Chapter 239: The Five Great Immortals
"Mr. is here, Jiao's family is shining!"
Jiao Laojiu welcomed Wen Yiming into the inner hall, respectfully invited him to sit down, served good tea, and said enthusiastically: "Thank you Mr. for saving your life, the incense is really magical, Jiao's stubborn illness has been controlled for many years." ”
Wen Yiming took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Once a week, don't be greedy for more rashness, as short as three months, as long as half a year, and the fragrance will be eliminated." ”
Jiao Laojiu smiled, the disease that had plagued him for many years finally had hope of being cured, and he became more and more respectful to Wen Yiming, he lived a life of licking blood at the tip of a knife, and he might be able to save his life when he could meet a master.
"Do you see if this is a Earth Splitting Sword?"
Wen Yiming asked Liu Datong to hand over the earth-splitting sword to the other party, today is to inquire about the inside story, eat the sweetness of treasure hunting, and be very curious about the Jiao family, to see if he can find some secrets.
"This ......"
Jiao Laojiu's eyes lit up, he quickly took it with both hands, studied it carefully for a long time, and said in surprise: "Sure enough, it is the Earth Dividing Sword, sir, you ......."
Suddenly woke up and hurriedly said: "Don't blame you, sir, the so-called earth-splitting sword is actually a drill, but few people have seen it, so it's just a rumor." Visiting the tomb does not rely on the drill itself, but on the ability of Tufuzi. ”
"So far the largest bronze found after the mother Wu Fangding, was found by the Wu surname using this tool, when the probe rod drilled to more than ten meters deep underground, the hand shook, felt hit a hard object, lifted up and found that the hard iron probe was bent. ”
He immediately realized that he might come across a treasure such as a bronze or not be able to break the probe, but he didn't expect that what he had found would be the largest bronze to date, and that it would be a national treasure. ”
Wen Yiming nodded, I see, it doesn't seem to be a treasure, and asked casually: "The Jiao family has been respected as Tufuzi for generations, and there must be something extraordinary, can the ninth master tell me about letting Wen Mou see his vision." ”
"Mr. False praise!" Jiao Laojiu smiled after hearing this, and said confidently: "The so-called Tufuzi has a great source, and during the Republic of China period, in the southern Hunan territory, the easiest job for the poor with the lowest threshold to support their families was to carry water and sell it, and the other was to sell yellow mud. ”
At that time, the yellow mud seller was casually called Tufuzi, and every day he used a broken iron wheel truck to drag the yellow mud from the suburbs, calling it in the streets and alleys, and selling it to people to make briquettes. ”
"The local soil quality is not good, there is a lot of red soil, the red soil is relatively scattered, and it is easy to seep water, so the ancient tombs like to transport sticky yellow mud from the outside to seal the soil. Tufuzi didn't understand this at the time, anyway, he found a place with yellow mud, dug again and again, and many inadvertently dug up ancient tombs and dug up burial goods. ”
"When they sell it to an antique dealer, they get more money than they do to sell yellow clay, and it comes quickly. Later, Tufuzi gradually deliberately looked for antiquities from the yellow mud, and finally took the initiative to rob the tomb and became a professional tomb robber. ”
Tufuzi learned from one by one, and then formed a group to rob tombs, forming the Xiangnan Gang, which became one of the most active areas for tomb robbing during the Republic of China. Inherited for 100 years, they have accumulated rich experience and have unique skills. ”
"There is the ability to find acupoints with feng shui, the sense of smell and smell that is more sensitive than the nose of a dog, the ability to probe more ingeniously than an agent, and the true ability to quickly identify the tomb, age, and number of treasures. Therefore, some people use the diagnosis and treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine to look, smell, ask, and cut, which is a vivid metaphor for Tufuzi's tomb robbery skills. ”
Speaking of this, Jiao Laojiu said proudly: "Tufuzi looks at the tomb of Tuzhi is indeed magical, the tomb of Zeng Guofan, a heavy minister in the late Qing Dynasty, was stolen by a Tufuzi surnamed Liao, and the robbery hole just hit the front of the coffin, which is really a model for my generation." ”
Wen Yiming smiled and said nothing, Jiao Laojiu is really a model worker who does a line of love and love! His nose moved slightly, looked at the string of purple-red Buddha beads on the other party's left wrist, and said with a smile: "The bracelet is good, descending dragon wood?"
