Chapter 76: Qinling God Tree · Old Itching Released from Prison

These words are only a few words, but all my thoughts are attracted to the past.
"Fish is with me ..."
What fish? Is it the snake eyebrow fish?
Judging from the patterns on the stone tombs of the ancient tomb, this strange bronze fish should have three heads connected end to end. Now I have two in my hand, and indeed there should be another one in my hand. Does this inexplicable meaning mean to suggest that the last fish is in his hand?
The publisher of this message, since he has this photo and knows about the fish, will he be one of the missing people?
I turned this page carefully to see when it was published. It should have been two years ago, because the website did not fail, otherwise the message would have disappeared on the Internet. Except for this sentence, the information does not have any attribution and contact information.
I feel a kind of disharmony. Since it is a tracing, and I do n’t leave my contact information, is this not in vain?
I searched Google in a variety of ways, hoping to find more information, but the search and search is related to this one.
I can't help but feel a bit frustrated, but this has been a great discovery, at least it can be shown that two years ago, there were people who were paying attention to things 20 years ago, so who is this person?
Soon, the storm finally passed. The next day after the storm, there was a Qiong grinding wheel coming from Qinglan Port in Wenchang. When we saw that we could not wait here, we packed our bags and prepared to go back.
Before we left, we went to the military medical clinic to find Aning, but she was gone, and asked the doctor, he said that a few days ago a group of foreigners suddenly came under the storm and took her away, he thought we were together And the phone line was cut off by the strong wind. Their area has not been repaired, so we didn't notify us.
I knew in my heart that it must be that Aning ’s reception on the island took her away. In the past few days, the storm closed the island, and we have no way to stop it.
The fat man scolded that it was cheaper for her, but I couldn't help but breathe. I didn't know what to do with her. I couldn't kill her, and I wouldn't forcefully punish the confession. Now this situation is right in my arms. Go, she did n’t take us anyway.
It's just that their company's entry into Haidou is not as simple as saving people. What purpose do they have? What happened between Uncle San and them? Where are others now? I don't know when these hidden secrets will emerge from the azure and tranquil sea of ​​Xisha.
To make a long story short, we took the Qiong grinding wheel back to the mainland. Two days later, at Haikou Airport, I bid farewell to the oil bottle and the fat man, and boarded the plane to Hangzhou. The life in reality was always surprisingly smooth. After four hours, I returned to my home in Hangzhou.
I was exhausted by a long period of high-intensity activities, and then I went to sleep with my head covered. I only got up once a day, and I was hungry. I just grabbed something from the refrigerator to eat and lay down. Unconsciously, in the past two weeks, a friend thought that I was dead at home, came over to find me, and I woke up, I had enough rest.
I slept too much and felt uncomfortable. I called Wang Meng first and asked about the situation in the shop. Except that there is no business, everything is normal. In fact, no business is also a normal part. The boss is not there. If there is business, weird Too. Then I called the three aunts, six aunts, and seven uncles. I asked all the relatives who had contacts with the third uncle. I knew I didn't know the whereabouts of the third uncle, but there was no result. I finally called Sanshu's shop. A guy answered the phone. I asked him, "Have Mr. Wu come back?"
The dude hesitated for a while and said, "Sanye has never been back, but there is a weirdo who says it is your brother. We must tell him where you are, I don't know what his path is, but he's slippery. It ’s not like a good thing, so I sent it to you. He left a phone number when he left. Would you like to call it and see?

I stayed for a while, and I felt strange. I had a lot of nodding friends from all walks of life, but I could think of going to the third uncle to find me. I could n’t count a few. I thought about it and asked him, "How old is that person?" ? "
"I can't tell you for sure. It's probably like you. It's a bit older than you. It has a flat head, a triangular eye, and a tall nose bridge. It wears pair of glasses and wears an earring. It looks unpretentious and nondescript. "
"Non-comprehensive?" I repeated these few words, who was my heart in the end, thinking of a sudden jump in my heart, and asked the man, "Isn't that man talking too hard?"
