The train was to leave 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 in total.
The fat man counted and said that we had one hundred and fifty left.
This little money was enough to pay for the return trip and food. fee.
When I thought about it, this wouldn’t work.
We haven’t been back for more than ten years.
It would be inappropriate to go see the folks with nothing.
I had to find a way to get some money to buy some gifts for the folks.
The fat man said that he might as well sell my piece of jade and exchange it for one thousand eight hundred yuan.
I said you should keep it.
Don't worry about the little things your father left you.
If you sell them, you won't be able to get them back.
Don't regret it later.
Finally, I found something valuable.
We had a Yingge brand mechanical watch with us.
My father bought it for me when I was a company commander.
It is a limited edition and is limited in supply.
Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it.
It was worth more than 200 yuan on the market at that time.
I went to Panjiayuan and sold the watch to Da Jinya.
This grandson accepted everything.
When he heard that we were going to Inner Mongolia to do it, he even sponsored us for 100 yuan and agreed that he would contact the buyer of the things we found.
In the 1980s, three hundred yuan was enough for an ordinary family to live a luxurious life for two to three months.
It was a considerable amount of money.
With more than 300 yuan, I bought a lot of food, including candied fruits, toffee, canned food, chocolate, tea, etc.
These are not available in the mountains.
The remaining money was exchanged on the black market.
It became a national food stamp.
The journey of two days and two nights seemed a bit long in the mood of anticipation.
After arriving at the station, we had to ride a tractor for a day, and then walk on the mountain road for a day and night.
After the two of us entered the mountain, we walked for less than a day before we could no longer walk.
The things we carried were too heavy.
Each of us had to carry more than 100 kilograms.
I gritted my teeth and persisted, but the fat man was really in trouble.
Sitting on He was breathing heavily under the big tree and couldn't even speak.
Fortunately, I met an accountant who came out from the village to do business.
He was still a half-year-old child when we jumped in line.
He played with us all day long and called us "brother" over and over again.
When the accountant saw how much luggage we had, he quickly ran back to the village and called a few people to pick us up with donkeys.
We all knew these elderly people, and there were two girls in their twenties or thirteen years old who came after I left.
Since I was born, they all call me "Uncle", which doesn't sound very awkward to me.
I asked the accountant: "Why are there no young men in the village?"
The accountant replied: "All the laborers in the village have gone to work with the archaeological team.
Isn't that the Tangshan earthquake in 1976?
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Although we are thousands of miles away from our neighborhood, we belong to this neighborhood."
An earthquake zone, this place The earthquake completely shattered Niuxin Mountain in Lamagou.
There was a large tomb inside that was as neat as a palace.
Many brave people in our village went in to move things.
I don’t know how to fix the old nose.
Yes, alarmed The county government and the archaeological team came soon after, saying that this was the tomb of Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Dynasty, and they took away all the good things in everyone's house, leaving nothing behind.
The archaeological team also left nothing behind.
What, it seems to mean There are a lot of good things to be dug under the mountain.
All the laborers in the village are hired to work, and each laborer is paid three yuan a day to take care of food and drink.
This has been done for several years, and it is not very profitable.
Many people are still working there.”
The fat man and I almost vomited blood when we heard this.
We dared to burn incense with our two brothers, even the Buddha fell off his buttocks.
But there is nothing we can do.
We can't compete with the public figures from the Archaeological Team and Cultural Relics Bureau for territory.
Now that I'm here, let's play for a few days and then think of ways to find another place.
Anyway, there is not only one large ancient tomb in Niuxin Mountain.
When we were about to enter the village, the villagers who had received the news were waiting at the door.
They all crowded over and asked questions.
Yanzi led his daughter and cried to us: "Oh, Fatty Lao Hu, you guys want to die."
How come we haven't heard from each other for so many years?"
Yanzi's father hugged both of us tightly: "You two little bastards disappeared as soon as you left.
If you can't stay here for two or three years, who will?
No one is allowed to leave."
Fatty and I both cried.
Fatty has lived here for six or seven years, and I have only lived here for one year.
But the people in the mountains are simple.
If you have lived here, they will always treat you like a relative.
This place is still the same as before, nothing has changed, there is no electricity, no roads, and many people have never seen an electric light in their lives.
The more I thought about it, the sadder I became.
I thought that when we have money, we must build a road for the villagers, but when will we have money?
At this time, the old party secretary in the village was helped by someone and came over.
