Zhao Hu lit up a cigarette and took a puff and said, "Touch the hall."
Touching the hall is actually tomb robbing, which is our local jargon for tomb robbers.
Our province is a province of cultural relics, and tomb robbing activities have always been rampant, especially in our area. If you find any wasteland, there may be a large tomb underneath. Our local villagers often dig treasures in the ground and sell them to Hong Kong and Macao as cultural relics. There are not a few dealers who make a fortune from this.
There are three rich and powerful people in our county. In addition to the Zhang Qingshan I mentioned before, there are two more.
These two made their fortune by robbing tombs back then.
And my brother is said to be somewhat involved in tomb robbing.
Although he has been setting up a street stall in Panjiayuan, Beijing in the past few years, someone told me that he was actually robbing tombs and selling cultural relics outside. I don't know whether he did so or not.
Anyway, I was relieved that Zhao Hu brought me to rob the tomb.
In my opinion, tomb robbing is not a heinous crime. There are many people who do this.
It's just that the tomb we want to rob this time is in the backyard of Longhu Bathing Center. Although this place is not the center of the city, it is not a particularly remote place. Is this too risky?
After telling Zhao Hu my concerns, Zhao Hu patted me on the shoulder and said, "Don't panic, this Sister Yuan has a good background. Since she is confident that she can do this job, she will definitely be able to do it."
I felt a little more at ease: "Okay, then I'll make a fortune with you this time."
At noon the next day, Sister Yuan invited Zhao Hu and I to have dinner. During the meal, she discussed with us the matter of robbing the tomb.
Sister Yuan first said: "I have had people secretly explore this hall with a Luoyang shovel. It is a brick chamber tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The tomb is of quite high standards. Because it happens to be in a remote corner of the backyard, when the bathing center was originally built, No one noticed."
"I'm considering two options now."
"One is the blatant theft in the bathing center. I will ask people to suggest building a pavilion or a rock garden in the corner of the backyard and cover it up with construction. Then you can dig holes directly when you have the opportunity."
"The second is to find a suitable place nearby, drill a hole first, and then drill horizontally under the bathing center."
"I suggest you use the second method. It is safer and less expensive, but it may take a long time, because the most suitable hole drilling location is one or two kilometers away from here. It is too time-consuming to drill such a long hole."
Zhao Hu and I looked at each other, and neither of us was very optimistic about the second method.
After all, now is the time when we are short of money, and we definitely don’t have enough time.
"Let's use the first method. I won't consider the second one. The time is too slow and the day lilies my girlfriend is waiting for will be cold." Zhao Hu said.
"Well, let's take the first type. The first type requires building a garden pavilion or rockery. In fact, it requires some funds. You definitely can't come up with the money now. I will pay for it and return it to me after you ship the goods. that is."
As for how to convince Zhang Qingshan to build a rockery in the backyard, Sister Yuan said we don’t need to worry about it, she will handle it.
After chatting with Sister Yuan, Zhao Hu and I went home to wait for news.
After waiting at home for about two days, my mother suddenly pulled out a book from my father's belongings.
The book is called "Chen Family Feng Shui Collection Ancient Records". My mother said that this book was said to be written by one of my ancestors who was an epigrapher in the Qing Dynasty.
This book covers a wide range of knowledge, including cultural relics, Feng Shui, metallurgy, wilderness survival and other knowledge. The focus is actually on gold-touching tombs, which in layman's terms is tomb robbing.
My mother said that my brother was influenced by this book when he first entered the antique business.
I actually read this book when I was a kid, but I wasn't too interested and couldn't read it.
Now that I have no choice but to go to rob a tomb, this book suddenly appeared, and I was naturally very happy.
I thought it would be better to study it carefully and see if I can learn some skills.
In the next few days, I studied this book day and night. Before I finished it, I felt so itchy that I even made a homemade Luoyang shovel and went to explore the wilderness.
Exploring a point is also a jargon term, which means exploring a tomb in search of a tomb.
