Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Raccoons of the same feather

Looking at this waist card that I got by accident, I was full of doubts. At this moment, I heard Master Li shouting from above, his voice trembling like a goat.Maybe it's because I haven't moved for a long time, and I'm worried about an accident, but I dare not come down to look. "Don't worry, I'm researching it! I'll come up here." It's really a dead duck, but I can't wait to jump up in one step. I stuffed my waist card into my trouser pocket, straightened my clothes, and pretended to be calm, I got out.Mr. Li quickly stretched out his hand, and while helping me pat off the dirt, he asked like a cannonball:

"How? Is there any result? Is it a dead body? Do you want to tell the village chief? What should we do?" "There is no conclusion for now. I'll go back to Beijing and find an expert to analyze and analyze. Don't bother with it so much. Leave it to the village chief to handle it!" Under the morning light, Master Li's flushed face was full of respect, and I took advantage of the situation to put on airs and asked decently: "When you went in, was there anything else inside besides that thing?" In fact, the reason why I asked this question was because I thought that since there was a waist card in it, there might be other second-hand goods, and I might get rich if I sold it to old man Qiao at that time.

"Oh! You know this, it's amazing! There are indeed a lot of things in there." As soon as he left the pit, Mr. Li's chattering problem flared up again, "It's a few broken pieces of iron, and they look weird. Seeing what it was, I took it home and planned to take it to the iron shop to exchange for some hoes when the farm is slack." "Broken iron?" I frowned, and the excitement just now disappeared without a trace. You know, among the second-hand goods, ironware is the most difficult to buy and sell, because it is easy to rust, and it will drop slag if you are not careful. .At this time, I couldn't help but sigh, why don't I bring a few gold, silver and bronze wares, even if it's a broken bowl!

"What kind of broken iron? Can you take me to have a look?" After thinking about it, I felt that seeing is believing, so I made a request to Mr. Li. Although I didn't have any hope, I knew that I didn't have the ability to judge mediocrity. Mr. Li had an embarrassing expression on his face, hesitating and hesitating, I suddenly understood that he was afraid that I would take away those things and he would not be able to make a hoe. "It's just a few pieces of rotten iron! I'm just looking around, researching and researching, and I won't want you. Even if I want to, I will give you some money as compensation."

As soon as he heard that it could be exchanged for money, Master Li's eyes immediately shone. Without saying a word, he pulled me up and walked towards the village. The speed can almost be compared to "speeding". ... Mr. Li's home is in the east of the sun-drying field. Not long after, we were standing in the courtyard, and the things picked up from the cave were placed in the corner of the yard, and Mr. Li took them to the open space one by one. First, there is a twisting iron rod, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a rocker for starting a tractor. Although it is rusty, it can still be seen that it took a lot of effort to make this thing.

After that, there are three blades that look like propellers. Surprisingly, this one is as good as new, with a faint cold light on the edge, and there is no trace left by the years.I picked it up and inspected it, and couldn't help but suspect that he had stolen it from the factory.At this time, Master Li took out several small iron objects with strange shapes, some were like hooks, some were like buttons... Mr. Li lined up his things in a neat row, and then stood with his hips on the opposite side to watch my reaction. This formation was like a street stall on an overpass.I smiled dumbly, and suddenly, an idea flashed in my mind-these should have been a tool, but they just fell apart.

I squatted down and tried to assemble it, but I didn't expect that it was really guessed by me, and I didn't expect it to be so simple.According to the unevenness and size of the thing, a thing like an umbrella was assembled in a short while.I excitedly held the rocker and shook it vigorously, and the thing turned rapidly and surprisingly powerfully, and I felt the whistling wind blowing towards my face.I was taken aback, and quickly stopped, but unfortunately it was too late, the rocker was too rusty to withstand the toss, there was only a muffled sound, and it was scattered all over the ground with a "poof".

I stood dumbfounded, not understanding what was going on just now, Master Li reacted even more, almost completely dumbfounded, for a while, the surroundings were surprisingly quiet, as if frozen. This thing looks familiar, I must have seen it somewhere.After recovering for a while, I started to think about it, and suddenly remembered that just last night, in that box of books, I had seen a pattern depicting the same shape as this one. "What the hell is it?" Master Li seemed to be awake, and leaned over in shock, and then asked, "Is it worth it? How much can I exchange for it?"

