Chapter 2 Clues

Yang Kexing said that Feng Laonong is definitely not that kind of person. While the three of us were standing at their door and talking, the owner came out and told us that the two guests of the house had gone out at seven o'clock in the morning. Before leaving, he arranged for him to see us get up and let us go to the house of the jade seller in the village to have a look. If only we were to wait here at lunchtime.

Hearing the shopkeeper say this, we knew in our hearts that these two people might have gone to explore the road in advance. I don't doubt it. I just remembered that the young man named Cao Xu asked us to go to his store yesterday, so I put all my luggage on the bed, locked the door and walked out of the yard. Out the door. After going out and walking a short distance to the right, I saw a shop with a plaque of "Dushan Yuzhuang". Sticking out his head, Cao Xu and the little girl who ordered the menu yesterday were introducing jade to the guests inside.

When we came to the store, we saw that there were several large counters in a room of forty or fifty square meters, and the cabinets were full of jade ornaments, jade bracelets, jade ornaments, jade rings and other items. The walls are nailed into rows of display bars, which are covered with various jade trinkets tied with red threads. In the innermost part of the room, there are large jade objects such as jade boats and jade trees. There were so many of them that I was almost dazzled.

At this time, the little girl saw us enter the store and hurriedly greeted us. Let's like what we like as much as we look and take as we like. The price will definitely give us a discount. We promised a few words, and let her be busy greeting other guests first, and we would pick and choose first.

After watching for a long time, Wu Feifei and Yang Kexing each picked out a few pieces of jade. I don't like it. Gradually, there were fewer guests in the house. The little girl came running to talk to us again. Yang Kexing and the two of them handed the jade they had picked to the little girl and asked her to settle the bill and count the money. The little girl looked at it and said, "Why did a few guests choose such a little?" "

Yang Kexing said: "The boss hasn't come back yet, we can't be the master." Just pick a few things to."

"Then I'll be the master and give it to you. The big bosses will have to visit our shop more often in the future," replied the little girl, handing them back the jade. Then he asked me, "Why didn't you pick it?" "

I look at the little girl, with clear eyebrows, pointed chin, and Bai Zhe's skin, which is very pure and lovely. When I was looking at it, Yang Kexing coughed twice, and I felt my gaffe just now. Hurriedly replied to the little girl: "I didn't see the jade I liked, the color and composition of these jade are too mixed."

When the little girl heard this, she smiled and said to me, "The customer has good eyesight, and the store is indeed not a good product. I don't know what kind of jade you like? "

I remembered the color of the jade pipe that Father Yang said, the kind of jade that was green and clear. He said to the little girl, "I want a piece of jade that is green and clear, with no cracks in it and no bubbles." There should be no pockmarked holes in the jade. "

The little girl listened to my request, pondered for a moment and said, "I really don't have what the guests want, Dushan does not produce this kind of clear jade." There won't be a piece of such a thing in the whole of Nanyang. After finishing speaking, he thought for a while and said, "This kind of jade seems to be called chalcedony." I've only heard from my family about it, but I've never seen it. "

When I heard this, I couldn't help but feel a little chilly. According to the little girl, this kind of jade turned out to be chalcedony, but Dushan does not produce such things, and there is no such thing in the whole of Nanyang. Then didn't we come to Nanyang by mistake? In this case, Feng Lao Nong and the three of them will definitely be finished. After thinking about this, I looked at Yang Kexing. He seemed to understand the little girl's words, and his face became very ugly.

The little girl was silent when she saw the three of us. I thought to myself that we might be a big buyer, and we couldn't see the right jade so we were unhappy. He hurriedly said: "Although I have never seen this kind of jade, I have never heard of anyone in the family. But my dad had mentioned it before. He said that he had seen this kind of jade when he was a child, and that a group of guests had brought it to us when they came to us. I don't know where they got it from. "

At this time, the young man named Cao Xu came over and interjected: "I know about this, my father told me." "

I hurriedly took out a Butterfly Spring cigarette for Cao Xu. Cao Xu was also not polite, and after taking it and pointing it, he said, "That was when my dad was young." At that time, my family was just a small inn. One day, a group of more than a dozen guests came to my house with large bags of things. The group of guests asked my grandfather about chalcedony. My grandfather said that this kind of thing was only heard to be found at the bottom or middle of the jade ore. Although Dushan has been mined for hundreds of years, it is only the surface of the mountain. Whether there is this kind of jade or not, no one can say. And that kind of thing is said to be very good jade, if people grind and eat it, it can delay aging. "

"That kind of thing was only found in the palace in the past, and it was still very rare. The emperor's official son is big, and the whole world is his. But his jade seal is still made of ordinary jade. This kind of jade is really hard to come by. Later, the group stayed here for a day during the day and then left at night. After more than ten days, he suddenly came back. But there were only five or six people who came back, and one of them had a piece of Kodama for my grandfather to see. And that piece of jade is turquoise and clear, just like the water in the river, very beautiful. "

"My grandfather had never seen what kind of jade it was, but the guests said they had bought it from elsewhere, and that it was chalcedony. My grandfather took it and saw that it was a piece of wool. It was shaped like wax oil dripping from wax, and it was the size of a cigarette case. So I asked them to process it. This group of people saw that my father's craftsmanship in the village was the best, so they asked my father to process it. It took my grandfather two whole days to help them do it. After that, the group of guests left with the jade and never came again. Tell them who they are, and where they got the chalcedony. "

Hearing what Cao Xu said, I secretly suspected in my heart. In terms of time, the time when this group of people came to Dushan seems to coincide with the time when they asked Yang Kexing's grandfather for help. If this is the case, then the piece of chalcedony that the gang took must not have been brought from elsewhere, but must have been mined from Dushan.

Thinking of this, some hope welled up in my heart.

At this time, another guest came in, and we made an excuse to leave. When you come to the village, you look up and look around.

I saw that all around were towering trees, and the mountains not far away were even more lush, all green trees were growing impermeable to the wind, and occasionally people would walk down with the quarried stone embryos. The mountain is not very high, and it seems to be at most two miles away.

I don't know where Feng Lao Nong and this Wanbao went. If you're going to explore the road, I don't know if you'll be able to find the way down to the mountains. If we can find the way, how can we avoid the eyes and ears of so many jade miners on this mountain? There are people processing jade in their village day and night, and it is simply a city that never sleeps. And all this digging is money, they will definitely set up wires and lights on the mountain, and mine day and night.

Before you know it, the sun has risen into the sky. Yang Kexing looked at his watch, it was almost twelve o'clock. According to the agreement of Feng Laonong and them when they left, they should be coming back soon. The three of us went back to the courtyard, and sat down in a quiet house on the left, waiting for them to come back.