novelsite Chapter 189
Chapter 189
Last night I spent a whole night of caving. I slept until the afternoon. After waking up, I washed my face and called Xiaomi to my room.
"Hold it for me." I handed the flashlight to Xiaomi.
The flashlight is used during the day because the curtains are drawn, and the incandescent lights in the hotel are only ten degrees Celsius, which is not bright enough.
Pour the red soil in the instant noodle bag on the table, and I slowly spread the soil.
Xiaomi turned on the flashlight to help me illuminate, and she said curiously: "It's so strange, Brother Feng, how come this soil has two colors."
"what?"
"What is this..."
With the light of the flashlight, I used tweezers to pick out a red lump from the soil, which was not soil.
I put it in my hand and looked at it closely. After studying it for a long time, I couldn't see what it was. It was only a quarter of the size of a fingernail.
"This... is that thing, Brother Feng?"
"What? You see it?"
Xiaomi said uncertainly: "I used to learn how to repair things from my grandfather, and I have seen similar fragments. This...it seems to be silk that has not been fully oxidized."
"what?"
I stood up from the chair in shock.
"Silk from the Tang Dynasty!"
"Just kidding!"
How difficult is it to preserve silk in the Tang Dynasty!
The cultural relics protection team spent a lot of money to preserve the batch of silk unearthed from Famen Temple, and it took 15 years!
When Xiaomi said this casually, the more I looked at it, the more it looked like silk.
There was silk in the soil, which scared me, because it definitely did not conform to the common sense of burials.
Referring to Mawangdui, if there are a lot of silk fabrics in the tomb, 100% of them are in the coffin of the owner of the tomb, and must have wrapped the body of the owner of the tomb layer by layer. Xin Zhui was wrapped in sixteen layers of silk at that time.
Why did the silk run out of the coffin?
And there are a lot of them, which have already attached to the surroundings of the tomb and merged with the rammed earth, turning half red and half yellow.
I scratched my head so hard that my scalp was almost scratched, and I really couldn't figure out what the reason was.
I couldn't solve it, so I called and asked.
After listening to Tou, he also found it strange that a large amount of silk fabrics were oxidized in the layer of rammed earth. Tou said how there was such a tomb, but he had never seen it.
"Yunfeng, are you listening?"
"I'm listening, tell me."
After thinking for a while on the phone, he said: "Although we are in this business, we can't know everything. That's unrealistic. Xi'an, as the distribution center of underground cultural relics in the north, has no shortage of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon people."
"I know a person, but I haven't dealt with him very much. Go find him and ask him, and try to clarify this matter."
"Who are you looking for?"
The head said: "Everyone in the industry calls him Lord Wu. When he was young, he was the backbone of the Changsha Gang in Hunan. He also served as a leader of the Northern faction. He has a wide range of knowledge and can handle everything from the north to the south."
"Then where is this Mr. Wu now?"
"It should be in Xi'an. I'm not sure. I only know that his household registration is in Xi'an. There has been no news about this person in the past few years. Although there are rumors that he died of illness, I don't believe it."
"This time you are leading the team. If you encounter problems, try to solve them yourself."
"Well, I figured it out, you pay attention to rest, I hung up."
"Xiaomi, go get me something to eat, I'm hungry."
"What are you eating Brother Feng, the dumplings we ate at noon kept you awake."
"The dumplings you eat? What kind of stuffing."
Xiaomi said it’s stuffed with leeks and noodles, but the ones I made don’t look good.
"It's okay, go and make me a whole pot, as long as you can eat it, it looks good but it's useless."
"Oh." Xiaomi wiped his hands and went to work in the kitchen.
"Old Pi, it's me, Xiang Yunfeng."
"Hey, what's the matter, do you still want to buy something from me?"
"Hurry up and get there. I paid [-] yuan for your part. I asked you about someone. There is a man named Wu Ye in Xi'an. He was a member of the Changsha Gang when he was young."
"Master Wu..."
"Master Wu..."
Lao Pi repeated it twice on the phone.
"Remember, this person has been inactive for several years. His name is Wu Xilin, and he is indeed from Xi'an. Why are you looking for this person?"
I said that I encountered a little problem, and I wanted to find a master to solve it.
"What's the problem? I can't understand antiques or something, let me listen to you, maybe I will know."
I immediately said the question that I couldn't figure out.
Lao Pi was silent for a long time, and said discouragedly: "I've never heard of this kind of thing, I can't help you, I'll ask a few friends for you, see if anyone knows where the surname Wu lives, wait for my call back. "
"Okay, sorry, I'll wait for your call."
"Here comes Brother Feng!"
"Eat it while it's hot!"
Millet was full of flour, and brought me a pot full of flour on the table.
"What... what is this?"
"Leek dumplings." Xiaomi said.
"Why are your dumplings so big? No matter how you eat them, one pot will be full of three."
Xiaomi said with some embarrassment: "The noodles are too soft, I couldn't cover my mouth, so I wrapped it a little bigger."
I waved my hand helplessly, and said, Xiaomi, go and do your work, I will eat your dumplings as buns.
It's really a giant dumpling, the size of a man's fist.
In fact, it tastes good. I was eating it when Lao Pi called back.
