Chapter 39 Chapter 9 The End of the Rainbow

The heavy rain comes as soon as it is said, and the tea trees all over the mountain are full of fresh taste in the rain, which makes people want to roll on the tea slope.Zhao Shuai and I hid under the eaves of a pottery shop. The owner, surnamed Wu, was in his forties. He was very hospitable. He took us to drink tea and chat, and did not drive away customers.As soon as Zhao Shuai sat down, he asked Dingshu Town if there was a place called Hongyu Xiaodian. There were only a few shops in Dingshu Town, but Shopkeeper Wu shook his head and said no without thinking.Don't say there is no now, there was no before, and there will be no guarantee in the future.

It was raining non-stop, and I thought I might have to stay in the pottery shop for a few hours, so I simply stopped thinking about things in the ancient tomb, and I might as well get some useful information from Shopkeeper Wu.Zhao Shuai whispered to me secretly, he said that Liao's second child likes to talk nonsense, if Jiang Hongyu has been looking for Tea King Valley, why didn't he open the Hongyu shop to Dingshu Town, that little girl probably didn't Do you know where Tanggong Mountain is? Shopkeeper Wu thought we were here to find teapots for Lin’s tea lovers, so he took the opportunity to recommend his own products and made a big mouthful. His products were even considered cheap in the Louvre.I really want to find a good teapot. Drinking tea should not only focus on tea leaves and water, a good teapot is also essential.Zhao Shuai was blunt and said that the things in the store were too bad, and he would never pay for it.I thought shopkeeper Wu would be angry because of this, kicked us out of the door, and let the dogs chase after us, who knew the shopkeeper would shoot the case and praise Zhao Shuai for his fucking vision!

"Wait a minute, I'll show you the treasure of the shop!" Shopkeeper Wu ran into the inner room after finishing speaking. Shuai Zhao and I shrugged our shoulders, wondering what this old man would come up with, could it be a peerless teapot, really so easy to find?In the blink of an eye, Shopkeeper Wu was holding a chic purple clay pot on a tea tray from the inner room, and he seized the opportunity to show off his precious treasure with great pomp.The whole body of the purple clay teapot is smooth, which is a characteristic of long-term use, but after a long time of use, it will wear out a surface similar to amber.There are some mountains and rivers painted on the body of the teapot, and there is also a majestic rainbow. What is even more amazing is that the teapot has a pair of ancient sentences.

Zhao Shuai scratched his head anxiously: "This sentence looks familiar, have you seen it somewhere?" "At the head of the overpass in the hidden valley of the tea king, the purple air comes from the east to thousands of stars." I recalled, this sentence is the poem on the ancient tomb stele. Shopkeeper Wu was not surprised. He said: "Some pottery pots are often dug up on the tea mountain. Many of them are engraved with that sentence, and this rainbow! However, my treasure is different, it is passed down from my family. , The pot has been raised for more than 50 years."

I thought Wudian mainly said that the teapot was poured from some kind of ancient tomb. After hearing his show off, I couldn't help but feel disappointed.Shopkeeper Wu saw what I was thinking, and the sky-high price was lowered to 50,000 just now, and he was planning to sell hundreds of thousands.The teapot is indeed a good teapot, but we need to spend a lot of money on this trip, and we can't spend too much money, otherwise Liao's second child will die of heartache even if he doesn't die of illness. However, I am very interested in the tea set dug out of Chashan.It may be true that there are ancient tombs in Chashan. There have been more than a dozen tea kings in history. It is impossible for them all to be buried in the same place. Those tea sets are likely to be their funeral objects.However, why no one has been able to find the Valley of the King of Tea? Does the rainbow pattern on the tea set and the ancient poem hint at the location of the Valley of the King of Tea?

The heavy rain still didn't seem to stop. Shopkeeper Wu seized the opportunity and boasted so much that he almost stuffed the teapot into my arms.I took the teapot and handed it to Zhao Shuai to play with, taking the opportunity to change the subject.During the conversation, I learned that this is not the first time that an ancient tomb has been discovered. Tomb robbers have discovered other tombs in the early years.There were also naughty children in the town following him, but someone died suddenly in the tomb, and everyone fled in fright.It also rained suddenly that day, and the dug-out cave was washed away by the rain, and the ancient tomb was buried again by the collapsed mountain soil.

