Chapter 1: Golden Hand Gate
My name is Yang Qi and I am 21 years old.
I am resting on the chair of the antique store, and now basically no one comes to the antique store to pick up things, probably because they think the things in the antique store are too expensive, and many antique lovers choose to try their luck at the stalls, but not everyone has such good luck, and there are still not a few people who have been deceived.
The things in my store are real antiques, the oldest ones can be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty, in fact, there are even older ones, but the things of that year cannot be put in the antique store to sell.
Some of them are treasured in the museum for visitors to see, and some of them are handed over to the Cultural Relics Bureau as a tool for studying history. But our country has gone through many dynastic changes, there are countless ancient tombs, and now the tombs excavated are only a drop in the bucket, and there are many luxurious tombs that have not been found, and some of the items in my antique shop are from the black market.
Actually, I was supposed to be in school, and my father used to run this antique shop, but because of an accident at home, I was forced to drop out of school and come to this shop.
My family is in Kaifeng City, my ancestors have been doing the dirt business for several generations, that is, the so-called tomb robbers, every family used to be poor, and the war was raging, there was not enough food and clothing, and the road was full of people who starved to death. My grandfather was only in his twenties at that time, and he was used to seeing life and death parting, so in order to prevent people from suffering, he led dozens of people in the village to form a team called Jinshoumen.
My grandfather has studied, knows history, and Kaifeng in the past is still the emperor's favorite treasure land, so there must be a lot of tombs nearby, my grandfather took those people, with shovels, back baskets, hemp rope, the surrounding can see the mound planed, with the back basket to transport soil, the hard work paid off, and really let them dig an ancient tomb, the tomb is full of gold, silver and jewelry, these are the hard currency at that time, they exchanged gold and silver for food and clothes, and led the villagers to make a fortune, Eventually, a very prestigious organization was formed.
Later, the reform and opening up, the business of tomb robbery was not good, our family began to change careers to business, leaving only a small number of people still insist on robbing tombs, my uncle Yang Tianwen is the one who insists on robbing tombs, and today's chaos in my family is also related to him.
Because it is not easy to change careers, from a giant in the local industry to a business giant, not to mention how difficult it is, many rules are not understood, and a lot of money has been lost in the middle of a detour.
Originally, there was a Yellow Emperor period of artifacts to trade with my uncle, the Yellow Emperor period is the history of legends, although there are not many records in the history books, but many researchers believe that the period is really existing, if you can get the antiques of that period, resell it, you can make up for the deficit of our family for more than ten years, such a big transaction only Jinshoumen has the confidence to do, the person who sells antiques is well hidden, has not revealed his own information.
My uncle was so attracted by the antique that he was so overwhelmed that he just wanted to buy the antique, and the antique seller offered a sky-high price of 2 billion yuan, which was not worth mentioning for the previous Jinshoumen, but now Jinshumen is transforming, and any amount of money is very important to Jinshoumen.
At that time, my uncle didn't tell anyone when he transferred the funds, and he confessed only after learning that he had been deceived, and the antique seller gave my uncle an egg product, and he took the real thing.
After the incident, my father began to use his network to find the man who sold antiques, and in order to make up for this loss, my uncle also began to gather people to find ancient tombs that had not been found in various places, hoping to use the money from the sale of those antiques to make up for the shortfall.
Jinshumen has branches in various places, and the headquarters is in Kaifeng.
Although I lost two billion, I don't know what it represents, I still live the same monotonous life, wipe the dust on the antiques on the cabinet every day, or go to the door of the store to watch the pedestrians coming and going on the street, occasionally a few people will enter the store, I will lead them to see the antiques one by one, but there are not many people who really buy antiques, some people feel a little embarrassed not to buy things in the store, so they symbolically buy a few pendants, these pendants are mass-produced.
In the summer, there is a very strong tree in the green belt at the door, the shade is very large, and many beautiful women in shorts often enjoy the shade here, so I moved a stool to sit at the door and watch...
Today was the same as usual, except that the sun outside the house seemed to be getting bigger, and the heat wave was rolling, scorching everything on the ground, and the grass was curled up by the sun.
It was fast afternoon, and I guessed that no one would come to the store at this point, so I was going to close the door and play a few games.
I walked to the door, closed the door and was about to lock it, when I heard someone knock on the door, and said in a very hurried tone, "Is it Yang Qi?" ”
I opened the door a little puzzled, and saw a middle-aged man wearing a peaked cap standing in the doorway, his skin was very dry, and his face was wrinkled.
"I'm Yang Qi, are you?" I asked him.
The man said: "I was arranged by Tianwen, the helper he asked me to find a few days ago has been found, this is a ticket to Hangzhou, you pack up and leave quickly." ”
As he spoke, he took out a ticket from his clothes and stuffed it into my hand, and I didn't ask him what he was doing in Hangzhou, so he said as if he had guessed my thoughts: "You go to WeChat to take a look, Tianwen has sent you a lot of messages, you will know after reading it, I will go first." ”
After saying that, he turned and left, and walked in a hurry, as if there was something urgent.
I took the ticket and locked the door and walked to the back room, then took out my phone and opened WeChat, my uncle's profile picture wearing sunglasses sent me a lot of voice messages, he couldn't type.
Seeing that the time was just posted, I clicked on the first ten-second voice.
"The eldest nephew... I didn't want to pull you in, but the time is too tight, I'm still running errands outside, and I can't get to that tomb, and you, as the young Jinmen of Jinshoumen, it's time to experience life underground. ”
Does this old thing want me to let me rob the grave? This made my father know that he didn't pick my skin, I was the cleanest person in my life, except for practicing some basic skills, I didn't have any contact with anyone in the soil industry, let alone go to the ground.
I clicked on the second voice.
"None of us are business materials, how can the money of the living be as good as the money of the dead, you make a deal with me first, and when the lost money is made up, it will be none of your business, help Uncle Bang."
"I asked you to find a few right-hand men, all of whom are about the same age as you, the tomb you went to this time is not very big, and the danger factor is very low, but the funeral goods in it are all worth a lot of money, plus the tomb I robbed this time, I should be able to earn about 1.5 billion."
I put my phone on the table, my head felt like I was on a roller coaster, boom, I could feel my blood boiling, my uncle was right, only this kind of exciting work can bring satisfaction and pleasure, I have long been tired of looking at the store all the time, this time I can go and have a good time.
I looked at the ticket, this is to Hangzhou, the helpers introduced to me by the second uncle are waiting in Guanshanju, I packed my luggage, and walked towards the nearest train station, after checking the ticket and getting on the train, I leaned against the window and squinted.
From the moment I stepped on the train, my life was turned upside down.