Volume 1: The Mystery of Dunhuang Chapter 5 Victory Before Fighting

The driver, Brother Wang, did not go down to the tomb with us, his duty was to send us to the place, and ensure that the road was smooth and that there would be no complications during the process.

After a few words of greeting with the two brothers of Dabao and Erbao, the driver, Brother Wang, left with a cigarette in his mouth and humming a small song, saying that he was going to do something and let us contact by phone.

After the driver Brother Wang left, the dog and I followed the two brothers Dabao and Erbao into the low house.

I have to say that the house is really short, if I stand up straight, I can reach the roof of the shed, and rub off a lot of rotten wall skin.

As for why they chose this dilapidated house, the brothers also told me the reason.

The two brothers of Dabao and Erbao do not do everything themselves, and there are also a lot of disguised eyeliner under their hands, one of which goes to the village in the name of collecting rags.

The village where we live is called Shui'ao Village, which is named after the mountains on both sides.

A few days ago, the eyeliner was here, and it happened to be in front of this dilapidated low house, and a lonely old woman took out two rusty copper sheets and asked if she could accept them.

The old woman didn't understand, it was all copper pieces sold, but the eyeliner recognized at a glance that they were two bronze mirrors from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and accepted them at the price of scrap copper and rotten iron.

It was originally worth 20 yuan, but the eyeliner gave the old woman 50 yuan, and it was not easy to see her alone, so she was regarded as doing a good deed.

At that time, it was the scorching sun, and the eyeliner said that he was thirsty and wanted to beg for a bowl of water to drink, so the old woman invited him into the house very enthusiastically.

The usual trick, when drinking water, the eyeliner is almost like that of the old woman, asking some innocuous questions.

After completely gaining the trust of the old woman, the eyeliner asked the old woman where the two pieces of copper were gotten, and if any, they were accepted together.

The old woman took her eyeliner to the backyard full of debris, pointed to the entrance of a cellar, saying that her wife found it in the cellar when she was alive, and now the old woman is left alone, the ladder in the cellar is too steep, and she has not gone down for many years, and she said that she does not know if there is anything in it.

Eyeliner said to go down and take a look, and if there was any, he would bring it out, so he went down to the cellar, but found nothing.

Out of the cellar, the eyeliner shook his head helplessly, and then turned to leave, and when he left, he gave the old woman a brand new ten dollars.

Did he really find nothing in that eyeliner, the answer was definitely no, he grabbed a handful of dirt from the cellar and brought it back, it was a handful of green plaster.

At that time, Dabao concluded that under the cellar was a large tomb from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Warring States period, and the green plaster mud was used to fill the main tomb for empowerment.

Two days later, the news came from the eyeliner that the old woman died, and because the old woman had no relatives and no reason, the two brothers of Dabao and Erbao pretended to be distant relatives of the old woman and buried the old woman.

The local funeral custom is to ask relatives to keep filial piety for seven days, so the two brothers stayed justifiably, and today is the third day of filial piety.

The old woman's house is located at the entrance of the village, and there is still a distance from the other residents in the village, and the old woman usually doesn't communicate with people much, so no one doubts the identity of the Dabao Erbao brothers at all.

In the same way, they also know that the old woman has nothing to worry about at all.

When I went down to the cellar, Dabao gave me and the dog a pair of boots, at first I didn't understand why I wore boots, until I went down the cellar, I found that the cellar was also muddy, and the water in it had flooded the surface of my feet.

The cellar was not large, that is, seven or eight square meters, and was surrounded by walls made of jumbled stones, and in the cracks of the walls were inlaid with iron wedges for hanging strong lights.

At the southeast corner, there is a deep pit with a diameter of more than half a meter, and a lot of mud has been piled up around the deep pit, which is blue-gray, and a well platform thirty or forty centimeters above the ground has been piled up around the hole to block the backflow of stagnant water.

"Second brother, how's the progress?"

"It's almost there, I've already touched the bluestone of the empowerment, if it hadn't rained for a day and a night, and I was worried about the rain backing up, it would have been opened yesterday."

I nodded after listening to Erbao's words, and I have to say that they are really cautious, if they break the empowerment in advance, it is very likely that it will really cause stagnant water to pour in, and when the time comes, the walls of the tomb will be wet, and it is very likely that a large area will collapse.

Seeing that we were almost there, Dabao said: "Okay, let's go up first, although there is a house as a barrier, but no one knows if anyone will come in broad daylight, be cautious, and wait until it gets dark to break the seal." ”

We all nodded in succession, and then left the cellar and returned to the house.

Then it's a matter of time.

