Chapter 1036 Sleepy Mountain (4000 words)
The inside of the yard was much larger than expected. Yu Chengmu and the other three did not act immediately after entering. Zhou Qing supported Yu Chengmu, and another man named Zhang Junyu walked He went over, bent down slightly, and Yu Chengmu whispered something in his ear.
After hearing this, Zhang Junyu nodded, then looked left and right, and walked in the other direction, sticking close to the wall.
Jiang Cheng noticed that Zhang Junyu's steps were strange. He was light and shallow, so he took a few more glances. Unexpectedly, when he raised his head, he happened to catch Yu Chengmu looking at him.
Later, Zhang Junyu found a wooden corridor submerged in weeds. They walked along the corridor, and from time to time there was the creaking sound of decaying wood under their feet. There were overgrown weeds nearby, and a dilapidated scene came into view.
But the rockery not far away and the scenery everywhere tell them about the grandeur of this place.
Yu Chengmu stopped and looked in the direction of the rockery.
"Are the villagers serious about setting up the mourning hall here?" Pang Xiaofeng looked around with fear in his eyes and complained with his arms crossed.
Chen Hao frowned, "Don't say anything useless."
The man leading the way didn't tell them where the room was. When they came in, they saw a light on the left side. I took a detour to find it. When I got closer, I found several white lanterns, and a large room similar to a wing appeared in front of me.
The lanterns were hung under the eaves, and when the night wind blew, the flames inside swayed with the lanterns, fluttering and flickering, giving people an unreal feeling.
“Look.” Zhang Junyu, who was wearing a black vest, suddenly spoke.
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger. Not far from this wing, there were three buildings with lanterns on. Judging from the size, they should be similar to this wing.
There are four wing rooms nearby, separated by a certain distance from each other.
"It seems that these are the rooms we will stay in tonight." Yu Chengmu hunched his back slightly, his voice was slightly distorted in the wind, "We have four groups of people here, each group has a room. How’s the house?”
"We have no problem." Chen Hao was the first to agree. He seemed to be the leader of Pang Xiaofeng and Du Moyu's group with a strong physique. There were four of them, which was the largest number among the groups.
Jiang Cheng also didn’t want to share a room with others, otherwise he would have to be wary of people as well as ghosts, so he said excitedly: “You don’t have to worry about me, the doctors all praise me for my courage. He dares to sleep without the nurse coaxing him, and he doesn’t even need to turn on the light!”
The fat man really wanted to help Jiang Cheng distract everyone’s attention, but he really couldn’t do it.
Zhang Junyu glanced at him and said lukewarmly: "Then you are quite powerful."
As soon as he finished speaking, a discordant voice sounded, "If we separate...will we separate? Is it too dangerous?" Jia Jinliang looked at the three wing rooms not far away. , couldn't help wiping the sweat on his forehead: "Why don't we live together? I can give you the bed. A Biao and I can sleep on the floor. Let's just squeeze in and make do. It's really hard at night." …If something happens, there will be someone to take care of you, right?”
It could be seen that Jia Jinliang was frightened, there was sweat on his forehead, and there was some reflection under the lantern.
"Boss Jia, please help yourself." After Yu Chengmu said this, he led his two apprentices into the wing room in front of him.
Jia Jinliang hurriedly followed, but as soon as he reached the door, he was stopped by Zhang Junyu. Zhang Junyu stared at Jia Jinliang with a livid face, and Jia Jinliang did not dare to move.
With a "bang", Zhang Qingyu closed the door.
Jia Jinliang stood in front of the door, hesitated for a moment, and turned to Chen Hao with a smile, but Chen Hao just nodded politely and led his group to another building relatively nearby. Wing room.
Jiang Cheng shrugged and left with the fat man.
After a few steps, Jia Jinliang caught up and said, "Brother Jiang, Brother Wang." Jia Jinliang smiled with him very discreetly, revealing a gold tooth at the corner of his mouth, "You two look at It’s just a talent, how about we sleep together at night and support each other?”
“It’s not convenient, I can’t sleep with outsiders around.” Jiang Cheng dismissed Jia Jinliang in a few words, and then led the fat man into a room. Wing room.
Jia Jinliang stood outside the door for a while and said good words for a while. He realized that Jiang Cheng had no intention of opening the door, so he had to lead A Biao, who had never spoken, to leave and go to the last wing.
The fat man hid behind the door and watched Jia Jinliang and the others go away through the gap before he felt relieved.
