A hot pot restaurant in Dongsi was full of diners.
The steam in the hot pot filled the air, and the sound of changing cups and cups was endless.
We chose an empty table in the corner and sat down.
Da Jinya kept pouring wine for me.
I thought to myself that this guy wanted to get me drunk and set me up, so I quickly stopped him and said, "Master Jin, this Erguotou is so powerful."
It’s too strong, so I’d rather have a beer.”
While we were eating and talking, the topic came up with the matter of back-fighting.
Big Gold Tooth grinned, tapped his own gold tooth with his fingertips and said to us: "Two gentlemen, take your eyes on this gold tooth.
I collected it from Panjiayuan.
I dug it out of the tomb and pulled it out of the mouth of the rice dumpling.
I didn't want to sell it, so I pulled out my own tooth and replaced it. " This person is really serious.
He made all the disgusting remarks while eating, and even refused to let others eat.
If he didn't want to spend money, you just said it would be better.
I quickly changed the subject and talked to him about something else.
Money is more important than being a slave, and art is more important than being a traveler.
We casually chatted about the secrets of Feng Shui tombs, and talked about our deeds as engineers in the Kunlun Mountains.
The big gold tooth was amazed and admired me.
Before Da Jinya's father was captured by the Kuomintang, he was an apprentice to a master of kick-fighting named Cai from Hunan.
He knew a lot about the business of digging graves, but he had not learned the skills of finding holes.
Because his master Mr.
Cai himself does not understand the art of Feng Shui.
Twelve years after the Republic of China, Luoyang farmer Li Yaya invented the Luoyang shovel.
Before that, they mainly used their noses to smell.
In order to maintain the sensitivity of their noses, they avoided tobacco, alcohol and spicy things.
Use an iron drill to drive into the ground, then pull it out and smell it with your nose.
The iron drill will bring up various smells from the underground soil, and the feel of the soil when digging.
The ground is empty, or there is wood or masonry.
These feel It's definitely different.
In fact, this is similar to the principle of digging soil with a Luoyang shovel, except that one uses the nose to smell and the other uses the eyes to see.
With the soil brought up by Luoyang shovel, you can check the composition of the underground soil.
If there are any pieces of porcelain, wood, cloth, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, mercury, lead, including rammed earth, bricks and tiles, etc., these are the underground tombs.
These clues can be used to infer the age and layout of the underground tombs.
However, Wen Tu's craft was lost here in Day Jin Ya.
His father's legs were disabled and he had congenital asthma since he was a child, so he no longer worked as a gold captain.
Generally, those who work in this industry have seen a lot of real things, and with this little bit of eyesight, they start an antique business.
I jokingly said that your ancestor's skills were a bit trendy.
I heard the elders in my family said some things about back fighting.
Real masters don't use iron drills to shovel.
Those are stupid moves.
People who have the ability can do it.
At one place, you can tell at a glance whether there are ancient tombs underground, where they are buried, and what structure they are buried in.
These can be seen at a glance.
Any place with excellent Feng Shui must have a large tomb.
Those who can be buried in it were not ordinary people during their lifetime.
Such tombs are full of treasures.
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Real experts disdain those things shoveled in Luoyang, because if the underground soil is not dry enough, the effect will be greatly reduced, especially in the wealthy places in the south of the Yangtze River, where rainfall is heavy, and many ancient tombs are submerged by groundwater.
The soil was washed away into a mess.
Da Jinya was very excited when I heard what I said, and he praised me even more: "Master Hu, I am convinced.
As the saying goes, if you hear the truth in the morning, you will die in the evening.
After listening to your lofty words, I am convinced."
I have not lived such a long life in vain.
Talents like you who know Feng Shui, have been engineers, and understand civil engineering operations are really rare.
It would be a pity not to be a captain with your ability."
I shook my head and said, "I don't intend to do that kind of immoral thing.
What I just said was told by my grandfather.
His old man also did the job of touching the gold captain, but he encountered a big rice dumpling and almost lost his life. " Da Jinya said that there was definitely a risk, and he wouldn't be afraid of a few black donkey hooves.
Moreover, as the saying goes, thieves have their own ways, and the reputation of reverse fighting is not good, and that is all because of some low-life thieves.
Corrupt ones, they are not from this industry at all and do not understand the rules. , doing destructive things everywhere, how can we not arouse hatred?
If we look back on the history of fighting, I am afraid it is no less than three thousand years ago.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had an army that specialized in digging up the property in ancient tombs to pay for the army. , we got the nickname Mojin Xiaowei.
Before liberation, this industry was divided into four sects: southeast, northwest and northwest.
In modern times, the talent has withered and there are only a few people left.
The few remaining people have given up their careers.
Today's juniors are all idle men in the countryside, digging graves in groups.
Who knows the rules in the industry of not having the best of both worlds, three incense and three bows, blowing out the lamp and touching gold?
