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Chapter 438 Pu Songling

…… After talking to Wang Haitao, Liu Dong hung up the phone, looked at the phone and sighed lightly.

Originally, he was reluctant to wade into this troubled water, but the conditions given by Wang Haitao were too superior, if it was just an antique, it would be fine, but more than 100 million cash could scratch Liu Dong's itch, and now he had more than six million left in his hand, which made Liu Dong, who was used to being big-hearted, extremely aggrieved.

Especially the matter of losing Guo Zhongshu's real work "Rim River Mountain Residence" to Wen Li a few days ago, although it did trap the other party, but for this national treasure-level thousand-year-old painting, how could Liu Dong not want it.

At that time, if he really held more than 100 million, even if it was 20 million, Liu Dong would take down the "Rim River Mountain Residence", after all, the money is gone, and you can make it again, but this kind of unique one-of-a-kind painting, if you miss it, you may not be able to get it back for the rest of your life!

Of course, it's too late to say this now, and the things have already fallen into the hands of the sworn enemy Wen Li.

In addition to the money and antiques that make Liu Dong excited, Liu Dong also needs the help of the Black Tiger Gang!

The sniper in the Huguang Hall in the capital city, Liu Dong has not figured out any clue until now, but Liu Dong is sure that after the other party fails, it will not be so easy to stop, and there will definitely be a second time, or even more times.

In addition, there is the Yamaguchi-gumi thing, which is a world-famous yakuza organization. Liu Dong never believed that the other party had not received the news of the disappearance of his backbone until now. Especially that more than 100 million dollars. That's not a small amount. It is impossible for the other party to give up. But now, more than a month later, there is still not the slightest movement from the Yamaguchi-gumi. This was somewhat unexpected by Liu Dong, but he also knew that the other party would come to the door sooner or later.

However, compared to the other party, the strength in his hands is a little insufficient, of course, if it is just him, then forget it. On China's turf, he is not afraid of more people. But Wang Qiang is different, and it is impossible for him to stay by Wang Qiang's side all the time, so even if he finds two bodyguards for her, Liu Dong is not very relieved.

So. During this time, when Liu Dong was reading, painting, and carving, he had been thinking about how to strengthen the safety of his relatives, and after thinking about it, he thought of the Black Tiger Gang.

As the head snake of Quancheng, the Black Tiger Gang has a natural advantage here, and they have many younger brothers, and they can easily grasp all kinds of private information of all sizes in Quancheng. And these news happened to be what Liu Dong needed the most. When the time comes, with the Black Tiger Gang's ventilation message, he will be able to nip the danger in the bud in advance.

It is precisely because he realizes that befriending the Black Tiger Gang is beneficial to himself and his relatives. Liu Dong changed his original attention to 'respecting and staying away'.

After explaining to Wang Qiang, Liu Dong drove out of the house. Then he came to the headquarters of the Black Tiger Gang very smoothly, and after more than four months, when he came here again, Liu Dong actually had a feeling of being separated from the world.

Although the time is very short, it does give Liu Dong a lot of touches here.

In addition to the first pot of gold earned by selling the 'Kangxi enamel color snuff bottle' to Zhao Defa. Strictly speaking, Liu Dong won 20 million from Han Lei from the Black Tiger Gang casino, which laid the foundation for Liu Dong's successful rise. It was with more than 20 million yuan that Liu Dong had enough money to buy gambling stones, and he was able to solve many priceless jadeites, and then there was today's situation.

"Brother Dong!"

"Brother Dong!" ......

Obviously, the Black Tiger Gang has long known about Liu Dong's model and license plate number, coupled with Wang Haitao's instructions, when Liu Dong parked the car and got down, more than a dozen members of the Black Tiger Gang around him all came over and respectfully greeted him.

And Liu Dong, who started the way, is no stranger to it, it is the 'Green Wolf Hall' master Yang Bin who he saw when he came to the Black Tiger Gang last time.

Being called brother by a group of people who are eight or nine years older than him, or even teenagers, Liu Dong is really a little uncomfortable. However, he also knew that this was the rule of the Tao, and he would naturally be respected if he had strength here. Therefore, Liu Dong didn't say much. After locking the car, he asked, "Where are you helpers?"

"The helper and the hall masters are already waiting for Brother Dong above, please come with me!" said Yang Bin leading the way and taking Liu Dong into the neon lights flashing, and the nightclub was already noisy. This is the time of day when the nightlife is at its most abundant in all the big cities.

Liu Dong, who has been here twice, is no stranger to the headquarters of the Black Tiger Gang, and soon followed Yang Bin to the top floor of the entire nightclub, which is also where Wang Haitao's office is located.

"Squeak!"

With the slight sound of the door opening, watching Liu Dong walk in, more than a dozen Black Tiger Gang executives who were sitting on the sofa in the office at the moment stood up at the same time.

"Haha, Brother Liu, I'm looking forward to you!" Wang Haitao was the first to greet him with a happy expression.

"Gang Master Wang is too polite!" Liu Dong said with a smile.

