Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Return of the Three Provinces of Wu

This teahouse was very strange to me when I entered the door, and when I went upstairs, I found that there was still a little impression in my memory. It seemed that I had been here several times before, and I also came with handicap guys like Uncle San.But I was very young at that time, and I only remember that the room was often full of smoke, and the adults were playing mahjong and laughing in the room, while I was taken by my father and asked a few people to take the lucky money and leave. I would never have imagined that the same place, the same people, I would experience it again with such a face.

The second floor of the teahouse is a corridor with private rooms on both sides, but it is different from the Crescent Hotel, which had a big fuss before. A kind of oily bamboo color, withered yellow and white.When the curtains get close, you can smell a smell of cigarettes. I don't know how many years they haven't been replaced, and the old smoke smell can't be washed away. Pan Zi walked in front and led us to the private room at the end of the corridor. He lifted up the curtains and a group of us walked in.The private room has a lot of space, but there is only a mahogany table inside, which is squarely placed in the middle of the room, with six chairs with coiled dragon silk cushions placed on both sides, and there is a window behind it, and you can see the scene downstairs.I glanced at it, and if I was exposed later, I would jump from here and escape.

But looking further down, my heart sank.The bustling below is full of people, and they all follow along with each market.Both sides of the road are full of cars, there are all kinds of cars. Those who don’t know it think that they are selling train tickets for the Spring Festival travel. If you jump down, you probably won’t be able to get away. There was a set of tea sets on the mahogany table, and Xiao Hua removed five chairs, and only let me sit, and the chairs were pulled against the wall.Pan Zi sat down immediately and started smoking.I saw his hands trembling, and my heart became tense, wondering if he could still carry it.I didn't dare to ask questions, so I could only touch the surface of the table, pretending to be nostalgic and thoughtful.

Xiuxiu on the side began to make Kung Fu tea for me. Her method was very special. She untied her dumpling hair beard, washed the hairpin with tea, and then stirred the tea leaves with the hairpin. I watched her movements and prayed that she had washed her hair this morning. At the same time, I found that the material of her hairpin was very strange, like a kind of light-colored emerald, or a kind of bone, with extremely detailed patterns carved on it. It must be something with a background. The brewed tea smells like Biluochun to me, but at the same time there is a scent that I am familiar with but I can't remember.I took a sip, and it tasted very good, with a feeling of concentration.

I was terrified by the scene at the entrance of the teahouse just now. Everything I experienced just now left me in a state of confusion.Although my heartbeat was slow and I wasn't very nervous, all my feelings were dull and numb. It wasn't until I drank the tea that all my erratic feelings came back.My thoughts began to clear, but my mood began to be tense again. When we came in, a large group of people also followed in from outside. They are not outside the curtain now, apparently they went to other boxes.I couldn't hear a sound of conversation, and everyone seemed to be waiting for something.

Maybe because she noticed that my expression was wrong, Xiao Hua waved her hands to tell me not to worry, and she whispered something to a few of her subordinates, and when it came to the key point, she basically just gestured without moving her mouth. I had to wait patiently, taking a deep breath to stabilize my mind.Xiuxiu pressed my hand to express comfort, but I was even more anxious.If Xiuxiu can see that I am restless, then other people must be able to see it too, but I just can't control my anxiety. After finally Xiao Hua finished talking with his subordinates, he started to pay attention to me.He lowered the drapes and drew the curtains behind me, darkening the room.He leaned down and whispered in my ear: "Wang Baqiu didn't come, it seems that he knew that things had changed and took the approach of retreating. But there must be his spy outside, and if the situation is not right, he will definitely bring someone to appear. Seeing whether Wang Baqiu dares to come, people outside are ready to make a move, the situation is not good for us, I think they are going to be cruel."

"Then..." I was about to ask him, but he immediately made a gesture to stop talking, and took out his mobile phone to show me. I saw an unsent text message on the screen of his mobile phone. He used it as a writing board, and the words on it were: "There are at least three people with excellent hearing next door, and whispering is useless. The first half of what I said just now is Really, the latter is for them to listen to. You just play your role, and we will take care of the rest." I nodded, and he immediately deleted the words on the screen with extremely fast fingers, and then gave Pan Zi a wink.

Pan Zi's face was pale, but he still nodded, and he yelled, "Masters, please, Third Master, I've handed over the things." As soon as the sound fell, there was the sound of pulling chairs in all the nearby boxes, and there was chaos.After a while, as soon as the curtains were raised, ghosts and monsters from all walks of life came in one after another, and soon the private room was full of people. In the previous chaos, I only had a vague impression of them.I have always had a wrong prediction in my heart, that is, the boss should be the most vicious among them.Looking carefully now, the people who came in were tall, short, fat and thin, and of all ages, but they all looked very ordinary and inconspicuous.

