Chapter 25: Rosewood Chess Pieces

"Five hundred years, forty-sixth, etc."

With a burst of burning heat, a surging cool air poured fiercely into Luo Ping's palm.

"It's a baby!"

Luo Ping shook his right hand and almost threw it out, but quickly calmed down. Fearing that others would see it, he quickly transferred the thing to his left hand.

It was only then that he realized that the round thing in his hand was a crimson chess piece. The edges of both sides of the chess pieces are engraved with a circle of grooves, and one of them has a golden character 'handsome'.

It is about the same size as the common persimmon on the market, with a thickness of about one centimeter, which is very heavy and feels very good; It's very delicate and refreshing to the touch. Slippery, I don't know what kind of wood it's made of.

Luo Ping didn't dare to take a closer look, squatted in front of the little girl with a chess piece, and said with a smile: "Little sister, is the chocolate delicious?" ”

"Delicious!" The little girl replied crisply, tears still on her little face that had broken into laughter.

The little girl was about the same age as the younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage, Luo Ping's heart warmed, gently wiped away the tears from her face, and handed her the chess pieces.

It's not that he doesn't want this chess piece, it's just that he would never be able to do such a thing as deceiving the little girl, not to mention, she reminded Luo Ping of his younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage.

"Master Wu, do you have anything else at home besides this porcelain jar? It's the things that have been handed down from our ancestors. ”

Liu Qi has not come to Phoenix Ridge once or twice, knowing that Lao Wang will not lie to him, this family must have encountered difficulties in taking out the family heirloom treasure. Therefore, he wanted to help this family, and he, who had always only accepted porcelain, decided to make an exception today to see if there were any other items in their house.

"Yes, yes, and there's a painting."

Lao Wu's wife hurriedly replied, but after finishing speaking, she turned her head to look at Lao Wu, which meant that she still had to wait for the head of the house to speak.

Lao Wu sighed and said, "Go and take it out." ”

"This painting is also handed down from the ancestors, and the old man has repeatedly told him that he can't sell this painting if he sells his house or land. But now in this situation, alas, it can only be sold. ”

Lao Wu lit another cigarette, and a few more furrows seemed to have been added to his sad face, and tears flashed in his cloudy eyes.

"Oh, old man, the painting is gone." Old Wu's wife shouted in the back room.

Lao Wu hurriedly ran in, and Luo Ping and the others outside only heard a crackling sound from the inner room, as if they were rummaging through the cabinets to find the painting.

After a while, Lao Wu came out with a black face and yelled at the little girl who was eating chocolate, "Yanzi, did you see the painting that your grandmother put on?" ”

The little girl named Yanzi trembled in fright, and looked at Lao Wu timidly, "Yes, under the bed." ”

Lao Wu hurriedly walked into the house, and suddenly, an angry roar came from the house, and then, Lao Wu walked out angrily with a stick thick with an arm, and hit the little girl.

"I'll kill you, a loser, I'll kill you, a money-loser......"

The little girl flashed smartly and dodged the first blow, seeing that the second blow was about to hit her, Luo Ping quickly turned his back and protected her under him.

"Smack!"

The stick in Lao Wu's hand hit Luo Ping's back hard.

"Xiao Luo."

Liu Qi exclaimed, and Village Chief Wang snatched Lao Wu's stick and shouted, "Lao Wu, what are you doing here?" Monkey business! ”

The little girl was so frightened that she began to cry. Luo Ping held her in his arms and comforted her repeatedly. Liu Qi walked up to him, uncovered his clothes, and saw a terrifying red and swollen mark on Luo Ping's back clearly visible.

"Nonsense!"

Liu Qi is also on fire, this stick is fortunately hit on the back, if this is hit on the head, wouldn't it cost people's lives!

Lao Wu was stunned when he saw that he had hit the wrong person, and let the village chief snatch the stick in his hand, but in a blink of an eye, he was full of tears, sitting on the ground and crying.

"Oh my God, what can I do here, what can I do here!"

"What the hell is going on?" Lao Wu's stick made Village Chief Wang furious, and he finally invited someone to collect your things, and you didn't say anything about it, but you cried all the time, what is the matter?

"It's over, it's all over......" Lao Wu cried shockingly, tears and snot flowing. Immediately afterwards, the child's grandmother cried and took out a picture scroll, but it was cracked into pieces, and it didn't look like it.

