Chapter 17 A Letter from the Grassland (above)

I’ve never heard of the legend of the “Mud Children’s Club” tomb robbers, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard of it, but she mentioned the “Clothes Guan Dao”, which Fatty and I have heard of a little bit, and the people in this door cut off the genitals of boys to use as a guide for medicine in order to make pills, and they have been suppressed since liberation. No longer exists, I heard the fourth aunt said with eyes, I know she is not talking about for fun.

This deep forest in the eyes of all the lonely mountains, have the opportunity to listen to the old people before the three kings, after the five emperors to tell the ancient, for us is definitely a major entertainment activities, not to mention the fat man and I and others in the cellar in the temple of the Yellow Fairy, but also witnessed a similar to the “mud will be” this hu gangster locks dressed dressed up corpses, and more added a few points of curiosity. Curiosity, and immediately begged the fourth aunt to tell us more about the “Mud Club”.

But the four aunts do not know much about the “Mud Children’s Club”, she only picked up what she knew to tell us some of the old stories before the liberation of the Northeast at that time was very chaotic, there were many Hu bandits in the mountains, such as “covered the sky” and other large locks, not to mention, there are many Hu bandits are scattered bandits, and many Hu bandits are not in the same place, but in the mountains. Hu bandits are scattered bandits, three a group of two a group of home to cut off the house, and tie fast ticket, is specialized in tying up those who will soon be over the door, married in the near future of the big girl, because after tying up can not be overnight, a night in-laws certainly should not be this marriage, so the family of the meat ticket must be as soon as possible to raise money to ransom the same day, it is known as the “tie fast ticket”, “Mud Club”. “Mud will be” the head of the big cabinet is such a kidnapping fast ticket of the scattered bandits, not only so, he also learned in the Taoist demon magic, legend has the ability to hide, even if the case, the official face can not get him, may actually just do “digging soldiers” a type of engineers, specializing in excavation, and the police will not be able to take him. A type of engineers, good at digging tunnels, but exactly how it is, outsiders simply do not know, are guessing, and then he found that the excavation of ancient mounds can make a fortune, and then did the tossing of dead people’s business.

He dug more graves, the name is also increasing day by day, collected a lot of disciples, formed a skein of Hu bandits, began to report the name, because do all the digging and pulling out mud hooks, he and his disciples are mostly in the river to dig silt in the poor mud child origin, do this line by virtue of craftsmanship, in order to figure colorful, to highlight a “will” word, so the name will be reported is “will”, the word “will”. So the name is reported as “Mud Club”.

“Mud will” rise from the end of the Qing Dynasty, nominally to the master and disciple portal for the body, in fact, with the Hu bandits in the locks of the “four sorghum eight columns” of the same kind of organizational structure, has always been for the wrongdoing, ruthless, not to mention the death of people, and even a lot of the mountain people have been them! Scourge, but the government repeatedly suppressed to no avail, in the decades really robbed a lot of ancient tombs, and later even more blatant, because the old graves have more necrophilia, or the body of the tomb owner is filled with mercury antiseptic, in order to take the ancient corpse contained in the mouth of the beads and jades, they will be from the graves of the tomb owner’s corpse with a twine dragged out the skeleton of the bones hung upside down in a crooked tree to flow clean mercury, and then break the hands of the mouth to pick the intestines, and sometimes the ancient graves from the people living in the Tuen Mun is very close, but still open fire, and the people are not afraid to go out to fight, so they will be able to do it. The same open fire, or in broad daylight so tossing, no taboo, do this line does not not make a fortune, so this gang of people all have a real hand, no one dares to care about them.

They dug open the grave to the inside of the valuable things dumped a empty mouth, leaving a full of woefully broken coffins and corpses, the people saw all sighed, those ancient corpses are also considered to have fallen eight lifetimes of bad luck, after death, let a person so tortured, this situation is really unbearable to see.

“Mud will” this locks, are in the size of the Xing’anling Mountains in the deep forests, the mountains inside the three mountains in the five ridge, where there are remnants of the monument sealing the soil can be found in the ancient tombs and graves, they have to try to dig open to steal the mound of the secret weapon, due to the years of doing this kind of business, to do the thief’s heart, so superstitions of the doorway is also a lot of them to wear a black, in order to reduce the work, and then to do the work, they have to do the job. A black, in order to work to reduce the living body of the Yang Qi, the tomb is a long time accumulation of yin obscure place, traditionally are very taboo to the living man’s Yang Qi to stay inside, in addition to speak of secluded evil, hat prick, socks, belts are made of red, all with pig’s blood dyed.

About their deeds, now can also say up people have not much, after all, that are decades ago, the reason why the four aunts know so clearly, because before the liberation, her own brother had been “mud will be” Hu bandits captured to do hard labor, in the digging of graves and burial mounds sieve through the mud panned through the soil, and finally managed to escape from death! At last, he managed to escape from the bandit nest and told her some of his experiences there.

According to her brother’s recollection, the bandit leader of the “Mud Club” once dug a lot of holes in the area of “Tuan Shan Zi” with his whole group of Hu bandits, and finally dug out a cellar temple of the Yellow Immortal from the back of the Yellow Pi Grave, and they wanted to look for a piece of treasure in the dark passage in the temple, and as a result, they annoyed the Master of the Immortal and got into trouble. They wanted to find a treasure from the temple in the dark tunnel, the result annoyed the immortal master, take several lives, but the “mud will” is not vegetarian, a plan does not work and then another plan, the result is still let them get their hands on the temple from the dark tunnel under the temple, dug out a box embedded in gold and jade to.

“Mud will” after the bandits, those who were captured to help digging hole of the mountain people, will be dragged to the ravine to kill, four aunts her brother in a shot, the gun in his body hit a pair of piercing, picked up a life from the pile of dead people climbed out of the back to Tuen Mun gunshot wounds have not been able to heal, coupled with a great deal of shock, did not last for a few years, it was dead. And then died, as for the “mud will” from the Wong Tai Sin Temple dug out the whereabouts of that big box, and what exactly is loaded with treasures, no one knows, and since then, “mud will” also immediately disappeared in the mountains and old forests, and no one has seen the locks. No one has ever seen this locks, must have been retribution, are dead without a burial place.

Fatty and I listened with rapt attention, what exactly is hidden in the temple of the Yellow Immortal, guilty of letting the “mud will” so bloodless local tossing? Where did they get that box? “What happened to those bandits of the Mud Gang? We are very curious, hate to get to the bottom of this matter, otherwise we can not sleep soundly at night, but the fourth aunt knows only so much, and even the authenticity of the content of this can not be guaranteed, when his brother was shot and crawled back to Tuen Mun, just a breath left, said the words are also upside down, who knows what he said is not reliable.

I see there is nothing to inquire again, had to go on with the fat man to cut the grave bricks, when advocating the change of customs, flat barren graves to open up good land, because in many remote areas of cremation is still unrealistic, still have to implement the burial, but and the old society has been very different, the first is a thin burial, followed by a deep burial is not the grave, hole ground twenty feet under the burial, do not have to seal the earth mounds, the graves above the same can be planted with crops.

However, we have this deep forest, sparsely populated, but also committed to the area of the cemetery and crops worry, just flat some of the barren graves and ancient tombs, with tomb bricks instead of building materials, but this tomb bricks are extremely bad cut, these bricks have been invaded by the stench of the corpse in the tomb, the stench can not be close, although it is a long time, still does not dissipate, cut leveling, and also with the use of burnt wine and lime in order to get rid of the odor.