Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 334 Blind Ah Hui, you shouldn’t have come!

While I was stunned, the motorcycle roared away.

Boss Dong poked me with his finger: "Bring the photos in!"

I quickly rolled down the window.

Fortunately, the bottom part of the photo was stuck in the gap of the car window and was not blown away by the wind.

I picked up the photo and looked at it carefully.

It's a very recent black and white photo.

The shooting location should be dimly lit.

So Saito Akihiro's face is not particularly clear.

Well, it's that blurry feeling.

In the photo, Saito Akihiro was tied up on a chair, with his right hand hanging down and his little finger missing.

And there was a pool of blood just below the right hand.

The little finger in the blood seemed to be telling of the kidnapper's cruelty.

"Brother Dong, how long have we been separated from Zhang Hao?" I asked with a frown.

I didn't pay attention to the time just now.

But the time I spent apart from Saito Akihiro was definitely not long!

Boss Dong glanced at his watch: "About an hour."

My brows furrowed even tighter. "In such a short time, they kidnapped Saito Akihiro, developed the photos, and then sent people after us to deliver them..."

"It's impossible to complete no matter how you look at it!"

Boss Dong looked like he had seen a lot of storms.

He said calmly, "Why is it impossible to complete?"

"If you're not careful, kidnapping someone is a matter of minutes."

"Huh?!" I asked in surprise, "But developing photos takes a lot of time."

"Can you develop the photos in an hour?"

"Pfft, ahahaha."

Boss Dong pointed at me and laughed: "No way."

I was completely stunned.

I have no idea what he's laughing at.

Because photo studios are very slow in developing photos.

Normally it takes two or three days to get the photos, and even if you expedite it, it will take the next day.

I took it for granted that developing photos would take a lot of time.

Boss Dong took the photo and put it under his nose and smelled it.

"Hmm, the smell of the fixing water is still there. It was just washed out not long ago."

"A skilled person can develop a black and white photo like this in just ten minutes."

"So fast?!" I was surprised.

"Black and white is fast, but color is troublesome." Boss Dong said as he flipped through the photos.

There were crooked words written in blood on the back of the photo.

The strokes of the characters are very thick, as if they were written with Saito Akihiro's severed finger.

Boss Dong looked at the bloody words and read, "Blind man... Hui!"

When he said the word "Ah Hui", his voice trembled and his face became bitter.

He then turned the photo over to the front.

It seemed as if he was very reluctant to see the line of blood.

I asked curiously, "Who is Blind Ah Hui?"

Boss Dong smiled bitterly: "If you ask others, no one will know who Blind Ah Hui is."

"But decades ago... he was a well-known figure in the tomb-robbing circles south of the Yangtze River!"

Whether it was the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, or the 1980s and 1990s, the tomb-robbing circle was divided into two factions, north and south, with the Yangtze River as the boundary.

The reason why there are North-South factions.

This is mainly because the geological environment between the north and the south is quite different.

This results in different tomb exploration and drilling techniques in the north and south.

When the masters of the southern school go to the north, many of their experiences and skills are no longer useful.

The same is true when northern masters go to the south.

Within the two factions of the north and the south, there are many small factions.

“Nanpai, you should have heard of it, right?”

I nodded: "I heard it from Master Tuo."

"The southern school was mainly composed of the Changsha Tufuzi, who excavated ancient tombs around Changsha extensively during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China."

"Master Tuo also said that the local farmers in Changsha had dug several fire holes, and the things they found were all priceless."

The Changsha tomb robbers are definitely the top ones among the southern tomb robbers.

Later, when the Mawangdui Han Tomb was excavated, many experts tried their best but were unable to move Lady Xin Zhui's body out of the coffin intact.

Ren Quansheng, a local tomb robber who was eventually recruited, took action.

He first tilted the coffin and used gravity to turn Lady Xin Zhui's body sideways, separating the back of the body from the bottom of the coffin.

Then put the five plywood boards on Lady Xin Zhui's head, back, waist, and legs, and then lay the coffin flat.

Finally, ten people grabbed the five plywood placed at the bottom of the coffin from both sides and finally took the body of Lady Xin Zhui out of the coffin intact.

Don’t say anything else.

Just for the fact that the body can be taken out of the coffin intact.

This is enough to show the technical skills of the southern masters.

So I'm looking forward to meeting Blind Hui.

It would be great if I could learn some experience and techniques from this southern senior.

"Ah Hui is the famous Changsha Tufuzi."

"He's unearthed a lot of good stuff."

"I sold the vase to my father for 1,500 dollars, and the small temple to him for 4,000 dollars."

"Flower vase, small temple, do you understand what it means?" Boss Dong asked with a smile.

He is testing me on purpose.

These two words were the slang used by tomb robbers in the early years.

The flower vase is a bronze goblet.

Because its shape resembles a vase for flower arrangement, it is called a flower vase.

The small temple is a bronze square Yi.

Because its shape looks like a small temple.

The reason for this name is that tomb robbers are not engaged in archaeological research.

They don't know what the scientific name is, nor do they study what the scientific name is.

As long as you know whether it is valuable and how much it is worth.

Well, the above was explained to me by Boss Dong.

After he finished explaining, he continued, "The bronze artifacts that led to the extermination of my family were bought by my father from Blind Ah Hui."

"He was captured by Torii Ryuzo's men back then."

"In order to survive, I confessed that the bronze artifacts were bought by my father."

"You can say that my whole family was indirectly killed by him!"

By this calculation, Blind Ah Hui did betray Boss Dong's father.

It is no exaggeration to say that he indirectly harmed the entire Dong family.

I whispered, "Didn't you seek revenge on him?"

Boss Dong lit a cigarette and took two deep puffs.

"I really want to kill him for revenge."

"Twenty years ago, when I heard that he was coming to Hong Kong Island, I immediately took people to look for him."

“But when I found him, I softened.”

"He's like that... ah!"

"You'll know when you see it."

Boss Dong started the car and hit the road again.

I looked at the photo and fell into deep thought.

I always feel like someone is weaving a big net to trap me!

But why did you trap me?

I'm worthless!

Soon the car stopped at the entrance of a narrow street.

The alley is lined with small houses built with wooden boards.

"Blind Ah Hui lives inside."

"This is a slum on Hong Kong Island. Not only is it dirty and messy, but the people living there are also..."

Boss Dong shook his head and didn't say anything else.

But you know it without me saying it.

The people who live here are either dishonest or involved in the sex trade. There are very few good people.

Boss Dong took me to the end of the alley.

Push open a dilapidated courtyard door.

The old man sitting in the yard had his back to us.

The old man was mostly bald, with only a few white hairs around his ears and on the back of his head.

His body was skinny, and his arms, which were placed on the armrests of the chair, were so thin that they were just skin and bones.

It feels like a gust of wind can blow him away.

Boss Dong said coldly, "Luo Hui."

The old man's ears moved slightly.

"Ugh!"

He sighed and slowly turned to face us.

The moment I saw his face, I felt a chill down my spine.

The right half of his face was covered with pits and scars, as if it had been licked by the barbs on the tongue of a wild beast.

Most of the nose is missing.

There is no nose tip or nose wings, only the nose bridge and two black nostrils.

The most frightening thing is his eyes.

Both eyeballs were gone, and a lot of hideous red flesh like little snakes had grown in the eye sockets.

If I saw this face at night, I would definitely think I had seen a ghost!

"You guys shouldn't have come!"