In the square hall, there are tea tables and Taishi chairs on the left and right, and a wooden plaque engraved with gold characters "Strange People and Strange Scholars" is hung upright on the wall at the back. Under the wooden plaque sat an old man dressed in a dark button Tang costume, skinny as a chaixian wind bone, seeing the guests coming to the door, he put down the teacup in his hand with a smile, stood up and hugged his fists, and said: "The distinguished guests from afar are full of doors, there is a loss of welcome, rudeness, and the apprentice looks at the tea." ”

I immediately replied, "Yes, Master." This old man is my master and the fat man's master, a mentor like a father.

Boss He changed his arrogant attitude, hugged his fists, and smiled. The accumulation of flesh on his face covered his already small eyes. I saw him say respectfully: "My surname is He, everyone calls me He Fatty, you always call me like this." I have heard the name of Boss Fang for a long time, and I am fortunate to meet it. Being able to see the dignity today is really an extraordinary fairy wind and bones. It is really my honor to be in the same room with Mr. Fang in this elegant ancient mansion, and I feel like I have been reborn. Listening to his unobtrusive flattery, I almost didn't laugh out loud, this fat man's kung fu can be called a masterpiece, what he said is very serious, and people don't think it's too much to praise, it will really fool people. But then again, to have such a big ancient house in Beijing, how can it be an ordinary second-class character, the carved tables and chairs placed casually are all authentic Huanghuali, and the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, each of which is a rare and authentic handiwork that makes people smack, and it can't be blamed for the big contrast between the front and back.

The fat man whispered to me with an indignant face: "This dead fat man, what a powerful eye, just now he laughed at our small storefront, and now he praises it like going to heaven." The fat all over his body looks crooked, and I can't get angry when I look at him. ”

I whispered to the fat man, "The person who can be found with the post of the stranger is not an ordinary person." If you speak quietly, the old man will hear you, and you will not have good fruit to eat. The fat man walked behind the master with an unhappy face, he is like this, he has a big temper, and there are many things that he is not used to. I made a pot of tea for the guest, and Boss He took a sip and said with admiration: "Anhui's Qi Hong, the best superb, the price is expensive." This tea is valuable because it warms the belly and nourishes yang energy. Now that it is a cold winter, all things must be hidden, and it is better to use it to drive away the evil cold and cold winter, Fang Lao is really in good taste. ”

Master smiled and said to him, "Listening to Boss He's accent, it should be a compatriot in Hong Kong, right?" It's rare to know so much about the tea ceremony. I still have some aged Yunnan Pur black tea here, which is also a good tea that can be tasted in the harsh winter, and when I leave, I bring two tea cakes back, which is regarded as a meeting gift. ”

Boss He immediately stood up and arched his hand and said, "Thank you, Elder Fang, I'm really embarrassed to visit today empty-handed and bring things away." ”

The fat man whispered beside him, "You still know I'm sorry." ”

Boss He's fat body sat down awkwardly, and the master glared at the fat man sideways, so frightened that the fat man hurriedly turned his head and whistled a few times. I looked at him gloatingly, and he gave me a disdainful look.

The master stroked a lock of goatee on his chin and said, "Boss He came all the way to the small shop to sell the Ming Vessel (the burial goods of the tomb. The antique objects that have been passed down are generally based on the utensils passed down from generation to generation, and the truly rare and valuable antiquities are all made by the inverted bucket, which is commonly known as tomb robbery. There is still something difficult to solve, in addition to the antique business, the store also undertakes to solve the strange and difficult events. ”

"Before talking about things, I want to ask Elder Fang to look at something." After speaking, Boss He motioned to the young man standing next to him and opened the suitcase. The young man laid the suitcase flat on the table and gently turned the combination lock on the box. After a click, the lock was removed, the box was opened, and a rectangular Nanmu box was carefully taken out, and it was opened cautiously.

The room suddenly shone with golden light, dazzling eyes. Standing at the table, I reflexively covered my eyes with my hands.

Boss He asked his young men to open the suitcase, and the inside of the room suddenly shone with golden light. At this time, the fat man, who had been standing beside the master, stretched his neck and glanced at the table, and then pouted and said disdainfully: "Cut, it's just a golden statue, nothing to look at." ”

When the master heard the fat man's muttering, he glared at the fat man, and the fat man immediately stopped his voice and stood up in a proper manner, not daring to say anything more. The master carefully picked up the golden statue from the table with a stern face, and then looked at the golden statue over and over again, up and down, left and right. Finally, his eyes stayed at the bottom of the statue made of gold, and he studied it carefully for a long time. Then, like a breeze caressing the surface of the water, he touched the bottom of the golden statue with his fingers, and his face became a little different, and he turned sideways and said to the fat man beside him: "Fat baby, go to the inner house and bring the telescope in my black tool bag." ”

Hearing the master call himself "fat baby", the fat man was very unhappy and said, "Master, there are outsiders, don't keep calling me by my little name, okay." I don't know if it's because of the humiliation, the fat man stumbled more strictly, and after speaking, he was very unhappy and walked to the back. Seeing the fat man's fear of the master's cowardice, I almost didn't laugh out loud.

