Chapter 27 Chapter Twenty-Six

"Uncle, what should we do?" Shu Shan looked at Huo Zihao in despair and said. "It seems that we can only surrender." Huo Zihao said with a long sigh. "Surrender? I will never surrender." Master Dou said.After finishing speaking, Lord Dou was about to imitate a cannon and rushed out with a gun in his hand. Fortunately, his fourth uncle and Tang Yong stopped him in time. Unexpectedly, at this moment, I felt a sharp knife on my lower back.I looked back, and it turned out that the village chief had slipped behind me at some point. He smiled and said, "I'm going to strive for meritorious service from now on. If I can reduce two years, I will reduce sitting for two years. Brother Yishui, I I can only use you to make meritorious service." After speaking, he snatched the gun from my hand and threw it under the cliff.

I saw the village chief repeating this, and the anger in his chest shot up.When I saw the police surrounding me just now, I thought the village chief would definitely stand on the same front as me to deal with the police, so I let him go. Who knew he actually put a knife on my back, hoping to take credit for the police.The village head looks very safe, but in fact he may betray himself at any time. Seeing the village chief like this, everyone gritted their teeth angrily, and warned the village chief not to act recklessly.But the village head seemed determined to rebel. He took me out of the rocky area, exposing my whole body to the firepower of the police, while he kept hiding behind me, fearing that the police bullets would go off and injure me. to myself.

Seeing that I was about to be escorted into the prison van, I deliberately slipped forward and got out of the control of the village chief.The village chief wanted to pounce on him, but I kicked him to the ground.The village chief wanted to stand up, but was shot by Master Dou behind him.However, the gun didn't hit the village chief's vitals, it just passed through the village chief's palm and hit a special policeman.The special police didn't see who fired the gun, they thought it was the village chief, and immediately the bullets rained down on the village chief. I have been lying on the grass behind the village chief, and the blood gurgling from the village chief's body splashed all over my body, making me seem to be seriously injured.When everyone saw such a scene, they all trembled, thinking that they would be the next one.And because I saw this scene in person, I felt the power of the bullet even more, and the panic in my heart quickly increased in an instant, as if the bullet didn't hit the village chief, but myself.

"The rest of the bandits don't hold back any more. Please put down your weapons immediately. I'll give you 3 minutes to leave the pile of rocks, otherwise we will attack." The horn continued to blaring, but I felt like I was going to die.I lifted the village head's corpse, stood up tremblingly, and walked towards the rocky area. "Pay attention to the gangsters in front, please don't go back anymore, raise your hands, and come towards us! Go back further, and we will shoot." Due to the fright, I was already a little delirious at the time, and the scene of the village chief's screams always appeared in my eyes, so I didn't hear the content of the loudspeaker.When I stood up, I started to run towards the boulders, because I knew that all my partners were there, and only there would bring me a sense of security.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" I heard gunshots behind me. Most of the bullets hit the rocks under my feet, and some of them hit my legs. This shows that these policemen didn't really want to kill me.But I was really panicking, panic like never before, and when the bullet hit my calf, I couldn't stand still.As my center of gravity tilted, I slipped and fell, and actually slid off the cliff. The moment I slid out, I heard everyone screaming, including Fourth Uncle, Lord Dou, and Shu Shan. The moment I fell, I thought that I had bid farewell to the whole world. I felt that the whole person no longer belonged to me, as if I had returned to nature.

But there was a river under the cliff, and I fell into the river. It was early morning and the river was freezing cold, and I felt dizzy.Although I knew I was still alive, I didn't know how long I could last. In addition, my body was seriously injured and I couldn't swim anymore. I could only use my arms to slide slowly, trying to keep myself from sinking. The blood stained the river, and I kept telling myself that I couldn't die here. If I couldn't swim to the other side, I would sink to the bottom. I resisted the great pain caused by the river soaking the wound, and kept swimming to the opposite bank.Although the river is not wide, but for a dying person like me, it is really far away.The more I swam, the more I felt physically weak. When I felt that I could step on the mud, I no longer had any strength. Not long after, I passed out on the beach by the river.

