Vol 2 Chapter 11: Heifengkou Savage Ditch

The train departed at two o'clock in the afternoon. We were so excited that we didn't sleep all night. I asked the fat man how much money we have left. The fat man counted and said that there is still one hundred and fifty. fee.
I thought this wouldn't work. We didn't go back for more than ten years. It was too inappropriate for us to meet with the villagers with our hands empty. It was too inappropriate. We had to find a way to buy some gifts for the villagers.
The fat man said that he sold me this piece of jade for eight thousand.
I said you should keep it. Do n’t you think about the things your father left you. You ca n’t get it back when you sell it. Do n’t regret your intestines.
In the end, I found a little valuable thing. We have an Eagle Song mechanical watch, which was bought by my dad when I was a company commander. It belongs to a limited edition of limited supply. If you have money, you may not be able to buy it. It was worth more than two hundred dollars on the market at the time. I went to Panjiayuan and sold the watch to Dajinya. This grandson collected everything. As soon as I heard that we were going to Inner Mongolia, we also sponsored us a hundred dollars and agreed to find what we found. He would contact the buyer.
In the 1980s, three hundred dollars was enough for ordinary families to live a luxurious life of two or three months. It was a considerable sum of money. With these more than three hundred dollars, I bought a lot of food, such as candied fruit, toffee, canned food, chocolate, tea, etc. These are not available in the mountains, and the rest of the money is exchanged in the black market. Became a national food stamp.
The journey of two days and two nights seemed a little long in the mood of expectation. After arriving at the station, I had to ride a tractor for a day, and then walk the mountain road one day and one night.
The two of us walked less than a day after going into the mountain and couldn't walk anymore. The things we carried were too heavy. Each of us had to carry more than one hundred kilograms. I can still insist on clenching my teeth. Panting under the big tree, he couldn't even speak.
Thanks to the accountant who came out of Tunzi to work, he was a half-old child when we lined up and played with our buttocks all day long, calling us "brother" one by one.
When the accountant saw us with so much luggage, he hurried back to the village and called a few people to pick us up with donkeys. We all know these elderly people, and there are two girls who are twelve or three years old, only after I left. When they were born, they called me "Uncle".
I asked the accountant: "How come there are no young men in the village?"
The accountant replied: "All the laborers in Tunzili went to work with the archaeological team. Was n’t that the Tangshan earthquake in 1976? Although we were separated from ours by 180,000 miles, we belonged to them. An earthquake zone that shattered the entire Niuxin Mountain in Lamagou. There is a whole palace-like tomb in it. We have a lot of bold people in the village to move things. That guy, the good stuff old nose goes The result was unclear, and the county government was disturbed. The archaeological team came and said that this was the tomb of the Empress Dowager of Liao Dynasty, and he also gave away all the good things in the family, leaving nothing left. Then the archaeological team and Niu Xinshan were n’t the same, it seemed that there were many good things to dig under the mountain, and all the laborers in the village were hired to work. Money. This hasn't been done for several years, and it hasn't been neglected, and many people are still working on it. "
When I heard this, the fat man and I almost didn't vomit blood. I dared to burn incense with our brother and even the Lord Buddha fell.
But there is no way. You can't go grab the site with the public members of the Archaeological Team Cultural Relics Bureau. Now that I'm here, I'll talk about it for a few days and look back to find another place. Anyway, the large ancient tomb is not the only one in Niuxin Mountain.
When fast-forwarding to Tunzi, the folks who got the news were waiting at the door. Everyone came over and asked long and short. The swallow led his daughter to cry and said to us: "Oh, old Hu fat man, do you want to die? Why have n’t you heard anything for so many years? "Yanzi and her father hugged us both tightly:" You two little cubs will be gone once you leave. This time you can't live for two or three years, who Do n’t leave. "
I cried with the fat guy. The fat guy lived here for six or seven years. I only lived for one year, but the people in the mountains are simple. If you have lived here, they will always treat you like a relative. This is the same as before, with no change at all, no electricity, no highway, and many people have never seen an electric lamp in their lifetime. The more I thought about it, the more sad I felt, thinking about waiting for money, I must build roads for the folks, but when will we be rich?
