As we were almost reaching the tent, Dou Sprout whispered to me: "Fengzi, do you think this person won't freeze to death at night?"
"If you freeze to death, you will freeze to death. Go back to your sleep and don't worry about other things." I pushed Dou Sprout.
We don’t know whether we are friends or foes, and we cannot rescue strangers randomly, let alone in this vast desert. If we were to be stabbed to death while sleeping at night, no one would know. I sleep for an hour at night and wake up for an hour, and keep the sheep-killing knife with me.
, and stayed there until dawn.
When it got daylight, I ran over to take a look and saw that the man was still lying on the ground, in the same posture as last night, not moving.
"Hey, wake up, hey!" Dou Sprout kicked the man.
"There's no response. It's not like he's really freezing to death outside."
As soon as Dou Sprout finished speaking, I saw his upper body suddenly move.
This man's lower body was covered with a thick layer of sand. Last night I was worried that this man would come over and attack me at night. Only when Dou Sprout and I dragged him out did we discover something.
Xiaoxuan almost vomited after looking at it. No wonder this man was lying still, he couldn't move.
The man's right calf was injured. At first glance, there was no visible wound. The blood on his leg dried to black and red, with a lot of sand on it. The layer of sand on the wound was like sesame seeds on sesame pancakes, densely packed.
It stuck to his calf, and when Leng saw it, his scalp felt numb.
"What's wrong with your legs?" I asked with a frown.
The man shook his head and said weakly: "I stepped on an ant's nest."
"Stepping on an ant's nest?"
"Are you talking about the kind of dirtbags in the desert that are inhabited by army ants?"
He nodded and said that I didn't have a bandage, so I burned my leg with a stick to stop the bleeding. Please do a good thing and save me.
I thought to myself: "No wonder it's all black. It turns out that I burned it myself. He is a cruel person."
I asked again abruptly: "Is it from the north or from the south?"
"What? Don't speak?"
"This is a big desert, there are no outsiders, so I won't mince words and tell the truth. I know you didn't get lost while traveling, but you were picked up by someone in a pit, right? (Hiking: someone hit you from behind)"
Seeing that he still had his eyes closed and didn't speak, I continued: " We didn't save you for anything else, we just wanted to get some useful information from you, and I don't believe you don't know what I do."
After hearing my words, he opened his eyes.
"What do you want to know?"
Seeing that he was finally willing to speak, I took a deep breath and asked, "How many of you? Which team are you from? Do you know Wang Xiansheng?"
Douyazai and Xiaoxuan also watched all this nervously.
"Give me some water first."
Douya quickly unscrewed the bottle cap and handed him half a bottle of water.
He drank a few large sips of water to calm down, and then said: "I didn't expect to meet my colleagues here. I should not die if I meet you. Who are you Wang Xiansheng?"
"What a master!"
"Are you here together? You are all here to explore Blackwater City!" The news was confirmed, and Dou Sprout was a little excited.
Because this person’s background is unclear, I said Yazai, please don’t mess around and listen to what he has to say first.
The man then spoke intermittently for more than an hour, and I wasn't sure how much of what he said was true.
This man's name is Ma Deming, a native of Luoping Village, Laishui, Hebei Province. He claims to have followed the four generations of Jiu Qingshui.
I was really surprised when I first heard the name "Jiu Qingshui". I didn't recognize this Ma Deming, but when it comes to the name Jiu Qingshui, many people in the Hunbei sect have heard of it, even a young man like me.
I heard my second brother talk about Jiu Qingshui before.
In ancient times, there were no women to do the work of tomb robbers. In some areas, it was even considered unlucky to bring women to the tomb. Therefore, all the famous tomb robbers in the past were men.
But this situation changed in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. At that time, the landlords died rich and the poor died poor. The poor experienced years of war and famine. There were many people without sons in their families. Naturally, there were also many widowed women to support the family.
Jiuqingshui is a nickname given by people in our industry. One generation of Jiuqingshui is the great-grandmother of the fourth generation of Jiuqingshui. Some people say that this woman is called Wang.
Lian Qiu is also called Wang Qiu. What she is called is not important. What is important is her family history. I will call her Wang Qiu.
This woman, Wang Qiu, lived in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Her husband fell ill and starved to death, leaving her with a son and a daughter. Wang Qiu was willing to do anything to support her children. It is said that she even slept with second-rate men to earn money. Later, Wang Qiu
Qiu saved a little money, and she used this money to study with a teacher and learn how to make rose rouge.
