110: Vicissitudes of life
"Don't you want to know the real answer behind this?" The corners of Li Chenzhong's mouth rose slightly: "Don't you want that bronze box?" ”
This sentence is my fate, I subconsciously glanced at Yang Luowen, Li Chenzhong slowly took off his glasses and put them on the table and said: "If you miss this opportunity, then it is very likely that you will never get an answer!" ”
Yang Luowen hesitated for a long time, a trace of white tears flashed in his eyes, I knew that he wanted to find the nine-petal soul rejuvenation flower to save his daughter, after all, his daughter is now on the verge of death, once the time is delayed, it will be a little more dangerous, besides, this nine-petal soul rejuvenation flower is just a legend, for a thing that only exists in the legendary story, we don't dare to say that it will definitely cure his daughter's cancer, so the sooner you find it, the better, so there is still time to find other ways.
At this moment, Li Chenzhong hurriedly got up and put on his glasses and took out another photo from his waist bag and put it in front of Yang Luowen.
"Although I don't know where the Nine-Petal Soul Rejuvenation Flower is, I do know where the Cloud Pavilion used to place this alchemy furnace in this mural is." Li Chenzhong paused and continued: "According to legend, Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng asked tens of thousands of people to cultivate the Yunzhong Pavilion to refine the elixir of life, although this elixir has not been practiced, but the medicine to drive away all diseases has been practiced!" Don't you want to know where it is? ”
Although the meaning of these words to us is not very great, but it is a big temptation for Yang Luowen, I looked at Yang Luowen at this time and said: "Uncle Yang, this deal is very cost-effective, you can do it." ”
Yang Luowen looked up at me without saying a word, and I seemed to see what he meant from his eyes. I got up and stretched out my hand and said, "Deal, but we can't take risks this time, you tell us where Yunzhong Pavilion is first, and we will find someone to find it, how about it?" ”
Li Chenzhong stretched out his hand and grabbed my hand, smiled slightly: "No problem, then we can be considered a successful transaction." ”
"I had a gunshot wound to my foot, and I estimated that I would have to rest for ten days and a half months before I could set off." I said
"No, I'll arrange for the best doctor and the most luxurious RV to take you there, this time I'll go with you, I must know the truth of this matter. Otherwise, I wouldn't have looked dead even if I died! ”
In this way, we reached a deal with Li Chenzhong, and in the afternoon of the same day, Li Chenzhong found a few very luxurious RVs, this time he brought nearly 100 people, all kinds of high-tech equipment, and from a distance, we went to see dozens of big cars and small cars.
"Li Chenzhong," I asked, "Will you leak the news if you bring so many people with us, you must know that we are going to rob the tomb, and if we are caught, we will be sentenced to death." ”
"You can rest assured of this! We are going to India. It's not China," Li Chenzhong smiled and said, "Our company is the second largest coal mining company in the world, so we just need to tell them that we have found a mine cave there, and we will go there to investigate, if there is one." So our company will invest 10 billion dollars there, do you think they would be unwilling? ”
"This is really a fucking world where money kills people!"
If you go by land, the Indian side will not agree to it under normal circumstances, but you must know that the temptation of this 10 billion US dollars is different. And listening to Li Chenzhong himself, after he first learned about the thousand-armed faceless Buddha statue, he had already cooperated with India in many aspects. The amount of money invested is staggering, even comparable to the investment figures of the whole of Europe and the United States.
So the Indian side will naturally agree, and even when we drove into India a few days later, there were helicopters and a lot of Indian troops escorting us into the safety of India before parting ways, this way sitting in the RV is full of delicacies and seas, big fish and meat, every day there are doctors to check the wound for me, and all kinds of tonic medicine on the field, this injury that originally took at least a few months to recover from is almost healed in ten days, at least it will not be very painful and recurrence when running.
It's really money and you can do anything! Originally, according to what Li Chenzhong said, you can get there directly by plane and helicopter in a day or two, but considering the injuries of several of us, we deliberately drove the car slowly, and carefully discussed the plan of this incident on the road.
