In the spring of 1934, in the hinterland of the Mongolian steppe.

Xing Renju went to Sichuan to find the descendants of the Southwest Tie Tang family one year and three months ago.

Xing Renju was tied up and thrown into a two-meter-deep earth pit, and next to the earthen pit stood five big men in the shape of a biao, who surrounded the pit and aimed their long and short guns at the immobile Xing Renju in the pit.

"What's in that hole?"

"Is there an ancient tomb down there?"

"Who are you?"

……

In the face of the questions raised by the five bandits, Xing Renju would not answer, but just closed his eyes and lay in the pit, feeling the warmth under the frozen soil, in his ears, he could not hear the roar of the bandits at all, only the sound of the wind raging on the grassland.

Although they really wanted to bury Xing Renju alive, they were afraid that if they buried him, they would lose the clues of the mysterious cave, in case there was really any gold, silver and jewelry in it?

Otherwise, why would this guy in the pit know that there is such a strange and mysterious cave in this vast grassland, and there is a warm wind blowing out?

The second bandit squatted down, picked up a stone and smashed it on Xing Renju's body, and asked, "Hey, friend, just think it's you who help, okay?" ”

Xing Renju slowly opened his eyes, changed his posture, and asked with a smile: "Are you from Shanghai?" ”

The second bandit nodded impatiently: "Aren't you talking nonsense?" Listening to the accent, I also know that Allah is from Shanghai. ”

Xing Renju simply lay down in the deep pit and looked around at the other four people standing around the pit: "It seems that none of you are locals. ”

The bandit boss also squatted down: "I'm from Hunan." After speaking, he pointed to Lao Sandao, "He is also from Hunan." ”

The fourth bandit pointed his thumb at himself: "Lao Tzu is Sichuan Le." ”

Xing Renju looked at the last one, who was also the shortest and the weakest: "What about you?" Where are you from? ”

The bandit Lao Wu glanced at the boss and replied a little shyly: "I am from Guangdong." ”

Xingren nodded: "Two Hunan, one Shanghai, one Sichuan, one Guangdong, and this is Inner Mongolia, look at your appearance, you have been here for at least a year, basically living the kind of life that has eaten the last meal and no next meal, but one of you must have done tomb robbery before, but he is not proficient, at best, he has only beaten the tomb robbers, am I right?" ”

As soon as Xingren finished speaking, the four bandits all looked at the fourth child together, and the fourth child was also slightly taken aback.

The fourth asked rhetorically: "How do you know?" ”

Xing Renju said with a smile: "Because I just asked if there is an ancient tomb below, it is you, normally speaking, even if you see me coming out of it, no one will think that there will be an ancient tomb below, and I also know that among the five of you, at least three of them are soldiers, or subordinates of General Yang Aiyuan Yang in the Suiyuan region." ”

When the bandit boss, the third and fourth heard this, they were stunned again.

The second child stared at Xing Renju: "How do you see this?" I think it's weird, even if you can tell that our brothers used to be soldiers, it's impossible to tell where we used to be soldiers, right? Who the hell are you? ”

"This is simple, before I came to Mongolia, I knew that after General Yang was overthrown by Yan Xishan, many of his henchmen left, and many soldiers were looking for their own way out, and the three of you were still wearing the military uniforms of the Jin Sui Army." Xing Renju adjusted his posture again, "Also, you actually have two flower traps in your hands, and they are also imitated by the Hanyang Arsenal, the closest to this area, the army that uses this new weapon, is only General Yang's guard company, you must be a deserter from the guard company." ”

The bandit boss was anxious: "Lao Tzu is not a deserter!" Back then, under the city of Yuguan, Lao Tzu was shot three times and didn't escape, or my two brothers would have to withdraw with me, I would definitely have to drag a few more little Japanese burials! ”

Xing Ren nodded: "That's right, that is, after General Yang lost power, you escaped for fear of persecution, and then became bandits." ”

Lao Wu immediately said: "We are not bandits, we just want to eat ...... mouth."

Xing Renju looked at Lao Wu, and saw that Lao Wu's heart was weak, and his voice became smaller and quieter, and finally it simply turned into a buzzing sound like a mosquito.

