The reason why this place was once called "Zhuyue Gully" is because when the moon rises above the valley, lying on your back in the deepest part of the valley and looking up at the sky, the afterglow of vision will produce an illusion, the highest hills on both sides are like two huge arms, stretching out to the sky of the bright moon. The deceased in this cave is the essence of the sun and the moon, which is explained in detail in the chapter of the word "heaven" in my ancestral feng shui book.
I found that there seemed to be a metal object on the collar of the innermost corpse's clothes, and I took it off and wiped the stains off it, like a collar flower on a military uniform, but it was definitely not from the Chinese army.
If the savage ditch was not covered with such thick dead leaves and rotten grass, the middle position could be found directly, but now only when the moon rises at night, can you refer to the position of the moon in the sky and go down to the deepest part of the valley to find the ancient tomb. We have limited manpower, and there can be no deviation when we work, otherwise the amount of work will be too large.
At this time, the fat man also found something, and touched a war knife from the corner, he made a lot of effort, and finally pulled out the knife with a "poof", the steel mouth of this knife is excellent, after so many years, it is still light and recognizable, it seems that the master cherished this knife very much during his lifetime, and must wipe it from time to time.
It was still early in the night, so we pitched our tent under a big tree on the hillside, tied the pony to the tree, fed it fodder, and lit a bonfire to boil water for food. Tonight's game was a fawn caught by the hounds. The appearance of this deer is a little strange, with plum spots on its body, its body is not large, it is very uneven, its hind legs are unusually thick, and its big ears have no horns.
As soon as I looked at this knife, I understood, the damn legendary savages were these Japanese devils.
Yingzi saw that the hounds dragged the strange deer, hurried forward, turned the deer over and examined the belly of the dead deer, the blood stains on the belly of the strange deer, Yingzi broke the deer's mouth again, as if looking for something, and finally did not find it, so angry that she kicked the deer twice, and scolded the big hounds: "These bear things, they know how to eat all day long, and they can't point to you, and none of you are allowed to eat today." "
The fat man couldn't figure it out, didn't Japan return home after its defeat and surrender? Why didn't these little devils leave?
The fat man looked strange on the side, so he asked Yingzi: "Big sister, what are you looking for?" "
It's not surprising that I say that you know too little about historical events, which exposes your unlearned nature. The fat man said don't talk nonsense, hurry up and talk about what the hell is going on.
Yingzi took out a sharp knife to skin the deer, and answered the fat man's question: "Fat brother, have you ever seen this animal, this is a musk deer, there is musk in the navel of the male musk deer, oh my mother, it is always valuable, but this thing is very thief, when I saw that someone wanted to catch it, I first bit off my navel and chewed it to a pulp." Mom, these dogs are too bearish, and if they move faster, they can get a piece of musk. "
According to my speculation, on the eve of Japan's unconditional surrender, the Soviet Union's mechanized army went south to attack the Kwantung Army stationed in northeast China, and the million-dollar Kwantung Army, known as the most elite of the Japanese army, was shattered. Someone here saw a few suspicious Japanese devils hiding and hiding, their clothes were already dirty, and they didn't shave when they lived in the forest, so didn't they think they were savages?
When the fat man heard this, he sat down against a big tree, bent over with his head bowed, and pressed his stomach up and down.
In fact, I also deduced out of thin air, what is the real reason, unless these devils come back to life and explain themselves, no one will ever know the truth. After I said this, the fat man and Yingzi could understand.
I patted him on the head, "What the fuck are you thinking?" You think you're a deer, you can reach your navel with your mouth, and besides, your navel is full of mud and it's worthless. "
Yingzi said: "The little Japanese devil designated that he was lost, don't look at the edge of the forest, but to the north is all the prairie, and there is a big mud (a swamp full of mud), and the north side can't go out at all; To the south is the primeval forest, without dogs, and even the most experienced old hunters don't want to go out, they really deserve it. "
The fat man was anxious: "Nonsense, my back is a little itchy, rub it twice on the tree, you just want to bite your navel!" "
I rummaged through the contents of these dead bodies to see if there was anything valuable, and when I was halfway through, it suddenly occurred to me that the people who came to rob the tomb in the late forties had been killed by Japanese devils.