Before he arrived, he said loudly: "The Chairman's children are back again.
Chairman, is he okay now?
How is the Cultural Revolution going?"
I was puzzled as I listened, asking the Chairman if he is okay now and where I can go.
I rushed to the front and held the old party secretary's arm and said: "He is doing well.
He lies in the memorial hall every day.
Who of you misses him?
You can just buy a ticket and go in to see his old man.
Oh, by the way, the Cultural Revolution has happened long ago."
It’s over.
Now Comrade Xiaoping is leading us to carry out reform and opening up.”
The old party secretary didn't seem to hear what I said, so he pulled his neck and asked loudly: "What is Comrade Xiaoming doing?"
Yanzi told me next to him: "Don't listen to him anymore.
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I don't know how to fix it.
He has been deaf since 1973.
He can't hear anything clearly and he is always confused."
Only then did I realize what was going on.
I said loudly in the ear of the old Party Secretary: "Party Secretary, I have brought you a lot of delicious food.
I will deliver it to you in a while.
You can eat slowly."
Everyone walked into the village as they talked.
The old party secretary was still shouting from behind: "Children, you go back and report to his old man that we firmly support the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and we should rectify it."
In the evening, the Kang table at Yanzi's house was filled with fried pheasant slices and smoked venison legs, and a large casserole in the middle was boiling white meat with pickled cabbage powder.
Yanzi's husband was also very familiar with us before.
He went to Niuxin Mountain to work and has not come back, so we won't see him for the time being.
Yanzi's father was drinking and talking with us, and I talked about the ancient tomb in Niuxin Mountain, and by the way 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 job to generate income, and there is no moral problem.
This is the case in the north.
In the southern Xiangxi area, robbery and murder are a side job.
The mountain people work as farmers during the day and as bandits at night.
They hide in the woods and kill passing merchants from other places, never leaving any survivors alive.
This is forced by the living environment for thousands of years.
If you rely on the mountains, you will eat the mountains, if you rely on the water, you will eat the ancient tombs, and if you rely on the water, you will eat the living people passing 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's law cannot control it, although no one can explain this legally.
Most of the ancient tombs nearby are too old and have lost their obvious markings due to the changes in the world.
Otherwise, they would have been dug up by the mountain people.
Yanzi's father said that a long time ago, before liberation, there were several young amateur "grave robbers" in this village.
At that time, they didn't know that there were tombs in Niuxin Mountain.
They went to a legendary place to dig graves and dig for gold.
I don’t know what happened to them, but they all went away and never came back.
Yanzi’s second uncle was one of them.
Yanzi's father knew the approximate location of that legendary place, but he had never dared to go there.
Speaking of the past, the old man fell into memories.
He lit up Yabuli's old cigarette pipe and took a few puffs.
After thinking for a long time, he said: "If you want to find an ancient tomb, there is nothing nearby except Niuxin Mountain.
According to legend , go north through Tuanshanzi into the mountains, a five-day journey, and there is a barbarian ditch at the Heifengkou on the border between China and Mongolia.
Legend has it that the area is full of tombs of the nobles of the Jin Dynasty.
However, the place is inaccessible and there are still barbarians.
You guys Do you have the guts to go?”
I had heard the name Yerengou before, but I had never heard that there were ancient tombs there.
What exactly killed the previous group of tomb robbers?
Don’t tell me that I don’t know.
Yanzi’s father doesn’t know.
Everyone in the entire village No one knows.
There are too many dangerous things in the deep mountains and old forests.
All kinds of wild beasts, and even changes in weather and natural environment may kill people.
If they encounter a swamp formed by big smoke bubbles and dead leaves soaked and rotted by rain, they will be covered in it. , even the Great Luo Immortal cannot escape.
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We are determined to leave, and even Yanzi’s father can’t stop us.
No one in the village has actually been to Heifengkou Yerengou.
They only know the approximate direction.
It is close to the border and there are no people there.
People in the village cannot go that far even if they go into the mountains to hunt or collect mountain goods.
In addition, Yanzi's father was old and suffered from cold legs and could no longer go into the mountains.
Yanzi was pregnant with her second child at the time and could not travel far.
The young and middle-aged people in the village are all working in Lamagou and will not come back soon.
Yanzi's father said: "I'm still worried if I don't take you there myself.
In fact, the danger in Yerengou is not from the barbarians.
The key is that the terrain is complicated.