"This is a farm tool from ancient times, and it's worthless." I pretended to explain, but I was really afraid that he would pester me, after all, the thing broke in my hands.Seeing his disappointed face, he couldn't bear to comfort him and said: "Leave the things and don't move them. I'll ask an expert to analyze them later to see if they are worth researching. If you want a hoe, go to the iron shop and buy it!" Pass him the dollar. Master Li wrapped the money in his hands unceremoniously, and then began to praise me again and again. According to him, I was a big man from the moment I was born...

Saying goodbye to Master Li, I almost trotted back home, for no other reason than to find out what that thing was just now.Sure enough, in a book introducing tools for tomb robbers, there was a drawing of this thing impressively, and it was written on it - "Pierce the mountain drill", created by the "Jindan Nanzong" in the Song and Yuan Dynasties... Advantages: fast speed, strong strength, deep hole The walls are neat.Disadvantages: easily damaged, bulky, inconvenient to carry... only popular in this sect, and later replaced by "lotus shovel". Judging from the depicted illustrations, there is nothing magical about this "mountain drill". It is nothing more than making the three-page shovel into a spiral shape, using the principle of leverage to rotate it, thereby generating a moment of inertia, and then using the friction of the front end to drill the soil ...

What about the badge?I looked through every page of every book, but unfortunately, I didn't find any similar records, and I don't know if it was an omission, or it was just a decoration.However, since this person is traveling through the mountains, is he obviously a tomb robber?And he came to "work". Based on this reasoning, there must be a large-scale ancient tomb near the hole, because he brought such a big hole-driller, the difficulties and risks can be imagined, and the goal must be worth his risk. But as far as I know about the history, Baotou is a newly established city. Although there were traces of human settlements in this area five thousand years ago, it was not until the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty that a rudimentary town gradually took shape. It was only two hundred years ago. The Song and Yuan ancient tombs?Could it be the Khitan nobles who came here as nomads in the Liao Dynasty?If so, it will be a great adventure! Due to the influence of the Central Plains dynasty, the Khitan is also a nation that attaches great importance to burials. I often heard in Liulichang that the tombs of Khitan nobles are digging one shovel to eat a generation, and digging ten shovels makes a village rich!I just read the newspaper not long ago, saying that archaeologists discovered the tomb of Princess Chen Guo, the granddaughter of Liao Jingzong, on Qinglong Mountain in Naiman Banner, Tongliao City. The old goods dug out were enough to open ten "Zhengtian Zhai". I daydreamed endlessly, my heart surged involuntarily, and then I sighed sadly, only blaming myself for being inexperienced in this area and not knowing where to start.At this moment, I really hope that my father can appear by my side. Thinking of my father, I cast my eyes on the small wooden box with a sense of loss, and suddenly there was a light, isn't all the knowledge about tomb robbery inside?As long as you study hard, why worry about an ancient tomb of the Liao Dynasty?The head was pierced, and he was ecstatic at once, completely forgetting how that horrible corpse died. ... Ms. Qiao gave me a seven-day vacation. At first I was very grateful and thought it was ample. Who knew that the journey alone would take five days, which made me dare not delay in Dabagou.On the train back to Beijing in a hurry, I suddenly understood—it turned out that Ms. Qiao had already made up her mind.Apart from being angry, I have to admire her shrewdness and ability to handle things. Back in Beijing, it happened to be the afternoon of the seventh day. After tidying up a bit, I put my waist card into my trouser pocket and strode towards Liulichang. Although Liulichang's antique business is booming, it doesn't have the hustle and bustle of a vegetable market. Occasionally there will be a crowd of people, but most of them are idlers. They usually only shop for treasures on the street stalls, picking up leaks, like Zhengtianzhai. Such a well-known storefront is usually empty.But having said that, it is these big firms that really make a fortune, as the so-called "three years without opening, open for three years".In Miss Qiao's words, it's like fishing, you have to wait patiently. At this time, Zhengtianzhai was in a state of "fishing". When he opened the store door, only old man Qiao was there.He was lazily lying on the rocking chair, holding a small wine glass, humming Peking opera to the radio. "Hey! Going