Chapter 39 The secret language

In the darkness Shirley Yang took out the spare torch, a light, see the two people sitting cross-legged by the stone box, it turned out to be two shriveled corpses.

An old man and a young man, the remains have been turned into a dark brown, the old man’s beard on the jaw is still vaguely recognizable, wrapped in sheepskin, the other looks like a young child, they are sitting cross-legged, seems to be guarding this strange stone box.

I see clearly after, breathed a sigh of relief, said to the fat man: “after don’t move to mention the dumplings, scared to death ah, these two clearly has almost become fossilized, to say the least dead a few thousand years, his mother’s original here is a tomb.”

Shirley Yang glared at me, said angrily: “Good you old Hu, still want to hide from me? You two guys are clearly grave robbers.”

I thumped in my heart and said, “No, we didn’t talk out of turn”. Is she an American even “dumplings” understand? Fortunately, Professor Chen unconscious, did not hear, the other Ye Yixin also seems to be in a semi-conscious state, it is impossible to hear our conversation.

I hastened to explain: “not with you, I am amateur research Feng Shui astrology, not a grave robber, you do not want to defile people’s innocence in the future, I and the fat man’s reputation is very good, as early as in the hometown is a well-known good thick life in the townships. I am a veteran, the fat man in their units back then, but also every year was named a model worker 38 red flag bearer or something.”

Fatty listen to me in a hurry to say the last sentence wrong, hastily corrected, by the way, want to lead the topic away: “Do not listen to nonsense, he fucking is the thirty-eight red flag bearer, I’m a young commando, shame shame, are the party and the people cultivate good ah, you see this stone box is also strange, this is loaded with what things?”

Shirley Yang did not pick up our words, suddenly said, “Fixed plate hangs a thousand gold, the sea Zigua ringing. Hook scratching kicking pole sub inverted bucket irrigation big top Yuanliang, moon move sub far colorful package can not.”

Her words can not be understood by others, I listened to the clear, this is the bucket of the “lip canon”, because our line, are not able to see the light of the hook, like the mob on the mob on the dark language, the mob on the abduction and sale of women called the open bars, smuggling goods called back green, trafficking in children called moving stones, thieves called Buddha and so on, we robbed the tomb known as the bucket, each has its own rules of the trade hidden, but also the rules and regulations of the industry. Each has its own rules of the trade cryptic language, to facilitate communication between peers, the Republic of China at that time my grandfather specializing in the search for people looking for shade to find the treasure point, was then one of the country’s only a few feng shui everyone, but also met a familiar touch of the Golden Colonel, the doorway is simply familiar with the way, said the lip of the fight than to say that we are more familiar with the old family words.

Shirley Yang just said a few words to me, probably meaning: “Your heart eyes are bad, your mouth does not tell the truth, see you are a good at stealing tombs, this kind of thing can’t be hidden from my eyes.”

I was suddenly asked by her, did not think carefully, generally known by peers as a master, have to be self-effacing, so off the top of my head answered: “There is no Yuanliang, the mountain to carry firewood under the mountain to burn the fire, I dare to ask this top Yuanliang, in where to split over the mountain armor, disassembled a few qiu doors?”

Shirley Yang said: “A river has two sides of the scenery, the same is the mountain to move firewood under the fire, partridge points mountain armor, harrier to solve the Qiu door, more than ever climbed the temple, nowhere to find the Dragon House.”

Set of mouth a pair, I am surprised and regret, his mother, this time counted on the American girl’s way, which is not equal to admit that they are fighting the grave robbers, but also strange, these fighting lips canon of a large section of the set of mouth, before the liberation of not many people understand, after the liberation of the basically lost, such as the big gold teeth of his father, the kind of drying for many years of fighting semi-professional grave robbers, know what I have heard is only a few terms! I really can not imagine that these cuts, even from a young American woman’s mouth, if not face to face personally heard, and how to believe, is not even met with peers?

And listen to her lips canon said, she is also the ancestral skills, just empty craft, but do not know to look at the feng shui recognize the acupuncture points to identify the pulse of the art, no, this can never be recognized, I still continue to pretend to be a fool forget it, so I said: “These lines of the poem is our elementary school when we learn the text, I can not imagine that the U.S. elementary school textbooks are also …… I can’t imagine that American elementary school textbooks also have the same flavor.”

Shirley Yang see me stirring up trouble and refused to recognize, only to say: “Forget it, this place is not the place to talk, if we can still live back, I hope to talk to you seriously once.”

I was like an amnesty, busy standing up to look around for a way out, secretly calculating: “If I can go back, will let you can not find me, humph, the worst thing is that I go back to my hometown, not to mix in Beijing.” But then thought: “not, she has not given us money, this fact is tricky …… what she actually has the intention to do? Will not be really like the fat man said, looking at my old Hu it, or she is intended to whistle-blowing, not able to it, is not her ancestor, really is also the gold school lieutenant not? That counts with me is the door when the right ……”

I am thinking wildly at the time, the fat man and Shirley Yang has been in this small chamber in a few turns, head and feet small, in front of and behind, all the dark rocks, some places have a few cracks, are too small to find a way out.

At this time Professor Chen screamed, woke up, he was delirious, a moment to cry a moment to laugh, who do not recognize, we have no doctor, no medicine, there is nothing we can do to him, can only let him crazy toss and turn.

Finally our eyes fell on the large stone box in the middle of the two dry corpses, but even if there are any burial treasures in here, they are useless to us who will die.

Fatty patted the stone box and said, “I don’t know which two poor devils are buried in this small chamber, except for the sheepskin on their bodies, they don’t even have a decent burial item, there is probably nothing good in here either.”

Shirley Yang looked carefully at the graphics engraved on the stone box, and suddenly looked up and said to me, “Do you still remember the Great Tang Western Regions Chronicle that I once told you about, which once mentioned Zagrama Mountain.”

I said, “I remember, I think it also said that it was a sacred mountain and buried two saints, but it can’t be this old and young two, this tomb is so simple, and it doesn’t fit the identity of the saints.” I wanted to go on to say that I have seen many ancient tombs, and that the tomb in the belly of this rocky mountain is not at all in line with the theory of feng shui, and that there is a murderous cave at the bottom of the mountain, so how can people be buried above it. However, if I say this out loud, I will inevitably expose my identity, so I only said half of it, and then swallowed my words.

Shirley Yang said, “What is buried in this chamber is not the Prophet, this child is a disciple or son of the Prophet, known as the Prophet, and this old man is his servant.”

I wondered, “How do you know this? Is that what the figure carved in this stone box says? Is there anything else on it then?”

Shirley Yang greeted Fatty and I as we looked at the stone box together, “The dozens of graphics carved on this stone box are an ancient prophecy, the composition is very simple, and the symbols are very distinctive, I think I can read part of it.”

The more I listened, the more curious I became, “What was the prophecy? Does it say where the dark passage of this stone room is?”

Shirley Yang shook her head, “No, this prophecy doesn’t seem to be very accurate, the prophet said that after his death, there has been no one to come to this chamber, until one day, four people unintentionally opened this stone box ……”

Fatty counted, “One, two, three, four, five, we have a total of five people ah, is Professor Chen crazy is not considered a person? This prophet can be seen to anticipate things are not accurate, most likely is also a deception of the world of God’s current.”

I stared at the remaining four people and said, “If the prophet is not a fraud, this prophecy may not be talking about us people. But other than that, there is another possibility …… that one of us here is not a person.”