The ancient cave burial in Dahoushan Miao Village was silent. Except for the coffin in the cave, there were two flashlights dangling around.
The Night God? The Night God of the Ming Dynasty?
After what Bean Sprout said, it really looks a bit like it!
Because I remember that ancient books describe the characteristics of the Night Walker God as "small cheeks and red shoulders." Small cheeks means a thin face, and red shoulders mean that the shoulders are exposed.
Looking at the big rusty iron statue in front of me, it has a sharp mouth, monkey cheeks, and bare arms. The two characteristics are completely consistent!
"Fengzi, this thing weighs at least forty pounds! How much do you think it could be worth if sold?"
"This thing is rare. If you look at its clothes and decorations, it must be the night wandering god worshiped by the Miao people. It is different from the ones in the north. I estimate it is worth about 250,000."
Dou Yazai said excitedly, "250,000! Then hurry up and look for it! See if there are any more! What if there is another Japanese travel god!"
"By the way, I just remembered, couldn't you fucking move your feet? How did you get up here?"
Douyazai chuckled and said, "Actually, my injury healed two days ago, but I am on crutches and someone is taking care of me! Let's just say Panpan, he comes to see me every day and runs for me.
He also brought tea and water."
I spat and said with a smile, "Ya Zai, are you really in love with Panpan? I remember that your standards for choosing a mate were very high in the past."
Douyazai said loudly, "Fengzi, you are a full man and don't know a hungry man is hungry! You are surrounded by beautiful women every day, what about me?? I am so fucking watery every day that I am about to burst! Although Panpan is a bit ugly and fat,
A little bit, but at least she is a woman!"
I smiled and said, "You are so anxious that you don't choose your way, and you don't choose your food when you are hungry. You have more than ten million in your card, so why can't you spend more money to go out and find a beautiful one? By the way, you remind me of an old man I used to have."
My friend, his name is Pump."
“Water pump??”
Dou Sprout stared and said, "What the hell is this a personal name? Why isn't it called an air pump?"
I said that guy’s name is really Shui Pump! Also, his girlfriend’s name is Tingting, and she looks very similar to your Panpan.
Dou Sprout rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, stop talking nonsense! Let's look for him quickly! Is there any Day Traveling God here?"
After searching around carefully, there was an iron statue of the Night Wandering God on the wall.
However, we discovered another cave and looked into it with a strong flashlight. It felt like it was bottomless and we didn’t know where it led.
Douyazai whispered, "This tunnel seems to have been dug manually. Let's go down and have a look?"
I glanced at the cave, then looked back at the hole in the wall where I just found the big iron statue.
I don’t know whether it was a coincidence or someone in the past had done it deliberately, but I found that the statue was placed so that its face was facing the entrance of the cave.
I thought to myself, "This isn't suppressing any evil spirits, is it? The Night God is holding the door to prevent anything from escaping?"
Shaking my head, I quickly dismissed this absurd idea from my mind.
Dou Sprout took the lead and got in first, and I followed him closely.
"Why is this How deep?"
The cave became shorter as we went inward. At first we could still stand, but later we had to bend down to walk.
"Did you hear this noise?"
Dou Sprout listened carefully and said, "I heard it, it's the sound of running water."
When we walked to the end, a slope suddenly appeared in front of us, and the sound of running water came from down the slope.
After carefully sliding down the slope, I discovered that there was actually a new cave at the bottom.
I moved the flashlight slowly and curiously looked at my surroundings.
Suddenly, I saw a natural stone bed, and on the stone bed, it seemed that there was a person lying vaguely!
If this person doesn't move, he is most likely dead.
Dou Sprout saw it too. He patted me and pointed to the stone bed.
I whispered that I had seen it earlier.
Approach carefully and take a photo on the stone bed.
It turned out to be a white skeleton wearing ragged clothes! I don’t know how many years it has been dead here!
Seeing this, Douyazai breathed a sigh of relief and said to me, "Who is this? Why are you lying here? Aren't they all buried outside?"
I shook my head, "I don't know. Anyway, she was a woman, and she was not very old. She should have been around 18 years old at the time of death. Pay attention to her wrist. There is a pair of silver bracelets."
Douyazai's eyes lit up when he saw it. Without saying a word, he directly took off the exquisite silver bracelet.
Because the movement was too big, he accidentally broke the palm bones of the female corpse. Douyazai quickly apologized, "Oh! I'm sorry, beauty! I was careless, please don't mind!"
In addition, there is a small pool in this cave. I speculate that the small pool is connected to a mountain spring somewhere. The water is endless and the water is so clear that it can even reflect people's faces.
On the rock wall next to the pool, three characters were carved crookedly with a knife, and the knife marks left behind the characters were clearly visible.
"Wu Nu Spring."
Douyazai whispered "zizi female spring?"
"No, your education level is too low. If you don't understand, don't read it blindly. This word should be pronounced "Nvquan"! It means Weaver Girl!" I said.
"Hey! Fengzi, you are highly educated! Did you graduate from Peking University? Beida Jade Bird!"
I ignored the bean sprouts and lowered my head to take a sip of spring water. The clear spring water was very sweet after entering my throat. I felt refreshed after taking two sips.
Dou Sprout also took several sips. He shook his hands and exclaimed with a smile, "Fengzi, this water is so sweet! I have an idea. If we use the water here to set up a mineral water company, we won't be able to sell it!"
How about we form a partnership and call it Doufeng Mineral Water Co., Ltd.?"
