The group of tomb robbers looked at us, with a wariness. They looked one leg forward and one leg backward, ready to escape again. The fat old man shook his big belly and waved his arms and said, "I'm here to buy antiques. Let me see what they are."

There is also an old man among the tomb robbers, wearing a black coarse cloth top, coarse cloth pants. He looks similar to that of a fat old man, but his mental state is not as good as a fat old man. The fat old man is full of red face and looks pampered; the old man with coarse cloth has dark spots on his face, which is caused by long-term wind and sun exposure.

The old man with coarse cloth said to the fat man, "Who are you? Where did you come from?"

The fat old man said: "We came from the capital and went back to bring a few antiques as family heirlooms. I heard that we couldn't buy them in the county and were all fakes, so we came to the countryside to buy them."

As soon as the fat old man finished speaking, the thin old man continued, "We are going to Zhoujiakou, and this child is the one who leads us. He is from your county town. If you don't believe it, please ask him."

A young man walked out of the tomb robber, wearing a vest and hunched over, looking premature. Generally, people who have been doing heavy farm work in the countryside for a long time will do this. He pointed at me and asked, "Where is your county town, this child?"

I told the address where the seal is located.

He asked again: "Do you know Shunwa?"

I said, "Know."

He then asked, "Does Bingliuzi know me?"

I said, "Know."

The young man said to the old man with coarse cloth: "I am really from the county town."

The fat old man sighed and said, "Look, I just said we are here to buy antiques. If you don't believe it, now that this child testifies, you should believe it."

The old man from coarse cloth looked at the three of us and seemed to have confirmed our identities. Then he said, "This customer is not that we don't want to sell it to you. Everyone is sold, but these things cannot be sold to you."

The fat old man said: "You said everything, everyone is selling it to, why do you say you can't sell it to me?"

The old man coarse cloth said, "You don't know. As soon as this ancient tomb was discovered, it was bought by the big boss. For example, the big boss said that I bought this ancient tomb with 1,000 silver dollars, and all the things dug out belong to me. If the things dug out exceed 1,000 silver dollars, the big boss would make a profit; if it was dug out as an empty tomb, the big boss would lose."

The thin old man said: "I have heard of this method, and some ancient tombs are like this."

The old man coarse cloth continued: "This ancient tomb was discovered yesterday. The boss bought it and gave our boss two thousand silver dollars. Our boss asked us to dig it out. So, we dug out this pile of things. We can't sell this pair of things to you, we must hand them all over to the boss."

The fat old man said, "Let me see what are you digging out?"

The old man in coarse cloth said: "It's useless to see it. You can't sell it to you, so you might as well stop watching it."

The fat old man said, "Look at what you're trying to hit, and I won't show you it's gone."

The fat old man waved his hand and asked the young man on the vest to open the floral sheets.

As soon as the bed sheet was opened, the fat old man and the thin old man both exclaimed, there were bronzes, porcelain, calligraphy, paintings, jade, and a lot of bulging. The fat old man and the thin old man stood one of them, and with the help of the dimmering skylight, they opened their eyes wide and looked at the pile of treasures. They wanted to pick them up and check them, but the vest guy reached out to block them. When I saw the vest guy reached out to block them, I took the opportunity to put a seal on the floral sheet in the palm of my hand and put it in my pocket. The thin old man standing next to me also saw it.

The fat old man insisted on buying it, but the old man didn't sell it.

Later, when the old man of coarse cloth saw that he couldn't resist, he said, "If you want to buy it, buy it all. There are so many of us who have divided the money and went back to the boss and told him that he had not dug up anything."

The fat old man asked: "How much do you want?"

The old man from coarse cloth said: "Two thousand silver dollars, plus our hard work, two hundred silver dollars, a total of two thousand two hundred silver dollars."

The fat old man said, "Wait a moment."

The fat old man and the thin old man stood aside, whispering head to head, and we couldn't hear what they were saying. After a while, the fat old man came over and said, "We can only take out two hundred silver dollars to see if we can choose a few from you and sell it to us."

The old man from coarse cloth said, "That's not OK. It's only 200 silver dollars. There are so many of us, so it's not enough to share. If this matter is broken, which big boss dares to hire us to work?"

The old man with coarse cloth waved his hand and said, "Pack it up and go home." Seeing the young man wrapped the antiques, I saw him take something from it and put it secretly in his pocket.

The moon rose, and it turned out that two horse riders were running. They ran to the front, without even getting off the horse, and then asked the old man with coarse cloth: "Have you dug it out?"

The old man in coarse cloth said, "It's dug out."

The person riding the horse said, "Go back quickly, the boss is waiting in the county town in a hurry, and the people coming to receive goods from the provincial capital are also there."

