From then on, Gao Qingsheng became a soldier and was highly valued. However, in that era, the world was in chaos and warlords were fighting. A team of hundreds or ten people could separate one side. Today you destroy me, and tomorrow he will deal with you. Few forces can survive for a long time. The warlord Gao Qingsheng followed was not powerful to begin with. Within a year, he was beaten to pieces by another warlord in a battle for territory. The troops were killed and fled. The man who promoted Gao Qingsheng The warlord leader was also killed in the melee.
After the defeat, Gao Qingsheng ran back to his hometown. By this time, his shabby house had collapsed. He fled in a hurry. He didn't have any money with him. He hadn't eaten for two days in a row. His craving for cigarettes had started again. He couldn't think of anything. , had no choice but to sell the pistol to the bandits in exchange for some tobacco, soil and food to meet their urgent needs.
He thought to himself, it wouldn't be a problem if this went on. This little food and smoke would be enough to last for three to five days at most. What should he do after eating all the food? At this time, he remembered the words of the ghost attached to the white woman. When he was too poor to survive, he would go to the deserted graves in Shisanlipu to find a lonely grave without a tombstone. She said that she was there. Burial gold and silver jewelry.
At this time, Gao Qingsheng had served as a soldier and fought in the war, and he was more courageous than before. When Gao Qingsheng was in the army, he once heard a veteran named Youzi talk about a lot of tomb robbing. Grave robbing is also called "inverted fighting" among the people, and it can make a fortune. But if he caught it, he would lose his head, so he didn't dare to act in the daytime. He was cautious, lit a wind lantern on a moonlit night, resisted a shovel, and went to the cemetery in Shisanlipu.
(The person watching asked, what is a hairy moon? There are no clouds in the sky, but the moonlight is not bright and very hazy. Of course, modern people know that this is a meteorological phenomenon, and its scientific name is called a moon halo, which means that the sky is about to change. It was windy, but who in the countryside at that time understood these scientific explanations? In some places, the country people called this kind of moon the hairy moon, and some people said that this kind of dim moonlight night was the favorite of lonely night ghosts. Time to hang out.)
When he arrived at the place, he first drank half a catty of soju he brought with him to strengthen his courage. That night, the moon was cold, the stars were cold, the wind was blowing, and there were pieces of phosphorus fire floating in the graves. From time to time, there were a few strange chirping birds, and the wind lantern in my hand flickered on and off, seemingly at any time. may go out.
Although Gao Qingsheng had just drunk at this time, he was still so frightened by this ghost place that he broke into a cold sweat. Fortunately, this time, the half kilogram of burning knives was in vain, and it all went out along the sweat pores.
Fortunately, this is a wild grave. No one knows what era it is from. There are no people nearby. He is not afraid of being heard when he shouts. Gao Qingsheng sang a few folk songs to embolden himself, but he didn't know many songs. After singing a few lines, I ran out of words, so I just sang the most familiar "Acacia Tune" and "Eighteen Touch" that I am most familiar with.
Gao Qingsheng bravely arrived at the center of this large cemetery. As expected, there was a solitary grave without a monument. In this barren graveyard, this grave seemed so unique.
In addition to the fact that there is no tombstone in this tomb, what is even more strange is that the coffin in this tomb is not under the mound of earth, but is stuck upright on the mound, with most of it exposed. The coffin was very new, with eighteen layers of red paint on it. It glowed strangely under the light of the waning moon.
Gao Qingsheng muttered in his heart, why is the coffin arranged like this? It's so damn weird, I'm afraid it has some tricks up its sleeve. But you¡¯ve come here, if you don¡¯t open it and take a look, wouldn¡¯t it be a waste of time? If you don't have money to buy food, it's a death to starve. If you don't have money to smoke and get addicted to cigarettes, it's a death to die. It's better to let a ghost strangle you to death. I'll be ridiculed for the rest of my life. His grandma, let's risk it today. , a road leads to darkness.
After making up his mind, he picked up the shovel and dug out the earth where the lower half of the coffin was buried. The entire coffin was now in front of his eyes. Gao Qingsheng was a heavy smoker and had very poor physical strength. After digging some earth, he was already gasping for breath. He was not in a hurry to open the coffin. He sat on the ground and took out the Poria ointment he was carrying and inhaled a little into his nose.
His brain was stimulated by opium, and his nerves became excited. He gritted his teeth and stood up, using a shovel to pry open the lid of the coffin. The corpse inside was a beautiful woman, with a lifelike face, but the face was powdered very thickly, and the two cheeks were covered with Two large pieces of red rouge were applied, which looked like two plasters of red plaster against the white powder. She was wearing a phoenix crown and a bright red silk auspicious robe, which turned out to be the makeup of a bride.
