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Chapter 003 Bronze Merchant

"Teacher, what is your surname?"
"My surname is Li."
"Hello, Teacher Li, are you the only teacher here?" I greeted Teacher Li.
"That's not true. All the other teachers have gone back."
"Are there many students?"
"Not many, just a hundred or so people."
"How many years have you been teaching?"
"Not much, just three years. Our teachers here are all volunteers and they won't stay long."
"Okay, then you leave, what will happen to these students?"
"The Shi Diocese will be merged soon. Then they will return to the newly built teaching building in the town for classes, where there are many teachers."
After chatting for a while, we both felt that we were very compatible, so Teacher Li invited me to stay for a meal. The dinner was very sumptuous. Teacher Li specially bought a chicken from the village below to entertain me, and there were also several fresh dishes.
Vegetables. After dinner, he helped me make the bed so that I could rest easily, otherwise I would have to find a place to pitch a tent.
After dark, Teacher Li and I sat by the fire pit in the kitchen and drank again in front of the oil lamp. I was particularly tired that day. My bones seemed to be falling apart and my whole body was so loose that I could no longer support my entire body.
, so I went to bed early.
At night, when everything was dark, I lit an oil lamp. Under the dim light, I felt like a frightened bird huddled in its nest. At night, when I fell asleep, several dull thunders shook me.
I woke up from my sleep, and several bolts of lightning pierced the sky like sharp swords. At the moment of lightning, I could clearly see the mountains in the distance through the glass window, and then raindrops the size of soybeans splashed on the roof, splashing
Water splashed from the cracks in the tiles onto my face.
Lightning flashed outside, thunder roared, and heavy rain fell from the sky. Soon I heard a deafening sound from behind, as if a flood was wrapped in sand and rushing from the mountain behind the school. I hurriedly picked up the flashlight and rushed downstairs.
, standing under the eaves, listening carefully, it turned out that the huge noise was coming from the valley. I breathed a long sigh of relief, took a flashlight to look inside the house, and found that the inside was full of water, almost overflowing the threshold.
Rainwater seeped in continuously from the cracks in the stone wall. If the earthen wall above the stone wall was soaked in water for a long time, it would easily collapse. It was urgent to drain the rainwater inside. I quickly found a stick and dug it under the threshold.
A deep ditch emerged, and muddy water flowed out along the ditch. I checked several other places with a flashlight and found no water seepage, so I returned to the room upstairs with confidence.
I didn't dare to close my eyes that night. I was glad that I had escaped disaster. If I hadn't found out in time, the house I lived in would have collapsed before dawn. It wasn't until the sky was bright and the rain gradually subsided that I lay down.
I fell asleep on the edge of the bed for a while. After dawn, the morning fog slowly faded away, and the fiery red sun lifted its veil. The mountains in the distance looked fresher and greener. The corners of the classroom were wet, and there were many low-lying areas.
There was little water accumulation. The lower half of a pile of firewood in the kitchen and around the stove were soaked with mud and water, and several tiles on the roof fell off.
I looked out the window and sat quietly with the school at the blurry mountains shrouded in mist outside the village. I listened to the sound of raindrops falling from the eaves. The extreme sadness seemed to be lingering around me like wisps of blue smoke.
, if it lingers, it cannot be wiped off.
Teacher Li thanked me for saving the school’s life in a dangerous situation. As a result, we became good friends and talked about everything. When he learned that I had not found a job yet and wanted to work in the education industry, Teacher Li immediately patted his chest and promised
, will find a suitable school for me.
Of course I am very grateful. I never thought that I and Li
This encounter with the teacher actually started my own experience of saying goodbye.
After helping Teacher Li clean up the school building, I was ready to go home in the afternoon. Although the journey was not far, the mountain road was rugged. One section was winding down a steep valley. Standing on the edge of the cliff, you could clearly see the bottom.
The entire village, if it is a person who has never walked this road, it does require extraordinary courage and courage.
When I was leaving, a student happened to come over. She was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with short black hair, a thin figure, a pale face, blue lips, and a hint of melancholy in her eyes that was extremely inappropriate for her age group.
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I originally thought that the road back would not be particularly difficult, but I accidentally lost my way. To make matters worse, it started to rain at night. I did not choose to camp on the spot, but walked on hard until I found
The way out.
The raindrops were still falling, but contrary to expectations, the road still did not appear.
The feet were muddy, and after not walking very far, a thick layer of mud stuck to the soles of the shoes. It was like walking in heavy shackles, stumbling. The light of the flashlight passed through the milky white fog, leaving only a beam of dim yellow.
There was a halo, and the surroundings were filled with an eerie atmosphere.
The mountains here are solitary, majestic and lush. The scenery alone is indeed a good place to visit, but once you get lost here, it may be very dangerous.
At this moment, several figures suddenly appeared on the mountain road in the distance, and then they saw the light of the flashlight flashing in the rain.
"Why are there people on the mountain at this time?" I couldn't help but become vigilant. Years of experience in traveling around the world told me that this group of people was most likely robbing tombs on the mountain.
I lay down and watched them from a distance. After a while, they stopped in a forest, and I saw them busy for a while from a distance, as if they were moving something out of the ground.
"I guessed it right."
Judging from their path, they should be a group of private tomb robbers. They revealed their identity to this group of people and said that I am some kind of contracter of ghosts and ghosts. They will not come to prey on you at all. They may just kill you and silence you and leave you in this ravine.
