Kido Kana's family is a famous Chinese family in Japan, and the most famous person in the family is Kido Takayo, one of the three heroes of Japan's Meiji Restoration. Kido Kana, a branch of Kido, belongs to the Kido family and is not involved in politics. Her grandfather, Yuzo Kido, was a professor in the Department of Archaeology at Waseda University, specializing in the history of Northeast Asia, and was well-known in the academic world.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the door of China was wide open. The West began to carry out predatory antique collection in China, and several major antique cases broke out in succession, and the Chinese warlords were fighting each other, and they were too busy to trace them. Japan has always had a fanatical love for Chinese culture, so some Japanese scholars have proposed that China is no longer qualified to inherit the ancient Chinese civilization, and only Japan has the responsibility to save all this.

Therefore, Japan was financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture, and the Black Dragon Society, and the Japanese academic elite established an organization called the "Shina Terroir Society", which was responsible for taking advantage of the chaotic political situation in China to obtain various valuable cultural relics and transport them back to Japan. In order to achieve this purpose, the Terroir Society has compiled a document called "The Bone Dong Account of China", which records the appearance, origin, holders, and collection locations of many national treasures in China. Many Japanese scholars went to China under the banner of research, and on the one hand, they tried to collect national treasures and smuggle them back to China, and on the other hand, they investigated intelligence and filled in the gaps in the information in the "Accounts of the Bone of the Bone of China".

When Kana Kido said this, she suddenly noticed that the three of us were at a loss, so she asked, "Do you know who Li Ji is?" ”

We nodded.

Anyone who studies archaeology knows that this Li Ji is a great figure in the Republic of China. At the age of twenty-nine, he was hired by Tsinghua University and was known as the "Five Mentors" along with four famous scholars: Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Zhao Yuanren, and Chen Yinke. He has always advocated fieldwork, and was the first scholar in China to conduct modern archaeological excavations – but unfortunately in 1949 he followed Chiang Kai-shek and escorted a large number of cultural relics to Taiwan, so the people who knew him here were limited to a few small academic circles.

In 1928, the archaeological group of the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica was established, and Li Ji, who served as the leader, began to organize archaeological teams to carry out field archaeological operations in Henan, Shaanxi and other places. Kido Yuzo used the funds of the "Shina Folk Soil Association" to quickly gain the trust of Li Ji and participate in the investigation team.

In 1930, the Nanjing Nationalist Government promulgated the Law on the Preservation of Antiquities. In order to find out the current status of cultural relics, the Central Committee for the Preservation of Antiquities prepared a grand plan to carry out a nationwide survey of historical sites, and Li Ji was appointed as the executor.

For this plan, Li Ji recruited troops everywhere, including foreign experts and domestic folk masters. Kido Yuzo also participates as a friend of Li Ji, and befriends a man named Xu Yicheng. This Xu Yicheng is the head of the five veins, representing the most mysterious force in the Chinese antique world, especially the mastery of some magical antique skills in his hands, which makes Kido Yuzo very interested. The two got very close, and at one time they worshipped according to Chinese customs.

Xu Yicheng and Kido Yuzo did not follow the large army, and they were entrusted by Li Ji to carry out a secret mission. What exactly this task is, no one knows. They set out in mid-July 1931 and did not reappear until the end of August, disappearing for a month and a half, without any report or record.

Later, Li Ji's investigation ended in failure due to changes in the current situation, and Xu Yicheng returned to Beiping. Kido Yuzoya returned to Japan and published an article claiming that the head of the Jade Buddha of Zetenmeido had been found in China, and praised Xu Yicheng for playing a large role in it.

At this moment, domestic public opinion was in an uproar, and both Li Ji and Wumai were under great pressure. Soon Xu Yicheng was arrested and shot, and Wumai's vitality was greatly damaged, and Li Ji was also punished for this matter. Li Ji was angry and started a lawsuit with the Japanese side, and later when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Li Ji escorted the cultural relics to move south, and he had no time to take care of this matter.

After this jade Buddha head was lost in Japan, it fell into the hands of the "Shina Terroir Society". But Kido Yuzo made a request, hoping that this artifact should not be displayed in public. As a result, it was housed in the Society's exclusive museum, and only a limited number of people were able to see it. Since then, Kido Yuzo has been seriously ill and has been recuperating in bed.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, all right-leaning organizations in Japan, including the Black Dragon Society, were banned by the US military, and the "China Terroir Society" escaped the catastrophe and was renamed the Institute of Northeast Asian Studies. Li Ji once traveled east to Japan on behalf of the victorious country China to investigate and recover the looted cultural relics, but the Institute of Northeast Asian Studies prevaricated that the Jade Buddha head had been destroyed in the bombing, and Li Ji returned in vain.

When Yuzo Kido died in the forties, his granddaughter, Kana Kido, grew up and studied archaeology in her grandfather's mantle. She discovered the whereabouts of the jade Buddha's head during an inadvertent investigation, and only then did she learn about the Buddha's origin in China. Out of her love for Chinese culture, Kana Kido believes that her grandfather did something wrong back then, and hopes to return the Buddha's head to China to atone for his sins back then—of course, the last sentence is her statement.

I listened to the story and leaned back on the couch without saying a word. I'm thinking about something. The story of Kana Kido can be compared with the story of Huang Kewu, and many details can be corresponded. Through these two stories, Xu Yicheng's experience can almost be clarified.

But both of these stories are missing the most crucial link.

None of them could answer, in 1931 the two disappeared for a month and a half, where did Kido Yuzo and Xu Ichijo go? What was done?

And my intuition tells me that this experience is crucial to the mystery of the Buddha's head.

Now among the three parties, Xu Yicheng has been shot, Kido died in the bombing of Tokyo, and Li Ji died in Taiwan before he lived a few years. The only hope is that they will leave some written records as clues.

I stared at Kana Kido and asked, "Didn't Yuzo Kido publish a paper on the head of the Jade Buddha in the journal that year?" Do you have the original paper? As if expecting this, Kido Kana turned around and took out a document bag from the back room, which contained a copy of a newspaper clipping, with a thoughtful Chinese translation attached to it.

I was a little disappointed when I read it. The report was actually very short, more like a press release than a paper. Kido intentionally or unintentionally omitted details, and only vaguely said that "it was found in the mainland with the assistance of his Chinese friend Xu Yicheng", and there was no useful information. Most of the passages in the text are boasting about the cultural achievements of the Great Japanese Empire, but they are all empty words.

Kido Yusan can be favored by Li Ji, and his academic level must not be low. He wrote his essay like this, as if deliberately to erase the experience of 1931.

Two photographs were also attached at the end of the report. The first photograph shows two men, one tall and one short, the short one wearing a clicker cloth expedition suit, round glasses, and a Schweitzer-style expedition hat with a telescope around his neck; The tall man wears a short Chinese-style cotton coat, two mustaches, and a melon skin hat on his head, with the gate of Peking University in the background.

Everything in my family related to Xu Yicheng was handled by my father, so I never saw what my grandfather looked like. Speaking of which, this was the first time I had seen him: silkworm eyebrows and thick lips, and a square face, very similar to my father's eyebrows, and there was a kind of blood tremor at first glance. Looking at my grandfather's face made me feel like crying.

The second photograph is of Kido Yuzo, still dressed in the same costume, standing on a hill with a half-collapsed ancient city wall in the background. There is a faint gap in the middle of the wall, and the light and shadow on both sides of the gap are quite unnatural. It's a pity that the resolution is too low to see the details.

