On the 10th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar, City B, heavy snow.

Inside the "Meido Pavilion" of the feudal family.

Recently, business has become more and more difficult, and there are many fewer street vendors at the door.

In September, the government took the lead in building a new antique city, and the publicity was booming, and many of Da Mao's peers went there to open a branch, and recently he was also thinking about whether to move the store to the antique city.

Da Mao made a pot of hot tea, sat at the tea table in the store, and watched the snowflakes falling outside the door......

It's really deserted today, except for the two poodles raised next door who are frolicking at the door, there is not even a gasp.

Da Mao picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea. The dark red soup of ripe Pu'er unconsciously overflowed the purple sand cup and spilled into the tea tray, and he didn't even realize it......

"Jingle ......"

Da Mao suddenly heard the bell hanging on the door, and his godless eyes shone brightly.

They have been in this business for three years, but no one has come, so what to open the business.

Da Mao sat up straight, picked up the teacup in his hand, the hot tea overflowed, and it burned his fingers pinching the teacup, which made him grin, busy with the teacup, and his fingers pinched lightly on his earlobe......

Outside the door came a tall and thin man, wearing an army-green cotton coat and a cotton hat, and a terrible scar on his left eye......

"Sixth Brother ......"

After Da Mao said hello, he sat down in the chair again.

"What, when you see your sixth brother, not only are you not happy, why are you still sad?"

Fan Liu took off his cotton coat, walked towards the door, leaned against the door with his body, and shook the clothes in his hands with both hands.

"Go, go, go......"

When the two poodles at the door saw Fan Liu's action, they thought they were going to feed them, so they hurriedly wagged their tails and ran over.

"Come and bother me again, peel you all and stew you!"

Fan Liu shouted with a smile.

But when the door opened next door, a woman ran out quickly, hurriedly picked up the two puppies one by one, and turned back to the store without raising her head.

"Sixth brother, look at you, and scare the neighbors!"

Seeing this scene, Da Mao frowned and said angrily.

"Haha, how can I blame this, a joke, look at this girl scared, if she followed me at the beginning, who would dare to ...... in this B city"

"Sixth brother!"

Seeing that Fan Liu wanted to recall the past again, Da Mao hurriedly shouted and interrupted Fan Liu's words.

"Okay, okay, I won't say it, I won't say it......"

Fan Liu was not angry, turned around and walked to the corner, drew his broom, and began to sweep the ground.

"Sixth Brother...... The business in the store is not as good as day by day, with your reputation, being trapped in this small shop is indeed condescending, you can change places and live a worry-free life......"

What Da Mao said is true, this Fan Liu is famous in City B, many fields need this kind of role to support, many bosses have personally invited Fan Liu, but he refused.

"Young Hall Master...... You...... Don't say it, your old hall master has the grace of reinvention for me, if it weren't for him, I might still be the lonely ghost who was mixed in the mass grave, stealing food with the wild wolves, thanks to the old hall master who did not give up, took me in, and taught me to read and write......"

Speaking of this, Fan Liu was a little uncontrollable, took a deep breath, and continued:

"When the old hall master is dying, entrust me to take good care of you, not to mention that we have food now, even if I go to ask for food in the end, I, Fan Liu, will accompany the young hall master!"

"Okay, Sixth Brother......"

Da Mao smiled bitterly and shook his head, this scene is not the first time it has happened, every time the old hall master is mentioned, Fan Liu, a man who is not afraid of heaven and earth, he can't help but choke......

"By the way, young hall master, the two brothers of Ma Ling asked someone to bring a message over, saying that they would bring someone over to negotiate a deal in the next two days, saying that it was a big number, so let's prepare well. ”

Fan Liu's sudden words made Da Mao interested, he got up in a hurry, walked in front of Fan Liu, and said:

"It would be great if we could talk about it, these two brothers said that it was sky-high, and if it happens, it will be enough for us to eat for at least ten or eight years!"

"Yes, Young Hall Master, this order must not be called to run away!"

The two of them rejoiced in their hearts and hurriedly began to make plans.