At this time, the old party secretary of the village was supported and walked over. Before he came, he said aloud, "Chairman's dolls are back? Is the chairman's old man still okay? What happened to the Cultural Revolution?"
I listened wondering, Chairman, his old man is okay now, where do I know where to go. I rushed to the front and held the old secretary ’s arm and said, "His old man is okay. He is lying in the memorial every day. Everyone who misses him can buy a ticket and go in to see his old man. Oh, yes, the Cultural Revolution was early It's over, now Comrade Xiaoping is leading our group to reform and open up. "
The old party secretary didn't seem to hear what I said. He pulled his neck and asked aloud, "What? Comrade Xiaoming, what's the whole thing?"
The swallow told me next: "Don't listen to him, don't know what to do, he has been deaf for seven or three years, he can't hear anything clearly, and he's always confused."
Then I realized that this was the case. I said loudly in the ear of the old party secretary: "Secretary, I brought you a lot of delicious food. I will send it to you in a while. You eat slowly."
Everyone talked and walked, they entered the village, and the old party secretary still shouted: "Children, you go back and report to his old man that we firmly support the proletarian cultural revolution ... What should we do?"
In the evening, the Kang table of the Swallows' house was filled with fried pheasant slices, smoked deer legs, and a large casserole in the middle was boiled with sauerkraut powder and white meat. Swallow's husband used to be familiar with us before. He went to work in Niu Xinshan and did not return, so he could not see him for the time being.
Yanzi's father drank with us and talked about it. I talked about the tomb of Niu Xinshan. By the way, I asked him if there were any tombs of ancient nobles in this mountain.
Since ancient times, people in the mountains have always believed that robbing a tomb is a sideline of income generation. There are no moral issues. This is the case in the north. Southern Xiangxi took robbery and murder as a sideline. Mountain people worked as farmers during the day and gangsters at night. They hid in the woods, killing past foreign merchants, and never kept alive. This has been forced by the living environment for thousands of years. It depends on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water. As long as there is an ancient tomb nearby, someone will dig. In a remote area, Emperor Seco is far away, and Wang Fa can't control it, although no one can make sense of this truth in law. Most of the ancient tombs in this neighborhood are too old, and there are no obvious marks in the vicissitudes of the sea. Otherwise, they will have been dug up by the mountain people.
When Yanzi ’s father said that a long time ago, when there was no liberation, there were also several young amateur
tomb thieves
in this village. At that time, they did n’t know that there was a tomb in Niu Xinshan. They went to a legendary place to dig graves and find gold. I do n’t know what happened, all of them went to Wuhui, and Yanzi ’s second uncle was one of them. In that legendary place, Swallow and her dad knew the approximate direction, but they never dared to go.
Speaking of the past, the old man was caught in his memories, and he took the old Yabuli cigarette. He took a few sips and pondered for a long time before saying: "You want to find the ancient tomb, except for Niuxin Mountain. According to legend, it is said that from here to the north via Tuanshanzi, five days away, there is a savage ditch at the black wind mouth of the Sino-Mongolian border. It is said that the piece is all the tomb of the nobleman of the Golden King, but there are rare people there, and there are savages. Haunt, do you have the courage to go? "
I also heard about the name of Yerengou, but I have not heard that there is an ancient tomb there. What the last tomb thief was hurt by, let alone I do n’t know, her father did n’t know, the whole Tunzi No one knows.
There are too many dangerous things in the old forest in the deep mountains. Various wild beasts and even the natural environment may change the life of people. If they encounter big smoke bubbles (swamps formed by dead leaves soaked in rain and rot), cover Once inside, even the Da Luo fairy could not escape.
We are determined, and her father can't stop her. No one in Tunzi really went to Heifengkou Yeren Gully, only knowing the approximate direction. There was almost the border there, and there was no people. The people in Tunzi could n’t even reach the mountain for hunting or harvesting. Coupled with the swallow her father is old, suffering from old cold legs, can no longer enter the mountain, swallow was pregnant with her second child and could not go far. The young and middle-aged people in Tunzili work in Lamagou and will not return in a short time.
