Archaeological Notes

Chapter 14 Snowman
I don't know which way people came from, but when we were concentrating on the patterns on the stone wall, they took the opportunity to frantically set fire at the entrance of the cave, and the battle was going to burn us alive!Piles of straw and dry pine wood were piled up at the entrance of the cave, accompanied by a strong smell of kerosene.The fire at the entrance of the cave was raging, and the scarlet flames were heading towards us, and the smoke became thicker and thicker. Taking a sip, it was so spicy that I burst into tears.

I turned around in a panic, not sure if I was roasted or came out in a hurry. Sweat was pouring out, my mind was a little confused, and I couldn't speak quickly: "Monk! Don't you be Sijiucheng!" Is your enemy catching up? If our boat capsizes in this gutter, we might as well piss and drown, isn’t it too useless?”

"Fart!" The monk said not to be outdone, but hurriedly retreated into the depths of the cave with the scar in his arms, "Buddha, when I was in Beijing, I always made good friends, and the Liangzi made by Brother Scar is not here. At least, it's unlikely that there will be enemies coming. Speaking of this, his voice suddenly raised a few degrees: "What the fuck is this pus bag, the Yangshan eats grass, and the Yinshan shits—it's bad behind the scenes? "

Dao Scar also recovered at this time, staring at the entrance of the cave with a solemn expression, I asked if I could rush out of this situation, but he shook his head: "I have seen it before when I came to the Northeast, and some mountain villages used soil methods to smoke out The wild boars in winter in the cave, not counting the fire at the entrance of the cave, will hang a few large earthen pots on the fire, filled with kerosene, in case the wild boars escape, they will be broken. If we fight, As soon as they rushed to the entrance of the cave, they would be doused by the kerosene in the overhead tank, and they would be burnt immediately without even the skin."

I heard that my scalp was hardened, and I felt a burning pain, but Tian Rui suggested that since the people in the cave escaped, it means that there is no way out of the cat's ear hole. Let's look for it, maybe There are exits.

Several people immediately dispersed and searched for every inch of land in the cave one by one. I have poor eyesight with glasses, and I can't see why in the dim light. The sound coming from it is chilling, it is all solid, and it seems that there will be no interlayer or the like.The cave was filled with smog and the visibility was extremely low. Only a few vague figures could be seen looming in it. Because of the delay in finding a way out, pessimism and disappointment surged into my heart, and I felt a little dizzy on my forehead.

"Ouch, there is a door!" The monk was in charge of searching the corner of the stone wall, but at this moment he yelled, with uncontrollable excitement, we ran over to have a look, and saw him squatting in the southwest corner, the soil on the ground was scraped by him It spreads out in all directions, revealing a circular animal head ring.

The monk rolled up his sleeves, steadied his horse, and with a strong lift, the round iron cover on the ground was lifted, and underneath was a small dark hole, as thick as a bucket.

I was still hesitating whether to enter or not, and the monk went down first. The funny thing is that he is really tall and big, with a thick waist and round arms. Scar helped to press down on his shoulders hard, and the whole talent was finally "stuffed" in. In the burrow.I looked back at the fire at the entrance of the cave, and it didn't weaken at all, and I didn't care about the current situation. I was afraid of wolves and tigers, and it was important to escape, so I hurriedly followed Dao Scar Tianrui down into the cave.Scar was careful, and covered the round iron cover with some floating soil, and covered the hole when he lowered it, probably to prevent the smoke from outside from pouring into the hole.

After the four of them got down, the surroundings were dark and the space was narrow, and they felt a little crowded, and it was difficult to turn around.Scar turned on the battery and looked forward, which was a hole in the earth.Due to the hasty digging, it was only half a person's height high, and the fibrous roots of some plants were messily exposed outside the soil wall, and the direction seemed to be heading towards the village.

"What now?" I asked, letting them decide.

"What else can I do?" The monk was standing in front of the cave, "Climb! Wherever you go, it counts."

"Then what if I can't get out?" I was still a little worried.

The monk was completely speechless to me, and he didn't bother to talk to me anymore. After obtaining Scar's consent, he took the lead in crawling towards the front of the cave.I was in second place, and following the monk, I felt that the atmosphere was a bit dry.I can't help but feel a little downcast, lamenting that I am useless to this point, and my indecision is endless.Dao Scar and Tian Rui followed behind me, and the four of them crawled forward in silence, only the sound of knees and elbows scraping against the ground could be heard.

When this person is in a desperate situation, he should not be extremely optimistic, nor should he be too pessimistic in it.The earth cave was longer than I imagined, and there was no heresy along the way, and I didn’t know how far I climbed. I only felt that my knees were numb, but the monk exclaimed excitedly: "There is light ahead! "

This sentence undoubtedly gave us a shot in the arm. They were instantly full of strength and moved quickly. When they climbed out of their heads, they realized that there seemed to be a square tomb in front of them.