The wing in front of them is not very big and is divided into two rooms, the inner and the outer. There is a table in the middle of the outer room where they are now, a few wooden chairs, a landscape painting hanging on the wall, and the decoration is antique.
As the man who led the way said, these rooms had been tidied up and looked very clean. Jiang Cheng had already walked around the room and walked out of the bedroom inside.
The fat man sat at the table and touched the teapot. It was hot. He couldn't help but pour a glass of water for himself, and then poured another glass for the doctor. He didn't drink it, but covered the teacup with his hand to keep warm.
"I mean, doctor, you are doing something wrong again. Listen to your self-introduction. Is that something a normal person can say?" The fat man can understand the weakness of the enemy, but the fat man can understand it. Crazy fat man can't understand it.
Jiang Cheng also sat down and took the teacup handed over by the fat man. After looking at it, he took a sip and said, "This time is different from before." Jiang Cheng whispered, "The one named Yu Chengmu Something’s not right about the old guy.”
The fat man felt uncomfortable thinking about Yu Chengmu's old face that looked like withered tree bark. "I also think he is weird, but I can't tell. His two apprentices are also pretty weird."
"That You remember the young man named Zhou Qing? His posture when knocking on the door was strange," the fat man recalled.
Jiang Cheng seemed to suddenly become interested after hearing this, "I didn't see him knocking on the door. It was blocked. You can learn from me."
"Oh, okay. Doctor." The fat man stood up and gestured to Jiang Cheng while recalling, "He first knocked on the top. Once, then...then again here, and finally on the right, three times in total, but the door is clearly unlocked and no one is inside. Who is he knocking for?"
Jiang Cheng held the cup and frowned slightly. After a while, he said: "It's for ghosts."
After hearing this, the fat man's face turned sour. "Doctor, don't scare me in the middle of the night. We have been to this place many times. We will always encounter ghosts whenever we come up."
Jiang Cheng looked at the door and whispered: "Zhou Qing's knocking technique is very particular. The first knock is to worship the gods and worry about it." The heart clashed with the passing gods inside. The second knock on the middle was to honor the ghost, the owner of the house, and the third knock on the right side was to honor the companions. After all, the door had been opened, and the thief would not escape. They hoped to There are treasures that colleagues have forgotten, so that they can pick them up."
The fat man was stunned when he heard this. Stunned, "Doctor, are they thieves? No, no, you just said that the second knock is to honor ghosts. What does it mean that the owner of the house is a ghost?"
After a while, the fat man seemed to have figured it out. , eyes slowly widened: "They...are they tomb robbers?"
"Most likely." Jiang Cheng said bluntly: "They have a very strange odor. Also, if you observe their steps, they are deeper and shallower. They always walk close to the wall when finding their way. Zhang Qingyu, who is leading the way, has to touch one of his hands. It was because the light in the tomb was dark and I was worried that I couldn’t see the mechanism clearly, so I had to feel it with my hands.”
"But why are they so concerned about such a house? Is it an occupational disease?" Fatty always trusted Jiang Cheng's words unconditionally, even if he couldn't understand it.
After a while, Jiang Cheng turned to look at him. Under the candlelight, his face couldn't be seen clearly. The fat man was a little nervous, "Because this is a tomb." Jiang Cheng said in a deep voice.
"Tomb..." In Fatty's mind, cemeteries are all buried underground. This house is a bit dilapidated now, but judging from the furnishings, it must have been a wealthy family before, so why did it become a cemetery? ?
"Did you see the rockery when you came in?" Jiang Cheng asked.
The fat man nodded his chin, "Look...I see it."
"Then did you see the water?"
Hearing this, the fat man fell into memories. On the way here, they did see a large rockery in the front yard, with shadows all around, and there seemed to be many more. There are many decorative furnishings, but I really didn’t see anything like a lake or pond.
"Water represents anger. If there are mountains but no water, there will be no vitality. As the saying goes, it stops at the boundary of water, because anger will stop when it encounters water." After a pause, Jiang Cheng continued: "That There used to be water near the rockery, but after the owner of this house died, it was filled in. There is also a saying that the rockery is a dead mountain. "
The fat man was surprised when he heard the word "broken head". He shrank his neck consciously.
“Sleep Hill means that after the owner of the house died, the remaining people smashed the highest peak of the rockery and pushed it down. This also means that the owner of the house did not die in a normal way and was extremely resentful.”
"This place has been transformed into a ghost house." Jiang Cheng felt helpless.
