Bone Picker

Chapter 7
About 10 minutes later, I heard Zibuyu say: "Give me your hand."

I opened my eyes and stretched out my right hand.

Zibuyu first placed the three five emperor coins on top of the bowl of rice, lined up in a line.

He looked at me, indicating that I was about to start, and I nodded.

He held the bowl of rice in his left hand, squeezed a seal formula in his right hand, and said in his mouth: "The river of fate, fate takes the lead, standing on the ground of death, please guide the way of life."

After finishing speaking, he put the bowl of rice upside down on the marriage certificate.

Miraculously, not a single grain of rice escaped.

He took out a silver needle, pinched the belly of my right ring finger, and stuck the silver needle down.

I felt a tingle, and my fingertips were a little hot.

The blood dripped down drop by drop, dripping onto the bottom of the bowl.

The bottom of the bowl is concave, and I didn't stop until the whole bottom of the bowl was covered with blood.

Zibuyu pinched the seal formula with both hands, and finally pinched the sword finger with his right hand, pointed to the bottom of the bowl, and shouted: "Get up."

clack clack...

The whole bowl suddenly shook, making a crackling sound.

I feel like the whole table is shaking.

It's amazing, this is the first time I have seen real Taoism.

I guess it should be that the three five emperor coins in the bowl were controlled and kept beating, but the bowl was full of rice, so the three coins kept hitting the rice.

With every beating, rice grains jumped out of the gap and scattered on the marriage certificate.

Although the half of the candle on the table was still upright, the weak candle flame kept shaking, as if it might be extinguished at any time.

The whole process took about a few minutes, but it was thrilling and exciting, and I felt like it took several hours.

Beads of sweat already appeared on Zibuyu's forehead.

Eventually the bowl wobbled slower and slower until finally it stopped.

Without saying a word, Zizi sat on the bench and breathed heavily, his face paled a lot.

He took a deep breath, reached out and carefully removed the bowl.

A miraculous scene appeared, and I opened my mouth wide in shock.

There wasn't much rice left under the bowl, but there were three words on the rice.

Mu Nanping!
"Mu Nanping, is this the girl's name?" I looked at these three words in amazement. Although they were not so regular and a bit abstract, I could tell that they were these three words.

"I finally figured it out, but apart from the name, I don't know any other information. It's because my knowledge is too shallow." Zibuyu sighed.

"Master Dao, you are already very powerful." I comforted him, but it was difficult to have only one name. Although this name is very special, our country has a large population and the rate of duplicate names is high.

To find someone based on only one name is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

"I know from Di's family that you made an engagement with five families during the full moon, right?" Zibu asked me.

"Yes." I nodded.

"Then it means that Mu Nanping's engagement with you was definitely before your full moon. If it wasn't your grandfather who made the engagement, then it must have been before your grandfather picked you up. You were only a few days old at that time?"

With such a reminder from Zibuyu, the clue became clearer.

"Could it be that I got engaged to someone in just a few days from the time I was born to when I was abandoned? My biological parents got engaged to me, wouldn't it be a marriage with the fingertips?"

"It's possible."

"But I don't even know who my parents are. Where can I find them?" Thinking of being abandoned by my biological parents in the cemetery, I feel very sad. I really want to ask, why?
I am in good health, and I am not disabled or deformed. I am still a boy. Why should I be abandoned in the cemetery, and I will not be given a way out at all.

"Maybe you can go to the place where you were abandoned to find clues." Zibuyu reminded me.

"Fushou Garden?"

Zibuyu nodded meaningfully.

"Okay, I'll take you to see it now."

"it is good."

I rode the motorcycle left to me by my grandfather and galloped towards Fushouyuan with Zibuyu.

Fushouyuan is the unit where my grandfather was during his lifetime.

All the bone-picking work in Fushou Garden is done by grandpa. Of course, after I took over, I have also done it here for many years.

So when the guard saw it was me, he opened the door and let me ride into the cemetery.

Most of the graves in Fushouyuan are several years to decades old, and they are all cemeteries bought with money.

But one of them is an ancient tomb of the Qing Dynasty. This ancient tomb has a stele without characters, and it is also a protected unit in our city.

The place where I was abandoned is right next to this ancient tomb.

Every time I come to Fushouyuan to pick up bones and pass by this ancient tomb, I will stop.

I don't know why, but whenever I stop in front of this ancient tomb, I feel a sense of déjà vu and a sense of peace of mind.

I don't know how to describe that feeling, it's like a sense of tranquility that arises in my heart when I return to my hometown after wandering in the hustle and bustle of the outside world for a long time.

I took Zibuyu to the ancient tomb of this wordless stele.

After Zibuyu got out of the car, he looked up and down the wordless stele.

He rubbed his chin, looked at the tomb of the ancient tomb, wondering what he was thinking.

"Mobai, you were abandoned by the side of this grave, right?" Zibuyu suddenly turned to me and asked.

"Yes." I nodded and said, "I confirmed with my grandfather, including several old employees of Fushouyuan, who also told me that this is the place, and they were all there at the time."

"Then every time you come to this ancient tomb, do you feel any different?"

"Don't tell me, every time I come to this ancient tomb, I feel very peaceful and at ease. When I was in a bad mood, I would come here and sit for a whole day. What's on my mind? , I will also confide in the wordless stele, once I say it, I will feel a lot better." I did not hide it, in order to find out the truth.

This is actually a secret that no one knows in my heart, not even my grandpa.

I was also afraid that people would make fun of me, or that I was sick, so I would run to the cemetery if I was upset, and confide in the tombstone.

"I have to dig it out." Zibuyu made his decision.

"How is this possible? This is an ancient tomb, a key cultural relic protection unit at the city level." I have also worked in Fushouyuan for many years, and Fushouyuan attaches great importance to this ancient tomb. This ancient tomb has been stolen.

Now you want me to dig it with my own hands?

"If you don't dig, you won't find the truth." Zibuyu looked at me and said, "You decide for yourself."

I hesitated. It is illegal to dig an ancient tomb. The key is that I have a special feeling for your ancient tomb. To dig it now is to destroy it. I am not willing.

"I don't want to dig it myself, but I have a way." After weighing it, I made a decision. I don't have a lifespan, and I might die tomorrow, but I want to find out the truth.

"What way?" Zi Buyu asked me.

"This method is a bit detrimental, and it is also called self-stealing! Some archaeological teams in the past wanted to dig ancient tombs and make some political achievements, but the country has express regulations that do not allow them to take the initiative to excavate intact ancient tombs, so they thought of a loss. The trick is to let someone pretend to be a tomb robber to dig a hole in the tomb the night before, and report to the top the next day that the ancient tomb has been stolen and the hole has been found, and rescue excavations must be carried out in time. And it was approved."

(End of this chapter)