On weekends, the "God of Wealth Temple" in the southern city is crowded and looks particularly lively.

"God of Wealth Temple" is dedicated to the Shang saint Fan Li, that is, the "Tao Zhu Gong" who relied on the beauty Xi Shi to get rid of Wu Wangfucha in history, so every Saturday and Sunday, there will be a lot of vendors who buy and sell antique jade here, forming a lively and extraordinary antique market.

In the past few years, the scale here has become bigger and bigger, and even merchants from many surrounding provinces will come to do business, selling Duyu, selling antiques, selling old-fashioned record players, projectors, and even older teacups, dishes and bowls, old books and newspapers.

"Boss, what is this, it's interesting." A young man squatted in front of a stall selling antique jade and asked the stall owner with a smile.

The stall owner was black, thin and withered, with a roe head and rat eyes, and got up too early in order to grab the stall, and was leaning on the corner of the temple of wealth at the moment to close his eyes and recuperate, when he heard a voice, he hurriedly opened his mouse eyes, but saw that the young man in front of him was dressed very ordinary, no, to be precise, very shabby, white shirt, washed white jeans, and a pair of sneakers that were about to wear out and expose their toes.

The stall owner's nickname is "Li Mouse", who was originally a snob, and when he saw that the young man was clean and clean, but he was dressed shabby, he first despised three points, so he yawned unreasonably, and then "clicked" his mouth, and said with yellow teeth: "This is a snuff bottle of the Qing Dynasty, something that has been around for hundreds of years." ”

The fluttering words made the young man frown, because he loves cleanliness very much, and Li Mouse has never brushed his teeth, and recently he has always liked to smoke and get angry, and his breath is stinky.

Li Mouse didn't feel bad breath at all, and while picking the leek leaves left between his teeth at noon with the long nails left by his little thumb, he said vaguely: "I know that Emperor Qianlong is not, and I know that Empress Dowager Cixi Li Hongzhang is not, they all love to use snuff bottles." ”

"But it's not like that...... "the young man reached for it, "will you buy it?" Don't move, this thing is expensive! "Rat-Lee was very dissatisfied with the young man's actions. In his opinion, the other party is the legendary "poor ** silk", who has nothing, but likes to ask questions.

The young man smiled apologetically, and his beautiful eyes turned into bright crescents, flashing and flashing.

Li Mouse was slightly stunned, only felt that he had grown very delicately after this, well, how to say it, it seemed to be very educated, especially when he smiled, it was very good-looking, which made people feel very kind unconsciously, so he coughed and said: "It's okay to see it if you want to, hold it safely, don't break it all at once...... Last time, I had another piece of fine jade here that was broken, but the **** didn't admit it. ”

The young man smiled, and again reached out and picked up the snuffbox and looked at it carefully. To be honest, he was actually just curious, and he was reluctant to stretch out his hand again when he was rejected, so as not to lose his face, but when Li Mouse said this, he was embarrassed to refuse.

The snuffbox didn't feel much when it was placed, and when it was picked up, it felt cold to the touch, as if holding a piece of ice, and the small turquoise porcelain jug was the size of a baby's fist, small and delicate, crystal clear, and the most amazing thing was that it seemed to contain a trace of liquid, which flowed interestingly with the tilt of the snuffbox.

"Is it snuff?"

"Nonsense, isn't snuff water? I don't have time to pour anything into it, it's so small that I can't pour it if I want to. "Rat-Lee was very dissatisfied with this idiotic question asked by Nian.