“Damn, I knew these villagers had bad intentions!” The fat man recalled that time in Xiaoshijian Village, the flesh on his face tightened and he looked very fierce.
After calming down later, the fat man couldn't help but worry, "Doctor, since Yu Chengmu and the others are tomb robbers, they must know more than us. Those people are not good people, so we have to be careful." This mission is considered to be within the business scope of Yu Chengmu and the three of them. No wonder the old guy is so arrogant.
"By the way, doctor." The fat man asked curiously: "How do you know the secrets in this industry? Do you also have friends who visit other people's ancestral graves?"
"I have a friend who likes to be arty. My friend, his girlfriend is very rich, and she always makes some investments..." Halfway through, Jiang Cheng suddenly stopped talking.
The fat man immediately realized who the friend the doctor was talking about was.
Pi Nguyen.
The number of people around a doctor who can be called friends can be counted on one's fingers, and Pi Ruan is a very special one among them.
After sensing the doctor's mood swings, the fat man immediately changed the subject: "Doctor, we must not let them know that we have guessed that they are tomb robbers, otherwise they will definitely kill us."
According to the doctor's analysis, Yu Chengmu and the three of them still have two skills. These people may be carrying big cases, and there is no chance that this group of desperadoes may still have lives in their hands.
In this lawless world, they have no worries.
Jiang Cheng was very cooperative with Fatty this time. After pausing for a few seconds, he continued to analyze him: "You are right, we have to defend ourselves. Judging from their methods, they are a very professional group. Tomb robber."
"Yu Chengmu is the leader of this group, that is, the person responsible for finding ancient tombs and identifying the treasures inside. His two apprentices, the older ones are called Stick stick, that is Zhang Qing Yu is responsible for exploring the path. He knows how to dig holes and eliminate traps such as quicksand in ancient tombs.” The main force of the work is the one who sticks the stick."
Listening to Jiang Cheng's step-by-step analysis, Fatty felt that people are really different. In front of the doctor, his brain circuit was even different. Not as good as single-celled animals.
Huaiyi once drank too much and hugged the two of them and joked that the three of them tied together would have a total of 200 tricks, one for himself and 199 for the doctor.
The fat man was still pointing at the doctor and laughing, but he didn’t react until noon the next day.
But I have to say that after the fat man went through the performances of Yu Chengmu, Zhang Junyu, and Zhou Qing in his head, he knew that the doctor was at least eighty-nine points right. Yu Chengmu was obviously a military advisor. Zhou Qing was an errand boy. He was only responsible for pushing the door open, and then returned to Yu Chengmu to take care of him. The next step of finding the way in was left to Zhang Junyu.
After thinking about it, the fat man said cautiously: "Doctor, a professional tomb robbing gang has more than just these three roles, right?"
"Of course there are more, at least there should be a supporter, that is, to control these People gather together and are responsible for providing equipment, investing funds, and paying dividends to these people,” Jiang Cheng said calmly.
When he heard the word "boss", the fat man's expression changed, obviously thinking of something bad.
Jiang Cheng saw the fat man's face and nodded affirmatively, "Yes, we have all seen this person, it is that Jia Jinliang. Just now I was observing Zhang Junyu's footsteps and was noticed by that old fox Yu Chengmu. Here we are, that Jia Jinliang is here to spy on us. If he finds out If we see through their identities, we can't let them go."
"Jia Jinliang, and... and A Biao beside him, are in the same group as Yu Chengmu!" The fat man couldn't bear it. The residents took a breath of cold air. There were 11 people in total, and their group of desperadoes accounted for nearly half.
“Well, that Abiao should be Jia Jinliang’s bodyguard. He looks inconspicuous and doesn’t speak much, but his eyes are fierce. There are 80% fatalities in his hands. Bosses in this industry like to hire bodyguards from Southeast Asia. , there are a lot of gangsters in this industry. They kill people and throw them directly into the ancient tombs, and then fill up the robber holes without anyone noticing. , no one may find out after decades.”
After listening to Jiang Cheng’s analysis, the fat man thought of Jia Jinliang’s flattering face, and felt a chill in his heart. He realized one thing at the same time. Not long ago, Yu Chengmu and Jia Jinliang and Abiao came from the same road, and the time between the two groups was very short.
Now it seems that the five of them came in together, but after seeing them from a distance, they were divided into two groups. Among them, three of Yu Chengmu were in the open and two of Jia Jinliang were in the dark, just like they used to be. . (End of this chapter)