Aji is a very honest person. If we look at the current time, he is 34 years old and should have already married. And if I keep the Taibo Island 2000 mobile phone in my head today, I guess I can replace it with a washbasin? I guess even if I change the washbasin, I can only change it.
Plastic for dishwashing.
There is a diesel generator in the cave. The 70-pound diesel generator is a very old-fashioned one. 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 is made of compressed density board.
When the 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 pay any attention to them.
Aji didn't say anything about collecting our cell 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. However, he was very strong, with thick arms and round shoulders. From a distance, he looked like a doorstep.
The chief of the Hute tribe at that time was an old man in his seventies. He had been in contact with Mr. 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 he wanted to take us to Heishui City that night. Sitting outside the cave in the evening, the old patriarch had seen a lot, and Aji acted as the translator.
The circulating legend of Blackwater City.
The old patriarch said that in his tribe, most people who had herded sheep when they were young knew that place, and this 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, who is that person and what does he look like?"
After listening to Aji's translation, the old patriarch shook his head while eating 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?" He looked at Qin Xingping with his head 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? Why do you know something that I don't 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.
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What I said at the time was quite complicated, so I have 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 Kozlov in the Ural Kingdom (an alternative name). This man was called Kozlov. Because the name was a bit sensitive, I called him Xiao Ke.
It was not easy for Xiao Ke 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 Xiao Ke’s team to dig treasures everywhere in our place, including 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 dealers in domestic antiques at that time were Lu Qinzhai and Yue Bin. Together, they sold more than 100,000 foreign antiques.
Not as good as 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 Quanmao Gun of Emperor Taizong Li Shiming Zhaolingjun of the Sui Dynasty.
White marble large standing Buddha, etc., pan square lei, etc.
Yue Bin is also very creative. There is a TV series called May Sophora Flower Fragrance. The character played by Mr. Wang Gang is 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 pieces in a year. Now that so many Buddha statues in movies have no heads, seven out of ten have something to do with 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 images of emperors and empresses paying homage to Buddhas were taken by water, and one of the boxes fell into the sea, resulting in the incomplete assembly of the later images of emperors and empresses paying homage to Buddhas.
This thing is now hidden in a museum in the United States. 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 talk about it later.
When Xiaoke first came to Yinchuan, he was originally heading to the Xixia Imperial Tomb at the foot of Helan Mountain. However, when he brought his people there, he was dumbfounded. There were nine sealed mounds in total. Not even a hair was left on the stolen ones. There were holes everywhere.
Yes, some caves are filled with water, and grass carp are as big as an arm.
Xiaoke 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 the story about Heishui City from the villagers.
Xiaoke trudged through the sand and encountered a sandstorm just like 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. Xiao Ke was anxious and said, "Take me there quickly. What if you delay my tomb robbery?"
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's service was weak, and he ran to find King Darcy again.
He said let's make peace and I'll give you a good thing. Then Xiao Ke gave King Darcy a set of the most advanced brass loudspeaker gramophone 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 objects. He was also an experienced hand, but he still couldn't understand these things dug out of the sand. This type of style
There were things he had never seen before. He had never seen anything like the three-headed Avalokitesvara statue, the arm 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?"
Gu Ming outside?"
Later, they realized the importance of this batch of things, and sent out more than a dozen telegrams in succession. The contents of the telegrams were all very similar, and they could be summed up in just two words.
