Team Cao didn't care about my Noye at all, and in the past few years, his biggest change is that he has become more and more invisible. Although the personality is still the same, he still often runs the train, but you always feel that there is something hanging in his heart, but he will never say it. In fact, Xiao Lei also feels the same way, and occasionally asks me, is there something going on at Team Cao's house?

Of course, for many people, the official is getting bigger and bigger, and the city government will naturally get deeper and deeper, but for Team Cao, a close friend who has experienced countless life and death tests together, this reason is obviously not convincing.

Team Cao carefully interrogated Mine Chief Dai about some of the situation in the No. 17 mine, what were the abnormalities when digging the mine, whether there had been any accidents in the mine, and even the equipment used to take the ore, etc., very carefully, as if looking for small clues from any clues.

Mine Chief Dai listened carefully to Team Cao's question, pondered for a long time, and then slowly answered.

"The excavation of the No. 17 well of the Chengjialing Mine was actually very controversial back then. The technical staff of the provincial mining exploration team determined the location of the current mine, but several local old miners on the mine at that time were unanimously opposed, the reason, in fact, the old miners could not say why, but said that the stratum structure below is complex and prone to water permeability and collapse accidents. ”

However, the technicians from the province came to the conclusion after using a lot of advanced detection instruments to basically rule out the geological danger, so they did not pay attention to the opinions of the old miners. Not long after I arrived at the mine, I was in charge of production safety in the mine, and the old miners secretly approached me. After drinking twice, they told me the truth, saying that there are ancient tombs near the No. 17 mine, and the history of these ancient tombs is very long, if the mine passes under the ancient tomb, the yin qi is too heavy, it is easy to attract evil energy, very unlucky, sooner or later something big will happen, they are very taboo to open a mine under the ancient tomb. ”

"Ten years ago, it was too late for everyone to hide from these feudal superstitious ideas, let alone use them as a basis for denying the design of the mine, so I had to persuade them at that time to appease people's hearts, but it didn't work, and the mine still had to go according to the original plan. ”

Team Cao listened to Mine Chief Dai speak for such a long time, for fear that he would forget the important questions after listening, so he interjected and interrupted him, "Old Dai, did you really dig up the ancient tomb later?

Dai Mine Chief nodded to the Cao team, "I dug it, I didn't dig more than ten meters into it and dug up the ancient tomb, the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau came to clean it up, and the mine stopped work for more than three months for this matter." But the comrades of the Cultural Relics Bureau told me that this is a tomb in the late Spring and Autumn Period or the early Warring States Period, and it is not too high in terms of tomb specifications, at best it is a noble tomb, there are no valuable cultural relics, and there is nothing special about the burial system, so we resumed production after a simple cleaning. ”

"The old miners you mentioned were very persistent, no matter how I persuaded them, they didn't go down the mine, and then they all slowly left Chengjialing Town, some went home to farm, and some went to work in the mines of Datong Yangquan. By the way, a few miners moved to the abandoned village where you slept when you came, Dongyang Village, and at that time, there were still a few families in Dongyang Village, and they all moved away about three or four years ago. ”

"But what those old miners said may not be right, this No. 17 shaft has been dug for almost ten years, and nothing evil has ever happened. Although the miners who had the accident had all gone down the No. 17 shaft in this incident, I always felt that it was not necessarily related to the mine. In the last two or three years, the mine has not been excavated in one direction, there are at least four or five branches, and the potholes below are very complicated, and they are not often underway, and they will definitely get lost, and the place where the ancient tomb was found has long been a pit, and it has been fine for so many years, why is there a problem only now?"

After listening to Mine Chief Dai's speech, Team Cao nodded, and did not discuss the case further, but began to arrange the next step.

But I have a very bad feeling in my heart, maybe because there is no clue about this case so far, or maybe because of the introduction of Mine Manager Dai just now. I always felt that Mine Chief Dai must know a lot more than he told us, we don't ask, he hardly takes the initiative to bring it up, and when to talk about those things, it seems that he has planned it in advance, and his words seem to be false and half-true, as if he is deliberately leading us into vague speculation.

Especially when he was there just now, Lao Li and Xiao Zhong's words obviously had scruples and reservations, especially Xiao Zhong, who was one of the survivors who went down the well, and should have observed more abnormal situations, but there were almost no words, this must not be just a matter of introversion.

I drew a question mark behind the record of Dai Mine Chief in my notebook, and then drew a heavy line behind the names of Lao Li and Xiao Zhong.

The work arrangement of the Cao team is very simple, and a small section is arranged for me, and I will be sent to the county town Museum of Culture and History early tomorrow morning to check the historical information about the closure of the mine. Xiao Lei took the comrades of the Criminal Investigation Brigade to further do background checks and visits to the deceased, especially to meet with Lao Li and Xiao Zhong again to find out why Xiao Zhong was spared. The Cao team took two people to re-investigate the scene and study the evidence. Lao Lin, another police officer who arrived first with Xiao Lei, was responsible for docking with the security department of the mine and began to prepare equipment and instruments for going down the mine.

