Chapter 001 The Universe in the Tomb

In the antique shop I open, what I pride myself on being particularly precious is an ancient calligraphy from the Tianyou period in the late Tang Dynasty. The content is bold and vigorous, which is: Living in troubled times, a Taoist priest descends from the mountain. After slaying the demon, Buddha closed his eyes.

This calligraphy was left by Cheng Xuanqing, a famous mountain-moving Taoist in the late Tang Dynasty.

I have the honor to collect his only unique work "The Universe in the Tomb".

As the saying goes, when a dynasty is in turmoil, there must be monsters, the earth's energy is not subdued, and evil spirits are everywhere. The aura of the new dragon in the past was about to expire, and the veins of other old dragons that had been suppressed in the Central Plains for hundreds of years naturally leaked out.

This dragon energy leaking out will eventually be a signal to the tomb robbers of every dynasty and every generation!

Every period of change of dynasties is also the time when the trend of tomb robbing is most popular. Therefore, during that turbulent period, the royal family's self-protection was a problem, so how could they send manpower to thoroughly investigate this private tomb robbing incident?

Moreover, the end of every dynasty is destined to be filled with wars.

Therefore, when it prospers, the people suffer, and when it dies, the people suffer.

In the continuous wars and chaos, all living beings are starved of food, and their eyes turn red and green due to hunger. Shocking and atrocious stories of eating by exchanging food often occur.

Therefore, tomb robbing, a serious crime that could be beheaded in the peaceful and prosperous times, has become a sideline affair that no one cares about at this time. As long as you can find treasure, gold. As long as they can make a living, regardless of whether they were good men or women before, they have joined the ranks of tomb thieves.

Cheng Xuanqing was a leader among tomb robbers during that period and formed a faction of his own. Although he did not witness the rise of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he also witnessed the decline of the late Tang Dynasty. He also witnessed with his own eyes the survival of the royal family of the last Tang Dynasty.

However, "The Universe in the Tomb" was created in such a turbulent era!

This book introduces in detail the ninety-nine and eighty-one robbery caves that Cheng Taoist has explored in large and small ways. These robbery caves, stretching to the deepest part, contain many treasures and strange tombs of princes and important ministers. The treasures in them are dazzling and countless. . It can be said that digging all the holes in the world is the ultimate path of "The Universe in the Tomb".

However, in the book records, Cheng Taoist's techniques are not all about mountain-moving skills, and the amount of gold-touching methods is far greater than the mountain-moving skills.

All in all, although he is known as moving mountains, he made his fortune by touching gold! It was also his feedback on how to use the skill of moving mountains as a starting point.

I have read this rare and unique book dozens of times, but some of the chapters are obscure and difficult to understand.

Among them, the tomb of Emperor Ying is the most profound and weird.

The large number of Chinese characters in the text seems to be intentional by Cheng Daoren.

And I spent a lot of time to specifically inquire about the origin of this Yinghuang.

It is said that the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty defeated the Emperor. Besides, before the First Emperor ascended the throne, he was a king, so why did he use the term emperor?

I once suspected that Cheng Daoren wanted to describe the real location of Qin Shihuang and Ying Zheng’s imperial mausoleum. Therefore, this Emperor Qin was deliberately replaced by Emperor Ying.

However, now that Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum is exposed in public, people all over the country know where it is, and experts have almost finished measuring the mercury content in it, so how can it be the second Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum?

I was drinking tea and thinking hard in the shop when a person burst in from the door. It was none other than my lifelong enemy, Fatty Wang.

Fatty Wang is a "local master" who became a monk on the way, and he also added a lot of color to my Jingbao Zhai.

Sure enough, when he came this time, after a few words, he mentioned to me the matter of cooperation in fighting!

As the saying goes, a gentleman loves money and gets it in the right way. Although he and I have a close business relationship and are better than relatives, our ways of getting money are very different.

