The Ancient Tower in Yinshan (Introduction) Chapter 4: People with the Same Suffering

Season 2 Introduction to the Yinshan Ancient Tower (Introduction) Chapter 4: People with the Same Suffering

Brother Chu's statement made me feel that he knew a lot of things, which made me nervous, so I urged him, lest he, like my third uncle, would stop talking in the middle of the sentence.

This time I couldn't help but show my timidity. Brother Chu looked at me and smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will tell you everything I know, but you have to promise me a few things first."

"What is it?" I asked. I thought to myself: Should there be a temporary price increase?

He looked at the door and said tremblingly: "You can't tell others that I told you these things. After all, if I can tell you about Dumb Zhang, I can also tell you about other people for money. How can I tell you? Fortunately, someone heard the news and couldn't help but find someone to kill me. It's not indefinite, I still have to go out, and it's not as safe as I thought. If I hadn't been desperate, I wouldn't have sold this information."

I nodded, I could understand this, that's why he asked me to come to see him, and to get Pan Zi away. The less people know about this kind of thing, the better.

"Your third uncle and I have been friends for many years, so I was responsible for many things in the early years, such as the investigation of Chen Wenjin. So, I know much more than you think." He was trembling. He said carelessly, "I also know how deep the water is behind here. You may not know that your third uncle often mentions you, so I know about you. You are not a Taoist, so I dare to tell you the news."

Oh, my heart was churning, this might explain why he had that photo. Asked him: "What on earth is going on?"

He continued: "I wonder if your third uncle has ever told you about those people?"

"You mean that expedition team?" I said, and my third uncle's words echoed in my mind: none of them are normal. "Said a little, but not much."

"Your third uncle has been investigating the whereabouts of that group of people all his life. When I used to hang out with him, I often listened to his nagging, but the more he investigated, the more abnormal he found that these people were." Brother Chu finished smoking again. He took out a cigarette and continued to smoke, "These people seem to be independent, living in this world and have no connection with this society. Where do they come from? Who are they? What are they investigating? , no one knows.”

"I know this."

"At that time, I persuaded him to give up. He told me that he absolutely did not believe that such people existed in this world. In those few years, we almost exhausted all methods and there was no progress. In the end, your third uncle listened. Oh my, I gave up. I thought this was the end of the matter. I didn’t expect that a year ago, after your third uncle, you, and the mute Zhang came back from Shandong, your third uncle suddenly told me that the mute Zhang was also that person. one of the gang,

And he never gets old. Surprised, we immediately started investigating, and the target was naturally the mute Zhang. "

I sat up straight and saw Brother Chu lighting up another cigarette. I don’t know which one this is. He took a deep breath anyway. "Mute Zhang was from Si Grandpa at that time. Your third uncle borrowed it from Si Grandpa. I asked someone to inquire about his life experience, and I heard some incredible things." He paused, "It is said. The first time Fourth Grandpa met the mute Zhang was quite strange. It happened four years ago during a corpse hunt in Guangxi. Have you ever heard of corpse hunting?"

I nodded, catching corpses was a thing of the old society. It usually occurs when some kind of disaster occurs, and zombie legends are more popular in places, and Drought Demon is one of them. At this time, graves are often dug and corpses are turned over. Sometimes, when there is a real corpse transformation, the villagers pick out the brave ones, drag them out of the ancient tombs with lassoes and rice dumplings, and expose them to the sun to eliminate the harm.

The corpse capture that Chen Pi Asi and Brother Chu talked about was different from this. Brother Chu said, it starts with Chen Pi Asi’s business in Guangxi.

Guangxi has always been a gathering place for the cultures of various ethnic groups, with numerous cultural relics and historic sites. However, because the cultural differences are too great with those of the Central Plains, the Central Plains people's ideas are completely useless in Guangxi. Those who are active in Guangxi are usually those who buy and sell antiques. They all go to the villages and people to collect antiques. Because Guangxi borders Vietnam, over time, some Vietnamese discovered this way to make money. These people crossed the border to China in groups to rob some ancient tombs. Guangxi has Lingnan culture. There are many ancient tombs, and many of them are buried in the open. The Vietnamese do not know how to rob tombs and dig randomly, but they can still get something.

