Because Zhang Bowen is still in the hospital, and Uncle Li is not willing to meet the people of Tiandao League, I can only take a taxi with Qingyi to the bottom of the telecommunications building and rush directly to the wasteland. Needless to say, I suffered a lot because of my injuries along the way, but fortunately I survived.
As soon as we arrived, Qingyi took out the compass from his backpack and began to check the wasteland.
I know that Qingyi is actually checking the magnetic field. Wherever there are filthy things, the magnetic field will inevitably be disturbed to a certain extent, and the compass needle will also be unstable.
In fact, in terms of detecting dirty things, the compass and compass left by our ancestors are much more useful than modern instruments. Modern instruments are not humane when detecting, and they are not as accurate as the old guys in finding places.
Qingyi walked around in this wasteland, checking very carefully. After more than an hour of inspection, he finally stopped under a big tree. At this time, the needle on the compass in his hand suddenly swung violently. This swing was very special. The needle rotated 360 degrees, which surprised me.
Qingyi finally stopped at this time, looked up at the big tree, and frowned deeply.
I have worked with Qingyi for a while, and I have a certain understanding of his temper. When I saw his expression, I knew that he was in trouble. I immediately asked him if there was any problem.
"Don't you find anything special about this tree?"
Qingyi turned her head to look at me, pointed at the towering tree in front of us, and whispered: "Take a closer look."
I was a little confused, and immediately looked around the tree carefully. After looking for a long time, I couldn't see anything wrong, so I shook my head: "Isn't this just a boxwood tree? It just looks a bit old."
"Hey, Xiaotian, you have to be more careful in the future. You are the only descendant of the Fa Qiu Sect. You must master the craft of Fa Qiu! A powerful master of the Fa Qiu Sect can guess it just by standing on the grave. What determines whether the soil is good or bad? It all depends on your eyesight! But now you are standing here, and you can't even find the characteristics of this tomb. You are too careless. This is not good. You have now embarked on the road of dealing with dirty things. You must change this in the future. It is better to be safe than sorry! "
Qingyi sighed, warned me seriously, and then said: "Look carefully at the back of the leaf!"
When I heard this, my eyes were immediately focused on the back of the box tree leaf, and I was stunned - the back of the box tree leaf was actually faintly red?
This is not right!
My heart moved, and what on earth was this - the red flag!
This is a very special tree on the grave recorded in "Fa Qiu Secret Art" - in our country, there are many places that have the custom of planting a tree on the grave. The trees planted are mostly boxwood and mulberry trees that are extremely beneficial to the Feng Shui pattern. Once these trees grow luxuriantly on the grave, it symbolizes that the person buried in the grave has more shade on his back, which is a good omen!
The red flag refers to something that is produced after some grave trees mutate!!
Some graves have a lot of yin and evil spirits gathered in the graves because the tomb owners have experienced various unlucky changes or because they are buried in the yin land. The trees planted on the graves of such graves absorb too much yin and evil spirits, so they will undergo certain mutations and form red flags. Not only are the colors behind the leaves as sad and bright as blood, but its roots will also become particularly developed and tough. Even if you use a sword or an axe, you can't cut it. At the same time, it will completely wrap the coffin in the grave, forming a natural anti-theft measure.
My tomb-robbing ancestor said in a book that generally speaking, if you encounter a tomb with a red-eyed flag growing on the grave, it is best to retreat immediately. First, it is because the roots of the red-eyed flag wrap the coffin, making it difficult to open the coffin. Second, if the tomb tree on the grave mutates into a red-eyed flag, there are probably unclean things in it, and it is very dangerous to enter!
Qingyi probably saw some slight changes in my expression, so she asked, "How is it? Have you figured out the clues?"
I nodded a little heavily and said in a deep voice, "Where the red-eyed flag is, there are probably evil spirits. Needless to say, we are here for the evil spirits this time. The trouble is actually the red-eyed flag. The roots of this thing wrap the coffin tightly. It is difficult to damage it with swords and knives except for burning it with fire, so it is still a bit difficult for us to destroy the body of the ghost old lady!"
"Let's act after dark."
Qingyi looked around and said in a deep voice, "Let's make preparations first."
That's all we can do now.
I arranged for Zhou Jing and Su Su to go back to Xiaodian District to get two barrels of gasoline, and then Qingyi and I stayed behind. Before coming here this time, Qingyi and I thought about digging graves, so we brought an engineer shovel from my home that I bought when I went to Wuwang Village last time. In order to save time, we started digging around the red flag during the day. Of course, it was Qingyi who did it. It was a test of my perseverance that I could hold on to this place in my current state. It would definitely not work if I used a shovel.
The tomb under the envy banner is not a tomb with a particularly complex structure. In fact, there is not even a burial chamber. After all, in ancient times, people who had the money to build a burial chamber were considered to be quite powerful. Most people just rolled up a straw mat and buried the body. Small landlords could only buy a thin coffin and then dig a hole to bury it. The tomb we are digging now is obviously the tomb of a small landlord. When Qingyi dug less than one meter deep, he heard a "click" and shoveled something. Upon closer inspection, it was a coffin, but the coffin was basically corroded. Qingyi actually poked the coffin board with one shovel. Then we could vaguely see the coffin through the hole facing the sunlight. Inside was a human skeleton, covered with a layer of corroded and tattered shroud. Under the skeleton was a long braid, probably the hair of the person in the coffin. Then there were a lot of black fragments scattered in the coffin. Qingyi reached in through the hole and took out a few black fragments. After looking at them, she said one word to me: "Wax!"
Needless to say, the skeleton we dug out must be the husband of the ghost old lady. Both of them were made into wax corpses after they died. Unfortunately, the ghost old lady was sealed by wax before her ghost could leave, and finally turned into a monster. Her husband was a pure wax corpse. After the wax layer on the surface of the corpse cracked and fell off, the corpse also rotted away completely!
I limped over and reached in through the hole in the coffin to take out a piece of bone. I pinched it to feel the hardness of the bone, and looked at the holes left on the bone due to calcium loss. It was basically confirmed that the couple should be people after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and there were only more than 200 years at most. Because if this person is buried in the ground, if the body is not specially treated, the bones will definitely become brittle in three hundred years at most. This is in the north. If it is buried in the acidic soil in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the bones will not only become brittle, but also be difficult to pick up after three hundred years. Therefore, the ancients in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River would put a layer of shells on the body when burying, using the large amount of calcium contained in the shells to neutralize the acidity in the soil, so as to preserve the bones, but the effect is not very great, at most it can only delay the time.
I told Qingyi about my discovery, Qingyi nodded after a little hesitation, and said: "Two hundred years should be easier to deal with. The wax corpse locks the soul, and the corpse soul nourishes each other. If it exceeds five hundred years, I am afraid it will be very difficult for me to deal with it!"
This is probably a blessing in disguise, right?
I laughed at myself, and then said to Qingyi: "Husband and wife are buried together. According to custom, the man should be on the left and the woman on the right. If we dig about one meter to the right, we should be able to dig out the real owner!"
Qingyi nodded, and said nothing more. He buried his head and started digging in the direction I said. After digging for less than 40 minutes, he heard a "clang" sound. The Luoyang shovel in his hand seemed to have hit something particularly hard, which made such a crisp sound.
Qingyi raised his eyebrows, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth: "I dug it up!"