After the opening, another two days passed.

After the fat man sent my parents back, he drove back by himself. He slapped his car keys on the table and announced that he was not leaving. I don't know if he's joking, but fortunately, the room is enough for him to live casually, and it's just a pair of chopsticks to eat. When I proposed that he work in an antique shop, he shook his head like a rattle, saying that he was used to wandering and could not be restrained.

Liu Rumei's company is really busy, she is busy with meetings every day, and it is already good to be able to show up once a day. Even though it was close, I hadn't approached her, and I didn't know what their business was. I think Zhang Bancheng's main business is real estate, and Liu Rumei should also be engaged in this work.

The business in the store has gradually improved, there are in and out, and it looks decent. Most of this is due to the blessing of the Liu family, and I think most of the guests are coming to the Liu family's signboard. Come to think of it, whether it is selling or buying, one is a regular store worth tens of billions of dollars in the background, and the other is a small vendor in the antique market, and it is too easy to choose between the two.

One afternoon, Liu Rumei suddenly came to the store and invited me to go out with the fat man to buy clothes. The fat man and I are both single dogs, and we basically buy some clothes by ourselves, so naturally we haven't done much serious shopping. I often hear that it is a terrible thing to go shopping with girls, but since I really haven't experienced it, my heart is still full of curiosity. The fat man and I readily agreed to Liu Rumei, and after handing over the store to Wen Bo and Xiaojie, we went out with her.

We said we were going shopping, but we didn't go far, our shop was on the pedestrian street, and most of the shops on both sides of the road were clothing stores. Liu Rumei chose one for me and the fat man, and both of us refused at first, but after hearing her say that the wedding should not be dressed too casually, we accepted it. At this time, I also remembered the matter of agreeing to Li Er's wedding, I have been too busy in the past two days, and this matter has basically been left behind me, but I didn't expect Liu Rumei to remember.

Liu Rumei and I were talking about going to Lijiabao to attend the wedding, and the fat man smacked his lips and muttered in a low voice: "Don't white the light bulb once, it's a good outfit." ”

It is indeed a "good line", although it is not an international famous brand, but it is also a well-known men's clothing in China, with two outfits and shoes nearly 10,000 smaller. I rushed to pay the bill, but was rejected by the salesperson, and her words made me suspect that this store was also Liu Rumei's. The salesman's original words were: "Sir, there is no need to pay for this, Mr. Liu has already signed a free order." ”

The next morning, after my fat man had finished grooming, he put on his new clothes, looked himself in the mirror, and smiled at each other. As the saying goes, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, and the upper body of new clothes feels much more energetic.

The fat man and I went to the store to wait for Liu Rumei, and it didn't take long for Liu Rumei to come, accompanied by her driver. Liu Rumei did not wear a skirt, but a small light gray suit, which looked very temperamental.

When I set off, I realized that she didn't drive a Mitsubishi off-road, but a Volkswagen. While I was still wondering, the fat man's voice rang in my ears: "Phaeton...... Xiaoyanagi, you're too low-key, aren't you? ”

"Phaeton? The one with more than two million? I looked at the car in front of me in amazement. I thought it was a Passat at first glance, but I didn't understand it until I listened to the fat man's words and then looked closely.

"Low-key...... Luxury ......" the fat man muttered to the side.

Liu Ru eyebrows, smiled but did not speak.

Just when the driver was about to step forward to drive, the fat man dragged him aside, got into the cockpit himself, and said, "You go to the co-pilot and let the fat man experience it." ”

The driver couldn't laugh or cry, and after Liu Rumei's consent, he finally sat in the co-pilot's seat.

"I'm also a person who has driven a Phaeton, and my rank will be different in the future......" The fat man's teasing attribute exploded, completely ignoring others, and talking to himself while driving.

I poured cold water on him in the back seat and said, "There is a Phaeton who drives a phaeton every day next to you, and behind you there is a Phaeton, what are you so blind about?" ”

As a result, the fat man was still poor regardless of it, which made Liu Rumei and the driver bend over with laughter.

Lijiapu Village is not far away, and it is about five kilometers after leaving the city.

From a distance, you can see the inflatable rainbow gate and colorful shed erected high at the entrance of the village, as well as many onlookers. The guest's car was parked on the side of the road, and the fat man found an empty seat and stopped. After getting out of the car, I understood, why Liu Rumei drove a Phaeton, the vehicles on the side of the road are all less than 200,000, the Phaeton has a Volkswagen logo, and it is really low-key to throw it in the car pile, and even a Buick business next to it looks more conspicuous than it.

When Li Er saw us, he hurriedly let us into the house. Li Er poured tea and poured water politely, and then whispered to us not to mention the matter of ancient goods, and after seeing us nod, he went out to be busy, after all, there were too many guests and he couldn't keep accompaniing. Originally, I wanted to ask him about the silver dollar, but I just stopped seeing him do it.

The fat man and Liu Rumei chatted casually. The driver sat quietly next to him and drank tea. I was also idle, looking up and down the room, and a calligraphy and painting hanging in the middle hall caught my attention.

