"Before dawn, Ma Dongkui and his son covered up the cave and went home to sleep, and my father and I blocked the hole with earth and rocks - the hole was only dug more than three meters deep. Since Ma Dongkui has found the location of the mausoleum, he will not give up, and we father and son alone will not be able to deal with their father and son. My dad came up with a solution. ”

Liu Dayu handed over another cigarette. Ma Jiubao lit the cigarette, took two puffs, and then continued: "My father took a saw from home, sawed down three trees, hid the trees, and then reported to the production team that someone had stolen the trees, and the production team leader reported to the team secretary, and the team secretary sent two militiamen to take turns on duty on the mountain with my father." In this way, Ma Dongkui and his son have no chance to start. ”

"And then?"

"In 1965, Ma Dongkui passed away, in the spring of 1968, people went crazy to build terraces on the mountain, and most of the cemetery was soaked in the paddy fields, and it turned out that there was no big tomb there at all, and my father no longer guarded the mausoleum, because the area of the forest was getting smaller and smaller, and the production team no longer arranged people to guard the forest. After Ma Dongkui passed away, Ma Dazhu returned to his old business -- Ma Dongkui and Ma Dazhu were playing cotton for others. ”

"After that, didn't Ma Dazhu do any more tomb robbery?"

"I don't know. Dogs can't change their nature of eating, over the years, I think his family's life is much better, and Ma Dazhu rarely goes to the village to play cotton for others. You may wish to keep an eye on this man, but don't tell him my name. That Ma Erzhu is now the accountant of the production team, after all, we are eating in a big pot, and the relationship is stiff, and it will be difficult to talk in the future. ”

"I heard that you are now the commander of the brigade militia battalion."

"The militia battalion commander is an idle position, and there is nothing to do in normal times - at most meetings. We usually work in the production team. ”

After bidding farewell to Ma Jiubao, the comrades walked through the bamboo forest and returned to the mountain road; Ma Jiubao burrowed into the woods, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Seven or eight minutes later, a group of five people went up to the ridge, the elevation of the ridge is about 1,000 meters, standing on the ridge, to the east, you can see the main peak of Yangshan - that is, the nose of Hades. The altitude of Hades' nose is about 1,500 meters; Looking to the south, Lingguang Temple, Ming Tomb and the three greenhouses just built by the archaeological team are in full view, and the three greenhouses are the closest to everyone's location, no more than two miles at most.

After crossing the ridge and walking north for a minute or two, you will see several tiled houses, several houses surrounded by a courtyard, and the courtyard door is closed; Around the yard, the ancient trees are towering, and there are some trees in the yard, but most of them are persimmon trees and jujube trees.

From a distance, the house is clearly a few years old.

"This is Ma Jiubao's home."

Ma Jiubao's family built their house here mostly to facilitate the guarding of the mausoleum - standing on the ridge of the hill can see the mausoleum guarded.

Walking to the gate of the courtyard of Ma Jiubao's house, as far as the eye can see, there is a very large village under the mountain, and this village is Zouma Village.

"That's Zouma Village, the village in the east is Dongma Village, and the village in the west is Xima Village." Gu Changhe pointed to the three villages.

The distance between the three villages is about two or three miles.