The Great Evil

The more Sun Lao Er spoke, the angrier he became, the more veins popped up on his forehead and he looked ready to hit someone.

Sun Lao San also shook his head and sighed, then he pressed the intercom and said: "Wang Zhaotou.

There was silence over the intercom for a minute, then Wang said in a cold voice, "When was it touched? Did you go into the main chamber?"

"No, we are still in the tomb, just now the water washed over a towel, do not even need to think, must have been robbed not long ago, the head, the south side of those people work you also know, they touched the tomb rarely left valuable things."

Wang said, "Lao Er, this way, you guys go into the main chamber to take a look, if the main chamber is empty, you don't have to go to the ear chamber, just pack up your guys and come up."

"Okay, Chief," said Sun Lao Er, putting down the walkie-talkie.

I don't smoke, my nose is still good, and just then I suddenly smelled a scent, a faint scent.

"Second Brother .... Why is there a burning scent?" I asked, puzzled.

When I said that, Sun Lao Er exaggeratedly sniffed his nose hard towards the front.

He then turned his head to look at Sun Laosan, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

"That's right, we didn't notice it just now, it's Nan Xiang." His face suddenly looked a little grave.

"What's wrong with Second Brother and Third Brother? What's wrong with this Nan Xiang?" I was a bit unsure when I saw their stony expressions.

Here's what I thought. In the past, rich people used to use golden heather coffins after they died, wasn't it normal for golden heather wood to have a heather fragrance?

The relaxed expression on the Sun brothers' faces disappeared.

"Yunfeng, give me your hand."

"Huh? What do you need my hand for?" I reached over in confusion.

"What are you doing, Second Brother!" My fingers ached and I couldn't help but cry out in shock.

It turned out that he had cut my finger with a small, sharp dagger.

Crimson blood flowed out and the Sun brothers, one after the other, used my blood to wipe some of it on their wrists.

"Second and third brother, what are you doing wiping my blood?" I complained as I shivered my injured fingertips.

This is what Sun Lao Er told me then.

"Yunfeng, in this business of gold-digging, we are afraid of encountering the four evils and the six minor ones."

"The cock-eyed tomb-beast, the light as a flower, the black coffin with red lacquer that doesn't rot, the long-lasting lamp with oil that doesn't dry up, these are called the four great evils, and this is the rule of the old ancestors, blood breaks the evil."

He said it in a mysterious way, but I was not impressed, this is to scare me like a child this is.

I said in a resigned whisper, "So .... Then why don't you cut your own fingers, why do you cut my fingers ...."

The first time I saw you, I had to use the blood of a child, Yunfeng, you haven't even touched a girl's little hand, have you?"

I stammered and couldn't say anything.

Then I deliberately changed the subject and mendaciously asked, "What are the six little evils?"

Sun Laosan shook his head as he said to me, "Yunfeng, you've just joined the industry and you've seen less, you don't know, these are all sayings passed down from the older generation of the industry."

"A quicksand tomb, a heavenly fire in the tomb, the east family (the body of the tomb owner) does not rot, the seven orifices are stuffed with pearls, the outer coffin is bigger than the coffin, rats make a nest (rats live in the coffin), these are the six little evils that the old society tomb robbers used to say."

"Who doesn't have a few tricks up their sleeves? In the old days, we were called the "eight gates", but nowadays we are called criminals in the new society, the "eight gates" are the top nine, the "eight gates" are the bottom nine, and there are also the "seven gates" which deal with the dead.

Sun Laosan continued, "Yunfeng, now that you're in this business, you have to know all this in the future, so that you don't lose the face of our northern school if people ask you in the future, the so-called Yin Seven Sects, one corpse sewer, two executioner, three corpse catcher, four blowing big graves, five paper tying people, six bone picker, seven small coffin maker (specializing in making coffins for dead children), this is the Yin Seven Sects, Yunfeng, in the future you walk in the jianghu You have to remember them."

