Ignorantly followed Xiao Nizi to push the car across the Sai Wan Bridge, Yang Ping felt as uncomfortable as a cat scratch, and asked the high-spirited Xiao Nizi with a smile: "Xiao Nizi, what have I really done to your family?" Give me a hint. ”

Xiao Nizi snorted, ignored Yang Ping, and took over Stinky Bao's car: "Come, sister help you push, it's about to arrive, look at the four-faced Buddha in front." ”

Stinky Bao saw the golden four-faced Buddha in the garden in front of him, and turned around and shouted to Yang Ping: "Dad, look, Golden Buddha, I'll go over and take a look." After saying that, he ran over with the card machine.

Yang Ping pushed the cart and took a closer look, this is a Thai Buddha statue. Xiao Nizi smiled and introduced: "This splendid golden four-faced Buddha, was originally a god of Thailand, purchased from Thailand in 1985, with the meaning of good luck, eight directions into wealth, incense is still very prosperous, many people come to offer incense to worship the Buddha." ”

Yang Ping pouted: "You see that there are casinos next to this four-faced Buddha, the Jockey Club, this is to make money for the casino." ”

Xiao Nizi smiled: "Anyway, it's a fortune, I don't care if you believe it or not." Let's go. ”

Xiao Nizi didn't deceive Stinky Bao, the alley less than 200 meters away from Guanye Street is super popular, and it is full of all kinds of Australian delicacies. Turning a fork in the road, next to a towering ancient tree on the ascending steps, a small building with two doors and two floors and three floors on one side is Xiao Nizi's home. The small building is very warm, the two-story side is light green, the three-story side is beige, the door face is simple, two rows of roller shutters. One is a real estate agency, and the door is Aomen Hengxin Real Estate Investment Co., Ltd. One is a small bar. There are two shutter-style doors around the side. Xiao Nizi smiled and pushed open the door: "Please come in, there is a small garden in the back, just put the bicycle there." ”

Go into the backyard and put away your bike. The living room is on the second floor, and I go up the cement colored staircase with European-style handrails.

There were many people in the living room, and an elderly couple came to welcome Yang Ping and Stinky Bao. Guo's father was in his sixties, very fat, and rare among southerners, so he came up and shook Yang Ping's hand vigorously: "Yang Sheng, I finally saw you, haha." "It's a lot of strength.

Yang Ping smiled dryly: "Hehe, Uncle Guo, call me Xiao Yang." ”

Guo's mother hugged the stinky treasure and felt distressed: "Oh howl ratt, it's so proud to wrap a boy." ”

In the stinky clouds, Yang Ping gave a hint: "It's good to call grandma." ”

Stinky Bao nodded, grinning in greeting: "Hello grandma." ”

Guo's mother remembered that her vernacular children couldn't understand, so she switched to Cantonese Mandarin: "Children are so cute." What's your name? ”

Stinky Bao scratched his head: "My name is Yang Nan, grandma, I want to wash my hands." ”

"Nanzai, mother-in-law will take you to wash your hands." Guo's mother took Stinky Bao to the bathroom to wash her hands.

Father Guo, Yang Pingrang sat down on the rattan sofa and introduced the other people on the sofa: "This is my eldest brother, sister-in-law, and this is my second brother and second sister-in-law." I've heard of you for a long time. Caini, pour tea for the guests. ”

Yang Ping nodded his head to say hello, and muttered in his heart, this welcome ceremony is a bit grand: "Uncle Guo, I am just an ordinary friend of Caini, I am really flattered that you are so enthusiastic." I'm here to recognize ......."

Xiao Nizi brought hot tea, and Yang Ping nodded thank you. Looking around at a few people, Yang Ping felt that he had a very good appetite, and the three brothers were all wearing bracelets, maybe they were Buddha beads. And they are all two strings of left hand and one string of right hand, which at least shows that there is a strong atmosphere of cultural play here.

