Chapter 13: Meet the Heirloom
I asked Boss Zhou to explain carefully what exactly I was going to do, and Boss Zhou told me a story.
Fifteen years ago, Boss Zhou was thirty-one years old, his first wife Xu Dan was twenty-six years old, and Zhou Tongtong was only more than two years old. Boss Zhou's eyewear chain store is doing better and better day by day, and is preparing to develop into real estate, which has just emerged at that time, which is a good opportunity for investment.
The family of three is very harmonious, and Mrs. Zhou said that she would go to the temple on the mountain to worship the Buddha, one is to give her daughter health blessings, and the other is to pray for her husband's business. Of course Boss Zhou was willing, he handed over the child to the nanny, and the two of them went to Wangtan Temple in Qingling Mountain, more than 150 kilometers away, to burn incense, but this incense burning accident happened.
Because the day back and forth is not enough, they stayed in the temple for one night, that night lightning and thunder rained heavily, at four o'clock in the morning, a thunder woke up the dream of Boss Zhou, he touched the wife next to him disappeared, turned on the light, and found that the wife's clothes all disappeared with the wife. A note was left on the table, "Don't read it, don't read it." Boss Zhou braved the rain and turned the entire Wangtan Temple upside down, but he couldn't find it. The next day, the police came and searched to no avail, and the note was indeed Xu Dan's handwriting, so it was finally determined that he had run away on his own.
But Boss Zhou has been haunted, and when he left, a middle-aged monk in the temple said to him: "Lord Zhou's fate is destined to be lonely and unaccompanied, and you must not change your life lightly, otherwise there will be disaster." ”
A few days ago, he got an antique, last night after dealing with Wang Yuanyuan's matter, this silver kettle was faintly glowing, he felt that there was something spiritual, must be to give him some enlightenment, suddenly remembered the things of the year, let us go to the temple to find the monk who reminded him to pay his vows for him, by the way to ask more things.
As soon as I heard that there was nothing difficult, I just went on a tour and visited the temple, so I simply agreed, and then asked about the origin of the antique.
Boss Zhou recounted that a few days ago, Wang Yuanyuan had been losing his temper with him and sleeping in separate beds, but he actually changed his mind, but he didn't know. I've been in a bad mood, one day I drank all night in the bar, when I passed by the park in the morning, I saw a person squatting to sell silver pots, Boss Zhou played a lot of antiques, although I didn't know it, but it must be a good thing for many years, looking at how it was worth more than 100,000 things, he directly bought it back cheaply for 8,000 yuan, and the person who sold it looked like a drug addict, so the thing must not know where it was stolen, otherwise it couldn't be so cheap.
As soon as I heard it, I remembered Zhao Tiesuo, and followed the direction of Boss Zhou's finger, and saw a silver kettle placed on the bonsai rack in the corner of the wall, this kettle is not small, the size is as big as the big teapot in the old teahouse, and the shape of the whole kettle body is like a trophy that has eaten fat, with patterns carved on it, which seems to be pieces of snowflakes, and the place without snowflakes is hollowed out to reveal the blue glass inside, maybe sapphire, sapphire, and transparent anyway.
The pot is covered with a lid, and the lid has a cylindrical button on the top, and a round pimple on the top. One side of the body is a short and thick spout, and behind it is a handle that curves upwards in a large arc, and the top height of the lid, the handle is not like a normal pot, bent back to connect with the lower part of the body, but is bent halfway, and then stops at half the height of the body. The spout and handle are also the same as the body, with a hollow snow flake pattern, revealing the blue glass material inside.
The base is a small inverted semicircle that supports a huge body that always feels like it's going to fall, but it's very stable. It seems that the craftsman has completely calculated the weight balance of this pot.
I said to Boss Zhou, "This doesn't look like a Chinese thing? ”
Boss Zhou nodded and said, "Indeed, I found a few very powerful antique appraisal experts, all of whom said that the thing was an antiquity, but I had never seen it." It should have come from abroad. ”
I also said, "If this pot is a foreign thing, then it is probably not for tea, and foreign countries should have used this kind of pot to drink milk and goat's milk in ancient times." ”
Boss Zhou shook his head, walked over and picked up the pot, and said to me with the spout: "The spout is closed, and you can't drink anything." ”
When I saw it, the spout was tight, sealed by blue glass, and it was definitely not sealed in the back.
