The driver, Brother Wang, did not go to the tomb or house with us. His duty was to take us to the destination and ensure that the journey was smooth and there would be no complications during the trip.
After exchanging pleasantries with the two brothers Dabao and Erbao, the driver, Brother Wang, held a cigarette in his mouth and hummed a tune and left. He said he was going to take care of some things and asked us to contact him by phone.
After the driver, Brother Wang, left, Gouzi and I followed the brothers Dabao and Erbao into the low house.
I have to say that the house was really short. If I stood up straight, I could reach the roof of the shed, and a lot of rotten wall skin would be scraped off.
As for why they chose this dilapidated house, the brothers also told me the reasons.
Those who work in this profession are just like the old Chinese medicine doctors who treat diseases and save people. They pay attention to what they see, hear and ask questions. The two brothers Dabao and Erbao do not do everything by themselves. They also have many disguised informants under their hands. One of them is under the guise of collecting rags. Traveling from village to village.
The village we are in is called Shui'ao Village, so named because it is surrounded by high mountains on both sides.
A few days ago, the spy came to this point, and he happened to be in front of this dilapidated low house. A lonely old woman took out two rusty copper plates and asked if she would accept them.
The old woman didn't understand, so she thought they were copper pieces and sold them, but the eye liner recognized them at a glance as two bronze mirrors from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and took them away at the price of scrap metal.
It was originally worth twenty yuan, so the eyeliner gave the old woman fifty yuan, saying that it was not easy for her to be alone, so she regarded it as a good deed.
It was a scorching sun at that time, and the eyeliner said he was thirsty and wanted to ask for a bowl of water. The old woman invited him into the house enthusiastically.
The usual trick is to put eyeliner close to the old lady's while drinking water, and ask some innocuous questions.
After completely gaining the old woman's trust, the eyeliner asked the old woman where he got the two copper pieces and if there were any more. If so, he collected them together.
The old woman brought her eyes to the backyard full of debris, pointed to the entrance of a cellar, and said that she found it in the cellar when her wife was still alive. Now the old woman is left alone. The ladder in the cellar is too steep and there are already many She hadn't been there in the New Year, and she said she didn't know if it was still there.
The spy said he would go down and have a look, and if there was any, he would bring it out, so he went down to the cellar, but found nothing.
After leaving the cellar, the eyeliner shook his head helplessly, then turned and left. Before leaving, he gave the old woman a brand new ten-dollar note.
Did the eyeliner really find nothing? The answer is definitely no. He grabbed a handful of soil in the cellar and took it back. It was a handful of green paste.
At that time, Dabao concluded that the bottom of the cellar was a large tomb from the Shang, Zhou and Warring States periods, and that the green paste was used to fill the main tomb chamber.
Two days later, the news came from the informant that the old woman was dead. Since the old woman had no relatives, the two brothers Dabao and Erbao pretended to be distant relatives of the old woman and buried her.
The local funeral custom requires relatives to observe mourning for seven days, so the two brothers stayed here legitimately. Today is the third day of mourning.
The old woman's house is located at the entrance of the village, still some distance away from other residents in the village. In addition, the old woman doesn't usually communicate with others, so no one doubts the identity of the brothers Dabao and Erbao.
They also know that the old woman has nothing worth worrying about.
When we went down to the cellar, Dabao gave me and the dog a pair of boots. At first, I didn’t understand why we had to wear boots. It wasn’t until we got down that we discovered that the cellar was also muddy, and the water inside had already flooded our feet. .
The cellar is not big, only about seven or eight square meters. It is surrounded by walls made of random stones. Iron wedges for hanging strong lights are embedded in the gaps in the walls.
Near the southeast corner, there is a deep pit with a diameter of more than half a meter. A lot of soil has been piled up around the pit, which is blue-gray. A well platform thirty or forty centimeters above the ground has been built around the hole, blocking the way. Backflow of standing water.
"Second brother, how is the progress?"
"It's almost done. We've already touched the bluestone for the initiation. If it hadn't rained all day and night, and I was worried about the rainwater pouring back, I would have opened it yesterday."
After listening to Erbao's words, I nodded. I have to say that they were really cautious in their actions. If the initiation was broken in advance, it would very likely cause water to pour in, and then the walls of the tomb would be wet. It is very likely that a large area will collapse.
Seeing that we had almost seen it, Dabao said: "Okay, let's go up first. Although there is a house as a barrier, no one knows if anyone will come in broad daylight. Be cautious and wait until dark before breaking through." seal up."
Several of us nodded one after another, then left the cellar and returned to the house.
The next step is to rely on time.
There was a broken mahjong set in the house, and Dabao suggested that the four of them just play it, but the dog shook his head and went outside the house in a daze.