"Hurry up and look in the mirror. How can you still open a company with a job like yours? Leave now! There is nothing of value here."
I'm carrying
Half a sack of loot. Since most of the bag contained various silver jewelry, it jingled as I walked. Bean Sprout followed me with the big iron statue of the Night Walker in his arms.
After exiting the cave, I shouted down below, "Get the head! Get ready to receive the goods!"
Brother Yu, who was waiting below, shouted to us, "Got it! Unload it!"
I unloaded the sack first. As for the big iron statue, I tied a loop around its neck with a rope and lowered it directly.
By the time Dou Sprout and I came down one after another, it was about ten o'clock in the evening. .??.
Xiaoxuan couldn't wait to open the sack to see the trophies. She held up the silver bracelet that Dou Sprout took from the female corpse and said excitedly, "This silver bracelet is so beautiful!"
Brother Yu asked what was going on, and I gave him a rough description.
After listening to what I said, he suddenly raised his head and frowned and said, "Yunfeng, I feel that the female corpse you described is most likely the former Luohua Cave girl."
I was stunned.
The girl who fell into the hole?
The Girl from the Luohua Cave?
"Huh? Don't tell me about it! It's really possible! The age is also suitable!"
The custom of "Girls Falling into the Flower Cave" was very popular in the western Hunan area in the past. Rumor has it that nine out of ten women who fell into the cave died, and the one who was lucky enough to survive was either crazy or stupid.
There are many caves in western Hunan, and wherever there are caves, there are so-called "cave gods".
For a young girl aged 16 to 20, if her eyes suddenly become dull one day, she will ignore anyone who talks to her. She only likes to do two things every day. One is to put on makeup in front of the mirror and dress herself up carefully;
Always clean the house, especially the bed, which must be spotless.
Once this situation occurs, according to the words of the Miao master, the girl is attracted by the cave god of a certain cave. Now they just wait for a good and auspicious day to send the girl into the cave to worship the invisible "cave god"
marriage.
There are two solutions to this matter,
One is that the parents spend a lot of money to hire a famous mage from the Miao ethnic group, and ask the mage to ask the girl which cave god she is, and then the mage will go to the cave to negotiate with the cave god.
They usually say, "My daughter is still young, clumsy and doesn't know etiquette. She may not be able to serve Lord Dong Shen well. I sincerely ask Lord Dong Shen to choose another good match."
If the mage comes back and says that the cave god has agreed, the girl's parents will prepare an old hen, tie a red string around the chicken's feet, blindfold the old hen, and finally throw the old hen directly into the cave.
A “dismissal gift” to the cave god.
If the mage says that the negotiation has not been completed, the cave god is interested in your daughter. If you don't send your daughter in by a certain date, your whole family will be in disaster.
And once you enter the cave, you can't get out
Just imagine, how many days can a little girl of seventeen or eighteen years old survive alone in a sealed cave without food or water? I have said before that as of 2023, the central and northern regions of western Hunan In some isolated villages, this custom still exists and is banned repeatedly.
Sounds absurd.
According to the conditions that old Miao people use to judge whether a woman is a fallen girl, firstly, she is in a poor mental state and is sometimes in a trance; secondly, she is not very fond of talking and talking to others; thirdly, she likes to look in the mirror and put on make-up; and fourthly, she likes to clean.
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If there are female friends watching, you might as well take a seat and see if you meet the above conditions.
If so, then don't go to some remote villages in central and northern Hunan. The old people in the village may treat you as a cave girl, knock you out, tie you up, throw you into a cave, and marry the cave god directly.
Can't find it when I look for it.
At that moment, he scolded his head and said, "Xiaoxuan, the women who fell into the cave all died with resentment. Their things are unlucky. Don't keep playing with them."
Xiaoxuan has been with us for so many years, and her courage has long been tempered. She is not afraid of such things on dead people at all. She played with the silver bracelet and smiled and said, "I just think it looks very good. I want to stay and play with this by myself."
He sighed and said helplessly, "Well, that's fine, since you like it, just keep it for yourself."
"Thank you!" Xiaoxuan smiled happily.
He waved his head and said, "Let's go. The harvest this time is pretty good. Let's go back and rest early."
We carried our things, talked and laughed with each other and were about to leave.
"etc!"
"You guys stop!"
Suddenly, a stranger shouted from behind!
This sudden shout startled us all, and I hurriedly hid the sack behind my back for fear of being discovered.
At this moment, the moonlight was hazy. When we looked back, we saw that the person who stopped us was a middle-aged Miao man wearing a white waistcoat.
This man is about forty years old. He is holding a slender blade knife in his hand. He has obvious white hair on his temples. His skin is a healthy wheat color. His facial features are thin and three-dimensional. He looks at us with a very cold look.
Scary.
Knowing that this man could speak Mandarin, my face changed slightly, and I smiled and said to him, "fellow, we are from the archaeological team, and we have come to our area to inspect historical monuments."
The other party stared at us with a cold face and said word by word, "You have entered that cave."
The tone of this cold questioning made people uncomfortable. Douyazai is a straight-tempered person, so he immediately replied to this person, "Just come in! What's wrong? Is that your cave?"
The man suddenly raised the Miao knife in his hand, and we noticed that the man's right hand holding the knife had only four fingers! There was no little finger on his right hand!
The leather sheath fell to the ground, and the sharp Miao knife reflected a white shadow on his face.
He said in a cold voice, "You will be damned if you disturb her rest."
"Everyone stand back!"
Brother Yu seemed to have foreseen some danger. He shouted and charged straight at the man.