The train departed at two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, we were so excited that we didn't sleep all night, I asked the fat man how much money we had left, and the fat man counted and said that there was still one hundred and fifteen left, and this money was enough to pay for the journey and food back.
I thought about it, we haven't been back for more than ten years, and it's too inappropriate to go to see the villagers with empty hands, so I have to find a way to get some money to buy some gifts for the villagers.
The fat man said that he would simply sell my piece of jade for one thousand eight hundred.
I said you better keep it, don't always worry about the little thing your father left you, you can't get it back if you sell it, don't regret it when the time comes.
In the end, I found something of value, we had an Eagle Song brand mechanical watch, which my father bought for me when I was a company commander, it was a limited edition with a limited supply, and it was not necessarily possible to buy it if you had money, and it was worth more than 200 yuan on the market at that time. I went to Panjiayuan to sell the watch to the big gold tooth, this grandson took everything, as soon as he heard that we were going to Inner Mongolia to do it, he also sponsored us a hundred yuan, and agreed that what we found, he would contact the buyer.
In the 80s, 300 yuan was enough for an ordinary family to live a luxurious life for two or three months, which was a considerable amount of money. With this more than 300 yuan, I bought a lot of food stuff, all of which were candied fruit, toffee, canned food, chocolate, tea and the like, which could not be eaten in the mountains, and the rest of the money was exchanged for national food stamps on the black market.
The two-day, two-night journey seemed a bit long in anticipation, and after arriving at the station, it was necessary to take a day's tractor, and then walk for a day and a night on the mountain road.
After the two of us walked into the mountain for less than a day, we couldn't walk anymore, the things we carried were too heavy, each of us had to carry more than 100 pounds, I gritted my teeth and could still insist, the fat man was really not good, sitting under the big tree panting, and couldn't even speak.
Thanks to the accountant who came out of the tunzi to do business, he was still a half-old child when we cut the line, playing with the back of our butts all day long, calling us "brother" one by one.
When the accountant saw that we had so much luggage, he quickly ran back to the village and called a few people to pick us up with donkeys, all of whom we knew about the elderly, and two twelve or thirteen-year-old girls, who were born after I left, and they all called me "uncle", so I didn't want to mention how awkward it was.
I asked the accountant, "Why don't you see any young men in the tun?" "
The accountant replied, "The laborers in the tunzi have all gone to work with the archaeological team. Isn't it the Tangshan earthquake in 76 years, although it is 108,000 miles away from us, but it belongs to an earthquake zone with us, and this earthquake cracked the whole Niuxin Mountain in Lamagou, and there is a whole palace-like tomb inside, and many of the brave people in our tunzi have gone in to move things. That guy, good stuff old nose went. As a result, I don't know what happened, it alarmed the county government, and the archaeological team followed. said that this was the mausoleum of the Empress Dowager Xiao of Daliao, and took away all the good things in everyone's house, leaving nothing behind. Then the archaeological team didn't have anything to do with Niuxin Mountain, as if to say that there were still a lot of good things to dig under the mountain, and all the laborers in the tun were hired to work, and one laborer was paid three yuan a day for eating and drinking. It's been a few years, and it's not neatly organized, and many people are still working there. "
When the fat man and I heard this, we almost didn't vomit blood, I really dared to burn incense with our brothers, and even the Buddha fell out.
But there's no way, you can't go and grab land with the archaeological team and the cultural relics bureau. Since you're here, let's play for a few days, and then find a way to find another place when I go back, anyway, the large ancient tomb is not only the one in Niuxin Mountain.
When we were about to enter Tunzi, the villagers who got the news were waiting at the door, and everyone hugged over, asking long and short questions, and Yanzi led his daughter to cry and said to us: "Oh, old beard, you want to die, why have you been gone for so many years and there is no news at all?" Swallow's father hugged the two of us tightly: "You two little rabbits, as soon as you leave, there will be no shadow, this time you won't live for two or three years, no one is allowed to leave." "
I cried with the fat man, the fat man lived here for six or seven years, and I only lived for a year, but the people in the mountains are simple, and if you live here, they will always treat you as a relative. It's the same as before, it's the same as before, there is no electricity, there are no roads, and many people have never seen electric lights in their lives. The more I thought about it, the more sad I became, wondering that when I had money, I would have to build a road for the villagers, but when would we have money?