I couldn't really remember all this nonsense at the time, I just felt he was talking about a lot of things, what seven or eight doors, I didn't know what he was talking about.

"Come on Lao San, he's only got a few more points, it's useless for you to talk so much, let's go, let's go to the main chamber at the front," Sun Lao Er shook his wrist and said, "We have Yun Feng's child's blood on us, it breaks the evil!"

After two or three minutes of walking through the water and down the tomb, the main chamber had not yet appeared in front of us.

At this point, a gust of wind blew in from somewhere and my feet soaked in the murky water, which was cold and swirling.

When we reached the stone wall, Sun Lao Er looked upwards.

A large black hole could be clearly seen in the ceiling of the tomb passage above our heads, and the cool wind was blowing in through it.

The hole was irregular in shape, and Sun Laosan frowned at the hole and said, "This was done by the group before, the one we passed just now didn't blow up, so it looks like they changed the spot and blew it up from here.

Sun Laosan pressed the intercom, "Head, straight ahead is a stone wall, different from what we thought, not the main chamber, no burial objects have been seen yet."

When the red light on the intercom came on, Wang commanded remotely, "There is no way that a tomb with green plaster mud does not have a main chamber, you guys are looking for it, go to the left to the west ear chamber to see what's going on."

"Roger that, Chief, how long do we have."

"Two hours and forty-five minutes until it's safe to go at dawn, try to speed things up."

"Hmm," Sun Lao Er let go of the walkie-talkie and led Sun Lao San and me straight around the stone wall and towards the western ear chamber.

It was the first time I had seen the ear chamber of a tomb, which was actually a small hollowed-out room, and looking at the waterline marks on the wall, the whole place must have been submerged before.

What did I see then?

At first glance, I saw piles of bronzes, large quantities of bronzes, piled haphazardly on the floor of the western ear chamber, broken and intact, small forms of round tripods, square tripods, bronze woes, bronze beans, bronze knights, dozens of them all at a cursory glance!

"We're rich, we're rich!"

Sun Lao Er's eyes were red as he spoke incoherently into the intercom, "Put ... The head! We've got it! We've sent it! There are dozens of bronzes in the west ear room! Black lacquered ancient mercury patina! Genuine Western Zhou sinkholes!"

Wang said calmly over the intercom, "Transfer them in batches and bring them all out."

"Yes," spat Sun Lao Er as he pulled out the snakeskin bag he had brought with him, "Have these rats from the south become vegetarians? I can't believe they left us so much meat, I thank them for my mother!"

Sun Lao San, who is calm and steady, frowned and said in a deep voice, "Second brother, I always feel that something is wrong, the rats in the south have a nose no worse than ours, there is no way they can't smell so much meat, it doesn't make sense ...."

Sun Lao Er also does not mind those mercury rust poisonous, he picked up a small bronze square tripod and kissed it: "Haha, baby, go home with brother!"

He also did not forget to say...

"Lao San, I find that you are getting less and less bold, why do you think so much, Lao San let me ask you, if there are a bunch of female college students lying on the ground with their clothes off, what do you want to do?"

"Definitely later."

I also pulled out a snakeskin bag and squatted down, stuffing the bronzes inside.

The round and square tripods were heavy and I struggled to hold them, so San took care of me and told me to pick up the smaller ones.

I filled them with bronze beans and small bronze knights, which were not surprisingly stacked together, as they were kitchen utensils during the Spring and Autumn periods of the Western Zhou.

The bronze tripod was used to cook meat, the jug was used to drink wine, and the bronze beans were used to put salt and seasoning on, which is the modern equivalent of the vinegar dish we use to dip dumplings in vinegar.

What do you mean by picking up money with a sack? I was picking up money with a sack at this time.

I was thin and not very strong, and when I saw that I had almost stuffed my sack, I was ready to send it up for a trip first.

I twisted my head from side to side, and at that moment, the headlamp shone just into a corner of the ear room.

"Hmm? What's that? The water tank?"

