This incident made me a little confused. He came back to normal. Was he normal? Could he be dead? Ten years, that was ten years. He lived in another world for ten years. He said those ten years were just one day. This was something I couldn't understand.
A few days later, Pingfan came to work and something seemed off about him.
I called him to the office.
"Master Ping, you just need to adapt slowly. It's only been ten years, so nothing has changed much."
"Yes, yes, I am just a little older."
"Can you tell me what happened?"
"I don't know. It was foggy that year. I finished my last job and came out. I saw the house and went in. Then I saw thirteen corpses. They asked me to put on makeup, so I did. It took me a day to finish it and then I came out. I didn't expect that one day would last for ten years. Ten years!"
If it were me, I would also find it hard to accept. Ten years in a day, and these ten years just passed by like this. It felt terrible, as if I couldn't catch up.
I didn't get anything, but He Dana should be able to find out. After all, he just met me and there are some things he won't tell me.
I went to He Dana and took the skull over. He looked at it for a long time.
"Hu San."
The name Hu San was indeed engraved on the skull. I had heard of that bearded man. I had heard from the old people that he was a very badass bearded man who would rob anyone. The one he wanted to rob the most was Lai Mei, the daughter of the Lai family. She was pretty, but the Lai family was not someone to be trifled with, and he had tried several times but failed.
These are just hearsay, and I don't know whether they are accurate or not. However, I found the city annals, which wrote a little about it, but not in detail, just briefly mentioned.
"Hu San really wanted to rob the young lady of the Lai family, but he failed. The Lai family is very powerful. Hu San, a bearded man, has taken over a small area. Although he is cruel and ruthless, he cannot defeat the Lai family. However, the young lady of the Lai family makes him think about her day and night, so there must be a problem. But where she will appear, we really don't know."
"Maybe Pingchang knew, the way I looked at him, he wasn't telling me the truth."
"Wait another two days, or even ten years. Most people can't get over this. Wait a little longer. There's no rush."
I didn't think that this Hu San was actually connected to the Lai family. He caused me to fall, and he is still doing evil after his death. What a fucking Hu San.
I don't know what the final outcome will be.
Two days later, He Dana called me and asked me to come over. I went over and he said to go and see Hu San's tomb.
Hu San's tomb? I thought to myself, if anyone knew about it, it would have been dug up long ago. This skull was probably thrown away by someone who was ruthless to him.
"He has a grave and no shadow."
"Just follow me."
A mountain, not big, but very complex.
"This mountain is the mountain where Hu Sanzhan lived. It's not big, but it's very rich. It has everything. It's a nice place. His tomb is on the top of the mountain."
We went up and found a tomb there, a round stone tomb with the words "Hu San" engraved on the tombstone, which looked very domineering.
The strangest thing about Hu San's tomb is that no one has touched it.
"Logically speaking, Hu San's tomb should have disappeared long ago."
"Yes, Hu San was a bearded man, but remember, after he died, he had himself burned and his bones thrown away. They were not placed in a tomb. This tomb was designed by someone hired by Hu San. It is extremely evil. The person who designed this tomb is a grave master from the south. Anyone who moves this tomb is doomed. After Hu San died, he also wanted to kill those who hated him. Everyone knows this, so no one moved this tomb."
I didn't expect that Hu San was so cruel that he threw his own bones away and scattered them. He also thought that if he didn't scatter them, he would have no good ending. But the strangest thing is that it was so many years ago, and I could still run over this skull.
"That's not right. It's been so many years. This skull..."
"Yes, that's what's strange. I think there must be something wrong. Someone might have put the skull away. Maybe they did it on purpose, or something else."
I didn't know where Hu San's tomb was, as I had never been there. Today I saw this huge tomb, and I think it is really huge and domineering.
“Can we enter this tomb?”
"Yes, Hu San said before he died that his body would not be placed in the tomb, but the stolen items would be in the tomb."
"So where were his family members when he died?"
"Hu San died on the third day after the Lai family hanged themselves. People say he died for love, and he died for Miss Lai. He was truly a man of love."
In fact, many things can be made into a beautiful love story, and Hu San's beard is no exception. Beards are produced in abundance in the Northeast, and there are many beards and legends about them, but there are really few.
"I want to go in and take a look."
"The entrance is behind the tomb. It's a door that's half open. No one dares to go in, and you shouldn't even think about going in. This is a tomb that tomb robbers would hide far away from when they see it. Look at the location of this tomb, the dead end. Tomb robbers won't move. So, no one knows whether there are any stolen items inside. Everyone knows that Hu San's body is not inside. When he died, he even boasted that the stolen items were in the tomb. He wanted to take revenge on those who hated him and wanted to dig up his tomb. This move is very overbearing. Indeed, no one has come here for so many years."
This is a wicked trick.
I gave up on that idea too.
A few days later, Pingchang was invited by He Dana, and I was also called over.
"Normally, I want to know the real situation."
After a glass of wine, He Dana spoke directly. He usually hesitated, not because he didn't want to say it. He Dana didn't ask any more questions and chatted about some family matters.
Speaking of this Pingchang, it is somewhat related to the Lai family. They are some distant relatives. However, thirteen people in the Lai family died at once, which is indeed a weird thing. How could they all be hanged at once, leaving no one behind
That day Pingchang said something that surprised us.