Unfortunately, there were only three of us left and we couldn't play at all. However, Erbao brought a pair of poker cards, so the three of us simply started playing Landlords.
After the three of us played together, we could have a dozen or twenty, and our stomachs began to growl.
"Wait, I'm going to get something to eat."
Dabao put down the cards in his hand and turned around to start cooking on the stove.
Looking at Dabao's skillful movements, I smiled and said, "Brother Dabao, you really act like that, as if this is really your home, and you are still living your life."
"It's too troublesome. I guess there's canned beef or something here. It's just a bite."
"Dongzi, what do you know? Since we live here, we must create some fireworks, otherwise it will arouse others' suspicion. Do you understand?"
What Dabao said is very reasonable, but my experience is a little shallow, because when I visited the neighbor's house before, I always brought food, so how could I dare to light a fire? Wouldn't that tell others that I was robbing a tomb?
But now this can be regarded as a coincidence. With such a room on top of the tomb, it really needs some fireworks.
It was said that he was making a fire to cook, but in fact it was just a show. Dabao just boiled a pot of water and boiled a few eggs, and the rest had to be eaten.
After eating, it was still an hour or two before dark, and the brothers Dabao and Erbao lay down and became confused.
I am a person who can't stand loneliness, and I originally thought about showing up and having sex with that stern dog. Although he couldn't speak, it would be nice to have someone to listen to.
But I didn't expect that this guy ran away without knowing where he was, and he couldn't be seen. Unfortunately, I had no choice but to wander back and forth in this small low house alone.
Shopping is really not just about wandering around. This house has a history of at least seventy or eighty years. Although the cabinets and furniture inside are dilapidated, they are still old.
After searching for a long time, I actually found two inlaid cabinet coins on a broken cabinet.
But they are not very valuable. A Qianlong Tongbao and a Jiaqing Tongbao are not big in size. They cost 10 or 8 yuan, and I am too lazy to take them off.
There are many forms of coins, especially clear coins, which are divided into dry pits, water pits, raw pits, and cooked pits, among which there are also handed down.
The money handed down from generation to generation is also divided into Huang Liang and Hei Baojiang. The cabinet money and the beam money are the representatives of the black Baojiang.
The items on the cabinet were worthless, so I pointed to the beams on the roof.
Looking up, I saw that the roof of the shed, which was already low, was in tatters and had several large holes. It was just enough to stick your head in when you stepped on a small stool.
With the help of a flashlight, I looked around on the roof of the shed, and sure enough, I saw a bunch of smoked black coins on the rotten main beam. Judging from the size, it was at least a ten (Xianfeng Chongbao ten) or something.
When I was ten years old, I became interested, pulled my head back, found a hole closest to the main beam, and dug in again.
Even though I am a tall man of 8.8 meters, I still put a lot of effort into grabbing the bunch of money from the roof beams with my feet on my feet. Maybe I used too much force when I pulled it, which caused the stool under my feet to be pulled directly by me. I kicked it over, and then I sat down.
Call through!
My butt was really loud. Not only did it break the small stool, but I also opened a big hole in the roof of the shed.
Dabao and Erbao were immediately awakened. They thought something had happened and jumped up.
"It's okay... I just went up to pick some money for the roof beam. There was a bit of noise, hehe...!"
I quickly explained with a smile on my face.
Dabao looked at me and shook his head helplessly, turned around and went back to lie down. Erbao, on the other hand, looked at the pitch-black string of coins in my hand and said, "I mean, Dongzi, you can do with those little things." What are you doing? How much is it worth? When you go down at night, it's just the same. It's not all valuable. I think you should take a longer view. You are stingy, but don't embarrass Mr. Ba. ah."
After saying that, Erbao also yawned, shook his head and went back to sleep.
After listening to Erbao's words, I was speechless for a while. I thought to myself, why would I embarrass Mr. Liu Ba by getting two house beams of money? That's not the case. You have to know about coins, but at present, my main hobby is.
As for that priceless thing, it’s not too late to wait until you touch it.
I glanced sideways at the two brothers sleeping together, took my bunch of rent money, sat down on the broken dining table nearby, and began to clean it up.
Needless to say, hard work pays off. There are nine coins in this string, eight of which are for tens, namely three Baoyun Bureau, two Baoquan Bureau, two Baosu Bureau, and one Mei Baoyuan Bureau.
The size of these eight pieces are all over 28+ by visual inspection, and they are all hundreds of pieces larger.
As for this ninth piece, it is really worth dropping it again. The Baoquan Bureau's Baibei Xingyue is an extremely beautiful product handed down from generation to generation. It can be sold for at least 10,000 yuan in the live broadcast room.
This is really a victory before fighting!
