The man walked out of the side door of the counter with his hands behind his back, glanced around, and casually took a blue and white porcelain vase from the mahogany shelf next to him and placed it on the wooden table in front of us.

He pointed to the porcelain bottle and asked, "Come here and palm your eyes, is this Han Dynasty blue and white porcelain real or fake?" ”

Somehow, when everyone heard this topic, there was a smile on their faces, of course, at that time, I didn't know that the question itself was a set.

I looked at the blue and white porcelain for a long time, I don't know if this thing is real, but it does look very beautiful and exquisite.

"Yes, yes, it's true, right?" I glanced at Fu Lao, who frowned slightly, and stumbled out a sentence.

"Hehehe, hehehe."

As a result, as soon as this sentence came out, everyone except Fu Lao was looking up and smiling, which made me immediately realize that I had said something wrong.

So, after a pause, he asked, "Is this fake?" ”

"Old Fu, this doesn't even have basic common sense, and forgive me for not being able to accommodate such a "big Buddha" in this temple, so it's better for you to take it back and let the owner personally train it. The fat-headed, big-eared man laughed, looking at me with disdain in his eyes.

I looked at the fat man and thought to myself, even if I was wrong, these people wouldn't make such fun of me.

"Look, this kid is still not convinced, let me tell you, there was no blue and white porcelain in the Han Dynasty, you don't even have this kind of common sense, how can I let you stay here?" After the fat man finished speaking, he shook his head, and the fat on his cheeks trembled.

I really didn't know anything about this common sense for them, and my grandfather and father never taught me about it.

Even our family's dinner table is Huanghuali, I only learned from my father that day, as for the difference between Huanghuali and ordinary wood, I don't know anything.

"That's it, it's getting dark, Elder Fu, you will rest here for the night today, and let's go tomorrow." The fat man said and put the blue and white porcelain vase back on the shelf, and said lightly.

Fu Lao looked at me, and then at the man.

"This common sense is dead, give this book, let him study it for a while, he will definitely make great progress, accept apprentices, the most important thing is to look at the eyesight, not to mention anything else, this child also knows that the porcelain vase is real." Fu Lao tried his best to say good things for me.

After the fat man listened, the corners of his mouth were raised: "Blind, can you also say that you have good eyesight?" Okay, Fu Lao, I'll give him another chance, don't test any common sense, just test his eyesight, if he still answers wrong, then you can take him away now. ”

Fu Lao was stunned and looked at me.

I knew that Fu Lao had been forced into a corner by this fat man now, and I didn't want to embarrass him, so I nodded at the fat man.

The fat man looked like he was about to drive me away, and said: "Coincidentally, a few days ago, we received a picture of a hundred children's birthday in our shop, and I won't test you in any dynasty, after a while, you take a look at it and tell me, how many children are painted on it, it's simple." ”

The fat man stared at me and asked.

I thought about it and nodded hesitantly.

Seeing that I agreed, the fat man immediately went to the cabinet behind him and took out a black scroll.

"This hourglass is gone, I'll put the scroll away, if you don't count it, then give up." The fat man put aside a gold-framed hourglass, and the scroll quickly spread out, and I was immediately dumbfounded.

This scroll painting is spread out, covering the entire table, and the eye is almost two meters, and the top is criss-crossed, and there are many children superimposed on the front and back, as well as houses and trees, those children are wearing belly pockets, and they are holding longevity peaches in their hands, it is a very lively painting, but it is very difficult to count how many children there are.

I squinted my eyes and counted carefully, but because many of the characters were staggered, I was dazzled and couldn't count them at all.

"Thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine?" I counted carefully, but my head was already buzzing and dazzling.

"It's time." The fat man stood directly in front of the scroll, and my heart sank, I only counted to forty-two, and most of the back had not had time to see clearly.

"How much?" The fat man looked at me with a smirk and asked.

"I, I didn't finish counting." I gritted my teeth and said truthfully.

He walked up to me, reached out and patted me on the shoulder and said, "You really don't have any qualifications, but don't worry, Hongru can still give you a bite to eat." ”

These words he said were tantamount to ridicule and insult in a roundabout way.

"Turn the lights off." I looked at him and said very seriously.

The fat man was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help frowning: "What did you say?" ”

"Turn off the lights, and close the door, so that no light shines through the hall." I said word for word.

After listening to this, the fat man snorted coldly: "Turn off the lights? What do you want? ”

"I want to count again." I said.

"Hehehe." The fat man smiled and leaned forward and backwards very exaggeratedly: "Old Fu, you won't be a fool when you brought it, right?" ”

In this hall, the rest of the people also laughed, probably taking me for a fool.

"Give me one more chance, and I'll be able to count them all." I looked at Fu Lao very firmly.

