It is getting late, the sun is gradually sinking into the western horizon, and the large forest is about to be swallowed up by shadows.
The reason why this place was once called "Pengyue Valley" is because when the moon rises directly over the valley, I lie on my back in the deepest part of the valley.
When you look up at the sky, your peripheral vision will create an illusion.
The highest hills on both sides are like two huge arms, stretching towards the bright moon in the sky.
The dead person in this cave took the pure and auspicious energy of the sun and moon.
It is explained in detail in the chapter "Heaven" in my ancestral Feng Shui book.
Although some literal contents cannot be understood, it cannot be combined with on-the-spot observation.
It's hard to guess that they are all close to each other.
If the Savage Valley was not so thickly covered with dead leaves and rotten grass, we could directly find the middle position.
But now we have to wait until the moon rises at night, then we can refer to the position of the moon in the sky and go down to the deepest part of the valley to search.
Ancient tomb.
We have limited manpower and cannot make any deviations when working, otherwise the amount of work will be too large.
It was too early for midnight, so we pitched the tent under a big tree on the hillside, tied the pony to the tree, fed it fodder, and lit a campfire to boil water for dinner.
Tonight's game was a young deer caught by the hunting dogs.
This deer looks a bit strange, with plum spots on its body, a small body, and very uneven growth.
Its hind legs are unusually thick, and its big ears have no horns.
When Yingzi saw the hunting dogs dragging the strange deer, he hurried forward and turned the deer over to examine the belly of the dead deer.
There was blood on the belly of the dead deer.
Yingzi opened the deer's mouth again, as if he was looking for something.
The thing was not found in the end, and she was so angry that she kicked the deer hard twice, and cursed at the big hunting dogs: "These bear things are eaten all day long, and they can't point any fingers at you.
None of you are allowed to eat today."
The fat man looked at it strangely and asked Yingzi: "Sister, what are you looking for?"
Yingzi took out a sharp knife to skin the deer and answered the fat man's question: "Fat brother, you have never seen this kind of animal, right?
This is a musk deer.
There is musk in the belly button of the male musk deer.
Oh my god, it is already valuable, but this thing is a thief."
It's so bad that when someone tries to catch it, it bites off its belly button and chews it to pieces.
These dogs are so bearish, if they move faster, they can get a piece of musk."
After hearing this, the fat man sat down against a big tree, lowered his head and bent over, and exerted force on his stomach.
I slapped his head: "What the hell are you thinking?
Do you think you are a deer?
You can reach your belly button with your mouth.
Besides, your belly button is full of mud and is worthless."
The fat man was anxious: "Oh no, my back is itchy.
Rub it against the tree twice.
You want to bite my belly button."
The two of us bickered for a while, and then we separated to pack 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, which was enough to eat.
The musk deer's internal organs were fed to the five big hounds.
Yingzi was a sharp-tongued tofu heart.
Just now, we said we wouldn't give these dogs supper, but now we were worried that they wouldn't have enough to eat.
The other three giant mastiffs were squatting proudly in the distance, not taking a serious look at the ordinary hounds that were snatching the intestines of the animals.
Yingzi gave the two front legs of the musk deer to the two mastiffs, and gave one of the hind legs to them.
The largest one is called Huzi, a giant mastiff.
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The three of us ate barbecue around the campfire.
Eiko gave each of us a knife and a small bowl made of salt rock.
The deer legs were placed on the fire and turned over for barbecue.
She sliced them off piece by piece with the knife and put them in the bowl.
It tastes salty when rubbed.
The meal was eaten very quickly.
I was just thinking about the ancient tombs in the ditch, and I didn't taste any difference between the taste of musk deer meat and ordinary venison.
After eating, the moon has risen.
Through the moonlight, we can see that the clouds in the sky are moving very fast, which means that there will be strong winds at night.
Seeing that it was almost time, we left all the hunting dogs to guard the camp.
The three of us each went down to the savage ditch with wooden sticks and shotguns.
Every time we take a step forward, we must first stab the ground in front of us with a wooden stick to see if there are any big smoke bubbles.
Yerengou is much better than we expected.
Although the fallen leaves in some places are thigh-high, there are no big smoke bubbles.
It seems that if we want to dig an ancient tomb, we must first clean up the fallen leaves covering the tomb.
