Chapter XVII: Antecedents and Consequences
As I expected, shortly after confirming that we were leaving, the leper sneakily walked out of the guest house, accompanied by the owner of the guest house, a middle-aged man with a big bald head.
Seeing this scene, a smile suddenly appeared on my face, it seems that I guessed correctly, the leper head three deliberately pointed us to see those strange things, the purpose is just to scare us, so that we can retreat.
Ge Zhuang and I made a look, sneaked behind the two of them, and followed not far away, but fortunately, the barren grass was dense on the Mahuang Ridge, and the people walking in front were sneaky and didn't notice us.
Sneaking all the way, I came to the small village at the foot of the Mahuang Mountains again, and I saw the two of them stop by the grave of Old Man Zhang, muttering that they didn't know what they were talking about.
The distance was too far for me to hear a word, and Ge Zhuang was anxious to sneak over and listen to the details of the conversation between the two people, but I stopped him.
I dragged Ge Zhuang to hide behind a big stone, and said in a low voice, "Fatty, you take the path and go around to the front first, we are not sure about the specific location of the tomb for the time being, this place is too desolate, and it is enough to determine the location of the tomb through feng shui, only if you are familiar with the terrain first, can it be convenient to start." ”
Ge Zhuang agreed, turned around and lurked in the grass, while I continued to squat in place, observing the two from a distance.
The leper first sat with the owner of the guest house near the grave and smoked a few puffs of cigarettes, at this time the wind turned, I was at the downwind, and I could vaguely hear the conversation between the two, as if to say something like "Old man Zhang doesn't know how to lift", "actually found an outsider to do with us" and so on.
I had a vague plan in my heart, lurking all the way, and very carefully went around behind the two, and squatted under a row of old locust trees at the entrance of the village to hide, and I could already roughly hear the conversation between the two people from this position.
After a while, I said to the owner of the guest house, "Lao Jiu, do you believe the words of the master behind us?" They don't accept antiques, nor do they want gold, silver and jade, just for a small box, they set us such a high price, what the hell, Lao Tzu has been in this business for so long, and he has never met such a strange buyer. ”
The owner of the guest house said, "The third child, I can trust it, you don't see how bold these people are when they pay the deposit, it's all colorful dollar bills, Lao Tzu has been fighting all his life, and he has never seen so much money!" ”
The leper head three took a few puffs of dry tobacco, saying that it was not, the two of us were young and upside down, in order to eat a hot meal, and then the reform and opening up, the economic situation was better, and the bucket near here was almost emptied, and the tomb of the Shu County Taishou was still left, and he did not dare to make up his mind to go in. This time, for the sake of those dollar bills, Lao Tzu is also out of the way, and he has been unlucky for a lifetime, so he must enjoy it again! Lao Jiu, this time we sent it, and those Americans gave 100,000 yuan just for the deposit, which is a dollar!
The person he called "Lao Jiu" also smiled greedily, and said after a while, "Third child, I see that the three young boys who stayed in the hotel last night didn't want to mess with the master, are you sure you have deceived them back?" ”
The leper laughed loudly, saying that it was not easy to provoke, that is, a few stunned young people, two fools, damn it, as soon as Lao Tzu said that Zhang Deshun was a ghost, they believed it all, you didn't see their reaction at the time, and their faces were scared green. Now I don't know which temple I went to, and which Bodhisattva I am burning incense to, please bless it!
Lao Jiu said Look at this trouble, the old man Zhang refused to go to the tomb with us, why did he go all the way outside to find a peer to come and grab business with us, this old deflated calf just deliberately refused to let us live a good life, it was good to die, and finally did a good thing for us, and scared those offspring back!
Leper Tousan said, "Alas, if you want to say that this old Zhang Tou, he is plagued by superstition, when we were young, we fought so many times together, and I didn't see any ghosts, gods, but when he was old, he was so cowardly, not only did he not let us do business with the Americans, but also kept saying that he wanted to report Lao Tzu, why didn't I see that he was so nationally righteous?" Damn, he deserves to die at the hands of the Americans. ”
Lao Jiu reminded the other party in a low voice, "Don't you dare to talk nonsense, although those Americans are generous, but they are all ruthless masters, you have also seen it, Old Man Zhang died in their hands without knowing anything, and he couldn't even check a mark, which means that these people are experts who are proficient in this way, let's just take money to do things for them, don't ask anything else, save yourself from being killed!" ”
I squatted downwind and heard clearly, the old man did not die in the hands of the leper three, but also was killed by a group of Americans with mysterious origins.
When I think of Americans, I think of a mysterious foreign organization, the RAND Corporation.
I don't know what these foreigners are looking for in our land, Chen Yun once said that the people of the RAND Corporation have been looking for some kind of genetic and biological weapon, but how can this weapon be hidden in the ancient tomb? Even if ancient people had smart brains, it is unlikely that they would have studied genetic engineering in detail like modern people.
After smoking for a while, I saw the leper head three stand up, unscrew a bottle of Lao Baigan and pour it on the grave, and said to the grave of the old man Zhang, "Lao Zhang, don't blame us for being ruthless, Lao Tzu is poor and afraid, and finally has a chance to make a fortune, how can you stir it up?" You invited our peers from outside, and you wanted to stick a lever and almost ruined Lao Tzu's plan to make a fortune, but they have been deceived by me, what about me, I am more generous, so I don't care about those with you, you can go with peace of mind, don't blame me on Huangquan Road! ”
"Let's go, everyone is dead, what are you talking nonsense here, let's hurry up the mountain while it's not dark, it's not easy to walk at night!" Lao Jiu carried the luggage and urged behind, and after the leper scattered a whole bottle of Lao Baigan, he threw the bottle on the grave, and followed Lao Jiuxiao up the back mountain quickly.
It wasn't until the two of them walked away that I came to the grave of the old man Zhang, and I didn't know what to say, so I bowed to him and said Uncle, I promised you that I had already remitted the 20,000 yuan, and the card was not in your name, so I guess it was your son's, right? I also see that you don't look like a reseller of pubic weapons, anyway, you finally provided me with information about a big tomb, even if we are even, if you always stay on the ground and feel uncomfortable, don't come out to look for me, if you want to find it, you can find a leper three times!
It wasn't until I overheard the conversation between the two that I realized that Zhang Deshun deliberately asked me to sell the bronze sword, in order to attract my attention, lure me here, and sabotage the conspiracy of the leper to collude with foreigners and sell Chinese cultural relics.
To say that this old man still has a sense of justice, he is also inverted, he would rather be cheap than dig out the things under the tomb and sell them to the Americans, as the so-called thief also has a way, like the old man Zhang, an unyielding rebel who would rather die is a good example that my generation should learn.