People always say that there are two good places in this prosperous and beautiful Beijing.

There are always the largest number of people in Beijing. One of them is that the largest number of people watch the national flag raising at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Another place is the Panjiayuan Antique Market. "You have to ask why, because everyone is looking down at things there, waiting to find a national treasure and make a fortune."

As for the Panjiayuan Antique Market, it is located southwest of the Panjiayuan Bridge on East Third Ring Road South in Beijing. There are many areas in this flea market.

There are some relatively old buildings here, and most people set up street stalls to sell antiques, as well as some selling handicrafts and collectibles here.

There are also small shops that sell decorations. There are all kinds of strange things here. There are tens of thousands of dealers in Panjiayuan Market. It is really a mixed place.

My name is Feng Lin. I am from Sichuan. I am thirty-one years old this year. When I was young, I came to Beijing with my father from my hometown to manage a small grocery store with antique items left by my grandfather. I am almost thirty when I come to Beijing.

It's been 20 years, and now I am a small owner of this store who collects and sells antiques.

My father’s name is Feng Wen. His original profession was an antiques appraiser. While doing the work of appraising ancient cultural relics for others, he also secretly made a living by buying and selling antiques. I have been around him since I was a child, so

I have also done some research and understanding on various ancient cultural relics!

My father also hired a storekeeper in this small shop. His name was Pan Gang. He was about ten years older than me. My father always asked me to call him uncle.

But I still like to call him Pan Zige. He is tall and tall, with dark skin. He looks very healthy. He has a very honest and loyal character. He is also hard-working and studious. He always has a silly smile on his face and is a very good person.

easy going.

It has been more than ten years since my father left me, and he only left some memories. When he left, he told me that he was going on a trip to inspect an antique market in a certain place. He said he would be going for a long, long time, and he didn’t know when he would be able to come back!

Since I was eighteen years old at the time and was not very good at studying, I stopped studying and dropped out of school. In order to prevent me from going out and messing around and not doing my job, my father gave me the antique shop to take care of. But I also knew that

I'm still far behind, I can't control these things at all!

When my father was about to leave, I felt very reluctant. I saw a trace of complicated emotions in his eyes, and I also had a hunch at that time that my father might never come back after leaving.

But if I want to keep my family's antique business, there are only two ways to go. The first is to ask my father's good friend Uncle Wang to help me manage the store business. Uncle Wang is also the person my father trusts the most.

Uncle Wang is my father's life-and-death friend. When I was a child, I heard my father say that as long as he was around, he would do his best to help me manage the business of the store, because in the antique business, it is inevitable that there will always be trouble.

From time to time, I will come into contact with some people who commit tomb robberies!

When I was a child, I heard that Uncle Wang was a very powerful person. Only people like Uncle Wang who lick blood from the edge of a knife can deter those desperadoes with evil intentions, and prevent those who peek at the antiques in my hands from doing harm to me.

The second is to work hard to cleanse oneself, draw a clear line with the tomb robbers, give up the antique business and become a commoner.

The winter in Beijing this year was very cold. The cold wind blowing from the north was whistling past, mixed with cold snowflakes. There was nothing much going on during the day. I almost didn’t want to go out for a walk, so I stood quietly in front of the window, thinking

Thinking about what needs to be done recently!

Looking at the falling snowflakes outside the window, I gradually became a little lost in thought, and didn't even notice anyone coming behind me.

At this time, a strong hand patted my shoulder, "Xiao Lin, what's wrong with you? What are you thinking about?"

Uncle Wang said to me behind me, holding a plate with two cups of hot tea in his hands.

I came back to my senses immediately, "Is it you? Uncle Wang"

I took the teacup held by Uncle Wang and I was thinking, "Should the store need to be renovated? Our business has been pretty good in recent years. We have collected a lot of things, but we can hardly put them down because we haven't sold them."

Uncle Wang smiled and said, "Then how do you want to decorate this place? You are the owner of this antique shop, so everything depends on your ideas."

"Uncle Wang, I want to open a basement, just under this house. I can store some rare antiques. What do you think?"

Uncle Wang said, "Okay, I'll go to the labor market tomorrow and find a few workers to work with. It's easy to find migrant workers there to do odd jobs. People who work hard are everywhere."

Early the next morning, Uncle Wang came over with a dozen workers. Before I even entered the door, Uncle Wang called me, "Xiao Lin, I've found the workers for you too. As for how to plan it, tell them."

Bar."

"Well, okay, Uncle Wang"

I agreed and looked at the workers and said to them, "That's it. You can open a basement for me under the north wall. My requirement is to dig it at least five meters deep and six meters wide."

