Hearing Song Xiong's words, Hua Borong on the side glanced at Fang Ming, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, and asked, "Fang Ming, is there anything wrong with this pair of stone lions?"

If there was a different person, Hua Borong would not ask such a question, but he knew Engong's skills, and as Engong's apprentice, Fang Ming would definitely mean something when he said such a thing.

Moreover, Hua Borong also asked such a thing after thinking about it, because he believed that Fang Ming would say such a sentence to Song Xiong and also intended to mention Song Xiong.

"Of course there is something wrong, and it is a big mistake. ”

Fang Ming answered directly and quickly, and then looked at Song Xiong, "I want to ask first, was this pair of stone lions sent by Boss Song's friend or invited by Boss Song himself?"

"This is what I bought from the thrift market, the main family is in front of a large family in the Republic of China, and then the family road fell in the middle of the pair of stone lions and sold, I saw that this stone lion was in good condition and took it. Although Song Xiong didn't know why Fang Ming asked this, he still answered truthfully.

"So it was an accident. Fang Ming nodded clearly, and when he saw Song Xiong's puzzled expression, he explained: "It's true that the lion is a rui beast, but since Boss Song is in the cultural and entertainment business, he should have also heard of the fox." ”

"Of course, I have heard that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, the fifth of which is named Fox. ”

"Then does Boss Song know the description of the fox in the record?" Fang Ming continued to ask.

"This ......"

Song Xiong was stunned for a moment, but Hua Borong answered on the side: "Foxy, similar to a lion, Rui beast, generally used in town houses, deeply loved by ancient dignitaries and nobles, it is rumored that Foxy likes smoke, so many ancient incense burners heel carvings are mostly Foxy images." ”

That's right, this is the description of the ancient people, in fact, in modern times, many people directly regard the lion as the lion, because there is no difference between the two in appearance, the so-called stone lion refers to the fox. Fang Ming then added: "However, few people still remember that there was a divine beast that looked very similar to the Fox. ”

"A mythical beast that resembles a fox?"

Not only Song Xiong, but at this moment, even Hua Borong and Hua Ming looked at Fang Ming with doubts on their faces, waiting for Fang Ming's explanation.

"Ward off evil spirits, a kind of divine beast with the same shape as the fox, the difference is that the evil spirits are more than the fox with a pair of flying wings. ”

"Ward off evil spirits?"

Hua Borong and Song Xiong showed a thoughtful look on their faces, while Hua Ming was still at a loss, because he had never heard of such a divine beast as warding off evil spirits.

"Actually, Uncle Hua, you should have been in contact with evil spirits, but maybe you didn't pay much attention to it, after all, this thing is not common now, and even if there is, it is more in the museum, because it is the opposite of evil spirits and evil spirits, the evil spirits are town houses, and evil spirits are town tombs. ”

"The ancients paid attention to entering the earth for peace, so they hoped that the dead could sleep in the cemetery, and the evil beast can also be heard from its name, which is used to suppress the evil things, so that the dead can sleep in the ground peacefully. ”

Fang Ming looked at Hua Borong, Hua Borong's Huabao Building is mainly engaged in jewelry and jade business, and the mythical beasts such as evil spirits generally appear in tombs**, but ordinary people in ancient times could not afford to use jade to ward off evil spirits, and more often used wood or stone carved out of evil spirits to replace.

Those who can afford to use jade to ward off evil spirits are ancient dignitaries, and the tombs of such people are naturally not easy to be excavated, and the era when tomb robbery was prevalent in the early days was more privately bought and sold, of course, more were excavated by archaeologists and put in museums.

"Fang Ming, I remember what you said, the store did receive evil spirits, but that was many years ago, and now there are fewer of them. ”

Hua Borong nodded, but his expression was slightly strange when he said this, as if he didn't want to talk more.

Fang Ming saw the change in Hua Borong's expression, and sighed in his heart, of course he knew why Hua Borong was reluctant to talk about it, because it was not a glorious thing.

Obviously, Hua Borong also received black goods when Huabaolou first started to operate, and black goods are a kind of jargon, which means that the kind of goods that cannot be seen, for example, stolen from a certain grave.

Because it can't see the light, the price must be lower than the market price, so Hua Borong relies on low prices to collect black goods and then sell them to third-party buyers to earn the difference, and this is the biggest revenue of Hua Bao Lou when it first started operating.

The primitive accumulation of capital is always not so glorious, this is not just Hua Borong's behavior, and in fact, Hua Borong's behavior can only be regarded as a side game.

"If something for the dead becomes for the living, what will happen to the end?" Fang Ming looked at the three of them and asked rhetorically.

"This ......"

Hua Borong and Song Xiong's faces became ugly, while Hua Mingming muttered: "Isn't that the same as a curse, it's like giving the clothes of a dead person to a living person, bad luck!"

