"Brother Zhou, and this brother, let's have a meal and I'll be the host, just to make friends."
We walked into Huangshi Hotel together, ordered food and drinks, and after eating and drinking for a while, we both got acquainted. I asked him about the specific origin of the things.
"Brother, I see that you are an open-minded person, so let me tell the truth. This thing was not picked up, but..."
He looked around and whispered: "I followed my grandfather up the mountain and saw him dig it out of the soil with my own eyes."
I handed over the cigarette and asked: "Where exactly? For example, where on the mountain? Are there any obvious signs around it?" I asked.
"What are you asking for? You don't want to dig too, do you?"
"Haha! Stop teasing you!"
"The people in our village alone have dug up the soil in the mountain more than ten times! My grandfather said that thirty years ago, you could indeed find copper coins, copper mirrors and so on! But those are gone now! "
I said, "Of course I know I won't be able to dig anything out, but you don't have to worry about it. I'm just curious and went there to take a look. After all, I've come here, just treat it as a tourist."
"Okay! Since you said so, I'll tell you!"
He said to me: "On the mountainside to the east of Xisai Mountain, there are more than ten acres of tea fields! If you walk a hundred meters through the tea fields, you can see an old ginkgo tree. There is a 40-degree slope down from the ginkgo tree! This thing was dug by my grandfather on the slope, along with a large bronze mirror!"
He stretched out his hand to show the size, which was as big as a football.
"Where is this big bronze mirror?" I asked quickly.
"I sold it a long time ago! I was young and ignorant at the time! I sold it to an antique collector when I was in the sixth grade! It only cost 20 yuan!"
"You can't talk about this! I get angry when you mention it! If that big bronze mirror had been kept until now, it would have been worth at least 20,000 yuan!"
I thought you said too little.
Song mirrors are generally small in size. Bronze mirrors that big are either sun and moon pattern regular mirrors from the Western Han Dynasty or sea beast grape mirrors from the early Tang Dynasty. Let alone 20,000 yuan, there are plenty of them if you get Panjiayuan 500,000 yuan. People are rushing to get it.
"Okay, buddy! I still have something to do! I'm almost done with my meal and I'm leaving now! Are you going to stay in Huangshi for a few days, right? If you need help later, feel free to call me. You have my phone number."
After they left, I quickly called the boss to ask everyone to come over.
After ordering a new table of food, I said first, "Sir, we found out where the land was excavated. Should we go there tonight and have a look, or should we go there tomorrow night?"
There were many people dining in the hotel lobby. He glanced at the time and whispered: "It's already past nine o'clock. It's better to find a place to rest first. It won't be too late to go tomorrow."
He put down his chopsticks and continued in a low voice: "Yunfeng, I looked carefully at the gold-swallowing beast just now. The owner of the product didn't understand at all. The thing was original and untouched, and there might be something hidden in its belly."
"What!"
"Head, isn't that thing made of solid bronze?"
He raised his head and said, "I'm eating later, come out with me to take a look."
When I got outside, I opened the trunk with my head, and he asked me to tap the belly of the gold-eating beast with my hand.
I reached out and knocked twice, and the sound was very muffled. If it was hollow, it should have made a "bang bang sound."
"Boss, it doesn't sound hollow to me."
The leader said: "Yunfeng, let me ask you, was this thing made from sand or cast?"
"Of course it's casting! Look here! There are still some pouring openings that haven't been polished off!"
He raised his head and frowned and said, "There is a legend in the industry that the gold-swallowing beast used by the treasurer will never go hungry. If you don't believe it, let's open it and take a look."
I quickly said that it was one piece. If I opened the belly, wouldn’t it be damaged? How to sell it at a good price?
The leader said: "What if the thing hidden in the stomach is more valuable? Stop talking, go get a hammer and chisel now."
I quickly found the tools and got them.
He pointed his head to a point and said, "Just here in the belly, open it for me."
So I started digging hard, and after a while I made a hole.
As soon as I put my finger into the hole, I heard a crash!
A lot of ancient copper coins! Just like Hukou Waterfall, it flows continuously! Extremely spectacular.