This female corpse is definitely not the big-faced woman he saw two years ago, and the paper man asked him to dig the grave two years ago. After so long, even if the female corpse was just encoffined at that time, two years later It's time to rot. Could it be that she turned into a zombie?
But at this time, Gao Qingsheng no longer cared about so much. All he could see in his eyes was the jewelry on the female body in the coffin. These gold, silver and gems shone seductively under the light of the wind lantern, and the ones placed on her Buried beside him were tubes of silver coins wrapped in red paper, as well as so many gold bars that they were almost too numerous to count.
This time, he made a fortune. Gao Qingsheng reached out to pick up the emerald ring on the female corpse's hand. As soon as he stretched out his hand, the female corpse in the coffin suddenly flipped her arm and grabbed his wrist with amazing strength. The large, long nails like steel hooks dug into the flesh of Gao Qingsheng's wrist for more than an inch, making him unable to break free. Gao Qingsheng was in pain from being caught by her. He was in pain and scared. He didn't know what to do for a moment.
The female corpse opened her eyes, and two eerie cold lights shot out from her eyes. Gao Qingsheng was touched by her gaze, and his whole body trembled with coldness, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and even his breath was white.
The female corpse sneered and said: "You are indeed a money-obsessed kid. Would a despicable person like you be willing to do anything as long as you have money? I think you have a heart that is useless, so I will put it away for you first."
When Gao Qingsheng heard that the other party wanted his heart, how to do it, he hurriedly said: "No... no..." The female corpse did not allow him to say anything, she tore off his clothes, used her long nails to scratch his chest, and one heart... The living heart jumped out of Gao Qingsheng's chest. The female corpse reached out to grab it, and swallowed it whole in a bloody mouth without even chewing.
Gao Qingsheng was shocked. He looked down and saw a scar on his chest. He didn't feel any pain. He only felt that his consciousness was getting blurry and his heart was empty. He couldn't remember what happened just now. He lay on the ground and kowtowed to the female corpse.
The female corpse sat on the top of the upright coffin and said coldly to Gao Qingsheng: "You have become my puppet now. I will not treat you badly. I will definitely give you glory and wealth. You can lead me to eight, eight, sixty-four." These women came to this cemetery and asked me to eat their hearts. If there is even the slightest mistake, I will kill you first."
How dare Gao Qingsheng disobey her orders at this time? According to the book, it turns out that the female corpse is a hundred-year-old corpse demon. In order to avoid the disaster, she could not leave this hidden cemetery for the time being, so she designed to trick Gao Qingsheng into turning a blind eye to money. The disciples came to dig graves, and then coerced and lured him to capture innocent women for her to eat their hearts alive. After she had eaten sixty-four women's hearts and livers, even the lower world of gods would not be able to tolerate her.
Gao Qingsheng left the Shisanlipu Cemetery in a state of peeing. He had been so scared that he had peed his urine. After returning, he stole a pair of trousers from a neighbor's house and put them on. I thought to myself that this time it would be troublesome. I don¡¯t even have a wife myself, but where can I find a woman for this monster? I also thought that something important from me seemed to have been taken away by the monster, but I couldn¡¯t figure out what it was. I can¡¯t remember it, but it¡¯s very, very important anyway. If I can¡¯t find a woman to give it to her, I won¡¯t be able to save my life. What should I do?
He was thinking wildly in his mind, and suddenly he touched the two large gold bars in the pocket of the smelly trousers he had just changed into. They were rewarded to him by the female corpse master. Gao Qingsheng frowned and came up with a bad idea. Alas, in order to survive, I can only feel sorry for my own conscience. When I think of the word conscience, I feel weird, but I can't think about that much now. The most important thing is that it is better to live than to die. If you are immoral, you should be immoral.
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Early the next morning, I went to the county town to cash the gold bars into cash, found a cigarette shop and had a good smoke, and then spent ten yuan in cash to buy a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in a poor mountain village. In the early years of the Republic of China, although human trafficking was explicitly prohibited, the people were too poor to survive. Selling of children and daughters was commonplace, and the government could not stop it. This law was in name only.
After buying this big girl, Gao Qingsheng told her on the way that he had bought her back to be his wife, and told her not to worry. Let's go back and live a good life. If you follow me, you will be able to eat well, drink spicy food, and wear clothes in the future. The gold one wears the silver one. The eldest girl's name was Xiaocui. The country girl was thin-skinned. She blushed and didn't dare to look up at him. She just let him lead her around without saying a word. Gao Qingsheng led a small donkey, carrying Xiaocui on his back, and headed straight for the deserted tomb on Thirteen Miles Pagoda that night while the moon was dark and the wind was high.