The note next to the photo says that it was Kido Yuzo, taken during the survey, but does not mention the exact location.

I stared at my grandfather's picture for a long time, took a deep breath, barely held back tears, and returned the newspaper clippings to Kana Kido. Kana Kido noticed my emotions, looked at it more, and didn't say anything.

"So, the head of the Jade Buddha is now in your hand?" Huang Yanyan asked. I've noticed that she's consciously or unconsciously taking herself as a leader.

"In my family, to be exact. The right to dispose of it is in the hands of the Institute of Northeast Asian Studies, and even I have no right to make decisions alone. All I could get was these pictures. ”

Otherwise, the medicine couldn't help but say angrily: "Then what nonsense are you talking about here!" Let me tell you, the feelings of the Chinese people have been seriously hurt, and you can't eat and walk around! ”

Kido Kana hurriedly explained: "I will definitely return the Jade Buddha Head to your country, but the relevant coordination work is still continuing, and now it is only a little bit away from success." As long as you can help me, I am sure that I can convince the old men at the Northeast Asia Institute. ”

She spoke softly, but to our ears, it had a different taste.

The picture is poor.

This woman is really not as weak as she seems.

Huang Yanyan and Yaoyao were all angry when they heard Kana Kido's words. Otherwise, the case was taken up: ", you still think it's the Lugou Bridge incident now, don't deceive people too much!" Kana Kido seemed to be greatly frightened, and bowed repeatedly: "I hope to return the national treasure to China, reflect on my grandfather's past mistakes, and promote Sino-Japanese friendship, and I have no other meaning." ”

She brought out the righteousness of this nation, Huang Yanyan and medicine, otherwise the two of them were speechless for a while, and they didn't know what to say.

I secretly admired Liu Ju's wisdom. It seems that he had anticipated this situation, so he didn't let the government come forward, or even let the five veins directly intervene, and took great pains to push me into the forefront, which now seems to be too right.

"What do you want us to do for you?" I asked. Since this woman has made a statement, she might as well listen to it first. Anyway, I'm not from the country, so it's a big deal.

Unaware of the anger of the other two, Kana Kido stroked the roots of her hair and said slowly, "I hope you can help me find someone." ”

I frowned. The three of us can be regarded as good at identifying antiquities and searching for relics, but we should tell the Public Security Bureau about finding people.

Kido Kana suddenly smiled: "Xu San, in fact, this person is also very important to you. Our purpose is the same. ”

"Oh?" I raised an eyebrow.

Kana Kido pointed to the leather notebook in my arms: "Didn't I tell you just now, didn't my grandfather have a similar notebook." The text in that book is encrypted.,Can't be cracked.。 I always suspected that my grandfather wrote down the experience of discovering the head of the Jade Buddha in that notebook. Deciphering this notebook, I can convince the people at the Institute of Northeast Asian Studies, and Xu Sang, you can also find out the truth about your family, can't you? ”

I secretly admired in my heart that this woman was so powerful, that she had seen through my intentions, and knew that I also had a strong interest in the "blank" from July to September 1931, and it was impossible to refuse her request. This golden hook she borrowed, I had to bite.

Don't look at our side has always been aggressive, in fact, from the moment we entered the room, she was in control of the overall situation, and every step was carefully designed by her. We knew there was a problem, but we had to bite the bullet.

I sighed resignedly and asked, "What does Kido have to do with the person you're looking for?" ”

Kana Kido said, "The last page of that notebook was crossed with a pencil. After this scratch is restored, it is three Chinese characters, which is called Fu Gui Pay. This is the only clue left from my grandfather's notebook. To decipher the code, I guess this is the only breakthrough. Then she took out her pen and wrote those three words on a piece of paper.

I noticed that Huang Yanyan's pupils shrank suddenly when he heard the name.

Otherwise, he said to me secretly: "I said, don't you know the password for that notebook in your hand?" These two books are obviously a set, and if you can unravel the Kido notes, it will be much easier. I said "um", but I didn't rush to nod, this is my bargaining chip, and I can't show it easily.

I said, "Kido-san, is there a way for you to show us the contents of Kido's notes?" It doesn't matter if it's not decrypted. Maybe it has some connection to the notebook I have in my hand, and it will be useful for the rest of the work—even if it's just a few words. ”

Kana Kido pondered for a moment, took out a Japanese magazine from the room, and turned one of the pages: "This is a special article I did for my grandfather a few years ago, and there is a photo of Kido's notes in it, I don't know if it fits Xu San's heart." ”

I took the magazine, ignored the dense Japanese, and went to look at the picture. The Kido notes in the photograph are placed in a glass vitrine, spread out evenly in the middle, and the camera angle is shot from above. It may be that the photographer is not very good, the glass is very reflective, and the notes can only see an outline, but the text inside is difficult to read. The description of the accompanying picture roughly means: This is a note used by Mr. Yuzo Kido during his expedition to China, and it is now a cultural relic of the Kido family, and it is safely kept in the private museum of Hagi City.

I borrowed a magnifying glass from Kana Kido and squinted for a long time before I could barely make out a line of text from this terrible photographer. Judging from the arrangement of this line of text, the Kido Note is basically the same as the encryption method of the Sudinglu, using a displacement cipher. But after a cursory mental arithmetic, I found the password I knew, and I couldn't decrypt the notebook.

This was the end of the first meeting on the head of the Emerald Buddha. I reached a preliminary agreement with Kido Kana, she would contact the Japanese side as soon as possible to send the notebook, and I would help her find out the person "Fu Guijiao" and decipher Kido's notes - as for the jade Buddha head, Kido Kana promised to continue to mediate with the people at the institute, and the effect depends on the effect of our work.

After leaving the hotel, Yao Ran secretly asked me: "You said that the notebook of the Kido family, could it be another "Su Ding Lu"?" If it really is, then what else can you find to pay expensively, won't you be able to decipher it? ”

I shook my head and said, "How can there be such a thing," and then explained to him what this displacement password was all about.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the displacement code uses Chinese telegram encoding. This code was coined in 1873 by the Frenchman Wighie Jie based on the Kangxi Dictionary, and uses four Arabic numerals to represent a Chinese Chinese character, which is never repeated. For example, 6113 represents Yuan, 0213 represents the world, and 0618 represents Kai 611302130618.

When encryption is required, the encryptor sets a key, which can be anything, but the meaning of the expression must be the addition or subtraction of numbers. For example, -200, subtracting this number with the encoding that needs to encrypt the Chinese character will result in a new string of numbers. Yuan (6113) Shi (0213) Kai (0618) will become 5913/0013/0418. These three groups of numbers also have corresponding Chinese characters, which are 诘, 倬, and 厄. These three words are shown to others, and they are the Book of Heaven, but if you know the key, you will know that it is Yuan Shikai after a simple calculation.

Although Su Dinglu and Kido Notes use the same cryptographic system, they do not use a set of keys. I know the password, I can't decipher this note. It seems that we still have to find this person called "Fu Guiyu" from the clue provided by Kana Kido.

Yao Otherwise, he scratched his head and muttered: "This time I did a good job, I didn't see the Buddha's head, but let people borrow a hook to fish." ”

"Hook fishing" is an antique term that refers to the fact that a scammer will borrow an antique that does not belong to him, hook an interested buyer, force him to keep throwing money, and finally the scammer suddenly throws the hook away, leaving the buyer with no money. Kido Kana first said that she would return the national treasure, and when she fished up the appetite of the Chinese side, she said that the jade Buddha head was not in her hands, and made additional requests. At this time, the Chinese side had a hard time riding a tiger and had to help her - this is a standard "borrowing a hook to fish" style of beginning.