"Yes, yeah, yeah, that guy has to stutter a dozen times before he can finish it."
I was happy, I already knew who the other party was, I was busy asking for the phone number, and I called it immediately. After a while, the phone was connected, and there was a familiar and unfamiliar voice, "Who-who-who? (Stammer)"
I chuckled and said, "I fuck, can't even hear my voice?"
He froze for a few moments, making a few excited voices, yelling: "Three-three-three-year-old did not listen to you, of course I can't hear it, you see your voice, it really developed. "
I couldn't help feeling sour. I thought about tears and scolded: "You still have a face to say to me. I haven't heard from me for a few years. I thought you were dead!"
It ’s the old itch across the phone. I ’ve forgotten what his real name was. I grew up wearing the same pants with him. I did everything together. For a while, I was almost like a person. His family is relatively poor. After graduating from college, he could n’t find a job, so he went to work in my shop. Do n’t look at him. He has a bad mouth, but he is particularly fooling. The two of us have the same smell and run the business randomly. comfortable.
Unexpectedly, three years ago, this kid didn't learn well. He followed a Jiangxi old watch to fight over Qinling, but he was caught. The old watch was sentenced to indefinitely. He flicked and flicked on one mouth, fooling himself. He became a good young man who was deceived by bad social forces, and he was only sentenced to three years in prison. At first, I still wanted to see him, but this kid died, just refused to see me. Later, when I moved, I was so disconnected. I didn't expect him to be released from prison now.
Speaking of that, he will go to fight, I also have a lot to do with it. I have brag about how great grandpa is in front of him since I was a kid, and show off in front of him with his grandfather ’s baby. Brainstormed. This kid is a courageous thief. When I was a kid, I had an idea that he was in trouble, but I didn't expect that he would dare to take action on the thing that fell off his head.
I have three years to talk with him, as soon as I open the dialogue box, it won't be closed! Speaking of mouth cramps and hot cell phones are not fun. I got up and said to him: "You mother's evening is okay, buddy, I will catch the wind for you, let's take a meal and have a happy drink."
Old itch is also talking up, and replied: "Then-that dare to have a good relationship, I haven't eaten a large piece of meat in three years, this time I want to eat a cool!"
This was the final decision, and I was too excited to sleep. I took a shower and tidied up the house. I went to the appointed hotel and waited for the kid to order all the large pieces of meat on the menu. A copy. The kid didn't arrive in the evening, and the kid came. I saw, oh, this kid was not normal. He squatted for three years in prison, and he was fat.
The two of our old friends met, without saying anything, we first killed half a bottle of Wuliangye, recalling the past life, and looking at the current situation, we could n’t help but sigh. There is nothing to say.
At that time, I also drank too much wine, and my brain was confused. I talked about his crimes and asked him with a hiccup: "You tell me the truth, what did your mother fall to in the past, your Jiangxi The old watch was sentenced to an indefinite period? "
I regret it as soon as I say it, and I say what I do about it. Waiting a moment to provoke his grief, I am not good enough.
Unexpectedly, when he heard me ask, he turned his face proud, clasped his teeth, and said, "What I poured out, hey, the evil gate is very good, isn't it-I don't tell you, even if I tell you, you do not know either."
I think he looks down on me and is furious: "You pull it down, I'm not a Maotou kid three years ago, Tang Song Yuan Ming Qing, as long as you can tell the shape, I can know what it is."
The old itch looked at me in a serious way and laughed: "Just-just like your bear, you are still in Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties!" As he said, he dipped his wine with chopsticks and drew a strange shape on the table. "You- ─Have you seen this thing?

I was drunk and dizzy. I could n’t see clearly after a few glances. I just felt like a tree and a pillar. I cursed: "You are a donkey and squatted for three years in a kiln. You haven't grown at all in painting. What is the name of this? A whole mallet! "
Old itch said: "You-you-you just look at it! Just you-that look is only worthy of this kind of painting!"