I looked up at the moon in the sky, took out the compass for comparison, looked around both sides of the valley, and finally determined the location.
There may be many ancient tombs in this valley, but the most important one is also that of the most distinguished noble.
The tomb is right where we stand.
I inserted a wooden stick and left it here to mark it.
I will go back today and have a good sleep.
I will have enough strength to start digging tomorrow morning.
There is no one else in this deep mountain and forest for hundreds of miles.
There is no need to do it secretly at night. live.
As I walked back, I told the fat man about tomb robbing.
Since I am in this business, I should know more about these things and not just rely on my strength to dig.
I have been telling him non-stop since we entered the mountain.
Since ancient times, the earliest recorded tomb robbing incident in China occurred about three thousand years ago.
It was the Zhou Dynasty, the three emperors and five emperors, the Zhou Dynasty of Xiahou, Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
The Zhou Dynasty was divided into two dynasties, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty.
The dynasty assisted by Ming Qishan, Jiang Taigong and others had a foundation of more than 800 years.
In that era, two major tomb robbing incidents were recorded, one was the theft of the tomb of King You of Zhou Dynasty, and the other was the theft of the tomb of Shang Tang.
Two naked and lifelike corpses of young men and women were found in the tomb of King You, which frightened the tomb robbers and ran away; while in the tomb of King Tang, a large turtle shell was unearthed, which was covered with oracle bone inscriptions.
The fat man said: "Old Hu, don't talk to me about this useless thing.
Just tell me whether there are ghosts in the tomb, how can we deal with them, and what about the ghost blowing the lamp you talked about last time.
Why does it sound so evil to me?"
Yingzi said: "What the hell is blowing out the lamp?
Is that what we in the Northeast call the smoker blowing out the lamp?"
I said: "It's not the one in the northeast.
It's a superstitious behavior of gold-touching captains.
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 if they go in.
These It can also be explained from a scientific perspective Explanation.
Besides, it’s all superstitious legends about how there could be ghosts in ancient tombs.
Even if there are ghosts, we don’t need to worry.
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I’ve prepared black donkey hooves, glutinous rice and other evil things.
In short, don’t believe in evil spirits when robbing tombs. , If you are afraid of ghosts, don’t rob the tomb.”
The fat man suddenly realized: "Oh, after all the trouble, you asked Yanzi to prepare these things to ward off evil spirits.
I thought you were too cowhide to be afraid of ghosts.
By the way, what are the vinegar and the bird cage for?"
I was about to answer when I suddenly heard the barking of hounds from the hillside.
The three of us were all heartbroken, thinking that there might be some savages and wild beasts coming to attack our camp.
But there were three giant mastiffs there, and the wild beasts would eat them.
A leopard with a bear's heart would not dare to cause trouble.
What was it that caused the hunting dogs to bark and we hurriedly took two steps back to the hillside.
Back to the tent, a bloody scene appeared in front of me.
The pony tied to the tree was bitten by an unknown beast.
Its entire belly was broken open and its intestines flowed all over the floor.
The pony was still alive and fell to the ground.
The ground was twitching constantly, and he looked dead.
The hunting dogs surrounded the pony and barked at it, as if they had seen something terrible, and the barking was full of uneasy restlessness.
According to common sense, horses and dogs are good friends, and ponies are definitely not bitten by dogs.
What kind of wild beasts could they be?
Three giant mastiffs and five hounds were surrounding them, but they did not catch the murderous beast.
Looking around, there was no sign of any wild beasts.
There was only silence on the empty mountain.
The night wind rustled the leaves in the forest, and our hands holding the shotguns were already covered in cold sweat.
The horse was spitting out blood, and there was white air coming out of its nostrils.
Although its intestines were flowing all over the floor, it couldn't breathe for a while.
Yingzi aimed at the horse's head and shot it, ending its last moments of death. pain.
I suddenly noticed that the horse's intestines were moving.
It was not a twitching reaction due to a physiological reaction, but it seemed like it was being pulled underground by something.
The thing pulling the pony's internal organs was hiding under the horse's corpse.
I quickly pulled Yingzi back.
Fatty Yingzi also saw what happened just now.
The three of them looked at each other and thought in their minds: "Could it be a savage?"
When we were in Savage Ditch, the first thing that came to our mind was of course the savages, but did the savages have such great power that they could tear open the belly of a horse?
