Chapter 035: Captain Touching Gold and the Carpenter
followed Zhou Yong to another private room, which was very hidden, located on the mezzanine floor of the first and second floors.
Wu Meng stabbed me with his arm and said softly: "Lao Chen, did you say that this Tuesday Master is going to pull us into the gang?" ”
I was still a little angry with him, and said, "Isn't that what you want?" ”
He said, "No, brother, I'm not confused for a while." Do you know what it's like for a bank card to pop up seven digits in an instant? That's millions, and you can't resist the temptation for you. ”
To be honest, I really can't stand it. It's not that I don't love talents, I'm just afraid that I will have my life to earn my life. This kind of deed of earth rats, let's not mention it in prison, just touching the dead in the tomb is very resistant, not to mention that there are so many organs in the ancient tomb, if you don't get a big dumpling out, you can stay in it forever.
As soon as the two strong men at the door saw Zhou Yong and us, they pushed open the door, and they were most worried that the partition wall had ears, so there would usually be two pairs of eyes watching at the door, so as not to leak the wind.
The room was very dark, and the only light source came from the projection on the wall, and the surveillance video next to it, the surveillance video could see the door, and downstairs, and every private room here, in addition to these equipment, there was a huge round conference table in the middle of the room, and the whole arrangement was like a war conference room.
I noticed a picture on the table, apparently deliberately shown to us. It was an old photo, and although it was yellowed, I recognized one of the people in the photo at a glance......
Because that's my grandfather, Chen Cai. At that time, my grandfather's hair had not fallen out, and he looked like he was in his forties.
There were two young men standing next to my grandfather, and by the large scar on the young man's nose on the left, I recognized this person as Uncle Su.
Uncle Su is my grandfather's apprentice, and I have a deep impression of him, not only because of the big scar on his nose, but also because he would come to my house to visit my grandfather during the New Year's holidays, and he would always secretly give me pocket money.
Another young man in the photo, I haven't seen it, with a Chinese face, looks very handsome, and should also be grandpa's apprentice, but I've never heard grandpa mention it.
The three men stood in a row with serious expressions in the background, with Tiananmen Square in the background.
Zhou Yong pushed Wu Meng away and sat over, pointed to the young man in the photo, and said, "This is me!" ”
Not to mention it's quite similar, I looked at his current appearance, looked at the photo again, and thought it was a little funny, and I said, why is this guy disabled?
Obviously, in order to pull me in, he moved out of the affair with my grandfather. My grandfather was a carpenter, the kind of person who built gardens and built houses, and I really don't know how a carpenter could hand over a tomb robber?
Where the hell did I make Zhou Yong, a tomb robber, so rare?
If I want to ask how I feel now, all I can say is the dog......
I pretended to have a sudden realization and said, "Oh, so that's the case, I'm glad I'll be lucky to meet Master Tuesday." ”
Zhou Yong smiled, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Hey, the second master is called by people on the rivers and lakes, and he will call me Uncle Zhou in the future." I'm guessing you're curious, how did a carpenter teach me a grave robber? ”
I laughed and said, "No, no, no, you can make money these years, and you have to do it yourself." ”
"Actually, your grandfather is not as simple as you think, do you know what he did before he became a carpenter?"
I thought for a moment and said, "Selling oranges? ”
Zhou Yong laughed: "Hahahaha, selling oranges." Let me tell you the truth, before your grandfather became a carpenter, he was also a tomb robber, and he was also a well-known captain who touched gold. ”
"Huh? Touch, touch Captain Kim? ”
Wu Meng rubbed up from the bench and said, "Really? Isn't this fiction in movies and novels? ”
When it comes to Captain Touching Gold, many people will think of famous supernatural novels such as "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", but people with a little insight know that Captain Touching Gold is really not made up, and it has existed in the history of our country.
It is rumored that there are four mysterious sects on the ancient rivers and lakes, which are divided into touching gold, hair hills, moving mountains, and unloading tombs according to their motives, techniques, and traces. Faqiu and touching gold are good at dividing gold and fixing acupoints, and are proficient in I Ching Feng Shui. The two factions of moving mountains and unloading mountains contain records......
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the captain of the touching gold and the general of the Faqiu Zhonglang are the official positions established by Cao Cao's tomb robbery, everyone knows that Cao Cao has many titles, politicians, writers, military strategists, in addition to him is also the ancestor of the tomb robbery, in order to ensure that the tomb robbery is organized and efficient, Cao Cao set up these two tomb robbing armies for this purpose.
Of course, Cao Cao's tomb robbery was not for himself, but for the purpose of expanding the army with treasures, although this practice was extremely damaging to yin morality and not bright enough, but at that time it was not really a strategy, this may be the first official tomb robbery agency in the history of tomb robbing.
The two armies moved with the conquest troops, which meant that they stole wherever they went, and they were so abrupt and horrific that they could even pick up the pants of the tomb owner. According to historical records, Cao Cao cut off the tomb of Liu Wu, the king of Liang Xiao of the Han Dynasty and harvested tens of thousands of gold and silver treasures, which is enough for the Wei army to use for ten years, it can be seen that the strategy of robbing tombs to raise the army, in the situation of the three kingdoms, the impact of tomb robbery on Wei is undoubtedly huge.
Speaking of tomb robbery, Cao Cao also exerted his ingenuity in this industry, take the tomb of King Liang Xiao as an example, the tomb road is blocked with thousands of pounds of boulders, even archaeologists are puzzled, there was no advanced equipment at that time, how did Cao Cao open this ancient tomb and steal the huge treasure inside? Unfortunately, this remains a mystery to this day......
