From Ancient Times to the Present Chapter 40: A Giant Dealer of Cultural Relics
The fat man walked in all directions and slowly swayed to the entrance of the cave, and at this time, the two sneak attackers had already dragged Xia Zhian and the old camel over.
The fat man crossed his hands on his waist, the general's belly straightened, looked at the two captives who had been stunned, looked into the hole in the ground, stretched out his hand, and a man wearing glasses next to him immediately took out a golden cigar humidor from his body, and poured out the COHIBA "Gausba" brand cigar inside.
Then he carefully used a sterling silver cigar cutter to remove the tail of the cigar, handed it to the fat man, and then took out a box of long-handled sulfur-free matches, and respectfully marked the fire and lit a cigarette for the fat man.
The fat man was not in a hurry to light the fire, after the flame stabilized, he held the cigar horizontally close to the flame, slowly rotated it around, preheated the cigar, and then approached the flame to let it burn evenly from the edge to the center, and when the cigar was lit, the rich aroma had spread, then the fat man took the cigar in his mouth, took a puff comfortably, and the mellow and fragrant flavor was wrapped in the green smoke before gently spitting it out after turning around his throat.
The fat man half-squinted his eyes and enjoyed the cigar before he spoke, "Alas! I have to admire the people of these archaeological teams, there are really two brushes, we have been looking here for a few days and can't find the location of the treasure, people found it as soon as they came, how long, half a day? This is a specialty! Fortunately, the Bodhisattva blessed, and we should come in front of these people, otherwise, this business will definitely lose to grandma's house. β
The middle-aged man who helped him light a cigar just now said a little worriedly: "Brother Chen, look at the fact that there is still the People's Liberation Army in it, have we done this a little too much, offended the Chinese military, and it will not end well at that time!" β
When the fat man heard this, he rolled his eyes, raised his head and spit out a smoke ring, and said: "I have done everything, I'm afraid it's useless, the legend of the treasure of the Great Buddha Temple has been passed down for centuries, not the group of Tufuzi who lost his hand in Minning Village, no one knows that this treasure still has a map handed down."
"If the rumors are true, if the treasure buried in it is the property used by Xixia to restore the country, the value is calculated in "100 million", Lao Tzu is a butt thing in China, and it doesn't matter if there is one more, as long as it does not hurt the lives of these people. When the treasure is dug out, Lao Tzu can also wash his hands in a golden basin, and then buy a small island in the Caribbean, and live the rest of his life in a good way.
"You and the brothers below can finish this vote, you can also stop it, and you don't know the origin of these two bodyguards, just their commissions add up to tens of millions of yuan, if you don't do this, we will lose a lot of money, this year to support the bold, starve to death the timid, for money, fight!" After speaking, he patted the other party on the shoulder.
When the man in glasses heard that the matter had come to this, he had nothing to say, and shrugged his shoulders, indicating that everything was listened to.
Seeing that the man with glasses was silent, the fat man turned to the two foreigners and said, "Hello! Mr. Razor, Mr. Fuse. Later, I will prepare to go down to find the treasures of Western Xia that have been sleeping for thousands of years, and I don't know what unknown dangers lie underneath, so you can go down with me. β
The brown-haired razor replied: "Boss Chen, our responsibility is to protect your life safety from harm and life freedom from restriction, but I advise you, it is best not to hurt these people if it is not necessary, the Chinese military is not a vegetarian."
The fat man snorted when he heard this, and replied, "That's natural, please rest assured." β
It turned out that this fat man's name was Chen Yanxiang, nicknamed "Ghost Eye Chen", and he was the international cultural relics dealer mentioned by the Ningxia Public Security who captured the tomb robbers in Minning Village.
In the past, he was just a farmer in Shaanxi Province, China, relying on his ancestral "palm-eye" (cultural relics identification) technique to connect private tomb robbers and collectors, and take a commission.
This person's eye for cultural relics identification is quite clever, and he is almost an all-rounder, and most of the experts engaged in identification are specialized in one item, such as specializing in the identification of gold, stone and jade, or calligraphy and painting medals, or porcelain and lacquerware. And he is fine in everything, as far as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, as far as the Ming and Qing dynasties, what varieties and types of antiques have passed into his hands, the origin of the age, the authenticity of the objects, and basically you can judge that eight or nine are not far from ten, so the life is very moist.
Later, several large tombs were stolen in Shaanxi one after another, and a number of national super-grade cultural relics were lost abroad, until they were purchased by patriotic overseas Chinese at foreign auctions at sky-high prices and donated to the state free of charge, which alarmed the Ministry of Public Security and set up a special task force to begin to solve the case.
After catching several groups of tomb robbers, they confessed that the person who helped them contact the seller was a broker named "Ghost Eye Chen", and when the public security organs arrested Chen Yanxiang, there was a small accident and let him escape, and then this guy fled abroad with the help of overseas cultural relics collectors.
After arriving abroad, Chen Yanxiang still thrived with these ghost eyes. Moreover, he has collected many Chinese who have absconded with the case, and he also has a force under his hands, and he has started a business of reselling cultural relics.