After a few words of fighting, the two of us went separately to clean up our things, I went to collect dry firewood, and the fat man went to help Yingzi barbecue. We only roasted one hind leg of the musk deer was enough to eat, the internal organs of the musk deer were fed to the five big hounds, Yingzi is a knife-mouthed tofu heart, just now I said that I would not give these dogs dinner, and now I am afraid that they will not have enough to eat.
Just thinking about it, I suddenly found a notebook from a military bag, all written in Japanese, the paper is yellow, the handwriting on it is still legible, but none of the three people understand Japanese, fortunately, there are many Chinese characters in it, but Japanese Chinese characters and Chinese meanings are far from the same, some meanings are even opposite (for example, for example, the word "left" in Japanese kanji, which is contrary to the literal meaning of kanji, is the meaning of "out"), even so, connect these words, you can still understand almost half, Coupled with some of our subjective speculations, the general meaning is to say:
The other three giant mastiffs all crouched proudly in the distance, not looking directly at the ordinary hounds that were eating the intestines of the animals, and Yingzi gave the two front legs of the musk deer to the two mastiffs, and one hind leg to the largest giant mastiff named Huzi.
The main force of the Kwantung Army in Dongning was routed by the Soviet troops, and Namiki Shaosa led the remaining squad of soldiers (in the Kwantung Army's A Division, the size of a squad is 120-200 soldiers), fled to a secret underground fortress in the Black Wind Pass, preparing to join the rest of the Kwantung Army in the fortress and fight a final decisive battle with the Soviets, and serve the emperor with jade pieces. As a result, when they were about to arrive, they stepped on a large smoke bubble, and the only soldier who knew the location of the fortress and the guide who led the way fell into it and drowned, and the rest of the people never found the entrance to the secret fortress, and they got lost when they wanted to go back, and they had no communication equipment, so they had to live in the mountains, which was more than 30 years, and they died one after another... The back is gone, and it is estimated that the person who wrote it died when he wrote this.
I threw the notebook aside, I don't have time to look at these rags now, the tomb walls in the valley are almost corroded, hurry back, take things and leave, don't care about these Japanese devils, they're all rotting anyway. The fat man said that this knife belongs to me, and I had several adjutant knives at home, which were all copied during the Cultural Revolution, and I still want to collect one. I persuaded him that this is a controlled knife, you can't take the train, wait until you go back to Beijing to see if there is a second-hand market, and buy you a new one.
The three of us ate barbecue around the campfire, and Yingzi gave each of us a knife and a small bowl made of salt rock, and the deer legs were flipped over the fire and grilled, and the knife was sliced down one by one, and when we rubbed it in the bowl, it tasted salty. The meal was eaten quickly, and I just thought about the ancient tomb in the ditch, and I didn't see the difference between the meat taste of musk deer and ordinary venison.
After eating, the moon has risen, and through the moonlight, you can see that the clouds in the sky are moving fast, which means that there will be a strong wind in the evening. Seeing that the time was almost up, he left all the hounds to guard the camp, and the three of us went down to the savage ditch with sticks and shotguns.
Every time we took a step forward, we had to stick a stick into the ground in front of us to see if there were any big smoke bubbles. The savage ditch is much better than we expected, although the fallen leaves in some places have lost their thighs, but there are no big smoke bubbles, it seems that if you want to dig the ancient tomb, you have to clean up the fallen leaves on the tomb first.
I looked up at the moon in the sky, took out the compass and compared, looked around the sides of the valley, and finally settled on the location, there may be many ancient tombs in this valley, but the main one, and the tomb of the nobles of the most status, is where we stand at our feet.
Insert a wooden stick and stay here to make a mark, go back today to sleep well, raise enough strength to dig early tomorrow morning, this deep mountain and old forest, there is no one else in a radius of hundreds of miles, there is no need to work secretly at night.
As I walked back, I told the fat man about the tomb robbery, and since I had done this, I should know more about these things, and I couldn't just dig stupidly with my strength, and I kept telling him about it since we entered the mountain.
