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"Later, someone from above came and told us to withdraw. Later, the place was sealed off, and thousands of tons of cement were poured in. It took three full months. I didn't even know about it. The people on the periphery were cleared out very early, and the higher-ups sent troops down to do it. I also heard Lao Wang tell me once when he drank too much. It can be said that the current Youling Tunnel may not be blown up even with missiles. The entire mountain is covered in concrete, and many people who participated in that incident were transferred away, and the few of us who were left behind gradually began to forget."

"Then you come here?" Zha Wenbin was a little puzzled, didn't they all say it was sealed.

"Didn't Brother Zhao invite me here? He said you asked him, so he went to my place and asked for this letter. I said that you are really capable, how do you know that something is wrong?"

Cha Wenbin clasped his fists and said, "I don't see anything wrong with the little tricks of the peasants in the countryside, and I even made you come here. I'm a little embarrassed, and I have to make amends to my brother."

Chaozi joked: "Oh, no, Zhao Yunxiao must be blamed for this matter, he made all the fuss."

Zhao Yunxiao is also a thick-skinned master: "I haven't received the master's call for several years, can I not work hard?"

While everyone was laughing, Leng Yiran had already prepared a table of meals, and they hadn't been together for a long time.As soon as everyone was happy at noon, they drank some wine and decided not to leave in the afternoon. They agreed to cook hot pot in the courtyard to eat at night. Zhuo Xiong went to the mountains to hunt a wild sheep the day before yesterday, and today he just sliced ​​it and rinsed it.

During dinner, director Leng drank some more wine, and the blushing person was also a little drunk, he stood up with his glass unsteadily and said: "Old He, it's still too early for you to leave, if you You are here, I guess that bastard won't get that thing overseas, hey."

This call, anyone can tell that there is something in the words, Leng Yiran is a little unhappy: "Dad, what are you talking about!"

Director Leng was a little unhappy, put the wine glass on the table with a straight face, and yelled at his daughter: "Yes, I don't care, he is a businessman, it's not a stolen thing." Yes, but it's a national treasure, you know it's a national treasure?"

"Uncle Leng is talking about me. If you have anything to say, you can just speak up. I'm a junior, so listen. If I do something wrong, Uncle will point it out to me. Don't protect me."

"That's right, you are a businessman now, just make money."

"Can you explain it clearly?"

"Oh, Dad." Leng Yiran hurriedly pushed her father back on the seat, and smoothed things over: "It's just that he drank too much, so ignore him."

Chaozi gently pushed the wine glass on the table and said, "Uncle, you mean the tripod, it's not the real one, it's a fake."

"Hmph." Director Leng didn't know whether it was bubbles or wine that came out of his nostrils. He pointed to Chaozi's nose and said, "You are an expert, don't you know that the lower part of that thing is real? Even if there is only one Foot, it is also a national treasure! Do you know what the appraisal result is?"

"what?"

"According to the measurement of carbon 14, American experts determined that the unearthed time was 7000 to [-] years ago. Do you know what this means?"

Chao Zi suddenly slumped on the table, he thought that the thing was at best a product from the Western Zhou Dynasty, if it was really the era Director Leng mentioned, then the history of this thing can be traced back to before the Xia Dynasty, and it was still in the prehistoric period at that time Age of mythology!

"Your things exploded as soon as they arrived in Hong Kong. Do you think that cultural relics dealers will be more ignorant than you? You treat others like garbage, and they bought back real treasures! Let me tell you what is good about you, get some bottles and cans It’s fine if you resell it, you dare to touch the bronze ware, if there is evidence for this, you don’t know how many times you have to move your head!”

Cha Wenbin frowned and asked Chaozi, "Where did the things come from?"

Chaozi rubbed his head and said, "An old farmer harvested it and bought it as junk."

Leng Yiran said: "This time, my father is here, and I still want you to take him to find that person. This may be the earliest tripod discovered so far, so the unearthed location is very important."

"It's from Majiapo." Chaozi replied.

Where is Majiapo?Majiapo is a very inconspicuous small mountain village with only a dozen households in total, located to the west of Youling Tunnel. From the 70s to the early 90s, before the tunnel was opened to traffic, people had to walk around the mountain and pass through Youling. There was a small village in the depression on the right side of Youling, which was called Majiapo.The origin of the place name is that there is no traffic there, and the local farmers can only rely on horses to carry them out. Up to now, there are still three or four families left in Majiapo, all of whom are old people who are unwilling to move.

