Xin Wei acted neatly, and completed the pawn and resale within a day.

With the money for the purchase of the next batch of raw materials, the urgent need was solved.

Li Fengming's heart was temporarily relaxed, and he handed over the follow-up matters to Chun Yudai, Yufang, and Tuwu.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Fengming took Xin Wei out of the East City Gate by car and rushed to the appointment with Wenyin.

Today's Wenyin was dressed as a teenager, and he didn't bring a maidservant with him.

After getting into the carriage, she saw Li Fengming looking at herself with doubts, so she explained, "I am not married yet, and according to custom, the door should not be opened." But I prefer to go out and play from time to time, and dress up as a man to avoid being pointed out. ”

The nobles of the Qi State are usually not allowed to show their heads before they get married, and they can only live in the boudoir year after year, except for attending some ceremonial occasions with their parents and brothers.

But there are special cases like Wenyin.

Wen Yin's father is Wen Zexi, a university scholar.

He has devoted himself to studying exotic customs for many years, and his vision is extraordinary, so he has a more open-minded attitude towards his daughter.

Although Wenyin is a girl and it is impossible for her to become an official in the Qi Kingdom, she has been taught in the clan with her brothers and brothers of the same generation since she was a child, and she has not been trapped in the boudoir when she is an adult.

"My father only asked me not to cause trouble outside, not to get into bad habits, not to break the law. Ordinary pastimes and amusements are allowed. ”

"I think you have your own sense of proportion outside, so your father can rest assured," Li Fengming raised his eyebrows with a smile, "Look at this familiar appearance, you specially chose to take me to Tantuo Temple today, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as eating incense, right?" ”

Wen Yin smiled and narrowed his eyes, "That's nature." I said I was going to give you a gift earlier, and now it's at Tantuo Temple. Let's go pick up the gifts, and watch an interesting and lively by the way, which is only available on the fifth day of the new month! ”

"Is it a puja, a temple fair, or something?" Li Fengming is not sure.

If it is a puja or temple fair in a Buddhist temple, the practice is the first and fifteenth days of the new year. What can be new and lively on the fifth day of the new year?

Wen Yin's laughter became more and more mysterious: "I know that you were originally the princess of Wei, and you have seen more lively scenes than me." But today, Wei definitely doesn't have it. ”

Out of the east gate of Yongjing City, the carriage traveled about three places, and then arrived at the foot of the hill where the Tantuo Temple is located.

There are a total of one hundred and eighty-eight stone steps in front of the mountain gate, which is okay for Li Fengming and Xin Wei, but they are tired and panting when they hear the sound.

At the entrance of the temple, there are eight warrior monks on both sides.

Wenyin took out a jade plaque and handed it over, and after the monk examined it, he folded his hands in salute, but said nothing, and then gave them three masks.

Li Fengming and Xin Wei exchanged interesting looks, learned to smell the sound, and pretended to put on the mask well.

After entering the mountain gate, Li Fengming asked in a low voice, "Didn't you say that there was a big excitement today, why didn't you see many pilgrims?" ”

She was a tact. The scene in front of me is "I haven't seen many pilgrims", it's just a surprise.

Wen Yin, who was wearing a mask, adjusted his breathing disorderly, and laughed back with a suppressed voice, "Today is special, ordinary pilgrims can't come in until the afternoon." This is the case on the fifth day of every month. ”

"The people who can come in on the morning of the fifth day of the new year must have the jade plate you just held?" Li Fengming was aroused, "Who will have that jade plate?" Where did your jade plaque come from? ”

Wen Yin leaned over and leaned close to her ear to explain, "The jade plate is sold in this temple, as long as you have connections and are willing to spend money, you can get it." I was given to my dad by someone else. He doesn't like to come, so I always ask him to borrow it. ”

If you want to have connections and connections, you have to spend a lot of money, and if you can meet these two conditions, you are obviously not ordinary people.

Tantuo Temple is mysterious and lively on the morning of the fifth day of the first month of each month, and the participants must be either rich or expensive.

Li Fengming smiled and shook his head, "The prosperity of the business affairs of Qi is the most prosperous among the countries, and this Tantuo Temple is quite popular with the local customs, and it is also doing business." ”

"It is said that someone is secretly acting in this temple, but I can't tell which one it is." Let's just watch the excitement and have fun today, but don't get to the bottom of it. ”

"Rest assured. I'm not a good person, and I won't get you in trouble. Li Fengming understood.

Gossiping all the way into the main hall, Li Fengming was an eye-opener.

There are more than a dozen treasures on display in the hall, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc., which are rare and precious at a glance.

At this moment, in addition to the monks who take care of these items in the main hall, there are three people: Li Fengming, Wen Yin and Xin Wei.

Wen Yin was quite familiar with the two of them to look at each other, and explained in a whisper.

"Privately, everyone calls this a 'concert'. It opens in the morning on the fifth day of each month, and the bidding starts at the beginning of the hour, and the highest bidder wins, and ends at noon at the latest. It is said that the seller behind everything is different, and Tantuo Temple only provides a venue, which is considered to help with consignment, and a little commission will be drawn after the transaction......"

