In a hot pot restaurant in Dongsi, it was full of diners, the water vapor in the hot pot was filled, and the sound of pushing cups and changing lamps and shouting five and six was endless.
We sat at an empty table in the corner, and the big gold tooth poured me wine again and again, I thought to myself that this guy wanted to get me drunk and set my porcelain, so I quickly stopped him: "Master Jin, these two pots are too strong, I should have a little beer." "
While eating and talking, the topic came to the matter of the inverted bucket, the big gold tooth grinned, tapped his own gold tooth with his fingertips and said to us: "The two masters are on the eyes, this gold tooth is the gold of the former Ming Buddha Lang that I collected in Panjiayuan, dug out of the tomb, and plucked it out of the mouth of the zongzi." I didn't want to sell it, so I pulled out my tooth and replaced it. "
This person is really, when he eats, he picks out all the disgusting words, and he doesn't let people eat, and he is reluctant to spend money, and you just say how good it is. I quickly diverted the conversation and talked to him about something else.
Money presses slaves and maids, and art presses pedestrians, we casually chatted about some doorways to see the feng shui tombs, and talked about some deeds of being sappers in Kunlun Mountain.
Before Da Jinya's father was arrested by the Kuomintang, he was an apprentice with a Hunan surname Cai, and he knew a lot about digging graves, but he didn't learn the skills of finding caves. Because his master, Mr. Cai, himself does not understand the art of feng shui. Twelve years after the Republic of China, Luoyang farmer Li Yazi invented the Luoyang shovel, before that, their faction mainly smelled with their noses, in order to maintain the sensitivity of the nose, they avoided spicy things such as tobacco and alcohol.
Punch into the ground with an iron drill, and smell it with your nose after pulling it out, the various smells brought up by the iron drill from the underground soil, as well as the feel of the ground when beating the soil, the ground is empty, or there is wood, masonry, these feelings must be different.
In fact, this is similar to the principle of using Luoyang shovel to beat soil, except that one is to smell with the nose and the other is to look at it with the eyes. If there are any porcelain pieces, wood chips, cloth pieces, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, mercury and lead, including rammed earth, bricks and tiles, etc., these are the proof that there are tombs underground, and the age and layout structure of the underground tombs can be speculated through these clues.
However, Wentu's craft was lost here to the big gold tooth, his father's legs were disabled, and he had congenital asthma since he was a child, so he no longer went to be a captain of the gold school. Generally, those who do this business have seen a lot of real things, and with this little eyesight, they started an antique business.
I jokingly said that your ancestors on this craft is a little trendy, I heard the elders of my family say some things about the inverted bucket, the real master, there is no shovel with an iron drill Luoyang, it is all stupid tricks, people with the ability to go to a place, take a look, you will know whether there is an ancient tomb underground, where it is buried, what structure, these can be seen at a glance. Where there is an excellent place for feng shui, there must be a big tomb, and those who can be buried in it are not ordinary people during their lifetime, and this kind of tomb is full of treasures. The real experts are disdainful of those things in Luoyang, because if the underground soil is not dry enough, the effect will be greatly reduced, especially in those rich places in the south of the Yangtze River, where the rainfall is heavy, many ancient tombs are flooded by groundwater, and the underground soil layer is washed into a mess.
The big golden tooth listened to me and admired me even more: "Master Hu, I am convinced, as the saying goes, it is okay to die at night when I hear it, after listening to your high arguments, I have not lived so old in vain." To you, who not only understands feng shui, but also has been a sapper, and understands civil engineering operations, it is really rare to meet and not to find, and it is a pity that you have the ability not to be a captain of the touching gold. "
I shook my head and said, "I don't plan to do that kind of immoral thing." What I just said was told by my grandfather, who also worked as a captain in the past, but he ran into a big zongzi and almost took his life. "
The big gold tooth said that there must be a risk, and there is no fear of carrying a few black donkey hooves, and the so-called thief also has a way, and the reputation of the inverted bucket is not good, it is all because some indiscriminate thieves are corrupted, they are not people in this industry at all, they don't know the rules, and they mess around destructively, can they not attract hatred? The history of the inverted fight should be traced, I am afraid that it will be no less than 3,000 years, when Cao Cao had a unit under the Three Kingdoms, which specially excavated the property in the ancient tomb to fill the military salary, and we have the nickname of Captain Touching Jin.
Before the liberation, this line was divided into four sects, southeast, northwest and northwest, and in modern times, the talent withered, and there were few people left, and the few remaining people were all washed in gold. The current juniors are all idlers from the countryside, and gangs go to dig graves in groups. Where do you know what is the rule of two not one in the industry, three incense and three worships, blowing the lamp and touching the gold, alas, how many good things have been destroyed in their hands.