Jiao Laojiu hurriedly took it off, and offered it with both hands: "Mr. Gaoming, in our business, we deal with dead people all day long, and we always have something to ward off evil spirits, right? ”
"100 years of spanon, good. Wen Yiming nodded, and said to the other party: "Peach wood, also known as dragon wood, is the most powerful thing in folklore to drive away evil spirits and ghosts." According to the Book of Mountains and Seas, when Kuafu was day by day, he abandoned his staff and turned into Deng Lin. Before Kuafu arrived at Daze Lake, he died of thirst on the way, and the cane he abandoned turned into a denglin. This cane of Kuafu is made of peach branches, and Deng Lin is a peach forest. ”
Jiao Laojiu said with a smile: "The most annoying thing for us is that we are dead, wear evil spirits, and feel more or less at ease when we work." Now some tomb robbers say that they are carrying black donkey hooves, which are quite divine and can also subdue zombies?
"The donkey's hooves that have not seen the light are miraculous remedies, the mother has postpartum wind, in the hopeless situation, put it into the iron pot to boil water for the woman to drink, it is said to have the effect of resurrecting the dead, especially effective, and is jokingly called the soul soup. ”
"The so-called unseen donkey hooves are the unborn donkey hooves that have not been born in the womb of the female donkey, because they are extremely rare, and they will only be available in the butcher's house. ”
Wen Yiming laughed, and suddenly saw a few tribute cards on the table in the middle of the hall, stood up curiously, Jiao Laojiu walked to him, put on three incense sticks, and introduced: "All walks of life have their own ancestors, the north and the south are different, and the north believes in the five immortals." ”
"Fox Fairy, Yellow Fairy, White Fairy, Willow Fairy, Gray Fairy. In some places, there is another way of saying it: weasel - Huang Sanye, fox - Hu Sanye, snake - Liu Qiye, mouse - gray eighth master, hedgehog - white old lady. ”
"We worship fox fairies because of the fox's habits and cunning, hoping to carry out tomb robbery activities like foxes, not easy to be found and caught. ”
"Huang Xian, tomb robbers are all dealing with the dry bones of the dead, and the faint-hearted will inevitably not be scared out of the disease, once they get sick, they will be mistaken for a weasel spirit possessed by the body, so they have to wait carefully for Huang Sanye. ”
"The white fairy has thorns all over the body, and the silver needles of traditional Chinese medicine are the same, and when they are working, they get the help of the hedgehog essence, and the disease will be cured slowly, so they are regarded as the white immortals. Because the old woman likes to do good deeds, the people respectfully call her the white old lady. Tomb robbers often enter the tomb and have a high probability of coming into contact with germs, so worshipping Bai Xian may be wishing that he and his family are safe and healthy. ”
"Enshrine Liu Qiye, the folk regard the snake as a dragon, in the zodiac snake is a small dragon, the tomb is the place where the dragon likes to move the most, the snake found in the tomb is called the earth dragon, it will be regarded as a mascot, and the superstition that the place where the feng shui is good will come out of the earth dragon. ”
"As for the gray immortals, among the five immortals, they are the most similar to us, they come out by day and night, they are good at making holes, and they are all underground workers. It is also the god of wealth in folk beliefs, tomb robbery is to steal treasures, with the secret help of the gray eight masters, tomb robbery will have a harvest. ”
"There are also rabbit fairies in the south, and rabbits do not eat the grass next to the nest, which is particularly important in the industry. I don't steal the graves of nearby or acquaintances, but choose a place far away, so even if I find it, it doesn't matter much. In case you are discovered, you hope that you can run faster than a rabbit, and the same is true for the cunning rabbit three holes. ”
Sitting down again, Jiao Laojiu sighed: "The circle is also changing, and the country has its own talents, which were originally divided into ten gangs, Liaoshen Gang, Rehe Gang, Changping Gang, Huanluo Gang, Yanbei Gang, Guanzhong Gang, Lunan Gang, Xiangnan Gang, Jiangning Gang, and Lingnan Gang. ”
"Gangs are not close to each other, and they will divide into different small circles, like cakes, to divide different areas within the area, and each gang operates in its own territory, and does not invade each other and cross the border. In the past, the scope of activities of local gangs was not demarcated by administrative regions, but according to local traditions and customs. ”
"There are rules and regulations, each has its own territory, and you can only dig holes in your own area, and you are not allowed to grab life in other people's areas. Do not interfere with the water of the river in each other's wells, otherwise it will hurt the peace. If one party makes a move on his own territory and the other party happens to meet, he will treat each other politely, pretend to smoke and drink tea, and if the money for selling goods is more, he will also give the other party some wine money, but the other party must not be allowed to interfere, let alone come to dig in the dead of night. ”
"The strength of the ten major forces is basically determined by the number of local tombs, among which the four factions of Changping, Lingnan, Guanzhong, and Xiangnan are the most powerful. ”