"I can take you home."
I was stunned. I didn’t want to go and be away for ten years.
"Don't worry, I did ten years in one day. I went to the wrong place."
These are all I said that day. I didn’t say anything else. What should I do
After Pingchang left, He Dana said.
"This Pingchang looks honest, but he is not a simple person. Pingchang has always wanted to get the property of the Lai family. I have seen him several times at Hu San's tomb. Hu San's tomb contains the property of the Lai family, the most valuable things. This was the story back then, and there was no record, but Pingchang believed it. He entered the Lai family's house on purpose, but what happened in the past ten years, how did he spend ten years in another world, it is really hard to say. However, it is not that one day is equal to ten years, but that he lived in another world for ten years. To be able to live in another world for ten years, that is borrowing the world, borrowing years, it can be seen that Pingchang has a deep understanding of Yin studies, so where did he learn it from? During that time, he always went to Chi County. I think that Liu Shougui, your future father-in-law, has a lot to do with it."
I didn't expect that Liu Shougui would be involved again.
I understand what Dana Ho means.
I went to the columbarium that day and Liu Shougui was drinking there. After I put my things down, I sat down and started talking directly.
"I'm back to normal."
Liu Shougui was stunned and glanced at his phone.
"Yes, ten years."
“I want to know what’s going on here.”
"Actually, you don't have to worry about this. Just pretend nothing happened. In fact, it has nothing to do with us."
"I want to know."
"You are always curious. There is nothing I can do about it. This is not good."
“I just want to know what happened.”
"Well, Pingchang and I are friends. He is younger than me, but he is a good friend because there are not many people willing to pay attention to me. Moreover, he saved my life that year. My house caught fire and he rescued me, as well as Liu Yang, so I thank him. Their family has contacts with the Lai family. Thirteen people in the Lai family died at once, and not one was left. Pingchang wanted to know what happened. Of course, the dead will not speak. This matter has always been a mystery and no one has solved it. Pingchang told me that he just wanted to know and asked me to help him, so I helped him. Some strange things will appear in the fog. Sometimes they are lost things from the past. In the fog, if the fog is heavy, it is best not to stay in the fog. Maybe there will be what we call wormholes now. In fact, that is something in Yin studies. Fog in the crematorium may be a very normal thing. That fog is different from normal fog. Something that is needed will come out and look the same. I asked him to wait for such an opportunity. The house appeared and he went in. Of course, people from the Yang world go in and pass through the Yin world, that is death, unless they are wizards, but they can't stay for a few hours."
Liu Shougui lit a cigarette, and I didn't say anything and filled the glass.
"I taught him how to go to another world. When he went there, I told him that people in this world are different from people in another world in one way: their palms can never point upwards. Then, nothing will happen and they can stay there as long as they want. If their palms point upwards, they will die immediately and they should not even think about coming back. But I didn't expect that he would be gone for ten years. I thought that after ten days or so, when the problem was solved, he should come back, but he didn't."
"Why ten years? That's so long."
"Something must have happened. We can only know if we tell you normally."
"But he didn't say that. He said he would take us to Lai's house."
Liu Shougui was shocked.
"You can't go. He usually has evil intentions. Who among you has ever offended him?"
I shook my head.
"This is the first time I've seen the Heike, so it can only be He Dana."
"Crazy He is capable of doing it. He is just a madman. You can't go. If He Dana goes, you let him go. He can see the usual evil intentions. It seems that there is an understanding of this age."
Liu Shougui seemed to know something, but didn't say it.
When I went back that day, I didn't know whether to tell He Dana about this, so I told Liu Yang.
"You'd better remind him. He's over 120 years old, so it's inevitable that he'll be confused for a while."
I called and told He Dana about this, and he told me not to worry about it and asked me to go with him. I didn't want to go because it was a life-threatening thing.
A week later, I went to He Dana's place and Ping Chang was already there.
"Today I will take you to the Lai family's house. Once there, you will find out how the thirteen members of the Lai family died and where their property went."
In fact, regarding the Lai family's property, Hu San said that he had robbed it. In fact, he did not rob the Lai family because he loved Lai Mei, the young lady of the Lai family, so he did not rob it and also protected the Lai family.
So it’s hard to say where the Lai family’s property went.
He usually took us to a place, which was not a crematorium, but a place where fog was most likely to occur. It was the West Open Pit, a tiankeng. After the coal was gone, it became a scenic spot. Many people came to see it, and it was almost always foggy.
I said when I was getting off the plate.
"My grandfather is old, I think this dish..."
"Just go down two winding roads and enter the fog."
I was actually scared. If I really went in and stayed there for ten years, I would be terrified. Then when I came back, everything would have changed so much and it would feel like a lifetime ago.
After going down two winding roads, we were in the fog, but we could see more than ten meters away.
As we stood there, a house actually appeared. It was Lai's house. I had seen a photo of Lai's house somewhere, a black and white photo. The house was indeed big. The gatehouse was two-story, bigger than the houses of rich families.
I glanced at He Dana and said normally.
"Come with me."
He Dana hesitated for a moment, obviously a little scared. No one could tell what would happen in the end. Entering Lai's house would be tantamount to giving up his life. Such a decision was not easy.
I followed at the end, and when I stepped into the house, I was stunned. (To be continued)