Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 483 The tomb robber in the general’s grave
Xu Qing said hello to the old man who had always lived in the commune compound and asked him to borrow the commune's bicycle. As for whose bicycle it belonged to, neither he nor Er Mazi knew.

But the old man, who was clean-skinned and had cloudy eyes in the moonlight, glanced at the bicycle pushed by Er Mazi, and immediately knew who the owner was. He grinned and said with yellow teeth:

"Go, be careful, the road is not good at night."

Xu Qing and Er Mazi responded, rode their bicycles out of the commune compound, and chased Wang Mingsheng and others who had been walking for a while.

Er Mazi had never experienced anything like this before and seemed extremely excited.

He pedaled the bicycle hard and whispered to Xu Qing:

"Qingzi, you said if we follow Secretary Wang and the others, can we catch those tomb robbers tonight?"

Xu Qing sat in the back seat, looked up at the clear moonlight, frowned slightly, and shook his head.

He didn't think he could catch anyone.

Tomb robbers are all experts in operating at night, and the countryside is surrounded by high mountains and dense forests.

Once you hear any noise, you will definitely run away.

Take advantage of the darkness and find a place to hide, even if you launch a search with everyone in the entire town, I am afraid it will be difficult to find him for a while.

But Xu Qing was a little confused. The moonlight was very bright tonight, so the group of tomb robbers should not have chosen to do it tonight.

Logically speaking, tomb robbers would only do their work at night when there is no moon. On the contrary, they would not do it when there is a moon.

As the saying goes, the dark moon kills people on a night when the wind is high and the sky is free.

Shameful deeds are naturally best done in the dark. How can you dare to see the light and let others know about it?

If someone sees him, he won't be able to walk around without food.

Xu Qing thought to himself, and then thought that it would make sense if he was the one who caught the scorpion.

Scorpions lie dormant during the day and emerge at night. Even if there is a moon at night, they have to come out to look for food.

But then I remembered that I saw Secretary Wang with an angry face in the commune compound earlier. It was obvious that it was probably a tomb robber who committed the crime at night.

But now that he's not there, Xu Qing isn't sure what's going on.

Xu Qing's butt hurt from the bumps while the bicycle was riding on the bumpy dirt road, which interrupted his thoughts.

After a while, the two caught up with the large army.

But Wang Mingsheng, the commune secretary who was riding a motorcycle, and a sturdy young man, disappeared. Only a faint roar could be heard in the deep valley bend in the distance.

Motorcycles are always fast. Even though they are two-wheeled like bicycles, motorcycles are full of oil and cannot run as fast as people riding bicycles.

Xu Qing, Er Mazi and others met up and moved forward together.

In the dead of night, the trees on both sides of the dirt road were swaying constantly in the wind, making rustling sounds.

The treetops swayed back and forth, and the chirping of insects suddenly stopped. They continued chirping only after Xu Qing and his party walked away.

The mountain road was rugged and winding. Xu Qing found out after asking a man sitting on the back seat of the bicycle.

It turns out that the general's tomb that Shouhou's third uncle did not steal last year has been missed by many people for more than a year.

Because the General Cemetery is located at the junction of two towns.

Last year it was under the jurisdiction of the commune of the neighboring township, but this year, the county held a meeting and clearly assigned it to Xu Qing's hometown.

And the general's tomb was left over from ancient times, and there must be a lot of valuable things in it.

Now that the country is reforming and opening up, the antiques industry has been revitalized.

Not to mention the group of people who specialize in stealing and digging graves, even those who are idle and have evil intentions have their own evil intentions.

Everyone knows that old things from the past are valuable.

Before it was re-opened, the lowlifes and tomb robbers in the village knew that there were good things inside, but the "poor four" trend was booming, and even if someone sneaked in and stole it, they couldn't sell it.

Moreover, the commune at that time organized everyone to work together, and the production captains of each brigade were always supervising.

However, at one time or another, as the trend of reform swept across the country, the days of communes eating from the big pot came to an end.

Once the land is divided, hard-working people can cultivate the land by themselves with hoes and collect food for themselves.

Those who were not doing their jobs felt that farming was hard work. Seeing that other people's lives were getting better, but their own families were too poor to take the blame, they started to have evil thoughts and wanted to dig things out of the ground and sell them secretly.

Er Mazi asked while pedaling his bicycle:
"Comrade, what you just said is true? Those people didn't steal the general's tomb last year. Why didn't you send someone to watch?"

