Chen Hanlin didn't want to listen to Ali Lizhen's nagging anymore, so he changed the topic and said, "Lizhen, you call Su Zhen again and ask her to lend me another 300,000 yuan at the end——"

Before he finished speaking, Ai Lizhen shouted: "You still want to borrow money from my sister? In the past three years, you have already borrowed nearly one million yuan from her, why are you embarrassed to open up to her? Although she did not urge you to repay the debt, you also have to take care of your face as a big professor!"

Chen Hanlin said curtly: "Lizhen, this time the situation is different, I borrowed money to buy it after stepping on it, it is definitely a genuine treasure, as long as it changes hands, there will be more than ten times the profit." ”

Alizhen widened her eyes and asked, "What kind of treasure is it?" ”

"Here's right: My student Zhang Bihu has an uncle who is a returned overseas Chinese. He had a Tang Dynasty pastel lady mural in his hand, and Zhang Bihu sent me a photo of the mural through WeChat. Judging from the photos, this mural was scraped from the tomb wall of a certain Tang Dynasty aristocratic tomb, the colors are very bright, the characters are lifelike, and there is no doubt that it should be genuine. ”

When Ai Lizhen heard this, she couldn't help but be moved: if a Tang Dynasty pastel lady mural, if it is true, its artistic value, cultural relics value and historical value are very high, and it is also very popular in the cultural relics market, and the most conservative price is millions of yuan. If you can really buy this mural back for 300,000 yuan, even if you don't resell it, the collection value is extremely high......

So, she frowned and asked, "Is your student reliable?" I can remind you: it is illegal to knowingly buy stolen goods from tomb robbers. Since this mural came out of the tomb, it is hard to guarantee that it is not a tomb robbery stolenty, you have to find out before you buy it. ”

Chen Hanlin said confidently: "I have found out this clearly. According to Zhang Bihu, the mural was bought by his uncle from a Spanish expatriate, who in turn bought it from another person before liberation. In this way, the mural has changed hands several times, and it has been transferred back from abroad. Even if it was stolen from the ancient tomb, it has now become an ordinary unearthed artifact, and it is not illegal for me to buy it. ”

"When are you going to make a deal?"

"At ten o'clock this evening, I will meet at a café near the antique street to inspect the goods, and Zhang Bihu's uncle will come over with the murals, and after I finish the inspection, I will pay for the goods on the spot. ”

Ai Lizhen hesitated for a while, but finally picked up her mobile phone, dialed her sister Ai Suzhen's number, and told her about the situation. Ai Suzhen didn't say anything, and happily transferred the money to Chen Hanlin's account through online banking.

As soon as the account was transferred, Chen Yunhan walked into the house with Tang Xin.

"Dad, Mom, this is my friend Tang Xin, Tang of the Tang Dynasty, add a 'Xin' of 'jin' next to the word 'day'. ”

Because she knew that her mother Ai Lizhen was a bit vain and snobbish, Chen Yunhan deliberately did not introduce where Tang Xin worked.

After Tang Xin waited for her to finish her introduction, she bowed politely to Chen Hanlin and Ai Lizhen, and said, "Hello uncle and aunt." ”

Seeing Tang Xin's dignified appearance and unconventional appearance, Ai Lizhen secretly applauded in her heart, and hurriedly asked Tang Xin to sit down on the sofa and told Chen Yunhan to make tea quickly.

"Xiao Tang, where are you in high school?"

While her daughter went to the kitchen to make tea, Alizhen couldn't wait to ask her the questions she was most concerned about.

Tang Xin replied truthfully: "Auntie, I was originally working as an apprentice in a shop on Antique Street, but I left that shop a few days ago, and I haven't found a job yet." ”

Alizhen let out an "ah", and the smile on her face disappeared suddenly: "So, you are an apprentice in an antique shop, and you are still unemployed?"

"Yes. ”

"How old are you?"

"Twenty-two years old. ”

"Listen to your accent, you're not a local, are you, where is your hometown?"

"Of M City, K County, Hunan Province. ”

Ai Lizhen's hometown is also from Hunan Province, but she is from the provincial capital, and I heard that Tang Xin is from M City and K County, which is a well-known poor county in Hunan Province, her face sank suddenly, and she stared at him for a long time before she asked: "What do your parents do? Do you work in the county seat?"

Tang Xin listened to her interrogating like a thief, as if he wanted to understand his ancestors for eighteen generations, and listened to her tone becoming more and more bad, and felt a little uncomfortable, so he also restrained the smile that had been hanging on his face, and replied without humility or arrogance: "Auntie, I am an orphan and grew up in a welfare home, so I don't know what my parents do. ”

Ai Lizhen exclaimed again with an "ah", looked at Tang Xin with a star, and asked the last question for a long time: "What kind of education do you have?

"No, I dropped out of school after finishing the second grade of elementary school, let alone college, I didn't go to junior high school or high school!"

Tang Xin was very disgusted by Ai Lizhen's interrogation-like tone, and simply emphasized the fact that he did not graduate from elementary school.

When Ai Lizhen heard his last two words, she couldn't bear it anymore, stood up with a "whew", and turned around to go to the kitchen to ask her daughter Xingshi for her guilt.

Unexpectedly, Chen Yunhan happened to come over with a cup of tea, bumped into Ai Lizhen, and the purple sand teacup in her hand fell to the ground, "popping" and falling apart, and the hot tea splashed on the two people, so painful that the mother and daughter "ouch" at the same time.

"Mom, what are you doing, what are you doing in such a hurry?" Chen Yunhan complained while snorting at the burned place on his arm.

Ai Lizhen didn't care about wiping the tea on her body, took her daughter's hand, pulled her into a bedroom without saying anything, and asked angrily: "Hanhan, tell me honestly: Is that wage earner outside pursuing you? Do you want to play friends with him?"

Chen Yunhan's face turned red, and she replied a little sheepishly: "Mom, why are you suddenly asking this? I've only known him for a few days, and tonight I asked him to come over to appraise those antique calligraphy and paintings for my father." ”

The so-called "knowing daughter Mo Ruomu", when Ai Lizhen saw her daughter's shy appearance of blushing before speaking, she knew that she must have been moved by the boy outside, and couldn't help but shout: "Identify you ghost, he is a working apprentice who has not graduated from elementary school, can he give your father an appraisal of antiques? Who are you coaxing? Sister, you have grown so big, and you have never brought a young man to the house, let alone eat with us." You suddenly brought him over for dinner today, did you like him?"

Chen Yunhan knew that sooner or later she would tell her parents, and it was better to admit it directly than to twist and pinch and hide it, so she nodded and said, "Mom, since you must get to the bottom of it, then let me tell you: I do have a good impression of him and want to have a relationship with him." I brought him to my house today just to ask you and Dad to have a look and get to know him. ”