Meng Zitao smiled slightly: "Mr. Hu, if you have to be 100,000 yuan to sell this meat stone, then I can only say sorry." ”

"Forget it. Hu Qingyou waved his hand, looking like he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

Meng Zitao smiled and said, "Mr. Hu, I want to talk to you about something this time, I wonder if I can find a quieter place?"

Hu Qingyou was slightly stunned, and his brows furrowed: "What are you looking for me?" If it's for him, I'm sorry, I've already said everything I should say, don't ask me again." ”

Lu Yiqing opened his mouth and said: "Hu Dekai is your father, don't you want to know at all, what did he die for?"

Hu Qingyou said with a gloomy face: "When I was my father, did he think about me, in order to make money, he even did the work of digging people's ancestral graves, until now, I still can't raise my head in the village! That is, I have no choice, otherwise, I would have denied him a long time ago! Okay, what should you do, don't bother us, otherwise I won't be so easy to talk next time." ”

Since Hu Qingyou had this attitude, Meng Zitao knew that he couldn't ask anything, so he politely said goodbye and then left the house.

Meng Zitao and the others walked out of the house and were about to get into the car, when a villager with a bit of thief eyebrows came up and said, "Boss, do you want antiques?"

"Do you have antiques?" Meng Zitao asked.

The villager smiled: "It has been handed down by the ancestors, if you are interested, you can go to the house with me to have a look." ”

Meng Zitao nodded: "Where is your home?"

"It's not far, just a few dozen meters ahead. ”

"Get in the car, you show the way. ”

The car drove seventy or eighty meters and stopped, and everyone got out of the car and walked into a house under the leadership of the villagers.

The villager's name was Hu Dajiang, and when he entered the house, he asked his wife to serve tea to the two, and he went to fetch something.

After waiting for a while, Hu Dajiang came out with the things and carefully put them in front of Meng Zitao: "Boss, look at whether you like it or not, this is handed down by my grandfather's grandfather, it has been in my family for hundreds of years, a few years ago, someone was willing to pay 50,000 yuan to buy it, but I didn't sell it!"

It is a rectangular piece of pottery, part pigsty and part sheepfold, with a pig and two sheep in each pen, and the sheepfold has a rain ride. There is a storage compartment on each of the pigs and sheepfolds.

Meng Zitao looked at the things on the table and asked with a smile, "Do you know what this is?"

When Hu Dajiang saw Meng Zitao's smile, he felt a little weak: "Ceramics, what's wrong?"

Meng Zitao smiled: "Everyone knows that this is ceramics, and what I asked is what it does." ”

Hu Dajiang said: "What else can you do when you are furnishings?"

Meng Zitao laughed: "Who do you think would put the pigpen and sheepfold as decorations at home?"

Hu Dajiang said with some hesitation: "This ...... Maybe the person who made it has a quirk. ”

Meng Zitao said: "Hehe, let me tell you the truth, this thing is actually a Ming vessel, which is the burial utensils that ancient people brought into the ground when they were buried. Do you think your grandfather's grandfather will pass it down as a family heirloom?"

Hu Dajiang was a little depressed, he originally thought that Meng Zitao didn't know what this thing was, but he didn't expect that he was an insider, and he could see it at a glance.

Meng Zitao said: "Brother Hu, do you only have this antique in your house?"

"Yes, if you want it, I can sell it to you cheaper. Hu Dajiang also knew that it was not good for him to sell things and lose his momentum first, but he really had no choice but to say this, how much he could sell.

Meng Zitao took out his business card and handed it to Hu Dajiang: "Brother Hu, to be honest, there are two ways to deal with this artifact. ”

"What a way. After Hu Dajiang saw Meng Zitao's business card, his spirits were lifted.

Meng Zitao said: "One is to bid at the auction company under my name, but because of the limited number of collectors, it is uncertain how much the auction price will be, or it is possible that the auction will be lost." The other option is that I pay 10,000 yuan and buy it. Think about these two options. ”

This artifact was actually bought last year, when Hu Dajiang was obsessed with antiques, he bought a lot of antiques at that time, and spent a lot of money, and in the end it was really only this artifact, and he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother, and the person with the highest bid was only willing to pay 3,000 yuan.

In contrast, Meng Zitao's bid of 10,000 yuan is enough, but who wouldn't be disgusted with making more money, Hu Dajiang said with a smile: "Boss, can it be higher?"