Over the past few years, similar things have happened again, and over time, the locals will no longer approach the ancient tomb.Once discovered, those ancient tombs will be buried on the spot to prevent those who do good things from going to die again.Those who escaped claimed that the deceased was normal at first, but suddenly fell to the ground, then twitched all over, his face was distorted, and he died immediately in a few seconds.Rumors in the countryside have always been like this, no matter how scary or supernatural, they can only be passed on, and they can be made up better than Pu Songling.

"So, those archaeological bureaucrats are not afraid of death. If you don't believe our words, it's better now, let's be dead." Shopkeeper Wu laughed. I suddenly realized that the onlookers had expected this to happen, and they all went to see a good show.Having said that, there was indeed an old man on the spot who advised him that the ancient tomb could not be dug.However, archaeologists should be very familiar with ancient tombs, they can't be so stupid that they don't know that there are organs in the ancient tombs.But shopkeeper Wu also said that the people who broke into the ancient tomb all died suddenly, and no mechanism was found at all.It is this point that cannot be explained, and the villagers vividly compiled the accident into a ghost story.

"I don't know if that person carried it up. Now that technology is gradually advanced, it is easy to find out the cause of death." I said happily. "It's no wonder that it can be found out. Such supernatural things are generally not explained to the outside world, and there is no need for people to explain them to assholes like us." Shopkeeper Wu laughed at himself. Zhao Shuai finally had enough fun. He put down the teapot and asked shopkeeper Wu, "This teapot is really good. If you lower the price, I won't be able to pay that much for a while." I was shocked, Zhao Shuai is usually very smart, how can he be so stupid now, such a pot is sold for 50,000, and I don't know whether it is for tea or urine.Besides, bargaining can't be like this, at least you have to show that you are not interested in the teapot. If you ask if the price of the teapot can be reduced now, it is clear that you want to buy it.I sighed, thinking that Zhao Shuai had become rich again, so he no longer felt sorry for spending money, and spent as much money as Li Ka-shing.

Shopkeeper Wu didn't miss the opportunity, and threatened, "I wouldn't sell this pot for 500,000 yuan, but today I'll sell it to you for 50,000 yuan, and I can't lose a penny." "Everyone is a businessman, you set a real price, don't be sloppy." Zhao Shuai said gruffly. I hurriedly stopped: "We didn't bring that much money, how can we afford it, this pot should be returned to Brother Angkor, and you should stop fooling around." Shopkeeper Wu couldn't give the opportunity to play around, he immediately insisted: "Okay, fifty thousand is fifty thousand, I'll find something to wrap it up for you! It is said that the surname Zhao has a unique vision. When I saw it today, what I said was true."

