At this time, Xiao Chujiu, Xiao Eleven, and the little ghost monkey, two people and one monkey, either with chopsticks or under the child, were eating deliciously one by one, completely ignoring what my grandfather and Xiao Laodao were talking about.

Xiao Laodao smiled at my grandfather again, and at this time, my grandfather felt that his smile was not so ugly.

Xiao Laodao said excitedly to my grandfather: "If Brother Liu is willing to help, then the three of us masters and apprentices will be like a tiger with wings, and taking that great wealth and fortune will be like taking something from a bag, and we will catch it!" Xiao Laodao was already a little drunk at this time, and as he spoke, he gestured with the chopsticks in his hand.

Although my grandfather promised to help him at this time, he never knew what he meant by "wealth", wouldn't it be murder and overkill?

So, my grandfather asked Xiao Laodao: "Brother Xiao, what do you mean by great wealth?" ”

Hearing my grandfather's question, Xiao Laodao's drunken eyes suddenly showed a trace of sobriety, looked around, and saw that there was no one in the hall, so he lowered his voice and said to my grandfather: "Don't hide it from Brother Liu, the three of us master and apprentice are in the business of digging soil, and we are taking the wealth in the coffin." ”

As soon as Xiao Laodao said this, my grandfather immediately understood that the three masters and apprentices of Xiao Laodao were tomb robbers, and he couldn't help frowning at the moment.

As I said earlier, stealing graves and digging graves in the Qing Dynasty is a serious crime, and it will be connected to the nine clans, although my grandfather doesn't care about the so-called court laws, but this kind of thing, on the other hand, is extremely damaging to yin morality, this, my great-grandfather told him that not only is the yin in the tomb heavy, but the living people entering the tomb will also destroy the balance of yin and yang inside, causing the undead inside to be uneasy, if you take the things inside, it will be even worse, and even will be entangled by the ghosts in the tomb or be viciously cursed. My great-grandfather used to deal with a few cases of grave robbers who were crazy or stupid, and they were much more difficult to deal with than ordinary people.

My grandfather looked at the three masters and apprentices of Xiao Laodao at this time, no wonder the three masters and apprentices were all bloodless and pale, one was that they were out at night all day and night, and they didn't see the sun; The second is that they have been in and out of the tomb for a long time, and they have been gradually invaded by the corpse poison or yin qi remaining inside. My grandfather regretted that his mouth was too fast just now.

Xiao Laodao didn't seem to notice the change in my grandfather's expression, and continued to lower his voice and said: "Tongguan, the Song Dynasty was the most prosperous, the great wealth of Sanshi Mountain, according to my brother, it looks like a Song Dynasty tomb, from the geographical context, it is a royal cemetery, and it has not been taken out yet, and the valuable 'melons and fruits' in it will not be less, and when the time comes, it will be taken out, and it is indispensable to share a share of Brother Liu." ”

Tongguan, adjacent to Xianyang in the south and Yan'an in the north, was Tongguan County at that time, under the jurisdiction of Xi'an Prefecture, which is now Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, and Sanshi Mountain is about 40 kilometers northwest of the suburbs of Tongchuan City.

My grandfather hesitated at this time, thinking about what our family does, exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts, people like us have a great awe of ghosts and gods, and pay attention to the balance of yin and yang in the coexistence of humans and ghosts.

My grandfather thought about it, and said to Xiao Laodao: "Brother Xiao, if you have other things to ask me to help with, it's easy to say, brother is duty-bound, it's just this matter of stealing graves and digging graves......"

"Brother Liu, what do you mean by stealing graves and digging graves?" Without waiting for my grandfather to finish speaking, Xiao Laodao waved the chopsticks in his hand and interrupted: "Don't say it so ugly, those princes and ministers, there are a few good things, when they are alive, they are clothed and fed, they oppress the people, and they still dominate so many good things when they die, there are frozen bones on the road, and Zhumen's wine and meat stink, is this fair?" In other words, should the objects that were buried for them be theirs, princes and generals, rather than a kind? ”

"This ......" When my grandfather heard Xiao Laodao's words, what he said was not unreasonable, and then thoughtfully picked up the wine bowl on the table and took a big sip.

Xiao Laodao continued: "Don't talk about others, just say Brother Liu, you ran away from marriage and left home, am I right?" ”

My grandfather nodded.

"When others go out to walk the rivers and lakes, they all return home in high-headed clothes, what about you? It's been almost a year since you came out, look at yourself, the famous dragon slayer, the little young master in Cai's mansion back then, actually fell to the point of performing on the street, just like you, are you embarrassed to go back? Do you have the face to come home to see your parents? ”

Xiao Laodao's words made my grandfather a little unbearable, his face was red for a while and white for a while, think about it carefully, what Xiao Laodao said is not wrong at all, it has been almost a year since he left home, what have he done? Buskers sleeping in the middle of nowhere? Now I'm running back in a gray way, where will I put this face in the future, and how will I go out to meet people?

My grandfather didn't think about it so much before, he just wanted to go home to see his father, and when Xiao Laodao said this, he immediately threw the idea of going home out of the clouds.

At this time, Xiao Laodao picked up the wine bowl: "Brother Liu, come, drink." ”

My grandfather picked up the wine bowl and touched it with Xiao Laodao.

Xiao Laodao took a big sip of wine and continued: "A good man is ambitious in all directions, and he will return to his hometown after becoming famous, as long as you accompany my brother and I to take this wealth, it is indispensable to share a few thousand taels of silver for you, and when the time comes, the scenery will go home, wouldn't it be ......"

