Daomu Biji

Snake Swamp Ghost Town Chapter 2 The past is too painful to look back on

After the third uncle finally woke up, I couldn't wait to ask him about the whole incident, but I didn't expect that the third uncle's narrative would start from fifty years ago. A must-have for book pursuits

I didn’t bring grandpa’s notebook with me this time, but I remember the contents very clearly. What happened that night fifty years ago was strange and unusual, but grandpa didn’t write it down in the end. What happened after he fell into coma, we all Nothing. Now that I recall the words inside, I still feel an inexplicable feeling in my heart.

But when the third uncle said this, I suddenly didn’t believe him, because my grandfather was very secretive about this matter. Before his death, no matter how we juniors asked, he never said that the third uncle had not had a good relationship with my grandfather since he was a child. , I believe grandpa will not tell him.

So as soon as he said it, I said: "Don't fucking fool me. Fifty years ago, my grandpa was naked, and he was so tight-lipped. How could you know everything? Don't just tell some stories to deceive me." Me, I will never be fooled. "

The third uncle was displeased when he heard this and said: "If I tell you, you are anxious, and if I tell you, you don't believe it, why can't I know? If you don't believe it, I won't tell you. I don't want to tell you yet. "

As soon as I saw that he was following the trend, I was going to regret it, and immediately said: "No, no, I believe it. I just sighed, please continue talking. "

The third uncle glared at me, thought for a moment, and then continued.

As I listened, I realized that I had indeed misunderstood him. But I really didn’t expect that things would develop like this.

The origin was that notebook. However, the process is much more complicated.

Before I got the notes, they had been kept in the glove box in the attic of my hometown. It wasn’t until I became literate and accidentally saw it when I was looking through old things that it came into my hands. My father and third uncle all read this notebook when they were young.

When the third uncle saw the notes for the first time, he couldn't remember clearly. He only remembered that he had been debuting for some time at that time. Both big and small have some experience. He had also heard a lot of strange legends among the elders. He knew that among the Changsha natives there was a saying that "the soil is full of blood and the corpse is full of gold." So when he saw the notes, he thought that he had never touched anything special. The things he took out were immediately attracted to the things recorded in his notes.

Almost immediately, he came up with the idea of ​​​​taking a look at Huijiang Ziling.

The ancient tomb cannot be walked. No matter how many years pass, I should still be here. In addition, in the early days of liberation, bandits were still rampant deep in the mountains and forests, so not many people would enter. He believed that there should be something left in the ancient tomb.

However, Biaoziling is just a local name for the place where my grandfather grew up. This name can refer to a small bumpkin. It can also be an entire mountain or even an entire unknown area of ​​primitive jungle. (When I went to the Qimeng Mountains in 1996, there was a place named "Layue Dam". I always thought that "Layue Dam" was a dam and some surrounding areas. Later, when I asked, I found out that "Layue Dam" was a dam. It is called the inaccessible place behind December Mountain. Because no one has been to those places, it is simply summarized with one name.) Therefore, it is unrealistic to find the ancient tomb based on just a place name.

So. How to determine the exact location of that place? Third Uncle thought about it for a long time and had no clue. It was not until the year before he went to Xisha that he finally got a clue.

That year he went to his grandfather's hometown in Changsha, which was in a mountainous area. He walked the mountain road for four days before reaching the remote rural area, where he asked the locals about the location of Biaoziling. Although he did not get direct information that time, he became very familiar with the customs and customs on that side.

After he came back and studied the things recorded in his notes again, the matter became clear. According to other contents in his grandfather's notes, his third uncle's memory of eavesdropping on his grandfather's speech when he was a child, and everything he heard from there, he vaguely judged out. That ancient tomb should be located near Guizizhai in Mangshan Mountain.

Because it's in the notes. Grandpa mentioned that when Grandpa and Grandpa were on their way in the python forest. They were all bitten by a kind of "iron-headed snake". This kind of snake is often coiled under the bushes and is difficult to find. It was very harmful at that time. Later, a snake hunting campaign was launched, but this kind of snake was beaten to the verge of extinction in one fell swoop. Of course, this That's something to talk about later.

"Iron-headed snake" is a kind of mountain snake that does not exist in the fields. Most of the ancient tombs in Changsha are in the green gauze tents in the wilderness. In ancient times, those who had the strength to go into the mountains to build large underground palace-like ancient tombs were not the royal nobles. , even a party of powerful people, these people are only a few after all, and the tombs in the mountains must be strong and built in desperate situations. Ordinary thieves cannot get involved, and one or two people cannot carry too many things out. For reasons of economic benefit and risk, native masters rarely go into the mountains - otherwise they would be called mountain masters - and naturally they don't know this kind of snake.

At that time, the native masters were born with nature. After being bitten by a poisonous snake, they often just sucked out the venom, patted some tobacco leaves, and took a few mouthfuls of native medicine. There was no better way to deal with it. After handling it in this way, if after a few hours, the bitten enemy does not react to poisoning, it will be fine. On the contrary, generally speaking, there is no room for recovery and the only choice is to accept fate.

The snake that bit them both was a small snake, and the wound was not deep, so Grandpa and the others didn't pay attention. After a simple treatment, they didn't feel anything was wrong, so they continued on their way without saying a word. Unexpectedly, they walked two miles. As soon as the ground went to the ground, grandpa suddenly fell down and then fell unconscious.

They stopped and took a closer look, and saw that grandpa's skin was blue and he was convulsing constantly. It was obviously caused by snake venom. Later, the great-grandpa drove dozens of miles of mountain roads to find local mountain people, and then used herbal medicine to save grandpa's life.

Grandpa and the others rested there for two days, and based on Grandpa's description of the waterfall at that time, it was certain that the place where they rested should be Guizizhai.

It was only on the fourth day after this incident that we arrived at the place called Biaoziling. That place is located in a plain in a valley, surrounded by mountains on all sides. There are python forests in the valley, and there are many thousand-year-old vines. Only the valley is the most beautiful. There was a piece of sunken ground without any plants, revealing a piece of blood-red bare soil. The ancient tomb was under the valley.

(The irony now is that the snake that bit my grandfather is already an endangered species, and the export value of an adult snake is more than one million, far exceeding the price of ordinary artifacts.)

In this way, the hope of finding it is much greater. Although the primitive jungle of Mangshan was vast at that time, and the Guizizhai Waterfall is located in the center of the jungle, there are not many similar landforms inferred, and there are not many similar landforms. Not hard to find.

The third uncle packed up his gear and set off again. The third uncle was used to walking alone. Because he was too young, the old man was unwilling to go out with him, and there were no people of his age who could match his skills.

However, after he went through all kinds of hardships and passed through the jungle of Mangshan Mountain, which was almost uninhabited at that time, what came into view was a scene that he had never imagined in his dreams. . ..