Chapter 8 Underground Kingdom

On a light rainy evening, the author of this article was walking in the graves. He stopped from time to time and observed something. A hill was buried in weeds. If you were not mistaken, it was the tomb of Princess Jinyu of the Tang Dynasty. From a nearby hole, it can be seen that it was visited by tomb robbers. After a year, during the crackdown by the public security organs, a group of cultural relics dealers were arrested. In this small county where I live, Liu Chaoyang, a prisoner who stole the princess’ tomb, stood in a truck and marched in public. I saw him in the crowd, with his head lowered, with a sign hanging around his neck, and the car turned around the corner, and I passed by a character in this article.

Liu Chaoyang, nicknamed Mouse, was sentenced to three years in prison for tomb robbing. He met Cuban in prison and then followed him to sell drugs.

Let me tell you his story below.

On December 28, 1995, Liu Chaoyang was walking on the way home with six cabbages on his back, thinking about a question in his mind.

He sold radish and cabbage, and later sold soy milk. He rode a tricycle that often fell off the chain. He put a small horn in the basket and shouted: Soy milk, hot soy milk, authentic flavor, healthy drinks.

When the rape flowers bloomed, he stood under a stinky toon tree in the yard and finally figured out why he couldn't make a fortune - he was a farmer.

Just after the Qingming Festival, Liu Chaoyang carried his luggage to Huacheng.

Huacheng Railway Station is a place where dirt and dirt is deteriorating rapidly. A businessman who often travels between Guangdong and Guangxi often warns his relatives and friends like this: Don’t make phone calls at the station, don’t buy anything, don’t take a taxi, and don’t eat or stay in nearby hotels and hotels.

When Liu Chaoyang got off the train, someone snatched his bag and had to sleep in the station square.

A sign in the square said - please do not urinate and defecate here!

There are many mobile phone numbers on the walls and floors around, with the words "Certificate" written on the back.

Liu Chaoyang and nearly a thousand migrant workers who were sleeping in the square were escorted by police, armed police and joint defense team members, and crowded in a small street and alley. The next day, they returned to the square, and the place where they gathered formed a temporary labor market. Whenever a contractor arrived, they surrounded them all, and the contractors looked at the group of people like a pick-up animal. Liu Chaoyang and several other strong migrant workers were selected.

There are many private small coal mines near Huachengyan Town. When Liu Chaoyang first went down the well, it was one morning. The sun shone. He squinted his eyes. The clouds in the sky were light and the wind was light. His body slowly declined. Since then, he has not seen the sun for a whole year. The miners slept for four hours a day, and had meat every meal, but they did not allow them to drink. The good food was not because of the boss' compassion, but to make the miners more efficient. Under the hole, an old miner named Ding told Liu Chaoyang that there had been no salary here for three years. If anyone dared to ask for the salary, a group of thugs would come to beat him up, and even the coal-pulling driver came to kick him a few times.

"Why do you have to do it for him if you don't pay the wages?" Liu Chaoyang asked.

"It's because the boss deducts wages, he still has to continue working." Old Man Ding replied.

A year later, Old Man Ding became Liu Chaoyang's tomb robber. The life experience of this old man in Shanxi can be summarized in one word: poor. If it is summarized in two words, it is: a miner. When he was a child, he started mining. His mother once collected the reeds by the river to make him a cotton jacket. The underground was wet and stuffy. Overnight, his cotton jacket actually sprouted and a small sapling grew. When he grew up, his dream was to open a coal mine by himself. Maybe a man's dream would never come true. Therefore, he was poor all his life, from a vibrant young man to a scorched old man.

Old man Ding is an experienced miner, and this experience has been greatly applied in his later career in tomb robbing.

Once, he pointed to the top of his head and asked Liu Chaoyang: "Do you know what is above?"

"It's mud." Liu Chaoyang replied.

"What about the mud?"

"have no idea."

“It’s a river.”

They also did one thing between mining and tomb robbing - they kidnapped the coal mine boss. The cause was very simple, because the boss did not pay wages. Like all kidnapping cases, Old Man Ding and Liu Chaoyang tied the boss up, hid in a hidden place, and then called their family. The difference was that they didn't ask for much money, and that amount was just the wages they deserved. Despite this, the boss's wife still called the police. It was smart to do this. Most kidnapping cases were done by people they knew.

Even after the money is successful, he will kill the kidnapped person, cover up the crime, and destroy the body. The wonderful thing in the entire kidnapping case is the method of withdrawing money. They asked the boss's wife to throw the money into a public toilet in Yan Town, and the police strictly controlled the surroundings. That night, the moonlight shone on the toilet. Although no one was in and out all night, his wallet disappeared in the early morning of the next day. The police analyzed that the criminals opened the manhole cover from the sewer in the toilet, stretched out a hand, and took the money away.

