Vol 2 Chapter 12: Moon ditch

As the sky gets late, the sun gradually sinks into the western horizon, and the big forest is about to be engulfed by shadows. The reason why this place was once called the "holding moon ditch" is because when the moon rises above the valley, it lies on the deepest side of the valley Looking up at the sky, the afterglow of vision will create an illusion. The highest hills on both sides are like two huge arms, stretching out to the bright moon in the sky. The deceased in this cave took the sun, moon, and pure spirit. The chapter "tian" in my ancestral feng shui book has a detailed explanation. Although some of the literal content cannot be understood, it is not combined with field observation. It is difficult to speculate that there are ten or nine.
If there is no such thick dead leaves in the Savage Gully, you can directly find the middle position, but now you can wait for the moon to rise at night, and then you can refer to the moon ’s position in the sky and go down to the bottom of the valley to find it. Ancient tomb. Our manpower is limited, and there must be no deviation when we work, otherwise the amount of work may be too large.
It's too early for midnight. We tied the tent under a big tree on the hillside, tied the pony to the tree, fed it grass, and lit a campfire to boil water to eat. The game tonight was a fawn caught by the hounds. The deer looks a bit strange, with plum blossom spots on his body, a small body, very uneven shape, unusually thick hind legs, and no big ears with no horns.
When Yingzi saw the hounds dragging this strange deer, he hurried forward and turned the deer over to inspect the belly of the dead deer. The blood on the belly of the deer was sacred, and Yingzi opened the deer's mouth again, as if to find something. The thing was finally not found. She was so angry that she kicked two feet on the deer and scolded the big hounds again: "These bears know how to eat all day long and can't point you at all, None of you are allowed to eat today. "
The fat man looked strange at the side and asked Yingzi: "Big sister, what are you looking for?"
Yingzi pulled out a sharp knife to peel the deer, while answering the fat man's question: "Fat brother, haven't you seen this animal? This is a musk. There is musk in the navel of the male musk. Great, when I saw someone wanting to grab it, I bite off my belly button and chewed it. The dogs are too bears, so they can get a piece of musk sooner. "
After listening to the fat man, he sat down against a big tree, bent his head with his head down, and strained his stomach a bit.
I slapped his head: "What do you think of your mother-in-law? You think you are a deer, you can get your belly button with your mouth, and then your belly button is full of mud and worthless."
The fat man was anxious: "Hu break you, my back is itchy, rubbing twice on the tree, you just want to bite your belly button!"
After fighting a few words, the two of us broke up and packed up. I went to pick up the dry wood, and the fat man helped Yingzi barbecue. We only roasted one of the hind legs of the musk. It was enough to feed the five big hounds with the musk viscera. Yingzi was the tofu heart of the knife mouth. I just said that I would not give these dogs dinner.
The other three giant mastiffs all squatted proudly in the distance, not looking at the ordinary hounds that robbed the belly of the animals at all. Yingzi divided the two front legs of the musk into two mastiffs and one hind leg. The largest body is a giant mastiff called Tiger.
Three people ate barbecues around the campfire. Yingzi gave each of us a knife and a small bowl made of salt rock. The deer legs were set up on the fire and turned over the barbecue. Rubbing will give you a salty taste. The meal was fast. I thought about the ancient tomb in the ditch, and I did n’t get any difference between the taste of musk and ordinary venison.
After eating, the moon has risen. Through the moonlight, you can see that the speed of the clouds in the sky is very fast, which means that there will be strong winds at night. Seeing that it was almost time, we left the hounds in the guard camp, and the three of us went down to the savages with their sticks.
Every time we take a step forward, we must first stick the ground in front with a wooden stick to see if there are big smoke bubbles. Yeren Gully is much better than we thought in advance. Although the fallen leaves in some places have no thighs, but no big smoke bubbles are formed, it seems that if you want to dig the ancient tomb, you must first clean up the fallen leaves covered on the tomb.
I looked up at the moon in the sky, took out the compass and compared it, looked around the sides of the valley, and finally determined the location. There may be many ancient tombs in this valley, but the main one is also the most noble. The tomb is where we stand at our feet.