The middle-aged man riding alongside Er Mazi sighed:
"What do you think? Under the leadership of Secretary Wang, our commune established a militia team in the past few years. But after the reform, every family was divided into fields. They were busy working in the fields during the day. At night, they were tired after eating and fell asleep. Just sleep. Last year, when the general's tomb belonged to the commune next door, we didn't have to worry about it. But this year, the county was reorganized and it became the responsibility of our commune. It is also on someone else's land, and we are militiamen. It's late at night. In the past, the people who were allocated the land could not do anything. If the crops in the land were trampled and the fruits and so on were eaten, we would have to go to Secretary Wang. In the end, we as militiamen would have to pay the compensation. , who is willing to do such a thing?
Besides, my wife at home won’t let me go out at night. "

Er Mazi said oh and didn't ask any more questions.

Xu Qing sat in the back seat and smiled secretly.

The reason he didn't ask was because he knew things in the countryside were troublesome.

Whether you are a rural person or a city person.

It doesn't make any difference.

Bad people are everywhere, and good people are everywhere.

Before the rural land was divided, the land belonged to the state, but after it was divided, it became private.

It is definitely not the same thing for the commune to arrange for the National People's Congress to stay in other people's fields at night.

Besides, who wants to go to the fields at night to stare at the ancient generals' tombs.

Even if someone is willing, it can be done in summer, but what about winter?
I went to the fields in the middle of winter and still didn't freeze to death.

In addition, tomb robbers will not take action when they see someone.

Some people went to watch in the first half of the night, and they acted in the second half of the night.

The commune militia couldn't keep an eye on them all night.

Otherwise, I won’t be able to work in the fields during the day.

The commune secretary asked the farmers at the location of the general's grave to help take care of it on weekdays.

Apart from that, there is no good way.

After traveling for more than ten miles, Xu Qing finally met up with Secretary Wang.

But as soon as he jumped off the bicycle, he saw that the general's grave had been dug up, and a dark hole was inserted diagonally into the ground.

There was a lot of new soil piled around, and the hole was only big enough for one person to get in. There were shovels and ropes beside it.

The wheat stubble cut from the ground was trampled and staggered, and it was clearly visible under the moonlight. "Secretary Wang, everyone has run away?"

Er Mazi followed the others and put the bicycle aside, and asked curiously:

Wang Mingsheng was smoking, with excitement on his face, shaking his head and saying:
"No, there's another one underground. Those who haven't come can come up. I just asked Xizi to pull the rope out. That bastard should just stay down there."

Wang Mingsheng finished speaking in relief, then turned around and said, "Xizi, you and the accountant, you two go to the county to call people from the police station. I'll leave a few people here to guard you."

Er Mazi took the flashlight from someone on the side, bent down and waved it towards the inside of the burglar's cave. He vaguely saw a figure and was immediately startled.

"His uncle, there is really someone down there."

Er Mazi cursed in shock. Seeing a living person in the tomb at night, he was so frightened that all the blood drained from his face and the hairs on his arms stood up.
After regaining consciousness, he walked back to Xu Qing, quickly took out his cigarette, held it in the corner of his mouth, took two puffs, and said in shock:
"Qingzi, that grandson below is really a coward. He dares to go down there and stay with the dead in the middle of the night. He is really not afraid of being haunted by ghosts and claiming his life."

Seeing that Er Mazi was frightened, Xu Qing dragged him away from the thief's cave and said:
"Brother Mazi, you are so brave, you dare to shine your flashlight down."

Er Mazi took two puffs of his cigarette, turned his head and saw the other people on the side. He finally recovered, lifted his feet and shook off the dirt on his shoes and said:
"Hey, buddy, I heard stories about tomb robbers when I was a kid. I met this one today and wanted to take a look."

Xu Qing didn't go look just now, but he knew that the man who dared to take advantage of the moonlight tonight must be a bold master.

Otherwise, if it were an ordinary tomb robber, even if he knew that there was something valuable in the general's tomb, he would not take the risk and rob the tomb at night as bright as day.

After two cigarettes, commune secretary Wang Mingsheng asked Xu Qing and Er Mazi to follow him back.

Then four people and two bicycles were left in the field, waiting for the accountant to find people from the police station so that they could capture the stolen goods.

At the same time, it prevents the escaped tomb robbers from returning to rescue their companions.

When Xu Qing heard what Wang Mingsheng said, he and Er Mazi didn't stay in the field any longer.

On the one hand, he and Er Mazi came here to see if they could help. Now that the tomb robbers had caught one, there was no need to stay.

On the other hand, it was almost early in the morning, the mountains were empty at night, and the rising wind made the chill even stronger.

Even though it's summer, it's really cold at night in the mountains, and wearing long sleeves is of no use.

On the way back, Xu Qing, Er Mazi, the commune secretary and one other person all shrank in the cold.

After returning to the commune compound, Wang Mingsheng took out his cigarette, handed it to Xu Qing and Er Mazi, and thanked him continuously:
"It's all thanks to your motorcycle tonight. Otherwise, if we rode our bicycles over there, I'm afraid all those bastards would have disappeared before we even got there."

