My grandpa is an antique dealer. Without him, I wouldn't enter into the business of trickery trading. The reason why my grandpa would enter the antique industry is because of a tragedy that happened in the village where my hometown was located in the early years.
My hometown is located in a small village called the Nata River on the border of Yunnan and Burma. In the early 1970s, a large jade mine was dug out on the side of the Savage Hill in Myanmar, and the Nata River was at the foot of Savage Hill. At that time, I didn't know who said that there were also large jade mines here, so the folks in the village who did not understand anything picked up a pickaxe and went to dig the "jade mine".
To everyone's surprise, Xun said that the jade mine, not even Tieyu, saw one. However, the ideal villagers in Huaiyang still used the spirit of Yugong to move the mountain, planed a square kilometer of soil layer, and finally dug out a large ancient tomb in the north of the village.
The news spread that the whole village was a sensation, and every family, old and young, rushed to "dig the treasure." However, villagers lacking common sense did not know that the ancient tombs were usually buried with hidden organs. They only dug for joy, but did not expect that the god of death had quietly spread the black wings on their heads.
The organ of this tomb is "the sword, the mountain, and the sea" in jargon. In order to prevent the grave robbers from looting his mansion, the tomb owner used the most vicious organ in the world to heal with the grave robbers.
When someone pry the brick above the tomb, it will pull the hidden blood silk under it, the hidden opening in the tunnel will open, and the black powder stored in it will pour out and merge into a long-arranged jade. In the box. The man standing on top of the brick had no idea that his feet had become an ammunition depot that could explode at any time.
Even after entering the tomb of the tomb, the road afterwards is not a flat road. Open the first door of the tunnel entrance, and two rows of bronze men will appear. The bronze people squatted forward and stood, all holding a sharp bow that was held open. When the door was opened, the body pulled, the fingers of the bow were loosened, and two rows of poison arrows rushed in. Can't escape the fate of the arrow. The arrows are highly toxic. Although the toxicity has not subsided in the slightest after thousands of years, as long as the skin is scratched, people will coagulate and die after a while.
Now this strange array of bronze men has been pulled to a museum exhibition somewhere. I don't think anyone who visits them can think that these bronze statues, which seem to be handicrafts, are actually a murder weapon. At that time, more than half of the strong labor in the Nata River village died in the hands of these bronze men.
The poisoned arrows killed a large group of people, and before the surviving people calmed down from terror, the tomb exploded again. Nata River Village lost 90% of its population in less than ten minutes.
Next, a memorable scene happened. Deep in the tomb, the solid metal products flew out like fountains, including the bronze men, with the sound of explosive explosions. They fell in a large area to the east of Nata River Village, so the surviving villagers picked up many weird baubles. Among the surviving villagers are grandpa and my parents.
Our family is one of the few families in the village to be completely "kept". According to Grandpa, because our family is honest, there is no place in the village. It seems that such good things as digging for treasure will not turn them into the crowd, so they did not leave. Unexpectedly, this earth-shattering big bang "delivered" many antiques and utensils to our home.
Those who want to Taobao were killed unexpectedly, but those who were honestly at home were given a lot of valuable antique utensils, which may be their fate.
Later, grandpa took his parents to start reselling cultural relics. At that time, the people who ate this bowl of rice were not legally bound. You have something in your hand and you can make money by daring to make an offer. Grandpa has been poor for most of his life. This time, it finally works and makes a lot of money, and the fate of our family follows. What changed: The father who had been digging the land all day long became the grandfather's most loyal deliveryman, and the mother managed the passwords for all his grandfather's accounts.
As my family became better, I continued to graduate until college, gained knowledge and gained knowledge, and then I started to sell antiques with my grandfather. As for the reason why I later entered the business of cunning things, it was because my grandpa got a long flute from the tomb.
This long flute can definitely not belong to the owner of the tomb. Because according to the artifacts unearthed in the tomb, this should be a tomb in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Although the predecessor of the flute flute was available at that time, most flute flutes were made of five holes. The grand flute obtained by my grandfather was six holes in front and one hole beside it. . The question is, why is there a long flute of the "Tang Dynasty style" in an ancient tomb of the Qin and Han Dynasties?
This long flute is about eighty centimeters long and it is pure white. The flute is mostly made of bamboo, but this long flute is not. At first, the family thought this thing was a jade product, but after accumulating some antique recognition experience later, they discovered that the long flute was actually made of bones.
Grandpa was a little worried because he wasn't sure if it was made of human bones.
At that time, Grandpa had already had a certain influence in the antiques circle. He had moved from Natahe Village to Yunnan's largest city, K City. Although Grandpa was a peasant, he was active and collected some items in the ancient tomb. Some villagers sold it directly to the cultural relic dealers who came from Wenfeng. Instead, they sold a part of it and started buying antiques picked up by the same villagers after receiving the funds. Villagers generally don't offer high prices, so Grandpa sells the antiques he bought to antique dealers at high prices. Later, he used cultural relic dealers to despise the psychology of farmers, adulterated and sold fakes, and even began to buy things from cultural relic dealers, and then sold them to the next group at a premium.
In short, relying on grandpa's "continuous elimination" method, our family not only made money, but also hoarded a lot of antiques. Shortly after I graduated from college, shortly after I officially entered the antique world, I met the person who changed my life trajectory.
This man's name is Ma Changmao, and his family runs a huge business in Hong Kong. Its group includes real estate, telecommunications, media ... Some well-known Hong Kong and Taiwanese artists have gathered under his family's entertainment company.
Ma's identity background doesn't seem to touch the strange things at all, but everyone in the circle understands that it is this background that is more suitable for managing the incredible "strange things sales business", because those rich people who have a wealth of identity Say extremely concerned. If you say that a dragon's horn is found in an old forest in a deep mountain, these people will find ways to get this dragon's horn and put it in the "fengshui treasure" of their own home to support them, with a view to Fuze himself and his descendants.
In other words, superstitions form part of the beliefs of rich people, which is why there is always a market for psychic items.
And I also graduated from a university student with an interest in Chinese antique culture and gradually became a treacherous merchant who ventured away from the door. I don't know if I have fallen or sublimated. In short, the life that followed was almost incredible every day.