In the evening, he invited me to a belly meal in an old Beijing in the South Third Ring Road, and the client was probably in a good mood and drank a lot of liquor, while I only drank beer. During the dinner, the customer answered the phone, because it was in a private room, I could clearly hear that the other party was a Henan accent, very similar to Lao Zhao. Listening to the content of his chat, it should be an antique inquiry. When he finished calling, I said, "You have a good business, can you get antiques everywhere?" ”

The client smiled, and the look in my eyes was a little unnatural. I caught it very keenly, thinking that it was probably Lao Zhao, but why did he still call this person, and judging from the tone of their call, the two should be in constant contact. It's already familiar.

I suddenly had a question and speculation in my heart, so I asked, "That old Zhao often cooperates with you, right?" ”

The client looked at me and didn't speak, but with a weird smile on his face. I simply asked, maybe it was a few more drinks. The customer said, "Boss Tian, that old Zhao, do you know what you do?" ”

"That's not what you do, are you?" I used words to cover him.

The customer nodded and said: "This old Zhao is still quite powerful, you said that since the Republic of China, the Chinese have not stopped robbing tombs, in the past so many years, there are still so many tombs to steal, even archaeologists can't find it, but he can!" Half a month. He has dug up twice, but the goods are very ordinary, they are all from the Republic of China, and they are not worth much. If you want to say that the jade pendant is beautiful, it's a pity that that kind of good goods can't be encountered often! ”

I nodded repeatedly. Clinking glasses and drinking with him, but my heart was pounding, it turned out that my guess was right, Lao Zhao was a tomb robber.

I spent the night in Beijing, and when I was lying in bed, Lao Zhao called me again in the county town and said, "Boss Tian, don't say it, this Buddhist card to ward off evil spirits really works, and I haven't sleepwalked once in half a month!" ”

I said, "Just work." He asked Lao Zhao what his profession was.

He asked vigilantly: "Boss Tian, why do you keep asking me what kind of profession I do?" "I said nothing, just want to tell you that the Thai Buddha card is not omnipotent, people themselves must do good deeds and accumulate virtue, the Buddha card can be blessed, otherwise sooner or later one day it will be invalid, and it will have to be counterproductive.

Lao Zhao hurriedly asked: "Also, can it still be invalidated?" What do you mean to be counterproductive? "I told him that there were several cases where the amulet failed due to the client's failure to tell the truth, and in the end he had to find a Thai monk to solve the problem. Lao Zhao said "oh", didn't say anything, and hung up the phone.

After a period of time, I helped keep an eye on the decoration of the house in Shenyang, and stayed for more than ten days. On this day, I received a call from Mei Ying from the Buddhist card shop and said to me, "Tian Qi. I've been having a lot of stomach upset lately, and I've had nightmares about a child standing in front of me crying that there's a terrible black uncle here. ”

When I heard this, I immediately thought about it. Could it be that there is something wrong with the spirit mountain spirit stored in the amulet shop, which interferes with the child in Miei's belly? Mei Ying also said this question, I told her not to worry, I will go back to Hong Kong in the next few days, and dispose of that mountain spirit as soon as possible.

In order not to affect the fetus in Miei's womb, I quickly booked a plane ticket to fly back to Hong Kong. When I returned to the Buddhist brand shop, I saw Mei Ying with a sad face and a little sluggish spirit. I thought to myself, the fetus already has divine consciousness, and the unborn child must be spiritually greater than the human, so it can sense this spirit mountain spirit, and it must be disposed of immediately.

However, it is obviously unrealistic to sell it to customers immediately, and the only feasible way is to rent a cheap old apartment and move the mountain spirit to the apartment. But Hong Kong is at a premium. No matter how old the apartment is, it costs a few thousand Hong Kong dollars a month, which I can't pay, but it is impossible to let Dengkang pay for it.

Suddenly, I remembered that Master Chan came to the old house in Tai Po Wai Village, what a wonderful place. It's remote and safe, and you don't have to pay rent! I hurriedly called Master Chen and asked Xiaofan to convey my thoughts. The next morning, Xiaofan personally went to the Buddhist card shop and handed me a bunch of keys, saying that it was the door key to the old house in the walled village, so that I could go at any time.

