The Most Thrilling Tomb Tour: Tomb Raider

Chapter 31
The curator of the museum was away on a business trip. The curator's surname was Liao. He was middle-aged but he didn't gain weight.Knowing that we came here for the donation, he smiled happily, pouring tea and passing cigarettes.

We were taken by him to visit the museum. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, Shandong was the territory of Qi and Lu, also known as Qilu land.Therefore, the cultural relics in this museum are really dazzling, such as bronze wares from the Western Zhou Dynasty, jade wares from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, three-colored wares from the Tang Dynasty, and silk tapestry from the Song Dynasty.

"May I take the liberty to ask, where did you find this thing?" After we gave the two pieces of goldware to Director Liao, he put on white gloves and held them in his hands, looked at them again and again with a magnifying glass, looked up asked suspiciously.

We just thought it was a glorious thing to come to the museum to donate cultural relics. Who would want to be asked this kind of question?All of them froze there for a moment.

Fortunately, Xiang Ru reacted quickly enough, and quickly said to Director Liao: "Hehe, Director Liao, our boss surnamed Zhong received this when he opened an antique shop."

"That's right! I collected it, and those guys took the money, put it down and ran away, alas!" Lao Zhong has been through the rivers and lakes for a long time, and his brain turns faster than anyone else. Hearing Xiang Ru's words, Hurry up and talk.

"Oh? That's strange." Director Liao pushed up the pair of black-rimmed glasses, and then said: "I was here last time when a person donated something. From my personal point of view, his item Something with the same craftsmanship as yours should belong to the same period."

"Oh?" We couldn't help being a little surprised, Lao Zhong looked at me, stepped forward and asked, "Can we see his stuff?"

"It's a pity that it was taken abroad to participate in the exhibition. It is also a necklace, very similar to yours, but smaller than yours."

"Oh, do you have his contact information?" Lao Zhong and I asked almost in unison.

"Yes, but we have always kept the personal information of the donors confidential. This is a rule." Director Liao said meticulously.

But we really want to meet that person, not for anything else, just to find out the origin of the thing he donated, maybe it can help us provide important clues.

Xiang Ru and Lao Zhong said the director on the left and the leader on the right, which made Director Liao a little bit elated.The fat man said that that person might be a friend we knew, but he hadn't seen him for a while, and he didn't have his contact information, so he got some information about him from Director Liao.

The man's surname was Zhao, and his name was Zhao Xianyi, who was also in the antique business. Director Liao reluctantly gave us the address of his home, and we looked for it without further ado.

Zhao Xianyi's home is in a small alley. We searched and searched, but couldn't find it.This alley has been around for a long time, and the house numbers are all messed up. Seeing an old man sitting by the side of the road, we walked forward.

"Master, do you know that there is a man named Zhao Xianyi near here?" Xiang Ru stepped forward and asked.

"Apologize Zhao? I don't know." The old man thought for a while and said.

"No, his home seems to be near here, here, this is the address." Xiang Ru gave the old man the note with the address of Zhao Qianyi's home.

"Oh, this is the family you are looking for? Isn't this man's name is Zhao Dadou!" The old man put on his reading glasses and looked at it, then thought for a while and said.

"Zhao Dadou?" We asked in surprise, "What's his name?"

"Hi! We usually just say hello. He is often not at home, and sometimes he only comes back once more than half a year. Some of his friends come to him and they always call him Zhao Dadou. Who knows his name, well, his house is right in front of him." , just around the corner," said the old man.

We thanked the old man, but we had doubts all over our heads.Not at home all year round?Zhao Dadou?What does it mean?

Zhao Fengyi's house, like other residents in these alleys, is an old one-story house that can no longer be old, with a courtyard door painted with green paint and mottled with rust.It was a coincidence that we were answered as soon as we knocked on the door.

The person who opened the door was a dark and thin man in his early forties, with some soap on his cheeks, he seemed to be shaving, and he looked dazed when he saw us.I thought this person would be difficult to contact, but I didn't expect him to invite us to sit in the room with a smile after we explained our purpose.

The yard is not big, there are some miscellaneous things piled up everywhere, and there are some bottles and jars in the house. The old clock glanced at it and turned to us to indicate that these things are quite old.

"What's your name? Do we call you Zhao Xianyi, or Zhao Dadou?" After he finished washing his face, I handed him a cigarette and asked with a smile.

"Hi! You can call me whatever you want. Zhao Dadou is a nickname given to me by friends in the industry. You can tell that some of them are also in the industry?" Zhao Dadou said with a smile, but his eyes were full of vigilance.

"We are not, our Boss Zhong is in the antique business." I smiled and prevaricated.

"Don't pretend. When you opened the door just now, I saw that you all knew that we are all in the same business. How many of you are 'Dou Ye', right? Hehe!" Zhao Dadou smiled at us, his words really made us laugh We were taken aback.

