I saw the treasure hunter yawning. He looked at me and said, "I'm not just looking for cows. Others said that one of my uncles was missing while grazing cows in the mountains. He didn't come back with the cows all night."
"If you ask me, they are just worrying about it. Nothing is wrong. My uncle doesn't do this once or twice. He goes far into the mountains to collect herbs. What's so strange about not coming back after one night? You think so?
no?"
I smiled and said, "Yes, it turns out that's the case. It's too much of a fuss."
"Haha, we are really destined to be together, so I'll go back."
After that, the treasure hunter grabbed Lao Niu and turned around and left.
Seeing that his back was turned to us, Xiaoyuan suddenly ran over with a knife in his hand.
I wanted to stop it, but I didn't dare to shout.
I looked at Xiaoxuan's indifferent face. She raised the knife in her hand high and pointed it at the treasure hunter's back.
The sharp blade flashed with a white light.
"Oh, right."
The man suddenly turned around, and Xiaoxuan reacted quickly and hid the knife again.
"Brother, do you have a cigarette? Give me a cigarette." With a smile on his face, he asked me for a cigarette.
"Yes... Yes, you can take whatever you want."
He took out his lighter and lit my cigarette. He glanced at Xiaoxuan and said with a smile: "Brother, is this your girlfriend? Let me go, she's so beautiful."
Hearing the compliment, Xiaoxuan's face was extremely unnatural and she "smiled."
I winked at her, meaning to put the knife away quickly, why do you want to stab someone so often? This treasure hunter didn't know anything, and he could easily solve the problem.
Xiaoxuan seemed to understand what I wanted to say in my eyes, but she was not convinced and glared at me hard.
"Ha ha!"
"I envy you. Look, you are squinting in front of me. Hey...compared to you, I am a miserable person. My girlfriend is ugly as hell. She looks just like her."
As he spoke, he pointed at the cow with a frown on his face.
"What's your surname? How do you call it?" I asked.
"My surname is Zhang, Zhang Sheng, from Macun. Where are you from?"
"My surname is Lu, and my name is Lu Feng. I am from Sanshili Village."
"Brother Zhang, I heard that there is a group of descendants of the chieftain family living in your Ma Village. Is this true?"
He looked stunned and said that I am a descendant of the Tusi family. What's wrong?
"Nothing, it's just that I don't think you are from a minority ethnic group."
"By the way, when we came here just now, we seemed to see a man walking with a big bamboo basket on his back."
"Really, Tingting?"
Xiaoxuan reacted and nodded quickly: "Yes, I seemed to have glanced at you just now."
"real!"
"Where are the people?!"
I pointed ahead and said, "Turn left right there. It doesn't seem close. It's in the woods."
"Why don't you go quickly, brother? Don't let people wander away in a while. I'll hold the cow for you first. We'll wait for you here."
"Sorry to trouble you! I have to go quickly!"
The treasure hunter didn't think deeply about it at all. He handed the old scalper to me, turned around and trotted away.
Seeing the person disappear around the corner, I glanced at the old scalper, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Did you see that? It's easy to solve the problem. Don't keep thinking about using the knife."
Xiaoxuan rolled her eyes and said, "What's simple? It's just that the person just now was a fool, and you are also a fool. I think you two are fools who deceive fools. You are so stupid."
"Hey, okay, I can't tell you anything."
"Walk!"
"Drive! Let's go!" I pulled the cow's head hard and took Xiaoxuan forward to find a place.
Find a suitable place to "kill the cow".
By the time the treasure hunter comes back, Xiaoxuan and I will probably have disappeared.
Leaving the riverside and wandering around, Xiaoxuan and I walked to a relatively remote forest.
"Let's go here, you or me?"
"Come on," Xiaoxuan handed the knife to me.
After taking the knife, I took off my shirt and covered the bull's eye first, otherwise it would run around later.
In the past, there was no electric shock, and cattle were killed using local methods. I have seen others do it.
On the cow's forehead, in the center of the two horns, there is a small area that is relatively soft.
Standing in front of the old scalper, I held the knife with both hands, pointed it at this position, and took two deep breaths.
Then give it a hard push!
It penetrated most of the way!
The old cow felt severe pain. It covered its eyes and broke away like crazy! It ran rampant in the woods! Xiaoxuan and I hurriedly ran away.
Because he couldn't see it, the old cow bumped into a tree and lay on the ground with its limbs twitching.
Soon, the cow stopped moving.
"Dead?"
"He should be dead, you can't stand it anymore."
Afraid that we might not hit anyone, we waited for a few more minutes before going over to take a look.
The cow is dead.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and after a little effort, I finally completed the task assigned to me.
So what if the old cow knew the way? Now that the cow is dead, as long as we don't tell ourselves, no one can find it.
Killing people and slaughtering cattle.
This is the real, "Dead man tells no tale."
After meeting with Brother Yu Dou Sprout in the evening, we went back.
For four days after we returned, it was calm and nothing happened. We spent a few days in peace.
The reason why I have been waiting for these few days is because I have something more important to do.
The tomb with the triple coffin has unusual and strange dimensions. It doesn't look like the burial method in the Central Plains area. I suspect it may be from the Chu people.
There are experts here in Luoyang who can make the writing "Xinmang Wood Thorn" wrapped in a few pieces of plastic wrap reappear.
It uses the same potion as the archaeological team, and it also involves the preservation of several pieces of lacquerware. If you don't soak it in that kind of potion for 24 hours, let's face it, all the pieces of lacquerware, including the famous thorns, will be preserved within a week.
Finished.
In such ancient times, bamboo slips, wooden tablets, stone tablets, etc. with writings on them were taken back at high prices for research. If they are rotten, they cannot be sold for money, so we cannot let them rot.
In fact, Xiaomi and Liao Bo can also do this, but they are in the Miao village in the mountains and have no way to contact anyone at the moment.
It was around 8 o'clock that evening. After dinner, we took the cool weather in the courtyard as usual. We said it would be ready the day after tomorrow and we would leave then.
Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door.
"Ingots?"
"What's wrong?"
I don't know what happened, but Yuan Bao seemed to have come running. He was sweating profusely and said anxiously: "It's bad! Something happened! Those chieftains who live in Macun! They came to our village!"
Almost a week has passed since this incident, and now, my heart skipped a beat.
"Don't panic, how many people are here? Are they here for us? Do they know we live here?"
Yuan Bao wiped his sweat and said hurriedly: "People were asking about a man and a woman in the village. As soon as I heard that, I knew they were talking about you two!"
"My grandfather's words are very important in the village. He makes everyone around him say that he has never seen you!"
I frowned and asked, "That means... they don't know we live here yet."
Yuan Bao nodded, but immediately said angrily: "But you don't dare to leave the village now, what if you encounter me?"
At this time, he acted the calmest. He picked up the big teapot and took a sip of water. He said calmly: "Yunfeng, don't panic. We haven't done anything, so why should we be afraid?"
The boss said again: "At the worst, we have to pay for the cow, it's just a few thousand yuan for the whole dozen."
"Yes! You are right, Boss! We haven't done anything, so what are we afraid of!"
At this moment, Yuan Bao's face turned green and white for a while, and he said anxiously: "What if someone finds the body!"
How do I find it? Can they channel spirits? Can they call the dead up from the underworld and ask them who killed them?
I said this half-jokingly. Unexpectedly, Yuan Bao said: "I heard other people in the village talking about a man who suffered from diarrhea among the Yunnan chieftains. He raised a sheep with a cloth doll tied around its neck! People said,
That weird sheep can find dead people!”
"What the hell?
"What did you say that person's name was? His name was diarrhea? Did you hear it wrong?"
Yuan Bao held the door and said anxiously: "It's not diarrhea! It's diarrhea! That word "Xi" doesn't mean "Xi"!
After speaking, he dipped his hands in saliva and wrote this word.
"觋(xi)".
That person should be called "La Jin."
This word, according to a modern dictionary, means "witch". The dictionary says that among some mysterious ethnic minorities, women are called "witches" and men are called "male witches."
According to my subsequent research, in the past there were many ethnic minorities in Dali, Yunnan, and those who knew "black magic" had two ancestors, one male and one female.
The male is called "Zhapa Ma" and the female is called "Zha Mima".
In addition to the one called Lajin mentioned by Yuan Bao, which is now recognized, there are five other places where wizards were born.
They are, respectively, the Lisu wizards in Luquan County, the Yi wizards in Gengma, the Xibo wizards in Kunming, the Dulong wizards in Nanmusa, and the Blang wizards in Shuangjiang.
According to a local saying, the stuffed doll tied around the sheep's neck is called the "god doll."
The specific function is to search for mysteriously missing people.
