Chapter 11: Desperate Tomb Robbery
With the assistance of the second child, Wang Defa's house in the apricot forest in Houshan was completed. Now the sickness on his mind is the three-legged bottle. Some old people have long said that this place where the whole village is located is a treasure of feng shui, which was once the center of the Forbidden City, an ethnic minority, and occasionally unearthed some objects, but in the end there is no news.
Looking closely at the town where the whole village is located, there are mountains in the east and west, there are rivers under the mountains, a big river, a small river, and the town is located in the middle of two mountains and two rivers, which is in line with the concept of the ancestors living by the mountains and rivers. According to legend, Fuxi's birthplace is not far from the town, in general, the cultural environment is still very rich, as everyone's life is getting better and better, people are no longer simply tied to the land, but also began to break some ground, and gradually surfaced old objects have more.
Wang Defa thought like this, and felt that the three-legged bottle in his hand must be a treasure. He couldn't sleep at night, didn't work day long, and wanted to figure it out with all his heart. There is an antique player in the brigade, but this person may not be very reliable, it is said that since he played with antiques, one year he suddenly lost his left arm and right leg, and now he is fully equipped with prosthetics, as for what the reason, no one can only rely on guessing. Wang Defa still thinks about it thoroughly, and the occurrence of such a thing shows that this job is not simple, it is dangerous, and if you don't do it well, you will lose your life.
What to do? Wang Defa thought again and again, and felt that the less people knew about it for the time being, the better, and secondly, he had to find someone who didn't know each other, but knew a little bit about antiques, and first minimized the spread of this matter to the greatest extent.
Wang Defa is ready to enter the county seat.
Early in the morning, when the sky was still numb, Wang Defa was boiling cans of tea and eating steamed buns at home, and said to his woman: "I want to go to the county seat today, and it is not certain when I will come back, you are at home with snacks." ”
"What are you doing in the county seat? No matter how late it is, you have to come back. The woman said.
"Don't worry about it, just take care of the baby at home, and I'll come back when I'm done." Wang Defa said.
After drinking the tea, Wang Defa went to the grain room to take out the three-legged bottle hidden in the wheat, wrapped it tightly with the torn cotton jacket he had prepared a long time ago, and went to the tricycle where the brigade went to the county seat.
Along the way, Wang Defa was afraid that others would ask what to do or what was the strict bag, but there were not many people early in the morning, and Wang Defa's secrecy work was still okay.
After about an hour of bumps on the road, Wang Defa entered the city. The county seat is the county seat, and the popularity is obviously much stronger, Wang Defa has a goal, focusing on those antique calligraphy and painting shops.
In the early morning, there were not many people on the streets of the county, and on the empty streets, a lonely figure was wandering around with something wrapped in a torn cotton jacket. He didn't know what was going to happen, but he was specifically curious to see what could happen.
I met several antique calligraphy and painting shops, but they haven't opened yet, Wang Defa has been walking along the main road of the county, and at a crossroads, there is an antique shop where a person pours tea leaves from the tea can, and the two happened to meet and take a photo. The boss who poured the tea leaves glanced at Wang Defa's appearance and knew a rough idea.
"Brother, come in and sit down."
"Okay!"
"My brother doesn't look like he's from the county."
"It's not from the city, come into the city and walk around."
"What's that tight bag of yours?"
"Can you help me see something?"
"Okay, isn't this a place for me to look at things, what kind of thing is your torn cotton jacket, take it out and take a look." The boss said.
Wang Defa looked at the store, it was full of strange and strange toys, and thought that this must also be a specialized business, and it shouldn't be a big problem.
"Okay, I really have an old object, you can help me show it, what it is, is it worth anything?" Wang Defa said as he took out his three-legged bottle.
The boss looked at Wang Defa's things and was overjoyed, but looking at him carefully, he obviously suppressed this overjoyed emotion. Although the three-legged bottle is old, it can be placed on the table steadily, the spirit is still there, and the ingenious design completely compares the green patina on it.
Wang Defa watched the boss take a magnifying glass and look left and right in front of the three-legged bottle, nodded for a while, shook his head for a while, and was quite anxious.
"Dude, where did you get this thing from?" The boss put down the magnifying glass and asked Wang Defa.
"Well, this is handed down by my ancestors, and I only recently found out that I was short of money, so I wanted to take it out to see what it was." Wang Defa didn't tell the truth.
"That's right, but I don't think this is like it was handed down from my ancestors, and the patina of this three-legged bottle doesn't seem to have been unearthed for a long time. It's okay, if you don't say it, I won't ask, this should be the burial goods in the Han tomb, you look at this exquisite shape, the owner of the tomb may not be ordinary, at least there are other funeral goods. The boss asked Wang Defa tentatively.
"Then you can help me see, is this thing worth it?" Wang De asked.
"You thing, if you want to make a move, I want a thousand! Do you see it for sale? The boss said.