As we were talking, Huang Yanyan came from behind. I chased after her and asked, "Miss Huang, when Kana Kido mentioned that name just now, I think you seem to know something, do you know who this Fu Gui Gui is?" ”

Huang Yanyan turned around and spit out two words: "I know." ”

Originally, what kind of personality she was had had nothing to do with me. But now that the three of us are in the same boat, she knows the clues, but she doesn't say anything, which is a bit excessive. I was a little annoyed: "The Jade Buddha head is not my business alone, what do you know, can you tell me?" ”

Huang Yanyan ignored me and walked down by himself. I walked up to her arm and grabbed her, but she flipped her wrist and a surge of force almost threw me off.

I saw that her attitude was really bad, so I had to take out the bronze pu-patterned bronze ring that Huang Kewu gave me yesterday from her pocket and shook it in front of her: "Your old man Huang is asking you to follow me, not me to follow you." ”

Huang Yanyan saw me show the bronze ring, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and his towering chest rose and fell a few times, obviously angry. She clenched her silver teeth, and finally spoke: "The detective who arrested Xu Yicheng at the beginning is named Fu Gui. ”

"Huh? So who is the payer? "I didn't even turn my head around all of a sudden. Huang Yanyan smiled contemptuously: "Surrender is the mark of the confiscated evidence." ”

It dawned on me. After Xu Yicheng was arrested, those notes would also be used as evidence, and it would be necessary to write on them who had collected them. This is the same reason that when the police station hands over the evidence, it has to sign and explain who keeps it and who transfers it. It's so simple, I didn't even expect it.

"And where is this man now?" I asked.

Huang Yanyan shook his head, walked straight away with his long legs, and was reluctant to stay for a second longer. Yao Ran silently followed from behind, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Dude, it's a bit too much." ”

"What's wrong?"

"That bronze ring has a history." Otherwise, the medicine changed her usual hippie smile, "It is said that she couldn't breathe when she was born, and she was about to suffocate to death." Her grandfather happened to come back from outside with a bronze ring and hang it around her neck. Strange to say, as soon as she put it on, she immediately breathed normally. Since then, she has always carried it close to her, treating it as if she were her life. Now that you have taken it away, you don't say anything, and you show it off to show off, and whoever you change will be angry. ”

I was stunned: "It's not what I have to do...... Didn't Old Man Huang give me this thing to sow discord? ”

Otherwise, he smiled: "How can it be to sow discord?" This is what Old Man Huang prepared for his grandson-in-law, now you understand why she is so angry, right? When I heard this, I smiled bitterly, didn't say anything, put aside the matter of Huang Yanyan, and began to think about Fu Gui's matter.

This notebook of Kido Yousan was confiscated by Fu Gui as evidence against Xu Yicheng, and he made a mark on the back, and then returned to Kido Yousan at some point. The twists and turns in this are worth exploring. Kana Kido was right to start with the line of Fu Gui, which is the only clue at present.

But what I'm worried about is that since this Fu Gui is a detective, he must have been between thirty and forty years old when Xu Yicheng was arrested in 1931, and the probability of surviving until now is not too high - after all, after all the wars and strife later, even if he can escape the War of Resistance and the War of Liberation, various movements after the founding of the People's Republic of China are enough to kill him. It seems that it is really not easy to find this person.

In any case, this is the only clue, whether it works or not, it can only go one way to the dark.

I was thinking about it when suddenly my whole body began to tremble violently, and I could barely stand as if I had been electrocuted. Yao Ran was shocked: "You, what's wrong with you?" That Japanese poisoned you? ”

"No, it's not......," I said through gritted teeth, my right hand trembling towards my waist, "big ...... Big brother rang loudly. ”

"Damn! Are you a scaremer? ”

This big brother is full of power, and when it sounds, it shakes my whole body like chaff. I hurriedly pressed the call button and put it to my ear. The call was made by Liu Ju, and as soon as I told him about the meeting, Liu Ju immediately made a judgment: "She is fishing with a hook." ”

"I know." I replied steadily, then smiled slyly, "Me too." ”

Bureau Liu: "Huh? What do you mean? ”

I replied lightly: "Although I didn't see the real thing, according to my judgment, eighty percent of that jade Buddha head is a fake." ”

Otherwise, he was stunned for a while, he didn't see that I was showing a little bit of a tone before. Liu Ju on the phone was also unexpectedly silent for a moment, and then asked, "Do you have any evidence?" ”

I looked left and right: "I'll talk about it when I get in the car." ”

This is the gate of the Beijing Hotel, and there are many people, so it is really not suitable to talk about these. Fang Zhen had already driven the car here, and I took the eldest brother and a cat's waist to get in, otherwise the medicine would follow in and pull up the curtains. It wasn't until the car started that I recounted today's conversation with Kana Kido to Liu Ju. Liu Ju said: "Xiao Xu, do you think that the jade Buddha head is a fake, and it is completely based on the judgment of the photo?" ”

"First of all, I didn't say that it was a fake, only that it was more likely." I said on the phone, "I can't observe the details of the Buddha statue or determine its texture based on the photos alone, so I can only make a preliminary judgment from the shape of the Buddha statue, and there are some doubts in it." ”

I said it with particular caution. In the field of appreciating the ancients, distinguishing between the true and the false is actually a very complicated knowledge. Sometimes there is a flaw in an antiquity, how to look at it and how to fake, but after a few years of new research results, I found that it is not a flaw, but the skill of the person who identified it is not enough.

Once upon a time, someone once spent a lot of money to collect half a Wei stele, but a connoisseur identified a circle, saying that your stele must be fake, why? Because a simplified Chinese character is mixed in the inscription, the word "chaos" in "離亂" is written as a simplified "chaos". The man was so angry that he smashed the monument and took the pieces to build a chicken coop. As a result, after a few years, the new Wei stele was unearthed, and there was also a "chaos" word on it, at this time everyone knew that the original word had been ancient, and it was omitted by the craftsmen when they carved the words, and it was also called the vulgar word, and the person regretted it after knowing it, but it was too late.

So I didn't rush to conclusions, only that there were doubts. Liu Ju heard my thoughts, smiled heartily, and said You can tell me about it first.

In fact, this identification is to put it bluntly, and there is nothing particularly magical about it. A particularly crucial factor in identifying a Buddha statue is its carving style. There are Buddha statues in all dynasties in China, but their carving techniques have their own characteristics, and there is a clear context to follow in the development history. What era will appear what ornamentation, this can't be wrong.

I said, "I've just looked at it a few times, and I think the face of this Buddha head is somewhat familiar. I remembered it later. This Jade Buddha is very similar to the Great Lushena Buddha statue in the Longmen Grottoes. ”

There is a big Lushena Buddha in Longmen Grottoes, the Buddha is 17.14 meters high, the head is 4 meters high, the ear is 1.90 meters long, the carving is extremely exquisite, it is the treasure of the town cave. According to historical records, this big Buddha was built by Wu Zetian who donated his own fat powder money, and his appearance was completely carved according to Wu Zetian's own appearance. The jade Buddha head in the photo is very similar to the appearance of the Great Lushena Buddha, and there is a majesty between the beautiful eyebrows of the two, as if it has the atmosphere of a queen.

"There's nothing strange about that." Liu Ju said on the phone, "This jade Buddha is enshrined in the Tianming Hall, and there is a high probability that it is also carved according to her face." ”

I immediately said, "It is precisely because these two Buddha statues are carved according to Wu Zetian's physiognomy that there will be problems." There are two strange things I found.

