Aji is a very honest person. If we look at the current time, he is 34 years old and should have already started a family. And if I keep that Taibo Island 2000 mobile phone on my head until today, I guess I can replace it with a washbasin? I guess even if I change the washbasin, I can only change it to a plastic one for washing dishes.
There is a diesel generator in the cave. It is a very old-fashioned type that weighs 70 to 80 pounds. Aji uses this thing to charge it. This thing is a second-hand thing he bought two years ago. The iron cover of the generator is gone, and it uses compressed density. A solid circuit board.
Aji goes to the city every two or three months, and every time he comes back, he buys two barrels of diesel. At that time, small gas stations could use barrels to fill the tank, but not now. Most people bring barrels to fill the tank, and the attendants don't even pay attention to them.
Aji didn't say anything about collecting our mobile phones because he couldn't understand their language and didn't know what to say. In the end, Aji fulfilled his mission and his uncle promised to take us to Blackwater City.
His uncle's name in the tribe was "Yanji Hulu" which was hard to pronounce. I often pronounced Hulu as Hulu at first, but later I simply shortened it to "Hushu".
Uncle Hu was not tall, less than 1.7 meters tall. He must have been tanned, and his skin was darker than Aji's, but he was very strong, with thick arms and round shoulders. From a distance, he looked like a doorstep.
The patriarch of the Hute people at that time was an old man in his seventies. The patriarch had been in contact with Gan reporter Lao Zhang before, so he did not reject Baotou and me. In the evening, he even killed a lamb to welcome us. , we ate boiled mutton outside the cave dwelling.
Uncle Hu was very afraid of the old patriarch, so he told the old patriarch that night that he wanted to take us to Blackwater City. Sitting outside the cave in the evening, the old patriarch had a lot of experience, and Aji acted as the translator. He told the legend of Blackwater City that was circulated among the Hute people.
The old patriarch said that in his tribe, most people who had herded sheep when they were young knew that place, and it was not the first time that his tribe had brought outsiders there.
After hearing this, Du Tou was a little surprised and asked: "Has anyone else approached you before? No way, who is that person and what does he look like?"
After listening to Aji's translation, the old patriarch shook his head while eating the mutton and said, "It's not from recent years, it's been many years. It happened when he was a child. They are a group of big-nosed foreigners."
"Ah? Big nose?" Zhuotou and Qin Xingping looked at each other, their eyes full of surprise.
He patted his head on his thigh, stood up and said, "I'll tell you! No wonder the name King Darcy sounded familiar to me before. It turns out there is such a thing!"
Qin Xingping said with a gloomy face, "I'm really afraid of whatever comes."
I was confused, so I asked the boss, "What does this mean? How come I don't know what you know?"
"Yunfeng, how old are you? I don't know how normal it is." He sat down and said, "King Darxi is the grandfather of the current old patriarch, and the time was right for that incident." Then he told what he knew. cause.
What I said at the time was quite complicated, so I sorted it out and told you in my own words.
The grandfather of the old patriarch of the Hute people was the young Prince Darcy at that time.
That year was the summer of 1900. There was an overseas version of Captain Mojin from the Ural Kingdom (alternative name). This man was named Kozlov. Because the name was a bit sensitive, I called him Xiao Ke.
It was not easy for Xiaoke to be a gold captain. He was working for the Royal Geographical Society of Uruguay at that time. The Royal Geographical Society was the most short of money, so he funded Xiaoke's team to dig treasures everywhere in our place, such as Longmen Grottoes and Mogao Grottoes. He has been to Tibet, Qiannan, and Sichuan. It’s hard to say how many things Xiaoke stole. No one has kept statistics.
It is said, it is said that thirty years later, from 1920 to 1950, the two largest cultural relic dealers in China at that time were Lu Qinzhai and Yue Bin. Together, they sold more foreign antiques than Not the one stolen by Xiao Ke.
