When I woke up again, I found the three of us tied up and left in the middle of the living room.

I looked around and the dean and his beret-wearing daughter were sitting on the couch across from us, and behind them stood the bearded and the tall, thin bodyguard who had captured us. On the other couch sat an old lady with gray hair, her face was wrinkled, but her expression was serious, and she looked at her as if she were looking at an ancient book of laws that could not be questioned.

When the dean saw that we had all woken up, he gave a look to the two bodyguards behind him, and they walked towards us. At first I thought I was going to be beaten badly, but who knew they were coming to untie us. Not only that, but the dean even ordered the nanny to make us tea and said that it was shocking, and it was the first time that he had treated the three burglars with such kindness.

"I didn't expect us to meet again so soon." The dean looked at me and Zheng Tian with a smile on his face, which made us ashamed, and then he said: "It's better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, and I, Wei, am not a stingy person, since you are also interested in these seven employment pictures, it is better to appreciate them together." ”

While saying that, he also asked his daughter to spread the half of the painting on the table, although Uncle Dao was very vigilant, but he was still very excited to see the half of the open scroll, he stood up and walked to the side of the painting and looked at it attentively.

Zheng Tian also stepped forward curiously, looking thoughtful. This is the first time I've seen this painting of Li Daoyuan's "Seven Jobs" up close, but to be honest, I don't see anything special at all, I feel like it's just an ordinary landscape painting.

After a while, Uncle Dao retracted his gaze, turned to look at the dean, and said, "My friend has done everything possible to set up such a bureau to lure me into the bait, so there is no need to beat around and grind my feet anymore, please say anything directly." ”

It seems that Uncle Dao has known for a long time that the dean is the seller. As soon as his words came out, Zheng Tian and I became alert again, after all, he was not a real guest, and he must have other intentions to be so good to us all of a sudden, and according to our previous speculation, this dean standing in front of us was probably not true.

Dean Wei smiled and helped his glasses, gestured to us to sit down, and then said leisurely: "Let me introduce first, the contemptible surname is Wei, and the name is Xuzhi." That's my mother, and this is my daughter, Wei Yin. Then he added, "Mr. Dian was invited solely because of my mother." ”

After Wei Xuzhi finished speaking, I glanced at the old lady sitting on the other sofa, she still had an antique face, which made people feel not very close.

"Do you know this guy?" Mrs. Nawei took a sip of tea, then slowly pulled out a black-and-white photo from her pocket to show us.

On the photo, there was a middle-aged soldier in military uniform holding a horsewhip in his hand, looking at the outfit, it should be a national army officer during the Republic of China, Zheng Tian and I naturally didn't know each other, so I threw my eyes on Uncle Dao, who frowned and stared at the photo for a moment and then shook his head.

"What about this man? You should know each other. Mrs. Wei then took out a black and white photo, and as soon as I saw it for the first time, I almost screamed out, and nodded again and again: "Yes, of course I know!" "The person in the photo is my grandfather, Dian Nansan.

Uncle Dao also nodded, "It's a photo of our old man when he was young." Then he asked tentatively: "The one just now, could it be Senior Colonel Wei Hengfu, the commander of the 51st Division of Nanjing City Defense back then?" ”

As soon as I heard this name, I suddenly felt familiar, and suddenly thought that it was the officer mentioned in my grandfather's handwritten letter who went down to the tomb with him to find the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"Yes, it's the ancestor." Wei Xuzhi said slowly. Then he said: "Back then, the ancestor said that he received an important task, and then he disappeared. At that time, my mother and my father of the same clan had just gotten married, and they searched for it in many ways but to no avail, until 49 years after going to Taiwan, my father learned some of the situation from a confidant of Tang Shengzhi, the former commander of the Nanjing garrison, who had warned my father that the commander of the guard was likely to have died for the country, and the action of that year was a state secret so that he had better not interfere, but my father and mother had been trapped in this mystery, so after 87 years, he returned to Nanjing as a businessman. My father also spent money to buy an abandoned hospital at the foot of Zanglong Mountain and reopened it. Then he lived in Zanglong Mountain for a long time, trying to find clues in the place where his ancestors disappeared. My father passed away a year ago, but I still remember the mystery of that year, and told us that his body was placed in the study on the third floor, facing the Zanglong Mountain outside the window, until the day the truth was revealed. ”

Hearing this, Zheng Tian and I looked at each other awkwardly, and couldn't help admiring our exaggerated imagination, thinking that it was fortunate that I didn't ask Wei Xuzhi face-to-face if he was fake or had any conspiracy, otherwise he would definitely be despised and his IQ would be worrying.

"Unfortunately, we couldn't find the entrance to the tomb. Just when we were no longer holding out any hope, I stumbled upon this half of the painting overseas a few months ago, along with this photograph with the three characters of Dian Nan written on it. So we tried our best to contact the descendants of Dian Nansan, wanting to uncover the mystery of the year, in order to comfort the spirits of our ancestors and my father in the sky, and at the same time fulfill my mother's last wish. ”

When Wei Xuzhi finished speaking, I noticed that the corners of Mrs. Wei's eyes covered with crow's feet were a little moist, which was very different from her previous old-fashioned and serious expression. It's no wonder that when she was a daughter, her father's disappearance became a mystery, and now she has become a white-haired old woman, but this mystery has not been solved.

