Looking at Shopkeeper Xia's timid and fearful appearance, Meng Zitao shook his head secretly and said: "Shopkeeper Xia, to be honest, you have no way to save your life now except for a fight, in this case, you must know what kind of decision you should make." ”

Shopkeeper Xia wanted to say that he could run away, but after thinking about it again, where could he go? If he was still in China, with Li Rongfa's power, it would not be difficult to find himself; it would not be easy to go abroad; first of all, the visa would not be solved for a while, and he would have turned to ashes in all this time.

"Do you think I can't guarantee your safety?" Meng Zitao took out his ID and put it on the edge of the table: "Come and have a look." ”

Shopkeeper Xia came over, picked up Meng Zitao's certificate and looked at it, and the whole person was stunned!

After a while, Shopkeeper Xia came back to his senses, at this time, Meng Zitao gave him a very mysterious feeling, a big coffee in the antique world, and the identity of the police, what is going on?

Could it be that Meng Zitao has an identity like a spy?

Shopkeeper Xia was confused, his mind was cranky, and he was a little overwhelmed.

Meng Zitao picked up the teacup, picked up the tea lid, blew the tea leaves floating on the surface, and said: "With my guarantee, as long as there is no big accident, you can be sure that you are fine, so you can rest assured." Besides, you're running out now, aren't you?"

"Yes, I don't have any choice at all now! Fight, there is still life, otherwise I will definitely die!"

Shopkeeper Xia gritted his teeth: "Director Meng, I will obey your orders in the future!"

Meng Zitao waved his hand: "Don't be so nervous, then you can do it as usual, as for the antidote, I will give you a prescription in a while, as long as you keep taking it during this time, you can detoxify." ”

Shopkeeper Xia's face was full of sorrow: "But what if the other party poisons me again?"

Meng Zitao said: "It's up to you, I will give you a sampling utensil, you drink tea, and you have to take samples after eating." In addition, you don't have to worry too much, even if Li Rongfa wants your life, it should be after you participate in the exchange meeting, and there should be no problem with this speculation. ”

Shopkeeper Xia was still worried about his safety, but Meng Zitao was so good that he finally persuaded Shopkeeper Xia.

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In a blink of an eye, it was the day to set off for Jiangcheng, and during this time it was calm, after Wang Zhiming left, he didn't come to find Meng Zitao again, and the people from Heihuo didn't come to look for him.

This made Meng Zitao muttered a little in his heart, worried about whether they were holding back some big moves.

In addition, Lu Huichen finally persuaded his mother and came to Lingshi to ask Meng Zitao for treatment.

Lu Huichen's mother's illness is a little troublesome, but fortunately, she can take medicine to take care of it, and it will save Meng Zitao trouble, as for Lu Huichen's mother's believe it or not, unless she doesn't take the medicine prescribed by Meng Zitao, she doesn't have to worry.

In addition, the army has also investigated the heels of the scammers who cheated Aunt Qian before, which also surprised Meng Zitao, the person behind the scenes is actually Cao Jin, a name that has not been heard for a long time.

Since that time when he learned that Cao Jin had set up a fraud gang, Meng Zitao has not heard the news of Cao Jin again, but he didn't expect this guy to haunt Ling City, and his subordinates actually borrowed his name to deceive Aunt Qian, which violated his taboo, of course he would not give up.

As for the shopkeeper Xia, the person who poisoned him had already been found the next day, it was that Juanzi, because he didn't want to startle the snake, he didn't do anything to Juanzi. I didn't tell Shopkeeper Xia about this, lest he vent his emotions on Juanzi.

To get back to the point, Cao Jin was handled by the army, and Meng Zitao went to the capital first, and then took the plane from the capital to Jiangcheng, this is because he used Shi Baixing's identity this time.

Shi Baixing is actually the name of two people, one is an archaeologist who has passed away, and the other is a disciple of a rich family. Both identities are real, and there is a department to help cover them up, unless the other party has great powers, it is impossible to find out.

Meng Zitao used the identity of a rich child this time, and it was undoubtedly much more convenient to go to the exchange meeting.

When he arrived in Jiangcheng, Meng Zitao contacted Qian Songyuan's friend, because it was already night, and it was inconvenient for the other party to pick him up, so he asked Meng Zitao to take the car to the hotel by himself, and he had already opened the room.

Arriving at the hotel, Meng Zitao met Qian Songyuan's friend in the hotel lobby.

"You're Mr. Shi, I'm really sorry I didn't pick you up. ”

"Teacher Pan, you're welcome......"

Pan Yihui shook hands with Meng Zitao very warmly, helped Meng Zitao settle down, and invited Meng Zitao to have supper.

After ordering a few dishes, the two chatted casually, and Pan Yihui asked tentatively, "Mr. Shi, I don't know how your relationship with Director Meng is?"

