When the waiter heard the order, he immediately grabbed the boss by the collar and slapped him on the forehead.
The owner of the ancient corpse shop screamed out in pain, hurriedly covered his head and opened his eyes, shouting: "Don't hit me, don't hit me, I'll wake up!"
Wu Xie studied his expression carefully and asked, "Where did you get that ancient corpse with the head of a monkey and the body of a snake outside?"
A flash of panic flashed in the boss's eyes, and he hesitated, "Just... I just came from the countryside to collect it. That snake is still working together. How many big pots are you renting?"
Ask Sazi, I don’t know any of them.”
Wu Xie sneered and raised his chin at the big-haired monkey in the iron cage, "You're a liar. The monkeys robbing the tombs that caused such a fuss are actually your boy's fault."
"It's not silk, it's not silk. I just picked that thing up from the ravine. If I smash the grave, I will be sued. I don't dare." The boss looked frightened and denied it repeatedly.
The fat man said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense with me, Fatty. You didn't do it. Why are you raising this big hairy monkey?"
The fat man shouted loudly, and the big hairy monkey in the cage, which was eating the apple carefully, was startled. It bared its fangs and spurted out all the saliva and fruit dregs. It also threw the fruit that Nie Xiaoba fed it and hit it.
Nie Xiaoba couldn't avoid it and spit on his face. He was so angry that he stood up and wanted to hit it with a bamboo pole. After a while, it shrank into the corner against the wall and stared at the people outside with fierce eyes. It was very unruly.
An unruly look.
The boss waved his hand hurriedly, "Bu Si, that Si Hou San'er, that Si Si is actually a person that I picked up from the mountains."
After hearing what he said, Wu Xie turned on the light and looked at the "monkey" carefully.
I found that it looked very old, with shaggy blue-gray hair all over its body, with a patch in the east and a patch missing in the west. Its face looked like it was covered in flour, and its fangs protruded from the thick mouth. It looked fierce and ferocious.
The cat-faced old lady in the ice city folk horror story.
The fat man twitched the corner of his mouth and punched Wu Xie's arm, "I thought we could renew our relationship with Sea Monkey's in-laws in the mountains, but it turns out she's an old lady with a big zongzi."
The boss saw that they didn't look right, so he asked tentatively, "Don't you walk 110 miles?"
The fat man lit a cigarette and grinned, "Do you think your grandpa's house looks like a 110?"
"No 110, you hit me and pinched my shoulder until it hurt. Are you crazy and have a cyst on your head?"
The boss suddenly became angry, stood up and glared at Wu Xie and others, "This is the roof of my house, you all have to crawl!"
A guy with a bad temper came up to me and hit him on the head, "You little son of a bitch, if you continue to be arrogant, I'll give you earwax so that you can't tell the difference between east, west and north!"
The arrogance that the boss had just raised suddenly withered. He covered his head and muttered to Nuonuo: "Since you don't have silk 110, why do you still care about leaving monkey corpses in the nest? Oh, it's better to make me less worried. Could it be that you want to
Do you want Wo to pay you protection fees?"
The fat man scolded: "Who can afford your two or three dollars? Tell me honestly, where did you get the mummy outside, and what happened to Granny Monkey."
"If you don't tell me clearly today, I'll call 110 right away and send you to a labor camp. Do you want to do that?"
"Don't be ridiculous. I don't believe you. You don't look like a good person." After knowing that Wu Xie and the others had nothing to do with the police, the boss looked much more relaxed and his voice became softer.
Seeing that the boss's attitude had relaxed, Wu Xie imitated Sichuan dialect and narrowed the distance, "Is this one dug out of the toast's grave? There are other things in the grave. You are a big-ass small business. The other things are on you. You
This exhibition can be held in Los Angeles, but you are so poor, why have you lost other things?"
The boss's face turned green. It was obvious that Wu Xie's words had hurt him.
The fat man kept up his efforts, "Is your guest locked in this cage? You look a bit like a monkey. I noticed that you have some quirks, a bit of a sibling relationship, and a bit of a cross-species. I called 110. Not only did you say you were selling corpses, but you were also
I have to do something indecent for you."
The boss was so angry that his face was livid. He looked at the four or five young and strong men around him, unclenched his clenched fists, and muttered: "I am alone and there are seven of you. I can't beat Si, but Si, you bully the few."
I know that those who understand current affairs are heroes, and I will not argue with you."
