Black Gold Chapter 1 The Big Waves Wash the Sands
Our destination this time is Changchun, Jilin. It is said that it is to find a clear tomb, and as for the reason, I think it has something to do with the mysterious boss behind the eagle and the monster. But I can't control this kind of thing and don't want to know, anyway, I'm like a mercenary now, just get the money.
When I bought a ticket at the train station, I learned that the tall man next to Qiu Ying was named Galu, a native of Inner Mongolia, who was Qiu Ying's assistant. That guy is more than 1.9 meters tall, and he always looks out of place among us.
Because the eagle was old and left injuries in the last Taxian tomb, after getting on the train, I "sensibly" gave him my lower bunk and slept in the middle bunk. Qiu Ying, Galu, and Ning Fanzi slept on the lower middle and upper bunks of our bed.
Speaking of Ning Fanzi, I don't know how he and the eagle got together, about his whereabouts this year, I asked him when I got in the car. He told me very briefly that he had been hiding from his grandfather's enemies for the year. When I mentioned his amnesia, he frowned slightly and shook his head.
Anyone who sleeps hard sleepers knows that the bed is very small, and it is extremely difficult to turn around, except for the convenience of the lower bunk, the middle bunk and the upper bunk must sit up on the bed with their backs bent, their heads tilted or their heads lowered hard. The air in the carriage is not good, coupled with the pedestrians in the aisle coming and going to talk to each other, children running around noisily, the whole environment is smoky, people are very uncomfortable, and they can't rest at all.
When I went to bed, I lay flat on the bed and forced myself to sleep, and when I was in a daze, I was woken up by the back and forth shaking of the train brakes. I glanced at my phone, and it was only two hours before I left.
I sat up with my head tilted, ready to grab mineral water from my bag, when the conversation between two people caught my attention.
Eagle and Qiu Ying kept their voices low, and I listened carefully for a while, and found that they seemed to be talking about the tomb in Taxian County, Xinjiang.
Eagle gave a general account of the situation in the sub-group underground palace of the king of the Chiwu clan at that time, and of course he did not mention the fact that he killed Ah Chang and the infighting.
Qiu Ying shook his head and said:
"What a beautiful city. The so-called 'gloomy' - a beautiful appearance, and 'good city' - a cemetery. Together, there is a tomb with excellent feng shui. It's a pityβ"
"What a pity??" Seeing that Qiu Ying didn't continue, the eagle asked.
"There is a saying in ancient books that all foreign objects obtained by piercing the ground and opening the cause are auspicious. If you get grass and vines, and wrap around the coffin, if you are blinded, be careful not to move it, and it will be good luck and decay when you move. The fact that plants can grow in this tomb indicates that the soil is of good quality and life is concentrated. If the tomb is buried in the princes and monarchs, then anger is more related to the national fortune of a country. When you go in, you see not only the vines crisscrossing you, but also all kinds of visions. It means that someone has touched those plants and trees, and the feng shui has been damaged, and the vision is the bad luck that has been invited. These are only the most intuitive results we can know, if the tomb was destroyed shortly after the burial of the deceased monarch, then the fortunes of the small princely kingdom can be imagined. The thousand-year-old tomb, who broke the pattern, there is no way to verify. But such a good tomb was destroyed, don't you say it's a pity? β
Qiu Ying's analysis was the first to say, he said a long time and then drank slowly, I was waiting for him to continue, but I didn't expect him to laugh suddenly, laughing and sighing:
"Others just ruined the pattern of the underground palace, and you guys directly took the burial place of others. The king of a country dies without a place to be buried, which is really a loss of yin morality. β
"What do you mean by that?" Eagle asked.
