I'm Ouyang Yiming, 22 years old, and I currently work in my family's antique shop.

I was born without a father, and I have very little impression of my mother in my memory, except for the only one I still have left, my favorite toy car model given to me by my mother, I only vaguely remember that my mother is a very clean person.

When I was eight years old, my mother went out and never came back. I naively thought that sooner or later my parents would suddenly appear in front of me with a gift that I liked, but after so many years, there was still no news, and every time I wanted to ask my grandfather about some details about my parents, such as where they went and what they were doing, my grandfather always wanted to stop talking and divert the topic.

Ever since my parents disappeared, my grandfather had been teaching me a lot of strange things, and I was resistant at first, but he told me that I could only find my parents if I learned these things, so I woke up and studied hard. After so many years, in the process of my grandfather's teaching, I gradually developed a strong interest in archaeology, and in the year of the college entrance examination, because I didn't want to be too far away from home, I filled in the volunteer and was admitted to the Department of Archaeology of Sichuan University.

Now there are only two people in the family, my grandfather and me, but my grandfather has a lot of property in his name, and I was once curious that since there are so many industries, my family should have always been very good, but every time I want to ask my grandfather to understand, he always avoids it, and says that there are some things that I know less now, the better for me. In the end, my grandfather couldn't stand my three-day digging into the roots, so he simply handed over an antique shop to me to take care of.

This shop is in the CD Xianqiao Antique Market, called Void Zhai. The store is not big, just thirty or forty square meters, the location is not very good, a large market, Void Zhai is lonely in a very inconspicuous corner inside, I once asked my grandfather why the name of the store is so strange, the void is nothing, why take a store name that is not festive at all, why obviously have the money to buy the best shop with the largest position on the front, but choose such a one, grandpa smiled lightly and no longer said anything, every time it is like this, I don't bother to ask again after a long time.

CD's Sending Immortal Bridge is the third largest antique market in China, according to legend, the 15th day of February of the lunar calendar is Li Laojun's birthday, Qingyang Palace holds a temple fair at this time every year, after the meeting, the immortals go west through this bridge, so it is named Sending Immortal Bridge. Here, you can buy all imaginable old items: iron locks, Buddha statues, strange stones, ancient coins, calligraphy and paintings, antique furniture, incense burners, washboards, small stools, carved door rails, only you can't think of it, you can't buy it without you. This is exactly what it is: spend thousands of years, west of Jinguan City. For thousands of years, Goolan tiles, dignitaries and nobles have gathered here.

My grandfather's years of teaching made me develop the habit of going to bed early and getting up early, I came to the store early in the morning, looked at the shops on the left and right are not open, today is Monday, the coldest time of the week.

Many brokers will choose this time period to bring a variety of Ming artifacts to find buyers, yes, also called Ming Ware. After countless years of development and growth, from princes and nobles, local tyrants, to peddlers and pawns, as long as there is a little channel, there are many people who are willing to invest in old objects, and many people would rather starve to death than sell these things again, even if there are some transactions are bartered, currency is a real thing in their eyes.

So where are there so many heirloom antiques for you to buy now? Just like the annual Lafite red wine, China's annual consumption is equal to the ten years of production in the country of origin. As for how these brokers' things are obtained, the so-called rules and regulations are well understood, and we won't ask more if others don't take the initiative to say it.

As the saying goes, there is a market for demand, in addition to black and white, there is also gray in this world, every industry is like this, the water in the antique world is deeper, with the development of the times, countless inverted people in the world of romance have gone to,

Now, people in the industry call it the era of the end of the law of the inverted bucket, why do you say that?

The so-called three years of dragon hunting, ten years of points. Finding the dragon point is the highest level of kung fu in feng shui.

Why is it "difficult to find the dragon, and it is even more difficult to point the hole"? Because the research and practice of the "dragon veins" of the feng shui masters of all dynasties is completely based on the appearance of the external situation of the "dragon veins", when faced with many "dragon veins" like twins, a large number of feng shui masters cannot distinguish the differences between these "dragon veins".

