Seven Evil Slips Chapter 25:

Could it be Cao Jiefang? Sober up, do you know what to do?

San Wan's heart was beating so hard, Yan Hongsha also thought of it, and whispered: "Go and have a look?"

She looked down at the tree, and she didn't know if it was a psychological effect. She always felt that even if there were wolves around, the safety factor was always higher during the day than at night.

When the two of them got down the tree, they both picked up the thick stick first, and if the wolf dared to show its head, it would hit the wolf head on.

After identifying the direction, the sound of duk duk seemed to come from Dongshou.

Wan San was about to go there, but Yan Hongsha held him back: "Well...we haven't gone back all night, Luo Ren and the others must be looking for us."

At this moment, as if specially responding to her, a large cloud of white smoke suddenly began to fill the distant sky.

Use lights at night and smoke during the day, Luo Ren and the others are probably burning smoke cakes to signal.

Thirteen hesitated for a moment: "Let's go back, are you still sure to get back here?"

Yan Hongsha thought for a while: "Anyway, I can't do it, I can't even find a location."

"I can't either." Wansan pointed to Dongmian, "The voice is so soft, you can't hear it after walking a few steps. If it stops pecking after a while, we won't be able to find it. Besides. Yes, this is the direction to enter the mountain, Luo Ren and the others will look for it here, if you still use the bounty hunter to scan, you will find it here sooner or later, let's leave a signal, the bigger one."

He did what he said, found a clearing in the forest, and dug an arrow on the ground with a tree stick, which was two or three meters long.

Yanhongsha found a lot of yellowed tree leaves, and stacked them along the arrows and characters, which looked very eye-catching—there was no one in the ridge, and even if there were animals, they might not be able to change the direction beyond recognition, Luo As long as they find them, they can always see them.

After finishing, he dusted his hands and held the stick tightly, one in front of the other, vigilant to the left and right, looking for the place where the sound came from.

After walking about half a mile, the two stopped at the same time.

I found it, it's a bright hole in a high place.

Mingdong means that the mountain wall is slightly concave, not enough for shelter, and it is too small for shelter from the rain.

The sound of tuk tuk came from the Myeongdong.

Getting closer, there is a mound of soil that has been dug out, and occasionally, a handful of soil is being dug out of the mound.

Yan San and Yan Hongsha looked at each other, approached cautiously, and called tentatively: "Liberation?"

The sound of pecking suddenly stopped.

Sure enough, it is Cao Jiefang. He has lost a lot of hair and has wounds, probably left after the battle with the chickens last night. He Yanhongsha's pointed beak was a little worn out.

After watching for a while, he lowered his head to peck peck again.

10,000, I understand. At first, there was a pile of soil in this Mingdong. After Cao Jiefang dug up the mound of soil, a stone appeared below it. It could not be moved or digged. A group of fools kept pecking.

He quickly picked up Cao Jiefang and said, "Come on, Jiefang, let's stop pecking. If the mouth is gone, we can't eat."

Cao Jiefang was still pecking, subconsciously pecking at the air, his head was a little bit weak.

13,000 felt very uncomfortable, and asked Yan Hongsha, "How can I stop Liberation?"

"Isn't it in the book?"

I didn't say anything, just said that this method is perverted, it will hurt a lot, and the gain outweighs the loss, so I don't recommend trying it.

Seeing Cao Jiefang's hysterical appearance, Tensan felt that he was a jerk. He stroked Cao Jiefang's neck and whispered, "Jiefang, let's stop pecking and looking for it. I won't look for it anymore. Stop drinking."

Yan Hongsha went over and touched Cao Jiefang's head, seeing that he would not move for a while, so he didn't call him, took a stick, and dug up the mound along the edge.

Under the stone, will there be a thousand-year-old bronze vessel as mentioned in the manuscript?

In a short while, all the soil was dug up, and the stone showed its whole appearance, like an ordinary stone in the mountain, with irregular shape and rough edges, the only difference is that the stone is relatively flat, like a slate.

When the stone slab was pried up, there was soil underneath. The stick was no better than a military shovel, and it was no less difficult to dig up and stir up the soil. Come."

He is not afraid of getting dirty, so he rolled up his sleeves and dug out the dirt with his hands. Yan Hongsha reminded him: "Be careful, don't hurt your hands..."

Afraid of what might come, before finishing his sentence, Shisan let out a pained cry and raised his hand to look.

On the pulp of the middle finger, there was a long **** **** drawn. Ten thousand three got angry, took the stick and came over and poked it vigorously. The mud and mud flew around, Yan Hongsha hugged Cao Jiefang and kept backing away.

When it was moved to one place, the head of the stick seemed to be caught by something, 13,000 gritted his teeth and exerted a great force, the head of the stick suddenly went out of the air and pried it up, and it rolled out with something. He fell down, bumped into Yan Hongsha's feet, wobbled a few times and then turned over on his back.

Yan Hongsha lowered her head to look.

