The cold autumn night was silent, and even the last wail of the autumn insects could hardly be heard.

Maybe it was the continuous rush of the day, and the old way of forgetting things and I didn't know when he fell asleep, Zhu Daolin, who was breathing for a while, stretched out his slightly trembling hand, and gently touched the blue and white glazed red porcelain jar that reflected the soft luster under the oil lamp, and then grabbed the painting scroll that exposed a large section of the edge of the porcelain jar and weighed it.

Finally, he gently put down the scroll, picked up the paper cutter on the side and clenched it tightly, and looked at it again and again, as if he was worried that the paper cutter in his hand would disappear at any time.

After a long time, Zhu Daolin, who felt something, closed his eyes, opened his fingers lightly, and focused his thoughts into his mind, when he clearly felt that the space with a faint purple light in his mind was getting clearer and clearer, the familiar blue and white glazed red porcelain jar and the painting scroll in the jar, as well as the delicate paper cutter in his hand, returned silently to the mysterious space that was empty before.

Zhu Daolin, whose heart was beating wildly, suddenly opened his eyes, and immediately found that the porcelain jar that should have been placed at his feet and the paper cutter in his hand had disappeared.

When Zhu Daolin opened his eyes again, he was shocked and ecstatic to find that he had returned to the study on the second floor of the villa at the southern foot of Zhongshan as he wished, sitting on the thick carpet, and under the bright light, he not only saw that the twelve-string zither inlaid with white jade was no longer under the floor-to-ceiling window, but everything in the room was the same as before, including the suit he threw on the carpet, all of which were really displayed in front of his eyes.

Zhu Daolin, who was extremely excited, jumped up, laughed like crazy, shook the sleeves of the wide Dao robe while laughing, and finally raised his left hand and kissed it fiercely, quickly took off the Huayang crown on his head and threw it aside, took off the wide Dao robe on his body and threw it to the ground.

After a few minutes of excitement, Zhu Daolin suddenly remembered something, turned around and strode forward two steps, picked up the suit he had thrown away before, and took out his mobile phone from his pocket to check it carefully.

The time displayed on the mobile phone is very clear - 0:01 on October 18, 2010!

This means that in addition to the difference in space, the time is the same, and a series of unbelievable things that I encounter are indescribable real existences.

Zhu Daolin, who was relieved, sat down weakly, raised his hand and stroked the diamond ring on his left wrist lovingly, and only picked up his mobile phone to dial a familiar number after a while.

After twenty seconds of waiting, a voice came from his phone that made him miss a lot: "What the hell are you doing?" It's so late and you call, and you don't want your mother to get a good night's sleep, right? ”

Mother's spicy voice as always, suddenly made Zhu Daolin's nose sour, he took a deep breath and asked in a low voice, "Mom, how are you and Dad?" ”

"Yo yo! Is the sun coming out of the west? The mother's tone was noticeably softer.

Zhu Daolin smiled embarrassedly: "My son was not sensible before, and he always worried you and my father, but not in the future, I will go home tomorrow to see you and my father." ”

After a moment of silence, the mother's gentle voice came: "Son, if you have something, just say it, don't do it by yourself like before." ”

"It's okay, nothing, our boss has returned to the capital in the past two days, and I have been granted a few days off, and I will go back tomorrow, I haven't eaten the salted duck made by my father for a long time." A bright smile appeared on Zhu Daolin's face that he had not seen for a long time.

"Just know how to eat, come back when you have time, pay attention to the rules of life, don't think that you are young, you will know hard work when you are old, okay, I am sleepy and won't talk to you anymore."

Zhu Daolin slowly put down the mobile phone with the screen turned black, still with a happy smile on his face, sat down for a while, looked around, suddenly jumped up and stripped himself naked, ran to the bathroom of the opposite room and took a hot shower comfortably.

At ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, Zhu Daolin, who had slept peacefully, woke up comfortably, went to the bathroom to wash up in good spirits, then cleaned up, cleaned everything up, put on his robe, lifted the shopping bag containing suits, leather shoes and sundries, walked downstairs and went out quickly, opened the car door with the remote control key, got in, moved the suitcase from the back of the car, took out the spare jeans and a crewneck shirt and put them on quickly.

