Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Late at night, old house, back room.

It's surprisingly quiet now. I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel that a thin layer of fog suddenly appeared in the yard.

I looked back sharply!

In the light of the fire, I saw a shadow like a "human head" floating around on the wall...

Master Yu immediately lowered his head and whispered, "Don't look at it, just pretend you didn't see it."

I hurriedly turned my head, pretending to be calm.

One person does not enter the temple, and two people do not look at the well.

I thought it was something dirty. There was an old rope on the beam. Maybe people were hanged here decades ago.

When encountering this kind of situation, our general solution is to pretend not to see it and do what we should do.

Master Yu kept his head down and warmed himself by the fire. After about 10 minutes, I couldn't help it anymore, so I peeked at the wall from the corner of my eye.

There is still a "human head" shadow on the wall.

Unlike just now, this person's head now seems to have long strands of long hair.

My heart jumped into my throat, and I recited the mantra silently over and over in my heart.

"Oh? Something's wrong!!"

Master Yu seemed to have noticed something, he suddenly got up and blocked the front of the fire.

In the next second, the "human head ghost" on the wall suddenly disappeared.

As soon as Master Yu moved away, the head appeared on the wall again!

I ran to the door to check, and found out that there was a big tattered black plastic bag hanging on the door!

The shadow of the human head is this plastic bag!When the wind blows, it floats back and forth.

"Damn! I was scared to death! It turned out to be this thing! Master Yu! I just thought I saw a ghost!"

Master Yu pointed to the wall and said, "That wall is a bit strange, have you noticed it?"

"Isn't it? What's strange?"

Master Yu frowned and said, "The wall tiles look a bit new."

After speaking, he walked over and tapped twice with a stick.

I was surprised: "Hollow wall?"

"How could it be, this is the main house, how could it use a hollow wall!"

"You get up."

Master Yu told me to back off, he wrapped a cloth strip around his fist, took a step back, and then slammed his fist on the wall!

Suddenly, a black hole appeared on the entire wall!

When the dust dissipated, I took a flashlight and took a picture into the hole, and I was shocked!

Behind the wall, there is actually a raised loess bag!

There is also a big stone tablet about two meters high standing in front of the earth bag!

Master Yu threw two more punches to expand the hole in the wall, and then we stepped through.

"Boy! Whose grave is this...?"

I frowned and looked around, nodded and said, "It's a tomb! At least it's from the early Qing Dynasty! It's hundreds of years old!"

There was a layer of dust on the stele, and after I wiped it casually with my hand, I saw a row of small characters in regular script.

The writing on the left reads: "I Qingming died young."

The writing on the right reads: "Half-way blessings and longevity unpaid ambitions."

A large number of lotus patterns are engraved in the middle of the stele, and densely packed characters are engraved under the lotus.

This kind of Ming and Qing inscriptions are not divided into sections, and there were no punctuation marks at that time. Often a lot of small scripts were written, which made people's heads hurt.

I held up my mobile phone and looked at it for a long time, and finally captured a few key words in the inscription.

"Great Confucian, Sui Xiuzhi Lang, Huang Helin."

Most people can't understand this, but it's hard for me.

A Confucian is a scholar, adding the word "big" in front of it refers to an old scholar, at least who has read books for more than 30 years.

Sui Xiuzhilang, these four characters should be understood separately. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, only the death of the "county magistrate" would be called Xiuzhilang. He deliberately added the word "Sui" in front to indicate that this position is spent after the death of the master. bought.

At that time, the imperial court and the local government were advocating various honorary titles for the deceased, because the person was already dead and did not take up any resources. There are also titles, for example, it was found that some tombstones read "Mrs. Sui Gaoming".

At this time, Master Yu asked suspiciously: "There must have been someone who lived here before, why did they build the tomb in their own house?"

I suddenly realized, and slapped my thigh fiercely!

"I see! This is the former Monument House!"

"Monument house?"

"Yes! Only the Tuzhai people in Hubei have this old custom!"

"The old man in the family is dead! Put the grave in the house! Live with the children! This symbolizes death as life!"

"Then why hide it with a wall?" Master Yu asked curiously.

I frowned and thought for a while, then analyzed: "Looking at the aging degree of the wall bricks to calculate the time, this place should have been blocked in the 70s and [-]s. At that time, landlords were beaten every day. What kind of Buddha statues are like! Steles! Ancestral halls! If you are caught, you will smash them all." !"

"I deduce that this family was afraid of being smashed! That's why they used a wall to hide it! I just don't know why this family has never been here before!"

"It's been on the side of the road for so many years. It's a miracle that it can be preserved until now, Master Yu!"

I walked quickly to the tomb, pointed to it and said, "This kind of tomb is shallow. If you dig more than two meters down, you can see the coffin 100% of the time!"

"Master Yu, wait for me here for 2 minutes, there is a shovel in the car! I'll go get it!"

"Boy, is it bad for you to dig someone's ancestral grave so rashly?"

"There's nothing wrong, Master Yu, this is the secret fate between me and Master's family! Let's talk about it! If I'm afraid of this or that! I wouldn't do this at the beginning!"

Tombs in Ming and Qing Dynasties are generally poor, and we rarely touch them, but why do I suddenly want to move this tomb?

Because there is a rule in Beiwu Tomb.

In the past, during the Chinese New Year, their descendants would dig up the graves and worship at home.Those who have no money will throw some daily necessities such as porcelain wine cups, porcelain bowls, etc., while wealthy households will throw silver dollars, silver ingots, gold bracelets, silver rings and other valuables into it.

The person buried in the grave, whose real name was Huang Helin, was a person from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Think about it, his descendants could spend money to buy him an official position as a county magistrate, and even built such a large stone tablet, so he must be rich!

I didn't expect that I could meet the tomb all the way, which is called "the edge of the tomb".

I thought to myself: "Thieves don't go empty-handed, Mr. Huang, since I hit you, then you will have to suffer old crimes."

Taking a shovel, I took a sharp puff of cigarettes to refresh myself, and then dug directly.

This kind of earth pit doesn't even have a burial chamber underneath, so it's just a small K-silk to me.

It went down a meter and a half very quickly, and as I expected, pieces of "chicken coop silver ingots" were first dug out of the soil. There were a lot of them, dozens of pieces.

Chicken coop silver ingots are the privately cast silver ingots that used to contain impurities. They look like old hen coops. They are of average quality and not very valuable. They cost about 1000 yuan a piece.

After digging, I found some silver dollars, not Yuan Datou, but the kind with dragon pattern on the back, which is much more expensive than Datou.

I carefully picked out these little things, and dug down several tens of centimeters, and suddenly a pitch-black coffin was exposed in the soil.

There were iron nails on the coffin, and I kicked twice violently, trying to kick the lid off the coffin.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a stranger's voice suddenly came from outside, which was clearly heard.

"Yanan, it's raining too hard. Fortunately, we found a place. Let's hide from the rain here."

At this time, it was two o'clock in the middle of the night.