It is always said that there are two good places in this prosperous and beautiful Beijing.

It has always been the most crowded in Beijing, and one of them is that the largest number of people watch the national flag raising at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Another place is the Panjiayuan Antique Market, "You have to ask why, because everyone is looking down there, waiting to find a national treasure to pick up and make a fortune."

This Panjiayuan antique market is located in the southwest of Panjiayuan Bridge on South East Third Ring Road in Beijing, and there are many areas in this thrift market.

There are some older buildings here, and most of the people sell antiques on the ground, as well as handicrafts and collectibles.

There are also some small shops selling ornaments, strange things are all available here, and there are as many as 10,000 dealers in Panjiayuan Market, which is really a mixed place.

My name is Feng Lin, my hometown is from Sichuan, I am also 31 years old this year, I came to Beijing with my father from my hometown to take care of a small grocery store left by my grandfather when I was a child, I have been in Beijing for almost 30 years, and now I am a small owner of this store who sells antiques.

My father's name is Feng Wen, his original profession is an antique appraiser, while doing the work of identifying antiquities for others, and secretly doing the business of buying and selling antiquities, since I was a child, I have been around him since I was a child, so I also have a certain research and understanding of various antiquities!

My father also hired a guy to look after the shop in this small shop, this guy's name is Pan Gang, he is more than ten years older than me, my father has always asked me to call him uncle.

But I still like to call him Brother Pan Zi, he is a burly and tall person, with dark skin, looks very healthy, has a very honest and loyal personality, and is also studious, always showing a smile, and is also very easy-going.

My father has been away from me for more than ten years, and I only have some memories left, when he left, he told me that he was going to go out to visit the antique market somewhere, and said that he would go for a long, long time, and I don't know when I will be able to come back!

Since I was eighteen years old at the time, and my studies were not very good, I stopped continuing to study and dropped out of school at home, and my father handed over the antique shop to me to take care of it in order to prevent me from going out and not doing my job, but I also knew that I was still far behind, and I couldn't control these things at all!

At that time, when my father was leaving, I felt very reluctant, I saw the mixed emotions in his eyes, and I also had a premonition that my father might never come back.

But if I want to keep my family's antique industry, there are only two ways to go, the first is to ask my father's friend Uncle Wang, who is also my father's most trusted person, to help me take care of the shop.

Uncle Wang is my father's friend of life and death, I heard my father say when I was a child, as long as he is always there, he will do his best to help me take care of the business of the store, because in the antique business, it is inevitable that there will always be some people who rob the tomb from time to time!

When I was a child, I heard that Uncle Wang is a very powerful person, only a person like Uncle Wang who licks blood from the knife can deter those outlaws who are not right-hearted, and can also prevent those who peep at the antiques in my hands from being unfavorable to me.

This year, the winter in Beijing was very cold, the cold wind blowing from the north, mixed with the cold snowflakes whistling, there was nothing to do during the day, I almost didn't want to go out for a walk, just stood quietly in front of the window, thinking about what needs to be done recently!

Looking at every snowflake falling outside the window, I gradually became a little distracted, and I didn't even feel the people behind me.

At this time, a strong hand patted me on the shoulder: "Xiaolin, what's wrong with you, what are you thinking?" ”

Uncle Wang said to me behind me with a plate with two cups of hot tea in his hand.

I then came back to my senses: "Is that you?" Uncle Wang"

He took the teacup held by Uncle Wang again.

I'm wondering "should the store be renovated, in recent years, our family's business has been good, and we have received a lot of things, and we can't put it down because we haven't made a move"

Uncle Wang smiled and said, "Then how do you want to decorate here?" You're the owner of this antique shop, so it's up to you."

"That's like Uncle Wang, I want to open up a basement, just open up under this house, you can store some rare antiques, what do you think?"

Uncle Wang said: "Okay, I'll go to the labor market tomorrow, where to find a few workers to work, it's still easy to find migrant workers who do scattered work there, and there are people everywhere who work hard."

In the early morning of the next day, Uncle Wang came over with more than a dozen workers, and before he entered the door, Uncle Wang called me: "Xiaolin, I have also found you workers, as for how to design it, you can tell them." ”

"Well, okay Uncle Wang"

I agreed, looked at the workers and said, "That's right, you open a basement for me under this wall in the north, and I ask for at least five meters deep and about six meters wide, and I want to find a carpenter to put some shelves, so the space must be spacious."

