14. The fourteenth talisman
Shi Xiaowen's matter was solved, and under the guidance of Zhou Tong, the pattern in the room was changed, and Shen Hongwen not only had a lot of spirit in the past few days, but also ushered in several big cooperation cases in business.
For this reason, Shen Hongwen knew that Zhou Tong was indispensable, so he rushed to Zhou Tong's store and gave him a pennant of "Helping the World and Saving People", and hung it on the main hall for Zhou Tong with his own hands.
Shi Xiaowen's body was disposed of by Shen Hongwen in a way, and it was a legitimate legal way: Shi Xiaowen died violently, Shen Hongwen was an eyewitness, and after the hospital examination, no external cause was found to lead to death, but it was found that she was all over the place at a young age, and she could only conclude that she died of overwork.
City A is a metropolis, and countless people die of overwork every year, and Shi Xiaowen has no family, so her death will be over.
Later, Shen Hongwen specially asked Zhou Tong about the charge, and directly reimbursed Zhou Tong for 200,000 yuan of green and white jade carved tapirs, and gave Zhou Tong an additional 1 million.
Xu Zhuo, who accompanied Shen Hongwen to Zhoutong's store, kept rolling his eyes, inexplicably sending money to others, although the Shen family was not bad for this money, but it was really uncomfortable to give it to people for nothing.
Xu Zhuo took advantage of Zhou Tong's inattention and told Shen Hongwen about this, but Shen Hongwen chattered with a look on his face, looking at Zhou Tong's back with admiration: "Uncle Xu, you don't know, that's the real Heavenly Master, this little money to buy my life is very cost-effective." ”
Xu Zhuo: "???"
After Xu Zhuo accompanied Shen Hongwen to leave the store, he glared at Zhou Tong with disdain, always feeling that the other party had scared Shen Hongwen into some kind of hallucinatory medicine or brainwashing, otherwise according to Shen Hongwen's disbelief in ghosts and gods, it would be impossible for him to go to this kind of place to send money.
"What are you thinking, so distracted?" The shadow emerged from the pattern of the beard, and after absorbing Shi Xiaowen's tears, the outline of the shadow became much clearer, and Zhou Tong could vaguely see a person's facial features, but he was still vaguely shrouded in a thin qi.
"Didn't think about anything. Zhou Tong propped his chin and looked out the window, his mind full of Bai Wuchang's words.
His father was a ghost in the underworld? That should be a good errand, I don't know if I'm doing well now? I don't think it's bad to hear impermanence, right?
The soul he was going to summon with the soul evoking incense was the soul of his father Zhou Da.
Zhou Da died very bizarrely, there were no wounds on his body, and his internal organs were very healthy after being sent to the hospital for examination, according to the doctor, Zhou Da's physical condition was at least a few more decades to live without problems.
In the past few days, he has been flipping through books about the five disadvantages and three shortcomings, and the content is very small, but he has not found nothing.
Those who commit a lack of life are no different from ordinary people when they are young, and when they reach the end of their lives, they will become sick and plagued, and eventually they will either die by mistake or from a stubborn disease, and most of them will not live to be 30 years old.
Zhou Tong fumbled for the old photos of Zhou Da in the photo frame, which were almost bleached in color, and muttered with a frown: "Born in 1966, died in 1997, more than forty years of life......"
It shouldn't, it shouldn't.
"You can't use the soul incense yet. The shadow's cold voice came out, and the shadow said, "When do you evolve the yin and yang eyes to the point where you can see the direction of the lifeline, you can use the soul summoning incense, otherwise, with your pure yang body and yin and yang eyes, the soul summoned may not be your father's soul, but it is likely to be some terrible ghosts and evil spirits of the eighteenth layer of hell." ”
Zhou Tong didn't react when the shadow saw through his thoughts, he put the photo back in its place, smiled at the shadow, and said, "I know." ”
Shadow: "......"
The shadow became a little lighter, he seemed to roll his eyes at Zhou Tong and then turned into a wisp of smoke and got into the pattern of the beard, and a wisp of air squeezed out of the pattern with a poof, and after the air dissipated, the shadow snorted disdainfully: "Be strong." ”
When Zhou Tong heard this, the smile on his face gradually faded.
Rushed into the house in a hurry, slapped a piece of paper on Zhou Tong's desktop after seeing Zhou Tong, and then picked up the cup on the table, poured a cup of tea, and almost smashed the teacup as soon as it was put into his mouth: ", why is it so hot?"
"What's going on? Your unhurried appearance was seen by your second uncle and you have to be scolded. ”
"Don't be afraid! He's not here!" said with a smile on his fat face, "Look at the good things I brought you first!"
"What's good?" Zhou Tong flattened the piece of paper that was about to rot and raised his eyebrows, "Auction?"
"Yes!" nodded vigorously, "To go, to go, to go, to go, oh, ancestor, go!"
That piece of paper was a flyer for the auction.
There is a famous Xihe auction house in City A, this auction house is rarely opened all the year round, and only five auctions are held at most every year, as we all know, most of the auctions eat rebates and service fees, and the more times they are held, the more money they make, but the purpose of Xihe Auction House is not like making money, but it is more like a public welfare auction.
The purpose of Xihe Auction House is also very strong, and each issue must have a theme, "ceramics", "bronzes", "jade", "Buddha statues" and so on are only auctioned off these things, and the theme of this issue is exactly "seals".
