Chapter 0013: The Curse of the Underworld Marriage Contract
Cai Yan has a habit of squinting back to sleep at about nine o'clock every morning, which is not long, about half an hour, so as to ensure a happy mood for the day. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info And this habit was broken today, she was lying on the rattan chair, rubbing her sleepy eyes, and saw her father Cai Zhongpu carrying two large suitcases, sweating profusely.
She is half asleep and half awake, her soft hair falls down like a waterfall, her blurry eyes look particularly delicate, her delicate and white face is pretty and charming, her light eyebrows are light and green, her lips are thin and red, and her nose is beautiful, like a beauty in a fine brushstroke.
"Dad, when you come back, why don't you say it in advance?" Cai Yan stretched and came to Cai Zhongpu's side, ready to help.
Cai Zhongpu wiped the sweat from his forehead, pointed to the inner room, and said in a low voice: "Yan'er, I made a lot of money this time, and I got a batch of high-quality goods." ”
Cai Yan knew that these goods were valuable and could not be known to too many people, so she followed Cai Zhongpu to the back room, and after opening the suitcase, a look of surprise flashed in her eyes, and she lowered her voice and said, "Dad, these are all treasures of the Song Dynasty Chinese Painting Academy!"
Cai Zhongpu stretched out his thumb and was very satisfied with Cai Yan's eyesight, she inherited her skills and has become a top treasure master.
Cai Zhongpu's eyes showed joy, and said: "I have contacted the buyers, they will come to pick up the goods in two days, and then you can prepare, after the matter is completed, I will give you a long vacation, don't you want to travel around the world?
The Song Dynasty was the golden age of traditional Chinese landscape painting, when the Northern Song Dynasty established the "Hanlin Academy of Painting and Calligraphy", especially in the Huizong period, the emperor himself was a master of calligraphy and painting, which led to the prosperity of court painting.
Cai Yan carefully examined these court paintings, carefully put them away, and placed them in a special safe behind the bookcase.
Cai Zhongpu exhaled, glanced at Cai Yan, and asked, "Have you often gone to see a doctor next door recently?"
Cai Yan was slightly stunned and said, "Su Tao's medical skills are very good!"
Cai Zhongpu flashed a cold color and said, "I think he is too young and a little frivolous, you two still have to keep their distance, after all, there is a difference between men and women." ”
Cai Yan was a little unhappy when she heard this, and said slightly angrily: "Dad, it's a new era, why do you still have feudal thoughts in your head? Can't I get along with the opposite sex and become friends?"
Cai Zhongpu paused and sighed: "Yan'er, your illness is a sin created by your father, if you weren't desperate back then, you wouldn't have taken advantage of you." Over the years, you've suffered every month of the month, and I regret seeing that. You must not doubt the number of rivers and lakes, if you really cross the thunder pool with the opposite sex, you will definitely have to worry about your life. ”
Cai Yan's face was pale, beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and she said stubbornly: "Dad, I understand your feelings, but I have my own life and can't live in a dark world forever." ”
Cai Zhongpu was a little excited, he held Cai Yan's wrist and said, "You must be obedient, I'm afraid of losing you." ”
Cai Yan shook off Cai Zhongpu's hand and said coldly: "I don't want to live like this anymore, even if I will die, I am willing!"
Seeing Cai Yan turn around and leave, Cai Zhongpu's eyes showed a complicated look. More than ten years ago, Cai Zhongpu owed a lot of debts because of shopping for goods, and was on the verge of despair, and under the introduction of a friend in the rivers and lakes, he signed an agreement that he regretted for many years, that is, to let his daughter make a marriage contract with a seriously ill man.
Originally, he planned to be happy, but he didn't expect the man to die suddenly, but in the end, under the pressure exerted by the family, Cai Yan and the young man who died died held a secret marriage.
When Cai Zhongpu had the financial ability, he was ready to find a folk warlock to break the marriage contract, but he didn't expect Cai Yan to get a strange disease because of this, and his health was in a very poor state for a period of time every month. The folk warlock concluded that Cai Yan's underworld marriage partner had entered the underworld and became a powerful ghost, and seeing that Cai Yan had broken the contract, he maliciously retaliated and cursed.
For this reason, Cai Yan has not been married for so many years.
Cai Zhongpu has been engaged in antiques for many years, trusting in feng shui, Cai Yan looks like a flower, and many outstanding young people come to pursue him, but they are all rejected by Cai Zhongpu, because he is afraid that the son-in-law in the underworld will hold a grudge and make Cai Yan's condition more serious.
Cai Zhongpu is a smart person, he passed by Sanweitang several times, and when he saw Cai Yan and Su Tao chatting with a smile, he guessed that Cai Yan had a good impression of Su Tao.
In Cai Zhongpu's view, Su Tao can only be regarded as an ordinary person, although there is a family heirloom Sanweitang, but when Su Guangsheng was alive, he didn't ask for anything in return, so he couldn't save any money.
Even if Cai Yan did not have the constraints of the secret marriage, Cai Zhongpu would not approve of Cai Yan and Su Tao falling in love.
Cai Zhongpu has rich life experience, is very low-key, his antique shop is not large, only a few dozen square meters, but the value has accumulated to a very terrible number, gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, Cai Zhongpu has a lot of heirloom antiques in his hands, just waiting for the price to sell.
Cai Zhongpu sat on the chair and rested for a while, stood up slowly, felt that his legs were numb, and after opening his trouser legs, he found that the abscess on his calf had become larger, frowned and thought about it, and decided to go to Sanweitang next door to take a pair of Chinese medicine for the treatment of poisonous insect bites, and by the way, warn the thief next door who stole his heart.
