Chapter 7: The Mystery of the Old House in the Black Mountain Valley

"What's the matter? Why do you inquire about the privacy of other people's old men? At a young age, do you also have a problem with your prostate? Dr. Liu asked rhetorically.

Lao Bo felt strange, "Doctor Liu, aren't you an orthopedic doctor?" How can there be research on the prostate? โ€

"We are all general practitioners of Chinese medicine, if you have a problem with your brain, I can also tie it." Dr. Liu took a small hammer and knocked on the table.

"It's a good thing." Lao Gang picked up the small hammer that Dr. Liu had just put down, and knocked it on his knee ring jumping point by the way, "Why don't you take care of things?" โ€

Dr. Liu smiled and asked, "Do you two know Ma Lao?" He's a Shinto person, and he's been here twice, and it's all about rheumatism. Saying that he has a prostate problem is to tease you, people are old, who doesn't wet their shoes? โ€

According to Liu Zhihui, Lao Ma came here several times in more than a month, and when he saw that Liu Zhihui was familiar, he asked him if he knew Liu Fushan? It turned out that this Liu Fushan was Liu Zhihui's father, but unfortunately he died of illness more than ten years ago. Seeing that it was his father's old acquaintance, Liu Zhihui also took care of him, and heard that Lao Ma was a lonely old man, alone in Boshan, and life was not easy, Dr. Liu felt pity and temporarily rented the house in his hometown to him.

"Ah, you're the landlord!" Lao Bo patted his head, and felt that the place was starting to connect.

"What? Have you already been to that old mansion in the Black Mountain Valley? Dr. Liu asked in surprise.

"By the way, it's really next to the Black Mountain Gully, I said it's so evil." Lao Gang touched his nose with palpitations.

"Well, although the old mansion is at the foot of Qinglong Mountain, it is also the southern exit of the Black Mountain Valley. The small hill opposite Qinglong Mountain is called Black Mountain, Qinglong is in the east, and Black Mountain is in its northwest. There is a mass grave on Montenegro, and it is said that during the Japanese occupation, the Chinese killed would be thrown into the mass grave. The road between Qinglong Mountain and Montenegro is called Montenegro Valley, because Montenegro Ravine is too steep, and there are often vehicles that can't stop and crash into the cement pier of the railway bridge at the foot of the mountain. โ€

Dr. Liu said that the old gang and the old stuff of the black mountain valley are no strangers at all, this is a very evil place in Boshan, not only often have car accidents, but also someone has jumped off the black mountain to commit suicide. If Dr. Liu hadn't mentioned this, they wouldn't have thought about it.

"If I had thought about these things earlier, last night's experience would have been more exciting and interesting." Lao Gang said.

"What happened last night?" Liu Zhihui asked.

Lao Bo thought for a moment, "There is something wrong with this person, Lao Ma. โ€

At noon, Liu Zhihui took the two of them into a small restaurant next to the hospital, Boshan cuisine is a very famous delicacy in Shandong cuisine. The three of them ordered four dishes and one soup, including stir-fried kidney flowers, crispy fish pot, sausage rolls and fried cold spells, strange eggplant and ginseng soup. When the old man saw the feast, he immediately smiled.

Dr. Liu went to work in the afternoon and couldn't drink, so the three of them only needed two bottles of beer.

"Yo, it's all hard dishes. Doctor Liu, for the first time, do it first as a respect. The old man said.

"It's just a light meal, and people don't drink, what's the first time?" Lao Gang was a little displeased.

"It's okay, it's okay, come, the waist flower should be eaten while it's hot." Dr. Liu chatted with the two, "My father lived in the old house until he died of a heart attack, and he did not live in a new house. โ€

Soon after his father's death, Dr. Liu's family moved to the current new house, and occasionally they would go back to see it, but because it was a bungalow, the heating, gas, toilets and other supporting facilities could not keep up, and it was inconvenient to live, so it was not very there.

Looking at a small courtyard that is very good, it is gradually abandoned, and Dr. Liu also wants to rent it out, but he doesn't want to rent it to those rough people who are not careful. "My father became ill suddenly, and he didn't leave any words, but fortunately, I only have one sister, and I won't have any disputes over the inheritance. Besides, there really isn't much of an inheritance other than that old house. In the past, my father went around selling large urns for a living. Do you still have that kind of urn in your house? โ€

"Huh? The old man sells big urns! The old man screamed.

"What are you doing, don't be surprised, my waist flowers have fallen to the ground." This voice startled Lao Gang.

"It seems that the little brother really knows something." Dr. Liu laughed.

"yes, we smashed a big urn last night. These big urns turned out to be the old man's previous eating business, I'm really sorry, we thought the old horse deliberately placed it there. Lao Gang's face was full of guilt.

"That's right, that's right, there must be a big secret in your old house, but because the old man had a heart attack, he didn't have time to leave a message with you. Then, the old horse appeared, and he had been living in that place to find the secret hidden in the old house. The old stuff poured out all the things he knew.

