Reading The Remnants (Wen Guan)

“Oh.” Tu Laoyao nodded, picked up the branch, and walked back with Li Shiyi. Only when he got up, he noticed something was wrong, and his tongue stammered a little: “That, that… that, this thing If I don’t send it back, what should my mother-in-law do?”

Li Shibai glanced at him and took the pipe back into his cloth pocket.

The youngest Tu was not anxious when she saw that her oil and salt were not coming in, so he went to the southeast corner of the tomb on his own, and slapped his right foot on the loose soil, revealing a piece of tarpaulin under the soil.

He squatted down with his trousers, pulled the tarp leather, and beckoned to Li Shiyi: “Eleven Sister, come here.”

Li Shiyi frowned, glanced at the dark hole, raised his chin and signaled that he had something to say.

“I opened it, stealing the hole. You see, can’t it be done?” The youngest Tu Yao raised his head as if offering a treasure.

Li Shiyi leaned over, tilted his head to take a look, and sneered nonchalantly.

Tu Laoyao slanted his eyes, took a dip into her cloth pocket, and quickly threw her cigarette from the hole. Gu Lulu beat him a few times and disappeared into the pit.

“You!” Li Shiyi lifted him up, lifted his right leg and drew out a bright dagger from the mouth of his boot, and drew his backhand close to his throat.

The rot on her face showed a stern sense of oppression in the moonlight: “Go down, fish up.”

With crows everywhere, Tu Yao stared at her cold eyebrows, not knowing whether the chill came out of her closed thin lips or the deep pupils. In short, he froze and shivered. He shrank his hips to hold back his urine, stretched his neck as if he could be held decently, and pulled Li Shiyi’s cuffs and said: “I’m…it’s OK.”

As soon as the words were spoken, he broke the jar and collapsed his shoulders, squinting at Li Shiyi: “My skill, you know everything about the eleventh sister, this tomb is weird, I am the second in the palace again, afraid There is no way to go. I’m dead, and the guy you eat has to bother you for the next time. If you leave early, you will be late, so why bother to catch my fate?”

Li Shiyihe heard him shaking his greasy hair and said: “You go down with me and save my life. After I paint Sanping, you will be yours. You know the plate in the south of the city, although you The Eleventh Sister is amazing. In the end, it is always convenient to have a man who is a girl who is like a pinch of sprouts, and runs into a troublemaker.”

Li Shiyi’s eyebrows moved, and a thin smile came out of his nose. He couldn’t tell whether it was a ridicule or a touch. The youngest Tuo looked like the old lamp had been oiled, and he smiled and sent another sentence: “My son fell. If you have landed, you are his aunt and dare not disrespect you in the future.”

The sharp blade pulled from his greasy neck and pressed out white scars. Tu Laoyao squinted his eyes, but felt that his shoulders were suddenly loose. Li Shiyi retracted his hand, stuffed the dagger into the boot tube, and closed it together. The clothes on his body circled halfway around the entrance of the cave, and he landed on the tomb with a hand support.

The youngest Tu was speechless, unable to recover for a long while.

“Come down!” A buzzing echo came from the depths of the hole.

The tomb is extremely small, and the head can be seen at a glance. The tunnel is as inconspicuous as its appearance. Passing through a two or three-meter path, it is a stone chamber in the square. Li Shiyi hurriedly glanced at it. There were no murals in the room, and there were no murals. The lettering, judging from the degree of corrosion of the stone wall, the age is not too far away, everything is abnormally normal. The only weird thing is that there is no dust in the tomb, and there is a faint fragrance. As you get closer, the fragrance becomes more and more fragrant, as if it has burned several mixed smokes.

Youngest Tu covered his mouth and nose, took a breath, and whispered: “Eleven sisters, this smell is so irritating, it hurts.”

However, Li Shiyi stretched out a forearm, stopped his steps, and moved his eyes downstream to remind him to pay attention to the accumulation of water on the ground.

The youngest Tu Yao looked at the slowly flowing water, shallow and turbid, like ripples overflowing from the ground, agitating the annual rings. Youngest Tu jerked: “I didn’t look back here last time…”

He took two heavy breaths and looked at the water mark, which turned like a tacit agreement with the fragrance. Swing the water forward and the fragrance would be thicker. When backing, the fragrance was half weak, back and forth, quite a bit. implicate.

Li Shiyi raised his hand and rubbed the tip of his nose. After searching for a long while, there was still no trace of the cigarette tube. She was also a little uneasy, but she thought that the cigarette tube entered the tomb. Naturally, she couldn’t easily leave the relationship, maybe like Tu’s youngest. He said that he returned the copper pot to the coffin and sealed it up intact. I don’t know if I can get out of it.

Thinking of this, she motioned Tu Laoyao to go around the stagnant water with her, and walk from the stone steps on the side to the center of the coffin. While carefully counting her steps, she lit a glass lamp and walked to the front of the coffin. , Stopped at odd steps, put the light on the corner of the sun just south, then straightened up and looked at the coffin.

The coffin is in the shape of ingots. The center is convex at both ends. The wood is valuable nanmu. The outer layer of paint is peeled off. The black, black, red and red are darkened. The four-corner nails have been opened, and the outer cover has been pushed in half. It was the youngest Tu who was too timid to take a closer look, only groped for two copper pots and slipped away.

Tu Laoyao put his wrists into his cuffs, shrank his neck and looked at the back with trepidation. Relying on the light, Li Shiyi’s long and slender stature was hooked like a meticulous, quite stiff temperament, which just happened to cover it. On the half of the face with rot, her cheeks were as smooth as jade, and even the delicate features were glowing with cold dim light.