However, everyone found a loophole in this discussion, this Li Chenzhong only knew where he was, but he didn't know where it was, and I heard from the locals that it was a no-man's land and a primeval forest that stretched for hundreds of miles, and no one had ever entered it at all, and there were even legends that there were monsters and devils in it, so no one in the local area had ever entered, at most, he walked to a valley called the Devil's Valley, and no one had ever entered it!
And the bigger loophole is that I heard him say that it used to be a primeval forest, but since 2001, due to the weathering of the desert, it has now become an inaccessible sandy desert area, and I really don't know if the ancient tomb can withstand the erosion of wind and sand.
In other words, we don't know the target location this time, and we don't know if there is this ancient tomb, and if we don't find it, then it won't be damn good.
And Yang Luowen told us that this is India, so he naturally doesn't know the internal structure of this ancient tomb, and he doesn't know if he can find an Indian tomb with Chinese feng shui theory.
That night just after dark, we arrived at the predetermined place, here is a very remote mountain village, there are only a few remaining families in the village, the youngest of these people is about sixty, a body of curry, the men are basically bearded, women are wearing scarves all the time, from time to time with gauze to cover their faces, this village heard that it used to be very lively There are hundreds of families, but from the beginning of the desert weathering after just two years, the river dried up, the surrounding dense trees are gone, People have slowly moved from 100 households to a few families now.
There is really a sense of vicissitudes of change, and the people in the village are naturally happy when they see us as a large group of hundreds of people. They were vying to make us curry rice and chicken curry for us, and it looked like they hadn't seen a stranger in years.
Li Chenzhong carried a translator with him, and he took us to find the old woman who was the guide for Gu Jianhui and Wei Changshou back then.
When we entered the hut and saw Grandma, she had no old teeth, her face was full of wrinkles, her chin and nose were about to wrinkle together, and her hands were like wrinkled rags. When she saw us entering the house, she hurriedly got up with her hands folded and nodded, Li Chenzhong and others hurriedly folded their hands and bowed in return, and several of us were also busy returning the salute.
"Grandma, how old are you this year?" One of Li Chenzhong's translators asked (just translated directly into Chinese!) )
Grandma opened her mouth and said a few words, then motioned for us to come into the house and sit down, and the interpreter looked at us and said, "Grandma said that she doesn't remember how old she is, but she only knows that she saw her son get married, and her grandson got married and had children." ”
Grandma took us to the room and sat on the floor, and Li Chenzhong motioned for the translator to chat with Grandma from the side first, and then cut to the chase.
"Grandma, why are you the only one in your family? Your son. What about grandchildren? The interpreter asked
"They left me many years ago, and they haven't been back for many years!" Grandma said with tears in her eyes: "The year they left, the village was full of mandalas, and since then I have never seen such beautiful flowers outside the village." ”
When we heard this, we didn't know what to say. Tie Niu on the side scolded: "Grandma, your son and grandson, it's really unfilial!" ”
"You don't know, it's like this in the poor people of India, they don't know what filial piety is. I only know that when people are old, they should be abandoned and left to their own destruction, because they may not even be able to support themselves, so how can they support such a burden who can't earn money and can only eat? The translator sighed
"Well, India is also the birthplace of Buddhism. Do you still say that the western sky is Elysium? They scorned it fiercely
"Grandma, wasn't this how you used to be here?"
The translator began to knock on the side, and Grandma shook her head and said: "It's not like this, many years ago, there were mountains and primeval forests in a radius of hundreds of miles, and in spring, all kinds of mandalas and other beautiful flowers bloomed all over the mountains, and when I was young, I often picked flowers and butterflies in the mountains with my friends, but since that year there was a fire in the valley, and in just a few years after the fire, people and livestock have died inexplicably, and in a valley there are often wails and roars, People say that it was the fire set by the demons and demons in the mountains, and that the dead people and animals were also swept away and eaten! ”
"Grandma, do you remember the year when the fire broke out?"
