Chapter 33 Section ten

After a while, Xia Mingruo jumped out of the grave covered in sand, "Teacher!" "Ah?" Beard listened to the rhetoric of a certain tomb robber and was sharing his experience in excavating ancient tombs with him. Xia Mingruo said: "Look, the slope of the north wall of this tomb is not right." When the bearded man heard the news and went to the grave, Chu Haiyang was squatting in front of the wall, smiling and saying, "I dare not move." The bearded man was very surprised when he saw it: "Huh? What's the color of this wall? Is it the background color of the mural?" He held up a kerosene lamp to take a closer look, and sighed, "This mural is very difficult to save. It's all moldy. Wait a minute, I'll change the light source to a brighter one."

He went out while talking, Xia Mingruo grabbed a handful of soil and said, "Why is this side not moldy? This side doesn't rely on water. It's strange..." Chu Haiyang asked, "What's so strange?" Xia Mingruo threw away the soil and said, "There seems to be something behind this wall, and I feel a little nervous." "Come on!" Chu Haiyang patted him on the head, "Playing tricks." Xia Mingruo threw himself into his arms and said shyly, "My family is afraid of ghosts!" Chu Haiyang kicked him far away, and Qian bearded came in: "What are you doing? Fighting is not allowed in such a narrow place!"

Chu Haiyang put away his fists, turned his face away, and said to the bearded man seriously, "Teacher, the Dunhuang Institute for mural restoration is an expert, you can ask them." "Don't worry, I'll take a look first. Dunhuang may not be able to do anything about this situation," the bearded man wondered, "Why did this happen?" He put on his gloves and touched lightly on the wall of the tomb, and the mural fragments and sand fell down. He rubbed the debris carefully in his hand, and suddenly tried to push it with his hand. The uncle happened to enter the tomb and shouted, "Wait!"

But it was too late, a hole was pushed out of the wall by the bearded man. He was stunned for a while, and then looked into the hole in surprise. As a result, half of the tomb suddenly collapsed, and he was buried firmly underneath. The other three stood back, only to be covered in sand and fell to the ground, dizzy and buzzing in their ears, and suddenly there was a strange noise, and things behind the wall of the tomb poured out.It was none other than dead people, and they were mummy corpses with relatively complete soft tissues. They were piled up so high that there were thousands of them.

The torches in the tomb were extinguished in an instant, followed by a bigger collapse and muffled noise. Xia Mingruo was thrown to the ground and couldn't move. He still felt half of his hairy head, and couldn't help but screamed miserably: "Help—!" Chu Haiyang didn't answer, but the uncle yelled, "Oh my god! There's a knife on the dead man!" Xia Mingruo shouted: "Where are you?" "I can't move anymore!" said the uncle, "the point of the dead man's knife is against my old man's throat!" Chu Haiyang shouted: "Don't move! The roof of the tomb has collapsed! Are you injured? Are you in pain?"

"I'm fine," the uncle asked, "Don't believe me?" Xia Mingruo coughed and said, "I'm fine." "Teacher!" Chu Haiyang shouted even louder, "Teacher! Qian Huzi!" There was no answer in the darkness. "It's bad, the beard is bad," said the uncle, "I was buried in the tomb too, and it had been three days since I dug it out. Although the leopard will come to call me for dinner at six o'clock, someone will rescue me at that time." , but the beard doesn't know how the injury is, and I'm afraid I won't be able to wait."

"Actually, these dead bodies saved us," Chu Haiyang said anxiously, "But the beard was directly buried by the sand. The situation must be bad. We need to contact other team members as soon as possible." Xia Mingruo knew that his body was covered with corpses, but he still tried his best to push back the half head: "Haiyang, I figured out what happened to that wall." Chu Haiyang said: "It's blood. The whole wall has been soaked in blood countless times, that's why the murals are so moldy." Xia Mingruo said, "Yes." "Tsk tsk, the bloody wall," the uncle sighed, "Have the two nephews read the story of the case? Even the dead will cry for injustice. If it collapses today, I'm afraid the dead will call for injustice."

