That night, around nine o'clock, Zhou Jing, Zhang Bowen, Li Jiajia and I met at Uncle Li's house. I took out two million from the eight million I got from selling the fart plugs and put them in three cards, two of which had five hundred thousand and one had one million. After meeting Zhang Bowen, I gave him one million as a little allowance. After all, he followed me to the northwest of Shanxi to risk his life, and only I knew the nature of the mission this time. To put it bluntly, it was a difficult problem given to me by the Tiandao League. There would be no reward after the case was settled. Uncle Li had already cheated him, and I was embarrassed to continue cheating him. I gave him some money to subsidize his family expenses. As a result, Zhang Bowen was also stupid. He really thought he was following a boss who was skilled and kind to his subordinates. He was so moved that he cried and snotted, which made me speechless...
This is simply a guy who can count money for me even if he is sold!
I also gave Li Jiajia 500,000 yuan. Li He was my father's subordinate before. After my father passed away, he has been helping to solve problems in Shanxi. Now that he is in trouble, I must give his daughter some money. It is only natural that the son should pay the father's debt. Otherwise, outsiders will poke the backbone of our Ge family. Li Jiajia refused to take it at first, saying that she would be very grateful as long as I helped her figure out her father's affairs. I dare not force her to ask for anything else. In the end, I had no choice but to say that if she didn't want the money, I would not go to northwest Shanxi. Li Jiajia accepted it, and tears welled up in her eyes. Obviously, after her father passed away, this girl who was still in the ivory tower had suffered a lot from the coldness of the world and the warmth and coldness of people's hearts. She is very strong to have survived until now.
Finally, I gave the remaining 500,000 yuan to Uncle Li and asked him to pass it on to Qi Nan. Although Qi Nan didn't have to risk his life with me, he had to rely on him to hand over to the organization and accept tasks. I really couldn't leave him. It was worth it to spend money and gather people.
After arranging all this, our group set off in my father's Buick business car at around ten o'clock.
The road from Taiyuan City to Wuzhai County, Xinzhou is relatively easy to travel. It is basically a highway. We arrived in three or four hours. Wuwang Village is about 40 miles southwest of Wuzhai County. The distance is not far, but the problem is that the road in the middle is not easy to travel. Once you leave the county, it is basically a dirt road in the countryside. It is less than five meters wide. There are deep ravines on both sides. It is so dark that you can't see the bottom at a glance. I'm afraid it must be at least four or five hundred meters deep. I was terrified and Zhang Bowen slowed down. I heard from Uncle Li that Zhang Bowen's driving skills are absolutely first-rate. Before he came to my dad, he would gamble with others on the winding mountain road for a living. That is a life-threatening business. If you drive slowly on the winding mountain road, you will definitely lose. If you drive fast, you will be killed if you are not careful. It is very dangerous. But now even he drives carefully. You can imagine how dangerous the road here is. No wonder you didn't dare to drive when Li He came here. You just parked and slept. People with poor driving skills would probably be scared to death on this road. In fact, Wuwang Village is very remote. Even among many villages around Wuzhai County, this area is considered the poorest. Villagers usually drive ox carts to the city. It is normal that there is no road here.
We bumped along this road for nearly two hours, walked more than ten miles, and finally plunged into the mountains of Guancen Mountain. The car slowed down even more. It was already the second half of the night, and I couldn't stand it anymore. I was ready to fold down the passenger seat to take a nap. Unexpectedly, Zhou Jing, who was sitting in the back, suddenly screamed "Ah".
I was shocked by him and lost my sleepiness. I couldn't help but turn my head and said, "What the hell are you screaming about?"
"There... there is something dirty!"
Zhou Jing turned his head and stared out of the car window, shaking with fear.
When this kid said this, we shuddered and looked at the place Zhou Jing pointed. Yes, in the bushes in front of our left, a pair of green eyes were looking at us. Zhang Bowen is also experienced. He stopped the car as soon as he found the situation. Because if you encounter dirty things while driving at night, you can't run away immediately because you are scared. If you run away, you will definitely be entangled by the dirty things. If you want to avoid being entangled, you can only stop the car, count seven numbers in your heart, and then drive along the way. If you hear someone talking to you, if they ask you to go somewhere, just follow the instructions without talking. Don't pay attention to other questions. In short, just drive at ease until dawn, and you will be fine. Because the dirty things you encounter while driving at night usually want to hitchhike. If you don't give them a ride, they will be angry and will have to make trouble, right? So you must stop the car, send them to the place, and they will naturally leave and won't entangle you.
Unexpectedly, when Zhang Bowen stopped the car, the thing with green eyes in the bushes immediately jumped out. Under the headlights, it turned out to be an animal that looked like a domestic dog...
"What a joke."
Li Jiajia let out a long sigh: "It turned out to be a local leopard in northwest Shanxi..."
After that, Li Jiajia explained what this local leopard was. In fact, it was a kind of cat species unique to Guancen Mountain. It didn't even have a scientific name. Because this local leopard was very cunning, no one had been caught until now. Some mountain people often encountered it. Moreover, this thing was ferocious and would attack people at any time. Mountain people often had their legs bitten off. Because there was no living creature in the sight of those scholars, those zoologists didn't recognize it at all. They only recognized that the local leopard in northwest Shanxi was a golden cat. But those who have really seen the local leopard know that the local leopard here is much more ferocious than the golden cat, and its size and bite force are much larger than the golden cat. Besides his major and hobbies in college, Li Jiajia also likes to study some animals, so he is very knowledgeable.
