Chapter 1 Crazy Eel
In the 19th year of Tianyuan, frost fell, the morning light was slightly cool, and flowers fell to the ground and turned into frost.
More than 200 miles south of Gusu Prefecture, there is a small town called Weinan.
The town is not big, with only more than a hundred residents.
At the end of autumn, people have harvested the crops in the fields and started preparing for the winter to welcome the New Year.
To the west of Weinan Town, there is a big water-laden tree, which is called a big pit by people in the town.
Every year when autumn and winter change, people in the town will collectively turn over the big pit, then fish out the plump wild fish inside, and then divide the fish evenly and keep it for winter.
This year is no exception.
With the rising red sun, the mayor Lu Shandian got up and came to the edge of the big pit.
He held some incense and yellow paper and muttered to himself by the pit.
There is a custom here, that is, before the Pantai River captures parallel goods, we should worship the water god.
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It was already midday when I went to the ground for worship. At this time, some people who were preparing to dry and suck.
The people who came were all men from the town. They carried many wooden water trucks. Under Lu Shandian's instructions, they drained the water trucks on the side of the water-dian River and began to pump up the water from the water-dian.
"Gulu~Gulu~"
With the sound of more than 20 water trucks turning, the water level in the pit slowly dropped. By the afternoon, most of the water in the pot had been drained out.
At this point, you can see densely packed parasites swinging their tails on the not-deep water-loose side, and bubbles are spitting out of their mouths.
"Okay, it's going to get dark after you suck. You guys go down and pick up fish."
Lu Shandian, who looked gray and in his early fifties, said this with a full breath. Then, the men in the town stopped thrusting the waterwheel and stepped on the mud and fell into a loose slime.
Under the capture of a group of men, the carefree parallel goods that were originally in the water were thrown ashore.
More than ten large bamboo baskets on the shore were filled with parallel goods in no time, and the fishing under the scattered bunker was approaching the end.
It is naturally not difficult to catch fish in a dry pond.
Just as the men from Ganxia came ashore one after another, a roar came from Ganxia.
Two men both pounced in the mud, trying to reach out and grab a big eel, but the eel was too slippery and struggled directly from the two of them and got into the mud.
Seeing this, the two men quickly got up and began to pull the mud with their hands, trying to dig out the big eel.
As they were digging, the two of them stopped at the same time, just because a stone slab appeared underground.
The moment the stone slab was dug out, both of them were stunned for a moment. Then, one of the men turned their heads and shouted to the shore: "Uncle II, there is a stone slab with words engraved on the bottom of the bun."
The second uncle in the man's mouth was Lu Shandian. After hearing his nephew's shout, a hint of confusion arose in his heart, then moved his eyes to the bottom of the penis and asked back: "The stone slab in the engraved words?"
"Yes, you can come down and have a look."
Amid the response from Nephew Lu, Lu Shandian walked downwards.
With this conversation between their uncle and nephew, everyone in Ganbian focused their eyes on each other and turned to Nephew Lu who was standing at Ganda.
Walking on the mud to the bottom, Lu Shandian squatted in the mud pit and touched the dug stone slab, and found that there were indeed words engraved on it, and a thought immediately arose in his mind.
That is, this stone slab should be a treasure, because in his knowledge, he has never heard of a stone slab with a scalloped bottom, so it is certain that this stone slab was left by the ancients.
Since it is an antique, it must have its value. Therefore, after touching the engraving stone slab, a smile appeared on Lu Shandian's face.
"The stone slab under the scallion should be a treasure. We dug up the stone slab, and maybe we can exchange it for a valuable amount of money."
After touching the stone slab, Lu Shandian said this to everyone around Tangbian.
Hearing the words "money and silver", the men surrounding the shore immediately became energetic. They rushed down and rushed to the bottom of the pot and began to dig up the stone slabs.
The people were so powerful that they were very powerful. Soon, the stone slab surface that was ten feet long and half a meter wide was completely digging out.
It was not until this time that everyone discovered that there was no stone slab, but the face of a sarcophagus.
After digging out the sarcophagus face and seeing it clearly, some people immediately avoided people returning to the shore, but some brave ones stood by the coffin and looked at the coffin face.
"Uncle II, what's going on?" Everyone standing at the bottom of the penis looked at the coffin and was silent. Nephew Lu asked the second uncle beside him.
"Since you have already dug it out, what else can you do? Then open the coffin and take a look."
After some thought, Lu Shandian decided to open the sarcophagus to take a look.
Because a large sarcophagus like this is extremely rare, ordinary people mostly use wooden coffins after death, and the size cannot be as large as one meter long. Therefore, he guessed that the person buried in this coffin should not be an ordinary person.
