The photo album that Uncle Ming showed me was full of all kinds of coffins, and the lid of the coffin was all open, revealing the dried corpses inside, all of which were different in age and style. Some have a coffin and a corpse; There are also two corpses lying on their sides, which are husband and wife who share a coffin; There were also dozens of dried corpses gathered in a huge coffin, all covered with transparent cabinets that kept out the air. If it is said to be a private collection, it is more like an exhibit in an exhibition hall.

I asked Uncle Ming what these dried corpses were for. Some people collect antiques, but the real "bone Dong" can't imagine that some people want it. I've heard that dried corpses in Xinjiang can be sold for a lot of money before, but it's really the first time I've collected so much, and it's really an eye-opener.

Uncle Ming said that many foreign museums specialize in buying well-preserved ancient corpses. These corpses are a kind of cultural relics that solidify the beauty of eternal death, which contains great commercial and cultural value.

Uncle Ming said to me, Brother Hu, since you have seen my collection, can you let me see the ancient mirror of the corpse that you got from Yunnan? The price is yours, or whichever one of my antiques you like, you can exchange them.

I thought to myself, this Uncle Ming is a knowledgeable person, maybe he knows the origin of the bronze mirror and does not know, it is better to set up porcelain, not to tell him that the ancient mirror has long ceased to exist. So I asked Uncle Ming, what is the origin of this mirror?

Uncle Ming said with a smile: "Brother Hu is still talking to me, this bronze mirror is of little use to you, but it is of great use to me, and there is nothing more than this in the world to ward off evil spirits." Speaking of history, although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, as soon as I heard a few friends from the antique shop talk about it, I immediately thought that it must be an antiquity from before the pre-Qin period. Qin Shi Huang is a Legalist, you should know this, right? ”

I only remember that during the "Cultural Revolution", there was a period of "criticism of Confucianism and commenting on the law", as if some Legalist doctrine had been mentioned, but I couldn't figure out what was going on at all, so I had to pretend to understand and nodded. Da Jinya said on the side: "We all know that there is such a family when a hundred schools of thought contend, which is a theory of governing the country, and it will be extinct after respecting Confucianism in the middle of the Han Dynasty. ”

Uncle Ming continued: "Don't tell lies in front of real people, the bronze mirror that can suppress corpses and ward off evil spirits is a symbol of Legalism. According to records, there were corpses in the Yellow River that made waves and capsized ships, so the king of Qin ordered people to hang this mirror at the mouth of the river and sent troops to guard it. Until the replacement of the Qin and Han dynasties, this ancient mirror fell into the hands of the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty, and finally somehow fell to Yunnan. The ancient mirror that can be installed on the bronze coffin to restrain the corpse transformation, there is no second side in the world, if you give it to me, I will never let you suffer. ”

I listened to it, and although I felt a little pity in my heart, there is no regret medicine in this world. No matter how suitable the price is, I don't have anything in my hand, so I told Uncle Ming bluntly, I don't have any ancient mirrors at all, it's all a fat man running a train with his mouth full, what he said at the front door, you have to go to Babaoshan to listen.

After speaking, I was about to get up and say goodbye, but Uncle Ming didn't seem to believe it, and kept it again and again, so I had to stay for a meal. Uncle Ming still thought that I was reluctant to part with my love, so he took out another ancient jade and held it in front of me. I knew at first glance that this was not a vulgar thing, and I saw that he meant to "shoot" (exchange) with me. If you want to show others, you must first put it on the table, wait for the other party to pick it up and look at it, and you can't hand it over directly, because this thing is very valuable, once it falls on the ground and is damaged, you can't tell who is responsible.

Since Uncle Ming held it in his hand, I didn't take it well, I only looked at it twice, although it was only the thickness of the little finger, but it was definitely a licensed commodity with a sea price, next to this thing, I felt that the scorching heat outside was all gone.