"Although the subgroup tomb is a treasure of feng shui, this land belongs to fire, and the Western Regions is a small country, and the competition between countries is fierce. The subgroup must have calculated that his graveyard would be destroyed one day, so he built a sacred relic of ambergris into his waist pit, which is very important, and it is also the reason why the underground palace is full of stagnant water. Fire and water are mutually reinforcing, so even if the feng shui in the tomb is destroyed, there is stagnant water in the underground palace and there is fire underneath, the two can still achieve a delicate balance. It's a pity that you just want to take away the box in the waist pit, and the ambergris leaves the ground, bringing an imbalance of water and fire, and the earth fire destroys everything. β
"Don't mention it! I'm angry when I talk about it! As soon as Qiu Ying's words fell, the monster sleeping on my top bunk couldn't help but bounce up, he poked his head down, and said excitedly to Qiu Ying: "That rotten waist pit can make me miserable." As for the box inside, I tried my best to bring it out, but guess what, take it back and take a look, there is no water in it, all of them are dense black lizards! You say it's not angry! β
"Some of the things in the tomb can be taken, and some of them can't." Qiu Ying said meaningfully.
"Hey, we died in that tomb, and we didn't get any good." The youkai creaked and rolled over again.
"It's not completely unrewarded, at least we found the enemy." The eagle said to the youkai.
Regarding the eagle's deliberate words to praise Qiu Ying, the monster snorted nonchalantly and did not say anything. But soon he asked Qiu Ying:
"I said-Master Qiu, I'm a person, I'm more curious, I want to ask, do you know who is the one lying with the subgroup? There are thirteen unique group photos on that person! β
"I don't know, but ...... I knew he must know someone. β
"Who?"
"Shanghai Tang's famous bag inquired: Little White Dragon, Ma Zheng."
Qiu Ying's answer piqued the interest of several of us. I have a little impression that the little white dragon he said was one of the two names on the note with black words, and the other name was San'er.
"But this Shanghai beach and the Xinjiang elders' meeting, eight poles can't be beaten." The youkai poked its head down again.
This is where Ma Zheng's ability lies. Ma Zheng is a detective. It was the detective in the Shanghai concession at that time. He is a well-informed person in the Thirteen Absolute Miles of Waves, there is nothing in the concession that he does not know, this person has extremely strong communication skills, and has connections throughout the country. It is also normal for him to be able to contact the Xinjiang Elders' Association. The one who was lying with the subgroup was supposed to be the one who was going to bring him the letter, but he didn't handle the job halfway and lost his life. β
Qiu Ying's answer made me more and more curious about the organization of Lang Taosha.
Just as the youkai was about to continue asking, the train lights out. Qiu Ying looked at the time and said that he wanted to go to bed, and their chat ended.
At lunch at noon the next day, the monster made a bowl of instant noodles, a few bottles of beer, and a few bags of peanuts. He sat on the bed of the eagle in the lower bunk, handed a bottle of wine to Qiu Ying and said, "Master Qiu, this train is too boring, why don't you tell us about the Thirteen Uniques?" Who are these thirteen people? β
Qiu Ying didn't seem to want to deal with the monsters.
"Master Qiu, my brother is a little straight, don't care." Seeing that Qiu Ying still didn't say anything, Eagle sat up from the bed and said.
"Idle is idle, Qiu Ye, we are all our own people now, let's talk!" The youkai said again.
Qiu Ying finally took the monster's wine, and said slowly: "If you want to talk about the thirteen uniques, you have to talk about the waves first." In the twenties of the last century, there was a bandit surnamed Gao in southern Fujian, and his wife was particularly keen on antiquities, so he selected a group of people from his subordinates and went underground. This group of people is the prototype of the waves. Later, the bandits surnamed Gao were terminated, and several of these people fled to Shanghai. At that time, Shanghai was a distribution center for cultural relics. So a few people relied on their own skills to get into the mix. When they arrived in Shanghai, there were five people, but after development, the number of people continued to increase, and the work became bigger and bigger. At that time, there was a merchant surnamed Bai in Nanjing, who learned a rumor about the treasure of the Taiping Army out of nowhere, and he hired people to dig on Qingliang Mountain for half a year, razed the two mountains and dug nothing, so he had no choice but to entrust the matter to Lang Taosha. There were a total of thirteen people involved in this matter, and these thirteen people found everything they needed to find in two days. So these thirteen people became famous in the circle and got the name 'Thirteen Taibao', which is what you call the Thirteen Uniques. At that time, this matter spread very well, and some good people even made up limericks to talk about them. β
"So, what does the poem say?" The youkai asked while eating instant noodles, with a look of relish.
