The thousand-year-old history is unknown, once upon a time, in this barren land, Jin Ge Iron Horse, heroes everywhere. Which general escorted the princess of the previous dynasty, and why is it buried in this yellow sand, is it love? If yes, I think it must be poignant.

Yangguan City has long lived up to the prosperity of the past, Cha Wenbin got up and said: "It would be a good choice to spend the rest of your life here." ”

I also stood up beside him, just as we had come along with the brotherhood, and said, "Why be so sad, I firmly believe that he is still alive." ”

"Definitely!"

Silent **, the two of them had no sleep, it was early in the morning when they returned to Nanhu Township, and someone was waiting early in the morning, it was an old man with a long cloth bag in his hand, and the person was very happy to see Cha Wenbin coming, and he stepped forward to take his hand and said: "Little brother go up to my house to sit, I'll show you this baby." He patted the cloth bag in his hand while pulling Cha Wenbin to the courtyard, and I had to follow.

As soon as we arrived at the house, the old man made us a pot of tea, steaming just to drive away the chill of last night, he said that this is snowy mountain water brewing, although the tea is not the best quality, but the water is excellent. I tasted it, and a sweetness spread from the base of my tongue, and I hissed, and I was indeed much more refreshed.

The cloth bag was opened, and inside was a long brocade box, and the old man went to close the doors and windows, and then carefully opened the box that made me look forward to it, and it turned out to be an unsheathed sword.

It is said to be a sword, but it is not a sword, but it is somewhat similar to the Japanese katana, and the hilt is half the length of the sword. Unlike the katana, it has no arc, the whole body is straight, the blade is single, and the head of the knife is triangular, it is the first time to see such a strange-shaped weapon, the old man carefully took it out and presented it to Cha Wenbin and said: "A few bosses take a look, if you can still see it, give a price." ”

I don t feel anything like knives and guns, if it is a fat man, he may like it, Cha Wenbin took the sword and weighed it in his hand, it was very heavy. The blade of the knife is snow-white but has a hint of black, and the decoration is extremely simple, except for a white jade at the hilt, which is similar in size to an ordinary Go piece. Cha Wenbin took a piece of newspaper in his hand and gently wiped it from the blade, and it suddenly became two pieces, very sharp.

After reading it, Cha Wenbin returned the sword to the old man and said: "This is a Tang knife, the knife is a good knife, why does the old gentleman want to sell it?" ”

The old man also blushed a little when he asked this, and said with a little nervousness: "This knife was passed down to me by my father, who herded sheep for a large family when he was young, and found it in that antique stall. If it weren't for the fact that my wife couldn't afford to be sick and waited for money to save her life, I wouldn't be willing to take out this father's relics to buy and sell, and many years ago an outsider gave 10,000 yuan, and I wouldn't have it. ”

I said, "10,000 yuan, that's a lot." ”

"At this time and that time, selling this thing to some people is going to cause trouble, I am about to retire, I have worked in this grassroots agency for a lifetime, and I don't want to end up with a crime of buying and selling cultural relics, so ordinary people don't dare to speak." He leaned down again and leaned over to Cha Wenbin and whispered: "I know that you don't have any bad intentions at a glance, and you are from Hong Kong, so I asked, if you have a heart, I will exchange a price for some money to save my wife's life." ”

Cha Wenbin turned to look at me, he was asking what I meant, I simply said directly to Zhu Zihao: "The Tang knife craft has long been lost, it is the strongest existence in the era of China's cold weapons, relying on this kind of weapon, the Tang Empire is invincible in the south and the north, as far as I know, such an intact Tang knife is rare in the whole country." ”

Zhu Zihao slapped his thigh and said, "Then buy it!" ”

Anyway, this product is not bad now, and I am still a little angry about the mess caused in Hong Kong, so I simply asked him to be Lei Feng to support the lives of the people in the poor areas, so he opened his mouth and said: "In my opinion, this knife is so rare, then give it 100,000, how about Brother Zhu?" ”

"One hundred thousand?" Zhu Zihao hesitated slightly, and then Cha Wenbin said: "Give 200,000, I just saw an inscription on one side of this knife, which reads: Imperial gift to General Huaihua, which shows that this knife was given by the emperor at that time, royal craftsmanship, and it is equipped with a general of the third grade, 200,000 is not too much." ”

"Really?" Zhu Zihao got up and picked up the sword, he wanted to take a good look at this treasure, everyone knows that there is a gap between inscriptions and no inscriptions in the antique world, and those few small words, each of which can be described as worth a thousand gold.

"Sure enough, okay, 200,000 is 200,000, old man, do you sell it at this price?"

"Two hundred thousand?" The old man was also very surprised, he had probably never seen so much money in his life, and suddenly grabbed Cha Wenbin's hand with tears and said: "My wife is saved, thank you to the bosses." ”

"Hey, there's one more line here." When he pronounced those words, I suddenly felt like a thunderbolt from the sky: "Stone, dare, dang!" Yo, it's not Brother Shi's name, this is really fateful. ”

"Where?" Cha Wenbin and I went to grab it at the same time, and almost didn't let the knife cut the hand, Zhu Zihao pointed to the white jade on the hilt of the sword and said, "Here, it looks like I carved it myself." ”

Those words are engraved on a jade, I can't really see it if I don't look carefully, I feel that it is carved with a sharp weapon such as a dagger at random, the handwriting is crooked, I glanced at it and suddenly my brain buzzed. I've worked with the fat man for so many years, and I've naturally seen a lot of his signatures, this guy's handwriting is uglier than mine, and I dare to pack a ticket for this handwriting to be fat!

"It's his, that's right!"

