"The Ming Dynasty vase that Mr. Lin helped to sell was stolen. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info What's more coincidental is that the employer who entrusted the seller and Mr. Lin were also your father's apprentices. So after Mr. Lin found out that the vase was missing, the first person to contact was your father, after all, it was through the business introduced by your father, if the vase can be found without bothering the police, Mr. Lin still prefers your father to go around and leave some time for him to find the vase through other means. After all, Mr. Lin was afraid that the police would always come and go in his small shop, which would also affect his other businesses. Since they are all your father's students, he thinks that Mr. Luo will agree to his proposal for your father's sake. Li Jing drank and said eloquently.

I hesitated for a moment and interrupted Li Jing's description: "Wait a minute, you just said that Lin Luo's business was brokered by my father?" ”

Li Jing nodded: "It is because of this premise that I will go into a misunderstanding at the beginning and suspect that your father is connected to the theft case." I forgot to mention that the other way that Mr. Lin sought was to ask one of my teachers for help, but at that time, the teacher gave me the job to do when my mind was not fully mature, which was kind of a chance for me to exercise. And I did learn a lot. Ah, where did I go? ”

"You said you had gone into a misunderstanding." Mi Zhen reminded with her eyes closed.

Li Jing glanced at Mi Zhen and saw that she was still lying quietly on the sofa chair as before, so he turned his gaze back to me: "I told you just now, I can't hide it, according to some of the evidence I collected at that time, I suspected your father at first, but I never found a motive." In the end, it was the evidence I found that changed my mind, only this time there was a motive, and the person who committed the sin was not your father. Actually, that's why I want to thank your father. ”

"Thank you that my dad didn't blame you for doubting him?" I speculated that after thinking at the time, Heze was my occupational disease.

Li Jing shook his head: "I don't care too much about what others think of me, I thank him for the way he handles problems, including his attitude towards my suspicion of him and his unfazed style of acting, as well as his calmness in the face of human feelings, which gave me a lot of shock and inspiration." In addition, I was able to have further contact with you Hu IQ later, and I did learn a lot of excellent qualities from her. At this point, he looked at me, hesitated for a moment, and then continued, "I think you should have inherited a lot, right?" ”

When he asked, his tone was not very sure, and I replied with some anger: "I know more and more about Dad than you do. ”

"Not necessarily." Mi Zhen, who didn't speak for a long time, said, I wanted to talk back, but I found that there was nothing to say, just the experience of the past few days, let me see the character and temper that my father did not show in front of me. Although it is still respectable and cute, there are still more things waiting for me to pursue. I really didn't know my father well enough.

Seeing that I was deflated, Li Jing changed the topic: "Cough, in fact, what made me suspicious at first was that Mr. Luo and Mr. Lin didn't know each other. ”

"His two apprentices didn't know each other before?" I became confused.

"It's true that the two men met for the first time because of business, which was also confirmed by your father, and coincidentally, although both were apprentices before your father started business, but they were newcomers in two different companies where your father worked." Li Jing explained in as much detail as possible.

"I also know this, my father once changed companies because of his work."