Inseparable from the differences of these many "dragon veins", then it is difficult to determine the authenticity of a certain "dragon vein", because of this, they have to "search for the dragon for three years", and have to sigh that "it is difficult to find the dragon". In addition, because only a few of the feng shui masters of the past dynasties can accurately distinguish between the "real dragon" and the "fake dragon", in this situation of "three years of dragon search" and "difficult to find the dragon", it is more difficult to accurately find the "acupoints" that can be used, which is of course more difficult and difficult to ascend to the sky.

Even if they occasionally found the "real dragon", it was because they could not accurately determine the exact location of the "acupoints" of the "dragon vein" in the stratum, so they issued a helpless sigh of "it is difficult to find the dragon, and it is even more difficult to point the acupoints" and "three years to find the dragon and ten years to find the acupoints".

There are many feng shui schools in the past dynasties, but almost all of them adhere to the principle of passing on men and women, and passing on inside and not outside, making the "planning director" in the inverted bucket of feng shui masters more and more rare, and after ten years of turmoil, many people who know a little about feng shui have been beaten into feudal superstition cow ghosts and snake gods and were criticized, resulting in people who have some real skills not dare to reveal it at all, let alone pass it on to the next generation, or they will cross the ocean, so that there are fewer people who know how to find dragon points.

Many of today's feng shui masters can't be said to be unlevel, but most of them are limited to the feng shui projects of yang houses that can find dragons and can't point points, or specialize in the homes where living people live to seek wealth and keep safe, and more are half a bucket of water or liars who pretend to be ghosts.

Moreover, even if a technical genius who can fight backwards suddenly pops up, but there is no guide from someone who knows how to find dragon points, no matter how awesome your fighting skills are, you can only smear your eyes, and you can only dig a shovel in the east and a hammer in the west to try your luck according to the clues in the so-called treasure maps and legends and stories of the past dynasties.

In the period after the liberation, many ancient tombs were destroyed by scurrying tomb robbers, and the public archaeological team could only carry out rescue excavations, but none of the ancient tombs that could really be called big buckets appeared (construction sites and those found due to earthquakes are not counted).

"Little master, it's time for lunch." A voice interrupted me who was thinking infinitely, the owner of this voice was Kuanbo, I heard that my grandfather followed him when he was young, about the same age as my father, it can be said that he watched me grow up, and he came to the store as a shopkeeper when Void Zhai opened, and has been working in the store for more than 20 years.

Kuanbo also has my grandfather's true biography in terms of antique appreciation, and the authenticity of the object can be known at a glance.

I saw that Kuanbo had already brought all the dishes to the small table in the middle of the shop, and I was busy saying that I would like to talk about Lekuanbo, so I pulled the chair next to the cabinet to the middle and started it, and looked at the dishes, there was my favorite back pot meat, which was great!

I put a large piece of meat wrapped in garlic sprouts and put it in my mouth, and I asked Kuanbo vaguely with my mouth puffed out: "Kuanbo, do you say that there is really no one fighting now?" You've been following my grandfather for so long, it's impossible not to learn anything else except antique identification, right? Surely it will be inverted or something, right? When will you help me find a few captains who touch gold, mountain movers and the like, let's find a big bucket to pour down! ”

"Little master, didn't the master warn you not to mention these things?" Kuanbo said as he looked outside and said slowly. I said, "The old man said it, but I always feel that the things I have been forced to learn over the years are just for the sake of inverted fighting?" ”

Hearing this, Kuanbo stopped his chopsticks and said, "Little master, that's just for the master to make you fit and hone your mind." Read too many novels, right? Now where did the captain come from, the mountain movers, and some of them have long been extinct when the four olds were broken, and now the self-proclaimed inverted bucket professionals are mostly some small thieves who do not enter the stream, with a little luck to find that the predecessors of the thief hole into the cemetery to steal some bright weapons out, the feng shui of the treasure land was destroyed for no reason, not to mention, many really valuable things have been destroyed. Then again, when did you miss what the lord said? Inverted bucket, you think it's really that fun? Think about the year, alas, forget it, you will naturally know when the time comes. ”

Kuanbo stopped when he said this, I stopped doing it as soon as I heard it, hey, Kuanbo's routine is exactly the same as my grandfather's, every time Kuanbo said that he didn't say it when he thought about it, and he had to ask this when he said anything, I said: "Kuanbo, you want to dig the pit back then since I was sensible, and now it's time to fill it, right?" ”

Kuanbo said as if he hadn't heard, "When you're done, pack up and wash the dishes." I was about to chase after him, when I suddenly heard a commotion outside, thinking that Kuanbo couldn't run away from the store, so I went out to see the excitement, so I walked out.