It was a scorched and scorched head, with two eye holes facing the sky, staring at her strangely, the exaggerated upturning of the gums, as if laughing, or roaring angrily.

Yan Hongsha trembled, looked at 13,000 again, and only realized after a few seconds, kicked the skull away with a scream, threw Cao Jiefang into the air, and ran away like a lifeless man. He stomped his feet desperately, as if the skull had a mouth and was still biting her feet.

Cao Jiefang was flying around in the air, and suddenly there was a whistle in the distance, and there was Kiyo's voice faintly: "Red sand? Is it red sand?"

Yan Hongsha shouted: "I am here! This! This!"

***

Finally they meet, there are quite a few of them, everyone is happy while they are still in shock.

According to Muyo, after Cao Yanhua came back last night, they didn't sleep anymore, and they kept worrying about the two of them. Find it all the way.

Rushing to the arrow, knowing that the two of them should be safe, they just breathed a sigh of relief, when they suddenly heard Yan Hongsha's lifeless cry.

When Cao Yanhua saw Cao Jiefang, he thought of the peck on his head that was pecked by a pheasant. Luo Ren asked: "Brother Luo, you have a lot of experience. Is there anything that is particularly spiritual and hangover?"

Luo Ren ignored him, kept looking at the head carefully, then walked to the stone slab, and wiped the wet mud off the back of the slate.

Say: "There are words on it, don't you see it?"

There are still words?

Yan Hongsha and 13,000 came over, and sure enough, on the back of the stone slab, near the upper part, some crooked characters were chiseled with some tool, and before the chisel was finished, it read "Da Wei protects Liu Erzhi" .

Wei Dahu and Liu Erzhi, what strange names.

Yan Hongsha mumbled it over and over several times, and suddenly realized: "This... is this a tombstone?"

The sentence should be Wei Da Hu Hu, Liu Er, or something, logically, it looks like "Zhi Tomb".

Wei Dahu, Liu Er, who is this? They are also surnamed Wei. Does it have anything to do with that Wei girl and Mr. Wei?

Luo Ren said: "You will know when you dig it out."

He untied the army shovel from his backpack, and quickly dug out a small pit. He didn't find the rest of the body, but he did find a jade bracelet, a hairpin, a decayed, The red embroidered women's shoes and a purse were also rotten. Luo Ren picked up a branch to see, and there was a strand of hair inside.

This head belongs to a woman? Thinking that the head was touching her feet just now, Yan Hong took several steps back in panic.

Luo Ren put down the military shovel, sat down on the side, pointed to the stone slab and the dug hole after a while, and said: "This is a tomb, it is not finished."

Is the tomb still complete? Ten thousand three frowned: "It's too perfunctory to help people bury."

On the other end, Yan Hongsha was still terrified, and Kiyo asked, "Did you really kick her in the head?"

"Kicked."

"Aren't you apologizing?"

Kido was really the same as before, paying attention to the politeness of "death is like life", Yan Hongsha hurriedly clasped his hands together, muttering "I'm sorry", and even bowed a few times.

Thirteen was also a little flustered, he just...dig someone's grave?

I was really condemned by God, I always felt that there would be a lightning strike on the top of my head at any time, so I hurriedly muttered "I'm sorry, I must buy a few knives of yellow paper to burn it another day."

Luo Ren pondered for a while, and then said: "That Tao Wei, that is, Miss Wei, was burned to death. This head is obviously burnt black. I suspect that her maiden name may be Liu'er."

Cao Yanhua was taken aback: "But, wasn't she buried with her husband?"

He still remembered that her husband's surname was Tao, and after this Wei girl got married, her name was Tao Wei.

Luo Ren replied: "Someone secretly brought her here to be buried together."

Speaking, he pointed to the words on the stone slab: "I also speculate, because this Fengziling is the place where the word-reading dog grows old and dies."

"That word-reading dog arrived at Fengziling and waited for death, but he was human after all, and he knew that his corpse should not be exposed in the wilderness, so he dug his own grave and erected a monument."

"Perhaps in this process, it moved some thoughts, and felt that it could not get what it wanted to live, and it shouldn't be alone after death."

Cao Yanhua shuddered: "Brother Luo, what do you mean, it went to the place where Tao's couple were buried, and brought out the body of Miss Wei?"

Luo Ren nodded: "It is possible."

"The tomb where the Dows were buried together is not damaged on the surface. But I remember that Cao Pangpang fell into a pit that day - the pit is low, from which a hole can be drilled to lead to the coffin Yes. Did you notice at the time, are there any holes in the pit?"

I really didn't pay attention to this, and Ten Wan frowned: "Even if there is a hole, it is easy to fill it, especially that..."

In the blink of an eye, he suddenly thought of something, and he yelled out, "Especially the stone sculpture of the Chinese character dog, which is half buried in the soil. Fatty Cao and I didn't pay much attention to it when we carried it—— Could that stone carving be blocking the hole?"