A foreman came over to me and said, "Boss, there is nothing wrong with this work, it will be completed soon, do you have any other requirements for the basement, if not, then we will start working."

I said, "Not for now, you can start digging."

"Alright, come on, brothers, let's get to work, and at this time a few sturdy workers with shovels, pickaxes and other tools went to the north wall and began to dig."

I said to Uncle Wang: "Uncle Wang, I'll just look at it, you go and rest, you're tired of staring here."

"That's okay, I'll go back first, you don't have to watch, just let them do it themselves, and you don't have to worry about paying them off, I'll deal with it tomorrow," Uncle Wang said and walked out.

"Well, I know Uncle Wang", I agreed, and Uncle Wang, who left the store, returned to his home, and Uncle Wang's family also lived near the store.

Busy workers were digging hard to dig the soil, and after digging for an hour, they dug down more than a meter deep and more than two meters wide.

Suddenly, I heard an oops, and a worker shouted, "Why is this so hard to dig and can't be moved, is there something underneath?"

"You're not going to dig rocks, are you?" asked a worker standing next to him.

At this time, the foreman also came over to check the reason, and after a few glances, he said to me: "This little boss, come and see, this seems to have a wall, it is a little undignified here, and it seems that there are stones underneath."

The worker who was the first to dig the pit also shouted at me, "Yes, there really is something here, and I immediately walked over and crouched down to look at the contents of the pit, and a wall made of green bricks appeared in front of me."

I was digging down to see if there was a wall, and the worker dug for a while and said, yes, there is still a wall.

I said to the worker, "Swap out the tool and see if you can break it."

Two workers slammed their hammers into the wall, smashing a large hole in the brick wall with a few blows, and a dark passage sealed by the wall leaked out behind the hole

I looked at it, turned around and went back to my room, got a flashlight, jumped down from the pit, turned back and said to the workers, "Don't dig yet, you take a rest first, I'll go see what's going on below."

After finishing speaking, he turned on the flashlight, bent down and got into the passage, the passage was quite spacious, in which he could stand up straight, and walked along the passage for more than ten meters to a secret room made of a stone house that was not too large, and there was only a mahogany box with a big iron lock in the empty secret room.

I squatted down and looked at the box, the clumsy shape of the exquisite gilt carving, exuding an ancient atmosphere, this box was clearly an antique, and it was also locked with iron, I thought to myself, "The contents should be very good, what is in here?"

There was a door on the west wall of the secret room, but I didn't rush to open the box, so I got up and walked towards the door, stretched out my hand and pushed it, but I didn't push it, the door couldn't be pushed and there was no handle, how could I open the stone door, I thought in my heart that this must be controlled by the mechanism!

I began to observe the surroundings of the stone door, to see if there was a mechanism to open the door, a small raised stone on the lower right wall caught my attention, squatted down and touched the stone with my hand, I felt that the stone could be pressed, both hands held it and pressed it down hard, only to see the door creak open, sure enough, the stone door opened, I observed that there was no danger, I raised my leg and walked in.

After walking along the stone gate passage for a while, I found that the road actually extended to the ground, and after coming out of the passage, I found that I had come to a rockery under the stone pile, I slowly poked my head out, peeked around and found that it was more than 100 meters away from my shop in Longtan Park.

After finding out the situation nearby, I silently retreated, walked back to the secret room along the passage, came to the box and squatted down and looked at the lock on it, I couldn't open it without a key, I thought so in my heart, and after thinking about it, I got up and walked along the passage into the hole that was smashed by the workers.

After climbing out of the hole, I saw more than a dozen construction workers resting, some sitting on the ground smoking cigarettes, and some sitting against the corner of the wall.

After walking out of the hole, I said to the foreman of the construction, uncle, you take your men to help fill in this pit, I don't dig the basement anymore, the underground passage seems to be used for diversion in the previous urban area, that is, when digging underground pipes to facilitate people to leave, let's not destroy the passage used by other units to deal with things.

I hurriedly made up a reason to deceive these people who worked, to dispel their doubts, and I didn't want to be known about the following situation and wait for no one to study it myself!

"Then little boss, you see that you don't dig now, let's fill in this soil again, but my brothers have been busy for most of the day."

"We've done a lot of work for you, and the salary you should give you is not less, and the gentleman who came to us just now promised to give us two hundred yuan each."