We couldn't do any work without a shovel, so Brother Yu and I went to find someone else's house in the afternoon, while the others stayed where they were to look at things and belongings.
Xingyang is very close. You can get there in just over an hour by car. I don’t know what Kong Laoxie’s real name is, but his skill in shoveling Luoyang is passed down from his ancestors.
I also wonder why this person was not included in the list of intangible cultural heritage in the Luoyang City Review of Handmade Luoyang Shovel.
If you have friends who live in Guangwu, Xingyang, you must know that there are two heritage villages there, called "Hanwang City" and "Bawang City."
There is a long ditch between the two ruins villages, called the "chasm". Don't we usually say, "That so-and-so, we are not suitable for each other, there is an insurmountable gap between you and me."
The source is from here.
More than a thousand years ago, this was the dividing point between the Chu River and the Han Dynasty, and the two lines on the chessboard pointed here.
Many people don't know.
This "gap" was not originally a large ditch. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, it was dug by an unknown local ruler. In order to divert water from the Yellow River, a "grand canal" was made. This is the Chu River and Han River on the chessboard.
"Chu River" in the world.
After arriving at Honggou at around three o'clock that afternoon, I looked up and saw some old houses vaguely visible on the top of the mountain. Brother Yu frowned and said, "There must be no electricity on the mountain. This guy named Lao Xie lives in a remote place. Where do we go up there?"
Huh? I didn’t see the road.”
I didn’t know where the way up the mountain was, so I just kept walking and had a look. It was so high that I would definitely not be able to go up here.
Not long after walking in the big ditch, I saw two young men, holding shovels and bags in their hands, bending over to dig something.
I winked at Brother Yu and walked over quietly.
"What are you doing!"
"What the hell!"
This man was startled. He turned around and saw it was me and him. He immediately said loudly: "I was scared to death! Why did you conduct a surprise attack? What did you two do?"
I glanced at it and saw that the sack in his hand was bulging. Is there any treasure here?
"Didi didi..."
Just hearing a short electronic alarm sound, another person said anxiously: "Brother Ma, Brother Ma! Quick! There is it here! Dig quickly!"
It turned out that these two people were digging for copper coins and miscellaneous copper items here to search for treasures. The sack was filled with rotten copper coins and miscellaneous items.
The appearance of these two people is very vague in my memory, but I remember that they dug down with a shovel and dug out several large rusty copper coins. They seemed to be Xingchao Tongbao large copper coins from the Ming Dynasty. One copper coin was about 5cm in diameter.
"Brother, how much can you dig in one day?" I asked him.
The man shook the tool in his hand and coaxed: "It depends on the situation. As long as the detector has power, I can dig several kilograms a day."
"What kind of tool is this? It looks very convenient." I asked curiously.
This person said: "This is the detector used in the fucking college entrance examination room last year. It scans mobile phone keys and other metal objects. It is used to catch students cheating. I bought it at a high price."
The type of detector he was talking about is a handheld detector that can only detect about 10 centimeters from the surface and is useless at depth.
Even so, I guess these two people have made a lot of money, because even the locals don't know that Tugou was an ancient canal dug by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. It is said that he found this place from history books.
It's been more than 20 years now, and I don't know if it's still okay to go now.
Anyway, I dare say that many people don’t know about this big ditch in Guangwu Town.
Spend a few hundred dollars and buy a second-hand metal detector, go and play with it if you want.
Maybe you can actually dig something out. If you are caught, just say: "I will hand over everything I dug up. I haven't had time to hand it over yet, so why don't you take it away."
It's fine if you say so. At most, the tools for committing the crime will be confiscated.
