Chapter 13: The Past
It was one day in 1964, and someone reported the discovery of an ancient tomb in the mountain outside Kaifeng. At that time, my grandfather was one of the leaders of the team, and when the staff of the archaeological team arrived at the site, the local area was muddy due to heavy rain and flash floods, and everyone was carried to the ground by the villagers despite the rain.
It turned out to be an ancient tomb, because the flash flood landslide was cracked, and the rain washed out a lot of things such as chickens, tiles and dogs, but at that time Kaifeng was a big city, and the people there were more aware of cultural relics.
At that time, the archaeological team did not have many people, not as large as it is now, and the group was mainly composed of students, and the rest were a group of old cadres led by my grandfather Chen Siyuan. At that time, my grandfather was not old, he was only in his thirties, and he was in the prime of life. Professor Lin recalls that he graduated from university, when college students were more expensive than gold, and that his grandfather had brought a total of four college students with him, and now two of them have died of illness and accidents, and he and another student are both working in the archaeological institute, and that student is now based in Tibet.
At that time, Professor Lin looked down on his grandfather in his heart, a tomb robber with little culture, wasn't it just because of Zhao'an, and now he actually took the title of professor to bring himself as a college student, which is really unreasonable. Although several of their students at that time called their grandfather a teacher on the surface, they looked down on them in their hearts.
Until that day, in the pouring rain, when all the archaeological team members were discouraged, grandfather Chen Siyuan, wearing a white vest, climbed the high of Gangshan Mountain in the rain, stood on the ridge and looked down on the ravines of Gangshan Mountain Range, and said to everyone: "There is a big tomb of the Ming Dynasty down here, at least at the princely level, we will come back in three days." That confident look and fearless figure have always been deeply in Professor Lin's mind.
He was shaken, but he still didn't believe his grandfather's words. A person, standing on a high place and looking at it, can see where there is a tomb, and can you judge which dynasty? That's, isn't it? Even if their group of students were not convinced, after all, they were only students, and the team was led by grandpa, of course, they all listened to grandpa.
Several people stayed overnight in Kaifeng at night, and naturally they didn't say a lot of bad things about grandpa behind their backs, and they waited for three days later, ready to see grandpa's jokes.
On the first day that followed, the rain stopped and the sun shone brightly. The next two days were also scorching sun.
Three days later, when I returned to the mountain, the sunlight had evaporated the water, and the previous ferocious mudslide had turned into a hard clod.
Grandpa Chen Siyuan is not a person of many words, he is silent and down-to-earth, step by step, and his requirements for students are not strict. Everyone followed the grandfather all the way, and the grandfather only used three tools, one was the eye, the second was the iron drill, and the third was the nose, and the structure and age of the entire ancient tomb were broken.
The older generation, who had already cooperated with his grandfather, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, Lao Chen, you have made a great contribution again." "They seem to have known about Grandpa's skills for a long time. And the rest of the students, after looking at each other, were sincerely impressed. When Professor Lin said this, he sighed with emotion: "It is sent to the people, and it is passed on to the people, and the real masters are in the people." ”
The reason why grandpa was able to see the tomb at a glance at that time was Yang Fang's ability to look at the wind and water, different feng shui, the people buried were not the same, and then speculated according to the different dynasties, so he could naturally see through the shape. This kind of science is about the combination of all kinds, and nothing can be done.
During that archaeology, there was a small accident, it was a prince's tomb, when the coffin was raised, from under the bottom of the coffin, suddenly a black thing burst out, like a bobcat or something.
At that time, Professor Lin was relatively close, and he couldn't dodge, and he was about to be pounced on the face by that thing, but when the thing jumped halfway, it actually fell from the air, and when he looked again, he had a flying knife stuck in the back of his neck.
Grandpa is the apprentice of the fourth white man of the flying knife, and it is normal to be able to play with flying knives.
After this hand was revealed, the people on the scene were convinced.
And not only that, Professor Lin has also seen Chenzi, that is, my father, who has never met and died very early.
At that time, my grandfather was working in Beijing, and my family was also in Beijing, and Professor Lin had just turned 20 at that time, and Chen Ci was still a fifteen-year-old young man at that time.
Chen Ci has a very arrogant personality, it can be said that he is empty-eyed, precocious, and indifferent, and over time, the students don't like him, but because he is the son of his grandfather, he is polite to him.
But arrogance is arrogant, Chen Ci This person is bold, careful, and vigorous, and the most important thing is that he has the true inheritance of his grandfather. Professor Lin was still young at the time, and he was jealous, thinking that he was only fifteen years old, and he was so powerful, and this person's future achievements would definitely be higher than his own, but at the same time, he couldn't help but admire it in his heart.
Until the grandfather suddenly resigned, the family disappeared completely.