Early the next morning, when Xiao Duan and I were about to leave for the county seat, the Cao team came over and told me that if I could find the information of the old pit well in the Ming and Qing dynasties, I would bring it back with me. I nodded, and also told him that when the information and equipment are not perfect, you must not venture into the well, I always feel that there may be something hidden in the well beyond our understanding. I told him about yesterday's not very good feelings about Dai Mine Chief, Cao Team nodded, said something about the hero's vision, and told me that he could guess some of the reasons why Dai Mine Chief was suspicious, but it was a long story, and I would talk about it in detail when I came back from the county seat.

The road to Guangling County is almost carved into the rock wall shaped like a knife. On one side of the car is a cliff, and the road is scattered with large and small gravel rolling down from the mountain from time to time. Every time I make a mistake, I always feel that there are half-pulled tires exposed to the outside of the road, and I sweat in my heart. The small section of the car is not much better than mine, and he has not spoken since he got on this mountain road, staring at the road with his eyes fixed, and he does not dare to take his eyes off for a moment.

After half an hour of driving, I climbed the ridge, the road became gentle, and the occasional small trees began to appear around. Xiao Duan finally took a breath and said to me: "Uncle Chang, if you knew that this road is this way, it is better to take the national highway for dozens of kilometers." ”

I nodded at him: "Xiao Duan, I have the impression that the national highway was only opened to traffic in ninety-four years. Until then, this was the way. In the past, all the coal trucks that went to Chengjialing had to go here, and I don't know how many cars fell to the bottom of the cliff. Therefore, what Mine Chief Dai said before that the people of Chengjialing used to often not go down the mountain once a year, which seems to be true. "In such a closed place, something earth-shattering happened, and it is estimated that people outside don't know.

Less than 100 kilometers away, we drove for more than two hours before we arrived at the county seat. Guangling has been a border plug since ancient times, close to the county seat, on both sides of the road can often see the remains of the enemy building piled up with stones, dilapidated, telling us about the sword and sword shadow hundreds of years ago. Xiao Duan had just completed a diploma in history at the University of Electrical Engineering, and pointed to the ruins on the side of the road and told me about the Hufu cavalry of King Zhao Wuling.

There was a Dai Guo in the Spring and Autumn Period in Guangling, which was later destroyed by the Zhao State, but when the Dai Kingdom was destroyed, King Zhao Wuling was not yet born. But I remember that the history books say that after the capital of Daiguo was breached, Daiguo's clan fled into the mountains and forests of the northwest, and insisted on resisting for hundreds of years, always hoping to recover their homeland. Zhao State was unbearable, destroyed the capital of Daiguo, and built another Shu city in the north of the capital, as a fortress for garrisons, and forty or fifty ancient castles were built around Shu City, and finally locked the descendants of Daiguo in the deep mountains.

According to the speculation of geographical location, Shucheng in ancient times is the current Guangling, and the place where the people of the country are active should be the area of Chengjialing. After arriving in the Six Kingdoms of Qin, the Great Wall was rebuilt, and many of these ancient castles became part of the Great Wall. Autumn came early in Saibei, and the few trees on the ridge had already stripped their leaves, and against the background of the bare blue-gray rock formations, it was lonely and bleak, and it looked extremely desolate.

Guangling County is a small town, there are only a handful of newly built buildings in the town, and the streets and courtyards are still in the style of 100 years ago. But it can't be said to be shabby, only that it's quaint. Although many courtyards are old and even the walls have been peeled off, the pattern is magnificent and the momentum is extraordinary. The dark red vermilion lacquer gate, the exquisitely carved gate piers, and the three-meter-high courtyard wall all hint at its former magnificence.

Think about it, although the name of Guangling County is not well known, but it has always been the only way for Datong and Taiyuan to connect Yanjing to the northeast, and it is the supply place of the Great Wall in the north. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was also an important town where Jin merchants gathered and cars and horses were weaving. It was only later that the highway across Taihang was built, and there was no need to detour to Yanjing in northern Jinbei, and in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the northern border trouble was not serious, and there was no need for large-scale garrisons, and there were many surrounding mountains and little arable land, so it could not feed too many people, and this Guangling Town gradually declined.

(Those who turn the boat of ten thousand hues are found by a wood; those who send a crossbow by a thousand jun are by an inch.) One eye can see the sky, and one person can be a king. It is too vast and endless, too vast and imagery. If you get the outline of heaven and earth, know the house of yin and yang, and see the hidden of the spirit, you can take the number, you can live, and the world can be repeated. --"The Book of Transformation")