Yanzi ’s father said,
I ’m not always worried if I do n’t take you personally. In fact, the danger of the savages is not from the savages. The key is that the terrain is complex. It ’s easy to get lost when you get white wind in winter. There is no need to worry about this section. You are going, you must bring more dogs, and you need to find a good guide. We have raised a few mastiff dogs in recent years, and we will bring you all this time. "
Mastiffs are not single-handed Tibetan mastiffs. In the Northeast, the giant mastiffs are called mastiffs, and they are not exactly the same as Tibetan mastiffs.
The hunter herders who lived in the northern grassland forest were threatened by wild animals such as wolves and black bears. It was difficult for ordinary hunting dogs to cope with it, so they learned from Tibet to raise mastiff dogs. As the saying goes, nine dogs and a mastiff, this sentence does not mean that there can be a mastiff out of nine dogs. It must be a with good blood, and nine puppies were born at the same time. After the nine puppies were born, they were locked up in the ground socks. They would not eat or drink and let them kill each other. Just the mastiff. Mastiffs are extremely ferocious, and three mastiff dogs can tear a strong man into pieces.
There are a total of three mastiffs in Tunzi, plus the five best hounds, all handed over to us, and her father Swallow recommended a guide Yingzi to us.
Yingzi is just 19 years old and is a rare Oroqen tribe. No one of the younger hunters is better than Yingzi. She is a famous sharpshooter in the mountain. Do n’t look at her young age, she has been with her father in the forest Hunting, things in the old forest are not unclear to her. Of the three mastiffs in the village, two were raised by her own hands.
Before leaving, I asked the swallows to help me prepare some things, bird cages, glutinous rice, black donkey hooves, crowbars, a large barrel of vinegar, shochu.
Waiting to clean up, Swallow and her father Qian Dingwan Wan asked, if you can't find it, don't force it, go back quickly, and keep sending us into Tuanshanzi before he returns.
I am more confident in finding an ancient tomb. As long as I can reach Yeren Gully, there will be no tomb. If there is, I will definitely find it. I learned a part of my knowledge from the book about tomb robbing, and most of them were heard by my grandfather before. My grandfather Hu Guohua was an officer in the old warlord army, and some of his soldiers were once the thieves of Dongling Sun Dianying. My subordinates have participated in many large-scale tomb robbing operations and are experienced. My grandfather knows and listens to them mostly.
Tomb robbery has always been divided into civilians and officials. Officials and robbers are all in the field of open fire. They chose the emperor's mausoleum to start. The Chu king of the late Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, should be the ancestor of the official robbers. Waiting is just to systematize the officials and robbers to form a pipeline operation. There are also amateurs and professionals in the private sector. For those who are amateurs, they only need to dig. For those who are professional, they can only find the tomb of the noble prince.
The key to robbing a tomb is to find an ancient tomb. This is a profound knowledge. China's dynasty has changed over thousands of years, and its rise and fall have changed. The construction and selection of the tombs of the emperors are different. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the effect of the ascendant was mostly overburden-style tombs. Overburden means the shape of a mound of earth. It is like turning over a bucket of rice to cover it. There are ridges on all four sides. The top is a small square platform Some are like pyramids in Egypt, but China has one more side, but it is strikingly similar to the pyramids in the Mayan civilization of the "lost civilization" found in South America. No one can speculate about this connection.
The Tang Dynasty was built as a mausoleum, with huge projects and magnificent momentum. This was also related to the national power of the prosperous world of the Tang Dynasty at that time. Wang Ling in the Tang Dynasty showed such a style of the first empire everywhere.
During the period from the Southern Song Dynasty to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, military disasters continued one after another. The largest natural disasters in ancient Chinese history also occurred during this period. The national strength was weak, and the mausoleums of the royal nobles were not as luxurious as before.
Later, in the Qing Dynasty, during the Kangxi period, the country's economy and productivity were greatly restored. The architectural style of the mausoleum changed, and more emphasis was placed on the ground construction, combined with the ancestral temple garden. Drawing on the experience of anti-theft from the previous dynasties, the structure of the tomb chambers of the Digong in the Qing Dynasty was extremely strong and the most difficult to get started.
