Chapter 2: Half-Volume Sheet Music
In the sixties, the Longling Mountains were quite backward, the level of education was very low, and there were few literate people.
The mausoleum of General Fang Yuan has long been washed flat by the wind and rain of history, there is no hillside, let alone a tombstone, and there is no trace of history in the wilderness.
Therefore, even if it is a local, few people know the origin of Baigupo.
Besides, the pronunciation of our local dialect is not standard, and when you read it, it becomes "Bapuwo", and if you speak quickly, it sounds like "Ba Po", and no one cares what it means.
It was against this background of the times that several outsiders blew up the mausoleum of General Fang Yuan.
At that time, five outsiders came to the village, surnamed Xun, a big family in the south, who drove two cars into the village, saying that they had come to explore.
They spent money to hire a group of villagers to help dig holes in the back mountain, and the local people had never seen so much money, and they were scrambling to participate one by one, carrying hoes and shovels.
My grandfather was one of them.
Everyone dug for a whole week, no one knew what they were digging, anyway, as long as there was money to be made, the more they worked, the more energetic they became, and finally someone went down with a hoe and smashed on a stone pier, and the excavation work was over.
The area where the stone pier was dug was enclosed by Boss Xun and his group, preventing others from approaching.
I heard my grandfather say that the stone pier was the first one he dug up, and it was the sculpture on both sides of the tomb door.
My grandfather knew the words and was shocked when he saw it.
The original site of the legendary White Bone Slope, the place where Fang Yuan killed himself and the place where he was laid to rest, I am afraid that it really exists here, not a story made up by later generations out of thin air!
The people who come to work are all teenagers and twenties of Xiaomaotou, the education level is not high, basically no one understands the legend of Baigupo, everyone listens to the money, who cares about the rotten stones dug up.
Although my grandfather is only in his early twenties, he usually likes to chat, often chatting with the old men and women in the village, and has heard various versions of the legend of Baigupo.
So he was particularly curious.
So that night, my grandfather secretly ran to the back mountain to find out.
As a result, before I arrived, I heard a muffled bang, and the soles of my feet trembled, and I walked over and smelled a particularly strong smell of gunpowder, only to know that Boss Xun was blowing up the tomb underneath!
Archaeological prospectors, how could they destroy cultural relics, it was obviously a group of tomb robbers.
My grandfather went in without thinking anything, and when he went in, he found that the interior was quite badly damaged.
The real mausoleum is very fragile and not as indestructible as in the movie, and some of the brackets and roof pillars have been rotting for a long time, breaking at the slightest touch, and how can they withstand the blasting of explosives.
Signs of collapse are everywhere.
The murals on the walls were burned beyond recognition by gunpowder, and the ground was full of broken porcelain, and Boss Xun seemed to be stealing with a purpose, and he didn't care about these precious cultural relics in the eyes of ordinary people.
The more my grandfather looked at it, the more angry he became, so he picked up a stick from the ground and touched it towards the bright place.
When I walked to the door of the main burial chamber, I saw five people around a coffin, prying back and forth, and was about to open the frame.
My grandfather immediately shouted, "Hey! What are you doing? ”
His voice was already loud, especially in a small space like the tomb, which scared the people so much that they almost sat on the ground......
This sparked a shopping spree.
A one-on-five contest!
When my grandfather told me this story, he talked about how awesome he was back then, and he beat the other person to the head with a stick in his hand.
Actually, it wasn't, as far as I know, the fight was so tragic that he often had headaches when he got older.
At that time, he did put down four people, but he was also hit with a brick and his head was bleeding, and his face was covered with blood, and he couldn't stop flowing, and he couldn't stop flowing, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
Vaguely, I saw Boss Xun pry the coffin open and took out something from it.
My grandfather got up from the ground with all his might, grabbed the thing and ran out, but he didn't expect it to be a coarse cloth, which he pulled violently and tore it in half from the middle.
Half of it was in the hands of Boss Xun, and half was taken away by my grandfather, who ran home at night.
My grandfather was able to run away smoothly, thanks to Boss Xun They blew up the tomb and blew up a large piece of adobe in the tomb, my grandfather couldn't see the road clearly when he ran, and accidentally hit the bracket, and the broken earth and stones collapsed all at once, directly sealing the tomb and sealing Boss Xun and them in the tomb all night.
When I got home, my grandfather took out the half of the coarse cloth and looked at it carefully, and almost stared out his eyes, so shocked that he forgot the pain.
It's half a sheet music!
The half that my grandfather tore off happened to have a payment, and there were two names clearly written on it - Fang Yuan and Yue!
I can't help but think of the legend of Baigupo again, Fang Yuan cooperated with Yue'er on a score before leaving, and on the day of returning from the scientific expedition, on the night of the candles in the cave room, you hold the recorder, I play the horizontal flute, and play a soulful chorus......
It turned out to be true!