Li Jing nodded, "The two of them got along well later, Mr. Lin resigned from the timber business for a period of time shortly after your father was transferred to another company, and accumulated a considerable amount of capital, and then opened an antique shop similar to a pawn shop according to his own preferences, and the business has always been good." Mr. Luo started a little late, saw others doing business booming, felt greedy, and borrowed money to do business, although not like Mr. Lin to make money, but it can be regarded as a small harvest, and finally opened a small restaurant, with the help of his wife, the hotel is also a good business, and slowly from the original small restaurant Beijing to a two-story hotel that can hold a wedding banquet. When the husband and wife wanted to open another branch to expand their livelihood, they suddenly flew into trouble, although it was not a day when the door was snubbed, but the number of people patronizing his restaurant became less and less day by day. Finally, two months later, the business of the restaurant was cold, not only that, the hotel also had two lawsuits, the first lawsuit, there was a diner after eating in his restaurant, suddenly there was food poisoning, fortunately sent to the hospital, even if there was no bigger mess, it was later found out that the diner was allergic to mushrooms, but when ordering, the waiter did not ask about the taboo, nor did he explain that there were mushrooms in the soup, and there were allergies from time to time, resulting in danger. It's not a big deal, but losing some money is a thing. Another thing is more weird, the outside of the hotel is generally not by the signboard, the name of the hotel is written, there is that kind of neon signboard, there are also separate gilded characters. Mr. Luo's hotel signboard is the kind of single bronzing big characters, generally this kind of signboard is very strong, but on the day of the accident, the hotel signboard suddenly fell and smashed into a diner who walked out of the door, coincidentally, the diner had just had a dispute with the clerk in the restaurant because of the price of drinks, and he was originally left in a negative mood, and unfortunately, at the moment when he just stepped out of the threshold of the hotel, the hotel signboard fell from the sky and hit the diner, and it also caused more serious injuries. It is understandable to get involved in a lawsuit. When dealing with these problems, Mr. Luo found that his troubles seemed to happen after the renovation of the hotel. When he was puzzled, his wife found a feng shui gentleman to see if the renovation had ruined the hotel's feng shui. The gentleman who looked at feng shui checked in the store for a long time, and finally locked on the vase placed in Mr. Luo's office. After looking at the vase, Mr. Feng Shui looked very surprised on his face, and determined on the spot that the hotel's recent business failure was directly related to the vase they placed at the front desk. ”

"Aren't you an atheist? You believe these words. "Thinking of Li Jing, who was still swearing that he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, and now he is still explaining to me in detail about the strange power and chaos, I can't help but feel a little funny.

Li Jing probably saw my malicious ridicule, and glared at me a little angrily: "I didn't believe it, I just felt the need to explain to you the background of what happened." I don't think you can laugh at the line-up thing, because the person who gave this problematic vase is your father. ”

"My dad?" I raised my voice in surprise, but fortunately, there are a lot of people eating tea and chatting around now, and my raised volume did not usher in the side eyes of others. I covered my mouth and whispered, "But in the background you just introduced, it seems that my father didn't know about the existence of this vase. No one would sell a gift in front of the giver, right? ”

"Mr. Luo didn't know that the vase was a gift from your father." Li Jing calmly dropped a bombshell again.

I was stunned for a moment, and looked at the person in front of me with his mouth closed one by one, telling what happened later, "Mr. Luo received the vase at the opening ceremony after the renovation, because Mr. Luo usually has a habit of collecting antiques, so when the vase was delivered to him, he saw at a glance that this vase was worth a lot." Genuine Ming Dynasty antiques, overjoyed, he originally wanted to reward the person who gave him such a valuable gift, but as a result, he was told by the clerk that the gift was sent by the courier company, and he turned out the receipt, but did not find the sender's address on it. He went to the first few friends to ask if anyone had ever given such a valuable gift, but he didn't get the news he wanted. In the end, the matter was over, and Mr. Luo1 put Hu Ping in the bookcase in his office, thinking that maybe if he saw it, he would tell him that the vase was a gift from him. As a result, the giver didn't wait, but caused a lot of trouble. ”

"What's wrong with that vase?" Although I'm pretty sure my family doesn't have that much money for such a flashy antique, I can't help but be curious about the vase itself.

Li Jing nodded: "It is the blue and white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, but there are some differences from ordinary vases, ordinary vases are just some still life objects such as peonies, lotus flowers or pine, bamboo and plum, or interesting scenes such as Hu people's songs and dances, or festive creatures such as dragons and phoenixes, but this vase depicts the image of Zhong Kui subduing demons." ”

"It's too weird to paint on a vase." Imagining the pattern of the vase makes me shudder.