The top of the head was covered by some burnt black wooden boards, a few rays of light came in, mixed with snowflakes falling on my face, the icy coolness made people sober.There is no coffin in the tomb, and there are no extra funeral objects except for a few rotten earthen jars. The pattern should be the modern burial system, and the customs are quite similar to the burial style in the village. It may be the father's generation of the old man in the village.

However, this is not what I care about. I only want to escape quickly. The tomb room is not raised very high, so I grabbed the corner of the wall and rubbed hard, and climbed to the ground.When Scar and the others climbed out, they looked at each other and couldn't help laughing, and most of the fatigue disappeared immediately.The few of us looked disheartened, as if we were born out of a desperate situation in a mine disaster, and those who didn't know really regarded us as coal diggers.

We stood in a pile of ruins, because we didn't know where it was, and when we looked around, we saw the whole world covered in silver and white snow.I couldn't figure it out for a while, I just felt that the surrounding scenery was very familiar. After finally getting out of the pile of ruins, I didn't walk a few steps, and when I looked up, I saw a child standing in front of me.

The child was braided up to the sky, and he was wearing a small padded jacket with wintersweet flowers on the red background. He was holding a pair of iron rings in his hands.Seeing us, I was stunned for a moment, and then yelled: "Ghost!" Throwing down the iron ring, he ran away.

This time, not only me, but also the monk was turned into a two-foot-two, but the brother and sister Dao Scar didn't seem to be surprised, and they still walked forward.The monk tilted his head and couldn't figure it out: "Isn't this fucking weird? People thought they were ghosts in broad daylight. Could it be that the tunnel we climbed out of just now led to hell? We're all dead. It's inside, and only this soul is left to wander?"

The monk said that this is too unreasonable. Something popped up in my mind at the moment, and the two images slowly overlapped. I looked around and found that I had returned to the ghost village, and the pile of ruins we crawled out of just now , I didn't expect it to be the ancestral hall that caught fire earlier in the village!

Recalling the tomb just now, I realized in an instant that there is such an unknown secret buried directly under the ancestral hall. A tunnel leads directly from the village ancestral hall to the cliff in the north of the village. Who built it?For what purpose?The "egg" that Scar carried out from the ruins that night was probably stolen from the tomb. The muddy water hidden under the surface has become increasingly muddy in the eyes of an outsider like me.

When I think of this, my head turns muddy, and I regret that I didn't take a closer look at the tomb.At this time, Dao Scar was also rushing ahead, and the monk and I followed quickly. After a few steps, we passed the entrance of the village, and saw a large group of people gathered there, talking about something.As soon as I saw the big locust tree, I suddenly thought of it. Slanting Eyes San was hanged overnight, and I didn't know if he was dead or alive, so I almost ran all the way and rushed over.

More than a dozen people surrounded the locust tree, chirping and chatting. As soon as I got to the edge of the crowd, I realized that the atmosphere was a bit off.The monk gestured to look at the tree, and I understood it all at once, my heart beat faster and my breathing became heavier.

There was only a severed rope hanging from the locust tree, dangling there, but the squint-eyed three underneath had disappeared.

I asked Scar on the side, "Where did Slant Eyes Three's body go?"

This question, I can say was soft-spoken, didn't use much effort, but I didn't want to be heard by the group of people watching around the tree.The scene was reversed 360 degrees, and I only felt a "huo", and the villagers looked at us in unison. Not only me, but the monk was startled by the sudden formation, and my throat felt a little dry immediately.

Scar had already sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and gave us a wink, motioning to back off.I saw that the way the villagers looked at us changed, it was no longer pure and benign, but full of resentment and hatred.

The monk was still in the mood to speak: "It's not kind."

"Bullshit!" Dao Scar murmured, "Don't forget that we are the ones who came, Cao Xuan, be smart when you move your hands in a while, if the momentum is not right, just remember to put oil on the soles of your feet."

I was just about to ask if there was something I couldn't say, so I had to do something, when an old man came out from the crowd opposite, it was Master Shuan.Pulling a face, cloudy or cloudy, looking at who is not pleasing to the eye, suddenly pointed at us with the walking stick in his hand: "Tell me, where did you toss San'er's body!"

"Hehe!" Seeing this question, the monk was honest and blunt, "We respect you for calling you 'Grandpa', but don't think of yourself as a ninety-five respect! Which eye did you see us stealing the corpse? Is it? Don’t accuse good people wrongly.”

"Hey." Master Shuanzi smiled slyly: "This village belongs to me. I say whoever stole it will steal it." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand, "Tie up these bastards!"

Immediately, more than a dozen big men holding pickaxes and ropes surrounded us in a fan shape.Monk Dao Scar probably had a lot of fights, the two of them rolled up their sleeves, not angry but arrogant, the monk completely lost his previous loose look, and said angrily: "Your mother? , you insist on making trouble with us, because we are corpse thieves?" The implication was that he wanted to fight.