My grandfather didn't dare to think about it anymore, and stayed up all night with the half of the music score he had snatched.
After dawn, Boss Xun and his group crawled out of the tomb, all of them disgraced, and the first thing they did was to settle accounts with my grandfather.
They approached the home and threatened to hand over either the score or their lives.
But my grandfather is not a good stubble, and the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, so there was another one-on-five battle in the yard......
My grandfather was carrying a troll, the kind of shotgun used to fight wild boars, and it was a steel ball, which was so powerful that even wild boars could kill them, let alone people.
Boss Xun took out a military-standard pistol, loaded it with real ammunition.
Both sides were very tough, and neither side would budge, and the confrontation lasted for more than an hour.
Here's what the conversation looks like:
"I advise you to hand it over honestly!"
"It's not yours, why give it to you?"
"I found it first, it's mine!"
"Even if it's yours, you cut my head open, and this half rag should be used as compensation for my medical expenses!"
"What the hell did you do to my four brothers, the third child is going to be cut off, and I haven't asked you for medical expenses!"
"You hit me first!"
"Little brat, less! What I Xun Chenghu wanted, Tianwang Laozi also had to give! Don't force me to do it! ”
"Then you shoot, one life for five lives, I can laugh when I die!"
"Heh, can you call it a gun with your thing? Have my fast? ”
"Hurry up, you'll shoot me quickly, anyway, if I die, you won't even want to find that half of the score in your life!"
“……”
This dialogue is not made up by me, this is the description of my grandfather when he told me the story, and the degree of restoration should be more than 90%.
At that time, my grandfather was 21 and Boss Xun was 35, the age gap was not very large, and the people of that era were all rectums and tendons, and they could not judge the words and deeds of people at that time with the thinking of people now.
After more than an hour of confrontation, my grandfather's shotgun was too heavy to move......
There happened to be a firewood stove next to him, and he took out the music sheet from his arms, and he was about to throw it into it, which scared Boss Xun away.
In the end, Boss Xun threw down a sentence: "You have a kind!" Wait! Then he went away angrily.
Two days later, Boss Xun came to the door again with thirty gold bars.
In the sixties, three big yellow croakers could buy this small village, and Boss Xun gave thirty big yellow croakers, just for half a rag, and it is estimated that everyone feels that they are dreaming.
Boss Xun said: "I can give you thirty gold bars, and I can also use these thirty gold bars to buy the lives of your whole family!" ”
Heaven on the left hand, hell on the right.
This is an ultimatum from Boss Xun.
My grandfather's temper is more stubborn than that of a cow, and he doesn't want to let go of glory and wealth, he actually said to Boss Xun: "Rich and amazing?" You go and inquire, am I Dong Xiaotian a greedy person! Since in your eyes, music scores are more important than human lives, why don't you exchange your life for it? ”
Unexpectedly, Boss Xun was also stunned, loaded the gun, slapped it on the table, and said: "This is what you said, I will put my life here now, there is a kind of you take it!" If you don't accept it, that's your problem, a spit and a nail! ”
“……”
I have to admit that Boss Xun is really awesome.
Even if my grandfather mixes again, it is impossible to pick up the gun and destroy Boss Xun, there is no benefit.
Negotiations between men are all lost.
My grandfather was convinced, and said to Boss Xun: "Big brother, you are so awesome, the score can be given to you, and I don't want your dog's life, but I have a condition......"
As for what conditions my grandfather proposed, I will sell them for the time being, because this condition directly affects my life and is the focus of the next talk.
Let's go back and talk about Fang Yuan's tomb.
Many people may ask, since there is a music sheet in the tomb, has the bone flute been found?
The answer is no.
Boss Xun and his group turned Fang Yuan's tomb upside down, touched every corner, and made sure that there was no legendary bone flute.
But there was a very strange discovery.
Fang Yuan's tomb was a standard joint burial tomb, and even the coffin was a double joint burial coffin, but there was only Fang Yuan's bones.
Moreover, when they entered, each stone door had a thousand-year-old seal on it, and the mausoleum was tightly sealed, indicating that it had never been stolen before.
In a joint burial tomb, only one person is buried.
A double coffin, accompanied by only one sheet music.
And on the music score, Yue'er's name is written.
All the signs are conveying a message, the legendary love story really happened, human bones are flutes, and the poignancy is no less than that of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, I don't know why, drowned in the river of history and disappeared.
Leaving for posterity, there is only a yellowed score that can be studied, but it was inadvertently torn in half by my grandfather, which is why Boss Xun wants to get it at all costs.
My grandfather's condition was: "This half of the sheet music will be given to you as a bride price." ”
So there was a family marriage, and the generations were married.
So the two halves of the score were merged back together.
As a result, generations of people have spared no effort in their pursuit, and finally led to an earth-shattering and appalling secret.
The sound of the flute is long, and it will not stop for thousands of years......