Chapter 8 A Candlestick with a Beginning
Tianguo'er opened her mouth, not daring to interject again.
Of course, Yan Zhuo would not recruit the two of them.
looked at Tianguo'er and said, "I don't know when I woke up from sleep, I felt heavy, and I wanted to go out and shout Tianguo'er, but then I didn't know what happened." ”
Tianguo'er couldn't hold it back, but she didn't dare to say it if Mrs. Bai didn't ask her, so she hurriedly said, "It's a chivalrous man!" Madam! It was a brilliant black-clothed knight who saved Erlang and his wife!
"That person came and went without a trace, he woke me up and said that Erlang and Ershao's grandmother were poisoned, let me call someone, he took Erlang by himself and disappeared in a blink of an eye! It's like the ghost-hunting master on the roof! ”
Sweet fruit was so excited that her saliva squirted out.
Mrs. Bai wiped the spit on her face with a handkerchief, and said suspiciously: "Poisoned? Who did this to you? ”
Yan Zhuo watched Madame Bai's every move carefully.
"Poisoned?" Bai Yi was also stunned.
Yan Zhuo suddenly realized, and continued: "Yes! I was in a daze and heard someone talking about the black vine poison, and said that fortunately the poisoning was still shallow, but, mother! Erlang and I slept in the house in a good manner, how could we be poisoned? ”
When Madame Bai saw that she both said this, her face sank terribly.
In the past few days of the Bai family, disasters have occurred one after another, and after dealing with Dalang, they came to Erlang again, right?
"I'll go and have a look in your house." Madame White stood up.
"I'll go too!" Yan Zhuo and Bai Yi spoke in unison.
"Are you two alright?" Madame Bai looked at the two of them.
Bai Yi has a background in martial arts, so he got better faster, and got up from the couch as soon as he turned over.
"It should be fine." His face was a little uneasy, "If it's really poisoning, I'm afraid it's not an accident." ”
Yan Zhuo also thought so, she cherished the life she had just picked up.
The Bai family doesn't seem to be at peace, they don't have any money, they don't talk about it, and there are many disasters.
As Bai Yi said, most of it is not an accident.
If you don't hurry up and pull out this black hand, it's hard to say whether she can survive this half month safely.
What's more, the deed is still hidden under the bookcase, and Mrs. Bai can't find it.
"Let's go together." Mrs. Bai took Mrs. Xu and walked out.
The cave room is still the same as it was last night.
Only the candles burned out, the warm light faded, and the red bedding and simple mahogany furniture no longer looked rich in the daylight.
Tianguo'er picked up the jewelry that fell on the ground, Mrs. Bai took Mrs. Xu to start the investigation along the floor cover, and Bai Yi went to the warehouse to check the tung oil and candles used last night.
Yan Zhuo pretended to look around, came to the bookcase first, looked down and flipped through, the contract was gone!
If the contract was obtained by Madame Bai's people, there would have been a storm, so the person who took the contract would ......
She knew about who it was.
Suddenly, there was a strange sound behind him, and the sound of the mattress turning, Yan Zhuo looked sideways slightly, and saw that the brocade he had hidden in the silk handkerchief was turned over, and his heart was relieved.
Seeing the bloody silk handkerchief, Madame Bai should have reassured their young couple.
His attention turned to the various lights and candles in the room.
Since the source of poison is smoke, it is inseparable from lamps and candles.
There are a lot of lights in the room.
There are two lanterns raised in front of the floor cover, which are ordinary Hangjuan gauze lanterns.
In front of the bookcase are two bright bronze bird lights, which are no different.
There are also a dozen candlesticks.
Yan Zhuo has seen it in turn, and there are three kinds of candlesticks.
One is an ordinary three-headed candlestick, a boy lotus seat, and the seat body is carved with patterns such as flower branches and moire.
One is the single-seat copper platform of double happiness ingots common at wedding banquets.
There is also a kind of double-headed candlestick that places the two largest candles.
Yan Zhuo's gaze fell on the double-headed candlestick, and jumped slightly.
