Gathering with the fat man, I handed the popsicle that was dripping with water and had my head melted away, and poured some sticks and straw together to put everything on it. I took the blue and white porcelain four-corner bowl with a picture of the Jurchen steppe hunting that the fat man handed me, sat cross-legged on the ground, peeled the soil off the surface of the four-corner bowl, and played with it in my hand to recall some past events.

It took me a while to shake off my senses, and when I saw the fat man looking at me, I said, "What are you doing?" Eat yours. "I casually tossed the quadrangular bowl aside, grabbed the plastic bag and started tearing the chicken thighs.

The fat man started to eat.

People say that the body is the capital of the revolution, and after this meal, the fat man's complexion is much better, and he is full of energy when he speaks. He picked up the four-cornered bowl and said, "Then let's get ready to start the next step." ”

What the hell is the plan? Although I didn't know very well, I nodded for the sake of face: "Well, okay." ”

"I got into action that afternoon and started selling it." The fat man said.

I vouched for my life, and I saw the fat man's eyes twinkle......

I grabbed the fat man's arm holding the four-cornered bowl: "What do you say?" Sold? ”

The fat man was surprised: "Didn't we just say it yesterday?" Let's sell it. ”

"What do you do after you sell it?" At this time, I didn't care about losing face, so I hurriedly asked, "We are all eyeliner surnamed Guo now, who can you sell this thing to?" ”

Speaking of this leader, surnamed Guo, he is also one of the fundamental reasons why I don't plan to do antique trading anymore. Now he must still be investigating the matter of the "Palace of Eternal Life", since this four-cornered bowl is a funeral item of the Immortal Daoist, then this thing cannot appear on the market.

The fat man's face was full of doubts, and he explained: "Didn't we say it, I will contact an overseas agency to entrust the auction of this thing." ”

"Sell to whom? Sell to foreigners? I asked.

"Nonsense, who is it not sold to the old takeaway? Don't worry, I've inquired, foreign auctions will never embezzle auction items, and there is also ** protection for the auctioneer. We have to admire foreigners for this, if we go to Hong Kong for auction, it is estimated that we will be hacked before we arrive. ”

The fat man said calmly, and I said angrily for a while: "How many treasures have the Eight-Nation Alliance robbed us, and the Old Summer Palace has been burned...... Lao Jiang Lin went to Taiwan and took away half of the Forbidden City...... What's wrong? Are you still planning to send our country's treasures out? ”

The fat man frowned and said, "I persuaded you yesterday, why did you regret it today?" We've been trading antiques for so many years, who is it different to sell this thing to? This is 50 steps and 100 steps, the story of the dragon Jin Jian is still told to me, is there any difference between selling things to foreigners or selling them to powerful people? ”

I hung my head, unable to argue. The fat man gagged me with the fact that I had been talking to him in the first place, so that I could not refute it at all. I thought about it for a while, but I couldn't accept sending this four-cornered bowl, which I thought was of great academic value, abroad...... I looked up and said, "This can't be done...... I went to Grandma Hu to get back the items I had collected. I absolutely disagree with the sale of our country's gadgets to foreign countries. ”

It seems that the fat man has long been guarding me, and when he saw me looking up, he subconsciously hid half a meter backwards. After listening to what I said, he said, "Even if you sell things to people in our own country, can you guarantee that they won't give things away or sell them to foreigners?" If you want me to say, let's not guess others and just sell it. ”

I shook my head and said seriously: "Fatty, from now on, as long as this thing is out of my sight, I will call the person surnamed Guo......"

"You're a threat......

The fat man looked me in the eyes, and I looked at him quietly: "It's not a threat, it's absolutely uncompromising." I reached out to the fat man and begged for the four-cornered bowl.

The fat man sighed in annoyance and handed the square bowl into my hand. He sat down again and continued to nibble on the unfinished chicken rack, muttering, "Principles? The bottom line? Hmph, you just mix this acre and three points of land...... Foreigners give us dollars and American knives...... You sell it to Chinese, hmph, which one of the people in this world can afford to buy your things is not a tiger and leopard jackal with bared teeth......"

I crouched across from the fat man and reached out and placed the four-corner bowl between the two of us. The fat man looked up at me, and I said, "Don't hurt your feelings because of this." Donate it. It's as if you've never received it. Ming'er starts to count the first day, you wait for me for three days, and I will bring you another thing out in three days, which is definitely not worse than it. ”

With that, I dropped the bowl and turned to leave, leaving the dumbfounded fat man behind.