Since ancient times, the earliest recorded tomb robbery occurred about 3,000 years ago, that is, the Zhou Dynasty, that is, the Zhou Dynasty of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Xiahou Shang Zhou, and the Zhou Dynasty was divided into the Eastern Zhou and Western Zhou dynasties, that is, the dynasty assisted by Fengming Qishan and Jiang Taigong in the "Romance of the Gods", which has a foundation of more than 800 years. During that era, two major tomb robberies were recorded, one was the theft of the tomb of King Youyou of Zhou, and the other was the theft of the tomb of Shang Tang. Two naked and lifelike bodies of young men and women were found in the tomb of Youwang, which frightened the tomb robbers and turned their heads and ran; And the tomb of King Tang excavated a large turtle shell, which was engraved with oracle bone inscriptions.
The fat man said: "Old Hu, don't talk to me about this useless thing, you just say that there are no ghosts in the tomb?" How do we deal with ghosts? And what the hell you said last time blowing out the lamp, why do I sound so evil? "
Yingzi said, "What the hell is blowing the lamp?" Is it the smoke bubble ghost blowing the lamp that we said in the Northeast? "
I said: "It's not the one in the Northeast, it's a superstitious behavior of the captains who touch the gold, in fact, it's not necessarily useless, the air quality in the tomb is not good, if the candles can't be lit, people will definitely be poisoned and die when they go in, these can also be explained from a scientific point of view." Besides, how can there be ghosts in ancient tombs? It's all superstitious legends, and even if we do, we don't have to worry, I'm ready for something like black donkey hooves, glutinous rice, and so on. In a word, don't believe in evil if you rob a tomb, and don't rob a tomb if you're afraid of ghosts. "
The fat man suddenly realized: "Oh, it's been a long time, you asked Yanzi to prepare these things to ward off evil spirits, I thought you were not afraid of ghosts." By the way, what are the vinegar and bird cages for? "
I was just about to answer, when I heard the barking of hounds on the hillside, and the hearts of all three of them sank, wondering if there might be some wild beast attacking our camp. But there were three giant mastiffs there, and even if the beasts ate the bear's heart and leopard's guts, they would not dare to cause trouble. What is it that causes the hounds to bark? We hurried two steps back up the hill.
Back next to the tent, a bloody scene appeared in front of him, the pony tied to the tree was bitten by some beast, his whole stomach was broken, and his intestines flowed to the ground.
The hounds gathered around the pony and barked at the pony as if they had seen something terrible, and their bark was full of restless restlessness.
According to common sense, horses and dogs are good friends, and ponies are never bitten by dogs, so what kind of beast will make it? Three giant mastiffs and five hounds surrounded the left and right, but they didn't catch the beast that committed the murder?
Looking around, there was no sign of wild beasts, only the empty mountains were lonely, the night wind rustled the leaves in the forest, and the palms of our shotguns were already full of cold sweat.
The horse's mouth was foaming with blood, white gas was still bubbling in its nostrils, and although its stomach and intestines were flowing all over the ground, it couldn't swallow its breath for a while, and Yingzi shot at the horse's head, ending its dying pain.
I suddenly noticed that the horse's intestines were moving, not from a physiological reaction, but as if they had been pulled to the ground by something, and the thing that pulled the pony's internal organs was hiding under the horse's carcass.
I hurriedly pulled Yingzi back, and the fat Yingzi also saw the situation just now, and the three of them looked at each other, and they all thought, "Could it be that the wild man did it?" "
Being in the Savage Gully, the first thing that comes to mind is of course the Savage, but does the Savage have such a great strength to tear open the horse's belly? Maybe it's a weapon, but it's not a wildling if you can make a weapon.
Before we could figure it out, the internal organs on the ground had been pulled under the horse's corpse, and the situation below was completely obscured by the horse's body.
The horse's carcass had to be removed first. I checked the shotgun in my hand, this kind of gun is much more advanced than the tooth lifting gun I used to beat people and bears in Lamagou more than ten years ago, but this kind of sporting air rifle is too small to form a fatal injury to large beasts. Something is better than nothing, after all, it is much better than a burning stick.
There were guns and dogs, and everyone had some bottom in their hearts, so the three of them worked together to push away the carcasses of the horses, and in the grass on the ground, a bottomless hole appeared.
