I looked at Xiaoning in confusion. What could it be that was taken from a history textbook? This is too ridiculous. Such important information should be verified in a textbook?
"Don't look at me like that, you'll know after you take a look first."
Xiaoning spread out the paper in his hand. It should be an enlarged picture. I was not a student. I spent most of my time in school dawdling, but I have a soft spot for history and I like this one better.
When Xiaoning unfolded this enlarged picture, I felt very familiar, especially the two place names marked on the picture.
"Can you see what this is?" Xiaoning asked me.
"This should be the Great Wall of Qin?" I replied tentatively. In fact, I can't remember the specific direction of the Great Wall of Qin, but the two place names Lintao and Liaodong marked on the map stirred my memory.
"You are a little smarter than I thought." Xiaoning said, "It's Qin Changcheng."
I was speechless, where did this all happen? How could such a good thing be related to the Great Wall of Qin?
"Don't ask so many questions first. Let's finish analyzing this problem." Xiaoning put away the enlarged picture and took out another picture. This picture was hand-drawn.
Because I just saw the enlarged picture, I can still see some details in the second hand-drawn picture. The second picture may have completely simplified the first picture, discarding other things and only outlining one line.
The obvious direction of the Great Wall of Qin.
To me, although the second hand-drawn drawing is quite vague and only a rough outline, it is more intuitive than the first picture. I suddenly understood that the very abstract picture collected by Uncle Lai is very similar to the Great Wall of Qin.
Pictures, different approaches but the same purpose.
"No wonder, no wonder I always feel vaguely familiar." I finally understood why I felt that the picture seemed familiar when I first saw it, but I couldn't recall it.
"You're a little smarter than I thought." Xiaoning saw my expression and praised me, then he took out the picture collected by Uncle Lai.
When the two pictures are compared together, it becomes even more obvious. The picture collected by Uncle Lai has no obvious lines. Many dots are densely gathered together, forming a vague line. This line is the specific structure of the Great Wall of Qin.
towards.
"It would be better if I didn't have this discovery. But with this discovery, I can't understand it even more." Xiaoning said, "I didn't dare to ask my uncle. If I asked him, he wouldn't tell me, so I could only think about it myself.
"
This question made my thinking jump from the deep underground engineering of the Xihai River to the Great Wall of Qin. I felt that there could be no connection between the two.
"The Great Wall of Qin, starting from Lintao in the west and reaching Liaodong in the east, is a giant fortification built by almost a single country to resist foreign invasion." Xiaoning spread out the three pictures again and put them in front of me: "You
What do you think these pictures mean?”
"Do you think I would know?"
Xiaoning and I made a lot of speculations and put forward many hypotheses, but none of them were realistic. A few hours later, Xiaoning suddenly said to me: "Look, can you try to ask Jin Pingmei?"
"Jin Ping Mei?" I frowned, but I felt that Xiao Ning was right. I was imprisoned here probably entirely because of this picture. When Jin Ping Mei saw that I was hiding this picture, her expression changed.
Changed, which means he must know something inside.
"I was brought here by my uncle. Jin Ping Mei must be very wary of me. If I ask, he won't say a word. Of course, if you ask, he may not say a word, but you
It's better to ask than me to ask, give it a try, even if he doesn't tell us, we won't lose anything."
I rolled my eyes, Xiaoning just put a grenade on my neck, but I couldn't refuse, because I also wanted to know.
Since Uncle Lai talked to Jin Pingmei, I have had some freedom, although not much, but I can convey my wishes through the person who guards me. So after two days, I said that I had something to do and wanted to see Jin Pingmei. Now
The two guards were relatively honest. After listening to my words, one of them called me to convey my message. Unfortunately, after he put down the phone, he told me that Jin Pingmei had gone out and might not be in the local area at the moment.
No one knew what he was going to do, so I had to give up the idea for the time being and wait every day. Xiaoning would come often. We also discussed privately whether we could escape secretly, but after a series of observations, we found that it was quite difficult.
There is no possibility that Jin Ping Mei's arrangement is watertight and we can't find any flaws.
This time, Jin Pingmei was out for about ** days. The day after he came back, he asked someone to take me there. Fat Bald was gone, and Jin Pingmei said that he had returned to his own land.
"What a pity." I said to Jin Pingmei very dissatisfied: "That is a fierce man, why don't you take him with us?"
"I remember telling you." Jin Pingmei told me slowly: "He is my true friend. If it is not to the point where I really have no choice, I will not trouble him. Huang Laoyi has already taken care of it. I will talk to your lieutenant."
