When I returned to Beijing, I went our separate ways with Shirley Yang, who was responsible for finding equipment to scan and strip the head of Xianwang; The work of analyzing the sixteen jade rings naturally fell on my head. This seems simple, but in fact there is no place to start. Within a day or two, there should be results on Shirley Young's side, and I didn't have a direction to work hard, so I had to sit and wait all day for news from her.

On this day, I was sitting in the courtyard to cool off, and the big gold tooth came to me in a hurry, and when he entered the door and saw that I was alone, he asked me

Where is the fat man. I said he had polished his shoes early this morning, probably for a big dance. This time should not be right, why do you have time to come, Panjiayuan's business is not done?

The big golden tooth said, "Master Hu, don't you want to discuss this matter with you?" As soon as the market opened early this morning, more than 100 thunderbolts and more than 200 industrialists and industrialists came, all of whom were in uniform anyway, and they copied everything they saw, and the brothers had to withdraw to the mountains to fight guerrillas. ”

I wondered, "What's going on?" Aren't you all in the joints up and down? ”

The big golden tooth said: "Sensei, there are more and more foreigners who come to buy things these days, Hu Ye, you also know that how many genuine goods are there for those of us?" There is a more influential international friend, let our buddy be a foreign village. I gave him a broken jar, saying that it was the palace that pickled the royal pickles for Qianlong, and after I went back, they identified it, and it was not like that, Yan zhòng hurt this famous international friend's friendly feelings towards us, and it turned out to be a big trouble, isn't this ......"

I said to the big golden tooth: "We are operating there without a license, it is really not a long-term solution, it is better to find a good place to set up a store, so as not to be afraid all day long." ”

Da Jinya said: "The main reason for the Panjiayuan jungler stall is that it has a large amount of information and provides a big platform for buyers and sellers. No one points out that they can make money in the market, it's all under the water, and the undercurrent is surging. ”

I asked again how the blind man with the big gold tooth was, and how he hadn't seen him since he came back. The big golden tooth said that the blind man is not an ordinary cow now, claiming to be the reincarnation of Chen Luan's ancestor, and he has dialed **1 to pick up and drop off when he goes out, specifically for those Hong Kong customers to tell fortunes and touch the bones, and point out the maze or something. Those people still fucking believe it.

I was drinking tea with Da Jinya and talking about the mountains, and before I knew it, it was almost noon, and I was discussing where to go to eat, when suddenly there was a knock on the door. I thought to myself that maybe Shirley Young had returned, and when I opened the courtyard door, it was a stranger. The person who came was oily and powdery, and his tone was extremely polite, calling himself Adong, saying that he was looking for Mr. Wang Kaixuan.

I said, aren't you just looking for that fat man? I'm not at home, come back in the evening. said that the door was about to close, but Ah Dong said that it was okay to find Mr. Hu Bayi, I didn't know what the person who came meant, so I invited him into the hospital first.

Ah Dong said that he was commissioned by his boss to ask us to come and talk about the antique business. I haven't been in business lately, but as soon as the big gold tooth heard that the customer came to the door, he asked me to come over and talk. As soon as I saw that the big gold tooth happened to have a few things with him, and he had nothing to do anyway, I promised Ah Dong to go with him and meet his boss.

Ah Dong drove the car and drove us over. I can't help but wonder in my heart, how did this man named Adong, his boss know our address? However, when asked who Adong's boss was, he didn't say anything. I thought to myself, fuck, it must be the fat guy out there, but it's okay to talk about it, maybe I can tie some money.

Adong drove us to a secluded courtyard house. I looked at this yard with the big gold tooth, and suddenly became envious, this house is really exquisite, and when I walked into the house, I saw many antique toys displayed on the sandalwood shelves. Big Gold Tooth and I are also people who know the goods, and when we look around, we know that the owner of this place is not trivial, and the house is full of real things.

Ah Dong invited us to sit down, and he went to the back to ask his boss to come out. As soon as I saw Ah Dong go out, I said to the big golden tooth: "Master Jin, have you seen it?" Enamel color hibiscus pheasant jade pot spring bottle, gold purple sand square pot, doucai coat cup, these are all treasures, just take it out and throw it to Panjiayuan, you can shock a large piece. Compared to the things in this house, the few things we brought with us really don't have the face to take out. ”

The big gold tooth nodded and said: "Yes, what kind of boss is this, seeing that this style is not an ordinary person, why do you want to do business with us?" People will definitely look down on this little thing. ”

I suddenly found something very special in the house, and hurriedly said to the big gold tooth: "Do you think there is something wrong with the porcelain in the middle?" ”