The fat man grabbed him and said, "Say it in a low voice, louder."
"Mosamosa." The boss said with a stern expression, lowering his voice, "That bridle monkey San'er is not my guest. To put it bluntly, I actually don't know if it is a person."
"I mentioned that the mummy of the monkey and snake was actually picked up by me from a ravine. Seeing that it looked strange, I picked it up, but I never expected that the monkey lady would come after me.
I was afraid of what someone would do if it ran out of the house, so I had to lock it."
Wu Xie saw that he was willing to speak, so he lit a cigarette and handed it to him, "Tell me in detail, there are many things to say, if you want it, I will give you more money than you can earn in half a month to open this little shabby shop."
There are many.”
Seeing that Wu Xie's expression was genuine, the boss felt a little moved and took the cigarette, "Are you telling the truth?"
"My son, I'm sorry for you." Wu Xie squinted at him, "We are not 110."
The waiter next to him took out his wallet and handed him two large ones. For the sake of Hong's face, the boss finally made up his mind to tell the whole story.
To make a long story short, the owner’s surname is Luo Wenbing, a local. His family has been doing mummy exhibitions since the previous generation, and the process is quite complicated.
The mummies in front of the display cabinet were obtained by his father at a very low price after a fierce struggle from the other two shareholders of the original grand exhibition hall through a very fierce drama similar to a palace battle to seize the heir.
These mummies were laid out.
Nowadays, the situation has changed. The original exhibition hall was passed to him and only this small shop is left. Fortunately, the old business inside is still there.
Because of its good relationship with the local area, this small exhibition shop has not been banned for so many years. Occasionally, people who are looking for novels come here and want to spend a little money to experience excitement, or if they need corpses for filming, etc., renting it out can be considered part of it.
Relatively considerable income.
And that strange and distinctive corpse was indeed the one he picked up from the mountain before. Wu Xie estimated that he picked it up from someone's hands.
The process is like this. No one comes to the mummy exhibition shop during the day on weekdays. It is usually closed and only opens for a long time on weekends.
A week ago, it happened that the shop was closed that day, and Luo Wenbing also heard about monkeys robbing graves, so he went up the mountain with a few brothers who like to look for mysterious things to have a look at the strange things.
As a result, it was late that day and before we reached the destination, it started to rain. The group of people cursed and had to quickly find a place to take shelter from the rain.
The rain that day was very fast for some reason, pouring down, and the white rain streaks hit people's heads and faces, making it blurry to see the road in front of them. In addition, it was a grassy and muddy mountain road that few people walked on, so it was slippery.
Damn it, Luo Wenbing accidentally fell down while walking and turning.
When I finally got up from the ground, I found that the few bastards running in front were all gone. There was grass covering the ground and no footprints could be seen.
Luo Wenbing had no choice but to fall so hard that his tail bone hurt. He even suspected that the bone was broken, so he had to find a big tree that could barely shelter from the rain, limped carefully and stood under it.
The rain kept falling, the sky turned dark, and there were no people looking for him. Luo Wenbing was angry and scared. In this barren mountain, if a wild boar or something came out and bit him, he couldn't do it.
Go and reason with the Lord of Hell.
So Luo Wenbing endured the pain and tried his best to climb to the branch of the tree. He took off his shirt and pants, wringed them out, put them on again, thinking that he would just make do with it all night.
I woke up in the middle of the night shivering and found that the rain had stopped. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Luo Wenbing's stomach growled for a while. Luo Wenbing remembered that when he climbed up, there seemed to be a wild lychee tree next to the big tree. It was almost ripe this season, and he could smell the fragrance at the tip of his nose. He just picked two to fill his stomach.
He bared his teeth and endured the pain and climbed down from the tree, then climbed up to the fruit tree on the side. He groped for a handful of the fruit trees on the side and grabbed two or three fruits.
The sweet juice flows down the stomach, and saliva is secreted from the mouth, which arouses all the hungry and greedy insects in the belly.
Even in the dim light, Luo Wenbing couldn't understand it. Luo Wenbing could only grope for it based on his feeling. He suddenly grasped a fruit that was not droopy. It seemed to be a big fruit. He couldn't pull it off even if he wanted to. He couldn't help but feel strange.
The hunger in his stomach made him have no extra thoughts to care about it, so he simply ignored it, grabbed the fruit on the side and ate it hard. Finally, his stomach was half full, and the sky started to become foggy and bright.
movement.