Three hours later, in a cave, Liu Chaoyang threw a bag in front of the coal mine owner: "Look, this is the money your wife sent."

There was a roll of toilet paper in the bag.

The coal mine owner said, "This bitch."

Old man Ding said: "Your wife has called the police."

Liu Chaoyang looked at Old Man Ding, and the two exchanged glances. He sighed and walked towards the coal mine owner with a knife.

The boss said, "You won't kill me, are you?"

Liu Chaoyang said: "I will let you go."

He cut off the rope from the boss with a knife.

During the future interrogation, Liu Chaoyang did not mention the matter at all, and he did not think it was a crime. The boss also told the police that someone was joking with him. The kidnapping case was eventually cancelled because the coal mine boss claimed that he had not been kidnapped.

Where did Liu Chaoyang and Old Man Ding go later?

In the suburbs of Huacheng, there is a tree in each straw stack. The locals need to store the haystacks for cows. They always keep the haystacks around a tree. On April 3, 1997, the day after the kidnapping, a woman who got up to feed the cattle in the morning saw two people coming out of their own haystacks. Obviously, they slept in the haystacks all night. One of the middle-aged men yawned and sorted out the grass clippings on their hair and clothes, and the other was holding a watermelon with a melon field twenty miles away.

Since then, the two people have traveled all over the most desolate places. Some ancient tombs were in barren mountains and wilderness where people are not able to visit. They can be boldly excavated. Why did they think of tomb robbers? It is impossible to find any rational reason for this kind of thing. There are extremely similarities between tomb robbers and coal digging. Sometimes, they sleep in a quiet hill; sometimes, they sleep in a small woods, and the dew at night wets the grass and hair. When Liu Chaoyang was selling vegetables, his hair was still black. After robbing the tomb, he began to lose his hair in large quantities. The ever-expanding baldness made others and him ignore his own real age, so he wore a hat

.Silence and withdrawal also began from that time. Sometimes he didn't talk to Old Man Ding for several days, only knew how to work hard and wave the shovel. At first, they had no experience and only dug stones and some worthless rags. Later, they knew how to use some simple tools, such as comprehensive exploration of the shovels and detectors, and confirmed the approximate location of the cemetery, and kept digging with confidence. Some holes proved that they had tried their best instead of exhausting their physical strength. Some shallowness was enough to show that they had been discouraged, but they always had some hard courage to question the granite and limestone under their feet. As Old Man Ding said, they lacked some good luck.

The first tomb they successfully stole was in a bamboo forest. They dug it smoothly. The sealing layer was red clay. This red clay was very sticky, so there was no need to consider the problem of landslide. Below the sealing soil was a layer of bluestone slabs. If you pry open the stone slabs and jump down, the tomb was not big, but it was well preserved. Liu Chaoyang shone with a flashlight and saw the entire coffin surrounded by dense white bamboo roots.

This is a tomb of the Qing Dynasty. They accidentally discovered some Ming Dynasty vessels. From the bronze mirror dressing box and several jewelry in the coffin, it can be seen that a woman was buried here. This beauty from many years ago, now a skeleton, turned into dust with her hands. Some pearls and jade uttered a faint blue light, and the two of them were not in a hurry. They sat cross-legged, drank a sip of wine, and smoked a cigarette.

Old man Ding said: "We are rich."

Liu Chaoyang said: "Yes, I'm getting rich."

The next morning, Liu Chaoyang put on his hat. There was an old boat and mast on his hat. He broke the clay pot on the tombstone and grabbed a handful of rice to fill it into his mouth. A bird flew over his head. He forgot to chew it. The rice grains fell from his mouth like maggots. He and Old Man Ding looked back at the hole that had just climbed out. With the gold, silver and jewelry in his arms, they went down the mountain with a smile.

A few years later, the local cultural relics department conducted rescue excavation of the tomb, and people discovered that Liu Chaoyang left a sentence on the coffin with a stick that smeared his feces: The mouse is here to visit!

Below the ground, there is another world.

When you start a torch and drill into your own toilet, you can see the world. There are also some entrances that we notice every day but are forgotten. When you lift the manhole cover, Professor Ma Zhiyu went down from here in 1974; in 1983, the deceased Chen Yin went down from here; in 1996, the hawker Heizi went down from here.

Now we will go down from here too.

There are only mice here, no flies, and all the flies are on the ground.

In this world, there are two kinds of animals, rats and crimes.

Plague and miasma are also produced from here. They are twin brothers, and they have a mother in total.

There is a counterfeit currency manufacturing factory in Jiangsu, where several farmers make one-yuan coins in an air-raid shelter; there is also a counterfeit currency den in Loudi City, Hunan Province, where several laid-off workers make counterfeit banknotes of hundreds of yuan in the basement; Puyang Old Hanning runs in his own cellar to store ginger to make detonators, and Ningbo native Fu Chun digs a hole under the pigpen to produce explosives.

