Notes From Buried Times Chapter 2

The cat from the Xia family was the first to run out of Kunming Station. Daniel Xia, carrying nearly 50 kilograms of equipment, chased after it with difficulty: "Old Henry Lao! Old Henry Lao, slow down! Don't run around!"

Old Henry Lao didn't care about him and trotted away happily.

Daniel Xia was furious. He gritted his teeth, ran a few steps, grabbed Henry Lao by the scruff of the neck, and just when he wanted to take a breath, he saw the bus heading to the museum disappearing into the distance. He had no choice but to continue running for his life. Soon, he was crushed by the luggage and fell to the ground on the road with a thud.

People on the street gathered around and asked, "Is he dead? Is he dead?"

Daniel Xia suddenly looked up and stretched out his hand: "Car---!!"

"Still alive." The people of Kunming breathed a sigh of relief.

Daniel Xia struggled to stand up, and Old Henry Lao, who was almost crushed, crawled out from under him, gasping for breath.

People lifted Daniel Xia up from the ground, and a man who looked like an intellectual asked, "Where are you going, young comrade?"

Daniel Xia said: "Provincial Museum."

"Hmm?" the man said, "What a coincidence. I am also going to the museum for a meeting. Come on, I will help you with your luggage."

As he said this, he pushed a bicycle over and without waiting for any greetings he tied all the bags on the frame. Daniel Xia hurriedly thanked him while holding the cat.

The middle-aged intellectual asked, "Are you also going to the museum for a meeting?"

Daniel Xia: "Go find someone."

Just as the middle-aged man was about to ask who he was looking for, a man came towards him. From a distance he looked like a ragpicker, but when he got closer he realized he was a very young, good-looking young man.

The young man was tall and had long legs. He was carrying a net bag, a snakeskin bag, and countless luggage on his back. He was walking with his head down. When he looked up and saw Daniel Xia, he took a few steps back and shouted, "Wow, it's you!!"

Daniel Xia rubbed his eyes quickly and said, "Fcuk!"

The man said: "Fcuk you!!"

Daniel Xia said: "Your uncle's!"

The middle-aged man lowered his head: "Ahem..."

The two men immediately stopped arguing and looked in one direction: "Body!!"

The young man called out to the middle-aged man respectfully, "Teacher Sun Minglai."

Sun Minglai asked him: "Aaron Chu, where are you going?"

Aaron Chu looked at Daniel Xia, then squinted at the sky: "I suddenly don't want to go."

Daniel Xia also had more white in his eyes than black: "If I go, I'll be a burden too."

Aaron Chu said: "I don't even bother to pay attention to you!"

Daniel Xia said: "I don't know you!"

Aaron Chu said: "Who are you? Have you been weaned?"

Daniel Xia said: "I went to drink with your dad when he was one month old."

Sun Ming said: "Ahem!!"

Daniel Xia looked for help, jumped behind him and asked, "Teacher Sun, who is this person?"

Sun Ming said, "You guys have been arguing for so long and you're still asking me questions? Comrade Aaron Chu from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

Aaron Chu then remembered that he had not yet introduced his teacher, so he held Daniel Xia's head down and bowed to Sun Minglai: "This is Mr. Sun Minglai from the Provincial Museum."

Daniel Xia shouted "Hello, teacher", then stretched his neck to compete with Aaron Chu in brute strength.

Sun Minglai had no choice but to smile bitterly: "I'm going to be late for the meeting. What are you two talking about?"

Daniel Xia unloaded his luggage and said, "Teacher, please go first. Don't worry about us."

Sun Minglai hesitated and said, "Is everything really alright?"

"fine."

"...Okay then." Sun Minglai rode on his bike, walked about ten meters and then shouted to them: "Stop quarreling!"

Daniel Xia and Aaron Chu said in unison: "Hey!"

As a result, as soon as Sun Ming came back, the two men started fighting.

There are two kinds of friendships among people wearing open-crotch pants, good and bad. Daniel Xia and Aaron Chu are obviously the bad ones.

Aaron Chu's washbasin suddenly fell from the sky, and Daniel Xia's eyes went dark before he noticed it. Thus, Lady Bai was imprisoned in Leifeng Pagoda forever.

