Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 3 The Coffin Hidden in the Turtle Shell
After a while, I recovered from my shock and shouted to the empty river, "Grandpa! Grandpa! Where are you?"

Whoa!

Grandpa climbed up from the stern, dripping water all over his body, and waved to me with a tired face: "Son, let's go home!"

From the beginning to the end, my grandfather never told me what was so strange underwater, but since then, my grandfather has rarely taken me out of the boat to find corpses.Several times I insisted on following my grandfather out of the boat, but was always chased away by my grandfather.Later, my grandfather kept telling me to study hard, and when I grew up, I would go outside and leave Hezi Village.In order to cultivate my tough character, my grandfather specially sent me to Songshan Shaolin to learn martial arts for two full years when I was 12 years old.

Probably children without parents are sensible very early. I studied very hard and was admitted to a college of higher learning in Northwest China that year.Maybe what I saw and heard when I was a child made me very interested in strange things, so I entered the archeology major and studied under Professor Ye Sheng, who is well-known in the archaeological circle of Northwest China.

Because I am smart, eager to learn, and quite talented in archaeology, Professor Ye thinks highly of me.Although I am only in my twenties, I have already accumulated a lot of rich archaeological experience.Besides me, Professor Ye also has a very important female assistant, Gu Meidi.

Strictly speaking, Gu Meidi can be regarded as my junior sister. She and I graduated from the same university, one class behind me.Gu Meidi has a lot of knowledge, she is involved in astronomy, history, geography and biology, and has a super strong memory ability, known as an encyclopedia.In addition, her skills are also very good, and it is said that she has reached the level of the fourth-dan black belt in Taekwondo.However, Gu Meidi is not only famous for these things, she is most famous for her natural ghost eyes, that is, yin and yang eyes.However, these were all rumors in the school back then. As for whether Gu Meidi had yin and yang eyes, it is unknown.

On this day, we followed Professor Ye to guide the work at the excavation site of an ancient tomb in Zhengzhou.It was already sunset when the work was over, and the crimson sunset glow was dancing in the sky like silk.As soon as I returned to the rest room, an archaeologist found me: "Comrade Tuoba Gu, you are back. Your cell phone rang for a day, but I picked it up for you. It was your grandpa. He said I have something important to ask you, and I want you to call him back as soon as you come back!"

I picked up the phone in some confusion. Grandpa knew that I was busy with work, so he rarely called me. Today he suddenly called me and said he had something important to call me. What could be the important thing?An inexplicable feeling of unease welled up in my heart.

After a long beep, Grandpa's slightly hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello!"

I said: "Grandpa, it's me! I just came back from the studio, you are so anxious to find me, what's the matter?"

Grandpa pondered for a while: "Xiao Gu, can you take some time to go home?"

I said, "Grandpa, I've been quite busy these days. If you have anything to do, can you tell me first?"

After a long while, Grandpa said slowly on the phone: "I caught a weird object in the Yellow River two days ago!"

I was slightly taken aback: "Evil object? What is it?"

Grandpa suddenly said: "Xiao Gu, have you seen a coffin?"

I was a little amused: "Grandpa, aren't you kidding me? I'm a student of archaeology, and I've seen more coffins than women!"

Grandpa lowered his voice and said, "Then have you ever seen a coffin hidden in a turtle shell?"

"What?!" I didn't understand for a while: "The coffin hidden in the turtle shell?!"

"Yes! A coffin hidden in a turtle shell! I have been running on the ancient Yellow River road for most of my life, and I have never seen such an object. I think this thing is very evil, and it may be unusual. I am thinking that you are studying archaeology , so I want to ask you to come back and have a look!"

To be honest, I have indeed seen many coffins in the past few years, made of various materials and shapes, there are countless, such as white jade coffins, stone coffins, octagonal coffins, and human-shaped coffins.I have seen coffins buried in soil, buried in water, and even hidden in the heart of trees, but I have never heard of coffins hidden in turtle shells.Hearing what Grandpa said, I also felt that this matter was a bit strange.

I asked Grandpa: "Did you open the coffin?"

Grandpa said: "No! I thought this is not an ordinary object, so I didn't dare to open it easily!"

"Yeah!" I nodded, and told my grandpa, "Don't touch it, wait until I come back and have a look before making a plan!"

After hanging up the phone, Professor Ye came to my side: "What's wrong?"

I said: "Something happened at home, I might have to go back!"

Professor Ye patted me on the shoulder: "You seldom ask for leave when you are working. There must be a big event at home. Can you tell me what happened?"

My relationship with Professor Ye is both a teacher and a friend. In front of him, I hardly concealed it. I told him truthfully: "Grandpa called me and said that he caught a very strange fish in the Yellow River a few days ago. The coffin, you want me to go back and take a look!"

Professor Ye frowned: "A weird coffin?"