"The first point is that the hairstyle of the head of the Buddha is water-waved, which belongs to the Gandhara school style; And the hairstyle of this jade Buddha head is a snail hair bun, which is the work of the Matura school. These two schools of Buddha statues originated in ancient India and were popular in the Tang Dynasty, but they were distinct and rarely mixed with each other - the Great Lushena Buddha and this jade Buddha head are also depicting the image of Wu Zetian, and the style should be unified, but the two have taken different decorative routes, which are strange and interesting.

The second point is even more bizarre. I can also see a slight circle of fan-shaped convex folds on the bun of the jade Buddha's head, layered like flags. This decorative style is called 'Ding Yan', and the 'Ding Yan' style on the head of the Jade Buddha is very different from the usual, it bends at a large angle, like a layer of onion skin half peeled off, hanging down to the Buddha's forehead, diagonally on both sides, like two curtains slowly opened, very characteristic of early Tibetan Buddha statues. This is very interesting, in the time of Wu Zetian, Buddhism had just been introduced to Tibet, and it was still several decades before Guru Padmasambhava founded Tantra. In Wu Zetian's Ming Hall, it is also puzzling that the style of Tibetan Buddhism that appeared only after a few decades is enshrined. The Buddha statues in Tibet in the early Tang and middle Tang dynasties were all imported from Han China, India, Nepal and the Western Regions, and the styles were mixed, and then all destroyed when Langdarma destroyed the Buddha. Therefore, what kind of Buddha statues of that era were can only be speculated, and there are few physical objects. I also heard it from a living Buddha, and I only knew that there was such a thing.

"I have to reiterate, these are just doubts, and it's hard to draw conclusions about the authenticity."

After listening to my report, Liu Ju was silent for a while, and instructed: "Have you told Kana Kido about these questions?" ”

"It's not time yet. She also has a lot to hide from us. Now that she has thrown the golden hook over, let's plan to see who is being caught. ”

To put it bluntly, this is a battle of wits, and Kana Kido is unkind first, so don't blame me for being unrighteous later. She wanted to fool the past with the photo, but I pinched the hole card of the Buddha's head, and it was not certain who would have the last laugh.

Liu Ju gave instructions: "Relying on these details alone, it is indeed not enough to draw the following conclusions. Since Kana Kido asks you to help find Fu Gui, then you should go and find it as soon as possible. I asked Fang Zhen to provide you with some help from the public security system - but you remember that everything you are doing so far is a civil act, and the state does not know about it. You give Fang Zhen the phone. ”

I handed the phone to Fang Zhen in the front row, Fang Zhen answered it and hummed a few times, and then sent it back with a blank face. As soon as my ear touched the microphone, Liu Ju had already changed his tone to a more relaxed tone: "I heard that you ran away with yellow smoke?" ”

"Miss Huang has a big temper, I can't help it."

"You're so smart, why can't you coax a girl? You let her a little. If this thing is done well, it is equivalent to uniting the five veins. What did Premier Zhou say at the Bandung Conference? Seek common ground while reserving differences. ”

I saw that Liu Ju began to play an official tone, and after a few perfunctory words, he hung up the phone. This Liu Ju, every time I talk to him, I am very tired, and I have to guess what he is thinking. I put down the phone and saw that Yao Else was staring at me next to me, and I asked him what was wrong? Did you think of a new clue? Yao Otherwise, he hesitated for a moment, and said with a smile: "Are we good buddies now?" ”

"Sort of."

"Between buddies, there are difficulties and blessings to share, right?"

I was so happy that I threw Big Brother to him: "Anyway, this is a gift from your grandfather, you can take it and play with it." ”

Yao Ran was surprised: "How do you know that I want to borrow Big Brother?" I replied, "You've been looking at my waist since just now, and you've been looking at the time, so there must be some date." I guess it's a girl on a date, and you want to show off with your phone, right? ”

Otherwise, he was not ashamed at all, and patted me on the shoulder with a hippie smile: "You kid is that these eyes are too poisonous." ”

After Yao Ran and I returned to Si Confession Zhai, we found that the young man sent by the Shen family had put the shop in order. I praised him a few words and told him to go back. After taking stock, people's business methods are much stronger than mine, and three goods were produced in one morning, which is equivalent to my turnover for a week.

I made myself a cup of tea and drank it slowly, otherwise I took the big brother and made the phone porridge. He is also a descendant of the five veins, when he first came to the Four Regrets to provoke, he still had a few bones, and now as soon as he picked up the phone, he completely became a young man with a dead face and a girl, until the eldest brother ran out of power, he put it down.

The two of us chatted casually, and I learned at this time that the medicine family has reached this generation, and there are two brothers in total, and the medicine is not the same as his brother's medicine. The eldest brother is a public international student, studying for a doctorate in the United States, majoring in medicine, so medicine is otherwise regarded as a key training by the family. The pharmacist controls the porcelain in the five veins, which is a large category, and the knowledge involved is all-encompassing, although he is a top student of Peking University, there are still a lot of things to learn.

Between the words, I felt that the medicine was not particularly concerned about this business, and in his own words, it seemed that he was fulfilling his brother's responsibilities. Maybe there's something else going on between the two of them, but I didn't ask in detail.

After talking for a while, I was a little sleepy, so I went back to the house and squinted for a while, and threw the medicine in the front room to help me look at the counter. When I woke up, I found that this kid was chatting with Fang Zhen. Fang Zhen saw that I was getting up, and took out a document from his arms and handed it to me. Looking at the medicine, otherwise he had a stupid look, probably because he wanted to see it in advance but was refused. With Fang Zhen's style of doing things, he will definitely not let him see it first.

When it comes to the efficiency of the public security system, it is quite high. It was only three or four hours after I and Yao went back to the Four Confessions, and Fang Zhen got the information.

It turned out that this Fu Gui was a detective of the Beijing Police Department before liberation, and in addition to personally arresting Xu Yicheng, he also arrested several underground parties. But he has a lot of eyes and eyes, so he didn't make a ruthless move. Therefore, after the peaceful liberation of Beijing, although he was arrested, it was not a heinous crime, and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and has been in prison. When he is released from prison, he is catching up with "**". Fu Gui did not want to stay in Beijing any longer, so he went to Tianjin to live in seclusion. In the past two years, the antique business has been booming, and he has been working as a fiber puller in the antique market in Shenyang Road, Tianjin, to help people talk about business.

It's interesting that a pre-liberation detective retired and got into the antique business. The job of pulling fiber is not so easy to do, you have to be able to speak well, and you have to be good at observing words and feelings, which is quite suitable for an old policeman. However, this line of work must also have the eye of the ancients, neither can be deceived by the seller, nor can the buyer be pitted, which has to be tested more seriously.

Since I found his traces, without further ado, I immediately asked Fang Zhen to book two train tickets and rush to Tianjin overnight. Otherwise, he had a sad face, he easily asked his girlfriend out, and it seemed that he was going to miss the appointment again.

Entering the train station, Huang Yanyan was actually standing on the platform. Don't ask, it must have been Liu Ju or Fang Zhen who informed her. When she saw me approaching, she only glanced at me coldly, and didn't say much, but the corners of her eyes seemed to be a little red, and I don't know if she had cried. I took out the bronze ring: "I make a wish to be a principled man, never to force people to be difficult, and when this matter is resolved, the original thing will be returned." After saying that, I turned my face away, and followed the medicine or continued to be poor. As for Huang Yanyan's reaction, I don't know.