In less than an hour, Zhu Daolin took out nearly half of his savings in his bank card, came to the Puma store and spent more than 3,000 yuan to buy two sets of sports and leisure autumn clothes, a pair of dark brown nostalgic sports and leisure shoes, and after thinking about it, he spent more than 1,600 yuan to buy a set of sports autumn clothes for his parents who insisted on sports all year round, and then he went to the parking lot with satisfaction and drove back to his home at the foot of Qixia Mountain.

Zhu Daolin drove the Touareg off-road into the compound of the urban government and parked the car, and saw his partner Liang Cheng, who grew up together, standing outside the car window and smiling at himself, and immediately got out of the car and greeted him affectionately: "Orange, this season should be your busiest time, how can you have time to wander around the compound?" ”

Liang Cheng took out a cigarette and took out one, and handed the cigarette case to Zhu Daolin: "Busy fart, you're about to go bankrupt, you haven't been home for two months, right?" ”

Zhu Daolin leaned over and lit a cigarette: "What's the matter?" Hasn't your family's printing shop always had a good business? ”

Liang Cheng, who had a simple face and a strong body, said with a wry smile: "The competition is becoming more and more fierce, the scale of my factory is too small, and I can still undertake some pirated learning materials and popular novel business before, but since the beginning of September, after the nationwide crackdown on piracy, I wanted to borrow another loan from the bank to purchase more advanced laser phototypesetting equipment, but the bank immediately refused after the inspection, alas! My parents are worried to death, and they are discussing whether to sell the factory at a loss to avoid greater losses. ”

Zhu Daolin didn't know how to comfort the old man, Liang Cheng seemed to know what his good brother was thinking, smiled and patted Zhu Daolin's hand, and casually found a lame reason to leave in a hurry, obviously unwilling to add any trouble to Zhu Daolin.

"Son, I'm finally back to see my dad, haha!" The father saw that Zhu Daolin was very happy, patted his son on the shoulder, and then went into the kitchen to be busy with green.

The mother, who had just come back from work, was still nagging as before, and when she saw the fashionable sportswear that Zhu Daolin bought, she scolded the indiscriminate spending, but as soon as she turned around, she went back to her room and took out the high-quality and beautiful sportswear and tried it on.

Throughout the afternoon, Zhu Daolin accompanied his father, who had been retired for half a year, to play Go at home, his father was an amateur third dan, so that his son could win easily with three sons, and Zhu Daolin was uncharacteristically defeated and repeatedly defeated, and after two games, he made great progress and was highly praised by his father.

The father and son fought hard and forgot the time, and fought until Zhu Daolin's mother came back from work, and suddenly remembered that they didn't cook dinner, and the father and son were naturally scolded by the fierce head of the family.

Seeing that dinner was ready, Zhu Daolin's mobile phone suddenly rang, it turned out that the beautiful boss Song Shaojun didn't know when he arrived in Shanghai, and at this moment he had boarded the plane back to Jinling, so Zhu Daolin hurriedly picked up half a bowl of rice and drove to the airport.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhu Daolin saw the outstanding Song Shaojun on time, and on the way back to the city, the careful Zhu Daolin found that Song Shaojun was in a very poor mental state, and seemed to be full of worries, so he thought about it for a long time or asked in a low voice: "Mr. Song didn't have dinner, right?" ”

Song Shaojun, who was contemplative, straightened his waist slightly: "Now I just want to drink some gruel and then sleep well." ”

Zhu Daolin was thinking about which restaurant to go to while driving, but he didn't expect Song Shaojun to suddenly say that he would do something casually when he went back, and asked Zhu Daolin if he could cook porridge when he was done?

Zhu Daolin naturally did not shirk, returned to the villa at the southern foot of Zhongshan and immediately cooked, and in less than half an hour, he used a pressure cooker to make half a pot of fragrant preserved eggs and lean porridge.

