Archaeological Notes

Chapter 37 The New Nine Gates

My first reaction was that I was several times more terrified than stepping on a landmine, but the difference was that even if I made a move, I didn't have to worry about being blown into a ball of rotten meat.I was so startled that I almost didn't jump up, as if I was stepping on a wire, I suddenly lifted my foot, and kicked that black paw with all my might!I was wearing big-toed leather shoes, and the soles were full of rubber nails. I stepped on the thing with my foot, but suddenly I heard a person screaming.

Immediately, I was dumbfounded, thinking that this motherfucker is too stupid, right?Can rotten rice dumplings also be called?He hurriedly shone the torch on his feet, but saw the "dead corpse" move and slowly get up, it turned out to be a big living person!
I stepped on this foot very hard, and the severe pain made my left hand tremble constantly. The man covered his face with his hand, and was very afraid of the torch in my hand. It may be a photophobia reaction caused by staying in a dark environment for a long time. .He was hunched over and couldn't even stand up straight. Only then did I see his appearance clearly. He was completely naked, so thin that he almost became a skeleton, unkempt, and his beard covered most of his face.This person should be a person with a big skeleton, but because of long-term malnutrition, he has become weak and fragile.But at this time, he exuded a unique aura. Through his messy hair and refined eyes, there was a hint of ruthlessness.

He looked at me silently at first, and after a while, the corner of his mouth moved: "Are you... a human?"

I looked at the "savage" in front of me, with an apologetic face and a little embarrassment. Although I stepped on you indiscriminately, it was also because you didn't say a word earlier. You must know that this tomb is scary, and it's not good to change your heart. The people who have already smoked it.Seeing this question, I was a little speechless, but I still nodded: "Nonsense, of course I am a human being, but you, who didn't make a sound when you appeared, can't be blamed on me."

Unexpectedly, the man didn't take it seriously at all, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he suddenly opened his mouth wide open and couldn't speak until a line of muddy tears rolled down his cheeks: "Good step! ... still feel It hurts, I'm not dreaming!"

His expression was agitated, and he staggered and almost couldn't stand still. I hurriedly supported him, and then I heard the sound of clattering from under his feet.I looked subconsciously, and my heart was shocked!On the ankle of this man's right foot, there was actually a pair of strong shackles, as well as on his right hand. The two iron chains made noises as he moved. He was actually locked on this sarcophagus!

This man didn't know how long he stayed in this tomb, he probably didn't take a bath for a long time, he just felt that his whole body smelled so bad that it made people feel nauseous.I suppressed the unpleasant smell emanating from him, and hurriedly helped him to sit down against the coffin, but he pointed to the torch in my hand. Although I didn't understand what he was going to do, Still handed it to him.But seeing him take it, the whole person became distraught, staring blankly at the light on the torch, with a look of excitement flashing in his eyes.He murmured: "Do you know, three... years, more than 1000 days and nights, I haven't seen the light! I'm living on my last breath, I'm trying my best to live, I don't want to die, I don't want to die. I am not reconciled! It is God’s will that I should not die! Little brother, I finally have you here, haha! Are you here to rescue me?..." He was a little incoherent.

Seeing his distressed appearance, I suddenly felt pity. I fumbled in my pocket for a while, but only took out biscuits that had been soaked in water.When it was handed to him, he suddenly snatched it like a snatcher, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it before he could chew it.After I finished, he asked me if I wanted more, and after I dug out for a while and found that there was nothing left, I could only smack my lips and look like I was thinking about it, and leaned on the coffin and closed my eyes to rest.

I can't imagine.What a terrible thing this is, a poor creature whose hands and feet are bound and whose range of motion is limited, stayed alone in the ancient tomb for three years!Three full years!What kind of experience was that?Hesitation!helpless!dark!fear!Unprecedented experiences will drive you crazy, and the darkness where you can't see your fingers will erode your will that is on the verge of collapse bit by bit.I looked at the man in front of me, and I couldn't believe it was real. He survived; , has already become a pile of bones.

He calmed down quickly, with no expression on his face, just staring at the torch in his hand in a daze.I suddenly felt very sympathetic to him. Seeing that he looked like he should be in his 50s, I couldn’t help but want to comfort him, but my mind was a little messed up. I didn’t know where to start, so I could only ask: “Big Brother, there’s nothing to eat here. , how did you survive?"