The train from Beijing to Tianjin is very fast, it takes more than two hours to arrive. The three of us got off the bus and went straight to Shenyang Road while it was still dark.

The antique market in Shenyang Road in Tianjin is an old qualification, as the saying goes: "There is Shenyang Road in Tianjin first, and then there is Panjiayuan in Beijing." "Don't look shabby and dilapidated in this place, there are really a lot of good things, such as the Qianlong dragon pattern Ruyi ear gourd bottle, Chenghua Jiuqiu bottle and the like, all of which were picked up from here. Today is the weekend, there are more people coming, and the liveliness is not inferior to Panjiayuan, and all I hear is either Beijing films or Weizuizi. People in Beijing's antiquity community will come here to hang out when they have nothing to do, and I have been here a few times before, and I know an acquaintance.

But this time, obviously I don't need to take action, whether it is the Huang family or the medicine family, the name of the other family is much louder than my four regrets. Yellow smoke and medicine took me through the bustling crowd and straight to a large antique shop. In this antique shop, there are a few jade pixiu, copper coins, golden toads and carp, as well as jujube wood carved birthday statues, half-truths and crane longevity pictures, not so much selling antiques, but selling handicrafts, all for those fresh pictures of Guangdong bosses, and have little to do with antiques.

The shopkeeper, an old man with gray hair, got up to greet the three of us when he saw us enter. Yao Ran grinned and said, "Uncle Zhang, I haven't looked at you for a long time." "He used to be a mouthful of Beijing films, but when he came here, he changed to serious Mandarin, a serious one, and he was not used to listening to it. The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, looked at it again, and said loudly in Tianjin: "Now (it turns out) is the second child of the medicine family, which gust of wind blew you here?" Yao Otherwise, he said, "I'm bringing a few friends to walk around." The shopkeeper looked over here, his gaze directly skipped me, and fell on Huang Yanyan: "Miss Huang, you are here too." Huang Yanyan raised his chin slightly, which was considered a return gift.

It seems that they have known each other for a long time, maybe this is an outer gate of the five veins.

The shopkeeper surnamed Zhang chatted with Yao Ran for a while, and Yao Else pretended to ask casually: "Uncle Zhang, you have a fiber puller here, named Fu Gui, have you heard of it?" ”

When the shopkeeper Zhang heard this, he was happy, and the middle finger of his right index finger quickly swung twice on the counter: "Why are you also here to see the excitement?" Yao Ran and I looked at each other suspiciously, listening to what he meant, there was something in the words. His gesture is an old attention to the ancient world in the past, swinging his fingers, as if he is walking on two legs, the old Jingjin means to see the street to kill the head, and then the head is not killed, so it is extended to watch the excitement - especially to see the excitement of other people's bad luck.

Could it be that this Fu Gui has had an accident recently?

Otherwise, he hurriedly asked him to talk about it. Shopkeeper Zhang looked at me, or said that this is my brother, it's okay, and patted me on the shoulder. Only then did Shopkeeper Zhang speak and tell us about Fu Gui.

In fact, it's just a matter of one sentence: Fu Gui folded in the goods yard this time.

What is a cargo yard? Antique players are divided into old and new, and those old players and old customers are naturally reluctant to mix with a group of mallets to compete for things. Therefore, the powerful big shops have their own internal trade fairs, if they get any serious things, keep it secret, and secretly tell some old customers to let them bid secretly, which is the so-called "selling goods and knowing the family". This kind of trade fair is called a freight yard.

And this expensive thing is really a bit big.

About a month ago, Fu Gui began to let off wind in Shenyang Road, saying that he had contacted a seller and planned to sell a Jun porcelain melon-shaped pen wash. Jun porcelain is so precious, as the saying goes, "even if there is a family of wealth, it is not as good as a piece of Jun porcelain", and now suddenly there is a complete Jun porcelain pen wash appeared, which has attracted the attention of many people. Under the guidance of Fu Gui, several big shops joined forces to build a freight yard, and called some old customers to bid on the spot, and the highest price was won.

When you buy something, you have to look at it first. Fu Gui received a large deposit, but kept deniing that the seller was not ready. He has always had a good reputation in the market, and the shop owners didn't think much about it. Until the day of the auction, he still did not show up. Several shop owners could not hold their breath and joined forces to go to his house to look for him, but the door was locked and the owner was missing. He has always lived alone, and he has never been married or has children, so he really doesn't know where to go.

The bosses were helpless and were about to turn around when they bumped into an old lady head-on. The old lady said that their family originally had an ancestral saucer, but Fu Gui inadvertently saw it, said it was a valuable thing, patted her chest and said that she could sell it at a good price. The old lady believed it and handed him the plate. There was no movement until now, and the old lady was in a hurry, so she wanted to come and ask.

A careful pair on both sides, the shop owners all understood. The dish in the old lady's mouth is the Jun porcelain pen wash. Dare to pay expensive is to eat at two ends, this one supported the goods yard, deceived a deposit, and the other end also deceived the old lady's things. He threaded the needle and thread back and forth, emptied the white wolf, turned around and washed the pen in a different place, and it was a lot of money.

This can offend people miserably. The antique industry is a place that attaches great importance to reputation, especially the people who pull the fiber, and they regard the reputation as their lives. Many people have already said that once they see this old man, they will clean him up fiercely. The little hooligans in Tianjin were wandering around the streets in the past few days, because someone said that if anyone found Fu Gui's hiding place, he would be rewarded with a dual-card tape recorder.

The three of us were speechless for a while. We have seen a lot of stories of this kind of profit, but there are really not many that look as ugly as Fu Gui.

Yao Ran asked: "In other words, you don't know where Fu Gui is now?" ”

Shopkeeper Zhang smiled: "If I want to know where it is, I will tell the neighborhood a long time ago." Now Fu Gui is the public enemy of the entire market, who dares to keep him. ”

I wanted to ask again, but the medicine or else secretly glanced at me and motioned me not to say anything. He talked a few more words with Shopkeeper Zhang, and then pulled me and Huang Yanyan out of the store. I asked him what the situation was, and Yao Ran shook his head and said: "In Tianjin, the antique industry also has its own circle, although there is traffic with the circle in Beijing, but they can't look down on each other in their bones, a bit like the relationship between Beijing and Tianjin." In the final analysis, Fu Gui is also the Tianjin circle's own business, the ugliness of the family is not publicized, let's ask again, people will definitely not be happy. ”

I frowned, and that's the trouble. Fu Gui's disaster is bigger than the sky, he must have long since disappeared, and he will never show his head easily. If you don't find Fu Gui, you won't be able to solve the mystery of Kido's three notes; If you don't solve that mystery, you won't be able to get back the support of the old men at the Institute of Northeast Asian Studies; Without their support, the Jade Buddha head would not have come back, and these things are interlocking.

Huang Yanyan said, "I'll inquire." I shook my head: "No, I looked at the old man carefully just now, and he was suspicious of us if he was on guard. We have to be cautious about this. ”

At this time, Yao Ran interjected: "Sensei asked, and if you ask, you will ask in vain." This yard is more advanced than the stalls outside, and there are many exquisiteness and taboos. Even the bidding is to reach into the sleeve and pull the hand, so that others will not see it. It's understandable that they don't want to publicize their ugliness when something happens. ”

"You can't ask, you can't check, it's a bit tricky......" My eyes flashed, and I was thinking desperately in my head.

