Chapter 17 The Plan

Fatty and I returned to a small bungalow we rented near Chongwenmen, drank too much wine, and slept dizzily until noon the next day.

After waking up lying on the bed, staring at the low and short ceiling, I thought a lot, tomb raiding this business, for me is not really a stranger, I’m sure to find some large mausoleums, money is not the most important thing for me, I can say that I do not care about whether there is money or not, but life is always full of contradictions, and now I am too much in need of money.

My parents are supported by the state, I don’t have a family burden, I have enough to feed the whole family, but what about my brothers who died on the battlefield, who will take care of their parents? Who is going to take care of their parents? The cost of medical treatment and medicine, as well as the tuition fees for their younger siblings to go to school, with the little pension is not enough to drink the north-west wind.

On the battlefield, as if everyone has a reason not to die except me, the last survivor is me, my life is a lot of comrades with their own life in exchange for, I should now do something for them.

At this time Fatty also woke up, rubbed his eyes, saw that I was staring at the roof of the house froze, then said to me: “Old Hu, what are you thinking about? In fact, you do not say I also know, yesterday the words of the big gold teeth let you heart, is not it? I am also itching in my heart, what are we going to do in the end? I’m waiting for you to say something.”

I took out the amulet sent by Dajinya: “Fatty, don’t take that grandson as a good guy, he is also a businessman, no profit, no early start. This digger’s claw was worn by Cao Cao’s gold detectives during the Three Kingdoms, can he just give it to us? He is looking at our skills and wants to get some benefits from it.”

Fatty anxious: “I fuck, early to see the girl is not like a good bird, a moment I go to Panjiayuan, to give the girl that big gold teeth broken down and thrown into the latrine.”

That said, but the two of us together, think we should still use each other, don’t fall out with him for the time being, I character flaws is too impulsive, not too much consideration of the consequences of doing things, think this road is feasible tomb raiding, Chairman Mao said that everything in the world has his two sides, good things can become bad things, bad things can become good things, this is the dialectical method.

There are countless treasures in the tombs of those emperors and generals, but can we say that these good things belong to the tomb owners? Are not all from the people on the body scavenging exploitation to, taken from the people, should be used in the people, how can they always accompany those withered bones sleeping in the ground. If you want to do big, those folk burials are meaningless, most of them have nothing valuable, and taking the people’s things is detrimental to the morality of the people.

I have heard my grandfather told the rules of the gold inspectors, and grave robbers are very different, grave robbers are indiscriminate digging, indiscriminate take, things to do absolutely, no matter what you what the loyal ministers and good generals, what the official or the people, who is who, no half of the rules to speak of, and even if there are also are peasants to figure out their own, is not so much at all.

The gold detectives work, where the excavation of a large tomb, in the crypt of the palace are going to light a candle, placed in the southeast corner of the orientation. Then open the coffin touch gold, the dead most valuable things, often in the body with, some princes and lords above the owner of the tomb, are in the mouth with beads, body covered with gold and jade, chest and heart jade, hands grasping the jade ruyi, and even the anus are stuffed with gemstones. This time to do, can not damage the remains of the deceased, gently touch from the top of the head to the soles of the feet, and finally must leave one or two treasures to the deceased, between, if the southeast corner of the candle went out, you must get your hands on the property back as is, kowtow respectfully three, according to the original way back.

Because legend has it that some tombs are haunted, as to why these ghosts do not enter the reincarnation, thousands of years has remained in the tomb, it is not easy to say, it is likely that they can not afford to give up the glory and riches of life, after death, but also every day staring at their own treasures, and encountered such a give up their lives not to give up their wealth of the master, and don’t hard to grab his things.

Finally, fat man and I decided to do his mother, to do to touch the gold lieutenant, what subject to not be condemned by the conscience, let’s consider the conscience to let the dog eat, not right, ate half of it, well …… also not right. It may be worthwhile to look at it from another angle, now is the eighties, are not all advocating dedication? Now it is also the turn of those who exploit the working people of the princes and aristocrats dedication dedication. But these dead ghosts consciousness is very low, don’t expect them to climb out of their own dedication, this kind of thing, we’ll do it on behalf of them, hit them these feudal ruling class of the autumn wind, clean up the golden ou a piece of land, share the field to share the land really busy.

The strategic direction has been determined, the specific tactical objectives, and how to implement them still have to be carefully discussed again.

In the most prevalent style of grave robbing in Henan, Hunan, Shaanxi, these three places, the tomb is not too easy to find, and crowded places to do things inconvenient, but also to plant crops and build houses and other behavior as a cover, to do the best to go to the deep forests, places where people are rare.

If we talk about in the deep forest, I have seen the tomb, ranked in the first place is certainly the Bull Heart Mountain, I went to the countryside when I was too young, what do not understand, to my experience now, that tomb should be the Northern Song Dynasty before the Shengtang period, more than the popularity of the mountains for the mausoleum, this trend has continued to the early Song Dynasty, after the Southern Song Dynasty, the national strength of the country is weakening, and there is no longer any royal mausoleums dare to do so! Vast project.

Fatty asked me you did not say that the Oxheart Mountain is haunted? Can not find a not haunted to engage in a bit, we deal with dogs and bears and savages is nothing, encountered a ghost but do not know how to start.

I said that the first this world has no ghosts, I told you last time may be my hallucinations, the second we are the first action, do not necessarily have to open the mountain, you remember Yanzi, they have a lot of people in the Tuen Mun antiques it, we go to collect a few back to sell, it saves the effort to pull the effort of the tossing.

On that day, the two of us split up to prepare, the fat man to go to the rest of the tape are dealt with, I went to the thrift market to buy some of the necessary tools, flashlights, gloves, masks, candles, ropes, kettles, the most delightful thing is to buy two German engineering shovels, I put the engineering shovels in the hands of the feeling as if they had seen an old friend.

This kind of sapper shovel is Germany during the Second World War to equip the mountain assault division, was captured by the Soviet Union a lot, the Sino-Soviet friendship period, some of them into the Chinese territory. German engineering shovel is very lightweight, can be folded and hung on the waist, and excellent steel mouth, not to mention digging digging rock, even if the time of danger, swinging up can also be used as a weapon, one can cut off half of the enemy’s head.

The only regret is not to buy a gas mask, when the country to engage in three defense, civil also issued a lot of six-zero type gas masks, in the old market can occasionally see the sale, today is not coincidentally did not buy, can only be said later. In addition, there are still some things missing, those can wait until the Ganggang camp before preparing.

Total spent more than fifteen hundred, mainly those two shovels are too expensive, six hundred a hand, the price bites the dead, can not row down. In the end, I only have six dollars left, which is bad, no money to buy a train ticket!

Thanks to the fat man that the tape dumped all, and the house we rented back, the three wheel sold, this is almost enough to go back and forth the cost of transportation. Evening to buy a train ticket, I left there when I was less than eighteen years old, more than ten years did not go back, the thought of seeing the folks who have not seen for many years, both of us are a little excited.