Chapter 3: The Murderous Corpse in the Deserted Grave

Since then, Hu Guohua became a soldier, very much used, however, in that era, the world is in chaos, warlords, pulling on the team of a hundred or ten people can be ruled by one side, today you destroyed me, tomorrow he cleaned up your, not many forces are able to survive for a long time. The warlord Hu Guohua followed was not big, within a year in the battle for the territory by another warlord was beaten to pieces, the troops died, fled the escape, the promotion of Hu Guohua’s warlord leader was also in the melee of the death of a bullet.

After the defeat, Hu Guohua ran back to his hometown, when his family’s broken house has long been collapsed, and fled in a hurry, no money on the body, two consecutive days have not eaten, the addiction to cigarettes and had an attack, can not think of nothing but the pistol sold to the bandits, for some of the tobacco food to solve the immediate needs.

He thought, this is not a thing, this food and tobacco at most enough to support three or five days, after eating all the smoke clean how to do? At this time he remembered that attached to the white paper woman’s body of the dead soul said, until the poor can not go on, go to the thirteen mile store in the deserted graveyard to find a tombstone without a lonely grave, she said that there is there with her burial gold and silver jewelry.

At this time, Hu Guohua has been a soldier and fought in the war, the courage than before most, Hu Guohua in the army once listened to an old soldier oil said a lot of tomb raiding, tomb raiding in the folk is also called “backward bucket”, can make a fortune, but also to lose their heads, so he did not dare to take action in the daytime, put his heart across the heart of the moon in a hairy night light a wind lamp, carried a shovel, and then went to the tomb to find a tomb without tombstone. He took a shovel and went to the graveyard of Thirteen Mile Shop.

（What is a hairy moon? It means that there are no clouds in the sky, but the moonlight is not bright and is very hazy. Of course, modern people know that this is a meteorological phenomenon, the scientific name is called lunar halo, indicating that the sky is going to change and blowing a gale, but who in the countryside in those days understood these scientific explanations? (In some places, the countryside people called this kind of moon a long hairy moon, and some people said that this kind of moonlit night is the most favorite time for lonely ghosts to come out and hang around.)

When he arrived at the place, he first drank half a catty of soju that he had brought with him to strengthen his courage. On this night, the moon was cold and the stars were chilly, the wind was whooshing, a piece of phosphorus fire floated in the mound, from time to time there were a few twittering and squeaking of strange birds, and the wind lamp in his hand flickered and dimmed, seeming like it might go out at any time.

Hu Guohua at this time although just drank wine, or by this ghost place scared out of a cold sweat, this time it is good, that half a catty of burnt knife is considered to be in vain, all along the sweat pores out.

The good thing is that this is a piece of wild graveyard, who do not know what era, the neighborhood is completely uninhabited, shouting is not afraid to be heard, Hu Guohua sang a few mountain songs to give himself courage, but will not be many songs, did not sing a few lines on the word, simply sing open the most familiar in the weekdays, “five nights of lovesickness” and “eighteen touches”. “Eighteen Touches”.

Hu Guohua went to the center of this large cemetery with fear and trepidation, and there was indeed a lonely grave without a monument, which looked so different in this piece of deserted cemetery.

This grave in addition to no tombstone, even more strange this grave’s coffin did not in the sealed soil pile below, but standing inserted in the mound, revealing more than half of the son. Coffin is very new, shiny go eighteen vermillion paint, in the light of the remaining moon, flooded with strange light.

Hu Guohua heart some muttering, this coffin how to set up like this? Really fucking strange, afraid of what is the name. But come here, do not open to see if it is not in vain to walk this time? No money to buy food to starve to death is a death, no money to smoke cigarettes committed smoking is also a death, so it is better to let the ghost strangled to death to pain, I net this life suffered from a wimpy gas, his grandmother, today, I will go out of my way, a road to the black.

Made up his mind, swung a shovel to bury the lower half of the coffin sealing soil dug open, the whole coffin is presented in front of the eyes, Hu Guohua is a big smoker, physical strength is very poor, digging a little soil has been tired and gasping for a ball. He did not rush to open the coffin, sat on the ground and took out the Poria cream he brought with him and inhaled a little into his nose.

Brain stimulated by opium, nerves are also excited up, a clenched teeth stand up, with a shovel pry open the lid of the coffin, inside the body is a beautiful woman, lifelike face, only the face of the powder wiped thick, both sides of the face with red rouge smeared with two big pieces, in the white powder base of the background appears to be like sticking the two red plasters, her body phoenix crown haze Phi, large red silk auspicious robe, even a bride’s Makeup.