The big gold tooth likes jade the most, and it is full of praise: "The ancients said that jade is moist in the mountains and wood, and it is produced in water and fragrant." Although this jade phoenix is small, as soon as I take it out, I feel that the whole room looks so moist, which really makes me feel comfortable. Dare to ask which lady in the Tang Dynasty wore it? ”

Uncle Ming smiled proudly: "Or does Brother Jin have eyesight, a lady?" Although "The Remains of Tianbao" is a romance, there is no lack of real material in it, which says that Yang Guifei swallows jade to quench her thirst, which is the piece of jade she refers to. This material is carved with a piece of ancient jade that has been sunk in the sea for tens of millions of years, the jade nature is moist, immersed in the sea water for a long time, and it increases its benignness, can relieve heat and dryness, soft and hard detoxification, is a priceless treasure, and it is also my favorite thing. ”

The big gold tooth saw that his eyes were straight: "Since ancient times, when the ancient corpse is like a living corpse, there must be a large amount of beautiful jade in its abdomen. The ancient jade taken out of the zongzi is priceless, not to mention that this is the ...... that the concubine Niangniang holds in her mouth every day" As she spoke, she poked her neck over and stretched out her tongue to lick it.

Uncle Ming hurriedly withdrew his hand: "Is there any mistake, not now, after changing it to you, you can lick it as much as you want, you just hold it in your mouth every day, and there is no problem." ”

When Uncle Ming saw that I didn't speak, he thought that the price code was not enough, so he took out a scroll of ancient paintings, put on gloves, and unfolded it for us to see. He also told me that as long as you nod your head, the deep-sea runyu, plus this volume of the Song Dynasty's authentic work "Luoxia Qiniu Tu", will be all yours.

I thought to myself that there are really a lot of good things about this Uncle Ming, so I opened my eyes first and then said, so I didn't say anything about it, and looked at the ancient painting. Although our group of people are pouring antiques on weekdays, they rarely have contact with calligraphy and painting, and they have not seen many authentic works at all, but they have dealt with antiquities over the years, and they have an intuition about this kind of real thing, and they have seen a lot of murals in the ancient tombs.

The structure of the whole work is two large oblique cuts, the close-up is dominated by rich trees, an old cow grazing grass under the tree, the lines are simple and smooth, the brushwork is wonderful, and the old cow's docile and calm demeanor is vividly outlined; In the middle of the scene, there is a hut in the middle of the forest; The vista is expressed in light ink with the mountain-shaped twilight of the distant mountains. The far, middle and near levels are connected naturally, rendered in a virtual and real way, and the light smoke and mist are like a layer of green veil covering, so that people can see at a glance, producing a sense of deep and remote, ethereal and comfortable away from the world.

Uncle Ming said that at night, when the light dimmed, the cow that was grazing under the tree would return to the grass hut to lie down and sleep, which was a rare treasure.

I was immediately stunned, although this painting is good, but the cow in the painting can move, it is too godly. I've heard before that there are antiques and commercial two paintings of Mengren, there is a traveler with an umbrella in the painting, and the umbrella in the painting will be opened when it rains, in fact, the two paintings are secretly swapped, and I don't know what I think is a sacred object, and this "Luoxia Cow Picture" is afraid that it is the same.

And Uncle Ming immediately covered the light, and then looked at the old cow in the painting, sure enough, it was lying next to the grass hut, and the place where the grass was originally eaten was empty, I was surprised, this ancient painting was painted by a god and man?

Uncle Ming did not hide it, and told the truth that this painting was dyed with secret medicine in the palace, so there is this wonder. Even if there is no such link, this "Luoxia Cow Picture" is enough to buy more than a dozen decent houses.

Uncle Ming took two more things, the price is getting higher and higher, it is really a bloody investment, it seems that he must have been wanting to do it for a long time, and seeing that I still refuse to agree, he will find something else.

I said to Uncle Ming: "We really opened our eyes today, and we have grown a lot of knowledge in you, but I can't hide it, I did take the ancient mirror of the Legalist Patriarch, but there was an accident and I couldn't bring it out, otherwise we could really do this single-gun business." You spent so much money to change that ancient mirror, could it be that the zongzi in the house have a sign of corpse transformation? If it's convenient, can you tell us, I know of a few ways to make a corpse. ”

I said to Uncle Ming again: "I don't think there is any need for us to have any scruples, we are all peers, your thirteen-whiskered porcelain cat is worshiped by the corpse in Xiangxi, even so, you must also understand this way, is there no way to deal with the corpse?" ”

Uncle Ming probably also understands that he has already offered a sky-high price, and it would be a fool not to agree, it seems that there is indeed nothing, so he still left us for dinner and drank a few glasses of wine, and Uncle Ming said the reason for the matter.

