The ninth year of the Republic of China, 1920, September.

On the same day that Qin Beiyang and Xiaojunwang were trapped in the underground palace of the Li Mausoleum in the Altai Mountains, they crossed the desert, Yinshan, the Great Wall, and the Yellow River five thousand miles away......

Luoyang, Henan.

Twenty miles south of the city, under the Longmen Mountain on both sides of the Yishui River, there are densely covered with the grottoes excavated by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Tang and Song dynasties, and the most magnificent and great is the Lushena Buddha in the Fengxian Temple. At the bottom of this magnificent, majestic Buddha statue hides a deep cave, a place of practice for ascetics in the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Mu looked at Yishui outside the cave, the common scenery of childhood, and went up ten miles against the current, which is his hometown, the tomb robbery village.

It's been almost five years since he left his hometown, and Xiaomu is twenty-two years old. After his father's death, he singled out as a tomb robber, was arrested by the Beiyang Army, dug a tomb for a warlord in Shaanxi, entered the tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Bailuyuan, and was burned off a finger by the tomb beast Jiuse. Unforgettable little prince in the coffin. In order to track down the coffin, he met Qin Beiyang in Shanghai and was surprised to find that his face resembled that of the little prince. After experiencing the Hongkou Hunting House Massacre, he was imprisoned for more than half a year in the East China Sea Dharma Mountain, and then went to Japan with the sea girl. In the Qin Dynasty underground palace of Yoshino Ancient Tomb, Xiao Mu actually killed Xu Fu two thousand years ago and stole the elixir of immortality......

In the early spring of this year, on the banks of the frozen Mudanjiang River in the three eastern provinces, in the ancient tomb with seven stone steps, Xiao Mu was trapped for a month and was still alive, proving that the elixir of immortality is effective. Encountering Qin Beiyang again, and the assassins who followed him, he was favored by fate, and Xiao Mu escaped.

Along the South Manchurian Railway, go south and enter the Shanhaiguan. The ama always followed left and right, and the two children called Xiaomu Daddy. The ama has become a Northeast girl, learned to smoke a big cigarette pouch pole, and has nothing to do to chat with people, thinking that her life on the island is too lonely. She had a small silver Buddha statue hidden on her body, protected as the root of her life—unbeknownst to her, twelve elixirs of immortality were hidden inside.

It's not that Xiao Mu didn't think about selling these pills in exchange for a large sum of money. Anyway, he had eaten it himself, and it would be a disaster to stay around so much. But apart from Qin Beiyang, Haneda Taishu, and Qi Yuanshan, who would believe him? If someone tells you that he has the elixir of immortality, and asks you if you want one grain of a thousand oceans? Most of them are regarded as crazy or charlatans, and are directly sent to the official yamen.

Inside the Great Wall, ancient tombs are buried in every inch of the ground. Xiaomu returned to his old business and turned over many tombs in Zhili Province, including the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the Tang and Song Dynasties. But he was really unable to do it on his own, and even if he dug up many treasures, he didn't have the strength to bring them out, such as a large bronze vessel weighing hundreds of catties. He encountered a lot of dangers, thinking about immortality, if he fell into the ancient tomb and couldn't get out, and waited until the old sea of heaven and earth withered and rotten, he was just sentenced to life imprisonment, it was better to collapse with one shot.

He didn't think of washing his hands in a golden basin, but to expand his manpower, and it was best to have a group of men and horses to help him release the wind, dig the grave, open the coffin, and carry the treasure......

Xiao Mu thought of his hometown - Henan, Luoyang, tomb robbery village.

Half a month ago, he got off the train in Luoyang, who would have expected to meet Qi Yuanshan and Ouyang Anna. Xiaomu reacted quickly and immediately dragged the ama and two children to escape. He was timid by nature, cautious and careful, and did not return to the tomb robbery village for the time being, but hid in the Longmen Grottoes in the south of Luoyang City, and went out day and night in the dilapidated cave under the Lushena Buddha.

Lived in seclusion for a few days, walked out of the cave, and looked up at the big Buddha above his head, which is said to be modeled after the face of Empress Wu Zetian. Xiao Mu thought to himself, do people say that the Buddha is merciful and blesses all living beings, including Tufuzi?