I walked to the door and turned my head to see that it was Boss Li from the store next door arguing with a middle-aged man with a dark face, because it was relatively clean now, so they seemed very loud.

I only heard Boss Li shouting: "Let's go, go out!" Take a fake thing and say it's 2,000 years old, liar! The middle-aged man argued: "This is what was 2,000 years ago, if you don't know the goods, forget it, why do you say that mine is a fake?" Boss Li continued: "It's really unlucky, I met a guy who cheated people with family stuff early in the morning, and I guess I won't receive any good things today." The middle-aged man was anxious when he heard this, and continued to argue with Boss Li.

As soon as I heard the interest, people who can open a shop here, they can't do without two brushes, and now it would be nice to have something new from 200 years ago, something from 2000 years ago? I'm afraid it hasn't been in this market for many years, right? At that moment, I walked up to them and said, "Boss Li, do you have something to say, what makes you so hot?" When Boss Li saw me coming, he pointed to the thing in the middle-aged man's hand and said, "Boss Ouyang, look at it, this is this thing, 2000 years ago?" Believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway. ”

When I looked down, I couldn't help frowning and muttering to myself. It was an adult-sized, metal-like object, with a phoenix-like bird carved on it, looking down at a feathered snake entrenched below, and the snake seemed to be waiting for an opportunity at any moment. The underside of these two creatures is also carved with some kind of star changing pattern.

I should have seen this thing for the first time, but I always felt as if I had seen it somewhere, so my heart moved, and I said to the middle-aged man: "What is this uncle's name?" The middle-aged man said: "My surname is Wei, young man, you come to judge the theory, the boss said that I am a fake, this is something handed down by my ancestors, and it is obvious that I don't know the goods!" ”

I saw that Boss Li was about to have another seizure, so I stood in the middle of them and said, "Since Boss Li is not interested, can I invite Uncle Wei to my small shop to talk?" Boss Li said: "Boss Ouyang, since you are interested, then whatever you want, anyway, I don't accept this thing, but I kindly remind you, don't pretend to be a fake and experienced and be deceived." After saying that, he shook his hands and walked back.

I sneered in my heart, hehe, because of the existence of Kuanbo, Boss Li's business has always been inferior to ours, and he has long been jealous. Of course, Uncle Wei was 10,000 willing, and immediately followed me into the Void Fast.

As soon as Uncle Wei walked into the Void Zhai, he put the snake and bird plate (let's call it that) in front of me and said, "Young man, this is really passed down from generation to generation in my family, if I don't need money now, I will never sell it." I asked, "Uncle Wei, how do you know that this thing is 2,000 years old?" If it is true, it is handed down from the Qin and Han dynasties, which is unlikely. ”

Uncle Wei's face turned red and said: "Anyway, the older generation of people said this when they were passed down from generation to generation, and that's what my parents told me when I was a child, I definitely won't lie." I saw that he was a little anxious, so I said to him: "Uncle Wei, it's not that I don't believe you, I'm afraid that your ancestors have also been deceived, so I'll take a closer look." ”

I picked up the snake bird plate and looked at it again in the light. This thing seems to be iron, non-iron, the snake bird carved lifelike, turning against the light, the star pattern seems to follow the angle of the light to advance and retreat, if from the perspective of artwork, it is definitely a good thing, but said that he has a history of 2000 years, this, I really don't dare to pack a ticket, whether from the pulp or the color, it feels like a modern item, not something too old, but I faintly feel that it seems that this thing is not so simple.