This time, after connecting with a group of tomb robbers in China, he accidentally obtained a photocopy of an ancient map, and after returning home, he checked a lot of documents of official history and wild history, and determined that this map was the treasure map of the Great Buddha Temple in Heishui City.
Later, I heard that this group of tomb robbers had been arrested, and I knew that if I didn't hurry up, this treasure would definitely be opened by the Chinese government.
So I had no choice but to go out to do a tomb robber in person, but because I was still a fugitive in China, I was afraid of being caught by the public security organs, and my first tomb robbery expedition, I was afraid that there would be some mechanism in this treasure hiding place to ambush, so I spent a lot of money to hire two mercenaries through friends to protect my safety.
Mercenaries are a group of professional killers who "live on war" and are hired to carry out various assassinations, kidnappings, battles, bodyguard activities, and occasionally participate in coups d'Γ©tat. The composition of these people is complex, and there are all kinds of people, most of them retired military personnel, and a small number of bloodthirsty people who are out of step with the normal world.
But they have one thing in common, and that is that they both like war, they don't like ordinary life, they are hyenas in war, vultures chasing death.
As long as there is money, the law can be trampled on and ignored by these murderous people.
The "Razor" and "Fuse" invited this time are said to be quite awesome, from Taishan Beidou in the mercenary class, the number one figure in the "Iron Blood Mercenary Group", just to accompany him to China to dig a grave, responsible for protecting his life and not being caught by the Chinese police, the fee is 500,000 US dollars per person, and the price is ridiculously expensive.
In fact, their team arrived only three days earlier than the archaeological team, and the remains such as bonfires and cans found by the archaeological team in the poplar forest were left behind by them, and the abandoned ruins of the ancient city were found according to the GPS positioning system of the razor.
Because of the five elements of yin and yang, the art of stargazing and acupuncture, and the ground markers have long been damaged a lot, although they carried metal detectors, ultrasonic reflectometers and other modern instruments, but the effect is not very large, wandering around the ancient city for a few days, only found some dilapidated swords, waste farm tools.
Yesterday's sandstorm hit, and Ghost Eye Chen's group also found a relatively well-preserved house to hide from the wind and sand, just as the archaeological team will always be on guard if there is a People's Liberation Army, and these two mercenaries are also in turn in charge of guarding work.
In fact, when the archaeological team entered the ancient city to take shelter from the wind and sand, Xia Zhi'an put a gun to drive away the beasts, and they had already heard the gunshot.
After the storm stopped, all their actions were clearly observed by the Ghost Eye Chen's group, and through the composition and dress of this group, it was also analyzed that this must be an archaeological team sent by the government department, otherwise the age difference would not be so huge, the old ones were fifty or sixty years old, the younger ones were in their twenties, and they were accompanied by the People's Liberation Army.
I was expecting these people to not find the treasure, and after they left, they continued to work, but they never thought that this group of people really had two brushes, and as soon as the sandstorm stopped, they dug a hole in the ground in a moment, and it seemed that they had found the location of the Big Buddha Temple.
Ghost Eye Chen didn't want to kidnap the people who kidnapped the archaeological team at first, but once people's greed is opened, they can't be recovered, and watching the treasure being dug up by others under their noses is not his style.
What's more, there are two bizarre bodyguards with high commissions here, don't make good use of them, and I'm too sorry for this commission, so I don't do two things, just grab it! The two mercenaries were not easy to call when they were not in danger, so they called two Lian Jiazi's subordinates to go up and sneak attack Xia Zhi'an and the old camel who were left on the ground.
After dragging the two people over, they sealed their eyes and mouths with black tape, tied their hands and feet firmly, and dropped Xia Zhi'an's assault rifle.
Then Ghost Eye Chen motioned to his subordinates to tear off the old camel's sealing glue and began to inquire about the situation.
The little warrior had already woken up by this time, and found that he could not see, could not speak, his hands and feet were tied, and his heart was in a hurry, and he struggled with all his strength, but it had no effect except for his body writhing and letting out a muffled roar without syllables.
Seeing that the People's Liberation Army had woken up, Ghost Eye Chen glanced at the people behind him, and one of his subordinates grabbed the little soldier by the back collar and dragged him to the camel herd, leaving only the old camel there for trial.
The old camel was originally a man who worked for money, but now his hands and feet were tied, and his eyes could not see anything, and he was frightened in his heart.
Hearing what the old camel said, the situation was similar to his own analysis, except for the three PLAs, the other party was all intellectuals, and there were also old men and women, and the three PLAs had already arrested one, and the remaining two were not to worry.
Ghost Eye Chen didn't ask too much, signaled his subordinates to carry the old camel to the camel herd, and then began to arrange how to go down and snatch the treasure, the central idea was nothing more than to lure them to their advantage, and talk about the treasures they hadn't seen yet, and make the eyes of all his subordinates glow green, and they all rubbed their hands, and they didn't take the hijackers and archaeologists seriously.
Razor and the fuse were not instigated by Ghost Eye Chen's demagogy, they took a commission, and no matter how many treasures there were, it had nothing to do with them.