This female corpse is by no means two years ago had seen that big face plate woman, and that paper man is two years ago to let him dig the tomb, after so long, even if the female corpse just into the coffin, to the two years after the rot ah, can not be that she turned into a zombie?

But at this time, Hu Guohua has long been unable to care so much, his eyes are only left in the coffin on the body of the female body jewelry, these gold, silver and gemstones in the wind lamp under the light of the tantalizing flashes, as well as on the side of her side of the burial of those who are wrapped in red paper into a tube of silver dollars, and there are many of the bullion, simply can not count.

This time can be a big fortune, Hu Guohua reached out to jack the emerald gemstone ring on the hand of the female corpse, just put out his hand, the female corpse in the coffin suddenly flipped his arm and grabbed his wrist, the power is very big, steel hooks like long fingernails, there are more than an inch into the flesh of Hu Guohua’s wrist, and could not be broken free. Hu Guohua was gripped by her heart and lungs, pain and fear, momentarily do not know what to do.

The female corpse opened her eyes, from the two eyes shot out two eerie cold light, Hu Guohua was touched by her eyes, cold body shivering, like falling into an ice hole, even breathing out of the white gas.

The female corpse sneered and said: “Your kid is really a money-minded, like you such lowly generation as long as there is money is not anything are willing to do? I see that you’ve grown a useless heart and liver, I’ll put it away for you first.”

Hu Guohua heard that the other party wants his heart, that how to make, hastily said: “not …… not ……” female corpse can not allow him to say more, ripped off his clothes, with long nails when the chest A scratch, a live human heart from Hu Guohua’s chest popped out, the female corpse reached out and grabbed, bloody mouth swallowed into the mouth, chewed not chewed on the whole swallowed down.

Hu Guohua was shocked, looked down, his chest has a scar, do not feel pain, only feel more and more fuzzy consciousness, the heart is empty, can not remember what just happened, lying on the ground to the female corpse kowtowed again and again.

The female corpse sat on the top of the vertical coffin, coldly said to Hu Guohua: “You are now my puppet, I will not treat you poorly, and will definitely give you glory and wealth, you lure eight eight sixty-four women to this cemetery for me, so that I can eat their hearts and livers, and if there is any mistake, I will take your life first.”

At this time Hu Guohua where dare not listen to her command, the book advocates, the original female corpse is a hundred years of corpse demon, she herself in order to avoid the calamity, temporarily can not leave this hidden graveyard, designed to cheat Hu Guohua so money-minded people to dig graves, and then coerced to let him go to the capture of the innocent women for her to eat the hearts of the people, to be eaten by her full of sixty-four women’s hearts and livers, even if the gods down to the realm can not be subjected to her.

Hu Guohua left the graveyard of Thirteen Mile Pavilion in a pissing heap. He was scared to death just now, so he stole a pair of pants from his neighbor’s house to change into them after going back. Thought this time can be trouble, I even have a wife, but where to this monster to find a woman, and think of themselves as if there is something important by the monster took, what exactly but how can not think of, anyway, very very important, if you can not find a woman to give her to eat, his life will not be able to keep, how can this be good?

Brain thoughtlessly, suddenly hand touched just changed down that stinky pants pocket two large gold bars, it is the female corpse master rewarded him, Hu Guohua frowned, came up with a bad idea, alas, in order to live, can only be sorry for their own conscience, the thought of the word conscience, I think it’s strange, but now I can not think of so much, the most important thing is better to die than to live, lack of morality on the lack of morality it.

The next morning, the first to the county town to the gold bar into the present day, looking for a smokehouse sucked a pain, and spent ten present day, in a poor mountain village to buy a 17 or 18 year old girl, the early years of the Republic of China, although expressly prohibited the sale of population, but the people are too poor to live, selling children to sell their children is common, the government can not prohibit, this law is a virtual non-existent.

Buy away the big girl, on the way, Hu Guohua told her that he is to buy her back as a daughter-in-law, so that she does not have to worry, we go back to live a good life, you follow me, in the future so that you can eat good food, drink hot, wear gold and silver. Big girl named Xiao Cui, countryside women with thin skin, red face did not dare to look up at him, without saying a word to allow him to walk with. Hu Guohua took a small donkey, carrying Xiao Cui, that night while the moon is dark and windy, straight to the thirteen-mile store of the deserted cemetery.

The mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, Hu Guohua afraid of missing the hour, step up the road, the way met a Mr. Sun Feng Shui, this Mr. Sun is the province’s famous master, he was born in the yin and yang eyes, not only can read the Feng Shui fortune-telling, but also will be recluse five elements of the strange art.

As soon as Mr. Sun saw Hu Guohua, he found his face vaguely shrouded in a layer of black gas, pinch a finger count, really surprised. He hurriedly stopped him and asked, “This Master Tai, what are you rushing to do in such a hurry?”

Hu Guohua impatiently said I have urgent matters, you do not block the road. Mr. Sun suddenly snapped, “I’m only asking you, walking corpse, where did your heart and liver go?”

The words, Hu Guohua was hit by a blow, hastily fell to his knees and begged Mr. Sun to save his life.

Mr. Sun to help him up: “Although you are corrupt, but no major faults, you must know to turn back to the shore, let me save you is not difficult, but you have to first worship me as a teacher, and quit smoking.”

Hu Guohua heard him say to let himself quit smoking, it would be better to take his own life, but carefully weigh, or life than tobacco to some heavy, stay in the green hills, not afraid of no wood to burn, I first begged him to save me to get rid of the female corpse of the entanglement, in the future while he is not on guard, I continue to smoke my Poria Cream to go, I’m afraid that he will find it not? The mind calculation has been set, on the mountain road to Mr. Sun kowtowed eight heads, performed the ritual of worship.

Then all things by Mr. Sun arranged properly, instructed Hu Guohua to follow the plan, they are far behind the protection.

Moon to the middle of the day, Hu Guohua with Xiao Cui, rushed to the thirteen miles of store deserted graves, the female corpse has been waiting for a long time, scolded Hu Guohua a few words, can not wait to Xiao Cui grabbed up, stretched out claws to pull out her heart and liver, swallowed, the female corpse suddenly shrieked, a hand will be Xiao Cui’s body ripped to shreds, at this time Xiao Cui has now appeared in its original form, it turned out that Mr. Sun to the way of the people also cure the person, the fake Xiao Cui is also a paper man, the real Xiao Cui has long been Mr. Sun left elsewhere.

The female corpse ate the heart is a black donkey hooves mounted in the paper man, this thing is the most remote evil, especially restraining the occurrence of necrophilia zombies and other monsters (grave robbers divided into a number of schools of thought, the Jiangnan belt of grave robbers work when the arms to be mounted on the two black donkey hooves, the law from the Maoshan mysticism, which the reason for which allow us to talk about it later, do not do a detailed account here). The devil ate the black ass hooves, know that the other side of the road, under the fury also want to Hu Guohua torn into pieces, but Hu Guohua has long been far away, the female body long howl to the sky, the body of the clothes one by one into ashes, flesh are turned into blood and water, not long after the only remaining skeleton of a white and ghastly fall on the ground.

Mr. Sun in the distance to see clearly, hurried over, in the skeleton to find a chicken egg size of the crimson pill, ordered Hu Guohua ate, Hu Guohua’s heart is finally back to the old place.

Two people work together to the ground into the white bones of that big red coffin, just to put the lid on the coffin, the skeleton jumped up, open mouth to Mr. Sun spit out a black mist, Mr. Sun some carelessness, this is caught off guard, was sprayed with a square, only feel a cold corpse choking chest choking blood and qi. But he has long been in danger, at the moment not panic, push the coffin board closed, take out the nails to death, and use the ink bucket in the coffin crisscrossed with ink lines, ink lines as a checkerboard grid as the formation of a large black net, the coffin sealed tightly.

Mr. Sun was injured by the zombie’s Yin Qi, and after some busy work, he sat on the ground and couldn’t move, so he asked Hu Guohua to pile up some dead wood and burn the vermillion-painted coffin. Hu Guohua obeyed the order, lit a fire to the coffin will be torched, the flames rose, a stream of black smoke came out, the stench is unbearable, and finally burned into a pile of ashes.

Hu Guohua only then remembered that there are many gold and silver jewels in the coffin, stomping his feet and sighing, regretting that it is too late, had to assist the master Mr. Sun, picked up Xiao Cui, together with Mr. Sun’s home to live.

Sixteen words of yin and yang feng shui secret art.

Since then, Mr. Sun cured Hu Guohua’s addiction to smoking with the secret formula, taught him some of the skills to read Feng Shui measurement of the word, Hu Guohua in the county set up a stall, for a person to measure a word to see the picture, earn some money, married Xiao Cui as his wife, he remembered the master’s life-saving grace, and from now on peacefully, the days of the day better and better.