Maybe it used weapons, but those who could make weapons were not savages.
Before we could figure it out, all the internal organs on the ground were pulled under the horse carcass, and what was underneath was completely obscured by the horse's body.
The horse's body had to be removed first.
I weighed the shotgun in my hand.
This kind of gun is much more advanced than the tool I used to shoot bears in Lamagou more than ten years ago.
However, the caliber of this sports air rifle is too small to be fatal to large beasts. of killing.
Something is better than nothing, after all, it is much better than burning a fire stick.
With guns and dogs, everyone felt somewhat confident, so the three of them worked together to push away the horse's body, and a bottomless hole suddenly appeared in the grass on the ground.
The hole was as thick as a small bucket, and it was impossible for an adult to get in.
The pony's intestines were dragged into the hole by something.
When we first arrived, the cave was covered with grass and no one noticed it.
Seeing that the grass was growing nearby, we tied our horses here.
When we went down to the valley to look for the ancient tomb, the guys in the cave suddenly attacked and tore the horse's belly open.
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Although the hunting dogs were extremely fierce, the entrance to the cave was covered by the horse corpse and they were barking in panic, but there was nothing they could do.
I used a flashlight to shine into the hole.
It was dark and I didn’t know how deep it was.
The experience of working as an engineer for more than three years came in handy at this time.
Looking at the marks on the cave wall, it was almost certain that the hole was not man-made, but was dug by some kind of animal with its claws, and the claws were very sharp.
It was a digging hole.
He has good hands, otherwise how could he tear the pony's abdomen apart at once.
But what kind of animal it is, I really can't think of it.
Even Yingzi, who knows the forest well, shook his head.
He had never seen or heard of such an animal.
I guess there will be other cave entrances nearby.
It seems that the Savage Valley looks peaceful and has beautiful scenery, but it is actually dangerous.
No wonder the group of people who came here to rob the tomb decades ago never came back.
I wonder if they also Encountered this ferocious underground monster.
It was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so we decided to move overnight without waiting for dawn.
The three people were divided into two teams.
Fatty and I took five hunting dogs to dig graves at the bottom of the valley.
Yingzi took three giant mastiffs to look for monsters that attacked us nearby.
No matter how powerful that guy is, he can't be more ferocious than the three giant mastiffs.
Instead of passively defending, it's better to take the initiative.
If something happens to either side, a shot will be fired to notify the other side, and the other side will rush to support as soon as possible.
Fatty alone led the five large hounds, and I carried tools and other practical things on my back.
The two of us went down to the bottom of the valley according to the previously explored path, one after the other.
I took out two engineering shovels, took one for myself, and threw the other to the fat man: "Little fat, work more quickly.
It is not suitable for deep burials here.
The ancient tombs under the leaf litter will not be too deep.
The sooner we dig The better it is to get antiques, then quickly leave this hellish place and go home, and sell the money to build a road for the folks.”
The fat man spat on his hand: "Look at me, Fatty."
The German engineer shovel flew up and down, digging up a large piece of mud formed by dead branches and leaves with each blow.
Although there are no trees in Yerengou, when the wind blows, the leaves from the surrounding mountains will be blown in.
Over time, it is really deep.
We took turns digging six or seven meters deep, and finally saw the soil.
I grabbed a handful with my hands.
The soil was very fine, with clear grains and no lumps.
I tasted it with the tip of my tongue and it was a little sweet.
Yes, this is the mound of sealed soil, and the tomb chamber is four or five meters below.
Be careful when you are about to dig into the tomb.
Some tombs have anti-theft mechanisms.
Ancient tombs in the Northern Song Dynasty, Liao and Jin Dynasties are not like those before the Tang Dynasty.
Before the Tang Dynasty, there were mechanisms such as falling rocks and concealed crossbows.
Anti-theft technology in the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively When it matures, especially some noble tombs, it is impossible to carry out a project as big as the emperor's tomb, and the manpower mobilized is also limited.
Of course, this is only a relative term, and the things inside are not ambiguous at all, otherwise it will not be worthy of this Feng Shui.
Treasure land.
The ancient tomb of the Jin Dynasty in the late Northern Song Dynasty here should have used Tianbao Longhuo glazed roof, which was a popular anti-theft technology at that time.
The technology of this structure is very advanced.