On the morning of the second day, Da Mao and Fan Liu were drinking tea in the store, when they suddenly heard the sound of snow stepping outside the door, and the footsteps were complicated, and it sounded like a lot of people.

"It's coming!"

Da Mao stood up and said in surprise.

I saw that the door of the store was pushed open, and five people poured in......

The first two are tall and short, dressed simply, their appearance is not good, their skin is dark, and their faces are wrinkled......

The tall man had a glittering silver watch on his left wrist, and it didn't look like an ordinary thing.

The short man frowned, as if he had something on his mind.

These two are the two thieves of Maling.

There were three people in the back, two tall and strong, with a meaty face on both sides of the sub-station, and in the middle was an old man in a tunic and a pipe in his mouth.

Needless to say, the person in the middle is the buyer of the business.

"Brother Ma, Second Brother Hu!"

Da Mao greeted the two cordially.

"Well, brother, the two of us are here again, haha!"

Boss Ma said with a smile.

"Tonkin" is a black word for buying and selling cultural relics in private, and the buyer and seller make an agreement to hand over the money and goods to a long-standing and well-known middleman on the road. He guaranteed in the middle and presided over the transaction, which avoided any party from having bad intentions, which was regarded as an additional guarantee for the transaction.

Of course, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and once the transaction is completed, 10% of the transaction amount must be paid to this middleman as a commission.

Although City B is large, there are only three companies that are qualified for trustworthiness:

The Mao family, the Lei family, and the Zheng family.

Among them, the Mao family is the oldest, as early as the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Mao family has a certain reputation in the field of cultural antiquities. Da Mao's father, the old hall master of Mao, was even more courageous and wise, and during the turbulent period, he preserved the store.

"Mingtangge" is also under the management of the old hall owner, and it is second to none.

After the death of the old hall master, Da Mao took over the "Mingtang Pavilion", although he also tried his best, but he was powerless to stop the decline of the family......

Gradually, the other two families began to rise, and the limelight approached the "famous pavilion", and the business of Tonkin in City B has now been encroached upon by the other two......

Ma Boss is Da Mao's friend, he is a bold person, but whenever there is a business that requires money, he spares no effort to hand it over to Da Mao.

…………

The old man beckoned the bodyguard next to him to exit the door and wait.

The rest of the room sat down at the small coffee table by the window.

The buyer who came today has a lot to offer......

The old man reached into his arms, took out a business card, and sent it to Da Mao with both hands......

This person's name is Chang Chengjun, and he is the owner of the first private pharmaceutical factory in City B, which can really be called a wealthy family.

This time, it's really a big fish!

Da Mao respectfully returned a business card, the old man smiled, put the business card lightly on the tea table, and didn't even look at it......

"You here, the place is not big, but there are really a few valuable things, not bad!"

Boss Chang looked around and said.

The implication is no longer clear, if there is any mistake in this list, the person who guarantees the trust money can have the ability to compensate.

"That's nature, the ancestors have made a living by dealing in cultural and antique artifacts for generations, how can there not be a few treasures of the town......"

Although Da Mao was unhappy in his heart, he thought that it was a big deal since then, and how much anger he had digested by himself.

"Hmm...... Not bad...... Not bad!"

Boss Chang stared not far away, and a glass bowl in the cabinet nodded in praise.

"Boss Chang, if you can trust us, we will take over the work of Tonkin this time......"

Da Mao pretended to be calm, but he was nervous in his heart, this was a big deal enough to lie down and eat for a few years.

"Trustworthy, naturally trustworthy, the reputation of the famous pavilion is outside, plus there are characters like the sixth master pressing the formation, how can I not believe it?"

After Boss Chang finished speaking, he arched his hand towards Fan Liu, and Fan Liu also returned the salute according to the rules.

"It's just that I don't know, if you can take today's order, you can't take it......"

Boss Chang picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip, and said.

"Boss Chang rest assured, if there is any treasure in this world that my two brothers can't find, then no one can find it. ”

Da Mao said.