Chu Haiyang said: "My..." "Here! Here! What's so great about the Academy of Sciences? If you can't explain it, you call it superstition," said the uncle. "I also encountered it in my early years. In fact, I can make up my mind—of course I didn't dare after the 'Cultural Revolution'. Don't tell me about it." ——One year, a village invited me, saying that a piece of land that had just been leveled did not grow crops, and what was planted would never yield anything.” He thought: Wonderful! You must know that many ancient tombs do not grow crops. Leaving aside the use of fried soil as the sealing soil, or the infiltration of toxic substances in the tomb into the soil, the rammed earth that fills the tomb is often very hard, and it is difficult for vegetation to grow on it. grow.

But when I went to see it, the soil was crisp and loose, and it was not sealed soil at all. After digging, it turned out to be a real mass grave, with layers of corpses piled up inside. "How do you explain this? It can only be said that there is a lot of resentment, but the grass and trees can know it, alas! ... Beard! Beard!" The uncle asked again, "Huzi, are you dead or alive!" The three of them waited anxiously for another ten minutes, when they suddenly heard the noise of people outside, and the leopard shouted, "Master! Haiyang! Don't believe it! There's also the captain—!"

The uncle looked happy, and shouted back: "Stinky boy! What are you shouting about?! Hurry up and dig!" Chu Haiyang was very surprised: "Could it be already six o'clock?" The uncle said, "Not yet?" "How is that possible!" Chu Haiyang said, "Three minutes before the collapse, I checked my watch, it was 4:20." Only Xia Mingruo laughed. The uncle asked him, "What are you laughing at?" Xia Mingruo said: "We are so stupid, how could we forget the great savior." The uncle said: "There are only four of us here, and we are all under pressure. Who will move the rescuers?"