Wang Defa was dumbfounded, a thousand yuan, this thing dug up with a shovel is so valuable, if you dig up a three-iron shovel, the three thousand yuan that Chaosheng fined will be in hand. What is the concept of 1,000 yuan, for example, when Wang Defa was working as an accountant, his family's annual income was not so much, and the 3,000 yuan that Wang Guisheng was fined for his life was almost the hard work that Wang Defa had saved in the past ten years.
"Sell, if you think it's suitable, I'll sell it to you for a thousand dollars." Wang Defa said without hesitation.
"Okay, brother, I'll take it, but ah, I want to add five hundred, one thousand and five to you, just one reluctant request, if my brother has something in the future, think of me for the first time, what?" The boss said.
Wang Defa was completely confused, is the price of this old object rising by hundreds? The boss also gave this price boldly enough. A three-legged bottle, one thousand and five, the value of this county.
"Such a Mada, I'll be the first to come to your store if there's something." Wang Defa said decisively.
"Brother, where did you come from, I won't ask if you don't say it, but let me tell you, in my judgment, where this thing comes out, there must be objects around, if you can touch it again, or if you have one, you will definitely sell it to me, especially jade." The boss said.
"Yes, if there is, I will cooperate with you and give it all to you, but I have one request, I must settle the money on the spot." Wang Defa said.
"No problem, give it, you take the one thousand and a half of this three-legged bottle, the thing is mine, next time you enter the city, remember to come to me."
"Alright, alright, no problem." Wang Defa dipped his index finger in the saliva of his mouth and counted the money, and replied over and over again.
"Okay, the money is fine, then I'll go first, you can be busy." Wang Defa got up and left, said a few words to the boss outside the store, and walked back with 1,500 yuan.
After walking all the way, Wang Defa thought all the way, and the more he thought about the boss's words, the more excited he became. Especially the boss's reminder that there may be other objects around made Wang Defa excited. He didn't know this boss, would he follow him to his apricot forest, Wang Defa subconsciously saw if anyone was following him all the way. If it's really like what this boss said, then this apricot forest in the back mountains is a cornucopia. On the way home, Wang Defa made up his mind: to continue digging where the three-legged bottle was excavated.
As long as people are greedy, they will think of everything. After returning to the town from the county seat, Wang Defa bought some meat from the market, bought a bottle of wine, and threw it to the woman to make something good.
"What's the matter, are you rich in the county today?" Wang Defa asked.
"It's nothing, but we can eat and drink spicy food in the future."
"You're an old accountant, you can't do anything that violates the law and discipline and cuts off your children and grandchildren! I don't have a rare taste for fragrant food and spicy drink. Wang Defa's woman said.
"Okay, okay, you go and clean up, I need to have two drinks today."
After being full of wine and food, Wang Defa carried a shovel and walked to the back mountain. The wine is so strong that Wang Defa doesn't know that he is already on the road of digging the graves of his ancestors. There are sporadic people in the town who have dug out the treasure, go to the town to walk around, all the brick houses that can be repaired, nine times out of ten are the people who have had the baby, everyone also knows it.
But digging up the graves of ancestors is a real matter of cutting off children and grandchildren, and you can't do it, and you shouldn't do it, but money is everything, and if you have money, you won't be able to make money. Wang Defa is not one of the first people to have the idea of robbing tombs, but his current behavior may set off a wave of tomb robbing.
After arriving at the apricot forest, Wang Defa first walked around the apricot forest contracted by himself, looked and looked, and couldn't see anything special. At last he stopped at the place where the three-legged bottle had been dug out, and he had dug a deep pit in the earth from the house, and jumped down to his waist. Wang Defa took advantage of the strength of the wine, began to dig, digging deeper and deeper, every time the shovel touched the stone, Wang Defa was stumbling in his heart, worried that he would damage the treasure dug out. But I just dug it and never dug it out again.
Wang Defa sat disappointed at the bottom of the pit he dug, a dirt pit, almost as deep as he was, and the pit barely allowed him to turn in circles, at this moment, he was very much like the person who dug his own grave. Wang Defa thought about the boss's words, there may be other burial goods around here, and suddenly he woke up to one thing, the pit was dug so deep, it had already exceeded the place where the three-legged bottle was unearthed, look at his brain, he just wanted to dig deeper, why didn't he think about digging around.
The enchanted Wang Defa, like a tireless machine, began to dig around the perimeter of the deep pit, and the most that was dug out was hemp money, rusty, and I didn't know the words on it, and many of them were divided into two by his shovel. There is more and more hemp money, Wang Defa also feels that something may come out, and the strength under his hand is slowly decreasing, for fear that he will accidentally destroy the treasure he doesn't know.
After digging for half an afternoon, it was almost dark, Wang Defa didn't notice, at this time, the newly appointed accountant, the second child of the old Yin and Yang family, ran over out of breath, scared Wang Defa, the second said: "Old accountant, go back, Wang Guisheng fell out of bed, sister-in-law asked you to go back quickly!" ”
Wang Defa threw down the shovel and jumped up from the pit, but before he could jump out, the second child pulled a handful before coming up, and trotted all the way to the direction of home.