Uncle Ming's ancestor is indeed the corpse bearer of Xiangxi, and "carrying the corpse" does not mean carrying the dead behind him, but a way of robbing the tomb. Dig a pit to disassemble the baffle at the horizontal end of the coffin, and climb into the coffin with his body upside down, instead of facing down, doing "backhand work". These mysterious and weird rules, I don't know from which dynasty and which generation handed down, Uncle Ming's family relied on this to make a windfall, and later his father ran into the Xiangxi corpse king when he was carrying the corpse in Zhumayu, and gave away his life, and the last generation of corpse bearers came to an end there. Because Uncle Ming had a lot of money and did not pass down the craftsmanship of his ancestors, he went to Nanyang to start a business, and finally settled in Hong Kong.

Later, it began to pour the dried corpses, the desert, the Gobi, the mountains, the wasteland unearthed in the dried corpses, if there is a bit of identity, well-preserved, buckle the name of a certain king, a certain general, a certain princess, you can sit on the ground and start the price, a million profits, more than anything can be profitable, the next family is more than some museums and exhibition halls private collectors and the like, of course, they are all traded underground.

Not long ago, an overseas museum came to talk to Uncle Ming about business, and they had an ancient scripture obtained from Tibet, which recorded the strange phenomenon of the death of a Tibetan demon princess. She died of a strange disease, and after her death, she turned into a glacial crystal corpse, which was considered a miracle, and she was buried on the snowy mountain with a nine-story demon tower. The scriptures even mention some specific clues about the location of the tombs.

This is the biggest business, but according to the information collected by Uncle Ming, this thousand-year-old glacier crystal corpse is extremely cold and extremely heavy, and if there is no Tibetan spiritual pagoda dedicated to Guru Padmasambhava, ordinary people will die once they get close. Dealing with that kind of thing, I'm afraid that the rest of the corpse's objects will be useless, and after thinking about it, maybe it will be possible to use that ancient mirror to carry her out of the nine-story demon building.

It's the first time I've heard of this term with Big Golden Tooth, but the legend of the Xiangxi Corpse King has been heard for a long time, what is a glacier crystal corpse? How is it better than the Xiangxi Corpse King?

I heard what Uncle Ming said, it was actually related to the Tibetan Demon Kingdom, and I was engrossed in it. I have seen the nine-story demon tower, which is a tomb tower made of square wood and rammed earth, which is the prototype of the tower. I haven't heard of any princess in the demon country, maybe Uncle Ming's information is wrong, maybe it's a character like "ghost mother". The most ferocious zombie is the corpse king in the deep mountains of Xiangxi, it is said that it only appears once in a hundred years, and every time it is a disaster, is the glacier crystal corpse similar?

Uncle Ming said that it was completely different, the glacier crystal corpse on the snowy mountain was an evil god worshipped, and the crystallized corpse from the inside out was unique in the world, so he wanted to get it at any cost. But how can this ancient evil thing enter the Yang Mansion lightly?

People in Hong Kong, Nanyang and other places are particularly superstitious about this. Uncle Ming's upside-down dried corpses, many of them are complete sets with coffins, and each time they handle one, they must put a jade onion in the coffin, and take the homonym of the word "chong" to dispel the bad luck of yin and evil.

As for the glacier crystal corpse, it is not so much an ancient corpse as a statue of an evil god, so I want to use a divine object like the Legalist Patriarch Mirror to the town, otherwise even if the corpse is excavated from the snowy mountain, I will not have the courage to transport it back. In such a mysterious place in Tibet, many things are difficult to guess with common sense, and who knows what curse will befall him. Since the ancient mirror is gone, he has to find other things, once he has eyebrows, Uncle Ming will form a team to enter Tibet, and follow the clues in the scriptures to dig up the glacier crystal corpse. This business is too big, Uncle Ming has to personally supervise the battle, and keep an eye on it so as not to let his subordinates damage the ancient corpse.

