The Most Thrilling Tomb Tour: Tomb Raider

Chapter 22
"There is a saying in the tomb robbery industry, 'Is there any valuable stuff? It depends on whether you have the guts to go!' You found ten pits, and the timid ones didn't have the guts to go down. It's the same as not finding one. Son? You found a pit, and if you go straight down and walk through it boldly, there may be something valuable in it. If you meet a rich rice dumpling, you can eat it for half your life if you get it back. Do you think it is grandpa?" Fatty and I were convinced by Lao Zhong's jargon.

"Yes, yes! I really want to go and have a look. After all, money is scarce these days, so two money can't do anything." I thought for a while and said.

"Are you familiar with that place?" Old Zhongtou asked.

"Are you familiar with it? Didn't we go to Loulan too!" said the fat man.

"Have courage! It seems that I have to go with the three of you. Let's go together. Many of the educated youths we went with stayed in the local area. I will also go to see those old friends I haven't seen for many years!"

"But your store..." I was a little worried about his business. We all had enough food for one person and the whole family was not hungry, but after all he had to rely on that store to support his family.

"To tell you the truth, thanks to you, since we got to know each other, business has started to come! Hehe, I took care of a little girl from my wife's hometown, who is her relative. In the past two days, I will come back again. Go invite a boy, let's go for a walk together!" Old Zhong Tou said happily.

"Then what can't we do with Master Zhong around? Is there any hole we can't dig? Hehe!" Fatty's flattery was really comparable to that of Old Zhongtou, and the old Zhongtou who praised him with two words smiled happily.

"Come on, let's go as soon as we have done our shopping in the past few days, and toast our friendship!" I raised the wine glass, and everyone drank it down.

In the past two days, the fat man has only eaten and slept, and he has come to my house to play a few times during the period. He has nothing else to do, except to look at my dad, he still eats.

Xiang Ru was very considerate, she advised Fatty to throw away that old German bayonet and buy a serious army bayonet or something.But the fat man said that he got used to this thing, and other things were not easy.

The three of us went to the Antique Street again. The grade here is relatively high, so there is a lot of traffic.I heard from Lao Zhong that he plans to save some more money, and when he saves enough, he will move the shop here.

The business of antiques has been as deep as the sea since ancient times, but any shopkeeper with senior qualifications, who has seen countless people, can tell what you do and what you want to buy at a glance.And he is very good at telling stories, and some of them tell a piece of ordinary jade that Lafayette used it back then, so there are also some who are deceived and suffer losses.

Being fooled is called "hitting the eye" in the antique business, which means to miss the eye. Some people, in order to avoid being fooled, ask one or two friends or experts who know a little bit to help them choose, which is called "palm eye".

The fat man took a fancy to a jade wrench, and the workmanship was average, but the boss told him that it was worn by Genghis Khan, and the fat man really believed it.As soon as I was about to pay, I stopped him immediately, dragged him aside and said, "Have you forgotten what we do? You want this shit too? If you really want it, why don't you pour Genghis Khan's bucket!"

"Hey! Don't say it, what you said is really reasonable, why didn't I think of it? Then when shall we go?" Fatty's blood boiled up when he heard the words "upside down", "digging", and he took it seriously .

"This...let's talk about it after finishing this vote! None of us know where his tomb is, how do we get there now?" I prevaricated.

Lao Zhongtou found a clever little guy, went to buy some things by himself, and took a look, but it left us dumbfounded.

Two May Fourth pistols, a half-length double-barreled shotgun, a few packets of authentic cinnabar, and dozens of bullets.We asked him where he got these things, and he just grinned and said shit.

In fact, I would know it even if he didn't say it. With his black and white relationships, it's a piece of cake to engage in these things.But I could also see that he took our expedition seriously and expected something unusual to happen.Because Lao Zhong has always been cautious in his affairs, it is impossible to play with these things. It seems that this time is even worse than looking for the Loulan Dynasty. There may not be something waiting for us.

Aba in autumn is affected by the Bayan Har Mountains and Tanggula Mountains, which makes it extremely cool. I can imagine how comfortable it was for Lao Zhongtou to be an educated youth here when everyone was cooling down in the hot summer.