The big gold tooth got up from his chair and walked over to the porcelain to take a closer look. It was a fat porcelain cat, with two cat's eyes wide open, blazing and bright, but it didn't look like it was from a famous kiln, and the workmanship was mediocre, which didn't seem to fit the style of the house. The most conspicuous thing about the porcelain cat is its whiskers, for some reason, this porcelain cat has thirteen whiskers, and it can be plugged and pulled, and the most delicate parts of the workmanship are concentrated here. The big golden tooth suddenly thought of something, turned his head and said to me: "This is the kind offered by the corpse bearer's house, the thirteen-bearded porcelain cat." ”

In the mountainous areas of Xiangxi and other places, there have been two kinds of livelihood since ancient times. Among them, the "carrying corpse" is similar to the act of robbing the tomb, and the person carrying the corpse will offer such a porcelain cat in his home. Before each deed, you have to burn a stick of incense, kowtow a few heads to the thirteen whiskers porcelain cat, if during this period, the porcelain cat's whiskers fall or break, it is the night must not go out, which is a sign of disaster. It is said that there are thousands of trials and ten thousand spirits, and it is spread among the people. Now no one has done the business of carrying the corpse for a long time, and we have seen this kind of thing once in the Panjiayuan antique market.

In the Beijing-Tianjin area, from the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are also people from the outer nine lines who worship porcelain cats. Those thieves all have porcelain cats in their homes, but they are all nine-bearded, and the styles are different. The "Thirteen Whiskers" are only available in the homes of people carrying corpses in Xiangxi, and where this custom comes from is no longer verifiable today.

As soon as I saw this "Thirteen Whiskers", I immediately thought: "The master here, probably his ancestor is a giant thief in Xiangxi, who specializes in carrying corpses and turning over kilns, otherwise how could he be so generous." Then there was a sound of footsteps, and I hurriedly glanced at the big gold tooth, and sat still as if I had seen nothing.

The boss who invited us to talk about business was a Hong Kong man, in his early fifties, short and fat, who called himself Uncle Ming.

I racked my brains and didn't remember what business I had done with him before, but later Uncle Ming said it, and I realized that the business between me and the fat man's first single moth body double slash was done with a young woman surnamed Han who opened an antique shop in Tianjin, and she was Uncle Ming's mistress.

I don't understand why he found me again, maybe there is something wrong here, it is better to cause less trouble, I plan to let him see a few things in the big gold tooth belt, and then the road is half in the sky. So he said to Uncle Ming: "Old man, I don't know why you lifted us up so much, and you took us all the way over." We really don't have any good stuff on hand lately, so we just brought a few random things, and if you like it, you can keep it for fun. After saying that, let the big gold tooth take out a few gadgets and let him catch his eyes.

Seeing that he was a Hong Kong farmer, the big gold tooth knew that there was an opportunity to make money, so he immediately smiled all over his face, took out a porcelain bottle from his bag, and held it carefully with both hands: "You look at it, this is the real thing of the Longquan kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty." ”

When Uncle Ming heard this, he was also taken aback: "Is there a mistake, it's a national treasure-level thing, and you just casually put it in this bag?" ”

The Great Golden Tooth knows that the more he is in front of the great connoisseurs, the more he has to say big things, but if you say it as if it were true, if you tell him that he is blind, he will believe your words and begin to doubt his own eyesight. The big golden tooth said to Uncle Ming, "You don't know yet, do you? You see that I have a gold tooth, our ancestor is the Golden Vulture of the Four Wolves Lord of the Great Jin Kingdom, and I am the eighteenth generation grandson of his old man. This is all captured by our ancestors from the hands of Emperor Daojun of the Northern Song Dynasty, and how many years have I pressed the bottom of the box in my hometown in Heilongjiang, doesn't this make me tumble out......"

Uncle Ming was not fooled, ignored the big gold tooth, and told me: "Brother Hu, do you have any real good things?" If you don't lack money, I can exchange things with you, and you can take the antiques in my house (Cantonese, which). ”

I thought to myself that he had something to say in his words, and it was a good idea to invite us to come. However, the things I brought back from Yunnan are of great use, even if they give me a mountain of gold, I can't do it. Since this is the case, don't hide it, so I made it clear, and told Uncle Sù Ming directly, our best thing is this Longquan kiln, although it is imitation, but it can still be passable, if you want it, you want it, if you don't want it, we will take it back, and when the time comes, you will regret it, we can't care about it.

Uncle Ming smiled, picked up a photo album on the coffee table, and said that he invited me to look at his collection in Hong Kong. I flipped through a few pages, and the more I looked at it, the more strange it became, but I already knew in my heart that this Uncle Ming from Hong Kong wanted to buy a bronze mirror that could calm corpses. It must be that the fat man is talking outside, and the news somehow reached Uncle Ming's ears, he thought that the ancient mirror was still in our hands, but he didn't know that it was actually gone before it was in my hands.

I asked Uncle Ming, "What are you doing with so many ancient dried corpses?" ”