This is a wide ancient street, the noise of tourists and the dazzling lights of the shops, forgetting the dark night of this thousand-year-old city in the time of running wildly. The moon in the sky is only about half of the full-time time, and the dim green glow echoes the gorgeous neon on the ground, telling each other about the loneliness of the heavenly palace and the prosperity of the world.

In an unnamed wood jewelry store on the street, there were no customers at this time, and the guy who watched the store sat crooked on a chair and played with his mobile phone. The counters around the store are lined with a variety of fine woodware and lacquerware. Wood carvings, screens, jewelry boxes...... All of them are high-quality goods, which are not directly proportional to the simple store door decoration.

Occasionally, a visitor or two would walk in and look around, marveling at the beauty of the woodwork, but few would open their mouths to buy one. For these customers who didn't just look at it, the guys on the side didn't bother to raise their heads, flicked their mobile phones a few times, and yawned lazily.

In the back room of the store, there is a small square table on the kang head unique to the north, a pot of white wine and a few side dishes, Chen Tao and Fa Xiao Li Hao are listening attentively to Li Lao's talk about the mysterious and thrilling underground world.

Things have to start from half a month ago......

One afternoon half a month ago, Chen Tao leaned on the small rattan chair behind the counter as usual and closed his eyes to recuperate, and an old man who looked like a farmer shrank into the shop, carrying a homespun bag in his arms.

Chen Tao glanced at him impatiently, yawned and said, "Is there something wrong?"

Looking at his dress, Chen Tao couldn't help muttering: "Nima, shouldn't it be asking for money......?"

The old man glanced around, smiled, showed a mouthful of yellow teeth, approached Chen Tao, and said with a thick local accent: "Old... Boss, don't you want to collect antiques? ”

The smell of tobacco in his mouth made Chen Tao almost vomit.

"What antique?"

Hearing that he was here to sell goods, Chen Tao sat up straight and beckoned the old man to sit on a rattan chair next to him.

The old man first looked around vigilantly, pulled a rattan chair and sat next to Chen Tao, took out the homespun bag in his arms, and took out a black cloth package from it.

Chen Tao patiently watched the old man tremble and untie the cloth bag on the left and right

When he reached the last layer, the old man pressed one hand on it and glanced at Chen Tao mysteriously.

"I'm an antique, but it's a good baby!"

“......”

Chen Tao had a big head, and showed a smile that he thought was more kind, "Take it out and take a look, if it's valuable, I'll take it." ”

The old man's eyes were a little nervous, he swallowed his saliva, and slowly opened the last layer of cloth he was wrapping, and a human-shaped bronze object lay quietly inside.

"I'll go, it's actually bronze!" Chen Tao pinched his heart fiercely, and with just one glance, his eyes could no longer be separated.

Could it be that it is really a baby?

Chen Tao beckoned the guy in the store, Ah Jun, to make some tea, asked the old man to put away the things first, got up and raised his hand: "Uncle, let's talk inside." ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, held the hand holding the cloth bag tightly, and asked Chen Tao a little nervously:

"Enter...... Go in and say? ”

"Don't worry, uncle, we are trading, not bandits. It's too noisy outside in broad daylight, you thing, let's find a quiet place to have a good chat. Chen Tao's heart was speechless for a while.

The old man looked at Chen Tao suspiciously, and his eyes looked like Chen Tao was going to do something to him.

I don't eat you, is it that terrible?

Chen Tao held his forehead and smiled at the old man: "Uncle, do you think I look like a bad person?" I asked the guy to make us tea, and it will be cold if I don't go. ”

Chen Tao is just a college student who has just graduated for more than half a year, and the old man looked at the young boss in front of him like a child, and his nervous heart was also relaxed. Nodding, he got up and walked to the inner room behind the screen.

Chen Tao shook his head helplessly and followed behind.

Inside the house, Chen Tao beckoned the old man to pour tea, stretched out his hand to take the bronze man, and looked at it carefully.

It was indeed a genuine bronze, about the size of a hand's palm, and looked like a simplified human form, but it was not human.

The surface of the bronze figure is very clean, and it must have been washed with water by this old man.

The head part is a hollow circle, which is very smooth.

The part of the arm is drooping, the arm is very long, the palm is a whole, extending at the end of the arm, and the arms are in a semi-open state.

The bronze man's feet are in the shape of an inverted crescent, and the feet are bent upwards apart, looking like a clip.

The whole shape of the bronze figure is slightly flat, about the thickness of a thumb, slightly heavy in the hand, and the copper body lines are smooth and smooth, which should be poured solidly as a whole.

What made Chen Tao strange was that there were many small bumps like tree bark on the front of the bronze man's body, and there was a strange pattern on the back.

Looking at the age, it should belong to the Spring and Autumn Period or the Warring States Period, but this thing makes Chen Tao very strange in his heart, why did the ancients make this kind of bronze man? Decorative? It's not like it......