What do people remember before they die?Few people have this opportunity to think, but I have.Lying on the beach, I was in a daze. I didn't know if it was a dream or a hallucination. I just felt that I had returned home, back to the small river in the past.By the small river in front of the village, I was fishing leisurely.At this time, Liu Ge, my girlfriend from college, came and said she wanted to go to see Juzizhou with me.At this time, Hu Songshan, who I met in the Boren Hanging Coffin, suddenly appeared. She put a knife on her neck and asked me to go with her, otherwise she would commit suicide.When Liu Ge saw this, he also took a knife and put it on his neck. I was so anxious that I jumped into a river by myself, thinking, I'm dead, I don't need to think about anything, and I don't need to take it to heart.

When I woke up, I didn't know when it was, I only felt a pain in my thigh.I looked up and saw that I was in a Taoist temple, lying on a bed with bandages on my legs, and there was blood stains just wiped beside the bed.Apparently, the bullet in the leg has been removed.I tried to get up to see where I was, only to find that my back was also splinted.Seeing me waking up, a little Taoist priest ran over and said, "Master, Master, this man is awake." At this time, I saw a white-haired old man approaching. He had short hair, a white beard on his chin, and was wearing an old Taoist robe. He looked familiar.If it was in the past, I would definitely find it funny when I saw this outfit, but at this moment, I am in a Taoist temple, with a new wound on my leg, and I just escaped from death, so I actually have a good impression of the white-haired old man in front of me.Seeing that I was about to sit up, he immediately said: "Young man, lie down quickly, lie down quickly!"

I wanted to speak, but I couldn't speak. It was only after he let me lie down that I realized that this person was the old Taoist priest I saw when I entered the Tianshi Mansion when I came to Longhu Mountain.At this time, I felt a sense of relief in my heart, and my enthusiasm for tomb robbery suddenly disappeared.I lay flat on the plank bed quietly, thinking to myself that I could finally rest with peace of mind. I stayed in this bed for almost 10 days before getting out of bed.Yes, I was too tired. On the night of the accident, I suffered a lot of injuries. I was exhausted all night, jumping up and down, running here and there, and I couldn't hold it anymore.

However, unlike the previous accidents, I slept very well these few days, and I didn’t dream about those messy things. I don’t know if it’s because of the environment. During this period, I realized that this place is Zhengyiguan, which is not far from Tianshi Mansion.The little Taoist told me to let me rest well and not worry. In the few days after I got out of bed, I went up and down the mountain with this old Taoist priest every day.The old Taoist said that the leg injury can only be recovered through activities, otherwise even if it is healed, it is still a lame person.I was very shocked when I heard this Taoist priest's words. I remember that the doctors in the past always said to rest in such a situation to prevent the muscles from being strained again and it is difficult to heal.But this old Taoist was contrary to what the doctor said. For a while, I couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong.However, through those few days of climbing, the body really recovered a lot.The old man said that what he gave me were herbs picked from the mountains, which are specially used to treat trauma and muscle damage. As long as I exercise more, I can recover soon.

