Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 25 Human Legs
  "Don't you know it's dangerous here? Why did a person come here and open a pothole?!"

A middle-aged man in coarse linen clothes led a young man over quickly, shouting:
  "You little girl are so unruly. You are a child of Tu Laoer's family."

"Then you shouldn't come here. Does your second uncle know that you are here!?"

The visitors obviously knew me, but I had been studying abroad for a long time, so I didn’t have a deep impression of them.

But this still doesn't affect me. I judge why they are here based on their clothes:

".You two secretly opened a kiln in the back mountain?"

The middle-aged man stepped forward very seriously and wanted to push me down the mountain. After hearing my words, his hands shook and he stopped moving.

The young man obviously did not have the determination of the middle-aged man, and he was shocked:
  "Uncle Zhou! She, how did she know we were secretly opening a kiln here?!"

"Wouldn't it be over if someone finds out? Our village chief shouts over the loudspeaker every year that we can't come to the old kiln site in the back mountain. If we are caught, we will be expelled from the family tree, right?"

"How about we kill this little girl?"

The middle-aged man slapped the young man directly on the head. This blow was so powerful that it immediately knocked the young man's head to one side.

Uncle Zhou cursed angrily:
  "Do you have a person?! This is a neighbor in our village! In terms of seniority, you have to call her cousin! Do you still want to do something to your cousin?"

The young man was stunned, and it took him a long time to utter the other half of his previous sentence:
  ".Send her down the mountain and give her some money, so she won't tell anything about it."

The sound was very low, but it still did not affect the three people standing on the ground looking at each other.

After a long while, I took the lead to break the awkwardness:
  "Uncle Zhou, I won't tell anyone."

Uncle Zhou rubbed his big hands and looked a little uncomfortable:
  "You don't need to call me uncle. I'm the same generation as you. Just call me Brother Zhou."

"I have had a stupid son to raise at home these past few years. Money is really tight. I remembered that my father taught me how to pinch a bowl when he was young, so I decided to come here and try my luck."

"By the way, why did Miss Bai come to this old cave dwelling today?"

I shook my head:

"No, let's just call them by age, otherwise I won't get used to it."

"I want to go down to the cave today and find something."

"You opened the kiln secretly, and I opened the cave entrance myself. We are so incompetent, and I will never tell anyone."

After hearing what I said, the young man's eyes suddenly lit up:
  "Uncle Zhou, did you hear? My cousin is going down too!"

"Then can we go down together and collect the mud!?"

It turned out that these two people really wanted to dig out the soil and open a bowl kiln secretly. Could it be that they wanted to create the kind of magical bowls and dishes that could last a long time?
  I thought thoughtfully and said, "How about together? Have you brought your equipment?"

The young man named Xiao Wen had already surrounded me and almost wanted to explain his family for three lifetimes. When he heard what I said, he suddenly became very happy and took out the backpack he had been preparing for a long time:

"Bring it with you, I've prepared it! We have ropes, climbing axes, spikes, shoes, barrels and everything!"

I nodded:
  "Okay, as long as you have these equipment, at least you won't be delayed in running."

"To be honest, I went down to find the skeleton of a baby that was dumped here. It might be a bit evil, so be careful."

Perhaps thinking of the previous rumors about hauntings here, and hearing what I said, the faces of the two people across from me turned green and red, and there was obvious fear on Xiaowen's face.

After a long time, Uncle Zhou said:

"Don't worry, sister, I know your family is engaged in the underworld business, I won't hold you back!" In the end, the three of us hit it off, leaving Xiao Wen to ensure logistics, and Uncle Zhou and I went down the tunnel along the old mountain road.

Since the power equipment was no longer available, the two of us could only put on protective belts and use the most basic roller skating ropeway to go down.

Almost as soon as he entered the pit, a gloomy wind hit his face, and then he felt a biting chill that penetrated his bones.

Uncle Zhou insisted on taking the lead at first, but at this time he was a little timid and whispered:
  "This pothole is actually so cold."

He thought the sound was very soft, but in fact, in the pit that was no more than the width of his arms, the echo was amplified countless times.

As soon as these words came out, even Xiao Wen, who was already very nervous above, heard the sound and pulled the rope repeatedly to ask about the situation below.

I pulled the rope to show that it was okay, and then walked down for about two hundred meters before reaching the bottom of the pothole.

The bottom of the pit is very dark, but you can still vaguely see that there are passages in left and right directions, one going straight to the left and the other going down to the right.

But no matter which direction it is, the light of the miner's lamp is unfathomable and unfathomable.

Uncle Zhou opened another head-mounted miner's lamp and handed it to me. Only then did I realize that there was a big problem with the height of the holes in both directions. The diameter was only about 1.2 meters at most. A normal adult would have to bend to enter the hole. Walk with your waist bent on the ground.

The further we walked into the tunnel, the colder it became.

Uncle Zhou tightened his clothes and asked me in a low voice:
  "Sister Bai, which way do you think you want to go?"

I originally hunched that the child's bones should be at the bottom of the main pit, but when I glanced around, I found no trace of the bones.

After thinking for a few seconds, I estimated that the bones should have rolled into the hole on the right due to the downward force. I pointed to the right. Uncle Zhou only hesitated for a few seconds and said:
  "Okay, then go to the right. That section goes down, it must be closer to the groundwater, and the mud will be more moist and easy to use."

We hit it off again, but this time it was me who took the lead.

Let me tell you the reason.
  Uncle Zhou is 1.78 meters tall, while I am only 1.55 meters tall.
  In this small pothole, my height obviously has an advantage.

I could only unload the heavy equipment on me into the main mine, reduce my load, and then plunge into the downward mine.

I said I was diving in headfirst, but I was really diving in headfirst, until I turned from squatting to prone, and then from prone to lying down, and kept moving forward for five or six minutes.

I was shocked to realize that the environment around me was getting smaller and smaller, and the most terrible thing was——

I'm always in a head-down position!
  The darkness in this narrow descending pit almost swallowed up all the light from the miner's lamp on his head.

I didn't even need to raise my head to check the scene in front of me, but I knew that the scene in front of me must be even narrower.

And after maintaining this head-down position for a long time, blood all over the body accumulated on the head, and large black spots appeared in front of the eyes, which was the precursor of hypoxia and dizziness.
  The rocks in the cave were close to my back and chest. I don't know if it was a psychological effect. I could even feel that the walls around me began to squirm and shrink when I made a slight movement.

Like a dog that swallows food into its belly——

gut.

I was startled by the sudden thoughts in my mind, and I was horrified. The feeling of uneasiness that had been felt since I went into the pothole reached its peak at this moment.

I directly pulled the rope around my waist and shouted at a higher volume:

"Uncle Zhou! Pull me quickly"

The sound stopped suddenly, because during my movement, the lights above me swept randomly, allowing me to barely see the scene in front of me clearly.

Not far in front of me——

It’s a pair of human legs!
  　Timid babies can hide in the author's arms~~~~
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)