and Yin Meng did not fall behind.
And Binbin deliberately chatted in his Sichuan-Chongqing dialect that he had just learned a little, the pronunciation was inaccurate, but the tone was learned, and the two of them talked, the tone became higher and higher, and the speed of speech became faster and faster, as if they were singing a folk song.
But I didn't talk much about fishing for corpses, because Yin Meng's practice was not much, and he had fished for drifters, but he had never seen a real death.
Her parents divorced when she was very young, and her father went to the south, and there was no news as soon as she left; Her mother married a family in the town below and gave birth to two more boys.
Speaking of this, Li Zhuiyuan and Yin Meng raised their glasses of soda and touched each other.
She lived most of her life with her grandfather, who ran the shop and was also an orthodox corpse digger, and later, her grandfather handed over the shop to her to inherit.
She was actually very smart and should be able to make money by changing her business, but she didn't want to change the attributes of this shop because she knew that her grandfather would not agree.
Li Chaiyuan looked at the calluses in her palms and the changes in her toes every time she got up and sat down, and knew that she had kung fu on her.
This is also the reason why she is a young girl who can run a shop alone; The ruffians on the street have basically been beaten by her.
She laughed and said that if she wanted to, she could be the head of the ghost street and collect protection fees here.
Runsheng, who was addicted to nibbling on pig's trotters, took the initiative to raise his cup here and had a drink with her.
Li Chaiyuan asked her grandfather if he had left any books or the like, and she asked suspiciously: Aren't corpse hunters all taught by a generation of endorsements, what can you learn from reading books?
This made Li Chaiyuan feel a little disappointed, he wanted to see the collections of his peers, but unfortunately he didn't; At the same time, he was also a little envious, judging from Yin Meng's various details, her grandfather's level should be very high, and she received a very complete "education and teaching".
After all, his grandfather can pour good luck and follow his grandfather, at least he can eat delicious and drink spicy food every day.
In short, tonight was the most relaxed and comfortable night since leaving Nantong, and everyone was very happy and relaxed.
This feeling of relaxation lasts until it is time to arrange to fall asleep, and it is not broken.
"What, you let us sleep in the coffin?"
Tan Wenbin held his head and looked incredulous.
And Yin Meng is laying a quilt on the coffin inside.
"What's wrong? How comfortable it is to sleep in a coffin."
"Can I lay the floor outside?"
"This is on the mountain, it's cold at night, I don't have enough bedding here, it's still warm in the coffin."
Tan Wenbin muttered: "The first time I heard that warmth can be used on coffins."
The inner room is a warehouse and kitchen, with three coffins placed inside, and two in the outer store.
It's all here, so let's go to the countryside and follow the customs.
In the end, Li Chaiyuan and Runsheng slept in the two coffins outside, and Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng slept inside.
The coffin is the same as the stinky tofu, looking at the diaphragm, after lying in, it is really comfortable, and there is a sense of security in being wrapped.
Of course, the coffin lid must be uncovered for some convenience and ventilation.
Tan Wenbin quickly fell asleep, and then he heard someone scraping his coffin lid with his fingernails.
"Rustle...... Rustling ......"
Tan Wenbin was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, lifted the quilt to his face, and only dared to squint with a pair of eyes to look up.
Then, Runsheng's face appeared on it: "Hey."
"What are you doing!"
"Pee."
The toilet is behind the back room, Runsheng sleeps outside, and has to go through the back room when going to the toilet.
Tan Wenbin was so angry that he covered his face with the quilt and ignored him.
After a while, he heard a "rustling" sound coming from the coffin lid again.
Tan Wenbin began to be afraid, he felt that it would not be Runsheng again this time, who was it?
The next moment, Runsheng's face was revealed again.
"What the hell are you going to do!"
"I'm done peeing, go back to sleep and tell you."
Tan Wenbin was so angry that his teeth itched.
Finally, a little bit of drowsiness brewed again.
"Rustle...... Rustling ......"
Tan Wenbin opened his eyes and tapped the coffin lid with his hand.
The voice disappeared.
Tan Wenbin turned sideways and continued to look for sleepiness.
"Rustle...... Rustling ......"
Tan Wenbin lifted the quilt, grabbed the edge of the coffin with both hands, and sat up from the coffin.
He found that there was no one around his coffin.
Runsheng runs so fast?
Tan Wenbin swallowed his saliva, feeling a little hairy again, and did not dare to go out, but shrank back into the coffin.
"Rustle...... Rustling ......"
The voice appeared again, Tan Wenbin covered his head with the quilt, pretending not to hear, and at the same time put his feet into the quilt.
Then, the voice disappeared again.
Tan Wenbin's face continued to be stuffy in the quilt, this time he was stuffy enough for a long time, his face was sweating, and he thought that Runsheng didn't tease himself after sleeping.
He planned to catch his breath, grabbed the quilt with both hands, and planned to lift the lid quickly.
One, two, three......
The quilt on his face was lifted, but he couldn't cover it back as originally envisioned.
because
An old face, at some point, had already reached into the coffin, and just stuck to him face to face.
(End of this chapter)