Waited for the fourth floor.

Walk around.

It made Fan Yang sigh again.

It's so cheap.

With the gradual improvement of the consumption power of the Chinese people, Hetian jade is fine, and the jade market in the future is a completely deformed state, and the water is so deep that it can be described as a bottomless pit.

From the 70s to the 90s, it has risen more than 20 times.

Since then, it has increased by an average of more than 50 per year, almost doubling every year.

And that's just the ordinary jadeite consumer market.

The high-end ones are more expensive, with a difference of 1 thread in the planting water, and the price has soared 10 times.

A piece of emerald as big as a bean (a grade of mutton fat white jade), and a piece of fine jade as big as a ring face, often hundreds of thousands, and millions of pendants.

However, the cost of jadeite is extremely cheap.

Because there is a war going on in that part of Burma.

That's the real profiteering.

And the current Hetian jade is too cheap to compare with later generations.

Even if a white jade level bracelet is genuine, it will cost tens of thousands of dollars in later generations, but it is only a few hundred thousand yuan at present.

Under the leadership of Lu Zhengshan, Fan Yang played seven or eight hands in a row.

For about 2,000 yuan, I was surprisingly lucky, and I opened a small piece of white jade.

You can make a pendant, barely lose.

Lu Zhengshan palmed Fan Yang's eyes, and opened a small piece of white jade, and he was full of interest.

Fan Yang clapped his hand: "Forget it, don't gamble." ”

"Your luck is so red, let's open a few more pieces. ”

Lu Zhengshan raised his head, and his eyes were a little red.

Fan Yang shook his head secretly in his heart, this person is too heavy on gambling.

"Don't play, go see Lao Yu. ”

Speaking of Lao Yu, Lu Zhengshan's eyes lit up again: "It's okay." ”

Hetian jade has new jade and old jade, old jade, is the old object, antique.

Almost every household has a few ancestral jade pendants, pendants or something, and the cultural play market has recovered in recent years, and the market is also very good.

But there are just too many frauds.

There are often a lot of onlookers in a stall, and the prices that sell are sky-high, and the ones that are bought are repaid on the spot, but there are not many transactions in the end.

On the fourth floor on a remote corner.

A stall caught Fan Yang's attention.

The stall owner looked to be fifty or sixty years old, an extremely obscene little old man, with a straw hat, and now in spring, the temperature was not too hot, but he wore a pair of straw sandals.

Holding his right foot, he lifted his trousers and squatted on the small bench.

One of his feet looked a little bigger, his toes were spread out in all directions, his feet were full of calluses, the muscles on his ankles and calves were coiled, and his muscles were exposed, and he was an indescribably strange pair of feet.

The visual impact is very great, Fan Yang saw the first time he saw the feet, this pair of feet is not simple, how bad is it, can a pair of feet be tossed into this picture?

There was a coarse cloth bag beside him, as well as a dry tobacco gun, a dry tobacco pouch, and a water bottle.

On a piece of oilcloth in front of him, there were seven or eight gray old jades, a few necklaces of unknown material, which even felt like something from the Stone Age, and a few clay pots and a few tiles like rotten stones.

Seven or eight people gathered around his stall, but they didn't think he was dirty at all, and they played with those pieces of old jade with great interest, and kept taking flashlights to shine on the color of the jade meat.

"What does this mean?" asked Fan Yang.

Lu Zhengshan gently pulled the corner of Fan Yang's clothes and attached his mouth to Fan Yang's ear: "Tomb robbers." ”

Hiss, Fan Yang gasped.

Tomb robbers?

Is this virtue of him?

If you want to say that, it makes sense.

"Fake. ”

"Fake?"

Fan Yang was shocked for a while just now, but unexpectedly, Lu Zhengshan said it was fake again.

"How could it be fake?"

"Routine, such a person has a lot of new reins, you look at the calluses on his feet, it's not makeup, don't believe you ask him, where did those old jade come out, it must be Lop Nur. ”

And this routine?

Fan Yang laughed.

"yes, interesting, give me your flashlight. Seeing that there was still a vacant seat next to him, Fan Yang squeezed over and pretended to pick up a piece of old jade.

The carving is very simple, it looks like a jade plaque, which should be called a jade pendant in ancient times, with several strange characters engraved on it.

There is a small hole at the top of the jade pendant, which seems to be a tether.

The jade was gray and cloudy, and the texture looked like a piece of green jade, with a thick layer of pulp on the surface.

Pretending to look at the jade, Fan Yang's eyes glanced at the old man's feet.

At a closer look, it gives people even more feeling, this old man is less than 1.6 meters tall, but a pair of feet are extremely large, and the bone joints on it are much thicker than ordinary people, especially the two screw bones, like two eggs on the feet.

"How much does this cost?"

