None of us spoke during the whole trip.
After finally sneaking back to the room, Lao Jiang closed the door with a bang, not forgetting to close the bolt.
Then he lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth!
I rarely meet such a nervous Lao Jiang. I immediately asked in confusion: "Master, is the matter difficult?"
"More than just troublesome, if they really came, this mission would be considered a low level A level..." Lao Jiang replied.
I would like to ask what is the significance of that stage? Who are those people?
But Lao Jiang only replied to me with one word: "The devil from western Sichuan."
"Okay, let's go eat! Master knows that you have many questions. When you are really sure that it is them, he will let you break the casserole and ask the truth. But before that, you must pretend that nothing happened."
"Don't even tell Yin Ling'er what happened today."
Sure enough, as soon as Lao Jiang finished saying this, Yin Linger knocked on the door outside. He said that this family was very kind-hearted and even made a pot of crispy rice for us, which was very delicious.
I hurriedly opened the door and said with a smile: "Who asked us to go out and meet noble people?"
He took out a few silver dollars from his pocket and put them into the hands of the middle-aged couple behind Yin Ling'er: "Thank you, uncle and aunt, for the hospitality. This is our food expenses."
The other party waved his hands repeatedly, and I became more resolute: "We are college students who come here for archeology. We don't have much money, but we have a lot of heart!"
"Are you really college students? How many of you are there?"
"Oh, the other two are both teachers." I pointed at Lao Jiang first, and then at Ge Weihan.
The middle-aged couple looked to be only thirty years old, but the man was almost ten years old. Both of them had rough skin, wore coarse cloth gowns, and had many calluses on their hands. At first glance, they looked like simple farmers growing crops. .
But they were very wary of us and asked if we weren't introduced here by the family next door. How could he be a college student?
It seems that they know the identity of the tomb robber of Dana.
Yin Ling'er smiled slightly at this time and explained in a soft and waxy tone: "Uncle and aunt, we got lost in the woods, and we happened to team up with that fat brother, so that we could reach the village safely."
Girls are easy to like, let alone a girl who looks so cute.
The expressions on the faces of the couple were obviously not as nervous as before, but they nodded and said, "That's it!"
They warmly invited us to come over for dinner, and I made a secret gesture to Lao Jiang before following the couple away.
People here eat in the courtyard. There is a wooden table with dust and bird droppings on it. The woman took out a piece of cloth and wiped it casually, while the man went in to serve the food.
He brought out a large bowl of crispy rice and some side dishes.
By now, everyone was actually a little hungry. We were waiting for the food to be served with great anticipation, but our appetite disappeared instantly.
There is only a small plate of fried chili and a small plate of pickles, which are more difficult to eat than the green rice eaten in Tsing Yi Village...
The woman filled two bowls of rice and went to the other side of the house, presumably to deliver food to her children, while the man stayed behind.
The few of us had a little token meal, and the most important thing at the moment was to inquire about the news.
Lao Jiang asked the man tentatively: "Brother, have many outsiders come here recently? The fat man's family who came to the village with us doesn't seem to be from Xichuan."
The man must have been told, and he immediately replied: "Tell me Brother Lu, he came to join his relatives."
Lao Jiang took out a cigarette, handed it to the man, and said with a smile: "Is Brother Lu really related to the neighbor next door? When he arranged us here, he also asked us to say that we are relatives of your family when we go out."
The man had never smoked cigarettes and was a little greedy, but he still said firmly: "I don't smoke."
After Lao Jiang ordered it for him with a smile, he also lit one himself and puffed out a puff of smoke and said, "This is good stuff. Even the foreign teachers in the university like it. Try it."
"Are you really from college?" The man imitated Lao Jiang and took a sip.
Ge Weihan immediately cleared his throat, uttered a sentence in English, and then said in Xichuan dialect: "If you don't believe me, you can go to the county and ask about it! We are all from West China University."
At this moment, Ge Weihan's identity as a foreigner played a certain role. Although the man did not know West China University, in his eyes, foreigners were superior and must have nothing to do with tomb robbers.
Lao Jiang took advantage of the victory and pursued him: "Brother, are there any liquor sellers here? I'll go out to buy some koji wine in the evening and let's have a good time?"
The man was a glutton. Although he couldn’t tell us anything clearly, he still said in a roundabout way: “In the past year, many people have come to our village to visit relatives, including cousins from this family, cousins from that family, uncles from next door, etc. Wait. Except for a little break during the holidays, there is no peaceful time throughout the year. "
This is completely contrary to the time of visiting relatives.
In other words, he was secretly telling us that all the new faces who came to visit relatives had their own agenda!
"Uncle, to tell you the truth, I am currently working on an archaeological project! I heard that an uncle named Yan in our village dug up some jade artifacts. Our university is quite interested in it. I wonder if we can find out more about him. ”
While I was talking, I took out a few more silver coins and stuffed them into the man's pocket.
The man seemed to have deep resentment towards Yan Daocheng, and slapped his hand on the table: "It's all this damn thing's fault for causing unrest in the whole village!"
"You can't say that. The unearthed artifacts are all cultural relics. Maybe they will make the village famous in history."
I forced out a fake smile, took out a few more silver coins, and asked if it was convenient for him to tell us where Yan Daocheng's home was.
"It's mainly the school's mission. If we don't interview them for a word or two, it won't be easy for them to graduate."
"Uncle, please help me!"
This time the man did not take the money, but returned it all to me: "Little brother, it's not about the money, it's really because I'm powerless."
These words aroused Lao Jiang's vigilance: "Brother, what do you say?"
The man sighed and said: "You are too late. Yan Daocheng is dead, and his whole family is dead. Several coffins are still parked in the yard. It is so gloomy at night that no one dares to walk in front of his house." go through……"
After that, the man showed us the way.
We were told to go left after going out and see the tallest two-story building.
It turns out that not long after Yan Daocheng's family moved into their new house, all kinds of weird things began to happen at home. Either a woman crying appeared in the small building in the middle of the night, or there were bloody footprints on the ground, or green will-o'-the-wisps floating in the darkness.
Just a few days ago, their whole family finally died mysteriously. The old man in the village couldn't understand it. In short, there were no wounds on his body, but he was bleeding to death from his orifices.
"I heard that they offended the evil spirits on the ground, took treasures they shouldn't have taken, and spent money they shouldn't have spent. That's why they were cursed!"
"Even the whole village was implicated to death by them..."
The man took a few puffs of cigarette, choking and coughing several times.
Lao Jiang and I looked at each other. The information sent back before did not say that Yan Daocheng was dead. So what is going on?