After listening to this, I couldn't help but glare at Zhou Jing fiercely. He didn't know that this was my first mission? He always scares me for no reason. Aren't you afraid that I will get sick...
On the way, we encountered many wild animals in Guancen Mountain. With this experience, it didn't affect us. We just took it as scenery.
The car moved forward slowly in the mountains until the next morning, when we finally arrived at Wuwang Village. There were a total of 160 or 70 households in the village. At this time, the smoke from cooking was curling, and the whole village was filled with the aroma of breakfast.
After a bumpy ride, we were already starving. When we smelled the aroma of the meal, our stomachs kept growling. There were dry food in the car, but who would want to eat the tooth-gritting stuff unless it was absolutely necessary? However, there are definitely no restaurants in a small village like Wuwang Village, so we decided to find a family at the entrance of the village to eat.
The family was a local farmer in Wuwang Village. They were simple and honest, and seeing that we were outsiders and couldn't find a place to eat, they immediately asked us to go in and eat with them. I said that they would not accept the money, so I had no choice but to ask Zhang Bowen to take out some chocolates from the trunk of the car and give them to the children. We couldn't just go in and eat with a red mouth, right?
The hostess of the family greeted us, a middle-aged woman named Han, who looked amiable. She greeted us and urged us to get on the kang as soon as we entered her house, and then poured us water with a black object. Zhang Bowen and his friends were indeed thirsty, so they drank from the bowls without saying a word.
I was stunned when I saw the pot that the elder sister was carrying. The pot looked strange, with a thick mouth and an oval shape. It looked like it was made of coarse pottery. It didn't look like a kettle, but more like... a chamber pot!!
The chamber pot was used by ancient people to urinate in the middle of the night. Needless to say, you can tell by the thick mouth of the pot...
But I was a little unsure. After all, the family looked very honest, not like the kind of people who could use a chamber pot to pour water for us. Moreover, chamber pots are basically no longer used now. They disappeared after the Republic of China. Even if there were no toilets in the countryside, people would use spittoons at night. They were made of foreign porcelain. When you put them on the ground and sit on them, you would feel the same as using a toilet. Except that your butt was a little cold when you first sat on them, they were much more convenient than chamber pots in other aspects. Although the mouth was big and the smell was strong at night, it would not be affected by covering it with a newspaper.
Because I was a little unsure, I asked indirectly: "Sister, what is this thing of yours? I think it looks very special."
"I don't know..."
Sister Han scratched her head embarrassedly and said: "A few years ago, the reservoir in Baicao Village released water, and a lot of grass carp washed down. My husband ran over to pick up fish and found this thing in the field. I don't know what it is, but it looks like a kettle, so I used it as a kettle. It works well!!"
That's right! !
I guess this thing should also be an antique, but the craftsmanship is rough. It is probably fired in a private kiln at that time. There is no clear origin mark, so I can't make out the reason and can't determine its age.
Strictly speaking, this chamber pot can be considered a "barren item", but it is crudely made and probably won't sell for much, at most one thousand, at least one hundred, and if the chamber pot is buried with the tomb, it must be something the tomb owner used before, so I don't plan to collect it.
What really interests me is this Wuwang Village. The reservoir can flush out antiques when it floods. It seems that there must be many underground tombs here. It is possible that Wuwang Village had a certain origin in the past, so I asked Sister Han curiously: "Are there many cases like this here?"
"Yes, there are many."
Sister Han nodded and said to me: "Everyone in the village says that there must be extraordinary people buried underground in our village. Things are dug out from time to time when we plow the land in recent years."
I frowned and fell into deep thought.
It seems that I have to take some time to take a good look at the history of Wuwang Village. I was so focused on the case before that I didn't even know the history of the place where we were carrying out the mission this time. This is definitely a big mistake!
If there is really a tomb group under the Wuwang Village, then will the series of strange things that occurred in this place be related to this tomb group?
In addition, Li Jiajia's father called Li Jiajia before he died and said that he heard someone talking in his ear when he was sleeping at night, saying that he was sleeping on someone's head, and that's why the person wanted to beat him to death!
Combining these two points, my eyes suddenly lit up and I felt that I had found the entry point of the matter.
At this time, Sister Han went out to make breakfast, leaving only a few of us in the room.
I don't know if Zhang Bowen is really thirsty. He keeps drinking water, and he doesn't forget to remind me while drinking: "Why don't you drink some? The water in this mountain is delicious, so sweet!"
As soon as he said this, he was immediately recognized by Zhou Jing and Zhang Jiajia, and the two nodded on the side.
Looking at their expressions, I thought about it and still didn't have the nerve to tell them that the water they drank was poured out of a chamber pot, and it was a used chamber pot...
Since it tastes good, drink it!
I held the pot and poured them each a bowl of water, then went out to call the eldest son of Mr. Zhao, who was the client of our mission this time. When the other party heard that I was here to help them solve the problem, he excitedly said that he would pick us up right away, and then hung up the phone. For a while, I had nothing to do, so I started to check the history of Wuwang Village on my mobile phone. I was curious about what kind of secrets were buried under the ground of this village!