The big golden tooth sighed for a while, and then said to us: "I have been making things in Panjiayuan for many years, if you two have any good things in the future, I can be responsible for contacting the buyer for you, you go to talk in person, and give me some tips after the negotiation." "
The fat man had been busy eating and drinking, and at this time he was eighty percent full, and suddenly remembered something, and took out the piece of jade on his body for the big gold tooth to be identified to see how much it was worth.
The big gold tooth looked at it, and then put it on the side of his nose and sniffed it a few times: "Fat man, your piece is a good jade, at least it is not less than a thousand years old, huh... It may be even earlier, it should be before the Tang Dynasty. The text on this is not Chinese, I can't see what it is, it must be worth a lot of money, but before you judge the specific value, you'd better keep it and don't make a move, otherwise you may lose a lot. Where did you get this piece of jade? "
The fat man was interested when he talked about the history of his family: "If you want to talk about the origin, it is a child without a mother, and it is a long story." Let me tell you this, this piece of jade was given by my father's old comrade-in-arms when he participated in the jute riots, and my father's old comrade-in-arms was the No. 1 chief of the Yeji, and when he led the troops into Xinjiang, his troops encountered a group of bandits, and these bandits were also looking for death, can the guard regiment around the No. 1 leader of the People's Liberation Army eat dry food? In less than five or six minutes, the hundred and ten bandits were wiped out, and when cleaning the battlefield, this piece of jade was found on a bandit leader, and the number one leader gave it to my father as a souvenir. I don't know what happened to this piece of jade any further. "
We drank until more than twelve o'clock in the evening before parting, and at the time of parting, the big gold tooth gave each of us a hook-like thing, which was more than an inch long, black and shiny, extremely hard, and engraved with two seal characters, which looked like the word "touch gold". It is an old, antiquity-like object with a hole in one end and a red thread that can be worn around the neck as an ornament. The big gold tooth said: "Our buddies really hit it off at first sight, these two are talismans made of the claws of pangolins, leave a memory for the two of you, and come to Panjiayuan to find me when you have time." The green mountains do not change, the green water always flows, and we will have a period in the future. "
The fat man and I went back to a small bungalow we rented near Chongwenmen, drank too much wine, and slept dizzily until noon the next day.
Waking up and lying in bed, staring at the low, low ceiling, I thought a lot. Tomb robbing is actually not new to me, and I am sure that I will find some large mausoleums. Money is not the most important thing for me, it can be said that I don't care about money at all, but life is always full of contradictions, and I need money too much now.
My parents are supported by the state, I have no family burden, and the whole family is not hungry when I have enough to eat, but what about my brothers who died on the battlefield, and who will take care of their parents? The cost of medical treatment and medicine, as well as the tuition fees for their younger siblings to go to school, is not enough to drink the northwest wind with that pension.
On the battlefield, it seems that everyone except me has a reason that they should never die, but the last survivor is me, and my life was bought by many comrades-in-arms with their own lives, and I should do something for them now.
At this time, the fat man also woke up, rubbed his eyes, and saw that I was staring at the roof in a daze, so he said to me, "Old Hu, what do you want?" Actually, if you don't say it, I know that the words of the big gold tooth yesterday made your heart move, didn't it? I'm also itching in my heart, what's wrong with our brothers? I'll just wait for your words. "
I took out the amulet given by the big gold tooth: "Fat man, don't treat that grandson as a good person, he is also in business, and he doesn't get up early if he is not profitable." This digging claw was worn by Cao Cao's subordinates during the Three Kingdoms, so he could give us such a valuable thing casually? He has taken a fancy to our two skills and wants to get some benefits from it. "
The fat man was anxious: "Fuck, I don't look like a good bird for a long time, I'll go to Panjiayuan in a while, break off Ya's big gold tooth and throw it in the pit." "
That being said, the two of us together feel that we should still use each other and don't fall out with him for the time being. The shortcoming of my character is that I am too impulsive, I don't think much about the consequences of doing things, I think the road of tomb robbery is feasible, Chairman Mao said that everything in the world has its two sides, good things can become bad things, and bad things can also become good things, this is dialectics.
There are countless treasures in the tombs of those emperors and generals, but can it be said that these good things belong to the owner of the tomb? It's not all scavenged and exploited from the common people, taken from the people, and should be applied to the people, how can they be allowed to sleep in the ground forever with those dry bones. If you want to do it, you can make it bigger, those folk tombs are not interesting, most of them have nothing valuable, and take the things of the common people to damage yin morality.