Su Tao stood in front of the counter, lazily pounding the medicinal herbs with a pestle, yawning, tears flowing, and saw Cai Zhongpu limping into the Sanwei Hall.
"Uncle Cai, I haven't seen you for a long time, how about going out to receive the goods this time?" Su Tao took the initiative to beckon.
Cai Zhongpu secretly wondered if he hadn't seen him for a few days, how could this Su Tao be very familiar with him, he frowned and waved his hand, and said, "Get me two taels of notoginseng grass, spiny cabbage, and purslane." ”
Su Tao didn't move, stared at Cai Zhongpu up and down, and shook his head helplessly.
Cai Zhongpu was a little unhappy, stretched out his hand and patted the counter, and said, "Didn't you hear clearly?"
Su Tao sighed and said: "Uncle Cai, I am a Chinese medicine pharmacy, you don't see a doctor first, just take the medicine, it's a bit inappropriate!"
Cai Zhongpu said impatiently: "I am very clear about my physical condition, you can just follow my instructions, take medicine for me, and talk less nonsense." ”
Su Tao still didn't take the medicine, and said: "Panax notoginseng grass is used to treat poisonous insect bites, spiny vegetables are used to treat snake and scorpion poisoning, and purslane is used to treat centipede bites." Uncle Cai, you are using the wrong medicine!"
Cai Zhongpu frowned, and said: "You are a little doll, and you are pretending to be a miracle doctor, you are originally taking care of your business, and you are unwilling to give me medicine, so I will find another one." ”
Cai Zhongpu felt that Su Tao was pursuing Cai Yan, the more he looked at it, the more unhappy he became, and his mentality was normal, Cai Yan was his own heart, better than those antique treasures, others robbed your treasure, where can you treat him calmly?
Seeing Cai Zhongpu turn his head and leave, Su Tao sighed, if it weren't for Cai Yan's face, if Cai Zhongpu was talking to him so strongly, where would he talk so much nonsense to him?
Judging from the physiognomy, Cai Zhongpu's condition is very serious, but the Tao is not lightly transmitted, the doctor does not lock the door, and when he has a seizure, he will come to beg himself, although the treatment will be more troublesome, and he can only be treated again at that time.
The demolition dispute with Hongsheng Group has made a lot of trouble, but it has also made Sanweitang's business a lot more popular, and there are still not many people seeking medical treatment, but there is a significant increase in taking medicine to take care of the business, and in the afternoon, Xu Ye of the paper-cutting shop will move chairs and small tables from the opposite side, and call one or two old friends to play Go.
Su Tao knew that Xu Ye was deliberately helping him gain popularity, so he tacitly boiled two pots of hot water next to him, and helped refill the cup when he was free.
Xu Ye saw Su Tao standing next to him and watched for a long time, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said suspiciously: "Xiao Su, do you also know Go?"
Su Tao said: "I've learned a little, but I'm not very good." However, I have to remind Xu Ye, after five more hands, you may have to lose. ”
Xu Ye frowned, stared at the chessboard for a long time, and said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, I have a big chance of winning this game, and I am bound to win!"
Su Tao shook his head, entered the lobby to sort out the medicine cabinet, and soon Xu Ye's roar came, "I was overshadowed by you old goods." ”
The old man Chen on the other side laughed, "Xiao Su has reminded you, you still don't know it, it's so ridiculous." I think Xiao Su's chess skills are better than yours!"
Xu Ye showed a look of displeasure on his face, got up suddenly, walked straight to the lobby, dragged Su Tao, and said, "You go and play a game with Old Man Chen." ”
Su Tao smiled bitterly: "Master Xu, don't you see that I'm busy?"
"There is not a single guest, busy Qiu. After finishing speaking, he dragged Su Tao to the door.
Su Tao knows the level of Old Man Chen, has been immersed in Go for many years, is a first-class master, and his strength in the amateur Go world in Hanzhou belongs to the top. Su Tao hadn't touched the chessboard for a long time, and he was a little rusty, and before starting, he thought about it for a long time before he landed.
Old man Chen saw that Su Tao was powerful, and nodded, Su Tao's accurate prediction just now made him dare not take it lightly, so he was extremely careful with every step. In the field of Go, it is not that the older you get, the more popular you are, but that young people have a broad vision, active brain, and more advantages.
After about a few moves, Old Man Chen frowned, because Su Tao's chess move was very erratic, and he was careless at will, Old Man Chen kindly reminded: "Xiao Su, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid I will lose my troops!"
Su Tao smiled indifferently and said, "That's not necessarily!"
After walking more than a dozen hands, the old man Chen had beads of sweat on his forehead, staring at his eyes, looking at the chessboard for a long time, his white son was surrounded in the middle, the defeat had been revealed, and he continued to go down, just like entering an ambush circle, and then he would lose even more badly, he could only spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "I lost!"
The bystander is clear, Xu Ye can see the chess path next to him, this Su Tao's layout is very strange, there is no similar method in the existing chess games, and the layout of the old man Chen is accurately judged, and the targeted trap is deliberately set, which makes people mistakenly think that it is very random at first, but in fact, the moves are profound, which makes people have endless memories.
Old man Chen is a winning general on the chessboard, he feels that he has lost unjustly, first underestimated the enemy, and then was deliberately designed by Su Tao, he was not convinced, pulled Su Tao, and said with a smile: "Follow me again, this time I must win!"
Su Tao smiled helplessly, secretly thinking that this time he would make Old Man Chen lose even more, and he would not be interested in entangled with himself next time.
Just as he was setting up the chessboard, he saw Cai Yan trotting over, and said breathlessly: "Su Tao, hurry up and see my dad, he has convulsions all over his body, foaming at the mouth, it seems that he can't do it!"