I nodded: "Yes! A very weird coffin! Maybe even you have never seen it before! According to my grandfather, that coffin is hidden inside a turtle shell!"

"Oh?" Professor Ye showed a look of surprise on his face: "A coffin hidden in a turtle shell? I haven't seen it before! I think it might be difficult for you alone. Let's let Gu Mei Di will go with you!"

I declined Professor Ye's kindness: "Don't be so troublesome, I can handle it alone! The work here is already busy enough, Gu Meidi will stay and help you!"

Professor Ye said: "Don't worry about it, I can rest assured that Gu Meidi is with you. There are not too many things here, Captain Li and the others will help to deal with it!" Meidi called to his side: "Gu Meidi, I have a mission for you, to go back to my hometown with Tuobagu!"

"Ah?!" Gu Meidi looked at me puzzled, then looked back at Professor Ye: "What am I going back to my hometown with him?"

Professor Ye smiled slightly and said, "Follow him home and go to archeology!"

Professor Ye talked about it for the sake of it, and I couldn't continue to refuse, so I simply packed my luggage.Professor Ye called an off-road vehicle from the provincial archaeological team and asked the driver to take Gu Meidi and me to the train station.

In the early hours of the morning, Gu Meidi and I boarded the train bound for SMX.Because I was thinking about the weird coffin, I couldn't sleep much. The train was shaking rumblingly, and I looked at the dark night sky outside in a daze.

Gu Meidi turned his head and asked me: "How long does it take to get to your house by train?"

I told her: "Five or six hours, we will arrive at the SMX urban area when it is almost dawn, and then take a bus for more than an hour to the county seat, and then take a small noodle..."

"Stop! Stop!" Gu Meidi rubbed his temples: "Oh my God! How remote is the place you live in? Hearing you say that, I feel like my head is getting bigger!"

I smiled apologetically: "I just said I won't let you come, Professor Ye just wants you to come with me!"

Gu Meidi stretched his waist, and said with a bright mood: "Oh, I have been exhausted these few days, and it is good to go out to let the wind go! By the way, I suddenly thought of a very serious problem, I will tell you What are you going to do when you go home? What does Professor Ye mean when I go home with you for archaeology? What happened to your house? I think you should tell me, I can't just follow you away in such a daze... "

Gu Meidi asked a long list of questions, so I had no choice but to tell her the truth: "A few days ago, my grandfather caught a coffin in the Yellow River!"

"The coffin?" Gu Meidi looked at me puzzled, "Is there a treasure in the coffin?"

"No!" I waved my hand and said, "Don't interrupt me, just listen to me! That coffin is no ordinary coffin, but... a coffin hidden in a turtle shell!"

"Ah?!" Gu Meidi opened her mouth wide. Even though she was very knowledgeable, she had never seen a coffin hidden in a turtle shell, so she was quite surprised when she heard it.

I said: "Grandpa thinks that coffin is unusual, it may be something evil, so he wants me to go back and have a look!"

Gu Meidi looked at me suspiciously: "This thing is really evil! But I'm curious what your grandpa did? How did he fish a coffin on the Yellow River and go back? Is he a fisherman?"

I shook my head and smiled and said, "He's not a fisherman, he's engaged in a very mysterious job—the Yellow River Corpse Fisherman!"

"What?! What?!" Gu Meidi plucked his ears in disbelief: "Yellow River... corpse hunter... what kind of job is this?"

I smiled: "To put it simply, it is to help people salvage corpses on the Yellow River, do you understand?"

Gu Meidi blinked and blinked: "I seem to understand a little bit!"

woo-

With a long whistle, we finally arrived at the SMX train station.

I stretched and stood up, and naturally took Gu Meidi's hand and walked off the train.

The morning light bathed the train station, and the criss-crossing rails shone with mottled luster, as if they were also telling the distant legends.

Walking out of the train station, I turned around and asked Gu Meidi if he wanted some breakfast, but I saw Gu Meidi standing behind me with flushed cheeks.

I asked with concern: "What's wrong? Could it be a cold?"

Gu Meidi glanced at me shyly: "How long are you going to hold my hand?"

"Oh! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" I quickly let go and smiled at Gu Meidi with some embarrassment.I swear to God, I have absolutely no dirty intentions to take advantage of her.When I got off the train, there was a lot of people, I just took her hand rationally, I am afraid that other men would do the same.

I thought that Gu Meidi would reprimand me, but who knew that Gu Meidi put his mouth close to my ear and said softly: "Isn't it the first time you hold a girl's hand?"

I ran away with some embarrassment: "You wait, I'll buy you two pancakes!"

In fact, before this, I really didn't have any distracting thoughts about Gu Meidi, but now that she said this, my little heart jumped up and down.I have to admit that this is indeed the first time for me to hold a girl's hand, and Gu Meidi's little hand is really smooth and tender.

(End of this chapter)