From the moment I decided to give things to the fat man, the scales in my heart tipped again. I didn't believe that the fat man would listen to me and donate things, so I had to hope that the fat man would donate things.

The decision to turn away is not a sign of chic.

I went home and asked my mother for my bank card, and when my mother saw my solemn expression, she asked me with concern what had happened. I smiled and shook my head, just saying that I needed some money.

After I got the bank card, I first called Chen Ergou and made an appointment with him to meet three days later to discuss the construction of the building. After that, I asked Lao Liu Tou to accompany me to the mountains.

For two nights and three days, Lao Liu Tou accompanied me to eat and drink in the mountains, and stayed overnight in the farmhouse. We went from Taihang Shandong to Yangquan City, Shanxi, and went back to the North Road to the South Road, almost all the places I have walked in the past two years.

In the early morning of the third day, I asked Lao Liu Tou to send me to Yangkou, Dongtou, where Grandma Hu was.

"Don't think about it." Old Liu Tou saw that I was in a low mood, and nagged and persuaded me all the way. It's only in the past two days, and Lao Liu's broken mouth makes me feel extremely cordial. Before leaving, before leaving, he still said to me: "Xiao Li, Boss Li, don't think about it." ”

I smiled reluctantly: "It's okay, Uncle Liu, I ate and slept well...... See you later. I turned around, not wanting to talk to Lao Liu anymore.

"Boss Li, then we'll see you later."

I raised my hand and shook it behind my back before I heard the sound of the car ignition.

This old Liu Tou is a good person......

I rubbed my cheeks and tried to keep myself motivated. I made up my mind to have a showdown with Grandma Hu, whether it was a mule or a horse, pull it out and slip it on. The morning sun has not yet shown its hideousness, like a red apple falling in the east. The breeze was blowing, the weeds were stained with sporadic dew, and every now and then an early grasshopper flew under my feet. Looking sideways at the branches of the trees in the street, a gray praying mantis popped out two strong forearms at a chirping chirping mantis......

At the beginning of the year, my mother took me to Dongtou Yang Village to thank Grandma Hu for her elderly family and her daughter for helping me in times of need.

Grandma Hu lived in a simple house, living in the old village north of Dongtouyang Village. Most of the people living there are some old men and old women, old houses, adobe tile houses, wooden doors and stone walls.

When I met Grandma Hu at that time, I felt that this old lady was stranger than ordinary people. The blame is that she is different from ordinary people - although she is a common old lady with small feet in the countryside, she looks seventy or eighty years old and has a mouthful of white teeth. Her house looks simple, but there is a big black pot in the yard that is constantly on fire, and there is a smell of meat.

At that time, my mother and I were led through the door by Grandma Hu's daughter, my aunt. My aunt didn't let me see what was cooking in the pot, but dragged us into the house while chatting about our homely things.

Grandma Hu took a puff of dry tobacco in her mouth, squinted her eyes and sat cross-legged on the kang, and she didn't move when we entered the house. She sat like this, and the two elders and I didn't dare to say anything, until more than ten minutes later, she opened her eyes and asked her daughter to go to the furnace before she began to talk to my mother, and I "um, ah, this is" on the sidelines to cooperate.

During this period, Grandma Hu called me to sit on the kang, stretched out her hand and touched my head, and had a sudden realization expression. I remember it vividly, and I don't know what she could see in my head.

I touched my head and thought about it, and it seemed that the sore had healed.

I am no stranger to the desertion of the old village, after the division of the house and the land, many of the old people who are regarded as a burden have become one of the members of this half of the old village. It is said that it is to raise children to prevent old age, but there are too many old people, but few old people can still be served by their children, and it is already a matter that should burn high incense to peacefully solve the distribution of house deeds and land deeds. Grandma Hu was still smoking vigorously, and in an instant she looked weak, coughing and talking to me weakly. She said, "Alas. You can't let the old lady and me out of the mountain...... Ahem...... When people are old, their legs and feet are not flexible, and they have backache and leg pain when they go to the last kang, and they don't have two years to live. Ahem...... You have to think, that's your own grandfather, who can help him if you don't help him...... I'll let your aunt and Matsuna go with you, and you'll definitely not be in danger...... Old lady, I can't let my eldest grandson go out on adventures...... cough cough cough cough ......"