I inserted a wooden stick and left it here as a mark. I went back today to get a good night's sleep. I had enough energy to start digging tomorrow morning. There are no other people in this deep mountain and old forest. live.
As I walked back, I told the fat man about the theft of the tomb. Since I had done this, I should know more about these things. I ca n’t just dig dumb with strength. Since we entered the mountain, I kept telling him.
Since ancient times, the earliest recorded tomb-robbing incident occurred about 3,000 years ago. It was the Zhou Dynasty, that is, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Zhou Dynasty of Xiahou and Shangzhou, and the Zhou Dynasty was divided into the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty. The dynasty assisted by Li Fengming Qishan, Jiang Taigong and others had a foundation of more than 800 years. In that era, two major grave theft incidents were recorded, one was the stolen Zhou Youwang's tomb and the other was the stolen Shang Tomb. Two bodies of young men and women with naked bodies were found in the tomb of the You King, and the tomb thieves were scared to turn their heads and ran away; while the tomb of a large turtle was dug out of the tomb of Tang Wang, with Oracle inscriptions on it.
The fat man said, "Do n’t you do n’t need to talk to me, Laohu, you said there are ghosts in the tomb? How do we deal with ghosts? And what kind of ghost did you blow the lamp last time? I heard how evil it is. ? "
Eiko said: "What the is blowing the lamp? Is it the bubble bubble that we said in the northeast?"
I said, "It ’s not the one in the Northeast, it ’s a superstitious act of touching the golden school captains. It ’s not necessarily useless. The air quality in the tomb is not good. If the candles do n’t light, people will definitely get poisoned and die. These It can also be explained from a scientific point of view. Besides, how could there be ghosts in the ancient tomb? It ’s a superstitious legend, even if we do n’t have to worry about it, I ’m ready for things like black donkey hoofs, glutinous rice, etc. If you do n’t believe in evil, do n’t steal it if you ’re afraid of ghosts. "
The fat man suddenly realized: "Oh, after a long time, you let the swallows prepare these things to avoid evil. I thought you were not afraid of ghosts. The vinegar and the bird cage are used for?"
I was about to answer. Suddenly I heard the barking of hounds from the hillside. All three of them sank their hearts. I wondered if there would be any savages and beasts attacking our camp? But there are three giant mastiffs out there, even if the beast eats the bear heart, leopard, and dare not dare to cause trouble. What caused the hounds to bark? We hurriedly took two steps back to the hillside.
Back to the tent, a scene appeared in front of me. The dwarf horse tethered to the tree was bitten by some fierce beast. The entire stomach was broken, and the intestine ran down. The dwarf horse had not died, and fell down. The ground continued to twitch, and I saw it was not alive.
The hounds screamed at the dwarf around the dwarf as if they saw something terrible, and the sound was full of restless restlessness.
According to common sense, horses and dogs are good friends. Pony horses are never bitten by dogs. What kind of beast would it be? The three giant mastiffs and five hounds are around, but they haven't caught the beast of the murderer?
Looking around, where there are traces of wild animals, only the empty mountains are silent, the night wind blows the forest leaves rustling, our hands holding a shotgun are already cold sweat.
There was blood foam in the horse's mouth and white gas in his nostrils. Although his intestines flowed to the ground, he couldn't breathe for a while, and Yingzi fired a shot at the horse's head, ending it before death. pain.
I suddenly found that the horse's intestines were moving, not twitching out of a physiological reaction, but like something was pulled to the ground, and the stuff that pulled the pony's internal organs was hiding under the horse's corpse.
I quickly pulled Yingzi back, and the fat man Yingzi also saw the situation just now. The three looked at each other, and they all thought, "Will it be the savages?"
In the savages ditch, of course the first thing that comes to mind is the savages, but can the savages have such great power to tear the horse belly? Maybe it uses weapons, but those who can make weapons are not savages.
We haven't waited until we want to understand that the internal organs on the ground have been pulled down to the bottom of the horse's body. The following situation is completely hidden by the horse's body.
