Late at night, old house, inner room.
It's surprisingly quiet now. I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel like a light mist suddenly appeared in the yard.
I looked back sharply!
In the light of the fire, I saw a shadow similar to a "human head" floating on the wall...
Master Yu immediately lowered his head and whispered: "Don't look at it, just pretend you didn't see it."
I quickly turned my head and pretended to be calm.
One person does not enter the temple, and two people do not look into the well.
I thought I had encountered something dirty. There was an old rope on the beam. Maybe someone had been hanged here decades ago.
When encountering this kind of situation, our general way to deal with it is to pretend not to see it and do whatever we need to do.
Master Yu kept his head down to warm himself by the fire. After about ten minutes, I couldn't bear it anymore, so I peeked at the wall with the corner of my eye.
There is still a "head" shadow on the wall.
Different from before, this head now seems to have long strands of hair.
My heart jumped into my throat, and I silently recited the Rebirth Mantra over and over again.
"Huh? Something's wrong!!"
Master Yu seemed to have noticed something. He suddenly stood up and stood directly in front of the fire.
The next second, the "human head ghost" on the wall suddenly disappeared.
As soon as Master Yu moved away, the head appeared on the wall again!
I ran to the door to check, and found out that it was a big, tattered black plastic bag hanging on the door!
The shadow of the head is this plastic bag! When the wind blows, it floats back and forth.
"Damn! I was scared to death! It turned out to be this thing! Master Yu! I just thought I saw a ghost!"
Master Yu pointed at the wall and said, "That wall is a bit strange, have you noticed it?"
"No? What's weird?"
Master Yu frowned and said, "The wall tiles look a bit new."
After saying that, he walked over and hit it twice with a stick.
I was surprised: "Hollow wall?"
"How is that possible? This is the main house, how come it uses a hollow wall!"
"Get off and drive."
Master Yu told me to step back. He wrapped a cloth strip around his fist, took a step back, and then punched the wall!
Suddenly, a black hole appeared on the entire wall!
After the dust cleared, I took a flashlight and shined a light into the hole. I was shocked!
Behind the wall, there is a raised loess bag!
There is also a large stone tablet about two meters high standing in front of the earth bag!
Master Yu punched twice more to enlarge the hole in the wall, and then we stepped through.
"Boy! Whose grave is this...?"
I frowned, looked around, and nodded: "It's a tomb! At least it's from the early Qing Dynasty! It's a few hundred years old!"
There was a layer of dust on the stone tablet. I wiped it casually with my hand and saw a row of small characters in regular script.
What is written on the left is: "I was born with a clear name and died young."
What is written on the right is: "The great ambitions of happiness and longevity have not yet been fulfilled."
A large number of lotus patterns are carved in the middle of the stone tablet, and densely packed text is engraved under the lotus.
Such inscriptions from the Ming and Qing Dynasties were not divided into paragraphs, and there were no punctuation marks at that time. They were often written in a lot of small regular script, which would make people's heads hurt when they read them.
I held up my mobile phone to look at it for a long time, and finally caught a few key words in the inscription.
"The great Confucian scholar, Sui Xiuzhilang, Huang Helin."
Most people can't understand this, but it's not difficult for me.
Confucian people are scholars. The word "大" in front of them refers to old scholars, who have read books for at least thirty years.
These four words should be understood separately. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, only the "county magistrate" would be called Xiu Zhilang after he died. He specially added the word "Sui" in front of it, indicating that this position was for the owner to spend money after his death. Bought.
At that time, the imperial court and local officials advocated giving various honorary titles to the deceased. Because the person was dead, it did not occupy any resources. The government could not only get a sum of money, but also fulfill the filial piety of the family members. Women bought There are also titles. For example, some tombstones were found to have "Mrs. Sui Gaoming" written on them.
At this time, Master Yu asked doubtfully: "There must have been a family living here before. How could they build a tomb in their own house?"
I suddenly realized it and slapped my thigh fiercely!
"I know! This is the former Monument House!"
"Stele House?"
"Yes! Only the Tuzhai people in Hubei have this old custom!"
"The old man in the family has died! Build the grave in the house! Live with the children! This symbolizes that death is like life!"
"Then why hide it with a wall?" Master Yu asked curiously.
I frowned and thought for a while, then analyzed and said: "Looking at the age of the wall bricks and calculating the time, this place should have been blocked in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, landlords were beaten every day, like Buddha statues! Stone tablets! Ancestral halls! If caught, they would be smashed. Got it!"
"I speculate that at that time, this family was afraid of being smashed! That's why they hid this place with a wall! But I don't know why this family has never been here before!"
"It has been sitting on the side of the road for so many years. It is a miracle that it has been preserved intact until now, Master Yu!"
I walked quickly to the grave bag, pointed at it and said, "This kind of grave is shallow. If you dig down more than two meters, you can definitely see the coffin!"
"Master Yu, wait for me here for two minutes. There is a shovel in the car! I'll get it!"
"Boy, I'm afraid it's not good for you to dig up someone's ancestral grave so rashly, right?"
"There's nothing wrong with it, Master Yu. This is the secret destiny between me and the master! Besides! If you were afraid of this or that! I wouldn't do this in the first place!"
Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are generally poor, and we rarely touch them, but why do I suddenly want to touch this tomb?
Because there is a rule in Beiwu Tomb.
In the past, during the Chinese New Year, their descendants would dig up the grave soil and worship at home. Those who have no money will throw some porcelain wine cups, porcelain bowls and other daily necessities in there. Rich families will throw in silver dollars, silver ingots, gold bracelets, silver rings and other valuables. Over time, they can accumulate a lot.
The real name of the person buried in the grave is Huang Helin. He was a person from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. If you think about it, his descendants could spend money to buy him a county magistrate position and build such a large stone monument. They must be rich!
I didn't expect that I would bump into a tomb on the way. This is called "the edge of the tomb".
I thought to myself: "The thief never escapes, Mr. Huang, since you let me hit you, you will have to suffer the consequences."
I got the shovel, took a puff of cigarette to refresh myself, and then started digging.
This kind of dirt pit doesn't even have a tomb underneath. To me, it's just like a little K-girl.
Soon I went down one and a half meters. As I expected, the first pieces of "chicken coop silver ingots" were unearthed from the soil. There were a lot of them, dozens of them.
Chicken nest silver ingots are the kind of privately minted silver ingots that contained impurities in the past. They are shaped like an old hen's nest. They are of average quality and not very valuable. They cost about one thousand yuan each. These can be sold for forty to fifty thousand yuan in total.
After digging and digging, I found some silver coins, not Yuan Datou, but the kind of silver coins with dragon patterns on the back, which are much more expensive than Datou.
I carefully picked out these small things and dug down dozens of centimeters. Suddenly, a raw black coffin was revealed in the soil.
There were iron nails on the coffin, so I kicked hard. I wanted to kick open the lid of the coffin.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a stranger's voice suddenly came from outside, and he could hear it clearly.
"Yanan, it's raining so hard. Fortunately, we found a place. Let's take shelter here."
At this time, it was two o'clock in the middle of the night.