When winter comes, the white-haired wind blows, and it is easy to get lost in it.
But it is early autumn now, Don’t worry about this section.
If you go, be sure to bring more dogs and find a good guide.
Our village has raised several mastiffs in the past few years, and we will bring them with you this time.”
Mastiff does not just refer to Tibetan Mastiff.
In the Northeast, huge bulldogs are called Mastiffs, which are not exactly the same as Tibetan Mastiffs.
The hunters and herdsmen living in the northern grasslands and forests were threatened by wild beasts such as wolves and black bears, and it was difficult for them to deal with them with ordinary hunting dogs, so they learned how to raise mastiffs from Tibet.
As the saying goes, nine dogs and one mastiff, this sentence does not mean that out of nine dogs, one mastiff will come out.
It must be a female dog with a good bloodline.
She will give birth to nine puppies at the same time in a litter.
These nine puppies will be locked in a cellar after they are born, deprived of food and water, and let them kill each other.
In the end, the only one who survives will be the female dog.
Just a mastiff.
Mastiffs are extremely ferocious by nature, and three mastiff dogs can tear a full-grown human bear into pieces alive.
There are three mastiffs in the village, plus five of the best hounds, all of which were given to us.
Yanzi’s father recommended a guide to us, Yingzi.
Yingzi is just nineteen years old and is a rare member of the Oroqen tribe.
Among the younger generation of hunters, no one is better than Yingzi.
She is a famous sharpshooter in the mountains.
Despite her young age, she has been in the woods with her father since she was a child.
Hunting, there is nothing in the old forest that she doesn't know about.
Of the three mastiff dogs in the village, two were raised by her herself.
Before setting off, I asked Yanzi to help prepare some things, including bird cages, glutinous rice, black donkey hooves, crowbars, a large bucket of vinegar, and soju.
When everything was ready, Yanzi's father gave many warnings, saying, "If you really can't find us, don't force yourself.
Go back as soon as possible.
He didn't go back until we were sent to Tuanshanzi."
I am quite confident about finding ancient tombs.
As long as I can get to Yerengou, it doesn't matter if there are no ancient tombs.
If there is one, I will definitely be able to find it.
Regarding tomb robbing, I learned part of the knowledge from books, and most of it was told by my grandfather.
My grandfather Hu Guohua served as an officer in the old warlord army.
Some of his soldiers were once soldiers of Dongling robber Sun Dianying.
His subordinates had participated in many large-scale tomb-robbing operations and were rich in experience.
Most of what my grandfather knew and heard was based on what they said.
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Historically, tomb robbers have been divided into civilian and official tomb robbers.
Official robbers are all on the ground, specializing in the tombs of emperors.
Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu in the late Qin Dynasty, should be the ancestor of official robbers.
As for the gold digging army of the Three Kingdoms period, Xiaowei It is just a matter of systematizing official thieves and forming an assembly line operation.
There are also amateurs and professionals among the people.
Amateurs dig whatever they want, while professionals only look for the tombs of nobles and princes, while smaller ones look down on them.
The key to tomb robbing is to find ancient tombs, which is a very profound knowledge.
Over the thousands of years in China, dynasties have changed, and the construction and location selection of emperors' tombs have changed.
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, most of the tombs were overturned bucket-style tombs.
The overturned bucket was the shape of the mound, like a meter-measuring bucket turned over to cover it.
There were edges and lines on all four sides, and a small square platform at the top. , some like the pyramids of Egypt, except that the Chinese ones have one more side, but they are surprisingly similar to the pyramids of the Mayan civilization, the "lost civilization" found in South America.
No one can guess the connection between this.
In the Tang Dynasty, mountains were built into mausoleums, and the projects were huge and majestic.
This was also related to the national power of the Tang Dynasty at that time.
The royal tombs of the Tang Dynasty were full of the style of the world's first empire.
From the Southern Song Dynasty to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, military disasters occurred one after another.
Several of the largest natural disasters in ancient Chinese history also occurred during this period.
The country was weak, and the scale of the tombs of princes and nobles was not as luxurious as before.
Later, in the Qing Dynasty, during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, the country's economy and productivity were greatly restored, and the architectural style of the mausoleum changed, paying more attention to the ground-level architecture and integrating it with the ancestral temple gardens for sacrifices.
Drawing on the anti-theft experience of previous dynasties, the structures of underground palace tombs in the Qing Dynasty were extremely strong, making them the most difficult to attack.
