Chapter 2 50 Years Later

Chapter 2 50 Years Later

Fifty years later, at Xilingshe in Hefang Street, Hangzhou, my thoughts were interrupted by an old man. I closed my grandfather's notes and looked at the other person.

"Do you not accept rubbings here?" He asked me, with a weird appearance, as if there was a special purpose.

I don't care about temporary business. Most of the transactions in the antique market are done in private. The surface is just a little bit of money, so I don't make much money, so I just perfunct him: "Come, but the price is not high." It means, if you don't have anything good, just go away, don't delay the uncle reading.

"Oh, then can you introduce me to it?" the guy asked, looking at the supermarket.

I'm a little impatient. I don't open for three years, and eat for three years. I'm used to being idle on weekdays. I hate serving those who don't know much about it. This antique thing has a story behind everything. Speaking of it, there is no one who can't finish talking about the sky. Every customer is required to come here to introduce us. We don't need to do business. It's better to open a teahouse.

I waved to him and said that this is not responsible for introductions. There are many other houses next door, so please visit them next door.

The man glanced at me a little embarrassingly, but did not go out, and then asked: "Then I want to find out if there are any rubbings of the Warring States silk book here? It was 50 years ago that a few tutors in Changsha stole them and were stolen by the United States. Which one was cheated?"

"You said that you were cheated away by the Americans, and there are still there." I became angry when I heard. "Of course I went to the market to find rubbings. Then there was a designated one to find, how could I find it?"

He lowered his voice: "I heard that you have a way out. Did I introduce it to you?".

When I heard the name Laoyang, I was shocked. Didn't Laoyang enter the chant the year before last? What? Did you confess me? Then this guy in front of me is not a policeman, right? I panicked a bit, and stammered: "Which... I don't know which old itchy."

"I understand, I understand," he chuckled, and took a watch from his arms. "Look, itching said you can understand when you look at this."

The watch was given to him by his first love when he was in the northeast. He took this watch as his life. When he was drunk, he took out this watch and looked at it while calling "Cuckoo, Li". I asked him What is your old lady's name? He thought for a long time, but he cried and said that I had forgotten the fuck. This old tickle willing to give this watch to this person shows that this person does have some background.

But no matter how I look at this person, he feels abominable, unlike a serious person, but I still have to give some face when he introduces it. Besides, when someone comes to the door, he will not let him finish the speech, and may end up. Liangzi.

I pondered for a while, and decided to speak more straightforwardly, so I directly raised my hand: "Master, that's your itchy friend, what are you looking for?"

He bared his teeth and showed a big golden tooth: "A friend of mine brought something back from Shanxi. I want you to see if it's real."

When I heard it, I probably understood that this birdman shouldn't be a tomb robber, maybe there are good things that I have dragged out and I haven't seen it before, and I want to find someone to evaluate it. If his mother's forest is too big, there are all kinds of birds, and they dare to be formal. The antiques market is running around.

However, this kind of people are generally desperadoes. It is better to not be guilty or not. I tried my best to open the standard smile of the service industry and said to him: "Look at you with a Beijing accent. Your big Beijing target came to the south to find it. I'm asking, I'm too flattering, how good is Beijing, I'm afraid your drunkard doesn't mean drinking!"

He laughed: "It is said that southerners are shrewd, and it is true. You are not too old, but you are very transparent. To be honest, I am not looking for you this time. I want to see your grandfather?"

My heart was shocked, and my face changed. My grandfather's background is very strange. Very few people know him. When someone asked, it was mostly not a good thing, and asked him coldly: "Looking for my grandfather, what do you want? "

The golden tooth looked so ugly on my face, and was taken aback. He said hurriedly, "No intention, no intention. I'm just an ordinary antique lover. I just want to know that your old man stolen it in Biaoziling, Changsha. Will there be one or two rubbings left after the Warring States Silk Book? We want to buy one to see if it is the same as the one we have?"

Before he finished speaking, I yelled at the dozing buddy beside me: "Wang Meng, see off the guests!"

The old man with Golden Teeth was anxious: "Don't accumulate, why are you going to drive people when you are talking?"