In the early morning of the next day, several cars set off together. It is estimated that only he Chaozi could think of going to that ghostly place to buy goods, and most people would never find it.Going along the old road decades ago, the car drove to the top of the mountain, which is already one kilometer away from the tunnel. Walk through a forest trail and go down another kilometer.

This is almost a forgotten place, because the population is too small, so there is no basic electricity, and the people who stay behind still rely on candles for lighting.The bustling houses are almost hidden in the bamboo grove, and the houses are all adobe from the countryside in the last century. A few farm chickens were chased around by these strangers, and a big yellow dog was barking at them.

The moment Chaozi got out of the bamboo forest, the yellow dog and his acquaintance pair fled desperately into the forest with its tail between its legs.

Zhuo Xiong jokingly said: "It is frightened by you." "Haha."

Leng Yiran smiled and said, "What did you do to it?"

"It's nothing, when I came that time, it was guarding life and death and wouldn't let me in, so I threw a bun to it, but I added some ingredients to it, stuffed a little croton..."

Seeing that bastard coming again, the unlucky dog ​​must have remembered the pain before, and would rather hide than provoke.This is Chaozi's character, he doesn't care whether it's a human or a dog, as long as someone dares to stand in his way, even the King of Hades, he dares to pluck a little beard.

In the crop field not far away, a hunchbacked old farmer was weeding. Chao Zinu said, "I got it from him."

Director Leng first went to say hello: "How are you, old man!"

The old man looked back and lost his work. He recognized Chaozi and said repeatedly: "A rare customer, a rare customer."

In this field, director Leng started a routine with the old man: the old man is 73 this year, and one son has been rehabilitated as a soldier and settled down in the provincial capital; another daughter has married far away, and he cannot stay in the provincial capital. I got used to it, and felt comfortable in this mountain, so I came back again.There is no one else in the village now, they have all moved out, just him and the big yellow dog.The old man said that he likes quietness and has lived in the mountains all his life, and he doesn't want to go out again. His son comes back to visit him once a month, and he goes to the town once a week to buy some daily necessities.

In the end, finally talking about the tripod's feet, the old man said that it had been left at home for many years.At the earliest time, they picked it up in the mountains, just upstream of the small stream at the door. They wanted to use it to make steel for five years, but the earthen stove couldn't burn it, so they pulled it back until Chaozi came. I sold it to him.

Farewell to the old farmer, and started to walk in the direction he said. Here, the mountains are high and the water is fast. It can only be regarded as a small stream, and the water depth is usually only ankle-deep.But when it rains heavily, the mountain torrents come crashing down. The water in this kind of mountain depression is so fierce that boulders weighing several tons can be washed downstream.

The upstream of the creek only lasted less than one kilometer, and there was an old forest inside.This area is a collective mountain forest belonging to the public. It is full of thick trees covering the sky and shrubs that people can't get through. Since the country issued a policy of closing mountains for forest cultivation, these forests have basically maintained their original state. I don't know how long no one has been here.

If you go further in, you will have to rely on a hatchet to open the way, and there is no way for people to go.

Director Leng asked, "Wen Bin, in your opinion, what is the Feng Shui of this place?"

"It doesn't matter whether it's a yin house or a yang house, it's just a barren mountain and wild land, living in the dangerous terrain of a secluded ridge, where there are few people and ghosts."

He nodded in agreement, "I have some experience. It is unlikely that there will be ancient tombs in this place. He said that this thing was found in the river. I think it is more likely to be washed down by the water. Do you want to go in again?" have a look?"

Chaozi and Zhuo Xiong made a basic measurement with each other's sight: "This place is only two miles away from the Youling pothole that you sealed up at that time. It's hard to say. You can try to explore the road today. I really want to go, I guess I have to go back and prepare guys."

Cha Wenbin said unexpectedly: "Well, you all go back and prepare your things first. Tonight, Dashan and I will spend the night at the old farmer's house at the foot of the mountain. I want to ask him something more."

After the arrangements were made, Chao Zi and Zhuo Xiong were in charge of purchasing the necessary equipment, and the women of the Leng family were in charge of studying the materials of the year. Zhao Yunxiao went back to the provincial capital because of something to do, leaving Cha Wenbin and Dashan to go to the old farmer's house .