Uncle Xiao Nizi is tall and thin, and she looks very cultured when she wears a pair of glasses. The left hand is wearing citrine, amber bracelet, and the right hand is a red sandalwood bracelet, the beads are very large, and he said with a smile: "Xiao Yang, don't say kind words, when you come here, it's like going home, just stay, stay." It's a big place. ”

Guo's father was very bold and shook his hand: "Xiao Yang, you're welcome." There is a reason why you are our benefactor. ”

Guo's father took down a string of old wax in his hand and coiled it in his hand, recalling: "That's it, Cai Ni and her second uncle and I have invested in a real estate company, and it is the Hengxin Real Estate Investment Co., Ltd. downstairs." A while ago, the real estate was in a recession, and we failed to invest one after another, and we almost went bankrupt. The bank will collect the loan and will have to take this house. At that time, I tried all the ways I could think of, you know that we are a small intermediary with little investment, all rely on loans, and at that time, millions of loans could not be paid, so we had to sell houses and land. ”

Xiao Nizi sat next to Yang Ping, with a sour face, it must have been a bad time during that time.

Dad Guo's bracelet put back on his wrist and continued: "We had to move and sell the house, and when Caini and her uncle helped clean up their things, they were stunned when they saw Caini holding a snuffbox in her hand. I was very curious to go over and look at it, who knew that the worn-out copper snuff bottle was played with by Cai Ni every day, and the patina on it was exhausted, revealing the exquisite enamel. Her uncle knew some antiques, and at that time she felt that the copper enamel snuff bottle was not simple, but she took it to Christie's auction company for identification, and it turned out to be a copper enamel color snuff bottle made by Qianlong in the third generation of the Qing Dynasty. Now everything was solved, and the snuff bottle was auctioned at Christie's in the autumn auction and sold for 6.58 million Hong Kong dollars. ”

Xiao Nizi's second uncle was very silent, the stubble on his chin was shaved and blue, and he also opened his mouth when he heard this: "Alas, after that autumn auction, the bank didn't call for money when it got the news, and it had to chase the loan to our company." Cai Ni told us about her acquaintance with you, how to give her and Tian Yu's fingers, and how to take her to buy that snuff bottle...... Xiao Yang is really a nobleman, we must thank you well. ”

Yang Ping nodded and suddenly brightened, when he returned from Lijiang in Tibet, he took Xiao Nizi with him on the way, and when he passed through Rongcheng, he picked a copper fetal painting enamel snuff bottle for Xiao Nizi at the stall trading along the river, but he didn't expect this snuff bottle to help her family a lot. At the moment, he patted his leg excitedly: "Okay, this is the best use of things." Those dead things can only show their value if they can help people, and I understand what to do with those things in the future. ”

Guo's mother sat on the sofa with her stinky treasure in her arms, and said with red eyes: "Xiao Yang, I really don't know how to thank you......"

Yang Ping smiled: "Then what is the thanks, the snuff bottle was bought by Cai Ni herself, I just helped pick it out." Aunt was polite. "During that time, Yang Ping first got the ability, he didn't know how to use it, when he was strong and when he was weak, he inadvertently picked a serious good thing for Xiao Nizi, just to make the best use of it, Yang Ping was really happy.

And during that time, although the domestic collection market was very hot, snuff bottles were still "cold" by the collection market compared with porcelain, jade and other works of art.

Hundreds of years ago, snuff bottles were introduced to South Asia and Japan from European countries, and to China through the Manchus. Therefore, there are not a few collectors in Europe and the United States who take Chinese snuff bottles as their main collection. Although collectors in European countries also feel that the size of snuff bottles is very small, because of its exquisite selection of materials, fine workmanship, and rich connotations, and these characteristics are concentrated together, so that snuff bottles have no less technical value than large objects and works of art. Last year (2010), Bonhams held its first snuff bottle auction in Hong Kong, with 140 lots sold for 100% and a realised turnover of HK$66 million.

