Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 67 The Cave by Qiliangqiao Village
According to Ye Feiji's grandmother, when she was a child, she heard from her elders that she had seen giant snails in the cave next to the village. It was as big as a basket, weighed at least one or two hundred catties, and lived in dark underground caves for many years.This kind of giant snail can usually squat by the underground river for a month or two without moving. As long as it finds food close to the prey range, it will immediately stretch out its tentacles to catch it. Of course, this is passed down from the ancestors in the village. No one knows whether it is true or not. .

I couldn't help being very excited when I heard it, and asked her where she lived when she was a child.Grandma Ye Feiji told me that she is from Qiliangqiao, not far from Fenghuang County, and was born and raised in Qiliangqiao Village.But Grandma Ye Feiji added that she had never seen this kind of giant snail with her own eyes, and no one in the village had seen it. It was just that when she was a child, she heard that the old people in the village passed it down from generation to generation, and they told stories as a leisurely meal. No one ever tried to verify the truth. .

But it doesn't matter, just hearing the news is already half true, because the rumors are always based on a basis, and they will never be made up for no reason.I asked Grandma Ye Feiji if she could take me there, and she said that although she had entered this cave when she was a child, she hadn't made it to the end.But her brother often went in when he was a child. She said that he could take me there. Ye Feiji's grandmother's brother is also Ye Feiji's real uncle and her mother's real uncle.

After hearing this, I happily called Ye Feiji into the room a few times, telling her to get up quickly, and I will go to her uncle's house with her after breakfast.

Grandma Ye Feiji smiled, and said that Ah Tu has always liked to sleep in since she was a child, so let her sleep a little longer!That's when I found out that Ye Feiji's nickname is Ah Tu, which sounds cute too!
I asked Grandma Ye Feiji again, saying that since her home is in Qiliangqiao, why did she live here alone instead of at home?She smiled wryly after hearing this, and said with a helpless face, how could a married daughter return to her mother's house for the rest of her life, which would make people point their backs and scold.The younger brother inherited the house in the village, and the younger brother also has a son and grandson. How can she live in it? No one would dislike her!

I also sighed, Grandma Ye Feiji is also a poor person, but as for why she divorced Grandpa Ye Feiji, I am too embarrassed to ask, every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and sometimes it is really Doomed to be alone.

I changed the subject and told her that I had seen this giant snail in a deep hole in my house. The shell looked like a stone, and its mucus was extremely adherent to the stone.

Grandma Ye Feiji asked me inconceivably if I wasn't bragging!Although I have heard of this thing, no one has seen it. It is always something that only appears in stories. How can it be so easy to encounter it in reality. I am not bragging or just dreaming.

I smiled and didn't say any more. If I said a little more, I would talk about the big red-spotted snake and the sea of ​​transparent flowers, and then the gold bricks and bundles of money I hid. I don't want to tell people about these things.

But the next thing Grandma Ye Feiji told me made me feel refreshed all over. She was sleepwalking in the middle of the night in the late 60s and woke up at the entrance of the village.Seeing more than a dozen people coming out of the cave, she immediately hid in the grass. When those people came to the entrance of the cave, she knew that they were not locals.I saw these people carrying a large wooden plank, and on the wooden plank lay a large skeleton. The skeleton was at least three meters long, which meant that it was almost as tall as a floor when it was alive.But what made her think she was delusional was that there were actually two horns growing on the top of the big skull.

Those people made a big wooden box at the entrance of the cave, put the skeleton in it overnight, and carried it away on a truck parked not far away, guarded by four men with guns. She also told people about it later, but no one trust her.

Hearing the big skeleton that Grandma Ye Feiji mentioned reminded me of the evil creature on the mountain mentioned by my third uncle in Dao County.The third uncle said that he was three meters tall, his chest was covered by thick fog and black mist, he had only one eye in the middle of his forehead, and two red horns grew on the top of his head.I was wondering if this was related, otherwise how could the height and the horns be such a coincidence, I asked Grandma Ye Feiji if she knew what this big skull was.

Grandma Ye Feiji said that she had never seen the market in the mountains all her life, so how did she know what these things were, maybe they were some kind of ancient savages!
The breakfast was ready while the two of us were talking, Ye Feiji, the slob, hadn’t woken up yet, and I went into the room to call her, but she didn’t even wake up, but Xiao Jianzaki opened her eyes, and she stretched out her hand to pinch Ye Feiji’s neck The nose woke her up.

During breakfast, Ye Feiji asked me about the process of sawing the bone last night. Unexpectedly, she was so disgusted that she couldn't eat after I said a few words, and quickly told me to stop.But where did I stop when I started bragging, and kept talking, Ye Feiji simply picked up the food and brought it to the door to eat.

After dinner, we took a break, and Ye Feiji and I rode our bicycles to Qiliangqiao Village around ten o'clock. We didn't go shopping, because Grandma Ye Feiji caught two chickens and told us to bring them to her brother.On the way, I asked Ye Feiji why her nickname is Atu. If you had said earlier, I would have called you Atu directly. Ye Feiji called Ye Feiji all day long.
Ye Feiji stretched out his hand and flicked my ear hard, saying that Li Tiaohe is also very ugly!Ask me what my nickname is.To be honest, I don't know what my nickname is, or maybe I don't have a nickname!It's ugly enough for people around me to call me "brother" since I was a child.

