The old man still closed his eyes and began to talk about the other two categories. One is gold and silver money, which is different from the first three categories, it can be said that it can be said that it is an antique or not an antique, it is an antique because it has the symbolic embodiment of the economic system of the era at that time, and the coin style and smelting process of different eras are showing that era.

It's not an antique, because in ancient times, although the currencies of different countries had different styles, the yellow and white things were all recognized currencies, even in most countries around the world.

After the formation of the modern economic system, rare metals were monopolized and collected by the authorities of various countries, and the people were not allowed to circulate them, so as to achieve the purpose of economic regulation and control.

The second is a peculiar object, which is somewhat illusory. It can be understood as a special functional object, it may be a medicine, it may be a plant, or even a corpse.

However, because of the peculiarities in the rumors, some people searched everywhere, and although they occasionally heard similar situations, people only took them as stories.

Along the way, we talked like this, and in our chat, we gradually had a clear understanding of the old man, and gradually felt his mystery.

At noon we had lunch in the city and then continued on our way. The place where I am now is very different from Yuezhou, and even from my hometown of Qianzhou.

I saw that the mountain peaks are mostly raised from flat ground, few mountains and mountains, and even independent peaks can be seen everywhere, and there are many river branches surrounding them, green and verdant, beautiful.

When I saw this scene, I already knew that I was now in Guixi Province, and only the mountains of Guixi were so beautiful, and the two provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan were steep and horizontal.

In the afternoon of the next day, the group of three came to a small town called Kuigu Township, which had only one main street.

Brother Zhang found a hotel and opened a room as instructed, and after a short rest, he went out for dinner. There was no other activity in the evening, so everyone went back to their rooms to rest.

I was still in a daze in my dream, I felt someone pushing me, I opened my heavy eyes and looked over, it turned out to be Brother Zhang.

He had already gotten up at this time, and when he saw me open his eyes, he just said lightly: "Let's go." I looked at the window in wonder, and through the curtains I could see that it was pitch black outside, and it was not yet dawn.

I subconsciously asked Brother Zhang, "Aren't we at the place?" Brother Zhang glanced at me, and just said three words: "It's not there yet." "I got up and washed up.

While I was washing, the old man came to the room, apparently waiting for me to come. When he got out of the bathroom, he began to pack his schoolbag, and the old man on the side said: "Xiaofeng, it's cold in the morning, wear more clothes." After listening to the old man's words, he put on a thicker coat, and then the three of them went out.

But instead of driving, we walked on foot. At this time, the sky was just dawning, but there were already many people on the street, people set up sheds along the street, put up goods and opened stalls.

I know it's a rush, and it's also in my hometown. Rushing is a kind of commercial activity, first set a day to open a market, and then by the merchants and people who want to sell things temporarily, in the place set on the day to form a big market, on the day of the rush to the surrounding villagers will go to the street to buy and sell things.

Generally speaking, the field is divided into several areas, such as fixed professional merchants will open clothing markets, hardware markets, department stores, etc., and there will be villagers and dealers to form dog markets, cattle and horse markets, chicken markets, miscellaneous grain markets, etc., as long as the amount of things sold is large enough, a separate market can be formed, and only that kind of thing is sold in that place, so the distribution of merchants rushing to the market is not chaotic.

Some large shows will last all day, and small ones will not end until the afternoon. We walked out of the crowded market at this point, and the sky was already dawning unconsciously.

Coming to the outskirts of the town, there are many horse-drawn carriages, motorcycles and tractors parked on the side of the road. Brother Zhang looked around as he walked.

After a while, he led us to a carriage with a shed, and a middle-aged man was sitting in the driver, and when he saw the three of us, he stood up and said, "Old man, Xiao Zhang." The old man nodded and asked, "All the best?" The man also nodded and replied, "Smooth, just waiting for you." Brother Zhang stood aside with a word, and the old man ordered: "Then let's go." Then the man untied the reins of his horse from the telephone pole beside him, and began to put the carriage on his horse's back.