I asked the old Taoist priest how long he would live this year, and he said ninety to three, and I asked him how he lived to such a great age, and if he had any secrets.The old man laughed out loud when he heard my question.He said that the secret is that he knows how to adapt to the times and have no desires or desires.Then he led me to a place on a cliff, and said: "Look at the scenery of the mountains and rivers. If you look up at the mountains, they are like the sky. Look at the rivers and rivers, go east to the sea, and start again and again. Everything in this world, Everyone has their own way. The so-called way of heaven is nature, and what is natural is called infinite. For post-life people, if you want to live forever, you should let nature take its course and don’t force it.” I heard that there was a hidden meaning in his words, as if there was something in the words, and said: "What does the Taoist mean?" The old man said: "Why did you get hurt? Naturally, you took something that was not your own. I told you long ago that tomb robbers are detrimental to people's morals. The young people's brows are too dark because they go in and out of ancient tombs too often. So don't take what is not your own, don't take what is dead." Hearing what the old Taoist said, I was so ashamed that I wanted to get into the cracks in the ground. Seeing that I bowed my head and said nothing, the old man said, "Young student, do you know my name?" I shook my head and thought to myself: You are so old, how could I know your name?We don't have any relatives who become monks due to overthinking.Unexpectedly, the old Taoist said: "My layman's name is Liu Xuan, you must have heard of it." Hearing what he said, I suddenly felt like thunder was spinning above my head. I never thought that Liu Xuan, whom we were looking for so hard, was still alive.Liu Xuan said: "I know that you will find this place sooner or later, because there is a secret waiting for me and everyone to uncover. But I am old, I have no strength, and I have no intention of fighting openly and secretly. I just want to Take care of your life." After finishing speaking, he took out a piece of ancient jade and a golden token from his trouser pocket, handed them to me, and said: "This is something from my ancestors. I have no descendants, so I can only give it to you. Don't you Like a bad person, but you also remember, no matter what you get from this piece of jade, don’t take it for yourself, you can’t protect it, remember to give it to the country, it’s the country’s property.” I didn't expect Liu Xuan to say such words to me. It seems that Liu Xuan is really a weird person.But seeing his sincere eyes again, I nodded in agreement.But think about it, what Liu Xuan said is not unreasonable, how shameful it is for us to steal other people's things and show off our own abilities.However, if we steal these parallel imports, we can only sell them overseas, and what we get is only a small amount of money, but what we lose is the property of the country.Thinking of this, I realized that sometimes the meaning of life is not what you get, but what you can do.It was only when Liu Xuan realized this upper level that he stopped robbing tombs and practiced Tao seriously. Immediately I asked, "How do you know that I am a descendant of a spy?" Liu Xuan smiled wryly, "It's very simple." After finishing speaking, he took out my personal dagger, the Xingxiu Knife, and continued: "The origin of this knife is not simple. The Xingxiu Knife, the personal dagger of the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, was personally supervised by the Ministry of War. It is seven inches long and one inch wide. 1. The blade is made of pig iron tempered seven times, and the handle is made of pure gold. It is engraved with the words "The Treasury of the Ministry of War, bestowed by the Qing Emperor". Later, Empress Dowager Cixi bestowed it on Li Chengfeng, a secret agent of the mouse generation. , to reward her for her contribution to the Empress Dowager." After finishing speaking, he looked at me and said: "Actually, I knew you were there when you broke into the tomb of King Yue more than ten days ago. But I'm old and I can't stop you. You fell off the cliff that day. I saved you. Later, the police also came to the river to look for your body, but they couldn’t find it, so they went back.” After speaking, he returned the dagger to me. Only then did I understand why Liu Xuan knew my identity. Originally, I wanted to ask some more questions, but Liu Xuan had already gone down the mountain. After recovering from my injury, I left Zhengyiguan.After I got home, I found that the house was crowded with policemen every day, which made me afraid to go home and kept floating outside. I found out later that when I fell into the cliff, Fourth Uncle and others all surrendered.After half a month of investigation and evidence collection, the case was quickly finalized, and everyone was convicted of stealing cultural relics. After this incident happened, it had a great impact on me.First of all, the fourth uncle, Dou Ye and others were all imprisoned. The fourth uncle, Wu Zheng, Jiang Qiankun, and Huo Zihao were all sentenced to 13 years in prison; Dou Ye was sentenced to life imprisonment because he was a repeat offender; He was also removed from his post and sentenced to 5 years in prison; Huo Gang was sentenced to 5 years in prison; the fourth aunt was sentenced to 1 year in prison with a suspended execution because he had not entered the ancient tomb; Entering the ancient tomb, they were also given a suspended sentence of execution; Yan Yuwei and Shu Shan were also given a suspended sentence because they were women, and under Chen Daohe's protection, they were also sentenced to a suspended execution; , it was a villager who fell into the river and saved me from prison. For such a major tomb robbery case that shocked the whole country, the verdict and the court announcement read: the first offenders Wang Huacheng (nicknamed the village head) and Huang Dalong (nicknamed Dapao) were shot dead on the spot. After the case was settled, I didn't dare to go out for a long time.I didn't dare to go out on the street until half a year later, when I was sure that the police would not arrest me.However, when I came back from Longhu Mountain, I had a lot of large spots on my face. These spots are probably the