"Daughters-in-law, dolls, it's time to go back to my hometown with me."

Xiao Mu left the Longmen Grottoes with the ama and the child, and went upstream along the Yishui. Looking at the tomb robbery village from afar, on a barren loess slope, there are densely packed brick houses, just like countless tombs.

There are a few acres of thin fields near the village, all of which are old and weak, sick and disabled who are attracting cattle to cultivate. The sturdy and adult men naturally went out to dig graves. Timid to the hometown, Xiaomu walked to the entrance of the village, only to see an old locust tree with a crooked neck, hanging the bronze bell of the ancient tomb of the Warring States Period, and the epitaph of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties at the bottom.

Several rural women are doing needlework, and Kogi greets them.

"It's not ...... Kogi? The sisters-in-law waved their hands, "It's still so fine skin and tender meat, right?" ”

This sentence made Xiao Mu's face sink, and he dragged the ama and the child to walk inside, and the women hurriedly said, "Oops! Our mouths are really cheap, you have a mother-in-law who has given birth, okay, okay. ”

Leave home for five years and find your former home. It is uninhabited all year round and is in a state of semi-collapsed desolation. Xiao Mu touched the copper door nose of the gate, the Tang Sancai night pot that his father dug out of the tomb, he peed in it since he was a child, and he couldn't help but moisten his eyes.

The ama hooked his fingers with her little thumb, leaned on the man's shoulder and said, "I don't dislike this family." ”

He looked back at the ama gratefully and kissed her on the cheek.

Suddenly, someone behind his back said, "Hey, isn't this Xiaomu?" ”

"Brother Wolf."

Xiao Mu saw a tall man, in his thirties, with a crescent-shaped scar on his bare head.

"My daughter-in-law is very beautiful."

Brother Wolf stared at the ama and reached out to touch her chin, but he didn't expect the ama to grab the acupuncture point on his wrist and pull out the fish knife on his waist. Brother Wolf was pinched so much that he almost fainted, but after all, he was tall and strong, and he broke free and said: "Little Niu Ziye, I like it, I must be sassy in bed." ”

It's not that the ama hasn't killed anyone, and was about to cut his stomach with a fish knife, but Xiao Mu held down his arm and said coldly: "Brother Wolf, we grew up together, bullying my brother's daughter-in-law, it's not righteous, right?" ”

"Xiaomu, I remember, the last time we fought, you were pressed into the crotch of my pants and licked my asshole."

Brother Wolf laughed, and there were seven or eight small followers behind him, each of whom carried a big burden and had pots and jars in his hands, and had just returned from robbing tombs in other places.

said such insulting words, but Xiao Mu couldn't bear it, and dragged the sea girl to leave, but was stopped by Brother Wolf: "Since you call me brother, but your younger brother, why didn't you go back to the tomb robbery village?" ”

"I ......" Xiao Mu seemed to go back to the years when he was a child and was bullied everywhere, "I want to find a few partners to help me." ”

"You are also worthy of being a Tufuzi? Do you deserve someone to do it for you? I think you just follow me, as for your daughter-in-law, the old rules, the boss will take care of her. ”

Brother Wolf has now become the boss, and he has led a team to dig graves everywhere, and he has also made a lot of windfalls over the years. The men, women and children in the village all gathered around, no less than 100 people, both green skin and raw melons and eggs. The women either point fingers at Kogi or coax the two children of the ama to play.

Xiao Mu looked around, his face was pale, and he was bullied since he was a child. But in this grave robbery village, he was the only child born in a tomb.

So, he regained his courage and said loudly: "Fathers and villagers of the tomb robbery village, I Xiaomu is back!" Over the years, I have dug up several large tombs that none of you dare to dig, for example, the tomb of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty in Bailuyuan, Shaanxi. ”

Before the words fell, there was an uproar below, this tomb was also an extremely important position in the heart of the tomb robbery village. He held up his left hand and showed a burned finger, like a man's medallion.

"See? That's what the Tomb Beast did. But I survived! I also opened the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty and touched his face! ”

At this time, the tomb robbery village exploded, and men, women and children exchanged ears, as if the thin and dry little wood in front of him had done an earth-shattering cause.