"Eh, Brother Liu is righteous, and he should be polite...... Hurry up and show Brother Liu a seat and make tea! Come, Brother Liu, please!"

"Gang Master, please!"

After the two of them sat down politely, many high-level officials of the surrounding Black Tiger Gang also sat down one by one.

Although many of them didn't think that Liu Dong would be able to bring the Black Tiger Gang out of the predicament, thinking of Liu Dong's appearance in the underground casino last time still gave them some hope.

"Gang Leader Wang, haven't you come yet?" Liu Dong asked directly after sitting down.

"These people usually come on time around ten o'clock, and it's almost now!" Wang Haitao said after glancing at the wall clock on the wall.

Hearing this, Liu Dong nodded, "In the past few days, Gang Master Wang hasn't found out where these people are coming from?"

"I'm ashamed to say it, although my Black Tiger Gang can be regarded as the head snake of Quancheng, it also has some influence in Dongshan Province. But when we left Dongshan Province, we were also blinded, so except for their accents and appearances, we knew that a few of them were from Fujian, Guangdong, and the rest were from Southeast Asia, and we didn't know anything else!" Wang Haitao smiled bitterly.

"Is that so?" Liu Dong nodded.

After listening, Liu Dong also understood that it was completely useless to want to know more about the other party's details from Wang Haitao's mouth.

Noticing the look on Liu Dong's face, Wang Haitao hurriedly winked at Pei Zhiming, the hall master of the 'Xuanwu Hall' who was sitting next to him, and soon the 'money bag' of the Black Tiger Gang nodded knowingly. He waved sideways behind him, and as he moved, two beautiful women with outstanding looks carefully walked up with two trays covered with red silk cloth.

After signaling the two women to put their things down, Wang Haitao waved them back.

"Brother Liu, open it and take a look!"

Looking at the smile on Wang Haitao's face, Liu Dong naturally understood what was inside the tray. Moreover, this is also the reward that Liu Dong deserves for his action this time, so he doesn't need to be polite. Reaching out, he lifted the red silk cloth from the tray on the left.

Soon, a thick scroll with a length of nearly fifty centimeters and a diameter of nearly ten centimeters appeared in Liu Dong's eyes.

Liu Dong's eyes lit up when he saw it, although he hadn't seen the contents of the scroll yet, but just from the mounting of this scroll, he could see that this was an old costume, at least a hundred years old. Moreover, whether it is calligraphy or painting, such a thick scroll, you don't need to look at it to know that this is another masterpiece.

Moreover, since Wang Haitao asked him to take this thing, it naturally could not be ordinary!

After thinking of this, Liu Dong couldn't wait to open the scroll, and then a painting of fine brushwork on paper appeared in Liu Dong's eyes. However, unlike the landscapes, flowers, birds, and paintings that Liu Dong often saw in the past, most of the paintings depicted in this picture scroll are ghosts and demons, of course, there are also scholars, women in ancient costumes, and such pictures with the theme of gods and monsters were mainly prevalent before the Tang Dynasty, such as Liu Dong's "Five Elements and Twenty-Eight Residences True Shape Map", and the famous "Eighty-seven Immortal Scrolls" and so on.

After the Tang Dynasty, the mainstream of the painting world was no longer to depict the life of the gods and emperors, landscape painting and literati painting became the new favorite of the times, especially in the Song Dynasty, the landscape painting world was born in the north and south, and Fan Kuan, Li Cheng, Jing Hao and Dong Yuan these famous people appeared. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, landscape painting almost became the representative of Chinese painting, and Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, Shen Zhou, Dong Qichang, the Four Kings, and the Four Monks were among the representatives.

In modern times, the trend of landscape and bird painting, literati painting, and even secular painting as the mainstream of the painting world has not changed, and few people have painted pictures with fairies, gods, ghosts and monsters as the theme, let alone such a large space.

With curiosity, Liu Dong continued to scroll down, and soon he found another problem, in this god and monster painting scroll, most of the protagonists are good-looking fox fairies.

When it comes to fox immortals, almost all Chinese people will pop up two words 'Liaozhai' in their minds, and when they mention Liaozhai, they can't think of Pu Songling, and when they think of Pu Songling, anyone who is proficient in calligraphy and painting appraisal can't help but think of the famous and now disappeared "Liaozhai Xingtu"!

Thinking of this, Liu Dong's excitement could no longer be suppressed. The relics that had been useless just now were immediately activated, and sure enough, the rich white light that erupted from the picture scroll in front of him, as well as the identification results in the mustard seed space, verified Liu Dong's guess.

According to historical records, Pu Songling attached great importance to the manuscript of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" during his lifetime, and his friend, Wang Shizhen, a famous literary scholar of the Qing Dynasty, once promised to buy the manuscript for 500 taels of gold but did not get it. Pu Songling also set a family rule for this: "The rest of his life is not allowed to read others." Later generations also made a vow of "the long branch to pass the book, the second branch to pass the painting". As a result, the manuscript was passed down from generation to generation by the eldest son, Pu Ruo.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)