Song Shaojun, who had changed into a silk nightgown after taking a bath, shouted before he went downstairs, it seemed that taking a bath had washed away all his troubles, and came to the table with a heartwarming smile and an intoxicating fragrance, picked up the hot porridge sprinkled with coriander leaves, tasted it with a spoon and immediately praised: "I didn't expect you to have this hand, it seems that I still underestimated you before." ”

Zhu Daolin took out a can of beer from the refrigerator and sat beside her: "There is a saying that the children of the poor are in charge early, since the age of seven, I have been forced by my mother to cook rice and noodles, for so many years, although I can't cook big dishes, but I can still do a few ordinary home-cooked dishes." ”

Song Shaojun smiled rarely: "Thank you!" Why don't you come? ”

Zhu Daolin raised the open beer: "If you have beer, you can eat it yourself, I was eating at home before, and I went to the airport after I received your call." ”

Song Shaojun put down the spoon, picked up a white napkin to wipe Yin Hong's lips, raised his head and explained apologetically: "I didn't plan to come back today, I was invited to fly to Shanghai to attend a charity auction yesterday, and I planned to play for two more days, but I was disgusted in the last auction in the afternoon, and I had to leave Shanghai and come back to rest in a fit of anger." ”

Zhu Daolin smiled, took a sip of beer and suddenly thought of something: "What kind of baby is Mr. Su bidding for?" ”

"The latest discovery of Wen Zhengming's "Bird and Plum Picture", my father likes to collect calligraphy and paintings, but unfortunately he was maliciously disrupted by two nouveau riche, and I stopped raising the price to 4.2 million." Song Shaojun replied angrily.

Zhu Daolin was quite surprised: "Who is so short-sighted, is there still someone in Shanghai who doesn't know you?" ”

Song Shaojun sighed helplessly: "The person who stirred up the situation is Lu Tao's Hong Kong friend, and he came to apologize to me after the auction ended, alas! You know that Lu Tao grew up in the same yard as me since he was a child, and my family and his family are two generations of friends, why do you have to give him face, forget it, it's boring to talk about it. ”

"The Lu Tao you are talking about, is it the son of the Shanghai billionaire who I accompanied you to the airport to pick you up in early July?"

In Zhu Daolin's memory, Lu Tao not only had a father who was famous in the national business community, but also opened a jewelry chain store in more than 20 provincial capitals across the country.

Song Shaojun nodded and didn't answer, and only stopped with satisfaction after using up a bowl of porridge, seeing Zhu Daolin silently standing up and cleaning up the table and then washing the dishes, Song Shaojun suddenly felt a burst of warmth in his heart, and looked at Zhu Daolin's upright back and was stunned.

After cleaning up, Zhu Daolin returned to the dining table, scratched the long flowing hair on his head, and asked something that surprised Song Shaojun:

"Mr. Song, I have an ancient painting in my hand, which seems to be made by the Song Dynasty painter Zhu Rui, the name is "Lao Tzu Out of the Customs", you know, I don't know anything about this aspect, let alone see the authenticity, if ......"

"What? What did you say? ”

Song Shaojun interrupted Zhu Daolin's words, and his bright eyes widened: "Zhu Rui's "Lao Tzu Out of the Customs"? This is a big thing that has caused a lot of noise in the collecting world for a few years! Including Master Fan Zeng has been involved, as for the existence of this painting, the archaeological community and the collection community have their own opinions, so far no conclusion has been reached, is the legendary painting really exists? ”

Zhu Daolin was a little weak-hearted, although he opened the scroll last night to see it, and tried many times to put it in the King Kong circle and then take it out, but in the face of the excited Song Shaojun's words, he had to think about what the consequences would be if the painting was fake:

"First of all, I don't know anything about calligraphy and painting, and I don't know if it's true or not, or I'll go to the car and get it for you now?"

"Hurry! Go ahead! ”

Song Shaojun was greatly excited, jumped up with cheers, and didn't realize that the open placket of the nightgown could no longer hide the plump chest as white and tender as mutton fat, and almost made Zhu Daolin, who had been suppressing his heart, suffer from a nosebleed on the spot.

In less than three minutes, Zhu Daolin, who was sweating profusely, came to draw the scroll as he wished.

Song Shaojun, who has a family background, was overjoyed after looking at the scroll and paper slightly, grabbed Zhu Daolin's arm and turned around:

"Go to my study, open it and identify it, if I can't see the authenticity, let's immediately drive to the house of Uncle Han, the director of the museum, to ask for advice, if it is confirmed to be true, it will not only cause a sensation in the entire archaeological and collection circles, but also bring you an unimaginable huge income......