"But in fact, we don't know too many secrets. Our old man did come out alive, but he never mentioned it to us until after his death a few years ago, when I received news from the Russian side that it was related to the old man - and it was then that I began to pay attention to this matter. After listening to Wei Xuzhi's story, Uncle Dao spoke.

"It seems that you also want to know what the truth of the matter is." Wei Xuzhi said.

Uncle Dao nodded.

"Then please show your housekeeping skills and help us find the entrance to the tomb from this Zanglong Mountain, the truth is in the tomb." Wei Yin beside Wei Xuzhi said straightforwardly.

"Housekeeping skills?" Uncle Dao smiled, "It seems that you have a clear understanding of my bottom line, but I have already washed my hands in the golden basin, and now I am a serious businessman." ”

After listening to their conversation, I almost understood in my heart what Uncle Dao had made his fortune all these years.

"Damn, your uncle is a native master? Next time, our program asks him to do a column interview, and the broadcast will be ironclad. Zheng Tian whispered to me.

I thought to myself that your show was on fire, and Uncle Dao was invited to tea by the police and couldn't come out again.

"Now is a society governed by the rule of law, and we didn't say that we asked you to do something illegal, but this is a matter of the secret of our two families, as the descendants of the family, do we have the responsibility to uncover it?" Wei Xuzhi raised the half-scroll painting in his hand and continued, "What's more, the other half-scroll is likely to be still in that ancient tomb." ”

I noticed that Uncle Dao's eyes had fallen on half of the painting, and I must have been moved by it, and at this time, Zheng Tian, who was beside me, also echoed and said loudly: "Of course I go!" Maybe the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be hidden in that painting! ”

Uncle Dao glanced at Zheng Tian, shook his head and said, "It's too dangerous inside, I'm afraid you won't have the life to take it out." In this way, Chengzi and Zheng Tian will stay here, and I will contact a few friends on the road to go down together, so that the chances of winning will be better. ”

I was quite unhappy to hear it, and as a family heirloom, it was incumbent on me to retrieve the other half of the painting and reveal the secret. But now Uncle Dao still treats me as a child or a burden, so he shouts that he wants to go together, and Zheng Tian also said that he has to go.

The father and daughter of the Wei family were also determined to follow, saying that this was something that their family had been pursuing for decades, and they must personally go down to bring back the remains of their ancestors. I saw that Wei Xuzhidu agreed to take his daughter down, but Uncle Dao still didn't agree to me going, and my heart was angry, could I not be as manly as a woman?

At this time, Na Wei Yin glanced at me coldly and responded defiantly: "When I was studying in the United States, I won the runner-up in the MMA free fighting women's group, may I ask what you are capable of as a four-eyed boy?" ”

When I heard this, my heart was even more blocked, and I casually uttered a stupid sentence that made me extremely ashamed for a long time after that: "You are just a runner-up, what's so great?" If I go to the championship, I'm the only one. ”

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the four were shocked, and Zheng Tian silently gave me a thumbs up. Realizing that his brain was pumping, he hurriedly added unashamedly: "I mean the men's group." ”

"You think you'll be able to take advantage of it in the women's division? Waste everywhere is waste. Wei Yin said disdainfully.

"Hey! I didn't expect this little girl to have a lot of personality. Zheng Tian arched me with black lines on his face, and said in a joke tone.

Uncle Dao couldn't hold his face, so he immediately stopped me, and reluctantly agreed to take me down, just asking me to promise that everything would obey his arrangement after I went in, and I couldn't run around casually.

I nodded again and again, and then something suddenly came to my mind, so I asked Dean Wei, "Dean, is there any forest guard army on this Zanglong Mountain?" It's best not to alarm them when we go, because Zheng Tian and I were caught by them last time and almost didn't get out. ”

The dean frowned, shook his head, and said, "Army? There is no army on this mountain, at most the Forestry Bureau will send some mountain watchers to inspect the mountain forest. ”

I thought it was very strange when I heard this, although the gang that arrested me and Zheng Tian last time was not wearing traditional army camouflage, but at a glance they knew that they had undergone formal training and were all well-equipped, not like ordinary staff of the Forestry Bureau. Who are they?

At this time, Wei Yin also said with a surprised expression: "I remembered!" About half a year ago, when we were last going up the hill to look for the entrance to the tomb, I saw a group of strangely dressed people by a mountain stream, all of them with guns, as if they were hunting something, and I hid and didn't see it clearly. ”

"Oh? Have you met them? Wei Xuzhi put down the teacup in his hand and said in an aggravated tone.

"Yes, I thought they were hunting, but then I forgot about it." Wei Yin continued.

"Looks like we're not the only ones looking for that tomb." Uncle Dao said.

"Nope." I shook my head. "I always felt that the men were not looking for graves, but when I thought about it, they seemed to be very familiar with the situation on the mountain, and they had been active in the mountain for a long time, and they would immediately expel anyone with other intentions. They look more like ...... It's more like a group of mausoleum guards who are not noticed by modern civilization. ”

"Tomb keeper? It seems that you usually read a lot of movies and novels. Wei Yin sneered.

"When the time comes, we'll be a little careful. I'll go back and contact an experienced helper first, and prepare some necessary items by the way, after all, the inverted bucket is not camping, you need to prepare well, and we will see you here on Sunday. Uncle Dao said.

Wei Xuzhi nodded and stretched out a hand: "Qingshan does not change"

Uncle Dao smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and held it: "Green water flows forever"