The fourth child looked at the boss, the two made eye contact for a while, and after the boss nodded and acquiesced, the fourth child jumped into the pit, pulled out the dagger, and cut off the dagger on Xingrenju's body: "This big brother, I'm sorry, listen to you, you are not an ordinary person, how offended." ”

Xing Renju moved his wrist: "You didn't kill me, it means that you just want to get rich, and you don't want to harm my life, I know that you were also forced, so ......"

Xing Renju groped for the mezzanine of his leather jacket, touched it for a long time, touched a few gold leaves, and handed it directly to the bandit boss: "I still have a long way to go, so I can only leave you these, this money is enough for you to go back to your hometown, buy a house and land, and start life again." ”

The five bandits were all surprised, looking at each other, and the bandit boss didn't pick it up, but just frowned and said, "Don't you understand the truth that wealth is not exposed?" Aren't you afraid that we'll really kill you and rob you of the remaining gold leaves? ”

Xing Renju put the gold leaves on the ground, and then stretched out his hands: "Okay, come on." ”

The bandit boss hesitated, grabbed the gold leaf, and stuffed it into his cloth bag: "Thank you, the grace of a drop of water should be repaid by the spring, I don't know the benefactor's honorable name, what kind of person it is, and the brothers will know where to find you in the future." ”

Xing Renju leaned over and picked up his package, shook off the dust, and tied it to his body: "My name is Xing Renju, I don't have a home, I won't have a home in the future, and I don't need you to repay your kindness, you just remember one sentence - but do good deeds, don't ask about the future." ”

After speaking, Xing Renju strode away in the wind.

The five bandits stood there, watching Xing Renju go farther and farther, the bandit boss took out the gold leaf and divided it equally among the other four people, and then asked: "Now that we have money, he is right, this money is a lot, enough for us to return to our hometown, what do you plan to do in the future?" ”

The second child hesitated and said, "I want to go back to Shanghai, I want to continue studying." ”

The third said: "Big brother, let's go home too, I've been homesick for a long time." ”

Lao Wu thought for a while and said: "I want to go back to Guangdong first, and then go to Hong Kong, I have relatives in Hong Kong, I am going to go to him, and then run away." ”

The boss nodded, looked at the fourth child who didn't speak, and asked, "Fourth, what about you?" What are you going to do? ”

The fourth child looked in the direction where Xing Renju left: "I want to follow that person." ”

When the others heard this, they were all surprised, and the boss asked, "Why?" ”

"I don't know." The fourth child frowned and said, "I told you before, I want to come here, because my former master said that my life is great for the north, said that I will meet a noble person in the north, I don't know whether it is the northwest or the northeast, so I heard that you were going to come to Mongolia, so I followed him in a daze, I met him just now, and heard him speak, I think he should be the noble person my master said." ”

The second child smiled: "Fourth, do you really believe your master's words?" Let you read more books and believe less nonsense. ”

The fifth brother said: "That's right, fourth brother, didn't you tell me before, when you were soldiers, there was a person who always said that his life was hard, and his head was blown out on the first day of the battlefield." ”

The boss signaled everyone to stop talking: "Go your own way, if the fourth child wants to follow his benefactor, it's his own business." ”

The fourth child smiled reluctantly: "Big brother, my family was killed by Liu Wenhui's bastard, the house is gone, the land is gone, there is nothing, when I left Sichuan, I didn't plan to go back, so I decided to follow Master's words, vigorously north, I will follow him." ”

The boss nodded: "However, will people accept you?" ”

The fourth smiled slyly: "He will, I have a way." ”

After the fourth child finished speaking, he hugged the other four brothers, and took his poor luggage and the thin horse that swayed around when he walked, and went to chase Xing Renju, who had not gone far.

After the fourth brother left, the other four brothers also agreed to return to the nearest town together, rest for two days, and then leave the grassland where they did not want to stay for a long time.

Although the fourth horse's horse was running very slowly, it quickly caught up with Xing Renju, who was on foot. When there was still a distance of two or three meters away from Xing Renju, he turned over and dismounted, led the horse and ran forward, parallel to Xing Renju, and directly introduced himself: "My surname is Tang, my name is Tang Yudao, Master Xing, you can accept me as an apprentice." ”

Xing Renju stopped, looked Tang Yudao up and down, smiled, didn't say anything, and continued to walk forward.