After a day of research, I found an "A-shaped" brick chamber tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the suburbs. Based on the results of soil shoveling in Luoyang, I speculated that the tomb was large in size, the owner of the tomb was of high status, and the funerary objects inside must not be large. There will be less.
I was very excited. I originally wanted to ask Zhao Hu to dig this tomb. After all, the place is remote and difficult to find, and the chance of making a fortune is high.
Unfortunately, the tomb was dug up by other tomb robbers the next day. When someone discovered the tomb and called the police, most of the treasures inside had been looted.
Even here, there are more than 100 cultural relics such as various bronzes, gold, silver, and jades left in the tomb, which caused a great sensation.
At that time, I was shocked and also a little upset. I was the one who discovered this tomb first, but someone else took the lead. It was like having my 10 million suddenly robbed. It was very uncomfortable.
After I told Zhao Hu about this, Zhao Hu still didn't believe me. He probably thought that I was just a novice tomb robber, and he couldn't find any big tombs.
I didn't explain too much to him. Anyway, I was convinced of the contents of "Chen's Feng Shui Collection and Ancient Records" and studied it even more vigorously.
By the way, good news soon came to Sister Yuan. She bribed Mr. Feng Shui, and Mr. Feng Shui talked to Zhang Qingshan and asked Zhang Qingshan to build a rockery in the backyard.
Sister Yuan also found the construction team herself. Zhao Hu and I were naturally arranged to be workers, mixed in with the construction team, and waited for opportunities to dig holes and graves.
It was noon the day before my birthday. Zhao Hu and I got Sister Yuan’s instructions to excavate tonight.
She will first have people cut off the circuit of the bathing center so that the bathing center cannot open tonight. Then all the employees will definitely take a vacation. When the bathing center is empty, we can safely drill holes in the backyard.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Zheng Hu and I were digging a pool in the backyard of the bathing center, when a familiar voice suddenly came from next to us.
"When will your uncle leave the bathing center to you? He can't let you work in that shabby hotel all the time, right?"
This is the voice of my sister-in-law Liu Xuanxuan.
My heart skipped a beat and I looked back.
There were two people standing not far away, one was my sister-in-law Liu Xuanxuan, and the other was Zhang Kang, the man my sister-in-law cheated on.
Zhang Kang is a man with oily hair and glasses. He looks like a wealthy man.
And Liu Xuanxuan was wearing a short skirt today, with her slender white legs exposed, which looked very attractive. In fact, there were very few people wearing short skirts in that era, which shows how coquettish and open-minded she is.
"Come on, come on, I'll tell him after a while."
"Then you..." Liu Xuanxuan was about to reply to Zhang Kang's words when she suddenly saw me.
"Hey, isn't this Chen Jianjun? Why are you here?"
Seeing that I didn't say anything, Liu Xuanxuan mocked me even more proudly: "Didn't I promise to make more than 100,000 yuan in a year? Why did you come to Uncle Zhang Kang to work as a coolie? How much money do you have this day? When? Can you make up for the compensation?"
I originally wanted to say something back to her, but when I thought about it, I was here to rob the tomb, and it would be bad if something unexpected happened if I had a conflict with her, so I ignored her and continued to work with my head down.
Liu Xuanxuan probably felt bored too, and then left with Zhang Kang.
When Zhang Kang left, he spat in my direction with disdain on his face. I also heard him say: "My uncle has already checked the whereabouts of his brother. When he finds his brother, I will definitely Kill him with your own hands."
Listening to this, I also felt worried for my brother, hoping that my brother would not be caught by him.
At this time, Zhao Hu patted me on the shoulder to comfort me, and whispered: "Isn't he just relying on his uncle to be Zhang Qingshan to show off his power in our local area? When we make a lot of money in the future, we will also have to look like a person. Then I will help you take revenge and kill them."
I said there will be a day.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, the circuit of the bathing center broke down as expected. When the electrician came, he said that it would not be repaired for an hour and a half and would take two or three days.
In desperation, the bathing center was on holiday. When night came, there was no one inside except the security guard watching the gate. The time for us to work naturally came.