If you don’t say three hundred and sixty lines, you will be the best champion. If you have the ability, you can also do a decent posture when you do things. Tu Laoyao wondered with wonder.

Youngest Tuo laughed secretly, but suddenly felt cold in front of him. Li Shiyi’s cold voice and puzzled eyes came as promised: “Pregnant woman?!”

Youngest Tu Yao was shocked, and stepped forward with horror and suspicion, trying to climb the coffin to calm his mind, and then shrank back in disgust, bending his thighs and slowly revealing two bean-sized triangular eyes.

I didn’t take a closer look last time. This time I looked at his calf and stretched the tendons. Inside was a woman, her face was intact and the texture was plump, and her hair was dark and shiny, as if she hadn’t been dressed in the morning. Lazy, but the clothes on his body are Qing dynasty mandarins. The burning black and decaying fabric reveals the old sense of age clearly. Even the gilt hairpin on the side is black and dark, and it is impossible to distinguish the pattern of gold on the head. .

The antiquities of the clothes and the woman’s lively face are in sharp contrast, and the fragrance that flows out of the hair is as strange as it is shocking.

The woman was littered with black particles, and the youngest Tu swallowed, his throat as if he had been poisoned: “What…what is this?”

“Dead corpse worm eggs.” Li Shiyi didn’t have any extra thoughts to be a teacher, and only slightly exposed it, and then cast his eyes on the woman Gaolong’s abdomen.

She just saw the abdomen move quickly, but now the dead silence seemed to be an illusion.

She held her hand and let out a deep breath, urging the stiff person beside her: “Hurry up and put the copper pot back!”

Tu Laoyao immediately regained consciousness, and hurriedly took out the copper jar, shaking his hands like sifting chaff, put the things back into the coffin with a Guanyin mouth and a Bodhisattva mouth.

Li Shiyi moved his eyes away and looked around, trying to find the whereabouts of the cigarette pipe, but saw that the wall directly in front of the coffin was engraved with a few deep and shallow dashes. She counted them one by one. Pen.

In the future, she had no time to think about the meaning of these ten scratches, so she felt her wrist tightened, and turned her head back to the coldly painted words of the youngest one: “Ten, Eleven sisters, it is… its mother is moving!”

Li Shiyi frowned, followed the youngest Tu’s fingers, and saw that the woman’s chubby lower abdomen seemed to be wrapped in a snake, protruding and retracting, hitting outwards, as if to support her belly. open.

When Li Shiyi was about to speak, he saw Youngest Tu retracted his hand and hissed suspiciously: “Why does it move like my mother-in-law’s baby?”

Thinking of the mother-in-law, Tu’s youngest finally recovered some masculinity, and his calf did not tremble. He boldly looked around the coffin twice, and patted his thigh: “Understood!”

Li Shiyi looked at him with a face, and listened to him confidently and came to the conclusion: “I dug up this tomb and was bumped into by the new bereaved in the village. Seeing that the Feng Shui is good with the tomb, I moved the original bones and filled them in. Come in from home. This woman looks like she just died of her breath, and the baby in her belly is full-term, and she is about to come out at this moment!”

He pouted: “I have guarded the cemetery for many years, and I have seen it once or twice.”

The mother dies and the child is alive, the new birth is not new. Li Shiyi has heard of it, but the youngest Tu’s words are too simple, and the tomb is strange in every way.

Before she said anything, she saw Tu Laoyao jump into the coffin, and with the responsibility of knocking on the door in advance as a father, she pulled away the woman’s clothes: “Hurry up and deliver the baby!”

Delivery? Li Shiyi’s mouth twitched, trying to stop him from drinking, as if thinking of something again, she curled her index finger and tapped it under her right ear a few times. Without hearing the rest, she stopped in place. After blinking a few times, I heard a familiar sound in the auricle.

咚咚, 咚咚, 咚咚——

The noise was louder than ever before, as if there were hundreds of footsteps stepping on together, shaking her eardrums like a drumhead being struck violently. The sound was getting closer and closer, and Li Shiyi’s chest was stagnant, and the secret path was not good, and he said to Tu’s youngest: “Stop!”

Tu Yaoyao sat down on the ground and didn’t look back, but stared at the front in a daze.

The booming sound disappeared in an instant, as if it had never appeared before, except for the occasional drop of water droplets.

The moment “Pata” hit the stagnant water, Tu Yaoyao turned around and said: “Out, out!”

He turned his head and looked at his hand again, grasping a lotus-root-like calf in a coarse manner, and pulled out a jade-like baby girl. The baby didn’t cry or make trouble, with eyes like black grapes open. Looking at him, his little mouth was spitting out blisters.

Just pulled it out like this? The youngest Tu looked at her and then at his own hand, which was unbelievable.

Li Shiyi looked closer, and the baby girl was white all over, reflecting the drenched light, as if it was coated with a layer of fine powder for clarity. There is no blood, no amniotic fluid, and even the umbilical cord is not connected to the mother’s body, and her black hair is as beautiful as fungus in the water.

She stared at Li Xi intently as if thinking.

Li Shiyi frowned slightly, she was stunned, and she also wrinkled the center of her eyebrows.

Li Shiyi raised her eyebrows in surprise, and she stepped forward and singled out the right eyebrow.

Li Shiyi’s heart shook, and he tilted his head involuntarily, and the baby also paused and leaned the young head lightly to the right.

Li Shiyi cursed secretly in his heart.

“Eleven Sister,” Tu’s youngest one could not help but call her aloud when seeing her look sloppy.

Li Shiyi lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, and saw him sniffing left and right: “The scent… seems to be gone.”