When Shopkeeper Wu rushed into the inner room excitedly, I immediately scolded Zhao Shuai. If you want to waste money, you can't waste it like this. How can this broken teapot be worth 50,000 yuan? I think five yuan is about the same.Who knows, Zhao Shuai suddenly lowered his voice and said, why are you so stupid today, didn't you see the secret behind the teapot.I stared at Zhao Shuai suspiciously, muttering what a broken pot could be, don't make fucking excuses for you wasting money. Zhao Shuai saw that I was not enlightened, so he quietly reminded me, and I suddenly realized that Shopkeeper Wu did not understand the true value of this teapot at all!Zhao Shuai's family is relatively well-off, he has collected quite a few rare antiques before, and naturally knows a little about appreciation.This teapot is made of Tianqing clay, which was produced in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and has since been lost. Among the purple clay, sky blue clay has been the most popular since ancient times. What is sky blue clay?It is said that Dingshan Dashuitan was originally a place where Zisha mud was mined, and Tianqing mud was produced here.Later, the underground water veins were dug through and submerged, forming a large pool.In the purple sand industry, it has long been customary to call purple clay green clay, which was still the case until the early 1960s.Tianqing clay is the best clay among purple clays. After roasting, its color is deep, soft and elegant.In the old days, the purple sand industry used mud to consider the cost, and the mud used in ordinary purple sand pots was ordinary purple sand mud.Because of the scarcity of raw materials, the real Tianqing mud is not used by non-experts or high-quality products. Because of the scarcity of sky-green clay, in the 1970s, Yixing Zisha Craft Factory tried to reproduce the sky-green clay by means of artificial synthesis.Thus appeared the fight purple mud.However, due to factors such as base minerals, formula and mass production, it failed to do so.But occasionally it worked, but less often.It's not like now, not to mention the sand pots made of Tianqing mud, even the purple sand pots are made with chemicals, which are not purple clay at all. Because of this, there are very few real purple sand pots, and dozens of them have been raised The purple sand teapot made in 1990 is absolutely unique in the world. After I was shocked, I thought, shopkeeper Wu said that the teapot was only a few decades old, but the Tianqing clay was produced in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and it was lost later. How could he have this thing.The sky blue clay teapot is small, exquisite and exquisite, unlike the ones that can be made by the Wu family pottery shop, most likely it was picked up from some ancient tomb.Shopkeeper Wu's ignorance of the true value of the teapot is the greatest evidence. If it was his own, how could he sell it as scrap? The Tianqing clay teapot would cost millions at least. Finally, the transaction was successful, and Zhao Shuai piled up all the money he had with him.Because they had to come out to collect tea, there were no cash machines in the town at that time, so the tea collectors carried a lot of cash on them, so they became the best candidates for robbers.After the transaction was over, both Zhao Shuai and Shopkeeper Wu were happy, but we were the ones who had the last laugh.Shopkeeper Wu wanted to give a tea tray as a gift, but Zhao Shuai thought it was too big, so he didn't want it.The craftsmanship of the tea tray is also very exquisite. The ancient tea mountain and tea ceremony are depicted on it, which can be said to be a simple ancient map.But the materials used for the tea tray are very common and not worth much at all, so let’s just keep it and sell it to others. The rain just stopped, so we didn't dare to stay any longer, so we found an excuse and left the Wujia Tao shop immediately, lest the shopkeeper Wu would go back on his word.After finding a good teapot, Zhao Shuai no longer wanted to find Tea King Valley, he didn't even want to collect the tea leaves, and he wanted to go back to Beijing to sell the teapot.I stood by the side of the muddy road, unwilling to leave easily, and wanted to follow in the footsteps of my grandfather and father, and to find the Valley of the King of Tea that they had longed for. The sky blue clay teapot and the ancient tomb stone tablet all have the same sentence, and the ancient tea set dug out of the tea slope is also engraved. Could this be the clue left by the tea king to future generations?Raindrops fell from the bamboo leaves, and Zhao Shuai hurriedly put away the teapot, for fear of breaking the pot bought for 50,000 yuan.I wiped the rain from my face, looked at the green tea mountain, and suddenly found a gorgeous rainbow on the tea mountain.I immediately thought that there is also a rainbow in the Tianqing clay teapot, the ancient poem: At the head of the overpass in the hidden valley of the king of tea, the purple air comes from the east to thousands of stars, isn't the overpass the ancient saying for a rainbow? "Could it be that the Tea King Valley is at the end of the rainbow?" I wondered, but shook my head immediately, how could the rainbow have an end, so there is no Tea King Valley? After hearing my thoughts, Zhao Shuai said, "What the hell are you doing? I don't care about finding it. It doesn't matter if it's at the end of the rainbow or at the end of the world. Go to hell." "Let's go up the mountain to see again?" I suddenly had an idea, so I wanted to confirm it. Although Zhao Shuai was reluctant, he still followed me and climbed to the middle of the hill on the muddy mountain road.The bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain and the tea trees on the hillside are like a fairyland under the reflection of the rainbow, which makes people not want to close their eyes.It was found that the location of the ancient tomb was vaguely visible, and the archaeologists had already covered it with an awning. It happened that they carried a person up with a black bag, and it seemed that the person was dead.Zhao Shuai kept asking in my ear, why did he run to the mountain again, so he might as well go back by car.If Shopkeeper Wu found out the secret and he came to ask for the teapot back, wouldn't it be a big loss. A gust of wind blows, and I am suddenly enlightened. No wonder no one can find the location of the Tea King Valley for thousands of years. It turns out that the Tea King Valley is really at the end of the rainbow!