50 years later, in Xiling Society, Hefang Street, Hangzhou, my thoughts were interrupted by an old man, I closed my grandfather's notes and looked at each other.

"Do you accept rubbings here?" He asked me, who looked weird and seemed to have some special intentions.

I don't care about temporary business, most of the transactions in the antique market are carried out privately, and the surface is a small fight, and there is not much money to be made, so I perfunctory him: "Collect, but the price is not high." "Meaning, if you don't have good things, get out, don't delay your uncle to read.

"Oh, can you introduce me to that?" The guy asked, a picture of a supermarket visit.

I'm a little impatient, do our business, three years not open, open to eat for three years, weekdays are used to leisure, the most hate to serve those half-understood guests, this antique thing, each piece has a story behind it, if you really talk about it, there is no one to say the day is not finished, to every guest to come here to introduce us, we don't have to do business, it is better to open a teahouse directly.

I waved my hand at him and said that this place is not responsible for the introduction, there are many more houses next door, please go next door and have a look.

The man looked at me a little embarrassed, but he didn't go out, and asked, "Then I want to ask, is there a rubbish of the Warring States Silk Book here?" Is it the one that was stolen by those few Tufuzi in Changsha 50 years ago and deceived by an American? ”

"You said you were deceived by the Americans, and there are still there." As soon as I heard it, I became angry, "Of course, to find a rubbing book is to go to the market to find it, so there is a designated one to find, how can you find it?" ”

He lowered his voice: "I heard that you have a way, I was introduced by Lao Itchy?" ”。

When I heard the name Lao Itchy, I was shocked, didn't Lao Itch enter the number the year before last, what, did you confess me? Then this guy in front of me can't be a public security officer, I suddenly panicked a little, and I stammered: "What...... Which old itch, I don't recognize. ”

"I know, I know," he smiled, pulling a watch from his arms, "Look, the old itch said you will understand when you look at this."

The watch was given to him by his first lover when he was in the Northeast, he took this watch as his life, and when he was drunk, he took out this watch and looked at it while "Juan, Li" called, I asked him what your old lady was called, he thought for a long time, and actually cried, saying that I forgot the fuck. This old itch is willing to give this watch to this person, which shows that this person does have some background.

But no matter how I look at this person, I feel that his face is hateful, not like a serious person, but the old itch introduced, I still want to give some face, besides, people came to the door, and he didn't finish his speech, and he might end his sentence.

I pondered for a while and decided to speak quickly, so I raised my hand directly: "This master, even if you are your old itchy friend, what is the matter with me?" “

He grinned and showed a big gold tooth: "A friend of mine brought something back in Shanxi, and I want you to show me if it's the real thing." ”

As soon as I heard it, I probably understood that this birdman should not be a tomb robber, probably there are good things dragged out and I haven't seen it, I want to find someone to estimate it, his mother's forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and there are even people who dare to go to the regular antique market to run the hall.

However, this kind of person is generally an outlaw, it is better not to offend or not to offend, I tried to open the standard smile of the service industry, and said to him: "Look at your Beijing accent, your big target in Beijing came to the south to consult me, it is too exalting me, how many good players in Beijing, I am afraid that you are not a drunkard!" ”

He smiled: "It is said that southerners are shrewd, and it is true, seeing that you are not very old, but you can see very clearly, to be honest, I came this time, I am indeed not looking for you, I want to meet the old lady in your family?" ”

My heart shook wildly, and my face changed suddenly, my grandfather's background is very peculiar, and there are very few people who know him, and when someone asks, most of them are not a good thing, and he asked him coldly: "Looking for my grandfather, what are your intentions?" ”

The gold tooth saw that my face was so ugly all of a sudden, and he was also startled, and hurriedly said, "No intentions, no intentions, I'm just an ordinary antique lover, I just want to know if your old lady left one or two rubbings after stealing the Warring States Silk Book in Changsha Dart Ridge?" We want to buy a copy and see if it's the same as the one we have? ”

Before he finished speaking, I yelled at the dozing guy on the side: "Wang Meng, send off!" ”

The golden-toothed old man was anxious: "Don't accumulate it, why are you going to drive people out when you talk about it?" “

I said you came too late, my old man had traveled west last year, you have to find him, go back to find a crooked neck tree to hang, maybe you can meet him! So saying, I pushed him out and drove him all the way to the threshold.