The young man smiled, not minding Rat's sarcasm at all, and still laughed to himself: "But as far as I know, snuff is in powder, not liquid. ”

"You don't know this, right?" Li Mouse finally picked out the leek leaves stuffed between his fingernails and teeth, and spat on the ground fiercely, "Snuff came from the Ming Dynasty, and it took two or three hundred years before it became popular in the Qing Dynasty...... Snuff is to grind good tobacco into powder, add musk and other precious medicinal materials, or use flowers to refine, the process of making zuò is very exquisite, and the smoke taste is divided into five kinds: mush, paste, acid, bean, bitter. Because snuff is easy to ferment in a snuff bottle, it is generally sealed with wax for several years or even decades before it is sold...... After fermentation for a long time, this smoke foam will naturally oxidize and combine with the moisture in the air to become a ...... What's that, it's this form and posture......" Li Mouse foamed and talked eloquently, and the young man was taken aback by being able to say such a popular science thing from his mouth, and some people gathered next to him, listening to Li Rat's nonsense.

Li Mouse is proud, in fact, he still listens to what others say, and he writes them down by himself, and brags about them every time he sells snuff bottles, which shows that he is knowledgeable and well-founded.

The young man listened with a smile and did not argue.

His name is Lin Yi, he usually has no hobbies, he likes to come to the Temple of Wealth on weekends to catch up, especially like to rub books on the bookstall to read, read a lot of books, he remembers a lot of things, for example, he remembers the Qing Dynasty Wang Shizhen's "Xiangzu Notes" Volume 7 Youyun: "The tobacco produced in Luzon, whose real name is Tamba, also known as Jin Sixun, is detailed in the previous volume. There are also snuff bottlers in the near Beijing division, and the clouds can be clear-sighted, especially the work of fighting off the epidemic. The fifty-second chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions": "Baoyu ordered Musk Yue, take snuff, smell some for him, sneeze a few times, and it will be fast." Mao Dun's "Midnight" ten: "Du Zhuzhai was full of snuff in both nostrils, and he was closing his eyes and opening his mouth wide, waiting to sneeze."

Therefore, Lin Yi's understanding of snuff is much deeper than that of Li Mouse's half-bottle of water, but he has always been kind, and when he saw Li Mouse's boasting, even the ancestor Li Lianying brought it out to advertise his snuff bottle, saying that Li Lianying won the favor of Lafayette, because he was good at buying a good snuff bottle to his liking, so he smiled even more and said nothing.

Lin Yi didn't care, but someone next to him was fooled by Li Mouse's big words, it was a fat man with a short and fat stature, peach hair, a thick dog gold chain around his neck, and a jade jade wrench, a string of sandalwood beads, and a Rolex watch on his hand.

The fat man was about thirty or forty years old, with a belly like a pregnancy in October, with a swaggering toe, and a bit of an upstart.

Next to him was a bewitching, peach-like woman. The woman is about twenty-five or sixteen, fair-skinned, wearing a very fashionable black silk camisole shirt with cropped white pencil pants underneath, wrapping the beautiful apple buttocks, looking mature and sexy.

The two of them carried their hands, their ears and temples were grinding, and their demeanor was intimate, and they looked like two people with "rich and beautiful women".

At this moment, the fat man listened to Li Mouse's boasting, so he grabbed the snuffbox from Lin Yi's hand very rudely, and looked at it very expertly.

Seeing this, Li Mouse's heart blossomed, and at first glance he was a big guy, and he couldn't sell it for a big price, so he put Lin Yi, a poor customer, aside, and tried his best to flatter the fat man's good eyesight, and he picked up the treasure at a glance, and then bragged even harder, saying how expensive this thing is, at least it is worth seven or eight thousand, and what auction it will be auctioned at will be even more incredible, absolutely tens of thousands-

The fat man ignored Li Mouse's sycophants, and even ignored Lin Yi, a poor guy, and rubbed the snuffbox with a big thorn, looking at the lines and carvings, as if there was no one around.

Lin Yi couldn't help frowning, he was kind, it didn't mean that he had no temper, and he was about to speak, but the woman next to the fat man took the lead in apologizing: "I'm sorry, little brother." We're in a hurry, and we can't help what we like, don't be like him—" After speaking, he smiled at the young man, charming, charming, especially the red lips, ruddy, so that the surrounding circle of male animals couldn't help but swallow and spit at the mouth.

