"Ten years," Chaozi seemed to have something in his throat, and after he gradually calmed down, he began to squat on the ground in annoyance and slapped his head with his hand and said, "I should have thought of it a long time ago, ten years, damn ten years!" ”

"Mountain toad," Zhuo Xiong said with some disappointment as he wandered around, "I thought it was it, the three-legged toad." ”

"A toad is a toad," I said, "we call this thing a yellow clam, a kind of toad that only inhabits this mountain, and the locals will catch it in March and peel it and eat it, saying that it can be poisoned and wet......"

Dashan also said: "Since Brother Wen Bin left, there are often toads here ...... screaming, and I always thought that Xiao San was here."

So now the question is, where did Cha Wenbin go? He Yichao and Zhuo Xiong didn't believe that he was really autopsied, otherwise the Seven Star Sword and the Great Seal of the Heavenly Master Dao Treasure that they took away together would not have been autopsy together. Looking at the white clouds floating in the sky, no one really would believe that Cha Wenbin had stepped on the seven-colored clouds to become an immortal, so they estimated that there was only one possibility, that is, he deceived everyone, or went to a place where no one knew him to continue cultivating.

In 2015, there was a lot of news on the Internet about modern people who were tired of city life and hid in the mountains to cultivate the Tao, and people looked for a small place of their own in the wilderness of the huge Zhongnan Mountain, built a wooden shed to grow some fruits and vegetables, and lived a life without caring about the world. This is also in the scope of our discussion, and by now, everyone agrees that he is not dead, and this news, at least for us, is a positive sign. Except for Leng Yiran, she still couldn't let go, and she didn't eat a grain of food at noon, just hid in her room and cried muffled.

"Is there a way to find the fat man, that is the brother named Shi Dangdang." He Yichao said to Hetu: "In terms of time, he knew Cha Wenbin much earlier than us, it is said that their relationship was also very deep back then, but then it was quiet, even Wenbin's sacrifice never appeared, and his other two friends did not appear at the funeral back then, and Dashan Shou has also never seen a stranger come to visit here, don't you think it's strange?" ”

This is with me thinking together, I said: "I have been sorting out for so long, of course, the story of your uncles must have a part of adding oil and vinegar, but in terms of emotion, he and those three are definitely not under you, I asked Hetu on the way here, and I heard that he is still somewhat famous on Guanzhong Road." ”

He Yichao nodded and said: "In the early years, when I was still in the antique business, I heard the Master talk about him, but most of the things he sold were some things that had already flowed through the market, mainly speculation, and rarely showed up. The vision is very unique, and there have been a few things in his hands whose prices have increased more than tenfold. ”

"The master is most disgusted by moving things underground." Hetu said: "So this master probably thinks of the master's past and will no longer break ground, but it is very difficult to find him, I have also inquired, he has not shown up in the past four or five years, but the one who sent money here back then I guess eighty percent is also him, some bills Aunt Leng may still have a collection there, we can find out where the money is remitted." ”

As he was talking, the woman in the room came over menacingly, took out a yellowed note and slapped it on the table, and said, "Take it, you'd better find him, and then tell him that since he has built a tomb for himself, there is a kind of accusation that he has deceived his relatives and friends!" ”

These bills lasted from the late 80s to the 21st century, and the amounts were large and small, basically maintaining a certain percentage of growth every year, and the amount was very expensive. Judging from this amount, combined with the era, probably only a character like a fat man can afford it, it is no exaggeration to say that if Cha Wenbin was still alive, he would have been almost the richest man in Anxian County at that time, but the money was either returned or never touched. The last remittance order was fixed in 2005, that is, ten years ago, and the post office may not have been able to keep the stub for so long in these years.

"It's been another 10 years," said Hetu, "and it stands to reason that this remittance order has been holding on for nearly twenty years, and why did it stop, either because something happened to the sender, or he knew that the money was no longer needed." My master has been living in Wulipu, and it is very simple to inquire about the situation with his ears and eyes. ”

"Check it out for me," Chaozi picked up those stubs and Zhuo Xiong and went out, what he was looking for was naturally the director Zhao back then.

Now I can't call him Director Zhao, Zhao Yuanxiao, who started from the traffic management department in the early years, has been rising all the way, and is in a high position. This guy didn't do much good things, and there were not many bad things, and he made a mistake in his life style and reported it, so he retired from the real power department, and is now a deputy in charge of the cultural supervision unit. The right is gone, but his connections are still there, Chaozi went to him to check from the top down, this Zhao Yuanxiao admired Cha Wenbin's five-body throw, and when he saw that Chaozi was visiting, he began to ask people around without saying a word, and there was really news about it.

