Repairer - #3 - Chapter 3: reason

  Chapter 3 Reasons

   “Second brother, isn’t that kid cheating you of 8,000 yuan? Let’s find a place to do business and get it back. As for staying here for a day?”

At the east exit of the antique market in Luochuan City, two people squatted at the entrance of an alley and smoked a cigarette. The thin one was the middle-aged man who had approached Su Xiaofan before, and the younger man next to him had a serious expression on his face. Impatient, the weather is a little early this year. Although it is only mid-May, the temperature at noon is already more than 30 degrees. Even if you squat here without doing anything, you will be covered in sweat.

Su Xiaofan and Zheng Dagang didn’t miss the point. This group of people really are the ones who made money from the ancients by robbing tombs. Usually, those who do their business are nocturnal. They sleep at home during the day and work in the fields at night. Today it was the other way around. Staying outside in the hot weather made the young man very uncomfortable, and he even became impatient to speak.

   “You know what the hell, I’m doing it for the eight thousand dollars?”

Wu Chuanbao, known as the second brother, took a puff of cigarette, put the end of the cigarette on the sole of his shoe and crushed it vigorously, and said angrily: “The bronze ware that the boy took out is not available on the market or in major museums. It hasn’t appeared before, even if his one is a fake, it must be copied according to the real thing, as long as we bite this kid, we can take out the real one.”

   “Second brother, how much money was paid over there, are you so caring?”

The young man’s name is Wu Chuanpeng, and he is the fifth younger brother of Wu Chuanbao’s family. Basically, those who do their business are either from the same village or from the same family, because outsiders can’t believe it. That is to say, if it was decades earlier, it would be inevitable to go to the grave to touch things. It was the son, and Lao Tzu stood guard at the entrance of the thieves’ cave to let the wind and guide him, because it happened from time to time that the son saw the money and wanted to cheat Lao Tzu, but Lao Tzu never cheated his son, and it became a rule in this business over time.

Although not many people follow this rule now, most of the tomb robbery gangs formed are based on blood relationship or the relationship with Tongxiang in the same village. They are all surnamed Wu, and they are all related to relatives, and the furthest relationship is not even out of Wufu.

   “Old Five, the matter hasn’t been settled yet, don’t ask what shouldn’t be asked, have you forgotten the rules?”

Hearing Wu Chuanpeng’s words, Wu Chuanbao’s complexion couldn’t help but gloomy. In fact, the division of labor is very careful in what they do. Some of them explore geomantic omens and determine caves to find tombs, some dig and steal caves to work hard, and some go to the tomb to fetch things. Yes, and the other is looking for buyers. Everyone is responsible for their own affairs, and no one can exceed the rules.

Wu Chuanbao had been engaged in the smuggling of cultural relics in the south in the early years, and he had many channels at hand. It was logical that he became the person in the gang who was responsible for finding the next seller. Everything that was taken out of the ground was handed over to him, and then Wu Chuanbao Bao will take photos and pass them on to his old customers. After someone takes a fancy to them, they will discuss the price, and finally Wu Chuanbao will deliver the goods. This set of procedures is considered complete.

Speaking of Wu Chuanbao’s tomb robbers, they can be regarded as self-produced and self-sold, which can maximize profits. After some tomb robbers have worked so hard to get things up, they can only sell the things at the price of cabbage because they have no channels to get them home. It was sold, but in the end it was cheaper for those cultural relic brokers.

“Second brother, I didn’t mean that.” Seeing Wu Chuanbao’s face darken, Wu Chuanpeng felt a little guilty. In their gang, except for the elder Wu who they all call the third master, they must count Wu Chuanbao has the highest status. After all, the shipping channel determines their profit. If things can’t be sold at a high price, they will have to drink the northwest wind.

“Old Fifth, someone from Xiangjiang specifically asked for the item this time.” Seeing the appearance of the fifth younger brother, Wu Chuanbao felt that he was a bit too strict. The amount received varies, but the accounts are public, and the fifth child also has the right to know.

   “They reached this amount.” Wu Chuanbao stretched out his hand and said in a low voice: “And according to the appearance, you can also add money, fifth, do you think I can’t care?”

   “50,000?” Wu Chuanpeng was taken aback when he heard this, for a single item worth 50,000 is considered pretty good.

   “Fifty thousand? Old Wu, your eyelids are too shallow.” Wu Chuanbao sneered.

“500,000?” Wu Chuanpeng couldn’t suppress his voice, but he realized it immediately, looked around quickly, lowered his voice and said, “Second brother, this thing is just a woman’s headgear in ancient times, how can it be Worth that much?”

Wu Chuanpeng has been fighting with his family for several years, and he has some understanding of the prices of various objects. The best things in the tomb are jade and porcelain. It is also the most recognized, and there are people at home and abroad who can take over.

The hardest thing to come across in Daodou is the calligraphy and painting. Because the tomb is damp, the calligraphy and painting are difficult to preserve. Some calligraphy and paintings hanging in the tomb are weathered as soon as the robbery hole is opened. Then you can make a lot of money. As for bronze wares, heavy wares are heavy wares, but the country’s crackdown is too strong, and the risk of exporting is also very high, so the price is often lowered by people.

