Chapter 209: Antiques
Rong Chen smiled, the woman in front of him always had some strange arguments, there are a lot of such things in their village, how can they be antiques.
"These are antiques? We have such things in every family here, why are we so poor that we can only go out to beg for food to live? ”
Rong Chen sneered, only thinking that Qingwan was talking crazy, but his words just made Qingwan's eyes and pupils dilated.
"What do you say! It's in every household! ”
Qingwan suddenly sat on the meadow with weak legs, and she found a village with antiques, and all the treasures were bronzes!
It seems that this place is deviated from the downtown area, and there is a reason why ordinary people cannot find it, and it seems that the previous tomb robbers specially chose this place to hide the bronzes.
It's just that it's been a long time, and the days have passed, so the later people have forgotten the descendants of people like themselves.
So in this environment where there is no grass, they have no livelihood except to go out to ask for food.
"Let's go, let's go see the clan elders!"
"What are you going to see the elders for?"
Qingwan didn't listen to Rong Chen's obstruction at all, went straight out of the house, turned back to Rong Chen and replied: "Take the people in the village to migrate, go to a rich place, and live a peaceful and stable life!" ”
Rong Chen didn't know what Qing Wan meant by what he said.
But for so long, the village has been so corrupt and withered, and there are fewer and fewer people, except for the old and weak, women and children, there are hardly a few young and middle-aged left, and those who go out will not come back.
The two of them went together to the house of the elder of the clan, whose home was at the entrance of the village, very close to the miasma, and there was no clean water source in this village.
All the people drank water from a well dug up from an underground river, and this well was in the elder's house.
The elder was an elderly gentleman, on crutches, sitting on a wicker chair in his yard.
Even though there is no sun, he still hangs himself on it, as if he is drying a piece of clothing.
"Elder!"
"Who are you?" The elder squinted at the two men who walked in from outside the courtyard.
Qingwan squatted on the side of the rattan chair and said excitedly: "Elder, we are going to take the whole village to relocate!" You can go to live in a place where you can bask in the sun and see the river. ”
"What? No kidding, where do we have the money to buy land, and where do we have the money to build houses, let alone those places where there is sunshine and rivers. ”
Qing Wan held a bronze sword taken out of Rong Chen's house in his hand, "This was taken out of the wall skin of his house."
With this, everyone can live a prosperous life, marry a wife, have children, and continue to have heirs.
Live the same life as people outside, whether it is business or farming, you can have your own world! ”
The elder nodded as he listened, his eyes lit up, "Okay, good! It turns out that what is written on the family tree is true! ”
Rong Chen looked at the elder suspiciously, could it be that the history of these things was recorded in the genealogy?
Is it just that future generations will not use it, and it has fallen into this field today?
"Yes, yes, take the young ones and leave this place, and go to your heaven and earth."
The elder happily took out a bronze statue from his home, which looked very delicately carved and even had an inscription.
Putting such a large object into Rong Chen's hands, the elder said earnestly, "Take those who are willing to go with you, and let those who are willing to stay stay."
I've been sitting at home for decades, and I don't know what it's for, so if it can help you, take it with you. ”
Qingwan excused himself: "This is too valuable, we can't accept it." ”
The elder looked at this Fang Venerable suspiciously, not understanding what was so valuable to such a thing that was inconvenient to hold anything, "What is so valuable about this broken thing?" ”
"With such a Fang Zun, even if he buys a city, it will be regarded as a loss."
Such a non-shocking sentence made the elder sit on the wicker chair.
He originally thought that the good life that Qingwan said was just a change of place to work hard to make a living, but now it seems that the next few generations can live a good life!
"Okay, I'm going to gather the whole village, and we'll move out of this barren land!"
This miasma-ridden village has never been angry, and few of the children born are able to feed it.
Even if they were to feed themselves, they would not have grown up in the village, and most of them chose to go out to beg for a living, and I don't know when begging became a profession in this village.
One by one, the old and weak women and children stood around the big trees in the village, and Qingwan and Rong Chen counted the number of people.
According to the genealogical registration, it was found that there were only about 30 people in the village.
Half of them were elderly, with only three or four young couples. Most of them also work odd jobs outside the home to earn a living, and one couple has two children.
"This is Madame from outside, and she says she has a way to get everyone out of here and live a good life.
If you want, follow her, and take the bronze objects in the walls of the house with her! ”
Everyone looked at each other, and several old men and women left straight away, but several young couples stood hesitantly in place.