He stopped talking immediately, closed his eyes and shook his head slowly, as if he didn't want to recall the horrible past, and after a while, he opened his eyes, stared straight ahead calmly, and asked an inexplicable question Question: "Have you ever eaten something that even a dog wouldn't eat?"

I shook my head blankly, expressing that I didn't dare to imagine what kind of situation it was.

"The first few days when I was trapped, I swear I really thought I was going to die," he said quietly, as if talking about what happened to others, "As you can see, I was chained like a dog. Now, the range of motion is only within two meters in diameter." He was a little weak, and he said slowly: "But when you are hungry and red-eyed, you will definitely not be able to restrain yourself from eating the flesh on your body; at that time, in In your eyes, human relations and morality are all bullshit. All you see is food, stones become food, clothes become food, as long as it is within your reach, you will want to catch it Take two bites."

Having said that, he closed his eyes again, and raised the torch above his head, "Look at what's in the sarcophagus."

I stood up and looked into the sarcophagus by the light, but found nothing special. I saw a few scattered human bones in the wooden coffin in the inner coffin, plus the burial golden silk phoenix crown and jade ornaments with carved phoenix and bird patterns, and Some miscellaneous funeral objects.

I shook my head, not knowing what he meant.

The man suddenly became very uncomfortable, but he hugged his head with one hand, and when he lifted it up, tears were streaming down his face, and he almost said in a crying voice: "It's a corpse, the flesh on the corpse, I ate it all up."

I suddenly felt like a thunderbolt from the blue sky!When I heard what he said, the shock to me had reached an unprecedented level.I didn't dare to think about what it was like, what a sensational and outrageous experience I felt.In order to survive, a person eats the corpse in the coffin!This decision was made after lingering in the cruel reality for many times. In order to save his life, he struggled and shouted in his heart, which I could never experience.Only a true warrior dares to face such a bloody situation. In order to survive, there is nothing to stop him from making a choice.

Seeing that I was stunned for a while, the man looked at him as if he had been in another world. He paused and continued, "Due to the weather, the corpse has already become a mummified corpse. At that time, I was even confused. I only realized it after I woke up." It's not as scary as you think, if I can go out now, I can scare the gangsters, I even ate the zongzi from the ancient tomb, who is afraid of who the hell is fighting hard?"

I still expressed that I couldn't believe it. I don't know if it was disgusting in my heart or something. I can't explain the feeling, but I just feel uncomfortable all over my body.

"Actually," his tone suddenly turned sharply, "Little brother, let me tell you the truth, I'm not quite sure whether there is a human corpse in the coffin."

I said to myself, don't just talk about masturbation, the coffin is probably the corpse of the shaman named "Na"; the disgusting people don't take you like this, you say you ate it, the gods know it is It's not true, maybe it's just to bluff me.

"It was a scaly thing, a big lump, like a hard tumor." He recalled, "At first I thought it was a corpse, but then it didn't feel right. It was beyond my recognition. I was already dizzy at the time, and I didn't know what it was like, maybe it was a sacrifice."

I still couldn't figure it out, so I took out a few pieces of bones from the coffin. They really didn't look like human bones, but it looked like what was left after a big turtle rotted. Could it be turtle meat?
I looked at it casually, then put the bone back, and then sat down against the coffin again, and suddenly remembered that I didn't know the name of this person, so I asked his name and could you tell me.

He didn't deliberately hide this. At first I almost misunderstood it, thinking it was some quack nickname, but later I realized that it was indeed a personal name, and I had heard it on the road.

"Xiaoqiu Six"

He drew it on the ground with his fingers. After I saw it, I was very curious that there was another person with this surname, and asked him what allusions he had.But he shook his head and said nothing, "I can't tell you the allusion of this surname, it's a family secret. But I can tell you, the story of a tycoon who fell down and became a prisoner, after hearing it, you will only know the story of this world God, what a terrible thing the human heart is."

From his narration that followed, I gradually learned that there was actually such an experience behind this. He was trapped here. On the one hand, it was calculated by others, but the bigger factor was caused by himself.