"Who says it's human?" Xia Mingruo said proudly, "It's obviously our old Huang!" The bearded man was dug out from the pit and became unconscious. Everyone was very anxious. Trauma aside, the half-assed health worker in the team said that his ribs must have been broken, and there might be some accumulation of water in his brain, so frightened people were waiting to hold his big head like gold ingots, for fear that someone would accidentally put it in his hands. Brains shattered. The Xinjiang institute was so quick that it arrived in the middle of the night. I didn't care about anything, so I drove a big truck with a big beard and left.Xia Mingruo and Chu Haiyang also followed, and the journey was full of dust.When we arrived at the Loulan base camp, the team doctor over there also said awkwardly: "I don't see what's wrong with him. I have to send him to Korla as soon as possible. It's too late." So on the road again. When they arrived in Korla, the old doctor beat the beard and said, "It's all right, just this skull can't be beaten to death with a hammer." The Xinjiang Institute emphasized: "He hasn't woken up yet!" "Nonsense!" said the old doctor, "If you hit you with a wooden stick and a brick, won't you faint?" Then I hung up the glucose, and the bearded man really woke up a few hours later. Although he was dizzy, he seemed to be fine, but Korla's medical conditions were limited, and the old doctor suggested returning to Beijing for a re-examination.On the other hand, Xia Mingruo spent more than ten hours blowing the cold wind in the back of the car, and he was so frightened that he couldn't get sick. He lay in the hospital with a high fever and talked nonsense, saying: "I don't want to stay here, I want to go back and dig a tomb. , dig one..." He didn't recover after burning for a week, and several other people also developed diarrhea symptoms. In addition, Qian Dabeard was sober and confused at times, so the organization decided to suspend the scientific expedition and send these people back to Beijing. The Xinjiang Institute contacted a transport team of the Air Force, who laughed when they heard Qian Dabeard's name, and said: "I came back to save him, and this time I will also save him. This kind of - hey! He is still an associate professor. ——Your Academy of Sciences should stop supporting you, otherwise there must be a reinforcement platoon following you." Xinjiang said with a smiling face, "Yes, you are right, I will kill and eat them when I go back." After all, the People's Liberation Army is righteous and sent them on the plane the next day.It’s just that the little soldier who flew the plane saw Lao Huang getting a little emotional, and kept shouting: “Tie it to the toilet! Otherwise, I’ll quit!” Xia Mingruo had a high fever, not a little bit of courage, and even challenged him: "I will kill anyone who dares to tie Lao Huang!" The little soldier stared, lifted his clothes and patted his crotch to expose the gun case, and said, "You have a kind, little boy! I like it! I want to see who kills who today!" Xia Mingruo's eyes were blurred, his face was red and he was panting, and he didn't show weakness in his mouth: "Okay! My buddy likes you too! If you have the guts to go out and practice, it's not easy to do it here!" Chu Haiyang suddenly jumped onto the plane, threw Xia Mingruo down with a sweeping leg, and clasped his fists together, saying, "I'm sorry, comrades of the People's Liberation Army, let's go quickly, we can't delay for a moment!" The little soldier thought it was right, tied up Lao Huang with perseverance, and flew into the blue sky. Xia Xiubai didn't get the news at first, but when he got the news, he had already returned from the hospital after getting the needle.He immediately missed work and went to greet him, crying with tears in his eyes. Xia Mingruo said unsteadily: "Father, why are you crying when everyone is back?" Xia Xiubai wiped away his tears and said, "I'm happy. You are very motherlike when you cry, like a man. A man should go out standing up and come back lying down." As he said that, Wang Guodong ran out of the alley: "Oh! Look at how thin you two are! Come in!" Xia Xiubai asked him, "Where's Yuhuan?" "Mr. Xia, you are auspicious," Wang Guodong shrunk his waist and asked with a flattering smile, "she couldn't walk away from the boiling water on the stove. No, you sent me out to buy vegetables. We will have lunch in the institute for the two children." Get it done." "It should have been like this a long time ago," Xia Xiubai said, "Okay, don't delay, go and buy that..." "Duck neck," Wang Guodong said, "I know you like it." Xia Xiubai patted him on the shoulder with a smile, watched him go away, and then dragged Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo to the police station. The police station is located in a courtyard. From a distance, Yang Yuhuan was seen standing in the middle of the courtyard wearing a uniform and an apron. Xia Mingruo shouted hoarsely, "Mom..." Yang Yuhuan groaned, picked up a broom and rushed over: "Okay! You know how to come back?! I'll beat you to death for being unfilial!" Chu Haiyang jumped and dodged with Xia Mingruo on his back: "Auntie! Auntie, spare me!" "Bah!" Yang Yuhuan shook the broom, her eyes were red, "Yang Hai, your child is also wild, and he is not the same as Mingruo in our family. I said you should go home and have a look, so as