In order to raise a son and a daughter, she set up a stall selling rose rouge in front of Beijing Mu Zhennu Middle School. Mu Zhennu Middle School was one of the earliest church girls' middle schools at that time. It is now renamed 125 Middle School and is located in Dongcheng District.
Hougou Hutong.
The nickname Jiuqingshui originally came from selling rose rouge in Mu Zhennu. At that time, girls' cosmetics were not like today. Now there are special makeup removers. How could they be used before? At that time, in addition to good looks, they also paid attention to durability.
As for durability, the rose rouge sold by Wang Qiu is very durable due to its special formula. It can be applied to the face once and the color will not fade for half a month.
Someone did an experiment and put rouge on a girl's face. If you want to wash away the rose rouge sold by Wang Qiu, you need at least nine basins of water to completely wash it off, so some people call it Jiuqingshui.
Naturally, such a good product sold out.
That year, the Allied Forces invaded the Forbidden City, and Lafayette fled south in panic. All the officials had already fled, and only a few eunuchs and maids were left to guard the Forbidden City.
The little eunuchs and the maids were not stupid. As soon as Lafayette left, they began to steal things from the palace and sell them out, mainly porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, as well as incense burners, cloisonne, tables, chairs and benches, etc.
The guards guarding the Meridian Gate took their money and acted like blind men. Because the eunuch uniforms had no pockets, they stuffed them into their arms. This created a strange scene. At that time, the people who came out of the Meridian Gate at the South Gate every day, whether they were young eunuchs or
The little palace maids are all potbellied and look like they are ten months pregnant.
There are real treasures hidden in their clothes.
Things like the Eighty-Eight Pearl Dotted Emerald Phoenix Crown, the Chenghua Chicken Crock Cup of this Dynasty, the Ru Ci of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu's Flower and Bird Landscape, etc. were all leaked out this time. If the Chenghua Chicken Crock Cup hadn't been stolen by the little eunuch this time, He went out to live among the people, and he was already transported across the ocean to the Gulf Islands of our country. If this happens, the collector named Liu won't be able to buy it at all, not even for 200 million.
Jiu Qingshui smelled the huge profits, so she went to squat outside the Meridian Gate with cash every day. Whenever she saw a bulging eunuch and a maid, she would go up and talk to her. Because she was eloquent, she could often sell her money at a low price. Good price to buy.
She didn't understand the treasures in the palace at first, she only knew how to buy them and sell them at a higher price. As she saw more and more good things, her vision gradually improved. During this period, Jiu Qingshui was slowly becoming a A peasant woman transformed into an antique dealer.
Later, after Big Nose left, Lafayette came back. When she saw that her Dayazhai meal bowls and toilet basins were gone, she immediately became furious, so she issued an order to the people, requiring everyone, whether they were businessmen or common people, to get anything from the palace. , those who voluntarily surrender may have their guilt reduced as appropriate.
Whoever pays it is stupid.
After selling so much Jiuqingshui, she still had many bottles and cans at home. She was afraid of being found out, so she thought of an unfair method. She used a file to grind off all the deposits on the porcelain. In this way, it is like a person without fingerprints. No one can say that the things in her home are from the palace.
Later, many people followed her example, which also resulted in the fact that there are now many exquisite Qing Dynasty porcelains that are obviously not inferior to those of the official kilns, but when you turn it over, you can see that they are not the same. Some experts do not understand this period of history, so they regard them as high-quality products. Folk kilns imitate official kilns, but in fact those items are real treasures from the Qing Dynasty.
This is the famous "Guan Kiln" incident in the late Qing Dynasty.
Wang Qiu became rich overnight by making an official kiln. With this money, she later moved to the underground black market and dealt with tomb robbers, collecting heavy weapons, bronzes, sarcophagi and stone figures. As the money became more and more, she became an organization He began to organize his own troops to rob the tomb.
Wang Qiu's descendant, the second generation Jiu Qingshui, was better at strategy. After liberation, the great antique dealer Lu Qinzhai fled overseas and never dared to return to China. Yue Bin died in prison. Only the second generation Jiu Qingshui handed over his property and escaped safely, but He did not live long and died of cancer before he was 40 years old.
Next is the third generation Jiu Qingshui, who is also a woman.