After a while, the carriage was set up, and the three of us got into the carriage, and then the carriage moved slowly out of town.

The environment on the car was not very good, there were a few bundles of straw in the carriage, and the three of us sat on the straw.

The carriage tarpaulin was a green canvas that was haphazardly fastened to the carriage's shed pole with wire. I didn't say anything all the way, and I don't know how long I wandered, but I fell asleep slowly.

When I woke up again, it was Brother Zhang who pushed me, I knew that I had arrived at the place, so I quickly followed and got out of the car. As soon as the harsh sunlight shone in the carriage, he squinted his eyes and looked around, and there was a mountain in front of him.

Looking back behind us, there was a primeval forest of miscellaneous trees, and we were on the edge of a mountain forest, with a lot of thatch growing around the periphery.

The man who would drive the carriage was straightening the thatch with the wheels overpowered with a whip in his hand, and I didn't see the way I came.

"The third child is almost there, let's go." The old man said. The third child turned around and put the whip into the car, picked up the snakeskin bag on the cart and put it on the horse's back, and then led the horse to lead the way, leading us into the woods.

The group did not go to a high place, but walked from the forest to the west side of the mountain. After walking for more than twenty minutes in the woods, we came down a short slope to a flat area.

The trees were tall and the jungle was thick below, and at that moment I saw what seemed to be a figure swaying in front of me.

The crowd was silent, except for the sound of trampling leaves and broken branches under their feet. Coming to the vicinity where the figure had just passed, the third child tied the horse to the tree, and then continued to walk forward, not a few steps, I saw four round tents, I can't tell if they are military, but the tent tarpaulin is camouflage cloth, and there is a layer of net on the outside, and there are branches on the net to camouflage.

From a distance, you can't tell that there is a tent here, and the figure just now is naturally the person who lives here, and this should be our final destination.

Hearing someone coming, three people came out of the tent. I saw one of them with short hair and a horse face, holding a cigarette pouch in his mouth and saying, "Old man, you are here." "The other two, one with unkempt hair and covered in mud; The other was a little bald and had a slick face.

also nodded and greeted the old man. The old man waved his hand and said, "Hehe, everyone is your own person, you're welcome, wait for us to rest first, and then talk about it carefully when we have something to eat." The third child on the side also said: "Brothers, listen to the old man." Then he handed over the snakeskin pocket in his hand and said, "Lao Hu, I bought the rice and vegetables, let's cook them." The oily-faced old Hu took the pocket and turned around.

In the middle of the four tents there is a round pit dug by hand, and in the middle of the pit is a makeshift stove made of stones, around which people can sit around.

The third child took the three of us to arrange a tent to live in, and the old man lived in a tent alone, and I still lived with Brother Zhang.

When we came to the tent, there were three wooden boxes in the middle, which should contain these materials, and the third child told us that they could be used as tables.

There are sleeping bags on both sides, and there are also thatch and moisture-proof mats underneath. I lay on my sleeping bag and wondered why I was on this mission, which had arisen a few days ago.

I'm just a weak starter at most, huh? At this time, someone walked into the tent, and I looked up and found that I was old, and I didn't wait for me to ask the question in my heart.

The old man said, "Xiaofeng, when I think of this, you still have doubts in your heart, right?" He sat down on the wooden box and looked at me with a smile.

I sat up, nodded my head and said, "Well, that's why I was needed for this mission?" "I don't think it's right, I'm his employee, so I need a reason to do something?

Afraid of misunderstanding, he added: "This... It's not normal work in a fleet. Then he lowered his head and looked at his hands.

The old man seemed to have expected it, and said calmly: "To answer this question, we have to start with my other identity." I looked up at the old man and said in confusion: "Another identity? ”

"Yes, another identity. But now is not the time to tell a story, so let's talk about it briefly. Xiaofeng, do you believe in ghosts and gods? "The old man looked at me and asked a strange question, and I was looking at him at this time.

