Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

"Retribution, you finally got your retribution!"

"Hahaha!"

Jiang Nanle pointed at Uncle Jiang, who was hanging on the door frame with his eyes open, and laughed so hard that he fell backwards.

Her laughter made the Jiang family members look extremely ugly.

I thought to myself that this was not good.

This girl is going crazy when her temper gets out!

The dispersing crowd heard the laughter and stopped, turning back to watch the fun.

"Hey! Isn't this the girl from Jiang Laoqi's family?"

"That girl, I heard she was sold to a fool as his wife. Did she sneak back?"

"The Jiang family boss died in such a strange way, was it this girl who did it?"

"No way, a little girl wouldn't be that capable."

Amidst the discussion among the crowd, seven or eight young men from the Jiang family rushed over to catch Jiang Nan.

"Ah! This damn girl bites!"

"I was bitten too!"

"What a mad dog! Take off your shoes and stuff them in her mouth!"

In those days, everyone in the village wore homemade cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles.

Someone actually took off his shoes, pinched Jiang Nan's cheeks and stuffed the shoes into her mouth.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Old Li whispered, "This girl is asking for trouble. Brother Chen, let's leave quickly."

"Leave? Where do you think you can go?"

"If Jiang Nan were to say a word or two..."

Old Li's face turned dark in an instant.

Jiang Nanle knew very well that we dug up the tomb of Guard Jiang.

If he couldn't bear the Jiang family's questioning and told the truth, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Then we have to run away. Let's go back to Xi'an. They won't be able to find us even if they want to!"

"Daquan Ershuan, hurry back and pack up your things and go back to Daobei!"

I held Lao Li down and whispered, "If the Jiang family reports the crime, it won't be safe for you to return to Daobei."

"Report, report the case?"

"I've robbed many tombs, but I've never heard of anyone reporting it to the police."

Before the early 1980s, people generally lacked awareness of cultural heritage protection.

Even if a tomb is discovered to have been robbed, few people report it.

With the rampant tomb robbing and the government's emphasis on cultural heritage protection, tomb robbing activities began to be cracked down in the late 1980s.

In the 1990s, several special operations were carried out against tomb robbers.

Many of the old tomb-robbing gangs that emerged in the 1980s were defeated at that time.

After a few years of silence until 2,000 years later, newly emerged tomb-robbing gangs emerged again.

Tomb-robbing groups such as the Song family in Luoyang and the Hou family in Wenxi, Shanxi, appeared one after another, but were later ruthlessly attacked by the same people.

So the first few years after we entered the industry were a small vacuum period.

That's why Mr. Li thought that the Jiang family would not report the case.

"We are disturbing the Jiang family's ancestral tomb."

"If your ancestral grave was dug up, would you let it go?"

My light words left Old Li stunned for a long while.

"That's definitely not going to let it go. What you said does make sense. So what should we do?"

I haven't figured out what to do.

It won’t work if you force it, you have to wait for the opportunity.

"Let's see the situation first."

At this time, Jiang Nanle was taken to Jiang Erbo with his arm twisted.

Uncle Jiang stared at her with a sinister look in his eyes and said slowly, "Open the family temple!"

The three words "open a family temple" made everyone who was watching gasp.

"hiss!"

"The Jiang Family Temple hasn't been open for ten years, right?"

"It's been almost ten years. I thought I would never see the Jiang Family Temple open in my lifetime, but I didn't expect Jiang Lao Er to actually dare to open it."

"The Jiang Family Temple used to have three courtyards and was very grand. Ten years ago, it was demolished and only one courtyard remains. It doesn't even open the door for ancestor worship during the Spring Festival."

"If you ask me, Boss Jiang's death was so strange, maybe the Jiang family's ancestors were angry because they couldn't get incense and were punishing them."

Jiang Family Temple is the ancestral temple of the Jiang family.

The temple does not enshrine gods or Buddhas, but the ancestors of the Jiang family.