"I'm looking for a carpenter to make some shelves and put them down, so the space must be spacious."

A foreman-like person came over to me and said, "Boss, there is no problem with this job. It can be completed quickly. Do you have any other requirements for the basement? If not, then we will start working."

I said, "No more for now, you can start digging."

"Okay, come on, brothers, let's start working. At this time, a few strong workers took shovels, pickaxes and other tools and walked to the north wall and started digging."

I said to Uncle Wang, "Uncle Wang, I'll just keep an eye on it. You can go and have a rest. You'll be tired from staring here all the time."

"Well, I'll go back first and you don't have to watch. Just let them do it by themselves. There's no need to pay them the wages in a hurry. I'll take care of it tomorrow." After that, Uncle Wang walked out.

"Yes, I understand, Uncle Wang," I agreed, and Uncle Wang, who left the shop, returned to his home, which also lived near the shop.

The busy workers were working hard to dig the soil. After digging for an hour, they dug down to a depth of more than one meter and a width of more than two meters.

Suddenly I heard an ouch and a worker shouted, "Why is it so difficult to dig? Is there something underneath?"

"You don't know how to dig up rocks?" asked a worker standing nearby.

At this time, the foreman also came over to check the cause. After taking a few glances, he said to me, "Little boss, please come and take a look. It seems like there is a wall here. It is difficult to dig here. It seems to be made of stone at the bottom."

The worker who was the first to dig the pit also shouted to me, "Yes, there is really something here." I then walked over and squatted down to look at the things in the pit, and a wall made of all blue bricks appeared.

before my eyes"

While digging to the side and below to see if there was a wall, the worker dug for a while and said, yes, there is a wall.

I said to the worker, "Change the tools and see if you can break it open."

Two workers took hammers and hit the wall violently. After a few hits, they broke a big hole in the blue brick wall. A dark passage sealed by the wall leaked out from behind the hole.

I looked at it, turned around, went back to the room, got a flashlight, and jumped down into the pit. I turned around and said to the workers, "Don't dig now. You guys need to take a rest. I'll go see what's going on down there."

After saying that, he turned on the flashlight, bent down and got into the passage. The passage was quite spacious, and he could stand up straight inside. He walked along the passage for more than ten meters and came to a secret room made of a stone house that was not too big.

In the empty secret room, there was only a mahogany box with a large iron lock.

I knelt down and looked at the box. It had an antique shape with exquisite carvings and gilding, exuding an ancient atmosphere. The box was clearly an antique and had an iron lock on it. I thought to myself, "The things inside should be quite good.

What's in it?

There was a door on the west wall of the secret room. However, I was not in a hurry to open the box. I stood up and walked towards the door. I stretched out my hand and pushed it but it didn't push. The door couldn't be pushed and there was no handle. What should I do?

Only then could I open the stone door. I thought in my mind that this must be controlled by an agency!

I started to look around the stone door to see if there was a mechanism to open the door. A small raised stone on the lower right wall caught my attention. I squatted down and touched the stone with my hand. I felt that the stone could open the door.

I pressed it, held it with both hands, and pressed it down hard. The door creaked open. Sure enough, the stone door opened. I checked that there was no danger, so I raised my legs and walked in.

After walking along the Shimen passage for a while, I found that the road extended to the ground. After coming out of the passage, I found that I had come under a rockery pile of stones. I slowly poked my head out, peeked around and found that it was actually a rockery.

My shop is more than 100 meters away in Longtan Park.

After finding out the situation nearby, I retreated silently and walked back to the secret room along the passage. I came to the box and squatted down and looked at the lock above. It can't be opened without the key, I thought to myself.

, after thinking about it, he stood up and walked along the passage into the hole that was broken by the workers.

After climbing out of the cave, I saw a dozen construction workers taking a rest. Some were sitting on the ground smoking, while others were sitting against the corner.

After walking out of the hole, I said to the construction foreman, "Uncle, please take your men to help fill this hole. I won't dig the basement anymore. This underground passage seems to have been used to divert roads in the city in the past. It is to dig underground pipes to facilitate walking."

We don’t want to destroy the channels that people left behind when they were young, so that other people’s units can use them to handle things.

I quickly made up a random reason to deceive the workers and dispel their doubts. I didn’t want anyone to know about the following situation and I waited until no one knew about it before I could research it myself!

"Well, little boss, please stop digging now and let us fill in the soil again, but my brothers have been busy for most of the day in vain."

"We have done a lot of work for you, and the wages you should give us must not be less than a penny. The gentleman who came to us just now promised to give us two hundred yuan each."
Chapter completed!