"Yo? How did you know? It's not good to miss it." The word "Douye" was popularized in the past few years after the reform and opening up, based on words like "Douye" (referring to small traders who speculate). It's a name between Dao Dou's and Dao Dou's. I saw that the other party might be testing us, so I also asked tentatively.

"People who come in contact with this business have a bit of yin on their bodies, and anyone who knows a little bit can see it." Zhao Dadou said with a smile: "Look at that master again, and look at these things first after you come in. You guys look at it." The one on the bottom of the porcelain is the model, but he is looking at the "firelight" and the body and glaze on the top, and his eyes are very poisonous. I guess he has already counted these things in his heart, and it can be seen that he is a person in the antique business." Zhao Dadou pointed to Lao Zhongtou and said that in the jargon of the antique world, the floating light on the glaze surface is called "fire light". To identify whether a piece of porcelain is fake or not, it is necessary to identify it from the fire light, body, glaze and manufacturing process.

This guy really surprised us. We thought he was just an ordinary cultural relics dealer, but we didn't expect him to be an upside-down guy, and he was also an unfathomable guy.

"Master Zhao is so tall! Really tall!" I imitated "Commander Tang" and gave Zhao Dadou a thumbs up, and said with a smile, "Since we are all insiders, let's open the skylight and speak honestly!" After finishing speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Dadou.

"The lights are not on!" Zhao Dadou suddenly put up his left thumb, and then protected it with his right hand. This seems to be a code word. I have heard Lao Zhongtou talk about it before, but it is not so detailed.Although Lao Zhongtou is not a "Dou Ye", he has seen more artifacts and dealt with "Dou Ye" than the real "Dou Ye".

"No slap, no sound!" Lao Zhong immediately slapped his hands and continued.

"What's under the mountain?" Zhao Dadou immediately raised his little thumb and pointed down.

"Half an acre of land to gather grass!" Lao Zhong replied without hesitation with his left arm forward and his right hand thumbing up under his left elbow.

"What's on the mountain?" Zhao Dadou said, pointing back at himself with a thumbs up.

"This mountain looks as high as that mountain!" Lao Zhong crossed his hands in front of his chest and said with a tireless but sinister expression on his face.

The three of us were dumbfounded. We only knew that we were doing this kind of business, but we didn’t know that the code words in the industry were so wonderful. I really admired Lao Zhongtou, and he was able to answer them fluently.

"Hehe, don't be angry, Master Zhong, I'm just kidding." Unexpectedly, after hearing Lao Zhong's last coded words, Zhao Dadou actually changed into a pitiful smiling face, and begged: "Come on, masters, sit down and talk, I'm going to pour some water, it really flooded the Dragon King Temple, my family doesn't recognize my family!" After saying that, he went to pour some tea and handed it to us one by one.

"Master Zhong, you drink tea, haha!" Zhao Dadou brought the tea to Old Zhongtou respectfully, this attitude really made us puzzled.

We told the ins and outs of the matter, kept some, and then asked Zhao Dadou about the origin of the necklace he donated.

Zhao Dadou said without any concealment that he bought it from a Kazakh herdsman when he was looking for a big pit at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains. Later, he asked the herdsman to take him to the tomb that the herdsman had stolen, but the herdsman took him I went to a tomb that was stolen and emptied. According to the specifications of the tomb, the necklace should have been there, but it had been removed by the nearby herdsmen long ago.As a result, after Zhao Dadou bought the necklace with his own money, he couldn't sell it, saying that he was cracking down hard.This thing is hot, so we simply made up a cover like us and donated it to the museum.

I think he can donate it to the museum like us, which shows that this person is really not bad, and he is still patriotic. Most people have already melted this stuff into gold and sold it on the black market, so it will become valuable yellow and white. thing?Thinking of this, I can't help but have a good impression of him, and I even want to go to the tomb under Kunlun Mountain with him, and maybe I will find something else.

Old Zhongtou saw our thoughts, so he asked Zhao Dadou if he would take us there. Zhao Dadou had already admired Lao Zhongtou so much, how could he not?It just so happened that after hearing what we said, he wanted to solve the mystery with us and share some artifacts with us, so he happily agreed.

On the way out from Zhao Dadou's house, Fatty and I asked Lao Zhong very curiously, what did those wonderful code words he and Zhao Dadou mean just now?
Old Zhong smiled and said that it was a code word used by the older generation in the industry. Few of them know these words now. Old Zhong himself also heard some old "craftsmen" in his early years (the jargon also refers to "inverted fights") "Master Dou" is called a "craftsman", in fact it's all to deceive people's eyes and ears), and I will remember it if I say too much, so it can be seen that Zhao Dadou has some background.

The first sentence that Zhao Dadou said, "The lights are not lit or not on" means "Of course you won't understand if you don't say it." It's loud, I said you have to give me the truth, I can't just say it by myself" means.

Zhao Dadou understood as soon as he heard it, and quickly showed his posture, and asked the phrase "What's under the mountain?" which meant "Which generation are you? You let me tell you what? I have to see how many you have." brush!"

(End of this chapter)