Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 335: Tomb Robbery by the Nose, Han Dynasty Silk Manuscript

Blind Ah Hui had just finished speaking.

Boss Dong looked at the old door with extreme vigilance.

Apparently, he suspected an ambush in the house.

I was startled and thought I was careless!

There is a high possibility that an ambush has been set here.

But we didn’t even bring anything to protect ourselves!

When I raised my foot to step back, Blind Ah Hui laughed: "Haha."

He raised his head and looked at us with his eye sockets without eyeballs.

Don't be surprised if I used the word "look at".

At that moment, I really felt that he could see us with his eye sockets.

"My shabby house is so dirty and smelly that no one else can stay here except me."

"Don't worry about an ambush."

Boss Dong's face froze.

It is not right to stand still and retreat, nor is it right not to retreat.

I stopped and stared at blind Ah Hui curiously.

I wondered how he knew Boss Dong’s reaction?

Although a blind person has good hearing, we had just lifted our feet.

There was no sound at all.

Did he guess what Boss Dong was thinking?

Blind Ah Hui tilted his head slightly.

Those eye sockets covered with red polyps were looking directly at me.

Then he smiled, which he thought was gentle but was actually very scary.

"Young man, you smell like dirt."

"Are you a fellow tomb raider?"

I was about to open my mouth to answer.

But he continued: "Hmm, it smells a little earthy."

"He must have just started working in the industry not long ago."

"Come closer, let me smell it again."

I was stunned.

Do you have an earthy smell?

It has been so long since we came out of the Tomb of the Gods. I took a shower and changed clothes in the middle, and then I went through all the trouble of traveling from south to north.

Even if there was a fishy smell in the tomb, it has almost dissipated.

I lowered my head in disbelief.

I sniffed my arms, armpits, and body.

All I could smell was sweat.

The humid weather in the south is really unbearable and I sweat when I move a little.

If I don't shower for two days, I start to smell.

Could it be that Blind Ah Hui mistook the smell of sweat for the smell of earth?

I walked up to him while thinking about it.

He stuck his head out and sniffed me hard.

"Hmm, dry fishy smell."

"The one who fell in Shaanxi and Gansu, right?"

My eyes widened in shock.

If I didn't know that he was a veteran tomb robber, I would definitely think he was a blind fortune teller.

It's as if he had seen me robbing a tomb with his own eyes.

"Senior, can you really smell it?" I couldn't help but ask.

Blind Ah Hui grinned.

"Hey hey hey."

"I'm best at smelling the earth."

"Other people mainly rely on observation when exploring graves and digging soil, looking at the raw and cooked soil, the soil color and so on."

"I just need to smell the soil to know if there is a grave underneath."

"You can even smell the difference between big and small tombs, old and new ones."

"I'm so respected by people in my field that they all call me 'Shenbihui' when they see me."

A look of deep nostalgia emerged on the scarred and broken old face of the blind man Ah Hui.

He is reminiscing about the past glory.

"Bah!" Boss Dong spat fiercely.

"A shameless person who sells out his friends for personal gain, what a piece of shit Shenbihui!"

"Now there's only Blind Hui!"

Blind Ah Hui's face instantly fell.

He acted like a child who had done something wrong.

Her hands were tightly grasping her thighs, and her lips were trembling slightly.

If his eyes were still there, they would probably be filled with tears.

"I, I didn't... I didn't sell out my friends for personal gain!"

"If I had betrayed your father, if I had agreed to rob the tomb for Torii Ryuzo, how could I have ended up like this!"

Blind Ah Hui roared excitedly.

Ten fingernails dug into the thigh flesh.

The skin was pinched and blood oozed out.

"I'm not a spineless person!"

"The one who betrayed your father was one of your own guys!"

"Take a good look at my face!"

Blind Ah Hui raised his right hand and pointed hard at his right cheek.

"Did you see my face?"

"This is a bear bite!"

"Tori Ryuzo forced me to reveal the whereabouts of those bronze artifacts, poured chili water on me, put me on a tiger bench, and finally got a bear to bite me!"

"But even so, I didn't tell him a word!"

Boss Dong frowned.

He shouted angrily, "Nonsense!"

"On the night my family was brutally murdered, my old servant Wu Zhong risked his life to save me and help me escape."

"He told the truth on his deathbed."

"He said that when Torii Ryuzo captured you in Changsha, he heard you tell him the whereabouts of the bronze artifacts."

"What a joke! What a joke!" Blind Ah Hui slapped his thigh and laughed up to the sky: "Hahaha!"

"In the 33rd year of the Republic of China, Changsha fell."

"Tori Ryuzo has ordered the Special High Technology Division to apprehend tomb robbers and antique dealers in Changsha."

"On the seventeenth day after I was arrested, Torii Ryuzo brought Wu Zhong to the torture chamber."

"Tori Ryuzo cut off my nose with a knife!"

Blind Ah Hui raised his head as much as possible.

He pointed his broken nose, which had no tip or wings, at us.

The place where the nose and face should be connected is full of gaps.

It can be seen that it was not cut with a sharp knife.

Instead, use a blunt knife and cut it slowly, little by little.

The pain of having a knife cut flesh makes one's scalp tingle just thinking about it.

What’s more, it was the nose that was cut off!

"Wu Zhong was so scared that he peed his pants on the spot!"

"Before Torii Ryuzo asked, he said everything he should and shouldn't say!"

"The person who betrayed your father and caused the tragic extermination of your entire family is your so-called loyal servant!"

"Wu Zhong, humph!"

"Just a disloyal rat!"

I stared at Blind Hui's expression the whole time.

I don't think he's lying.

Boss Dong's expression became very complicated.

"Impossible, it's fake, you said it was all fake!"

"If Wu Zhong betrayed my father, then why did he risk saving me?"

"If he hadn't saved me, I would have died that night!"

But I couldn't understand Boss Dong's complicated expression.

It was a contradictory expression of wanting to believe but not wanting to believe.

But deep down I have the urge to believe.

This means that Boss Dong already has doubts about Wu Zhong.

He was unwilling to doubt it just because Wu Zhong had saved his life.

"Humph!"

"You were sold out by him and you still helped him count the money!"

Blind Ah Hui turned his head away after saying this.

He showed an out-of-sight, out-of-mind look.

I squatted down in front of the blind man Ah Hui and said, "Senior Luo, why did Torii Ryuzo arrest you?"

"You asked the right question, kid."

Blind Ah Hui glanced at Boss Dong with his eye sockets without eyeballs.

He continued, "In the 31st year of the Republic of China, I led people to dig out a Han Dynasty tomb in the Bullet Depot."

"A Han Dynasty silk manuscript was unearthed from the tomb."

"The silk book is rectangular, with twelve colorful images of gods painted on the four sides."

"There are two paragraphs of text written between the twelve statues."

"The first paragraph has thirteen lines, and the second has eight."

"The strangest thing is that these two paragraphs are reversed, which does not conform to normal writing habits at all."

“I feel like it’s definitely not something simple.”

"So I copied down a dozen or so characters and showed them to some of Changsha's most learned old scholars."

“But they don’t know those words!”

"That's really strange."

“No one can recognize the characters in the Han Dynasty silk manuscripts!!!”