Chapter Fifty-Seven: Past Events in the Ancient Tomb II
Su Xiaomeng's words definitely didn't scare me, but they really aroused my interest. King Zhou Mu was originally a very mysterious person. If that ancient tomb is really the burial place of his bones, then what happened to the young shepherd who met him in the tomb?
It was not unusual to see any strange things. I urged Su Xiaomeng to speed up the story, eager to listen.
"If I tell you, what good will it do to me?" Su Xiaomeng was very annoying and got stuck at the critical moment.
"The price has been negotiated, and I won't default on it. You provide complete information, and I will send you the money later." I frowned, because I vaguely felt that Su Xiaomeng's purpose in talking to me was
It's not that little money at all. She and I have never met each other. If we put aside financial interests, what reason does she have to tell me so much?
"It's so vulgar to talk about money, can't we talk about something else?"
"Please speak quickly." My tone became a little more serious. If I try to talk to her nicely now, she really doesn't know how long she will delay it.
"It's not interesting..." Su Xiaomeng muttered lowly and continued.
After the young shepherd returned home, his father first discovered the wound on his head. The wound was frighteningly large. What's even more terrible is that if you look carefully, you can see that the skull under the hair has been smashed out.
, you can even see the brain tissue inside the skull. People in the village don’t have much modern medical knowledge, but anyone can feel such serious injuries.
But the young herdsman seemed not to be affected by the wound, and moved freely without any pain. After returning home, he went back to his house and took a deep sleep, which lasted from late at night to the afternoon of the next day. At this time,
The old shepherd was still in a deep coma and had not yet awakened.
However, on this night, things seemed to have unexpectedly changed. There were no entertainment activities in the village, and they basically maintained the ancient habit of sleeping at sunset. When it got dark, every household would close the doors and windows and go to sleep on the kang. Very few
Some people would go out at night. At that time, there happened to be a person who went to another village for business and rushed home overnight. When this person rushed back to the village, it was about two o'clock in the morning.
After the villager entered the village, he saw two squatting people under the soil slope at the head of the village, who seemed to be talking in a low voice. The sight of two squatting people on the ground in the middle of the night was actually very intrusive, but a little
After distinguishing them, he found that they were two shepherds from the same village, an old man and a young man.
This villager had been away from the village for more than ten days on errands, so he had no idea what happened to the herdsmen. He thought it was a bit strange, and greeted two people when he walked up the slope. However, the two herdsmen ignored him and saw him coming.
Then they stopped talking and looked at him with a strange look in their eyes.
People in the village were not that complicated in their thinking, so the villagers felt strange, but did not think deeply about it. Seeing that the two herders ignored him, they did not stay much longer, and then hurried back to their homes.
This was the only person who witnessed the conversation between the two herdsmen in the middle of the night, but he did not hear the content of the conversation, not a word.
"So, no one knows about this conversation until now, right?" I interjected.
"It's true that no one knows. Even if you want to guess, you still need relevant clues, but do you think there are clues?" Su Xiaomeng asked: "If you were to speculate, can you roughly judge what they were talking about?"
"I can't guess." I said, "But there's no need to guess. Let's continue."
"You probably can't guess what happened next." Su Xiaomeng took another breath and said in a tone that was not scary at all: "In the early morning of that day, both herders died."
"All dead?" This result was beyond my expectation. I thought that the young shepherd miraculously climbed out of the ancient tomb and ran home. There would definitely be some follow-up story, but I didn't expect that anything happened before it could happen.
Story, two people died together?
The time of death of the two herdsmen was ominous, but they were both discovered by family members in the early morning. The young herdsman died in his bedroom. Just from the appearance, no cause of death could be seen. But the old herdsman
It's very ugly to die.
The old shepherd hung himself from the beam of his main room. When his family found out, he was completely stiff. There was a round object tied with a rope around his neck. That object was later taken away.
When it came down, it was a piece of bronze. On the bronze, there was a pattern that no one had seen before.
I listened silently and did not express any opinion. Because the matter itself was difficult to distinguish between true and false, I could not infer that if any part of Su Xiaomeng's story was false, then the subsequent chain of evidence would be completely ignored.
overthrow.
"Don't you think it's strange?" Su Xiaomeng heard that I was silent and said with a smile: "You are not so scared that you can't speak."
"It's very strange. Is the pattern on that piece of bronze the same pattern I posted in my post?"
"You are very smart, and I like smart men."
"Where's the back?"
"Oh, there are even stranger things later."
The two herdsmen died together in a very bizarre way, but as the only two people involved, if they died, it would be like putting an end to this matter, unless someone accidentally ran into the subsidence again.