Some of the older ones I do know well, and some of them are very young.In general, these people have difficulty remembering even if they try to.I remembered that my third uncle told me that no matter how crooked the people who work in the field look, it doesn’t matter if you take a look and you will never forget it for a lifetime. The kind of person who can see.It is easy to take things from the dead, but it is most difficult to take money from the living. Xiao Hua's men brought over the four chairs next to Pan Zi, which were for the heads of the four big handicaps.The third uncle's system is very clear, so it is necessary to introduce it here.

In Changsha, there is a long-standing system of tomb robbery and sale of stolen goods, which was established at the end of the Republic of China.Why do you say that?Going back further, there must be the same system, but the history was turbulent, and various systems were destroyed in the turmoil. We don’t know what it was like, but the current system was inherited from the Republic of China. Antique trading is divided into domestic collection and foreign smuggling.As the saying goes, "Antiques in the prosperous age", only in the peaceful and prosperous age, will someone concentrate on collecting antiques, but this old saying is one-sided, and it is only valid in a closed world.

The initial period of Kangxi and Qianlong was a prosperous age, but the Qing Dynasty closed the country.In the 12th year of Shunzhi (1655), the sea ban was not opened until the 23rd year of Kangxi (1684), and it was banned again in the 56th year of Kangxi (1717). After that, the ban was lifted like an allegro, although the overall time is not counted. Long, but the control of sea transportation is very strict.During that period of time, the "prosperous antiques" were reflected, but because of the oppression of the sea ban and heavy punishment, the tomb robbery activities did not reach the point of rampant. Only in the period after the Republic of China, firstly, there was a large demand from abroad, and secondly, because of the opening of domestic gates, the government was overwhelmed, so the peak period of tomb robbery in modern history appeared. If the market is huge and no one cares about it, things will get bigger. The first system formed at that time was the smuggling system.The source of the smuggling was tomb robbers, followed by "guests". These "guests" were experts in antiques. They bought artifacts from the thieves and brought them to Beijing and Shanghai for digestion, especially Beiping.But in that era, most of the good goods still flowed abroad. After the founding of New China, customs inspections became more and more stringent, and overseas smuggling was gradually reduced, but the system has been formed.The group of people like my grandfather grew up in that era, and they managed to survive the reform and opening up, so the system continued.After the end of the "Cultural Revolution" and smuggling activities began to appear on the southern border of China and on the sea, a large number of ghost weapons hoarded and hidden over the years began to look for exports. The third uncle used the system of the older generation to resume his old business and carry it forward. one of that group of people. Of course, the domestic rich and collectors are already strong enemies of foreign smugglers, which is why the local antique trading markets in various places are unprecedentedly prosperous. In this way, the third uncle's industrial relationship in Changsha and Hangzhou, as well as the Huo family and Xiaohua's industrial relationship in Beijing, as well as the various potential purposes of the marriage between the Wu family and the Xie family can be understood. From a general structure point of view, Sanshu is mainly responsible for two businesses in all the markets in Changsha: one is to get goods from the field, and the other is distribution. We generally call the market for getting goods from the ground "Lama Pan", and the market for distribution is called "Horse Pan". The system works like this: People like Uncle San are called "iron chopsticks" and are exploiters of the industrial chain. They monopolize the best resources, including information on ancient tombs, knowledge of tomb exploration, and identification of ghost artifacts. These iron chopsticks hand over the location and dynasty information of the ancient tombs they have mastered to the lama plate below. Then, the iron chopsticks will produce a "chopstick head" with information, and lead the lamas caught in the lama plate to go down to the ground to collect Goods, this is commonly known as Jia Lama.Pan Zi is the famous chopstick head under the third uncle. At the same time, Lamapan will have the familiar "horse pan", which has been waiting on the side for a long time. When the things are just out of the pot and have not "cooled", Mapan will contact the buyer and design the transportation route, and then in the Deal directly locally.As soon as the things were cold, the horse plate was taken away directly, and the whole tomb robbery activity was over. This kind of system sells stolen goods very quickly. As long as you don't get caught, only the horse pan will die, and the iron chopsticks and lama pan will not be implicated in any way.It is because of this that tomb robbery activities have been banned repeatedly.As for iron chopsticks and lama pans, there are as many roles as horse pans, and as many die as there are. The third uncle has a large number of distribution horses, and only the big ones come to this room.The ones that made third uncle afraid the most were the heads of the four lamas who had gone to the ground, and those four people were sitting on the chairs now.