The hole was as thick as a small bucket, and it was unlikely that an adult would want to get into it, and something dragged the pony's intestines into the hole. When we first arrived, the hole was covered with grass, and no one found it, but when the grass grew nearby, they tied their horses here. When we went down to the valley to look for the ancient tomb, the men in the cave suddenly attacked and tore open the horse's belly, and although the hounds were fierce, the entrance to the cave was covered by the horse's corpse, and they were so anxious that they barked, but they were helpless.
I shone a flashlight into the hole, and the black hole was deep, I don't know how deep. The experience of being a sapper for more than three years came in handy at this time, and looking at the marks on the wall of the cave, it was almost certain that the hole was not artificial, it was dug by some animal with its claws, and the claws were very sharp, and it was a good digger, otherwise how could it tear the belly of the pony at once. But what kind of animal it is, I really can't think of it, even Yingzi, who knows everything about the forest, shook his head again and again, he has never seen or heard of such an animal.
I guess there will be other caves in the vicinity, it seems that this savage ditch seems to be calm and beautiful, but in fact it is hidden dangerous, no wonder the group of people who robbed the tomb decades ago have not returned, I wonder if they have also encountered this kind of underground ferocious monster.
It was not advisable to stay here for a long time, so it was decided not to wait for dawn and act overnight. The three of them were divided into two teams, the fat man and I took five hunting dogs and went to the bottom of the valley to dig graves, and Yingzi took three giant mastiffs to find the monsters that attacked us nearby. No matter how powerful that guy is, he won't be more ferocious than the three giant mastiffs, so it's better to take the initiative than to be passive and defensive. If something happens to either side, the gun will be fired and the other side will rush to support as soon as possible.
Speaking of the fat man leading the five big hounds, I carried tools and other applications on my back, and the two of them went down to the bottom of the valley according to the road they had explored before.
I took out two sapper shovels, took one for myself, and threw the other to the fat man: "Little fatty, do the work quickly, it is not suitable for deep burial here, the ancient tomb under the fallen leaf layer will not be too deep, the sooner we dig up the antiques, the better, and then quickly leave this ghost place and go home, and sell the money to the villagers to build a road." "
The fat man spat twice on his hand: "Look at the fat man, mine." "
The German sapper shovel flew up and down, poking up a large piece of silt formed by dead branches and fallen leaves with each blow.
Although there are no trees in the savage ditch, when the wind blows, the leaves on the surrounding mountains will be blown in, and it is really deep over the years. We took turns digging six or seven meters deep, and finally we saw the dirt. I grabbed a handful with my hands, the soil is very fine, the particles are distinct, there are no lumpy lumps, I tasted it with the tip of my tongue, it was a little sweet, yes, this is the mound of sealed soil, and four or five meters below is the burial chamber.
When you dig to the tomb, you have to be careful, some tombs have anti-theft mechanisms, the ancient tombs of the Liaojin period of the Northern Song Dynasty are not like before the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was before the falling stones, dark crossbows and other organs, the anti-theft technology in the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively mature, especially some aristocratic tombs, it is impossible to be as big a project as the emperor's tomb, and the mobilization of manpower is also limited, of course, this is only relative, and the things inside are not ambiguous at all, otherwise it is not worthy of this feng shui treasure.
Like the ancient tomb of the late Northern Song Dynasty Jin Dynasty here, it should be used to use the more popular anti-theft technology Tianbao Dragon Fire Glazed Roof, the technology of this structure is very advanced, the tomb is hollow, the roof is first laid with a very thin glazed tile, there is a bag of Western Regions dragon oil on the tile, and then there is a layer of glazed tiles on the top, and then it is the sealing mound, as long as there is an external force to enter, the top will be broken when touched, the Western Regions fire dragon oil will be on the air when it sees it, and the bones and burial goods in the tomb will be burned to the core, so that the tomb robbers can not get anything.
Of course, this is a last resort, the tomb owner fights to the end, and does not let his bones be destroyed by tomb thieves, this kind of mechanism was only popular in the Jin Liao period at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and later appeared more advanced mechanisms, and the Tianbao Dragon Fire Glass Top was also replaced.
