My name is Ye Qiang, I am 28 years old this year, I am engaged in the business of reselling antiques, the shop is in Henan, but it is also a good mix, and there are more than a dozen piles (branches) across the country.

In 99, the country set off a ban storm, the foundation of my store fell, several earth rats in the ground exposed their whereabouts, and were caught by the government, and finally the entire inverted bucket group was arrested in prison, the foundation fell, and my store naturally couldn't open.

In the end, I took out almost all my savings, and finally filled the government guys, otherwise I would have to go to jail.

I have been in the antique business for ten years, and I am also well-known on the road, my grandfather's name is Ye Rulong, he used to be an inverted professional household, the title of "Earth Dragon King" can be said to be resounding throughout the tomb robbery world, when I first debuted, it was through the fame of the old man that I was able to stand on my feet.

It's a pity that the old man stopped a few years ago, and now that I'm in Pingyang, the so-called friends and buddies in the past have all lost contact, and they all avoid me like the plague god, and it's even more difficult to reopen the store.

Idle at home for two months, the old man suggested that I go to Hubei to shop for goods, 99 years this will, many places in the country have a lot of water, the old man told me, Hubei there are many mudslides, a lot of things underground have been washed out, as long as I sink down to find, I can still get some good things.

I listen to it and reason, the old man is a well-known inverted bucket professional, his vision is a must, plus Hubei here was the Yangtze River old road, China has relied on this river for thousands of years to depict history, there are more secrets in it, if you are lucky, maybe you can really get some rare treasures.

I borrowed tens of thousands of oceans from the old man, I set off for Hubei that night, the old man also knew that I was stuffy at home, and saw that I was a little vigorous, so he was relieved to hand over the money to me, and told me to have more eyes, and now people are very shrewd, so that I have more than a little ninety-nine in my heart, don't be fooled.

I went to Hubei with me, and a buddy of mine, Lin Zhe, his name sounds very elegant, but he is tall and big, especially his head, like a big-headed doll, so I call him big-headed.

I grew up with the big head, the relationship is particularly iron, his father used to be an inverted fight, is my grandfather's man, more than ten years ago, the big head and the old man went to Qinchuan to fight, and never came back, the old man is a heavy emotional person, seeing the big head helpless, he will be raised as a grandson, so I have been a big head since I was a child as my brother who wears a pair of pants.

The big head is a chatter, especially clever and eccentric, if it weren't for him nagging along the way, I would really be suffocated, not to mention that the big head is also half an antique person, although the vision is not as accurate as me, but also eight or nine are not far from ten, with him, he can also help me take the helm, the most important thing is that the big head is very capable of fighting, a top ten kind, with him, I am not afraid of being strangled (robbed).

After arriving in Hubei, I knew how difficult it was to find goods, I used to just sit in the store and wait for someone to come to the door, and now I suddenly want to do it myself, but also encountered a lot of obstacles, especially the people in Hubei are particularly strong, two sentences are not right, just start scolding, fortunately there is a big head to support, otherwise I really have to lose a skin.

The key is that this shopping is very shady, and it has to be carried out quietly in secret, and the government has been investigating it tightly these years, and if I am not careful, I will be arrested and put in prison by the public security, and when the time comes, I will be sentenced to thirty or forty years if I turn out my previous deeds.

We stayed in Hubei for two months, there was no harvest, and the money on our bodies was spent on some relationships, and it was about to be spent, I said to the monkeys, if there is no harvest tomorrow, we will withdraw, and go to Panjiayuanzi in Beijing, where the fish and dragons are mixed, with our vision, it is better than the current two-headed blindfold. The monkey thought about it and agreed.

The next day, I went separate from the monkeys, this is the Yangtze River Helitun, which used to be the main tributary of the Yangtze River, and later because of the transformation and repair of various dynasties, it was also intercepted here, because the shape of the road is a bit like a goose's neck, also known as the Erli River.

There are many collectors of the Eli River, and there is often a lot of water here, as soon as the water recedes, it seeps out of the riverbed, and a lot of gold diggers drill here, I walked around with the intention of picking up the leak, and still did not find half a good thing, and my heart is also cool.

Just when I was preparing to prepare my luggage at the hotel, the big head suddenly called me and asked me to wait for him to come back at the hotel.

I still believe in the eyes of the big head, with an anxious mood, I waited in the hotel for more than ten minutes, and when the monkey appeared in front of me, I saw that he was holding a wooden box in his hand, his eyes were very proud, and behind him, there was a middle-aged man in short sleeves, in his forties, his skin was very dark, and he looked like an honest farmer.

