Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Cui Hao's eyes lit up at that moment.

Daquan and Ershuan also pricked up their ears.

They were all young men full of vigor and vitality, at the age when they were curious about that kind of thing, and they all wanted to get a taste of the charm from Lao Li.

Jiang Nan spat, turned around and covered his ears.

"If a dog can't spit out ivory, you haven't said anything good."

"Hahaha."

Everyone laughed.

Cui Hao winked and urged, "Brother Li, tell me quickly, how do you achieve such a blissful state?"

"That's not something you can explain with words. You have to experience it yourself to understand it."

"I have nothing better to do, so I'll just tell you a few things so you don't end up making a fool of yourself later."

Old Li jumped off the donkey cart and came over to me with his arm around my shoulder.

Cui Hao and the others were all listening closely behind him.

Jiang Nanle fell behind with a pout, kicking the pebbles on the road.

"Cough cough."

Old Li cleared his throat and said, "In 42, Henan suffered a severe drought. I was eight years old that year. My mother held me in her arms while my father pushed a wheelbarrow as we fled to Shaanxi."

"Follow the Longhai Railway, pass Tongguan and arrive in Xi'an."

"It was so hard to escape back then. We sold our children, wives, and everything else just to have a bite to eat."

"The refugees who first fled to Xi'an settled in Yazikeng, not far from Minleyuan."

In 35, the Longhai Railway was built to Xi'an.

Jiefang Road in front of the train station has become prosperous.

Minleyuan, as the first of the four major markets on Jiefang Road, was mainly composed of teahouses, theaters, restaurants and brothels, and was a den of money at the time.

The refugees thought it would be easier to find a job somewhere close to the crowds, so they settled in Yazikeng, not far from Minleyuan.

As more and more refugees poured in, the Yazikeng area could no longer accommodate them, and the refugees gradually settled north of the railway.

Thus, a huge residential area for foreign population was formed in the north of Dao.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Xi'an Daobei was synonymous with poverty and darkness.

There were once famous criminals such as Guo Zhenping, who was convicted without giving any confession, and Wei Zhenhai, who was called "Xiao Hei", who successfully escaped from prison while handcuffed and shackled.

In the 1980s, I had dealings with these two gangsters.

Zheng Jun, a rock singer born in Daobei, Xi'an, recalled in an interview: "I started facing death at the age of seven. Then there was darkness, being beaten or beating others, violence, pain, sadness..."

This gives us a glimpse into the chaos in the northern part of Xi'an at that time.

Old Li went on to say, “After settling, refugees have to find a way to support their families.”

"Men carry heavy bags and do the physical labor, while women do the half-open-door business."

"A half-open door means a prostitute."

"Not as pretty as the girls in the brothel, but they are more extravagant when they play."

"Back then, when people in Xi'an boasted about their knowledge, they would say they'd seen people getting pedicures, getting barbered, and even being hooked in a duck pit."

"That's what 'aqiu' means, understand?"

Old Li made faces and looked lustful.

We couldn't help but grin and laugh, waiting for him to move on to more exciting things.

"In 51, when I was seventeen, three of my good brothers took me to Yazikeng to broaden my horizons."

"As soon as I entered, the smell of powder overwhelmed me."

"Everywhere I look, there are only women, all with cleavage and cleavage, and their eyes are like hooks that can hook you. I blush when they look at me."

"Those three brothers found some women they knew."

"I played a game called Three Immortals Returning to the Cave, hehehe."

Old Li was drooling as he spoke.

We were a little confused when we heard it.

"Isn't the Three Immortals Returning to the Cave a magic trick? I've seen it at the market." I said seriously.

"Hahaha!"

Old Li laughed so hard that he fell backwards.

"It's different, it's different. The Three Immortals Returning to the Cave is not a magic trick. The Three Immortals Returning to the Cave."

"You'll know when you see it for yourself. It's really exciting. I was so amazed when I saw it."

"They finished playing and made me wash the pot."

"That taste, tsk tsk."

Cui Hao said somewhat dissatisfiedly: "What do you mean by washing a pot?"

"We don't understand the jargon you're talking about, can't you just speak more directly?"

"It's hard to be frank."

"Even if I teach you how to yell 'hmm, ahh, ouch', you won't be able to appreciate the beauty of it."

Old Li shook his head and continued, "In 52, they were all reformed."

"It's time to study, study; it's time to get treatment, get treatment; then everyone can go back to their hometowns and start production."

"But sometimes life is hard, especially when there's no man to rely on at home and you're doing this kind of thing behind the scenes."

"I don't want money, I just want to eat. Just give me something to eat."

"My current lover is..."

I scratched my head and said, "I thought you were a sentimental person."

"I didn't get married because I lost my love, but I didn't expect that I would find someone else out there."

Old Li's face flushed red.

He stiffened his neck and argued, "That's different."

"As a man, you have to solve any problem."

"We each get what we need, it has nothing to do with feelings."

"You little brats don't understand, so I won't tell you."

Old Li waved his hand and said, "Daquan, you drive the cart. Ershuan, Haozi, you two and that girl, get in the cart."

This means you want to talk to me alone.

They immediately did as they were told and got on the donkey cart to go back to town first.

Lao Li hugged me and said with a smile: "You are really amazing."

"Brother Li, what do you mean?"

"You're still pretending to be me. You didn't buy that girl just to warm your bed, did you? I guess you want her to lead the way to Guard Jiang's tomb."

I have to say that Lao Li is quite smart.

I had this idea when I said I would help her ruin the feng shui of the Jiang family's ancestral tomb.

But I can't admit it just because of his words.

"You're joking. I just helped her out of pity."

"Besides, the Jiang family's grave is not difficult to find. I guess you must have taken a detour to see it when you went to Zhitun Village."

The location of the old grave can be found out from the people in the neighboring villages.

With Old Li's cleverness, he should have gotten the information out of Song Weiguo long ago.

He set out so early, most likely to take a detour to the old grave.

Old Li laughed dryly and said, "How come you are so smart?"

"I did go, but the Jiang family's graves are not very old, and the graves are not very big."

"For Guard Jiang's tomb to have stone statues, there must be a sacred path, and the burial mound must be quite large."

"But I looked around twice and couldn't find any graves that met the criteria."

"I guess the Jiang family must have done something wrong."

"Either level Guard Jiang's grave or reduce it to the size of an ordinary grave."

"So without someone who knows the situation to guide us, it would be difficult to find Guard Jiang's tomb."

"Why don't you ask that girl? Her last name is Jiang too. She might have heard something from the adults at home."

Old Li brought the subject back to the subject.

Let's set our sights on Jiang Nanle.

"If we can't find Guard Jiang's tomb, we won't be able to fulfill our agreement, and I won't be able to show you the Secret Burial Scripture of the Han Dynasty's Original Mausoleum."

"Brother Li, don't you know Feng Shui? Can't you use it to find Guard Jiang's tomb?"

I said it casually.

Old Li's face darkened: "Look at the Han Tomb, I'm still right."

"The feng shui of Ming and Qing tombs is all calculated using a compass, so the view is different from that of Han tombs."

"Let me put it this way. Before the Tang Dynasty, Feng Shui was mainly based on pictograms."

"Even when Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang selected a Feng Shui site for Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, they also focused on the land veins and pictograms."

"Since the invention of the compass by Yang Yunsong, the imperial tutor during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, the concept of burial feng shui has undergone tremendous changes, becoming more nuanced and varied."

"The old pictographic method of examining Ming and Qing tombs is unlikely to work. We must use the feng shui method of the Ming and Qing dynasties to accurately examine them."