I shook my head and replied, "I don't know, I've just seen it in the movies." "I saw it at Xiao Yuanbao's house in the third year of junior high school.

The old man didn't care about my answer, and said to himself.

"My other identity is that of a Taoist priest, which was a long time ago. The theory of ghosts and gods is not false, but for various reasons, others do not know or do not want to believe it. He paused and returned to the subject: "I often walk in the mountains, forests and ditches, and sometimes dig graves to find treasures, so I meet ghosts and gods more than others. Because of some abilities, he is also a well-known player in the industry, but I cherish my life and never let my brothers take the initiative to take risks, everything is based on safety, so the stall is not as big as others. As the country's political situation stabilized and he grew older, he gradually withdrew from the front line. But if you encounter special circumstances, you will still help. He said this and looked outside.

I became interested, listened quietly and didn't ask questions. When he turned around, he continued: "Over the years, people have known their fate closely, so they have a plan to find a successor. I saw you in the human market that day, and I had a feeling in my heart, so I asked Xiao Wang to hold you. As for the purpose of coming here, of course, it is to take you to experience it together, after all, people can only understand each other when they are together. "The old man still looked at me after speaking.

I lowered my head, straightened out my thoughts, and said, "That old man, you mean you want to take me as an apprentice?" The old man smiled and said: "It depends on your own wishes and your next performance, no matter what, it will not affect your work in the team." I asked, "What do you want me to do next?" ”

"Just follow me, okay now you can rest first." The old man stood up and said. I still sat on my sleeping bag, thinking about what I had said before, and there seemed to be something wrong.

Then I carefully recalled everything from joining the company with Xiao Yuanbao to the present, but I still didn't find a feeling wrong, and then I simply didn't want to.

I can't help but think of being a Taoist priest when I am old, and I don't know what it is like to be a Taoist priest?

When I was a child, I saw a Taoist priest invited by someone in the village after he passed away, but I felt that the old man was not that kind of Taoist priest!

I don't know how long it took for Lao Hu's voice to come from outside the tent: "Brother, it's time to eat." "I got up and went out of the tent, and when I saw that there were already people sitting around the pit, I went up and sat down.

Lao Hu made a hot pot, with a red bottom in an iron pot, the aroma and heat wafting around, and there were sliced meat, cabbage, tofu and other things on the wooden box next to it.

Lao Hu was serving rice from the antimony pot, and the third child next to him handed over the rice one by one. At the same time, the third child also greeted and said, "Brothers, let's eat, you're welcome." "For a while, everyone also started to use chopsticks, some put meat in the pot, and some put vegetables in the pot.

When everyone had eaten almost lunch, Lao Hu put down the dishes and chopsticks, wiped his mouth and began to tell the whole story.

Ten days ago, a group of four people came to Kuigu Township according to the information, and the information said that there were several tombs of large landowners in the late Qing Dynasty, and the specific location had to be found by themselves.

A few people first inquired in the town and made excuses that they had come to find the ancestral grave. I didn't inquire in the city for long, and I learned that there was turmoil at the end of the Qing Dynasty, warlords rose up in groups, and people over the age of 12 were basically arrested here, and only a few escaped by hiding in the mountains.

However, where is there peace in the troubled times, just out of the mountains and encountered the warlord scuffle, the people in the town died, fled and fled, almost all of them were empty, and the young people after going out of the mountains were afraid of being caught, so they fled to southern Yunnan, Guangdong, Hong Kong and other places.

The current locals are not actually locals, but moved after the Anti-Japanese War, and only a few people who escaped in the early years came back, these words were learned from the mouth of one of the old people.

However, they still found the forest from the old man's memories, and the old man recalled that he had seen some graves when he was hiding in the forest with his third uncle and several children in the village, but he could not remember the location for a long time.

They could not drag the old man to the mountains to look for them, so they went up the mountain into the forest with tools and dry food.

On the third day, they went around the forest several times, and when they were almost about to give up, they found half of the remnants of the monument in a relatively flat place, and the other half of the monument was missing, and the four men were very excited to see this.