Luo Wenbing's head hurt badly after being frozen by the air-conditioning in the mountains all night. His buttocks were still swollen from the fall yesterday, and the area above his waist was numb, so he wanted to go down the mountain quickly.
.
Luo Wenbing broke out in a sweat and finally climbed down from the tree. He avoided the injury and stood against the tree, intending to take a rest before walking. However, he saw something dark nesting in the grass behind the tree.
, her face was facing towards him, and she kept staring at him.
The hair all over Luo Wenbing's body exploded in an instant. He didn't even see what the hell it was. He grabbed the gravel under the tree and threw it at it. He didn't care whether he was hit or not. He turned around and tried to run away.
But no matter how he ran, he kept running until it was daylight. When he regained consciousness, he found that he was back under the lychee tree where he was before, and the dark thing hidden in the shadow of the grass was still staring at him.
The surroundings were so silent that not even a bird chirping could be heard. Luo Wenbing's heart suddenly went cold. He thought about it. He was afraid that he might have encountered a lonely ghost who fell to death on this mountain while gathering medicine in his early years.
Some old people said that ghosts who died violently were not willing to die because they were afraid that they wanted to take away the life of a living person as well.
This boy was also a man with strange bones. I was wondering if this ghost who died violently had no relatives to pay homage to him. I finally found someone who could breathe, so I wanted to trap him to relieve his boredom.
So he stopped running. He was too exhausted to run out anyway, so he grabbed a large handful of fruits from the tree two or three meters away, placed them in three piles, and broke off three branches of the same length.
superior.
Then he chattered a series of good words to the ghost who trapped him, and promised the ghost that when he returned, he would take people up the mountain to find his bones, find his living relatives, or erect a monument for him on the 15th day of the Qingming Festival.
Burn some paper money.
After that, he kowtowed three times in that direction, thinking to himself that since he was so sincere, he must be given some face.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he got up after kowtowing three times, he heard a plop from behind the tree, and a dark mass fell down, which startled him greatly.
After taking a closer look, I found that the thing was a half-drawn corpse of a monkey. It had been dead here for who knows how long, and its skin was dry and cracked.
Luo Wenbing was so angry that he fell back, "Fuck your aunt," because he spent so much time begging his grandfather to sue his grandma, so he knocked his head all over to this hozen with a broken head.
He was so angry that he took a few steps over to check. Only then did he realize that the cracked skin on the dried monkey corpse was not the skin, but the oxidized cotton and linen cloth.
Luo Wenbing was eating this bowl of rice, so he naturally recognized that this corpse was unusual. In addition to being surprised, he couldn't help but think of the monkey tomb robbing incident that had been rumored in recent days.
Could it be that the monkeys dug out the coffin and randomly discarded the ancient corpses inside? Looking at the fruit trees nearby, Luo Wenbing felt more and more that this might be the case. The monkeys were not fools. They were dry wood meat.
There is no sweet fruit that tastes so good.
After taking a closer look, I found that there seemed to be something underneath the half-stretched mummy. I then stepped forward and moved the mummy away, only to see a long section of python carcass underneath.
In line with the principle of not picking up nothing, Luo Wenbing made the two halves of the mummy into a basket with picked tree branches and took them down the mountain. When he came back, he connected them with strong twine and put them in an exhibition cabinet.
inside.
Although the trip down the mountain went smoothly this time, he did not forget the promise he made when he met the ghost before, and he would put a stick of incense and place some small fruits on the mummy every day.
As for Granny Monkey in the cage, when Luo Wenbing was carrying the mummy down the mountain, he noticed movement in the trees behind him. He turned around several times and finally discovered that what was following him was a weird thing that was neither human nor monkey.
Grandma Hou seemed to only be targeting the ancient corpse in his hand, and showed no intention of attacking Luo Wenbing.
Luo Wenbing was in a hurry to go down the mountain, so he simply ignored it and followed him to the bottom of the mountain. Fortunately, it was already dark at the time, so no one noticed him while he was wandering around the street behind him.
The reason why Granny Monkey is said to be a person is because Luo Wenbing discovered that in the middle of the night, this thing would whisper like a whisper, muttering some very old dialects with the same pronunciation as the ethnic minorities here, and he could listen.
Understand a little.
Luo Wenbing also wondered whether the monkey mother-in-law might be the "monkey" who robbed the chieftain's tomb this time.