I once heard my grandfather talk about the rules of Captain Touching, which are very different from those of tomb robbers. Tomb robbers are all digging indiscriminately, doing things absolutely absolutely, no matter what loyal and good generals you are, what officials are still common people, who is who, there is no rule at all, even if there is, it is all figured out by the peasants themselves, it is not like that at all.
The captains of the gold school worked, and whenever the tomb was dug up, a candle should be lit in the underground palace of the tomb, placed in the southeast corner, and then the coffin was opened and the gold was touched. The most valuable things of the deceased are often worn on the body, and some tomb owners above the prince are all with beads in their mouths, covered with gold and jade, and have heart protection jade on their chests, jade ruyi in their hands, and even gems in their anuses. At this time, do not damage the remains of the deceased, touch lightly from the top of the head to the soles of the feet, and finally leave one or two treasures for the deceased. In between, if the candle in the southeast corner is extinguished, it is necessary to put back the belongings in their hands as they are, respectfully kowtow three times, and return the way they came.
Because legend has it that some tombs have souls, as for why they don't enter the reincarnation and stay in the tomb for thousands of years, it's hard to say, it is likely that they are reluctant to live for glory and wealth, and they still stare at their treasures every day after death.
In the end, the fat man and I decided, fuck it, and be sure to touch Captain Kim! What is not condemned by conscience, let's let the dog eat it as a conscience, no, eat half of it, um... Not right either. Let's look at it from another angle, it's the 80s, don't they all advocate dedication? Now it is also the turn of the princes and nobles who exploit the working people. However, the consciousness of these dead ghosts is very low, don't expect them to climb out and dedicate themselves, this kind of thing, we will do it for you, beat them in the autumn wind of the feudal ruling class, clean up a piece of gold, and divide the fields and land.
The strategic direction has been determined, and the specific tactical objectives and how to implement them will have to be carefully discussed.
In Henan, Hunan, and Shaanxi, where tomb robbery is most prevalent, the big tombs are not easy to find, and it is inconvenient to do things in places with many people, and it is necessary to plant crops and build houses and other behaviors as a cover.
If you talk about the big tombs I have seen in the deep mountains and old forests, the first one in the list must be the one in Niuxin Mountain. When I went up to the mountains and went to the countryside, I was too young to understand anything, and judging by my current experience, the tomb should be before the Northern Song Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, it was fashionable to take the mountain as a mausoleum, this atmosphere continued until the beginning of the Song Dynasty, after the Southern Song Dynasty, the national strength gradually weakened, and no royal mausoleum dared to have such a huge project.
The fat man asked me, didn't you say that Niuxin Mountain is haunted? Can you find someone who is not haunted, we don't have anything to deal with the bears and savages, but we don't know how to start when we encounter ghosts.
I said, first, there are no ghosts in this world, and what I told you last time may be a hallucination caused by my high fever; Second, this is our first action, and we don't necessarily have to start the mountain. Do you remember that many people in their tunzi have antiques? Let's go collect a few and sell them, so we don't have to toss hard.
On the same day, the two of us went separately to prepare, the fat man went to dispose of the rest of the tapes, and I went to the thrift market to buy some necessary tools, flashlights, gloves, masks, candles, ropes, water bottles, and the most joyful thing for me was to buy two German-made sapper shovels, I held the sapper shovels in my hands, and it felt like meeting old friends.
This kind of sapper shovel was equipped by Germany with mountain assault divisions during World War II, and many of them were captured by the Soviet Union, and some of them flowed into China during the Sino-Soviet friendship period. The German-made sapper shovel is very light, can be folded and hung on the waist, and the steel mouth is excellent, not to mention digging soil and rocks, when it is dangerous, it can also be used as a weapon, and half of the enemy's head can be cut off at once.
The only regret is that I didn't buy gas masks, when the whole country was engaged in three defenses, the people also distributed a lot of 60-type gas masks, which can occasionally be seen and sold in the old goods market, but today I didn't buy them, so I can only talk about them later. In addition, there are some things missing, which can be prepared when they arrive at the ganggang camp.
It cost more than 1,500 in total, mainly because the two shovels were too expensive, 611, and the price was bitten to death, and it couldn't be drawn. In the end, I only had six dollars left, which is too bad, I don't have any money to buy a train ticket!
Thanks to the fat man's exhaustion of the tape, he returned the house we rented and sold it three rounds, which is almost enough for the round-trip fare. I went to buy a train ticket overnight, I was not yet eighteen years old when I left there, and I hadn't been back for more than ten years, and we were both a little excited to see the villagers we hadn't seen for many years.