Otherwise, he laughed, patted his chest and said, "Maybe you don't have to worry." The sky is falling, and there is a buddy who is on top of it. The expensive and greedy ink is a piece of porcelain, which is my family's business. Leave this matter to me. ”

Both me and Huang Yanyan looked puzzled, obviously not having much confidence in this frivolous guy. Otherwise, he patted his chest and sang a Peking Opera song: "Mountain people - they have their own tricks." ”

After saying that, he made a gesture and walked towards the market, and Huang Yanyan and I followed suspiciously. I saw that the medicine was not behind his back, taking square steps, and shopping in antique shops one by one on Shenyang Road. Everywhere he went, he swaggered in, didn't inventory the goods, didn't ask the bottom, talked to the boss, and intentionally or unintentionally revealed his origins. The shopkeepers knew the five veins and treated him with great respect; Those who don't know the five veins have also heard the name of the Ancient Appreciation Society, so they will naturally not slack off.

For two days in a row, Yao Ran almost turned around Shenyang Road and several small antique trading markets around it, and every shop stayed for a while. But we just listened to him talking to the people in the shop about the porcelain scriptures, and we didn't ask a word about Fu Gui's serious news. I don't know what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd.

On the morning of the third day, Huang Yanyan couldn't help it anymore and asked what the idea of the medicine was otherwise. Yao Otherwise, he smiled: "It won't work if you say it, buddy, this trick is not yet time to shake it out." After selling off, he leaned back on the sofa and ate the egg pancakes one by one. Tianjin's pancakes are fritters, which are better than Beijing's crackers.

Huang Yanyan asked again unwillingly: "You, are you sure?" ”

Otherwise, he waved his hand: "I'm sure I can find Fu Gui, but if I can catch him, I have to borrow cigarettes and use your capital." After speaking, he looked at her bumpy figure. A cold glint flashed in Huang Yanyan's eyes, and he hurriedly added: "I'm talking about your kung fu, it depends on where you want to go!" Huang Yanyan snorted coldly, picked up a boiled egg, and left the table.

I finished reading the newspaper and asked the medicine, "Shall we continue shopping today?" ”

"No need. Let's sit firmly on the Diaoyutai today and wait for someone to come to the door to bite. Buddies are the reincarnation of Zhang Liang and the resurrection of Zhuge , the reincarnation of Roosevelt in China, and it will be stabilized. Otherwise, he stretched lazily.

I saw him running the train with his mouth full, so I said "oh", picked up a copy of "Story Club" and flipped through it, turned a few pages, always felt impetuous, put down the book and wanted to go out to breathe. I slipped into the inner courtyard of the hotel, and suddenly I saw a figure flashing by, and there was the sound of shouting. I hurried over and thought something was wrong. When I looked around, I saw Huang Yanyan exercising in the yard.

She changed into a pink tracksuit, tied her hair into a ponytail, and boxed according to the routine. The girl fought very seriously, and her mouth made a squeaking sound with the fist, and after a while, her face was flushed, and there was a drop of crystal sweat on the tip of her nose. To be honest, her appearance is much more vivid than her usual cold and frosty, similar to Mu Guiying.

"Who!" Huang Yanyan suddenly retracted his move and glared at him. I had no choice but to come out, embarrassed and speechless: "Boxing? Huang Yanyan saw that it was me, and he didn't have a good expression, but he put his fist down. I saw that she didn't speak, so I had to be cheeky and say, "What kind of punch?" ”

"Xingyi."

"Good shape, good shape. Since I watched "Shaolin Temple", I have always wanted to find a chance to learn, but unfortunately the Xingyi boxing of Shaolin Temple is not passed on to women, hehe. ”

I deliberately told a joke, but Huang Yanyan didn't laugh, but gestured to let me pass. This reaction was somewhat unexpected, and I couldn't refuse, so I hesitated to walk into the venue. She pulled out my right arm, her left hand touched my shoulder, and the whole upper body leaned over, and there was a fragrant fragrance. Huang Yanyan saw that I was a little intoxicated, smiled charmingly, suddenly exerted force with both hands, and swept under my feet, I suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and I fell to the ground.

Huang Yanyan clapped his hands and left the yard triumphantly. I lay on the ground, grinning in pain, and I didn't know whether to be angry or not.

Before I could get up, Yao's head suddenly poked out from the corridor: "I said, stop playing, hurry up, someone has taken the bait!" ”

There are five people who came to visit the medicine, all between forty and sixty years old, I look a little familiar, they should all be the shopkeepers of several big shops in Shenyang Road, and the medicine has been around for the first two days. The five of them were carrying something in their hands, either ginseng or foreign wine, and then some small gadgets that were not valuable but were still rare.

Otherwise, he sat on the sofa and didn't get up, his attitude was very different from the previous two days, his demeanor was reserved, and when he saw them coming over with something, he raised his chin: "Leave it there." The five people put their things on the table and looked at each other, and one of them rubbed his hands and smiled: "The old man Yao hasn't been here for a while." ”

"My grandfather is not in good health, so I, as a grandson, run more for him. After receiving the wishes of the few, let's take the things back. ”

The person in charge choked back when he saw the medicine, and he was a little cramped, so he glanced at me. Yao Otherwise, he saw what he meant, and said that this brother is also from our medicine family, not an outsider, and they will be suspicious, and it is not easy to question, and the scene suddenly became cold. At this time, I suddenly remembered, what about Huang Yanyan? Where did she go? On this kind of occasion, it stands to reason that she should also be present.

The shopkeeper surnamed Sun, and the shopkeeper Sun said to Yao: "We heard that the medicine family has recruited a horse eye here?" I'll talk to you about it. "I can hear it clearly, horse eye is a black word in the old society, which originally referred to horse dealers who were good at Soma, and later extended to the antique world, especially to the means of identifying antiques. Shopkeeper Sun said that the pharmacist recruited Ma Yanzi, which was asking if he had invented a new identification method.

In the past, identification was all about touching, seeing, and tasting, but now a testing instrument is all done, so savvy antique players all pay close attention to technological progress and follow up at any time. The pharmacists are the authority on porcelain identification, and they have the resources of the university, and their new achievements are definitely the focus of attention coveted by all parties.

Otherwise, after listening to the words of the shopkeeper Sun, he said with a smile: "The porcelain thing is broad and profound, which horse eye can guarantee foolproof." ”

When the shopkeeper Sun saw the medicine, he didn't deny his question, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly praised a few words: "Science is prosperous." In the end, he is a top student of Peking University. Yao Ran pretended to be modest and said: "Alas, this is not the credit of one family, and the research institutes of several colleges and universities have also made a lot of efforts. ”

The five of them quickly nodded in agreement. Shopkeeper Sun praised a few more words, felt that the time had come, and leaned forward with his neck: "Those of us who operate small businesses are most afraid of fakes. After a single eye, half of the coffin book was lost. Xiaoyao, your family is the Taishan Beidou of this industry, but you can't ignore our life and death. ”

I listened to it, and I guessed what I was going to do. Two days ago, he deliberately dragged around, just to release a smokescreen bomb in Shenyang Road, saying that the pharmacist had a new identification method. When the shopkeepers who played with porcelain heard the news, they couldn't sit still, and rushed over to curry favor with him. But I don't understand a little bit, what does this matter have to do with Fu Gui.

Otherwise, the face was embarrassed: "Shopkeeper Sun, you are serious." The Antiquarian Society has good things and never hides them. It's just that this matter is very important, and it is an earthquake to say, and the impact is far-reaching. Grandpa didn't nod, and I didn't dare to talk nonsense. When the shopkeeper Sun heard this, the door was not closed, and he hurriedly added: "If you leak the bottom for us, we will never say it." After speaking, he pulled the sleeve of his coat and stretched out three fingers.