Tang Yudao was not embarrassed, he just smiled, and didn't say anything, but he still led the horse and followed Xing Renju.

After walking forward for about a mile, Tang Yudao led the horse and walked in front of Xing Renju, and after walking for a while, Xing Renju stopped and asked, "Do you want to follow me, or do you want to show me the way?" ”

Tang Yudao turned around and grinned: "Master Xing, I know that you want to go back to the place where we found you before, because you still have something to do, and you don't want us to know, so, you crawled in that hole for a while, and after hearing the movement outside, you went back backwards and deliberately let us catch it." ”

Xing Ren raised his face expressionlessly and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

Tang Yudao immediately replied: "Now is the time of the hour, the sunrise time here in this season is the time of the hour, if you want to find the entrance of the cave, it is impossible in the night, so it must be done after the sunrise, and when we pass by there and find you, it is also the time of the hour, in other words, you can't find the hole earlier than that time period and get into it." ”

"Good reasoning." Xing Renju had a smile on his face, "What is the name of the master you used to talk to?" ”

Tang Yudao hesitated for a moment and said, "My master's name is Tu Di. ”

Xing Renju nodded: "Tu Li, the people of the rivers and lakes, Dilong, is a very famous tomb robber in northern Sichuan, I'm sorry, I do what I do, as long as I talk about tomb robbing, I will definitely add the word thief." ”

Tang Yudao just shook his head slightly, saying that he didn't care, even his master's picture. The reason why his master has a name in his name is mainly because he is a family of tomb robbers, and he knows very well that doing this line of work is detrimental to yin morality, and he is worried that using his real name to walk the rivers and lakes to rob the tomb will attract resentment and suffer from the curse of ghosts and gods, but he doesn't want to be a nameless ghost after death, so when he is 5 or 6 years old, he writes his real name on the rune paper, swallows it into his stomach, and even if he dies in the future, he will have a name and a surname.

Xing Renju said: "If I'm not mistaken, Tu Di disappeared many years ago, it should have been six years ago, in the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, it was rumored that he died in the cliff tomb in western Sichuan, I don't know if it's true or not." ”

Tang Yudao said: "I don't know, I left Master's side six years ago, Master didn't let me follow him, saying that my life can't do that line, saying that I don't have a heavy heart and my hands are not ruthless, if I really want to do it, let me go to be a soldier for a few years, with blood in my hands, hang my life, and then go back to him." ”

"The result?" Xing Renju smiled, "I think you still can't practice being ruthless, right?" ”

Tang Yudao shook his head: "Killing people on the battlefield is completely different from killing people in other places, on the battlefield, in the final analysis, killing people is to not be killed, but outside the battlefield, I can't do it if I am asked to rob and kill others for money." ”

Xing Renju continued to walk forward: "Are you trying to tell me that you are a good person, not a bad person, so I should accept you as an apprentice?" ”

Tang Yudao hesitated for a while before he said, "I just want to learn something from you." ”

Xing Ren said: "I have only accepted one apprentice in my life, and I will only accept that apprentice, because when my apprentice is very miserable, maybe it will affect future generations, so you can't be my apprentice, but maybe, I can teach you something, but before that, I have to ask you, do you know Southwest Tietang?" ”

Tang Yudao nodded: "I know, but I have nothing to do with Southwest Tietang." ”

Xing Renju shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I thought you would be, if so, then we really have fate." ”

Tang Yudao asked: "If I am, will you accept me as an apprentice?" ”

"No!" Xing Renju shook his head, "If you are, I will immediately draw a line with you, and may even put you to death here, so that it will not affect my future plans." ”

Tang Yudao was obviously surprised, but then he also smiled: "You won't do that." ”

Xing Renju said coldly: "If you are really a descendant of the Southwest Tie Tang family, I will indeed do that." ”

Tang Yudao hurriedly asked: "Do you have a grudge against the Southwest Tie Tang?" ”

"No, I even have a relationship with someone from the Southwest Tietang family." "But I have to do that, because that's my plan." ”

Tang Yudao suddenly realized something: "Then tell me now, aren't you afraid that I will leak what you said?" Or are you already planning to kill me? ”

Xing Renju said as he walked, "Do you know what the most perfect plan is? That's the sudden change in the plan, and you are. ”

Tang Yudao didn't understand the meaning of Xing Renju at all, so he just shook his head.