It is possible to find something from ancient tombs only in ancient tombs, but that place is very remote, and few people go there except for herdsmen. Therefore, from a normal perspective, although this matter is very strange, it should be regarded as
it's over.
but it is not the truth.
Two herdsmen were buried one after another, especially the young herdsman, who was not married yet and was the only son in the family. His parents were devastated. People in the village did not have the concept of cremation, and burials had always been popular.
The place where he is buried is the village cemetery, just near the village.
After the death of her son, the mother of the young shepherd felt groggy and very depressed every day. She was in a daze every day. Sometimes she felt so uncomfortable that she would run to her son's grave by herself.
Sit down and cry. One morning seven or eight days after the young shepherd was buried, his mother ran to the grave again, but as soon as she went there, she was stunned.
The grave of the young herdsman was dug up, and a wide gap was made in the thin-skinned coffin, and the body in the coffin disappeared. His mother was shocked at first, and then cried loudly, without any idea, because the people in the village
Nothing like this has ever happened before.
I think it is good for people in poor villages to have a coffin after they die. It is absolutely impossible to put valuables in it, so the possibility of the tomb being stolen is zero.
His mother ran home in despair and told her husband about the matter. Her husband immediately rushed to the cemetery with a few people. Relatively speaking, men are calmer than women when encountering problems. In addition, the sky was completely bright, and the people in front and behind the cemetery
Every detail has been observed.
"Guess why the body of the young herdsman disappeared?" Su Xiaomeng started to interrupt again when he said this.
"It's really annoying for you to be like this." I frowned. If I weren't eager to know these things, I would have hung up the phone at that time: "Can you finish it all at once?"
"Without any sense of humor and patience, I don't like you again." Su Xiaomeng muttered a few words, but she seemed to be the kind of heartless girl. She was angry one second, but the next
He smiled playfully and said to me mysteriously: "Then let me tell you, the body ran away on its own."
"Really?" I asked, but I wasn't surprised at all. I saw the corpse that ran away after death not once. Wu Shengli and Mr. Chen both slipped away from the morgue at that time.
At that time, everyone who observed the cemetery thought that the grave had been dug up maliciously. From this, they concluded that it was done deliberately by someone who had a grudge against the young herdsman or the family. However, the herdsman’s father looked at it for a long time and felt that something was wrong.
, because judging from the traces left at the site, it seems that the grave was dug from the inside out.
In other words, it was the corpse buried in the grave that dug up the grave bag.
Moreover, they found a row of very clear footprints next to the cemetery. This row of footprints followed the cemetery and went around in a circle, extending towards the northwest of the village. After following this footprint for a while, several people came closer and closer.
The more surprised they are, because they have lived here since childhood and are more familiar with this land than anyone else. Under normal circumstances, even a 200-pound fat man carrying two sacks would not leave such clear footprints.
The footprints never stopped, and a few people continued to follow the footprints. After walking for almost thirty or forty miles, they saw a large collapsed pit on the ground in front of them, and a row of strange footprints on the edge of the collapsed pit.
Disappeared. The villagers were simple but not stupid. When they saw this situation, they knew that the owner of the footprints must have gotten in along the edge of the pit.
Several people were anxious and a little scared, but they wanted to understand the matter completely, so they discussed and left a few people to guard the side of the sinkhole, but they would not go in for the time being, and the remaining two went back to the village to call for help.
, and brought some guns over by the way.
Such strange things immediately attracted people in the village. The person who reported the news went back to explain the situation. The villagers who were in trouble came and cheered. The uncle of the young herdsman was a veterinarian in the village. He was very courageous and took care of himself.
They got a soil gun and took two more people with them to observe next to the cave-in pit. They originally wanted to dig out the cave-in pit completely, so that the space would be wider and there would be ways to deal with danger, but the amount of work was too large.
Digging the collapse pit would require a lot of labor for several days, so the plan was abandoned. The young herder's mother kept crying, and his uncle, a veterinarian, couldn't bear to hear it. Finally, he plucked up the courage and led two people along the edge of the pit.
slit and slowly got in.
"you guess......"
"I won't guess!" I was a little angry and interrupted Su Xiaomeng at that time.
"It's really boring, why should I be so cruel?" Su Xiaomeng's tone was a little aggrieved, and he muttered: "I won't tell you what happened next."
This was what I was most afraid of, so I had to patiently reconcile with her, but this girl was very easy to coax, and she stopped getting angry after talking.
There was an evil vibe about this incident from beginning to end. After the veterinarian got into the collapse pit, he found that the situation inside was completely different from what he thought.