Just do it, I called Deng Kang first, and asked if there were any taboos on moving the mountain spirit and the cloth Zhou Ten Noodles, and Deng Kang said that as long as he didn't open the wooden box. It's okay if you don't fall and destroy it during transportation, but it's best to wrap a shroud around the wooden box to prevent the wooden box from accidentally falling apart.

Let the male clerk call and hire a van, a few men put the cloth Zhou Shimen and the spirit mountain spirit into the car, I and the male clerk sat in the back compartment, during the drive, we put the spirit mountain spirit on the lap, hugged tightly, for fear that the wooden box would be upside down.

Hold in your arms a mountain spirit that has been transformed by the death of the head descender. The male clerk and I were nervous, and it felt like we were holding a dead person. The male clerk was ten times more nervous than me, and his forehead was covered with sweat.

Arriving safely at Master Chen's old house in Tai Po Wai Village, the three of them put two more things into the house, and the spirit mountain spirit was hidden in the bottom layer of a wooden locked bookcase, and then took out a few old bedding from the wardrobe and pressed it. I sighed when I closed the cabinet door and locked it. The male clerk asked me, "Is this all right?" ”

I nodded and said that as long as it wasn't stolen, there was no problem. Back at the amulet shop, I told Mei Ying not to worry about it in the future, the mountain spirit had been transported to Master Chen's old residence for safeding.

After staying in Hong Kong for more than 20 days, during dinner at night, my mobile phone received a QQ message from Xiao Zhao, saying: "Hello Brother Tian, I am Xiao Zhao." My mom just called me. Said that my dad was full of big blisters on the soles of his feet this morning, and now they are all rotten, and he can't go down to the ground at all. And he was cold, his face was blue, and he was talking nonsense. ”

I was shocked and replied: "Then I have to go to the hospital, what's the use of telling me, I'm not a doctor." ”

Xiao Zhao said: "My dad used to tell me that the Thai Buddha card you sold him could ward off evil spirits, didn't he say that he always ran into evil spirits at that time." Old sleepwalking at night. Later, it was said that it worked, but why is it like this now? ”

"Do you know what your dad does?" I couldn't help but ask. Xiao Zhao strangely said that his father is a farmer, his family is in the countryside of Puyang, and what kind of work can farmers have besides farming. I thought to myself, this old Zhao is hiding it quite deeply. Even his son didn't know that his father often robbed graves.

In fact, I don't want to care about this matter, what is pitiful about a tomb robber, but I thought that Lao Zhao sold jade pendants and I got a commission of 10,000 yuan, so I called Lao Zhao on my mobile phone.

The person who answered the phone was a middle-aged woman, and her Henan accent was thicker than Lao Zhao. I almost couldn't understand it, so I had to ask her to rely on the tone of Mandarin as much as she could, so that I could barely understand eighty percent. She is Lao Zhao's wife, and said to me: "Boss Tian, what's wrong with my Lao Zhao?" This morning, my feet were all blistered, and I haven't woken up yet, my whole body is iron blue, and I still have the smell of dead rats on my body. They all stink to death! ”

I said, "Is he doing his old job again?" ”

Zhao's wife was stunned: "What, what's the old business?" "I smiled and asked you what your own husband does, don't you know? Zhao's wife said stiffly, we are all farmers, and we are digging in the soil all day long, where do we come from. I asked: "If you guess correctly, your husband has recently succeeded again, how many antiques have been sold to the boss X of Beijing Liuli Factory, then the boss X is my customer, and the line between you is still tied by me." ”

This made Zhao's wife unable to speak for a long time, I asked her to tell the truth, Zhao's wife sighed: "You can't blame us for digging sweet potatoes, how much grain can be harvested from farming, and we can't sell it for a few dollars all year round, and it's not enough for the children to go to college, so we have to borrow it!" Can you rely on us? ”

I didn't understand what it meant to dig sweet potatoes. Later, when I thought about it, it was probably the term of Henan people for tomb robbing. I asked: "From the beginning of Lao Zhao Dai's two Buddha cards to the present, how many times has he dried and dug sweet potatoes?" ”

"That is, two or three times," Zhao's wife said, "the first two times were small pits, nothing, the third time was last week, digging a big pit, saying that there is some bluestone tombstone sealed, can't be opened, in a few days I will call someone from Luoyang to help get ...... together."

I asked, "And then Lao Zhao is like this?" Is the big pit you mentioned in the field, and there is a pit full of big stones next to it? ”