As for the matter of forming a team to enter Tibet, there is no suitable candidate yet, Uncle Ming hopes that I can go with me, if I can have a few captains to help, it will definitely increase the success coefficient.

I didn't agree, I secretly calculated in my heart, it turned out that Uncle Ming had invested so much, not only to draw an ancient mirror, but also to let us help. At present, there are a few questions, how did Uncle Ming know that we found an ancient mirror from Yunnan? He should know that I and the fat man are fighting backwards, but he doesn't know that we are the captain of the gold touching wearing the gold talisman, could it be that the fat man said this?

When I asked like this, I found out that Uncle Ming didn't know the fat man at all, and he hadn't talked to him, Uncle Ming said that there was a fortune teller, which was really magical, and it all depended on his guidance. At the beginning, Uncle Ming learned that there was news from Panjiayuan, saying that an ancient mirror had been discovered in Yunnan, and he searched around for his whereabouts to no avail, so he found a fortune teller who claimed to be the reincarnation of Chen Tuan 1, and asked him to dial a little bit to see if he could know which way of the people had recently gotten the ancient mirror in the deep mountains of Yunnan. As a result, the blind old man didn't even think about it, and immediately started a hexagram, and then wrote an address, saying that he was looking for a person named Wang Kaixuan and a person named Hu Bayi according to this address. These two people are the most clever captains in the world today, they all have the courage of ten thousand people, the unpredictable opportunity, and the loyalty of Yun Chang, the fierceness of Yide, the courage of Zilong, and the wisdom of Kong Ming, and that ancient mirror must have been taken out of Yunnan.

Uncle Ming said that he could see it today, and he would verify the hexagram of the day before yesterday. That old gentleman is really a living immortal, and the number of machines calculated is like a candle shining on a turtle, not only the reincarnation of Chen Tuan's ancestor, but also the possession of King Wen of Zhou.

When Da Jinya and I heard this, we forcibly tightened our faces and didn't dare to laugh, thinking that this level of fortune-telling could also be called "Candlelight Turtle Bu", then the two of us could also be King Wen of Zhou. But the blind man did a good job this time, and he didn't do us any favor, and he put gold on our faces. People carry people, and they lift higher and higher, so Big Golden Tooth and I immediately pretended to be surprised, and said to Uncle Ming that I couldn't imagine that there were such worldly masters. I didn't know much about the meaning of the words "prophet" and "prophet" before, but today I have a vivid and practical experience. If you have the fate to visit him and get his old man's advice, it will really be of infinite use for life, but I am a mortal man, I am afraid that there is no such opportunity.

Uncle Ming said that it is not without a chance, that old immortal is near Taoranting Park, a hundred yuan can be counted as a hexagram, as long as you give more money, you can also receive it to the family to meet each other's feng shui. But his old man has a habit, it's not that he doesn't want to sit on the **, my friend just has one, if you want to invite him, I can ask Adong to drive for you.

I thanked Uncle Ming for his kindness, and if I continued to talk about it, I had to laugh out and show my stuffing, and quickly diverted the topic and stopped talking about the blind fortune teller. I said to Uncle Ming, go to Tibet to dig up the glacier crystal corpse in the nine-story demon building, this job is supposed to be able to be accepted, even if there is no ancient mirror of the Legalist ancestor, I can also find a way to find something for you to replace, as for what it is, I can't say now. In short, killing pigs and buttocks, each has its own way of killing, and we have our own ways to touch gold. But at the moment I have something more important to do, and I can't do it until the results are outcome, and I'll give you a definite answer in a few days.

Uncle Ming obviously relied on us very much, repeatedly asked us, and promised to give us some deposit first. The big gold tooth and I have already salivated over the jade phoenix that Yang Guifei put in her mouth to quench her thirst, so we asked if you can give us this thing first, and once we have our hands free, we will definitely give priority to your deal.