"I have news. Xiang Batou is really hard to find. If I don't know so many friends, I can't find him. This person is now in a nursing home in Xianyang. I will confirm the specific address later and send it to you."
I put the phone on the table, held the dumplings in both hands, blew on the hot air and said, "Thank you, I invite Lao Pi to eat when I have time, hang up."
After a while, I received a text message from Lao Pi.
"Laogan Center, Tongwen Road, Qindu District, Xianyang City."
After reading it twice silently, I wrote down the address and got up to put on my shoes. I just woke up and I was still wearing slippers.
"Are you still going out, Brother Feng?" Xiaomi asked.
I nodded: "Come back tonight if you can. If you can't, come back tomorrow morning at the latest. Tell Bean Sprout and Brother Yu not to go out and wait for me at home."
Xi'an is relatively close to Xianyang. In order to find this person surnamed Wu as soon as possible, I took a taxi directly from Xi'an alone. The address I told the driver was Gingko Nursing Home.
It is now 2021. The owner of the Gingko Nursing Home is Cui. He was arrested for allegedly illegal fund-raising fraud. The Ginkgo Nursing Home has lost its brand name and has become Xianyang Guilin Hospital. It was newly opened not long ago, and the conditions are very good. All said yes.
I named the large tomb of the sulfuric acid factory "The Tomb of Silk."
Because the rammed earth is full of oxidized yellow-red silk pigments.
If I don't figure out the reason, I don't dare to take people down rashly, so I can only ask the experts in the industry to ask what's going on.
With a pack of rammed earth, I took a taxi downstairs from the hotel in the afternoon and arrived in Xianyang probably as soon as it got dark.
The driver is also a scumbag, he doesn't know if he doesn't know, he insists on saying that he knows where the Gingko Nursing Home is, but he takes me for an extra hour and turns around several times.
At that time, the scale of the Gingko Nursing Home was not as large as it is now. It was a small two-story building and a small courtyard. The outside walls of the building were painted in yellow.
In winter, it gets dark after 6 o'clock. At that time, there are a few old men playing chess at the gate of the nursing home, and they are almost blind and don't leave.
"Master! Master!"
The old man who played chess said that you scared me, but I am not deaf.
"Uncle asked you, if Wu Xilin lives with us."
"Pawn! You idiot! If you beat the pawn, you win!"
"Get out! I won't give in!"
"Ah, you said Wu Xilin, he just had dinner, he should have gone for a walk in the park, he is holding a cat, you can see it when you go to the park."
"Thank you, uncle, you guys continue to play, I won't bother you anymore."
There is a small park on the west side of the Gingko Nursing Home. The area is small. Square dancing was just popular at that time. Many old men and women danced in the park. There were many people before 10 o'clock.
"Hold a cat... hold a cat..."
I looked around to see which old man had a cat in his arms.
"Come, come!"
"Take a look, take a look, you can't see the loss, you can't see being fooled."
I was attracted by the sound of selling, and seeing the old men and women going there, I followed.
It was a few middle-aged people who sold medicine. They set up tables and connected batteries and light bulbs for lighting. They sold "Bone Strengthening Powder", which was very popular at the time. The extra yuan is specially designed to deceive the elderly. In fact, some other things have been added to the flour, and the cost is only a few cents.
It is also sold now, but it is made into capsules with high-end and gorgeous packaging boxes, and it is no longer sold in the park. It has been changed to a lecture format, and the old people are lured here with free eggs and other booing.
"Everyone, have you seen this person two days ago? He suffered from bone cancer at a young age. His bones are so brittle that they break when touched."
The old people onlookers talked a lot, and some people said: "Yes, I have seen this person. He has been sitting in a wheelchair for the past two days and cannot move."
"I've seen this guy in a wheelchair too."
I didn't see anyone in a wheelchair, but I saw a man lying on the stone table in the park. I couldn't see his face because of the angle, so he just lay motionless on the table.
"That's right!"
The middle-aged man in the lead looked at the surrounding old people and said: "What you saw is true. This man ate our Xiong family's secret bone strengthening powder two days ago, and now his body is as strong as a calf. If you don't believe me, look at it!"
"Yo! What is this for!"
"I don't dare to watch it, but don't kill yourself!"
I saw two men lift up a large stone slab with great effort, and pressed it on the chest of the lying man. The stone slab was very thick, at least 5 centimeters thick by my visual inspection.
"Look, everyone."
As he was speaking, the man picked up a big hammer. In order to show that it was a real stone, the man deliberately hit it twice with the head of the hammer, making a rattling sound.
In the terrified eyes of everyone, the man shouted loudly, raised the big hammer high, and jumped up to a height of half a meter, with a bang!Smash the big stone slab to pieces!
After waiting for dozens of seconds, the lying man slowly sat up, and he patted the dust on his chest, as if nothing happened.
The crowd immediately chattered, and some old people had already started to buy bone strengthening powder.
The lying man finished the performance of crushing the boulder on his chest, and then punctured a box of yogurt on his own, and began to drink yogurt with a straw in his mouth.
I shook my head, rubbed my face, and rubbed my eyes vigorously.
I am really blind.
It's that person.