A hot pot restaurant in Dongsi was full of diners. The steam in the hot pot was filled with water, and the sound of changing cups and drinking cups was endless.

We found an empty table in the corner and sat down. Huang Baldy kept pouring wine for me. I thought to myself that this guy wanted to get me drunk and try to trick me, so I quickly stopped him and said, "Huang Ye, this Erguotou is so powerful." It¡¯s too strong. I¡¯m so light that I¡¯d rather have a beer.¡±

While we were eating and talking, the topic came up about the fight. The bald man grinned, tapped his gold tooth with his fingertips and said to us: "You two are interested, this gold tooth is I collected it in Panjiayuan. I dug it out of the tomb and pulled it out from the mouth of the rice dumpling. I didn't want to sell it, so I pulled out my own tooth and replaced it. "

This person is really serious. He said this during a meal and refused to let anyone eat it. If you don¡¯t want to spend money, just say it. What he said was really disgusting the more I thought about it. I quickly changed the topic and asked He talks about other things.

Money is more important than slaves, and art is more important than being a traveler. We casually chatted about the secrets of Feng Shui tombs, and talked about our deeds as engineers in the Kunlun Mountains. Huang Baldy was amazed and admired me.

Before Huang Baldy's father was captured by the Kuomintang, he was an apprentice to a master of inversions named Cai from Hunan. He knew a lot about the business of digging graves, but he had not learned the skills of finding holes. Because his master Mr. Cai himself did not understand the art of Feng Shui, it was not until 12 years after the Republic of China that Luoyang farmer Li Yaya invented the Luoyang shovel. Before that, Luoyang shovels had not become popular. They mainly smelled with their noses. In order to keep their noses sensitive, they avoided tobacco, alcohol and spicy things.

Use an iron drill to drive into the ground, then pull it out and smell it with your nose. The iron drill will bring up various smells from the underground soil, and the feel of the soil when digging. The ground is empty, or there is wood or masonry. These feel It's definitely different.

In fact, the principle is similar to using a Luoyang shovel to dig soil, except that one uses the nose to smell and the other uses the eyes to see. With the soil brought up by Luoyang shovel, you can check the composition of the underground soil. If there are any pieces of porcelain, wood, cloth, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, mercury, lead, including rammed earth, bricks and tiles, etc., these are the underground tombs. These clues can be used to infer the age and layout of the underground tombs.

However, the craft of Wentu was lost when it was introduced to Huang Baldzi. His father's legs were disabled, and he had congenital asthma since he was a child, so he no longer worked as a gold captain. Generally, those who work in this industry have seen a lot of real things, and with this little bit of eyesight, they start an antique business.

I jokingly said that your ancestor's skills were a bit trendy. I heard the elders in my family said something about inverted fighting. Real masters don't use iron shovels. Those are just stupid moves. People who are capable can do it. At one place, you can tell at a glance whether there are ancient tombs underground, where they are buried, and what structure they are buried in. These can be seen at a glance. Any place with excellent Feng Shui must have a large tomb. Those who can be buried in it were not ordinary people during their lifetime. Such tombs are full of treasures. Real experts disdain those things shoveled in Luoyang, because if the underground soil is not dry enough, the effect will be greatly reduced, especially in the wealthy places in the south of the Yangtze River, where rainfall is heavy, and many ancient tombs are submerged by groundwater. The soil was washed away into a mess.

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Huang Baldy listened to what I said and praised me even more: "Master, I am convinced. As the saying goes, you will die if you hear the truth in the morning. After listening to your lofty words, I am convinced." It¡¯s such a waste to live such a long life. Talents like you who know Feng Shui, have been engineers, and understand civil engineering operations are really rare. It would be a pity not to be a captain with your ability.¡±

I shook my head and said, "I don't intend to do that kind of immoral thing. What I just said was told by my grandfather. His old man also did the job of touching the gold captain, but he encountered a big rice dumpling and almost killed him. "

Huang Baldy said that there is definitely a risk, and he is not afraid of a few black donkey hooves. Moreover, as the saying goes, thieves also have their own ways, and the reputation of reverse fighting is not good. It is all because of the corruption of some low-life thieves. Yes, they are not from this industry to begin with. They don¡¯t understand the rules and act destructively everywhere. How can they not be hated by others? If we look back on the history of back-fighting, I am afraid it is no less than three thousand years ago. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao had an army that excavated the property in ancient tombs to pay for the army. This is how we got the nickname "Mojin Xiaowei".

Before the liberation, this industry was divided into four sects: southeast, northwest and northwest. By the 1980s, the talent had withered and there were only a few people left. The few remaining people also gave up their jobs. Today's juniors are all idle men in the countryside, digging graves in groups. Who knows the rules in the industry of not having the best of both worlds, three incense and three bows, blowing out the lamp and touching gold? Alas, so many good things have been ruined in their hands.

Huang Baldy sighed for a while, and then said to us: "I have been messing around in Panjiayuan for many years. If you two come up with something good in the future, I can be responsible for contacting the buyer for you. You can go and negotiate in person, and the negotiation will be successful." I¡¯ll give it a try.¡±

The monkey had been busy eating and drinking. At this time, he was 80% full. Suddenly he remembered something, so he took out the piece of jade and asked Huang Baldy to appraise it to see how much it was worth.

Huang Baldy looked at it, put it to his nose and smelled it a few more times: "Master Monkey, this piece of jade is really good. It is at least a thousand years old. Well... it may be even earlier. It should be from before the Tang Dynasty." The writing on it is not in Chinese, and I can¡¯t tell what it is. It must be worth a lot of money, but you¡¯d better keep it until you determine the specific value, otherwise you may suffer a big loss. Where did you get the piece of jade?¡±

Monkey became interested when talking about the history of his family: "As for the origin, it's a child without a mother. It's a long story. Let me tell you this. This piece of jade was given to my father by his old comrades when he participated in the jute riots. Yes, my father¡¯s old comrade-in-arms was the No. 1 chief of the Yesi. When he led the troops into Xinjiang, his troops encountered a group of bandits. This group of bandits was also looking for death. The guard regiment around the No. 1 chief of the People¡¯s Liberation Army Could it be a jobber? In less than five or six minutes, all the bandits No. 10 were wiped out. When cleaning the battlefield, I found this piece of jade on a bandit leader. Chief No. 1 gave it to me as a souvenir. Dad. I don¡¯t know what¡¯s going on with this piece of jade.¡±

We kept drinking until after twelve o'clock in the evening before we parted. When we were leaving, Huang Baldy gave each of us a hook-like object. This object was more than an inch long, black and shiny, extremely hard, and had two seal characters engraved on it. , the shape looks like the word "touch gold". This object is very old and looks like an antique. It has a hole punched at one end and is threaded with red silk thread. It can be hung around the neck as an ornament. Huang Baldy said: "We buddies really hit it off. These two are amulets made of pangolin paws. I leave you two with a thought. Come to Panjiayuan to see me when you have time. The green mountains will not change and the green water will always flow. Let's See you later.¡