Chapter 2: Masks
When I returned to the store, I looked at my watch and it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. I looked at my clerk who was sitting at the table making tea: "Mengya, is there anything going on in the afternoon?" ”
Mengya is my clerk, with silkworm eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, tall figure, and a feeling of a cold beauty. We were high school classmates and had a good relationship, and when she graduated, she didn't have anywhere to go, so I hired her as my clerk.
Meng Ya stood up and walked to the incense burner she had just brought and looked at it: "You went, the little evil came just now, and said that Master Yun was looking for you for something." ”
I was stunned, fanned the fan and said, "Mengya, you can go back if you have nothing to do." It's not good for this old guy to look for me. I need to go to Fengshan Hall. ”
Meng Ya brushed her hair, walked to the power supply and closed the electric switch: "Let's go, I'll go with you." I nodded, just go. We locked the door and got on the elevator to go to Fengshan Hall.
The elevator quickly went up to the fourth floor and we got out of the elevator. Yun Ye's Fengshan Hall contracted the entire fourth floor, covering an area of five or six hundred square meters. When I walked to the door, I was greeted by a young man in his early twenties, dressed in white clothes, very delicate, with some male and female figures, and I smelled a strong smell of perfume before I walked in front of me.
"Brother Xiaomeng, Sister Mengya, I've been waiting for you for a long time, and Master Yun is waiting for you inside."
I fanned it with a fan: "Little evil, can you spray less perfume, I'm going to choke to death." ”
Xiao Xie said angrily: "Brother Xiaomeng really has no taste, he is becoming more and more like your master, not only women don't want you like you, but even men don't want it." ”
I spat on him, and Monya stood next to him and smiled. Xiao Xie took out the small perfume bottle in his pocket and sprayed it a few more times: "Let's get down to business, Master Yun and Professor Sun are waiting for you inside, come in." ”
I was stunned, Mr. Sun also came, this great immortal hasn't shown up for a few days. Xiao Xie led us into Fengshan Hall.
After entering the Fengshan Hall, the exhibition hall is full of large and small display stands. What the bronze ware of the last three dynasties, the gold and silver ware of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, and the jade of the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty all have samples on display. At the end of the door is an anti-theft gate, with different decorations on both sides of the door. The left side is inlaid with a totem of a dragon walking in the Tang Dynasty, and the right side is inlaid with a bronze head of Garuda. I saw that the little evil pressed Garuda's left eye, and Garuda immediately flashed a green light.
"Little evil, is Qiu Tong here?" Yun Ye's voice came out of Garuda's mouth.
"It's Master, can we go in?" The little evil said to Garuda.
"Come in."
Xiao Ye heard Yun Ye say let him in, and walked to the left in front of the Tang Dynasty Dragon Walking Totem, broke the head of the Walking Dragon, nodded the claws of the Walking Dragon, and heard the sound of rattling, and the gate suddenly raised. We walked in, and the room was covered with lattices on the left and right walls. On both sides of the wall, on the left and right, two Qing Dynasty huanghuali entwined branches and lotus patterns are placed as lanterns and coffee tables. On the coffee table, there are several pots of Qing Palace bionic bonsai. In the middle is a large antler chair with a polar bear fur on top of it, and a person sits on top of the chair. With a square face, small eyes and a big mouth, the corners of the eyes and mouth are drooping, and the face is very vicious. Dressed in a suit and leather shoes, he wears a rhinoceros horn bead around his neck and a paw hanging from the bead. He had a ring on his hand, and the ring was inlaid with something strange like a tooth. Playing with a toad of bronze and gold and silver in his hand, this vicious-looking person is Yun Ye. In front of Yun Ye, there is a large tea sea of golden silk, and to his right sits a person, this person is bald and wears glasses, has a mustache on his chin, and always has a kind smile on his face. Wearing a blue suit and white leather shoes, holding a string of Gabala bracelets in his hand, carrying a string of medicine beads around his neck, and holding a huge sheep-eyed dzi in the position of Tanzhong, this is Mr. Sun.
Some time ago, there was a wave of "bead fever" among the people. When we walked to the streets and alleys, we could see bead friends playing bracelets in the subway supermarket. Some play with it on the hand, and some wear it around the neck. There are also those who specialize in playing with these beads and accessories in the antique shop, and we call this kind of item "Tibetan ornaments", which means Tibetan religious ornaments. My "starry-eyed" bead in the previous article also belongs to Tibetan ornaments. Professor Sun is a well-known lecturer in the Department of Archaeology of Peking University, and he is well-known in the Tibetan ornament circle, and there are four people in the circle who are known as the "four sons" of Tibetan ornaments. Of course, Mr. Sun's nickname is not "Sun Tzu". Clearly seeing that Professor Sun and Yun Ye are ordinary antique dealers, in fact, Professor Sun and Yun Ye's true identities are unspeakable, they are the so-called heirs of the Golden Captain, that is, tomb robbers. Yun Ye is the leader of the tomb robbery industry, his status is comparable to the status of Changsha Jiumen, he is also a well-known iron chopsticks in the industry, and Mr. Sun is also a member of Yun Ye. Fengshantang seems to be a cultural relics store, but in fact, Fengshantang is a handicap located in Beijing, and this stronghold is responsible for watching, trading, and clamping lamas.