The Yan family is not a family of eunuchs, but a family of jade.
She grew up with her grandfather in jade devices and seed piles, and she knew the texture and advantages of various jade species at a glance.
After the Meng family suffered, she struggled to survive alone with her little brother and Meng Guan's younger sister.
He started by reselling jade goods, and then came into contact with gold and stone antiques, and later worked in a pawnshop for seven years with the help of his brother-in-law.
She learns things quickly, and she never forgets them, and she has countless antique treasures and calligraphy and paintings, and she has already practiced a pair of fiery eyes.
At this moment, when I look at the candlestick, I can see that something is wrong.
The deer turning back is a common pattern in the south of the Wuguo River.
Because according to legend, when Taizu, the founder of Wu State, was still a general at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he was injured and fell behind, and was chased into the mountains by the pursuers.
He stumbled into the depths of the mountain by mistake, and saw a green deer drinking water on the edge of the dry pool, and thought that the deer was extremely thirsty, so he stopped and gave the deer what little water was left in the water bladder.
As soon as he finished feeding the deer, he saw the pursuers rushing behind him.
Taizu fled with the green deer, but the green deer ran a few steps and looked back at the pursuers behind him, as if he was waiting for those people to catch up.
Taizu Zhengqi, seeing those pursuers rushing to the edge of the dry pool!
Suddenly, a large stream of spring water suddenly emerged from the bottom of the dry pool, surging like a waterfall and a tide, quickly engulfing the pursuers on the edge of the pool.
Taizu then realized that he was rescued by a sacred deer, and immediately knelt on the ground to thank him, but the deer still ran away in five steps and turned around in the mountains, as if saying goodbye to Taizu, and disappeared into the mountains and forests.
After the establishment of the Wu Kingdom, Lu Huitou also became Taizu's favorite decorative pattern, which spread all over the south of the Yangtze River.
It's nothing.
But the pair of deer feet are lifelike water waves, the deer body is held up in the air majestic turn, above the antlers is the phoenix line dragon pattern with low head and eyes, the posture is humble, as if the dragon and phoenix are here to worship the green deer, which is rare!
And the carved pattern is extremely complex, and only a wave of water uses five layers of overlapping carving techniques.
That's enough to make this candlestick that isn't made of real gold worth a lot!
Judging from the other things equipped by the Bai family, how can they be willing to spend a lot of money to buy a luxury candlestick that is only used once?
Mrs. Xu was also checking the burned wax in the candlestick, and opened it with a spoon of incense to see it.
After seeing it, he shook his head silently at Mrs. Bai beside him.
Yan Zhuo walked to the deer turning back to the candlestick.
"This candlestick is so beautiful, it's worth a lot of money!"
Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Xu had been checking the candle oil, and when they heard Yan Zhuo talk about the candlestick, they turned their attention.
Madame Bai has naturally seen many decorations, and she was also a little surprised to see that this candlestick was exquisitely carved and the deer phoenix dragon was lifelike.
She picked up the candlestick with her hand, and took it, and said "Huh".
"Why is it so lightweight?"
A copper candlestick of this size should be heavy.
"Mother! The tung oil and candles in the treasury are not ......" Just when Bai Yi entered the house, he saw the candlestick in Mrs. Bai's hand at a glance, and froze in place, "...... Issue. ”
Several people in the room saw his strange appearance.
"How?" Madame Bai looked at Bai Yi and asked, "This is the candlestick that lit the wedding candle for you last night." ”
"This ......" Bai Yi walked up to Madame Bai, took the candlestick and looked down from above, and said in disbelief: "This is something from the palace!" It's just a replica, not an original! ”
Madame Bai suddenly looked up at him, and the two stared at each other for a moment.
Yan Zhuo was suddenly and unexpected, no wonder the dragon and phoenix dared to use humility, but this Bai Erlang could recognize the items in the palace at a glance?
Could it be that the senior member above the third grade is a person he has a very close relationship with, could it be that this is really the Bai family she knows???