There was a pair of broken mahjong in the house, and Dabao proposed that the four of them just have a play, but the dog shook his head and went outside the house in a daze.

Helplessly, the three of us were left, and we couldn't play at all, but Erbao brought a pair of pokers, and the three of them simply played the landlord.

After three people played, they could have a dozen or twenty, and their stomachs began to growl.

"Wait, I'll get something to eat."

Dabao put down the cards in his hand, turned around and went to cook on the stove.

Looking at Dabao's skillful movements, I smiled and said, "Brother Dabao, you really look like that, it's like this is really your home, and you're still living." ”

"It's too troublesome, I don't think there's canned beef or something, it's okay to eat a bite."

"Dongzi, what do you know, since we live here, we have to make some fireworks, otherwise it will arouse the suspicion of others, do you understand."

Dabao said very reasonably, but my experience is a little shallow, because when I visited the neighbor's house before, it was all food, how dare I make a fire, didn't that tell people that I was robbing the tomb?

And now this is a coincidence, there is such a room on top of the tomb, and it really has to make some fireworks.

It is said that it is cooking on fire, but in fact, it is just making a show, Dabao is just boiling a pot of water and boiling a few eggs, and the rest has to eat those foods.

After eating, there was still an hour or two before it got dark, and the two brothers of Dabao and Erbao lay down and became confused.

I'm a person who can't stand loneliness, and I wanted to show up and talk to the unsmiling dog again, although he couldn't speak, but it was good to have someone to listen to.

But I didn't expect this thing to go without knowing where it went, and I couldn't see the figure, so I had to wander back and forth alone in this low room that was not much bigger.

Wandering around is really not lounging, this house has a history of seventy or eighty years, although the cabinets and furniture inside are broken, it is also old.

After searching for a long time, I really found two inlaid cabinet coins on a broken cabinet.

But it's not very valuable, a Qianlong Tongbao, a Jiaqing Tongbao, it's not big, the price of ten yuan and eight yuan, I don't bother to take them off.

There are many forms of coins, especially clear money, which is divided into dry pits, puddles, raw pits, and cooked pits, among which there are also handed down.

The hand-me-down is also divided into yellow and black pulp, and this cabinet money and Fang Liang money are the representatives of black pulp.

The cabinet was worthless, so I pointed to the beams on the roof.

Looking up, the roof of the shed, which was not high, was tattered and leaking a few large holes, and stepping on a small stool was just enough to poke your head in.

I borrowed a flashlight to inspect the roof of the shed, and sure enough, I saw a hanging of smoked black black coins on the decaying main beam, looking at the size of the head, at least it was a ten (Xianfeng heavy treasure was ten) or something.

When I was ten, I became interested, pulled my head back again, and found a hole in the closest place to the main beam and probed it again.

My big man of 1.8 meters still struggled to grab the string of house beam money with his feet, maybe I pulled it too hard, causing the stool under my feet to be kicked over by me, and then I sat down with my ass.

Hurrah!

My ass was so loud that not only did I break the little stool, but I also opened a big hole in the roof of the shed.

Dabao Erbao was directly woken up, thinking that something had happened, and jumped up as soon as he was high.

"It's alright...... I'm just going up to pick up a house beam money, and the movement is a little bigger, hehe......! ”

I hurriedly explained with a smile on my face.

Dabao looked at me and shook his head helplessly, turned around and went back to lie down, but Erbao looked at the black string of coins in my hand and said: "I said Dongzi, what do you do with that little gadget, it can be worth a few dollars, and when it goes down at night, it will be the same, it will be the same, it is not all priceless, I think you still have to look farther, be stingy, don't embarrass the eighth master." ”

After saying that, Erbao also yawned, shook his head, and went back to sleep.

After listening to Erbao's words, I was speechless for a while, and said in my heart Why do I embarrass Liu Baye if I get two house beams, don't you, you have to know this thing, but at present, my main hobby is wow.

As for the priceless thing, it's not too late to talk about it when you touch it.

I squinted my eyes at the brothers who were sleeping together, and sat down on the broken dining table next to me with a bunch of my house beam money.

Don't really say it, hard work pays off, there are a total of nine coins in this string, eight of which are when ten, namely three Baoyun Bureau, two Baoquan Bureau, two Baosu Bureau, and one Baoyuan Bureau.

The size of these eight pieces has exceeded 28+, and they are all hundreds of things bigger.

And this ninth piece, it's really worth it to fall again, Baoquan Bureau's hundred back stars and moons, a very beautiful product handed down from generation to generation, which can be sold for at least more than 10,000 in the live broadcast room.

This is really a victory before the battle!