Crime is a strange flower in the underground world.

There are many excavation projects in the city, two of which are sewers and fovea channels.

In 1994, the Hong'an County earthquake occurred. A whole sewer was turned out from the ground and exposed to the world. People were surprised to find that there was a vagina under the vagina. In addition to the sludge, we also saw many things. The pipe and wine glass sold in the same store met again here. The dentures that once said the oath turned into dentures again, and the handkerchiefs that caused love memorial became handkerchiefs again. The sheets that a beautiful young woman slept with now are wrapped in a dead cat rotting here.

What makes people puzzled is what is the Yin Canal below the Yin Canal for use?

Where does this unknown branch in the dark lead to?

Whenever the rainy season comes, Hong'an County is full of **.

A county party secretary who took office in 1986, he had been in power for three years and only did one thing: renovate the sewer. He ordered workers to dig deep and reinforce the sewer to accommodate more rain. The flood used to flow through the streets, but now it flows through the sewer. The yin canal under the ink canal was dug at that time.

The respectable county party secretary was named Sun Zhaoyu. After his death, there was a new street: Zhaoyu Street. Ten years ago, Zhaoyu Street was called Huazi Street. There was not a single flower on Huazi Street, but there were many beggars. 15 years ago, the people also called it "Smell Street". Sun Zhaoyu embezzled public funds, compressed every amount of funds, and deducted the salary of civil servants. He was like a beggar in front of the company, begging his wife like a pug, and asked the boss to show kindness and ask his wife to take out his passbook. One thing needs to be stated that after his death, people found that his deposit was almost zero. We know that zero is the smallest number and an infinite number.

Sun Zhaoyu did a good thing for the people and also provided a favorable place for criminals.

Scientists go to caves to explore, while criminals go to sewers to explore.

There are more than 200 streets and alleys in Hong'an County, with more than 400 sewer holes. One late in 1999, a child who stole the manhole cover encountered something incredible - he heard someone talking in the sewer. The child was brave enough to lift the manhole cover and hid next to him. After a while, he saw an old man with a disheveled face and stinking all over his body crawling out of the sewer.

We recognize that this old man is Old Man Ding. His and Liu Chaoyang's many years of tomb robbing careers did not bring much wealth to him. In 1998, Hong'an County had an unknown underground drug den, which was built by Shanya. After Shanya's death, Gao Fei expanded the underground den into a large-scale drug underground factory. Old Man Ding and Liu Chaoyang were the people who expanded the underground factory at that time. They met Gao Fei through Cuban and found that drug trafficking is much more profitable than tomb robbing, so they soon became part of this drug trafficking gang.

The acquaintance of these people is like a stream of sewage meeting another stream of sewage, which flows together with the dirty and smells like alike.

The design of the underground factory is very clever. They dug another basement in a basement, which is connected to the sewer. Each wellhead of the sewer in the county is both an entrance and an exit.

Late at night on August 10, 2000, four outsiders came to Xiaojing Hutong in the east of Hong'an County. The more they walked forward, the narrower the alley became, as if they had entered a funnel with a pipe extension. At the end of this rather short street, they saw a wall, which was a dead end.

They whispered and waited quietly for something.

"Continue to move forward." A voice said.

The sound was dull, but it appeared around me again.

"Go forward." The voice continued.

They finally understood that the sound came from the underground, and they took two steps forward, and a man turned the manhole cover from the sewer, waved to them, and they jumped down.

Five minutes later, the four people met with the other four in a secret basement.

These eight people are: Gao Fei, Old Man Ding, Liu Chaoyang, Kuban, Zhou Xingxing, Tiezui, Qiu Ba, and Tu Laoye.

Time: August 10, 2000

Location: Hong'an County

Characters: Gao Fei, Old Man Ding, Liu Chaoyang, Kuban, Zhou Xingxing, Qiu Ba, Tiezui, Tu Laoye.

Zhou Xingxing: "Where is this?"

Gao Fei: "Basement."

Zhou Xingxing: "Where is above?"

Gao Fei: "There is also a basement above."

Zhou Xingxing: "What's the sound outside?"

Gao Fei: "Our neighbor."

Old Man Ding: "It's a mouse, a mouse as big as a pig."

Liu Chaoyang: "I am also a mouse, haha."

Gao Fei: "Where is Master Shan?"

Tiezui: "We buried him."

Qiu Ba: "It was Shan Ye who asked us to come here."

Gao Fei: "Well, I saw the red cloth strips tied to the tree."

Cuban: "How did you get out of prison?"

Tu Laoye: "Roll the rope and drill into the chimney, haha."

Old Man Ding: "Who thought it out? His head is smarter than mine."
To be continued...