Archaeological Notes

Chapter 5 Ghoul Village

I seemed to have entered a strange nightmare, and I couldn't get out of it. First, I dreamed that I was standing under the sun, and then I was drinking from a gourd and ladle of cows in front of a jar of water, which made my stomach burst.Then the monk broke into my dream again, with a fierce spirit like never before, without the appearance of Maitreya Buddha at all.They took a hammer and beat me with bruises and bruises all over my body, and broke all my bones, and threw me into a random graveyard, telling me that every day should not be done, and that the earth would not work.Then, I found that dead bodies crawled out of the nearby graves, and they came to fix my bones, saying that they all died unjustly, and wanted to fix their bones for me to avenge them.In the end they said they would introduce my daughter-in-law to me. I was so happy that I couldn’t find the north, but when I took off the red hijab, I saw a wrinkled and rotten face full of pus, a zombie bride who had been dead for an unknown number of years...

I yelled, opened my eyes suddenly, and saw the stars above my head, and the monk's bald head reflecting the bright moonlight.I sat up all of a sudden, and the moist night wind blew my cheeks, and the whole body slowly woke up.

The monk smiled at me, "My little ancestor, you are awake, your father and I have not lost our strength on this journey, if it weren't for me, your kid would have died in that cave of thousands of corpses, and now he is designated to float there. "

Only then did I realize that we had already arrived at a ferry, and the moon was shining brightly behind us, and Zhongxin Cliff was already far away from us.Scar sat next to me smoking a cigarette in silence, seeing that I woke up, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.The equipment brought this time has also lost a lot, and Tian Rui is counting each piece.Although the monk had a hole in his stomach, he had covered it up and said it was nothing serious, just a little skin trauma.My head was in a daze, and I closed my eyes and thought about it for a long time. Those weird things that happened in the Cave of Thousand Corpses slowly came to my mind like old silent movies.

The first doubt that popped up was what happened during the period when I fainted. I asked the monk, but he said, "Your boy, are you a high-achieving student at the kindergarten level, or are you a frog head with congenital Mongolian disease? Call you Damn don't forget to look at the white jade platform later, if you don't believe it, it almost implicated us all in that corpse hole."

I didn't believe it anymore, "That stone platform is not a woman's butt, what's wrong with it?"

"The evil spirits are imprisoned and sealed in that stone platform. We all have our eyes closed. If you look at it directly, you will definitely lose your mind." Scar cleared his throat and coughed again, "Water is always moving." Inconvenience, you've been tricked again, if it wasn't for the monk, would you still be sitting here safe and sound?"

I think about it too, the situation at the bottom of the pool is limited, and it is impossible to explain it to me in detail.After thinking about it, there was another thing that I couldn't figure out. When I was about to ask Scar, he interrupted me halfway.

"I know what you want to ask. If you take my money, just follow me. Don't ask if you shouldn't." A coldness flashed across his face, and I suddenly felt that he was strange. "When the time is right, you will know it naturally."

He stood up again, looking at the village not far away, under the night, there were little sparks.Dao Scar said that he was resting in the advanced village, and he would say it after recovering his strength. Along the way, I felt very uncomfortable, so I could only follow behind silently with my equipment on my shoulders.

After entering the village, I found an inn to rest. The owner of the inn was an old lady named Xie who was so old that no one could guess her age.She also has a granddaughter named Yixiang, who is studying abroad and is returning to the village for the summer vacation to celebrate the New Year.The condition of the hotel is mediocre, the room exudes a musty smell, but Nian is no better than at home when he is on the go, and there is nothing to be picky about.

The sky has turned pale, and even a hard-nosed man can't bear to smear the march all night long.Yixiang brought pimple soup, I ate some while it was hot, and as soon as my head touched the pillow, I dreamed of Duke Zhou.I just woke up at noon, and the monk knocked on the door and came in, saying that Dao Scar wanted me to do something in the afternoon.

When it was time to eat, Yixiang was clever and prepared a rich lunch, authentic farm food.Braised Hericium erinaceus in brown sauce, braised wild vegetables with fatty pork, stewed chicken with mushrooms, and a plate of caviar.The bowls are all fake, oily and watery, and served with two rice, the four of them ate happily.

The weather is fine today, Grandma Xie moved a bamboo chair and sat in front of the door to bask in the sun, with a big lazy black cat lying in her arms.After eating and drinking, Scar was picking his teeth, so he had a fight with the old man, "Grandma," Scar said with a courteous expression, probably pretending to be a cliché, "I was just wondering, what do you call this place? Ghoul Village sounds ominous."

Unexpectedly, Grandma Xie was not blind, pretending to be confused, she raised her thick eyelids and looked at the scar: "It's not that I was blind, since I married this Gada, the village has been named after this."

"Grandma, why don't you chatter?" The monk pulled a bench and sat in front of the grandma, "There must be a story, right?"

Probably Grandma Xie recognized that the monk's accent was from the Northeast, she leaned lazily on the chair, and slowly closed her eyes, "If you want to tell stories in the village, you can't stop chatting for three days and three nights. Why is it called this name, ghouls have indeed appeared in our village!"

