Chapter 103: Money and Luo (Ah) Yang Shovel!(I'll get the red envelope later)
There will be brave men under the reward!
After Jia Lei proposed a "high" bounty, Village Chief Li called people back to the village and called all the active people in the village out to dig the soil.
"Young Master Jia said, if we help him dig up this wreck and the corpse, we will give us 20 large barrels of water and two barrels of gasoline, with this water and oil, the draft problem in the village in the next few months can be solved, so I called everyone to work. Don't you object!" Village Chief Li asked.
"No objection, after all, everyone can get the water they earn. The villagers responded.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense! Go to work! If you don't work any longer, it will be dark, and it will be inconvenient then. Village Chief Li said that the villagers immediately picked up the shovels and hoes they had brought from home to join the crowd that had been working for half a day.
"When is this going to be dug up?" Jia Lei said helplessly as he sat on the ground, shaking his hand unwillingly...... It's a pity that the hand is still stuck.
"Sister, you've been dead for so many years, why are you still so stubborn? Can you let me go? After you go back, I'll ask someone to build you a marble tomb, and I will definitely let you be buried in peace!" Jia Lei looked at the white bones in front of him and said thoughtfully.
"Why, aren't you scared?" asked, Ah Fei leaned over.
"I'm used to being scared, I'm scared, I've been with my little sister for 3 hours, how can I still be afraid? I now even know how many bones she has......" Jia Lei said helplessly.
"Bear with me, don't you bear with it? The bones of the other corpses have all been dug up, and only the lower half of your body is buried in the earth. Ah Fei lit a cigarette and sat on the ground and said.
"Actually, I think it's a little strange? The bones of other corpses are lying horizontally in the cabin, but my young lady is buried vertically in the soil, and I don't think this young lady died of natural causes?" Jia Lei said as he looked at the bone shelf.
"You're not a forensic doctor, what can you see?" Ah Fei asked in disbelief.
"I'm not a forensic doctor, but I'm not blind! I've seen Conan and Justice, and I'm so close to my young lady that I can still see the hole in her skull. Jia Lei said.
"Where is the hole in the skull? Let me see?" Ah Fei asked curiously, glancing at the bone shelf.
"Here...... Just a little bit on the edge of the temple. Jia Lei pointed to the skull and said, Ah Fei leaned over and saw that there was a small hole.
"Hmm...... It does not seem to have drowned. Ah Fei nodded and said.
"It's not a young lady, this is a married woman who has given birth to children. An old man with a lake male accent suddenly squatted beside Jia Lei and said.
"Who are you?" asked Ah Fei vigilantly.
"How do you know she's married?" asked Jia Lei curiously at the same time.
Because the hair on her head is combed and the jewelry she wears are all in the style of ancient married women, and the system is still a clan. The old man said.
"Who are you?"
"My surname is Wu, and I am the third in line! If you don't mind, just call me Wu Sanye like the people on the road, right?" said the old man.
"Wu Sanye, then are you called Wu Sanxing? You also have a nephew named Wu Xie?" Jia Lei immediately asked excitedly.
"Where did I get a nephew from a male in our family? And I don't call Wu Sanxing? Do you recognize the wrong person?" Wu Sanye asked.
"Oh...... It's the wrong person......" Jia Lei said dejectedly, he thought he could meet someone from Lao Jiumen.
"There is only one man in the family, what is your name, Wu Sanye? I was so happy in vain...... Jia Lei said in a broken mind.
Sure enough, the innocent and the old nine men are all people who only exist!
"Wu Sanye sits in the third position in the Jinsha Gang, so he is called Wu Sanye by the people on the road! Of course you laymen don't understand. A man in a suit and tie with a few people came over and said.
"What do you want to do!" Several men who followed Wu Sanye immediately stood up and stopped the man in the suit.
"I, Wang, like your third master, came to see the excitement!" said Boss Wang.
"Hehe, I'm afraid you don't just want to see the excitement, right?" Wu Sanye stood up and asked.
"Each other!" said Boss Wang.
"I really don't understand you, do you? Although we don't all mix in the same way, I can understand some black words. Ah Fei stood up and took out a knife from his arms and said.
"Oh, I don't know which way you got involved, why haven't I heard of your name?" asked Boss Wang.
"You are running the rivers and lakes and I am a landowner, of course you don't know me. I'm just a small character! It's normal that I haven't heard of it. Ah Fei said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"Brother, you're too modest, aren't you?, can a small character make such a big battle?" said Boss Wang.
"I didn't do it, I just helped people. Ah Fei glanced at Jia Lei and said, Jia Lei immediately raised his chest and raised his head to support Ah Fei.
Jia Lei can see that these two groups of people are not good!
"Master, I'm rich and willful, right? Tell you that there are people above me, don't mess with me if you're interested. Jia Lei said with an arrogant face, because his godfather was full of confidence! Jia Lei's words were particularly loud.
"We've already inquired about Young Master Jia's identity, we're really just here to have a good time, and we won't cause trouble! Don't the people fight with the officials!"
"That's what I thought! I've been to this village many times, but I never thought that there were so many treasures hidden so close to me! Boss Wang said with a little regret.
"Such a good thing, how can we meet an old thing like us who has been doing unethical business for decades, and this kind of thing that is purely dependent on luck is only encountered by those novices. We old guys can't even look back at this kind of terrain and landform!" Wu Sanye said regretfully.