"Ergo! Look! There's a jar!"

Sun Lao Er was concentrating on stuffing a copper tripod into his bag when he was startled by my sudden loud voice.

"Damn, Yunfeng, what are you yelling about? You scared me."

I said, "Second Brother, there's a big vat in the corner, it's huge.

He didn't even look up and said, "That's rough pottery, it's not as valuable as bronze, it's too big to carry down the mountain, and selling it for a thousand or eight hundred isn't enough to pay for the kung fu, we don't want that."

After hearing Sun Lao Er's words, and looking at the big water jar with the stone lid, I didn't go there.

I struggled to carry the bag of bronze artefacts and walked back through the water, when a rope was let down from the top of the tomb.

Wang's voice came from above: "Yunfeng, tie the snakeskin bag on, tie it firmly, you can go back and fill it when you're done, make it quick, we don't have much time."

I twisted the snakeskin pocket full of bronze objects a few times and tied it to the rope, then the snakeskin bag went up a little, which was pulled by the head on top.

For the next hour or so, we worked overtime and carried out a total of eight large bags full of bronzes.

At this point, Wang's voice came over the intercom: "You three come up quickly, it's going to be light soon, we have to go down the mountain quickly."

Do you know how to stack up?

I was pushed up to the top by the Sun brothers, and then Wang put down a piece of rope and pulled me up.

The Sun brothers were even better, as they didn't even use the rope when they got to the top of the cistern and climbed up with their feet propped up against the hole.

When they got up there, Sun Lao Er couldn't hide the smile on his face.

He looked at the bulging snakeskin bags on the ground and asked with a smile, "How many points do you think this must have?"

Wang shook his head and laughed, "There are specialties in the field, you have to ask the boss how many points there are, he is accurate."

Later I learned that when they said a few points, they meant tens of thousands, one point was 10,000, a hundred points was a million, and at the time of the 00's wages, many people didn't earn a single point a year.

The Boss Sun was in the business of letting off steam and selling.

As long as there is no situation, he usually will not talk over the intercom. On the contrary, if Boss Sun takes the initiative to talk over the intercom while working, it must be a stranger coming nearby.

"I think we need to build a base here, we haven't found the main chamber yet, God knows how many more treasures are in here, this trip won't last for ten or eight days."

The term "base" refers to a situation in the tomb raiding business where you come across a large tomb that can't be explored in a day or two, and you have to design a base around it."

In the early years, when acquaintances in the tomb raiding business met, they would often ask, "So who's the guy, I heard you hit two big bases last year?"

The man would say back, "No, no, no, no. I just got lucky and made two small bases."

There are risks involved in making a base, because it's easy to be found out, and if some old man or woman goes for a walk in the morning on a whim and accidentally falls into one of our burglaries, we'll be finished.

So, reward and risk are directly proportional, and you have to take risks if you want a high reward.

After considering and weighing up the situation, the head of the kingdom nodded and said, "Western Zhou goods have gone up like crazy in the black market over the past few years, one day at a time, so I think it's worth the risk of making this trip and making it a base."

Knowing that we had won, Boss Sun immediately contacted a mole and asked the mole to send someone over to move the stuff and help cover up the hole.

This mole was also a strange woman, and I later learned through several contacts that most of the godbrothers and brothers that a mole had recognized were very well-connected, and that this person not only worked as a logistician for Wang, but was also said to be working as a logistician for other gangs.

The man not only worked as a logistician for Wang, but was also said to be working as a logistician for other gangs. In theory, it was against the rules to do so, but a mole was so capable that Wang turned a blind eye to it...

This is like the professional managers in large companies, who often hold important positions in several companies.

A mole kept a few youngsters, who willingly and willingly followed a mole, and it was these youngsters under a mole who brought us the generator pumps at night and helped us hide the burglaries.

Our gang would not have been able to function without a mole.

The topping soil with the green paste was too obvious to be thrown away in a hurry, so they brought it back with them.