"Ghoul?" I thought to myself, "Is there really such a thing?"

"Why not!" Yixiang, who was wearing an apron and clearing away the dishes on the table, interjected, "In the big ancestral hall in our village, there are two corpses enshrined. It is said that they have no heads. They are always bluffing! Enjoy the blessings of incense all the year round. Our village is in good weather."

After Yixiang finished speaking, Grandma Xie curled her lips, thought for a while and let out a sigh of relief, "The first day you came here, you don't know what's going on in the village." Many, people in the village often disappear for no apparent reason, and they were kidnapped by the ghouls under Master Bang!"

"Ghoul?" "Abduction?"

"That's not true," Grandma Xie seemed to think of something, "Three years ago, five people came to our village, saying they belonged to the Provincial Geological Exploration Brigade. They went to Daxing'anling to look for oil, and they lived in our shop. There were corpses in the ridge. Ghost, but those people are so stubborn, I can’t listen to the old lady, and they can’t listen to it, and they never come out again. Later, it is said that they were eaten by ghouls. The legs are horrible!"

"Then who is Mr. Bang?" Dao Scar couldn't help interjecting.

"Master Bang..." Grandma Xie fell into deep thought, "It's been a long, long time ago. During the years of fighting the Japanese devils, there were two bandits in Xing'an Mountains..."

According to Grandma Xie, during the Anti-Japanese War, a group of bandits roamed in the Xing'an Mountains, robbing houses, raping and looting.Unlike other thieves and bandits, this group worships the Eighteenth Arhat Bronze Master.The leaders are the two brothers of the Guo family, who have great magical powers and are able to compete with each other to win Xiang Yu.In those years, warlords fought in melee, and hungry may be everywhere. There is a saying that "heroes everywhere rise from everywhere, and if you have a gun, you are the grass head king".In its heyday, it had grown to two or three hundred people, and built a "fotou village" in Daxinganling as the base camp.They drink big bowls, eat big pieces of meat, and occasionally do justice for the sky, so happy!

It is rumored that these gangsters possess a kind of invulnerability ability-shen strike.

After eating the talisman, the flesh and blood can compete with the sword, and everyone has copper skin and iron bones.Even if you invite Lord Arhat to get on your body, even if your power is not dissipated, you will not be harmed at all.There are even rumors that the two masters of the Guo family have perfect physical countermeasures, and they can go back with bullets in their arms in front of machine guns.

They also have established rules. Not only do they have a set of slang words, but they also have unheard of ways to command and fight with the enemy.The Guo brothers hollowed out a paulownia tree and made it into a big bang. The person holding the bang gave orders, and only the brothers in Fotouzhai could understand it.The other gangsters were beaten so dizzy and frightened by the news that people on the road called them "bang bandits".

They were all rebels, and Xing'an Mountains became their second home. Later, I heard that this group of brigands discovered an ancient tomb of the Jin Dynasty in Xing'an Mountains, and hid all the treasures they took away in it. , The amount is so huge that it is rumored that whoever gets it will be rich as an enemy.

In the following years, the rulers of the three provinces in the Northeast changed one after another. After the "September [-]th Incident", the Japanese invaders took advantage of a puppet regime established in the Northeast by the former Emperor Aixinjueluo Puyi.At first, it was regarded as a serious problem, but it became more and more serious, but it became more and more courageous.The Guo brothers had experienced many battles and were familiar with the art of war. They broke up with the regular army as soon as they fought, and fled to the primeval jungle of Daxing'an Mountains to deal with them. They had a guerrilla habit.

Unexpectedly, the good times didn't last long, a traitor appeared in this group of gangsters, and the leaking of the secret attracted the Japanese to encircle and suppress frantically.The devils found Fotou Village in Daxing'anling, and the war between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out.Although the kidnappers were all brave and good at fighting, the enemy had an absolute advantage in terms of equipment and numbers, and under the guidance of the traitor, they formed an encirclement circle with the help of the terrain.Due to the favorable timing and location of Fotouzhai, the Japanese did everything they could to set fire to it if they were unable to attack for a long time. The battle started from early morning until evening, and countless bandits were killed and injured.

In this tough battle, the sky was dark and the sky was dark, and the sun and the moon were dark. The Guo brothers led the "Eighteen King Kong" to form a sword team and started a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy.The two bloody men, after the brothers around them fell one by one, still leaned against each other with their backs, fighting bloody battles.Since the battle started in the early morning, the poor two brothers have not touched a grain of rice and fought on an empty stomach.Then the divine power gradually faded, and the enemy didn't give him a chance to breathe, so he didn't have time to eat the talisman at all.Therefore, when it was dark, the two brothers were captured alive by the Japanese.

The Japanese coveted the wealth in the ancient tombs of the Jin Dynasty in the Xing'an Mountains, and they tried to pry out the location of the ancient tombs from the mouths of the two brothers. Don't bow your head.Later, the Japanese got tired and wanted to execute the two of them. Unexpectedly, the bullet failed to penetrate the head before the divine power dissipated! !