I took a closer look, it was really unintelligible, and said to him: "The ghost knows what you are drawing. Look at these bifurcations. Do you mean patterns, painted like tree branches? I painted too much, I can't see it! "
Old smiled happily, lowering his voice, and said to me mysteriously: "Farewell-don't say, this is a tree branch, a bronze branch with a thick wrist!"
As soon as I heard it, I drank it, this guy had poured out a bronze ware, and it was really dead. I was sentenced to a three-year sentence and it was really earned. I hurriedly said to him, "How heavy is this thing, you Small things don't fall down, but a huge thing, can't you catch them? "
He patted me on the shoulder, peeled a scallion and burst the taro, and threw it into his mouth, saying: "You don't understand the situation at that time, the place is different from what you think, and the words are long."
I did a little research on the bronze ware, thinking about the thing he drew, and remembered the bronze bronze forest trees that were dug in Sanxingdui not long ago.
Sanxingdui is a relic of ancient Shu. Strictly speaking, it is no longer a category that we can deal with in antiques. The age is too far, too precious, and the price is not too high. If there is this thing in the old itchy place, it will not be. Knowing whether to say he was lucky or unlucky.
I became interested in this thing all at once, and asked him how he was going at that time. He drank too much, and did not think of concealment. He said it in fifteen and ten.
At that time, they had walked into Qinling for more than ten days. Except for the virgin forest full of eyes, they found nothing, and almost entered a situation where they were exhausted.
Lao Ti and his old watch did not have the basic common sense of tomb robbing, but with enthusiasm full of enthusiasm. At this time, his old watch was already discouraged, and he retired, because Lao Ti persisted and did not immediately return.
On this day, they trekked into a valley hidden in the mountains, and they did n’t know how many such valleys have seen these days, but this time, Old Itchy found it a little different here.
The geographical environment here is very peculiar, the altitude is very low, and the temperature is very high. In the center of the valley, there is a vast sea of ​​old banyan trees. Wow, that forest, I do n’t know how many banyan trees ca n’t be surrounded by ten people. In the sky, the roots of the banyan tree covered the ground and there was almost no space to go.
Looking at this scene, the old, itchy old watch feels that something is not right. The banyan forest can grow to such a scale, unlike natural formation.
There is an old saying in Dixian, "No tarragon in salty ground, Jiu Baqiao in the sun; no mountains in the bald mountains, there will be sand and mud", that is, where grass and trees grow abnormally, under or around the ground There may be problems, maybe there will be ancient tombs.
The roots of the banyan tree are like snakes, intertwined with each other. The forest is much denser than the ordinary forest. I am afraid that I will suffer a little bit when I go in. But thinking about this time I have eaten so many bitter heads but nothing has been eaten. He is always uncomfortable. As soon as he crossed, he walked in with old itch.
They walked in all the way until the sun went down, before slowly approaching the hinterland of Linhai. The sounds of the night owls were rising and falling, and the light was extremely dim. They flashed their flashlights and slowed down to avoid getting lost.
It was at this time that his old watch tripped on something and almost fell over. Old Itchy hurriedly supported him and turned to see what turned out to be something wrapped in the root of a banyan tree under his feet, which was higher than the ground.
They used a short axe to cut off some of the roots of the banyan tree roots, and the contents were exposed. The flashlight took a photo. It turned out to be a mossy stone man. The clothes seemed to be the style of the Han Dynasty before, and the relief was very Exquisite totem pattern.
The appearance of this stone man made Lao Itching immediately realize that there was something in this forest, and the old saying was right--
They looked around the stone people, and soon they found that under the deciduous mud on the surface of the banyan forest, there were many large stone slabs, which seemed to be the remains of an ancient road. The stone people were on the side of the ancient stone road. It seems to be the guardian figurine of this stone road.
Will this pattern be the Shinto of the Emperor's Tomb? Itchy old thought, while still in the small village dozens of miles away, an old man said that there were several Xi Jinhou buried in the mountains here, could it be that they had worked so hard for so many days, really encountered them?
If it is true, then the suffering in the past few days is really worth it.