The old man with the big gold tooth was strangely thick-skinned, hugged the pillar outside the threshold, and shouted: "Don't be in a hurry, let me say another word, let me say another word!" ”

I couldn't drag him for a long time, and I couldn't do anything about him, so I scolded: "If you have something to say, don't delay me in business!" ”

"I said that you are a little grandson, why don't you listen to what you say" He smiled thief: "It doesn't matter if the old man is gone, and I didn't say what happened, okay, you also take a look at the things I brought, you also sell the old itchy face, don't you?" ”

I glanced at him, this person is not smiling, it depends on the appearance here, and the outside has attracted a large number of tourists to him, if he wants to make any more trouble, I will probably be in tomorrow's newspaper, so I have to nod: "Okay, you have been looking good lately, don't play monkey here, but I am ugly ahead, can you see what the result, I dare not say." ”

"That's that, I'm in this line too, I know the rules!"

In fact, there are more than 20 volumes of this Warring States silk book, each volume is different, my grandfather stole out of the article is only a very short part of it, at that time there are indeed a few rubbings preserved to the present, it is the treasure at the bottom of the box of my family, there is money in the world can not buy, even if I talk nonsense, this old man will never find out.

A few of us went back to the back room, I asked Wang Meng to pour a cup of tea for the old man, and asked him to take out the things, the old man with gold teeth was a little embarrassed to take out a blank piece of paper from his arms and handed it to me.

"That's right, that baby can run around, and it will break in one bucket." He said, and he kept a mysterious low voice: "If it weren't for my wide range, this thing would have run abroad a long time ago, and it can be regarded as serving the people, right?" ”。

I smiled, "Look at you like that, aren't you just an inverted fighter, I don't think you dare to make a move, this is a national treasure, you don't want your head anymore!" ”

When a sentence was exposed by me, the old man's face turned green, but he had to endure it when he begged me, and said: "You can't say that, every line has every line of Taoism, I think when your old man was a native in Changsha, it was also famous..."

I put a finger on his nose and said, "Don't talk too much, and then mention my grandfather, you can take this thing back and look at it slowly!" ”

"Okay, let's stop, you can show me quickly, I can run away quickly"

I unfolded the white paper, and when I looked at the layout inside, I knew that this was a well-preserved Warring States silk book, but it was not the one that my grandfather stole at that time, but after a closer look, I found that it was completely different from the real thing. Since I promised to help people see it, I didn't want to be perfunctory, and I encouraged them to come to me in the future to make trouble, so I put this thing under a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully.

After looking at the time of a cigarette, I gradually had a bottom in my heart, and shook my head at the gold tooth that was looking at me with hope, and said: "Although the age is relatively old from the lines and patterns copied, it should be a fake of the later dynasties, that is to say, it is an antique fake, this is a very embarrassing thing, you copy this thing so badly, I can't see a certainty, I can only guess that it is something from the Han Dynasty, how to say it, you say that he is fake, it is not fake, it is true, it is not true, it is such a thing." ”

"So is this the one your grandfather stole from?"

"To tell you the truth, my grandfather stole the copy that he didn't even have to come to see before he was deceived by the Yankee, I really can't answer your question." I pretended to be very sincere and sighed, thinking to myself, if I let him know that I had a rubbing, it would definitely spread out, and it would be difficult to recruit other people at that time, so it would be better to fool him and let him go to other places to find a way.

The gold-toothed old man looked at me, really believed it, and sighed: "That's really unfortunate, it seems that if you don't go to the American, I'm afraid there is really no hope." ”

"Why, why do you care so much about this volume?" I asked, this is too strange, the collection of this ancient book is all based on fate, and it would be too greedy to find a set of 20 ancient books from the Warring States period.

"Little brother, I won't tell you, I'm really not upside down, you look at my bones, that's enough toss, but my friend is indeed an expert, and I don't know what he sells, in short, people have people's truths, we don't want to ask too much." He smiled, shook his head and sighed: "That's okay, since I have your words, I am also dead in my heart, don't delay the little brother, go first"

With that, he stood up, threw a fist at me, and walked away without looking back. I see that he is so disappointed, and I feel a little unbearable, but in our line of work, it is absolutely impossible not to be careful everywhere, and he is a small thing like this, the big deal is to spend more time, I am relieved when I think about it.

