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Chapter 17 Planning

Fatty and I returned to a small bungalow we rented near Chongwenmen. We drank too much and fell into a daze and slept until noon the next day.

After waking up, I lay in bed and stared at the low ceiling. I thought a lot. The tomb robbing business is actually not unfamiliar to me. I am sure to find some large tombs. Money is not the most important thing to me.

For important things, it can be said that I don't care at all whether I have money or not, but life is always full of contradictions, and now I need money too much.

My parents are supported by the state. I have no family burden. I can feed myself and the whole family is not hungry. But what about my brothers who died on the battlefield? Who will support their parents and pay for medical treatment and medication?

The pension for their younger brothers and sisters is not enough to pay for their schooling.

On the battlefield, it seems that everyone except me has a reason not to die, but I am the last survivor. My life was bought by many comrades with their own lives. I should do what I should do for them now.

Something happened.

At this time, the fat man also woke up, rubbed his eyes, and saw me staring at the roof in a daze, so he said to me: Old Hu, what are you thinking about? In fact, I know even if you don’t say it, what Da Jinya said yesterday made your heart move.

Are you feeling itchy in my heart? What's going on with us two brothers? I'm just waiting for your words.

I took out the amulet given by Big Gold Tooth: Fatty, don’t think of that grandson as a good person. He is also in business, and he won’t get up early if there is no profit. This Digging Claw was worn by Cao Cao’s Captain Touch Jin during the Three Kingdoms period.

He can give us such valuable things casually because he is interested in our abilities and wants to get some benefit from it.

The fat man was anxious: "I've seen that you don't look like a good bird. I'll go to Panjiayuan later, break off your big gold tooth and throw it into the latrine."

Having said that, when we put it together, we felt that we should make use of each other and not fall out with him for the time being. My shortcoming is that I am too impulsive and do not consider the consequences of doing things. I think tomb robbing is a feasible way.

Everything has its two sides. Good things can turn into bad things, and bad things can turn into good things. This is dialectics.

There are countless treasures in the tombs of emperors and generals, but can we say that these good things belong to the tomb owners? They are not all looted and exploited from the common people. They are taken from the people and should be used for the people. How can they be allowed to last forever?

Accompany those withered bones sleeping in the ground. If you want to do it, make it big. Those private tombs are meaningless. Most of them have nothing valuable, and taking things from the common people is detrimental to the moral character.

I once heard my grandfather talk about the rules for touching gold captains, which are very different from tomb robbers. Tomb robbers dig and take at will, and they do their best. It doesn't matter whether you are a loyal minister or a good general, an official or a common person.

There are no rules at all about who is who. Even if there are any, they are all figured out by the farmers themselves. It is not like that at all.

When the gold-touching captains work, whenever they dig a large tomb, they must light a candle in the underground palace of the tomb and place it in the southeast corner. Then they open the coffin and touch for gold. The most valuable things of the deceased are often carried with them.

Some of the tomb owners of princes and above have beads in their mouths, their bodies are covered with gold and jade, they have heart-protecting jade on their chests, they hold jade Ruyi in their hands, and they even have gems stuffed in their anuses. At this time, you cannot damage the remains of the deceased.

Touch gently from the top of the head to the soles of the feet, and finally leave one or two treasures for the deceased. During this period, if the candle in the southeast corner is extinguished, the property must be put back as it is and bow three times respectfully.

Head back and go back the way you came.

Because it is said that there are ghosts in some tombs. As for why these ghosts do not enter reincarnation and have stayed in the tombs for thousands of years, it is hard to say. It is probably because they are reluctant to part with their glory and wealth during their lifetimes, and they still stare at them every day after their death.

If you encounter a master who is willing to sacrifice your life rather than his wealth, don't take your own treasure by force.

In the end, Fatty and I decided, fuck it, we decided to touch Colonel Jin. If we don’t feel condemned by our conscience, let’s let the dog eat it as our conscience. No, eating half of it is not right. Let’s look at it from another angle. It’s eight now.

In the 1900s, didn't everyone advocate giving? Now it's the turn of the princes and nobles who exploited the working people to make contributions. However, these dead ghosts have very low consciousness. Don't expect them to climb out and donate on their own. We will take care of this kind of thing.

It is really busy to fight against the autumn wind of the feudal ruling class like them, to tidy up Jin Ou and divide the fields.

The strategic direction has been determined, but the specific tactical goals and how to implement them need to be carefully discussed.

In Henan, Hunan and Shaanxi, the three places where tomb robbing is most prevalent, it is not easy to find large tombs, and it is inconvenient to do things in crowded places. You have to use planting crops and building houses as a cover. You have to do your best.

Just go to the deep mountains and old forests, places that are inaccessible to people.

If we talk about the large tombs I have seen in the deep mountains and old forests, the one on Niuxin Mountain must be the first one. When I went to the mountains and countryside, I was too young and didn’t understand anything. Judging from my current experience

, that tomb should be from before the Northern Song Dynasty. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was mostly fashionable to use mountains as mausoleums. This trend continued until the early Song Dynasty. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the national power gradually weakened, and no royal tomb dared to be so huge.

Project.

The fat man asked me, didn't you say that Niuxin Mountain is haunted? Can you find someone who is not haunted? We have nothing to do with the savages, but we don't know how to deal with ghosts.

I said, firstly, there are no ghosts in the world. What I told you last time may be my hallucination. Secondly, this is our first operation. We don’t necessarily have to open the mountain. Do you remember that many families in Yanzi’s villages have them?

Are they antiques? Let's collect a few and sell them, so that we don't have to worry about pulling them out.

On that day, the two of us prepared separately. Fatty went to get rid of the remaining tapes, while I went to the flea market to buy some necessary tools, flashlights, gloves, masks, candles, ropes, and kettles. What surprised me the most was

I bought two German-made engineer shovels. When I held the engineer shovels in my hands, I felt like I was meeting an old friend.

This type of engineer shovel was used by Germany to equip the Mountain Assault Division during World War II. Many were captured by the Soviet Union. During the Sino-Soviet friendship period, some of it flowed into China. The German engineer shovel is very light and can be folded and hung on the waist, and has a steel mouth.

It's excellent. Not to mention digging earth and rocks, even in times of danger, it can be used as a weapon and can chop off half of the enemy's head in one stroke.

The only regret is that I didn’t buy a gas mask. When the country was carrying out the three-prevention policy, many 60-type gas masks were provided by the private sector. You can occasionally see them for sale in the used goods market. Unfortunately, I didn’t buy one today. I’ll have to buy one later.

Besides, there are still some things missing, and we can wait until we get to Ganggang Yingzi to prepare those things.

The total cost was more than 1,500 yuan, mainly because the two shovels were too expensive, 600 yuan apiece, which was too expensive to justify. In the end, I only had six yuan left with me, which was terrible.

I have no money to buy a train ticket.

Thanks to Fatty, he got rid of all the tapes, returned the house we rented, and sold it in three rounds. This was almost enough for the round trip. I went to buy the train ticket overnight. I was not even eighteen when I left there.

I haven't been back for more than ten years. We were both a little excited at the thought of seeing the folks we hadn't seen for many years. Book Alliance
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