not to worry your parents. But remember to come back quickly, we are waiting for you to eat." Chu Haiyang obediently said "Oh", handed Xia Mingruo to her and left with his tail between his legs. Xia Mingruo clung to her softly and said, "Mom, mom." "Bah!" Yang Yuhuan rubbed her eyes and went back to the kitchen, "Get out!" Xia Mingruo held back a smile and clung to his father and said, "Our mother will bully people." Xia Xiubai said, "That's not true." Xia Mingruo turned his eyes and saw Cheng Jingjun sitting under the wall basking in the sun and chopping radishes, muttering words while cutting: "White radish, carrot, green radish, water radish..." Xia Mingruo said, "Ouch!" Cheng Jingjun raised her head, pushed her glasses, and smiled gracefully. Xia Mingruo hugged Lao Huang and sat on a bench with him, with a cold towel on his forehead: "Doctor Niu, why are you here?" Cheng Jingjun said: "I am no longer called a cow doctor, but now I am called an unemployed youth." Xia Mingruo asked: "Aren't you preparing for the university entrance exam?" "Yes," Cheng Jingjun said angrily after cutting one pile of radishes and began to chop another pile, "but Lin Shaohu is not at home, and no one cooks for me, so I can only find Sister Yang. Lin Shaohu The same goes for Hu, who only said that he had a mission, but didn’t say where he was going or when he’d be back.” Xia Mingruo thought to himself, can you say it? After a while Chu Haiyang and Wang Guodong came back and called for dinner. Xia Mingruo said to Cheng Jingjun: "Although you already know each other, I still want to introduce you formally. The person inside is Ms. Yang Yuhuan, the director of the police station, the cook and the cleaner. The person in front of you is our policeman Wang Guodong." Wang Guodong hurriedly saluted and said hello, he realized after a while: "Don't believe you bad boy, Xiao Cheng has been working with us for almost a month." Cheng Jingjun nodded and said, "That's it, that's it, Sister Yang is very skilled." Xia Mingruo said: "It's better to be a revolution. You see, he grew up eating bird's nest, and now he even eats my mother's cooking." Unfortunately, Sister Yang heard it and roared, "What are you talking about?!" Xia Mingruo jumped up and hid behind Chu Haiyang, he was about to fall within a few steps, Xia Xiubai roared: "If you have a fever, go back to the room and lie down." Yang Yuhuan yelled inside again: "Hang Hai, listen to the phone! It's your teacher's!" "Isn't he hospitalized? Why did he call here?" Chu Haiyang took the microphone, listened to it and then threw it away. Xia Mingruo asked: "What?" "Scared me, I thought it was a bear." Chu Haiyang picked up the microphone again, rubbed his ears, and said pleasantly, "Mr. Qian, don't cry, tell me what's wrong?" Qian Huzi wailed and said, "Wooooooooooow! No more! No more!" Chu Haiyang asked, "What's missing?" Qian Huzi was out of breath and said: "Woo! Woo! Miss Loulan! You don't even have a coffin with anyone! Ooooo——I knew I couldn't go, who told you to carry me away? If she leaves, no one will make decisions for her!" Chu Haiyang's eardrums were buzzing, and while covering his hands, he said, "Talk slowly, what's going on?" Qian Huzi cried: "Xinjiang said that as soon as we left, we issued an order to seal up the ancient tomb as it is. Isn't the ancient tomb next to a corpse cave, and we accidentally knocked down a wall , the work team cleaned up the mummies first. This cleaning took five days, and the number of mummies was 333. This number is very strange. I still need to study... Oh, don’t interrupt! There was a small storm on the sixth day, and the work team returned to the camp to wait. After a few hours, I went back and saw that the tomb was empty and nothing was left!" "It's all gone?" Chu Haiyang was also taken aback, but Xia Mingruo calmly said, "I know who took it." The bearded man Qian asked, "Who took it?" Xia Mingruo waved his hands and said, "Then don't look for her, she won't be back." "Nonsense!" Qian Huzi was furious, and he was about to hang up the phone, "That's state property! Just wait! Even if I spend my whole life, Huzi will get it back!" Xia Mingruo shrugged, Lao Huang sighed: "Meow..." "It's gone," Chu Haiyang said, raising his head. "I still want to study why Miss Loulan and the corpse pit are neighbors." "I think it's a coincidence." Xia Mingruo obviously prefers pretty girls. "Probably, don't worry about it, let's eat!" Chu Haiyang smiled helplessly, "If we are destined to meet uncle again, let's ask him face to face. I always think he must know." Xia Mingruo asked: "Can we meet again?" Chu Haiyang looked at the jujube trees in the yard and smiled and said, "Yes, why not?" Just like the merchants, soldiers, monks and envoys walking on the Silk Road, like the young lovers buried together in a tomb, like the serene supporters in the cave, like the Loulan girl in the murals overlooking her hometown , even like the empress of the Pusu tribe who was buried alone in the mountains, like the hero of the Sui Kingdom who was suppressed by cat ghosts... Who says they don't still go on in time? As long as we continue, we can meet each other. Of course, these are too far away. The sun sets and the sun rises, saying goodbye to blood, frenzy and pain, and what follows is the colorful 1980s. Why don't we start again when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming?