"Did you read the book last night?" As soon as I met Master Lu, he asked me with concern, which made me a little difficult to answer.

I then said, "I didn't have time to see anyone from home." ”

If I casually said that I had read it, wouldn't he be exposed immediately if he asked me a few words?

"Oh." Master Lu's expression was a little disappointed, but he still nodded. "The last three books are not in a hurry, but it is best to memorize the "Brief Record of the True Machines of the Cardinal" as soon as possible, which will be very beneficial for you to get started."

I nodded, and told myself in my heart that I would have to start memorizing the first book when I went back today.

This is not the kind of textbook that I used to read, and now that I have opened my eyes, there will definitely be all kinds of things coming to my door in the future. I'm like a baby walking in the downtown area with gold in my hand, there is danger at any time, hurry up and enter the road, and a little self-preservation is the right thing!

Master Cao smiled at me, as if he had seen through something.

The place we went to was the cultural and historical data room of the Provincial Archives, speaking of which, it was completely different from the situation in which I imagined the movie where the basement was full of cobwebs and needed to be gouged out from a large pile of dusty old antiques, and those records from fifty years ago were kept as historical materials, and boxes were placed in a special warehouse, and Master Lu didn't know what to show them, so a staff member took us up to the fourth floor, and then asked us to wait in a borrowing area outside.

About half an hour later, he used a small cart to transport several large boxes.

"Teachers, you can copy, but if you want to make copies and take pictures, you have to register them separately." The staff said routinely. "You can't alter and mark the data, you can't fold it, you can't tear it up, you can't take it away, these materials are unique, and you don't have it on the machine, and if it's broken, it's gone. I'm right there, call me if you need me. ”

He gave each of us a pair of gloves, gave us some bookmarks, and then pointed to the camera in the corner next to us: "Teachers, don't make it difficult for us." ”

All three of us nodded and started looking for what we needed.

This kind of searching for clues to something fifty years ago in the pile of old papers is interesting to say, but it is extremely boring to do.

Xu Youde is talking about "50 years ago", but we have discussed this matter before, and this is probably just a reference, so we decided to put all the materials from 55 years ago to 45 years ago into the scope of search, focusing on the events of 50 years ago, that is, around 1955.

The first thing we have to do is find the time when it happened.

Master Lu was in charge of reading the Wengen County Chronicles, Master Cao was in charge of reading the records of police and garrison movements and casualties, and I was in charge of reading the newspapers.

To be honest, at the beginning, I was still very interested, and I had a sense of mission and superiority to uncover the truth of history in movies, and every time I saw some historical events that I had learned in textbooks when I was in school, I would be excited, but after more than two hours of continuous scrolling, all my enthusiasm was exhausted.

At noon, he ate something casually outside the archives, moved his hands and feet, and began his hard and tedious work again before one o'clock, but fortunately, Master Cao soon found a record of this suspected incident.

In June 1952, August 1954, and February 1955, the garrison of Yuanshan City all had records of transferring troops to Wengen County, and the reason for all three times was "suppressing bandits." However, according to the historical documents consulted by Master Lu before, the post-war anti-bandit activities around Yuanshan City were concentrated between 48 and 50 years, and after 50 years, the activities of bandits were very rare, and almost all of them were handled by local police stations.

We immediately began to look for records from these three time periods and the next month or two, and as a result, Master Lu soon found a record in the anecdote column of Wengen County: "On the afternoon of the first year of the first year, eleven members of the Zhang Kuilu prospecting team of Heihezi Township disappeared, and the Wengen County Police Department and Land Bureau entered the township to search for them, but to no avail. Xin Wei, the Yuanshan City Police Department sent troops to Heihezi Township, and more than ten bandits were found. Renshen, Dengjiagou collapsed, there were foreign objects, guns were not afraid of it, the soldiers and people were not counted, and the rest burned the mountain with fire. ”

According to this narrative, it is basically the same as Xu Youde's description, the prospecting team disappeared in June, and in July the police department of Yuanshan City sent troops to Heihezi Township to search and rescue in July, and around mid-August, foreign objects appeared, and they were not afraid of the power of guns, causing huge casualties. Then someone set fire to the mountain, and the matter subsided.

But this "Nazhi" is very problematic, and it can be understood that the matter is solved, and it can also be understood that the monster has gone back temporarily.

Judging by what is happening now, most of the time it is just forcing the monster back.

But I doubt that such a record is true.

Master Lu continued to look back, and found another record not far away: "In the year of Yiwei Wuyin, there are Zhongzhou Qi refiners who enter Heihezi, look for foreign objects to cut them down, and set up a monument to town." ”

Zhongzhou probably said the Central Plains, but the most critical place is not clear, and it is too brief. How many Qi Refiners are here? How to find the foreign body? And by what means did you destroy it?

None.

The only effect is to confirm that such a thing has indeed happened.

But the authors of the county chronicle put it in the "anecdotes" section, and they probably didn't have much recognition of the authenticity of the matter.

We began to look through the newspapers of this period, Wengen is only a small county, it is impossible to have its own newspaper, and although Yuanshan City, which was the provincial capital at that time, there were more than a dozen newspapers of all sizes, but how many things in Wengen County were reported? We can only hope that there is a little bit of a clue left over from this incident at that time, and that we can find a solution to the problem.

It was a lot of work, and we searched through the archives at half past five and found nothing useful.

When I came home at night, my eyes were still full of all kinds of square words, and the books that Master Lu gave me were on the table, but I was now in the middle of a time when I thought about the words when I saw them, and I didn't have the heart to touch them at all.

The next morning, we met directly at the Provincial Archives, and after going through the borrowing procedures, we started working again without saying a word.

These newspapers are more than 50 years old, and at that time there was not such good technology as now, there were problems with paper and ink, most of the newspapers were protected by plastic paper, and many words became blurry and illegible. But we finally found something to do with it.

A newspaper called "Yuanshan Morning Post" recorded a news item on July 10, 1954, about the "eradication of the Wengen bandits," with a photograph of the remaining bandits caught at that time, and in the upper corner of the photograph was another small photograph that could not be seen clearly, which was supposed to be the commander who commanded the operation. The article is very simple, it is a news of Wengen's success in suppressing bandits, but what makes us pay attention to it is that it records the name of the inspector who led the team of the National Police Department at that time: Wu Qing.

If you can find some people who were involved or in the know at the time, you may be able to figure out what happened at that time.

Another valuable newspaper was the "Yuanshan Business Daily", which recorded the fifth anniversary celebration of the Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce in a news item on February 8, 1955, with photos.

The photo was already a little blurry, but Master Cao pointed to the two people on the right side of the photo and said, "These two should be cultivators." ”