home to marry a wife? Come, have a drink with me." Seeing that it was me, Old Man Qiao laughed wretchedly, and actually poured me a glass of wine.Look at this guy's virtue, needless to say, he must have just made a big deal. "Where's Sister Niyue?" "I was invited by Jupinzhai to 'stretch fiber', that guy 'has a glance'." The old man Qiao talked in jargon, saying that there was a big deal, and Miss Qiao went to be a middleman.This kind of business is also called "moving bricks". It costs nothing and is sure to be profitable. No wonder he is in high spirits. Seeing my absent-minded appearance, the old man Qiao was a little disappointed, suddenly smiled sinisterly again, rubbed his red nose, breathed out alcohol and said: "As soon as you come back, I will look for her and ask, haven't I seen you for a few days? Lovesick?" "What are you talking about! I have something to show her." I hate Old Man Qiao's ambiguous tone the most. Because he is disrespectful, he gets angry and throws his badge on the counter. "Hehe! It's not the same for me." Old man Qiao stood up and took a look. After seeing it was a waist card, he laughed loudly, "Is this the 'baby'? I thought why... ah! Like a law?" He suddenly jumped up like a corpse, grabbed the waist card and stared at it for a while, then raised his head and asked hastily, "Where did you get it?" I have never seen him with such a frightened expression, and his wrinkled face became very strange and terrifying at this moment—the eyes were bulging, the wings of the nose fluttered constantly, and the upper lip trembled as well, as if being touched by electricity. "I brought it from home! What's the matter?" "I'm asking you, the origin of this thing." Old man Qiao raised his voice, as if he was going to swallow me up. "If you know, you still use it to show sister Niyue?" I also lost my temper, and snatched the waist card back into my hand. Old man Qiao was also a man in the rivers and lakes, and soon calmed down. He sat down on the rocking chair dejectedly, staring blankly ahead.This made me feel a little uncomfortable. Thinking about his gaffe, it shows that he has a great relationship with this waist card, so why should I compete!So, starting from the discovery of the burrow, slowly tell the story of getting the waist card.Of course, I subconsciously concealed the exact location of the burrow. Old man Qiao listened intently, his face was blue and white for a while, but he never said a word. When I finished speaking, he stood up on his knees and said expressionlessly: "You took the train for two days and one night. Tired, go back and rest! I'm tired too, so I close early today." I thought he would be extremely excited and pestered me to ask questions, but it was this kind of reaction. I stood at a loss, feeling as if I had been tricked, and was stunned when I saw him walk slowly to the door, piece by piece. drop the door panel... ... Back in the "nest" deep in the alley, I carried the small wooden box hidden under the bed to the table and opened it carefully.Maybe it's a psychological effect, I always feel that it exudes a strong strange smell, a smell of mud mixed with corpses, but what is puzzling is that not only do I not hate it, but I seem to enjoy it. At this time, what appeared in front of my eyes were no longer books, but ancient tombs, antiques one after another. I dragged Ms. Qiao through them, took the most valuable ones into my arms, and finally walked up to the golden coffin of the Huns, I opened it with a smile, and finally broke the millennium curse for the Geng family... After a burst of excitement, I gradually calmed down. The most urgent task is to learn the technique of tomb robbery, but where should I start?I picked up a copy and flipped through it. Although the contents of these manuscripts are not obscure, they are like wine. The easier it is to drink, the easier it is to get drunk. After a while, I started to feel dizzy. Later, I changed a copy angrily... I don't know how long it took, but I have read all the books, but I don't seem to have learned anything.I stood up impetuously, and paced around the room less than ten square meters. Suddenly, my head jerked—haste makes waste!right!I should calm down and learn from the most basic, and then slowly from the shallower to the deeper. After figuring this out, I happily sat back on the table. After picking and choosing, I decided to learn the terminology and jargon of tomb robbers first, and feel the atmosphere of this circle first. The sky darkened unknowingly, I got up and turned on the light, at this moment, the door suddenly cracked with a "squeak", and then, the thin figure of old man Joe flashed in.He was holding a large bowl of noodles in his hand, with a gloomy face, he floated to the table like a ghost, and said in a reproachful tone: "Why don't you go to eat? Are you angry with me?" This sudden