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The tomb is hollow, and the ceiling is first laid with a very thin layer of glazed tiles, with a layer of glazed tiles on it.
Bags of the Western Region There is fire dragon oil, and then there is another layer of glazed tiles, and then there is the mound of earth.
As long as there is an external force entering, the top will be broken when it is touched.
The fire dragon oil in the Western Regions will catch the air and burn all the bones and funerary objects in the tomb.
Let the tomb robbers get nothing.
Of course, this is a last resort method.
The tomb owners will fight to die together and will not let their bones be destroyed by tomb thieves.
This kind of mechanism was only popular for a while in the Jin and Liao Dynasties at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Later, more advanced mechanisms appeared.
The Baolong Fire Glazed Dome was subsequently replaced.
This little trick can't stop me.
The biggest weakness of this mechanism is that if you dig it from the side, the dragon fire glazed tiles on the top will not be broken.
So when we reached the mound, we started digging sideways.
The two of us worked enthusiastically, not knowing what it meant to be tired, and dug a large pit six or seven meters deep on the side.
Unexpectedly, it was already daybreak.
Yingzi came back and said that she found nothing nearby.
She went hunting in the woods to prepare lunch.
When the food was ready, she sent a dog to call us.
After Yingzi left, the two of us continued working, and finally dug a layer of hard soil on the side, which was as solid as a rock.
When the engineer's shovel hit it, only a white mark appeared on it.
The fat man yelled: "Fuck, why is there cement here?
If I had known we had brought some explosives in advance, how could we dig it?"
I said: "Explosives are used by rough people.
This is a layer of rammed soil with a mechanism on top to protect it.
This soil was prepared using the secret recipe of the palace at that time.
It was mixed with some glutinous rice juice and messy things like child urine." , stronger than any damn modern concrete.
This secret recipe belonged to the Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty.
After the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, it spread to the hands of the Jin nobles. " I moved the large bucket of vinegar over and asked the fat man to pour it on the rammed earth layer by spoonful with a big spoon.
By the time the bucket of vinegar was poured out, the tomb wall would be almost corroded.
Although vinegar is not very corrosive, it has a miraculous effect on the rammed earth prepared with a secret recipe.
This is called one thing that overcomes one thing.
Then digging it will be like digging tofu.
They followed the law, and sure enough, they saw that the tomb was about to be opened.
While they were enjoying themselves, they suddenly heard a gunshot in the forest, which made the birds in the trees fly up.
The fat man said anxiously: "My older sister fired the gun."
I picked up the engineer shovel and shotgun: "Let's go take a look."
The two of them ignored the physical exertion, spread their legs, and walked quickly on the leaf litter step by step.
We heard the sound and hurried deep into the forest, followed closely by the five big dogs.
After running for a while into the forest, we suddenly saw Yingzi running towards us with three giant mastiffs.
Seeing that she was fine, I put my worries down and said, "Sister, did you shoot the gun?
Did you find anything?"
Yingzi's face turned pale and he was out of breath: "Oh my god, you scared me to death.
I found a few shacks in the corner in front.
Let's go in and take a look.
It's scary.
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They are all dead.
They are all black and rotten.
I didn’t see clearly at first, thinking it was a savage, so I fired a shot, but in the end I didn’t see clearly whose body it was.”
Only then did I understand, don’t look at Yingzihu, it turns out that she also has a weakness.
She is most afraid of dead bodies.
I thought she was not afraid of anything in the forest.
However, it is incredible enough to find dead bodies and shacks in the deep mountains and old forests on the border between China and Mongolia.
Since they built shacks, it means they lived here.
Who are the dead people and why do they live in this uninhabited place?
Deep in the mountains Let's go take a look, maybe we can find some clues.
I vaguely feel that they are related to the group of tomb robbers who disappeared here before.
Yingzi led us to the few shacks she found.
These shacks were very rough, built with a mixture of mud and straw, and also used a small amount of wood.
They were built in the densest places with trees, and their colors were very hidden.
If you were not nearby, Hard to spot.
We climbed into one of the shacks and saw a lot of animal skins inside.
As expected, there were three corpses in the corner.
The corpses were black due to excessive decay, the muscles were almost rotten, the skin was shriveled, and there were maggots in the eye sockets and nostrils from time to time.
Ants crawled in and out.
I thought to myself that these might be the savages in the legendary Savage Valley.