Just when I was immersed in schadenfreude, I suddenly heard Master call me "Sven", and I hurriedly replied "Yes".

Master said to me, "Come and see, can you see any way?" With that, Master placed the golden statue on the table.

I walked to the table, gently picked up the golden statue, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then said to him, "Master, this is the statue of the golden boy and the jade girl, there should be a pair." And the worship of such idols is for the sake of the reproduction and prosperity of future generations. However, this is only a golden boy and a jade girl, and the antique is a whole, which is a pity. However, I think the shape of this golden statue is strange, why is it so abstract, and it doesn't look like a modern work of art, is this a work of the Western Jin Dynasty, so there will be this kind of simple and non-specific shape. However, I don't know if I looked away, were there these two immortals at that time? ”

After listening to my statement, the master nodded approvingly, and then stroked his goatee and said to me with a smile: "Xiaowen, you read it right, this golden statue is indeed a golden boy, and it lacks a jade girl." At the beginning of the Heaven and Earth, when they were still in the Three Realms, these two were already ranked in the Immortal Class. During the Tang Dynasty, the casting and legend of the golden boy and jade goddess statue were the most popular, and this abstract form was the artistic characteristics of the Western Jin Dynasty. However, you still haven't seen the key doorway hidden in this. ”

As soon as Master's words fell, the fat man walked out from the back of the inner house and handed the one-eyed glasses in his hand to Master. The master put the golden statue down on the table, then pointed the telescope at the bottom of the statue for about half an hour, then raised his head and did not speak, just silently stared at the idol on the table and thought for a while, then held the glasses in his hand and looked at Boss He.

The anxious Boss He stood in front of the table and looked at it for a long time, and couldn't help but ask, "Elder Fang, do you see anything famous?" ”

The master didn't answer Boss He's question immediately, but asked first, "Boss He, can you tell me the origin of this thing first, and I'll think about it." After the master finished speaking, he sat firmly on the Taishi chair, picked up the tea with his hand, and waited for He Fatzi to speak.

Boss He blinked his small eyes that narrowed into a slit, and said with a smile: "Actually, this thing is easy to get." Secretary Xiao Chen next to me went to Shandong to collect an account for me, and people used it to pay off debts. My partner who resold seafood with me went bankrupt and opened a feng shui gym. In fact, he doesn't know how to put on hexagrams, he just plays tricks to fool the rich and eat. A few days ago, a few peasants came to his shop, saying that the village was haunted, and I don't know where they heard that he was profound, so they invited him to help collect ghosts and catch demons. When the deed was completed, there was another golden statue as a reward. As a result, when he saw the money, he agreed to the people in one bite, knowing that he didn't have that ability, but he heard that he went hard, and he hasn't come back yet! Hehe, I guess I'm dead, hahaha. After speaking, he leaned back and laughed so that the fat all over his body trembled, his stomach jumped up and down, and the chair was about to fall apart by him.

The fat man standing behind the master rolled his eyes angrily, and it was estimated that he was very dissatisfied with the schadenfreude of the fat man, but the master sat next to him, and he didn't dare to attack, so he could only clench his fists and glared at Boss He viciously, and he must be scolding in his heart: Why are you unhappy to smoke over. The fat man asked me to see Boss He's ugliness, I pretended not to see it, and stared at Secretary Chen behind Boss He. I always feel that this person feels weird, and he looks submissive to He Fatty, looking upright and serious, and if you look carefully at his eyes, you can detect a trace of cunning. Such a person who is inconsistent with the outside must harbor evil intentions, and may have some kind of ghost idea, if you do things with him, you have to be careful.

The master looked at He Fatty, who was about to laugh, stroked a pinch of the little goatee on his chin, and asked him with a smile, "Then Boss He is holding the name card of the museum, what is the reason for coming this time?" It doesn't just want to show me this golden statue, right? ”

Boss He stopped laughing, picked up the teacup next to him, and continued with a dry throat of laughter: "Yesterday, I had tea with the fifth master, and it happened that Xiao Chen came back from collecting the accounts, so I asked the fifth master to take a look at this thing and estimate the price." As a result, the fifth master held the golden statue and looked at it for a long time and said: This golden statue is not simple, but he can't see any fame, so he introduced me to Fang Lao, saying that Fang Lao is an expert in this area, and he will definitely be able to see the secret hidden in this golden statue. If this golden statue is a good thing, I plan to go to Shandong myself and bring back another golden statue of the Jade Maiden. ”

I laughed secretly in my heart, holding Master so high, I guess I just wanted to play Master's truth. I saw Master smile, then picked up the one-eyed glasses on the table and said, "This gadget was given to me by a foreign friend of mine. It is not an ordinary telescope, but a "visible monocular glasses", which are made of a special material and can see through a partition about three inches thick. However, depending on the material of the block, when you see the things inside, some of them are very clear, and some of them are very blurry. This thing is much more powerful than the see-through glasses that Lao Qian used to cheat gambling at the beginning, and this thin block can still be seen clearly lightly. ”

Before Master's words were finished, He Fatzi's eyes had already widened instantly, and he stood up and said, "What does Elder Fang mean?"