"Don't talk about Brother Xiao." Without waiting for Xiao Laodao to finish speaking, my grandfather picked up the wine bowl again, "How to get this wealth, Brother Xiao just orders!" ”

That's it, my grandfather took the little ghost monkey and fooled around with Xiao Laodao's master and apprentice.

As I said earlier, I wrote an anecdote about our ancestors and my exorcism and catching ghosts, and my grandfather stealing graves and digging graves seems to have nothing to do with exorcism and catching ghosts, so in this paragraph, I will skip not writing and write directly about those things related to ghosts and gods.

Straight to the point. The tomb of Sanshishan in Tongguan County is indeed a royal cemetery, and the burial does not know which emperor's relatives in the Song Dynasty, and there are indeed a lot of good things in the tomb, but at that time, the tomb robbers still paid more attention to the real money and silver in the tomb, followed by jade, and basically no one took porcelain. In this way, it is actually impossible to get much out of digging a prince's tomb. That time, my grandfather only received a few hundred taels of silver, which was far from the thousands of taels that Xiao Laodao said.

I have never seen this royal cemetery in any news or related information, perhaps, this ancient tomb has not been discovered so far, or perhaps, it has been destroyed beyond recognition, and it is long gone.

As far as I know, some ancient tombs are built very peculiarly, you don't touch it, there is nothing at all, once it is stolen and dug, there will be some natural phenomena such as floods and landslides in a few years, resulting in descendants can no longer find the specific location of the tomb, some people say that these tombs are built when the tomb is skillfully integrated into the feng shui vein of that area, and the tomb has become a part of the qi vein, at this time once the tomb robbers enter the ancient tomb, it will destroy the qi vein pattern in that area, just like a needle eye on the full balloon, As a direct result, the qi veins were disturbed, and many seemingly natural disasters occurred, so that the ancient tomb has never been traced. The royal cemetery that my grandfather stole has not been discovered so far, and it is possible that this is the case.

Of course, friends in Tongchuan can also go there to look for it, and if you are lucky, you may be able to find a brick and a half. Sanshi Mountain, also known as Daxiang Mountain, I heard that it is now a scenic tourist area, and there is a temple on the mountain where the incense is very strong, but I have never been there, because I know very well that with the passage of time, even if I get there, it is impossible to see the traces left by my grandfather.

Straight to the point. This time, because of the small amount of money distributed, it was not up to the level of returning to the hometown, so my grandfather followed Xiao Laodao's master and apprentice to completely engage in the business of stealing graves and digging graves.

In fact, the tomb robbery industry is not as mysterious and unpredictable as it is written, what zombie corpses hug the coffin ghosts, it is basically nonsense, at best, there are one or two rotten and unsightly bone frames, as long as it is not disgusting, after the coffin board is pried open, the contents can be taken casually.

Time flies, time flies, three years have passed, and the time soon came to 1890 AD, that is, the sixteenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the year of Gengyin. This year, my grandfather was twenty-three years old, my great-grandfather was sixty-three, and my great-grandmother was forty-five.

On March 17 of that year, Shengtai, the minister of the Qing government in Tibet, and Langston, the British Viceroy of India, signed an unequal treaty in Calcutta, India, known as the "Sino-British Conference Tibet-India Treaty".

In May of the same year, a large number of foreigners, in the name of expedition groups, poured into Xinjiang, Tibet and other places, under the pretext of expedition and investigation, wantonly excavated underground tombs, which not only caused the loss of many treasures, but also caused the ancient civilization of the Western Regions to be riddled with holes and irreparable faults.

In September of the same year, my grandfather and Xiao Laodao were invited to come to Yumen Pass in the northwest.

Yumen Pass, for the ancient Silk Road to the Western Regions of the throat of the artery, Qiang Di why complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass.

Out of the Yumen Pass, it belongs to the boundary of the Western Regions, out of the Yumen Pass, is the sandy beach Gobi, the sky is high and wide, as far as the eye can see, even the air is full of desert style.

At this time, my grandfather followed Xiao Laodao master and apprentice three, the north and south of the river have been running for three years, during which they have experienced a lot of ups and downs, life and death, matured a lot, and seen a lot, from the nestlings of the rivers and lakes to the eagles of the green forest, they stole no less than ten tombs before and after, and also saved a lot of silver taels. #~@@

He felt that it was time for Yijin to return to his hometown, and a few days ago, he proposed the idea of going home to Xiao Laodao.

Xiao Laodao told my grandfather that it is not impossible to go home, but it is necessary to postpone it for three or five months and make the last fortune, because he took over a big business in the hands of a friend, and this time he did not go to rob the tomb, but to serve as guides for a few foreigners, who wanted to explore in the desert of the Western Regions and lacked guides. Xiao Laodao has been to the Western Regions a few times, and he is more familiar with the place, so his friend recommended him to foreigners, and his friend said that these foreigners pay a very high commission.

My grandfather doesn't know what "adventure" means, he only knows that none of these foreign devils have any good things, and the emperor is afraid of them, either cutting land for them or losing money for them.

Xiao Laodao said that there were a lot of people who went this time, in addition to them, there was also a tomb robbery gang called "Sand Wolf", which was also four or five people, and there were also local natives who did not fall behind, adding up to dozens of people.

Xiao Laodao also said that when he finished this business, he would not dry his hands, and this was the last time.

When my grandfather heard Xiao Laodao say this, he could only nod his head and agree. After that, they set off immediately, and several people rushed to the meeting point Yumen Pass.

My grandfather didn't know at the time that a terrifying experience of nine deaths and one life was secretly coveting him-the last ghost hunter-