In terms of finding a tomb, the most inseparable thing is the theory of feng shui, although looking at feng shui sounds a little unscientific, but finding a tomb is inseparable from this skill. Of course, this is not without basis, you must know that the ancient emperors were based on these when they chose the tomb, it can be said that Feng Shui is a combination of geography, environmental science, and psychology.
It is estimated that Cao Cao stole too many tombs during his lifetime, and witnessed the scene of the corpses and bones being in disarray after the tombs with a large number of burial goods were stolen, and he was afraid that he would be dug up after his death, so there is a saying of "seventy-two Cao Cao tombs".
Having said that, in my impression, grandpa is just a person who has nothing to do, play cards, drink tea, and I don't even look at him when he grows so big, it can be said that he is an ordinary person, and it is really difficult to associate him with the famous Captain Touching Gold. If Grandpa is really the inheritor of Captain Touching, what about Grandpa's father?
My great-grandfather, now 104 years old, although he participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression when he was young, but after the founding of New China, because of his special status, he lived quite hard, and my grandfather didn't even have to read books when he was a child.
But there must be a demon when something happens, if grandpa is a captain who touches gold, then it is not difficult to understand that Zhou Yong pulled me into the gang.
However, how did he know that I knew Wu Meng?
How did I know I was here today?
Zhou Yong seemed to see my doubts, and smiled: "It's normal that you don't know about this matter, after all, no one wants to implicate future generations in this kind of thing that damages yin morality." To be honest, as your grandfather's apprentice, I shouldn't have involved you, but ......"
At this point, he stopped talking, and we looked at each other for a long time before he continued seriously: "I'll tell you two stories, both of which are about your grandfather. ”
Shenzhen has not yet been reformed and opened up, and Grandpa Deng has not yet drawn circles on the map, and everyone in Guangdong has moved to Hong Kong. Zhou Yong's family was very poor when he was young, so he went to live in Sichuan with his parents.
Once, Zhou Yong ate fish, was stuck in the throat by a fish bone, and couldn't get it out, so he happened to meet my grandfather, and my grandfather also happened to help people "turn thorns", and to put it simply, it is to help people deal with fish bones stuck in the throat, but instead of tongs and vinegar, they use charms. A bowl of water, a piece of yellow paper, find an open place, burn the drawn charm to ashes and swallow it with water, and the fish bones stuck in the throat will disappear.
In fact, many people of the older generation will "turn thorns", and it is not a new thing to look at it now, some people say it works, and some people say that it is completely useless, which is simply a lie. Of course, I don't know if it works or not, after all, I don't like fish, so I haven't tried it.
Later, Zhou Yong discovered that my grandfather was not only able to "turn thorns", but also an amazing carpenter.
In ancient times, carpenters were an important profession, carpenters used wood as materials, wood source mountains, local materials, carpenters stretched rope ink, with a pen to draw lines, and then take a planer to plan, and then use a measuring tool to measure, you can make a variety of furniture and handicrafts.
Speaking of carpenters, we have to mention the carpenter's grandfather Lu Ban, Lu Ban was born in 507 BC, is the Spring and Autumn Period of Lu people, more than 2400 years, Lu Ban's name has actually become a symbol of the wisdom of the working people, many inventions and creations in him, deeply affecting future generations. Lu Ban is talented, diligent and studious, he is not only a carpenter known to people, but also a stonemason, a mason, a plasterer, a blacksmith, a metaphysician, it is said that Lu Ban is indispensable for building chariots, warships and large buildings in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Carpenter is a technical job, in ancient times, even if the master was stingy, the carpenter should be treated respectfully, and the carpenter was inseparable from the carpenter, so the status of the carpenter in ancient times was not worth mentioning today (today's factory mechanization has replaced the carpenter), they were second only to the farmers and industry and commerce, ranking third.
In ancient times, there were three kinds of people who could not be offended, including carpenters, and it is said that offending carpenters would lead to restlessness in the family, at least it would cause disaster and loss of wealth, and at worst it would ruin the family. Because most old carpenters not only understand wood work, but also yin and yang feng shui and charms are their basic skills. For example, Lu Ban's apprentices and grandchildren, they are not only skilled carpenters, but also amazing in metaphysics and spell skills.
Carpenter skills are mostly passed down from generation to generation in the form of oral teaching and banknotes, for some reason from ancient times to the present carpenter compilation is quite few, now the market can circulate is the Ming Dynasty's "Luban Sutra", this book in addition to the technology of the carpentry industry, for the ancient carpenter's spell mystic also has a telling, it can be seen that the ancient carpenters are not simple, they not only only pull wood, but also understand the almost lost feng shui mysticism, to this day there are old people who say that when building a house, do not scold the carpenter, bricklayer, because offending them is unpredictable.
This is not alarmist, it is recorded in "Ye Ji": it is said that there is a family surnamed Mo, who hears the sound of fighting in the house every night, and the family guesses that there is something strange and asks someone to do it, but it is useless, and they have to resell the house. Later, when the buyer demolished the house, he found two people carved on the beams of the house, naked and with their hair draped, fighting each other. Upon inquiry, it was found that the family had offended the carpenter when they built the house.
There is also a legend that the daughter of a wealthy man has an inappropriate style, often fooling around with a prodigal man in the house, his father repeatedly disobeys the advice, the family style is ruined, and later when repairing the ridge of the house, it is found that a woman is carved between the rafters and let three or four men play with it, and the rich man asks the feng shui master to remove this piece of wood, and his female style has changed.
There are many legends about strange things that happened in the home after the house was built, and although the carpentry profession has almost disappeared today, many of the mysteries of the carpenter industry have not yet been explained.