This is the so-called "bottom of the sleeve", as long as the medicine is not out of the sentence, the shopkeeper Sun is willing to pay 3,000 yuan. Yao Ran sighed a little embarrassed, and lowered his voice: "You must not say that I passed it on." The five shopkeepers nodded busily, and swore an oath to the Jade Emperor, Guanyin Bodhisattva and their ancestors. Otherwise, he narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "You know that earthworms walk mud patterns, right?" ”

The earthworm mud pattern refers to the unique surface glaze of Jun porcelain in the Song Dynasty, and the opening of the piece is like the traces of the earthworm walking through the grassland, which is an important means to identify Jun porcelain and is also the basic common sense. The group of shopkeepers nodded like elementary school students, and no one dared to show disdain.

Yao Otherwise, he said slowly: "Then do you know that this is no longer guaranteed?" ”

When the shopkeeper Sun heard this, his face was shocked. The earthworm mud pattern is the absolute feature of identifying Song Jun porcelain, and people have always believed that as long as there is this pattern, it must be Song Jun undoubtedly, and it is impossible to forge it. But now that medicine is not doing so, it is tantamount to telling mathematicians that one plus one is no longer equal to two. If this earthworm mud pattern can be imitated, then the market will be in chaos.

Shopkeeper Sun's voice began to tremble: "You tell me in detail." "I don't know the specific details, but the medicine family has discovered a few months ago that the Yuzhou kiln factory has been able to imitate this kind of pattern." Although it is not perfect, with the current technical means, it is not difficult to improve. ”

The shopkeepers were in an uproar. Yao Otherwise, he hurriedly relieved: "Fortunately, after analysis, this kind of imitation burning is only realized on some small devices, and large pieces cannot be burned for the time being." So my grandfather planned to take advantage of the fact that such fakes had not yet entered the market in large quantities, and to take precautions and find new identification methods. ”

Shopkeeper Sun hurriedly said: "Then his old man must find it?" Yao Ran shook his head and said: "It's so easy, now the technical team is still tackling key problems, but it's just the beginning of the eyebrows." ”

The five shopkeepers only hope for medicine, otherwise they can say more. Yao Otherwise, he refused to say: "That's all I know, and I have to wait for the paper of the technical team to come out." As soon as I say this, you just listen to it, don't take it too seriously, in case I misremember and mislead you, how much merit will be lost. ”

The last sentence was directly ignored by the five shopkeepers. When they saw the medicine, they would not say anything more, so they had to retire one after another. Waiting until they left one by one, Yao Else turned his face to me: "Your eyes are poisonous, do you see anything?" ”

I vaguely touched my eyebrows, and said lightly: "Fishing for gold ao." ”

"Hahahaha, I really can't hide anything from your pair of thieves."

After laughing, he sneered again: "I think that Fu Gui didn't intend to be greedy at all, but one of the five shopkeepers deliberately released a smoke screen, carried the goods himself, and deliberately planted Fu Gui." ”

I asked him, "How did you tell?" ”

"There are many flaws in that story, and there are many nets. That old lady really doesn't know the goods, Fu Guida can take it back at a low price, and then sell it openly, why bother to make such a twist and turn in the freight yard? His method of swallowing goods is too stupid, and if something is abnormal, he will be a demon. If you want blacks in this circle, the means can be filthy, and as soon as they pout their butts, buddies know what shit is. ”

I nodded, although I don't know about porcelain, but people's hearts are the same.

Otherwise, the medicine was even more proud, and continued: "The Jun porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty is so precious that few people have been able to collect it completely over the years. No matter who gets a piece of Jun porcelain, in addition to being happy, he must be very worried, especially bottomless, always thinking about whether it is true or not. So I first deliberately spread the news that the medicine family had a new horse eye, fished him here, and then deliberately used earthworms to walk the topic of mud patterns to arouse his suspicions, just to test who hid the goods privately. ”

I remembered, medicine or just said a sentence "imitation burning is only realized on some small devices, large pieces can not be burned for the time being", now it seems that this sentence is actually a hint, that Jun porcelain small brush wash, maybe it is one of the fakes on the market recently. When the real collector heard this, he would definitely not be able to sit still and wanted to go back in a hurry. I didn't expect this guy to have such a careful thought.

"Hehe, when I said that, one of them had a changed complexion, like a rabbit on fire, and turned around and left, with a ghost in his heart."

I looked around and said with a smile: "So, Huang Yanyan didn't appear, and you arranged it, and she is secretly following the shopkeeper now, right?" ”

Yao Ran nodded: "Those who dare to hide Jun porcelain and plant stolen money must be the shopkeeper of a big store." And this big shop that plays porcelain on Shenyang Road, after hearing the name of our pharmacist, no one dares not to come to greet him. ”

This is the confidence of the five veins. I look the other way for this kid. People from the five veins are really different. Although it is a bit of a borrowing family power, this method of using the ancient method to play with people's hearts is quite popular, and I really admire it.

Otherwise, he picked up a cup of tea and said steadily: "Let's wait next." ”

After more than an hour, my big brother who was resting on the coffee table made a loud noise, and the glass almost shattered. I quickly picked it up, and the voice of yellow smoke came from inside: "The target is locked, come quickly." Then she gave an address.

Yao Ran and I hurriedly left the hotel and went straight to the address given by Huang Yanyan. It's not in the city of Tianjin, but near Tanggu, and it's already a bit desolate along the way. We soon came to a small alley at the junction of urban and rural areas, where Huang Yanyan had been waiting for a long time at the public phone at the commissary at the entrance of the village.

"Sure?" Yao Otherwise, he asked. Huang Yanyan nodded and stretched out his hand: "It's the third one at the entrance of the village." ”

The three of us snuck into the village like Japanese devils and came to the door of the third house. The house is noticeably better than the other neighbors, with a marble façade, two stone lions on one left and one on the right, and an antenna pot on the roof.

Huang Yanyan pry in the past, and I don't know what technique to use, and the door opens in response.

Since the door has been broken in so violently, let's just follow through. We rushed into the courtyard and saw through the glass. The person in the room was none other than Shopkeeper Sun, the leader of the five shopkeepers just now. Shopkeeper Sun was holding a magnifying glass, concentrating on a delicate melon-shaped pen, and he didn't even know that we had entered the yard.

Otherwise, push the door into the house, the shopkeeper Sun heard the sound, and then raised his head, and when he saw that it was us, he was so frightened that he hurriedly washed and hid the pen, and his hand trembled, and he almost didn't fall to the ground. Yao Otherwise: "Yo, the Jun porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty, the shopkeeper Sun, is developed." Shopkeeper Sun didn't care to question why we broke into the door, got up and explained in a loud voice: "Ancestral, ancestral." ”

The medicine or I learned my tone and said, "I can't see it!" When my buddies came to Tianjin, I heard that there was a treasure on Shenyang Road, which was a Northern Song Dynasty Jun porcelain melon-shaped pen wash, presumably this one? Shopkeeper Sun's face changed greatly, but it was too late to hide, so he had to smile and say: "You must be wrong, isn't that thing hidden." ”

Yao Otherwise, he didn't seem to smile: "Yes, I also heard that it was hidden, and I heard that the whole Tianjin is looking for it all over the world." ”

Shopkeeper Sun hurriedly said: "You trespass on the house, I want to go to the police!" "He's out of the way, otherwise since the threat is made, he can only take risks. Yao Otherwise, he sat on the sofa opposite and said leisurely: "Don't worry about it." Your affairs on Shenyang Road, even if it turns upside down, buddy, I don't care. We passed by the treasure land to invite you to a personal scene. ”

"You say you say ......" Shopkeeper Sun took the opportunity of this questioning and secretly hid the pen wash behind him.