It is said that after Guard Jiang died, the Jiang family built a family temple and made a clay statue of him to worship.

This kind of ancestral temple dedicated to one's ancestors was quite popular among large families in the past.

Some large families built ancestral halls.

The spirit tablets of ancestors are enshrined in the ancestral hall.

When the young people of the Jiang family heard about the opening of the family temple, they all showed curiosity on their faces.

After all, they are young and their impression of the ancestral temple has long faded.

But the older members of the Jiang family were very solemn.

The two elders from the Jiang family shouted and directed the young people to line up.

After the team was lined up, Uncle Jiang walked in front with square steps.

Two strong young men followed closely behind, twisting Jiang Nanle's arms, and behind them was a long line of young people from the Jiang family.

The crowd also followed the team and walked towards the Jiang Family Temple at the end of the village.

Arriving at the gate of an inconspicuous courtyard at the end of the village, Uncle Jiang took out his key and went forward to open the door.

crunch.

The gate of the courtyard was opened, revealing the brick and tile houses in the yard.

At that time, the villagers lived in mud houses.

If anyone in the village has a brick and tile house, it is definitely a mansion.

It was not until the mid-to-late 1980s that a few villagers who had become rich first began to build brick and tile houses.

"The Jiang Family Temple is quite magnificent, with flying eaves, brackets, and carved wall tiles. It cost a lot of money to build it back then." There was a sly gleam in Old Li's eyes.

Someone nearby chimed in, "It used to be even more magnificent. The Jiang family was afraid of getting into trouble, so they demolished the three-story ancestral temple, leaving only one."

"I've kept the door locked these years, and I don't even dare to go out to burn incense and worship during the New Year."

"The statue of Guard Jiang inside is even more impressive. It's said that the gilding on his clothes is made of real gold!"

Many people who came to watch the fun rushed into the Jiang Family Temple, but were stopped at the door by the young people of the Jiang Family.

I squeezed over, found a spot in the corner of the door, and looked into the Jiang Family Temple.

The two wooden doors of Jiang Family Temple were opened.

You can clearly see the clay sculpture of Guard Jiang enshrined in the temple.

Because no one had come to clean the temple for a long time, the temple was covered with dust. The clay sculpture of Guard Jiang was covered with dust and spider webs, so it didn't look very gorgeous.

However, the shape of the clay sculpture is very peculiar.

Guard Jiang is sitting upright with a white snake coiled at his feet, with its head raised and its tongue pointed towards the sky.

When I saw the clay sculpture of the white snake, I couldn’t help but think of the white snake that was killed in Guard Jiang’s tomb!

Could that white snake be the same white snake in the clay sculpture?

Uncle Jiang Er instructed the younger generations to simply clean up the dust in the ancestral temple. He himself climbed onto the altar with a feather duster and carefully cleaned the cobwebs and dust on the clay sculptures.

The cleanup was almost done, and Uncle Jiang Er had Jiang Nanle brought in.

The two men who were twisting Jiang Nanle's arms raised their feet at the same time and kicked Jiang Nanle hard in the knee.

Her legs were bent forward after being kicked, and she was forced to kneel on the ground.

Uncle Jiang lit incense and led the elders of the Jiang family to bow three times to the clay sculpture.

After the worship, insert the three incense sticks flatly into the incense burner.

They were all silent, staring at the incense in the incense burner.

The two incense sticks on the left and in the middle burn at almost the same speed, but the incense stick on the left burns very quickly, much lower than the other two.

Lao Li lowered his voice and whispered in my ear: "It's over!"

"This is a death-prompting incense!"

“Someone’s going to die!”

Jiang Erbo and the others also knew how to read the incense chart, and their faces turned extremely ugly at this moment.

puff.

Uncle Jiang Er led everyone in the Jiang family to kneel down and kowtow.

"Ancestors, please protect us!"

click!

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud explosion from the clay sculpture.