After saying that, the rider turned around and left. The old man of coarse cloth no longer paid attention to us. He shouted to his men: "Go back."

The old man with his men took his men to strode away and walked a few dozen meters. I heard the young man say, "You go first, I will suck the shit, and then catch up."

Someone laughed and scolded: "The lazy donkey and horse are full of shit and urine."

We saw the young man with a vest left the group and ran to the woods next to him.

The skinny old man said: "This guy just stole two things. He must have wanted to buy them for us and go over and take a look."

We walked towards the vest guy, and the vest guy also walked towards us.

As soon as the guy with a vest saw us, he took out two things from his pocket, one was a seal and the other was a jade pendant.

The fat old man picked up the seal and exclaimed: "This is sheep blood jade." The thin old man picked up the jade pendant and exclaimed: "This is given by King Li Shimin of Qin."

The two old men were trembling with excitement. They wanted to see the handwriting on the seal clearly in the moonlight, but the seal was too small and they couldn't see clearly. The young man on the vest was still urging them to hurry up, otherwise he would be suspected if he couldn't catch up with the tomb robber team.

Just by relying on the jade pendant given by King Li Shimin of Qin, they judged that the owner of the ancient tomb was extraordinary. The young man in the vest urged them to pay quickly. If he didn't give the money, he would leave with his things.

The fat old man asked: "How much do you want?"

The young man with a vest said, "Five hundred silver dollars."

The fat old man said, "Why are there so many?"

The young man with a vest said, "You have seen it too. It was given by King Li Shimin of Qin, and I have seen it too. So, just this jade pendant was sold in a big city, and there was no 1,000 silver dollar that could not be brought down."

The two old men gathered together head-to-head to discuss that all they could afford was only 200 silver dollars. Later, after bargaining, they traded with the young man with the vest for 200 silver dollars.

The young man with a vest ran away, and the two old men were overjoyed. They felt that they had taken a big advantage. The jade pendant alone was worth more than 200 silver dollars. And what was engraved on the seal? They didn't know. However, it was a piece of mutton fat jade, which was also valuable.

They couldn't control the curiosity and surprise in their hearts, polished the matches and lit a bonfire. That was the first time I saw a match, just such a small square that could actually put the fire in. It was amazing.

After the bonfire was lit, they looked closer and found that the seal had the words "Yu Shinan Seal" engraved. They were shocked, looked at each other, and then slept on the ground and rolled around, crying and howling.

What is strange about this seal that can make them crazy like this? Later I learned that Yu Shinan was a famous minister in the early Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin knew him very well. His hometown was in this area. Chu Suiliang's calligraphy is very good and has been famous since ancient times.

If the seal of Yu Shinan was dug out from this ancient tomb, it means that the owner of this ancient tomb is Yu Shinan. Not to mention those bronzes and porcelain, just those calligraphy works are priceless treasures.

The two old men discussed and decided to intercept the tomb robbers. One of them stabilized them here, and the other went to the capital to sell houses to raise money.

I asked: "Are you still going to Zhoujiakou?"

They said, "I won't go."

We ran all the way, and the two old men were panting, breathing like a bellows, but they encouraged each other, encouraged each other, made up their minds, were not afraid of sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for the final victory.

We always thought it would take a long time to catch up with the tomb robbers, or to the county town, but we couldn't catch up with the tomb robbers. However, what I didn't expect was that after we had been chasing for two or three miles, we saw them sitting on the side of the road to rest. Some took off their shoes and lay flat on the ground, while others were holding a dry tobacco pot in their mouths. We searched in the crowd, but we didn't see the old man with coarse cloth.

The fat old man asked, "Why don't you leave?"

A middle-aged man in the crowd stood up and said, "I ran too fast and sprained my leg and couldn't walk anymore. Everyone sat here to rest."

The fat old man asked again: "Where is the old man who talks with me about business? The one wearing a black cloth shirt."

The middle-aged man said: "The big boss is urging him tightly and he wants to transport him away overnight. The old man takes the antique and leaves with him."

The fat old man ran forward without having enough time to say anything, and ran tiltedly, with the thin old man and I following closely behind.

We chased after two or three miles, and finally saw two figures walking forward under the moonlight, one carrying something on his back and the other without a back. Their figures looked extremely eye-catching in the wilderness shining by the moon.

The fat old man shouted: "Wait."

Not only did the two men not wait, they accelerated their pace.

The fat old man couldn't run anymore and sat on the ground and gasped. The thin old man and I ran in front and stopped them. When I saw that the old man with coarse cloth was walking empty-handed, and a young man carrying a floral bed sheet on his shoulders was carrying a young man.

When the old man coarse cloth saw us, he seemed very scared. He protected the young man and shouted, "What do you want to do? Can't you even force yourself to rob me?"
Chapter completed!