At this time, the old branch secretary of the village was also supported and walked over, and before he arrived, he said loudly: "The chairman's babies are back again?" Chairman: Is he okay now? What happened to the Cultural Revolution? "
I wondered if the old man was doing now, and I knew where to go. I rushed to the front and held the old branch secretary's arm and said: "His old man is fine, he lies in the memorial hall every day, everyone who misses him, buy a ticket and go in to see his old man." Oh, by the way, the Cultural Revolution has long ended, and now Comrade Xiaoping is leading us to reform and open up. "
The old branch secretary didn't seem to hear what I said, so he pulled his neck and asked loudly, "What?" What is Comrade Xiao Ming? "
Yanzi told me beside me: "Don't listen to him, I don't know what to do, he has been deaf since he was seventy-three years old, he can't hear anything clearly, and he is still confused." "
I then realized that this was the case, and I whispered in the ear of the old branch secretary: "Branch secretary, I have brought you a lot of delicious food, and I will send it to you in a while, you can eat it slowly." "
As they talked, they walked into the tunzi, and the old branch secretary shouted behind him: "Children, go back and report to his old man that we resolutely support the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution... It's all about it. "
In the evening, the kang table of Yanzi's house is full of fried pheasant slices and smoked deer legs, and in a large casserole in the middle, sauerkraut powder and white meat are boiled. Yanzi's husband used to know us very well, and he went to work in Niuxin Mountain and didn't come back, so he couldn't see him for the time being.
Yanzi's father drank and talked with us, and I talked about the ancient tomb in Niuxin Mountain, and asked him if there were any tombs of ancient nobles in this mountain.
Since ancient times, mountain people have always believed that tomb robbing is a side hustle to generate income, and there is no moral problem, as is the case in the north. In the southern Xiangxi area, robbery and murder were used as a sideline, and the mountain people were farmers during the day and bandits at night, hiding in the woods, killing foreign merchants in the past, and never leaving a living. This is forced by the living environment for thousands of years, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, the poor mountains and bad waters to eat the ancient tombs, and eat the living people who pass by. As long as there are ancient tombs nearby, someone will dig them. In remote areas, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the king law can't control here, although no one can make sense in law. Most of the ancient tombs in this vicinity are too old, and there are no obvious marks for a long time, otherwise they would have been dug up by the mountain people.
Yanzi's father said that a long time ago when it was not liberated, there were also a few young amateur "tomb robbers" in this tunzi, and they didn't know that there was a tomb in Niuxin Mountain, they went to a legendary place to dig graves and dig gold, but they didn't know what they encountered, all of them went and didn't return, Yanzi's second uncle was one of them. That legendary place, Yanzi's father knew the general direction, but he never dared to go there.
Speaking of the past, the old man fell into memories, lit the old cigarette pouch of Yabuli, took a few puffs, pondered for a long time before speaking: "You want to find the ancient tomb, there is no one near here except Niuxin Mountain." Therefore, according to legend, from here to the north through the group of mountains into the mountain, five days away, there is a savage ditch in the black wind mouth of the Sino-Mongolian border, the legend is that the land is full of the tombs of the princes and nobles of Dajin, but the place is inaccessible, there are wild people haunted, do you have the courage to go? "
I also heard the name of Savage Ditch at the beginning, but I didn't hear that there was an ancient tomb there, what was the last group of tomb robbers killed by, don't say I don't know, Yanzi her father doesn't know, and no one in the whole tunzi knows.
In the deep mountains and old forests, there are too many dangerous things, all kinds of wild beasts, and even the natural environment of weather changes may kill people, if you encounter a big smoke bubble (a swamp formed by the soaking and decay of dead leaves by rain), cover it inside, even the Daluo Immortal can not escape.
We are resolute, and her father can't stop her. No one in Tunzi has really been to Heifengkou Savage Valley, only knows the approximate direction, there is almost to the border, there is no people, even if the people in Tunzi go into the mountains to hunt or pick mountain goods, they can't get that far. In addition, Yanzi's father was old and suffering from old cold legs, so he could no longer enter the mountains, and Yanzi was pregnant with her second child at the time and couldn't go out. The young and middle-aged people in the tunzi are all working in Lama Gou and will not come back in a short time.