The big man walked over, handed me the wooden box, and said, "Qiangzi, this wooden box is a good thing, I took it from this guy, in my eyes, at least this amount." He held out three fingers and shook his brow.

In fact, when I saw such a wooden box, I was also a little surprised, this wooden box is pineapple wood, the color is very average, but it is better than the year, antique, just a wooden box can be the whole eight hundred, and the things inside will not be bad.

I didn't take the wooden box directly, I looked at the middle-aged man, he looked a little nervous as soon as he entered the hotel, his face was still a little pale, obviously it was the first time to do business, but the old man said, people are very ghostly these years, it is very likely that this middle-aged man is pretending, in order to pit our tickets.

I frowned and asked, "Big brother, where did you get this wooden box?" ”

The middle-aged man lit a dry tobacco, his throat was very sharp, and he listened to the pain: "A branch of the Eli River, where the water has just receded, many people are digging river mud, I was idle, so I went over to join in the fun, and finally found this thing, you see, how much is this thing worth?" ”

I laughed in my heart, this Eli River is a well-known Taobao land, whenever there is a big flood, even the croppers will try their luck, this person is ambiguous, but also a shrewd lord, his words can not be believed too much.

Thinking like this in my heart, I quietly opened the wooden box, inside is a bronze ware in a wine glass, judging from the casting style, it seems to be from the Tang and Song dynasties, the surface is vermilion, it seems to be brushed with cinnabar, like this kind of thing, it is difficult to judge the price, the main thing is to see what this layer of vermilion lacquer is wrapped in, so this kind of trading is also a simple luck.

At this time, the big head came up, bit my ear and said, "Qiangzi, you turn over the bottom of the wine glass and take a look, there are some Tang characters engraved there, it doesn't look like the year is old, there should be a play." ”

My eyes lit up, and I immediately turned the wine glass over, there were a few small holes below, and a few complicated words were written on the side of the holes, I glanced at it, and couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, and hurriedly put the wine glass back into the wooden box, and said to the middle-aged man: "Big brother, we don't accept this thing, you take it." ”

Seeing the drastic change in my complexion, the big head also seemed to have expected something, and hurriedly sent the middle-aged man out of the hotel, and then closed the doors and windows of the room, and asked me what was going on, the wine glass he looked like was a real thing.

I let out a long sigh of relief and said to the big head: "This middle-aged man is lying, he is not a cropper, but a serious river digger, judging from his demeanor and the calluses on his hands, he may have been doing it for many years. ”

The river diggers do not belong to the tomb robbery world, they are mixed in the mountains and rivers in the big river area, doing the business of digging river sand, generally reselling, acting secretly, the number is much less than the inverted bucket, most of them act as a group, the power is very large.

The big head is a little confused, it doesn't matter what kind of river digger or crop man, he can get the real thing, not to mention that the middle-aged man's asking price is not very much, we can sell it, and we can get a lot of tickets.

I told the big head that the wine glass is genuine, but it costs people to take that thing, that thing is called the ghost cup, which is a dirty thing that relies on absorbing popularity to raise the undead, once the living touch it, it will be sucked by the undead in the ghost cup, and it will haunt you for the rest of your life. The big head heard that his scalp was numb, and he also touched the Tibetan ghost cup just now.

I reassured the big head, the undead in the ghost cup can only remember a person's anger, the first person to touch it is the farmer, the ghost cup will only entangle him, the ghost cup is extremely evil, the old man also told me some things about the ghost cup, all of them are appalling, for the sake of safety, I still decided to leave Hubei immediately with the big head.

That night, after dinner, we rested early, the luggage in the hotel was sorted out, and when it was dawn, we took the morning bus to Beijing.

It is now the middle of summer in Hubei, and the weather is very hot, stuffy and humid, but in a daze, I feel that my whole body is cold, as if there are ice cubes all over my body, and I am frozen awake.

I opened my eyes and looked, and my scalp was numb, and beside my bed, a dark green grimace appeared, with hideous features, and two crimson eyes staring at me, grinning weirdly.

Only then did I realize that the big man next to me had also woken up, and he made a silent gesture, pointed to the door of the room, and then yelled a runaway.

I had already been so frightened that I ran out of the door, and the big man immediately picked up the iron basin under the bed and smashed it towards the hideous grimace.