Uncle has also made an agreement, and I can do the rest by myself without the help of others."
I really wanted to contradict Jin Pingmei, but after thinking about my purpose, I endured it. Jin Pingmei didn’t hate me. She chatted with me and even made tea for me. After chatting for a while, I deliberately changed the topic to that person.
Pictured above, of course, I don’t expect to get any clues from Jin Ping Mei’s mouth, I’m just trying.
"The two of us shouldn't be considered enemies, right?"
"Yeah." Jin Pingmei took a sip of tea and said, "It doesn't count."
"That's good, I want to ask you something as a friend." I asked carefully: "What was captured on the dv, just don't tell me. I want to know, that picture..."
"That picture is strange, isn't it? Are you curious too?"
"I'm very curious." I looked at Jin Ping Mei longingly: "Tell me, I have a very strict mouth."
Jin Pingmei stopped talking while drinking tea, probably thinking whether he should tell me this. After thinking for a while, he put down the cup and said: "You know why I had to kill you behind your back after seeing this picture."
Are you going to find out the person?"
"How much does this picture mean to you?"
"You can say that, but it's not entirely true." Jin Pingmei slowly rubbed her eyes and turned her gaze aside: "First, this picture was originally a photo, and the photo was taken by one person.
A very, very important person to me. He took this photo from Tibet and gave it to me. However, the photo was stolen. You should know by now that the person who stole the photo is your Uncle Lai.
.”
"I apologize on his behalf, go on."
"Because this person is very important to me, I want to treasure everything he left behind. I want to get back the stolen photos. This is the first point. Second, when he handed me these photos, this person
I once said that behind these seemingly simple photos, there are actually many hidden things, and it is best not to involve them. When I met your Uncle Lai, he had cash and other things on him, but he didn’t take them.
Several of the photos show that he is very directional and the theft is selective, which also shows that he must know something about the situation, otherwise he would not do it."
"Then what?"
"I want to find him, see how much he knows, and persuade him to give up. If he insists, he may implicate other people." Jin Pingmei said to me seriously: "But when I really saw your Uncle Lai
, I feel that he has sunk in very deep and may not be able to extricate himself."
I didn't answer. I didn't know what else Jin Pingmei knew, but Uncle Lai did everything for my dad. I couldn't talk too much and expose my dad's affairs.
"If you want to know about this picture, I can tell you that it's not a big deal, but it sounds like a fantasy."
After Jin Pingmei's very important friend gave him the photos, Jin Pingmei actually had no involvement. Maybe just like what he said, he treasured these photos as a kind of commemoration and memory. In other words, Jin Pingmei himself was not actually involved.
Those who are willing to get involved in these things.
But the bad thing is Zhao Yingjun.
Zhao Yingjun is a restless person. He found Jin Pingmei a long time ago and asked about the photos. Because the most important photos have been lost, Jin Pingmei cannot get them out. I guess Jin Pingmei is a very good friend.
He still helped Zhao Yingjun and helped him collect some information. While collecting these information, Jin Pingmei learned something.
"The biggest discovery is the photo of the Great Wall of Qin."
They dug out some information from the information surrounding the Qin Great Wall, and then Jin Pingmei, Zhao Yingjun, and other people I don't know, analyzed and inferred together. The inference results were incredible. From a certain perspective, it was
As Jin Pingmei herself said, this inference is a bit fanciful, but they are well-founded, otherwise a few adults would not get together to make up fairy tales.
"I'm not good at studying history. At that time, in northern Qin, the biggest threat was probably the nomadic Xiongnu. The Great Wall was probably built to defend against them."
"It seems like this." I thought about it. Although I liked the history class, after all, I had left school and textbooks for so many years, so I didn't remember it very clearly.
"Let's demonstrate." Jin Pingmei took a piece of paper and drew a stroke horizontally: "This line is the Great Wall of Qin, stretching from west to east for thousands of miles. I am a layman and can only use normal thinking and calculation methods.
Calculate, how many troops did Qin have at that time? How many troops could be put into each kilometer of the Great Wall?"
"What do you want to say?"
"It is actually unscientific to use the Great Wall as a line of defense. Nomads can gather tens of thousands of troops at one point, and tens of thousands of people rush to kill them together. They can easily tear through this line of defense and march straight in." Jin Pingmei dropped the pencil in her hand and said:
"What I want to tell you is that the real function of the Qin Great Wall is not to defend against enemies. You may not be able to guess what its function is."