The crowd on the street gathered again: "He's dead, he's definitely dead this time."

Aaron Chu let out a long sigh, dusted off his hands, turned around and saw the cat, and shouted emotionally: "Old Henry Lao!!!"

Henry Lao also shouted: "Meow!!!"

Aaron Chu spread his arms, Henry Lao stretched out his front legs, the background was shining, the two ran towards each other in slow motion, hugged each other tightly, and turned several times: "Henry Lao, you have suffered!"

"Meow!"

"Brother didn't take good care of you! Brother is sorry for you! But the revolution has won! You are liberated! You have stood up!"

Old Henry Lao's eyes filled with tears: "Meow..."

"From now on! You live for yourself!"

The infinite longing for freedom in Henry Lao's eyes was cut off by a pale and weak hand. Daniel Xia stood up straight, silent and gloomy.

Old Henry Lao struggled to break free from Aaron Chu's arms and ran away.

Aaron Chu said: "This is naked oppression."

He scratched his head and said, "What are you waiting for? Let's go."

Daniel Xia said, "I won't go."

Aaron Chu said to himself, "We will go to Yun County first, and then to Yongcui Mountain. It will take at least ten days on the way and another three days to get up the mountain. Don't give up. You are the best at running away from the battlefield."

Daniel Xia quickly chased after him, and said stubbornly: "You are the deserter!"

There was no bus from the provincial capital to Yun County, so the two decided to go to Chuxiong first and then find a solution. However, when they asked at the bus station, they were told that the bus to Chuxiong had already left and the next one would have to wait until tomorrow. Aaron Chu had no choice but to take Daniel Xia back to the dormitory.

Aaron Chu and his group of seven young archaeologists who came from research institutes all slept at their desks in an empty room in the museum. A curtain was drawn in the middle to separate the male and female dormitories. The toilet was 500 meters away, and the back and forth was quite a workout.

Daniel Xia's departure caused a sensation.

When Daniel Xia was a child, he had a nickname in the compound, "Don't Believe", which means that this child is unreliable and just lies with his face, so don't believe anything he says. Aaron Chu didn't know how many times he had suffered from him, so he developed a catchphrase: "Why are you the same as our Xia Bie Xin!"

"Come on, stop lying. You think you are something I don't believe!"

Now that the real Bie Xin has arrived, Aaron Chu's colleagues naturally rush to visit him.

A girl in her twenties with long braids asked Daniel Xia, "Why did you bring a cat with you?"

Daniel Xia asked her: "Do you want a hug?"

The girl nodded eagerly, and Daniel Xia handed the cat to her, then said with a smile: "This cat is poisonous."

The girl was so scared that she let go. Aaron Chu immediately slapped Daniel Xia on the head, grabbed the cat back and put it in the girl's hand: "Don't believe it."

An ethnologist named Xiao Zhu was standing nearby. He became excited and asked, "Is it really poisonous?"

Daniel Xia said: "Give it a try."

As he said this, he tried to pull Xiao Zhu's hand. Xiao Zhu cried out in pain. Aaron Chu said as he spread the mattress for Daniel Xia, "Xiao Zhu, don't believe it. Don't believe it."

Sun Minglai came to treat the scientific team to a meal after the meeting and asked Daniel Xia: "How old are you?"

Daniel Xia said: "I am the same age as the ocean."

Sun Ming came to verify, but Aaron Chu still said: "Don't believe it."

Daniel Xia got angry and wanted to overturn the table. Aaron Chu pointed at him with chopsticks: "Go ahead and overturn it. If you dare, I tell you that you may not be able to eat on the road."

Daniel Xia held a steamed bun in his mouth, picked up a few pickles with chopsticks, and sat on the steps to watch the sunset in a huff.

Sun Ming said: "This little comrade is so interesting."

Aaron Chu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and lowered his head to drink his porridge.

After dinner, everyone went about their own business. Sun Ming came and pulled Aaron Chu to give him ten kilograms of food coupons. Aaron Chu said, "Are you kidding me? I don't want it."

Sun Ming said, "You think it's too little? Take it! You can save it on the way."

Aaron Chu was anxious: "How can I take yours! We have it!"