The world is impermanent, and the students with mediocre qualifications are now respected old professors, and my father, who is known as a genius by everyone, died young. After listening to the past, I felt quite bad in my heart, fame and honor and disgrace, but I couldn't withstand the impermanence of the world. Then I thought that I would know that I would also enter the mushroom digging industry today, and my grandfather should have taught me some skills at the beginning, which is better than holding a notebook now, and it is better to have empty theories.
But at that time, who would have expected it now?
After hearing this, Tofu's expression was very serious, and he sighed and said, "Old Man Chen and Uncle Chen are both amazing characters, Old Chen, I finally understand why you have succeeded in everything you did before, this is your family's genes." "Tofu is telling the truth, I have a tenacity not to admit defeat since I was a child, and before doing something, I will plan before and after, so I often rarely miss.
But that was before, now my genes are no longer used, and now I am unlucky, what to do, what is unlucky.
When people get older, they like to reminisce about the past, I sighed with Tofu for a while, and then adjusted my mentality, on the other hand, Professor Lin, but he was still stuck in the memories, and said: "It's a pity, it's a pity that Chen Ci is a person......"
If I don't wake him up again, I'm afraid I don't know how long I will have to remember, I glanced at Gu Wenmin, and she will come to her senses, so she changed the topic and said, "This is Professor Lin's intention to find you." First, I am afraid that it is not safe to rely on modern excavation methods alone, and secondly, Professor Lin has a relationship with your family, and he also took the initiative to help after hearing about it. With Professor Lin as the backstage for the two of you, the above things will naturally be solved. Moreover, this operation was an official thief, and after the deed was completed, not only was there no fault, but it was meritorious. ”
I know that this is a great opportunity, Professor Lin must also be out of some kindness, Gu Wenmin turned to find Professor Lin for this matter, it must have taken a lot of effort, I haven't seen it for a few days, the bright melon seed face seems to have lost a lot of weight, if we don't accept it, it seems that we don't know how to lift.
It's just that what makes me hesitate is the ghost face, I don't know how long it will take, what if something happens halfway?
Tofu and I have been friends for more than ten years, and I have a tacit understanding, so I guess I can see what I think, so I said: "We have already handed over this matter to Zhen Rui to do, besides, this time there are official thieves, and the manpower is also sufficient, and the weapons and equipment must be leveraged, there should be nothing wrong, and there will be no such shop after this village." ”
Saying this, I made up my mind, and said that things had to be solved one by one, and I didn't know when there would be news from Zhuanrui's side, so it was better to follow the arrangement first, and not disappoint Gu Wenmin's intentions. Immediately, I said: "Since this is the case, I will trouble Professor Lin and your old man to give me more advice in the future, when will we leave?" ”
Professor Lin straightened his face and said, "I said it, it's called Uncle Lin, don't you dislike me?" ”
I suddenly felt embarrassed, and quickly changed my voice to call Uncle Lin, he was satisfied, smiled, and asked me and Tofu to go to his house to eat, the enthusiasm was unstoppable, and I couldn't refuse, a few people left the high school entrance examination institute and drove to Professor Lin's house, where his wife cooked, and the whole table was eaten, but I didn't have any thoughts about eating and drinking.
I've been alone all these years, coming and going in the wind and rain, except for Tofu, a friend, there are no people who are particularly close, and even if there are, they are all people who tend to follow the times. Who wants to come to Beijing, suddenly a grandfather's old man appeared, who took good care of me, and the long-suppressed lovesickness was even stronger for a while, and there was a vague thought in my heart.
If you live to see people, you have to see corpses when you die, where did grandpa die in the last fight?
To be honest, if Grandpa is still alive now, he should be in his seventies, and as early as more than ten years ago, he disappeared, and there is almost no chance of being alive.
I just thought of his bones, maybe in a certain bucket, being used as a toy for grinding teeth by mice, and I felt a little blocked in my heart, and suddenly an idea popped up: If this matter can be solved, I must find a way to trace my grandfather's whereabouts at that time, and I have to collect the bones for him.
The Chinese people pay attention to entering the earth for safety, my father died outside the tomb of the giant ear king, and when he heard the old man Zhao say, he threw it in the cave and buried it.
I don't have much impression of the statement, whether it is in the mouth of Second Master Zhao or in the mouth of Professor Lin, my father is a great person, such an indifferent and arrogant person, I don't know what I think of my son.
In the past, the village said that Chen Ci was a gangster who gave birth to me after molesting my mother. Now I always feel that something is wrong. Before Chen Ci died, according to Zhao Erye's description, he had nothing to do with the gangsters at all, and I had seen his photos, so the little girl was thankful that he didn't tease him.
In that case, how did I get here? Who is my mother?
Thinking about it, I had a big head, and finally scolded my mother fiercely, and said in my heart: What do you want to do now, Lao Tzu has no father and no mother, and he will not be alive too. It doesn't matter if he's a gangster or a hero, a dead man, to hell with him.