Chapter 16: Shredding Grave Bricks (Next)

Fatty still picked up the gold particles on the ground one by one, and comforted himself by saying that these are indeed less, supporting the world revolution is a bit out of hand, but used to improve life is still more than enough. I look at these gold particles and that night in the woodland obtained very similar, very irregular shape, as if they are used to set decorative objects Palm gold particles, is it Huang Da Xian that box is embedded in gold jewelry, in the process of being stolen, the box friction collision fell off these debris?

The thought of that mysterious box is loaded with what treasure, I feel itchy, but that thing I do not know how many years has been stolen, I guess I do not expect to see this life, I was disappointed for this for a full minute, at this time the fat man will be able to row things are rowed on, and then stay down has been meaningless, and so half a day is also afraid of swallows in the above waiting impatient, so we intend to move away.

Before leaving, see the cellar is full of dead bodies, especially the four “old man”, look at them for the difficult, I study with the fat man simply do not do anything, put a fire to the sedan chair burned, because the bottom of the room is never light, this cellar is stored in more than half a jar of lamp oil, a lot of wooden structures, to set fire is not easy, scooped out the lamp oil and messy, and then put a fire, and the cellar is not easy. The lamp oil scooped out and splashed, and finally kicked the oil can down, the oil lamp to the ground, immediately on fire, the flame burned the cellar in the wooden sorghum and wood citron pai bai bai.

I and the fat man worried about being choked to death by smoke, the two stomped the stone steps run out of the Yellow Fairy Temple, outside the snow has stopped, we first look for a hole in the bearskin and bear meat hidden, sealed with a stone, which only stepped on the wood over the Chahagan River back to the forest, and then found that we caught that “Yellow Fairy Goddess”, even with the gas with the fear has only half a breath, and the fat man looked at this which is not good, and the oil tanks kicked down, the oil lamp fell to the ground, immediately started the fire. Fatty looked at this which into ah, yellow skin dead and then peeling the skin is not worth it, but not that craft to peel the skin is even more worthless, so give it some rice soup to hang on to life, he took the bear paw and the “yellow fairy” out of the mountain to go to the supply and marketing agency to exchange for a few pounds of cheap fruit candies will be in the wind, braving the snow to go to the mountain road, this kind of thing only the insertion This kind of thing is only done by the youths who are inserted into the army, and the motive is not entirely because of gluttony, but actually the main reason is that they are too idle to bear the pain.

Swallow is back to Tuen Mun to find people to get bear meat, leaving me alone to guard the woodland, and so are busy after two days of idleness, we have planned to set the yellow skin, this time the set of a fox, but did not wait for the action, the old branch of the book sent us back to the Tuen Mun.

The branch book said: “for fear that you stay in Tuen Mun restless, only to give you to the most quiet woodland to the duty, I can not imagine to you still do not listen to the arrangements, unauthorized to the group of mountain bear hunting, disobedience to the organizational arrangements, this is too big a nerve, in case of the whole thing, the responsibility of who to bear? Although you have hunted a bear is also considered to support the farmers, but the merit does not offset the fault, I see to keep you in the forest sooner or later still have to poke a big basket, we have to find you some other work to do to penalize you, hmmm …… find what work?”

Finally, the old branch secretary assigned us three to participate in the “chipping grave brick” labor, because it is difficult to open up land in the mountains, only that east of a piece of west of a few tens of acres of thin fields, and this year from the ravine flat out a piece of land, that piece of land dug out a lot of graves, because we are in this Tuen Mun is the Qing Dynasty by the gradual gathering of the hunters, so the ravine near the previous cemeteries, what dynasty and what generation is it? Cemeteries, which dynasty and which generation now no one can say, this old graveyard without a master are masonry graves, most of which have been dilapidated, basically all have been destroyed and stolen, or soaked, the coffins in the graves of the Ming ware and the bones of the crumbs are not worth much, cleaned out of the many tomb bricks that remain, which tomb bricks for the locals is a good thing, because of the sparsely populated area of a few hundred miles, there are no brick kilns Tomb bricks are big and strong, can be used directly to cover the barn and simple buildings, but there are many residual mud on the tomb bricks; or Kai out of the missing corners of the corners of the less flute; or was knocked apart resulting in the shape of the bricks is not quite regular, which requires the use of a tile knife cutting wipe to weed out the irregularities are cut, not necessarily to ensure that the entire tomb bricks intact, but must be leveled and regular, in this case, the wall is only convenient.

