Chapter 8 Underground Kingdom

One drizzly evening, the author of this article was walking among the graves. He stopped from time to time and observed something. A small hill was buried in the weeds. If I am not mistaken, this is the tomb of Princess Jinyu of the Tang Dynasty. From a nearby

It can be seen from the hole that tomb robbers have visited this place. A year later, during the crackdown by the public security organs, a group of cultural relic dealers were arrested one after another. In the small county where I live, Liu Chaoyang, the prisoner who stole the princess's tomb, stood with other prisoners.

The truck was paraded in the crowd. I saw him in the crowd with his head lowered and a sign hanging around his neck. As the truck turned the corner, I passed by one of the characters in this article.

Liu Chaoyang, nicknamed Mouse, was sentenced to three years in prison for tomb robbing. He met Cuban in prison and later followed him in drug trafficking.

Let’s tell his story below.

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

He sold radishes and cabbage, and later soy milk. He rode a tricycle that often lost its chain, with a small speaker in the basket, shouting: soy milk, hot soy milk, original flavor, healthy drink.

When the rapeseed flowers were blooming, he stood under an ailanthus 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 packed up his luggage and went to Huacheng.

Huacheng Railway Station is a place where public security has deteriorated rapidly. A businessman who often shuttles between Guangdong and Guangxi often warns relatives and friends: Don’t make phone calls at the station, don’t buy anything, don’t take a taxi, don’t

Nearby hotels and guesthouses for meals or accommodation.

As soon as Liu Chaoyang got off the train, his bag was snatched away and he had to sleep in the station square.

A sign in the square reads - Please do not relieve yourself here!

There are many mobile phone numbers on the surrounding walls and ground, with "Certificate Application" written on the back.

Liu Chaoyang and nearly a thousand migrant workers sleeping in the square were escorted by police, armed police and joint defense team members to a small street and alley to spend the night. The next day, they returned to the square, where they gathered to form a

At the temporary labor market, whenever a contractor arrived, everyone would surround them. The contractor looked at the group of people as if they were drafting animals. Liu Chaoyang and several other strong migrant workers were selected.

There are many small private coal mines near Huachengyan Town. It was one morning when Liu Chaoyang went into the mine for the first time. The sun was shining, and he squinted his eyes. The clouds in the sky were light and the wind was gentle, and his body slowly descended. From then on, he

The sun has not been seen for a year. The miners sleep four hours a day and have meat every meal, but they are not allowed to drink. The good food is not because the boss is compassionate, but to make the miners work more efficiently. Underground, a man named

Old man Ding's old miner told Liu Chaoyang that wages have not been paid here for three years. If anyone dares to ask for wages, a group of thugs will come to beat him, and even the coal driver will come over and kick him.

"If you don't get paid, why do you still have to work for him?" Liu Chaoyang asked.

"It's just because the boss is withholding wages, so I have to continue working." Old Man Ding replied.

A year later, Old Man Ding became Liu Chaoyang’s tomb-robber accomplice. The life experience of this Shanxi old man can be summarized in one word: poor. If he used two words to summarize it, he would be: miner. When he was still a child, he started digging.

In the mine, his mother once collected reed flowers by the river and made him a cotton-padded jacket. It was humid and sultry underground, and overnight, his cotton-padded jacket sprouted and a small sapling grew. When he grew up, his dream

Just to open a coal mine, a man's dream may never come true. Therefore, he spends his whole life in poverty, from a vigorous young man to a haggard and thin old man.

Old Man Ding was an experienced miner, and this experience was greatly used in his future tomb robbing career.

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

"It's mud." Liu Chaoyang replied.

"What about the mud?"

"have no idea."

"It's a river."

While they were mining and robbing tombs, they also did one thing - they kidnapped the boss of the coal mine. The reason was simple, because the boss did not pay wages. Like all kidnapping cases, Old Man Ding and Liu Chaoyang tied up the boss and hid him.

in a secluded place, and then called their family members. The difference was that the money they asked for was not much. The amount was just the wages they deserved. Despite this, the boss’s wife still called the police. This was smart and big.

Most kidnapping cases are carried out by acquaintances. Even after getting money, they will kill the kidnapped person, cover up the crime, and destroy the body. The highlight of the entire kidnapping case is the method of obtaining money. They asked the boss's wife to give the kidnapped person the money.

The money was thrown into a public toilet in Yan Town, and the police tightly controlled the area. That night, the moonlight illuminated the toilet. Although no one entered or left the toilet all night, the wallet disappeared early the next morning. According to police analysis,

The criminal opened the manhole cover from the sewer in the toilet, stretched out his 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 is a roll of toilet paper in the bag.

The coal mine owner said: "This bitch."

Old Man Ding said: "Your wife 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, will you?"

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

He cut the boss's rope with a knife.

During subsequent interrogations, Liu Chaoyang said nothing about the matter. 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 dropped because the coal mine boss claimed that he had not been kidnapped.

Where did Liu Chaoyang and Old Man Ding go afterwards?

In the suburbs of Hwaseong, there is a tree in every straw pile. The locals store the fodder for cattle. They always stack hay around a tree. April 3, 1997, the day of the kidnapping

The next day, a woman who got up to feed her cows saw two people emerging from the haystack at home. It was obvious that they had slept in the haystack all night. One of the middle-aged men yawned profusely, arranging his hair and

Grass clippings on the clothes, another old man holding a watermelon, there is a melon field twenty miles away.