"You're talking about the things in the walls of your home? But rotten copper, which is stronger than lime, what is worth? ”
One of the young men asked the doubts in everyone's minds.
"These things are worth a thousand gold in the eyes of some experts outside, if you go with me, I guarantee that you can live a better life than now, whether you dare to gamble or not is all up to you!"
Rong Chen didn't want to talk nonsense with them, so he just said, "If you are willing to leave."
After an hour, gather at the entrance of the village and go with us, and if you don't want to, you will stay here and lose nothing!" ”
After that, Rong Chen took Qingjuan back to find a cart with loose wheels, took out all the things in the wall skin, and piled them on the cart.
"Are these things really as valuable as you say they are?"
Qingwan smiled, even she had never seen so many bronzes, and she didn't know how long these things had been hidden here.
She couldn't estimate the value of these things at all, even if she exchanged her entire net worth, it would be less than one thousandth.
"It's really worth money, and it's not just the rich who want it, but the emperor wants it even more.
This is the royal thing of the ancient emperors, and the emperors of thousands of years ago used something to show the difference between themselves and their subjects. ”
Rong Chen sighed in his heart that Qingwan knew so much, and sighed that although she was so different from ordinary people, she was still given death by the emperor and had to live a fugitive life like now.
An hour later, there were only two couples at the entrance of the village and Qingwan who decided to leave the village, Qingwan sighed, sure enough, he couldn't expect everyone to be willing to take the risk.
"Let's go!"
Rong Chen is familiar with the road, but he doesn't know where Qingwan wants to go.
"Where are we going?"
Qingwan smiled slyly, "Naturally, I went to the largest city nearby, Fancheng." ”
Rong Chen opened his mouth wide in surprise, looking at Qingwan in front of him, he only sighed in his heart that she was really bold.
That is the important town of Emperor Liang, not to mention that she is a wanted criminal in the imperial court, isn't she looking for death by throwing herself into the net like this!
"Money makes the devil grind."
Qingwan seemed to be able to see Rong Chen's doubts, as if he had sold a pass, and said this.
Walking the familiar road, it only took half a day for the group to reach the outskirts of Fancheng.
Sitting in an inn outside the city, Qingwan wrote a few letters and asked one of the men to bring them into the city's money and antique shops.
"What are you doing here?"
Rong Chen couldn't understand Qingjuan a little, but saw that she quickly wrote a few letters, all of which were stamped with the unique seal of Yipinge.
"Of course, let the buyer inspect the goods."
After an hour, a few people in sedan chairs or carriages came to the outside of the inn.
Qingwan opened a hall alone to trade with several nobles, and within a single stick of incense, all the things on the three carts were sold.
As soon as Rong Chen saw the door open, he couldn't wait to know the result, but Qingwan just smiled at him mysteriously.
The contents of the cart were pressed against the inn, and the group followed the rich men into their carriage and went straight into the city.
Rong Chen watched Qingwan beckon him into the carriage, only to find that this woman was worthy of the general's wife, and even he couldn't imagine if there was anything in this world that she couldn't do.
"How do you think we should escape the gates? Of course, it costs money. ”
When the carriage walked to the gate of the city, the house slaves at the rich man's gate showed their name plates, and the guards did not check them at all, but directly let them pass.
"What exactly did you talk to them about?"
The two of them entered the city smoothly and settled the two couples. At this time, Qingwan walked towards the government without fear.
"What are you doing! Go and die? ”
Qingwan glanced coldly at the announcement on the street, "Didn't you see that the army escorting the husband will pass through Fancheng tomorrow?" ”
"You want to save the general? How are you going to save him? ”
Rong Chen couldn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in Qingwan's gourd, just by herself, how did she want to save Wu Wen, who was guarded by heavy soldiers, who was like a cloud and locked in a prison car?
Qingwan didn't listen to Rong Chen, but continued to walk towards the mansion, "What I have on me is a bargaining chip." ”
"Bang bang bang!"
Qingwan knocked on the door of the mansion, only to see the official inside yawning and coming out and asking, "What's the matter, it's okay to close the door." ”
"I want to see you."
The official said with a smile: "There are people who want to see adults from morning to night, so let you see them because of who you are?" ”
Qingwan didn't say a word, just stuffed a gold ingot into the official's hand.
"Okay, I'll let you know right away."
After a while, Qingwan was brought in by the lazy official and met the official master.
Qingwan found out that this old man looked much younger than she imagined, and it was much more difficult to clean up.
The adults did not see her in the hall, but set up a table in the courtyard where they lived, and had made tea on it.