I said you came too late. My old man had already traveled westward last year. You want to find him, go back to find a tree with a crooked neck and hang yourself. Maybe you can meet him again! When I said that, I pushed him out and pushed him all the way to the threshold.

The old man Da Jinya had a strangely thick face. He hugged the pillar outside the threshold and screamed, "Don't worry, let me say something, let me say something!"

I dragged him for a long time, and I couldn't help him, and cursed: "If you have something to say, don't delay my business!"

"I said you are a little grandson, why don't you listen to your words?" He smiled, "It doesn't matter if the old man is gone. I didn't say how to suffer. Anyway, you should take a look at what I brought. , You also sell the old itchy face?"

I took a look at him. This person is not smiling. It depends on the way he is here, and he has attracted a large group of tourists to watch him outside. If the trouble goes on, I will probably get to the newspaper tomorrow. Nodded: "Well, you have been looking good these days, don't be like a monkey here, but I'm ugly ahead of you, I can't tell if you can see the result."

"That's that, I'm also in this business, I understand the rules!"

In fact, there are more than 20 volumes of this Warring States silk book. Each volume is different. The one my grandfather stolen at that time is only a short part of it. There were indeed a few rubbings that have been preserved at the time. They are the treasures of my family's bottom of the box. If you have money on it, you can't buy it. Even if I don't talk about it, this old man will never find it.

The few of us went back to the back room. I asked Wang Meng to pour a cup of tea for the old man and asked him to take out the things. The old man with golden teeth took out a blank piece of paper from his arms and handed it to me. Just look at it, shit, it's still a copy.

"That's yeah, that baby can run around, and it will be broken in one fight." He said, still in a mysterious low voice: "If it weren't for my roads, this thing would have gone abroad early, it would be considered a Serve the people, right?".

I chuckled, "Isn't it a bad idea to see you like that? I don't think you dare to make a move. This is a national treasure. You don't want it anymore!"

When one sentence was exposed by me, the old man's face turned green, but he wanted to ask me, but he had to endure, and said: "Nor can you say that, every line has every line. I think your old man was a tutor in Changsha. At that time, it was also famous..."

I put a finger on his nose and said, "Don't talk too much, and then mention my grandpa. Take this thing back and take a look at it yourself!"

"Okay, let's stop, you give me a quick look, I'll run away quickly"

I unfolded the white paper head and looked at the typesetting inside. I knew that this was a well-preserved Warring States silk book, but it was not the one my grandfather had stolen at the time. However, upon closer inspection, I found that it was all different from the original one. . Since I promised to help people watch it, I didn't want to perfunctory things, so they asked me to trouble me in the future, so they put this thing under the magnifying glass and checked it carefully.

Seeing the time when there was a cigarette, I gradually got a sense of it. I shook my head against the golden tooth looking at me hopefully, and said, "Although the line pattern copied is relatively old, it should be The counterfeit of the later dynasties, that is to say, it is an antique counterfeit. This is a thing with a very embarrassing identity. You have a poor copy of this thing, and I can't see a certainty. I can only guess it is something from the Han Dynasty. You say that he is fake and not fake, and that he is real and not real, it's just such a thing."

"Then is this the one that your grandpa stole?"

"To tell you the truth, the share my grandfather stolen did not come and was cheated by the Yankee when he saw it. I really can't answer your question." I pretended to be very sincere and sigh. After a sigh of relief, I thought to myself, if I let him know that I have rubbings in my hand, it will definitely spread. It will be difficult to recruit other people at that time. It's better to fool him and let him go to other places to find a way.

The old man with the golden tooth looked at me, really believed it, and sighed: "That's really a coincidence. It seems that I don't look for the American, I'm afraid I really have no hope."

"Why, why do you care about this volume so much?" I asked, this is too strange. The collection of this ancient book is based on fate. If you want to find a set of 20 volumes of ancient books from the Warring States period, it would be too greedy. Up.