sequelae left by those moth bites, which made me walk with my head down every time I went to the street. I also did not go to school for half a year due to avoiding the police.When I went to school, the school leaders actually advised me to drop out, saying that I should have been expelled, but it was because of Tang Yong's face.I don't want to do too much.I said that I did not commit a crime. This has already been concluded.But the school's leaders said that even if there is no crime, without asking for leave, and not going to class for half a year, it is fully eligible for expulsion. It seems that all this is just the beginning of trouble, because my dropout directly led to the breakup between Liu Ge and me.It seems that there is no need to find a reason. Now that I have been expelled and my face has spots again, I no longer have any conditions to continue to get along with her.Although Liu Ge has repeatedly stated that he doesn't mind, I know that this kind of not minding is just lip service.Sure enough, Liu Ge never called me again in the few months after I packed my bed and returned home. When I called her dormitory again, her dormitory number changed unexpectedly. Let's talk about Qiu Han, after this incident, Qiu Han was also very unhappy. His parents entrusted a lot of connections to allow Qiu Han to successfully register and go to the university.But because of his criminal record, he had few friends in school, and he was lonely for several years without joining any campus clubs. After Yan Yuwei returned to her master Chen Daohe, she did not take any further actions, while Shu Shan was able to continue her university studies because of Chen Daohe's relationship.Like Qiu Han, she was admitted to the university in one year. Although Shu Shan is not Chen Daohe's direct disciple, Chen Daohe likes Shu Shan very much, so he searched all kinds of connections before letting Shu Shan, a prisoner, study. University. In this way, I am the most miserable, and now I dare not mention my current situation when I call Hu Songshan.If she knew about my tragedy, would she still answer me, Li Mazi? Life is such a drama, it makes me resent Tomb Raider more and more.Because of tomb robbery, I lost a lot.Especially in the year when my fourth uncle was arrested, my grandma committed another chronic illness and died, which made me lose another relative. After dropping out of school, I stayed at home for another half a year.During this period, Hu Songshan came to the mainland once. When she saw my face, she broke down in tears and said that she should not leave the mainland.When she learned that Liu Ge and I had died without any illness, a happy smile appeared on her face, and she said that she would come to see me often. Those days were the happiest days after I dropped out of school. When I had nothing, what else could I ask for?There is a person who loves oneself, this is the happiest.But even such happiness is very short-lived.When Hu Songshan took a taxi after getting off the plane, the taxi fell into a ditch due to the slippery road, and the driver died on the spot. After Hu Songshan was sent to the hospital, he died due to ineffective rescue. When Hu Songshan died, I was by her side.I saw tears all over her deformed face, and I couldn't cry.She said, in fact, we were supposed to be together, and we shouldn't have robbed graves, but a combination of circumstances led to such a result, and she asked me to promise her that I would never do anything harmful to people's morality again in this life. After sending Hu Songshan away, I learned to drink and smoke, and I always felt that there is nothing worse in life than this.My father and mother shook their heads when they saw me like this. Sometimes my father scolded me, but every time he scolded me, I always handed him a cigarette with a mouth full of alcohol to calm him down. Another year passed like this.One day, my dad said he would take me to see my fourth uncle. I didn't know what was wrong at the time, but I was shocked, threw away the wine bottle, changed into new clothes, and went with my dad.The police officers in the prison are very nice. We said we would interview several people at one time, but they brought them all.Looking at Fourth Uncle, Wu Zheng, Jiang Qiankun, and Master Dou in prison uniforms, tears welled up in my eyes, and I was speechless. On the contrary, fourth uncle was more relaxed. He picked up the phone with a smile and said that he did a good job here, ate well, slept well, and the prisoners gave him massage every day.I asked him: "Why do people give you a massage?" He said it was not for nothing, and he wanted to tell him a story after the massage.I sighed and said, gold shines everywhere, this sentence is absolutely true. When I got out of the prison, my mood became much better, because I saw that the days of the fourth uncle and the others were not particularly sad.Wu Zheng said that life is everywhere, and people who know how to live are happy everywhere. Wu Zheng's words are very reasonable. People who don't know how to live, even if their wealth is tens of millions, it's not just fighting for it. Shushan also came to see me during the holidays. At that time, I was fishing at home.At that time, I was humming a song, but she threw a stone far away and threw it under my float.We talked a lot, and I wondered why she was also bitten by moths, and she didn't have spots, while I was gloomy and gloomy.She comforted me and said that people always have troubles, and it will be fine when they pass. Since I went to see my fourth uncle that time, I have been going to see them often.Although I have to go to Jiangxi from my hometown, I still feel close to them.And I am also very grateful to them, if not for their help, I would have to go in and stay for seven or eight years. After returning from Longhu Mountain, I vowed never to rob tombs again, and because my uncle and others were imprisoned, no one would come to me to rob tombs again.Tang Yong and Huo Gang did not contact me after they were released from prison. The past was like a gust of wind, and it became a passing cloud, and this past event also became an important experience that affected my life. However, regarding the Twelve Secret Agents, there is still a faction that has not been found, and according to what Tang Yong said, there is still no news of the contacts of the Twelve Secret Agents.