Only after I grew up did I know that finding and locating caves was about tomb robbers. I was curious at the time. I checked some information on the Internet. It said that finding and locating caves was a special skill of tomb robbers. Generally, experienced tomb robbers follow the mountains.
The geographical location and celestial phenomena are combined to judge. This requires extremely rich experience. I wondered at that time whether the four mentioned by the old man Yang were four tomb robbers?
This old sheep man said that he had the ability to find and locate acupoints, so how did this old sheep man do it? Later, I asked my dad, but my dad was very secretive about my question.
After several fruitless attempts, I suppressed this matter in my heart, but I still figured it out. It was Zhao Banxian who told me, but I didn't ask explicitly. I just took it as the responsibility of the old man Yang who asked me to recognize him.
Grandpa told him about that incident. Zhao Banxian was surprised when he heard it and said to me, you missed a good opportunity. I asked Zhao Banxian why he said that. Zhao Banxian said, Old Sheep is not an easy man. If you had recognized him as your godfather,
That’s really incredible!
I dismissed it and said to Zhao Banxian, can that old man be as powerful as you?
Zhao Banxian shook his head and said, "There is no comparison! It's just a pity for this skill!"
I can't help but feel the curiosity in my heart. The ability that even Zhao Banxian can praise greatly must not be simple.
Zhao Banxian said, this is the secret of the village. Now that you have grown up, you can know some things. The old man Yang is right. The ancestors of this village are indeed four people. The old man Yang is the last generation with the surname Yang. Since the old man Yang
After his death, his bloodline was cut off. The old sheep man's ability to find holes and locate them actually depended on his flock of sheep, which could smell things underground.
Only then did I realize that my ancestors were really a group of tomb robbers, but that was already a hundred years ago. At that time, the four of them had a clear division of labor. Whenever they went to a place, Yang would dress up as an old man herding sheep, and would go there every day.
He led his flock of sheep to wander around the hillside. It was obviously to herd the sheep, but in fact he was just going to visit the spot. I heard Zhao Banxian say that it was not just ordinary sheep that could smell the dead breath underground. Every ancient tomb must have people buried with it.
This sheep can smell the breath of death in the tomb. If it encounters a big tomb, it will dig dirt on the ground, so they know that there is a big tomb underneath.
I was very curious at the time, so I asked Zhao Banxian how the sheep could be so powerful at smelling dead bodies on the ground? Could it be a dog's nose?
I have only heard that pigs have a very sensitive sense of smell and can smell things underground, so pigs always use their noses to nudge the ground when they are fine, but I have never heard that sheep are also so powerful.
Zhao Banxian said that this sheep is not an ordinary sheep, but much more powerful than a dog. This sheep has been screened at all levels. First, the lambs from the litter are fed with goat milk mixed with human blood until they grow teeth.
After that, they put the lambs in a closed room without giving them anything to eat. They opened them again after a week. The surviving lamb was fed with dead human flesh until it grew up. This lamb died from eating it at an early age.
Human flesh has changed its living habits and will not eat grass at all. After taking it out, if it smells the dead air in the ground, it will dig underneath with its hooves.
I was shocked when I heard it. I didn't expect that the skinny old sheep in my memory actually grew up eating dead human flesh.
I thought this incident was disgraceful and terrifying. I never mentioned it again and gradually forgot about it. I thought that it was only a hundred years ago and the last root was lost with the death of the old sheep.
It has disappeared, and there is no need for us descendants to study it further.
But tonight, when I saw Li Dayan skillfully digging holes and their strange behavior, I realized that this root had not disappeared at all.
It's just growing slowly in a corner of me that I can't see.
Xiaobai might have seen me dazed here, slapped me in the face and asked me what I was doing!
I said to Xiaobai: 'Xiaobai, they may be robbing tombs!'
When Xiaobai heard this, he looked at me with a strange look?
"Tomb robbing notes?"
Xiaobai smiled, obviously he didn't believe what I said, but it's no wonder, Xiaobai is not from the village, he also knows these things, it's understandable if he doesn't believe it, I told Xiaobai about the past things in the village, Xiaobai
After hearing this, Bai opened his mouth with a surprised expression, swallowed his saliva and said: 'Old Du, I realize it would be a pity not to write novels!'
When I saw him, I still didn't believe it. I just shook my head helplessly and muttered, "I am a screenwriter."
I told Xiaobai that there must be some secrets in Pineapple Village that we don’t know. Xiaobai said disdainfully: ‘Nonsense, I know it too! Let’s go over and take a look!’
I found a few stones from the side and dropped them in the corner. I stepped on them and stretched out my head. Since they were hiding it from me, they definitely didn’t want me to know, so I had to hide them so that they couldn’t see me. I asked Xiaobai Xiao
Make some movement to avoid being discovered by them. I patted Xiaobai twice and found that he didn't respond.
When I was talking just now, Xiaobai suddenly turned his head and made a silent gesture towards me.
I was a little strange. I couldn't help but move my eyes to the yard. Only then did I see that the hole in the yard had been dug very deep. The soil inside could only be lifted up with a cloth bag tied with a rope. I saw that the fourth uncle was holding the rope.
I bent my hand more than ten times before I came up with a bag of soil. I estimated that the hole had been dug seven or eight meters.
Just as I was watching intently, I suddenly saw a flash of white light, and an ouch came from the yard, and I noticed it.
It turned out that Goudan accidentally fell down while holding the flashlight. The white light flashed in front of me, startling me. I quickly retracted my head for fear that they would find me, but the white light of the flashlight did not shine.
I, in a trance, saw the white light falling on the old pineapple. When the light of the flashlight was far away, it would disperse into a large area. I saw three sacks hanging on the tree.
I pulled Xiaobai, pointed to the top of the tree and asked him: 'What do you think that is?'
Xiaobai glanced at it in confusion and muttered: 'It's so dark, how can I see it!'
Only then did I realize that Goudan had already climbed up with a flashlight. I remember Xiaobai said before that there were four people lying in the yard, but why didn’t I see any of them?
I asked Xiaobai what happened when he said there were four people lying in the yard just now. Xiaobai stretched out his head and looked at it for a while, then muttered that it was strange that what he saw just now was why there was no one there now!
I pointed to the pineapple tree and said to Xiaobai, take a closer look to see if it's that one!
Xiaobai squinted his eyes and looked carefully for a while. The light here was too dark and I could only see blurry shadows. Xiaobai shook his head and said he couldn't see clearly. I told Xiaobai to take the three sacks on it. I didn't know what they were for.
Yes, I remember when I came here before, there were no sacks on the trees.
Xiaobai suddenly slapped his head and said to me with a surprised look on his face: 'There must be someone in that sack!'
I was surprised and asked Xiaobai how could he be so sure? Xiaobai said: 'I saw those four people in sacks before, with only half of their bodies exposed!'