"It's okay, otherwise, he wouldn't have let me come over in his place. ”

Meng Zitao smiled and pretended to be curious and asked, "Teacher Pan, is there anything wrong with this exchange meeting, why are there still restrictions on the people who participate?"

"Hey. Pan Yihui sighed: "In fact, the other party is targeting Director Meng and deliberately not allowing Director Meng to participate." Therefore, when it comes to the exchange meeting, you must not mention to others your relationship with Director Meng. ”

Meng Zitao didn't expect that the reason for his makeover was this, which made him feel a little tired and uncomfortable: "Teacher Pan, does the organizer have any grudges with Director Meng?"

Pan Yihui said: "This is not something I can know, but I think it should be like this, otherwise there is no injustice and no revenge, why would he prohibit Director Meng from participating in the exchange meeting?"

Meng Zitao nodded, but he was very strange in his heart, because according to what Pan Yihui told Qian Songyuan before, he didn't know the organizer at all, since he didn't know each other, why did he deliberately not let him participate?

This question is probably only clarified by asking the organizers in person.

After that, Meng Zitao asked Pan Yihui about some exchange meetings.

Pan Yihui told him that as far as he knew, this exchange meeting was not much different from the usual auction, and in addition, it was better to trade in cash, and a certain percentage of the fee could be waived by trading in cash. However, cash is not mandatory there, and some of the treasures are very expensive, and no one will carry that much cash now.

Meng Zitao estimated that the exchange meeting advocated the use of cash transactions in order to facilitate the transfer of capital, which means that the origin of the items at the exchange meeting is likely to be problematic.

Pan Yihui told Meng Zitao that there was relatively little information coming out of this exchange meeting, and he didn't know much, so if Meng Zitao was worried about something going wrong, he didn't have to go.

Mencius had already arrived in Jiangcheng, so how could there be any reason not to explore it? Moreover, it was precisely because there were too many doubts in this exchange that he had to go even more.

The next morning, Pan Yihui took Meng Zitao into an ordinary-looking van, the inside of the car was covered with a black cloth, and during the drive, he couldn't see the outside at all, and the mobile phone had to be turned off all the time.

After driving for about two hours, the car stopped, and Meng Zitao and Pan Yihui got out of the car together.

Looking around, Mencius found that it was a small mountain col with a beautiful scenery and a large compound in front of it. The courtyard is about the size of a football field and is surrounded by lush greenery, with a path leading from the iron gate to a three-story villa inside.

The villa is made of blue bricks, quite in the style of ancient Chinese architecture, and modern villas like this are still relatively rare.

Speaking of which, the production process of green bricks and red bricks is mostly the same, the only difference is that the green bricks are manually watered after the kiln to cool them, while the red bricks are air-cooled. Green bricks have one more production process than red bricks, that is, watering, so theoretically, red bricks should be cheaper than green bricks, and they should also be used on a larger scale.

However, the ancient buildings that have been preserved now are all made of blue bricks, and the ancient buildings built of red bricks are almost impossible to find.

This is because, in the theory of the five elements of yin and yang, cyan belongs to water and red belongs to fire. Water represents the noblest virtue in the minds of the Chinese people. Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" cloud: "Good is like water, water conserves all things without fighting", at the same time, according to the theory of the five elements, water overcomes fire, so it is generally appropriate to build houses with cyan bricks.

In addition, the performance of green bricks is significantly better than that of red bricks in terms of anti-oxidation, hydration, and atmospheric erosion. Moreover, the green bricks give people a plain, elegant, calm, simple and quiet beauty, and it is reasonable that they are more liked by the ancients.

Meng Zitao glanced at the villa a few times, and at first he admired it, but slowly he felt a cold air rushing towards his face, coupled with the lush trees around, and even felt a little terrifying.

Pan Yihui said hello to Meng Zitao and led him to the big iron gate, where he was stopped by the security guards, who showed the invitation card and checked the belongings he was carrying, and then he was allowed to let him go.

Walking on the path leading to the villa, the cold aura became stronger and stronger, and Meng Zitao also felt that something was staring at him on both sides, and even faintly noticed that there was a little greed in it, as if he was using him as food.

Meng Zitao looked around, not surprisingly he didn't find anything, but that kind of thought couldn't get rid of it, he believed that his feeling should be right, there was something strange about this place!

Calmly walked to the villa hall, which had been rearranged to look like a small auction venue.

At this moment, there were more than a dozen people sitting in the hall, and among them, except for a few who were chatting in low voices, everyone else was closing their eyes and recuperating, looking like generals who were raising their spirits, waiting for the command to strike a thunderous blow.

Noticing Meng Zitao and them coming in, everyone looked at them in unison, and some people found that they didn't know each other, and returned to the state just now.

Compared with Meng Zitao, several people at the scene greeted Pan Yihui, Pan Yihui hurriedly responded one by one, and then took Meng Zitao to find a seat and sit down.