I advised him that the wind is too tight now, so forget it if you were ignorant when you were young. From now on, we should do less such immoral things as digging up people's ancestral graves. If you feel that the steamed buns at home are not enough and want to go to the lodge to have a full meal, then I can't stop you. The door is open right there, so please feel free to do it.

Then, he used the usual rhetoric to deal with him, saying that everyone is open for business, you come to sell and I come to buy, just to make a fortune together. But it’s not a problem to keep your head in your belt every day. Instead of narrowly escaping death, it is better to wash hands in a golden basin as soon as possible.

Maybe I kept telling him these things over and over again, and it was troublesome for him to listen.

"Cao Zhengdong!"

The fat man raised his tea cup high, like a stream flowing into the sea. After drinking, he said to me: "I mean Lao Cao... I came here to see you today because I have a great thing to share with you!"

I yelled and asked him: "What a great thing? Could it be that another bronze tripod with gold patterns on ram's horns got into your hands?"

Speaking of this, it happened many years ago. At that time, Fatty's level of treasure appraisal was really limited! That's why I missed that rare treasure in the world.

Although I have been in the antique world for nearly twenty years, I still dare not call myself an expert.

There is an old saying in the antique industry: It takes 10 years to be young, and 20 years to open your eyes. If you want to make a name for yourself in the industry, it will take at least thirty years, and you have to work hard and see all kinds of bugs non-stop. Children's goods.

What is bug goods? Chonger goods are also called high-end goods, and they are the treasures at the bottom of the box in the hands of collectors. Each one can teach you a lot.

Nowadays, it is extremely difficult to find not only worm goods, but also pretty goods. The antiques industry has indeed been in a slump in the past two years. The ghosts don't even dare to take risks. By the way, ghost goods are goods dug out of the ground by those local masters.

Therefore, for those of us who run antique shops, we must have extremely high treasure appraisal skills and extremely rich ancient knowledge in order to live among thousands of flowers and only pick red peonies!

Let’s talk about the fat man.

That year, the fat man went back to his hometown to visit relatives, and accidentally learned that there were several large holes in a nearby hillside, some deep, some shallow, as shallow as three or four meters. It was so deep and so dark that no one dared to get in and take a look.

This kind of thing was too familiar to the fat man. After thinking about it for a while, he immediately judged that those dark holes were probably theft holes.

The fat man was also very brave. He carried a sickle and a flashlight and went to find the burglar's cave alone in the dark night.

On the desolate hillside under the full moon late at night, a fat figure was seen, holding up a flashlight and shining repeatedly into a pitch-black hole. Then the flashlight flashed towards the sky, and when he looked again, he saw that the fat figure disappeared, leaving only the black hole that was neither wide nor narrow!

The fat man got into the tomb smoothly, but saw that the inside had been messed up and nothing was left, except for a bronze cauldron less than three feet high. When he opened the lid, he saw that it was empty. Nothing at all. He tried to move it a few times, but it felt like it was filled with lead. It was so damn heavy! At least two hundred pounds!

Bronze is a symbol of BC, the embodiment of Qin Emperor and Han Dynasty, bronze swords and bronze halberds emerge in endlessly.

The bronze tripods used for sacrifices during the Qin and Han Dynasties are even rarer. Each piece unearthed is enough to be regarded as a treasure of a provincial museum!

After listening to the fat man describing and outlining the patterns on the bronze tripod, I gritted my teeth, stamped my feet and slapped my thighs.

The fat man was startled at that time and hurriedly asked me what was wrong. If he was having epilepsy, he called the doctor.

I hurriedly stopped him, feeling so painful that it felt like tearing up a five-million-dollar lottery ticket with my own hands!

I gritted my teeth and said to him: "Don't mention the sheep! That's a bronze tripod with golden patterns on its horns! It's just that it was too old and the gold patterns on it were worn away! It had to be the rank of Taiwei in the Qin Dynasty, so that the family could worship their ancestors. use!"

