Chapter 7 Countless Skeletons
I walked to the black-painted nanmu coffin and looked carefully. The storm surged in my heart. I couldn't wait to open the coffin to see what was going on! I reached out and grabbed one end of the coffin lid and lifted it up hard, but found that I underestimated the weight of the coffin. The coffin lid was still not moving even when I lifted it with all my strength.
I thought maybe the lid of the coffin was nailed, so I looked at the lid of the coffin again, but when I saw the sixteen cinnabar marks on it, it was like a basin of cold water in my head, and I instantly calmed down. I told myself not to be impulsive. The coffin marked by the sixteen thorns of the collarbone is probably not easy to mess with. Don’t cause big trouble because of curiosity!
Suddenly, I felt a strange feeling in my injured palm, so I quickly took my hand off the coffin. I looked at my hand and there seemed to be nothing unusual. When I looked at the coffin, my scalp suddenly became numb. I saw the blood stains that were rubbing on the lid of the coffin just now, and now it was seeping into the coffin at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Sure enough, there was something wrong! I quickly stayed away and looked at the strange coffin nervously. Fortunately, after a while, there was no movement in the coffin, which made me feel a little calm. I always comforted myself that my coffin and my own people, even if it turned into zongzi, were also Zhuo's zongzi. I should have some face to treat my own people!
However, I decided not to mess with this coffin. No matter what it contains, it is not something I can handle alone now. I am going to take a rough look around and then leave first. This place made me feel gloomy!
I left the coffin and walked towards the rear of the tomb chamber. Here I found a door hole. The door hole seemed to have no tomb door, and it was pitch black inside. I used my mobile phone to shine inside and found that the inside of the door hole had been blocked by a large amount of soil. Obviously, a collapse had occurred behind the tomb chamber, flooding the passage that originally existed.
Despite this, I still found traces of excavation on these soils. It should be the ones who came here. I think they should be from our Zhuo family.
I climbed along the excavation traces to the position obliquely above the other side of the door opening, and found that the excavation traces had been extending far forward. I guess this was probably another thief hole.
I bent down and walked forward half-kneeling and half-climbing. Not long after I moved forward, I found a strip-shaped thing on the wall of the cave next to me. I looked curiously, then took out the knife on the key and pried it out from the soil of the cave wall.
I roughly wiped off part of the soil on it to reveal its original appearance. I found that it was actually a human thigh bone. Although I have seen not many bones, at this moment, when I saw such a thing in such a place, I still felt a trembling in my heart.
I quickly threw this thing aside, calmed down, and continued to move forward. Before I walked far, I saw a round thing in the position close to the hole wall not far away. I was shocked. Based on the thigh bone I just discovered, I immediately thought of what this thing would be, and my back started to feel cold.
I was right. After getting closer, I saw clearly that this is indeed a person's skull. Why are there human bones in these soils? Could it be that they were the slaves who were buried with me back then?
While thinking, I looked carefully at the surrounding hole walls. After this, my whole body froze and my whole scalp was numb. I saw countless bones of all sizes embedded in the soil of the hole walls around me. Some were human bones, while others did not look like human bones, as if they were some kind of large animals.
I was originally not intensive phobia, but when I saw the dense bones in front of me, I still got goose bumps and felt my hair exploded. Could it be that I fell into the burial pit? I don’t know how long this passage is, but since there is a passage dug out here, it means that someone has been here. Maybe it was my grandfather or the second uncle. I endured the strong chill in my heart and was really unwilling to withdraw, so I forced myself to look ahead, not around, and gritted my teeth and continued to move forward along the passage.
I walked forward not far, and the passage ended abruptly. I don’t know why I didn’t continue digging. But there were still a large number of corpses buried in the soil here. I don’t know how long these underground corpses will continue forward, but the disappearance of the passage gave me a reason to convince myself to leave.
Although no results were found in the end, I felt relaxed and seemed to have completed a difficult task. I turned my head without hesitation and crawled backwards, ran out of the tomb chamber, and returned to the vegetable cellar along the robbery hole.
I didn't breathe a sigh of relief until I got out of the flip board on the floor of the utility room in the backyard. I quickly locked the entrance of the vegetable cellar and put the key back to its original position.
