Chapter 5: Dark Moon and Windy Night
Shorty's whistle is very loud, but unfortunately are out of tune, very difficult to hear, with the sound of the reservoir water wrinkled waves, it is easy to remind people of the cloaked female ghost.
I kicked the shorty, scolded him: "What the hell are you blowing blowing, ghosts cry like wolves, the living can ask you to scare out of ghosts".
Shorty grinned at me, a naive look, he looked also a little scared, eyes very flickering, looking at the hairy moon on the edge of the day, he patted the side of the boat and said.
"Brother Shanzi, I'm not afraid, make some noise to strengthen the courage."
I poured a mouthful of erguotou, touching up the wood knife, through the wine seems to have a lot of guts, looking at the short body tattered clothes, I thought of pulling out some valuable stuff to buy a beautiful clothes, and then this way can not be willing to look at the brotherhood of women.
Shorty will boat paddling very fast, clattering sound, I sat face to face with him, just want to let him slow down, unexpectedly suddenly eyes shook, scared suddenly woke up half of the wine.
Standing up and taking a look, I saw a round not-so-disposable thing floating above the water, which gave off a silvery-white light; I thought it was someone's discarded trash, and motioned Shorty to come closer.
"Brother Shan, embroidered shoes that night we have not also seen this thing, evil it, let's do the right thing."
Shorty did not follow my instructions to lean over, he paddled the boat far away from that thing, circled around in a big circle before coming to the island where the embroidered shoes were burned.
After getting to the island, I was looking for what it was, it didn't look like a ghost fire, it was a bit like the bottom of a bottle.
Shorty with a hoe shot shrubs, this season's snakes are very much, he shot, the bushes brushed out two cauliflower snake.
Shorty nonetheless unafraid, swung up the hoe and ruthlessly smashed on one of them, turned back and rushed to me with a joyful smile and said.
"Shanzi brother, don't let it escape, this is free meat, nourishing yin and yang".
Cauliflower snake has no toxicity, but my mind is the treasure in the tomb, looking at it slipped from the feet into the water, looked up and said to shorty.
"We are people who do great things, keep your strength to pull out things, money is still afraid of no meat to eat?"
"You high style line!" Shorty defiantly scolded, reached out to the head smashed flat is still writhing snake pick up, a foot on the bloody snake head, dropped the hoe, pulling the snake tail, right hand froze the snake bile hooked out, and then tilted his head back into the mouth, wiped his mouth before saying to me.
"This is a good thing, dispel the wind and calm the shock, brighten the eyes and benefit the liver, clear the heat and detoxification, let's not just talk about it, start!"
After saying that, he grabbed the snake and threw it into the water, then picked up the hoe and continued to slap it in the bushes.
The moonlight was hazy, I looked around a few times, this sitting island didn't change much from the time I came when I was seven years old, that April's fruit tree was still there, and the place where it was snapped off back then already had a big tumor.
Touching the firewood knife, I followed behind Shorty, while clearing the obstacles, while chatting with Shorty, said: "Shorty, can not say that Brother Shan does not take care of you, this trip down, I'll propose a marriage to the kiosk for you, to give you the girl to ask for a mother-in-law to warm up the nest".
Shorty's back to me, shoot the bushes sha sha sha sha sha, I can't see his look, but heard a joyful laugh, and at the end came to me to pretend to be garlic, said.
"I think it's better to forget it, her father on the basis of their own store, there is a broken three-wheeled motorcycle, when to take a positive look at our brother and sister?"
Kiosk store uncle Zhang has a daughter, called Zhang Fang, I know shorty like her, when I went to school, big head Liu wanted to touch Zhang Fang's cheeks, shorty for this and he fought, this thing I'm still a peacemaker.
Zhang Fang also does water spirit, even the township has a lot of people miss, she usually tied two twisted braids, when she smiles will reveal two shallow dimples, especially charming, but shorty looked on, I dismissed the idea of her.
"Shorty ah, do you believe brother, brother said to help you, you can hold her to sleep!"
Shorty suddenly came to the interest, leaning on the hoe turned over to look at me and asked.
"You don't frame me, you really have the ability to call Zhang Fang to sleep with me, thus from this day onwards, I shorty when you are a father and mother for."
Since I said so, there is bound to be a method, the reason is that Zhang Fang in the grove to relieve himself by me to see the buttocks, her left buttocks have a red mole, know this, I dare to pack her life is shorty's woman.
Of course, I do not intend to tell Shorty now, because this is easy to say, I am afraid that the implementation of some brain, not to mention the back of the tomb is still waiting to dig, there is no time to talk to Shorty.
Cut down the April son of the fruit tree, the whole tombstone is exposed, the seal engraving is really Liu Quan, but there is one thing I can not figure out, Liu Quan is Heshen's house slaves, why the tombstone engraved on the first-class officer it, and later I realized that he was greedy and vain.