Since then, these two people have traveled all over the most desolate places. Some ancient tombs are in desolate mountains and ridges where no one has visited. They can dig as boldly as they can. Why did they think of robbing tombs? It is impossible to find any rational reason for such a thing.

The reason is that there are great similarities between tomb robbing and coal mining. Sometimes, they sleep on a quiet hill; sometimes, they sleep in a small forest, where the dew at night wets the grass and hair. Liu Chaoyang sells vegetables

When he was young, his hair was still black. After robbing the tomb, he began to lose a lot of hair. The ever-expanding bald spot made others and him ignore his true age, so he wore a hat. He was silent and withdrawn.

From then on, he would sometimes not talk to Old Man Ding for several days in a row. He would only work hard and wave the shovel. At first, they had no experience and only dug up rocks and some worthless junk. Later they knew how to use it.

Some simple tools, such as a shovel and a detector, were used to comprehensively survey and confirm the approximate location of the cemetery, and then they continued digging with confidence. Some holes proved that they had exhausted their efforts rather than exhausting their physical strength, and the shallowness of some holes was enough to show that they were discouraged.

I have been disappointed, but I still have some strong courage to question the granite and limestone under my feet. As old man Ding said, they lack a little good luck.

The first tomb they successfully stole was in a bamboo forest. They dug it smoothly. The sealing layer was red soil. This red soil is very sticky, so there was no need to worry about the cave collapse. Under the sealing soil was a layer of bluestone.

He pried open the stone slab and jumped down. The tomb was not big, but it was well preserved. Liu Chaoyang shined a flashlight and saw the entire coffin surrounded by dense white bamboo roots.

This is a Qing Dynasty tomb. They accidentally discovered some Ming Dynasty utensils. From the bronze mirror dressing box and several pieces of jewelry in the coffin, it can be seen that the person buried here is a woman. This beauty from many years ago is now a

The skeleton turned into dust when touched by hand. Some pearls and jades emitted a faint blue light. The two of them were not in a hurry. They sat down cross-legged, drank wine and smoked a cigarette.

Old Man Ding said: "We have made a fortune."

Liu Chaoyang said: "Yes, I have made a fortune."

Early the next morning, Liu Chaoyang put on his hat. There was an old ship and mast on his hat. He smashed the earthen jar on the tombstone, grabbed a few handfuls of rice with his hands and stuffed it into his mouth. A bird flew from the top of his head.

Flying by, he forgot to chew, and the rice grains fell from his mouth like maggots. He and Old Man Ding looked back at the entrance of the cave they had just climbed out of, holding the gold and silver jewelry in their arms, and went down the mountain with a smile.

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

Under the ground, there is another world.

You can see the world by lighting up a torch and getting in through your toilet. There are also some entrances that we notice every day but have forgotten. Open the manhole cover, and in 1974, Professor Ma Jiyu went down from here; 1983

In 2006, the deceased Chen Yin went down here; in 1996, the hawker Heizi still went down here.

Now let's go down from here too.

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

In this world, there live two animals, rats and crime.

Plague and miasma were also born here. They are twin brothers and they share the same mother.

There is a counterfeit currency manufacturing factory in Jiangsu, where a few farmers are manufacturing 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 are manufacturing counterfeit 100-yuan banknotes in the basement; an old man from Puyang, Hanning, runs a counterfeit currency store in his home

Detonators were made in the cellar where ginger was stored, and Fu Chun, a native of Ningbo, dug a hole under the pig pen to produce explosives.

Crime is a strange flower in the underground world.

There are many excavation projects in cities, sewers and sewers are two of them.

In 1994, there was an earthquake in Hong'an County. A whole section of the sewer was dug out of the ground and exposed to the world. People were surprised to find that there was a sewer under the sewer. In addition to the sludge, we also saw a lot of things. In

The pipes and wine glasses sold in the same shop meet again here, the dentures that once swore an oath have become dentures again, the handkerchief that has caused the memory of love has become a handkerchief again, and the sheet where a beautiful young woman slept is now wrapped in a

A dead cat rots here.

What makes people puzzled is what is the use of the sewer under the sewer?

Where does this unknown branch of darkness lead?

Whenever the rainy season comes, Hong'an County becomes a vast ocean.

A county party secretary who took office in 1986 only did one thing during his three years in office: to renovate the sewers. He ordered workers to dig deeper and strengthen the sewers so that they could accommodate more rainwater. Floodwaters used to flow through the streets.

It now flows through sewers, and the sewers under the sewers were dug at that time.

This respectable county party secretary is called Sun Zhaoyu. After his death, a new street was created: Zhaoyu Street. Ten years ago, Zhaoyu Street was called Huazi Street. There were not a single flower on Huazi Street, but there were

There are many beggars. 15 years ago, people also called it "stinky street". Sun Zhaoyu misappropriated public funds, compressed every expenditure, and deducted the wages of civil servants. He behaved like a beggar in front of the company and suffered like a pug in front of his wife.

After begging hard, he asked his boss to be kind and his wife to take out his bankbook. One thing that needs special mention is that after his death, people found that his savings were almost zero. We know that zero is the smallest number and is also infinite.

of a number.

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