Li Zhongfu originally came here to try his luck, but he didn't expect to meet two Japanese people at random. The Japanese seemed to be interested.
He said, "This great Bodhisattva is not here now."
Old Chen smiled and said, "Of course we know it's not here, so you can take us to see it."
"He is in our village."
Old Chen sensitively grasped the key point in the words: "We? This Bodhisattva, isn't the old gentleman yours alone?"
Li Zhongfu said: "Of course we are not alone. He belongs to the whole village. I just came to the city to find a buyer."
"Oh—" Lao Chen and Gu Nanshan glanced at each other, which is not easy. Difficulty in adjusting is one reason, and poor mountains and bad waters are another reason. The experience summed up by the ancestors always has its own reason. It is not easy to collect this statue of a human head and a snake from the hands of a villager.
Li Zhongfu clearly recognized the two's concerns and quickly said: "You don't have to be afraid of getting along well. We agreed to sell this bodhisattva. As long as the price is not very low, everyone is willing to sell it."
After Li Zhongfu was very rich, Lao Chen also realized that the origin of this statue of a snake with a human head was not like the other cultural relics received today that were just unearthed from the tombs, but an old man with a long history. It can be seen from that old black and white photo that this image has been around for many years.
"I don't know if it is convenient for Fang to ask, why did people in your village agree to sell this statue? How did you get this statue?"
Li Zhongfu sighed first, looking at this posture as if he was going to raise a glass of wine to tell his heart. Without those conditions at the moment, we can only use tea instead of wine.
"The photo and the statue of the Bodhisattva were not obtained at the same time. The photo was in the 1960s. During the war, I was a guerrilla and captured the Americans on the battlefield."
"Have you ever been in a guerrilla team?"
Li Zhongfu straightened up, "That is, when I beat the Americans, you weren't born yet."
The guerrilla fighting against the Americans in his mouth refers to the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975. The Americans supported the South Vietnamese government and China and the Soviet Union assisted the North Vietnamese government. After two decades of the Civil War, 500,000 U.S. troops were finally defeated. North Vietnam unified the whole country, which is now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Due to the lessons of the Korean War, the U.S. military was afraid of the Chinese Volunteers’ intervention in the Vietnam War, and therefore never crossed the 17th parallel, which is the Vietnamese version of the "March 8" line. Therefore, North Vietnam was able to use the north as a base to send guerrillas to the south to fight with the United States. Dealing with it for a long time.
Li Zhongfu may be the guerrilla sent to the south.
Li Zhongfu lit a cigarette, "I am a southerner, but our village was confiscated by the Americans as a garrison camp. We were rushed away. Some young people in the village and I couldn't stand the anger, so we joined the northern guerrillas. , And because I am familiar with the terrain, I also became the team leader. The most glorious time in my life was the day when the Americans stationed in our village were driven away. I personally led people to rush back to the village. While cleaning the battlefield, I found this photo."
Li Zhongfu wrapped the photo and put it back in his arms, "When the Americans ran, many materials were burnt to ashes and nothing was left for us. I picked this photo out of the ashes." (End of this chapter)