The money was remitted from a post office in Weiyang District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, and the remitter was a person named Wu Zonglin, and through the relationship Zhao Yunxiao, he transferred the family information of Wu Zonglin, so this led to the later trip to Xi'an.

Because there were a lot of people, Hetu went to get a seven-seater off-road vehicle, Leng Yiran plus Chaozi and Zhuoxiong and Dashan, as well as himself and me, and a group of six people set off that night. During the period did not stop, everyone took turns driving, the whole journey was 1,300 kilometers, and we had eaten Xi'an steamed buns early the next morning.

According to the address provided, the corresponding house number was found in an old community, but after knocking on the door, I found that it had changed hands, and the original resident was not surnamed Wu, and now it was taken over by a pair of young people who had just had children. said that the original landlord had gone abroad, and he showed him this photo of Wu Zonglin and was sure that it was not him, at this time we basically understood that this Wu Zonglin was likely to be false information.

"How can it be fake?" Leng Yiran was puzzled: "Is the relationship Zhao Yunxiao looking for reliable?" ”

"Reliable," Chaozi said, "This is pulled out of the system, for people like them, it is not difficult to turn false information into true information, they are all hands and eyes." He said: "But since I'm here, I think it's better to visit the unmasked senior, this is his territory, and we can be regarded as people with fate." ”

"Xi'an has a population of several million." I said: "It's not easy to find someone who wants to hide, you have also checked Shi Dangdang's information, but there is no such person at all." ”

Chaozi just smiled at me, and he turned to everyone and said: "Let's go, take you around the ancient capital of the Seven Dynasties, and you are also touched by the imperial spirit, when I first worked, I heard the famous saying: The genius of the south and the general of the north, the loess of Guanzhong is buried in the emperor." ”

Chaozi went to visit the antique market, as the ancient capital, here has a pivotal position in the circulation of antiques in the country, everything is sold, and what things are bought. Some people spend ten yuan to buy it back, maybe it is the emperor's night pot, and some people spend millions of dollars to buy it but a high-quality imitation of modern works. As a former antique businessman, Chaozi naturally knows where there is this business in Xi'an, and the place he took us to is called the Eight Immortals Palace, which was originally a stall, and everyone gathers together on the fifteenth day of the first day of the new year to exchange the collections in their hands, and slowly and spontaneously formed a huge antique market. From ancient pottery to bronze, from coins to Tang Sancai, porcelain of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as calligraphy and painting and even old furniture, in short, you have what you want here, but ninety percent of them are fakes, mainly tourists and foreigners who come here to play, but occasionally there are some real guys born, which tests people's eyes, buying and selling are all voluntary, this is the rule of the antique industry, pay for the goods, you can't blame the boss for looking away.

It's a lively place, with a lot of people coming and going early in the morning, and there are many tourists dressed up and haggling with the farmers with their trouser legs rolled up, and the jar looks like it has just been dug out of the earth. For this kind of stall, we naturally understand it in our hearts, and no one will really look at it twice, but because there are many people dressed like merchants, many people still come forward to peddle.

Chaozi took us through the flow of people, and then there are two modern trading markets, here there are storefronts, and the things placed in them look very precious, and the bosses usually hold a purple clay pot in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other, carefully appreciating each of their collections, in short, it looks like that.

Came to a shop with boxwood dragon carvings at the door of the house, Chaozi stopped, I looked up, there was a plaque, it said "Treasure Pavilion", the words are very beautiful, gilded, from the scale of the point of view also belongs to the upper middle. Walking into the store, two beautiful girls greeted them head-on, and they said that a few bosses were good and wanted to see something.

Chaozi walked around the store, pointed to a willow-shaped porcelain vase behind glass, and said, "Show me this thing." ”

"Sir, you have a really good eye, this is a Song Dynasty brother kiln work, is the treasure of the store's town......" Anyway, it was a boast, and then he took out the thing with gloves in a decent manner, more careful than serving his son. Finally, it was put on a soft cloth for Chaozi to see, and Chaozi took a magnifying glass to look left and right, and then asked, "How much?" ”

"If the gentleman sincerely asks for it, three million ......"

"Three million." Chaozi nodded, and then picked up the bottle and was about to look at it again, when suddenly he only heard him ouch, and then his hand slipped, and the bottle suddenly fell to the ground and fell to pieces......