"Little brother, let's tell you, I'm really not a bad guy. Look at my bones, that's a lot of trouble, but my friend is indeed an expert, I don't know what he is selling, anyway. , I don't want to ask more about the truth of others." He chuckled, shook his head and sighed: "That's OK, since I got your words, I'm also dead in my heart, don't delay my little brother, let's go first step"

After speaking, he stood up, gave me a fist, and left without looking back. I see him walking so disappointed, and I feel a little bit unbearable, but it's absolutely impossible for people in our business to be careful not everywhere. Small things like him, the big deal is to spend a little more time, I think about it and let go .

At this moment, I suddenly didn't take the copy paper. Maybe the shock I just received was too great. I picked it up and looked at the content. I suddenly found an interesting pattern. It was a fox-like face, two The eyes without pupils are very three-dimensional, as if they are recessed from the paper. I took a breath when I saw it. I was only concerned about judging his year, and I didn't look at the content carefully. Now it seems that this should be It is also a rare treasure, and I am happy to make some fake rubbings with this copy when the old itching comes out.

I took a picture of it with a digital camera, and took the paper to Wang Meng outside. If the golden tooth came back later, I would directly return it to him. He reluctantly thought I was greedy for him.

My grandfather is a native master of Changsha, a tomb thief. It's not surprising that my grandfather entered this business. It's hereditary in current terms. When my grandfather's grandfather was 13 years old, there was a drought in Central China. In those days, there was a famine when there was a drought. , You have money and you can't buy anything to eat. At that time, there was nothing in the corner of Changsha, that is, there were many ancient tombs. How many people starved to death, none of them died in their village, relying on the dug up to exchange food for foreigners.

After a long time, this thing has a cultural accumulation. By my grandfather's generation, there were already rules and sects. Historically, tomb robbers were divided into north and south groups. Tufuzi divided them according to their habits and should belong to the south group. They mainly rely on soil exploration to find ancient tombs. Before the Republic of China, they used the probe cone, and after the Republic of China, the Luoyang shovel was used. One nose can determine the depth of the dynasty. Now many novels describe the Luoyang shovel at every turn. In fact, the Northern School does not use Luoyang shovel. To accurately determine the location and structure of the tomb is the so-called dragon search and acupuncture point.

The North-South School is a big faction of literati and guest. Originally, it didn't have anything to do with things on the rivers and lakes. Later, after many troubled times, there were more people who became monks halfway through, and gradually brought these things into this line. My grandfather had never done anything to himself before. After passing the definition, the apprentices below asked about it and realized that their actions probably belonged to the southern faction. The two factions have been at odds since they were established. The southern faction said that the northern faction was not real and that there were too many intestines. There are so many famous halls, and the things that go in and take the shellfish will be taken away, and there will be one deduction and two deductions, bureaucratic. The southern faction has few rules and never shy away from dead people. The northern faction criticizes the southern faction as a local dog and spoils cultural relics. None of the overturned fights can not collapse. Even the dead are pulled out and sold. The southern faction criticizes the northern faction as a hypocrite. It's like a thief did something on himself. Later, when the two gangs stepped on the plates, they often fought for a fight. There was even a fight with corpses in Xiangxi. Finally, the two factions were divided into the Yangtze River. The northern faction was called Doudou and the southern faction was called Tao. The Luoyang shovel was invented after the sand or the dirt was scoured, and the people of Beipai did not bother to use it.

After the liberation, the boundary between the North and the South was not so obvious. My grandfather said that he was the South, but there were also a lot of the North in their group of old friends, and their children were even more confused. There is no need to study these.

My grandfather didn't know words, and he entered the literacy class after liberation. At that time, he could only wash the sand, learn a word and check it, and toss him to death. It was also thanks to his culture that he could record some of his experiences in Changsha. The third child in Biaoziling is my grandfather. He records all these things in his old notebook one by one. My grandmother is a literate and a young lady. She is attracted by his stories. Finally My grandfather came to Hangzhou and settled down here.

That note is regarded as my family's family treasure. My grandfather's nose was completely abolished after that incident. Later, he trained a dog to smell the soil and was nicknamed "The Dog King." This is a real thing. Now Changsha has been a tutor, and people of the older generation know this name.