These clays were like time bombs, and I don't know how many people in our profession have tipped over on such clays. Back then, the tomb-robbing gang from Babaoshan in North|Jing was discovered by an old lady walking her bike because they had left a small pile of green and white clay in the mountain, which led to the whole gang being wiped out and eating jail time for ten years or so.

The next day.

Back at the hostel in Shunde, I was squatting by the sink, brushing my teeth and thinking about where I would go later to disperse the green and white clay.

Just then.

"Pop!" There was a heavy slap on my bottom from behind.

I was brushing my teeth, and when I was slapped, I drank all the mouthwash before I could spit it out.

I turned around angrily and saw a mole wearing a halter top and laughing.

Although a mole was a round older than me, her body was well maintained, and because she was rich, she used the best skin care products of the time, and her thighs, exposed under that pink camisole, were so white that it made my throat go dry.

"Oh ....." A mole said to me tartly, "Little Yunfeng, yesterday I heard from Lao Er that you haven't even touched a little girl's hand? Is that so?"

I blushed and said, "What do you care?"

A mole saw that I was shy and burst out laughing and rippling.

She hooked her finger at me, "Little Yunfeng ah, want to be sister's forty-fifth man ah ....."

At that time I was still young and did not understand the world of people, so I casually said, "I do not want to, when you reach forty, I do not have to wear 99 cuckold, you woman does not know shame, do not want to harm me Xiang Yunfeng!"

A mole was angry at my scolding, and she chased me all over the yard, holding the mop from the inn aloft.

At noon, taking advantage of the fact that it was mealtime, I carried my black schoolbag, dressed as a high school student, and just wandered around the city of Shunde blindly.

I had a backpack full of green and white soil in my bag and I needed to find a suitable place to disperse it.

As I walked, one thing kept going through my head.

I don't know what's going on, but last night, in the corner of the west ear chamber of the tomb, there was a large water jar with a lid on it.

I always felt that something was wrong.

Shunde Nanfeng District.

There are many small restaurants on the road, there are many diners are eating, I looked for half a day, several times I want to go out to scatter the earth, but in the end did not do it, after all, is the first time to do, although full of confidence before, but really to this moment, heart also some fear.

I was afraid that a uniformed man would shoot me from behind and ask me what I was doing.

Finally, I came to a small river, and when I saw it, my eyes lit up and I had a plan in mind.

Shunde is the home of aquaculture and there is a lot of water here. I was thinking that the green and white soil would be mud in the river and no one would find it.

Seeing that no one was around, I quickly unpacked my backpack and prepared to pour the soil into the river.

"Wait! Stop!"

"What are you doing?"

There was a sudden, clear voice behind me, and I almost fell into the river.

Turning around in fear, I saw a girl pointing at me from the waist.

The girl was wearing a school uniform with a ponytail, her face was flushed and she carried a red cloth badge on her arm with the words river cleaning written on it.

"I told you so! What are you looking at! What were you trying to throw into the river, were you going to throw rubbish!"

My backpack was still unzipped, so I panicked and waved my hands, "No ..... No, I didn't throw any rubbish."

"Nonsense! I saw what was in your bag! Let me see!" She said loudly and walked towards me.

When I saw her coming, I was scared out of my wits, and it was a brain fart, so I grabbed my bag and started running.

"Stop, kid!"

She followed me and we both started running along the moat.

As I ran, my foot slipped and I fell straight into the moat ...

The green and white soil in my bag sank as soon as it hit the water. I didn't know how to water, so I was flailing about, drinking several mouthfuls of river water and shouting for help.

The girl saved me later.

She was a sophomore at Shunde No. 3 Middle School and was working for her mother, who was in charge of rubbish control on the surface of the moat.

After I was rescued, I was wet as a duck, but secretly relieved that my packet of green and white soil had fallen apart and I hadn't been caught.

The girl was soaked to the skin to save me. She grabbed me by the shirt and asked me, "What are you running for, you don't know how to take on any water, you don't want to live! What do you have in your bag?" .