Shorty looked at the dark tombstone, his eyes were full of doubts, pointing to the two words Liu Quan, said to me: "Brother Shan, this Liu Quan is not the ancestor of the family of Liu Da Dau, ah, we do this big head to come back will not blame us, right?"
I think back to the big head of the family hall neutral tablets, there is no Liu Quan's name, this neighborhood ten miles of the countryside, surnamed Liu in the minority, so spit a mouthful of phlegm, rubbing his hands are ready to do it.
"Don't freeze, our township is not the only big head surnamed Liu, his family's ancestral tablets you have also seen, when there is this Liu Quan, quickly dig."
I swung my wood knife to cut down a stray tree next to me, shorty then slowly digging around the grave bag, I took a look at the dirt he threw away, grabbed it and smelled it, the dirt smelled strange, like poop that had dried up for a long time, and it was a little bit smelly.
Dropped the soil, I was attracted by a cigarette butt in the soil, picked up and took a look, although the paper of the cigarette blackened, but the words on it are very clear, is the big front door.
Could it be that Heshen had a big front door at that time?
I pondered, suddenly realized that not quite right, the big front door is the end of the Qing Dynasty, and just came out without a filter, this tomb is afraid to have been hollowed out, the heart immediately felt disappointed, and hastily shouted at the short man to stop.
Shorty's hand hoe was stuck by something, turned his head and asked: "What's wrong, stopping properly why, help me a hand, hoe stuck main".
I could not bear to strike Shorty, reached out and grabbed the hoe handle, yanked it out with all my might, only to hear a plop, a black mass was brought out, I took a look, and sat down on the ground in fear, with a cold sweat running down my back.
Shorty is also very scared, leaning close to me, pointing at the thing and said, "Brother Shan, it is a dead person, we ...... what do we do?"
"Damn, since it came, what do you care what it is, drag me out and continue to dig, we still don't believe in evil, can we pull out what, look at God."
Finished, I grew bold, will be that half of the dead body from the soil dragged out, through the hazy moonlight, I found that the hands of this body grasping a cut of centipede-like white bone, that bone at a glance know is a big snake rot through.
I thought that this person was bitten by a snake, poisoned to death here, and then buried by the dirt falling from the hill, thought of this, I was happy, and hurriedly let the shorty continue to plan.
Don't look at shorty small, but digging is a good hand, not a few efforts to dig out the coffin, the coffin covered with rotting white cloth, a touch on the slag off, I thought of the year big head to give me silver ingots, look at the bottom of the coffin look at, and indeed in the three corners of the bottom of the three silver ingots found ten taels.
Shorty reached out and pulled it out, said to me with a smile: "rich people are different, dead still use this big silver ingot cushion coffin".
I do not have the heart and shorty gossip, eyes fell on the black coffin, this coffin buried not very deep, although close to three hundred years but still not rot, I think this must be the royal royal gold nanmu.
Shorty reached under the coffin and kept pounding, do not want to touch out an embroidered shoe, scared him on the ground rolled to my side, pointing to the eerie and scary embroidered shoes, said.
"Shoes ...... shoes ......."
I know that this thing is evil, but now the odd tiger is difficult to get down, had to go over to the embroidered shoes to pick up and look at, thinking that the shoes can not be rotten for three hundred years, could it be that it is also what treasure?
Touch, smell, I realized that the shoes are full of tung oil, rumor has it that Heshen's many wives, Liu Quan as his chief executive, I'm afraid also stained a lot of women, I'm afraid that the bottom of the coffin are dipped in tung oil women.
Throw away the embroidered shoes, I feel out of the wood knife walked to the coffin side looked at the short man said: "open, pull out things a fire burned on the okay"
Shorty trembling, seems to be very afraid, but see I do not look like a joke, had to drag the hoe up, I cut the knife on the coffin, look at him and said.
"Rich and powerful, no money I see how you find Zhang Fang to sleep, numb, don't wait for dawn to be discovered."
No matter when, the charm of women is infinite, shorty heard Zhang Fang, immediately gritted his teeth and raised the hoe, to the coffin a flurry of smashing, will be Yuanbao-like front dug open a big hole.
I touched out a match to light one, to shine inside, there are no bones, only some tattered clothes, but also do not see any gold and silver, angry I reached in, a pile of tattered clothes all dragged out.
Thought I was going to return empty-handed, I do not think that the ragged clothes shook out a thumb-sized bottle, I took a look, see the color is very beautiful, did not know it was a snuff bottle, stuffed into the pocket of his pants and let the shorty pick up firewood, will be the coffin a fire burned.
Because of the underground tung oil corpse, the fire burned very strong, thick smoke rolling.
I touched the pocket vials, secretly glad not empty-handed, but in my heart I thought of how this tomb will be empty, is it possible that it is a grave?
Shorty touched the three silver ingots, happy with the flowers like, open mouth asked me: "mountain brother, we are not tomorrow to cash money, this can be hair, six hundred dollars, heck, Zhang Fang's father if he does not agree, I will change into a point to smash him to death".
Listen to shorty so, I suddenly have a kind of alert ......