He and his old watch discussed with each other, and decided to look along the ancient path first. If there is an ancient tomb nearby, there must be some traces.
They trudged along the ancient road and walked for several hours into the center of the Linhai. On both sides of the stone road, they found many remains of stone people, some fell on the stone road, and some were wrapped in The interior of the tree is covered with moss, and the traces of Shinto are becoming more and more obvious.
Old itch they secretly excited and accelerated their pace, but strangely, the more along the ancient road, the denser aerial roots around. In the end, the old itch they had to cut off their roots to barely pass through. It seems that the trees here do not want strangers to take this path.
In this way, until the middle of the night, after exhaustion, the moonlight appeared in the cracks in the front of the tree. The old itch felt that the end of the stone path was coming. They turned over a lot of messy stones and cut off the last aerial roots from the banyan forest. Drilled out.
Suddenly, under the moonlight, a huge downwardly inverted pyramid-shaped stone pit appeared in their field of vision. There was a football field so large, shaped like a huge bucket, buckled in the middle of the forest. The slopes on the four sides were built into steps, and there were more than one hundred steps leading to the bottom of the pit.
Old Itchy was almost silly at the time. He never thought of the end of the stone road. It was such a magnificent ancient building ruin. He only felt his heart beat faster. He almost felt his legs weakened and knelt down to give this pit a bow.
But obviously it is not an ancient tomb, so where is it? Which dynasty is left?
Lao Tie ’s old watch had quite a few words. When he saw this, he was very shocked. He said to him: "It must be related to a sacrificial ritual. It looks like an altar. Let ’s go down to see if there is a sacrificial pit What a weapon. "
At this time, there was already a white mold moon in the sky, and the light was very obscure. They hit the flashlight to avoid being tripped by the snakelike roots, and down the stone steps to the bottom of the pit uneasy.
The whole pit is hidden by the aerial roots of the banyan trees around it. If you do n’t follow the ancient path, you wo n’t find it even if you walk by the edge. The stone slabs in the pit were almost cracked into jigsaw puzzles. A large number of roots were squeezed out of the stone and inserted into the gaps on the side. The entire ruins had been destroyed beyond recognition.
The bottom of the pit was also covered with a thick layer of weeds, and only a few places showed traces of the blue slate below.
The weeds are all half tall, and they used a machete to cut while advancing, and soon came to the center of the altar.
There is a doi surrounded by a circle of stones in the center of the altar. The doi is about more than ten meters deep. The flashlight shines and the grass is all underneath. They went down to the bottom of the well with a rope. They first looked around. When they saw nothing, they directly hit the Luoyang shovel.
The first shovel hit fifteen meters, without bottom. The old itch pulled it out and smashed the mud. It was found that the mud brought out was mixed with charcoal ash, as if a large amount of things had been burned, and inside the charcoal ash, they also found A few pieces of pottery and jade pieces were added.
The charcoal soil in the rot mud is the remains of burning the sacrifice, and the pottery and jade pieces left by the burning are all sacrifices of the time. It seems that this Doi was the place where the sacrifice was burned when the deceased was sacrificed, and it has been used more than once.
Old itch can't hold back his excitement at this time. Historically, during the sacrifice, a lot of exquisite bronzes and jade are often burned. If one or two can be dug out, they are really rich.
They started digging up with a shovel and started working in turn, tirelessly. After a while, the bottom of the pit was dug for about seven meters. A large number of fragments of jade and pottery were dug out, and even the number was unclear. What kind of jade pieces, jade cakes, clay pots, clay pots, almost everything, A pile of such things piled up quickly.
Unfortunately, most of the jade and pottery are broken, and the value on the market is not big, which makes the old itch they are very disappointed, and the most disappointing is that there is no bronze ware they want.
They did not give up, and continued to dig, and quickly dug to a depth of ten meters, but still did not dig out any good things, and the straight earth pit dug to a point more than ten meters is already the limit, and then digging, you have to consider the theft hole The problem of collapse, they had to stop.