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the seal has been used frequently, and the seal rich in power symbols has the function of warding off evil spirits and suppressing ghosts, and there is a record of "Lao Jun wearing" to get rid of the "seal of a hundred ghosts and snakes, tigers and wolves" in the "Seal Dictionary", and there is also a record of "Taoist priests should engrave jujube hearts as seals, and the square four inches are also", which shows that the power contained in the seal is particularly powerful.
Zhou Tong is still quite interested in seals, he remembers that Zhou Da had a very powerful seal before his death, in his vague childhood memory, that seal can even call the wind and rain, summon thunder and lightning, and the impression fades when he grows up, but he still has vague thoughts.
What's more, the "Palm Heart Thunder" that Shi Xiaoya taught him before he dispersed his soul also needed a seal to guide the power, and the greater the power of the seal, the greater the effect of the palm and heart thunder.
Zhou Tong was still thinking about the matter of palm and heart thunder, and he couldn't bear his personality anymore, so he grabbed Zhou Tong's arm and shouted: "Zhou Tong! You must go! You have to give me a long face!"
Zhou Tong looked at the upright suspiciously.
Under Zhou Tong's questioning gaze, he immediately explained: "Do you remember Wang Kai? That little bastard will also go to the venue!"
Zhou Tong: "......"
Wang Kai is a decent cousin, the two have been at odds since childhood, and if the two of them appear on the same occasion, they basically have to make something.
Duanzheng said: "I heard that Wang Kai invited a master from abroad to come back, and that master went abroad only after seeing enough of the domestic collections, and you also know that there are so many national treasures in our country...... But Wang Kai's kid, there are so many masters in our A city, he doesn't invite him, he has to invite one back from abroad, and the foreign monks are good at chanting, isn't it?"
Entrepreneurs like them go to the auction to auction antiques, and they usually pick a staff officer to accompany them to see the exhibits for valuation, and the auction is very profitable, and the master invited is very important.
Compared with the "foreign master" specially invited by Wang Kai, he did not spend money to invite an old Jianghu, but came to find Zhou Tong, which shows that he trusts Zhou Tong very much.
Zhou Tong was amused by the expression of "evil" and hatred, shook his head helplessly, and let Duan Zheng complain about how unethical Wang Kai was and how undesirable things he had done.
He picked up the poster and looked at it carefully, "Is it the day after tomorrow?"
"yes. ”
“…… It's a bit of a hurry, it looks like I'm going to make up for it these days. ”
looked at Zhou Tong suspiciously, "What's the evil?"
Zhou Tong smiled and said very naturally: "Seals, I know more about porcelain, but my ability to seal this small type of antique is limited." ”
The words limited ability were bitten very hard by Zhou Tong, and he was deliberately scaring and correcting.
Hearing this, his face did not change at all, and he patted Zhou Tong's shoulder with confidence, and said, "Tell me what books you want to read, and you can have everything at home and abroad!"
Zhou Tong smiled very brightly.
The shadow, who had listened to all their conversations in the pattern, muttered disdainfully, "Najo, what are you looking at with your yin and yang eyes? ”
Zhou Tong hung the key ring on the hook next to the desk, so that the key and the shrunken bronze halberd head hung outside the table, floating, swinging, shaking, shaking......
Shadow: "...... Feed. ”
Zhou Tong smiled and said to the shadow: "Then you don't have to go the day after tomorrow, I still want to trouble you to help me with my staff officer." ”
Shadow: "......"
Shadow gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not rare. ”
Zhou Tong: "Oh. ”
Shadow: "......"
Lao Tzu is not happy, but Lao Tzu just doesn't say, hum.
On the day of the auction, Zhou Tong received a call from Duan Zheng not long after he got up from his nap, and Duan Da Fat had already picked him up at the door!
Zhou Tong casually found a set of clothes in the closet and put them on, yawned and went to the door to pick it up.
As a result, he was followed by several people......
Several people poured into the house and began to style Zhou Tong.
Change suits, cut hair, adjust the matching ......
Zhou Tong sat silently in front of the mirror, watching several people fiddling with his head, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "You're too exaggerated, aren't you?"
Standing upright next to him and commanding: "Cut your hair shorter here, can't you cut it neatly?!"
Barber: ".................."
He pursed his lips and said to Zhou Tong, "Xiaotong, you don't understand, you are good-looking and don't know the importance of appearance, I am a person who has suffered hardships, you dress better, and they will be handsome to death at the venue!"
Zhou Tong: "......"
At this moment, a shadow suddenly appeared from his beard and fluttered on the table.
The shadow sneered, and the voice came into Zhou Tong's mind: "You are also called handsome?"
Zhou Tong raised his eyebrows, his eyes sank, there was a little more ambiguity in the black eyes that hid the stars of the universe, and the shadow suddenly dispersed a little when he saw this, and then, the barber who was urged to be upright and almost unadult-like did not pay attention to blowing him away directly with a hair dryer.
Zhou Tong burst out laughing.
Shadow: "......"
Dignified and wondered, "What's the matter, what are you laughing at?"
"Nothing. Zhou Tong smiled and said, "I just heard someone farting." ”
Hearing this, he was furious: "Who farted?, you're so busy and you still have time to fart?!"