The old man's face was ordinary, but his eyes were very bright: "Eight thousand." ”

"Eight thousand? No kidding. ”

"I'm an old jade, dug out of the pit of the atomic bomb, it's an antiquity, you can buy it if you want to buy it, if you don't buy it, it's a ga. ”

Distinguish carefully, but you can't find the accent anywhere.

"If you blow it up a little more, it's a meteor in the sky. ”

The old man pointed unceremoniously at the stall: "Put it down, I won't tell you, you Mo culture." ”

"Okay, you're awesome, you're educated. Fan Yang was amused and clapped his hands and stood up.

Step aside.

Lu Zhengshan saw that Fan Yang was taken aback, and said with a smile: "It's all a routine, he is alluding to Lop Nur." ”

"How?"

"In the past, the atomic bomb was tested there, and a lot of graves were blown up, and some people did find a lot of good things at the explosion point of the atomic bomb, but they were all old calendars, and I don't know if it's true or not, don't you know Lop Nur?"

"Yes. ”

The new reins are mysterious enough, but if you want to talk about the first of all the mysteries, the first is Lop Nur.

The ear of the earth, the sea of death, the forbidden area of life, one of the four major uninhabited areas in China, if Taklamakan is the world's second largest mobile desert, Lop Nur is the world's largest Gobi desert, with an area of 100,000 square kilometers.

A desert larger than a province in Zhejiang, the Gobi Desert.

Lop Nur, the world's largest Gobi Desert, was home to China's largest freshwater lake 2,000 years ago.

The geographical location is at the junction of Xinyi and Gansu.

Geographical dividing line.

First of all, the first mystery is that the water doesn't know where it goes.

Lop Nur is located in the lowest-lying location of the Tarim Basin.

Thousands of years ago, the Tianshan Mountains, Kunlun Mountains, Altun Mountains, and several major rivers on them, including the Tarim River, the largest inland river in China, flowed here.

Converge here.

Such a huge flow of water poured into Lop Nur, but it magically disappeared.

He did not have a dam because it could not store water, and Lop Nur was once a stretch of marshland and lakes that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers, and according to archaeologists, the average water depth was only one meter.

When we arrived at Lop Nur, the water stopped abruptly.

A more reliable theory is that there is the world's largest underground dark river, the Tianshan Mountains, and the water flowing down from the Kunlun Mountains, which is immersed in the dark river from here, and finally does not know where it meets the Yellow River.

By the way, I also explained that in ancient times, the Yellow River always flooded suddenly, without warning, instantaneously.

However, this was only thousands of years ago.

Thousands of years ago, tens of thousands of square kilometers were an oasis full of life.

Located at the throat of the Silk Road, the first important town in the Western Regions, an extremely glorious feudal civilization was born and existed.

The ancient country of Loulan, the civilization of small rivers.

Later, the Tarim River was diverted, but the biggest reason was that the water did not know where it went.

In 1972, the first artificial satellite of the United States went into space, and the geographical image of the entire earth was taken on the satellite, and it was found that Lop Nur was in the shape of an ear, with layers of depressions, like a vortex, so it was called the ear of the earth.

There are remnants of tens of thousands of years of human activity in this place.

After the diversion of the Tarim River, the water here gradually dried up.

Becomes unsurvivable.

This place bears traces of tens of thousands of years of human activity.

But in two thousand years, an oasis eventually turned into a desert.

At present, there is not a single grass or a stream in Lop Nur, and the temperature in summer is as high as 70C; there is not a single bird in the sky, nor does any bird dare to cross it; the wind here is particularly strong and numerous, and the windy weather above level 7 reaches more than 200 days every year; the annual precipitation here is only 39 millimeters, but the evaporation is 100 times that of this.

In the uninhabited area of Xizang and Qinghai, there are still a large number of animals living in it.

It's just not suitable for human life.

And here, it is a forbidden area for life, there are no animals, plants, only poplar trees that have stood for thousands of years, and beyond that, there are devil-like city-states and ruins.

There were also dried corpses everywhere.

The tombs here are not only large-scale, but also rich in funerary goods, with countless gold and jade.

Xiaohe Tomb Group, Red Mountain Tomb Group, Boat Coffin Tomb Group (Nine-story Demon Tower).

At the end of the 19th century, when Stein discovered the ancient city of Loulan, he once again stole a large number of cultural relics.

That's right, Stein, who excavated the exquisite ancient city.

This famous explorer, not only excavated the exquisite ancient city, Loulan ancient city, he has excavated more than 1,000 ancient city ruins in his life, four Central Asian expeditions before and after, he is also a Tang monk fan, once hiked hundreds of kilometers, alone to challenge the Tang monk's westward road to learn scriptures, trekking through the 132 kilometers of the Gobi Desert, pretending to be Tang Sanzang's apprentice to deceive the Dunhuang scriptures, a world-famous scripture thief, a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University, proficient in eight Chinese languages, and Sanskrit and Persian in ancient India, still exploring at the age of 81, and bringing the dried corpse back to Europe。

Lop Nur can be described as full of white bones, but the dried corpses are still very valuable. It is also the location of the world's largest dried corpse trade.