Li Jing didn't say anything, just continued to say to himself: "Although many people like the portrait of Hang Zhong Kui to ward off disasters and avoid evil, it doesn't mean that this kind of thing is appropriate wherever they want to appear. I'm an atheist, but I still believe in folklore, because I think there are psychological factors that affect how people behave in their daily lives. Li Jing's statement coincides with what Zhilin said two days ago, "Even ordinary people stick Zhong Kui's portrait on the door, and rarely hang it on the wall of the bedroom. A thief here does not mean to be stolen, but is easy to be calculated by villains. may be because Zhong Kui's image is more scary, after seeing it, it will make people feel afraid, and there will not be too much attention on themselves, so they will ignore some ill-intentioned people around them, so generally Zhong Kui's portrait is not placed in the house. In short, Mr. Luo, is to paint the image of Zhong Kui in his office vase, every day to admire, may have inadvertently changed some of the character, and later when I investigated, I did hear a clerk say that after the renovation, the boss's personality has undergone some changes, and his temper has become more irritable than before. ”

"But why suspect that it was my dad who sent it? Why did Mr. Luo ask my dad to solve the problem of the screen? He knew it was my dad? I looked at Li Jing with some suspicion, "If you find my dad and show me the vase, my dad should admit that he gave it to me." If there was a problem, my dad would definitely take the vase away and dispose of it himself, and he would never bother the second person to get his hands on this cursed thing that might bring bad luck to others. "According to my understanding of my father, if he finds that he has done something inappropriate, he will definitely deal with it himself, instead of causing trouble to others.

"But your dad didn't admit that he gave the vase." Li Jing frowned. As soon as he wanted to say more, he was stopped by me: "Our family doesn't have the money to buy such an expensive gift." ”

"I know. But that's not the point, I'll tell you in a moment why I was suspicious of your father at first. But I will now answer your second question first, why did Mr. Luo ask your father to settle the matter of the vase. In the case that the identity and purpose of the sender are unknown, it is best to do this kind of thing in secret, and the reason given by Mr. Luo is that he can't trust the people who often come and go around him, so he has to ask the former master for help, that is, he wants your father to ask for help. He knows that when your father was in business before, he knew some people and wanted to get rid of this troublesome vase through your father's connections. However, he said that he did not tell you the truth about his father's vase, and only hoped that he would be able to use the reason for the recent financial constraints to get by. I've already told you about the rest of the story. ”

"Now tell me why I doubt my father. When you investigate, you should also know about the situation in my family. With my family's financial situation, we have no chance of such valuable antiques. I looked sarcastically at the man in front of me.

Instead of being annoyed by my question, he replied with a smile: "I mainly look at the evidence, and compared to emotional rhetoric, the physical evidence intuitively tells me what is the truth." ”

"Then tell me the facts you investigated." Because Li Jing did say that he suspected that his father was wrong, I was not in a hurry to entangle with him about the judgment of right and wrong, but I became interested in what happened at that time, so I spent a lot of time counting the teacup and listening to Li Jing continue to speak.

"I said I was an atheist, and while I respected the folk sayings, that wasn't the basis for my judgment. Rather than investigating who usually has a grudge against Mr. Luo, I prefer to investigate the information of the courier company. Although Mr. Luo threw away the delivery order, according to the memories of the clerk at the time, they remembered the name of the delivery company, after all, it was not common at that time. Li Jing took a sip of tea and continued, "So the investigation went very smoothly, even if I lost the express order, I could still find the nearest transfer station to Mr. Luo's company according to the name of the express company, and then check the delivery location according to the records of the transfer station, and everything went very smoothly." Finally, a friend and I found out that the place of delivery is no more than 500 meters away from your home. ”

"Just because you're close to my house, you suspect my father?" It sounds reasonable, but it's a bit arbitrary.

"If this is the only evidence, I will not make a rash judgment, but more evidence shows that your father's package at that time was related."

"More evidence?" I looked at Li Jing suspiciously.

Li Jing nodded, and his fingers tapped lightly on the table: "Through the help of a friend, I retrieved the surveillance records near the delivery location and found out that on the day of delivery, in fact, only your father carried a cardboard box the size of a vase to the delivery point that day." So I have to suspect that your father is the sender. ”

"Such suspicions are very reasonable, but I am curious how Uncle Mo explains." Mi Zhen left the backrest and looked up to our conversation in high spirits, and it was clear that the story Li Jing had piqued her interest. She looked at Li Jing with some gossip, and the corners of her mouth were smiling: "Uncle Mo heard your random speculation, did he scold you?" Mizhen's eyes flashed with a sly light, as if waiting for an affirmative answer.

