Next, the Boss tells a terrifying story.

The story isn't complicated, but it sounds creepy.

The general meaning of the story is that after the ghost king came, he did not immediately look for the ancient tomb, but chatted with the boss, maybe the ghost king was still young, and he did not shy away from it, in the chat, the boss knew that the ghost king came from a remote rural area, and there was such a saying in the local area: "Pick up the Luoyang shovel, no matter morning or night, make a fortune to rob the tomb, and get rich by cultural relics." In some places, villagers are even "men robbing tombs and women delivering food".

According to the ghost king, at that time, in addition to robbing tombs, I didn't want to do any other work at all, if I did other work, it would still be like that for a few years, but tomb robbing was different, this was a luck job, although not digging every tomb can make a fortune, but once luck comes, you can make a fortune, ten years without opening, open for ten years. In this environment, the Ghost King became a member of the army of tomb robbers.

It was this chat that gave the boss some understanding of the tomb robbery industry, and also learned a so-called "tomb robbery guide" from the mouth of the ghost king. This book is actually the "Atlas of Chinese Cultural Relics" published by the China Map Publishing House. Divided into volumes of Beijing, Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Guangdong, and Sichuan, this atlas provides a large amount of detailed information on cultural relics, and comprehensively records "the status of known immovable cultural relics in major cultural relics provinces". Information about ancient tombs is an important part of this.

However, the "Tomb Robber's Guide" only lets tomb robbers know where to find ancient tombs. How did they find exactly what was buried deep underground? To the boss's surprise, many tomb robbers have a set of tomb robbing tips similar to traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment techniques, namely "look", "smell", "ask" and "cut".

"Look" means to look at feng shui, look at the grass and trees. Most of the experienced tomb robbers are skilled in the art of feng shui, and they must first inspect the terrain wherever they go. Because the ancients were superstitious about feng shui, most of the ancient tombs were built on the "treasure land of feng shui", such as the place where the mountains and rivers are faced, it must be the place where the tombs gather. In addition, the grass and trees around the tomb and even the soil are important bases for tomb robbers to make judgments. For example, where there are ancient tombs, the crops will grow worse than the next ones because the soil has been dug and trampled.

"Smell" means to smell the smell, and according to the different smells, it is necessary to distinguish whether there is a tomb in a certain place. For example, in the tombs of the Qin and Han dynasties, mercury and cinnabar were often poured for embalming; After the Tang and Song dynasties, the walls of tombs were usually smeared with green plaster mud. The smell emitted by these special substances is difficult for ordinary people to detect, and tomb robbers can always distinguish it keenly. Another meaning of "smell" is to listen to sounds. In general, when a large tomb is subjected to a large vibration, such as thunder in the air, it can emit a sound that is different from other places on the surface. During the Qing Dynasty, Jiao Si, a notorious tomb robber, was good at finding tombs through guò sounds. He had searched for burial grounds during thunderstorming and could accurately determine the location of burials based on their echoes.

"Ask" is to step on the point. Tomb robbers are generally eloquent, and are especially good at talking about the past and the present with the elderly. Everywhere they went, they would act as fortune tellers or feng shui masters, visiting local elders, talking to them and getting information about the tombs.

"Cut" is the most important link in the process of finding ancient tombs, and has three meanings: one refers to the discovery of ancient tombs, according to the topography of the surface, etc., accurately find the direction of the hole, and enter the tomb at the shortest distance; second, after opening the coffin in the tomb, he touched the treasures on the deceased without omission; Third, after touching the cultural relics, you can judge which dynasty they are cultural relics and how valuable they are.

After thousands of years of development, the "industry" of tomb robbery has become increasingly industrialized and formed a set of industrial chains. According to the different division of labor, the people in the tomb robbery circle have different titles: "palm eye", "branch pot", "leg" and "lower suffering". The one-stop operations of stealing, excavating, transporting, harboring, and selling stolen goods are completed by these characters.

Usually, the whole class of tomb robbers has a uniform name, called "one pot". The highest-ranking person in the "pot" is called "Palm Eye", and it is the core figure of this "pot" person. "Palm Eye" not only has the ability to find ancient tombs, but also has the ability to identify cultural relics. They can be collaborators who provide clues to the tomb or junior buyers who intend to buy the artifacts inside the tomb.

The "branch pot" is the person in charge of each excavation activity, similar to the contractor of the project, who is responsible for raising the funds and equipment needed for the tomb robbery operation. The investment of the "branch pot" is risky, and once no one buys out the excavated cultural relics, he can only dispose of it himself.

"Legs" refer to skilled workers in tomb robbing. They act like "project managers" in the tomb robbery process, finding out the exact location of the cemetery and determining whether there are any artifacts inside.