As for how my grandfather survived, what happened to my second uncle, grandfather and grandfather, my grandfather always refused to tell me. In my memory, I have never seen a one-eyed, one-armed second uncle. I guess it's really bad luck. When it comes to this, my grandfather sighed and said: "That's not a story that a child can listen to." No matter how we ask, how we act like a baby, he won't reveal a word. . Finally, as we age, we gradually lose our childhood curiosity.

At closing that evening, I received a text message, opened it, and it was sent by my third uncle at home.

Sanshu was the only person in my previous generation who was still engaged in tomb robbery. In the early years, I heard that I had lived for a while, but later I couldn't get along with the leader in character, so he came out to make antiques by himself. The third uncle often said that he made his debut earlier than anyone else. He went on his own when he was six years old. He has become a famous person in the eighth school at the age of ten. He can be said to be a born tomb thief.

However, this tomb thief has basically stopped washing his hands. According to several of his staff, he occasionally went to the tomb to pick things in the past few years. In the past few years, he has been idle and concentrated on his hands. It's not enough to be unconvinced.

I opened his text message, thinking he was going to ask me to eat, and every time I thought of it, I just said: "9 o'clock corns and yellow sand"

This is a secret word on our line. It means that new products have arrived, and I was asked to pick them. The third uncle has a very good relationship with Manshan. There are many apprentices, maybe some of them have done another one. Tomb, things have arrived in Hangzhou. I was thinking about whether to go, and then I received another one: "There is a dragon's back, come here quickly"

Recently, I have a tight hand and I can't buy good things. It's better not to look at it. However, when he says that there is a dragon back, my eyes light up. This dragon back is meant to be a treasure. The third uncle's vision is surprisingly high. They all think it is a good thing, I am afraid it is really a peerless treasure, this kind of opportunity will be gone if you miss it.

I made up my mind at the moment, closed the store, drove my broken golden cup car and drove straight to my third uncle's place. When his place was dirty, it was very busy. If I went a little later, there might be nothing left. I I was a little worried, and I stepped on the accelerator a few times before I knew it, and ended up being stopped by a traffic police comrade at the same time. After a long time of tossing, it was an hour after the car got downstairs. I just got out of the car. , Just listen to him yelling on it, "Smelly boy, call you

Hurry up, you fucking touch it for a long time, now you have a fart! "

I was already cold in my heart. Hearing this, I knew that the things must have been sold, and leaned back: "No, Sanshu, leave me good things too, you are selling too fast."

"You fucking know it's a good thing, so you won't come hurry up, Lao Tzu is the first to inform you!"

I sighed and didn't want to explain. At this moment, a young man walked out of his front door with a long camphor wood box on his back. The outside was sturdy and cloth-wrapped, only one side of the lid was exposed. I know this thing is called a sword box. It is used for holding swords or swords. This thing is very valuable in a box. If there is a sword in it, it is astronomical.

I guess it was the back of the dragon's back, referring to the thing on the young man's back. The third uncle nodded and made a helpless gesture.

At the moment, I felt uninterested, and I was about to go back the same way. My third uncle told me to wait again, saying that there were still many people upstairs picking things from his library and asking me to come up to help collect the money. I thought I was fine at night. , Just go up and join the fun.

After the matter was dealt with, I made half a cup of Wuliangye, and while drinking with him, I told him that the old man with golden teeth came to spy on the matter. I said it as a joke. I didn't expect him to tsk after he heard it. A cry: "Gold tooth from Beijing, yell, this is really suicide on the bridge without jumping into the river-hitting the bridge (coincidentally)."

As soon as I heard that, the third uncle dare to know them, so I asked how that happened. The third uncle said that in recent years, he had heard that several people were very arrogant about gold thieves, and there was a Beijing gold tooth who was responsible for selling them. Goods, it seems to have opened a treasure in Shanxi recently, and it seems that a lot of treasures have been poured out for them.

I thought the silk book might be from the tomb in Shanxi, so I printed out the digital camera for him to see. The third uncle's face was completely empty, and he had already entered the state. When he read the silk book, his face suddenly changed.

"What's the matter?" I asked, "What's wrong with this thing?"

He frowned and said, "Tell you kid to learn more from me. You just don't listen. A discerning person can see this thing. This is a map."