Shangguxuan is located on Fuzhou Road, which is one of the most prosperous places in Shanghai, where the most high-end cultural and entertainment merchants in Shanghai and even the country are gathered.

After Xin Yifan and Ye Zilan arrived, they first called Li Mo, and then saw an old man in ordinary clothes walking out of the store, this old man had a ruddy complexion, with a pair of old-fashioned eyes, a mustache, thin cheeks, and a little gray hair, looking a bit like an old pedant, as soon as he saw Xin Yifan and Ye Zilan, he came up to greet him, "You are Xin Yifan! I am Li Mo." ”

"Hello Mr. Li, I'm Xin Yifan, and this is my sister Ye Zilan. Xin Yifan said respectfully.

Li Mo and Yu Chengdong were both admitted to the history department of Yenching University after the resumption of the college entrance examination in 78, and Li Mo was five or six years older than Yu Chengdong, which was a common phenomenon at that time. The two were assigned to the National Institute of Archaeology at the same time, and the two also participated in major archaeological activities in Dunhuang, Lop Nur and other places, and fell into danger several times, and the two can be said to be friends of life and death.

After Li Mo went to sea in the early 90s, Yu Chengdong gave Li Mo a lot of help. This time, Yu Chengdong had something to entrust, and of course he gladly accepted it. He led the two into Shang Gu Xuan, and there was a young lady inside, who was Li Mo's daughter, called Li Chengran, who was Shang Gu Xuan sitting in the shop, that is, the shopkeeper, Li Mo rarely directly took care of Shang Gu Xuan's affairs now, and after Xin Yifan and others entered Shang Gu Xuan, Li Mo introduced each other to everyone.

Xin Yifan looked around at this Shang Guxuan, the face was dignified and magnificent, the treasures were gathered, and the placement of various utensils was very exquisite, and it could be seen that the owner was well versed in the way of antique management, and even the guys seemed to be very cultured, I am afraid that it was also from a key university. Ye Zilan also opened her eyes wide, looking curiously at this place where she was going to study and work for half a year.

Li Chengran looks very young, with fair skin, goose egg face, slender eyes, eyebrows into sideburns, oblique bangs combed upward, a bun in the back, and a wooden hairpin to check it up, the wooden hairpin is embedded with a dark golden auspicious cloud pattern, a little light makeup, with a modified Ming-style Hanfu, like a beautiful woman who came out of the painting.

Ye Zilan talked with Li Chengran very generously, and said bluntly, "Sister, you are so beautiful, so temperamental, and so fairy." Li Chengran laughed happily when she heard Ye Zilan praise her like this, and said, "You are also very beautiful, sister, I have never seen such an aura girl as you." The two of them were talking and laughing, and Li Mo took Xin Yifan to sit down on a chair next to him and asked someone to serve tea.

"Teacher Li, I handed Xiaolan over to you for discipline this time, which caused you trouble. Xin Yifan said politely to Li Mo.

"What's not troublesome, Lao Yu said that he was proud of his protégé's sister, I immediately agreed, learn as long as you want, and Cheng Ran and I will never hide it. Li Mole said hehehe, and then said to Xin Yifan, "That's right, Yifan, I heard Lao Yu say before that you had a major car accident and became a vegetative person, it's really sad to say, now I see that you are recovering well, there are no sequelae." ”

"Thank you Mr. Li for your concern, I have recovered and have gone back to work. Xin Yifan said gratefully.

"Well, I heard that Xiaolan's father has attracted great attention from the police, Lao Yu also asked me to inquire about whether there is any news about those cultural relics, and I asked a few friends in the industry to inquire, there is no news yet, from past experience, it is very likely to go out through the port city, after all, it cannot be circulated in China. Li Mo talked to Xin Yifan about Yu Chengdong's entrustment.

"Yes, Xiaolan's father was killed in Guangdong Province, and he also considered the port city, but neither the customs nor the underground trading market in the port city have found any trace of those cultural relics. Xin Yifan also said.

Li Mo nodded, and then as if he remembered something, as if he was talking to himself, "Well, I'll go and ask Zhewen's apprentice Jinkun again." ”

"Teacher Li, are you talking about Xiong Jinkun?" Xin Yifan also heard Li Mo's voice.

"Do you know him?" asked Li Mo with some curiosity.

"Hmm~ It's an acquaintance, we met some time ago and talked for a long time, of course, I also asked him, and he didn't hear about it. Xin Yifan said.

"If you don't even know Jinkun, then there's really no news, this pair of masters and apprentices, one is more strange than the other. Li Mo said with a smile.

Xin Yifan didn't know how to pick it up, and he didn't speak, so he smiled with him. In fact, he didn't know much about Xiong Jinkun's master and apprentice, but Xiong Jinkun said a lot about crystal bones that day, but judging from the style of this master and apprentice, it was really strange like what Li Mo said.

Li Chengran, who was talking and laughing, walked over with Ye Zilan and sat next to them, Li Chengran said to Li Mo: "Dad, Sister Xiaolan is very perceptive, I just told her about the common sense and rules of antiques, she remembered them all, and asked some questions." Li Chengran in front of his father was like a lovely girl, which made Xin Yifan look a little fascinated.

"Brother, you're drooling!" Ye Zilan whispered in Xin Yifan's ear. Xin Yifan glanced at her, and then heard Li Chengran say to Li Mo: "Sister Xiaolan hasn't found a place to live yet, so Dad will let Sister Xiaolan live with me, it's more convenient." Regarding Li Chengran's proposal, Li Mo nodded and had no opinion.