In the final analysis, no matter which dynasty or generation, the tomb form in China for thousands of years is derived from the layout of the five elements Feng Shui that Fu Xi's sixty-four hexagrams have multiplied. Eight words: within nature, nature and man are one.
Tomb culture is the essence of Chinese civilization. Mongolia, Hui, Tubo, Golden Tooth, Wusun, Xianbei, She Min, Jurchen, Dangxiang and other ethnic minorities have been greatly affected, and the patterns of tombs have followed the pattern of the Central Plains. , But most of them have nothing but fur. It can be said that as long as you understand the direction of the mountains, rivers and rivers in the world, you can easily find ancient tombs that are hidden deeper.
Going further is the endless virgin forest. Yingzi took eight big dogs to open the way in front. The fat man led a dwarf horse to carry the tent and other materials and equipment. I walked behind with a shotgun, and a group of people entered China and Mongolia. Among the mountains on the border.
The fat man walked and asked Yingzi in front of him: "What's the matter with the big girl, the savages of the savages? What has the savages been, have you seen them?"
Yingzi turned back and said, "I don't know what a savages, I heard my father said that many people have seen them in recent years, but no one has ever caught alive, and no one has seen a dead body. The one who has seen it can't tell what it is. kind."
I laughed behind: "Fat man, you are really ignorant. As the name suggests, wild people are wild people. Learn in the future. Do you know what wild people are? They were born in wild fields, maybe trees. The knot may be grown in the ground, anyway, it is not artificial. "
The legend of the savage Shennongjia has a long history, and I have heard about it in the army. It is said that a PLA soldier once shot and killed a savage in Shennongjia. The savage's body fell off a cliff, and in the end it was not clear whether the savage was a human or a big hairy monkey. Almost all witnesses who have seen the savages bite: the savages are tall and strong, with slender black hair all over their bodies.
I heard Yingzi tell us that the savages ditch at Heifengkou was not called savages before, but it was called "dead man's ditch", and when it was older, it was not called "dead man's ditch". It has always been the cemetery of the nobles of the Dajin Kingdom. Later, the Mongolian army was the main force of the gold soldiers in Heifengkou, and the dead bodies were like mountains. The Mongols threw the dead into the ditch, and the entire valley was almost filled up, so the locals called it the "dead ditch". Later, some people saw savages near the valley, and the name of the dead man's ditch was replaced by the savages.
There is nothing terrible about savages. Can savages match the mastiff no matter how powerful they are? I suddenly had a thought in my mind. Savage didn't know what price could be sold in the market? But then I thought that it would be inhumane to do so, or don't give up the idea of ​​living creatures. It is true to focus on digging ancient tombs.
Because of his horses, he can not climb a mountain with too steep slope, so he will go around when he encounters a big mountain. This way is extremely slow. Fortunately, the virgin forest in autumn has gorgeous scenery, and the red and yellow leaves spread all over the mountains, and the layers of forest are all dyed, making people watch tirelessly. Occasionally, one or two pheasants, hares, roe deer, sloths, and roe ran out of the depths of the forest. Yingzi went to chase dogs. At night, he camped, picked some grass mushrooms in the mountains, and lit a campfire barbecue. Fat people are full of food and have not eaten heavy game these days.
In this big mountain, if you do n’t bring a hound, you can only sleep on the tree. We brought three giant mastiffs and five big hounds. This kind of power has almost no opponents in the forest, except for three. Only more than one bear. Yingzi said that the Mastiff was the nemesis of the human bear. When the bear in the forest heard the cries of the Mastiff, they would immediately hide far away, so we all slept in the tent at night. The faithful hounds sent their whistle around the tent, nothing. Worryingly, these dogs are much more reliable than humans.
Yingzi's temper is much more aggressive than when he was younger than the swallow, and he is so angry that he is the one-headed garlic and will not let the small peppers. What route to take, what to eat, these have to listen to her, who let her be a guide, those dogs also listen to her. Although I'm used to being a company commander, I can only stand it as an ordinary soldier with her.
