Chapter 003: The Bronze Dealer
"Teacher, what is your surname?"
"Don't give your surname Li."
"Hello Mr. Li, are we the only teacher here?" I exchanged pleasantries with Mr. Li.
"That's not it, the other teachers have gone back."
"Are there many students?"
"Not much, just a hundred or so people."
"How many years have you been teaching?"
"Not much, three years, our teachers here are all volunteers, and they don't stay long."
"Okay, so you're gone, what about these students?"
"It's going to be merged soon, and then they're going back to the new school building in town, where there are a lot of teachers."
After chatting for a while, we both felt very close together, so Mr. Li invited me to stay for a meal. The dinner was very rich, and Mr. Li specially bought a chicken from the village below to entertain him, as well as a few fresh vegetables. After dinner, he helped me make my bed so that I could rest, otherwise I would have to find a place to pitch my tent.
After dark, Mr. Li and I sat by the fire in the kitchen and drank wine again in front of the oil lamp, I was very tired that day, my bones seemed to be scattered, my whole body was loose, and I could no longer support my whole body, so I went to bed early.
At night, when it was dark, I lit the oil lamp, and in the dim light, I felt like a frightened bird curled up in its nest. At night, when I fell asleep, I was awakened by a few dull thunders, a few lightning bolts pierced the sky like a sharp sword, and the lightning flashed through the glass windows to see the mountains in the distance, and then the raindrops the size of soybeans crackled on the roof, and splashed water from the cracks in the tiles to my face.
Outside, the lightning was shining, the thunder roared, the rain was pouring from the sky, and soon I heard a deafening sound from behind, as if it was a flood wrapped in mud and sand surging from the mountain behind the school, I hurriedly picked up the flashlight and rushed downstairs, stood under the eaves, listened attentively, it turned out that this huge sound came from the valley, I breathed a long sigh of relief, took the flashlight to explore the house, and found that it was full of water, about to overflow the threshold, and the rain continued to seep in from the cracks in the stone wall, If the earthen wall above the stone wall was soaked in water for a long time, it was easy to collapse, and it was urgent to drain the rainwater inside, so I quickly found a stick and dug a deep ditch under the threshold, and the muddy water flowed out along the ditch, and I checked a few other places with a flashlight, and found no water seepage, so I returned to the house upstairs with confidence.
I didn't dare to close my eyes this night, I was glad that I had escaped a catastrophe, if I hadn't found it in time, the house I lived in probably wouldn't have collapsed before dawn, until the sky was bright and the rain gradually became smaller, I fell asleep on the edge of the bed for a while, after dawn, the morning fog slowly faded, the fiery red sun lifted its veil, the mountains in the distance appeared more fresh and green, the corners of the classroom were wet, there was a lot of water in the low-lying places, the lower half of a pile of firewood in the kitchen and around the stove were soaked with muddy water, The roof tiles fell off in a few places.
I looked out the window and sat quietly with the school on the vague mountains outside the village shrouded in mist, listening to the sound of drops of rain dripping from the eaves, and the extreme sadness was like a wisp of green smoke lingering around me, lingering and indelible.
Teacher Li thanked me for saving the school's life when I was in danger. As a result, the two of us became good friends who talked about everything. I learned that I hadn't found a job yet, and I wanted to pursue a career in education. Teacher Li immediately patted his chest and promised that he would find a suitable school for me.
I am naturally grateful, but I didn't expect that this encounter between me and Mr. Li would start my own experience of farewell to Yang.
After helping Ms. Li clean up the school building, I was ready to leave for home in the afternoon. It's not a long way, but the trail is rugged, and one section winds down a steep valley, and standing on the edge of the cliff, you can clearly see the whole village below, and it takes extraordinary courage and courage to be a person who has never walked this road before.
As I was leaving, a student came by, she was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with short black hair, a thin figure, a pale face, dark lips, and a faint melancholy in her eyes that was very inappropriate for her age.
I didn't think the road back would be particularly difficult, but I got lost unexpectedly. To make matters worse, it rained at night. Instead of camping on the spot, I kept going until I found my way out.
The rain was still fluttering, but it backfired, and the road still did not appear.
The feet were muddy, and before they had gone far, a heavy layer of mud stuck to the soles of their shoes, and they staggered as if they were wearing heavy shackles, and the light of the flashlight passed through the milky white fog, leaving only a faint halo, and the surroundings were full of eerie and terrifying atmosphere.
The mountains here are lonely and refuse, the momentum is majestic, the trees are verdant, the scenery alone is indeed a good place to come and watch, but once you get lost here, I am afraid it is a very dangerous thing.
At this moment, several figures suddenly appeared on the mountain road in the distance, and then the light of the flashlight was seen flashing in the rain.
"At this time, how can anyone be on the mountain?" I couldn't help but be vigilant, and my years of experience in walking the rivers and lakes told me that nine times out of ten, this group of people was robbing tombs in the mountains.
I bent down and hid from a distance to watch them. After a while, they stopped at a wooded area, and saw them busy for a while, as if they were moving something out of the field.
"I guessed correctly."