"There is a sea of pestles underground, and it is really hungry for snowflakes. The silver dollar made the grinding and pushing ghosts, and the immortals from all walks of life gathered. The front foot flew to the white dragon horse, and the back foot Guanyin came to sprinkle water. Tan Tianshi, Ding Shenpo, find the right acupuncture points to work. The second sister of the Shen family came to support the boat, and the red-faced stonemason opened the door. Four horses in the south, barbarians in the north, plus a monk chanting scriptures. Zhang Wangba, Kong Wuye, finally invited to check it. It's done...... That's about it. Qiu Ying recalled.
"The white dragon horse is Ma Zheng. Tan Tianshi, Ding Shenpo, and the monk must be a god stick...... "After eating instant noodles, the monster picked his teeth while talking.
"That red-faced stonemason who opened the mountain is in charge of blasting, right?" I interjected.
"Yes, yes, yes! But the rest of it ......," the youkai said.
"You two don't guess, let Master Qiu continue." The eagle interrupted us.
Qiu Ying ate a few peanuts and said quite seriously: "These people are Yuan Datou Yuan Langshan, Xiaobailong Ma Zheng, Old Lady Wang of Cimian Guanyin, Tan Tianshi Qin Yu, Confused Immortal Ding Shenpo, Stone Mason Zhu Qi, Wang Bazhang Zhang Jiayuan, Honghui Shen Zhu, Barbarian Li Li Chong, My Grandfather Qiu Rengui, Monk Liu Bingtian and Kong Xianmin Kong Wuye. Each of these people will have a skill that will allow them to gain a foothold in the industry. During the Republic of China, the entire industrial chain of Taosha can be divided into three major links: production, supply and marketing. Production: It is to go to the ground to dig sand; For: Merchants take the goods; Sales: Generally divided into two kinds, one is sold domestically, and the other is sold abroad. Ordinary small gangs can only achieve two links in the industrial chain at most, while the organization of Lang Taosha can achieve three rings of all. β
"Isn't that a one-stop service?" The monster suddenly realized.
Qiu Ying nodded: "This is where its ability lies." For example, in the information of the industry alone, no one can compare to the waves. In this organization, there are three people who are responsible for collecting information, namely, Mrs. Wang, the head of the Li family, who is responsible for collecting information about Taosha, Li Chong, a Nanban who resells treasures to domestic merchants, and Ma Zheng, the little white dragon I just introduced to you, who is specifically responsible for selling things to foreigners. β
"It's unreasonable. Won't the two people in charge of selling it take it privately? It's all treasures! The youkai questioned.
"With Yuan Datou pressing, who dares to mess around. Every organization has a leader of each organization, and Yuan Langshan is the scoop of the waves. β
"Yuan Datou...... Hey, the leader of this wave of sand won't be chosen based on the size of his head, right? The monster laughed.
"Remember when I said about the five people who escaped from the bandits? Yuan Langshan was the leader of these five people, and when he arrived in Shanghai, he also attracted the rest of the people. This person is very deep in the city and is very good at winning people's hearts. My grandfather just followed him all the time, and he didn't have two hearts at all."
"By the way, you haven't said what your grandfather is doing after talking about it for a long time?"
"My grandfather...... My grandfather's name is Qiu Rengui, it was originally a drama, but unfortunately he didn't get through it when he collapsed, and he couldn't eat the bowl of rice in Liuxing, so he could only switch to hanging Zixing, which is martial arts, which can be divided into two types: light and dark. At that time, there was a shortage of soldiers, my grandfather practiced is a secret hanger, in the Jianghu dialect he is a 'black door barrier people', there are two kinds of dark hangings that drill the sky and enter the ground, the general dark hangers are only proficient in one of them, but my grandfather he is both light and proficient in digging walls and digging holes, he is good at heaven and earth, so he can have a place in the waves and sands. When he got older, he got sick, and there was a tumor under his left eye, and the people at that time jokingly called him Sima Shi, and it was rumored that he became a four-horse division, and then everyone called him Qiu Sima. When Qiu Ying told about his grandfather, his tone was full of pride, and even a little excited.