Grandma thought about it carefully and said, "I don't know exactly what year it was, but I remember that year, many people from other places came to us with big bags and small bags, and they also distributed a lot of daily necessities and food and drink, and some even got the money they gave." ”
"Was that the year when you asked Grandma to be a guide?"
"No, it was two years before the Great Fire broke out when I was a guide, and that fire was about three years after I took them to Devil's Valley."
As soon as Grandma finished speaking, I hurriedly took out the notes and opened them to take a look, then looked up at Li Chenzhong and said, "By the way, Li Chenzhong, you said that Gu Jianhui and Wei Changshou went to this Devil's Valley for a few years?" ”
"People in our country said that he went to India in 1996, but the investigation on the Indian side was in 1997, what happened?" Li Chenzhong said
"If that's the case, that's right!" I looked up at everyone and said, "Look at this note, I haven't written it since November 11, 1999, and then it's January 25, 2011, and then he wrote in his note, 'We came to Yunnan, the scenery here is very beautiful, the mountains are mountainous, the wide grassland is very charming, if it was before, I would definitely take pictures. But now I'm too 'This is obvious, he has changed his appearance at this time, and there was a fire here about three years after they came, and his notes happened to be written during this time period, that is, he must have been back here after 1999, and it was this fire that also caused Wei Changshou to change his appearance, it seems that he should have been burned by the fire, remember when I told you about the guy I saw when I was half dead? His whole body looked like he had been burned by fire, and it seemed that my inference was correct, he was indeed Wei Changshou. ”
After listening to my analysis, everyone was silent, if this is the case, then it seems that this Devil Valley has to be checked, but there is something not right, Yunnan is mentioned in this note, and Wei Changshou also made a wish, it seems that this matter is not as simple as imagined.
"However, since the Buddha with a Thousand Hands and Faceless Faces is on the Indian side, and they have been here several times in a row, it is obvious that this is the real cause of the matter, and if the reason is known, then it will be closer to the answer." Li Chenzhong said
We all nodded and agreed with Li Chenzhong's statement, there are rules for tomb robbing, and we will never go to an ancient tomb twice, Gu Jianhui was a famous leader in Shaanxi and Sichuan at that time, and Wei Changshou was the leader of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, these two people are among the best masters in the tomb robbery industry, they will never go to a grave repeatedly, it is too reckless to be arrested by the police, and secondly, this is a bad rule, how many times do you go to a tomb, so what should you do with the later generations? This is to be banned and collectively opposed in the industry, so they shouldn't knowingly commit it, but here they did come twice, maybe there may be more than two, there must be some secret in this.
Grandma was excited to see what we were talking about, and she took out a stack of photos from a dusty cabinet and handed them to us, saying, "Here are the photos I took when I took them to the Devil's Valley." ”
We look at these photos with a sense of age one by one, there are a lot of photos of her son, grandson, daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, and herself and her husband, judging from the photos, the grandmother in front of her was also a peerless graceful when she was young, mature and beautiful woman, but it is a pity that no matter how beautiful a woman is, she can't resist the erosion of the years, we not only feel worthless for her, but even for the whole Indian women are not worth it, they have worked hard to bring up their children, and as a result, they were abandoned far away as soon as they were old, which is in China, a mouthful of spit can drown these unscrupulous descendants.
At this moment, Yang Luowen found out the photo taken collectively that year and handed it to us and said, "That's right, theirs is indeed Gu Jianhui and Wei Changshou." ”
We took the photo and took a look, only to see that the photo was taken in a valley, the mountains on the left and right sides are full of flowers and trees, it looks so lush, there are a total of twenty-four people in this photo, among which the most eye-catching is Gu Jianhui and Wei Changshou, the two of them are side by side, with a smile on their faces, it seems that the relationship between the two should be very good. (To be continued.) )