Yanzi's father said: "I don't take you to take you there in person, it's always not worrying, in fact, the danger of the savage ditch does not come from the savages, the key is that the terrain is complex, and the white hair wind blows in winter, and it is easy to get lost when you go in." But it's early autumn, so you don't have to worry about this section. If you want to go, you must bring more good dogs, but also find a good guide, we have raised a few mastiffs in Tunzi in recent years, and we will bring them to you this time. "
Mastiff does not only refer to the Tibetan mastiff, in the northeast tube large fierce dog is called mastiff, and the Tibetan mastiff is not exactly the same.
Hunter herders living in the northern steppe forests were threatened by wild animals such as wolves and black bears, and it was difficult for ordinary hunting dogs to deal with them, so they learned the way to raise mastiffs from Tibet. As the saying goes, nine dogs and one mastiff, this sentence does not mean that there can be a mastiff out of nine dogs. It must be a female dog with a good bloodline, and a litter gives birth to nine puppies at the same time, and these nine puppies are locked in the ground after birth, and they are not given food and drink, and they are allowed to kill each other, and the only one that survives in the end is a mastiff. Mastiffs are fierce by nature, and three mastiffs can tear a young man-bear to pieces.
There were three mastiffs in the tunzi, plus five of the best hounds, all of which were handed over to us, and her father recommended us a guide, Yingzi.
Yingzi is just nineteen years old, is a rare Oroqen tribe, among the younger generation of hunters, no one is better than Yingzi, she is a well-known sharpshooter in the mountains, don't look at her young age, she has been hunting in the forest with her father since she was a child, and there is nothing she doesn't know about things in the old forest. Of the three mastiffs in the village, two of them were raised by her.
Before leaving, I asked the swallow to help prepare some things, a birdcage, glutinous rice, black donkey hooves, a crowbar, a large vat of vinegar, and soju.
When the clean-up stopped, Yanzi's father told her that if you can't find it, don't force it, go and go back quickly, and send us to Tuanshanzi before he goes back.
I am more confident in finding ancient tombs, as long as I can get to Savage Ditch, there are no ancient tombs, if there is, I will definitely be able to find it. My grandfather Hu Guohua was an officer in the old warlord army, and some of his soldiers were once subordinates of Sun Dianying, the great thief of Tanglin, who had participated in many large-scale tomb robbery operations, and had rich experience.
Tomb robbery has always been divided into two kinds: civil and official, the official thief is an open fire to do it, specifically picking the emperor's mausoleum, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu at the end of Qin, should be the ancestor of the official thief, as for the Three Kingdoms period, the digger army touched the gold school captain, etc., just systematized the official thief and formed an assembly line operation. There are also amateur and professional people, amateurs dig what they have, and the more professional ones only look for the graves of nobles and princes, and the smaller ones don't look down on them.
The key to tomb robbing is to find ancient tombs, which is a very deep science. For thousands of years, China's dynasties have changed, and the construction and location of imperial tombs are different. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the upward and downward effects, mostly covered bucket-type tombs, covered buckets are the shape of the sealed mound, like the bucket of measuring rice turned over and covered on it, the four sides see the prism line, the top is a small square platform, some like the pyramids of Egypt, but China has one more side, but it is strikingly similar to the pyramids in the Mayan civilization, the "lost civilization" found in South America. No one can guess the connection.
The Tang Dynasty opened the mountain as a mausoleum, the project was huge, and the momentum was magnificent, which was also related to the national strength of the Tang Dynasty at that time.
From the Southern Song Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the military disasters continued one after another, and several of the largest natural disasters in ancient Chinese history also appeared in this period.
Later, in the Qing Dynasty, during the Kangqian period, the country's economy and productivity were greatly restored, and the architectural style of the mausoleum changed, paying more attention to the ground building, and combining it with the temple garden of the memorial service. Drawing on the anti-theft experience of the previous dynasties, the structure of the underground palace tombs of the Qing Dynasty was extremely strong and the most difficult to start.