change made me panic. It was too late to put the book away, so I had no choice but to hope that he would not flip through it. Although I knew it was impossible, the old guy had sharp eyes. Old man Qiao put down the bowl, his eyes were immediately attracted by the book, he paused, looked up at me, picked it up and flipped through it without saying anything.With just such a sweep, his eyes suddenly became very strange, as if he saw the most incredible thing in the world. I squeezed out a smiling face and took the book back as if nothing had happened.Old man Qiao still didn’t say a word, and he walked slowly towards the door. I was just glad that he turned around suddenly, and said a strange sentence with a blank face—— "Yuanliang, divide the mountain armor, demolish the gate of the hill, and have your own account in Taosha?" These words are so familiar, isn't it written in the book, the code words of the tomb robbers?He was clearly asking which sect I came from, to find out my details. I don't know if it was a moment of excitement or a ghost, so I followed the words written in the book and said: "Sanqin Milonglou, don't move mountains to touch gold, just seek... only longevity pills." After reading these few words that even I found inexplicable, I looked at old man Joe, but I saw him showing a sly smile, which seemed to say-"Boy, you are in a trap."I also responded with a smiley face, in fact, you haven't revealed yourself yet. The two stood quietly like this, feeling embarrassed with each other, and even looked at each other. At this moment, I finally realized the artistic conception of the idiom "each has a ghost". "It turns out that they are descendants of the Geng family in Sanqin, Shaanxi. Hey! When did your Geng family come to Inner Mongolia?" Old man Qiao broke the deadlock first, I was taken aback for a moment, the old guy is really not simple, he even knows my family background?But looking down, maybe the Geng family of Sanqin is well-known in the world of tomb robbers, and everyone in the world knows it!With this thought, the admiration for him just now disappeared. "This should have happened several generations ago." I replied slowly. "It seems that they are all from my own family, okay! Let's open the skylight and speak plainly." The old man Qiao suddenly raised his voice, pulled a chair and sat opposite me, and said word by word: "I am the No. Twenty-six generations of heirs, opening a shop to buy and sell second-hand goods is just a cover-up, and it is also a common tactic used by the family. In fact, every time I go out, I go to the countryside to buy, and I also do grave-digging activities secretly..." The old man Joe in front of me seemed to be reciting lines. I was wondering why he would show his cards to me, and then I heard him say—— "I know you don't understand this very well. In fact, although Xiangtumen is not as powerful as your Milonglou, its background is definitely not the school. Have you heard of Jindan Nanzong? Uh! You always know the Quanzhen School, right?" Seeing me confused, old man Qiao was a little annoyed, but he soon put on a smile again, cleared his throat and continued: "Quanzhen Sect is a sect founded by Wang Chongyang in the late Song Dynasty. It has been glorious for hundreds of years. Among them, the Seven Sons of Quanzhen, headed by Qiu Chuji, are the most popular. There is a disagreement on the priority and secondary aspects of cultivation. Originally, the Quanzhen Sect advocated cultivating life first and then cultivating nature... Uh! You may not understand this, but let me put it simply, it focuses on self-cultivation and Qi cultivation, and does not pay attention to alchemy and painting. Later, Master Zhang Baiduan, who advocated the cultivation of Waidan, led his people to the south, and set up a new sect in the Southern Song Dynasty, establishing a new sect—Jindan Nanzong, which broke away from Quanzhen Sect. Our Xiangtumen is one of the sects of Jindan Nanzong. Specialize in research and exploration of Qimen Dunjia, Fengyu Xiangdi..." "By the way, digging graves and robbing graves, and opening a store to wash goods, right?" Feeling that old man Qiao was about to get to the point, I added a whip without losing the opportunity. "Hey! Look at how ugly you said. In fact, our sect didn't focus on tomb robbery at the beginning. Occasionally, it was for the purpose of verifying theories, and only dismantling those strange veins and acupuncture points. Later! I don't know how to do it, gradually Became a professional accountant, hehe..." Old man Qiao rubbed his nose habitually, and suddenly realized that he was going too far, immediately put away his smiling face, and said solemnly: "When our sect was founded, it happened that Quanzhen and Nanzong had the worst quarrel. Later, when Xiangtumen came to my master's house, he competed with Quanzhen Li Zhi. This Li Zhi