However, Yingzi does have two sons, hunting, finding the way, looking for spring water, distinguishing whether the mushrooms are poisonous, how to find fungus, mushrooms, hazelnuts, persimmons, codonopsis, schisandra, etc. in the deep mountains, there is nothing she does not understand. And there are some animals in the mountains that I ca n’t call. I have never seen them in my life, but Yingzi can say what kind of animal this is, what kind of environment they live in, what kind of food they eat, what kind of trap they can use to catch them alive. I and the fat man heard big and small eyes, and could only say two words: served.
Oroqen people are born hunters. The three words "Elunchun" are the official name for this nation, and they are not very accurate. Sometimes they also call themselves "Eerchun" or "Eulechun", which means deer hunters wandering in the mountains and forests of Linhai . They have been wandering among the forests of Xiaoxing'an Mountains for many years, and have lived a nomadic fishing and hunting life. When China was first liberated, the entire population of Oroqen was less than a thousand people. The government let them come out of the old forests in the deep mountains and live a settled life. However, the tribes have an almost deified worship and longing for the kind of safari life that their ancestors lived. They believe in shamans and worship nature. Although they live a settled life, they often have to go to the mountains to hunt.
No words along the way, the book is brief. Everyone knew that they would spend the night in the primeval forest for six or seven days, and finally reached the black wind on the border between China and Mongolia. The dense forest in Heifengkou is indescribable. There are almost no places to stand in the depths. They are all hardy tree species such as red pine, larch, birch, aspen, etc. The dead branches and leaves on the ground are covered with layers one by one. It ’s easy to handle, because the horse ’s own weight is so great that it often gets stuck and we ca n’t help but use the strength of the milk to pull it, so we can move forward and forward.
I do n’t know how many years are at the bottom. The rotten branches and dead beasts trapped inside emit a burst of rancid smell. This smell is mixed with the scent of red pine and wildflowers. It smells strange, but After smelling it, people feel a little addicted.
At the Black Wind, the rest is mine. We found a valley, which should be the legendary wilderness ditch. The landform here is nothing strange, not as fierce as the Lama ditch, but this is just an intuitive feeling. Yingzi said that there must be big smoke bubbles in the valley. If you want to see clearly, then go down, you won't be able to get out of the big smoke bubble. To get down into the Savage Gully, each person must prepare a large wooden stick to explore the way. The fallen leaves below are too deep and worse than the swamp. Fortunately, it is not the rainy season, otherwise don't think about going down.
Yerengou belongs to the aftermath of the Greater Xing'an Mountains. The mountains on both sides are gentle. The whole valley runs from north to south, with hills on both sides of the east and west. The middle part is short of sunshine all year round and gloomy. The valley is full of withered leaves and weeds, and there are no trees growing except for some low and sparse shrubs. The trees in the valley are even rarer, and the virgin forest ends here, and the vast outer prairie is more than two hundred miles ahead.
It was almost dusk, the blood-red sunset hung on the horizon, we climbed up the hillside, and looked out, we saw the red sun is falling, the sky is full of large red clouds, the whole sky is like being dyed by thick oil paint, covered by forest The rolling hills and the prairie with no end in the distance have become hazy in the field of vision. The mountains are like sea and the sun is like blood.
The fat man was very happy to see this beautiful scenery: "Lao Hu, this scenery is so beautiful, we didn't come here in vain."
What I remember the most is the ancient tomb in Yerengou. I carefully watched the terrain in the valley in comparison with the "Sixteen-character Yin-Yang Fengshui Secret Technique". Then I took out the compass to identify the gossip direction. There must be an ancient noble tomb. "
The terrain here is stable and majestic, and there is a tendency to swallow everything. One end is a grassland, and the other end is connected to the Greater Xing'an Mountains. The outer Mongolian prairie is like a vast ocean, and the moon ditch is like a river flowing into the sea.
Although the feng shui style here is not enough to bury the emperor, it is more than enough to bury an official such as a lord and a general, and when the moon is in the sky, the moonlight will point out the direction of the ancient tomb.