This little mechanism can't bother me. The biggest weakness of this mechanism is that if you dig it from the side, the dragon fire glazed tile on the top will not break. So when we dug up the mound, we began to turn to the side to dig, and the two of us were in full swing, and we didn't know what we were tired of, so we dug a big pit six or seven meters deep on the side.
Inadvertently, it was already dawn, and Yingzi came back and said that she had found nothing nearby, and she had gone hunting in the woods to prepare lunch, and when the food was ready, she sent a dog to call us.
After Yingzi left, the two of us continued to work, and finally dug a layer of hard soil on the side, which was as solid as a rock, and only a white mark appeared on the top of the sapper's shovel.
The fat man scolded: "Fuck, how can there be cement here?" I knew we were going to bring some explosives in advance, how the fuck are you digging it? "
I said, "The explosives are used by rough people, this is a layer of rammed earth, and there are mechanisms on top to protect it." This kind of soil was mixed with the secret recipe of the court at that time, mixed with some glutinous rice juice, and the boy's urine and other mess, which was stronger than the modern concrete of the mother. This secret recipe belonged to the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, and later the Jin State destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, which was passed on to the Jin nobles. "
I brought the big vat of vinegar and asked the fat man to pour it on the rammed earth layer with a big spoon, and when the vat of vinegar was finished, the tomb wall was almost corroded. Don't look at the corrosiveness of vinegar is not too strong, but it has a miraculous effect on this kind of rammed earth prepared with a secret recipe, which is called one thing and one thing, and then digging it will be similar to digging tofu.
According to the law, sure enough, seeing that the tomb was about to be dug up, the two were proud, when they suddenly heard a gunshot from the forest, and the birds in the trees flew up.
The fat man hurriedly said: "My eldest sister shot the gun!" "
I grabbed my sapper shovel and shotgun, and said, "Let's go and see." "
Ignoring the exertion of their bodies, the two of them threw off their legs and scurried on the fallen leaves one step at a time.
When we heard the sound, we rushed to the depths of the forest, and the five big dogs followed closely behind, and ran into the forest for a while, when we suddenly saw Yingzi running towards us with three giant mastiffs.
Seeing that she was fine, I put down the heart I was carrying: "Big sister, did you shoot?" Did you find anything? "
Yingzi's face turned white, and she ran out of breath: "Oh mom... But scared me to death, I found a few shacks in front of me, go in and take a look, it's scary, it's all dead, it's all black and rotten, I didn't see it clearly at first, I thought it was a wild man, so I put a shot, and in the end I didn't see clearly what kind of person's body was. "
Only then did I understand, don't look at Yingzihu, it turns out that she also has weaknesses——— she is most afraid of dead bodies, and she thinks she is not afraid of heaven and earth in the forest.
However, the discovery of dead bodies and shacks in the deep mountains and old forests on the border between China and Mongolia is incredible in itself. Why do you live deep in this uninhabited mountain?
Let's go over and take a look, maybe you can find some clues. I had a vague feeling in my mind that they had something to do with the same group of grave robbers who had disappeared here before.
Yingzi led us to the shacks she had found, which were very rough, made of mud and straw, and a small amount of wood, all built in the densest areas of the trees, and the colors were also very hidden, and it was difficult to find them if they were not close.
We climbed into one of the huts, and saw that there were many hides inside, and in the corner there were indeed three corpses, black from excessive decay, the muscles were almost rotten, the skin was shriveled, and there were maggots and ants crawling in and out of the eyes and nostrils from time to time. I thought to myself, could this be the legendary savages in the Savage Gully.
The fat man came to him and looked at it twice, and said to me: "Old Hu, I said why can't I see the wild people in the wild ditch, it turns out that they are all old and dead." "
I nodded and said, "The strange thing is that the tools of these wild men are very advanced, you see that they are still wearing clothes, how can there be a wild man wearing clothes?" Why do I think this dress looks so familiar? "
The corpses were all wearing tweed coats, worn for many years, estimated to be decades old, and they were all tattered and dirty, but judging from the style, it always made people feel as if they had seen it somewhere.