The singing of Tantuo Temple is different every time.

Early in the morning on the fifth day of the first month of each month, the monks display most of the items to be sold that day in the main hall for the nobles who come to participate in the singing and selling with jade plaques to preview and know.

At the end of the day, these items will be sent to the lecture hall at the back.

At the right time, there were already more than a dozen people sitting in the lecture hall.

There were nearly a hundred futons in rows in the hall, but these people sat in groups of three or five rather scattered, and they should have come in groups.

All of them wore masks, and although the clothing and ornaments were valuable, they were not marked with special markings, and they were not easy to identify.

Wen Yin chose the middle row of futons in the corner of the wall, and took Li Fengming and Xin Wei to sit down.

"What was previously placed in the main hall was not all that was sold today. Some things won't be unveiled until they go on sale, and they may not even be in kind. That's the real highlight. ”

Hearing this, Li Fengming felt that this matter was even more interesting. "It's not a physical object, what could it be?"

"Not necessarily. There's everything, and there's a lot of tricks. ”

The two were talking to each other, and another group of people came in.

Li Fengming glanced back at random, and had already withdrawn his gaze, but he turned his head sharply and looked over again.

The three men and one woman were all wearing masks, but one of them was too familiar to look out.

The plain silver crown is tied with hair, the dark soft gold fragrant cloud gauze has wide sleeves and a tailoring robe, and the silver belt is about the waist.

On the evening of the first day of junior high school, Xiao Mingche, who stood outside the dormitory and asked Li Fengming to ask for the key to the treasury, wasn't this the outfit?

Li Fengming didn't understand why he was panicking in his heart, anyway, before his brain understood, his body had already responded.

She quickly switched positions with Wenyin, and shrunk her shoulders against the wall, hoping to turn into a solid dot on the spot.

Fortunately, the four of them did not pay attention to this corner, and sat down in the front row under the guidance of the monk.

Several groups of people followed, and at the beginning of the day, the door of the lecture hall was closed.

The abbot on the pulpit knocked on the wooden fish three times, and the young monk standing next to him shouted, "There are fifty-seven visitors today, and the singing has begun." ”

The three men and one woman are Xiao Mingche, Lian Zhen, and Xiao Mingxun, the king of Fujun.

Fujun Wang and his wife are childhood sweethearts, they have been married for nearly two years, but they are more affectionate than newlyweds, and they are very sticky.

Not long after the singing and selling began, Lian Zhen didn't see or listen, and pushed Xiao Mingche on the left. "Sit down. Please. ”

The couple was on Lian Zhen's right hand, and even if he tried to look ahead, he would inevitably catch a glimpse of them biting their ears intimately and whispering.

What's more, the whole process is tightly clasped.

The atmosphere was too sweet, so that the onlooker Lian Zhen couldn't help but feel sour.

Xiao Mingche's left side was empty, so he moved five empty seats to the side one after another.

Lian Zhen followed and sat down again, finally breathing a long sigh of relief.

"It's a good thing you didn't bring Wang ......," Lian Zhen paused and changed her words, "It's a good thing that you didn't bring your wife with you." Otherwise, I'm caught between the two of you, and that's miserable. ”

Xiao Mingche looked at the abbot on the podium, and bent his elbows against Lian Zhen, who was close to him to speak.

Lian Zhen didn't care about his indifference, and struggled to get closer to him reluctantly, and then laughed softly.

"Recently, there has been a stroke in Beijing, and some people refuse to even let their wives kiss them, and everyone says that this person may have a hidden disease. What do you think about this, this friend? ”

Xiao Mingche slapped his mask with a backhand, "Get out." ”

His action came without warning, Lian Zhen was unguarded, and his face was numb from the slap through the mask, and Venus splashed in front of him.

Today's consignment items are not common outside, and the bidding is naturally fierce.

Bidders don't just raise their hands, and a monk will come up to inquire and then help shout a bid.

Halfway through the sale of other items, Li Fengming was not so nervous.

She admired this silent contest of real money with great interest, and muttered to Wenyin from time to time.

"Crazy, right? That 'Waterfall Mountain Candlestick', there are still people who increase the price when it comes out of 1,300 gold?! "According to this trend, I am afraid that it will be more than 1,500 gold before the transaction is sold.

But this thing is worth seven or eight hundred gold at most in Li Fengming's heart.

Wen Yin said, "The things of more than a hundred years ago, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen of the Royal Shaofu of Xiaoyan Kingdom, things are rare and expensive." ”

"But it's not the only thing, I had two when I wasn't married. This thing doesn't work, and wind protection is a big problem. The candle is lit and put on the table, and if you are not careful, it will be blown out. Li Fengming truthfully stated his previous experience.

Wen Yin was so shocked that his eyes almost rolled out of the mask, "You really use this thing to light candles?!" ”

Something more than 100 years ago, although it is a little immature as an antique, it is also an antique after all.

Aren't ordinary people getting this thing properly collected, carefully kept, and passed down from generation to generation?!