Cha Wenbin was also very excited, and he repeatedly emphasized to me: "Are you sure? "Sure!"

"Uncle, has anyone ever taken or let someone else play with this Tang knife before?"

"Nope." The old man said affirmatively: "This knife has always been in my hand, even if others want to see it, they can only watch it from a distance, not close, do you mean the inscription on it?" This is also what I have always puzzled, since my father picked up this Tang knife has had this word, the biggest contradiction is that this knife can be confirmed to be a relic of the early Tang Dynasty in other places, but this character is in modern simplified Chinese characters. However, I can guarantee that this knife is by no means a fake, if it is fake, the sky will thunder! ”

The knife is real, I'm sure of it, there are some things that can't be imitated, such as verve and precipitation. I don't know how to describe my mood at the moment, I prefer to believe that it is just a coincidence, and I also believe that the fat man has never been here, and he will not have the opportunity to touch this knife, maybe there was once a person with the same name as the fat man.

"We'll take the knife away, and the money will be delivered in the afternoon." Cha Wenbin took the knife and was about to go out, although the old man hesitated, he did not stop it, 200,000, looking at that era, any city was an astronomical amount, and this price could buy a viewing building by the West Lake at that time!

Cha Wenbin didn't look back and got into the car, but only urged me: "Go to the museum, hurry!" ”

I wondered, "Where are you going, what are you going to do, to verify the authenticity?" ”

"No, it's true, the moment I got it, I knew it was an antiquity, and it was stained with blood, I'm going to ask about when the words on it were engraved, and if there was a general named Shi Dangdang in history."

It was Zhu Zihao who sat in my co-pilot, he is now my business card, with such a Hong Kong businessman, it will be much easier to enter and exit public places, I saw that his eyes were staring at the mirror from time to time, and said: "Brother Zihao, how about I borrow you for the money to buy this knife?" ”

This kid also knew each other, and said arrogantly: "Where are we going, we still need to borrow, besides, mine is not yours, if it weren't for you and Brother Cha, I might have fallen to the point of selling the ancestral property by now, tell me what you like, as long as you can solve it with money, it won't be a problem." ”

"Then you're welcome, you should treat this thing as a gift to Wen Bin, don't worry, he won't let you suffer." I looked at him and said, "Go back and let him give you a divination, pointing you a way to get rich, and you have earned it back many times." ”

Zhu Zihao smiled again and again: "That's, that's!" ”

With this master to do the signboard is really good, Dunhuang is a cultural ancient city, rich in history, the museum here is much larger than the general area, the two officials of the county cultural bureau have been accompanied by waiting, directly brought into the office, saying that the local experts have arrived.

An oval-shaped office, which is stacked with various cultural relics waiting to be restored, several old men in white coats and thick spectacle lenses are carefully studying the Tang knife sent over, and the one in the middle who nods frequently is the authority in this museum, and it is also a famous professor sent by Beijing to specialize in the construction of Dunhuang cultural relics: Su Qing.

He put down the magnifying glass in his hand, first looked up at us, I saw a trace of caution in his eyes, he knocked on the table and said: "Our country has regulations, but all cultural relics unearthed underground belong to the state, and no private person or organization is allowed to hold or sell cultural relics." ”

I thought to myself, you old man is not boring, why don't you go to those antique markets on the street to wander around the street if you talk so harshly, and suddenly you don't have a good impression of such people. But now that he wants it, he has to explain: "Professor Su, we are not cultural relics dealers, this is a friend's ancestral treasure knife." ”

"I don't know if it's ancestral or not, what evidence do you have?"

I choked, "And what proof do you have that it is not my ancestral?" ”

Seeing that the atmosphere in this conference room was a little wrong, the two accompanying officials hurriedly said: "Professor Su is a senior scholar specially appointed by the state, and the loss of cultural relics in our Dunhuang area is also very serious. However, these gentlemen are all patriots who have come from Hong Kong to make a special trip to invest in Dunhuang's economic construction, and they have heard of Professor Su's name and have come to ask you for advice. ”

This fart was really good, it not only gave the two sides steps, but also gave the old man Nasu enough face, he was finally willing to speak: "The thing is indeed in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, using the hundred steel folding process, such a knife needs to be repeatedly beaten with steel sheets thousands of times to form, the toughness is excellent, even a skilled craftsman to make such a knife It takes five years." He reluctantly put down the knife and said: "This kind of hundred steel folding process has been lost for hundreds of years, its blade is not one-piece, but with a piece of inlay inlay, but the process can not be seen with the naked eye This inlay connecting gap, belongs to a rare divine product." The inscription on this clearly says that it is a royal gift, indicating that this knife is from the royal court knife maker, the handle is decorated with a thousand-year-old cold iron with Hetian jade, and the knife is a three-grade general, if I have to be firm, I can say that there has not been such a complete preservation in China, the shape and craftsmanship are so good Tang Dynasty royal knives, can be characterized as a national treasure. ”

Cha Wenbin asked, "I wonder if Professor Su has seen a few inscriptions on that jade?" ”

Su Qing lowered his eyes and immediately said with a dark face: "I also wanted to ask just now, who would have destroyed such a national treasure so much that he was so bored that he engraved his name?" ”

"It wasn't engraved by us, it is said that this word and this knife exist at the same time."

Su Qing stopped again and again and said: "Impossible, this is a modern simplified Chinese character, which is obviously engraved by later generations." ”

I also got up and said, "This is one of the purposes of our coming here today: we would like to ask Professor Su to help us take a closer look, can we see how old this inscription is, and whether there is a general named Shi Dangdang in the Dunhuang area in history?" ”