Lin Yi's temperament was already peaceful, and when he saw this, he didn't care anymore, and got up and was about to leave, but he saw the fat man suddenly speak: "Slow down, little brother, I couldn't help it just now, I took this thing over without discussing it with you, to be honest, I like this little object very much, two words - 'elegant'." But which one, a gentleman doesn't win people's love, if you like it, just pick it up, first come, first served! The fat man said this, but his eyes were full of banter, in his opinion, Lin Yi couldn't afford this kind of thing at all, and what he said just now was just a scene.

Lin Yi is already smart, how could he not understand what the man meant, but he didn't understand why he said so much nonsense.

But he understood it right away.

The fat man said: "If you really don't want it, I won't let it anymore, but seeing that you are so interested in this gadget, you can be regarded as a fellow practitioner, how to say it, I like to make friends with fellow practitioners, so I want to study with you - you said that this snuff bottle looks like the Qing Dynasty, but what is it in it?" Could it be that the smoke droplets oxidize into water? ”

At this time, Li Mouse was anxious, "If you don't believe it, you can smell it." ”

"That's right, I'm planning to do this!" The fat man clapped his hands and said, "But my nose is uncomfortable these days, allergic rhinitis, I can't smell it at all, let alone the fragrance or smell in it, even if it is filled with fairy water, I can't smell a bird——"

Li Lao just wanted to say, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu will help you smell it, but when he saw the weird liquid in the snuff bottle, he hesitated, who knows what it contains, in case it is a poisonous liquid, then he will be miserable, besides, this dead fat man doesn't look very simple, he can be a thief in his bones, even if he really smells it for him, he doesn't believe it.

Seeing that Li Mouse was dumb, the fat man said in his heart, he wanted to make a lot of money but didn't have the guts, he deserved to set up a stall for a lifetime, and then turned to Lin Yi, put on a smiling face, and made a harmless appearance of humans and animals: "Or ...... Little brother help, so many people I have the most fate with you, and I trust you the most. ”

Lin Yi is not stupid, how could he not know the mind of this fat man, but compared to the fat man, he is more curious about what is inside this snuffbox.

There is a proverb in the West, called "curiosity kills cats", but Lin Yi is the kind of character who is full of curiosity about things and can't sleep if he doesn't understand......

Seeing that Lin Yi seemed to be hesitating, the fat man took the initiative to pull out the stopper of the snuffbox, handed it to Lin Yi and said, "Just smell it, I'll invite you to dinner later." "Patting his chest, he looks very heroic.

The people around also looked at Lin Yi, their eyes were full of doubts and curiosity, waiting for Lin Yi to uncover the mystery.

Although Lin Yi knew that he was the little white rabbit that was used as a real thing at the moment, he was more curious about the secret than the surroundings, so he ...... Tilted his nose over.

Leaning on the spout of the snuff box, Lin Yi sniffed slightly, and saw that the strange liquid in the snuff box suddenly turned into two puffs of green smoke and burrowed into his nose.

The people around were surprised and inexplicable, and they didn't see it clearly, thinking that two small green snakes had escaped from it and got into Lin Yi's nose.

It's weird, it's scary.

The stall owner, Li Mouse, suddenly felt that something seemed to be wrong, how could these liquids turn into gas?

The fat man's face was solemn, his eyes flashed, and he was glad that he didn't smell it just now-

Everyone else was quiet, only the woman seemed to be a little unbearable, looking at Lin Yi with a look of pity.

Everyone looked at Lin Yi to see how he reacted next.

Lin Yi inhaled the gas, but felt a spicy smell rush into his nasal cavity, as if he had eaten too much mustard, choking him to tears, and then the smell rushed into his brain, stimulating his nerves-

Lin Yi trembled, fainted to the ground in an instant, and the snuffbox in his hand also snapped and shattered.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, but Li Mouse reacted the fastest, "Quickly pinch people, call an ambulance!" Oh, my snuffbox——! ”