Xin Yifan felt that Ye Zilan was already disturbing others when she came to study, and she felt a little embarrassed to live in someone else's house, so she said to Li Mo's father and daughter: "Teacher Li, Miss Li, this is not good, Xiaolan is already very troublesome for you to come over, and it will be inconvenient to live in Miss Li's house again?" In fact, Xin Yifan is also worried that if Li Chengran has already married a family, there will be a husband and children at home, and it will be a little inconvenient for Ye Zilan to live in someone else's house.

Li Chengran heard Xin Yifan call her "Miss Li", smiled, and then said to Xin Yifan: "Mr. Xin is really worried, I live alone, Xiaolan and I can live together and give me a companion, how can it be troublesome." ”

Ye Zilan on the side laughed, "Hahaha... Miss Li, Mr. Xin, are you talking about movie lines!" Xin Yifan glanced at her speechlessly. Li Mo on the side also smiled and didn't speak, but Li Chengran said generously: "Let's call each other by name, you call me Chengran, and I call you Yifan." ”

Xin Yifan Lian said: "Okay, okay. ”

Li Mo also laughed: "You, don't call me Teacher Li, just call me Uncle Li, or Uncle Mo." ”

"Okay, Uncle Mo. Xin Yifan hurriedly arrived.

In the evening, Li Mo's father and daughter invited Xin Yifan's brothers and sisters to eat authentic local dishes in Shanghai, although Xin Yifan likes Sichuan cuisine, but this cuisine is still very distinctive, his current meal is not small, he basically swept away all the dishes, and ate a few large bowls of rice, Li Mo's father and daughter were envious, and Ye Zilan explained on the side that since Xin Yifan recovered, he was particularly able to eat and sleep, like a pig, which made Xin Yifan embarrassed for a while, which made Li Mo's father and daughter laugh.

After the meal, Li Mo went straight home, Li Chengran took Xin Yifan and Ye Zilan around the Bund, and then drove back to Li Chengran's house, Xin Yifan only temporarily lived in Li Chengran's house tonight, Li Chengran felt that there was no need to go outside to live at home, Xin Yifan also heard her say this and did not shirk, otherwise it would be too hypocritical.

Li Chengran lives in a duplex apartment with an area of about 18, but it is nothing for the Li family, who can open an antique store of about 300 square meters in Zhongfu Antique City. It's just that this house does feel a little empty for Li Chengran alone. The three of them entered the house, Xin Yifan saw that Li Chengran's room was European-style decoration, Chinese-style decoration, and there were no deliberate antiques at home, and the downstairs rooms were all open, except for the bathroom, the downstairs was designed without a door, giving people a very spacious feeling, plus the lighting was warm, and it looked warm, but there was a self-portrait of Li Chengran hanging on the wall of the open study next to the living room, which attracted Xin Yifan's attention.

Seeing that Xin Yifan had been looking at the painting for a long time, Li Chengran said to the two brothers and sisters with a little pride: "This is my own painting, it's not bad." ”

"Pretty, so pretty. Xin Yifan said, I don't know if he said that the painting is beautiful or the person is beautiful.

Ye Zilan looked surprised: "Wow, Sister Chengran, you are too good at painting, why are you so powerful, beautiful and talented, oops, you are my idol!" Listening to Ye Zilan's exaggerated words, Li Chengran blushed a little, and she said to Ye Zilan: " Hey, you don't know, since I was a child, my dad asked me how strict, since I was a child, I had to learn calligraphy, Chinese painting, guqin, and when I grew up, I had to follow him to learn appreciation, learn poetry, and even what school and what major I studied had to be in charge of the death, sister, I haven't even been in love since I graduated from college, do you say you want to. Saying that, Ye Zilan invited the two to sit down on the sofa, poured tea for the two, and said: "I have always liked painting, my father insisted that I study history appreciation and asked me to inherit his mantle, and then I refused to live or die, hunger strike, and finally he compromised to let me go to the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, but the condition is that after graduation, I must come back to help him take care of Shang Guxuan, no way who will let him be my father, and I will still enjoy it after I really understand the collection." ”

Ye Zilan on the side also felt a little touched, but Ye Zhengfei never asked her for anything, nor did she ask her to learn what to do, just like everything she likes, thinking of her father, Ye Zilan's eyes were red.

Li Chengran seemed to be aware of Ye Zilan's sadness, and heard her father mention Ye Zilan's father, so she cleverly changed the topic and asked Xin Yifan how he chose boring history and archaeology, and also read a doctorate, I really admired him, and heard Li Chengran ask about himself, Xin Yifan was a little nervous and said that he liked things with a sense of history since he was a child, and he didn't know why, even when he was admitted to college, all his wishes were history-related majors, and he never felt that studying history and archaeology was boring, and felt that history would always give people a lot of room for reverie, and he bluntly said that he was a romantic historianAlthough the history that the world understands is the history recorded in the history books, he feels that the real history must be different, and it is much more vivid than cold words, just like seeing an antique, in addition to understanding its chronological function and culture, Xin Yifan feels that he should pay more attention to the people who use them, the lives of these people, and the thoughts of these people.

Xin Yifan also told Li Chengran that after he woke up from a vegetative state, his brain was chaotic all day long, and only when he saw those old objects with historical precipitation, he would be unconsciously attracted, hearing this, Ye Zilan, who was unhappy just now, also happily talked about Xin Yifan's treasure appraisal at that time, and also told Li Chengran the nickname of Dr. Silly Bao, which made Xin Yifan roll his eyes again, and said in his heart: Is there a sister like you, you can't save some face for your brother!