In the final analysis, no matter which dynasty or generation, the form of tombs in China for thousands of years comes from the five elements feng shui layout bred by the 64 hexagrams of Fuxi.
Tomb culture is the essence of Chinese civilization, Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Golden Tooth, Wusun, Xianbei, Shemin, Jurchen, Dangxiang and other ethnic minorities, have been greatly affected, the pattern of mausoleums have imitated the form of the Central Plains, but most of them are only their skin. It can be said that as long as you know how to watch the veins of the mountains and rivers in the world, the ancient tombs that are hidden deep can be easily found.
Further ahead is the vast and endless primeval forest, Yingzi with eight big dogs in front of the road, the fat man led a pony carrying tents and other materials and equipment, I carried a shotgun to walk behind, and the group entered the mountains and mountains on the border between China and Mongolia.
The fat man asked Yingzi in front of him as he walked: "Big sister, what's going on with the savages in the savage ditch?" What the hell is a wild man, have you ever seen it? "
Yingzi turned around and said: "I don't know what a savage is, I heard my father say that many people have seen it over the years, but no one has ever caught a living one, and one has never seen a corpse when it is dead, and I can't tell what it looks like if I have seen it." "
I laughed behind me and said, "Fatty, you're really fucking uneducated, as the name suggests, savages are wild people, study hard in the future." Do you know what a wild person is? It is born in the field, it may be borne by a tree, or it may grow in the ground, and it is not artificial anyway. "
The legend of the Shennongjia savage has a long history, and I have heard it in the army. It is said that a PLA soldier once shot and killed a wild man in Shennongjia, and the body of the wild man fell off a cliff, and in the end it was not clear whether the wild man was a human or a big hairy monkey. Almost all witnesses who have seen the wild man are sure: the wild man is tall and strong, covered with long thin black hair.
Listen to Yingzi tell us that the savage ditch in Heifengkou was not called the savage ditch before, it was called the "dead man's ditch", and when it was even older, it was not called the dead man's ditch, but it was called the "moon ditch", which has always been the cemetery of the nobles of the Dajin Kingdom. Later, the Mongolian army broke the main force of the Jin soldiers in Heifengkou, and the corpses piled up like a mountain, and the Mongolians threw the dead into the ditch, and the whole valley was almost filled, so the locals called this "dead man's ditch". Later, someone saw a wild man near this valley, and it was passed around, and the name of the dead man's ditch was replaced by the wild man's ditch.
There is nothing to be afraid of a wild man, no matter how powerful a wild man is, can he compare to a mastiff? A thought popped into my head, the wild man didn't know what price he could sell for in the market? But then I thought that it was not humane to do so, so it was better not to fight the idea of living creatures, and it was true to put my mind on digging ancient tombs.
Since I was carrying horses, I couldn't climb a mountain with a steep slope, so I had to make a detour when I encountered a big mountain, and the road was extremely slow. Fortunately, in the primeval forest in autumn, the scenery is gorgeous, and the red and yellow leaves all over the mountains are dyed in the forest, which makes people look tirelessly. Occasionally, I saw one or two pheasants, hares, roe deer, otters, and roe deer running out of the depths of the forest, Yingzi chased the dogs, and camped at night, picked some grass and mushrooms in the mountains, lit a campfire and barbecued, and the fat man and I feasted on it, and we have not eaten the same game these days.
Walking in this great mountain, if we don't have hunting dogs, we can only sleep in the trees, and we bring three giant mastiffs and five great hunting dogs, this kind of strength, in the forest, there are almost no opponents, unless we encounter more than three human bears. Yingzi said that the mastiff is the nemesis of the man-bear, and the man-bear in the forest will immediately avoid the mastiff when they hear the mastiff's bark, so we all sleep in the tent at night, and the faithful hound dogs are sentry around the tent, there is nothing to worry about, these dogs are much more reliable than people.
Yingzi's temper is much more rushing than when Yanzi was young, and he is angry with the one-headed garlic and does not let the little pepper. What route to take, what to eat, these have to listen to her, who made her a guide, those dogs also listen to her. Although I am used to being a company commander, I can only endure being an ordinary soldier in her.