Guo's mother brought a large plate of snacks to Stinky Bao, all of which were high-calorie imported chocolates, and kept feeding Stinky Bao, and Yang Ping's face twitched: "Auntie, Nan Tsai can't eat anymore, I ate too much today, and it was because he was too fat that we rode to Australia." ”

Guo's father reprimanded his wife with a straight face: "It's tied, do you want to eat like me?" He turned his head and said to Yang Ping with a smile: "Xiao Yang, just live here, Cai Ni's two elder brothers are studying in the UK, their rooms have been empty, and you live upstairs." The bathroom is on top of everything, which is very convenient. ”

Yang Ping was a little embarrassed, he still wanted to go to the casino, and it was inconvenient to live in someone's house.

Looking at Yang Ping's embarrassed appearance, Xiao Nizi understood the reason and pouted: "Old Dou, Brother Yang wants to go to Lisboa, it's inconvenient here." ”

Xiao Nizi's uncle, he could feel that Yang Ping was not the kind of person who cares, and laughed: "It's convenient to live here, we are like-minded." Casino children can't go in, Nan Tsai let Cai Ni and her mother accompany her, I can accompany you at any time, the back of this building is the Venetian, the best casino is here. ”

Xiao Nizi's aunt is not enough to surround the stinky baby, it seems that all Chinese people are very partial to the big fat boy.

Guo's father wanted to take Yang Ping for supper, but the dinner was too full, so he simply drank some beer on the terrace, the temperature outside was about ten degrees, Yang Ping held a hand-held bottle, looked at the bustling tourists outside and the splendid Venetians not far away, and praised: "The location here is really good, Uncle Guo, do you all play literature?" ”

Guo's father didn't understand, and Xiao Nizi's uncle smiled: "Xiao Yang asked us about these Buddha beads we wore." ”

Guo's father suddenly realized: "Oh, this, half of us here believe in Buddhism, and they all came from Thailand." Most of the Buddhist beads are invited, and they slowly develop a habit, and more people wear them when others think they look good. In addition to being good-looking...... There are also various beads that have different meanings. Seek health. There are all those who want to make a living......"

Uncle Xiao Nizi smiled, took a sip of beer and began to gush: "Like me, I just like to gamble twice, the casinos here are very evil, for example, Lisboa is like a birdcage, and Feng Shui is a gambler who enters the market, like a caged bird; Looking at the side of the Hotel Lisboa from the Macau-Taipei Bridge, it looks like a big ship, a column behind the cage, like a chimney on the ship, it means that the guests come in, like taking a big boat, and fate is controlled in the hands of the captain. There are a lot of small balls and some big balls at the top of the casino, like a pearl on the Western sword and ten thousand arrows through the heart, it is said that gamblers will lose when they enter, and the dealer will always be a big winner. There are many sickle-like sharp weapons on the top floor, stabbing in all directions, which means that gamblers are like caged birds to be slaughtered. The "bat rat hanging money" and the lion and tiger mouth shape of the door of the bat, as if it will fly down to suck people's blood, the lion and tiger mouth door plus the taxi stand in front of the door, gamblers enter the casino, as if falling into the mouth of the lion and tiger, send the sheep into the mouth of the tiger. Therefore, the regulars enter through the side door; The road at the entrance is not an ordinary flat road, but a slight slope inward, which means "incorporate" and prevent the money caught by the bat rats from being lost. The mural depicts a Portuguese ship encountering a storm and a storm, which means that gamblers enter the house as if they were caught in a storm or waves. The gossip pattern on the ground of the entire lobby, the gossip array means that the master of the array gives birth to all things, dissolves anger, and attracts wealth and treasure. The uninterrupted renovation project of the casino is a homonym for "Zhuang Harvest". Hey, hey, evil, right? ”

Yang Ping was dumbfounded and nodded blankly.

Xiao Nizi's uncle took a sip of wine and took the citrine bracelet in his hand: "These strings of Buddhist beads I invited from Thailand are to ward off evil spirits and attract wealth and keep safe, and you can also fight against the feng shui bureau of the casino." ”

Yang Ping licked his lips, took out a cigarette and gave it to the family, but fortunately no one smoked, so he lit it himself: "Hiss...... Feelings, you can't wear a bracelet as a literary play, and you can increase your knowledge. ”