The fat man came forward, took a look, and said to me: "Old Hu, I wonder why there are no savages in the savage ditch.
It turns out that they have all died of old age."
I nodded and said, "The strange thing is that these savages have very advanced tools.
Look, they are still wearing clothes.
How can there be savages wearing clothes?
Why do I feel that these clothes look so familiar?"
The dead bodies were all wearing woolen coats.
They had been worn for many years, probably for decades, and were tattered and dirty.
However, judging from the style, it always felt like they had seen them somewhere.
I found that the innermost corpse seemed to have something metal on the collar.
I took it off and wiped away the stains on it.
It looked like a collar flower on a military uniform, but it was definitely not from the Chinese army.
At this time, the fat man also found something.
He touched a sword from the corner.
He used a lot of strength and finally pulled out the knife with a "clop" sound.
The steel mouth of this knife was excellent.
After so many years, it still held up.
Light can be used to identify people.
It seems that the owner cherished this knife very much during his lifetime and must have wiped it from time to time.
As soon as I saw this knife, I understood.
Damn it, the legendary savages are these Japanese devils.
But the fat man couldn't figure it out.
Didn't everyone return to China after Japan's defeat and surrender?
Why didn't these little devils leave?
I say this is not surprising.
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You know too little about history, which exposes your uneducated nature.
The fat man said, stop talking nonsense and tell me quickly what is going on.
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, beating the million-strong Kwantung Army, known as the most elite Japanese army, to pieces.
Some of the Japanese were scattered and drifted deep into the forest.
He was in this place, afraid to go out, and lost contact with the outside world.
He didn't know that Japan had been defeated and surrendered, so he hid in the forest until he died of old age here.
Someone saw a few suspicious and hiding Japanese soldiers here.
Their clothes were already dirty and they didn't shave even though they lived in the forest.
Wouldn't they be regarded as savages?
In fact, I also deduced out of thin air what the real reason was.
Unless these devils come alive and explain themselves, no one will ever know the truth.
After I said this, Fatty Yingzi and I could understand.
Yingzi said: "The little Japanese is definitely lost.
Even though this is the edge of the forest, to the north is the prairie, and there is also the mud swamp, which is full of mud.
There is no way to get out of the north; to the south is the primitive In the forest, even the most experienced hunter would not be able to go out without a dog, and he deserves it."
I flipped through the belongings of these corpses to see if there was anything valuable.
Halfway through, I suddenly thought that those who came here to rob the tomb in the late 1940s might have encountered the Japanese and were killed.
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly found a notebook in a military carry-on bag.
The writing was in Japanese.
The paper was yellow and the handwriting on it was still legible.
However, none of the three people understood Japanese.
Fortunately, there were many Chinese characters in it.
However, Japanese kanji have very different meanings from Chinese, and some even have opposite meanings.
For example, the Japanese word "stay behind" in Chinese characters is completely opposite to the literal meaning of the Chinese characters.
It means "going out".
Even so, if you connect these words together, you can still understand half of it, plus some Our subjective speculation roughly means: The main force of the Kwantung Army in Dongning was defeated by the Soviet troops.
Major Namiki led the remaining squad of soldiers from the Kwantung Army's Class A Division.
One squad had a strength of 120,200 soldiers and fled to a secret underground fortress in Heifengkou.
Prepare to join up with the rest of the Kwantung Army in the fortress, fight the final decisive battle with the Soviets, and repay the emperor with broken jade.
As a result, they stepped on a big smoke bubble when they were about to arrive.
The only soldier who knew the location of the fortress and the guide who led the way fell into it and drowned.
The remaining people never found the entrance to the secret fortress and got lost again when they wanted to go back.
There was no communication equipment, so I had to live in the mountains.
I lived there for more than thirty years, and one by one died one after another.
The person who wrote this probably died when he wrote this.
I threw the notebook aside.
I had no time to look at these tatters now.
The walls of the tombs in the valley were almost corroded.
I hurried back, took my things and left.
Don't worry about these Japanese devils anymore.
They were almost rotten anyway.
The fat man said that this sword should belong to me.
I had several Zuoguan knives at home, but they were all confiscated during the Cultural Revolution.
I still want to collect one.
I advised him that these are controlled knives and you can’t take them on the train.
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When you return to Beijing, go to the used market to see if there are any and buy you a new one
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