The horse's body must be removed first. I picked up the shotgun in my hand. This kind of gun is much more advanced than the tooth lifter I used to beat a bear in Lamagou more than a decade ago. However, this sports air rifle has a too small caliber to be fatal to large beasts. Killing. It is better than nothing, after all, it is much better than burning fire sticks.
There were guns and dogs, and everyone had a little bottom in their hearts, so the three of them pushed together to remove the corpses of the horses. The grass on the ground suddenly showed a bottomless hole.
The hole is as thick as a small bucket. It is unlikely that an adult wants to get in. The pony's intestines are dragged into the hole by something. When we first arrived, the hole was covered with grass, and no one found it. Seeing the grass growing nearby, I tied the horse here. As we went down the valley in search of the ancient tomb, the guy in the cave suddenly attacked and tore the horse's stomach. Although the hounds were fierce, the hole was covered by the horse corpse and barked in anxiety, but there was no alternative.
I took a photo of the hole with a flashlight. The black hole, I don't know how deep. After more than three years of experience as an engineer, it came in handy to look at the traces on the wall. It is almost certain that this hole is not artificial. It was dug by some kind of animal with claws, and the claws are very sharp. Good hand, otherwise how can tear the pony's abdomen at once. But what kind of animal was it? I couldn't figure it out. Even Yingzi, who knew the forest well, shook his head. He had never seen or heard of such animals.
I guess there will be other holes near here. It seems that the Savage Gully looks calm and beautiful, but in fact hides the danger. No wonder the group of people who came to this graveyard decades ago has no back and forth. I do n’t know if they are also Encountered this fierce underground monster.
It is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, and decided not to wait for the dawn and act overnight. The three men were divided into two teams. The fat man and I took five hunting dogs and went to dig the grave below the valley. Yingzi took three giant mastiffs and looked for monsters that attacked us nearby. No matter how powerful the guy is, he will not be more fierce than the three giant mastiffs. Rather than passive defense, it is better to take the initiative. If there is a situation on either side, the gun will be fired and the other party will rush to support as soon as possible.
Simply saying that the fat man led five big hounds, I carried tools and other applications, and the two went one after the other, and went down to the bottom of the valley according to the previously explored path.
I took out two engineer shovel, took one by myself, and threw the other one to the fat man: "Little fat, work harder, do n’t bury deeply here, the ancient tomb under the fallen leaf layer will not be too deep, the sooner we dig The better you get to antiques, then you quickly leave this ghost place and go home, selling money to build roads for the folks. "
The fat man spit on his hands: "Look at fat man mine."
The German engineer shovel shoveled up and down, each time poking up a large sludge formed by dead leaves.
Although there are no trees in Yeren Gully, the leaves in the surrounding mountains will be blown in once the wind blows. We took turns in battle, dug six or seven meters deep, and finally saw the dirt. I grabbed a hand, the soil is very fine, the particles are clear, there is no lump of lump, I tasted it with the tip of my tongue, it is a little sweet, yes, this is the sealed mound, and the four or five meters below is the tomb.
Be careful when digging into the burial chamber. Some tombs have anti-theft mechanisms. The ancient tombs in the Liao and Jin Dynasties of the Northern Song Dynasty were not like those before the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, they were all rockfall and dark crossbows. Mature, especially some noble tombs, cannot be as big as the emperor ’s tomb, and the mobilization of manpower is limited. Of course, this is only relatively speaking. The content inside is not ambiguous at all, otherwise it is not worthy of this Feng Shui. Treasure.
For example, the ancient tombs of the Jin people in the late Northern Song Dynasty here should use the popular anti-theft technology Tianbaolonghuo glazed roof. The structure of this structure is very advanced. The tomb is hollow. The ceiling is first laid with a thin layer of glazed tiles. The bag of Western Fire Dragon Oil is covered with a layer of glazed tiles, and then is the mound of earth. As long as there is external force to enter, the roof will break when it is touched. The Western Fire Dragon Oil will see the air and put the corpses and burial objects in the tomb. Burn a polish so that the tomb thieves get nothing.