Li Jing shook his head indifferently: "This is not Uncle Mo's character at all, although he looked calm at the time, but I am very sure that he did have a little bit at that time." Speaking of this, Li Jing looked at me with some hesitation.

I nodded knowingly, "You still want to say that Dad is a little angry." ”

"Nope." Li Jing shook his head, "What I felt at the time was surprise. ”

"Surprised?" But think about it, anyone who is suddenly questioned will feel more shocked.

Li Jing drank all the tea in the cup and served himself another cup: "Later, I understood his surprise at that time. Because Uncle Mo didn't refute my speculation at that time, but stared at the evidence I gave her silently, I thought that Uncle Mo acquiesced to my insistence, so I couldn't help but feel a little proud. When I continued to question your father in an aggressive manner about where he had hidden the vase and the reason for stealing the vase he had stolen, your father just looked at me very gently and said that he wished he could give him a week's time, but also hoped that I would not call the police, because he wanted to solve the problem in a softer way. I only thought that he wanted to save some room and face for himself, and Mr. Luo didn't advocate calling the police anyway, and I thought I had caught the culprit, so I didn't think much about it, and agreed to your father's proposal, but also made a quid pro quo. ”

"On what terms?" I looked at Li Jing curiously, Dad rarely does such a thing, I'm sure Dad is not trying to save face, but planning bigger things, I can even feel that Dad must have sensed something from the evidence Li Jing found, so he proposed that week's agreement. However, I was more curious about what exchange agreement Dad and Li Jing reached. Mi Zhen, who was sitting next to Li Jing, also looked at him curiously.

"This condition was also proposed by your father, and I hope that I will be able to go with him to retrieve this vase within this week. At the time, I thought it was a ridiculous proposal, but when I knew the real result would come out, I couldn't laugh at it. Li Jing's face rarely showed a look of regret.

I probably figured out what my father meant. Suddenly, another question came to my mind: "That's right. Li Jing, how is the relationship between my father and Mr. Luo? ”

"Why do you ask?" Li Jing obviously didn't expect me to ask such a question.

"It's just a matter of curiosity about the relationship between my father and his apprentice. Dad's apprentice, even if he hasn't seen it, there are not a few people who have heard of it, but this Mr. Luo is the first time I've heard of it today. Supposedly, there was such a big thing, how could Dad have not mentioned a word or two, but I have never heard about this gentleman. But Mr. Lin, I've not only seen it, I've seen it. I wonder if it was because of this incident that my father had an estrangement with this Mr. Luo, or if he was not very close to the apprentice surnamed Luo. But if it's not very close, this tricky matter of dealing with the curse won't bother Dad to deal with it. So, I was very curious about Dad, a land that I had never heard of. I spread my hands and gave my questions.

Li Jing looked at me with a little bit of something I didn't quite understand, like a compliment, and like a worry, he turned his head and looked at Mi Zhen, but Mi Zhen avoided his eyes and lowered his head to stare at the teacup in front of him. Li Jing turned his head a little embarrassed and smiled at me: "Your father's reminder is really necessary to listen." ”

"Huh?" I looked at Li Jing for some reason.

Li Jing just waved his hand: "Forget it, don't care what I said just now." Now let me tell you what your father said about Mr. Luo. Although your father never said a single word of Mr. Luo's evaluation, whether it was positive or negative, your father didn't say much, in fact, your father didn't give much description to the two apprentices. I guess I was afraid that I would make a more confused judgment about the uncertain things at the time because of your father's evaluation, so your father never said anything. But according to my feelings, your father dislikes this Mr. Luo very much. But to be honest, I don't really like Mr. Luo very much, but that's for later. By the way, your dad once gave me a hint, but it had a deep influence on me. ”

"What?" I tilted my head and looked at Li Jing.

"The more things go well, the more cautious you have to be, but when things don't go well, you can do it with confidence and boldness."

"If you run into a lot of walls, you need to know which way to go, right?" I looked at Li Jing and laughed.