I blushed and said, "I just slipped and accidentally fell into the river, what I had in my bag were books.

She looked me up and down in disbelief, obviously not believing my story.

"I think you've got a ghost in your heart, there's been a lot of electrofishing around these last two days, you'll have to come with me to see my mum, my mum says you can go before you do."

"Go!" After finishing her sentence to herself, she tugged me forward by my clothes again.

I waved my hands desperately and explained loudly, "I'm not an electric fisherman, I'm not an electric fisherman."

But I certainly couldn't tell the truth, if I said I was a grave robber, it would be even worse than the crime of electrofishing.

I wanted to run several times during this period, but in the end I didn't dare to. I knew that if I ran, with the girl's serious character, it was possible that our whole gang would be dragged into it.

Li Jing's house was on the edge of the moat, and at that time there was a footbridge over the river, which you had to cross to get to his house.

There were several stalls on the bridge, some selling children's toys, others selling insoles and socks, and one that stood out, a fortune telling stall.

The fortune teller was in his fifties, wearing round sunglasses, and had a five dollar packet of hard packets of Red River in his hand.

"Wow! Little Li Jing is better than your mother, is this another one of those rubbish thieves?" The fortune-teller said with a grin as he sat on his mazes.

The girl, Li Jing, was complimented and she said with a bit of self-congratulation on her face, "Oh, half immortal Li, that's right, this kid ran away when he saw me and fell into the river, I suspect that this kid is an electric fisherman."

The fortune teller was puffing out smoke and swallowing so much that he was covering himself.

"Yah, electro-fishing, lad that's not good, people who electro-fish have damaged fortunes, they are subject to retribution."

The last time you told Auntie Li's fortune, you said that the pig that Auntie Li's family was raising would be pregnant within a month, but what happened? Auntie Li's pig died on the third day! Where's the piglet?"

"Ahem ....." The fortune-teller coughed twice and said, "That was the pig's bad luck, I'm not to blame for my inaccuracy, if you don't believe me, why don't I tell you another fortune?"

The girl burst into laughter and pointed at the fortune teller and said, "No, I wouldn't dare let you do it, you must not have been open for days.

I don't know what happened at that time, but I just let him do my fortune telling anyway.

The fortune-teller first asked me about my birth date, then he took out a tortoise shell with three Qianlong Tongbao coins inside.

He shook it up and down a few times, and then the three coins fell out of the tortoise shell and onto the table.

I don't know whether it was a coincidence or not, but the three bronze coins scattered from the turtle shell were all on the back, and two of them were stacked on top of each other, while the other one was lying alone on one side, with the bronze coins being somewhat far away from each other, from each other.

He was so impressed that the playful smile on the fortune-teller's face was gone, and he looked at the three coins in a bit of a daze, and kept looking at them for a long time, the Red River cigarette in his hand burning down to its butt.

After he reacted, he looked at Little Li Jing and then at me, sighing uncontrollably and shaking his head.

The girl smiled and asked, "Li Laoliu, tell me, what has been calculated, is this boy an electric fisherman."

The fortune teller re-lit a cigarette and took a deep drag, he looked at me and said meaningfully, "Young man, it's not easy ..."

I had a ghost in my heart, so I carefully asked him what he could see.

He laughed and said: "The water is deep and the pool is shallow, the pool is shallow and there are many kings and eights, you are the most valuable one in the pool, but you can't escape your final fate, being slaughtered and made into a bowl of turtle soup."

At the time, I was really angry to hear this man call me a turtle and a kingfish.

Now I think back on his words.

It's a good word .....

I came back once later, but never found this fortune teller, asked around, someone said he smoked too much two years ago and got lung cancer, because there was no money for chemotherapy died, others said this person left Shunde, do not know where to go.

If I can still see him now, I would like to spend a million dollars to ask this gentleman to tell my fortune again.

Tell me if Xiang Yunfeng can still have a family.

Tell me where I should go from here.