Chapter Fifty-Eight: Hearing in All Directions
Guo is not blind, and his eyes are very sharp, but unfortunately he only has one eye, so the people in the circle call him Guo Blind, but he can gain a foothold in the ghost market is not his eyes, but his ears.
Guo Blind is the most well-informed person in the ghost market, and each industry has a different division of labor, for example, Ye Jiuqing is responsible for robbing tombs and receiving goods and selling stolen goods, but the source of these news comes from Guo Blind, who hears about ancient tombs or cultural relics or even legends, can sell them to Guo Blind, and then the people in the tomb robbery business buy news from him.
There are two ways to trade, either one hand clears, Guo Blind sells the news, and it has nothing to do with him to dig out something, or he uses the news to join the gang and dig out the things and divide them.
Feng Cheng had the most dealings with Guo Blind, and I didn't come to Guo Blind when I followed Feng Cheng.
"Uncle Guo didn't just sell news, why did he start pounding cultural relics now?" I put the terracotta figurines in front of him and asked curiously.
Guo Blind pushed the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose: "What is sold this year is information, and what is earned is also money with asymmetric information, someone came to me to inquire if there were any fakes of terracotta figurines, and when I heard it, I knew that it was a layman, and everyone in the circle went directly to Cheng Qianshou, and actually asked me here, I am sorry for myself if I don't kill a knife." ”
"When did Uncle Guo run out of money, and how much can a terracotta figurine earn?" I laughed disapplauded.
"Who would be afraid of the lack of money...... "Guo Blind looked up at me." You kid, the toad yawned, and his tone was not small, didn't the shopkeeper Ye always keep you from touching the tomb, how could I listen to Gu Xiaoye as if he was wrapped in his waist. ”
"Don't bury me, who in the ghost market doesn't know that I'm the one who signed the deal." I smiled wryly and turned to leave. "From me to the Sifang pawnshop, I haven't taken a penny."
"Come back."
Blind Guo stopped us from behind, and his eyes moved from the terracotta figurines in his hand to me: "Do you want to make some money to spend?" ”
The three of us looked at each other and shook our heads in unison, there was still a ten-pound gold jar in the house in the east of the city, and there were more than a dozen gold bars in the pocket of the pheasant, I had no concept of money, not to mention that there was no shortage of money now.
"I watched you grow up, I heard Zhao Yan say a few days ago, Shopkeeper Ye is now letting you work alone, you call me uncle, I have to say a little, now I have a job in my hand, I don't charge you for news, it can be regarded as adding a lot of color to you." Guo Blind put down the terracotta figurines and looked serious. "I'm not tired of working, either digging graves, or leading a road, back and forth 10,000...... Greenback! ”
The last two words Guo Blind accentuated his tone, the green back is the meaning of US dollars, the US dollars were rare in those years, and I gave 10,000 US dollars when I led the way, I turned back and was a little curious, not that I wanted to make this money, but I wanted to know that the stupid hat would be so generous.
"It's a big deal, you don't give it to me." Guo Blind is well-known for his shrewdness in the ghost market, he calculates every penny carefully, and never refuses to suffer, and suddenly he is so generous that I am a little surprised.
"It's a big deal for you to pull the mountain, and it's as you should be when your uncle planted a flag for you." The blind man leaned his face over and raised a finger. "I'll whip you up."
I knew that he didn't have a good heart, and Guo Blind was the best at plucking the feathers of the geese, but 10,000 green backs led the way, and he only smoked one percent, which was not at all like Guo Blind's style, I shook my head and said that I didn't take advantage of him, and I didn't take a few steps before I heard him muttering to himself behind him.
"If I were a few years younger, I would go by myself, why don't I lead the way, why don't anyone want to go to this hellish place in Lop Nur."
I was stunned for a moment, this place name had a different meaning to me, turned around and walked back again: "Where to lead the way?" ”
"Lop Nur."
"What are you going to do?"
Guo took off his glasses and told us that a month ago, a woman in her twenties came to him, saying that she wanted to go on an expedition to Lop Nur and wanted to find someone to lead the way, and she was very generous and willing to pay half of the deposit in advance.
"Foreign devils, Chinese Americans in the United States, probably have their brains pumped, they have nothing to do, and they want to go to Lop Nur, as soon as I heard it, I knew that it was wronged, so I took this job, but I asked many people, and I heard that Lop Nur was unwilling to go." Guo Blind said.
