In a hot pot restaurant in Dongsi, it was full of diners, the water vapor in the hot pot was permeated, and the sound of pushing the cup and changing the cup was endless.

We picked up an empty table in the corner and sat down, Big Gold Tooth poured me wine again and again, I thought to myself that this guy wanted to get me drunk and set my porcelain, so I quickly stopped him: "Master Jin, these two pots are too strong, I'd better have a beer." ”

While eating and talking, the topic came to the matter of the inverted bucket, the big gold tooth grinned, tapped his own gold tooth with his fingertips and said to us: "The two masters are on the eyes, this gold tooth is the gold of the former Ming Buddha Lang that I collected in Panjiayuan, dug out of the tomb, and plucked it out of the mouth of the zongzi." I didn't want to sell it, so I pulled out my tooth and replaced it. ”

This person is really, he said this during the meal, and let him not eat it, and he was reluctant to spend money You just said how good, the more I thought about it, the more disgusting it became, I quickly diverted the topic and talked to him about something else.

Money presses slaves, art presses pedestrians, we casually talked about some doorways to see the feng shui tombs, and talked about some deeds of being sappers in Kunlun Mountain.

Before Da Jinya's father was arrested by the Kuomintang, he was an apprentice with a Hunan surname Cai, and he knew a lot about digging graves, but he didn't learn the skills of finding caves. Because his master Mr. Cai himself did not understand the art of feng shui, 12 years after the Republic of China, Luoyang farmer Li Yazi invented the Luoyang shovel. Prior to this, Luoyang shovel had not yet become popular, and their faction mainly smelled with their noses, and in order to maintain the sensitivity of their noses, they avoided spicy things such as tobacco and alcohol.

Punch into the ground with an iron drill, and smell it with your nose after pulling it out, the various smells brought up by the iron drill from the underground soil, as well as the feel of the ground when beating the soil, the ground is empty, or there is wood, masonry, these feelings must be different.

In fact, it is similar to the principle of using Luoyang shovel to beat soil, except that one is to smell with the nose and the other is to look at with the eyes. If there are any porcelain pieces, wood chips, cloth pieces, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, mercury and lead, including rammed earth, bricks and tiles, etc., these are all proof that there are tombs underground, and the age and layout structure of the underground tombs can be speculated through these clues.

However, the craft of Wentu was lost when it was passed on to the big gold tooth, his father's legs were disabled, and he had congenital asthma since he was a child, so he no longer went to be a captain who touched the gold. Generally, those who do this business have seen a lot of real things, and with this little eyesight, they started an antique business.

I jokingly said that your ancestors on this craft is a little trendy, I heard the elders of my family say some things about the inverted bucket, the real master, did not use the iron drill Luoyang shovel, that is all stupid tricks, people with the ability to go to a place, take a look, you will know whether there is an ancient tomb underground, where it is buried, what structure, these can be seen at a glance. Where there is an excellent place for feng shui, there must be a big tomb, and those who can be buried in it are not ordinary people during their lifetime, and this kind of tomb is full of treasures. The real experts are disdainful of those things in Luoyang, because if the underground soil is not dry enough, the effect will be greatly reduced, especially in those rich places in the south of the Yangtze River, where the rainfall is heavy, many ancient tombs are flooded by groundwater, and the underground soil layer is washed into a mess.

The big golden tooth listened to what I said, and admired me even more: "Master Hu, I am convinced, as the saying goes, it is okay to die at night when I hear about it, after listening to your high arguments, I have not lived so old in vain." To you, who not only understands feng shui, but also has been a sapper, and understands civil engineering operations, it is really rare to meet and not to find, and it is a pity that you have the ability not to be a captain of the touching gold. ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't plan to do that kind of immoral thing, what I just said is from my grandfather, who also worked as a captain in the old man, but he ran into a big zongzi and almost took his life." ”

The big gold tooth said that there must be a risk, and he will not be afraid of a few black donkey hooves, and the so-called thieves also have a way, and the reputation of the inverted bucket is not good, it is all because some indiscriminate thieves are corrupted, they are not in this industry, they don't know the rules, and they mess around destructively, so can they not attract hatred. The history of the inverted fight should be traced, I am afraid that it will be no less than 3,000 years, when Cao Cao had a unit under the Three Kingdoms, which specially excavated the property in the ancient tomb to fill the military salary, and we have the nickname of Captain Touching Jin.

Before the liberation, this line was divided into four sects, southeast, northwest and northwest, and in the eighties, the talent withered, and there were few people left, and the few remaining people were all washed in gold. The current juniors are all idlers from the countryside, and groups of people go to dig graves. Where do you know what is the rule of two not one in the industry, three incense and three worships, blowing the lamp and touching the gold, alas, how many good things have been destroyed in their hands.

The big golden tooth sighed for a while, and then said to us: "I have been making things in Panjiayuan for many years, if you two have any good things in the future, I can be responsible for contacting the buyer for you, you go to talk in person, and give me some tips after the negotiation." ”

The fat man had been busy eating and drinking, and at this time he was eighty percent full, and suddenly remembered something, and took out the piece of jade on his body for the big gold tooth to be identified to see how much it was worth.

The big gold tooth looked at it, and then put it on the side of his nose and sniffed it a few times: "Fat man, your piece is a good jade, at least it is not less than a thousand years old, huh...... It may be even earlier, it should be before the Tang Dynasty. The text on this is not Chinese, I can't see what it is, it must be worth a lot of money, but before you judge the specific value, you'd better keep it and don't make a move, otherwise you may lose a lot. Where did you get this piece of jade? ”

The fat man was interested when he talked about the history of his family: "If you want to talk about the origin, it is a child without a mother, it's a long story, let me tell you this, this piece of jade was given by my father's old comrade-in-arms when he participated in the jute riots, and my father's old comrade-in-arms was the No. 1 chief of the Yeji, when he led the troops into Xinjiang, his troops encountered a group of bandits, and these bandits were also looking for death, can the guard regiment around the No. 1 leader of the People's Liberation Army eat dry rice?" In less than five or six minutes, the hundred and ten bandits were wiped out, and when cleaning the battlefield, this piece of jade was found on a bandit leader, and the number one leader gave it to my father as a souvenir. I don't know what happened to this piece of jade any further. ”

We drank until more than twelve o'clock in the evening before parting, at the time of parting, the big gold tooth gave each of us a hook-like thing, this thing is more than an inch long, black and bright, extremely hard, and engraved with two seal characters, look at the shape of the word "touch gold", this object is old, like an antiquity, one end is punched a hole, worn with red silk thread, can be hung around the neck as an ornament. The big gold tooth said: "Our buddies are really familiar at first sight, these two are talismans made of the claws of pangolins, leave a thought for the two of you, come to Panjiayuan to find me when you are free, the green mountains do not change, the green water always flows, we will have a period later." ”