It turned out that it was also a little more than a month ago that he saw a news article in the newspaper. When a reporter was interviewing the local cultural relics department in Linzi, an archaeologist brought up an incident from the past. In the 1960s, the first national cultural relics census, Shandong Zibo Linzi was listed as one of the key areas, because this is the capital of Qi more than 2,000 years ago, and the whole city has not developed greatly for thousands of years, has been a village, and the underground cultural relics are less damaged. And when it rains or the flood season of the Zihe River in this place, a lot of cultural relics will be washed out of the ground. The origin of the name Linzi is also because of the meaning of being close to the Zihe River.

"I specifically looked for information to understand the background of the archaeological team sent to Linzi in 1964. As early as 1956, the "Notice on the Protection of Cultural Relics in Agricultural Production and Construction" was issued, and the first cultural relics survey was started in Shanxi as a pilot, and the provinces were notified to report the known cultural relics first. In fact, when the "anti-rightist" struggle began, the census work basically came to a standstill. Between 1956 and 1957, the provinces announced a number of cultural relics protection units, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage later compiled a book of cultural relics from all over the country, including 7,000 cultural relics. In 1961, the state announced the first list of "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units", which only had 180 cultural relics, which were selected from 7,000 cultural relics in the country. The first list of cultural preservation units includes famous cultural relics units, "For example, there is also the Forbidden City on this list, you can imagine how significant this list is." โ€

As early as 1961, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage sent Huang Jingluo, a researcher of the expert group of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, to Linzi and appointed him as the leader of the Linzi Cultural Relics Task Force of the Shandong Provincial Department of Culture. In 1964, the deputy captain Yang Zifan officially led a team to Linzi for investigation and exploration, and later the famous archaeological expert Zhang Xuehai and others were all members of the team at that time. This archaeological team is the first archaeological team sent to Linzi by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and it can be described as full of talents. For example, team leader Huang Jingluo is a researcher in the expert group of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, while Yang Zifan and Zhang Xuehai are the first and second directors of the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. Lao Bo said that this archaeological dream team has great responsibilities and difficulties, which is a real problem faced by the cultural relics team.

The longer the time drags on, the more tormented the days become.

After the rain that day, under the leadership of Yang Zifan, the team set off from the county seat (now Qidu Town) and walked northeast to the west of Heyatou Village. At that time, there was a village road to the west of Heyatou Village, and there was a fence wall, which was not very complete. The team walked north along the village road in the west of the village, and after walking a short distance, they passed a canal, and on the north side of the canal, there was a mung bean field in an east-west direction.

"Ah, Heyatou Village, we've just been there recently." Lao Gang shouted, but Lao Bo ignored him and continued to speak.

The team went out to investigate after the rain, first, to see if any cultural relics had been washed out of the surface, and secondly, to show the pressure of the team at that time. At this time, Lao Ma, a drilling technician of the team, was on the side of the road to the east of the mung bean field and saw several bones that were exposed to the surface.

In 1964, Lao Ma, who was said to be in his 50s, was a driller sent by Hebei to support the archaeological team. In the eyes of the young people who have just entered the archaeological team, Lao Ma is also an expert of the archaeological team, and the aura revealed by Lao Ma and Yang Zifan, Zhang Xuehai and other experts is very different, and the whole person is very mysterious.

The name of this old horse is called Horse Wound Pillar. It can be said that he was the first person to discover the Linzi Martyrdom Pit!

Zhu Yude, a member of the archaeological team at that time, recalled that Ma Shangzhu did not stay in Linzi for a long time, and returned to Hebei in about a few months.

"In fact, he was appointed by the โ–กโ–ก Cultural Relics Administration to come here to train drilling technicians, and this person has a lot of drilling experience and a very high level." Zhu Yude said that Lao Ma's drilling experience is very rich, which is a huge difference from his pale archaeological and historical knowledge. Many times, when they were identifying the words on the unearthed cultural relics, this experienced old archaeological team member was silent. When the experts talked about the history of the Qi Kingdom, Lao Ma disappeared.

"Haha, the old horse's surname is Ma, of course he must be the one who found the martyrdom pit." Lao Gang interjected.

"It's an interesting coincidence, and if you think about it, there's something wrong with it โ€“ with so many experts here, why was it only the old horse who discovered and recognized the bones? That said, it's not a coincidence at all. At the very least, the old horse knows a lot about the bones of these animals. At that time, all the experts were still speculating about what animal left these bones? It was the old horse who made it clear to everyone that this was a horse bone.

In addition to those experts who led the team, many archaeological team members who did not know much about the inside story were very confused: where is this old horse sacred?

"It's broken! I know what the old horse does, and I guess he should have discovered the secret of the old mansion. Doctor Liu was shocked, they still didn't know what secret was in the old mansion, and the old horse had already taken this secret and flew away.