The mountain road was rugged and difficult, so Gao Qing hurried on for fear of losing time. On the way, he met a Feng Shui master named Sun. This Mr. Sun was a well-known mage in the province. With his natural yin and yang eyes, he could not only read Feng Shui and tell fortunes, but also And he can also use the magic of Dunjia and Five Elements.
As soon as Mr. Sun saw Gao Qingsheng, he noticed that there was a vague layer of black energy on his face. He counted with his fingers and was really surprised. He hurriedly stopped him and asked, "What are you doing in such a hurry, Master?"
Gao Qingsheng said impatiently that I have something urgent, please don't block the way. Mr. Sun suddenly shouted sharply: "I only want to ask you, this walking zombie, where is your heart and soul?"
As soon as these words came out, Gao Qingsheng felt like he was hit in the head and hurriedly knelt down and begged Mr. Sun for help.
Mr. Sun helped him up: "Although your morals are corrupt, you are not guilty of anything serious. You must know that it is easy to turn around. It is not difficult for me to save you, but you must first become my teacher and quit smoking."
Gao Qingsheng heard him say that if he wanted to quit smoking, it would be better to kill him. However, after careful consideration, life is more important than smoke and dust. If you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood. I beg him first. Save me from the entanglement of the female corpse. In the future, when he is not prepared, I will continue to suck on my Poria ointment. Are you afraid that he will find out? Having made up his mind, he kowtowed to Mr. Sun eight times on the mountain road and performed the ceremony of apprenticeship.
Then Mr. Sun arranged everything, and told Gao Qingsheng to act according to the plan, while he followed behind to protect him from a distance.
When the moon reached its zenith, Gao Qingsheng took Xiao Cui to the deserted grave in Sanlipu. The female corpse had been waiting for a long time. She cursed Gao Qingsheng and couldn't wait to grab Xiao Cui. She stretched out her claws to dig out the corpse. He took out her heart and soul and swallowed it. The female corpse suddenly let out a strange scream and tore Xiao Cui's body into pieces. At this time, Xiao Cui had already shown her original shape. It turned out that Mr. Sun treated the other person with his own way. This fake Xiao Cui is also a paper man. The real Xiao Cui has been left somewhere else by Mr. Sun.
The heart eaten by the female corpse is a black donkey's hoof inside a paper man. This thing is the most evil thing, especially to restrain monsters such as zombies that have undergone transformation. Two black donkey hooves need to be installed in the middle. This method comes from the secret technique of Maoshan. The reason will be discussed later and I will not explain it in detail here.) The devil ate the black donkey's hoof and knew the other party's ways. In his rage, he also wanted to tear Gao Qingsheng into pieces, but Gao Qingsheng had already stayed away. The female corpse looked up to the sky and howled, and her clothes were stripped piece by piece. His body turned into ashes, his flesh turned into blood, and soon only a white skeleton was left on the ground.
Mr. Sun could see clearly from a distance, so he hurried over and found a red pill the size of a chicken egg in the skeleton. He ordered Gao Qingsheng to take it. Gao Qingsheng's heart finally returned to its old place. .
The two of them worked together to put the bones on the ground into the big red coffin. Just as they were about to close the coffin, Leng Buding's skull jumped up, opened its mouth and spat out a stream of black mist at Mr. Sun. Mr. Sun was a little careless, and he was exhausted this time. Unprepared, he was sprayed directly, and he felt a burst of cold corpse air that made the blood surge in his chest. But he had been through many dangers for a long time, and now he was not panic at all. He pushed hard to close the coffin board, took out the long nails and nailed them tightly, and then used an ink fountain to crisscross the coffin with ink lines, which were like the lines on a Go board. The grid formed a large black net, sealing the coffin tightly.
Mr. Sun had just been infected by the zombie's evil spirit and was seriously injured. After all this busy work, he sat on the ground unable to move, so he asked Gao Qingsheng to pile some dry wood and burn the big red lacquer coffin. Gao Qingsheng obeyed the order, lit a fire and burned the coffin. The flames rose fiercely, and black smoke came out. The smell was terrible, and finally it was burned to a pile of ashes.
Only then did Gao Qingsheng remember that there were a lot of gold, silver and jewels in the coffin. He stamped his feet and sighed, regretting that it was too late. He had no choice but to support his master, Mr. Sun, and pick up Xiaocui, and they went to live with him at Mr. Sun's home.
"Beidou Incense Burial Sutra"
After that, Mr. Sun cured Gao Qingsheng's cigarette addiction with a secret recipe and taught him some skills in reading Feng Shui and fortune telling. Gao Qingsheng set up a stall in the county town to measure people's characters and look at their faces. He earned some small money and married Xiao Cui as his wife. Wife, he was grateful for the life-saving grace of his master, and he kept to himself from then on, and his life got better day by day.
