As we were walking, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out from the bushes on the side, which startled us both. I quickly took a flashlight and shined it, and it turned out to be Ghost Eye Chen.
I patted my frightened chest: "Uncle Chen, you scared me to death. Where is the grave we are looking for?"
Ghost Eye Chen turned around and pointed to the bushes behind him, and said: "It's not far from here. I just checked and found that the ancient tomb is still there, and the coffin mushroom we are looking for is still in the coffin."
"How can you be sure that the coffin mushroom is still in the coffin? Have you already dug it up and looked at it?" I was a little surprised. Although Guiyan Chen walked fast, he arrived here at most ten minutes earlier than us.
To dig a grave in such a short time was a bit too fast.
I was feeling surprised, but Ghost Eye Chen said, "You don't have to dig it open to see it. You two, come with me!"
He walked a few steps forward, then suddenly turned around and said to us: "By the way, you two have to turn off your flashlights to dig for coffin mushrooms. It's best not to have strong light."
Jianjian and I didn't ask why. We immediately followed his instructions and turned off the flashlight. Our eyes suddenly went dark. After a while, my eyes calmed down. Through the moonlight, I could vaguely see the surroundings.
Condition, but due to the lush surrounding trees, many places are shaded.
The two of us could only follow closely behind Guiyan Chen and walk forward in the dark.
After walking forward for more than ten meters, Guiyan Chen led us to a small semicircular earthen bag about one meter high and more than ten feet tall. It was also strange. The trees in this area were extremely lush, but this
There is not a tree within a few meters of this small dirt bag.
There are not even thorns or weeds on the trees, as if they have been man-made. Moreover, the sound of insects nearby seems to be much weaker. To be precise, there is almost no insect sound. The insects we hear
The sound comes from a little further away.
Guiyan Chen pointed to the small earthen bag and said: "This is the ancient tomb that is more than a thousand years old. I guess it is from the Tang Dynasty."
I thought that the weeds on the grave were specially cleaned by Ghost Eye Chen just now. I was a little surprised and said, "Uncle Chen, how come you cleaned this grave so quickly?"
Ghost Eye Chen smiled and said: "Haha, do you think I cleaned up this grave?"
"Isn't it?" I was slightly startled.
"Of course not! This grave with coffin mushrooms is naturally like this. Within a radius of two feet, there is almost no grass. However, if you look carefully, you will find that there is actually a layer of moss on this grave. This kind of moss is relatively
In particular, the color is dark brown, so it is also called brown moss. This brown moss is an accompaniment of coffin mushrooms and can often only be seen on tombs where coffin mushrooms grow. It is based on this that I judged whether the tomb was found.
Are there coffin mushrooms growing inside?"
Hearing Gui Yanchen say this, I stared at the grave mound carefully in the moonlight. I could indeed vaguely see that the grave mound was covered with a layer of dark brown, like a camel hair blanket. As for whether it was moss, I couldn't tell.
It's impossible to tell because the light is too dim.
Ghost Eye Chen raised his head and glanced at the full moon hanging high on the branch, and continued: "It's just after midnight, let's make preparations first, and start digging the grave at three o'clock, around a quarter past nine o'clock.
The time is just right to be able to open the coffin and get the mushrooms." At a quarter past five o'clock in the morning, just before sunrise, his calculation was accurate. I quickly asked: "Then what should I do to prepare for this? Isn't that right?
Do you need to do a ritual to drive away evil spirits first?"
I thought to myself that this is a thousand-year-old ancient tomb after all, and since we were digging the tomb in the middle of the night when the gloomy atmosphere was the heaviest, something evil would happen to us in all likelihood, so as I spoke, I prepared the exorcism device.
The talisman, peach wood sword, Bagua evil-suppressing bell and other magic weapons were all taken out from the bag, and Jianjian also quickly took out the Tiangang Demon Mirror.
Unexpectedly, Guiyan Chen waved his hand and said: "This tomb does not need to exorcise evil spirits, and you'd better put away all these exorcism instruments. Coffin mushrooms are yin, so they can't stand these pure yang instruments."
I couldn't help but be startled and asked in confusion: "Why don't we need to exorcise evil spirits? This is a thousand-year-old ancient tomb. What if there is something evil inside?"
"It's true that this is a thousand-year-old ancient tomb, but as long as there are coffin mushrooms growing in the tomb, nothing evil will happen. The coffin mushrooms will absorb the yin and yang energy around them, let alone evil things, even snakes, insects, rats, and ants will
Don’t dare to come close!”
After hearing what Guiyan Chen said, I finally understood. No wonder there was no sound of insects nearby. It turned out to be this.
Guiyan Chen untied the bundle of things he brought, and Bianjian and I went over to take a look, and it turned out to be a bundle of wooden stakes.
Each of these wooden stakes is almost the same size. The mouth of a mineral water bottle is as thick as a foot, about a foot long, thick at one end and pointed at the other. There are about seventeen or eight wooden stakes in total.
