Liu Jinqiu took out the bronze ware from the box, it was a bronze tiger, which was made in the shape of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the ancient people were also ancient, so many objects were made into the shape of the ancient era.

Liu Jinqiu picked up the lifelike bronze tiger, and did not play with it in his hand like other buyers, but took out a steel file from his pocket, aimed at the tiger's ears to file, if this is filed, this bronze tiger will be wasted!

When the shopkeeper was panicking, Lin Yuan grabbed Liu Jinqiu and asked, "Old Liu, what are you doing?" ”

Liu Jinqiu whispered: "Aren't we here to find copper ore, this bronze tiger is painted on the outside, I don't file the lacquer, how can I know the composition of this copper alloy!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly said: "Wrong, wrong, I didn't want to do this, you quickly put away the file." ”

Liu Jinqiu let out an "oh" and said, "That's my misunderstanding." So he put the steel file away, and the shopkeeper let out a sigh of relief, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It's better to get to the point quickly, after a while, the shopkeeper's heart attack may have to be scared." ”

So Lin Yuan asked, "Shopkeeper, where did you get all the bronzes here?" ”

The shopkeeper replied, "Some of our people have collected them from the countryside, and most of them have come from the Nanshan steward, and their families have been making bronze ware for generations. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What kind of place is Nanshan?" Please elaborate. ”

The shopkeeper said: "From the Great South Gate of Fengtian City, go out of Lu, walk for fifteen miles, and arrive at Nanshan Town at the bottom of Nanshan. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Does their housekeeper have such a great power?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "You are from out of town, of course their housekeepers are powerful, and their most powerful place is not to make bronze tools." ”

Liu Jinqiu asked, "What's that?" ”

The shopkeeper replied, "The best thing about their stewards is that they are never short of silver!" ”

Liu Jinqiu said with a smile: "What's so strange about this, their bronze ware is well done, and naturally silver is indispensable." ”

The shopkeeper smiled mysteriously and said: "Their housekeepers have been ancestors for more than ten generations, and every time the nearby people suffer from disasters, their families give silver, buy food when there is a famine, and buy medicine when there is a plague. Even if their family sells bronze ware for a hundred lifetimes, they won't be able to earn that silver! ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then what's going on?" ”

The shopkeeper approached Lin Yuan and said, "I heard that the ancestor of this housekeeper does not know what kind of covenant he made with the king of Yama, and every day, there are evil spirits who send silver to their family......

When Lin Yuan heard this, he thought to himself: "What kind of mess is this!" ”

The shopkeeper saw Lin Yuan's disdainful look and said, "This master, don't believe it, the head of their housekeeper is a strange person!" The head of the family is surnamed Guan, the name is Ye Qi, the word is new, when he was born, there was a strange leaf falling in the sky, so he was named, and when he was young, he was proficient in the method of copper smelting......"

Lin Yuan looked at his mouthful, for fear that he wouldn't be able to finish talking until it was dark, so he quickly got up and rushed to Nanshan with Liu Jinqiu to be the housekeeper.

On the way, Liu Jinqiu said with a smile: "Your method is good, that housekeeper must have a copper mine, we just want to persuade them to let us mine." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I have used this method once, when we were in the Ryukyus, didn't I find saltpeter to make nitric acid from a porcelain shop?" But I'd like to know about the evil ghost giving the money. ”

Liu Jinqiu said: "This is nothing unusual, I have almost guessed the reason." ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What is that, tell me quickly!" ”

Liu Jinqiu smiled mysteriously and said, "The secret of heaven must not be revealed. ”

The two hired a carriage, and soon arrived in Nanshan Town, and when they entered the housekeeper to inquire, they came to the housekeeper and went up to meet them, but they didn't expect the family at the door to smile and say: "Our master is not a guest, please go back." ”

Lin Yuan took out a silver ingot from his pocket and said with a smile: "Please let this little brother be accommodating." ”

When the family saw the silver, he smiled and said, "Our housekeeper has never been short of silver, so please go back." ”

Lin Yuan said a few more good words, the family just smiled and refused, Lin Yuan had no choice but to go back with Liu Jinqiu, and was walking, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves in the southwest, several carriages turned out from the corner of the street, and ran into Liu Jinqiu, Lin Yuan hurriedly pulled him, and the driver saw someone in front of him, and hurriedly reined in the horse.

As a result, the carriage was crooked, and the boxes on top of the carriage were piled up quite high, so that the top box fell down and fell to the ground, and the lid of the box was opened, and the contents were scattered all over the ground.

Lin Yuan looked at the things on the ground and was surprised, it turned out to be white silver!

The driver glared at Liu Jinqiu, and was about to scold a few words, but when he saw that he was an old man, he took those words back, muttered and got out of the car to pick up the silver, Lin Yuan stepped forward, picked it up with him, and asked casually: "Why is there so much silver?" ”

The driver said: "This is a congratulatory gift from our head of our family to the prefect of Fengtian, the prefect is a new official taking office, and our head of the family originally didn't want to give it, but the prefect of Fengtian is really not a thing, if you don't give it, you will have trouble with our housekeeper." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The imperial court did send a group of officials to the northeast, but I didn't pay attention to it, just thinking about the affairs of the industrial zone, and I had to rectify them when I went back." ”

Lin Yuan was thinking about it, while picking up the silver on the ground, the more he picked it up, the more he felt that something was wrong, his heart moved, as if he had thought of something, picked up a piece of silver, walked to the door of the mansion, and shouted angrily: "Are you going to give this to the prefect?" ”

When the family saw it, he hurriedly whispered a few words to another family, and the family ran into the house like a fly, and the family member who stayed behind gave Lin Yuanshen a salute and said with a smile: "Second master, please come inside." ”

Liu Jinqiu was confused, and only when he entered the living room did he ask Lin Yuan: "What's going on?"

Lin Yuan handed the piece of silver he picked up to Liu Jinqiu, and said with a smile: "You are an expert, let's see if there is anything wrong with this piece of silver?" ”

Liu Jinqiu picked up the piece of silver, looked at it over and over for a while, and said, "This doesn't look like silver, this looks like white copper!" ”

Cupronickel is actually a copper-nickel alloy, which is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese non-ferrous metal metallurgy technology, and its color is silvery white, which is very similar to silver. Liu Jinqiu asked, "How do you know that it's not silver?" ”

Lin Yuan took the piece of white copper, shook it in his hand, and said with a smile: "It's not as heavy as silver." ”

Liu Jinqiu said: "The density of copper-nickel alloy and silver is not much different, you can feel it." ”

Lin Yuan said proudly: "I'm a pilot, when operating the plane in air combat, the position of the steering stick changes a little, the position of the plane is different, and I may not be able to grab a favorable position in the air battle, so the feeling in my hand is very sensitive, and this difference can't escape my hand." ”

Liu Jinqiu said with a smile: "So that's the case, but I can't figure it out, why did he want to send fake silver to the Fengtian prefect?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "I seem to have guessed the reason, but I'm not sure, you want me to tell you the secret, you have to want to tell me the secret of the housekeeper demon sending silver." ”

Liu Jinqiu smiled helplessly and said, "This is easy to say......

Liu Jinqiu was just about to reveal the secret and the plate, only to hear the little guy outside shouting: "Master Guan is here!" ”