When Yun Ye saw us coming in, he quickly stood up and slapped me on the shoulder: "Where are you kid, I've been looking for you all afternoon." ”
Professor Sun also said, I shook my head: "What are you in a hurry, I didn't come today and leave tomorrow." ”
Yun Ye smiled, sat back on the antler chair, and hurriedly said, "Sit down, sit down, Xiao Ye went to close the door." ”
Xiao Xie nodded, walked to the dragon in the door, tapped the dragon's tongue, and listened to the rattle, the gate fell. Xiao Xie walked back and sat on the left side of Yun Ye. Seeing that we were all ready, Yun Ye raised his hand at Xiao Ye, who took out a glass bottle from the lattice of a few flowers, took out a piece of black-green wood from the bottle, lit it with a windproof fire, and placed it in the Warring States Boshan furnace in the middle of the sea of tea. Ten seconds later, I saw that the smoker, which was covered with green rust, slowly floated out sweet and fragrant smoke.
Meng Ya sniffed it and said: "Yun Ye is really generous, this Qi Nan Ying Song Green is worth tens of thousands, I heard that you can prolong your life by smelling it." ”
Yun Ye smiled and took out a small Jiudan fan the size of a toothpick, and fanned it: "Come, fan you there, let you live for two more years." ”
I smiled and said to Yun Ye, "Yun Ye, you are in such a hurry to call me just to let us taste this Yingge Green, right?" ”
Yun Ye also smiled and said to Xiao Xie: "Xiao Ye, bring Hongzi No. 3, something from the Inner Mongolia handicap." ”
Xiao Xie answered, walked to the wall covered with lattices, and turned on the bottom three wheels, and heard a snap, and the grid with Hong San written on it popped out. I saw that the little evil foot clicked on the ground, and his body jumped up more than three meters high, and jumped to the side of the No. 3 grid of Hongzi four or five meters above the ground in a weird, somewhat snake-like way, and took out the wooden box inside with one hand.
Yun Ye shook his head: "Xiao Xie, you still have to practice this method, the speed is too slow, so you may have to die in this fight." ”
Xiao Ye scratched his head after hearing this, sat back on the left side of Yun Ye, and said angrily: "I knew that I would learn some other skills from Professor Sun, and I am so tired before I have ever fought." ”
Professor Sun smiled: "You can't learn if you don't have enough yanghuo." ”
Meng Ya smiled when she heard this: "When you are a little manly, you can learn." ”
I smiled when I heard it, and teased: "It's okay, I will be smoked to death if I spray perfume and any zongzi after Dou Xiaoxie." ”
Xiao Xie glared at me with a pout, and everyone laughed. After laughing, Yun Ye took the wooden box just now, clicked the frame of the wooden box a few times with his hand, and saw that a gap opened in the middle of the box. Yun Ye handed the box to me and Mengya: "Look at this. ”
I opened the box with my hand, and there was a golden thing inside, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be a golden mask. The size is about 20 centimeters, and the face shape resembles what we now call a "cake face". The mask has carved eyes, ears and mouth, just like us normal people. Strangely, this mask has many teeth carved into the place of the mouth, like a werewolf in the West, grinning and hideous.
"Eh, why does this thing look so familiar?" Mengya said to us as she looked at the mask.
I fanned my fan, looked at the mask in front of me, wondered, and asked, "Professor Sun, the gold mask unearthed from the tomb of Princess Chen Guo of the Liaojin Research Institute in Inner Mongolia seems to be similar to this model." ”
Professor Sun nodded. I asked again, "Master Yun, where did this thing come from?" ”
Yun Ye lit a cigarette, sighed, and told us the origin of this mask.
It happened two days ago, when two guests came to Xi'an to buy an old kiln. Yun Ye chatted with the two guests until more than ten o'clock, and after the two guests left, it was already half past ten, Yun Ye and Xiao Ye locked the door and drove home. When Yun Ye arrived home, he saw that it was nearly half past eleven, and his family had already slept, so he went home and went to sleep directly. The next morning, Yun Ye slept until 9 o'clock, and when he got up, he found that there were nearly 100 missed calls in his hand, and when he opened it, he saw that they were all calling alone, "Han Jinming".
This Han Jinming is the head of the Inner Mongolia handicap under Yun Ye, and he has a lot of research on Liaojin culture. Yun Ye didn't know what was going on, so he immediately called back, and what was unbelievable was that what Yun Ye heard was "The number you dialed is empty". Yun Ye immediately called the little evil who was practicing downstairs and asked the little evil to call Han Jinming, still "The number you dialed is empty." Yun Ye felt that this matter was unusual, and immediately called the Inner Mongolia handicap.
After calling, the voice of an old man answered the phone: "Who?" ”
"Lao Li, me!"
The old man on the other side heard that it was Yun Ye, and hurriedly said, "Yun Ye, I was about to call you, and there was an accident in the handicap." ”
Yun Ye was stunned and asked, "What's the matter, Jin Ming?" ”
The old man said with a crying voice: "Han Ye is dead!" ”