This calligraphy and painting is very strange, it is neither like a word nor a painting, which reminds me of the "plum blossom seal character". I tried to disassemble it, but I didn't recognize one or two of them, and I wondered if it was just an abstract painting. But looking at paper should not be a current thing, ancient China paid attention to or gongbi painting or landscape splashing ink, and I have never heard of anyone who is abstract. Which ancient man is this spoof? Why didn't there even be a payment next to it.

"What are you looking at?" Maybe it was because I was looking at it seriously, Liu Rumei leaned over and asked.

I pointed to the painting on the wall and told her what I was thinking. She looked at the painting on the wall, frowned and thought for a long time, then shook her head and said, "As you said, it looks like an old thing, but I don't know what is painted on it at all." ”

The fat man next to him also came over to watch the excitement, but the fat man's first sentence was to ask: "Waste, do you say this is worth it?" ”

"I ......" I looked at him speechlessly, not knowing what to say to him.

"If you don't know, say you don't know, see what I'm doing." The fat man ignored me and leaned over to look at the painting carefully.

The fat man looked at it for a while and said, "This painting doesn't look like something new." ”

"Hmm." Liu Rumei nodded.

The fat man continued: "I have been afraid for twenty or thirty years when I see that the paper is yellow." ”

"Probably more than that." Liu Rumei frowned and said, "Twenty or thirty years will not be so yellow, in my opinion, maybe it will be a hundred years." ”

The fat man didn't believe it, looked at the painting suspiciously, and asked, "Is it that old?" Why can't I see it? ”

"This painting was like this when I can remember." An old voice came from the doorway, and I followed the voice, and an old man with gray hair and beard stood in the doorway, looking at least seventy miles away. As he spoke, he walked into the house on crutches, and when he entered the house, he found a random seat and sat down.

The fat man looked at the old man, then lowered his voice and said to me, "Waste, this old man has very sharp ears." ”

Before I could answer, the old man sitting next to him spoke, and he said, "Yes, people in their seventies, who are not deaf or blind." ”

As soon as I heard him say this, I quickly apologized for the fat man. The old man waved his hand and said, "No, I heard the second son say that it seems that it is thanks to you that he has the money to do this marriage for his son." ”

"It's not about TOEFL, it's just buying and selling." I waved my hand and asked, "Old man, are you?" ”

"I'm Li Er's cousin." After answering, he pointed to the painting on the wall and said, "This painting has been hanging for a long time, and when I was a child, I asked the old people in the family, and they couldn't tell when the painting was hung." ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "That's at least a hundred years old." ”

"Approximately." The old man nodded.

I then asked, "Old man, do you know what is painted on this?" ”

"I don't know." The old man shook his head and said, "It is said that the ancestors used it for the town house." ”

"Oh? For town houses? "I'm a little surprised, I've heard of the town house with a sword, and even heard of the Bodhisattva Buddha Guan Gong town house, but it's the first time I've heard of someone painting the town house. If there is a fire in the house, I don't know if the house will burn down, and this painting will definitely burn down early. Could it be that this is a Dao Talisman, I have heard people use Dao Talisman to suppress ghosts, but I have never heard of someone using Dao Talisman to town houses, and besides, this does not look like a Dao Talisman.

Just as I happened to look up, I suddenly saw that there were beams and ridges on top of this room. The beam ridge board is placed when the Jinnan folk house is built, and the place is generally between the two beams in the middle of the house, and the family information and the date of construction are generally written on it. I stood up and looked closely, and although the board was a little blackened over time, the ink on it was still legible.

Li Jizu, the owner of the house who built a house in the sixth year of the Republic of China...... And so on.

The old man probably saw that he was looking at the house, and said, "It is said that there is this house first, and then there is Li Jiabao." ”

I was curious and asked, "So, there were no people here before?" ”

The old man nodded, and then said: "This place is next to the salt lake and tidal flats, and it is a wasteland where crops cannot be grown. ”

I was puzzled and asked, "In that case, why do you want to settle down here?" ”

The old man shook his head and said: "I'm ashamed, I only know that my ancestors were originally from Luoyang, doing business in Beijing, and the Yellow River flooded in the last years of the Qing Dynasty and fled to this place. ”

I chatted with the old man for a while, but I didn't get any useful information. At this time, Li Er entered the house, said that there was something wrong, and then took the old man to say goodbye and left. Looking at Li Er's attitude towards the old man, I feel that the relationship between the two should be very good.

In the room, the fat man was still discussing the value of the strange painting with Liu Rumei, and I was staring up at the words on the beam for a long time, thinking about whether there was any connection in these scattered clues.

I felt a little depressed, so I walked out of the hall and into the courtyard. The courtyard is also noisy at the moment, the guests are sitting and chatting in three or five circles, and the people invited by the main family to help are also interspersed with tea and pouring water in the crowd. I didn't want to look at this, so I looked around and looked at the house of the Li Er family.