"Taiwei? What Taiwei? How big an official is that? Is that tripod... really valuable?"

I saw that the fat man’s eyes widened when he heard this, so I had no choice but to continue explaining to him:

"Even if you tear off a bronze leg casually, it will be enough for you to eat for a lifetime! Oh! What a pity! What a pity! But it's not all bad. This level of bronze is also called a self-service shooting machine. If you commit other crimes, you may There is still a chance for a reprieve. However, if you want to discover this kind of bronze vessel, the peanut will not be far from your head!

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if you wrap that treasure in my Jingbaozhai, I would not dare to accept it from you, let alone take action. As you know in our garden, there are many unparalleled bronze tripods handed down from the Qin Empire, but they are all fake and fake. They are not from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, let alone the Qin Dynasty, but from the Qin Dynasty. Last week’s! "

Hearing that old things were brought up again, the fat man's face once again showed a look of great loss and regret. After a while, he said again: "Okay, okay! Old Cao, please stop talking! We heroes don't mention our bravery in the past. Not to mention the embarrassment of the past. This time I come to you for a really big deal. You don’t need to deliver the goods. You only need to show your strength and you can get 150 bundles. I have brought you the deposit, so hurry up and count the 75 bundles. "After that, the fat man handed me the box he was carrying.

I took the box suspiciously and immediately opened the button on it. Inside were stacks of neatly arranged red hundred-dollar bills. Judging from the size of this box, it shouldn't be a problem to fit a small two million.

When did Fatty, who earned fifty and a hundred dollars, become so rich? Is this what he just said, a great thing?

The fat man then said to me: "When they delivered it to me, there were one hundred and fifty bundles in it. I kept half of it, and the other half was specially brought to you. Of course, this is a deposit, and there will be this after everything is done." A share! Of course, I mean everyone!”

Money is a good thing. In this world, I believe no one will have a grudge against this thing. For this kind of red thing, Han Xin naturally has more troops, the better.

But it can also be said that a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way. Although I, Mr. Cao, am not a gentleman, every transaction I make has a purpose, a beginning and an end, and a reason. This cannot be explained clearly. We have never done any business before.

I nodded, closed the box again, and signaled the fat man to speak more clearly. I picked up the bowl and started eating, and took off my pants and farted quickly. If there was anything you didn't say clearly just now, don't hide it. If he delays drinking and eating later, he will punish himself with three drinks!

Upon hearing this, Fatty rubbed his hands happily and said, "This brings me to the precious book "The World in the Tomb" in your hand! I remember hearing you say before that there was a passage about Longquan in it. The Tomb Experience.”

I said to him: "But you also know that since this trace has been recorded in the Tang Dynasty, the treasures in the tomb must have been stolen by the gold-touching captains or local masters of the past dynasties. Why should we waste this futile effort? achievement?"

The fat man yelled: "This visit to the tomb is not for treasure hunting, but for a dip in the legendary Longquan. We will definitely make a profit from the 1.5 million!"

The fat man still sighed: "It's a pity that you are so talented and you hold that ancient book as a treasure. If you weren't so proud of the wine party, I wouldn't even be able to learn this little anecdote.

That person found a treasure map of Longquan from somewhere. This time you don't need to pay for it, you just need to follow it. As you just said, that tomb has been stolen countless times in the past dynasties, so all the mechanisms inside must have been exhausted. You treat it as a trip, and not only do you not have to pay for this trip, but you can also make a lot of money. I said, Lao Cao, you can’t even figure out these accounts, right? "

After hearing what the fat man said, he had to choose to go out half way. Even though this kid was wide and fat, if you put a little tail on him, he could jump up the tree like a fat monkey.

So he said to him: "Speaking of Po Datian, you are looking for a palm eye. Rather than looking for me, it is better to say that you want my little knowledge of the Longquan Ancient Tomb."