In the final analysis, no matter which dynasty or generation, the tomb forms in China for thousands of years are all derived from the Five Elements Feng Shui layout derived from the Sixty-Four Hexagrams of Fu Xi.
Eight words: Within nature, heaven and man are one.
Tomb culture is the essence of Chinese civilization.
Mongolian, Uighur, Tubo, Jinji, Wusun, Xianbei, She people, Jurchen, Dangxiang and other ethnic minorities have been greatly affected, and the layout of their tombs has imitated the form of the Central Plains. , but most of them only scratch the surface.
It can be said that as long as you know how to look at the direction of mountains and rivers in the world, you can easily find ancient tombs no matter how deeply hidden they are.
Going further forward is the endless virgin forest.
Yingzi led eight big dogs to clear the way in front.
Fatty led a pony to carry tents and other supplies and equipment.
I walked behind carrying a shotgun, and the group entered Zhongmongolia.
Among the high mountains on the border.
As the fat man walked, he asked Yingzi in front: "Sister, what is going on with the savages in Yerengou?
What are the savages?
Have you ever seen them?"
Yingzi turned around and said: "I don't know what a savage is.
I heard from my father that many people have seen them over the years, but no one has caught them alive, and they have never seen dead bodies.
Those who have seen them can't tell what they are."
Sample."
I laughed from behind and said: "Fat man, you are so damn uneducated.
As the name suggests, savages are wild people.
Study hard in the future.
Do you know what a wild person is?
They are born in the wild.
They may be grown on trees.
Yes, it might be grown in the ground, but it’s not artificial.”
The legend of the Shennongjia savages has been around for a long time.
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I had heard of it in the army.
It is said that a People's Liberation Army soldier once shot and killed a savage in Shennongjia.
The savage's body fell off a cliff.
In the end, it was not clear whether the savage was a human or a big hairy monkey.
Almost all the witnesses who have seen the savage affirm that the savage is tall and strong, with long and thin black hair all over his body.
I heard Yingzi tell us that the Savage Valley at Heifengkou used to be called "Dead Man's Valley" instead of "Savage's Valley."
It has always been the cemetery of the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin.
Later, the Mongolian army defeated the main force of the Jin soldiers at Heifengkou.
Corpses piled up like mountains.
The Mongols threw all the dead into the ditch.
The entire valley was almost filled, so the locals called it the "Dead Man's Ditch."
Later, someone saw a savage near this valley, and word spread that the name of Dead Man's Valley was replaced by Savage's Valley.
There's nothing scary about savages.
No matter how powerful savages are, can they be as good as mastiffs?
A thought suddenly came to my mind.
I don't know what price savages can fetch in the market.
But then I thought, it's not humane to do this.
It's better not to kill living animals.
It’s an idea.
It’s true that you are focusing on digging ancient tombs.
Since we were carrying horses, we couldn't climb mountains with too steep slopes.
We had to detour when we encountered big mountains, so the journey was extremely slow.
Fortunately, the primeval forest in autumn is a gorgeous scenery.
The red and yellow leaves all over the mountains and plains are dyed in layers, which makes people never tire of looking at it.
Occasionally, he would see one or two pheasants, hares, roe deer, sloths, and deer running out of the depths of the forest.
Yingzi would let the dogs chase them.
At night, he would camp, collect some mushrooms and spices from the mountains, and light a campfire for barbecue.
The fat man had a great feast, and he had not eaten the same kind of game these days.
When traveling in this mountain, if we don’t bring hunting dogs, we can only sleep in the trees.
We brought three giant mastiffs and five large hunting dogs.
This kind of power has almost no opponent in the forest, unless we encounter three giant mastiffs.
More than one human bear.
Yingzi said that mastiffs are the nemesis of human bears.
When the human bears in the forest hear the cry of mastiffs, they will immediately run away from each other, so we all sleep in tents at night.
The loyal hounds are watching around the tents.
It’s nothing.
Worryingly, these dogs are much more reliable than people.
Yingzi's temper was much sharper than that of Yanzi when he was young.
He was so angry that he was so angry that he wouldn't let Little Pepper.
What route to take, what to eat, these all have to be obeyed by her.
Who makes her the guide?
The dogs also obey her.
Although I am used to being a company commander, I can only tolerate being an ordinary soldier with her.