I walked through this old house from memory.

If there's one thing that has the most in this old housing area, it's trees. All sorts of old trees are as old as these old houses.

Eventually, I found the door of my grandmother's house from memory. Although the old lady's house is dilapidated, the pair of stone stones at the door is a treasure, carved with white cranes, oxen, and tigers, each standing under three fruity peach trees, the workmanship is exquisite, once made me tempted.

I once heard the story that a long, long time ago, there was a large family that hired a stone carver to carve a pair of upper horse stones. If you hire a craftsman, you will naturally have to pay him for the work. In order to make the craftsman more elaborate wall carvings, the master told the craftsman that his wages were calculated based on the stone powder carved by the craftsman on the stone, multiple stone powders and multiple silvers.

Xu is a professional habit, I have a natural affection for babies. When I arrived at my grandmother's house, I first squatted next to the Shangma Stone and watched it carefully.

I was squatting in the doorway and sorting out my mood for some reason, only to hear a "squeak" and the wooden door was opened. I subconsciously wanted to look up, but I didn't expect that the person who opened the door was sharper than me, reached out and grabbed my arm, and lifted me up.

"Little master, don't come unharmed."

I looked at this short man, and my eyes suddenly heated, as if I had seen a relative. I said, "Brother Liu, why are you here?" ”

Yes, this person is Liu Songming, who has a simple face but a good martial arts, even if I guess ten thousand times, I wouldn't have guessed that he would be at Grandma Hu's house.

Without waiting for Liu Songming to speak, I asked, "What about Da Bai Huo?" Didn't I come with you? ”

Liu Songming looked excited, grabbed my arm and looked me up and down for a while, and said something in his mouth: "Oh, it's an adult." has been separated from the young master for more than two years, and he is really becoming more and more elegant and mature. ”

"This ......" I knew it wasn't the time for small talk, so I wanted to ask again.

Liu Songming waved his hand and said, "Everything will be known when you go in." Qin Wuye passed on your jade pendant, can you take it with you? ”

As I said, I reached out and pulled the jade pendant out of my neck. At this time, this jade pendant was shining, I was stunned for a moment, took the jade pendant into the palm of my hand, and looked at Liu Songming suspiciously: "He's Bi?" ”

Liu Songming still didn't answer, and pulled me into Grandma Hu's yard. He walked behind me and closed the door, and I looked around, except for the big iron pot still sitting in the yard, and in front of me, next to the latrine, there was a man locked in a large iron cage. The man sat with his back to me, dirty and torn, and his hair was dreadlocked, fluffy and fried.

Seeing that the man was locked up like a beast in a cage that would never allow him to stand up straight, I was both surprised and frightened, and quickly asked behind me, "Liu...... Willow...... Brother Liu, who is that? "I shuddered a little as I spoke.

Liu Songming smiled faintly. He stood side by side with me, pointed to the man in the cage, and said to me, "It doesn't matter one person. Come, let's go into the house, Madame Hu is waiting for you. ”

"Grandma Hu?"

"Hmm." This time, Liu Songming nodded.

I was led into the north room by Liu Songming. This time, Grandma Hu seemed to have been waiting for me, and when she saw me coming in, she said calmly: "Eldest grandson, you are here...... Sit, sit down, don't rush at this moment. ”

I clicked and sat down on the Song Dynasty Taishi chair that I used to sit in the store. Looking around the furnishings in the house, although I had been prepared in my heart, I still couldn't accept their grandiose occupation for a while—all the furnishings in this house had been replaced with treasures found in my store.

Liu Songming stepped forward and whispered a few words to Grandma Hu, and the old lady spoke: "I admit it, I took those two things...... "Liu Songming helped Grandma Hu to stand up, and at the request of Grandma Hu, he went up to the kang and took out a box from the wooden box on the top. At this time, Grandma Hu also took out a round black iron sheet from the drawer of the table.

My eyes froze when I saw the box in Liu Songming's hand, which was clearly the wooden box containing the coloring pills that I had pulled out of the dark hole under the fire kang when I was trying to hide the bronze mirror and the fragments of He's bi at Grandpa Li's house years ago.

Grandma Hu beckoned to me and said, "Grandson, come here, this is the bronze mirror, you can see for yourself." Song Ming, give the box to my eldest grandson, it's time for us to figure out what Qin Lao Wu is doing in that place this time......"