A man picked up peppercorns and sold them for 600,000 yuan, and a few days later, another ancient tomb was discovered

In 2002, Zhou Wenfeng, who lives in Yuntang Village, Baoji, Shaanxi Province, went to the field to pick peppercorns, and the sun was shining at noon, feeling the hot pain in his fingers.

When he returned to the pepper field, he found that the pepper picked was missing, although it was half a bag, but it was also the fruit of a hard morning's labor, Zhou Wenfeng hurriedly looked around, suddenly, saw a slope with a few bamboo baskets, Zhou Wenfeng walked over and kicked away the bamboo basket, only to see a shiny bird staring at him faintly!

Shocked, Zhou Wenfeng picked it up and took a look, only to find that it was a palm-sized jade bird, a pair of wings engraved with back lines, gorgeous colors, Zhou Wenfeng estimated that it was a baby, he looked around and no one put it in his trouser pocket.

After picking up the jade bird, Zhou Wenfeng no longer had the heart to pick peppercorns, and immediately went home, his wife saw Zhou Wenfeng picking peppercorns all morning, but he entered the door empty-handed, and immediately scolded his head and face, Zhou Wenfeng immediately took out the jade bird and showed it to his wife.

Wife: "What is this! Where did you get it?" Zhou Wenfeng told his wife one by one, but unexpectedly, his wife said that it was unlucky to pick up the things used by the dead and let them be taken and thrown away, Zhou Wenfeng: "Do you think it was picked up in the tomb? This was found under several bamboo baskets!"

When his wife heard this, she was even more worried, someone must have left it under the bamboo basket, you didn't pick it up, you stole it! This look is dug up from the tomb! You hurry back so as not to get into trouble! But Zhou Wenfeng didn't think so, and insisted on staying and selling it for money.

Seeing that Zhou Wenfeng didn't listen to the advice, his wife asked him to put it at home for a few days, if no one came to find it, it would not be too late to sell it! Zhou Wenfeng also agreed, and his wife always felt unsteady in her heart, worried that the owner would find the door, so she found a cardboard box and wrote a note, and put it in the place where Zhou Wenfeng picked up the jade bird, thinking that the owner would definitely come to find it if she saw it.

Three days have passed in a blink of an eye, but no one has come to the door, Zhou Wenfeng at this time is a little impatient, and he has to sell it for money, his wife thinks that since no one has come to the door, it may be ownerless, so she agreed to Zhou Wenfeng to sell it for money.

Zhou Wenfeng came to a jade shop and asked, can it be sold for 1,000 yuan, and was a little lost, but he thought about it and felt that the jade shop might not be able to understand it at all, in order to sell it at a good price, Zhou Wenfeng came to Ma Bin's house, who was a teacher, and asked him to help find someone who knew how to take a look.

A few days later, Ma Bin told him that the jade bird might be a cultural relic, and asked Zhou Wenfeng to take it and hand it in, otherwise he would get into trouble.

Ma Bin saw that there was money to be made, and immediately agreed, after Zhou Wenfeng returned home, his wife asked if he had sold it? Zhou Wenfeng: "You just wait for the money!" After a night of careful consideration, Zhou Wenfeng decided to try his luck in an antique shop, in case he met a rich person who specializes in collecting, he could sell it at a good price.

Early the next morning, Zhou Wenfeng came to the antique shop, after the shopkeeper's identification, Zhou Wenfeng picked up the jade bird 7.4 cm long, 3.7 cm wide, the phoenix bird perched, head high, jade brown, jade crystal delicate, is the Western Zhou Dynasty jade phoenix bird, the shopkeeper immediately bid 600,000 yuan to buy, Zhou Wenfeng was excited, immediately agreed to sell to the shopkeeper.

Zhou Wenfeng, who got the money, immediately went home, he took out 60,000 yuan to give to Ma Bin, his wife felt that it was too little, worried that he couldn't stop Ma Bin's mouth, Zhou Wenfeng: "He doesn't know how much he sold!"

When Zhou Wenfeng handed over the money to Ma Bin, as his wife expected, Ma Bin felt that it was too little, and he had to ask for 200,000 yuan, Zhou Wenfeng disagreed, and the two had a dispute at home, Zhou Wenfeng was worried that he would get into trouble after being known by others, and in the end, he had to give Ma Bin 80,000 yuan.