Xu Qing took the cigarette and said with a smile: "It's okay, Secretary Wang. I am also a member of our commune after all. The general's tomb now belongs to our commune. It is also an ancient relic of our commune. I will definitely contribute."

When Wang Mingsheng heard this, he nodded and said, "By the way, your contribution to the county's ability to transfer the general's tomb to our township this year is also due to your contribution."

"My credit?" Xu Qing raised his hand and scratched his hair.

Er Mazi stood aside, even more confused.

Looking at Xu Qing and then at the commune secretary, I couldn't figure out why he didn't know about this since he and Xu Qing had been in the city.

But after hearing Secretary Wang's words, Er Mazi grinned and said, "Qingzi, it's okay. You secured a general's tomb for Secretary Wang. The good things in it belong to this place."

Secretary Wang said with a smile on his face: "Isn't that right? Last year in the commune next door, you helped Lao Wu catch a few people who were planning to rob. This year, the county held several meetings on the issue of rampant tomb robberies. Finally, the issue of the General's Tomb , in April, I hired a team of archaeologists to go there and study for a long time, and finally took out the county annals. According to it, the general’s tomb belonged to our commune before, and it was a general from the Ming Dynasty. It was also said to be very valuable. , it will be reported to the state in the future and focused on protection.

If it hadn't been for what you did last year, the county might not have sent people to look through previous county annals this year. "

Xu Qing responded:
"Secretary Wang, you have to keep a close eye on the general's grave from now on."

"Yeah, something like this happened tonight. I'll call the county early tomorrow morning and report it."

After Wang Mingsheng finished speaking, he sent Xu Qing and Er Mazi into the house, sat there for a while, and chatted for a while before leaving.

Xu Qing and Er Mazi went out for a run, took off their soil-covered shoes, swept the dust off their clothes with a kang broom, raised their heads on the kang, and fell asleep.

Xu Qing didn't care about the general's tomb.

The main purpose of his return to his hometown was to collect grain and pigs.

The night passed.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Wang Mingsheng asked the commune's big stove to prepare a table of good food. He killed a hen in the chicken coop in the commune's courtyard and specially treated Xu Qing and Er Mazi.

If Xu Qing's motorcycle had not been stolen from Shangjiang's Tomb last night and no one was arrested, he, as the commune secretary, would not be able to escape the blame.

After Xu Qing and Er Mazi had a delicious meal in the commune in the morning, they said goodbye to Wang Mingsheng and left the commune on their motorcycles.

As for the tomb robber in the general's tomb, people from the police station took him back to the station for questioning last night.

He was not brought to the commune.

Xu Qing and Er Mazi also didn't see the real face of the arrested person in Lushan.

However, Xu Qing didn't care.

He's just a tomb robber. He has no conscience and is not a good bird.

It's an eyesore.

Er Mazi wanted to know what the man looked like. Before leaving the commune compound, he asked the commune secretary.

Wang Mingsheng's answer was: "They are detained at the police station. If you want to see them, you can only go to the county."

Er Mazi then gave up his thoughts and sat on the back seat of the motorcycle, carrying the things he bought at the township supply and marketing cooperative yesterday, and headed towards Xu Qing's hometown village.

The weather is quite cool in the morning, not as cold at night and not as hot at noon.

Before twelve o'clock, Xu Qing took Er Mazi to the entrance of the village.

When the old people in the village saw Xu Qing coming back on his motorcycle, their dim eyes gleamed.

The older people among them naturally recognized Xu Qing.

"Hey, isn't this the grandson of the old Xu family? Why didn't your grandparents come back with you?"

Four or five old men, either leaning on crutches or stooped, tremblingly gathered around Xu Qing and Er Mazi.

Xu Qing took out his cigarettes and scattered them for them, and said:
"I came back this time to collect grain and pigs with my second father. My grandfather and the others are still staying in the city."

A corny old man, with a tanned face that had been sunburned all his life, and wrinkles so deep that they could trap mosquitoes, said with an air of anger:
"Your grandpa, that old guy, when he left last year, he ran away after half the game of chess with me."

Halfway through the words, the old man gasped for a long time before continuing to say to Xu Qing: "If he doesn't come back, he will follow you as his grandson to enjoy the happiness in the city. When you return to the city, tell your grandpa that I will still be waiting for him."

"Okay, no problem. I'll tell my grandpa when I get back to the city."

Xu Qing responded with a smile, paused for a while, and took Er Mazi straight to the home of his second father, Xu Guang.

The village is not big, you can walk around the village in about ten minutes.

There were a lot of people in the village, and they lived in a relatively concentrated area. One house was next to the other. Xu Qing stepped on the accelerator, and the motorcycle stopped in front of his second father, Xu Guangjin's house.

(End of this chapter)