If you throw it away, no one will find it anyway.
I quietly walked forward and saw a bottomless robbery hole punched into the ground. They formed a circle around the robbery hole and placed a large box next to it. It was estimated that it must have been moved from the tomb.
Listen to them cleaning up the excavated soil and sealing the robber hole, bragging and talking about the glorious tradition of tomb robbers.
It is said that the Wei and Jin eras were special troubled times in history. Wei refers to Cao Wei, and Jin refers to the two Jin Dynasties. The imperial court was corrupt, regimes changed, wars continued, and famine and plague occurred frequently. At that time, the people were hungry and desolate.
Plains, coupled with social unrest, economic depression, and even the phenomenon of cannibalism.
Many people took the risk and joined the ranks of tomb robbers. Later, tomb robbing developed into a social trend. Instead of being ashamed, they felt proud of it. It seemed that they were embarrassed to say hello to others if they had never robbed a tomb.
During the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the late Qin monarch Yao Chang and the later Yan monarch Murong Chui were all experts in tomb robbing. Everywhere they went, they destroyed tombs, plundered treasures, and robbed them wantonly. Most of the tombs of the previous dynasties suffered devastating damage.
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There is also Chen Shuling, the second son of Emperor Chen Xuan and Chen Xu, who was granted the title of King Shixing. On the surface, he seemed to be a well-mannered person. When he entered the court, he would always read while riding in carriages and horses, and he would also recite loudly, looking like a scholar.
Behind his back, he is very cruel and dissolute, looking down on human life, killing innocent people indiscriminately, and is lustful. He likes to hang out in graves and use the bones of the dead as collections to appreciate and play with.
Often looting the treasures in the tomb
Once the tombs were empty, they returned home proudly, sometimes even taking the bones from the stolen tombs back to their homes and hanging them as trophies. Among the many ancient tombs excavated, many were tombs of famous people, even the tomb of Xie An, the Taifu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Couldn't escape his vicious hands.
"The most famous and professional tomb robber appeared during this period. Cao Cao was famous for professionalizing and even industrializing tomb robbing. He set up special officers in the army to be responsible for tomb robbing, and gave them a vivid name - Faqiu Zhong
The general will touch the golden captain."
"I often visited the tomb robbery site and directed the excavation. The largest tomb excavated by my professional tomb robbers was the tomb of Liu Wu, King Xiao of Liang Dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty in Mangshan, and the tomb of his wife, Queen Li, and they made countless profits. It is said that in this single tomb robbery, more than ten of Cao Cao's men were killed.
The three-year expenditure of ten thousand troops can be called the most professional tomb robber in the history of tomb robbing."
"Since the late 1980s, archaeologists have been conducting protective excavations on the tombs of King Xiao of Han and Liang Dynasties. In this tombs that had been stolen during the Three Kingdoms era, precious jade garments with golden threads, large jade bis, etc. were still unearthed.
There are tens of thousands of cultural relics, many of which are priceless." One of the leaders, a man in leather clothes, said.
"Before he died, this guy wanted to prevent others from robbing his tomb. He must have said that he would have a sparse burial, which means that even if you rob the tomb, you wouldn't be able to steal anything. What kind of seventy-two suspicious tombs were created? Now it's impossible to determine where the real tomb of Cao Cao is?"
"Boss, we don't know where Cao Cao's tomb is. Whose tomb do you think we dug today?" asked a little man.
Naturally, the man in leather clothes couldn't answer this question, but if he said he didn't know, it would be like slapping himself in the face and losing his identity as a big brother in front of these subordinates. Therefore, even if he didn't know, he had to come up with a bluff.
Speak out.
"Let me tell you, have you seen the Gehu spurge? That can only be used by princes, generals and ministers. This shows that the owner of this tomb is at the level of a prince at least!"
"real?"
"Nonsense, the boss can still lie to you!" As he said that, a short fat man next to him gave the little man a chestnut.
"Boss, what does Na Gehu mean?"
Seeing his younger brother's confusion, the leather-clad man became even more triumphant and said: "According to my guess, Gehu is actually a northern dialect from the Luxi region. This word is used to describe people who are brave. Ge is a case of killing without mercy, and the meaning is clear;
Tiger, the tiger of the Five Tiger Generals, describes the ferocity and strength of people or things. It can be seen from this that this prince must be a fierce general who is brave enough to defeat the three armies!"
The man in leather clothes stunned several of his men, and after finishing speaking, he waved his hand proudly, "Pack up everything and take it away."
"Okay, boss."
"I'm telling you, we are in the bronze business, and we are people with dignity when it comes to talking about it. Do you know, don't have a boss on your left and a boss on your right all day long? You have to call the boss in the future, do you understand?" the man in leather warned.
road.
"Yes, boss!" The little man saluted seriously and laughed innocently.
"What the fuck, you kid, don't be lazy, hurry up." After saying that, the man in leather jacket took a rest under the tree.
"It's your bad luck to meet me. You'd better go to jail for a few days!" I quietly took photos and sent their whereabouts to the police. I figured they would be here soon.
I was able to find my way down the mountain again through the police. I found out later that this group of people was actually a group of cultural relic dealers who dug graves and dumped bronzes. The police had already targeted them and were worried that they had nowhere to go.
Chapter completed!
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