Chu Feng Jiangnan Rhythm, Huangshi City, the Bronze Capital,
Perhaps since a large number of mines were shut down, Huangshi's economic development also stopped.
why do you say so?
Because I went to Hubei for business and passed by Huangshi in May last year, I felt that this place was exactly the same as it was twenty years ago.
The same building! The same street! The same memory!
We arrived in the city at around 8pm, and the seller asked us to wait for him in front of the Huangshi Hotel across from the bus terminal.
I was deeply impressed. To the west of Huangshi Hotel, there was a huge advertisement for "A Men's Hospital" printed on the wall of a building. Under the dim street lights, many people kept coming in and out of the hotel. There was an old man with white hair carrying a wooden box selling cigarettes. I also The old man bought a pack of Red Gold Dragon.
I called and said, "Hey, buddy, I've been waiting for half an hour! You're not here yet!"
"Where are you? I'm here! I didn't see you!"
I looked left and right and said loudly: "I'm right in front of the hotel! Next to a Nissan car! I'm wearing a black vest!"
"Okay! I think I saw you!"
Suddenly someone called me.
I looked back and saw a young man with long hair, about 20 years old, riding on a three-wheeled motorcycle and waving to me. This guy wore glasses and had acne on his face. There were two of them in the car. There was also a big man sitting there, probably the other party came to help out.
"That's you, buddy, what's your surname?" I walked over and asked.
"My surname is Zhou! Zhou Shi! What about you?"
"Xiang Feng!"
After shaking hands, he smiled and said: "I came 40 miles from the countryside. I came a little late. Don't blame me. Come and smoke a cigarette."
He enthusiastically spread the cigarette for me. He is a good smoker with a soft golden mouth.
"It's okay. Have you brought the stuff? Take a look at the goods." I said.
At this time, his big friend said: "Look, the thing is in the car."
The back of the three-wheeled motorcycle was covered with a blue raincoat. He glanced left and right, then lifted up a corner of the raincoat for me to see.
With the help of street lights, I gradually saw the whole thing clearly. Seeing it in person was far more shocking than looking at photos online.
This bronze three-headed beast is about one meter long and more than half a meter high. It is covered in green rust spots. Some of the green rust surfaces are black and shiny. This is due to the oxidation of the skin after being unearthed for a period of time. The six eyes on the beast's head are all fierce and fierce. Staring ahead! There are dense copper coin patterns printed on the tongue, and the tail is short and thick, like the tail of a rattlesnake. The overall look is very powerful.
I tested the weight with my hands and was surprised: "Fuck...how can it be so heavy?"
Maybe he saw what I was thinking, and the guy said, "It must be heavy if made of solid copper! This thing weighs more than a hundred pounds! Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to pull it here with a car!"
"Then the price we negotiated before, which is 10,000 yuan, click on it." I quickly handed over an envelope.
He didn't answer, but said: "Brother, it's not that I'm greedy, or that someone has sold this thing for 30,000 yuan. Look, you..."
My face immediately turned dark and I said, "Brother, do you understand the rules? This is not how business is done?"
The big guy stood in front of me, frowned and said, "What's the rule? We've confiscated your deposit! The stuff belongs to us! Of course we have the final say on how much it sells for! Besides, we didn't lie to you. Just before you came, there was a real buyer." The family’s income reaches 30,000 yuan!”
After hearing this, I waved my hands and said, "Okay, okay! Stop talking nonsense! I traveled hundreds of miles to come here! I must take this thing away! Just tell me the actual price that I can sell it for now!"
Without thinking about it, he immediately said: "Then let's calculate it as 50,000 yuan! Not even a cent less!"
"Okay! Just wait!"
I returned to the car, took 40,000 yuan from Xiaoxuan, and gave the other party 50,000 yuan.
I know it's useless to tell such laymen the rules. They don't understand. In their eyes, money is more important than rules.
Then, the other party opened the envelope and counted the money on the spot. What we took out were all new banknotes. It could be seen that the two of them were very excited to see so much money.
"That's enough, every cent is enough, 50,000! The stuff is yours! Can I help you carry it to the car?"
After carrying the things and stuffing them into the car, this guy saw Xiaoxuan and the others, but he didn't say anything. I was the only one who was in contact with them the whole time.
At this time, he gave me a look with his head, and I immediately understood.
"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 twenty thousand, there are plenty of them if you get Panjiayuan's half a million. 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.