However, Yingzi does have a lot of skills, such as hunting, finding roads, finding spring water, identifying whether mushrooms are poisonous, and how to find fungus, mushrooms, hazelnuts, persimmons, Codonopsis pilosula, schisandra chinensis, etc. in the deep mountains.
There is simply nothing she doesn't understand.
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Moreover, there are some animals in the mountains that I can't even name.
I have never seen them before, but Yingzi can tell them what kind of animals they are, what kind of environment they live in, what they feed on, and what kind of traps they can use to catch them alive.
The fat man and I were so stunned that we could only say two words: I'm convinced.
Oroqen people are born hunters.
The three words "Oroqen" are the official name for this ethnic group, which is not very accurate.
Sometimes they also call themselves "Oroqen" or "Oleqen", which means deer hunters who wander in the mountains and forests. .
They have been wandering in the forests of Xiaoxing'an Mountains for many years, leading a nomadic life of fishing and hunting.
When China was first liberated, the total population of the Oroqen people was less than 1,000.
The government allowed them to come out of the harsh living environment in the mountains and old forests and live a settled life.
However, the tribesmen have an almost deified worship and yearning for the hunting life lived by their ancestors.
They believe in shamans and worship nature.
Although they live a settled life, they still often go into the mountains to hunt.
There was nothing to say along the way, and the book was brief.
Everyone walked at dawn and stayed overnight, walking in the primeval forest for six or seven days, and finally arrived at the Heifengkou on the border between China and Mongolia.
The forest in Heifengkou is indescribably dense.
There is almost no place to stand in the depths.
It is full of cold-resistant tree species such as red pine, larch, birch, and poplar.
The dead branches and leaves on the ground are covered one layer after another, and they sink in every step.
It was easy to handle, but the horse was very heavy and often got stuck and couldn't move.
We had to use all our strength to pull and pull, just walking and pushing forward.
I don’t know how old the bottom one is.
The rotten branches and leaves and the dead beasts trapped inside give off a putrid smell.
This stench is mixed with the scent of red pine and wild flowers.
It smells weird, but It makes people feel a little addictive after smelling it too much.
Once we reach the black wind outlet, the rest is mine.
We found a valley, which should be the legendary Yeren Valley.
There is nothing strange about the landform here.
It is not as fierce as Lama Valley, but this is just an intuitive feeling.
Yingzi said that there must be big smoke bubbles in the valley, so be sure to If you go down after seeing it clearly, you will get stuck in a big smoke bubble and you won't be able to get out.
If you want to go down to the savage ditch, everyone must prepare a big wooden stick to explore the way.
The fallen leaves below are too deep, worse than the swamp.
Fortunately, it is not the rainy season, otherwise there is no way to go down.
Yeren Valley belongs to the remnants of the Daxinganling Mountains.
The mountains on both sides are gentle.
The entire valley runs north to south, with hills on the east and west sides.
The middle part has very short sunshine all year round and is gloomy.
The valley was filled with dead leaves and grass.
Except for some low and sparse shrubs, there were no trees growing.
The trees are even sparser outside the valley, and the virgin forest ends here.
More than two hundred miles further is the vast Outer Mongolia prairie.
It was almost dusk, and the blood-red sunset hung in the sky.
We climbed up the hillside and looked around.
We saw that the red sun was about to set.
The sky was filled with large tracts of red clouds.
The entire sky seemed to be dyed with thick oil paint and covered with forests.
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The rolling mountains and the endless prairie in the distance have become hazy in the field of vision.
The mountains are like the sea and the setting sun is like blood.
When the fat man saw this beautiful scenery, he felt very happy: "Old Hu, this scenery is so beautiful, our trip was not in vain."
What I remember most is the ancient tomb in Yerengou.
I carefully looked at the topography of the valley based on the sixteen-character yin-yang Feng Shui secret technique, and then took out the compass to identify the Bagua directions.
I thought to myself: "Finally, we found the right damn place.
There must be something in this valley."
There are ancient tombs of nobles.”
The terrain here is stable and majestic, with the potential to swallow up everything.
One end is the grassland, and the other end is connected to the Greater Khingan Mountains.
The Outer Mongolia prairie is like a vast ocean, and Pengyue Valley is like a big river that flows into the sea.
Although the Feng Shui style here is not enough to bury an emperor, it is more than enough to bury a high-ranking official such as a prince or a general.
When the moon reaches its zenith, the moonlight will point out the location of the ancient tomb for us
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