Just like playing mahjong, novices always have good luck. Boss Wang agreed.
"Then what do you see?" Fei asked.
"We can see these things, these things are very rare ancient daily necessities! You must know that most of the current cultural relics and antiques are Ming vessels, and this kind of daily necessities is very rare, and you have made a fortune. Wu Sanye said with certainty.
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"Village Chief Li, come over here. Jia Lei shouted at the top of his voice, and Village Chief Li came over immediately after hearing it.
"Jia Lei, what are you looking for me for?" asked Village Chief Li.
"Do you know where those two people came from?" Jia Lei tapped his chin and said Wu and Wang, who were talking enthusiastically next to him.
Now that they have found out their bottom line, Jia Lei must also carefully investigate the origins of Wu and Wang.
"Oh, I know! They are ostensibly antique dealers, but they are actually tomb robbers, and they live in our village every time they come to us. Village Chief Li said.
"Huh, since you know that they are tomb robbers, don't you care?" asked Jia Lei in surprise.
"Why bother, almost every household here has had to deal with them for the past hundred years, and we are similar to them! Just like we do now, the people in the village have to go up the mountain and down the water from time to time to dig twice. People in the nearby villages did this...... Who can take care of it?" said Village Chief Li.
"Why do almost every family here rob tombs? I see that your actions in cleaning up the wreck are very professional, just like the members of the archaeological team?" Jia Lei asked curiously.
"Of course, when it comes to archaeological tomb robbery, several villages around here have a history of hundreds of years! Even the famous Luoyang shovel was invented by the Li family decades ago, can the people in their village be unprofessional!" Wu Sanye said with a smile after hearing Jia Lei's words.
"Hey, wasn't the Luoyang shovel invented by ancient people?" Jia Lei asked puzzled.
"Haha! When I hear what you say, I am a layman, but the Luoyang shovel was invented by the grandfather of Village Chief Li? Otherwise, why do we live in Lijia Village every time? Because this is the holy place in the hearts of those who do our business!" Boss Wang said with a laugh.
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The history of tomb robbery in Lijia Village dates back to 1905!
In that year, the Qing government borrowed money from a Belgian company to build the Bianluo Railway and the Luotong Railway. The railway passed through the southern foot of the mountain, and the sporadic antiquities were continuously excavated while taking soil on the spot, which aroused great interest from the foreign engineers present, who collected a large number of these antiques and sent them back to Europe and the United States.
Hearing that these "old things" dug up in the mountains could be sold for money, the people of a certain village in Bishan looted all the antiquities stored in the temple overnight and sold them to foreigners.
After seeing them make a fortune, dozens of villages on the mountain followed each other's example and went up the mountain to dig ancient tombs, seeing tomb robbery as a shortcut to making a fortune.
A large number of ancient Ming vessels were dug out of the underground of the mountain and flowed to the capital, the Pearl City and abroad.
From this day on, the tomb owners in the ancient tombs of Bishan no longer have a stable time!
During the Republic of China, it was recorded that after the autumn harvest every year, the tomb robbers on the mountain were like rushing to the market, digging treasures in groups all over the mountains, and they would dig out the jade and bronze objects in baskets and carriages, and sell them to the outside world.
Driven by interests, people's skills in digging ancient tombs are becoming more and more sophisticated, and the famous "Luo Yang Shovel" was invented at this time.
"Is Village Chief Li's Luo Yang Shovel really invented by your grandfather?" Jia Lei couldn't help but ask when he heard this.
"Yes, after my grandfather became rich, he married many wives and gave birth to countless sons and grandchildren, and our branch came to Lijia Village to settle down. Village Chief Li said, and then he told Jia Lei the story of his grandfather's invention of the Luo sheep shovel.
The grandfather of the village chief Li is called Li Yazi, who lived in Mapo Village at the southern foot of Bishan Mountain, and Li Yazi can only make a living by digging ancient tombs because of his poor family.
One day in 1923, he went to Meng (Harmony) Jin County to catch the market, and saw that the people who sold fried buns on the market were building sheds, and they only used a tile-shaped short-handled shovel to dig a pit in the ground, and the shovel poked hard into the ground, and a deep hole came out of the ground, and then put the wooden pole in it to support the tea shed.
Li Yazi's eyes rolled, and he immediately felt that such a shovel to visit the tomb must be much easier than a steel shovel. Because at that time, tomb robbers mainly used thick and sharp steel shovels to pound out square caves in the ground, and then identified the composition of the soil carried out by the shovel head to find the tomb.
But this method is very laborious, and the shovel often does not bring much soil and cannot probe deeply, and it is often repeated more than a dozen times to determine the target.
So Li Yazi immediately tore out a pattern with paper sticking to the shovel of the bun shop, and when he got home, he asked the blacksmith to build a strange shovel according to the drawing.
Later, Li Yazi went to work with a new shovel, and such a shovel was really easy to use! The U-shaped shovel could bring out three or four inches of soil every time it was pierced, and the handle of the shovel was lengthened, and the soil several meters or more than ten meters underground could be brought out of the ground.
At this time, the experienced tomb robber can know whether there is a tomb, what age the tomb is, and how big the tomb is from the color, structure, and contents of the soil.
Because this shovel was first invented and used by the Luo Yang people, others called this shovel Luo Yang shovel. I want to talk about "Rebirth 1990: The Invisible Rich" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~