Of course, this is an inevitable method. The tomb owner will fight for the same thing, and will not let his bones be destroyed by the robbers. This kind of organ was only popular for a while during the Jin-Liao period in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Later, more advanced organs appeared. The Baolong Huo Liuliding was subsequently replaced.
Such a small institution can't help me. The biggest weakness of this organ is that the dragon fire glazed tiles on the top will not break when digging from the side. So when we dug into the mound, we turned to the side to dig. The two of them were so hot that they did n’t know what was tired, and they dug a large pit six to seven meters deep on the side.
Inadvertently it was already dawning, Yingzi came back and said that she found nothing nearby. She first went to the woods to hunt for lunch, and waited for her to send a dog to call us.
After Yingzi left, the two of us continued to work, and finally dug a layer of hard soil on the side, which was rock-solid, and only one white mark appeared when the engineer shovel hit it.
The fat man scolded: "Fuck, how come there is cement? I knew we had brought some explosives in advance, how do you dig this fuck?"
I said, "The explosives are used by rough people. This is a layer of rammed earth, protected by organs on the top. This kind of soil was prepared with the secret recipe of the palace at that time. It was mixed with some glutinous rice juice, and there was something wrong with the urine of the boy. It is stronger than the modern concrete of his mother-in-law. This secret recipe is the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. Later, the Golden State wiped out the Northern Song Dynasty, and this spread to the hands of the nobles of the Jin people. "
I moved the big barrel of vinegar over and let the fat man scoop it onto the rammed earth layer with a big spoon. When the barrel of vinegar was poured, the tomb wall was almost corroded. Don't look at the vinegar is not too corrosive, but it has a wonderful effect on this kind of rammed earth mixed with secret formula. This is called one thing one thing, and then digging it will be almost like digging tofu.
Follow the law, as expected, seeing the tomb was to be excavated. The two of them were proud, suddenly heard a gunshot from the forest, and the flock of birds on the tree flew up.
The fat man said anxiously: "My big sister shot!"
I picked up the engineering shovel and shotgun: "Let's go check it out."
The two couldn't take care of their physical exertion, shook their legs apart, and stepped on the fallen leaves step by step.
We rushed to the depths of Lin Zi, and the five big dogs followed closely, ran towards Lin Zhong for a while, and suddenly saw Ying Zi rushing towards us with three giant mastiffs.
When I saw her, it was all right. I put down my heart: "Sister, did you shoot? Did you find anything?"
Yingzi's face was white, and she ran out of breath: "Oh, mom ... I'm scared to death. I found a few shacks in the front. Let's take a look. It's scary, all dead, all black. It's rotten. At the beginning, I did n’t know clearly at first. I thought it was a savage, so I fired a shot, and I did n’t see clearly the corpse of the person. "
I realized then, don't look at Ying Zihu, huh, there are weaknesses-she was most afraid of dead bodies, and thought she was not afraid of the sky in the forest.
However, dead bodies and shacks were found in the old forest on the Sino-Mongolian border. This is in itself incredible. Since the shacks are built, it means that they live here. Who are those dead? Why live in the depths of this unpopulated mountain?
Let's take a look in the past, maybe we can find some clues. I vaguely felt that they had something to do with the tomb robbers who had disappeared here before.
Yingzi led us to the few shacks she found. These shacks were very rough. They were built with mud and straw. They also used a small amount of wood. They were built in the densest places of the trees. The colors were also hidden. If they were not nearby, It's hard to find.
We crawled into one of the shacks and saw a lot of animal skins inside. There were three corpses in the corners. The corpses were black due to excessive decay. The muscles were almost rotten. The skin was shrivelled. There were maggots in the eyes and nostrils from time to time. Ants crawl in and out. I thought this might be the savages in the legendary savages.
The fat man leaned in to look around and said to me: "Lao Hu, I said why can't you see the savages in the savages' ditch, they are all old and dead."
I nodded and said, "The strange thing is that these savages have advanced tools. You see they still wear clothes. How can there be savages in clothes? How do I think this dress is so familiar?"