"Let's get straight to the point, we want to find Fu Gui. Can Shopkeeper Sun show us the way? ”

"What are you looking for him?" Shopkeeper Sun asked rhetorically.

As soon as I heard it, I looked at each other with the medicine, and knew that there was a door.

Yao Otherwise, he said, "You don't care about this." Shopkeeper Sun still wanted to struggle, but his face sank: "I said Lao Sun, come out to mix, righteousness is the most important." If you don't talk about righteousness, buddy won't talk about it either. ”

When Shopkeeper Sun heard this, he sat on the sofa in a daze, and muttered after a while: "Actually...... I didn't want to think about it at all, it was all expensive. ”

It turned out that more than a month ago, Fu Gui found the shopkeeper Sun with this Northern Song Dynasty Jun porcelain melon-shaped pen wash, saying that he was preparing a golden basin to wash his hands, and he would go abroad to live in seclusion if he wanted to get a sum of money. Shopkeeper Sun was shocked when he saw this treasure and wanted to take it down. But Fu Gui refused to let it, saying that if this thing was taken out, it would definitely cause a sensation and cause trouble, so he wanted to use other ways to get money. So Shopkeeper Sun and Fu Gui discussed a plan, Fu Gui came forward and spread the news that someone was going to make a Jun porcelain pen wash, and with his connections, soon the entire Shenyang Dao people knew. Shopkeeper Sun took the opportunity to instigate a few big shopkeepers, saying that since everyone wants this thing, it is better to open a freight yard for the sake of fairness, and several shopkeepers agreed.

According to the rules of the freight yard, participants have to pay a deposit. Although the deposit is not much, there are many people involved, and it is not a small amount together. According to the prior agreement, Fu Gui took the deposit, took a large sum of money from the shopkeeper Sun, and ran away. And the shopkeeper Sun got the pen wash, secretly hid it, and waited for the limelight to pass, and then quietly made a move.

This strategy sounds like neither side suffers, and the biggest risk is still Fu Gui's back, so Shopkeeper Sun has always been steadfast in his heart. But since Yao Ran said those few words about the earthworm walking mud pattern, the shopkeeper Sun began to worry about whether this would be a fake, and as soon as he came out of the hotel, he went straight home to study, and was caught.

"So if you ask me where Fu Gui is, I really don't know. He gave me the pen wash, took the money and ran away. ”

The clue seems to be broken here. Otherwise, he tapped his fingers on the sofa and fell into deep thought. At this time, I suddenly spoke: "According to what you say, the original owner of the pen wash, that is, the old lady who was deceived by Fu Gui, is also fake?" ”

Shopkeeper Sun said: "Yes, that's the nursery that Fu Gui found." ”

The antique market is buying and selling, paying attention to the source. A thing, whether it is the Sun family, the Zang family or the Tong family, the origin must be clear. Fu Gui found a widowed old lady to be the original owner, probably for this purpose, so that those shopkeepers could rest assured.

"Do you have her address?" I asked. The medicine is not the same as the yellow smoke, and the eyes light up at the same time. The outside world thinks that the old lady is a bitter master who has been deceived, and only the shopkeeper Sun knows that she is a nursery. So if Fu Gui hid in her house, no one would have thought of it.

Shopkeeper Sun hesitated for a moment and wrote me a note. The three of us picked up the note and got up to leave. Shopkeeper Sun pulled the medicine or wanted to ask for a reassuring word. If his deeds are really exposed, don't mess around in Shenyang Road in the future.

Yao Ran smiled and said: "You can afford me, I can afford you, I am known as the iron mouth of the capital and the gold is not exchanged, your business, not to mention torture, even the beauty is current, we are not ambiguous." Shopkeeper Sun heard what he said and hurriedly asked what it meant. Yao Otherwise, he pointed to the pen wash that was hidden behind him by Shopkeeper Sun: "Don't blame the buddy for being too talkative, when you look at this thing, you will know that it is not old." ”

Shopkeeper Sun's hand trembled: "Huh? ”

Yao Otherwise, he sighed, pointed to the dark fetal foot that was washed, and said: "Song Jun porcelain's foot pericarpus glaze, but Yuan Jun porcelain is bare-bottomed. This is Yuan porcelain, not Song porcelain. You're just greedy for money, and you've forgotten all this basic common sense. ”

We walked out of the house in silence. Behind us, there was a crisp cracking sound, followed by the sound of a man slumping down on the couch.

Leaving the house of the shopkeeper Sun, we followed the map and quickly returned to the city and came to the old lady's residence. The old lady's surname is Chen, and she lives in a family home of unknown units. Several boxy buildings stood with dark red bricks, and the windowsills and balconies of the houses were littered with garlic, insoles, old cardboard boxes, and other miscellaneous items. Between each building are rows of locust and willow trees.

Mrs. Chen lives in the second unit of Building 3, the lighting in the corridor is not too good, it is very narrow, and most of the space is occupied by bicycles, pickle jars, etc., and the three of us have a lot of effort to go up to the fourth floor.

The house directly opposite the staircase is where Mrs. Chen lives. At the door of her house was a wooden door with green paint; An inverted "Fu" word on the door was torn to only half of it, and the couplets on both sides were clearly visible, with the name of Baoguang Temple written in thick ink italics: "Outsiders, the law is not very lawful, and then the law is not lawful; The affairs of the world are still unfinished, so why not settle them. It can be seen that this couplet is by no means bought everywhere on the street, but written by someone himself, and both the pen and the content are quite Zen.

Otherwise, I stopped him, squinted my eyes, and said, "This family, I'm afraid they're having a treat." We have to be cautious. ”

Yao Else and Huang Yanyan asked me why, and I pointed to the iron pinch at the door: "There are garlic peels, celery stalks, and some flour on the pinch." The family must have been planning to make dumplings. ”

"So what?" Huang Yanyan asked rhetorically.

"A widowed old lady must make dumplings for a treat. You look at the freshness of the celery, it's just picked. There was also the sound of a cutting board in the door. Tianjin pays attention to eating dumplings fresh, so this guest is probably already in the house now. I said it meaningfully.

We discussed it briefly, and I stood on either side of the door with Yao Yanyan, and asked Huang Yanyan to knock on the door. Huang Yanyan knocked lightly a few times, and it took a long time in the room before there was the sound of footsteps, and an old voice came from the door: "Who?" ”

"Hello, I am from the neighborhood office, and the country is going to do a census of cities and towns recently, so I came to find out the situation."

The cold yellow smoke and smoke actually changed her warm and lively tone at this time, just like a female college student who came to the street office for an internship. I didn't expect her to have such acting skills, I really underestimated her.

Halfway through the door, an old lady poked her head out vigilantly, and was startled to see three people standing at the door, and was about to take the door back. Huang Yanyan smiled and grabbed the old lady's hand: "You have worked hard!" The old lady was suddenly grabbed by her hand and could not retract it. Otherwise, I and Yao couldn't miss the opportunity, and reached into the door with one foot, parted my legs, and the door was immediately opened.

"What are you doing? Burglary? The old lady shouted in horror and tried to block the doorway. But she couldn't stop the two strong men, and we easily broke in. Otherwise, he hurriedly shouted: "Police! Don't move! ”