Gold?!

Everyone recognized that what the captain had pulled out of the cadre's mouth was a piece of gold, and that it was not small.

Sure enough, there are treasures.

Such a large piece of gold should be exchanged for a lot of money.

The captain held the gold in his hand, walked two steps to the other end of the sarcophagus, and stretched out his hand to take off the shoes of the dried corpse.

When the driver searched the sarcophagus just now, he only dared to touch it through his clothes, but he didn't expect the captain to be more bold and take off the shoes of the dried corpse.

A pair of small, dark dry feet were exposed to the air.

What was taken off was a pair of embroidered shoes.

The captain pulled out two palm-sized pieces of silver from the soles of his shoes.

"Mouth with gold and silver on the feet, this is the custom of accompanying the funeral." The captain whispered as he lifted the gold and silver in his hand.

"Captain, you're so good, you know the customs of tombs." Several onlookers complimented each other, and then asked various questions.

"Captain, are these gold and silver antiques?"

"Captain, what about this sarcophagus and dried corpses?"

"Captain, is this part of a thousand-year-old tomb? Will there be such a sarcophagus nearby? Will there be any more treasures? ”

The captain climbed out of the pit and whispered to a few teammates who were watching: "Look at the clothes of this dried corpse, it will not be long from the current age, and the thousand-year-old tomb is from the Han Dynasty, so there must be nothing to do with the two."

This may be the ancestral tomb of a wealthy family in the past, which has been abandoned for a long time. There may or may not be similar sarcophagi around.

We will bury the dug up sarcophagus and bury it as if nothing had happened.

I will take these treasures I touched today to the antique store in the city to estimate the price, and everyone will share it equally after exchanging the money.

Today's events must not be spoken! ”

Several people said they all listened to the captain.

According to Captain Zhao's instructions, several people used an excavator to rebury the dug sarcophagus.

Everything was as if it had never happened before, and the construction team continued to pave the way.

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At the end of the evening, the captain took the gold and silver he had found and ran to an antique shop in the city to ask the owner of the antique shop to give an appraisal.

The boss wore glasses and looked at the light again and again, "Silver is ordinary silver, not worth much." As for the gold, judging from the lines on it, it is an antiquity used for sacrifice in the Qing Dynasty, where did you get it? ”

The captain was weak and couldn't help coughing twice, "Uh...... It's my family's ancestral. ”

The owner of the antique shop did not believe the captain's words at all, and the boss had also received a lot of treasures from tomb robbers, according to previous experience, this piece of silver was used for sacrifice, who would use it as a family heirloom?

But the owner of the antique shop didn't break it, and asked directly: "This piece of gold is worth 178,000, plus 20,000 yuan in silver, do you sell it now?" ”

The price given by the owner was not what the captain expected.

"Boss, didn't you say that this gold is a cultural relic? Judging from the weight of gold alone, it is worth 178,000, and if it is a cultural relic, it should be even more valuable. ”

"This kind of funeral goods are not worth much." The owner of the antique shop looked disdainful, "If it is a burial item such as jade, it will be more valuable, and jewelry such as gold and silver will also be valuable, and gold like this in the mouth of a dead man is not valuable." ”

The captain was stunned for a moment, the owner of the antique shop actually knew that this kind of gold was contained in the mouth of a dead man, it seemed that he really asked the right connoisseur, since the boss said that it was worthless, it should be worthless.

But the captain was not giving up, and planned to go to another antique shop and ask, maybe he could sell it for a better price.

The owner of the antique shop saw that the man who came to appraise was about to take his things away, and immediately changed his tone, "Our Qingcheng County is developing a tourism project for a thousand-year-old tomb, and the antique shops are strict with antiquities, and the antique shops dare not accept things from unknown sources, especially things like this that look like they are taken out of the mouths of dead people, and no one dares to accept them, and I dare to accept them because of my connections." You can go to another store and ask, but don't meet the boss who is afraid of things and will call the police. ”

The boss said that the captain's sore spots, he didn't dare to show off everywhere with the things that came out of the tomb robbery, and now that someone dares to collect it, he should hurry up.

"Everything is worth 20,000?" The captain wanted to reconfirm.

"It's just 20,000, not more, or I'll lose my money, you see that I take these things from you, and I'm still taking risks."

The captain struggled for a while, and finally made up his mind, "Okay, it's 20,000, but I want cash." ”

"Okay, no problem."

The boss rechecked the gold and two palm-sized pieces of silver, and when he had finished checking them, he began to count the money, chatting with the captain as he counted it.

"Brother, what are you doing?" The boss asked casually.

"I'm just a construction worker." The captain was wary and didn't want to say more.

The captain came back from the construction site, and he hadn't had time to change his clothes, and others wouldn't believe him if he said he was doing something else, so he could only tell the truth, but he wouldn't say too much.

"Oh." The boss was thoughtful, and then asked, "You don't think your temperament is an ordinary worker, you should be a contractor, where have you made your fortune recently?" ”

The captain felt that the owner of the antique was complimenting him, and his heart was a little more comfortable than before, "Contracting some road repair work is not a big deal." ”

"Oh, where are you going to build the road?"

The antique shop owner inquired in too much detail, and the captain immediately became alert, so that he would not tell others the exact location where the sarcophagus was found.

"Right on the outskirts. Boss, hurry up, I have something else to do. ”

"Right away, you're not going to build a road on the side of Qingcheng Mountain, are you? I heard that the thousand-year-old tomb over there is being developed, and many contractors have gone to bid. ”

"My things have nothing to do with the thousand-year-old tomb, you just said that these are things from the Qing Dynasty, and the thousand-year-old tomb is from the Han Dynasty, how can there be a connection between the two?"

The captain didn't want to stay longer, he just wanted to take the money and leave quickly, not only because he didn't want the owner of the antique shop to know how he got these things, but also because he was feeling very uncomfortable now.

"Okay, 20,000 yuan in cash for you, if there is such a deal in the future, you can come to me again, and you can introduce friends to come."

The owner of the antique shop has already recognized that the middle-aged man in front of him is a tomb robber, no matter where he steals it, there may be something more valuable in his hand, and it is not bad to establish a long-term business relationship.

The captain took the money out of the antique store, and when the wind blew, he felt shivering all over his body, and touched his forehead, and he was actually feverish.

His hands were still a little swollen, and when he looked down, he saw that his 10 fingers were covered with small blisters.

Is it allergic to something?

There was a pharmacy not far from the antique shop, and the captain bought some fever reducers and ointments from the pharmacy, and drove his pickup truck back to the construction site dormitory.

On the way back, the captain used his drowsy head to calculate that the average of 20,000 yuan was not much for everyone, but this was a windfall, and he had to ask his teammates to keep it a secret again.

Back at the makeshift dormitory, the captain gave the money to his teammates, and after giving another instruction, everyone dispersed and rested.

The captain's home is not far from the construction site, and he drove the small truck back to his home in Qingcheng County.

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