Looking at their path, it should be a group of folk tomb robbers, revealing their identities to this group of people, saying that Lao Tzu is a god and ghost contract person, they don't come to you at all, maybe they will kill people directly, and throw you in this ravine, and no one can find you anyway.
I crept forward. They surrounded the hole in a circle, and there was a large box next to it, which was estimated to have been moved out of the tomb. Listen to a few of them as they clean up the excavated dirt and seal the holes, while boasting about the glorious traditions of tomb robbers.
In other words, the Wei and Jin eras were special troubled times in history, Wei said Cao Wei, and Jin was two Jin. The imperial court was corrupt, the regime changed, wars were continuous, and famines and plagues were frequent. At that time, the people were hungry and desolate, and it was because they went out and saw nothing, and the plains were covered with white bones, coupled with social turmoil, economic depression, and even the phenomenon of cannibalism.
Many people took risks and joined the ranks of tomb robbers, and later tomb robbing developed into a social trend, not ashamed, but proud, as if they had never robbed the tomb and were embarrassed to greet others.
Yao Chang, the Later Qin monarch of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and Murong Chui, the Later Yan monarch, were all experts in tomb robbery, and everywhere they went, they destroyed the tombs, plundered treasures, and robbed and excavated, and most of the mausoleums of the previous generations were devastated.
There is also Chen Shuling, the second son of Emperor Chen Xuan, who was named the king of Shixing. On the surface, he is polite and polite, and when he entered the court, he always read books in the carriages and horses, and also recited aloud, looking like a scholar.
Behind the scenes, he is very cruel and debaucherous, careless of human life, indiscriminate killing of innocents, lustful sexuality, and likes to wander in the grave the most, and use the bones of the dead as a collection to appreciate and play.
He often looted the treasures in the mausoleum and returned home proudly, sometimes even bringing the bones of the stolen mausoleum back to the house and hanging them as trophies. Among the many ancient tombs excavated, many are celebrity tombs, and even the mausoleum of Xie An, the Taifu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, has not escaped his poisonous hands.
"The most famous and professional tomb robber of this period appeared, Cao Cao, who became famous for professionalizing and even industrializing tomb robbing. In the army, a special officer was set up to be responsible for robbing tombs, and they were also vividly named - General Faqiu Zhonglang and Captain Mojin. ”
"I often visit the scene of tomb robbery, direct the robbery and excavation, and the largest tomb excavated by my professional tomb robbers is the tomb of Liu Wu, the king of Liang Xiao of the Han Dynasty in the west of the Shanxi Province, and the tomb of his wife Queen Li, which has made countless profits. It is said that this tomb robbery alone solved the expenses of Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops for three years, and he can be called the most professional tomb robber in the history of tomb robbing. ”
"Since the end of the 80s of the 20th century, archaeologists have carried out protective excavations on the tombs of King Xiao of the Han Dynasty, and in the tombs that have been stolen in the Three Kingdoms era, more than tens of thousands of precious cultural relics such as golden jade clothes and large jade bi have been excavated, and many cultural relics are of great value." One of them, led by a man in a leather coat, said.
"Before this guy died, he must have said that he would be buried thinly, which means that you can't steal anything if you rob the tomb. What other seventy-two suspicious graves have been made, and now it is impossible to determine where the real Cao Cao's tomb is? ”
"Boss, we don't know where this Cao Cao's tomb is, whose tomb did you say we dug today?" A little man asked.
The man in leather naturally couldn't answer this question, but if he said that he didn't know, it would be tantamount to slapping himself in the face and losing his identity as a big brother in front of these subordinates, so even if he didn't know, he had to come up with a bluffing statement.
"I'll tell you, did you see that Gehu Euphorbia? That can only be used by princes and generals, which shows that the owner of this tomb is also a prince-level! ”
"Really?"
"Nonsense, the boss can't lie to you!" As he spoke, a short and fat man next to him gave the little man a chestnut.
"Boss, what do you mean by that Gehu?"
Seeing that the little brother was confused, the leather-clothed man became even more proud, and said: "According to my guess, Gehu is actually a northern dialect, the Luxi region, and this word is used to describe people who are brave." The grid is the case of killing, and the meaning is clear; The tiger is the tiger of the five tiger generals, describing the ferocity and strength of people or things. It can be seen from this that this prince must be a fierce general of the three armies! ”
The leather-clad man was stunned for a few of his subordinates, and after finishing speaking, he waved his hand very proudly, "Pack everything and take it away." ”
"Okay, boss."
"Let me tell you, we are in the bronze business, and the person who says it is also a person with a face, do you know, don't be a boss on the left and a boss on the right all day long, and you will be called the boss in the future, understand?" The leather-clad man admonished.
"Yes, boss!" The little man saluted and laughed innocently.
"Damn, don't be lazy, you kid, hurry up." So saying, the leather-clad man went to rest under the tree.
"Even if you're unlucky enough to run into me, let's go to prison and squat for a few days!" I quietly took a photograph of them, and had already sent them to the police, and I guess it would be there in a few moments.
I was also able to get through the police and find my way down the mountain again. I later found out that this group of people was actually a group of antiquities dealers who were digging up the ground and dumping bronze, and the police had already targeted them, and they were worried that there was nowhere to find them, so this time they were planted in my hands.