I didn’t know what Ghost Eye Chen was bringing these wooden stakes for, so I asked in confusion: “Uncle Chen, what are these wooden stakes for?”
Ghost Eye Chen said: "These wooden nails will be nailed around the cemetery later and connected with red ropes to prevent the coffin mushroom from slipping away."
"Will this coffin mushroom still escape?" I said in surprise.
"The thousand-year-old coffin mushroom has turned into a human form and is about to become a spirit. Why can't it slip away and enter the soil as soon as it sees it? Do you know how to dig a century-old ginseng? You have to tie each ginseng with a red rope.
Then use wooden tools to slowly dig the soil, so as to lock in the spiritual energy contained in the old wild ginseng. Sometimes it takes ten and a half months to dig out an old wild ginseng from the time it is discovered to the time it is dug out.
Digging for coffin mushrooms is not so troublesome, but the principle is the same."
Ghost Eye Chen said, throwing the black cloth used to wrap the wooden stakes to me, and said: "Put this thing away, it will be useful later."
I put the piece of black cloth into my backpack, and then Jianjian and I helped Guiyan Chen nail the wooden stakes together.
It was not a technical job. After a while, a circle of wooden stakes was nailed around the cemetery. Guiyan Chen took out a bundle of red rope from somewhere and connected all the wooden stakes.
After finishing it, he looked up at the moon hanging in the sky and said, "It's almost three o'clock in the morning. Let's start digging."
I quickly picked up the hoes that were placed aside, one each, and the three of us started digging.
Perhaps because of its age, the soil on this tomb is quite hard and it is quite laborious to dig. Not long after digging, I felt some pain in my arms. However, in order to rush for time, I didn’t care so much. I swung the hoe and worked hard.
Digging.
After digging without stopping for nearly an hour, we finally dug a large pit nearly two meters deep at the grave, and the three of us had already descended into the pit. However, the coffin was still missing.
I was just feeling puzzled when Guiyan Chen suddenly called us to stop.
Jianjian and I stopped digging and took the opportunity to shake our numb arms a few times.
Ghost Eye Chen squatted down and even used his hands to dig out the soil at the bottom of the pit.
I couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, so I asked: "Uncle Chen, isn't there a hoe? Why did you get started directly?"
Ghost Eye Chen said: "Further down there should be the coffin board. You have to be careful not to dig out the coffin board."
"Wouldn't it be good to dig it up? Aren't we just going to open the coffin and get the mushrooms inside?" Jianjian asked puzzledly.
Ghost Eye Chen explained: "It's true that we want to open the coffin, but the coffin mushroom cannot see Yang energy, and gold belongs to Yang, so we can't use an iron hoe to forcefully dig out the coffin. We have to carefully dig it out later.
Plow off the soil on the coffin, and then lift the lid of the coffin."
"What! You still have to plane with your hands!?" Jianjian exclaimed in shock.
"If you want to dig up the best intact coffin mushrooms, you must do this!"
Guiyan Chen's attitude was very resolute. Jianjian and I had no choice but to squat down and start digging with our hands.
Sure enough, as Ghost Eye Chen said, after digging for a while, we found the coffin board. Because it was too dark inside the pit, we couldn't see clearly what the coffin board looked like. But what surprised me was that this board
It's still very solid and not decayed at all.
I said in confusion: "This ancient tomb that is thousands of years old has not undergone any special antiseptic treatment. How come the coffin is still so well preserved?"
Ghost Eye Chen asked me: "Do you know what material this coffin is made of?"
I shook my head.
Ghost Eye Chen said: "It's golden nanmu! This thing is corrosion-resistant and insect-resistant. Even if it is processed into a coffin, even an ordinary piece of golden nanmu can be buried in the ground without rotting for thousands of years."
After listening to what Ghost Eye Chen said, I couldn't help but be a little surprised. I had heard about golden nanmu before and knew that it was a very precious wood. Most of the coffins of ancient emperors and generals were made of golden nanmu.
become.
The reason why I was surprised was that such a valuable golden nanmu coffin was actually buried in this barren mountain.
I said in confusion: "What kind of big shot is buried here? The coffin is actually made of golden nanmu!"
Ghost Eye Chen said: "The owner of this tomb must have been a powerful person during his lifetime, because only people who have taken ginseng and other supplements for a long time can grow coffin mushrooms after death."
While we were talking, a gust of wind suddenly blew from nowhere.
Jianjian said nervously: "Brother! Could it be that we have alerted the owner of the tomb?" He has a pure Yin character and is easily possessed by ghosts, so he is most afraid of encountering lonely ghosts and the like.
stuff.
I hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, didn't Uncle Chen just say that where coffin mushrooms grow, there will be no ghosts or anything like that! Uncle Chen, right!?" As I said that, I turned around to look.
I looked at Ghost Eye Chen.
Ghost Eye Chen immediately said, "Don't worry! There will definitely be no ghosts in this place. It's very safe..." Unexpectedly, before he could finish his words, a shadowy "wow, wah, wah" sound suddenly came from outside the pit.