However, Mr. Sun since that time by the corpse gas spray, corpse poison cold through the bones, has not been able to heal, after a few years on a life.

Before his death, Mr. Sun recruited Hu Guohua to his body and said, “You and I are master and disciple for a while, but the teacher did not have time to teach you what real skills, I have an ancient book here, “Sixteen Characters of Yin and Yang Feng Shui Mystery Art”, this book is a remnant of the book, only half a volume, only some small art of looking at the feng shui to find the gravesites, you will stay with you to be a souvenir of it.” After saying that, he didn’t take a breath and passed away.

Hu Guohua buried the master, when there is nothing to do is to study this book left by Mr. Sun’s remnants of the book, day by day, also peeped some of the mystery, in the county everywhere to the rich people to choose some cemetery good points, gradually have some fame, the family property is also slowly getting rich.

Xiao Cui to Hu Guohua gave birth to a son, named Hu Yunxuan, Hu Yunxuan in seventeen years old, to the provincial city of the Church of England school, young people active personality is not constrained, and at the same time came into contact with some of the impact of the revolutionary ideology, the whole body boiling blood, every night dreaming of participating in the revolutionary insurrection, and so left home and defected to the holy land of the revolution in Yan’an.

After that, Hu Yunxuan joined the army, until the founding of the country, the Battle of the Huaihe River, has become a regiment commander of the Sixth Column of the Third Field, after the Battle of the Yangtze River, with the troops to the south, and settled his home in the south.

I was born at the right time, just in time for the August 1 Army Day, my father named me Hu Jianjun, but when I went to kindergarten, I saw that there were seven or eight Jianjuns in my class, and there were too many of them with the same name, so I changed my name to “Hu Bayi”.

My grandfather, Hu Guohua, said, “This is a good name change, single and (Hu) eighty thousand cylinders.”

When I was eighteen years old, the family was impacted, first of all, the head of the three wild wild division of those who fell first, and then gradually involved down, coupled with my parents are not very good, he and my mother and his family were quarantined and examined, my grandfather was also dragged out as a cow ghosts and snakes and god of the street, he was old, old arms and legs can not withstand the toss, did not fight two times to pass away. He had been a feng shui expert all his life, choosing cemeteries for people, but he was cremated at the end of his life, so things are so unpredictable.

My family was raided three times, and all the valuable things were copied away. My grandfather liked to collect antiques when he was alive, and these antiques were either smashed or copied, and none of them were preserved. In the end, the only thing left was a book left behind by my grandfather, he asked me to wrap the book in oil cloth and hide it on the roof of the public restroom to be spared.

*At that time, young people had three choices after graduation: one was to join the army, which was the best place to go, firstly, to train people, and secondly, to be able to be assigned a job in the future when they were transferred to a new job. The second was to stay in the city and work as a laborer, which was also good, and could earn a salary. The most unlucky are those who do not have access, it does not matter, or the family was hit, these young people can only go to the countryside to go to the army.

If you want to say that I choose the fourth way, I will not go anywhere, I just stay with my family, okay? At that time, there was no such thing as an idle person. Everyone was a screw of socialism, and everyone had a use for it. If you stayed at home, people from the neighborhood committee, the school, and the Youth Affairs Office would come to mobilize you every day, but some of them persisted until the end and refused to go to the brigade. In the end, all of them stayed in the city and were given jobs. That’s how things are in China. It’s hard to tell, the more you live, the more confused you get. You never know what the rules are, and not everyone understands the unspoken rules.

At that time, I was too young, I did not know what was going on in the countryside, anyway, my kind of family origin want to join the army is certainly no hope, stay in the city no one cares about arranging a job, do not inserted into the queue there is no other place to go, I think inserted into the queue, I think it is a wide world to refine the red heart, anyway, is to leave the home, inserted to insert the farther as possible.

Most of us here choose to go to Yunnan Xinjiang insertion, I chose to go to Inner Mongolia, with me the same as my buddy Wang Kaixuan, he is whiter than usual, some fat, so the nickname called fat, we insertion to go to the place called Gang Gang Yingzi, the name of this place I have not even heard before, until they told me to go to the Gang Gang Yingzi the moment I just know the world originally there is such a place.

When we left home by train, no one came to see us off, compared to those who went to the army to join the warm send-off scene, we know these young people left home in a somewhat tragic and sad scene. I only brought with me the book hidden in the roof of the public restroom, “sixteen characters of yin and yang feng shui secret art”, I do not know what this book, but this is the only thing that I have kept in my family, I want to take it with me, and wait until the time of homesickness to take out to see it is also good.