Maybe, maybe not, but these are small details, Luo Ren didn't want to go into details, and continued: "It is small in stature, and can drill very small holes. Moving a corpse here from the mountain is right. It was too difficult and too conspicuous. And the fire at that time was so big that I suspect that the bones of the Dows would have been burnt long ago, but the head was easy to recognize—especially when placed together, in terms of weight and Men and women can be identified by size."

Kiyo's back felt cold: "So, it only took the head?"

"More than that, there are some..." Luo Ren frowned, pointing to the funerary objects, "Some of them might have been pulled out from the fire scene, but like hair and embroidered shoes, I suspect they were usually hidden , the hostess will not be suspicious of the dog if she loses something."

Look at the slate at the end: "This Wei Dahu may be the name of the dog who recognizes characters - it was adopted by the Wei family, and he decided to be named Wei. The dog was raised to look after the family nursing home. Old Master Wei is a private school Mister, maybe you should be polite and elegant in every situation, and name your dog Dahu."

But that dog lived for a long time afterwards, and even tried to get out of Fengziling because of the fierce Jane. It seems that even if someone enters the mountain, they will not pay attention to the location of Mingdong-who knows that people are not as good as heaven, but they were pecked out by Cao Jiefang.

Is that so?

Yan Hongsha stared blankly at the head and the burial things, paused and said: "Either... bury it back, this Wei girl is also quite miserable, she kindly took in a dog, and got into it before she was alive. After death, there is no peace."

Thinking of kicking that head, even after apologizing, I still feel very blocked.

13,000 sighed, walked to the edge of the pit, pushed the soil, pushed the hairpin embroidered bag and so on, and said: "Seeing Cao Jiefang pecking there, I really thought that the red sand The method in the family’s manuscript is effective—it turned out that these gold hairpins and jade bracelets were discovered..."

Luo Ren's heart moved, and he said: "Slow down."

He took the bounty hunter, opened it, and aimed the probe at the pit.

For the first time since entering the mountain, the LCD panel lights up, and the sound of Didi keeps ringing in my ears.

Everyone suddenly became nervous, Luo Ren ordered Ten Wan: "Take away the hairpin, and take away the jade bracelet."

Third Thirteen's throat was dry, he grabbed the hairpin and bracelet, afraid of affecting the sensitivity of the bounty hunter, he ran a long distance before putting them down and turning back.

The bounty hunter is still ringing, and a messy outline gradually appears on the LCD panel.

Luo Ren said in a deep voice: "Dig further."

***

The sand and soil rose up, and 13,000 and Cao Yanhua were working with two military shovels at the same time. Luo Ren half knelt down*, pointed the probe all the way down, and the Didi notification sound became louder and louder.

With a bang, the tip of the shovel hit something.

13,000 and Cao Yanhua looked at each other, and put the military shovel aside at the same time.

Holding his breath, he stretched his hand into the soil, and slowly moved to the side. At this moment, it was almost the mood of an archaeologist excavating cultural relics.

There are dark, purple, and long wooden slips, visually measuring the length and width, a series of numbers subconsciously popped up in Luo Ren's mind.

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I don't know why, Cao Yanhua's nose was sour, and he felt like tears were about to come out: "Brother Luo, is this a fierce Jane?"

There is no hostility, so it is not a "violent" slip, it is just a "wooden slip" that Lao Tzu used seven hostility on the seven wooden slips.

Luo Ren stretched out his hand to pick it up, it was very heavy, and he tapped it with his fingers, making a squeaky sound.

Like iron birch, it is said that its hardness is very high, surpassing some steel, and it will sink when it enters the water.

"Dig again."

One, two, three...

With the rise and fall of the military shovel, the bottom of the pit gradually became clear, and several wooden slips were arranged in a messy way, just between the semi-wet soil layers.

After shoveling the soil again, the brilliance turned, and a golden, exquisitely carved phoenix head was exposed from the soil layer, reflecting the increasingly bright sunlight, making people unable to open their eyes.

I heard Cao Yanhua ask in a daze: "Why is it gold? Isn't it bronze?"

Of course he didn't go to the museum to see it, but he saw a lot of it on TV and in the pictures. Those solid bronze wares, not green or gray, just looked old.

One thousand three said: "Grandpa Hongsha's manuscripts, don't you call bronze Jijin? I checked it later, and the bronze was originally golden yellow, close to 18k gold. It is oxidized to produce a patina."

Luo Ren didn't speak.

He had been wondering before that the seven murderous slips that were sealed by Fenghuang Luan must have found a secret place to store them properly. How did the recognition dog open them by accident?

I see now.

***

Maybe going back decades, or even nearly a hundred years ago.

I don't know if it's daytime or night, that dog named Wei Dahu is digging the grave after his death in the deserted mountain.

It spends a long time carefully chiseling the words on the simple tombstone. When it gets tired, it digs a few shovels of soil, and everything it wants to bring to the ground is placed beside it, such as embroidered pouches and gold hairpins. , jade bracelet, and head.

One shovel, another shovel, as the sand is blown out, a secret that has been buried for a long time will soon...see the light of day again.