Chapter 36: The Tomb Robbers

"Lao Tzu robbed you of the ****!" Yang Ling's face was full of black lines, and he slapped him on the chair, "I'm talking about you." The two walked to the side of the off-road vehicle, Yang Ling opened the car door, took out two bottles of mineral water from the passenger seat and handed them to Dou Yuntao, "These are two bottles of peerless magic medicine configured by the old Chinese medicine, strengthen the kidneys and strengthen the body, sober up and refresh, hurry up and take a sip, remember, just drink one sip a day, that's it, I'll go back!"

After Yang Ling finished speaking, he didn't care that Dou Yuntao was in a daze with two bottles of mineral water, started the fire, and withdrew from the small courtyard to leave the dust.

This area belongs to the suburbs, that is, the urban-rural junction, the foreign population is very large, some migrant workers drag their families to like this kind of place, the rent is cheap, it is convenient to buy food, and the most important thing is that it is easy for children to go to school. At the same time, there are characters from all walks of life, and the composition is complex, and it feels very deserted in the dead of night, the weather is cold, the narrow streets are sparsely populated, and the lights from the windows of the houses on both sides of the street are not very bright.

Yang Ling's car was not driving fast, mainly because the terrain was not very familiar, and occasionally a few wild dogs on a night tour crossed the street through the lights with their tails between their legs, which made him have to cheer up.

At a turning intersection, a faint black shadow flashed in the afterglow of the headlights, and he heard a "bang" and felt that he had hit something, so he quickly braked down to check, and sure enough, a figure on the left side of the front of the car struggled to stand up on the ground.

Nima~!bumped into someone, Yang Ling's heart suddenly tightened, and he hurriedly stepped forward, at this time, the intersection was blind with black lights, Yang Ling didn't dare to be careless, turned on the mobile phone flashlight, and saw clearly that it was a man, his hair was messy, his clothes were dirty and torn, and there seemed to be a lot of scratches on his face.

"Hey~, brother, are you okay, do you want me to call the police and call an ambulance." Yang Ling secretly lined himself not to drive fast, and the speed of turning was only more than ten days, it is estimated that it should not be too strict, but this person is obviously injured, looking at the surrounding environment, I am afraid that I have met a guy who touched porcelain.

The man limped over and grabbed Yang Ling's clothes and said eagerly, "Help me, someone is going to kill me!"

"What?" Yang Ling was taken aback, and then he saw through the light of his mobile phone that this person was covered in scars and his clothes were in tatters, but he was definitely not injured by the car just now.

"Please, hurry up, it's too late!" The man was very anxious, Yang Ling's heart was racing, and he seemed to hear faint footsteps coming from afar, and immediately waved his hand and said "get in the car", and immediately got into the cab, and the man climbed into the co-pilot without saying a word.

Stepping on the accelerator all the way, the off-road vehicle quickly returned to the city, and finally stopped on the side of the road on the side of a relatively busy road.

"Explain!" Yang Ling took out a pack of cigarettes from the glove box, threw one to the man, and lit one himself.

The man was silent for half a minute, took a deep puff of his cigarette and then said, "My name is Yu Geng, and I am a treasure digger." The man seemed to smile wryly and continued, "The ancestral heirloom has been passed down to me for I don't know how many generations." ”

Treasure diggers, in fact, they call themselves, that is, tomb robbers, there are everywhere in the country, it is a very remote and mysterious profession, but the number of people is definitely not small, Chang'an is a famous ancient capital that has been inherited for thousands of years, the tombs of the royal palace nobles of the surrounding dynasties, the tombs of the rich and the rich do not know a little, not to mention the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang, which is known all over the world as the eighth wonder of the world, and there is also a deep underground, The mysterious Lishan Imperial Mausoleum Underground Palace, therefore, this place has never lacked tomb robbers, from ancient times to the present, the big thieves and thieves who beat the idea of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, Chinese and foreign organizations, grass and grass warlords are countless, of course, there are more than the tomb robbers who move the hills, from the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present peaceful and prosperous times, the masters who are locked in prison by the government do not know how much, but they are not very successful, otherwise, they will definitely be famous for the title of a famous Chinese archaeological expert, and then lead the development and protection of the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum.

Yang Ling didn't speak, he was not surprised at all when he met a tomb robber in Chang'an City, in the large and small cultural entertainment trading markets inside and outside the city, he could hit a few bricks at will, and he was sanctimonious on the surface, and as soon as it was dark, he changed into night clothes and went out in groups with Luoyang shovels to hunt for treasures, and this industry, most of the ancestors, is said to be one of the many doorways, and outsiders can't learn it.

