The old cloth had some oil stains and was wrapped with three layers inside and three outside. It was a bit difficult to untie it.
Unwrapping it layer by layer, I saw that there were a few silver coins wrapped inside, a small pile of green embroidered copper coins, and an old red handkerchief.
The silver coins are all Yuan Datou. They are in average condition and have scratches. They are three and nine years old, but several of them have editions, which is good.
I said grandma, these are all inherited from your family?
She nodded and said yes. In the past, her granddaughter had no tuition fees for school. She looked for antique collectors and offered them 80 yuan each.
"I didn't sell it. I kept it. I plan to sell it in two days. I still owe the hospital money."
I told her, grandma, don’t sell it for less. These coins are at least 380 each. The nine-year-old one is the fine-haired version, which is at least 700. The one with puncture wounds is the big-ear version. Although it is damaged, it is still intact.
It can also be worth a thousand dollars.
The old lady stopped what she was doing and said, young man, you still know this.
I don't like these things. I think it's not interesting at all. It's better to rob tombs. Just a piece of bronze and ancient jade costs tens of thousands. This is because I have followed it for a long time and my horizons have broadened. We basically don't
Robbery of Qing Dynasty tombs.
If Yapo's Yuan Datou is still here, the ordinary one can be sold for about 1,300 yuan, the fine-haired version is about 3,500 yuan, and the big-eared Yuan Datou version made in three years can be sold for at least 20,000 yuan. You can sell it casually.
I asked again: "Grandma, why are your copper coins so dirty? The green embroidery is so serious, it shouldn't be."
The key point is that her dozen copper coins are all identical Daoguang Tongbao small coins, because generally speaking, this kind of Daoguang small coins handed down from generation to generation are all made of black ancient paste. How can green embroidery be produced like this, unless it is
Digged from the soil.
Ya Po said: "These copper coins were all used by me to fry beans."
"Fried beans?" I asked what it meant, but I had never heard of it.
She said that she just threw the copper coins and lentils into the water and boiled them together. She said that eating the lentils cooked in this way was good for people's health, but after cooking them several times, they became rusty like this.
"Can these still be sold for money, young man?"
I said it was terrible, maybe I could sell it for 50 cents each.
"It's okay. I don't expect to sell these to pay off the debt. I think you are interested. The main reason is to show you what the ghost snake looks like."
After speaking, she opened the red handkerchief in front of me.
"What is this? Is this a silk painting?"
I was stunned for a moment.
On this piece of old red cloth, she drew a calligraphy painting.
The ink passed through the red cloth and was already somewhat oxidized. A few grasses were drawn on the red cloth with a few strokes, and a very thin black snake was drawn next to the grass.
This black snake looks very strange. It has no nose, mouth and eyes. The snake's head was chopped off with a copper coin sword. From the painting, it can be seen that the head and body of this strange snake are separated in the middle.
If you look closely, you can vaguely see that the copper coin sword used to chop off the snake's head is all made of Daoguang Tongbao.
In short, this old canvas painting has no beginning or end, and I have no idea what it means.
Seeing me in a daze, Yapo's expression was extremely solemn, and she said: "Young man, this is the ghost cub snake."
"I still vaguely remember that when I was a child, I met the second-generation temple maid under the big tree at the entrance of the village. The mother-in-law told me that the ghost snakes first lived in those stone men. At night, they would come out of the stone men.
When it climbs out, there will be black air on the snake's head. If someone happens to pass by at this time, it will crawl in along the person's trouser leg."
I asked what would happen if it got in?
Ya Po said with a solemn face: "A ghost snake is a ghost snake. The Ya Po of the previous generation said that if it burrows into a human being, regardless of male or female, it will become sexually promiscuous and greedy. If it goes on for a long time... then it is not a human being.
Already."
I frowned and asked, "Grandma, where did you get this piece of cloth painting from? You painted it yourself."
I think if she drew it herself, it would be a work of fiction. This strange snake was just a figment of her own imagination and does not exist in reality.
Unexpectedly, Lao Yapo immediately shook his head and said: "This is not a painting by me. It was passed on to the second generation by the first generation of Yapo, and then it was given to me when I was young. I have also guessed before that it might be the Taoist disciple who gave it to me."
A generation of Yapo."
"Taoist Priest?"
I subconsciously blurted out: "Is it Chen Meiqing, a Taoist priest from the Lushan sect?"
"You...how do you know the Taoist priest's name?" Ya Po looked very surprised.
There is no need to hide this from her, I just said that Grandma Xiao Tang told me.
"Li Yushi...did she let you see the piece of Yinluo cloth?"
"Luoyin cloth, the one who watches Luoyin?"
She frowned and said yes, and then told: "After the Guizai Temple was built, as the temple maid chosen by Master Chen, each of us temple maids has a piece of this cloth, which is kept for ourselves. Only the yellow talisman will be circulated."
"What kind of yellow charm?" I asked.
When I asked about this, her eyes were a little dodgey, and she said that she had accidentally damaged the talisman and it was no longer there.
I know that the talisman was sewn into her granddaughter's clothes. It is said that if you wear this talisman, you can become a dragon or a phoenix among men. I am boldly guessing that maybe it is sewn into Xiao Tang's pants now.
