Chapter 13: Cause and Effect (2)

After Guo Er finished speaking, I and Su Rou felt a bit sad. Yes, he tried every means to get money and to “struggle,” which can be considered a kind of struggle, but in the end, it was all for nothing.

I actually knew about Guo Er’s family. Apart from his sister, who had married and moved far away, he was the only one left. In those days, this was very rare.

After a moment of silence, Guo Er finished his last puff of cigarette and said, “Little master, I, Guo Er, am not good at anything else, but I am smart, like a panacea. I know you are here for something, so just tell me what it is.”

In that year, I was still a person who was not very good at turning corners. Since Guo Er had said that, I asked directly, “The thing in the tomb is too dangerous. I came to ask you how many people went that day and what happened. That’s it.”

Guo Er’s face changed and he asked, “Little master, how dangerous is that thing?”

“You’ve experienced it yourself, what do you think? I’m afraid that if you go down there and bring up something that shouldn’t be brought up, then the people in the village will be affected. So you have to ask clearly!” I said very seriously.

Guo Er slapped himself hard on the face when he heard this and said, “Little Master, then you should quickly find someone who brought something up. That tomb is evil. I, Guo Er, am not that bad, but I can’t harm the villagers.”

When Guo Er said that, my heart suddenly tightened. I couldn’t help but pat myself on the forehead and mutter, “My Uncle Guo Er, you really dare to bring everything up.”

But now is not the time to worry about these things. The key is to find out what Guo Er and the others did down there and what they encountered. I forced myself to calm down and resist the urge to go back to find the master and find the man. I said, “Don’t worry, we will find the person. You have to tell me about that night first.”

“Okay,” Guo Er quickly agreed, and then added, “Remember, it was Lao Du, Du Changyi, who brought the things up.”

“Why him?” I hadn’t even spoken yet when Su Rou exclaimed, “Who is Old Du? He’s an official in the village.”

I waved my hand to indicate that Su Rou should calm down, and then said, “I know, you can continue slowly.”

Guo Er nodded, took a deep breath of smoke, and began to tell the story of that night.

Guo Er is a well-known person in the village. Why? He is smart. In general, smart people are usually a little bit lazier than ordinary people. Why? Because they are smart, they don’t want to earn that hard money, they just want to live off their brains.

Guo Er was just such a person. In the early years, he had a good relationship with the local cadres, so he got easy tasks and earned a lot of work points.

Later, the policy changed. Guo Er didn’t want to work the land anymore, and wanted to make some money with the policy. He went to the county and town several times, and figured out a way to make money鈥攃ollecting junk.

He was the only one in the village who did this. He said that because he was smart, he of course didn’t go from door to door or run around the village collecting things. He opened a junk shop and had some people collect things for him.

It turned out that this business was a success, and he made some money until one day, when he went to the county seat to collect scrap metal, he met some strange people.

The strange people were a few young men, but they were very fashionable in their dress, with flowery shirts and tight bell-bottom trousers. Two of them had curly hair, which was rare in the county town and definitely at the cutting edge of the times. What was strange was that these trendy people had appeared at a scrap collection station.

Guo Er was delivering goods when they stopped him. One of them said sincerely to Guo Er, “Let’s see if there are any good things. We’ll pay you a lot of money, okay?”

What good things can be found in the junk? The most valuable thing is scrap copper! Guo Er is a man with brains and courage. After observing them, he found that these young people were not targeting him. Almost all the junk collectors would go through the junk, so Guo Er decided to take a chance. What if there really were valuable goods in his pile of junk?

After receiving Guo Er’s permission, the young men began to rummage through Guo Er’s pile of junk, and sure enough, they found some things.

The things they found were not popular in the countryside. There were a few coins, a black, old-fashioned silver lock that a child had worn, and a few large bowls.

What kind of things are these?

But those people gave Guo Er 50 yuan!

As I said, Guo Er is a smart man. Smart people like to think, so Guo Er began to think about these things and started asking around. As a result, he really found out a new word that he had never come across before 鈥� antiques!

It turned out that these young people were looking for antiques in the junk! These things are very valuable in big cities.

Guo Er didn’t regret what happened that day. He knew that as long as he understood the ropes, he could make money with this, so why care about the gain or loss? Besides, the ones without brains should be the young people. They were so ostentatious in their collection, didn’t they arouse suspicion? Guo Er would never do such a thing.

Guo Er set his mind to understanding this business. After a few months, he really figured out the ropes, and in that year, he made a lot of money doing this.

However, how much resources can a village have? Besides, he was not the only one doing this. When more people went to collect old goods, the villagers became aware of it. In short, it was not easy to collect old goods.

In fact, there is still a way to do it, which is to go to more remote places to collect, but Guo Er has a bigger mind. He knows that there is another way to make money, and that is to rob tombs! This is what he heard after he started this business.

He had heard too many stories of people becoming rich overnight because of a “fat tomb,” and although it was risky, he decided to do it!

After that, Guo Er gathered a team, and there were four people in total, including Han Hua, who was famous for his physical strength and was nicknamed “Han the Bull.” He knew a little about folk exorcism and was called “Medicine Cat” in Sichuan. His nickname was Jiang Medicine Cat. There was also Lao Du!

“Lao Du has a lot of family responsibilities. He’s a small-town cadre with no real power, so he decided to follow me. It’s a lot easier to do this kind of thing with a cadre as a cover. We asked Jiang Yaomao because grave-digging is a bit of a taboo. person, we can be much safer. As for the stupid ox, his body is so strong that he can do the work of two people. It is absolutely necessary to have him. As for me, in order to learn this craft, I went to other places and quietly went to the grave with people twice. So four people are enough. Guo Er explained.

Of course, this kind of broken gong team is not as good as a professional team, but in this rural area, it is already good enough to have the tomb of a landlord, and such a team can also do the job.

So they began to work around, but the harvest was really not rich, at least far from being rich overnight.

Guo Er said that the most profitable grave they had dug was that of a minor official, which earned them more than 3,000 yuan, but after dividing it up, each person only got a few hundred yuan.

Guo Er was not satisfied. He had been to tombs with others and had seen them. He was crazy to find a rich tomb!

At this time, Lao Du reminded him: “Erwaizi, do you remember that year?”

“Which year?”

“Didn’t we cut bamboo in our village once? Everyone in the village knows that a tomb was unearthed on that occasion. Just seeing the small half of the door was as tall as half a person. What do you think? Wasn’t that ‘fat meat’?

Hearing this, Guo Er slapped his forehead and said, “Look at me, how could I forget this? That was definitely a fat tomb, a tomb that couldn’t be fatter! Let’s go get it, and once we get it, we’ll have enough for the rest of our lives!”

So, that’s how it was. Guo Er and his gang set their sights on the Hungry Ghost Tomb!

After the relocation of the cemetery, the area was originally intended to be used for the construction of a town hall. However, the officials of the township were worried about the ghosts, so after building two dilapidated houses there, they stopped construction.

For how many years, there are still two shabby houses standing there, and there is no one to guard them. Occasionally, there are homeless people who stay there for a night. In terms of conditions, it is really blessed. Guo Er couldn’t wait. After discussing the matter, he decided to start work two days later.