Meng Zitao smiled: "If you want to sell higher, I suggest you go to the auction." ”

"If you go to the auction, can you guarantee the bottom?" asked Hu Dajiang.

"This is definitely not a no-no. Meng Zitao shook his head: "You think about it, and if you want to sell it, you will notify me." ”

After speaking, Meng Zitao got up and prepared to leave.

"Hey, wait, I sold it for 10,000 yuan. Hu Dajiang's wife suddenly rushed out.

"What are you doing!" Hu Dajiang was so angry that he was bargaining, and his wife was clearly making trouble like this.

Hu Dajiang's wife reprimanded: "I still want to ask you, how long do you want to keep this bad thing at home? Or you can live with it, and I will go back to my parents' house!"

Hu Dajiang looked embarrassed, and in the end he had no choice but to agree to sell, and comforted himself in his heart, at least he didn't buy a loss.

Meng Zitao directly took out 10,000 yuan from his bag and put it on the table: "You can order it." ”

Hu Dajiang's wife grabbed the banknote and lit it, leaving Hu Dajiang with an embarrassed face.

Meng Zitao handed Hu Dajiang a cigarette: "Brother Hu, I want to ask you about something." ”

"What's the matter?"

"You should know Hu Dekai, right?"

"You're talking about Hu Qing having his old man, right? He died a few days ago, don't you know?"

"I know that. ”

"Then what do you want to ask?" Hu Dajiang was a little vigilant in his heart, after all, he was from a village, and he didn't want to pit Hu Qingyou.

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Brother Hu, don't be nervous, I just want to inquire about Hu Dekai's personality and the relationship between his father and son." ”

Hu Dajiang coughed lightly: "Hu Dekai is often away from home, and I don't know much about it!"

Meng Zitao looked at his bony eyes, knowing what he was thinking, he looked at the time, and said with a smile: "It's also time for dinner, let's go have a meal together, I'll have a treat!"

"That's embarrassing. ”

Hu Dajiang said that he was embarrassed, but his two feet were very sincere, and he followed Meng Zitao out of the door.

Meng Zitao deliberately found a good restaurant nearby, asked for good wine and food, and waited until the wine had passed three rounds before asking the question just now.

Hu Dajiang drank more wine, talked more, patted his chest and said: "Boss Meng, I won't tell you, I know the most about Hu Dekai's family in the village, you are asking the right person!"

Meng Zitao directly took out 500 yuan and put it in front of Hu Dajiang: "Brother Hu, please come out with me, these rights should be the carriage and horse expenses." ”

Hu Dajiang's eyes lit up, he quickly put the money in his pocket, and gave Meng Zitao a thumbs up: "Boss Meng is really particular about people." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "Where, it should be." ”

Hu Dajiang took a sip of wine, sandwiched another chopsticks dish, and said while eating: "Hu Dekai makes money by digging people's ancestral graves, no one in the village doesn't know, everyone pokes their backbones behind their backs, but if you want me to say, it's not that Hu Dekai makes money." To be honest, I'm also red-eyed, but it's a pity that I don't have this ability, and this line of work was suddenly retributed, and I have a life to make money but not a life to spend, so what's the use?"

Hearing this, Meng Zitao thought of something and asked, "Since Hu Dekai is rich, why don't you build your son's house better?"

"Cover it well, it's not to lure the police to the door. ”

Hu Dajiang said with a smile: "Their father and son are very good, now everyone says that his family is rich is just talking, if he really wants to build a good house, he can't show his bottom a little? And don't look at his daughter-in-law's big mouth, I think it is also deliberately pretended, saying that his family is poor all day long, if it weren't for someone I saw Hu Qingyou hooking up with a boss in the city, I really thought his family was very poor!"

Meng Zitao hurriedly asked, "Have you seen the appearance of that boss?"

Hu Dajiang said: "Is this too much, I only saw them sitting in a big Ben, where is this car sitting in ordinary people?"

Meng Zitao then asked about the relationship between Hu Dekai and his son.

"Good wine!"

Hu Dajiang drank a glass of wine, and let out a sigh of praise in his mouth, and Meng Zitao picked up the wine bottle and filled it for him.

Hu Dajiang felt very satisfied, so he stopped selling Guan Zi and said: "In the eyes of outsiders, the relationship between their father and son is really not good, it can be said that they don't get along with each other, but these are all acting, these two foxes acting." The real situation is that their relationship is very good, otherwise, where would Hu Qing get the money to marry his wife? If he wasn't rich, how could he marry this beautiful wife now?"

