Chapter 3: Human Skin Grimace
As soon as I went out, I saw my second uncle and the man in the cap standing next to my "Volkswagen", talking from time to time, and finally the man in the cap half climbed on my car and wrote something, and then he handed the written thing to my second uncle.
I could see clearly that it was a check.
The second uncle looked at the check and nodded with satisfaction, then put the check in his pocket, carefully put the check in his hand, and then handed the thing in his hand to the man in the cap, which was a rectangular object wrapped in black cloth.
The man in the cap glanced at me at the door, didn't know what to say to the second uncle, then took out a piece of something like silk from his arms and handed it to the second uncle, turned around and stopped a green car and left.
I waited until the cap man left, and then walked over slowly, looked at the second uncle with empty hands, and didn't forget to sarcastically say a few words to him, second uncle, where are your good things?
The second uncle ignored my sarcasm, and when you kid came, the daylily was cold, and he didn't see that he had already taken it off just now. Maybe it's because he didn't give me good things, he felt a little guilty, he invited you to Longquan to eat fish head hot pot at night, turned around and prepared to leave, just didn't take two steps and patted his head, yo! Look at my memory, show you what the young man gave me just now, it's a treasure.
I asked curiously, "What baby?" (But I thought to myself, isn't it just a rag?) Look at the way you look. )
The second uncle didn't answer me, just said a word, let's go in and say.
After the second uncle entered my store, he walked directly to the private room inside, and when he entered, he didn't forget to tell me not to forget to close the door.
I thought to myself, is it really some kind of treasure, otherwise how could it be so mysterious?
After closing the door, I hung up a sign (glass-style sliding door) that was closed for business, and hurriedly walked towards the private room inside, and as soon as I pushed open the door of the private room, I saw the second uncle sitting on the sofa with Erlang's legs crossed, with a cigarette in his mouth, and two cups of hot tea that had been brewed on the coffee table.
After the second uncle saw me come in and threw me a cigarette, he said: You said that your kid is slow to do things, why don't you look like our old Liu family at all.
I didn't care about arguing with him, so I asked anxiously: Second uncle, is that thing you just got rid of a hard product? How much did you sell? And what kind of treasure you said, take it out and take a look.
The second uncle didn't rush to answer my machine-gun-like question, but took two sips of brewed tea before saying: Hmph, hard goods? You kid don't know, it's a box with an artifact, where is it so easy to get, and besides, I don't dare to take out that thing and show it off, if I find it, I have to lose my head, and even if I get this box, I don't know how much effort it takes.
Artifact? What artifact? I looked at the second uncle with a puzzled expression.
The second uncle looked at me with a confused expression, and I spit out a smoke ring before saying slowly: Anyway, I saw that the box had 2 words Long Yuan written on it, and I don't know if you ask about the rest.
What the! Long Yuan. I opened my mouth wide in disbelief. It's no problem to sell that thing casually on the black market for 1,20 million.
The second uncle didn't pay attention to my exaggerated expression, he pinched his cigarette, not to mention this, to show you a good thing, and said that the second uncle took out the silk-like thing that the cap man gave him just now from his arms and spread it on the coffee table.
I glanced at the things on the coffee table, this is silk?
The second uncle looked at me with disdain, you can look carefully.
I picked up something like silk from the coffee table, and looked carefully to see that there was nothing else on it except for a very realistic grimace, why is it a grimace, because a normal person's face can't be like that, that face is almost twice as long as a normal person's face, and the eyes are not painted with eyeballs, just two black holes looking at a trace of seepage, and I don't know what red is used to hook out two bloody fangs, In this summer, I shivered when I looked at the grimace on the picture, and if anyone said it was a human face, I wouldn't believe it.
I flatten something like silk from scratch on the coffee table, it's not silk I affirmed, because the silk is not so smooth, and it's been a few years since I looked at it, if it was silk, it would have been rotten a long time ago, and I can't say what it is, it shouldn't be human skin.
The second uncle looked at me appreciatively, you are really right, this is human skin.
(A few questions about the first part: I didn't go to college after graduating from high school, I chose to go to the society to make a big career, who knew that after I was born in the society, I ran into walls everywhere, and the unemployed college students grabbed a lot of them this year, not to mention high school students like me who had just come out of society, and finally returned to Chengdu in discouragement, and opened a literary store to sell some books, calligraphy and paintings with the support of my family.)
In recent years, business has become more and more sluggish, and seeing that my small shop is about to close, I wanted to call someone to complain, but who knows where the call went to the second uncle.
When the second uncle heard this, he scolded: Fuck, you want to make a fortune from serious business? Sooner or later, you have to close the door, have you heard that old adage? Horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, and people have no windfall and no wealth.
In the end, the second uncle gave me an idea to pour some of the things in the antique ware.
I will be suspicious of spending money from the second uncle to pour a few things that have just been unearthed, who knows that selling one out will get all my money back (the buyer is generally introduced by the second uncle), after tasting the sweetness, I also began to concentrate on the antiques, the literary shop slowly became a disguise, after a few years of tossing in the circle is also a little famous, generally as long as I handle the things can basically distinguish the true from the fake, maybe it is a talent for this line.
About tomb robbery this thing is generally more common in troubled times, because in troubled times there is not enough food and clothing, maybe today is alive and tomorrow will die, at that time, the person who cares about your benevolence and morality, is to live a day to earn a day, so burning, killing and looting, digging graves, tomb robbery is not uncommon, the same thing survives for a long time, and it becomes a faction of its own, the official thief is called the captain of the gold, the people are called Tufuzi, there are so many ancient tombs, digging one is one less, so it is related to their own interests, and large-scale firefights often occur between Tufuzi.
As more and more people died desperately, in desperation, Tufuzi in various parts of the country decided to send a representative figure to discuss the future fate and survival of the profession of Tufuzi, and this discussion was discussed for three days and three nights, and finally the result of everyone's unification was to divide the Yangtze River as the line.
The north of the Yangtze River is a faction, and the south of the Yangtze River is a faction, and finally there is a division between the north and the south, the southern faction is called Taosha, and the northern faction is called Inverted Dou.
With the division of factions, various tomb robbery tools also began to appear, such as Luoyang shovels, jacks, blood particles, and dragon rulers.
There is also a hereditary business of tomb robbing, my second grandfather (Liu Lao Er in the previous article). My grandfather (the second baby in the previous article) and my uncle (the brother of the second baby) are all tomb robbers, and I heard that my second uncle is also doing this business now, but when I come to my generation, my family says that he is not willing to let me do this business, in the words of my second father-in-law, it is a loss of yin morality.
Why didn't my father (my father ranked third) do this business, it was because my uncle's son, Songzi was born grandfather died, Songzi was 10 years old grandfather died, Songzi 20 years old when my uncle (that is, Songzi's father) died, and finally found a fortune teller to count, saying that Songzi is the life of the lonely star, all of which are the ancestors who lack virtue and do too much, if the descendants are doing this business, they may cut off their children and grandchildren.
Even I kept the local goods from my family, as long as the second uncle knew. )