Chapter 498 Passing on the Arts
"Touch the Golden Gate?" said the brothers in unison.
The word touch gold originated in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the first by Cao Cao in order to raise the army, a special department set up by the military, but with the passage of time, this industry also began to rise slowly, and gradually formed four of the most representative factions, they are touch the golden gate, the Faqiu faction, the mountain moving people and the unloading of the Ling force.
But in the Song and Yuan dynasties, because of the particularity of this profession, the other three factions lacked talents, and they came forward with a situation of lack of talent, and slowly only one door was left.
The disciples of the Touching Gold Sect were first called Touching the Gold Captain, which was the title of the tomb robbers and the mountain movers, the unloading wrestlers, and the Faqiu generals, but the difference between the Touching Gold Captain and other tomb robbers, when "going to the ground", they generally like to fight alone, unless it is too difficult for a person to charge into battle, he will form a tomb robbery team of less than five people with his very trusted partner, and it is precisely because of this characteristic that the sect has come to this day.
"That's right, that's what the world often calls Captain Touching Gold. Old Tang nodded, took the jade plate in his hand and said: "This is the token of the first generation of our ancestors in the Golden Gate, Yu Linglong, you kowtow to it four times, even if I touch the Golden Gate, but you must remember that our sect is different from other sects, and the disciples in the door can not have a personal relationship of master and apprentice at all, and can only go their own way and do their own thing. ”
It's not just touching the Golden Gate, most of the people who do this are basically not physically dependent, they are free and not coerced, so it can be said that the tomb robber sect is a virtual group of some tomb robbers.
"This ......" Looking at Old Tang's tangled face, the boss wanted to say something more, but when the words came to his mouth, he forcibly swallowed them back.
He knew what this brand meant to Lao Tang, if it wasn't forced by life, his father wouldn't let them do this shady business, but for the sake of his mother, who was seriously ill in bed, and for the sake of the family's livelihood, he could only nod heavily.
Late at night.
Old Tang and the brothers rocked the fishing boat and floated downstream for a long time, until the lake ran aground and the boat came to the shore.
"Dad, where are we going?" said the second child, puzzled.
I saw that Lao Tang took out a compass from his pocket, and after a while of gesturing in several different directions, he suddenly pointed his hand and said in a low voice: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, here, follow me." ”
After saying that, he walked forward without looking back.
And the brothers didn't dare to say anything more, so they could only follow quietly behind.
After walking for about twenty or thirty miles, Old Tang finally stopped, but he didn't say anything to his two sons, but directly pulled out something like a shovel from the bag he was carrying behind him, and began to dig around.
After all, he was an old man who was nearly half a hundred years old, and he had long lost the physical strength of a young man, so he only dug for a while, and then he gasped for breath.
The boss who was watching from the side finally couldn't stand it anymore, grabbed the guy in Old Tang's hand, and said a little distressed: "Dad, what are you doing here?"
"Why are you ruining yourself so much on this big night?"
In his opinion, Lao Tang's behavior is a kind of masochism, because his movements are irregular, a rake in the east and a broom in the west, obviously trying to exhaust his physical strength.
But Lao Tang just glanced at him with a smile, and said earnestly: "Boss, you go back first, this is called Qitu in our gold industry, and when we find a suitable position, we will hit the hole, you and the second child are watching carefully, if there is anything you don't understand, I will explain it to you later." ”
"Raise the soil, dig holes......" The second child muttered a few words, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly to Old Tang: "Dad, do you mean there is an ancient tomb here? You, are you teaching us to rob tombs?"
Although it was the first time he had experienced this thing when he was so big, as long as he was a person, he knew that even if he could casually pound out bottles and cans from the ancient tomb, then his whole family would have hope.
Old Tang didn't speak, and after nodding at him, he took the things in his hand again and began to dig around.
Half an hour later.
A black, barrel-thick hole was pounded out by Old Tang, and soon after he jumped in, a piece of exquisitely shaped utensils still came out of the hole, until a hill-like "mound" appeared in front of the brothers, and finally saw Old Tang's figure again.
On this trip, although the brothers did not really participate, but they both admired their father's wonderful kung fu, they really couldn't imagine that this father, who was honest and only fishing, turned out to be a master of tomb robbers in the ninth door, and it only took one night to solve the problem that had plagued the family for many years.
In the days that followed, my mother's illness got better day by day, and the two brothers began to follow their father to learn the skills of tomb robbing and gold, such as how to locate the compass, look at the wind and water, how to distinguish whether there is an ancient tomb by the color, breakage and smell of the soil, and how to rob the hole and crack the mechanism and a series of tomb robbery skills.
In addition, the father also kept the rules of their line in mind for the brothers, the first is that the tomb of the literati and Qingshi is resolutely not touched; the second is that the tomb within a hundred miles away from home is resolutely not touched; the third is that the father and son touch the gold, must be outside, and the son is in the ancient tomb; the fourth brother is the younger brother touching the gold, must take the ancestral poison separately, and the two of them each figure out the antidote, after leaving the tomb, the two need to mix the antidote together, and then take it separately to detoxify.
In fact, the brothers didn't know the purpose of these rules, but since their father said that it was an ancestral rule, they could only follow it unconditionally.
After that, the father and son stole no less than 100 ancient tombs in a few years, and the Tang family gradually became rich.
However, the boss's greatest wish is not these, the richer their family is, the more he wants to go to the Liang family as soon as possible and redeem his little sister as soon as possible.
On this day, he finally couldn't help it, and went to the county seat alone to find out the whereabouts of his sister, originally said that after returning in the evening, the father and son would go to the tomb together, but it was raining heavily, he could only find a hotel in the county first, and planned to wait for the rain to stop talking, but he didn't expect it to be, and he couldn't wait for the old Tang to come back, and he didn't know what was wrong, so he didn't wait for him to come back as before, but took the second child directly to the tomb to touch the gold......