The people in the village seem to have lost their temper at this moment. People like jackals want to skin us and tear us apart. There must be some misunderstanding in this.But this kind of tense scene did not allow me to explain anything, I hurriedly backed away in shock, Tian Rui stood in front of me, looked back and said coldly: "Don't get in the way, just run away on your own, don't worry about us , these few people can still handle it."

The big man with a scarf on the left has already rushed to the front. Without any explanation, he swung the shovel in his hand and chopped off at the monk's head. It was obvious that he was serious!The monk was taken aback for a moment, maybe he didn't expect his opponent to strike so hard in advance, he raised his thick eyebrows, widened his eyes, and fell to the ground with the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves, tripping the man to the ground.The timing was just right, when the man was brought down, the big hands like iron pincers twisted his arm, the man let go because he couldn't bear the pain, the monk instantly grabbed the shovel, rounded his arm and slapped the man with the shovel. The man on the ground fainted.Standing up and looking around at the crowd, "Is it fighting? Don't really think that I am a vegetarian. Let me open your eyes today. If you continue to be indiscriminate, I will give you a taste of the powerful vajra palm."

The monk's move was aimed at intimidating everyone, and it obviously worked. A group of people froze in place, looking at the monk with some fear.My heart relaxed a little, and I thought the situation would be eased, but a burst of laughter came from behind the crowd, which made me feel very uncomfortable, it was Master Shuanzi.The old man didn't know which muscle was wrong, but he wanted to put us to death, his trembling beard was trembling: "Hand over the things, and you can leave this village safely, if not, you will all die!"

Master Shuanzi was uncharacteristically different from his previous attitude towards us. His words sent chills down my spine and my eyelids twitched.Dao Scar naturally wouldn't be frightened by him, and took a step forward: "We should be juniors and call you Master Shuan, but you can't run the train with your mouth full. Don't take a good look at his dead body with squinting eyes, and run away in the middle of the night." What’s the matter? Bullying us foreigners?”

"Stop pretending to be ignorant there." Master Shuan took Dao Scar's remarks as farts, "It's Chinese New Year, we don't have any scenery in this corner, what are you doing in this village? There must be What shameful little Jiujiu, do you really think my old man is blind?"

"We are still here for sightseeing." The monk gritted his teeth and refused to admit it, shouting: "You're not bragging, you will kill people? There is no proof, I don't believe you, you dare to kill us. Besides, you have that Ability? I want to see if the ground trembles if I stomp my foot."

Master Shuanzi was so angry that he was trembling all over, his crutches pushed the ground out of a small hole, and he refused to let it go, I thought about it for a while.Scar is with us these days, last night I deliberately didn’t sleep well, the door of his room was never opened, it stands to reason that he doesn’t have that time, besides, he can’t afford to steal Eyesan’s body, and he can’t go back to Beijing and sell it to a museum For people to visit.Could it be the vat he stole from the tomb of the ancestral hall that night?But it doesn't seem right, if Master Shuan knew that there was a hidden cave under the ancestral hall, he could have searched for it in a dignified manner that night when the fire broke out. It can be seen that this is not what he was referring to.

More than a dozen people, divided into two groups, outflanked us and surrounded us in the middle. Because of fear of the hands and feet of the monk and Scar, they dared not make a move.It didn't take long after the stalemate like this, at this moment, a young man ran out of the field in a panic, it was Liu Maodi, and he said something in Uncle Shuan's ear. , Wen Zhi's complexion changed drastically, as if someone had poured a basin of cold water, and stood on the spot blankly.

It took a few seconds for him to come back to his senses, he beat his chest and felt furious, looking anxious, he turned and pointed to the Daxing'an Mountains in the distance, "Quick! Chase that girl for me and drive her back. If it's too late, it's too late. Everything is over. !"

The group of people didn't react at first, and then they didn't know what happened to them. They left us and headed towards the direction of the mountain.Master Shuanzi glanced at us, and didn't bother to pay attention to it. He hurriedly followed the team into the mountain, as if he was going to do some urgent business.

The monk didn't understand either, so he wanted to ask Dao Scar, but he interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "It's not too late, let's go back to the hotel to clean up, there is no time, and there is nothing to stay in this village."

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"Let's go into the mountain too." Scar let out a long breath, then turned around and walked towards the hotel.In fact, I can't decide what to do, so I can only let him go. Although I was full of complaints, I had to follow him back to the hotel.

Hurrying back, Dao Scar pushed open the firewood gate and entered the yard. I saw a thick layer of snow on the ground, and several snowmen were piled up in the snow, emitting a strange light.I didn't notice it at first, but when I passed a fat snowman with a big head, I couldn't bear it and my feet slipped, and I staggered and fell forward.

In a hurry, I had to open my arms and pounce on the snowman. With a bang, the snowflakes rose and I fell to the ground.The snowman was crushed to pieces by me, but suddenly felt as if he was holding a ball in his arms.

When I came back to my senses and looked into my arms, I was so scared that I almost passed out!It was a skinned human face lying in my arms, with a pair of blood-red pupils staring at me lifelessly.

(End of this chapter)