“Chipping grave brick” are generally women in Tuen Mun to do, because the men feel that this work is bad luck, and the yin gas is too heavy, and now this work are arranged for us, is a light punishment, the work by the wife of the branch secretary of the four aunts to supervise.

Although light punishment, but I am most disgusted with this lack of creativity, we take the stink of the grave brick chipping half a day, waist sore hand pain arm numb, so I found an opportunity to ask the four aunt to eat a few pieces of “yellow fairy godmother” in exchange for fruit candy, coaxed her happy, take the opportunity to be lazy, and fat people to smoke a cigarette to take a rest for a few moments.

I spit a smoke ring, this day grave brick chipped, dizzy, although not yet to dinner time, but the stomach has begun to drum, I can not help but ask Swallow: “Swallow sister night to us to do what good food?”

Not waiting for Swallow to answer, the fat man said: “You are in time, today I treat, the sky dragon meat, donkey meat, yesterday there is a sick black donkey in Tuen Mun, I carry forward the spirit of fearlessness, not afraid to take that unloading mill to kill the donkey’s reputation, to help slaughter the donkey, so the subbranch will be the head of the hooves and feet of the water are divided up to me, the evening let Swallow to us stew pot donkey hooves to eat, braised also into the donkey’s feet of water in the morning to boil soup to drink, as for the donkey head of the soup, let us stew pot donkey feet to eat, braised also into the donkey water to boil soup to drink tomorrow morning. I haven’t thought about how to eat the donkey’s head yet, do you think it’s okay to eat it with sauce?”

Yan Zi was dragged by us to come to cut grave bricks, originally held a bellyful of fire, has been sullen, but at this time to hear the fat man said to eat donkey hooves, immediately happy to cover the stomach and laughed, the four aunts also laughed at the side: “This fat man, black donkey hooves can be eaten casually ah? Even if it is thirsty drink salt brine, hungry eat five poison, that can not eat black donkey hooves ah, in the early years of digging graves with donkey hooves, don’t eat ah, that is fed to the dead things, the old hangman eat black donkey hooves it, in the netherworld of the magistrate palm thin, ox-head and horse face seduced the ghosts, the Nine Specter General descending body to destroy the deaths, that the Nine Specter General is the black donkey into a fairy essence of the transformation of the temple of the clay statues in the early days are the head of the donkey and donkey hooves. The general of the nine ghosts is a black donkey spirit that has become immortal.

I heard the words of the four aunts, immediately recalled that I once heard my grandfather told, grave robbers with black donkey hooves to subdue the zombies in the tomb story, black donkey hooves is the treasure of the gold masters do not leave, and she said a great discrepancy, but I would never have guessed that the four aunts actually know these stories, and hastened to ask for advice, please ask her to give us a detailed account.

The fourth aunt said: “What is the gold touch school lieutenant ah? What is it? That never heard of, only remember in the pre-liberation na, the mountain bandits have a skein, the skein in the horses and men all wearing black pants and black cap, tied with a red belt, stepped on the red socks set of black shoes, that dress that is called an evil call, this group of people specializing in the deep forests digging graves digging tombs, at that time, a ferocious, after liberation, with the clothes with a kind of Taoist Church were suppressed, in the early years of the locks of the skein are reported in the name, the locks of the Font size I still remember now, seems to be called what …… the mud will be.”