is Qiu Chuji's beloved disciple, and he practiced very well. Gao, he asked me Master Ren to come to the field to pray for rain. This is not what Xiangtumen is good at, and the result can be imagined. Master Ren was humiliated after losing the game. In a fit of anger, he swore on the spot that he would fight against Li Zhi After his death, he robbed his tomb, let the Quanzhen sect see his sect's phase earth technique, and threatened that if he didn't succeed, he would retire from now on. After that, he really disappeared..." Speaking of this, Old Man Qiao finally stopped. He let out a long breath, and suddenly looked at me with weird eyes, as if asking——how much do you understand? "After all, the two factions share the same origin, so why bother! By the way! Why are you telling me this? Take a history class!" I said with a smile, but I knew very well in my heart that the old guy was about to show his tail. Seeing that he had been nagging for a long time without talking in vain, the old man Qiao was immediately comforted, but suddenly he lowered his head and kneaded his hands back and forth on his knees, as if hesitating.After a while, he raised his head, stared at me and said word by word: "The corpse you mentioned this afternoon is likely to be Master Ren from Xiangtu Sect... At that time, Li Zhi happened to be active in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. I guess, Master Ren has been hiding in the dark, and he will act as soon as Li Zhi dies. It's a pity. I missed it for some reason, and ended up looking like that..." "Isn't it? It happened hundreds of years ago, are you sure?" "You can't make a mistake, that waist card is the proof." Qiao old man leaned his head over and said in a low voice, "That's called 'opening acupoints to ward off evil spirits like a law'. Exclusive. With this treasure, digging graves and looting graves will never fail, and any evil thing must be avoided by three points. What a pity! It disappeared with Master Ren, and only various magical descriptions have been handed down. I always suspected that it was just a legend. I didn’t expect it I really saw you today..." Old man Qiao became a little incoherent, his voice became thinner and thinner, and he could hardly hear what he was saying in the end.At this moment, I suddenly understood that he had been going around and talking for a long time, and the purpose was just for this waist card. It seems that this thing is really not simple.wrong!If this Rulu Ling was really that powerful, then his master Ren Shizu would not have ended up like this. "Did you say he was under the spell of a Taoist priest?" I avoided the subject and secretly observed the expression of old man Qiao, only to see him suddenly raised his head and said hastily: "I just want to find out about this matter. According to the records handed down from our sect, this Master Ren can be regarded as a rare person who is rare in a thousand years. Yinzuo, as long as he has his eyes on it, no matter how many traps are placed inside, they can't escape his palm. Tell me, how could he miss it for a stinky old man?" Old man Qiao was frothing for a while, and finally said something—— "So, I plan to ask you to take me to have a look. One is to find the remains of the master and bury him properly. The other is to find out the cause of his death and see what institution it is. We can also learn some experience and lessons. He fulfilled his last wish and broke through Li Zhi's tomb." By this time, I finally understood the purpose of old man Joe's trip tonight, and he wanted me to take him to rob the grave.What patriarch's is just an excuse, I don't understand this old guy yet?It's no good to fish, even if that strange corpse is his own father, he might not go all the way there.Besides, if he was really taken to dig, wouldn't the waist card be used by him?This trick kills several birds with one stone! "How is it? I will pay for all the expenses this time, and each person will get half of the things dug up." Old man Qiao said with a smile, his expression was so wretched.It seems that this guy still has something to hide. He must know that there are good things in the Taoist's tomb, otherwise he wouldn't be so troublesome. To be honest, when I found out that it was not the tomb of a Khitan nobleman, I was a little depressed, and I was not interested at all. But after thinking about it carefully, this is not an opportunity to practice tomb robbery. Those in the books are just on paper, and I really want to become a master It has to be practiced.Besides, digging graves and robbing graves is not a joke, and if you don’t do it, you will lose your life. The master Ren is the best example, and old man Qiao is an expert at any rate. With him as a shield, he doesn’t know anything about me. For Lengtouqing, that's pretty good. In this way, after some consideration, I finally agreed.