Boss Zhou said: "From the point of view of the process of making zuò, this pot should be polished out of blue ore as a whole, and the specific ore needs to be further identified, but from the spout to the body to the handle, all are hollow, and the craftsman who made the pot can already be called a legend." The silver plate carving on the top is not only for aesthetic decoration, but also reasonably balances the weight of the whole pot, which is specially wrapped outside. ”
Lu Shan's eyes also lit up at this time, and she seemed to like it very much, Lu Shan asked, "Since this pot is not for drinking water, what is it for?" ”
Boss Zhou gently rotated it with his hand, and the round head of the button on the lid of the pot turned out to be a cylindrical core inside the cylindrical button, and the top was connected to the round pimple. This core is connected to a small disc inside the kettle, and when you press it, the disc is at the bottom of the kettle, and through the blue part of the kettle, you can see the cylindrical core, standing in the center of the kettle, and when the core is pulled out, the small disc connected to it is also pulled up until the position of the spout. When the pimple and the button of the lid are screwed together, the lid can be taken out together with the core inside and the small disc at the bottom, which is actually oval and can be taken out as long as it is tilted.
The round pimple was unscrewed, and when the core was pulled out of the pot, the disc was just stuck in the spout, and no matter how you carried the pot, it would not fall to the ground, and the lid was tightly covered.
The final conclusion given by Boss Zhou is a juicer. He said that this pot could put the tomatoes in it, and that the disc would press out the juice, and nothing else could be done. Although far-fetched, it is true that no other features were found.
After studying the pot, I told Boss Zhou about Zhao Tiesuo and his wife Zheng Xi, saying that this was actually the heirloom of Zheng Xi's family, and Zhao Tiesuo almost died after drinking medicine for this matter, but I hid the part of the old man in white who saved people and didn't say anything.
Boss Zhou sighed again and again when he heard it.
I looked down with my eyes, Boss Zhou really didn't have any inconsistencies between what he was on the outside, and it seemed that this person was sometimes very kind-hearted. I straightened my glasses while the iron was hot, and said to Boss Zhou: "Since Boss Zhou's transaction has been completed, it is impossible to go back, but there is one thing I beg you for those two people, their lives are too difficult now, can you arrange for Zhao Tiesuo to have an errand, so that he can take care of his wife and have a little income, you see that you have made such a big bargain." ”
Boss Zhou agreed: "The eldest nephew will be called Uncle Zhou in the future, don't call Boss Zhou seem to be angry, you are so kind-hearted, you can speak for the two of them without relatives and no reason, I am no longer an uncle who is not conscious, don't you let your junior look flat?" Zhao Tiesuo, Zheng Xi, right? I'll call someone to find it right away. You can rest assured. ”
When I heard this, I felt like a big stone had fallen to the ground in my heart.
Lu Shan glanced at me with her eyes, probably because she thought I couldn't do this favor for two strangers.
Boss Zhou looked at the floor clock next to the wall and said, "I won't talk to you two, I also made an appointment with the leaders of the police station for dinner at noon, and went to identify the body in the afternoon." Let Tongtong accompany the two of you, just like your own home, you can play wherever you want in the whole yard, there is no place you can't go. I don't know the way and let Tongtong lead the way, I will eat here for lunch, I also caught a few big fish, and you will see if the cook does it in a while. With that, he walked outside.
Lu Shanjing and I saw Uncle Zhou go out, and then went through the side door to find Zhou Tongtong. Before I went out, I subconsciously looked back at the kettle, maybe it was the material, and I felt that the kettle was faintly glowing blue.
Lu Shan sighed: "I hope she won't be a beautiful woman without money in her next life." "I know what she said is Wang Yuanyuan, I think of this morning, I don't know if Wang Yuanyuan has a next life, I hope.