At this time, I suddenly the copy paper did not take away, maybe the blow just now was too big, I picked it up and looked at the contents, and suddenly found an interesting pattern, it was a fox-like face, two eyes without pupils were very three-dimensional, as if they were concave from the paper, I took a breath, I just cared about judging his year, did not look carefully at the contents, now it seems, this should also be a rare treasure, and when the old itch comes out, it is enough for me to use this copy to make a few fake rubbings.

I took a picture of it with a digital camera, and took the paper to Wang Meng outside, if the gold tooth came back later, I would return it to him directly, and he thought I was greedy for him.

My grandfather is a native of Changsha, is a tomb robber, grandpa into this line is not strange at all, in today's words is hereditary, my grandfather's grandfather was 13 years old, there was a drought in Central China, that era, a drought will be famine, you have money can not buy something to eat, at that time there was nothing in the corners of Changsha, that is, there are many ancient tombs, so the mountain eats three, relies on the tomb to eat the tomb, the whole village fights together, I don't know how many people starved to death in those years, and none of them died in that village, all by digging out the things and exchanging food with foreigners.

Later, after a long time, this thing has a cultural accumulation, to my grandfather's generation, there are already rules, there are sects, the history of tomb robbery is divided into two factions, the north and the south, Tufuzi according to the habit to divide, should belong to the southern faction, mainly rely on the exploration of the soil to find the ancient tombs, the Republic of China before the use of the probe cone, after the Republic of China with the Luoyang shovel, a nose can determine the depth of the dynasty, now many novels describe the Luoyang shovel at every turn, in fact, the northern faction does not use the Luoyang shovel, they are good at the location of the mausoleum, the structure of the accurate judgment, is the so-called dragon point point.

The northern and southern factions are the big factions of literati and ink writers, and the things on the rivers and lakes are not compatible, and then after several troubled times, there are more people who are halfway monks, and gradually bring these things to this line, my grandfather has not defined himself before, and then the apprentices below asked, only to realize that their practices can probably belong to the southern faction, the two factions have been in dispute since their establishment, the southern faction said that the northern faction is not real, there are too many flowers, robbing a tomb and making so many famous halls, and going into the things to take the shellfish, but also a deduction and two buckles, bureaucracy. There are not many rules in the southern faction, and they never taboo the dead, the northern faction scolds the southern faction for being a soil dog, spoiling cultural relics, and there is no one who has fallen without collapsing, even the dead are pulled out and sold, and the southern faction scolds the northern faction for being hypocrites, as if he is a thief and makes himself or something. Later, when the two gangs of people stepped on the plate, they often fought to the point of a fight, and there was even a fight for corpses in Xiangxi, and finally the two factions finally rowed the Yangtze River and separated, the northern faction called the inverted bucket, and the southern faction called the sand or soil, and the Luoyang shovel was invented after it was divided, and the northern faction disdained to use it at all.

After the liberation, the boundary between the north and the south was not so obvious, my grandfather said that he was a southern faction, but there were also many northern factions in their group of old buddies, and their children were even more confused, and these did not need to be studied in detail.

My grandfather he didn't know how to read, after the liberation into the literacy class, at that time he would only pan the sand, learn a word to check the point to toss him to death, but also thanks to his culture, in order to record some of his experience, in Changsha Dart Ziling that the third, is my grandfather, these things are recorded in his old notebook word by word, my grandmother is a cultural person, is a lady, is attracted by his stories, and finally my grandfather came to Hangzhou, settled here.

That note is a family heirloom treasure in my family, and my grandfather's nose was completely abolished after that incident, and later he trained a dog to smell the soil, and people gave him the nickname: "The Dog King". This is a real thing, now Changsha has been a Tufuzi, and the older generation of people know this name.

