Chapter 21: The Big Nest

Just as the shopkeeper Tong was thinking about the "possibility", he was surprised, and a farmer who was shaving mud suddenly stumbled over, confirming his thoughts. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The peasant ran barefoot in the muddy water of the canal to the shopkeeper Tong's father, pointed to a group of slotters who were gradually gathering in the distance of the canal, and said to him: "I said Boss Tong, you can go and have a look! Let's dig a 'big nest' here!"

Dawozi is a "term" that can make everyone's heart jump in the antique business.

Generally speaking, the nest is to point out a lot of antiques in the place or people, this nest refers to a variety of people, in addition to people, it can also be a tomb, a village, a field or even a temple, and the big nest is a higher level than the nest, "shipped" place.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Dawozi mostly referred to the tombs of emperors and generals or the palaces of the Manchu Dynasty.

But the shopkeeper Tong knows that there is really no such existence in the boundary of the Jining Canal, and there is only one thing that can be called a "big nest" in the canal, and it is accompanied by glutinous rice...... Ancient shipwrecks!

In the canal, which was originally neither wide nor deep, a large shipwreck was found, which is a godsend, who can not be moved!

So, the father of the shopkeeper immediately called his son, took the guys, and left only one guy to watch the stalls, and the servants ran to the crowded canal together.

In the face of the potential treasury, the young shopkeeper Tong was naturally excited, he didn't expect to follow his father to the canal for the first time to "collect mud money", he made such a big discovery, and he thought that he would definitely be able to find something extraordinary and good in addition to feasting his eyes.

So, the shopkeeper Tong followed his father, stepping on the mud and sand mixed with glutinous rice, all the way through the crowd, and came to the wreck.

That...... It's a trough boat.

The trough hull is moderate, tilted between the muddy water, the original solid wood hull is somewhat carbonized, it seems to have been burned by fire, the hull is covered with silt, and the exact dragon head number cannot be seen.

Overall, most of the hull was still in the muddy river, with only a small half-hatch leaking out of it, plus a wooden door in the bow that was locked from the inside.

Many people were climbing up, ready to open the wooden doors that blocked the aisles, and many others were picking through the cracks in the leaky hull of the boat, looking for blistered old glutinous rice.

The shopkeeper Tong was different from his father, he was a person who lived in northern Lubei, on the edge of the canal, so he recognized the ship, and when he saw the style and decay of the wreck, his heart was a little colder.

Judging comprehensively, this ship is not "old", it should be a product of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and the rice is still in the cabin, so it is only possible that this is a new ship and a new seal, and the sinking time is not "long".

As for why the boat was left behind in this shallow section of the river, which should not have been accidental, according to the villagers, it is likely that it was delayed in time due to strong winds and rain decades ago, followed by a fire, and then caught up with the bursting of the embankment at the mouth of the garden and the diversion of the Yellow River to silt.

The reason why the shopkeeper Tong felt lost was not because the ship was not old, but because he knew that such a workboat was relatively low-end, and there was often nothing decent in it.

This shipwreck may be regarded as a "big nest" for the flat-headed people who rely on the canal to eat, but in the eyes of a relatively large antique dealer like the Tong family, it is also a chicken rib and tasteless food.

In addition to the loss, Xiao Tong's shopkeeper thought about it again, since he had come, he was unwilling not to take a look, and many years ago, people had a poor concept of antiques, and the possibility of missing from the ordinary people was still a little.

Holding such wings, the shopkeeper Tong stumbled after his father, and soon walked to the front of the shipwreck warehouse, and watched a group of people under the wooden door of the wooden boat, sawing the wooden door with a saw.

The God-given opportunity made everyone present excited, especially those who came to dig "mud money" during the slack time, and they were full of expectations for the contents of the wreck.

The shopkeeper Tong knew that judging from all kinds of signs, there was a lot of glutinous rice and grain in this ship, and it was well sealed, so it should be edible, even if people can't eat it, it is also a good thing to feed pigs and chickens.

In those days, food was life! Just for that food, it was enough to make the villagers excited, and they wanted to find out immediately.

Therefore, the sturdy men who climbed on the bow of the ship all worked harder, and soon opened the wooden door of the bow with a big saw, and then everyone eagerly looked into the cabin......

Soon, the men fell silent.

I don't know why, the first group of people who looked at the cabin looked at the cabin in silence for a while, and then they all looked at the shopkeeper's father.

An older man spoke first and said to the old man, "Boss Tong, take a closer look, what's here?"

When the shopkeeper's father heard this, he knew that these farmers who were digging for money had seen something extraordinary, and he must have taken advantage of his antique dealer's presence to ask him to appraise it.

So, the "shopkeeper of Lao Tong" took his son and his companions, climbed up to the bow of the boat with the help of the farmer who drove the boat, and looked into the cabin with an oil lamp.

According to the shopkeeper Tong's recollection, he was small and did not look inside the cabin, and his father immediately turned pale after taking a look at the affairs in the cabin, and then hurriedly turned around and bombed his son and his companions.

In the process, the old shopkeeper was very anxious, and he was afraid that his son would peek at the contents of the cabin, so he specially blocked his son's eyes with his hand until they staggered out of the ship's door.

After going down, the shopkeeper of Lao Tong kept his son and his men away from the cabins, and then hurriedly called the "Cao Gang Laborer" who was digging for money and stewards on the canal.

The old shopkeeper told the man clearly and quietly: "The things in this ship are evil, and if they are kept, something big will happen...... It's all burned, don't covet the gold, silver, and jewelry......"

"Where's the rice?" asked Lao Tou unwillingly.

Lao Tong's shopkeeper shook his head vigorously and said, "That's not rice! It's the Yin soldier food used to borrow Yin soldiers in the Five Organs Temple!"

After giving these orders, the old shopkeeper didn't say anything, so he turned around with his son and left.

That night, the old shopkeeper was unusual, he personally washed, compared, and sorted the porcelain he had collected earlier from the wreck, but he never let his son interfere with his buddies, and he only worked with his eyebrows without saying a word.

Washing porcelain tiles is the work of apprentices, and it is unthinkable that in the old business of paying attention to hierarchical rules in the past, the old shopkeeper personally did the work of apprentices.

Many people wanted to ask the reason, but the old man was stubborn and didn't speak, and the family didn't dare to ask, until the old shopkeeper was busy all night and day, and came out of the house with black circles under his eyes, he had a follow-up explanation to his sons and apprentices. (To be continued.) )