Xing Renju didn't speak anymore, just led the way in front, and sure enough, not long after, he and Tang Yudao returned to the cave where the five brothers had caught Xing Renju before.

Xing Renju stood at the entrance of the cave, looked at Tang Yudao and asked, "Do you think this is a robbery cave?" ”

Tang Yudao immediately shook his head: "Impossible, it is impossible for this generation to have a large underground palace tomb, unless it is the tomb of the legendary Genghis Khan, but it is definitely not here." ”

Xing Ren nodded: "Then why did you ask me if there was an ancient tomb below?" ”

Tang Yudao replied: "I asked in passing, in fact, I really thought it was a robbery cave, I really thought you had found the tomb of Genghis Khan, although it was a fool's dream." ”

Xing Renju said lightly: "This is not an ancient tomb, but a place similar to an underground palace is an underground post station built in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, but it was actually dug up for investigation, and the local ancient language was replaced with Chinese, which is 'Gaimou'." ”

Tang Yudao squatted down and looked at the entrance of the cave: "What do you mean?" ”

"In fact, in the local ancient language is just one word, but the meaning is two, here, cover this word, refers to the following underground station, when excavating, is to dig a deep pit directly, and then strengthen the deep pit, the surface of the pit to cover again, after accumulating over time, the surface and the surrounding land is undoubted, as long as the import and export are covered, the average person can not see, even if thousands of troops and horses have stepped through, can not be found." Xing Renju looked at Tang Yudao, who was squatting there, "As for the meaning of the word conspiracy, it has the meaning of planning, investigation and prediction. ”

Tang Yudao turned his head to look at Xing Renju, and shook his head to say that he didn't understand.

Xing Renju went on to explain: "To put it simply, in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court at that time was worried that there were tribes rebelling on the grassland, so they dug up such 'Gaimou' everywhere in the grassland, and each Gaimou was inhabited by three to five scouts, who would leave every day before the sunrise, leaving only one person in the Gaimou, and the remaining four people patrolled in four different directions, patrolling to a certain distance and then turning back to their own 'Gaimou' location, and the cycle ......began over and over again."

Because of the fact that this kind of cover was built all over the steppe, and because of the fixed area that the scouts were responsible for, this greatly reduced the time the army spent patrolling the vast steppe, and also saved manpower. Even if the four scouts are far away from the location of the 'Gammou' during the day, and there are rebels passing there, the scouts who remain in the 'Gammou' will judge the approximate number of the enemy and the direction of their advance based on the vibrations emitted by the ground, and after they leave, they will light the wolf smoke and notify the other patrol scouts, and the others will judge the direction of the rebels according to the direction of the wolf smoke.

After listening to this, Tang Yudao asked: "Then why has no one ever heard of 'Gai Mou'?" ”

Xing Renju smiled and said, "The secret that comes out is not a secret." ”

Tang Yudao reacted at this time: "No wonder, Master Xing, take the liberty of asking, why did you go in?" ”

Xing Ren said, "Based on your experience, do you think there are any valuable objects here?" ”

Tang Yudao pondered for a moment: "Maybe, after all, this is just a place similar to an outpost, and at most there are some weapons left by the former Mongolian soldiers. ”

Xing Renju pointed to the entrance of the cave again and said, "Do you dare to go in?" ”

Tang Yudao said without hesitation: "Of course! After speaking, he relieved himself of his burden, "I have followed Master to drill the thief hole for so many years, and I have been there a hundred times more dangerous than this, what is there to be afraid of." ”

Xing Ren nodded and said, "Okay, but then in front, after entering, if there is really anything valuable, you must not take it, can you do it?" ”

Tang Yudao nodded: "It can be done!" ”

As he spoke, Tang Yudao threw the gun and baggage into the hole, leaned over and climbed in, and at the same time took the torch handed to him by Xing Renju.

Xing Renju waited for his feet to disappear into the hole, then turned around and took out the compass, silently calculating the direction against the position of the sun in the sky.

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