As for how my grandfather survived later, what happened to my second uncle and my grandfather and my wife, my grandfather never told me, in my memory, I have never seen a one-eyed and one-armed second uncle, it is estimated that it is really a lot of bad luck, as soon as this matter is mentioned, my grandfather sighed, and said: "That's not a story that children can hear." No matter how much we asked, no matter how coquettish we were, he refused to reveal half a word. Finally, as we get older, we gradually lose the curiosity of childhood.

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When it closed that evening, I received a text message, opened it and saw that it was from the third uncle in the family.

The third uncle is the only one in my family who is still engaged in tomb robbery in the previous generation, I heard that I had been good for a while in my early years, and then I couldn't get along with the leader in personality, so I came out to make antiques by myself. The third uncle often boasted that he debuted earlier than anyone else, he worked alone at the age of six, and at the age of ten, he had already made a name for himself in the eight outer factions, and he could be said to be a natural tomb robber.

However, this tomb robber has basically washed his hands now, according to several of his men, in the past few years he would occasionally go to the tomb to pick up things, in the past few years he has been idle to concentrate on hand-turning, it seems that he is old, and it is not okay to be unconvinced.

I opened his text message, thinking that he was going to call me for dinner, and every time I thought of it, I said: "9 o'clock corns and yellow sand"

This is our secret words on this line, which means that there are new goods arriving, asking me to pick and choose, the third uncle has a good relationship in Bishan, and there are many apprentices, maybe a few of them have set up a tomb again, and the things have arrived in Hangzhou. I was thinking about whether to go, and then I received another one: "There is a dragon's back, come quickly"

Recently, I have been short of money, and I can't buy good things when I see them, so it's better not to look at them, but as soon as he said that there is a dragon's back, my eyes lit up, this dragon's back is the meaning of a baby, the third uncle's vision is surprisingly high, even he thinks it's a good thing, I'm afraid it's really a peerless treasure, and this kind of opportunity will be gone if you miss it.

I made up my mind at the moment, closed the door of the store, drove my broken gold cup car and went straight to my third uncle, he was there when he was dirty, and there may be nothing left when he went a little later, I was a little anxious, and unconsciously stepped on the accelerator a few more times, and the result was stopped by a traffic police comrade at the entrance of the road, and it took a long time to toss, and the car arrived downstairs to him an hour later, I just got off the car, and I heard him call above, "Stinky boy, tell you to hurry up, you fucking touch it for a long time, and now there is a fart!" ”

I was already cold in my heart, but when I heard him say this, I knew that the thing must have been sold, so I leaned in: "No, Uncle San, the good things are also left to me, and you are selling them too fast." ”

"You fucking know it's a good thing, so you won't come quickly, I'm the first to inform you!"

I sighed, and I didn't want to explain, at this time, a young man walked out of his main entrance, carrying a long camphor box, wrapped in cloth on the outside, only revealing the lid on one side, I know that this thing is called a sword box, it is used to put a sword or a sword, this thing is very valuable in a box alone, if there is a sword in it, it is astronomical.

I guess it was the dragon's back, and he pointed to the thing on the young man's back, and the third uncle nodded and made a helpless gesture.

At that moment, I felt very interested, and was about to go back the same way, when the third uncle asked me to wait, saying that there were still many people upstairs who were picking things in his library, and asked me to come up to help collect money.

After the matter was dealt with, I made half a cup of Wuliangye, and while drinking with him, I told him about the old man with gold teeth who came to spy on him today, I said it as a joke, but I didn't expect him to hear it, and he sighed: "The golden tooth from Beijing, shouting, this is really suicide on the bridge without jumping into the river - hitting the bridge (coincidence)." ”

As soon as I heard and wondered, the third uncle still knew them, so I asked what was going on, and the third uncle said that he had heard that in recent years there were a few people who touched the gold thief and were very arrogant, and there was a gold tooth in Beijing who was responsible for selling goods to them, and it seemed that he had indeed opened a treasure cave in Shanxi recently, and it seemed that he had poured out a lot of treasures for them.

I thought that the silk book might have come out of the tomb in Shanxi, so I printed out the contents of the digital camera for him to see. The third uncle's face was empty, and he had already entered the state, and when he looked at the silk book, his face suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" I asked, "What's so strange about this?" ”

He frowned and said, "Tell you kid to learn more from me, but you just don't listen, this thing can be seen by a discerning person at a glance, this is a map." ”

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