My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 701 Chatting with Su Chen

In the deep mountain snow forest, a series of creaking sounds of snow were heard. The silly roe deer shook its ears and ran through the snow forest in panic, then turned around and looked around.

An expedition team wearing snow-capped winter clothes came through the snow forest. The person in charge of the orientation was a tall and thin man among the eight members of the archaeological team brought by Fu Gutong.

Following the clues found in ancient books and piecing together the approximate direction, the group followed the tall man towards the middle of the mountain.

Those responsible for clearing the way were a foreigner with Central Asian looks and the fourteen people he brought with him. Each of them carried a small backpack and held iron rods or knives in their hands while wearing cold-proof gloves to defend against possible wolves that might appear in winter.

Ni Yuhan followed the team, leaning on a trekking pole and stepping on the thick snow. The professor who was originally walking next to her was now talking to the Central Asian man in the distance.

The woman was 23 years old and had read too many books, so she didn't even know about Fu Gutong's unspoken rules. She thought he was just asking her to collect information for the thesis.

After seeing the foreigner and the dozen or so people he brought with him, and following them for more than ten miles along the mountain road, Ni Yuhan finally realized that something was wrong.

If it's just about tomb exploration, what's the point of asking foreigners to come?
Such a big event, and they specially chose to come here in winter when the mountains are closed due to heavy snow...

Ni Yuhan tightened the grip of the trekking pole, and the guesses in her mind quickly came together to piece together a possibility.

"The professor wanted to avoid being seen by others. He wanted to steal the tomb of the Great Xia Emperor Changsheng Wu and give it to that foreigner to take abroad?"

The moment the thought came to her mind, Ni Yuhan scared herself.

If it was true, she would have become a member of a tomb-robbing organization.

If she didn't go along with the crowd, she might not be able to get out of the snowy forest. Thinking of this, her legs began to tremble slightly as she walked in the snow.

"Yuhan, are you feeling unwell?"

Fu Gutong's voice suddenly sounded, and the other party was looking over here from more than ten steps away. Ni Yuhan quickly smiled and answered in a relaxed tone.

"The snow from the branches fell into the back of my neck."

“Haha, what good luck!”

Fu Gutong looked at the woman and smiled, then continued talking to the Central Asian, pointing at the drawings in his hand. At this moment, the communicator on the Central Asian's waist made a noisy electric sound.

The man answered the phone and asked a few questions, then frowned and looked at Fu Gutong.

"Professor Fu, the two people left at the foot of the mountain said that a man carrying a luggage bag followed us into the mountain."

Carrying a duffel bag?
The Central Asians next to him might not have felt anything, but Fu Gutong had a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen him somewhere.

However, he did not stay here for long. The foot of the mountain was more than ten miles away from here, and it was a snowy mountain road. It would take more than a few minutes, half an hour, or an hour to catch up.

"Send a few people to keep watch on the rear, we will hurry up and search."

His words were passed to the front, and Ni Yuhan keenly noticed that the team was obviously speeding up. She hurried to ask the professor and learned that someone was following them, and she couldn't help but feel nervous.

I am robbing a tomb, so could the people following me be the police?
While he was daydreaming, the people who were on guard behind him suddenly sent a message saying that the person who was following him had been caught by them.

Fu Gutong frowned. He didn't expect the person following him was so weak?

The Central Asian man probably had the same idea as him. The person who was following him had just reported it and was caught here. Now everyone had to take a break and wait for the people behind to catch up.

After about fifteen minutes, several dark and strong Central Asians and Beiyan natives caught up from below, and with them was a tall man.

Ni Yuhan recognized the other person at first sight. He was wearing a white shirt, casual trousers, and even though he was wearing a tweed coat, the sunglasses on his face were still too eye-catching.

"That's him, the guy on the bus."

The suspicion on Fu Gutong's face flashed away, and he suddenly laughed, "Little brother, you are alone in the snowy mountains, are you familiar with this place?"

In fact, there is something behind his words. Anyone who has something to hide will be frightened.

However, the man in front of him who looked to be about 30 years old was Su Chen. When he heard Fu Gutong's words, the corners of his mouth just slightly opened, and a smile appeared. "Come up the mountain to worship the ancestors, do you think I am familiar with it?"

He opened the luggage bag in his hand, and everyone saw that it was full of incense and candles. They looked at each other in surprise.

A group of tomb-robbing gangs from home and abroad gathered together to search for the tomb of the legendary Emperor Changsheng Wu. The originally tense and mysterious atmosphere was suddenly destroyed by the two words "ancestor worship".

Coming to worship the ancestors means there is a village nearby.

With so many of them, let alone digging a tunnel, if they just walked around the area, someone might have already quietly called the police.

"Which nearby village are you from?"

Fu Gutong still wanted to test it. After all, he had been to Beifeng Ridge before, and except for a village twelve kilometers away from the foot of the mountain, he had never seen any other places.

"You wouldn't know even if I told you, so why bother asking? You guys are really risking your lives by going up to Beifeng Ridge with so many people."

Su Chen pulled up the bag and walked past Fu Gutong, who quickly followed him: "Since you are familiar with this place, can I ask you about a place? We are going there to prepare for a customized snow hunting activity."

"You have preserved the traditions of the Snowland slaves very well."

As Su Chen teased him, Ni Yuhan, a top student, suddenly brightened up his eyes. Naturally, slaves played an important role in history, but few people knew that slaves actually had such a customized hunting business.

Since Su Chen said it, it means he is very familiar with this aspect.

"How do you know the traditional livelihood of slave-bearing people?"

Hearing Ni Yuhan's question, Su Chen didn't care and just waved his hand: "I am a local. There was a rumor that a tribe of slaves guarded the emperor's tomb here. Naturally, there are secrets about the slaves."

"Are you saying that the founding emperor of Daxia is buried in this mountain?"

This legend has always existed, but when you actually ask the locals, few people can give a direct answer, or are willing to answer.

But for some reason, when I heard the man in sunglasses in front of me, I had an inexplicable certainty that the emperor's tomb I was looking for was here.

"I didn't say the emperor was buried here."

Su Chen flatly denied it. The team over there was also moving forward following Fu Gutong, as if both sides were moving in the same direction.

"Are there many graves you want to visit? How far are they from here?"

Ni Yuhan came over and enthusiastically interacted with the man in front of her who was going to worship his ancestors, but she secretly made a face, as if signaling Su Chen to call the police.

Seeing that Su Chen hadn't responded yet, the woman quickly changed the subject: "By the way, you know so much about slaves... I want to ask, is there a meritorious official named Anuhu in the court of Daxia? He seems to be a slave, right?"

"Yes, he is."

"He is being praised a lot on the internet now, after all, his name is very impressive."

"He's average in leading troops, and average in terms of martial arts."

Talking about people in the past, Su Chen was a little absent-minded, and his mind naturally emerged with the time when Anuhu surrendered to him and then he participated in more than fifty wars of varying sizes.

The fact that he was able to survive and return from the Western Expedition shows that he had enough military power.

Originally, Ni Yuhan just asked casually to get closer to Su Chen and hint to secretly call the police. Unexpectedly, the other party actually told her everything about the slave general as if he knew everything about him. Ni Yuhan was stunned.

There are many things that are not recorded in textbooks.

How did he know? !

Not only Ni Yuhan was shocked, but Fu Gutong over there also showed a surprised expression.

(End of this chapter)