In the tomb robbery industry chain, the lowest level is "suffering". Most of the "sufferers" are migrant workers, engaged in specific excavation work. Under normal circumstances, even if the boss steals an ancient tomb and earns tens of millions of yuan, a "sufferer" can only get a few hundred to several thousand yuan in compensation.

At the beginning, the boss was from the bottom of the hardship, after the guidance of the ghost king, and then promoted to become a leg, and then, after following the big boss, he occasionally did the work of the pot, but, because of his limited ability, there was no wild way in the rivers and lakes, and he could not become the palm of his hand, and he often did not have business, and sometimes he had to undertake some leg work, like this time, the boss was forced to take over the work of the legs for his livelihood.

If it weren't for the ghost king, the boss would be a bitter name in his life, and at best he would be a leg.

Of course, the so-called status of the rivers and lakes in the boss's mouth is also self-proclaimed, in the eyes of Xiao Mo's group, the boss is really no different from them, everyone is doing both hard work, and no one is higher......

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"Boss, what about the story you are talking about?" Xiao Mo obviously has no interest in the boss's past stories, and in Xiao Mo's opinion, the boss has a feeling of elevating his status.

"Ahem...... When you're older, you can't stop talking as soon as you open it, well, let's get down to business. After the ghost king came, he chatted with us first, and the chat atmosphere was very relaxed, it seemed to be talking about some tomb robbery, but later I learned that he was chatting with guò to understand the situation at that time, and the ghost king said that this method of knocking on the side can make people say the most intuitive feeling, which is much better than asking straight to the point......"

"What did you find later?"

"He asked first, then 'look', 'smell' and 'cut', his technique is very skillful, after doing this, he measured the direction of the five elements, etc., and soon, he found the entrance to the ancient tomb."

"That's amazing."

"The awesome ones are yet to come." The boss smiled bitterly: "When I found the entrance to the ancient tomb, it was already dark, and at that time, the palm eye came, hehe, it was still called the palm eye at that time, unlike now it is called the big boss...... After the palm eye came, he asked people to open the ancient tomb, but the ghost king disagreed after looking around, saying that the yin qi of the ancient tomb was too heavy, and the tomb should be opened during the day when the yang energy continued to rise......"

"And then?" Xiao Mo asked anxiously. At this time, the surrounding tomb robbers gathered around to listen to the boss's story.

"The Ghost King's status in the circle at that time was already very detached, and his words were very weighty, although Zhangyan couldn't wait to open the tomb, he still accepted the Ghost King's construction, and then, he camped next to the tomb, waited for dawn before entering the ancient tomb, and the Ghost King and Zhangyan went back to the hotel to sleep......" The expression on the boss's face became solemn.

"And then?" A group of tomb robbers urged in unison.

"Then, there were about a dozen people guarding the tomb, and they took turns to sleep, and I was tired from a day's work, so I proposed to go to bed first and keep watch for the rest of the night."

At this time, a group of tomb robbers all whetted their appetites, and no one interrupted the boss, looking at the boss one by one.

"By the time I woke up, it was already dawn."

"Ah......h

A group of tomb robbers were stunned, originally, they thought that something would happen at night, but they didn't expect that the ending would be that the boss slept until dawn one night.

"Why didn't they call you on duty?" Xiao Mo was a little leader in the end, and he immediately realized that something was wrong.

"I was drugged by them." The boss smiled bitterly.

"Ah......" A group of tomb robbers were stunned, apparently, by their surprise.

"Because the time is too long, I don't remember how many people guarded the tomb, in short, it was a large ancient tomb, and I was afraid that someone was harboring evil intentions, so I deliberately arranged for henchmen and a large number of people to contain each other, but I didn't expect that something would happen......"

The Boss paused, as if recalling some of the details.

"Later, I recalled, it should have been drugged when we were eating together, I still remember that there were four people who were drugged, including me, hehe, think about the people at that time were still quite simple, just drugged us, did not kill us...... Actually, I am still grateful to the people who were drugged, and it was they who drugged me, so I have survived because of the blessing of misfortune, otherwise ......"

"Boss, just say it, don't be old!" The third child finally couldn't bear the boss's verbosity and urged.

"It's dawn, I'm still asleep, I was woken up by the ghost king, and when we arrived at the ancient tomb, the tomb of the ancient tomb had been opened, and I thought at that time, I'm afraid that all the valuable things in this ancient tomb have been swept away, and I'm worried about whether the palm eye will give us a reward......

This time, no one bothered the boss, because people felt the fear in his eyes, which was the fear that emanated from his bones.

At that time, the tomb had been completely opened, but the Oni King did not let people enter immediately, and asked a large number of mirrors to be brought from down the mountain. Regarding the matter of the mirror, it occurred to me later that the ghost king and the palm eye went down the mountain that day, and they should have gone to buy the mirror......"

"Why do you buy mirrors?"