It is actually very difficult for the Central Plains generation to do business in places like Changsha and Shaanxi. You said there are no buckets, but there are indeed. There are many oil buckets. They have been stolen more than a dozen times. There are still things left in them. You will not be empty-handed when you go in. . But there are really too few real things, and there are too few with the dragon's back. If you want to open a new store, several companies are squatting to grab the goods. This situation must be changed, so many people are looking for ideas from other provinces. For a period of time, there were many people digging tombs of the Jin Dynasty in Heilongjiang, and there was also a line in Guangxi.

Chen Pi Ah Si has a large plate, so it is also connected with the Vietnamese in Guangxi. That time we sent people to Guangxi because people there said that a group of Vietnamese discovered Dadou. I don’t know the origin, but it seems to be quite large. Big, we need to send people here to "guide", they don't know which things are valuable and which are not.

Three people were there. They followed the Vietnamese into the rainforest and saw for the first time how the Vietnamese do things. The Vietnamese were heavily armed. It is estimated that this group of people not only engaged in this kind of business, but also carried a basket. When asked what was in it, they said it was "Akun". People in Chen Pi'a don't understand Vietnamese and don't know what it means.

They walked through the woods on the Sino-Vietnamese border for three days before they arrived at that place. The tomb was almost open, and they covered the entrance to the discovery site with banana leaves, as if it were a cellar. Just when they were about to enter, the Vietnamese stopped them and gestured to them, which probably meant "be careful."

As they were talking, a Vietnamese man moved the things out of the basket. Only then did they realize that the basket contained a man covered in flesh.

The man's hands and feet were tied, his hair was disheveled, and he was covered in mud. The Vietnamese carried him and hoisted him in through the entrance.

Below the entrance is the tomb passage, with stone steps going down all the way. The Vietnamese all pulled out their knives, and Chen Pi Asi's people also prepared their black donkey hooves. As they walked, they discovered that the ancient tomb was very large. After walking for more than ten minutes, When we arrived at the tomb, we could smell the rotten smell underneath. They searched for the stench and found a square well as big as a washbasin in the center of the tomb. The smell comes from below.

This is a two-story tomb, and it is a mass burial tomb in the Lingnan Kingdom. When you shine a flashlight on it, you will see that there is a rather short tomb underneath the well, only about 1.5 meters high. You can see the wooden coffins arranged in the shape of a sun immersed in the water. A strong stench emanated from underneath.

The Vietnamese just pushed the tied man down. Then he lowered the noose and illuminated it with a flashlight, as if he was waiting for some prey.

Chen Pi Asi's people knew at a glance that there must be something wrong in this ancient tomb. Maybe someone had died the first time they entered, so this time, they brought people in. This person may be the equivalent of fishing bait, and they want to use a living person to lure out something inside. Then put the noose down and hang it up. This is indeed a form of corpse hunting.

This sounds too cruel. Stealing cultural relics is nothing more than seeking money, which makes taking human lives a bad thing. However, there are historical reasons for the things there, so it is difficult to generalize. The people in Chen Pi'a know that the Vietnamese are all outlaws and cannot interfere in this kind of thing, otherwise they don't know what they will do.

But they waited for a long time, but there was no movement at all. The Vietnamese were very strange. After discussing it in Vietnamese for a while, the leader forced a Vietnamese to go down and check.

After the man went down, he looked around and waved, meaning it was all right. Several other Vietnamese also went down. They started to hoist things up, but Chen Pi's people were also careless at that time. Didn't follow. As a result, two pieces were not hoisted up, and suddenly something happened below. Someone screamed and blood splashed out of the well.

These Vietnamese were quite tough, and some of them immediately fled upwards, including two. Then, a corpse hand with strangely long nails stretched out from the well, and almost caught the leader. They were scared to death and had no choice but to seal the mouth of the well with stones, pile up more than a dozen large stones, and then fled in panic.

This matter was later found out by Chen Pi Asi. For such an experienced scooper, it was impossible to abandon this ancient tomb just because there were a few rice dumplings in it. So Chen Pi Asi personally took people back to Guangxi. When they arrived at the ancient tomb, it was already a week later. After they removed the stones, they found that it was a mess underneath, full of stumps, and the stench was overflowing.

