The old man didn't seem interested in explaining more to me, and motioned to the young man behind him to row forward, just a few meters, seeing that I was also rowing to follow him, he had to smile bitterly and frowned, and replied: "I don't know where these woods appeared, Carpenter Li of my village said that this is gloomy wood, and the old is valuable!" I don't want to talk about it! ”

After speaking, he motioned to the young man to row away quickly.

After the fishing boat rowed out a few dozen meters, I reacted and shouted from afar: "Uncle, which village are you from?" ”

"Boxer!"

Yihe Village is about 130 miles away from Hewang Village, and it is also a small village located under the river embankment.

What is gloomy wood, the more I think about it, the more curious I feel, so I took out the collection of Baidu:

Gloomy wood is also called ebony, the oriental sacred wood, scientifically called carbonized wood, is the ancient tree because of earthquakes or other reasons, buried in the ground, in the case of lack of oxygen and high pressure formation, it is said to be able to ward off evil spirits, is the contemporary production of handicrafts, Buddha statues, amulets of choice of materials, is sought after by many rich and status people.

I smiled after putting my phone back in my pocket, it is clear that this time there are wooden bars floating on the Yellow River that do not have such a long history, maybe only 100 years, this time they may be busy in vain! However, it is good to dry it as a wood-fired stewed chicken and rabbit!

When I returned to the dam house, I called Wu Jinghan, and after the two of them had been talking on the phone for more than ten minutes, Wu Jinghan told them in detail about their trip to Niutou Village today.

The conversation started the night before yesterday, when Wu Jinghan sent a photo of the double-headed six-eyed stone statue to his mentor, and Mr. Wu was very excited and told Wu Jinghan that he would pick her up the next morning and go to Niutou Village in Zhanhua.

Coming to the broken temple outside Niutou Village again, Mr. Wu and Professor Song were first amazed at the broken temple, and then after seeing the double-headed six-eyed stone statue, they were even more shocked and speechless.

The two of them looked at it carefully for more than ten minutes, during which the expression on their faces changed from yin to sunny, and from sunny to cloudy, and repeatedly transformed several times, and finally determined that the stone statue belonged to the cultural relics of the ancient Lai Kingdom established by the Dongyi people in the pre-Qin period.

contacted the local cultural relics department, in fact, Professor Song belongs to the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, which is a superior unit directly under the local cultural relics department, and the local government of Zhanhua County has no power or reason to refuse.

Professor Song and Professor Wu discussed it a little, and they felt that they should conduct an archaeological operation in the basement of this ancient temple.

On the way back, Wu Jinghan listened to the tutor and Professor Song chatting, the two mentioned a mysterious ancient tomb, and wanted to organize an archaeological team to investigate this mysterious ancient tomb.

Hearing this, I seem to know that what Professor Song said about entering the ancient tomb and almost dying should be what happened to the expedition team mentioned by Li Guozhi, it seems that most people fell into the trap that time, and it was Li Guozhi who saved Professor Song's life.

Wu Jinghan said for five or six minutes in one breath, although I was somewhat curious, but people's energy is limited, and I only felt drowsy when I heard it, at present, I just want to wait for Director Liu to solve the case and solve the mystery of the "briquettes" and deformed baby specimens that day from the Yellow River, maybe I will know the reason why my father left without saying goodbye.

At noon the next day, when I returned from my river tour, I saw a large sedan car and a pickup truck parked at the entrance of the village, and a brown wooden sign standing in front of the car read, "Collect ebony and all kinds of antiques at a high price", and a long table was set up on the side, and there were several people with a strong merchant atmosphere.

Some villagers use tricycles, small carts, and some drive ox carts, apparently queuing up to sell black wood caught from the Yellow River and ancient bronzes picked up on the Yellow River beach.

No way! Seeing this scene, I was a little surprised, these should not be gloomy wood! Why would anyone want it! Could it be that these acquirers are fools?

Curious, I pretended to be casual and walked over.

"No problem! We absolutely buy all this kind of wood! ”

When I heard it, it was still a southern accent, and I looked stupid, I was just a human spirit. This makes me wonder even more, is there any special purpose for this wood?

"Uncle, you have a total of 412 kilograms of black wood, look at the scales, right?"

The old man glanced symbolically at the scale, then nodded with a grin, and said three "yes!" Right! Right! ”

"Ten yuan per kilogram, a total of ......" The fat man in a painted T-shirt couldn't hear the accent of Guangdong or Guangxi clearly, picked up the calculator and pressed it a few times skillfully, raised his head and said to the old man, "Four thousand one hundred and twenty yuan!" ”

The old man was even happier, and nodded again and again to say yes.

Watching a large handful of red tickets handed to the old man, I really believed in my heart that everything was true.

After the old man happily took the money and left, a middle-aged couple hurried over.

I regretted it for a moment, I saw a black log drifting over the river almost every few minutes yesterday morning, and I didn't know what this black thing was worth! Otherwise...... Otherwise, it won't be too big!

The buying and selling continued until dark, and there were still dozens of villagers waiting to sell.

The southerner waved his hand: "I'm really embarrassed! Get here today, we'll be back tomorrow! ”

A few of the unsold ones seemed a little uneasy, and one of the women leaned forward with two bronze weapons: "What if you don't come?" ”

The fat man in the coat smiled: "There are good things, we will come naturally!" ”

After a pause, he took out a few more business cards from his bag and handed them over: "That's it! You can accept my business card, you can call me, and we will stay at the Yellow River Hotel in your district for the time being. ”

After saying that, a few people got into the car, and the two cars flashed in four corners and left slowly.

After a few villagers left, I remembered to call Han Jianjian.

"Hey, build! A few men who collected black wood and antiques came to the entrance of Hewang Village, saying that they would come tomorrow morning, would you like to come tomorrow? ”

"Ahh That's great! What time will they come tomorrow! ”

"I didn't say this, but I left a business card, you can come early tomorrow!"

In fact, there was no pressure at all on this river patrol mission, although the flow of the Yellow River was slightly larger, but the embankments on both sides of the river were very strong, and no village or place within more than 100 miles of the vicinity was affected by flooding.