I looked at the "pattern" floating on the basin and was speechless in surprise.

I have never seen such an unusual scene: the ink turns into black gas when it meets water, and the black gas condenses into a landscape, and this "landscape painting" in front of me can be described as lifelike, in addition to the black color, the degree of realism is like a bird's-eye view of the majestic mountains and rivers. I was amazed.

Liu Da's crooked mouth was also as surprised as I was, he had obviously never seen such a scene, and his mouth made a slurping sound from time to time.

"I didn't expect the rumors of the gluttonous mound to be true!"

I couldn't help but sigh secretly. Then, I turned my head to look at Liu Da's crooked mouth and asked, "Shopkeeper Liu, can you see any clues in this picture?" ”

Liu Da crooked his mouth and didn't look at me, but then looked intently at the "mountains and rivers" formed by the surging black qi, and then said word by word: "To be honest, I have only heard of this method of unlocking the clues hidden in the mask, but I never thought that there would be such a scene. However, looking at the appearance of these black gases, it probably refers to one place. ”

"Place? Where? ”

Liu Da crooked his mouth and didn't rush to say the name of the place, but said to me: "Let's first look at the mountains around this river, low and steep, the mountains are one after another, there is no gap, the mountains are surrounded by water, the water is against the mountains, presumably this river is very long." Then we look at the river, it is very fast, and it is fierce, and we can notice that the water level in the middle section is upward, much higher than the rest of the place, this phenomenon is what we usually call an above-ground river. ”

Above-ground river? Listening to Liu Da's crooked mouth, I probably already have the answer in my heart.

Then, Liu Da crooked his mouth and pointed to the pattern: "Little brother, take a closer look at the shape of this river." ”

When I took a closer look, I couldn't see anything about the river, and the shape was rather blurry, but when I stepped back a few steps and stood far away, I could clearly see the outline of the whole river: like a dragon winding for a day, entrenched above this basin of clear water. Its trend, with twists and turns, one up and one horizontally, presents a "several" word.

"It's the Yellow River!"

I immediately blurted out subconsciously. Yes, the two features of the above-ground river and the zigzag clearly point to the mother river of the Chinese: the Yellow River.

Liu Da tilted his mouth and nodded.

But soon I realized that this old guy didn't want to reveal too much information to me, and although he called me a little brother, I could still tell that he was very unwilling to waste time with me here, and he seemed to be like he wanted to play mourning music and play suona to drive me away.

Sure enough, he started talking to me about the mask in the next second, and he wanted to make a deal with it immediately, and then let me take the money and get out.

"That, little brother!" Liu Da rubbed his hands unnaturally, and his face was full of the kind of smile that was piled up stiffly, "Little brother, I also told you about this, and I showed you the clues, should we talk about the price of this mask." ”

I actually don't dislike him doing this, after all, he is a businessman, everything is focused on interests, and I can raise the price again, thirty yuan or forty yuan or even fifty yuan, and take the money to live my own nourishing life, at least for three years, I can have no worries about food and clothing. But, although I'm stupid, but I'm not short-sighted, after all, I'm still in the grade now, if I marry a daughter-in-law, I have to wait three or four years, at that time how can I ensure that I still have savings to marry a daughter-in-law, the family's field was collected, just point to the handicraft given to me by my grandmother to eat a mouthful, now the pastime is short-lived, and then there will really be nothing to do, let alone marry a daughter-in-law, even supporting yourself is difficult!

I rolled my eyes and asked, "Shopkeeper Liu, after you took this mask, you are going to find this place, right?" ”

"That's it, otherwise I'll give this mask up as an ancestral raise, of course I'll go to this place and make a lot of money!"

"But, shopkeeper Liu, I see that your body seems to be a little unbearable, after all, you are old, it is not convenient to do this in person."

"I have some people under me, and I'll arrange for them to do this. I'm a businessman, and the risk of stealing a demon mound is too great, and a businessman won't gamble with his life. ”

That's when it was my turn to laugh. I looked left and right, smiled and said, "Then you, are you short of manpower?" ”

Liu Da crooked his mouth and was obviously stunned for a moment, he probably didn't expect that I would take the initiative to come up to him to "pick up work", the expression on his face was a little sluggish, and after a while, he said: "Little brother is really good at laughing, you just entered the Demon Tomb Thief, aren't you, hehe, let's continue to talk about the price of this mask, in fact, if you want me, the price can be raised a little......"

"Ten pieces." I directly interrupted his ramblings, stretched out the index fingers of both hands and drew a cross, "I only need ten pieces for this mask." ”

Liu Da crooked his mouth and was stunned again, and then immediately smiled happily, and said happily: "The little brother is really considerate, and it is different from those stunned young people who see money." ”

After saying that, he opened the drawer of the counter and took a stack of money from it for me, no more, no less, and the scattered ones were just adding up to ten dollars.

I took it, counted it, then took out five pieces and pressed them against the counter.

"What are you ......" Liu Da crooked his mouth and was a little puzzled by my move.

I said, "Shopkeeper Liu, that, I only sell you the mask for five yuan." ”

Liu Da crooked his mouth: "Then what about the remaining five of the ten pieces you want?" ”

"Divide the work of the Yellow River with me and collect five yuan from you."

Liu Da's crooked mouth twitched suddenly, and then he looked at me in surprise and said, "Little brother, this job is not something that can be taken by casual people!" ”

"I know, after all, I'm new to this industry, so I'm naturally stunned, but I have to learn to try, I think I can try it. Besides, I only charged you ten dollars for the back and forth, and the price you gave for this mask alone was twenty, so I only got you to compromise. ”

Liu Da crooked his mouth and hesitated, touching the beard on his chin and did not speak. He must have known that this deal was not a loss, so he spent ten yuan and picked up a good treasure, and there was still someone to pick it up. But I knew what he was hesitating, he was afraid that I would mess it up.

"If you don't want to, you'd better buy the mask for twenty." I looked at him and paused, "Shopkeeper Liu, it's not a bad thing that you have one more person under you." ”

Liu Da tilted his mouth and looked up at me, this was the first time he looked at me with suspicion, although the next fifteen years have happened, big and small, I am still glad that he agreed to my request at that time.

"Okay, little brother, I'll take you with me on this trip to the Yellow River, I'll arrange manpower later, and the next day, you'll wait for me at the lama temple above your head." Liu Da looked at me with a crooked mouth and asked, "Your name?" Brother. ”

I smiled and spared my head: "Xu Xuan." Xu's Xu, Xuanyuan's Xuan. ”