Fu Lao was silent, and before he could speak, the fat man said, "Boy, don't make fun of us, let's go." ”

He didn't believe what I said, waved his hand, and motioned for me and Fu Lao to leave, and his attitude was very resolute.

"I've heard you giggling from afar, why are you so happy?" Just as the stalemate was at a standoff, a high, lively voice came in from outside.

Everyone looked back together, and I also followed to look out of the threshold, only to see a man in a powder blue coat walking in, his hair was as black as ink and slightly messy, but his face was extremely handsome, which made people lose their attention for a while, and at this moment he yawned with a lazy smile on his face.

It was as if he had just woken up, and the people here bowed down respectfully at him when they saw him, even Fu Lao was no exception.

When the fat man who embarrassed me saw him, he hurriedly showed a flattering smile and said, "Zhuo Shao, Fu Laoyou?" ”

Before the fat man could finish the situation, the man interrupted: "Well, according to what he said, turn off the lights and close the door." ”

"Zhuo Shao, this kid is entertaining us." The fat man was a little dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to attack in front of this other party.

"There's no harm in trying." That Zhuo Shao said four words, and the fat man could only swallow back the words that had not been finished, and waved his hand at the other people in the hall with a blue face.

In a matter of seconds, it was pitch black.

Fu Lao asked in a low voice in my ear: "Xiao Jiu'er, are you really sure?" ”

"Fu Lao, don't worry." When I say this, I don't know with all the certainty in my heart.

I just know that I will become more sensitive in the dark, and this darkness makes me feel incredibly reassured.

The fat man groped his way to the table, raised his voice and shouted, "Here we go!" ”

After speaking, the scroll was spread out with a "bang", I immediately narrowed my eyes slightly, and counted them carefully without distraction, not to mention, in this darkness I saw much clearer than before, and the original feeling of dazzle was completely gone.

When I counted the boys, I felt that they were lined up in a row, as if they had a pattern.

"Ninety-nine!" Before the fat man could put away the scroll, I spoke.

Originally, the people behind me were still whispering, saying that I was just bluffing, but now that I had actually said the exact number in such a short time, their chattering immediately stopped.

The fat man's eyes widened and he looked in my direction, while Zhuo Shao clapped his hands and motioned to turn on the light.

When the light came on, the fat man came back to his senses and looked at Fu Lao with a frown.

"What you told him didn't work." The fat man didn't believe it was me counting it myself.

"I counted it myself, and I can tell you where the hundredth boy is." I pointed to the scroll and said to the fat man.

The fat man immediately frowned: "Although this painting is called a picture of a hundred children's birthday, but there are only ninety-nine children, where did the hundredth come from?" You're wrong, now it's time to roll. ”

"Eh, Lao Du, you listened to him finish speaking." Zhuo Shao looked at me, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled uninhibitedly and said, "Boy, tell me, where is the hundredth?" ”

I walked up to the painting, stretched out my hand, and made a gesture on the scroll.

In fact, this hundredth boy is a silhouette formed after all these boys are combined, and the whole outline is like a child lying down and holding a longevity peach.

"Seems to be? It's a boy. "After everyone saw that I finished the comparison, they were all speechless, saying that when this painting came, they were still thinking, why there were only ninety-nine children in the birthday picture of 100 children, and it turned out that there was such a mystery in the painting.

The fat man's face had turned pale and he looked at me in disbelief.

"Bang Bang!" Zhuo Shao suddenly raised his hand and applauded, and everyone applauded.

"Such a good eyesight, I have to stay." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and hugged my shoulder: "Lao Du, I am the main decision for this kid, Fu Lao, let's go, let's eat together, it can be regarded as picking up the wind and washing the dust for you." ”

This Zhuo Shao is a completely familiar person, I have only met him for the first time, and he seems to treat me as a friend I haven't seen for many years, and he wants to take me out to dinner.

Leaving a group of dumbfounded people behind him, Zhuo Shao took us out of the pawnshop, went to the restaurant outside the alley, and ordered a table of wine and food.

Warmly greeted me and Fu Lao to eat, and while eating, he looked at my face for a long time and suddenly said, "What's your name?" ”

"Qing Jiu'er." I don't know the details of this person, but I somehow think this person is not bad.

"Jiu'er? Well, you are round, I will call you Fat Jiu in the future, and I will cover you in this Qingru in the future. After Zhuo Shao finished speaking, he drank all the wine in the cup.

I resisted the title of Fat Nine, but now I can endure it in other people's territory.

I just asked him curiously, didn't I say that the pawnshop was called Hongru before, how did I become Qingru again, and this question made me know a piece of news that made my heart cold.

Qingru is only one of the many branches of Hongru in the country, only the branch of the court is qualified, at the end of each year to go to Hongru, and although I can stay in Qingru now, but there is no official name, want to go to Hongru to find out the truth is more difficult than ascending to the sky.