Liu Qi was originally full of resentment, but after seeing this painting, he also sighed, understanding that Lao Wu Weishenme would suddenly be angry and out of control.

Under Luo Ping's comfort, the swallow had stopped crying, but when she heard the cry of her grandparents, the little girl's mouth was deflated, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.

Luo Ping turned his head to look at the painting on the table, helped Yanzi wipe away the tears on his face, and asked, "Yanzi, did you see that the painting was moldy and took it out to bask in the sun?" ”

Swallow nodded, choked up and said, "A few days ago...... I saw this painting in my grandmother's closet,...... It's ...... I had a lot of mold, so I took it out to dry for a long time, but I didn't expect it to become like this, and I don't know what's going on......"

Luo Ping touched her hair and said with a smile, "Don't cry, it's okay." ”

Liu Qi walked over and took a closer look at the broken scroll on the table, revealing a heartbroken expression.

"It's a pity, this is the work of the famous Qing Dynasty painter Wang Shishen."

"Liu Lao also has research on calligraphy and painting?" Luo Ping walked over in surprise and asked.

"Hehe, I can't talk about research, I've just heard about it. You see, judging from the seal and the final payment, it is Wang Shishen. And this painting is a plum blossom, and Wang Shishen is best at plum blossoms, some people describe his plum blossoms as 'spirited and clear, light and interesting', this painting just reflects this characteristic. It's a shame that it's broken like this. ”

Luo Ping also heard Chen Lao talk about Wang Shishen, and while thinking about his age, he picked up a piece of painting.

"Two hundred and ninety-one years."

The area of the painting in his hand is too small to reach the lowest level that Pixiu can recognize, but the age it reported just confirms that this painting should be Wang Shishen's work.

"Old Liu, is this painting and these broken porcelain pieces still worth some money?"

Liu Qi shook his head, "The jar is too broken, and it is difficult to repair it; As for the painting, you see, it has been so carelessly preserved, not only is it cracked like this, but it is also mildew and worm eyes, and the paper has become so brittle that with a little force it will crumble into powder. ”

The swallow approached them and could hear their conversation clearly. She suddenly knelt on the ground, grabbed Luo Ping's trouser legs and cried out, "Big brother, please help us, help us." ”

Luo Ping hurriedly helped her up, looking at her sad little appearance, his heart seemed to be pressed against a heavy stone.

"Old Liu," Luo Ping let go of Xiaoyanzi and said to Liu Qi, "Can you lend me some money, just a thousand yuan." ”

Liu Qi paused for a moment, and quickly understood what Luo Ping meant, and said with a smile, "Okay, don't say such things to me." ”

After speaking, he turned around and called Village Chief Wang over and whispered a few words to him.

"How can this work, Mr. Liu, this, this-"

"Okay, money is nothing, it's important to save people."

Immediately afterwards, he took out a wad of money from the travel bag, about 10,000 yuan, and handed it to Village Chief Wang.

When Village Chief Wang stuffed the money into Lao Wu's hand, he just said two words, but Lao Wu stood up suddenly, his face flushed.

"Liu, Teacher Liu, this can't be helped, this can't be helped!"

Liu Qi smiled and waved his hand, saying that this was all Luo Ping's meaning, Lao Wu and his wife kept bowing to Luo Ping, and Lao Wu's wife even asked Xiaoyanzi to kneel down and kowtow to Luo Ping.

Luo Ping also experienced this kind of scene for the first time, and his old face was so excited that he turned red, and quickly pulled up the little swallow.

"Hehe, it's also fate. I have a sister who looks like a swallow, so I assume that swallow is my sister. If you have difficulties in your family, since I have encountered it, of course I can't ignore it, so you can accept this money with confidence, it is important to save people. ”

"Good man, good man!" Lao Wu's wife started crying again, and her mouth kept chattering.

On the occasion of parting, Lao Wu asked Luo Ping to take away the broken porcelain pieces and broken paintings, but Luo Ping couldn't refuse, so he had to accept them.

"Hehe, Xiao Luo, there are really not many warm-hearted young men like you now."

Liu Qi, who finally came but didn't receive a thing, did not show a little depression on his face, but talked and laughed with Luo Ping, looking quite happy.