Merchant of the Underworld

In the next nearly half a year, I did not take over another business.

Autumn and winter are the off-seasons, and some Yin creatures also have the habit of 'hibernating' and won't make too much noise, so I also had some time to relax.

But the matter of Ye Long Gao has always been weighing on my mind. Even though the man in the T-shirt told me that everything depends on chance, how could I sit still? This is a good medicine to save Chu Chu and the old witch doctor.

So when I have nothing to do on weekdays, I will drive to mountain villages in various places to collect stories.

Yin Xinyue often comes with me, and now we have officially become lovers, but we have not met her parents yet.

Every time I asked to meet her parents, she would find various reasons to refuse, and I don’t know what she was thinking.

She is probably worried that her parents will look down on me, a small antique dealer, right?

I think it's time for me to repackage myself. I can't stay in a shabby little shop all the time. That would really wrong Yin Xinyue.

Since Night Dragon Tao is a treasure, it must not be that easy to find. After half a year, I asked many people about it, but I didn’t have any clue...

Li Mazi and Chu Chu also saw my efforts. Chu Chu even came to me secretly and told me not to look for night dragons. She knew how precious the night dragons were, and even if she found them, I might not be able to buy them even if I spent all my money on them.

I just smiled and told her not to think too much and just take good care of herself.

Finally, in the twelfth lunar month of winter, when the Chinese New Year is approaching, I got a valuable clue!

In a remote rural area of ​​Sichuan, a rare thing happened.

After being buried, an old man suddenly came back to life, and there was an inexplicable "night pearl" in his mouth. This night pearl is crystal clear during the day and will glow at night, which is very strange.

The villagers all said that this night pearl was used by Empress Dowager Cixi.

I was able to get news from thousands of miles away, thanks to my neighbor in the Antique Street. There was a warm-hearted Sichuan boss who came to my shop to chat.

I was very excited when I heard the news. I vaguely felt that this glowing night pearl might be related to the Night Dragon Eater. Maybe that thing is the Night Dragon Eater?

So I asked about the address and told Li Mazi that I wanted to go to that place.

Li Mazi was very excited and immediately drove to prepare to go. Chu Chu was bored at home alone and expressed that she wanted to go out with us to see the world.

Li Mazi was worried that she would be at home alone, so he agreed immediately.

The old witch doctor has returned to Baisha Village long ago. She still likes to live a calm and calm life.

We were dressed too thickly when we went there, and the weather got hotter the further south we went. When we arrived in Sichuan, Li Mazi and I only had a pair of jeans and short-sleeved shirts.

I never expected that the weather here would be so good. It seems that all the down jackets we brought are of no use.

After arriving at the destination, Li Mazi and I first placed Yin Xinyue and Chu Chu in a hotel in the town, and we walked to the village.

It's not that we don't want to drive, it's because the village is located in a large ravine, and the only means of transportation available are motorcycles.

I felt that riding a motorcycle on such a steep mountain road was too dangerous, so I simply chose to walk.

Sichuan is very mountainous, so we had a hard time walking this way, and almost slipped off the cliff several times. You can only imagine how much hardship the people who opened this road suffered!

But in the end we arrived at our destination: Qingshan Village.

After arriving at Qingshan Village, it was completely dark. I took out my cell phone and took a look, and found that the damn cell phone had no signal at all, so I had to shelve the idea of ​​reporting to Yin Xinyue that he was safe.

As soon as we entered the village, we started asking about the old man with the luminous pearl: Liu Fuguo.

However, when Liu Fuguo was mentioned, every villager showed contempt and disdain, telling us that Liu Fuguo had moved out of the village long ago.

I was puzzled and asked why we had to move?

The villagers waved their hands coldly and said: "Who are you? Why are you asking about Liu Fuguo? I don't know. You should leave quickly."

I asked several people one after another, but their attitudes were lukewarm and they seemed unwilling to pay attention to us.

I know that Liu Fuguo must have done something outrageous.

The villagers have blatantly expelled us. If we continue to ask questions, we may offend the public! But I was really unwilling to leave like this. After all, I had to travel all the way across mountains and rivers to come here.

I asked Li Mazi what to do?

Li Mazi smiled and said this was easy to handle. After saying that, he magically took out a lollipop from his pocket and dragged me to wait at the entrance of the village.

Not long after, a group of little boys walked in happily from outside the village. They looked like they had just finished school.

Li Mazi immediately jumped out and blocked the way of the group of little boys. He smiled like a strange uncle and said, "Children, uncle has a lollipop here. Do you want to eat it?"

As a result, these little boys were not fooled, but ran away in droves.

Li Mazi was furious. Looking at the fleeing figures of the little boys, he wanted to kill someone angrily. I smiled bitterly and said that children nowadays are not so easy to be deceived. Teachers instill in them the concept of not talking to strangers every day. It would be weird if they asked for your lollipop.

There was no other way, Li Mazi and I had to find a place to hide.

Since the villagers are unwilling to tell us, we can only take the initiative to investigate...

When a buried old man comes back to life, there must be some weird things happening here. As long as we follow the clues, we will definitely be able to investigate.

I decided to go to the graves at the end of the village to see which grave the 'resurrected old man' came from.

We soon found the place where the villagers were buried, which was actually on a hill. And the burial method here is completely different from that in the north. They dug a cave in the mountain, put the coffin in, blocked the entrance with a few large flat stones, and erected a small tombstone, which looked much more delicate than in the north.

This mountain seems to be specialized in burying people, so there are many graves densely packed, so we can only check them one by one.

But before I was even halfway through the inspection, it became completely dark and I couldn't see my fingers.

Wandering around the cemetery in the middle of the night was definitely not going to do anything good, so I asked Li Mazi to leave and come back tomorrow to take a look.

And when we were walking back, a strange wind suddenly blew behind us.

I sniffed hard and was horrified to find that this strange wind was also mixed with the smell of corpses!

Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case. After all, these coffins are sealed in the cave, and we just checked and found that there are no newly buried corpses.

Then where did this corpse smell come from?

But I didn’t think much about it, and comforted myself by saying that it was probably a dead cat or dog, which was not unusual.

But then, I heard a rustling of footsteps amidst the whistling wind. Followed slowly behind us.

I looked back, and sure enough I found a figure about fifty meters away from us, walking down the mountain little by little along the steps.

How could there be anyone in the graveyard in the middle of the night? Li Mazi was a little scared and asked me if this was a fake corpse?

I shook my head quickly. Even if it was a fake corpse, it was impossible for the corpse to come out of the sealed cave.

We continued walking, ignoring the people following us. The man stopped and walked, but always kept a certain distance from us.

After a while, Li Mazi finally couldn't hold back the fear in his heart. He turned around and shouted to the figure: "Hey, who are you and what are you doing behind us?"