The man surnamed Lu is quite impressive. The number of things he sold is conservatively estimated to be over 100,000 pieces, many of which are famous national treasures, such as the Salu Zi and Quan Maojun among the Six Horses of the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Li Shiming, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Sui Dynasty white marble large standing Buddha, etc., pan Fang Lei and so on.
Yue Bin is also very creative. There is a TV series called May Sophora Flower Fragrance. In the TV series, Mr. Wang Gang plays the role of Shopkeeper Lan of Liulichang Antique Shop. In fact, the prototype of this character is Yue Bin.
Yue Bin was the main seller of Buddha heads at Qingzhou Temple in the Northern Qi Dynasty. It is said that he sold more than 800 Buddha heads in one year at most. Now that so many Buddha statues in movies have no Buddha heads, it is most likely related to him.
There is also the giant stone sculpture of emperors and empresses worshiping Buddha that Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty built for his parents. Yue Bin smashed it into more than 200 pieces, packed it in nine large boxes, smuggled it out and put it back together again. There is one thing that many people don’t know. , the nine boxes that were used to pack the pictures of emperors and empresses paying homage to Buddha were taken by water, and one of the boxes fell into the sea, resulting in the incomplete assembly of the later pictures of emperors and empresses paying homage to Buddha.
This thing is now hidden in the American Museum. Friends who are able to see it may wish to pay close attention to the lower right corner of the stone sculpture. Those with strong eyesight will definitely find something.
Let’s get back to the story.
Xiaoke originally came to Yinchuan to go to the Xixia Imperial Tomb at the foot of Helan Mountain. However, when he brought his people there, he was dumbfounded. There were nine mounds of earth sealed in total. Not even a hair was left on the stolen ones. There were holes everywhere. All, some caves are filled with water, and grass carp are as big as an arm.
Xiao Ke thought that this was not possible and he couldn't make the trip without taking an empty trip, so he asked around in Yinchuan and heard stories about Heishui City from the villagers.
Xiaoke trudged all the way through the sand, and ended up encountering a sandstorm like the rest of us. The person who saved Xiaoke was the grandfather of the old patriarch in front of me, Prince Darcy.
Prince Darcy said that he knew there was a place deep in the desert, which was somewhat similar to the place you were looking for. Xiaoke was anxious and said, "Take me there quickly. What if you delay me from robbing the tomb?"
King Darcy saw that Xiao Ke had a big nose and dared to be so arrogant, so he immediately kicked them all away.
The desert is so big that Blackwater City cannot be found without the help of the Hute people. If Blackwater City cannot be found, there is no way to explain it to the Royal Geographical Society. After a few days, Xiaoke relented, and he ran to find King Darcy again and said, "Let's make peace, and I'll give you a good gift." Then Xiaoke gave King Darcy a set of the most advanced brass loudspeaker phonographs at the time. .
A bunch of copper lumps could actually speak human language. Although King Darcy couldn't understand it, he liked it, so he happily accepted the phonograph and in return, provided an experienced guide to the Xiao Ke Camel Team. , this guide led them to the legendary desert city of Harahhot.
After arriving at the place, Xiaoke led people to dig for three days. He found two underground palaces and dug out a total of nine boxes of cultural relics. He was also an experienced hand, but he still couldn't understand these things dug out of the sand. This type of style Something he had never seen before. He had never seen anything like the three-headed Guanyin statue, the eight-armed Dharma protector statue, or the horse-headed king's wooden drawing board.
Xiaoke thought these things were of average value, so he packed them and sent them to the Royal Geographical Society in his country, and then he went south to Sichuan.
More than a month later, these nine boxes arrived at the Royal Geographical Society.
After opening it, those people were dumbfounded. The old scholars with gray curly hair wore glasses and held magnifying glasses, and exclaimed: "Which dynasty is this from? Why is this style unprecedented? Is this something we know?" Other medieval civilizations?”
Later, they realized the importance of these things and sent out more than a dozen telegrams in succession. The contents of the telegrams were all similar and could be summed up in two words.
"reply ASAP."