"If it's just bad luck, that's fine. ”

Fang Ming glanced at Song Xiong meaningfully, and then explained: "Heaven and earth are divided into yin and yang, the yang lord is above, and the yin lord is under the yin, and the evil spirit is the thing that repels the yin, and everyone must often hear a sentence called the different paths of people and ghosts, which means that people and ghosts cannot stay together, even if the ghost does not have the intention of harming people, the reason is very simple, the yin things such as ghosts themselves are repelled by the yang magnetic field on the person, and people and ghosts or yin things stay for a long time, which will lead to the destruction of the magnetic field, and then affect all kinds of luck, and in serious cases, there will be life danger." ”

"This ......"

Song Xiong's face was a little pale, because he thought that his body seemed to be getting worse day by day in the past two years, but originally he thought that this was because his body was slowly declining as he got older.

"No, Fang Ming, you said that evil spirits are very similar to lions, but they have an extra pair of wings, but we all saw it when we were outside the door just now, and the pair of stone lions have no wings, which means that the pair of stone lions is not evil spirits. ”

Hua Mingming suddenly spoke, and his words also woke up Hua Borong and Song Xiong suddenly, yes, the stone lion at the door of the store is not to ward off evil spirits.

There are definitely a lot of people in the entire antique street who know to ward off evil spirits, and if Song Xiong really puts a pair of evil spirits at the door for no reason why they will not be discovered, those who know about evil spirits should open their mouths to remind Song Xiong.

"You're wrong, those pair of stone lions are evil spirits, and the reason why they don't have wings is that someone deliberately designed them this way. ”

Fang Ming's words made the three people present stunned, and the next moment Hua Mingming suddenly ran downstairs, and a minute later ran up panting, and shouted dissatisfiedly before they could stand:

"Fang Ming, what are you kidding, and I deliberately ran down again to take a closer look, those pair of stone lions didn't have any wings at all. ”

"Fang Shao, this stone lion has been placed at the door of the store for a few years, I can be sure that this stone lion has no wings, it is definitely not what Fang Shao said to ward off evil spirits. Song Xiong also said categorically.

Fang Ming didn't care about Hua Mingming and Song Xiong's attitude, "I just said that the pair of stone lions is to ward off evil spirits, but it seems that I didn't say that the stone lions have wings." ”

"Aren't you still playing tricks on us? You said that evil spirits have wings, and you said that there is a pair of evil spirits outside, doesn't that mean that the pair of stone lions outside have wings?"

Hua Ming rolled his eyes, but Fang Ming just smiled and replied: "I also said before, this pair of evil spirits was deliberately designed like this, but in fact, this evil spirit also has wings, but ordinary people can't see it." ”

"Ordinary people can't see it, then you can see it, do you want to praise yourself for being sharp-eyed?" Hua Ming pouted and said.

"I can't say that I have fiery eyes, but the aura of warding off evil and being vicious is completely different, one is yin and the other is yang, I can naturally feel it. ”

Fang Ming didn't hide it, in fact, when he walked to the door of the store, he was attracted by the pair of stone lions at the door, because the fox was a rui beast, and his aura belonged to the kind of peaceful and upward feeling that gave people a comfortable feeling, but the pair of stone lions gave him a cold feeling.

This is also the reason why he would stare at the pair of stone lions for a while, and this is also the reason why he would ask Song Xiong about the stone lions.

Seeing that Hua Borong and Song Xiong still had puzzled expressions, Fang Ming thought for a while and continued to explain: "You can understand it this way, there are two kinds of aura in this world, one is good and has an amplifying effect on people, and the other is bad and has a bad effect on people. And these two auras give people a completely different feeling, the former is like bathing in the warm spring sun, and the latter is the cold wind of the wax moon. ”

"Of course, under normal circumstances, whether it is a good aura or a bad aura, it is difficult for ordinary people to feel it because it is not particularly obvious, unless it is an excellent aura or an extremely bad aura. ”

"But for some reason I could feel the difference in aura, so I noticed the pair of stone lions at the first moment. ”

When he said this, Fang Ming looked at Song Xiong, "Boss Song also remembers that I asked Boss Song how long you have been playing this pair of stone lions." ”

"That's right. Song Xiong nodded.

"Actually, I've been thinking about how this pair of special evil spirits was formed, at first I suspected that someone might have a grudge against Boss Song and you deliberately made such a pair of evil spirits, but when Boss Song said that you bought it yourself, you ruled out this possibility. So, I have another inference in mind, and this is the only inference that can explain why this special pair of evil spirits appeared. ”

"What inference?"

Almost subconsciously, Hua Borong, father and son, and Song Xiong asked at the same time.

"Someone made such a pair of special shapes to ward off evil spirits, in order to hide a certain secret from being discovered, and this secret is related to the characteristics of warding off evil spirits. ”