A few days later, Zhou Wenfeng, who had made a windfall, wanted to take his wife on a trip, and the neighbor suddenly came to the door and asked him to return the pepper picker.

His wife persuaded him to keep a low profile, if he let others know that he was suddenly rich, he would definitely hold others to be jealous, and as a last resort, Zhou Wenfeng had to find a picker for peppercorns, and when he came to the field to find the pepper picker, he found that half a bag of peppercorns he picked was also in the original position, which made Zhou Wenfeng a little surprised.

Could it be that someone deliberately stole peppercorns, because Zhou Wenfeng was in a hurry to travel, he didn't think much about it, just when Zhou Wenfeng was about to go home, he saw a figure shaking under the slope where he picked up the jade bird a few days ago.

Out of curiosity, Zhou Wenfeng tiptoed over, walked over and was stunned! I saw that three middle-aged men were digging holes, and when Zhou Wenfeng saw the tools in the hands of several people, he knew that they were tomb robbers.

Unexpectedly, he was pulled down the hill by a quick-eyed man and pressed to the ground, Zhou Wenfeng was frightened, and hurriedly shouted: "I just passed by, I didn't see anything!" The man: "Don't shout! Shut up!"

Zhou Wenfeng, who calmed down, took a look, and saw two jars at the mouth of the hole dug by several people, which were full of water and silt, and another man smashed the jar, and for a while, a pile of gold, jade, stone carving, and wood carving fell out, and Zhou Wenfeng's eyes lit up.

The man pointed at Zhou Wenfeng and said, "How to deal with this person?" Another man, "pushed him into the burier, so frightened that Zhou Wenfeng began to struggle, the man slapped Zhou Wenfeng on the head and said, "It's better to think about where to sell for money!

When Zhou Wenfeng heard this, he said: "I can buy these things, you can make a price!" As long as you let me go, the man kicked Zhou Wenfeng and said: "Why do you come with your mouth open, do you have so much money?" Zhou Wenfeng: "If you don't believe it, you can go home with me and get it!"

The man stared at Zhou Wenfeng suspiciously: "This antique is worth millions to say the least, if you don't have so much money, don't waste our time!"

Zhou Wenfeng: "I promise to get the money!" After several men discussed, they unanimously agreed to sell the package to Zhou Wenfeng, and that night, Zhou Wenfeng led the man to the house, borrowed some money from Ma Bin and neighbors, and collected 1 million to hand over to a few men.

The man who got the money quickly left Zhou Wenfeng's house, and then Zhou Wenfeng came to the cemetery, packed two jars of gold, silver and jade and returned home, at this time, Ma Bin had been waiting at home, after inventory, the two jars contained a total of 65 pieces of various gold, silver and jade, and they could make at least hundreds of thousands of dollars when they were sold.

Zhou Wenfeng took the lead in taking a few gold bracelets to the antique shop, and Ma Bin went to Xi'an, Zhou Wenfeng handed the bracelet to the shopkeeper, and said that it was an aluminum modern handicraft, Zhou Wenfeng was a little unconvinced, this was dug up yesterday!

Shopkeeper: "You dug it up today, it's also fake, and it's outrageously fake!" Zhou Wenfeng panicked when he heard this, and immediately notified Ma Bin to return to Baoji and let him take all the gold, silver and jade artifacts to the antique shop.

Ma Bin learned that he scolded Zhou Wenfeng for being a pig's head, and Zhou Wenfeng was also dumb and ate Coptis chinensis, and he couldn't say his bitterness, and he was paralyzed on the ground at a loss, and the shopkeeper told them that in the antique industry, there are often people who dig pits and set up bureaus, they first dug a hole in the mountain, and then dug a tomb in the hole.

Then they bought a lot of fake antiques from the antique market and put them in the jars prepared in advance, and in order to make the tomb look more like and more real, whenever it rained, they would dig a ditch in the mountain to divert the rainwater into the fake tomb.

After a long period of rain soaking, the tomb was full of silt, and then a lot of fake antiques were buried in the mud.

Zhou Wenfeng didn't know how to explain to his wife, he came to the door and wandered and didn't dare to enter the house, until late at night, then he mustered up the courage to enter the house, Zhou Wenfeng asked his wife to cook, but no one answered for a long time, he came to the antique shop to inquire, only to learn that his wife ran away with a few men.