Ye Jianqiu

The three of them did not reach the top of the mountain, but stopped halfway up the mountain.

On the mountainside, more officers and soldiers were guarding in front of a large sandpit. Above the sandpit were only a few rickety tents that were blown by the hot wind. Several officers and soldiers sat cross-legged on the ground like thirsty panting like a fish.

Although this is not the highest point of Eagle Head Mountain, the climate here is still very harsh.If they wanted to climb to the top of Yingtou Mountain, no matter how good their lightness skills were, the three of them would probably have to walk for a day.

Yang Xiaomi didn't speak, just waved his hand, and the officers and soldiers who were exhausted by the heat stepped back a little, allowing them to go into the pit to check.

I saw that the bunker was more than ten feet deep and more than 20 feet wide. There were many burnt black debris scattered around, and several corpses were covered with white cloth and placed under a white cloth tent on one side.

Situ Jin stepped forward and lifted the white cloth covering the corpse, and couldn't help taking a breath after checking - it was unprecedented!

These corpses can be said to be just a thin piece of dark gray intact human skin, the facial features have been blurred and can't be identified clearly, but the short hair is either brown or yellow, and it looks like a foreign race.

"Is there any alive?"

"There were no survivors. There was a relatively complete corpse at the scene. Unfortunately, a cut was made when it was moved. As a result, blood and bones flowed out from the wound."

"It's like porridge inside?"

"Yes, talking to Junzhi saves effort."

"Are these guys human?"

"Judging from the only complete corpse, it looks like a human, but it is quite different from ours. The facial features are darker, and the skin color is completely different. There are black, white, and red, but only after one night. It all turned into this kind of gray human skin, it's too hot here, after only one night, the skin is almost dry."

Situ Jin frowned: "These people seem to have been hit by the palm of their hearts. Their internal organs were shaken and then shattered, and they came out when they met their mouths."

"It does."

"Is there any clothes, why no clothes?"

These people's skins were bare, without a thread, like fake dolls without stuffing. Even Yang Xiaomi, who was used to seeing all kinds of unimaginable corpses, was very surprised.

"All the clothes were burned, but it was strange that the clothes were gone, but the human skin was still intact, and not even a single hair was burned off."

Yang Xiaomi picked up the granular metal in the gravel and said: "These are like the gold and silver jewelry worn by these people, but they melted into a ball at high temperature, and they can no longer tell what they look like."

Situ Jin inspected the bunker carefully, and finally he found a strange thing.

"Yang Xiaomi, take a look at this. It's very unusual. It seems that sand and soil can be panned for gold as well as precious stones." Situ Jin grabbed a colorful crystal-like object mixed with sand, and said thoughtfully.

Yang Xiaomi was overjoyed. He thought that the gold and silver objects on the corpses were deformed, but now it looks like the sand and soil melted under high temperature.

"Exactly! I'll send someone to bring some sand to a craftsman for smelting!"

Chao Ge curiously walked up to the scattered black fragments, reached out and took one, Yang Xiaomi shouted: "Chao Ge be careful!"

"what happened?"

Chaoge didn't react for a while, suddenly a scorching heat like coals scalded his palm into big bubbles, and Chaoge immediately threw away the black stone in his hand.

"These things are very weird. They don't look special. They are as hot as chestnuts from the fire. Several of my brothers were burned!"

Situ Jin took out a cotton towel and wrapped Chaoge's hand, then bent down and wrapped the smallest black lump with a cloth and said, "I'll take this one."

"Be careful. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse."

"Foreign things, misfortune or blessing, I, Situ Jin, will follow!"

Yang Xiaomi laughed: "Junzhi is really bold, since the elder brother took away my evidence, I have to buy my brother a few drinks at night."

"Just wait!"

"It's so impatient to keep waiting every time." Yang Xiaomi grinned.

"I can't eat hot wine in a hurry, and we can discuss it after your sand has been smelted into treasure!"

Situ Jin and the others did not stay longer, but took people away in a hurry.

When everyone came to meet at the foot of the mountain, Jin Boce immediately stepped forward and walked side by side with Situ Jin, and said in a low voice, "This matter is really strange. These people look very unusual. Could it be that they are really thunder from the sky?"

"Whatever it is, I just want to ask for money. In short, Yang Xiaomi will take over, and if there is any benefit, I will get a cup of it for my brothers!"

Uncle Jin was still thinking about those weird corpses: "I'm afraid those skins will be turned into ashes after the court people come."

"Dried in the wind and sun, it will be better protected if placed on the sandpit. It will rot sooner or later when it is brought back to the government office."

"Exactly."

But the soap servants guarding the bunker couldn't bear it. The subordinates around Yang Xiaomi saw Situ Jin and others leaving anxiously, so they said, "Yangtou, how long are we going to stay here?"

"Hold on until the court comes!"

Everyone mourned, and someone yelled: "People from the inspection department are here, why don't they let them guard? We can take turns to be on duty! Sooner or later, guarding here will have to be done in the sun!"

"No, at night, if you don't get blown to death by the wind, you have to freeze to death!"

Yang Xiaomi patted the dust on his clothes and sighed: "Pull it down, those poor ghosts in the inspection department are all poor and crazy, and they must pay two taels of silver for a day!"

Everyone laughed, and someone said: "I heard that the inspection department can't even pay the salary, Situ Jin led his men to start a business, sold the goods of the dealers, and made a lot of money! "

"Nonsense, someone sold his wife for wine!"

"There's no such thing as nonsense. These people from the inspection department do everything. They have so many goods in their warehouses! Even the shop under Mr. Cao sometimes gets goods from Situ Jin!"

