Monkey and I returned to a small bungalow we rented near Chongwenmen. We drank too much and fell asleep until noon the next day, feeling dizzy.
After waking up, I lay in bed and stared at the low ceiling. I thought a lot. The tomb robbing business is actually not unfamiliar to me. I am sure to find some large tombs. Money is not the most important thing to me. For important things, it can be said that I don't care at all whether I have money or not, but life is always full of contradictions, and now I need money too much.
My parents are supported by the state. I have no family burden. I have enough to eat and the whole family is not hungry. But what about my brothers who died on the battlefield? Who will take care of their parents? The cost of medical treatment and medication, as well as the tuition for their younger siblings to go to school, are not enough to cover the cost of their pension.
On the battlefield, it seems that everyone except me has a reason not to die. But I am the last survivor. My life was bought by many comrades in arms with their own lives. I should do what I should do for them now. Something.
At this time, the monkey also woke up, rubbed his eyes, and saw me staring at the roof in a daze, so he said to me: "Old Hu, what are you thinking about? In fact, I know even if you don't tell me, Huang Baldy's words yesterday made you I'm excited, aren't you? I'm also itching, what's going on with us brothers? I'm just waiting for a word from you."
I took out the amulet given by Huang Baldy and said, "Monkey, don't think of that grandson as a good person. He is also a businessman. He won't get up early if there is no profit. This digging claw was worn by Cao Cao's gold captain during the Three Kingdoms period. Can he give us such a valuable thing casually? He is interested in our abilities and wants to get some benefit from it. "
The monkey was anxious: "Damn it, I've already seen that you don't look like a good bird anymore. I'll go to Panjiayuan later, break off that yellow bald thing from you and throw it into the latrine."
Having said that, when we put it together, we felt that we should make use of each other and not fall out with him for the time being. The shortcoming of my character is that I am too impulsive and do not consider the consequences of doing things. I think tomb robbing is feasible. Chairman Mao said Everything in the world has its two sides. Good things can turn into bad things, and bad things can turn into good things. This is dialectics.
There are countless treasures in the tombs of emperors and generals, but can we say that these good things belong to the tomb owners? Not all of them are looted and exploited from the common people. They are taken from the people and should be used for the people. How can they be allowed to sleep in the ground with those withered bones forever? If you want to do it, make it big. Those private tombs are meaningless. Most of them have nothing of value, and taking things from the common people is detrimental to morality.
I once heard my grandfather talk about the rules for touching gold captains, which are very different from tomb robbers. Tomb robbers dig and take at will, and they do their best. It doesn't matter whether you are a loyal minister, a good general, an official, or a common person. There are no rules at all about who is who. Even if there are any, they are all figured out by the farmers themselves, which is not the case at all.
When the gold captains were working, whenever they dug a large tomb, they would light a candle in the underground palace of the tomb and place it in the southeast corner. Then the coffin is opened to touch for gold. The most valuable things of the deceased are often carried on the body. Some of the tomb owners of princes and above have beads in their mouths, their bodies are covered with gold and jade, they have heart-protecting jade on their chests, and they hold Ruyi jade in their hands. Even the anus is stuffed with gems. At this time, do not damage the remains of the deceased. Touch gently from the top of the head to the soles of the feet. In the end, you will leave one or two treasures for the deceased. In the meantime, if the candle in the southeast corner is extinguished, you must take away the property you got. Put it back as it is, kowtow three times respectfully, and go back the way you came.
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Because there are legends that there are ghosts in some tombs. As for why these ghosts do not enter reincarnation and have stayed in the tombs for thousands of years, it is hard to say. It is probably because they are reluctant to part with the glory and wealth during their lives, and they still stare at them every day after their death. If you encounter a master who is willing to sacrifice your life rather than his wealth, don't take your own treasure by force.
In the end, the monkey and I decided to fuck it and decided to touch Captain Jin. If we were not condemned by our conscience, we would let the dog eat it as our conscience. No, eating half of it, well... that's not right either. Let¡¯s look at it from another angle. It¡¯s the 1980s. Don¡¯t we all advocate dedication? Now it is the turn of the princes and nobles who exploited the working people to contribute. However, these dead ghosts have very low consciousness. Don¡¯t expect them to climb out and contribute on their own. We have to do the hard work for this kind of thing. It is really busy to beat the autumn wind of the feudal ruling class like them, clean up Jin Ou, and divide the fields.
The strategic direction has been determined, but the specific tactical goals and how to implement them need to be carefully discussed.
In Henan, Hunan, and Shaanxi, the three places where tomb robbing is most prevalent, it is not easy to find large tombs, and it is inconvenient to do things in crowded places. You have to use planting crops and building houses as a cover, so you have to do your best. Just go to the deep mountains and old forests, places that are inaccessible to people.
If we talk about the large tombs I have seen in the deep mountains and old forests, the one in Niuxin Mountain must be the first one. When I went to the mountains and countryside, I was too young and didn¡¯t understand anything. Judging from my current experience , that tomb should be from before the Northern Song Dynasty. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was mostly fashionable to use mountains as mausoleums. This trend continued until the early Song Dynasty. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the national power gradually weakened, and no royal mausoleum dared to build such a huge mausoleum. Works.
The monkey asked me, didn¡¯t you say that Niuxin Mountain is haunted? Can you find someone who is not haunted? We have nothing to do with the ferocious savages, but we don¡¯t know how to deal with ghosts.
I said, firstly, there are no ghosts in the world. What I told you last time may be my hallucination. Secondly, this is our first action. We don¡¯t necessarily have to open the mountain. Do you remember that many families in Yingzi¡¯s village have them? Are they antiques? Let's collect a few and sell them, so that we don't have to worry about pulling them out.
On that day, the two of us prepared separately. Monkey went to get rid of the remaining tapes, while I went to the flea market to buy some necessary tools, flashlights, gloves, masks, candles, ropes, and kettles. What surprised me the most was I bought two German engineer shovels. Holding the engineer shovels in my hands, I felt like meeting an old friend.
This kind of engineering shovel was used by Germany's Mountain Assault Division during World War II. Many of them were captured by the Soviet Union. During the Sino-Soviet friendship, some of them flowed into China. The German engineer shovel is very light and can be folded and hung on the waist, and the steel mouth is excellent. Not to mention digging soil and rocks, even in times of danger, it can be used as a weapon when swung and it can cut off half of an enemy in one stroke. head.
The only regret is that I didn¡¯t buy a gas mask. When the country was carrying out the three-prevention policy, a lot of 60-type gas masks were distributed to the public. I could occasionally see them for sale in the used goods market. Unfortunately, I didn¡¯t buy one today, so I had to Let¡¯s talk about it later. In addition, there are still some things missing. Those can be prepared until we get to Ganggang Yingzi.
The total cost was more than 1,500, mainly because the two shovels were too expensive. At 600 a pair, the price was too high to justify. In the end, I only had six yuan left with me. This was terrible. I had no money to buy a train ticket!
Thanks to Monkey Na, he threw away all the tapes, returned the house we rented, and sold it in three rounds. This was almost enough for the round trip expenses. We went to buy train tickets overnight. I was not yet 18 when I left there, and I haven¡¯t been back for more than ten years. We were both a little excited at the thought of seeing the folks we hadn¡¯t seen for many years.