"Well, what about the others? What are the other people's abilities? β
"The others, except for the ones I mentioned above. Second Sister Shen, this person has excellent water nature, and the second sister must lead the way if there is a golden nest related to water. Wang Bazhang, what he is responsible for is called cultural relics restoration in our current words, as well as the reproduction of cultural relics, as long as it is a fake made by him, basically no one can see it. Liu Shantian, this manpower is amazing, and he can easily lift 500 catties of stones. As for Kong Xianmin, this person ...... Particularly capable. β
When Qiu Ying talked about Kong Xianmin, he showed a playful expression on his face, I don't know if he drank too much or was already familiar with us, the more he talked, the more he talked, "Kong Xianmin's greatest ability is in transportation, the most precious batch of pearls and treasures that were found at that time, what night pearl coral bead necklace and the like, were all shipped out by him, no matter how strict the search, he could deliver the treasure to the buyer safe and sound." β
"How did that work?" The eagle couldn't help but ask.
Kong Xianmin was originally from Jiangxi, and in his early years, he worked as a treasury soldier in the local treasury. During the Qing Dynasty, the government stipulated that when the soldiers entered the warehouse to work, they had to be naked, learn how to cry, and undergo strict inspections, in order to prevent the soldiers from stealing silver. But even so, Kubing still did it, how do you say they did it? Qiu Ying asked us.
"W-How do we know this!" The monster said with his hands on his chest.
Naked, you can steal a lot of money, where is it hidden?
"It can't be there!" I blurted out.
"Where?" The youkai looked at me and asked.
"There! That's it! I desperately explained.
"Where is that?" The youkai still don't understand.
"Where did you get what you eat?" I asked him.
"What to eat...... You mean...... Anus?! He exclaimed.
The eagle was drinking water and almost squirted it out in one gulp.
"Like those of them who are warehouse soldiers, they have to start practicing that part from a young age, at first they practice with eggs coated with sesame oil, and then they can change to larger duck eggs when they can come and go at will, then they are replaced with larger goose eggs, and finally they are replaced with iron eggs, and when there is no problem with iron eggs, they increase the number of iron eggs inside. Only by training that place to be flexible and flexible can you get oil and water as a warehouse soldier. However, this Kong Wuye was unlucky, not long after he became a treasury soldier, the Qing government fell. Qiu Ying explained.
"So he relied on that place for transportation?" The monster said with a look of disgust.
"He has to deliver the most important things, so that nothing goes wrong. You know the night pearl of the Empress Dowager Cixi, it once fell into the hands of Song Meiling, and then disappeared. In fact, it was sold abroad. How to get out, you can figure it out with your ass. Qiu Ying smiled evilly.
I suddenly felt the chrysanthemum tighten-
That's really a bead full of flavor.
We chatted until about three o'clock in the afternoon, and after a day of contact, I found that Qiu Ying was not as difficult to get along with as I imagined.
Seeing that the time train was about to arrive in Changchun, after packing my luggage, I was nibbling on my Harbin red sausage while thinking about the organization he said. I always felt that something was wrong, and after thinking about it, I realized that it was obviously the thirteenth and thirteenth Taibao, but Qiu Ying only introduced twelve people.
I asked Qiu Ying at the time, and Qiu Ying's answer was very simple, the thirteenth person died very early, and he didn't know who it was, only that the person's surname was Guan, because he loved to smoke duck slices, and he had a nickname called Duck Pian Guan.
At half-past four, the train finally arrived.
The weather in Tohoku was warmer than I expected, but the wind was unexpectedly strong, and my hair was flying wildly in the wind from the moment I got off the train.
Out of the train station, a man in a hat beckoned to us.
The man's name is Applejack, and he is a friend of Qiu Ying and Galu. He pushed us two suitcases and a couple of bags and said it was supplies for our outdoor trip. In fact, everyone knows that these are all sand digging guys.
Applejack repeatedly tells Qiu Ying to be safe. As he was leaving, Qiu Ying looked a little uneasy, and he said to Applejack:
"Let's come to the Northeast about this, don't tell your sister to know?"
Applejack couldn't help but smile when she heard Qiu Ying say this, nodded and left in a hurry.
After Applejack left, Hawk called the driver of our trip. A quarter of an hour later, a stocky man appeared in front of us and led us into the car.
It was half past five Beijing time, and the sky was slowly getting darker.