The food was prepared last night, and a table was set up at the door. At noon, a large group of people ate and drank. The women chatted about their parents, while the men boasted and drank.
My face didn't turn red and my heart didn't beat. No one knew me anyway, so I thought to myself, "I should be able to dig at another spot. It's just a matter of how one can do it alone without being discovered."
You need to study this carefully. If you are caught, you will probably be beaten to death.
"What's your name, please?"
Suddenly, a young girl at the next table asked me.
I ignored him and continued eating.
"Can't you tell me your name?" she asked again.
I turned around and said, "Who are you? Can you please leave me alone while I'm eating?"
The girl rolled her eyes and said to me with her chopsticks: "I saw you coming down from Milky Mountain that day, carrying a bag and holding a bamboo pole. At that time, I thought you were coming to collect skins from other places."
"Skin collector?"
"What's the point?" I really didn't understand.
"Then it seems you are not. I was wrong."
She said: "Collecting skins means collecting toad skins. There are many toads in the reservoir, but few people have come to our village to collect skins this year."
"Oh, then I'm not a skin collector."
I turned around and continued eating.
There are a lot of toads in the wastewater reservoir this month. I live behind an Internet cafe, a few miles away, and sometimes I can hear their croaking at night.
Tianjing Village has been harvested in the past few years, but there are fewer this year. Toad skin is toad clothing, which is a kind of medicinal material. After catching it, they will peel off the skin with a knife and sell it for money. This is what this girl’s family does, so she asked me
Are you here to collect the skin?
Seeing that I didn't speak, she didn't say a word either.
After dinner, there were activities at the mourning hall in the afternoon and evening. I called Er Pengju to the corner and asked him in a low voice: "Er Pengju, do you want to make some money?"
He immediately nodded and said, I think so, brother, but I can’t do anything.
"How old are you this year?"
"I'm 28."
"Then you are much older than me, so don't call me brother, just call me brother Feng."
"I have a job here soon. As for the wages... how about I give you 300 yuan? It's quite a lot."
"Holy crap! So much! What kind of job is this?" His face turned red with excitement.
"I haven't thought about it yet. I'll contact you when I think about it, and you can tell me whether I want to do it or not."
"Dry!"
"Don't worry about the work! Just give me thirty dollars and I'll do it!"
"Okay, wait until I notify you."
I wasn't here at the mourning hall that night, customer, because it cost one hundred yuan per press.
After coming out of the Internet cafe at around 10 o'clock, I walked to the reservoir at night with a flashlight in hand.
The toads screamed loudly. I had just arrived at the reservoir and before I walked up the slope, I suddenly saw a large group of people walking down with flashlights, shouting and carrying a red coffin.
I was startled and quickly moved out of the way.
I thought to myself, is this a fellow traveler? A tomb robber? Who is so awesome and blatant?
That was Nai Li's coffin that had just been buried in the morning.
After the group of people carried it down, another pickup truck came and they wanted to load the coffin into the truck and take it away.
At this moment, another large group of people came running, they were descendants of the Li family.
They looked angry, holding sticks and poles in their hands, and asked loudly: "Do you want to die? What are you doing!"
The man in the pickup truck was not afraid and shouted back: "Lao Quan! I have notified your family several times that burials are prohibited! Burials are prohibited! Not only did you not listen, you buried them next to the reservoir!"
"Don't you understand the law?"
"Tourist attractions! Both sides of the main road! Water sources! No burial!"
"We warned you three times but you didn't listen!"
"It's too late now, we have to take him to the crematorium for cremation."