I was looking down to think about it when I suddenly heard Kuanbo's exclamation excitedly: "Yingfu Shouxin Plate!" "When I listened to Lumber's words, it was immediately clear. Yingfu guards his heart, and it is recorded in the strange scripture called "The Secret Treasure Tongxuan Sutra" that my grandfather taught me.

Glow, refers to Mars; Heart, refers to Antares; Shou is an astronomical phenomenon unique to the planet - retrograde! For example, on January 1, Mars is retrograde and centrifugal at 5.3 degrees Celsius, which is the beginning of the observable Luminous Guard, and after January 5, Mars begins to retrograde and moves again towards the vicinity of Antares, approaching Antares again on January 14, and then moving anterograde away from Antares again, ending the astronomical spectacle of Luminous Confusion.

When this astronomical spectacle appeared 2,000 years ago, a major event occurred - Qin Shi Huang died.

Kuanbo's face flushed with excitement, he picked up the glow disk (this is the name below) and looked at it again and again, and muttered in an undetectable voice: "The material of this thing is exactly the same as before, and it is impossible for anyone to imitate it." “

Seeing this, Uncle Wei asked with a confused expression, "This old brother, do you think this thing is real?" They all said it was fake, and even this little brother was not sure, but this is really our family's ancestral. ”

Kuanbo calmed down and said, "It's true, how much are you going to sell?" As soon as I heard that Kuanbo would say it was true so quickly, I was afraid that Kuanbo would also look away, and asked: "Kuanbo, how do you know that this is true, this thing doesn't look like something 2000 years ago at all, it is possible to say that it was decades ago." ”

Kuanbo glanced at me and said in a voice that only I could hear: "Little master, you are right, this is indeed not an object from 2000 years ago, and it is not entirely wrong to say that he is from modern times, you have to ask the master about this." ”

After saying that, Kuanbo gave me a look, and after all these time together, I understood that Kuanbo meant to let him finish the deal, so I couldn't help but ask again about Kuanbo's contradictory explanation.

Uncle Wei was very happy to see that Kuanbo was sure that his things were real, and praised Kuanbo for his eyesight, and quoted a price that we thought was very cheap and he thought it was a good deal, and it was quickly sold. Before Uncle Wei left, Uncle Kuan repeatedly told him not to tell anyone about it, Uncle Wei patted his chest and promised to rot this matter into the coffin and no one said anything, so Uncle Kuan was relieved to let him leave.

After Uncle Wei walked away, Kuanbo took the Yingfu Pan in his hand, pulled me to the back, and said excitedly: "Little master, your grandfather has been looking for this thing for a long time. I wondered, "Why?" ”

"Because, alas, since this thing has appeared, I won't blame me if I say it, although all kinds of things were intertwined at that time, but to put it simply, your parents disappeared because of this thing." Uncle Kuan sighed.

What the? A huge wave stirred up in my heart, could it be that this thing is the key to finding my parents' traces? Kuanbo asked me to call my grandfather about the situation, and I immediately called my grandfather, but no one answered at home, and the mobile phone prompt could not be connected, so I called several times in a row, and I put the phone on the counter in annoyance, thinking about whether I should go home and ask my grandfather in person.

Seeing that he couldn't get through on the phone, Kuanbo said to me: "Little master, don't worry, in this way, you go home with the Yingfu plate to find the master, the master will naturally tell you what you should know, without the master's orders, I can't tell you many things, I have already talked too much just now, I hope the master will not punish me." ”

When I heard this, I laughed and said, "Come on, Uncle Kuan, I naturally won't force you to say that you have principles, but my grandfather will punish you?" You think too much, although my grandfather is good, but he has always been very kind. Lumber smiled noncommittally and helped me pack my bags.

Then I took a few more things, said goodbye to Kuanbo, and got on the bus back to my hometown.

Uncle Wei walked out of the gate of the antique market, immediately walked straight into the nearby alley, talked to a man with sunglasses, and then took a thick envelope from the man with sunglasses.

Kuanbo stood at the door of the store and squinted his eyes and muttered: "After so many years, you finally appeared again, and you are really willing, but I believe that the little master will surprise you." ”

Little did I know at the time that my twenty years of peaceful life had come to an end and a whirlpool of fate had drawn us all into it.