Tang Yi sat in the taxi, deliberately asked the driver to take a few detours, and observed from the rearview mirror that no one was following, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Lin Huanting: "It's okay." ”

"How did you get here, and someone would follow you?" Lin Huanting was a little nervous.

"I don't know. I have to tell Zheng Wu when I go back and ask him to help check it. Tang Yi responded.

"Could it be that Potpourri is looking for someone to follow?" Lin Huanting asked again.

"If only he were the best." Tang Yi comforted: "He is looking for someone to follow, it is nothing more than to see that my gambling stone has excellent eyesight, and he wants to make a friend, but tracking is just a probe." ”

The two got out of the car at a café, entered the café, and chose a relatively secluded corner to sit down. After ordering two cups of coffee, Tang Yi took out his mobile phone and called Zheng Wu, but he didn't answer, and he didn't answer when he called Wen Jia.

"These two are probably still taking a bath, wait!" Tang Yi put down his phone and took a sip of coffee.

Lin Huanting still seemed worried, but opened her mouth and didn't speak.

Tang Yi comforted, "Don't think about it, wait for Zheng Wu to call back and let them come over to discuss." Didn't you ask about this ivory mat? Why is it ancestral, but the old man doesn't know it's ivory? ”

"yes." Lin Huanting nodded, "Then let's talk about it!" ”

"This process is very special, and the specific method of making it has been lost. It can only be done in the south, because the climate in the north is dry, and the ivory can easily break when it is a child, and it is said that there is a special potion to soften the ivory. Tang Yi introduced: "And the selection of ivory parts is also very particular, to follow the texture, a piece of ivory can be taken from the place, about less than one-tenth." ”

"It's expensive and complicated, so it's always been royal. There are different opinions about this thing, some people say that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once 'gave Mrs. Li with ivory', and it was made in the Han Dynasty, and some people say that the ivory at that time was actually woven into a piece of ivory board, not a real soft mat. The production method of soft mats was only available in the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"The ivory mats of the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties can be verified in kind, and they are in the Forbidden City, which are delicate and soft. There is also a story in this, saying that in the sixties of the last century, I sorted out the items of the Forbidden City and found an ivory mat in a pile of bamboo mats on Taiwan Island. It turned out that during the period of the last emperor Puyi, the eunuchs in the palace were rampant in stealing, and someone deliberately hid the ivory mat in the bamboo mat, trying to fish in troubled waters to get it out but failed. After Lin Huanting heard this, she couldn't help asking, "Since the Qianlong Dynasty still has something to do, why is it gone in the future?" ”

"This thing, the process and technology are too complicated, and the cost can be imagined, too expensive. It was all the officials of Guangdong Province who paid tribute to the imperial court. In the end, even the emperor felt that it was very luxurious, so he ordered not to do it! Tang Yi said with a smile, "From the emperor's refusal to let me do it, to the complete loss of the technique, there is actually a period of time, which is why there are ivory mats left in the people." ”

"I see!" Lin Huanting suddenly realized, "At that time, the old man's ancestors hid ivory mats, but since the emperor ordered not to let him do it, then he didn't dare to make a noise, and slowly passed it down from generation to generation, this thing gradually became unnoticed, and in the end, descendants didn't know what material it was, so it was put aside!" ”

"I guess that's a possibility. However, the antique thing, many times very strange, the origin and the reason for being buried are varied, in short, it is so coincidental, this old man does not know that it is an ivory mat, let us pick up the leak! Tang Yi nodded.

Lin Huanting suddenly said again, "Hey, that old gentleman helped us, isn't it good to pick him up like this?" ”

"Ugh." Tang Yi was speechless for a while, although he said that he was in the front and helped in the back, but when Lin Huanting said this, she really felt a little uncomfortable. I was dodging the following just now, and I didn't think much about it, so I asked, "Then what do you say?" ”

"How much is this ivory mat worth?"

"This thing has never appeared in the auction, only in the museum, and there are only a few in total, so I can't estimate it. If you have to say, millions of people will want to buy it! ”

Tang Yi thought for a while, "You won't let me give him money again, will you?" Money is secondary, you don't know the troubles in the antique circle! If this thing is pointed out, once you find the back account, it will be endless, and other people will know about it, and it will be passed around, and there may be more tricky things. ”

Lin Huanting nodded, "We are in the field now, so we really have to be more careful." ”

"I'll take a look, no, in the name of thanking him for helping him get out, send a red envelope or something, it can be regarded as a gesture of gratitude." Tang Yi said again.

While the two were talking, Zheng Wu's phone call came back, and when he heard that Tang Yi was being followed, he immediately said that he and Wen Jia would come over immediately.

When they arrived at the café, Zheng Wu shouted, "I have already contacted a friend in the police force to call up the surveillance to see where those two people have gone!" ”

Wen Jia groaned: "When we are together, whether it is going to the market, eating, or drinking tea, no one follows us, and as soon as we separate, someone will follow you, and it seems that they are coming for you." ”

"Is it possible that potpourri oil?" Tang Yi asked.

"No, it won't." Zheng Wu shook his head, "On the land of Jiezhou, I still have some face, he won't do this." ”

After that, Zheng Wu took out the phone and made another call, this call was to ask a friend on the road to inquire about the clues of the two "thieves" on the old street.

Several people discussed it for a while, and what Zheng Wu meant was to wait for Xin'er first, and then make plans.

Seeing that it was evening, several people went to have dinner first, during which Uncle Hui made a phone call, Zheng Wu was upset, pressed mute, and did not answer.

Towards the end of the meal, a friend from the police called Zheng Wu and said that the two young men had left the old street after being surrounded, walked to a nearby side street, got into a black Elantra, and then went to a teahouse. The license plate number was registered in the name of a rental company and appeared to be a rented car.

Then, a big brother on the road called Zheng Wu, saying that the two "thieves" on the old street in the afternoon were definitely not thieves, like the two right-hand men of the boss who inquired. At the same time, some people also inquired that the two men had met with an old man in a teahouse in the afternoon. This old man is not a man of the Tao.

Moreover, the old man was wearing a hat and a scarf, and it was difficult to recognize who he was. At the same time, I heard from the guy in the teahouse that the old man was very careful and walked through the back door when he left.

When the old man walked out the back door, he took a taxi, and then he couldn't find out where he went.

"Old man?" Zheng Wu thought to himself, knowing that Tang Yi was a guest he had invited, but he still had to follow him, and he was following him when he was separated, what did he want to do?