However, Yingzi does have two tricks, hunting, finding a way, finding spring water, distinguishing whether mushrooms are poisonous or not, how to find fungus, mushrooms, hazelnuts, persimmons, codonopsis, schisandra, etc., there is nothing she doesn't understand. And there are some animals in the mountains that I can't name, I have never seen them in my life, but Yingzi can tell what kind of animal it is, what environment it lives in, what it feeds on, and what traps it can be caught alive. The fat man and I were staring at each other, and we could only say two words: convinced.
The Oroqen people are all natural hunters. The word "Oroqen" is the official name for this ethnic group, which is not very accurate, and sometimes they also call themselves "Oroqen" or "Orochun", which means deer hunters who wander in the forests and mountains. They have been wandering in the forests of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains for many years, living a life of nomadic fishing and hunting. When China was first liberated, there were less than 1,000 Oroqen people left in the population, and the government allowed them to come out of the harsh living environment in the mountains and old forests and live a settled life. But the tribesmen have an almost deified worship and yearning for the kind of nomadic life that their ancestors lived, they believed in shamans, worshiped nature, and although they lived a settled life, they still had to go into the mountains often to hunt.
There are no words along the way, and the book is brief. Everyone stayed overnight, walked in the primeval forest for six or seven days, and finally arrived at the black wind mouth on the Sino-Mongolian border. The forest density of the Black Wind Mouth is indescribable, and there is almost no place to stand in the depths, full of cold-resistant trees such as Korean pine, larch, birch, and aspen, and the dead branches and leaves on the ground are covered with one layer at a time. It is easy to do people, but the weight of the horse is very large, and it is often trapped and unable to move, so we have to use our strength to eat and pull and pull, and just walk and push forward one by one.
I don't know how many years have passed at the bottom, the rotting branches and leaves and the beasts trapped in it give off a rancid smell, this stench is mixed with the scent of red pine and wild flowers, it smells strange, but after smelling too much, it makes people feel a little addictive.
When I get to the Black Wind Mouth, the rest is mine. We found a valley, this should be the legendary savage ditch, there is nothing peculiar about the landform here, not as fierce as the lama ditch, but this is just an intuitive feeling, Yingzi said that it looks like there must be a big smoke bubble in the valley, be sure to see it clearly and then go down, you can't get out of the big smoke bubble. If you want to go down to the savage ditch, you must prepare a large wooden stick to explore the way, the fallen leaves below are too deep, more powerful than the swamp, fortunately it is not the rainy season, otherwise don't think about going down.
Savage ditch belongs to the remnant vein of the Great Xing'an Mountains mountain range, the mountains on both sides are gentle, the whole valley is north-south, the east and west sides are hills, the middle place has a very short sunshine time all year round, and the gloomy atmosphere is gloomy. The valley was full of rotten leaves and grass, and there were no trees except for a few low, sparse shrubs. Out of the valley the trees are thinner, the primeval forest ends here, and more than 200 miles ahead is the vast Outer Mongolian grassland.
It was almost dusk, the blood-red sunset hung in the sky, we climbed the hillside, looked out, only to see the red sun about to fall, the sky was full of large red clouds, the whole sky seemed to be dyed by heavy oil paint, the forest-covered mountains, the endless prairie in the distance became hazy in the field of vision, it was really like the sea, and the remnant sun was like blood.
The fat man was happy when he saw this beautiful scenery: "Lao Hu, this scene is so beautiful, we didn't come in vain this time." "
What I remember the most is the ancient tomb in the savage ditch, carefully look at the terrain in the valley against the "Fragment of the Dragon Sutra", and take out the compass to identify the direction of the gossip, and secretly said in my heart: "Finally, the mother has found the right place, there must be a noble tomb in this valley." "
The terrain here is stable and majestic, there is the tendency of swallowing all things, one end is the grassland, the other end is connected with the Great Khing'an Mountains, the Outer Mongolia Grassland is like a vast ocean, and the moon ditch is like a big river that flows into the sea.
Although the feng shui style here is not enough to bury the emperor, it is more than enough to bury a prince and a general such as Wanhu, and when the moon rises in the sky, the moonlight will point out the direction of the ancient tomb for us.