   “You ask me, who should I ask? The picture given over there tells me to find this object, or else I will be cheated by that kid?”

Wu Chuanbao shook his head dejectedly. He has been in this business for more than 20 years, and the cultural relics he has handled can be said to be countless. As long as it comes out of the soil, it can be smelled by a fake nose. When I came out, I didn’t expect to run into a tumble on a brat.

The loss of 8,000 yuan is a small matter, but the regular customers in Xiangjiang asked for this item by name, and even raised the price by another 300,000 yuan, which forced Wu Chuanbao to come back to Su Xiaofan again, because according to the According to the buyer, if Su Xiaofan didn’t have the real thing, he couldn’t make such a high-quality imitation.

“This thing is so precious, can the kid have the real one?” Wu Chuanpeng glanced at the antique market, “Second brother, let me tell you, we might as well go find a few more tombs, maybe we can find them, you Didn’t you say that there are many tombs in the Qin and Han Dynasties that have this thing?”

The three religions and nine streams in the rivers and lakes, each share a share, Wu Chuanpeng and the others eat from their ancestors, although they are too timid to do this, but force is not their strong point, and he can also see that the kid surnamed Su is in the antique shop. The market has quite a few contacts, if they really play tricks, they may not be able to take advantage of it.

“Pretend I don’t know.” Wu Chuanbao said angrily: “Basically, these things are scattered in the tomb, unless archaeologists use a brush to clean them up little by little. If we want to find a Complete, it is purely luck, it is not as simple as you said.”

  Wu Chuanbao had seen Hoopoe before, but they were all incomplete, such a small object was buried in the soil, and it would be impossible to find it without meticulous work. It is the most convenient way to get an idea from Su Xiaofan.

   “Old man, Mang Mountain is not peaceful recently. The third master said that we will not go to the ground for a while.” Wu Chuanbao suddenly showed a look of horror on his face.

   “Second brother, I listen to you and the third master.” Seeing the expression on Wu Chuanbao’s face, Wu Chuanpeng couldn’t help but shudder, he knew what the second brother was talking about.

It’s strange to say that since the end of the new year this year, the Tu Fuzi who lived around Luochuan City had accidents one after another. It’s not that they were arrested by the police, but that there were several accidents during the process of robbing the tomb. .

First, the gang in northern Sichuan, at the next ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, the robbery cave suddenly collapsed, and the two people who went down were buried alive, even the person guarding the cave entrance was not spared. The person who was not at the scene escaped, but he was frightened and left Luochuan without a trace.

There is also a group in Xishan, which took half a year to dig a large tomb of the Qin Dynasty. The group is relatively strong, and the robbery holes have been reinforced. When they went down, everyone wore oxygen masks, because it is a large tomb. , there are many things inside, five people went down at that time, and three people stayed behind when they came up.

What people didn’t expect was that the five people went down for more than two hours, but there was no movement at all. Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, the three people guarding the top couldn’t hold back anymore, and they all went down one after another. Of the eight people, only one came up in the end, but the person who came up was crazy, just knelt at the entrance of the robber’s cave and kept kowtowing. When the nearby villagers found him, he was already kneeling there and died.

The tomb of the Qin Dynasty was robbed and people died, which naturally alarmed the relevant departments. The local archaeological department originally wanted to conduct a protective excavation, but unexpectedly, after only one day of excavation, a person hired from a nearby village died. Migrant workers, it is said that even the garrison was alarmed at that time, and finally Yanjing came to experts, concluded that there was mercury gas in the tomb, and the conditions for excavation were not yet available, so they buried the robbery cave.

These two incidents caused a lot of trouble, especially in the Dou Dou circle, almost everyone knew it. There were rumors that the mangshan prefecture was disturbed, and those who took action to punish them were also said to have dug up zombies. Being sucked angry, in short, all kinds of rumors are flying around.

Those who trade in dead people naturally have a little more respect for the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth. After these two incidents happened, almost no one dared to go to the tomb in Luochuan again. Many gangs ran to Shanshan and Shanshan provinces. Luochuan City, which is infested by tomb robbers, has become clearer on the contrary, and the law and order have improved a lot.

“It’s really weird to say that, when I went to the tomb some time ago, I always felt like I was being targeted by something. Second brother, let’s find an expert to show me, and ask for an amulet or something.” Talking about this Even under the sun, Wu Lao Wu felt chilly all over his body.

Recently, in Luochuan City, especially near the border of Mang Mountain, some inexplicable things always happen. A very evil thing happened in the village where Wu Chuanpeng and the others rented a few days ago. I don’t know if it’s hormones. There was too much feed, and a dozen big roosters from a big chicken farmer in that village actually pampered thousands of hens overnight, and the whole night was full of chickens and dogs, and the whole village was restless.

  As soon as this incident happened, Wu Chuanbao and others were so scared that they immediately vacated the house in the village and rented it in Luochuan City. It was precisely because of this that he met Su Xiaofan who was setting up a street stall.

  (end of this chapter)