"But it's just a candlestick," Li Fengming muttered quietly, "It's not used to light candles, is it used to steam rice?" ”

Wen Yin was shocked and covered his heart, and his eyes straightened, "Everyone in the world knows that Wei is rich, and it turns out that the rumors don't deceive me." You're extravagant and don't know it. ”

Li Fengming looked back at Xin Wei: "I used to be extravagant? ”

"No, Your ......, you," Xin Wei looked around and saw that everyone else was paying attention to the stage, so he continued, "Your previous application was within the regulations. ”

I heard the sound and wanted to vomit blood. The regulations of your Wei royal daughters are too generous.

After the dozen or so items that had been displayed in the main hall were sold out, the abbot asked the last three items of the day to be brought out.

The visitors did not preview the three mysterious objects, so the monks had to show them in front of everyone on the spot.

The first item is housed in a beautifully carved vertical Huanghuali multi-treasure box.

There are two layers of the treasure box, and a total of eight doors can be opened.

There are two kinds of delicate patterns of engraving and engraving on the outside, and several hollows are decorated with colorful glaze, and there are inscriptions on it, which tell the story of those patterns with outstanding style.

Li Fengming looked at the Wenfu on the colorful glaze, and realized that those patterns were connected, and they were actually talking about Xiao Mingche's victory in Luoshan.

Hearing the sound attached to Li Fengming's ear, he explained with a smile, "This masked person is King Huai, and the person wielding the knife next to him is General Chen Chi." ”

Li Fengming looked at him in surprise and asked in a mouth shape You painted it?

"The words, the paintings, including the drawings of the whole box, are all mine." A proud smile appeared in Wenyin's eyes.

Li Fengming gave her a thumbs up, and opened the eight doors on the box seriously.

After the door opened, there were many small cleverness compartments inside, and there were boxes in the grid, and there were drawers in the box.

I have to admire Wenyin's ingenuity, which makes the best use of such a small square inch of space, and also takes into account the beauty and practicality.

However, when Li Fengming and Xin Wei saw the contents of the box, they were both dumbfounded.

When the monk took the box to others, Li Fengming took a deep breath and said to Wenyin, "That box, how much money did you sell?" ”

The box wasn't sold by Wenyin, but she had an idea of the market price, so she answered with five fingers.

Li Fengming was dumbfounded, "Fifty taels of silver? ”

"What do you want? Five taels. ”

"Those pearls," Li Fengming turned his head to look at Xin Wei, "How much money did you sell two days ago?" ”

"Eighty gold."

Xin Wei was very depressed, and Li Fengming was all wooden.

Eighty gold pearls, plus five taels of silver box, here, the starting price is five hundred gold! At the moment, there are still rounds of price increases!

She's fine. She was not annoyed. Not! Often! Flat! Quiet!

When Lian Zhen saw the box of pearls, he was also dumbfounded.

On the stage, the abbot knocked on the wooden fish and began to sing and sell, Lian Zhen forcibly approached Xiao Mingche regardless of life or death, gritted his teeth and whispered, "You can be a person." ”

Xiao Mingche turned his head and looked at him like a ghost.

"When you replied to your wife at the beginning of the year, you asked me to buy you a gift and send it back with the letter, which is this box of pearls!"

The one that Lian Zhen chose at the beginning was precisely because the two largest ones in it were very rare, with natural crimson lines, which looked like a peony at a rough look.

This kind of natural interest is hard to come by, and he often helps relatives and friends in Beijing to buy pearls in the south, and it is the first time he has encountered it, and of course it is unforgettable.

This thing appeared at the paralogue, which can only show ......

"You don't like your wife anymore, you can't ignore it and let her live as a seller, right?" Lian Zhen is the most incapable of being bullied.

Xiao Mingche "buzzed" in his head.

He suddenly remembered that after he asked Li Fengming for the key to the treasury at the beginning of the month, he always went out early and returned late recently, and he didn't have time to return the key to her.

Although he didn't understand why Li Fengming was so poor that he could sell this pearl, he suddenly panicked in his heart.

He couldn't tell the reason, but he decided to buy the pearl back and return it to Li Fengming along with the key to the treasury.

So, when he heard the Fujun Wang and his wife shouting for 700 gold, Xiao Mingche raised his hand.

Even though this pearl is in good condition, and there are two natural crimson flower patterns, more than 600 gold is already considered a sky-high price.

At present, King Fujun shouted out an outrageous seven hundred gold, and the audience was buzzing.

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Just when everyone assumed that this was in his pocket, Xiao Mingche, a high-roller, was killed, so the eyes of the audience gathered.

When the monk approached to inquire, he shouted, "One thousand." ”

The King of Fujun over there turned his head suddenly, so shocked that he forgot that he shouldn't easily say "Fifth brother, you ......"

Other people's bids are 50 or 100 gold land, and you add 300 gold in one go, is it more money to bite your hand?

At the same time, Li Fengming, who was in the back, couldn't bear it anymore, took off the peiyu on his waist, and threw it at the back of Xiao Mingche's head-

Xiao Mingche, you are a loser, are you trying to anger me to marry another wife?!

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