When I walked to the backyard, I looked at the time. It was already past five o'clock in the morning. It was just late at this time, and it was still very dark around. I took a deep breath of the cold air and immediately felt refreshed. I really felt that it was so good to return to the ground! I actually felt like I was returning to the world!
I looked down at my body, and the mud was covered with from head to feet. I patted it a little and carefully left my ancestral home. Fortunately, I didn’t meet an acquaintance along the way, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to explain!
I didn't dare to stay in the village, so I had to walk more than ten miles to the town. At this time, I was really tired and sleepy, hungry and cold! I wanted to find a place to eat, but it happened to be the second day of the Lunar New Year, and there were no stores on the way.
I curled up on the road, feeling so hatred in my heart, why did I make myself look like this during the New Year? I found that since I was involved in these messy things, I have been unlucky one after another! I sighed to the sky, "God, can you please let me go during the New Year!"
I don’t know if it was a coincidence or my prayer had worked. After turning around, I suddenly found a breakfast stall that appeared in front of me. An old man stood in front of a dining car converted from a tricycle, and was holding a scoop to add water to the pot. I don’t know what was in the pot, it was steaming, which made me excited and almost burst into tears!
I ran over in two steps. When the old man saw me running wildly, he was shocked and couldn't help but hold the scoop of water in his hand. When he saw my hungry expression and his unkempt face, the old man's eyes instantly changed from vigilance to pity.
I rushed to the breakfast stall and asked, "Uncle, what are you eating?"
The old man nodded, "There are few people during the Chinese New Year, so I only have wonton and sesame cakes."
Actually, I don’t care at all about what I can eat, just eat it! So I opened my mouth and said, “Give me a bowl of wontons and two sesame cakes!”
When the steaming wontons were brought to me, I couldn't wait, but I still took them into my pocket, "Uncle, how much does it cost?"
Unexpectedly, the old man sighed, "This is the New Year, what's the money? Eat it quickly!"
I was stunned for a moment, and then I thought that the old man might be giving money after eating, so I stopped talking and started eating in big mouthfuls.
Suddenly I saw the old man turn around and walk, shaking his head, "Oh! What a poor child, I can't even eat during the New Year!"
"Puff!" A mouthful of old blood in my chest almost mixed with wontons and spewed out, "I'm going, I'm actually treated as beggar!"
However, I didn't bother to explain anything now. I ate all the things on the table in three bites, and then I felt much more comfortable.
I walked up to the old man and took out ten dollars to hand it over. Unexpectedly, the old man waved his hands repeatedly, "Forget it, I don't need money this time!"
I was really helpless by him, so I had to say, "Uncle, I'm not a beggar. This is my body, I accidentally rubbed it just now!"
After hearing what I said, the old man took the money skeptically, "Why did you make me like this? You fell into the mud pit?"
I smiled bitterly, "Uncle, if I say that, I will go to the vegetable cellar at home. Can you believe it?"
Looking at the old man's shocked eyes, I didn't want to explain anything, so I quickly turned around and left. After leaving, my uncle finally recovered, "Hey, the young man is looking for you for money!"
I waved my hand and left without looking back.
Afterwards, I tried hard to find a taxi that was willing to pull me into the city. The driver looked at me with a weird look, but I was used to it. However, the driver was not polite to me. He asked me for 100 yuan. If it was at most fifty, I had no choice but to start the price of this kind of land. I really didn't have the energy to find another one, and it was 80% the same, and it might even be even more ruthless. In order to get home quickly, I had to agree.
When I got home, my parents had already gone to my grandma's house. I took the time to change my clothes and take a shower.
Along the way, I began to think about the discoveries in my ancestral home. I didn’t know where the tomb chamber under the ancestral home, the coffin and the passage full of bones came from, and what secrets were hidden behind them. The most important thing is that I want to know whether these things are related to the disappearance of the second uncle, the Qilian Mountains, the ancient tombs of the islands and even the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom! Although it seems that these things are incompatible, I vaguely feel that these things are revealed at this time, it is not a coincidence.
I was eager to see my dad, and I hope to inquire about some information from him.
When I arrived at my grandma's house, I found a chance to be alone with my dad, and asked directly: "Dad, I'll ask you something, do you know, is there anyone called Chengyang in the Zhuo family called Chengyang? Should it be called Zhuo Chengyang?"
Chapter completed!