"Huh?!" Shanzi's expression was a little dazed, "It's not enough, how can people starve to death in the current society!" ”

"Hmm." Shangguan Yunchu snorted lightly, and then slowly sat down again, "Let me tell you the story of this word." ”

"When I was very young, my family was very poor, and I had three older sisters. One year there was a famine, and people starved to death almost every day in the whole place, and I was a boy, and my parents didn't give food to the second and third sisters in order to feed me. ”

"Not long after, the second and third sisters starved to death, one of them was eleven and the other was nine."

Shangguan Yunchu said this, slowly closed his eyes, in his mind, the two sisters are still children, their appearance will always only live in his mind, it is a pain, a kind of torture, because of his existence to kill his sister.

"In order to support the family, the eldest sister married a landlord as a concubine, and she was only fifteen years old."

"Later, my father and mother died of illness, and the eldest sister was severely beaten by the eldest wife of the landlord's family, and she was forced to be cornered and jumped into the well and died." Shangguan Yunchu said this, and closed his eyes slightly, "She was still a child at that time. ”

Shanzi and I didn't know what he meant by these words, and we didn't understand what he wanted to express, but we just knew that at this moment, he was very sad in his heart.

"I became an orphan, and was later taken in by a person named Ji Xuanzi, I worshipped him as a master, in fact, I also followed him to eat, and my water skills were taught by his old man."

Shangguan Yunchu sighed, and then said to us slowly: "My family is ruined, and I can't even eat before I embarked on this road, and you two have not been forced to do these things." ”

Shanzi and I didn't answer, and we didn't know how to answer, what kind of world was the old man in front of him.

I also understood what he meant, two young people who were not driven to a dead end, should not choose to do the work of digging for treasure.

He didn't expect me and Shanzi to answer his question, but continued, "Later, the master accepted another apprentice, and my junior brother was also a miserable mess, and the two of us followed the master to learn the arts, and at the same time also dug up some treasures or something. ”

"Later, we were able to stand on our own, although we didn't worry about food and clothing, but I didn't know anything else at that time, I didn't know anything about righteousness, I still did water things, and then I met the monkey and the jade cicada, they are also hard-working children, and then I accepted them as apprentices."

When I heard this, I immediately understood a little more, Shangguan Yunchu's later experiences were no longer able to help himself, but to make a living from this.

"It wasn't until 1986, when the country's first batch of underwater archaeology teams was established, that the government found me and asked me to be a consultant, and that's how I slowly lost the hat of 'water master' and slowly transformed into a visible light figure, and before that, I could only do some things secretly." He looked at the two of us, "Something shady - stealing treasure." ”

When we heard his last words, we immediately began to panic, I thought of the first time I came, Wuhou told us, Shangguan Yunchu is just upright and upright, will he call the police in a while, and then let the police arrest me and Shanzi?

When I think about this, I can't help but start to get scared.

He saw the confusion of the two of us, and then smiled, "Don't be so nervous, I want to do something to the two of you, I would have already set you two yesterday, and you two will be arrested as soon as you enter the door today." ”

Shanzi heard him say this, and then exhaled, "The old master is so good at joking, I take it seriously!" ”

Shangguan Yunchu smiled again, and then continued: "The chief told me that I have no identity or rank in the archaeological team, just a consultant, because I come from the people, and I am a person who does this kind of business, so what I can do is to do my best to help the entire archaeological team, to help the archaeological team, to help the country, to help the country, I am a person who has contributed to the country, even if it is a small achievement, it is enough to cleanse my soul in the past." ”

When he finished speaking, he looked ahead, as if he was immersed in the scene of the chief saying this to him.

"Didn't you just dig something in the past, don't you be so exaggerated, what kind of soul wash!" Shanzi said with a big grin that in his world, this is nothing.

Shangguan Yunchu retracted his gaze, looked at the straightforward young man in front of him and asked, "The horn in your hand has killed an ancient corpse monster or something, right?" ”

Shanzi didn't understand what he meant, and then nodded with a stiff mouth.

"So, have you ever killed someone?" Shangguan Yunchu was very calm when he said it, just like a casual sentence after seeing an acquaintance: Have you eaten?

Hearing him ask this, not only Shanzi, but also stared at me in surprise, it turned out that what he said about washing his soul was referring to these things.