The excavation of this ordinary tomb was successfully completed, and just as the final burial work was underway, the old dog (the one with unkempt hair) discovered a new tomb.

He had planned to bury the excavated grave by digging up the earth from a nearby half-slope, because the digging was like this, and the excavated mud was always not enough to fill it in.

Just as he was about to lift the mud for the second time with the dustpan, a hoe went down and dug a stone, and his palms were numb from the rebounding hoe.

I scolded my mother in my heart, so I dug up from all around, and dug out a small stone pavilion with a few hoes.

The old dog hurriedly called out to everyone, and after the third child saw the small stone pavilion, he turned around again, and concluded that there was a big tomb nearby, and the four of them accelerated the restoration of the tomb.

Then he began to look around, and it was not long before he found traces on the upper part of the slope, facing east.

On the east side of Banpo, there is a large area of landslide, and the mud and rocks on it have collapsed. There were a lot of small trees and grass growing on the collapsed soil, and it looked like it had been more than ten years.

The third child immediately decided to dig up the collapse to take a look, but this is not a small amount of work. The mountains are not flat, and there are a large number of stones mixed in the soil, which is not easy to find with a shovel, and the mountains are high and empty, and explosives cannot be used when the situation is unknown.

So he let Lao Hu, Lao Gou and Lao Wang dig by themselves, and they went back to the town to purchase equipment. On the fifth day, the four finally found the location of the tomb.

After cleaning up the tombstone, it was found that this was actually a tomb of the Ming Dynasty Tusi, and everyone knew what it meant, so the third child measured the tomb according to the method of the old professor that night, and planned to start tomorrow if everything was normal.

Speaking of this, the third child sighed, took Lao Hu's words and said: "I will follow the method you gave, first sprinkle white ash around it, then seal the tombstone tablet with a yang line, and finally light white candles and incense. Hearing this, the old man nodded, and the third took a hard puff of cigarette and lowered his head and continued: "But when the incense was inserted, there was a ghost, no matter how I pressed the mud, the three pillars of incense fell as soon as I left my hand, and finally I couldn't find two stones to clamp the incense before it was stable." ”

"Well, that's kind of interesting, but what about later?" The old man raised his head, snuffed out the cigarette and said, "I went to see the results of the tomb inspection early the next morning, but what I saw really shocked me!" From afar, I saw that the incense that was caught in the stone was still there, and when I got closer, I found that the yang line at the mouth of the tomb was also broken. Seeing this, I felt that something was wrong, so I immediately went to the place where the white ash was sprinkled around, and when I saw the white ash, as expected, there were many footprints around. The old man narrowed his eyes and said, "The third child, this tomb is not simple, I will personally see the specific situation in the afternoon." Everyone didn't speak, and the third child frowned and lit another cigarette.

After everyone rested for a while, the third child stood up with a cigarette in his mouth, and the old man looked at me and said, "Xiao Zhang, Xiao Feng, you also come together." Then the two of us stood up and followed the old man and walked towards the woods.

After walking through the woods for a few minutes, I came to a slope with sparse trees. After climbing the slope and going east from the right for more than twenty meters, I saw the masterpieces of the four of them from the previous days.

The collapsed small steep slope has been manually dug out of more than a dozen holes, and there is a large pit not far away, and the stone monument inside can be faintly seen.

When I came to the edge of the pit, I saw a tombstone standing against the stone wall. The two sides of the tombstone are carved with elegiac couplets, and then the two sides are extended to the mural, on which the carver is a crane and a green pine.

There is also a stone carved ridge at the top of a row of stone monuments, and each tile on it is finely carved, and the eaves are warped.

The altar floor is paved with square stone slabs, all of which are the same size. In front of the altar tombstone is a low, long stone table with two stones on it, and three pillars of unburned incense in the middle.

There are also candle blocks on both sides of the stone, so I think this is the old third tomb of the tomb.