Meng Zitao asked, "Do you have any empirical evidence?"

"Yes!" Hu Dajiang said: "In October last year, I had some wine at night, and when I came home a little late, I saw their father and son discussing things sneakily, if I hadn't been clever, I would have bumped into it, maybe it would be a corpse now." ”

Knowing this, Meng Zitao had a vein in his heart: Hu Qingyou was at odds with his father on the surface, could it be that he was secretly selling things to Hu Dekai? This is very possible, it seems that we have to focus on investigating Hu Qingyou, maybe we will get news of Fang Wei.

Hu Dajiang drank almost, talked a lot, and said a lot, so there was nothing bad to say, but it was basically useless information.

In the end, Meng Zitao asked Hu Dajiang if he knew who Hu Dekai had learned the craft from, and Hu Dajiang said that he only knew that Hu Likai had learned carpentry from a master in the next village when he was young, and he didn't know anything else.

When mentioning the craftsman again, Hu Dajiang showed an expression of admiration, saying that this master is very skilled and can do any job, if it weren't for his old age and poor health, someone would definitely ask him to do carpentry.

Meng Zitao was a little suspicious of this master carpenter and planned to visit him in the afternoon.

After the meal, Meng Zitao sent Hu Dajiang, who was already dizzy, back, and then came to the carpenter's house according to the address given by Hu Dajiang.

"Tuk Tuk!"

Meng Zitao knocked on the door, and after a while, an old man's voice came from inside: "Who?"

"Is it Master Yuan?" Meng Zitao asked.

In the middle of the ring, an old man of seventy or eighty years old came out and opened the door, and when he saw Meng Zitao, he was a little puzzled: "Young man, who are you?"

Meng Zitao smiled and said: "My name is Meng Zitao, this is my business card, I heard that your carpenter work is very good, I want to come to marry the scriptures, I don't know if it is convenient for you, Master Yuan?"

Master Yuan squinted his eyes and looked at the business card, then looked up at Meng Zitao, and suddenly said, "Oh, I remember, you are the treasure hunter on TV, right?"

Meng Zitao nodded with a smile, and the old man said again: "Your nose is really smart, you actually know that I have some old objects here, it must be Xiao Gu who told you, this melon baby is not keeping his promises, let him not say it, he just wants to say, next time he dares to come again, I will definitely beat him out!"

Meng Zitao didn't expect the old man to be quite short-tempered, and hurriedly said, "Master Yuan, I don't know who Xiao Gu you are talking about. ”

"Huh?" the old man frowned, "Who told you that?"

"That's what happened. Meng Zitao told the truth of the matter.

The old man's attitude suddenly cooled: "It turned out to be him, I have nothing to do with him, you have found the wrong person." ”

Meng Zitao didn't want the relationship with the old man to stiffen, so he hurriedly said: "Master Yuan, I didn't come here today for anything else, not to suspect you of anything, but because the cultural relics involved by Hu Dekai are too valuable, so they must be traced." I hope you don't get me wrong. ”

When the old man heard this, he was a little curious: "What is he involved in?" Oh, if it's inconvenient to say it, don't say it. ”

"It's this bronze square. Meng Zitao took out the photo.

When the old man saw the photo, he was a little surprised: "He dares to touch his hands with such a heavy weapon, it's really a pity to die!"

Meng Zitao said: "Whether he dies or not is secondary, this heavy weapon must not be spread abroad." ”

The old man nodded heavily: "That's right, but I really have nothing to do with him, and I can't help it!"

Meng Zitao smiled and said that it didn't matter, and then he politely asked if he could appreciate the old things that the old man just said.

The old man laughed: "I don't admit myself, I don't show it to ordinary people, but you kid is very pleasing to the eye, come in." ”

Meng Zitao said thank you and followed the old man into the hall.

The old man asked Meng Zitao and Lu Yiqing to sit, and he went to the back room to get something, and after a while he came out.

The old man took out a total of two things, one of which is a wood carving Ruyi, this handle Ruyi is carved with Canaan incense, long crank, curved neck, Ganoderma lucidum shaped crown, the shape is thick and huge, the whole body is carved in the form of bas-relief turquoise auspicious clouds and eight immortals to celebrate longevity. The whole Ruyi ornament layout is rich and gorgeous, carved and delicate and exquisite, and it can't help but be praised.

After a while, Meng Zitao raised his head and said to the old man with a smile: "Master Yuan, if I am not mistaken, this Ruyi should have been repaired, right?"