Alas, so many good things have been ruined in their hands.
Da Jinya sighed for a while and then said to us: "I have been messing around in Panjiayuan for many years.
If you two come up with something good in the future, I can be responsible for contacting the buyer for you.
You can go and negotiate in person.
The negotiation is done.
Just give me a commission."
The fat man had been busy eating and drinking.
At this time, he was 80% full.
Suddenly he remembered something.
He took out the piece of jade and asked the big gold tooth to appraise it to see how much it was worth.
The big gold tooth looked at it, then put it to his nose and smelled it a few times: "Fat Master, this piece of jade is a very good piece of jade.
It is at least a thousand years old.
Well, it may be even earlier.
It should be from before the Tang Dynasty.
The writing on it is not in Chinese, and I can’t tell what it is.
It must be worth a lot of money, but before you can determine the specific value, you’d better keep it, otherwise you may suffer a big loss.
Where did you get the jade?”
The fat man became interested when he talked about the history of his family: "As for the origin, it's a child without a mother.
It's a long story.
Let me tell you this, this piece of jade was given to my father by his old comrades when he participated in the jute riots.
Yes, my father's old comrade-in-arms was the No. 1 commander of the Wild Division.
When he led his troops into Xinjiang, his troops encountered a group of bandits.
Helping the bandits is also asking for death.
Can the guard regiment around the No. 1 leader of the People's Liberation Army be a living person?
In less than five or six minutes, the bandit No. 100 was wiped out.
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When cleaning the battlefield, this piece was found on a bandit leader.
Jade, Chief No. 1 gave it to my father as a souvenir.
I don’t know what happened to this jade.”
We kept drinking until after twelve o'clock in the evening before we parted.
When we were leaving, Big Gold Tooth gave each of us a hook-like object.
This object was more than an inch long, black and shiny, extremely hard, and had two engraved characters on it.
The shape of the seal character looks like the word "touch gold".
This object is very old and looks like an antique.
It has a hole punched at one end and is threaded with red silk thread.
It can be hung around the neck as an ornament.
Da Jinya said: "We buddies really hit it off right away.
These two are amulets made from pangolin claws.
I leave you both with a thought.
Come to Panjiayuan to see me when you have time.
The green mountains never change and the green water always flows.
We’ll see you later.”
Fatty and I returned to a small bungalow we rented near Chongwenmen.
We drank too much and fell asleep until noon the next day.
After waking up and lying in bed, staring at the low ceiling, I thought a lot.
The business of tomb robbing is actually not unfamiliar to me.
I am sure that I will find some large tombs.
Money is not the most important thing to me.
It can be said that I don't care at all about having money, but life is always full of contradictions, and now I need money too much.
My parents are supported by the state.
I have no family burden.
I can feed myself and the whole family is not hungry.
But what about my brothers who died on the battlefield?
Who will support their parents, take care of them, pay for medical treatment and medication, and what about them?
The pension for their younger brothers and sisters is not enough to pay for their schooling.
On the battlefield, it seems that everyone except me has a reason not to die.
But I am the last survivor.
My life was bought by many comrades with their own lives.
I should do something for them now.
What's up.
At this time, the fat man also woke up, rubbed his eyes, and saw me staring at the roof in a daze, so he said to me: "Old Hu, what are you thinking about?
In fact, I know even if you don't tell me, what Big Gold Tooth said yesterday made you My heart is agitated and my heart is itching.
What’s going on with us two brothers?
I’m just waiting for a word from you.”
I took out the amulet given by Big Gold Tooth: "Fat man, don't think of that grandson as a good person.
He is also a businessman.
He won't get up early if there is no profit.
This Digging Claw was worn by Cao Cao's Captain Touch Jin during the Three Kingdoms period. , He can give us such valuable things casually because he takes a fancy to our abilities and wants to get some benefit from it
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The fat man was anxious: "Damn it, I've seen you no longer look like a good bird.
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I'll go to Panjiayuan later, break off your big gold tooth and throw it into the latrine."
Having said that, we both thought we should make use of each other and not fall out with him for the time being.
The shortcoming of my character is that I am too impulsive and do not consider the consequences of doing things.
I think tomb robbing is feasible.
Chairman Mao said that everything in the world has its two sides.
Good things can turn into bad things, and bad things can also turn into good things.
This is dialectics.
There are countless treasures in the tombs of emperors and generals, but can we say that these good things belong to the tomb owners?
They are not all looted and exploited from the common people.
They are taken from the people and should be used for the people.
How can they be allowed to last forever?
Sleeping underground with those withered bones.
If you want to do it, make it big.
Those private tombs are meaningless.
Most of them have nothing of value, and taking things from the common people is detrimental to morality.
I once heard my grandfather say that the rules for touching gold captains are very different from those for tomb robbers.
Tomb robbers dig and take at will, and they do their best.