"Xiaoqiu Liu," such a name, may not have much influence in Shenyang Road, Tianjin, or Panjiayuan, Beijing, but in the Changsha area, in the eyes of Tu Fuzi, it is the leader of the new generation of leaders.Xie Qiuliu can also be said to be a very ruthless person. It took only ten years to gain a firm foothold in Changsha and establish an alternative existence - "New Nine Gates".Regarding Changsha Laojiumen, I am very glad that I have heard from my grandma that it is an old-fashioned Taosha faction. The whitewashing has been in vain until now.There are only a few descendants left, and they are still struggling to support them, but their influence is not as good as before. As far as I know, only the old Wu family still has people walking around in the society, but they have rarely been seen in the past two years shadow.

Here, I think I need to say something.The New Nine Gates that emerged in Changsha later, is actually an existence that cannot be compared with the Old Nine Gates. It is not as long-standing as the Old Nine Gates. Most of the old and new gates were sealed by themselves.After the vigorous ten-year catastrophe passed, China at that time was in a special period when the protection of cultural relics was still very weak. It was also during this transitional period that foreign foreign hairs began to spread in China like flies that smelled fishy. A large number of cultural relics were snapped up.During the Cultural Revolution, emphasis was placed on "destroying the four olds" and eradicating all feudal superstitions that believed in ghosts and ghosts. Many ancient relics and sites were destroyed during this time.In those days, antiques were worthless to people, and no one wanted them for free.I think when my grandma was young, when the educated youth went to the countryside, she witnessed people tearing off the head of the giant Buddha in the temple and throwing it directly into the weir pond.

The New Nine Gates does not have the upper, lower, and lower gates like the old Nine Gates. At the beginning of its establishment, it was formed by a group of market hawkers who relied on reselling waste products. Seeing that it was profitable, they hooked up with each other.At the very beginning, they were able to sell antiques in some people's homes, but after a few years, as China eradicated the "Gang of Four", and then ushered in reform and opening up, the national economy gradually recovered, and the situation improved, this group People are faced with the situation of drinking northwest wind collectively.Ever since, more fresh blood has been mixed in, and all kinds of folk thieves have joined the New Nine Gates. Regardless of whether he is a professional or not, as long as he can dig open the grave, blow it open, and find a clear weapon, he will open it to him. The door, put everything in it.After entering the 21st century, this underground organization has gradually formed a large-scale group. Although there are many masters of tomb robbers and folk craftsmen among them, they have remained at a relatively primitive stage.Until later, the appearance of a person made this group achieve a qualitative leap, and this person was Xieqiu Liu.It is rumored that after returning from abroad, he brought advanced equipment technology back to New Nine Gates, thus ushering in a new era in the tomb robbery industry.And within a few years, he took the top spot in Xinjiumen. After the reform and rectification, he transformed it into a physical company; outsiders seem to be just an ordinary auction house, but in fact it is a collection of tomb robbery, hype, and sales. The one-stop model has an extremely sound system.

But at this moment, I can't imagine that the unkempt, skinny uncle in front of me is actually the legendary Xieqiu Liu, and now he is sitting beside me.

The Xieqiu Liu in front of him was silent for a while, then sighed, and continued talking.So I continued to listen, but I never expected it to be like this.

His New Nine Schools are in full swing in Changsha, and his reputation is getting louder and louder, and Xieqiu Liu has also won a lot of wealth.It stands to reason that he is not short of money, but human nature is like this, and he wants to covet more when he has it. A wrong decision at that time was enough to make him regret it for life.

That is, in [-], a friend in the business field approached him suddenly, saying that there was a big deal and wanted to lure him into the business. Hearing his name, the man felt that he was born an upside-down from the mother's womb. He is from Hong Kong, and his name is "Hu Qiandou."

Xie Qiuliu and Hu Qiandou had several contacts in the business field in the early years, and Hu Qiandou also had some influence in Hong Kong, and was involved in the export and smuggling of some antique artifacts, so it was inevitable that Changsha would have some contact with him.But Hu Qiandou's appearance still surprised Xieqiu Liu very much. He brought a strange map, which recorded the location of an ancient tomb.

(End of this chapter)