Chen Tao checked the bronze figure in his hand and looked at the old man: "I want this thing, 50,000."

"Five... Fifty thousand! The old man was taken aback,

50,000 yuan, for an authentic farmer like Lao Han, is higher than their income in the past few years of hard work, and it is definitely a huge amount of money.

"What, too little?" Chen Tao looked at the old man quietly, although he didn't know what this thing was, but he could be sure that this was a genuine bronze, and it was definitely not a decimal number to fry on the black market, tens of thousands of yuan, and it was not worth mentioning at all.

"No, no, no, boss, no less, no less, I'll sell!"

"However, can the old man tell me where this came from, listen to your accent, not a local......"

The old man drank the tea in the porcelain cup in one gulp, smacked his lips, and spit out a tea leaf.

"Boss, your tea is a little bitter."

Chen Tao looked at his face and twitched for a while, obediently, this is the authentic Biluochun, you are drinking it as a big bowl of tea!

The old man wiped his nose and said with a pout:

"This thing was dug out of the soil when I was digging the ground. When a hoe went down, I thought it was digging stones. ”

"I took it out and saw that it was a piece of rotten iron, and I thought about going home and using it to pad the cracks in the wall, but when I went home, I took it and washed it in the water!"

"My mother-in-law looked at it and said that this is not rotten iron, it is an antique! It's worth a lot of money! I secretly took it out and sold it, but I didn't dare to sell it locally, so I took the train and went to sell it. ”

After speaking, the old man picked up the teacup and took a sip and found that the tea was gone.

Chen Tao filled the old man with tea, and the old man picked up the cup and took a sip and said:

"I'm coming from Shanxi, our place is called Heizigou, there are few people, I don't get any money, and I am all croppers. Those rich people in the town and county town don't come to our village. ”

"A few years ago, a bachelor in the village dug a jar in the field, sold it to the collector of antiques, and married a daughter-in-law within a few months.

The thing was sold for money, and the old man was obviously happy. Chen Tao greeted the old man and chatted for a long time, and when it was almost dark, he gave the old man 50,000 yuan and a thick stack of red tickets. The old man took the black cloth bag, stuffed it in his broken cloth bag, and went out with a tight cover in his arms.

Chen Tao sent the old man out of the store, looked at the back of the rickety who was far away, rubbing the bronze man in his hand,

"Kurokogou...... This place name is so familiar....."

Shaking his head, Chen Tao turned around and walked towards the store. What he didn't see was that not long after he went back, diagonally opposite the door of the store, a rickety figure was hiding in the dark and looking at Chen Tao, smiling lightly at the corner of his mouth, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth......

In the evening, Uncle Long came back for dinner, and at the dinner table, Chen Tao said mysteriously: "Uncle, I did a big thing for you today!" After saying that, he smiled, and his face was full of pride.

Uncle Long's surname is Di, and his full name is Di Yilong.

Uncle Long used to have an older brother, the two had no father and no mother, and his elder brother took him to wander around, begging all the way. When I met my grandfather, Uncle Long's own brother was found stealing someone else's wallet, and he was half-dead and thrown on the side of the road, and the little Uncle Long was crying on the side.

Grandpa took pity on them and brought them back to raise them together, and took them as apprentices to teach them skills.

It's a pity that Uncle Long's brother was hit by a trick when he went down to the cave and stayed there completely.

Uncle Long has no children under his knees, and he loves Chen Tao very much.

After Chen Tao graduated from college, Uncle Long knew that he would take over some of the family's business in the future, so he simply threw a small shop on the side of his handicap to Chen Tao.

Uncle Long gave Chen Tao some food, glanced at him, looked at him like a ghost, and said lightly, "What's the matter?"

Chen Tao smiled mysteriously, took out the tree man from his pocket, and shook it in front of Uncle Long's eyes: "Now, the bronze of the Eight Classics!"

Uncle Long originally thought that this kid was doing something blind again, but when he saw the thing in his hand, his eyebrows suddenly raised, and Chen Tao looked even more proud on his face.

Why, yes, come on! Praise me!

"How do you have this thing!" Uncle Long looked at Chen Tao, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes.

He stretched out his hand to take the bronze man, and after confirming it, he looked up and asked Chen Tao: "Say, where did it come from!"

？？？ That doesn't seem right......

Chen Tao glanced at Uncle Long's face, knowing that he was not joking, and hurriedly told Uncle Long about the afternoon.

Uncle Long rubbed his chin and listened, and didn't say anything, just beckoned Chen Tao to continue eating.

Late at night, on the balcony, Uncle Long looked at the bronze man in his hand, and spit out a smoke ring deeply, like a ghost, slowly floating over the city.

"So soon, are you targeting? Master, this game of chess has finally come to this point..."