Chapter 152: Sun Mingkang's Diary
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Reading Sun Mingkang's diary did give me an idea of the murder case, but at the same time, it also made me more confused.
Sun Mingkang's diary was very old, and the paper inside was yellowed. The content in front is scattered about his growth, and the notes in the back are very new, and the date is left some time ago.
The diary was interrupted for a long time, and I think he found the diary later, so he used it to record the current events.
Sun Mingkang's handwriting was very sloppy, and I couldn't recognize many words, so I could only guess them. The new diary doesn't really go into much detail, it's not so much a diary, I think it's just a record of the doubts in his mind.
The diary begins on March 2, 1969, "I finally know what home is and what family is. "I remember that Sun Mingkang seems to be in his 60s this year, so he should have been a teenager when he started writing this diary.
Although the above is not detailed, it can be speculated that he has been wandering alone for decades before. The diary says that he did not know who his parents were, and that he had been alone for as long as he could remember, and that he had grown up eating dirt and leaves with those who had fled the famine.
But he was bullied a lot when he was a child, so he always hated the world, hated the people in this world, and deserved to meet his wife later. This diary was given to him by his wife, and she taught him to learn to read and write. His wife, who was a year younger than him and the daughter of a wealthy family, did not understand why the family had adopted him.
On April 21, 1970, "I know why they want to keep me, but I don't hate them, and I'm willing to do anything for May." ”
May was his wife, but he didn't write down the reasons why they kept him, and if he loved May, why did he say he didn't hate them?
The diary has been intermittent since then, and it is only a simple sentence or two, and I can't understand what it is trying to express.
I'll copy a few sentences casually, you can feel it: On August 18, 1971, it was very hot outside, and it was very cold below, but I still didn't think it was difficult, as long as you had the guts, what could you not do? I don't think I need a master anymore.
On December 1, 1972, the living were crazy, worse than when there was no food to eat, worse than the dead.
On April 13, 1973, after listening to it so many times, this time I was finally bumped into by Lao Tzu himself!
Later, it was only after a few months that two words were written: peace. Then in June 1975, the very scribbled handwriting, I observed it for a long time, and guessed that it seemed to be written: never fight again!
Down? What is the meaning? I don't think I've seen this word anywhere. I took out my mobile phone and searched the Internet, and I really found the explanation, but after reading it, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my back!
Xia Dou is to rob the tomb, go down to the tomb, maybe you will meet zombies, you have to fight to save your life, so it's called Xia Dou, I must have seen this word when I read tomb robbery novels before!
Could it be that Sun Mingkang used to be a tomb robber? This has something to do with the matter of the ancient coffin. But this sentence is the last sentence in the first half of the diary, did something happen to them? So decided never to fight again? But I can't know all this.
After Sun Mingkang wrote this sentence, he should have put this book away, and it would be decades later to start it later.
The diary wrote that he dreamed of Mei, who had been dead for a long time, and Mei said that she was living a miserable life below, so he went back to his hometown to pay respects to Mei's grave. I found this diary at my hometown, and I went to see my former companions for the last time.
He regretted the ridiculous things they had done before, and he felt that it was the retribution he had done before that had been taken on May. He didn't write about what he did, I think he was referring to the immoral things about robbing tombs when he was young.
After the memorial service in his hometown, he came back by boat, and it was on the way back that the following events were triggered.
He met Zhang Sen on a boat, where he was reselling things he had fished from the Yangtze River. Sun Mingkang is knowledgeable, and when he sees something, he knows that it is fake, but he will not meddle in things. He wrote in his diary: Now that business is so good, we used to work hard to exchange our lives for our lives, and the times are different!
Sun Mingkang did not write the cause and effect of the later things, but only described some fragments in the middle, and after I finished reading it, I added my own guesses between the fragments to make up the following story.
The boat drove on the river for a few days, and Sun Mingkang would meet Zhang Sen on the boat almost every day, and he really couldn't get used to Zhang Sen's deceptive tricks. Although he used to be a tomb robber, he sold the real thing, at least worthy of those who bought it.
One night Sun Mingkang came out to the toilet and met Zhang Sen who was bargaining with a man from other places, he originally thought they were trading, thinking that another fool had been fooled, but he heard their conversation a little strange.
Sun Mingkang hid in the shadows, and the sound of the ship moving made him hear only some fragmented words intermittently. But it can be seen that Zhang Sen and the man know each other, and they are talking about another matter.
He heard the words: boss, sarcophagus, medicine, and private. After that, Zhang Sen and the man got into an argument, and after a fight, Zhang Sen threw the man off the boat. Sun Mingkang was about to leave but was discovered, and he explained to Zhang Sen that he had not heard anything, but people like them believed that only dead people could not speak, so Zhang Sen prepared to kill Sun Mingkang.
Although Sun Mingkang is old, he still has the skills he practiced when he was young, and after a tragic fight, Sun Mingkang grabbed Zhang Sen's knife and killed Zhang Sen, and found a strange piece of cloth on Zhang Sen's body.
On the cloth were rubbings of these strange symbols, and Sun Mingkang could see that this was a serious antique rubbing. So he took the cloth, threw his Zhang Sen's body off the boat, and cleaned up the crime scene.
There are a lot of people going up and down on the ship every day, so even if Zhang Sen, who shows up to sell things every day, disappears, no one cares and cares. And for Sun Mingkang, killing is just another thing he did before.
After returning to Chongqing, Sun Mingkang carefully studied the symbols on the piece of cloth, but he was a rough man, and he used to be brutes, so he couldn't understand what those symbols meant, but remembering a few words he overheard that night, his intuition was that these symbols were guiding the treasure in a piece of feng shui treasure.
Although he had already said that he would not fight again, and he had indeed not done it again for so many years, he felt itchy when he thought that this might be a bigger deal.
However, it has been said that he will not go again if he does not fight, but it is not a pity to have this opportunity, so Sun Mingkang decided to sell this piece of cloth for a good price, and the old book is almost used up after so many years, and this time he may be able to make another profit.