Uncle Ming hurriedly put away the jade phoenix: "Don't worry, don't worry, after the matter is completed, these are all yours, but this jade is really not suitable for a deposit, I will give you another thing." After speaking, he took out a porcelain altar from under the sandalwood shelf. Seeing that this porcelain altar is very old, the edges are worn and can't see the blue and white, I and the big gold tooth immediately lost interest, thinking that this Uncle Ming is still an old money fan who doesn't see rabbits and eagles, and this rag goods can be collected on the wagons when they reach Panjiayuan.

Uncle Ming mysteriously took out a small oiled paper bag from the porcelain altar, it turned out that there were things in the jar, and it was densely wrapped in oiled paper with more than ten layers. First scrape off the wax on the outside of the oiled paper, and then uncover the oiled paper layer by layer. I took a closer look at the big gold tooth, and what was encapsulated in the layers of the package was actually two yellow, dry leaves.

I learned from Uncle Ming's tone and said, "Is there any mistake, isn't this just a dead tree leaf?" We have touched the golden captain, what kind of bright weapon has never been seen. I pinched it up and looked at it as I spoke, it seemed to be harder than a leaf, but it was by no means a valuable thing, and after reading it, I threw it back, glanced at the big gold tooth, and said to Uncle Ming angrily: "If you are reluctant to settle down, forget it, take two leaves out to chill someone, and become a heart to make a mistake with our mainland compatriots, right?" ”

The big golden tooth hurriedly stopped me and said to Uncle Ming: "Our Hu Ye has this temper, he has been bitter and hateful since he was a child, and he can't suppress the fire when he sees a capitalist. If he is really anxious, no one can stop him, I advise you to quickly take out the jade phoenix that Yang Damei is playing with, lest he demolish your house. ”

Uncle Ming thought that we were really angry, for fear of offending us, so he hurriedly explained: "Is there a mistake, Brother Hu, how can this be a leaf?" That's what the leaves look like. This is the treasure I bought from the pirates of Malacca when I was running a ship in the South Seas, it is the scale of the dragon, the scale of the dragon. ”

In order to prove his words, Uncle Ming filled the teacup with water, picked out a piece of the yellowed dry leaves, and gently put it into the cup. I saw that the so-called "dragon scales", as soon as they met the clear water, they immediately doubled in size, and the color also turned from yellow to green, crystal clear, as if a piece of jade was soaked in a teacup.

I have heard of "dragon scales" in Fujian before, and some places call them "Runhai Stone", but I have never seen them with my own eyes. It is said that putting such a piece on the ship can shelter from the wind and waves; In an arid place, you can also pray for rain and use it to make tea to cure asthma, and it is not clear whether it is a real dragon scale, maybe it is just some kind of huge fish scale. Although this thing is good, it is not unusual, it is not as real as the jade phoenix, so he pretended not to understand, and said to the big gold tooth: "How can this be dragon scales?" Jin Ye, do you think this is a bit like the kind we use for cooking...... What's it called? ”

The big gold tooth said, "Shrimp chips! As soon as you soak in water, it becomes bigger, and it is a big bag for a dollar. Our little three children like to eat this bite the most, and these two pieces are not enough for it to stuff between his teeth. ”

The two of us talked about it, and in the end we didn't get the jade phoenix in our hands, although this Runhai Stone was slightly inferior, but don't do it in vain, just take the porcelain jar together.

On the way back, the big gold tooth asked me if these two pieces of runhai stones were worth tens of thousands of Hong Kong paper. I said that it was enough, and the two of them together were worth 8,000 Hong Kong paper.

The big golden tooth asked me again if I really wanted to be a gunman for this old port farmer this time, and I had to pack up and go to Kunlun Mountain in Tibet?

I said don't look at the old Hong Kong peasants, the old things are quite rich, and the money of the Hong Kong peasants is also money, we can't discriminate against their capitalists, their money is not tied for nothing. In addition, he has clues about the tomb of the Tibetan Demon Kingdom, and the two sides can use each other, but this matter will have to be discussed again after they go back. We still have something to do now, go to Taoranting Park to find the fortune teller Chen Blind. He knows a lot about the Book of Changes, which is all-encompassing, but the root of it is the sixteen-character hexagram, and I have to ask him about it, lest Shirley Yang come back and say that I have been not doing my job all day.