In order to enter this kind of small stone house, one can only remove the stone at the top, and then people can step in and then cover it with the stone.
The space inside is very small, only a few square meters. You can only sit cross-legged or lie down with your legs folded. When I walked in, it became even more crowded.
There are three small houses of this kind, some distance apart from each other. Tou and Xiaoxuan live in one, Douyazai himself lives in one, and Brother Yu and Ah Chun live in one.
"Boss, what's going on? Why are you all hiding here?" I asked as I pulled my legs back hard.
There was a lot of dust on his face. He did not answer me, but first asked: "How are you and Tian Sanjiu going up there these days?"
I focused on the key points and told the story about the five ugly people, especially that the snake that hurt its head was the landlord Li Eryuan.
He raised his head in surprise and said, "The landlord... I didn't expect it to be him. He is hiding so deeply."
"What about you? Boss, do you know that this is the fifth day since you came down? Tian Sanjiu said that you were beyond the agreed time, so he asked me to come and take a look. He wouldn't let me come down before."
"Yunfeng, haven't you seen me before?"
Recalling the terrifying scene just now, I said I had seen it before, the Candy Corn Man.
He shook his head and looked stunned.
I explained, "I just gave him a random name because the man wore sunglasses and was covered in sugar-like things. He only said "It's raining and harvesting corn."
"Why..."
After crossing their legs for a long time, they might have gone numb, so they changed their head positions and talked about what they had experienced in the past five days.
It was thrilling for me to listen quietly, not to mention that several of them had experienced it firsthand.
On the first day they came down, something bad happened. On that day, Xiaoxuan went to pick up burnable things nearby to make a fire. Suddenly she saw this "sugar man". She was so frightened that Xiaoxuan threw away the firewood and ran back.
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Brother Yu was so frightened when he saw it. Who had ever seen this thing before? The candy man crawled over after Xiaoxuan. Brother Yu rushed up and kicked the thing on the head, sending it flying five or six meters away.
Then something happened to Brother Yu.
A lot of white noodles fell from this thing. When Brother Yu smelled it, he felt dizzy and chest tight, unable to stand. He collapsed on the ground and lost consciousness in just a few minutes.
I guessed that the thing on the candy man's body might be a kind of medicinal powder, which has an effect similar to sevoflurane.
Sevoflurane is a drug that you pour a little on a handkerchief and make you dizzy when you cover it. This drug is real, but it is not as exaggerated as shown on TV. If you put it on a handkerchief and cover your nose, it will take about three minutes to take effect.
brain.
He looked at me and said, "Do you still remember the first time we discovered an underground cave and the waterproof bag we picked up from the water? There was a notebook in the bag."
"What about brother and handsome brother?"
He nodded and said, "It's very quiet here. I think a lot carefully."
"The so-called sugar man in your mouth should be one of those two people."
"I don't know why people become like this. They are southern tomb robbers, mainly active in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi. They were the last wave of tomb robbers that Wuchou found before we came to Yongzhou."
"Yunfeng, you have eyesight now. Take a look at where this little stone house is."
I said, isn't this just a stone house? It might have been lived by quarry workers in the past.
As soon as I said this, I didn’t believe it myself. How could anyone live in this house? There’s no way to lie down and sleep, it’s not like it’s for living people...
"Hmm..." Turn your head and say you are taking a closer look.
I turned on the flashlight and looked up at the roof of the small house.
I saw many smiling faces of children carved on those stone tops, which looked very similar to the big-eared Tutu.
Because the strokes are too simple and cartoonish.
Then he frowned and looked at the small square hole on the wall of the small stone house.
"I know, this is the place where children are put to death!"
"What is this called... the new baby tower!"
He nodded and said: "Yes, it is for children. However, the Xinzhai Yin Pagoda you mentioned was popular in the Qing Dynasty and is larger than this one. The Xinzhai Yin Pagoda can hold sixty to seventy children. This one cannot be used. It must be older.
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This kind of tower for children existed in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other regions during the Qing Dynasty, and there were mainly several types.
The Orphaned Child's Tower, the New House Baby's Tower, and the Old Baby's Tower.
Guwa Tower means deceased little doll. Not many people have seen it. The shape of this tower is exactly the same as the plastic road awl used to block cars. They are both hexagonal, some are big and some are small.
The Xinzhai Yin Tower is relatively famous. There is a place called the Xinzhai Yin Tower in Pan'an. It looks like the mouth of a well, with a grass-covered stone slab on top, and inside are all the dead children.
It is said that in the early 1990s, when the relevant departments of Zhejiang Province conducted the third census of cultural relics, someone opened the Xinzhai Infant Pagoda and a series of accidents occurred. I also heard what others said, and it is said to be true. It was winter at that time, and when the pagoda was opened,
On the fourth day in the tower, a female team member said she saw a little bald girl without any clothes on, crawling on the ground and following them. Later, a very powerful Taoist priest from Jiangxi came to handle this matter.
The boss said that the place we are staying now is the Orphaned Boy Tower.
Those who died of illness, died young, or drowned due to the preference for sons over daughters in feudal society. Children under two years old would be stripped of their clothes and thrown in. The small square hole is the exit of the child's soul after death.
Feeling a chill on my back, I asked the boss if there were many children's bones in this tower before you moved in.
They said there were some heads and asked them to go out, because the children's bones were soft and could not be preserved for a long time. They only saw some broken skulls, the size of steamed buns.
I bowed my hands to those around me and said, "Li Lili, don't blame me for staying here for two days. When we get out safely, I will burn some clothes and some toys for you."
Seeing this, Baotou burst out laughing. He shook his head and said, "Yunfeng, you are very similar to Lao Er. He also believes this. Let's go see a few of them. I'm a little tired."
I grabbed a handful of paprika peels on my head to add some sugar.
"Yunfeng Yunfeng, come here quickly."
I met a few of them behind the stone house.
Brother Yu has been sleeping for several days. Xiaoxuan's face is pale and her cheeks are thin. I feel a little distressed when I see it. She said she hasn't eaten in the past few days because the two bags containing her things were left in the tomb, including her head.
The soft crutch needles are all in the bag.
I said I have cucumbers here. If you eat one, the peel of the red-eyed fruit will be almost gone.
Dou Sprout said: "Fengzi, do you still have some fruit peels? Give me some quickly."
I said I won't starve you to death, so I won't eat the rest and will give it all to Brother Yu. We need to get the bag back as soon as possible.
At this time, Achun looked around nervously: "That thing often appears around the tomb. We didn't dare to go before Wen Bin woke up. The reason why I went was because I really didn't have anything to eat, and I happened to meet you."
"Currently we are hiding here safely and no one has found us."
Just as Ah Chun finished speaking, Dou Sprout Zai seemed to have seen something, and his face turned pale!
"Come...come!"
"Get in quickly!"
We all hid in the orphaned boy's tower. We were so nervous that we didn't dare to breathe out. I looked out through the small square hole.
I saw "Sugar Man" crawling slowly on the ground, with a woman sitting on his waist. She held a cigarette in one hand and carried a square wooden box behind her, which looked like a small medicine box.
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My pupils constricted.
This woman is the proprietress of the canteen!
No wonder....
No wonder Tian Sanjiu couldn't find her in Xiajiang Village. It turned out that she had come down a long time ago...
The proprietress of the canteen rode on the scary candy man, took a puff of her cigarette, and had a smile on her face.
She looked at the dead child, opened her mouth, and blew out a smoke ring.