He slowly stretched out two big calloused hands and shook them at me and Shanzi, "There is no one in our business who has not killed anyone, and the people I kill cannot be counted on ten fingers." ”

I looked at the old man in front of me in surprise, if he hadn't said it himself, who could have believed his previous experience, he stood in front of others, he was an old man next door, at best, he felt like an old teacher in the countryside, or the kind that taught elementary school.

"We didn't, we didn't, we didn't kill anyone." Shanzi was a little scared, he didn't know what Shangguan Yunchu wanted to say.

Shangguan Yunchu slowly withdrew his arms, and then continued to say to the two of us: "At first, I didn't believe it, wasn't it just a consultant, what could it be, but the chief said something to me, which completely changed my mind. ”

"What's the matter?" I leaned forward, like a child listening to an old man's story.

"There's an Englishman named Michael? Hatcher, he is internationally known as an 'underwater thief'. In 1984, he secretly led a professional salvage fleet to salvage more than 100,000 pieces of Qing Dynasty porcelain and other cultural relics from an ancient shipwreck in the South China Sea, and he handed over these more than 100,000 pieces of porcelain to the Dutch Justin auction house for auction. ”

"One hundred thousand?!" Shanzi was surprised, "his uncle, how much does it have to sell!" ”

Shangguan Yunchu heard Shanzi say this, and looked at him in disgust.

When Shanzi saw that the old man was glaring at him, he quickly changed his words: "Hmph! This bird! Those porcelains are all from our country! After saying that, he also slapped his thigh exaggeratedly, showing a very pity look.

Shangguan Yunchu ignored him and continued.

"The auction of such a large number of Chinese artifacts at one time is unprecedented for the Dutch auction house Just. This incident caused a great sensation in the world, and the relevant departments of our country wanted to stop the auction, but the salvage process of the British was carried out in extreme secrecy, and we could not produce any evidence to prove that this ancient shipwreck was located in China's territorial waters, and the Chinese side finally had no choice but to give up the recovery. ”

"Hatcher's undersea treasure theft and auction incident shocked the entire Chinese archaeological community. China has a long coastline, and there are many ancient Chinese shipwrecks along the coast, but at that time, our country did not have an underwater archaeological team, so many shipwrecks could not be salvaged. ”

"And just two years after this incident, the National Underwater Archaeology Team was formed, and I became a consultant to the archaeological team."

Speaking of this, Shangguan Yunchu showed a sad expression, it seemed that he was still saddened by the loss of national cultural relics.

"In the past, I was just a small citizen, and I thought it was natural to dig up things to buy some money, but later I learned that many of our ancestors' things have been stolen and plundered."

"The chief told me that the duty of me and the archaeological team is to protect the country's cultural relics and fight against foreign thieves, and what I have done is something that is beneficial to the country and future generations, and it is an indispensable thing."

Speaking of this, he stood up again, turned his head and looked at the four powerful characters of "Hidden Dragon in the Wild" behind him, "Later, I worked hard and tried my best to safeguard the interests of the country, this word was given to me by the chief, which is an affirmation of me and a spur." ”

He slowly turned his head and said to the two of us in righteous words: "Although I am old and retired, my duty is still there, I want to protect the country's cultural relics and the interests of the country." ”

I finally understood what he meant, and he was trying to stop us from doing this.

"Chun Nier and Wu Lin, I can let their parents discipline them, and you two, I have to persuade them." Shangguan Yunchu sat down again, looking at his appearance, not to stop us strongly, but to persuade.

"The two offspring didn't do this business because they were hungry and had nothing to eat, which was different from when I was back. Now many people like to get rich overnight, trying all kinds of ways, but they have violated the interests of others and even the country, these practices are really embarrassing. ”

He then looked at the two of us again, "You're still kids." With that, he closed his eyes again.

It turned out that when he first came, he yelled at Wuhou in the study, just for our business, it seems that he was asking Wuhou why I was injured, Wuhou told the truth, Shangguan Yunchu was furious, there are two reasons for this: first, our approach is wrong, and second, we are still children in his eyes, probably because his sisters were too young when they died, and in his impression, he couldn't see the 'children' suffer.

The old man in front of us, he knows what real hunger is, he knows what it feels like to have a ruined family, he has tasted the taste of blood, he has been reused by the state, and finally has a gorgeous curtain call, what an experience this is, for him, this is the reincarnation of a person.

I haven't spoken for a long time, and the whole person is still immersed in Shangguan Yunchu's words, his words are not flowery, but they are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"You two" he was about to say, but he paused again, raised his hand and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "what did you two think in the first place, and how did you get involved in this?" ”