"Just take it and rest assured," Sun Ming said, "I promised to take you there, but now I can't leave. I feel sorry for Lao Li's trust. Anyway, you can trick me first. I will set out with Xiao Zhu in three days, and I will definitely catch up with you."

Aaron Chu asked: "Xiao Zhu?"

"Well, he is going to Lahu Autonomous County, so we can take him along the way." Sun Ming said, "We are going there to investigate, not to excavate, so we don't need to bring too many people. Besides, it's better not to let too many people know about what Lao Li said for the time being."

Aaron Chu nodded, Sun Minglai told him to go to bed early, and the two of them dispersed.

Aaron Chu slept in a daze until half past five. He dragged Daniel Xia up, put on his clothes, and went to the bus station just in time to catch up.

Even though he couldn't buy a seat, Daniel Xia sat on the hood of the engine, feeling aggrieved. Bamboo baskets, shoulder poles, sacks, chickens, ducks, and geese were piled up around him. Old Henry Lao squatted on top of him, and his furry tail made Daniel Xia sneeze.

The driver had a dark complexion and a scruffy beard, but he was very friendly and spoke Sichuan dialect. He turned the steering wheel and asked Aaron Chu: "Are you going to Yun County?"

Aaron Chu said: "Well, transfer from Chuxiong."

The driver looked at him without saying anything, but when he took a break, he said to them, "I think it's better for you not to go."

Daniel Xia asked: "Why?"

The driver said: "It is said that the road over there is broken again, and the only way is to go through Ailao Mountain. But there have been a lot of heavy rains recently, and the roads in the mountains are all dirt roads. Nine out of ten roads have collapsed, and there have been many accidents. Not to mention cars, even mules and horses dare not go on it."

Daniel Xia stuck out her tongue: "Oh my god."

Aaron Chu asked with a smile: "Are you ready to back off?"

"Bullsh!t!" Daniel Xia clapped at the driver, "Yes, we have bus No. 11."

The driver sighed: "You kids."

The mountains were high and the roads were steep, and it was raining heavily. The car was bumpy all the way, starting at dawn and arriving in Chuxiong in the middle of the night.

The driver wiped the sweat off his forehead and said repeatedly that Chairman Mao had blessed him and that the car had not broken down even once in such weather. Aaron Chu wanted to help him unload the goods, but the driver waved his hand and said, "No, go and ask if the car to Yun County is still open."

Aaron Chu was extremely hungry and thirsty, but he did not dare to delay. He told Daniel Xia to knock on the door of the station duty room after checking the luggage. An old man came out in his clothes and said, "It's closed. There's a landslide!"

Aaron Chu was anxious. Daniel Xia picked up the bag and the cat and said, "Let's go! What are you afraid of?"

Aaron Chu said: "You should save your energy. You can't even get there in a year!"

The driver lit a cigarette and came over excitedly: "Hurry, hurry, my brother promised to take you there."

Aaron Chu was delighted when he heard this: "Really?"

"Hey!" the driver said, "Actually, my brother just happened to encounter some strange things. You are educated people from the city and have all been to college. Just tell him about it."

The driver's brother is a freight transporter and drives a large "Liberation" truck.

Daniel Xia happily threw the luggage into the truck bed and climbed onto the passenger seat to squeeze in with Aaron Chu. Aaron Chu said, "Get out of the way and don't sit on my lap."

Daniel Xia refused to earn money and fell asleep after three minutes of making a fuss. Aaron Chu could only hold him and chat with the driver.

The driver's surname was Zhang. He liked to talk a lot. He said to Aaron Chu mysteriously: "Hey, little comrade, this is the first time I have seen a ghost since I was a child!"

Aaron Chu wanted to laugh and asked him: "What the hell?"

The driver said, "Damn it!"

"ah?"

The driver said: "All the old people here know about the Niangniang Tomb. This tomb is huge, covering dozens of acres! All the treasures are buried in it!"

Aaron Chu asked: "Where did the queen come from?"

"The Empress of the Han Dynasty! The Queen!"

Aaron Chu laughed. Both the Eastern and Western Han dynasties were civilizations from the Central Plains. If she was really the queen, she should be buried in the Xianyang Plain. It was more reliable to say that she was the queen of the Kingdom of Dian.