Chapter 23: Night
Grandpa did all this and put the white jade altar at the door of my house, yes, the door. Then grandpa hid and watched, what my grandpa didn't know was that my old man was staring at him from the window of the house.
I don't know how long he was staring, but finally, my old man saw the eunuch team that he had seen that very night, appearing once again, and this time, they appeared at the door of my house! When they arrived, they carried away the white jade altar! The team of eunuchs, as if guided by something, left.
I fell into silence when my old man finished this past event. This process, in fact, is my grandfather put my ghost baby uncle into the white jade altar process, just the weird and incredible make me feel unusually cold in this stormy night.
Weird, just weird, this my grandfather, beyond all my recollected impressions of that kindly old man, as if he was single-handedly planning something.
"Dad, so do you feel anything?" I asked.
"I don't know, but what I do know is that any body that dies in a dead child's post is picked up by the eunuchs. The bodies of the workers before were, and then your dead baby uncle, who knows about this stuff?" My old man said.
"You mean, these seven people, Big Buck and their corpses?!" I immediately hit a jolt, according to my old man's speculation, wouldn't that mean that these seven or eight corpses, will also be carried away tonight, by that eunuch team?
"Yes, that's why I came to call you today. The eighteen layers of Yama Hell, what goes in cannot come out." My old dad said softly.
Just as his words fell, he suddenly pulled me to the side and flashed to the side, covering my mouth and nose as he said, "They're coming!"
I stared wide-eyed, and saw that on this thunderous night, between the lightning and thunder, from the road came a procession of headless corpses dressed in eunuch's uniforms, and some of them seemed to be holding floating dust in their hands, exactly the same as the eunuchs staged on TV, with perhaps the only difference being that they didn't have heads!
The neck of those eunuchs, is a bowl-sized wound, killing but a bowl-sized scar, this scar has no blood outflow, just whitening, I listened to their footsteps, and a fishy smell emanating from them, without my old man to cover my mouth and nose, I myself do not dare to breathe, until they passed through my eyes.
It was amazing how real they were. Just like that, almost in front of my eyes, into the village committee's compound.
My old dad let go of me and said, "It seems that what I speculated was correct, the dead children post so many corpses, it is not necessarily that your great grandfather killed them, as long as the people who died there, they will be hauled back by these eunuchs."
I was very curious about what was going on with these eunuchs, so I took a look into the courtyard of the village committee, and just one look made my legs go weak, I saw those eunuchs walking in front of me, and behind them, followed by those several corpses that had been carried here by us only during the day.
Once again they passed in front of my eyes, those corpses of Big Buck's Teeth, with their heads bowed and their faces pale, they were corpses without a doubt, but these corpses were walking!
Been waiting for them to pass in front of our eyes once again, everything just now, was released as if it was a dream, I pulled my old man and said, "This?!"
After I finished this sentence, I saw two figures before us, surprisingly following this group of eunuchs and corpses forward, these two figures were very easy to recognize, it was Fatty Liu Tianchi and that Lin Bachan who had been stuffing his head!
"San Liang, you go back!" My old dad said to me at this time, after saying that, he also chased after them.
Where I wanted him to follow up alone, lest I follow, he called out to me at this time, "If you still recognize me as your dad when you're done, go back now!"
I stood still in the rain, my old man had never said such heavy words to me before, but he even said them, I definitely couldn't follow anymore, and could only watch as the three of them, following such a group of eunuchs disappeared into the darkness.
I returned home, my grandfather's notes once again turned out, a sleepless night, I re-read the notes once again, my old man said that when I really read this note one day, I know what my grandfather in the end in the end, but I can not read, a single night my old man's mouth in the grandpa, and the notes are too much difference between too much.
In the end, which one is the real Guo Ganchen?
The next day, the wind and rain stopped, my old man this night, did not come back, I went to my second uncle Zhao Wuji's home, Lin Bachan and that fat man is also not there, all of a sudden lost three people, let me lose my soul up, the three of them followed the eunuchs of that team, in the end, where did they go?
I can not be devastated, with Fatty Liu and Lin Bachi I can be fearless of Huang Lao, but at this time I no longer have them, before it was Huang Lao to cooperate with me, now I had to find him to cooperate, I found Mr. Zhai, together to the reservoir sand pumping pit.
Mr. Zhai's diving equipment, itself on a speedboat at the water's edge, when we got there, three sets were missing, it was obvious that the three people who came with us last night had gone into the water wearing three sets of diving equipment and hadn't come out until now.
Mr. Zhai asked me what was going on, so I told him what I experienced last night, after that I wanted to go into the water to have a look, I really couldn't accept how I would feel if I found the bodies of the three of them underwater, even though with Lin Bachan and Fatty Liu around, I was still slightly safe.
"San Liang, don't be impulsive, they can't die, that Lin Bachan and Fatty Liu are so powerful you don't even know, they went down for a night and didn't come up, there is only one possibility, that they entered that pagoda." Mr. Zhai said.
"But I always have to go down to have a look." I said.
"How are you going to react if you encounter something underwater? Other than that, simply that green kid can kill you, although I have counted on you, but you have saved my life, trust me, nothing will happen to them, absolutely nothing, now all we have to wait for is for old Huang to come, he has studied this place for his whole life, he is more familiar with it than any of us." Mr. Zhai said.
I finally did not go into the water, not dare, is not able to, I at least want to ensure that I myself do not happen, Huang Lao according to the plan to come in two days, in the process of waiting for Huang Lao, out of such a big thing, and then hide Chen Jiuzou already can not, I called the side of the matter happened to tell her, Chen Jiuzou told me the same thing as Mr. Zhai, there will be no matter.
But that afternoon, Chen Jiuzou still came, she came to another thing, is to send me before we buy diving equipment, and also brought some people over, those who came to ask me the whereabouts of Big Buck Tooth and their, Chen Jiuzou directly glared at the person who asked: "I let them go to do something, still need to report to you?"
The person who asked the question, I know, his name is Old Chai, he looked at Chen Jiuzou and smiled, "Chen big beautiful woman sent word, where do we dare?"
If the second uncle was there, he wouldn't dare to talk to Chen Jiuzi like this, just this attitude of Old Chai I know, the second uncle disappeared for too long, his fellows, a little unstable.
Until Huang Lao came, strictly speaking, two days of time, at this time, Mr. Zhai and Chen Jiuzou do not dare to tell me to rest assured that everything is fine, two days under the water, enough to happen too many things.
Huang Lao this time to come, a lot of low-key, we gathered at the location, is in my second uncle's home, I arrived, Huang Lao is with Mr. Zhai at the table to look at what I looked closer to see, found that this is a map, the map, is sitting in the lotus pool of Guanyin.
Huang Lao pointed at the diagram and said, "Do you know who is on this?"
"The Goddess of Mercy? But I don't think I've ever seen this version of the Goddess of Mercy." –The concern on this picture not only doesn't look kind, it even looks a bit old lady-ish immediately, and this old lady, I look quite familiar with.
"This is Empress Dowager Cixi, her favorite costume is Guanyin." Huang Lao said.
Huang Lao wouldn't inexplicably study this at this time, the two things, the pagoda and the Goddess of Mercy, were easily associated together. As expected, his next sentence was, "This pagoda, it should be built for Cixi."