Since you are not an ordinary person, there may be burial objects in the sarcophagus. After opening the coffin, if there are really burial objects, it would be great to take them out and exchange them for some money.
Thinking of this, Lu Shandian expressed his thoughts. When everyone heard this, they did not hesitate too much. Instead, they found some tools and collectively carried the sarcophagus down to the shore.
After the sarcophagus came ashore and cleaned up the mud on the coffin, Lu Shandian turned around the coffin with his hands on his back, and found that he could not understand the words carved on the coffin.
"Uncle II, can you understand these ghostly drawing talismans?" Nephew Lu, who was beside him, looked at the words on the coffin and asked in confusion.
"I can't understand it, but the words on it are somewhat similar to the Taoist talisman on the squatting stone lion at the head of Baihe Village."
After watching for a while, I couldn't see that, so Lu Shandian asked someone to pry up the lid of the coffin.
With the sound of iron chisels, the thick coffin lid was slowly pushed open by the crowd.
The moment the coffin lid was pushed open, a cold wind blew out of the coffin, causing everyone around the coffin to tremble.
Even so, no one stepped back because after the lid of the coffin was pushed open, a vermilion-red wooden coffin inside appeared in everyone's eyes, and there was a string of golden beads tied outside the wooden coffin inside.
Although I don’t know how many years this sarcophagus has been left at the bottom of the loose, the string of golden beads tied outside the wooden coffin is extremely dazzling, making these people in the town who have been mediocre and not rich all their lives unable to take their eyes off after seeing it.
"Uncle Lu, is that gold?" A young man in his early twenties stood by the coffin and looked at the golden beads that broke his silence and asked.
Hearing the young man's words, Lu Shandian walked to the sarcophagus, reached out to touch the golden beads, and immediately found that each of the beads was engraved with a small character.
He did not look at the characters on the beads carefully because the characters were too small, so he could not read them carefully with his eyes.
Moreover, it is not that important whether the beads are engraved on them. What is important now is whether the string of beads tied outside the wooden coffin is real gold.
He lowered his head and pressed his face against the wooden coffin. Lu Shandian opened his mouth and bit the beads tied outside the coffin.
"Yes, this is real money. We can have a rich year this year."
When Lu Shandian looked up, he said this happily, but the people around him were all panic and began to retreat one after another.
Just as Lu Shandian looked around at the retreating people, a very hot feeling suddenly appeared on his cheek.
"Second uncle, you..."
When his second uncle looked at him, Lu Shandian said half a sentence. Then Lu Shandian let out a strange scream. He was originally holding the sarcophagus and staggered back a few steps, falling into the bottom covered with mud, losing his voice.
This scene happened too strangely. Just now, the crowd was happy to find the golden beads in the coffin. At this moment, everyone was extremely frightened.
Seeing that the mayor fell into the bottom of the penis, no one dared to check it out.
Just now, after the mayor put his face on the vermilion wooden coffin, a red blood mark appeared on his face when he lifted it up.
For these ordinary people in the town, they have lived here for a lifetime and have never seen such a strange thing.
A person who had clearly nothing on his face lowered his head and when he raised it, a strange handprint appeared on his face. How could this make people not panic?
What's even more strange is that the man made a strange scream, and then fell into the bottom of the pot and lost his voice.
Although he was frightened, no one left at this time. After all, there were so many men here in the blue sky and the bright sky, and even if there was really any evil and weirdness, he would not dare to come out.
Of course, the main reason why they are unwilling to leave is because of the string of golden beads in the sarcophagus.
"Second Uncle!"
After his second uncle fell into the treasury, Nephew Lu was stunned for a moment, then he shouted while walking towards the treasury.
When he walked on Ganbian, he shouted at Lu Shandian who was lying motionless in the mud for a few more times before turning his head to look at the people not far away around Ganbian.
Looking at the cold eyes of the crowd, Nephew Lu looked at the second uncle of Tangdi again, finally sighed lightly, and walked down Tangdi.
Walking down the mud and walking to his second uncle, Nephew Lu reached out to pat his second uncle, and called out a few more times. Seeing that the other party did not respond at all, he reached out to explore the other party's neck.
After exploring, a feeling of grief immediately rose from Nephew Lu's heart, because his second uncle had no rest.
"Ah~Woo~"
Thinking of his parents' death, and his second uncle has been helping him since he was a child, Nephew Lu felt emotion and burst into tears. He reached out to carry Lu Shandian, who was covered in mud, on his back, and then carried him to the shore.
Hearing the crying from Nephew Lu's mouth, the crowd naturally understood what was going on. They watched their uncle and nephew get ashore, and then watch them go to the town not far away, but no one goes to help.
Chapter completed!