Lop Nur is located in the Gobi of Xinjiang, is a mysterious no man's land, known as the Sea of Death, since the Red Dynasty conducted a nuclear explosion test in the area, there has always been a taboo military area, deep into the barren Lop Nur almost nine deaths, no wonder no one wants to take this job, no matter how much money has to be spent.
"Since the foreign devils are idle and panicked, they want to go to Lop Nur to explore, why did they go to the ghost market to find people?" I asked.
"I think that woman is quite young, but her speech and demeanor are quite old, it shouldn't be a moment of curiosity and want to go to Lop Nur, that place is a military area, and a foreign devil is too ostentatious to go." Guo Blind looked around and lowered his voice. "And if you can find me directly, I'm afraid it's not the right person, and you name someone who can rob tombs."
"Grave robbers?" I glanced at each other with Gong Jue and Tian Ji. "Lop Nur is a piece of yellow sand, there are no ghosts, what are you going to steal?"
"Who knows, so no one has taken this job, but it's also a good thing, take this foreign devil to Lop Nur for a walk around and come back, and 10,000 green backs will be in hand." Guo Blind poked his head over and looked like a philistine. "Who doesn't know that Gu Xiaoye in the ghost market is not afraid of heaven and earth, it is really stupid not to take this ready-made cheap, if you are willing to go, I will arrange it immediately."
The three words Lop Nur, I first discovered it from the coordinates left in my father's notes, this place is inextricably linked with my father's identity, not because of Guo Blind's rhetoric, anyway, Ye Jiuqing has not come back yet, and it will take five days for Cheng Qianshou to repair the sebum.
A young Chinese-American woman, looking for a tomb robber to go to Lop Nur, this in itself is a puzzling thing, I asked the palace lord and Tian Ji, if they are interested in meeting this woman, they nodded and said that idleness is also idle, meet this woman to see what she wants to do in Lop Nur.
I asked Guo Blind to arrange a meeting with that woman, and that night Guo Blind asked someone to inform me that I would go to Wangjianglou Park in three days, and the woman on the top floor of Wangjianglou who took the Chengdu Evening News was the person we wanted to meet.
Three days later we rushed to Wangjianglou Park according to the agreed time, the old Chengdu all knows, here is famous for the Tang Dynasty poetess Xue Tao ruins, the old garden inscribed a lot, after several repairs and expansions, the park shore willow stone fence, the sparkling building shadow, but the most magnificent is Zhu Zhu Biwa, the treasure top gilded Wangjiang Tower.
Climb the building and overlook, the spring color of the Jinjiang River is in full view, it is dusk on the top floor, the afterglow of the sunset is like a layer of golden yarn covering the garden, the woman looks far away by the railing, a pair of eyes, clear and clear, bright as stars, turn our head to see that our eyes fall on the evening newspaper in the hands of the field chicken, gentle and elegant smile between the eyebrows there is a faint breath of fresh air of the book.
Tian Ji was stunned in place, and he was distracted for a while, I pulled the corner of his clothes, and Tian Ji came back to his senses, looking at his face slightly red, and he was a little shy.
"You...... Do you want to go to Lop Nur? "The chicken's speech has become unfavorable.
"Will you take me there?" The woman exhaled like an orchid, dignified and generous.
"Go, why not." Tian Ji couldn't stop nodding, Gong Jue coughed, he realized that he was abrupt, and the words changed. "I'll have to ask you something before I go."
"My name is Xue Xinrou, I don't know what the three of them are called."
"These two are my friends, Gu Chaoge, Gong Jue, my name is Tian Ji......" Tian Ji originally talked a lot, but when he saw Xue Xinrou, he couldn't hold it back, and he said everything alone. The field vessel, seeing the dragon in the field, will become a great tool. ”
"I need someone with experience in tomb robbing to go to Lop Nur with me, you three ......"
Xue Xinrou wanted to speak and stopped, probably because she saw that the three of us were a little hesitant at this age, Tian Ji patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, we are very experienced, we have stolen all the big tombs, let me tell you......"
Cough...... Cough......
Gong Jue couldn't help coughing stiffly next to me, I scratched my head speechlessly, and confessed that I was a tomb robber when we met for the first time, if it wasn't for Gong Jue's reminder, this kid would probably have to shake out everyone's affairs, everyone has weaknesses, I now know what Tian Ji's weaknesses are, and the hero is sad to pass the beauty level after all.