The corpses were all wearing woolen coats and had worn them for many years. It is estimated that they would have been worn and dirty for decades, but from the perspective of style, people always felt as if they had been seen there.
I found that the innermost collar of the corpse's clothes seemed to have a metal thing on it. I removed it and wiped off the stains on it, like a collar flower on a military uniform, but it was never from the Chinese army.
At this time, the fat man also found something. He touched a combat knife from the corner. He made a lot of effort. Finally, he pulled out the knife with a "poo" sound. The steel mouth of this knife was excellent. After so many years, it was still Guang Ke Jian Ren, it seems that the Lord loved this knife very much in his life, and it must be wiped from time to time.
As soon as I saw this knife, I understood that the savages of his mother's original legend are these Japanese devils.
But the fat man couldn't figure it out. Didn't Japan return to China after defeating and surrendering? Why didn't these little devils leave?
I say this is not surprising. You know too little about things in history, which exposes the essence of your inaction. Fatty, do n’t talk nonsense, just talk about what is going on.
My guess is that on the eve of Japan ’s unconditional surrender, the Soviet mechanized army went south and attacked the Kanto Army stationed in northeast China. The millionth Kanto Army, known as the most elite Japanese army, fell apart. Some devils were dispersed and fell into the forest I did n’t dare to go out and lost contact with the outside world. I did n’t know that Japan had defeated and surrendered, so I kept hiding in the forest until I died here. Someone here saw a few Japanese ghosts hiding in hiding. Their clothes were already so dirty that they lived in the forest without shaving. Then would they be regarded as savages?
In fact, I also inferred out of thin air, what the real reason is, unless these devil come alive to explain, otherwise no one will ever know the truth. After I said so, the fat man Yingzi and the two would understand.
Yingzi said: "The designation of the little Japanese devil is lost, don't look at the edge of the forest, but to the north is the prairie, and there are big mud nails (a kind of marsh that is all mud), the north can't go out at all; south It ’s the virgin forest, without dogs, and the oldest hunters do n’t want to go out, they deserve it.

I flipped through the items of the dead bodies and wanted to see if there were any valuable things. When I turned halfway, I suddenly thought, would those people who came to this tomb robbing in the late 1940s encounter Japanese devils and be killed?
Thinking about it, I suddenly found a notebook in a military travel bag, which was written in Japanese, and the paper was yellow. The handwriting on it was still recognizable, but none of the three people understood Japanese, but there are many Chinese characters in it. However, Japanese characters and Chinese meanings are far from each other, and some meanings are even opposite (for example, the word "stay" in Japanese Chinese characters is contrary to the literal meaning of Chinese characters, which means "going out"). Even so, put When these words are concatenated, we can still see almost half of it, plus some of our subjective speculations. The general meaning is: the main force of the Guandong Army in Dongning was defeated by the Soviet troops, and Mu Shaozu took the remaining team of soldiers. (In the A Division of the Kwantung Army, a squad of 120-200 soldiers) fled to a secret underground fortress in Heifengkou, preparing to join the rest of the Kwantung Army in the fortress for a final decisive battle with the Soviets. Serve the emperor with broken jade. As a result, when he arrived, he broke the big smoke bubble. The only soldier who knew the location of the fortress and the guide who led the way fell into it and drowned. The rest of them never found the entrance to the secret fortress, and wanted to go back and get lost. There was no communication equipment, so I had to live in the mountains. This one lived for more than 30 years, and I died one by one ... I lost it later. It is estimated that the writer died when he wrote here.
I tossed my notebook aside, and now I have no time to see the broken ones. The tomb walls in the valley are almost corroded. Hurry back and take things away. Do n’t worry about these Japanese devils anymore. They are almost rotting anyway. The fat man said that the knife could be owned by me. At that time, there were several Sakuen knives in my family, which were all taken away during the Cultural Revolution. I still want to collect one. I persuade him to say that this is a regulated knife. You can't bring the train. Wait for Beijing to go to the old market to see if there are any, and buy you new ones.