However, since Mr. Sun was sprayed with corpse air that time, the corpse poison was so cold that it penetrated his bones. He never recovered and died a few years later.
Before he died, Mr. Sun called Gao Qingsheng to him and said: "You and I are masters and disciples, but as a master I don't have time to teach you any real skills. I have an ancient book here called "Beidou's Burial Sutra with Incense". This book It¡¯s a fragment, only half a volume, and it¡¯s just a little trick of looking for a tomb based on Feng Shui, so you can keep it by your side as a souvenir.¡± After saying this, he passed away without taking a breath.
Gao Qingsheng buried his master, and when he had nothing to do, he studied the broken book left to him by Mr. Sun. Over time, he also gained some insights. He went around the county to select good burial sites for the rich, and gradually gained some fame. The family property gradually became richer.
Xiaocui gave birth to a son to Gao Qingsheng, named Hu Yunxuan. When Hu Yunxuan was seventeen years old, he went to a British missionary school in the provincial capital. The young man had an active and unrestrained personality, and at the same time he was exposed to the impact of some revolutionary thoughts. His blood was boiling, and he dreamed of participating in revolutionary riots every night, so he ran away from home and went to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution.
After that, Hu Yunxuan joined the army. Until the founding of the People's Republic of China and the Battle of Huaihe River, he had become the commander of a certain regiment of the Three Fields and Six Columns. After the Battle of Crossing the River, he followed the army south and settled in the south.
Then there was me. I was born at a very coincidental time, coinciding with Army Day, so my father named me Hu Jianjun. When I was in kindergarten, I saw seven or eight people named Jianjun in one class. There were too many names, so I changed my name to "Hu Bayi".
My grandfather Gao Qingsheng said: "If the name is changed well, Shan He (Hu) has 80,000 barrels."
When I was eighteen years old, my family was hit hard. First, the heads of Sanyeji were overthrown, and then they were gradually involved. In addition, my parents were not from a good background, and both he and my mother were They were quarantined and examined, and my grandfather was also dragged out to be paraded through the streets as a demon and a monster. He was old, and his arms and legs couldn't bear the strain, so he died after not even two fights. He had taught others about Feng Shui all his life, chosen a cemetery for others, and was cremated before his death. Things in the world are so unpredictable.
My house was ransacked three times in total, and all valuable things were confiscated. My grandfather liked to collect antiques during his lifetime. These antiques were either smashed or confiscated, and none of them were saved. In the end, the only thing left was a broken book left by my grandfather. He asked me to wrap the book in oilcloth and hide it on the roof of the public toilet.
Young people during the Cultural Revolution had three choices after graduation. One was to join the army, which was the best place to go. The other was to train themselves, and the other was to be assigned jobs when they changed careers in the future. The second option is to stay in the city and work as a worker, which is not bad as you can earn wages. The most unlucky ones are those who have no means, no problem, or whose families have been affected. These young people can only go to the mountains and countryside to join the queue.
You want me to choose the fourth path, don¡¯t go anywhere and just stay home, okay? That would not work. No one said this at that time. Everyone is a screw of socialism and has a use. If you have to stay at home, people from the neighborhood committee, school, and educated youth office will come around to mobilize you every day. However, some people persist until the end and don't jump in line. What can you do to me? In the end, all such people stayed in the city and were given jobs. Things in China are like this. You can¡¯t explain clearly. The more you live, the more confused you become. You never know what the rules are, and not everyone understands the unspoken rules.
I was too young at the time, and I didn¡¯t know what it was like to go to the mountains and countryside. Anyway, if I wanted to join the army from a family background, there was no hope. If I stayed in the city, there would be no one to arrange work, and if I didn¡¯t jump in, there would be no other place. But go ahead, if I want to jump in line, I'll jump in line. I'll treat it as a vast world making red hearts. Anyway, I'm leaving home. If I want to jump in, I'll jump in as far away as possible.
Most of us here chose to go to Yunnan and Xinjiang to jump in line. I chose to go to Inner Mongolia. Like me, there is one of my buddies, Wang Kaixuan. He is paler and fatter than ordinary people, so he is nicknamed Monkey. We went to jump in line. The place we visited was called Gangangyingzi. I had never heard of this place name before. It wasn¡¯t until they told me that I was going to Gangangyingzi that I realized that there was such a place in the world.
When we took the train to leave home, no one came to see us off. Compared with the warm farewell scenes for those who went to join the army, the scene when we educated youths left home was a bit sad and tragic. I only took with me the "Beidou Book of Burial with Incense" which was hidden on the roof of the public toilet. I didn't know what kind of book it was, but it was the only thing I kept in my family. I wanted to take it with me. You might as well take it out and look at it when you feel homesick.