This teahouse, when I entered the door, I felt very unfamiliar, walked in and went upstairs, I found that I still have a vague impression in my memory, it seems that I have been here a few times before, and it is also a guy with the third uncle, but I was very young at the time, and I only remember that the room was often full of smoke. The adults were playing mahjong and laughing in the room, and I was taken by my father, who told a few people to take the New Year's money and leave.

I can't imagine that I will experience it again in the same place and with the same people.

The second floor of the teahouse is a corridor, with private rooms on both sides, but unlike the Crescent Hotel that has made a big fuss before, the decoration inside is much worse, many of them are partition walls made of bamboo, painted many times, showing the color of oil bamboo, withered yellow and white, the curtain can smell a smell of cigarettes when it is close, and I don't know how many years it has not been changed, and the smell of old smoke cannot be cleaned.

Pan Zi was in front of me, leading me to the private room at the end of the corridor, and I opened the curtain and entered, there was a lot of space, but there was only a mahogany table in it, squarely placed in the middle of the room, on either side of which were six chairs with coiled silk cushions, and behind the window was the scene downstairs. I glanced at it, and if I was poked, I'd jump down and run away.

I looked down and my heart was cold, the bustling below was full of people, all of them came with each handicap, the road was full of cars parked on both sides, there were all types, I didn't know that I thought that the train tickets for the Spring Festival were being sold here, and I guess I couldn't run away if I jumped down.

There was a set of tea sets on the mahogany table, Xiaohua went up and removed five chairs, only letting me sit down, and the other five tables were pulled against the wall, and Pan Zi sat down and began to smoke. I watched his hands tremble, and my heart tightened. I don't know if he can still carry it. I didn't dare to ask questions, so I had to touch the surface of the table, pretending to be a little nostalgic and thoughtful.

Xiuxiu on the side began to make kung fu tea for me. Her method is very special, untying her own bun. Wash the hairpin with tea first, and then stir the tea leaves with the hairpin.

I watched her movements, and while praying that she had washed her hair this morning, I noticed that the material of her hairpin was strange, like a pale jadeite, and like a bone. It is carved with extremely detailed patterns, and there must be a source.

The brewed tea, I smell it and feel that it should be Biluochun. But at the same time, there was a fragrance that I was familiar with but couldn't remember. After taking a sip, it tasted very good, and there was a feeling of condensation.

I was frightened by the scene at the entrance of the teahouse just now, and what I had just experienced actually put me in a state of confusion. Although my heart was not beating fast and I was not very nervous, all my senses were dull and numb, and it was not until I drank this tea that all the wandering sensations were all taken back. My thoughts began to clear, but I began to get nervous again.

As we came in, a large number of people followed. None of them were outside the curtains now, apparently to the other boxes, I couldn't hear a single word of conversation, everyone seemed to be waiting for something.

Maybe it was because she found that my expression was wrong, Xiaohua waved her hand and told me not to worry, and I whispered something to a few of my subordinates, and when I got to the key place, it was basically just a gesture, and I didn't even have to move my mouth.

I had to wait patiently. Take a deep breath to steady your mind. Xiuxiu pressed my hand to comfort me, but I felt even more anxious. If Xiuxiu can see that I am uneasy, then others will definitely be able to see it too. But I just couldn't control my anxiety.

Finally, Xiaohua finished talking to his subordinates before he began to pay attention to me, and he lowered the curtain and closed the curtain behind me. The whole room darkened, he leaned down, and said in my ear: "Wang Baqiu didn't come, it seems that he knows that things have changed, and he has taken the method of retreating as advance, but there must be his eyeliner outside, and if the situation is not for him, he will definitely bring someone to appear, and the people outside see that Wang Baqiu dares not to come, and they are also ready to move, the situation is not good for us, I think we must be prepared to be ruthless." ”

"That ......" I was about to ask him, and he immediately made a gesture not to speak, and took out his phone to show me.

I saw a text message on his phone screen that hadn't been sent yet, and he used this function as a clipboard, and the words on it were: There are at least three people next door who have excellent ears, and it is useless to speak softly, the first half of what he just said is true, and the back is for them. You just play yours, and we'll take care of the rest.

I nodded, and he immediately deleted the words on the screen, his fingers were extremely fast, and then he gave Panzi a look.

Pan Zi's face was pale, but he still nodded, and heard him shout: "Ladies and gentlemen, the third master, please, hand over something." ”

As soon as the voice fell, the sound of chairs pulling sounded in all the boxes on the side, and there was chaos. After a while, I saw the curtain lifted, and all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods walked in one after another. Soon the small private room was full of people.

