When Song Laosan and I heard the monkey say that there were demons, we both rolled our eyes.
I said impatiently, "What a nuisance! I thought you had some way to deal with Zhou Peng's matter. Alright, everyone disperse..."
Seeing that I didn't take him seriously at all, the monkey pointed at Zhou Peng angrily: "I'm not joking, the story Lao Tian told me is true! Otherwise, how do you explain Zhou Peng's current situation?"
Song Laosan and I exchanged a glance, neither of us quite understanding Zhou Peng's strange change, so we could only let the monkey continue the story.
After Lao Tian bought the location of the tomb from the rat, he began preparing to set off.
He originally had a professional team, and they always worked together and split the profits equally. But this time, Lao Tian had some crooked ideas.
At that time, he had accumulated too much debt due to gambling. If he split the money with others, it was uncertain whether he could pay off his debts. So he made up his mind and decided to do the job himself.
Old Tian's team is still very powerful in the north. Each member is a force to be reckoned with in the industry. He joined the team after a formal ceremony, and according to the rules, if others find out that he is running his own gang, his hands will be chopped off.
In order to keep the news from leaking out, Lao Tian came up with a clever idea.
His main responsibility in the team was to dig holes and go down into them. Since the location was already set and digging holes was his specialty, all he needed to do was find a few helpers.
So Lao Tian hired several unemployed people, promising them 500 yuan a day, and asked them to work with him in other places.
The details of the process are omitted, but the group quickly arrived at the nature reserve and found a place called Daxianshan.
After a few shovelfuls, Lao Tian was overjoyed. Judging from the soil, he was standing on a Ming Dynasty tomb with grouting.
These mortar-filled tombs are very sturdy and cannot be opened in a short time. Since forest rangers patrol the reserve every day, these people discussed it and ended up tying up the two patrolling rangers.
They had scouted the area beforehand. The forest rangers here worked in shifts every two days. After they tied the man up, they forced him to call his family and say he wanted to take his place. In this way, they gained four days.
On the third night, Lao Tian successfully dug a tunnel, but he was stumped about how to get the items up.
If Lao Tian went down into the tomb himself, he was afraid that those people would bury him there. But if he let those people go down, Lao Tian was also afraid that they would leave the good things down there and bring up some worthless things to fool him.
After discussing it, everyone decided that since the forest ranger had already been arrested and no one else would appear in the area, they might as well all go down. If they found anything, Lao Tian would give each of them 20,000 yuan. To prevent them from turning against him, he also said that he would take them to work in the future and lead them to make a fortune.
These people were the kind of street urchins who never knew where their next meal would come from. For a mere two hundred yuan per person, they would risk going to jail to fight in gangs. Hearing that they could get twenty thousand yuan, they all went with Lao Tian after discussing it.
After Lao Tian led the group down into the tomb, the more they went, the colder their hearts became, because the tomb was filled with countless tomb raiders' holes.
Old Tian immediately started cursing, feeling that the rat had probably sold the location to more than one group of people.
Despite this thought, Lao Tian had no way out and could only decide to go in and try his luck. However, when they arrived at the tomb, they found that all the burial objects inside were still there.
Old Tian was overjoyed and directed everyone to move things, and they even found a gold-inlaid stone coffin inside.
It's worth noting that in the Ming Dynasty, it was rare to see a stone sarcophagus inlaid with gold. In addition, Old Tian was desperate for money, so he pried off all the gold from the sarcophagus and even planned to smash it open to take away the burial objects that the tomb owner had brought with him.
When these people opened the stone coffin, they found that there was no coffin inside, but a white fox the size of an old sow lying there.
From ancient times to the present, who has ever heard of burying a fox in a tomb? And after so many years, the fox is still so lifelike?
This terrified everyone, and they all started kowtowing, begging the immortal for forgiveness.
Just as they were kowtowing, someone discovered that the white fox was covered with gold and silver treasures. Since tomb raiders are probably the most daring people in the world, Old Tian hardened his heart and ordered his men to push the fox away and take out what was underneath. He even promised that whoever dared to go up would be given 200,000 yuan.
A generous reward will surely attract brave men. A man mustered his courage and walked over, but as soon as he pushed the fox, it pounced on him and bit off the man's neck.
Immediately afterwards, countless foxes swarmed in from the surrounding holes and attacked the crowd again.
In a moment of quick thinking, Lao Tian disassembled the explosives he was carrying, lit them, and made a large firework, scaring away the foxes. The group of people scrambled out of the tomb.
When they returned to the ground, it was already dark. Old Tian was terrified and ordered his men to block the tunnel, deciding to descend the mountain at dawn.
That very night, those people went completely mad. They became like beasts, tearing apart anyone they saw and even raping their own kind.
Old Tian still had his senses and became the target of the pursuit. Just when he was about to run out of breath, he noticed lights on the mountain road ahead. When he ran over, he found that it was a horse-drawn carriage.
Desperate to survive, Lao Tian saw that the driver was a young woman, so he jumped on and said that he had come to the mountains to collect herbs, but had been attacked by a pack of wolves because he got lost. He asked the woman to take him away quickly.
The girl was terrified, so she drove him to a house at the foot of the mountain and found medicine to treat his injuries.
Over time, the two developed feelings for each other and ended up sleeping together without really understanding what was going on.
At the time, Lao Tian was not married. Seeing that the girl was gentle and virtuous, he decided to stay. However, when he asked, he found out that the girl was the daughter of a forest ranger and had come up the mountain to find her father.
Old Tian felt incredibly guilty after hearing what the girl said. After all, judging from the strange things that happened on the mountain that night, her father had probably been killed by his crazed companions.
But Lao Tian was also somewhat relieved. After all, someone had already died on the mountain, and it would be dangerous for him to continue showing his face in public. It would be better for him to stay here and live a peaceful life with the girl for a few days, and wait for things to calm down before finding a new place to pull off a big heist, make some money, and take her to live in the city.
In the blink of an eye, Lao Tian had been living with that girl at the foot of the mountain for half a year. He made a living by farming a few acres of poor land and selling mountain products at the town market.
Gradually, Lao Tian also felt that life was too hard and couldn't bear to let the girl continue to suffer with him. Moreover, he hadn't seen the police come up the mountain for so long, so he felt that he was probably safe. He made up his mind and decided to go down into the fox den again, bring out some things, and take the girl away from the mountains to live a better life.
So, he went down the mountain under the pretense of selling mountain products. Coincidentally, a customer took a liking to the hazel mushrooms he had picked, but did not have any money with him.
Old Tian had come down the mountain to buy tomb raiding tools, and finding the mountain goods too heavy, he generously gave them to the customer.
The customer said he felt bad taking his things for free and insisted on having his fortune told for Lao Tian. As a result, his expression changed after he did the divination. He then grabbed Lao Tian's hand and said something to him with great conviction.
"Brother, you've been entangled by a vixen!"
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