"Okay, then I'll talk to you......"

Before the words fell, Boss Chang reached into his arms again, took out a photo cut out of a newspaper and a hand-drawn picture, put it on the table, and pushed it to a few people.

"It's not a secret, my hometown is in HY County, City A, and Chang Yuchun, the famous general of the Ming Dynasty, is the ancestor of the next ......"

Speaking of this, Boss Chang deliberately straightened up, quite proud.

"My ancestor has a jade pendant, called the Bloody Eye Jade, who has followed him to fight for many years and has been bathed in countless blood. After the early death of my family's ancestor, my family settled here, and this jade has been inherited by my eldest son, and then it was robbed by the Warat family, and there was no news ......of it."

Speaking of this, Boss Chang couldn't help but sigh and continued:

"Coincidentally, a few days ago, I was in a newspaper and saw that this treasure jade was hanging on an old hairy man, so I ...... This is this one, and the other one is the family heirloom of my family's blood-eyed jade, so let's compare a few of you......"

Da Mao picked up the newspaper in his hand and looked at it fixedly, this was a report on the achievements of reform and opening up, and the article took a different path, and actually focused on "international trade" in the northeasternmost corner of China.

In the northeast, at the junction of China and the Soviet Union, there has always been a habit of bartering merchants from the two places, and we exchange sheepskin jackets and sorghum wine for their large leva vodka......

The photo shows a Soviet businessman wearing a newly changed sheepskin jacket, smiling happily at the camera of our reporter, and at his neck, the jade in the shape of an eye is particularly clear......

Da Mao looked down at the facsimile of the ancestral family heirloom again......

There is no doubt that even the texture is identical.

"You asked my two brothers to retrieve this jade pendant from Maozi?"

Boss Ma frowned.

"Exactly!"

Boss Chang said.

"No, no, stealing things on the border, how many heads do we have?

After speaking, the two thieves of Maling got up and were about to leave.

"Let's make a price......"

Boss Chang said leisurely:

"Needless to say, let's make a price, how much will it cost for you to take this trip for me?"

"No amount of money is enough......

The two of them didn't look back, and walked straight out the door.

"500,000 ......"

Boss Chang shouted loudly, and the two were silent, pushing the door and wanting to leave.

"A million!"

When Boss Chang said these three words, everyone in the room was stunned......

Ma Ling's two thieves are not short of money, with this skill for so many years, when ordinary people are living the dream of 10,000 households, the two have long been beyond the scope of 10,000 households, and Da Mao is not short of money.

Rao is like this, and when Boss Chang said this, he was shocked that no one in the store dared to speak anymore......

"Pick up or not ......"

Boss Chang stood up, a little bead of sweat oozing from his forehead......

"Take it, since Boss Chang is so heroic, let's take it!" After Hu Lao Er finished speaking, he hurriedly reached out to pull the horse boss in front.

Ma Lao's brain is also blank, knowing that this task is tricky and abnormal, and if he doesn't do it well, he will lose his life, but this amount is too tempting, Ma Lao thought to himself, his child was born, and after finishing this vote, he will wash his hands in the future, and accompany his wife and children, which is indeed happy.

I was heartbroken, and I agreed.

"I'll go prepare the notes, and you guys will talk first!"

Da Mao saw that the deal was completed, and the big fish was swallowed by himself, so he was naturally happy in his heart, and he hurriedly drafted a note.

Seeing that there was no problem with the note, Boss Ma and Boss Chang worked with Da Mao, and the three of them signed the note together......

It's done!

After a few more greetings, Boss Chang said goodbye......

Not long ago, someone sent a suitcase, which contained a deposit of 50,000 yuan, and after Da Mao counted it, he handed it over to the two thieves in Maling.

If the two run away with the money, the money will be repaid by Da Mao, and if the buyer regrets the jade in hand, the rest of the money will also be paid by Da Mao......

But the two thieves have cooperated for several years and have never missed, and Da Mao dares to take this risk.

But he didn't expect that at this moment, he had stepped into a trap carefully arranged by others......