The famous Loulan beauty was discovered from Lop Nur.

It has attracted countless explorers and tomb robbers from all over the world, and I don't know how many people die in Lop Nur every year.

The ruins of these ancient cities, dug up with holes and bones, this area has witnessed thousands of years of death, and the remains of the victims of the expedition can be seen everywhere along the way, some of them are wearing watches, wearing modern clothes, slumped in one place, and the cause of death is also very bizarre.

This area is also known as the Resting Place, and is home to countless ancient and vicious curses.

In short, it's very mysterious.

"What do you mean that these people are pretending to be tomb robbers and want to sell fake cultural relics?" asked Fan Yang, pulling back his thoughts.

In Fan Yang's understanding, it is the same as putting on makeup and breaking his leg to ask for food.

"Yes. Lu Zhengshan smiled and nodded: "To judge the authenticity of an old jade, the method is actually very simple. ”

Lu Zhengshan took out a knife from his pocket and said: "The Mohs India of jade is above 6 degrees, and a good white jade can reach 7 degrees on the Mohs scale, almost at the same level as diamonds, while the steel India is only 5 degrees. ”

Lu Zhengshan and Fan Yang returned to the stall again.

The few people who asked the price before are gone.

Presumably, this old man's asking price is too high.

Lu Zhengshan picked up the jade pendant and weighed it, and asked, "I'll try it." ”

Unexpectedly, the old man nodded without caring at all: "Just try it." ”

Lu Zhengshan pinched the knife, his wrist was slightly forced, and the tip of the knife slashed at the old jade.

When I looked up, I had a strange look on my face.

Fan Yang saw that there was no trace where the knife edge had been cut.

Is it true?

"What's the situation?" asked Fan Yang.

Lu Zhengshan shook his head, turned the jade over and over again and looked at it a few times, stood up and spread his hands: "I don't understand it either, the pulp of this piece of jade is too heavy, and you have to come out to know." ”

"How?"

"If it is really old jade, it has been buried in the ground for too long, and the color is thick and hidden, and only repeated play can restore its jade nature. ”

"And the plate, there are also Wenpan, Wupan, Yipan, three ways, Wenpan is to find a girl, let her wear it for two years, raise jade with popularity, and then wipe it with a white cloth every day, so that the jade flesh and the place where it is affected naturally condensed, so the ancient jade has a living color and fragrance, and the value will come out at that time, and a good old jade can be called priceless. ”

"Wupan is much simpler, simply put, it is boiled in water, boiled repeatedly, and rubbed repeatedly, but the jade is not as good as the Wenpan recovery, too rough, not commercial processing, and generally does not cook jade. ”

"The meaning of the plate is complicated, the gods are chattering, to burn incense in the secret room to retreat, thinking about the eleven virtues of jade, while rubbing with the hand, it is said to be the highest state of the jade, I didn't believe it before, but after seeing a few jade out of the plate, the ancient jade is warm and pure, crystal clear and clean, especially all kinds of color wonderful, amazing, in short, very mysterious. ”

After Lu Zhengshan finished speaking, he put the jade back on the stall, and asked like the old man, "Which pit is it?"

"Balakash. ”

Hear about Balakash.

Lu Zhengshan stood up and left: "It's nonsense." ”

Fan Yang went over and asked, "What's the matter?"

"False, say that I believe in other places, Balakash, I absolutely do not believe it. ”

"What, is that place famous?"

Lu Zhengshan said: "Not only is it famous, that tomb is 3,800 years old, the Sun Tomb, the Seven Star Coffin, and the Xiaohe Astrologer, haven't you heard of it?"

"No, I don't. Fan Yang shook his head.

And added: "Are you famous?"

"Famous, second only to Tatush Sea of Death, ship coffin tomb group, this tomb is on the north bank of the Peacock River Ancient Road, is a circular tomb, the center of the circle is the main coffin, a total of seven hundred and forty-nine rows of wooden piles, each row has seven wooden piles, a total of 343 wooden piles enclose a circle, and form a number of rays, this radioactive tomb is very similar to the sun, so the archaeological team at that time named it the Sun Tomb, which is unique in the world, according to archaeological experts guessed, the ancients at that time were afraid that the tomb would disappear in the desert, and could not be found, so this method of Ding wooden stake was used to fix the tomb。 There is a coffin in this tomb engraved with the Big Dipper under it, it is called the Seven Star Coffin, it is said that the owner of the tomb is the astrologer of Loulan, and it has long been protected, and those who should be moved away have moved away, and the old man does not say that the sun tomb is okay, this cow is also too big. ”