Chapter Twenty-Three: Pan's Homestead

After a hasty meal, the master picked up the cloth bag containing the paintings. said: "Come back and clean up, let's go as soon as possible." ”

"Master, where are you going to sell it?" I'm a little worried.

"Pan Jiayuan."

"I heard my dad say that he was buying antiques, do you want to sell them as antiques?" I'm a little curious, because after all, there is something aura about this painting.

This is my first time riding the subway, which makes me a little scared and a little fresh. I've been scared if the connection will break and what if the tunnel I dug collapses?

"Useless child, why are you so cowardly, it's like this when you take a subway, aren't you scared to death when you take a plane?" As soon as I got out of the car, Master's voice yelled at me very loudly, causing people around me to look sideways, and I didn't seem to know him at the time.

"Go, go, hurry! Don't be embarrassed here. I don't know you! "Master saw that others were coming around again, so he hurriedly pulled me away.

As soon as I got out of the subway station, my head was dizzy, not because of taking the subway, but because I was dizzy by this prosperous scene.

"Master, where are we going later?" Such a big place, bustling crowds, and some floors that I have never seen before, crowded with people, I was a little cowardly, for fear that I would get lost. He held Master's hand tightly.

"Say you haven't seen the world, and you still don't admit it? What is this? Wangfujing is lively over there, if there is something wrong, I still want to take you to see it. This Beijing food is called a lot, no, this thing is done, I have to take you to taste it. "The old man said a lot of things, but he didn't say where to take me. I really can't help it.

But I'm also a gluttonous cat, as soon as I heard about the food, my eyes immediately flashed little stars, and I quickly asked, "What do you have to eat?" Is it tasty? ”

"More to go, snacks from old Beijing.... It's a lot, and it's delicious. Master answered me as he pulled me into the alley.

"It's coming soon." As we spoke, we bypassed some stalls selling antiques and then some sheds selling miscellaneous items. I think most of them are pots and pots, incense burners and so on. When I got around the corner, I whispered to Master, "Master, these people have made a fortune when they buy the things on the stall, right?" ”

"It's all fake, what a fortune, you kid, there's nothing real out there. Walk and take you to the real market. My master smiled disdainfully and continued to walk me around.

A dirt road is downhill and looks like a hole. Some weeds grew around, and Master took me down. There wasn't a single lamp, and there was a bit of rot mixed with the smell of urine. I almost threw up. Then there was a faint light from the entrance of the cave, and Master took me around for three minutes before the inside suddenly opened up. It turned out to be an underground trading market.

When I looked back, I found that the hole was not far behind me! Where did the crooked road fork in?

"Master? This ......"

"I've been studying for so long, why don't I have any knowledge?" Master looked at me like an idiot, and then pointed to the stones on the ground: "This market has some small formations set up by the people inside, and if I don't tell you how to walk, you really won't be able to walk in, unless it depends on luck, but the odds are really hard to say." ”

"Formation?" I nodded suddenly, what I've been learning recently is all on paper, and when I see the real thing, I'm a little overwhelmed.

"It's not a very magical formation, it's just a maze, just mess up the stones on the ground. It's just that the people here want to be quiet, and they are afraid that everyone will come, so they made a formation to block some flies. ”

After listening to Master's words, I was even more confused. Like to be quiet and keep flies out? It doesn't seem like there are any flies......

"Master, where are you going next?"

"Let's have a cup of tea."

"Oh, Master, why don't you come in a military vehicle? Do you have to take the subway? And so many times. ”

"Low-key you know? You must be more low-key when you are alone in the future! Master said very seriously. He usually speaks with this expression, that is, it is not to discuss, but to carry out, and I nodded, indicating that I remember, not publicity.

"Let's go." Master took me by the hand and walked inside, I knew that it was definitely not as simple as drinking tea, but I didn't ask, because I would naturally know when the time came.

This underground market is full of dim yellow lights, unlike the aluminum alloy doors and windows used in the storefronts on the ground, here are all wooden doors and windows, but strangely, all the doors are closed. And the windows and doors are black paper, not normal white window paper. From time to time, a few people passed by us, and they didn't speak to each other, as if they didn't see us. And there are no plaques on all these stores. In other words, when the living people come, they don't know which one sells what!

"Master, did you make an appointment at the teahouse? Do you go to a teahouse to sell it? I was very curious, and after walking for a while, I still couldn't hold it back, so I asked.

"You don't understand, this kind of painting, there are several kinds of people with the most poisonous eyes, either some masters of painting, or national experts, or the family of this kind of spiritual thing, this painting, only they can know the goods. This Panjiayuan underground market is exactly this kind of family heirloom, do you know? ”

And he didn't answer my question directly, but I got used to it, and nodded and continued to listen to him, for I shook my head, and there must have been a wave of contempt, although I really didn't understand.

"This Pan Jiayuan, on the surface, is like this, everyone knows that it is an antique trading market. But what is it secretly? It's an underground trading market, and even some shady things circulate through here, that is, there are all teahouses here, but the people in the teahouses are too low to know this painting. "Master pulled me around the corner and into another alley.

"What is the thing that can't see the light? Antiques, are you afraid that the government will find out? ”

"No, it's from the grave."

As soon as I heard Master's words, my whole body tightened, because the Tao, including the Tao Te Ching, taught me to have a sense of awe, as well as my own personal experience, and I actually had a sense of respect and avoidance for things like graves, but I couldn't imagine that there were still people who would rummage through other people's things to sell.

"Master, you don't care about such a person? Still trading here? "My view of right and wrong is very clear, I think Master is a good person, they are bad people, Master is very powerful, Master should go and arrest those people!

"I can't take care of it, tomb robbers are an industry, and I don't need to be forced to do it! Once they go, their lives are out of their hands, hey. And they themselves know that they have retribution. Well-off, the rights and wrongs of this world are not simple, just like there is spring and autumn, there is black and white, isn't the Taiji diagram a good explanation? Besides, our mountain range is not a human affair! "Master suddenly stopped when he said this, and he didn't say more.

In fact, I was only a teenager back then, and now that I think about it, he should have told me that the Heavenly Dao has its own reincarnation, and he couldn't interfere.