"Half a year ago, there was a secret news in the circle that there was a Tang Dynasty tomb in Lishan Mountain, but because it was too close to the Qin Tomb, it was well protected and not much damaged, because my family has lived near Lishan for generations, and it is said that the ancestor is still the tomb keeper of the Qin Tomb of Liu Bang, so I am more familiar with this area, and the government is not so strict with our locals, so a few colleagues came to me. Yu Geng threw the cigarette butt in his hand outside the car window and sighed leisurely, "Just last month, we finally found the ancient tomb, and it was also opened, the tomb is not small, but it is empty, there is neither a coffin nor a burial goods, it is an empty tomb, we don't give up, dig three feet in it, and finally find a secret passage that leads directly to the ground, and this secret road" Speaking of this, Yu Geng suddenly stopped, his eyes showed a trace of essence but immediately dimmed, and became very frightened.

Yang Ling was also very attentive to what he heard, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What's wrong with this secret path?"

Yu Geng lit a cigarette again, pondered for a long time, and only said when the cigarettes were about to burn out: "This secret passage is very long, almost several kilometers, and we went in several times to roughly figure out that this secret passage actually leads to the Qinling Underground Palace. ”

"What~!" Yang Ling shook in fright, the cigarette butt in his hand fell to the crotch of his pants, and he hurriedly picked it up and threw it out the window.

"Hehe, I'm scared!" Yu Genggan laughed a few times, "We're all scared!" I decided to quit at that time, but the other few didn't do it, saying that they were all here, how could I go in and see, I ran out, they arrested me, because they were afraid that I would call the police, they locked me in a rented house, they sneaked in a few times, it seemed that they also brought out a few things, just after dark today, there were two Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong people in the house, it seemed that they wanted to trade these things, I took advantage of their inattention to pry open the window and jump out of the window to escape, but they were caught, and were beaten, the Hong Kong man took out a pistol to kill me, but was blocked by another person, saying that this place is easy to bring trouble, so they are ready to trade in another place, I guess they want to kill me too, so I ran out again while they were having supper, and I met you. ”

"Such twists and turns?" Yang Ling was a little dumbfounded, if he made up for it, it would be like watching a movie, and he was the main character in the movie who brought twists and turns to the plot! He thought for a moment and said, "Then what are you going to do?"

"What else can I do, run as far as I can!" Yu Geng said with great regret.

"No, you can't run, these people probably have something to do with the smuggling forces outside the country, if they continue, maybe one day the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang will be stolen!" Yang Ling immediately felt that it was not good, especially for a righteous young man like him who had been admitted to the civil service and was also an excellent member of the Communist Youth League, who had sworn to serve the motherland and was full of desire for money in his heart, and he didn't want the little inheritance left by his ancestors to be lost like this.

"What should I do then?" Yu Geng also lowered his head in great distress, for people like them, they have always walked on the edge of darkness, and their creed is to be timid and cautious, not to touch cause and effect.

"Call the police, what else can I do? What's more, you are still the nominal guardian of the imperial seal, you can't just watch a little treasure of your ancestors be wiped out by them. ”

"But"

"No, only the government will come forward in this matter, and only by catching those guys can you live in peace, right?" Yang Ling interrupted him, picked up his mobile phone and prepared to call the police, and after thinking about it, he turned out the phone number of Professor Cui Yukai of the University of Geosciences.

At this time, it was almost twelve o'clock in the evening, and the phone rang for a long time before it was connected, and an old man's voice came from the opposite side, who seemed to be very angry.

"Who?"

"Professor Cui, I'm Xiao Yang of the Bureau of Geology and Mining, do you remember?" Yang Ling sweated a little, feeling the anger on the other side, if Zhengxiang, who slept in the winter, was woken up by the phone, he would be considered a gift in the eighth generation.

"Oh, Xiao Yang, what's the matter with tossing me an old man so late?" Professor Cui's tone was much better.

Yang Ling didn't talk nonsense, Yu Geng roughly said what he said, "What did you say?" The old man Cui on the other side seemed to jump up from the bed, and there was a sound of Ding Ding framing together, it seemed that the cup or kettle fell to the ground, but the tone became very urgent, "Xiao Yang, what you said is true?"

"That's right, we don't know what to do now, so we have to ask you?" Yang Ling said cautiously.

"In this case, you wait for me at the school gate first, and I will immediately contact the old guys from the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the museum, this matter is very important, don't spread it. The old man Cui quickly hung up the phone, Yang Ling also started the car to drive to the University of Geosciences, it was late at night, there were few cars on the road, the two quickly arrived at the gate of the university, waited for less than five minutes, a girl accompanied an old man hurriedly walked out, the old man was Professor Cui, and the girl was Cui Yingying who met last time, and also Professor Cui's granddaughter, Yang Ling suddenly remembered the steamed bun last time, so he smiled and said hello to her.

After the two got into the car, Professor Cui just said: "Go to the City Museum", but then the mobile phone rang, he answered it a few times and hung it up and said, "Go to the Municipal Public Security Bureau first, those few cultural relics may still be in the city at this time, you have to hurry!" Then he rubbed his face a little tired and said: "Alas, people can't help tossing when they are old, and they will lose their lives in the middle of the night." ”