Chen Pi Asi thought that all the people were dead, but when he went down, he saw more than a dozen rice dumplings lying on one side of the tomb, with their necks all broken. A naked man was sitting on the coffin among the rice dumplings, looking at him expressionlessly.

Brother Chu said: "This person is the A Kun who was used as bait by the Vietnamese before, and is now the mute Zhang. That was the first time they met."

I took a breath: "This is too dramatic."

"There must be some exaggeration here. It's easy to express your feelings in this industry." Brother Chu seemed to enjoy it when he said this. Maybe he felt like he was back before he was imprisoned. "It is said that those Vietnamese were in a village in Guangxi. They found him open and unconscious at the time. They thought he was a fool and tied him up as bait. However, that's probably what happened. The exaggeration might be the number of rice dumplings. After that, he became He killed Fourth Grandpa’s man, and this matter was widely spread among the few capable people under Fourth Grandpa, but they didn’t tell the outside world.”

"What happened before this?"

"No one knows that Mute Zhang is quite powerful, and Fourth Grandpa thinks highly of him. However, I think Fourth Grandpa probably doesn't know his background. There are rules on the road, and no one will ask about this kind of thing."

I thought to myself, it’s useless for Chen Pi Asi to know. He doesn’t know where he is now, so I can ask him where he is.

"Although this incident is just a legend, it at least gave your third uncle a direction." Brother Chu said, "However, things took a turn for the worse. Your third uncle rushed to Xisha, so I went to Guangxi on his behalf and took the mute Zhang. I took the photo and went to that area to ask for news. That damn thing is not a human being doing land work at all. It took me two full months to get some clues from a small village called Banaidi in Shangsi——"

That village was in a mountainous area, close to the China-Vietnam border. Someone there recognized the mute Zhang, whose local name was A Kun, and took Brother Chu to where A Kun lived.

I groaned, I really didn’t expect it: “You mean he lives in the countryside of Guangxi?”

"It's quite remote, but that place is Chen Pi Ah Si in Ditangkou, Guangxi. There are many Vietnamese people. He should live there, but I'm not 100% sure. When I went to Changbai Mountain to meet lamas, I contacted him through Si Grandpa. He He probably spends most of his time outside working in the fields, and it seems that there are not many people living in the house. Maybe he has never been back since he left Guangxi."

"What does he look like?" I asked. I'm a little curious about what Menyoupin's home would be like.

"It's very ordinary. It's a stilt house, just like the mud houses where local ethnic minorities live. Inside is a bed board and a table. There is glass on the table, and there are many photos pressed underneath. I went in secretly. Yes, because it was the fourth grandpa’s territory, and I didn’t dare to be presumptuous. I didn’t dare to bring anything out, so I just rummaged inside and took out one of the photos—the one I gave you. , I’m going to decide what to do after discussing it with your third uncle. But I didn’t expect Chen Pi’s Asi to have been targeting me for a long time. I was caught before I left Banai. What happened next? Got it." He paused and then said, "My own feeling is that when I inquired about Mute Zhang in Changsha, the fourth grandpa had already noticed me. He might know something, so as soon as I arrived in Banai I was stared at. I had no other choice at that time but to work with him to deal with your third uncle."

I asked, "What is the big secret behind what you just said?"

Brother Chu looked at me and started to tremble again: "I can't say this..."

I clicked my tongue. I hate it when people ask me riddles, and said, "What can't you say? Do you think you don't have enough money?"

Brother Chu trembled: "Little Third Master, to be honest, when your Third Uncle was here, the most taboo thing was for you to get to the bottom of things. Now his life or death is uncertain. There is no guarantee that one day he will suddenly appear. You can only find out these things by yourself. Forget it, if he knows that I told you these things, I'm afraid my life will be in danger. Your third uncle is not a good man or woman. I betrayed him once, but that was excusable, but if I betray him again in this matter, It doesn't make sense morally. You also said that things in the Tao have their own rules. If you want to know this, go to that house and look at the other photos pressed under the glass on the table. Then you will naturally understand why I asked you Stop. I can only tell you this, and the specific content must not come out of my mouth."

He wanted to light a cigarette, but the cigarette was gone. He coughed and his eyes were blank, which was somewhat similar to the eyes of Menyoupin. ! ~!