Later, someone made a move and escorted the two brothers to the river bank, where they were held down tightly by a dozen strong men.The devils were frantic, and picked up pebbles the size of washbasins and smashed the heads of the Guo brothers over and over again, but they were flesh and blood, so how could they be caused by such an external force? Sadly, the heads of the two brothers were smashed open, and eventually died young.

Although these gangsters were vicious and vicious, they were not in vain, and finally saved the country's property from falling into the hands of the Japanese.Later, other bandits who hid in Daxing'an Mountains stole the body of the Guo brothers because of their admiration for their character. They built a large ancestral hall in this ghoul village and put the body in it for future generations to worship...

The few of us were fascinated by it, and Grandma Xie sighed heavily after she finished telling the story, as if it was crushed in our hearts, "The two masters have repaired the golden body, and the villagers say that even the corpse does not rot. !"

"Oh?" Dao Scar suddenly became interested, "Is there such a thing as death without melting?"

Yixiang cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks in the kitchen, and when she came out, she wiped her hands and said, "That's right, there is a Guiyan Ridge in the north of the village, it's a group of ancient tombs, when the educated youths went to the countryside, broken four It's old, someone pried it open, and the corpse inside is so fresh and alive, it's frightening to death."

Yixiang's girl looked innocent, she didn't know if he was lying, and chatted with Grandma Xie for a while, and the village got a general idea.Scar asked us to go to his room to discuss and draw up plans for the afternoon.It is said that our outfit, when we come to Gada in the ghost village, others will not look like a tourist, it is too eye-catching, just in case, we have to use an identity to cover it up.Farmers nowadays are not stupid. If they suspect that we are here to fight against each other, they will report it to the public security organs. You Cao Xuan are fine. I, Tian Baoyan, were caught by Lei Zi. If I fail, I will go to jail.

I thought about it too, I couldn’t show off when I went to the village, so I asked him what to do, he looked at me thoughtfully, and said that I had to rely on the help of me, the station manager of the garbage collection station.

I disguised myself with Dao Scar and the monk. I felt how shabby and shabby I was. I tied a towel on my head, and the monk laughed when he saw it: "What's wrong? Are you still a railway guerrilla? "

Dao Scar also shook his head after seeing it, laughing at me that I am too inexperienced, if you go out with this outfit, the people in the village may think you are stealing landmines.

I replaced the down jacket with an old cotton-padded jacket, messed up my hair, lighted a cigarette for me to drank from the scar, and thought about why it was a bit of a philistine, so the three of them left the hotel with a big basket on their backs.Tian Rui still stayed in the store, because Dao Scar felt that the old woman was hiding something and didn't say anything, so she had to think of a way to get something out of it.

The whole afternoon, I was so tired that I almost broke my waist. The three of them dressed up as rag collectors, went from house to house, and took a big tour of the ghoul village.Collecting waste is naturally my special event, and the various prices are clear at a glance, and the villagers are haggling with each other, blowing the hype.Dao Scar smoked on the sidelines and inquired about the village's unofficial history from time to time. It was not until sunset that he returned with a basket full of broken copper and iron, and finally got a little understanding of this mysterious small village.

The village is not small, but there are not many people. There are many collapsed houses, and even some good adobe houses are uninhabited. The basil in the yard can be raised by one person.It is understood that there are only about [-] households in the ghoul village, so even in the daytime it feels gloomy.

Scar dumped all the rags in his room and piled them up into a hill. I took a quick look and found some miscellaneous things such as scrap wires, plastic pipes, and black and white TV sets.However, compared to the bountiful harvest, the hard work this afternoon is worth it.Some villagers are ignorant of goods. They have antiques handed down from their ancestors in their homes, but they are sold to us as scraps.I counted, two Yuan blue and white plum vases with cloud and dragon patterns, one eight trigrams cylinder-shaped incense burner, and another Ming Dynasty inlaid gold-patterned lin bird blunderbuss.These things are all in high demand. If you bring them back to Shenyang Road in Tianjin, you are guaranteed to get a good price.

The scar on the other hand was obviously a drunkard who didn't care about drinking. After searching among the broken copper and iron, he muttered to himself: "Why not?"

There seemed to be other meanings in his words, when I was about to ask him, there was a knock on the door, and Tian Rui came in after the monk opened the door.

Scar went up to meet him, and Tian Rui whispered to him for a while, and I clearly saw a hint of joy on Scar's face.It was getting late, and then Scar told us to go back to our rooms to rest and get down to business tomorrow.I was really tired today, and my bones all over my body were brittle, so I took some water to wash up, and went to bed to rest.

In the early morning of the next day, I was having a good dream, but someone knocked on the door with a loud "dong dong!", as if there was something urgent.I put on my clothes and opened the door to see that it was a monk.Early in the morning, he was already sweating profusely, and he didn't know what to do. He just said, "There is a grave in the village that was torn apart by lightning last night. Brother Scar asked you to go and have a look together."

(End of this chapter)