"Haha, I turned into a profiteer! When the inspection department came to Qingyang Town, what a group of majestic men and horses, it scared me terribly. In the end, the plucked phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken, tsk tsk..."

Yang Xiaomi smiled triumphantly and said: "So, you brats are lucky, follow my Yangtou to eat hot food and drink spicy food! You should just guard the big pit obediently, anyway, you have a lot of money every month! The guards of the big pit Brothers, listen up and pay one tael of cash for one night!"

"Yes, Yang Tou Yingming!"

A group of servants suddenly didn't feel the heat anymore, and they drank together in unison, Yang Xiaomi was proud, he was much more lively than that donkey-tempered Situ Jin, every family in this gang was doing business and opened a shop, Coming to the government office as an errand is just a game of ticket!

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In the east of the county seat of Potato County, the originally straight official road turned abruptly to the north. On the west side of the wide road paved with bluestone slabs along the bend, there is the Liusha River that runs slowly.The turbid river swirls from time to time, turning the water splashes, and the fallen leaves floating on the river surface are deeply sucked into the bottom of the water by the eddies, and you can vaguely see a black shadow flashing past in the middle of the water... The trees on both sides of the Liusha River are shaded, and there is a burst of turmoil. As the river wind blows, the big trees on both sides are like two rows of neat soldiers. The wind swayed, the trees whirled, the waves burst, and there was a rare burst of coolness.

Rumor has it that the north of the river is the place with the best geomantic omen in Po County.

Some people passed by, and they all envied the wide and uninhabited road and the shade under the trees, but they all shook their heads and dared not take a rest on the bank to escape the summer heat. The county magistrate's private domain.

Cao's mansion is located at the end of this road, in a place surrounded by flowers and trees.

In the carved window with the green gauze curtain floating on the second floor, several women are laughing and playing dominoes around the mahogany round table.

The old lady headed by her was wearing a double-breasted straight dress with a golden heart and black shiny satin, her gray hair was tied into a long bun, she wore a jasper-chan phoenix hairpin, her forehead was tied with a rhombus-shaped sapphire blue brocade gold silk phoenix decorated with fine pearls, and a huge yellow phoenix was dotted in the middle. opal.As the old lady swayed, the opal eyes on her forehead flowed with light waves, as if she had a third eye peeking out from her head.An old face was pale with white powder, and the deliberately painted thick black eyebrows and scarlet mouth were even more apparent.

Although the old lady is gorgeously dressed, she is informal.

She was in the middle of playing cards, twisted her body, rubbed her feet up and down vigorously, and rubbed off a pair of embroidered shoes embroidered with red peony flowers on a lake blue background.A hand wearing a ring full of red sapphires fiddled with the rattling dominoes, and the lavender hibiscus jade bracelet on the wrist jingled.

In her other hand, she held a large red gold cigarette rod inlaid with suet jade mouth. On the curved gold rod, there were three delicate little golden monkeys with pouting buttocks. She sucked it vigorously with her thick lips. After taking a sip, he beautifully exhaled a big smoke ring, knocked the pot of embers on the mahogany table, and the ash, still emitting red sparks, fell to the ground.

The little girl beside her immediately bent down to pick it up, for fear of burning a big hole in the thick red brocade carpet on the ground.Since the puffs hadn't completely burnt out, the little girl's fingers were scalding badly, she endured the pain and threw the puffs into the purple gold cup that she had prepared long ago. When I entered, I heard a "beep".

The old lady stretched out the cigarette pot without hesitation, and another little girl immediately stepped forward to fill it with gold tobacco. When she was about to start the fire, the old lady beat the girl's mouth with the cigarette stick in dissatisfaction. Head: "Doesn't Xiao Lang Hoof have eyes?!"

The little girl bowed her head tearfully, not daring to speak, let alone reach out to rub the swollen bump on her forehead.A plump woman next to her comforted her with a smile and said, "Godmother, this is too hasty to lose? Why spread the flames on the servant and ask the girl to put more water on the mother!"

The old lady curled her scarlet thick lips, and said: "What's the fun in letting me win money by letting the water go! If you, Bitao, are really smart, you can just let the water go without a trace, and don't let me see it at a glance, and treat me like a little Mao!" The child is playing!"

"Who would dare! Mother has three eyes on her head!" Another woman in a violet double-breasted embroidered gold hibiscus tail-tailed dress covered her mouth and smiled.

The woman covering her mouth and laughing is Cao Da's first wife, while the woman next to her, Bitao, is Mrs. Cao's goddaughter.

The old lady pushed the uncountable pile of silver in front of her to Bitao: "Take it and take it! If you have nothing to do, come and scrape the old lady's oil! Come to me to play cards all day long, eat mine, drink mine, and win!" mine!"

Although the old lady was dissatisfied, she still had a smile on her face.

When Bi Tao heard this, she immediately leaned on the old lady's body and acted like a baby: "Godmother, my daughter received a good product from Renyazi Hongye a few days ago. He is an upright country boy, and his body is as strong as beef tendon! Turn around! How about bringing it to your mother?"

When the old lady heard it, she elbowed Bi Tao far away and said with a smile: "Get out! I feel disgusted when I smell the fragrance on your body, and I feel ashamed! Where is that kid? I brought you here today." without?"

"No... No, I'm listening to Yuelou's people's training-teaching to enlighten me, and I'll send it to my mother when I turn back..."

Bi Tao smiled and took the old lady's hand, and calmly removed the lotus jade bracelet from the old lady's bowl.