It doesn't matter who you are, whether you are a loyal minister or a good general, an official or a common person.
There are no rules at all.
Even if there are, they are all figured out by the farmers themselves. , that’s not the case at all.
When the gold-touching captains worked, whenever they dug a large tomb, they would light a candle in the underground palace of the tomb, place it in the southeast corner, and then open the coffin to touch for gold.
The most valuable things of the deceased are often worn on the body.
Some tomb owners of princes and above have pearls in their mouths, gold and jade on their bodies, heart-protecting jade on their chests, Ruyi jade in their hands, and even stuffed in their anuses.
Wearing gems.
At this time, do not damage the remains of the deceased.
Touch them gently from the top of the head to the soles of the feet.
In the end, you will leave one or two treasures for the deceased.
During this period, if the candle in the southeast corner is extinguished, you must put the property you received as it is, kowtow three times respectfully, and return the way you came.
Because it is said that there are souls in some tombs.
As for why they do not enter reincarnation and have stayed in the tombs for thousands of years, it is hard to say.
It is probably because they are reluctant to part with the glory and wealth in life, and they still stare at themselves every day after death.
Treasure, if you encounter an owner who is willing to sacrifice his life rather than his wealth, don't take it by force.
In the end, Fatty and I decided, damn it, we decided whether to touch Captain Jin would not be condemned by our conscience, and we just let the dog eat it as our conscience.
No, eating half of it, well, it wasn't right either.
Let's look at it from another angle.
It's the 1980s.
Don't we all advocate dedication?
Now it's the turn of the princes and nobles who exploit the working people to make sacrifices.
However, these dead ghosts have very low consciousness.
Don’t expect them to crawl out and contribute on their own.
We will do this for you.
It is really busy to beat the autumn wind of the feudal ruling class like them, clean up Jin Ou, and divide the fields.
The strategic direction has been determined, but the specific tactical goals and how to implement them need to be carefully discussed.
In Henan, Hunan, and Shaanxi, the three places where tomb robbing is most prevalent, it is not easy to find large tombs, and it is inconvenient to do things in crowded places.
You have to use planting crops and building houses as a cover, so you have to do your best.
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Just go to the deep mountains and old forests, places that are inaccessible to people.
If we talk about the large tombs I have seen in the deep mountains and old forests, the one at Niuxin Mountain must be the first one on the list.
When I went to the mountains and countryside, I was too young and didn't understand anything.
Judging from my current experience, that tomb should be from before the Northern Song Dynasty.
During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was mostly fashionable to use mountains as mausoleums.
This trend continued until the early Song Dynasty.
After the Southern Song Dynasty, the national power gradually weakened, and no royal mausoleum dared to have such a huge project anymore.
The fat man asked me, didn't you say that Niuxin Mountain is haunted?
Can you find someone who is not haunted to deal with it?
We have nothing to do with the ferocious savages, but we don't know how to deal with ghosts.
I said, first, there are no ghosts in this world, and what I told you last time may have been a hallucination caused by my high fever; second, this is our first operation, so we don’t necessarily have to open the mountain.
Do you still remember that many families in Yanzi's village have antiques?
Let's collect a few and sell them, so that we don't have to worry about it.
On that day, the two of us prepared separately.
Fatty went to get rid of the remaining tapes, while I went to the flea market to buy some necessary tools, such as flashlights, gloves, masks, candles, ropes, and kettles.
What surprised me the most was I bought two German engineer shovels.
Holding the engineer shovels in my hands, I felt like I was meeting an old friend.
This kind of engineering shovel was used by Germany's Mountain Assault Division during World War II.
Many of them were captured by the Soviet Union.
During the Sino-Soviet friendship, some of them flowed into China.
The German engineer shovel is very light and can be folded and hung on the waist, and the steel mouth is excellent.
Not to mention digging soil and rocks, when in danger, it can also be used as a weapon when it is swung and it can cut off half of the enemy's head in one stroke. .
The only regret is that I didn’t buy a gas mask.
When the country was carrying out the three-prevention campaign, a lot of 60-type gas masks were distributed to the public.
I could occasionally see them for sale in the used goods market.
Unfortunately, I didn’t buy one today, so I had to Let’s talk about it later.
In addition, there are still some things missing.
Those can be prepared until we get to Ganggang Yingzi.
The total cost was more than 1,500, mainly because the two shovels were too expensive.
At 600 a pair, the price was too high to justify.
In the end, I only had six yuan left with me.
This was terrible.
I had no money to buy a train ticket.
Thanks to Fatty, he got rid of all the tapes, returned the house we rented, and sold it in three rounds.
This was almost enough for the round trip expenses.
We went to buy train tickets overnight.
I was not yet 18 when I left there, and I haven’t been back for more than ten years.
We were both a little excited at the thought of seeing the folks we hadn’t seen for many years
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