His old watch is still relatively cautious, saying that after digging for so long, there is nothing. I am afraid that this altar did not use bronze sacrificial utensils when ritual.
But the old itch is not reconciled, no matter what his old watch says, he still has to dig. He asked his old watch to go up. He dug alone for another two hours, until he was digging more than 14 meters. Suddenly, his shovel hit a piece of metal.
Old Itchy and his old watch looked at each other and leaned down to take a look. A dark green protrusion appeared in the center of the pit.
Sure enough there were bronzes, and the old itch twitched, and his hands were shaking. He cheered the old watch, threw the shovel and jumped into the pit, the two began to dig the protrusion by hand.
Soon, a strange thing appeared in front of them. It was a bronze stick, but it didn't feel anything. When they removed the charcoal from the surface, a delicate bronze cast branch appeared in front of them.
The two of them were overjoyed and had never seen this thing. It must have been worth the money, so they rushed away and tried to dig it out. They dug a few meters down with their hands. Without seeing the end, they couldn't pull it out, so they used a shovel. Digged all the way, and dug another six or seven meters, and the bronze branch still didn't look to the end.
Old itch began to feel strange, and his experience of making antiques told him that there are very few bronzes that are more than three meters high, but according to conservative estimates, the thing in front of him must be at least twenty meters high, which is very unusual. How much is buried under this mud?
The burrowing hole is nearly 20 meters deep, and it must collapse when it is dug again. But going back empty-handed was really unpleasant. The two of them were confused and stayed there, not knowing what to do.
In the end, he still had a way to watch his old watch. He tapped into a Luoyang shovel head diagonally in the direction of the bronze branches at the bottom of the bronze branches about one meter away, and then hit it diagonally with ribbed steel pipes. Knocked all the way down to about ten meters, and the sound of the steel pipe suddenly became dull, and I couldn't knock it anymore.
When itching here, the expression is a bit unnatural. A cigarette lighted and sucked hard, saying, "That is to say, at least the part of the bronze branch under the mud is about ten meters long, that is The total length is at least 30 meters. Such a large object cannot be brought back even if it is dug out. "
I could n’t help but say that he said something a bit exaggerated. The mother Wu Ding, unearthed in Wuguan Village, Houjiazhuang, Anyang, Henan, is the largest surviving bronze ware in China, and it is only over one meter tall. At that time, casting such a big thing was already necessary. Two or three hundred people collaborated at the same time. Would it be necessary to cast tens of thousands of talents to cast a bronze tree over 30 meters high?
But after seeing what he said so much, I was not good to refute him, and asked, "What happened then? Did you continue to dig?"
The old itch said: "No, I wanted to dig, but my old watch suddenly said that this thing may be a fetish, maybe it really grew out of the ground and could not be digged. Then I thought about it again It's too unsafe to dig, so you gave up-aren't you blaming? I guess this branch is still part of a large bronze. The following things may be bigger. I want to plan them out. I'm afraid it will shock the world. "
I wondered: "That means you didn't remove the bronze tree. How did you get caught?"
He said, "I feel weird about this. We were not reconciled at that time, and we dug a few pits in other places. Finally we dug out some pots and pans, and after we came out of Qinling, we wanted to find a place to sell our stolen goods. But my old watch was nervous after seeing that thing. As soon as he arrived in the city, he said the thing of the copper tree branch when he saw people. The place in Qinling Mountain has been hated for tomb robbing since ancient times. The wind has been very tight. We When I went to the last antique store for shipment, a few people listened to my old watch and said that we saw our identity and reported us! Fortunately, the police and we are fellows who caught me. Just let me bite and say, "I was fooled", and I was forced to sentence him for three years. My old watch was originally sentenced to four or five years. I didn't expect him to be crazy. , I was sentenced to an indefinite period and almost died. "
"Oh" I said, "You are really back home. You haven't been fishing for so long. I tell you how many times, don't sell stolen goods on the spot. , This is called retribution. "
The old itch smiled mysteriously and said, "I--I am not counted for nothing--fished, look at this thing--" He pointed to his earrings!