Chapter 16 Dajinya
East of a hot pot restaurant, filled with diners, hot pot in the water filled with gas, pushing the cups of youngest five drink six sound endless.
We picked a corner of the empty table sat, the big gold teeth pouring me wine, I thought this guy is trying to get me drunk set my porcelain ah, so quickly stopped him: “Jin master, this two pots of strength is too fierce, I amount of shallow or come to the beer good.”
Eat and talk, the topic came to the bucket of things, the big gold teeth grinning, with the fingertips knocked their own gold teeth on us said: “two masters on the eye, this gold teeth, is what I received in the Panjiayuan, dug out of the tomb of the former Ming Buddha Luang Jin, in the mouth of the dumplings pulled down. I didn’t bother to sell, pull out my own teeth and replace them.”
This person is really, eating time to say this, but also let people eat, can not afford to spend money you directly say how good, he said that is really the more I think of the more people feel disgusted, I hurriedly turn the topic away, talk to him about some other things.
Money pressure slave hand, art pressure when pedestrians, we casually talk about some of the doorway to see the feng shui tomb, and say something when in the Kunlun Mountains as a sapper’s deeds, listening to the big gold teeth tsk tsk, to my admiration to the ground.
Dajinya’s father was arrested by the Kuomintang before, is with a Hunan surnamed Cai inverted expert apprenticeship, digging graves know a lot of hooks, but for those who are looking for the skills of the cave did not learn. Because his master Mr. Cai himself does not know the art of feng shui, the Republic of China twelve years later, Luoyang farmer Li Duck invented the Luoyang shovel. Before that, Luoyang shovel has not been popularized, their school mainly with the nose to smell, in order to maintain the sensitivity of the nose, are avoiding tobacco, alcohol and spicy things.
With the brazier into the ground, pull out after taking the nose to smell, brazier from the ground in the soil to bring up a variety of odors, but also by the feel of the earth, the ground is empty, or there is wood, masonry, these feel is certainly different.
In fact, and the principle of the Luoyang shovel to hit the soil is similar, but one is to smell with the nose, one is to use the eyes to see. Luoyang shovel to bring up the soil, you can see the composition of the underground soil, if there is any porcelain, wood, cloth, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, mercury and lead, including rammed earth, bricks and tiles, etc., etc., these are the proof of the underground tombs, you can use these clues to speculate about the age of the underground tombs and the layout of the structure.
However, the smell of earth this craft passed to the big gold teeth here on the lost, his father’s legs disabled, he grew up with congenital asthma, no longer go to do the gold miner. Generally do this line, have seen a lot of real things, with this eyesight, do the business of antiques.
I jokingly said your ancestors of this craft tide point, I heard my family elders said some of the things inverted bucket, the real masters, did not use brazier Luoyang shovel, that are stupid moves, capable of walking to a place, take the eye to see, know whether there is an ancient tomb underground, buried in what position, what structure, these can be seen at a glance. Where the feng shui excellent place, there will be a large tomb, can be buried in the inside, before life are not ordinary people, this tomb is full of treasures. The real connoisseurs of those things on the Luoyang shovel is disdain, because the underground soil if not dry enough, the effect will be greatly reduced, especially in those affluent places in the south of the Yangtze River, the rainfall is large, many tombs are flooded by groundwater, the underground layer of soil is washed out of the mess.
Dajinya listen to me talk about the sky, to me is more respected: “Hu master, I counted on the service, how to say how to say it, heard the road to death can be carry on, listen to you some of the high theory, I am not living so many years in vain. To you this kind of both understand feng shui art, but also when the engineers, understand the civil engineering operations of talent, really can be encountered and can not be sought, you have this ability to not do the golden colonel pity.”
I shook my head and said, “that kind of lack of virtue, I do not intend to do, I just said those are listening to my grandfather, his old man back then also did touch the gold lieutenant, as a result, ran into the big dumplings, and almost put his life on.”
Dajinya said this risk is certainly there, put on a few black ass hooves will not be afraid of, and as the saying goes, there is a way to steal, the reputation of the bucket is not good, that is because of some of the underhanded thieves corrupted, they are not in the line of work, do not know the rules, destructive mess around, that can not attract people hate it. Pouring the history to trace up, I’m afraid that no less than three thousand years, when the Three Kingdoms under Cao Cao had a force, specializing in digging ancient tombs in the property in order to fill the military pay, we have this is the gold inspector’s nickname.
Passed to the pre-liberation, this line is divided into four sects in the southeast, northwest and north, to the eighties, the talent is withering, there are no more than a few people left, the only few people are also gold wash their hands of the business. Now those juniors, are some countryside loafers, a group of gangs in groups to digging graves. Where do you know what line of two do not take, three incense and three worship blowing lamps to touch the rules of gold, alas, how many good things are destroyed in their hands.
Big gold teeth sigh for a while, and then said to us: “I have long years in Panjiayuan pouring stuff, you two if there is something good in the future, I can be responsible for contacting buyers for you, you personally go to talk about it, talk about it to me a little commission on the line.”
Fatty has been busy eating and drinking, this time eat to eighty percent full, suddenly remembered something, the body of that piece of jade taken out to let the big gold teeth to appraisal appraisal, see how much money.
Dajinya looked at, and put on the side of the nose smelled a few times: “Fat master, you this is a good jade ah, at least not less than a thousand years of history, well …… there may be even earlier, it should be before the Tang Dynasty. The text on this is not Chinese, what I can not see, certainly can be worth a lot of money, but before judging the specific value, you’d better stay do not go out, or may be a big loss. Where did you get this piece of jade?”
The fat man said about his family’s history to the interest: “To say the origin, that is a child without a mother, long story, I’m so with you, this piece of jade is my father to participate in the Huangma riot when the old comrade in arms, my father’s old comrade in arms is the wild division of the number one head of the army, with the troops into the Xinjiang when his troops and a group of bandits encountered the bandits are also looking for death, the PLA’s The guards around the No. 1 head can be eaten for food? In less than five or six minutes, the hundred or so bandits were wiped out. When cleaning up the battlefield, this piece of jade was found on a bandit leader, and the No. 1 chief gave it to my father as a souvenir. What happened further on with this piece of jade, I’m not sure.”
We have been drinking until twelve o’clock in the evening before we parted, when we parted, the big gold teeth gave us both a person a curved hook like thing, this thing has more than an inch long, black shiny, hard, but also engraved with two characters in seal script, look at the shape of the word like “touching the gold”, this object is a long time ago, like an antique, one end was punched with a hole, wearing red silk thread, can be hung around the neck, and can be used as a souvenir for a person. One end was punched with a hole and threaded with red silk thread, so it could be hung around the neck as an ornament. Dajinya said: “Our buddies are really like acquaintances at first sight, these two are the claws of the pangolin armor made of amulets, for you two to leave a thought, free to Panjiayuan to find me, the green mountains do not change, the green water often flow, we will meet again.”