Lao Zhongtou has a good memory, and he immediately found the town where he jumped in the queue. Along the way, he has been lamenting that the place has changed a lot.What surprised us even more was that Lao Zhongtou was also fluent in Tibetan, which he said he learned when he was an educated youth, which he didn't usually show.

Aba has beautiful mountains and rivers, dense forests, and the famous Jiuzhaigou is here.But the place where Lao Zhongtou jumped in line was not in Jiuzhaigou, but in the village closest to Tibet.

There are not many people in the village, mostly Tibetan and Qiang compatriots.When Lao Zhongtou took us in, some Tibetans who knew him warmly greeted him, and Lao Zhongtou chatted happily with them, and let out some cigarettes from time to time.

Lao Zhongtou found his friend who jumped in the queue with him back then. That person was surnamed Zhang and was also from Shandong.Seeing Lao Zhongtou and us entering the house with things like sugar and wine, he was very embarrassed. He has been feeling that he chose to stay here to marry a wife and have children. Now he can't go back to his hometown, but he doesn't regret it at all.

Hearing that we wanted to inquire about the discovery of the giant by the lake that old Zhongtou said, this old Zhang recalled it for a while, and quickly said: "There is such a thing, but it has been so long, I also I don’t remember clearly. But this kind of strange thing often happens here, but not long ago, there were all strange things in the village at the foot of the west mountain.”

"What's weird?" Fatty likes to find excitement, and he interrupted the conversation before he finished talking, and Lao Zhong handed his friend a cigarette.

"I don't know. It is said that apart from the people, other living things in the village were killed by things, and there is nothing left. People who have been there say that the village is very scary." Lao Zhang took a breath. Yan said, I think this is very strange, maybe it has something to do with our trip, I asked Lao Zhong, and he thought so too.

Lao Zhang took Lao Zhongtou and us to ask a few old people in the village. They all said that they couldn't remember the giant's affairs clearly, but they remembered that the giant's body disappeared by the lake.

I was secretly glad when I heard it, and it was good to explain that such a thing really happened.But since most of these people couldn't tell the reason, Lao Zhong and I discussed it and decided to go and see the strange things in the village at the foot of the west mountain first.

The mountain to the west that Lao Zhang mentioned was called Mount Tuotuo. Since his family still had a lot of farm work, he asked a Tibetan boy named Deji Cairang to guide us.

In Tibetan, "Deji" means happiness, and "Cairang" means longevity, which is a very auspicious name.

Deji didn't talk much, but his big and bright eyes showed his keen mind, and his rosy face was even more healthy. The unique plateau climate of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau made this young man strong and lean.

The fat man was very interested in the other hidden knife on his waist, and kept admiring it along the way.The silver scabbard was engraved with exquisite bas-relief cloud patterns and inlaid with several bright gemstones.The blade is straight and long, the blade is wide and sharp, and the handle is short and sharp, which fully reflects the bold national character and superb craftsmanship of the Tibetan people.

Mount Tuotuo is just a small mountain in the Tanggula Mountains. Because there are mines on the mountain, some mining teams have come here in the past few years, both private and county government.But later the government's mining team found that the amount of ore here was not much, and the purity was not high, so they gave up mining this place, and only the folk mining teams were left here, and some family members came here over time. , formed a temporary small village.

From the moment we stepped into the village, I felt a very unusual atmosphere.The village was built at the foot of the mountain, and the whole village seemed lifeless in broad daylight.Probably due to the fact that they seldom interact with outsiders, the sporadic old people sitting at the gate of their own courtyard built with rocks have cloudy and dull eyes, which are very different from the cheerful old people in Lao Zhang's village.

Deji came only once and took us around the village.The village is very small, with a small road from east to west.Fatty couldn't bear it any longer. From Lao Zhang's village to this village, he wanted to ask if there was a big fight. Fortunately, Lao Zhong and I stopped him, otherwise he would have exposed the purpose of his trip in advance.

We found some bloody corpses of unrecognizable chickens and dogs that had been eaten in some corners of the village. Judging from the traces on the corpses, it seemed that they were not caused by ordinary wild animals, because the scratches were not very deep, but the bite marks But it goes deep into the bone marrow.These corpses were exposed in broad daylight, but no one cleaned them up, and even mosquitoes and flies did not crawl on them, which made people get goosebumps.

(End of this chapter)