In the previous chaos, I only vaguely had an impression of them, and I had always had a wrong prediction in my heart that the boss should be the most vicious among them. Now if you look closely, you can see that there are tall, short, fat and thin, people of all ages, but they are all very ordinary and inconspicuous.

Some of the older people are really familiar to me, and some of them are very young. In general, it is quite difficult for these people to remember even if they want to do so. I remembered that the third uncle told me: People who do things in the field, no matter how crooked they look, it doesn't matter if they can't forget it for the rest of their lives, but the shipping guys who mix in the crowd are the best kind of people who can be seen anywhere. It is convenient to take things from the hands of the dead, but it is most difficult to take money from the hands of the living.

Xiaohua's subordinates moved the four chairs beside Pan Zi, which were for the four big handicaps to sit on, and the third uncle's system was very distinct, so it was necessary to introduce it here.

In Changsha, there is a long-established system of robbing tombs and selling stolen goods, which was determined at the end of the Republic of China. Going back further, there must be the same system, but the history is turbulent, all kinds of systems have been destroyed in the turmoil, we don't know what it looks like, but today's system is inherited from the Republic of China.

The sale of antiques is divided into domestic collection and foreign smuggling. As the saying goes, "prosperous antiques", only in peaceful and prosperous times, will people concentrate on collecting antiques, but this old saying is one-sided, only in a closed world, it is effective.

At first, Kangqian was a great prosperous era, but the Qing Dynasty closed the country, Shunzhi 12 years of the sea ban to Kangxi 23 years before opening, and then Kangxi 56 years and ban, after the opening of the ban like Allegro, although the overall time is not long, but the control of shipping is very strict, that period of time, the Shengshi antiques have been reflected, but because of the sea ban, heavy punishment of the oppression, tomb robbery activities have not reached the point of rampant.

Only in the period after the Republic of China, firstly, there was a large amount of demand from abroad, and secondly, the domestic customs were opened, and the government was too busy to take care of itself, and the peak period of tomb robbery in modern history appeared.

The market is big, and no one cares, so things are getting bigger.

The first system that was formed at that time was the smuggling system. The source was the tomb robbers, and then the "guests", who were antique connoisseurs who bought artifacts from the tomb robbers and brought them to the two big cities of Beiping and Shanghai for digestion, especially Beiping. At that time, most of the good goods flowed abroad.

Later, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, customs inspections became more and more stringent, and overseas smuggling gradually converged, but the system has been formed. My grandfather's group of people grew up in that era, and they successfully lived to the reform and opening up, so the system was continued. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution and the beginning of smuggling activities on the southern borders and seas of China, a large number of hidden artifacts that have been hoarded and hidden over the years have begun to look for an exit.

Of course, the entire market is now in operation, and the domestic rich and collectors are already fierce competitors to foreign smugglers, which is also the reason why the local antique trading market is unprecedentedly prosperous.

This can also be understood, the third uncle's industrial relationship in Changsha and Hangzhou, the Huo family and Xiaohua in Beijing (Beiping), and the Wu family's reconciliation of various potential purposes of family marriage.

From a general structural point of view, all the handicap of the third uncle in Changsha is mainly responsible for two businesses, one is to get goods from the ground, and the other is distribution.

The handicap for getting the goods in the field is generally called the "Lama plate", and the handicap for distribution is called the "horse plate".

Here's how the system works:

People like the third uncle, known as "iron chopsticks", are the exploiters of the industrial chain, and they monopolize the best resources, including information about ancient tombs, knowledge of tomb visits, and identification of artifacts.

These "iron chopsticks" handed over the location of the ancient tombs and the information of the dynasty to the "lama plate" below, which is commonly known as the clamping lama. At this time, the "iron chopsticks" will produce a "chopstick head", with information, leading the lamas in the "lama plate" to pick up the goods together. Pan Zi is the famous "chopstick head" under the third uncle.

At the same time, the lama pan will have a familiar horse plate, which has long been waiting on the side, and when the thing has just come out of the pot and has not yet "cooled", the horse plate will contact the buyer and route, and then trade directly in the local area, and take the horse plate directly after the thing is cool. The whole grave robbery was over.

This kind of system is extremely fast, as long as you don't catch the current situation, it will only be the horse plate that will die, and the iron chopsticks and the lama plate will not be implicated in any way. This is the reason why tomb robbing activities continue to be banned. And for iron chopsticks and lama plates, horse plates, how many or as many as you want, a few will die.

The third uncle's distribution horse plate is numerous, and the one who comes to this room is only the big one, and the most feared thing for the third uncle is the four lama plates that go to the ground. The four people who can sit in the chairs now are the ones who can sit on them. (To be continued)