Meng Zitao smiled: "Let me ask you again, do you know what this is?"

Yan Xiaosan coughed lightly: "Ahem! This is used in ancient times when sacrificing heaven and earth." ”

Meng Zitao no longer played dumb riddles with him, and said: "This thing is called a hand stove." ”

"Hand stove?" Yan Xiaosan glanced at the things on the table with some suspicion.

Meng Zitao looked at him with a smile: "This thing should have been taken out by you from the Taoist Temple." ”

Yan Xiaosan immediately jumped to his feet and said, "Don't spew blood!"

"What's it called!" Ah Ming glared at Yan Xiaosan fiercely: "Is there any blood spurting people, you don't have any points in your heart!, do you want to call the police now and ask the police to come over?"

"Brother Ming, are you trying to bully others?" Yan Xiaosan's tone immediately weakened a lot.

Meng Zitao waved his hand at Ah Ming: "Do you know why I can guess the origin of things? This kind of hand stove, also known as the holding furnace, is an incense burner with a handle held by a Taoist priest when performing the Zhai Jiao ritual. ”

According to the "Daoshu Aid Book Deed": "The ancients poured the gift of Gui Zhan, the shape of the Zhan is like a plate, the handle is like Gui, and the wine is in it, and the Zhan is not the Gui." Today's Taoist hand furnace is not simple, that is, it originates from this. Taoist ceremonies include incense ceremonies, where the master holds the stove and burns incense to perform the ritual.

The hand stove carving brought by Yan Xiaosan is fine and elegant, the furnace body is lotus-shaped, and carved with a dragon-shaped furnace style, and there is a faint smell of incense on the surface, indicating that it was used not long ago.

The hand stove is actually a kind of magic weapon, and it is generally not discarded in good condition, and how Yan Xiaosan took out the hand stove is undoubtedly very clear.

Ah Ming asked with a stern expression: "Yan Xiaosan, tell me honestly, where did you get this thing!"

"The origin of things is innocent ......"

Ah Ming interrupted Yan Xiaosan's words: "I'll tell you, don't give me sloppy eyes, be careful that you can't eat and walk around!"

Yan Xiaosan said with a dissatisfied face: "Brother Ming, it's not good for you to be like this, obviously I don't steal or rob, why do you have to force me!"

"Call the police. Meng Zitao could see that Yan Xiaosan was very weak-minded, and the probability that the hand stove was stolen was estimated to be ninety percent.

As soon as Yan Xiaosan saw Meng Zitao saying that he was going to call the police, although he defended himself in his mouth, his actions were very sincere, and he wanted to leave with his things.

Meng Zitao wouldn't let him go, and directly detained him.

Yan Xiaosan is not much different from a chicken in Meng Zitao's hands, he saw that he couldn't run, and he began to pretend to be pitiful again, what is old and young, tears flowed, if Meng Zitao didn't know what kind of person this guy was, he would really be sympathetic.

But now, Yan Xiaosan's appearance will only make Meng Zitao feel more disgusting and will not let him go.

After that, Meng Zitao took some measures, but in a few seconds, Yan Xiaosan poured beans and said the sternness of the matter.

Just as Meng Zitao guessed, the hand stove was indeed stolen by Yan Xiaosan from a Taoist temple.

On the way to Danmu, Ah Ming also has some understanding, there are only three people in the Taoist temple, they are all pious Taoist priests, although the life is relatively hard, but if tourists encounter difficulties, they can still help. In fact, they had the opportunity to make more money for the incense of the Taoist temple, but they did not do so, saying that they did not want the material to decay the spirit.

Ah Ming still admired the three Taoist priests, but he didn't expect Yan Xiaosan to go there to steal things, so angry that he beat Yan Xiaosan fiercely, and beat Yan Xiaosan to cry and call his mother.

handed over Yan Xiaosan to the police and figured out what happened.

The hand stove is more precious to the Taoist temple, but unless there is a special need, the value will not be very high, even if Yan Xiaosan is convicted, he will not stay in prison for long, however, Ah Ming has already pondered, and when Yan Xiaosan comes out, he will give him a lesson that will be remembered for a lifetime.

The hand stove was left, and tomorrow Meng Zitao and A Ming will send it back together, this opinion was put forward by A Ming, and he told Meng Zitao that in the Taoist temple, I heard that there is a collection of Huang Gongwang's authentic handiwork, maybe you can take this opportunity to appreciate one or two.

In fact, it is also normal for Huang Gongwang to have calligraphy in the Taoist temple, Huang Gongwang served as a rafter official of the Zhongtai Procuratorate in middle age, and later converted to the "Quanzhen Sect" and became a famous Quanzhen Taoist priest, who once abboted the Wanshou Palace and mentioned the Kaiyuan Palace. Later, he traveled back and forth to Songjiang, Hangzhou and other places, selling divination for a living. "Daozang" is included in the compilation of Jin Yueyan, Huang Gongwang's biography of "Mr. Paper Boat Quanzhen Zhiji" in one volume, and "Holding a Letter and Three Secrets" in one volume, expounding the principles and exercises of the Quanzhen School.

With Meng Zitao's identity, no one objected to Ah Ming's proposal.

The next morning, after breakfast, the two of them were ready, and set out to find Danmu, they first took a car, but the car could only pass a third of the way, and the rest of the road was all on foot.

Under the leadership of Ah Ming, Meng Zitao came to the Taoist temple.

The Taoist temple is indeed very small, it looks like it has been hundreds of years old, and it is full of vicissitudes, but the scenery here is beautiful, and the combination of the two has a unique charm.

Ah Ming stepped forward and knocked on the door, and soon a middle-aged Taoist came out and opened the door, and said with a smile: "Two distinguished guests, please come inside." ”

Meng Zitao and Ah Ming looked at each other, because the Taoist temple did not have a phone, and they did not notify them in advance, why did the other party seem to be insiders?

"Lord Xu Guan, I don't know what you mean by 'distinguished guest'?" Ah Ming couldn't help but ask.

Xu Guan laughed: "Please come in and talk about it." ”

Xu Guanzhu is not a villain, although the two of them are curious, they still don't ask much, and follow Xu Guanzhu into the view.

When the group came to the reception room, they saw that there were already two Taoist priests, an old man and a young man, waiting for them in the room.

These two are the senior brother and younger brother of the Guanzhu, all three of them are surnamed Xu, they were all orphans at the beginning, adopted by the old Guanzhu, grew up in the Taoist Temple, and have deep feelings for the Taoist Temple.

Xu Guanzhu's senior brother looked to be in his sixties, but after listening to the introduction, he knew that he was almost eighty years old, and the junior brother was just twenty years old.

According to Xu Guanzhu's later introduction, the little brother was only a little more than a year old when he was adopted, and it was not until he was eighteen years old that the old Guan Master died.

After taking a seat, everyone exchanged a few words, and the two of them asked about the meaning of the words just now.

Xu Guan said with a smile: "We stole a hand stove in the temple the day before yesterday, and I am ashamed to say that I was very nervous when I found it, worried that the hand stove that had been passed down in the temple for hundreds of years would be stolen in my hands." Originally, I was going to call the police, but I didn't expect my senior brother to shake his head and tell me that there would be a distinguished guest coming to my door today, but I didn't expect to be said by him. ”