Along the way, I chatted with Ye Feiji, and after walking for 10 minutes, I arrived at the entrance of the village. Under Ye Feiji's guidance, I entered the village and found Ye Feiji's uncle's house.

Uncle Ye Feiji's house is a house made of stone and mud bricks. Judging from the walls, it must be at least a hundred years old, and the roof must have been rebuilt.

There is a wall outside the house, and the door of the wall is a bamboo door. Ye Feiji stood at the bamboo door and shouted in. Not long after, a short old man with a puzzled expression came out of the house.

This short old man is just over 1.5 meters tall and holds a bamboo pipe in his hand. He looks very similar to Ye Feiji's grandmother, so he must be Ye Feiji's uncle at a glance.The little old man came to the bamboo door and didn't open it, but asked who we were looking for, and Ye Feiji called his uncle, which confused him.He was the same as Ye Feiji's grandmother, he hadn't seen Ye Feiji for several years and didn't recognize Ye Feiji until Ye Feiji said the names of her mother and her grandmother.

After hearing this, Uncle Ye Feiji opened the door with a smile and invited us into the house. He was the only one at home. He said that his son and daughter-in-law came back at night when they were selling clothes in Fenghuang, and the grandchildren went to school. .

Ye Feiji gave two chickens to his uncle, saying that they were brought by his grandmother. Her uncle took the chickens and asked Ye Feiji why he suddenly came to his house to play. He hasn't been here for many years. Don't come out lol!

When he asked about it, we said it straight, we came to the cave next to the village, and we were going to look for a kind of giant snail. Grandma said that you used to go there often, and wanted you to show us the way.

After hearing this, Uncle Ye Feiji asked me where the Hakka speakers were from with a puzzled look on his face. I faltered and said it was from Huayuan, because there were Hakka speakers there. I am a good person from Guangxi.Unexpectedly, Ye Feiji turned around and asked me, aren't you from Guiping, Guangxi?My face immediately turned red to the neck, Ye Feiji was like a pig teammate, but I can only add that I was born in Guiping, Guangxi.

Uncle Ye Feiji said oh, and told us in Hakka that when he was young, he often went into caves with his friends to beat bats and knock stalagmites, but he had never seen any giant snails, not even shells!I just heard the old man say it when I was young, and asked us where we heard that there were giant snails in the cave.

I can only say that it was Ye Feiji's grandmother who told it, but Ye Feiji's uncle still shook his head and waved his hands, and kept saying that there is such a thing!He has lived in this village for almost 70 years, and he has entered that cave at least a hundred times, but he has never seen it.No one else in the village has ever seen it before. It's just a miracle made up by telling stories. What do you eat for such a big snail? Even if you shit, there will be traces left behind!

Hearing Uncle Ye Feiji say this, it shows that he doesn't believe there is such a thing in the cave, let alone he has seen it, at least he has entered the cave hundreds of times, and his words are of certain reference value.At least it shows that there will never be a giant devil snail in the place that can be easily entered in the cave. It is estimated that there are other unexpected passages hidden deep in the cave, so even if you go in tens of thousands of times, you will never encounter it.

I asked him whether the cave was far from the village, how deep the cave was, or how long it would take to walk from the entrance to the end of the cave.

Uncle Ye Feiji told me that the cave is on the edge of the village, and the depth of the cave is only five to six kilometers, and it takes about an hour to go in.

I remembered the cave I entered with the police at home. We walked all night, and the depth was estimated to be at least [-] to [-] kilometers. We went to the bottom of the Xunjiang River in Guiping County. Only giant snails exist in such caves.

The hole Ye Feiji mentioned is indeed a bit shallower than the one in my house, but I am more willing to believe that the local rumors are well-founded. Otherwise, why would it be called a giant snail? It can be said to be a big snake, a big bat, a savage monster or something. , but it is a giant snail, which proves that someone has really seen it.

However, Uncle Ye Feiji kept denying it, probably because he didn’t want to waste our efforts by taking us in to find things that didn’t exist, but I’m so smart and I still have a way.

Looking at the conditions in the house, I knew that Uncle Ye Feiji’s family was not well-off, so I asked him to help me find three people to take me into the cave, 50 yuan per person.Uncle Ye Feiji's eyes lit up when he heard this, and his tone immediately changed. He might not have been willing to enter the cave for no reason before, because he didn't believe there were giant snails in it.Now there is money to be made, regardless of whether he has giant snails, anyway, he can get money once he enters it, which is ten times better than planting a day.

He immediately took out the cigarette pouch and handed it to me politely. I said I don’t smoke, and he took it back, saying that there is no need to ask for three people. The 150 yuan for three people is not necessary. Just ask him for 50 yuan per person. It will save me [-] yuan. .

I couldn't help laughing when I heard this, this little old man is very smart, cunning and cunning!But I don't care, I still have more than 6000 yuan on me!

(End of this chapter)