I went to the tea house of the fifth master with the fat man, but before I walked to the door, Huang Tianming, the manager of the head office of the fifth master, greeted him, and I asked him curiously, "Why didn't you stay in the antique store of the head office, why did you come to the tea house to guard the door?" ”

When Huang Tianming heard my question, his eyes quickly swept around, and he lowered his voice and said to me, "You two masters don't know yet, right?" Hurry in and you'll see everything inside. ”

Today is the weekend, normally the teahouse should be very lively, but at this time it should be crowded with tea, watching plays and listening to books, the teahouse did not hear the usual very lively applause, and I only noticed at this time that there is a wooden sign erected at the door of the teahouse, which reads "The store is closed for three days, please understand", the fat man glanced at the mysterious Huang Tianming, and then strode towards the teahouse, and I followed closely behind.

Several round tables on the first floor of the tea house were full of people, but the second floor was empty, but there was no half of a person. Today's stands are neither singing, nor talking about storytelling and cross talk, but erecting a microphone pole in the middle, and the fifth master and a short old man are standing on it to speak, obviously the fifth master has just finished speaking, and handed the microphone to the short old man standing beside him.

This old man is thin and short, his hair is black and shiny, and his voice is also strong and powerful, this person is the short old man who whispered to the fifth master in the antique store that day. I heard him say with a strong old Beijing flavor: "Colleagues, this incident is not accidental, but a targeted incident, and it is clearly an act of retaliation against our craftsmen in Beijing. It is very likely that it was done by those scheming southern barbarians. Because of jealousy of our abilities, the fat bucket we have swallowed over the years. He wants to eradicate us so that he can monopolize all the fat buckets in the world. Whatever the purpose, since they dared to let the horses come. We have to fight back with them to the end, and give them some color to see, so that they can know that the craftsmen in the north are the first in the world, and their status cannot be shaken. (Fat bucket: refers to a bucket with a lot of funerary goods.) The old man spoke so impassionedly that many of the people sitting below were boiling with blood and howling wildly.

The fat man and I walked to the back table. Sitting down quietly, I saw that Fifth Master Zha looked a little haggard, it seems that what happened this time. It hit him hard. However, I could not understand the content of this short old man's speech, and I was very disgusted by his unwarranted alarmism.

The fifth master and the thin old man seemed to have finished speaking. They walked off the podium together. At this time, a waiter began to serve the food, and the people sitting on the first floor began to talk while eating.

After the fifth master walked down the stand, he found me and the fat man, hurriedly walked over, and took us to one of the few closed private rooms on the second floor. As soon as he sat down, I couldn't wait to ask him, "Fifth brother." What's going on? ”

Fifth Master Zha had a haggard face, and his face lost its former brilliance. It became very gloomy, and the fat man asked anxiously, "Fifth brother, what happened?" It's not your character to grind and chirp, is there something unspeakable? ”

Fifth Master Zha glanced at me and the fat man, I saw a trace of shame in his eyes, it seems that a long time has passed, but now he can't face it calmly.

Zha Wuye said with a little hesitation: "Actually, it has already spread outside, because you two have just returned to Beijing, so you don't know, in fact, there is nothing to hide, that is, I planted a big heel this time, and I embarrassed the inverted craftsmen in the capital." After speaking, Fifth Master Zha sighed and began to tell what happened to him.

That day, I went to the antique shop of the fifth master to borrow people, and there happened to be two capable people who took foreigners to buy antiques, and the fifth master of the investigation had already seen that the person did not seem to be simple, but he just thought that the other party might be a liar, or a thousand people who stole the beams and changed the pillars, so he was somewhat wary in his heart. However, things are often unexpected. (Qian: This refers to thieves.) At that time, there was a kind of thief who was similar to Lao Qian in the major antique stores, taking advantage of people's inattention, exchanging fake things for real things, and stealing items. ），

The two middle-aged people who came with the foreigner claimed to be an antique broker, and said to the fifth master: "These three foreigners are businessmen who specialize in pouring porcelain abroad, so I hope that the fifth master will take out a few more real treasures for them to choose at one time. There were just a few porcelain vases in the hands of the fifth master, and he didn't make a move, so he took out four or five porcelain vases of different sizes from the secret room.

The fifth master put the porcelain vase on the table, and then said to the two intermediaries: "These porcelain vases are from different dynasties, you go through it first, and I will explain it to you in detail." "Usually when buying something in an antique store, the seller will ask the buyer to look at it first, check the authenticity, and then see which one of the buyer's photos before starting to explain, and finally negotiate the price. When negotiating the price, it is also an old-fashioned bargaining method, that is, using the sleeves of the shirt to put hands on the hand, and secretly using the fingers to compare the price and discuss, not like buying vegetables in the tea market, arguing on the table and bargaining.

When the foreigner looked at the porcelain vase on the table, the fifth master of Zha had a heart, and first asked the intermediary tentatively: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, the two intermediaries seem to be novices, looking a little angry, dare to ask what kind of boss did they make a living before?" ”

One of the slightly younger middle-aged men replied: "My brother and I used to open an antique shop, but the antique business was difficult to do, and it was not as profitable as an antique buying and selling intermediary, so we changed careers." ”

Seeing that the answer was reasonable, the fifth master stared at the two of them and then continued to ask tentatively: "Oh, it turns out that the two of them used to be peers, but I don't think the two of them are from the capital, but they speak without an accent, I don't know where the two of them made a fortune before?" ”

Zha Wuye inquired about the details of these two intermediaries like a casual chat, and another middle-aged man was just about to answer. As a result, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a tall foreigner holding a garlic bottle of Sanyang (Yang) Kaitai, and suddenly his hand slipped, and he almost didn't drop the porcelain bottle on the ground, which frightened the foreigner and let out an exclamation.

As a result, at this moment, the two antique intermediaries exchanged glances with each other, instantly pinched a porcelain mouth with the fingers of both hands, and ran out of the door with four porcelain vases in a blink of an eye. Seeing the figure flashing, Fifth Master immediately shouted, "Stop." Then they chased after them, but the two of them jumped up to the roof of the house next to them like swallows on the house, jumping in different directions and running away. The fifth master thought to himself: "It's not good, these two people have been prepared, and they are very good, it seems that they can only bite one tightly, and then recover the other lost porcelain vase in the future." The fifth master thought in the blink of an eye, and he also flew up to the room, running away in the westward direction and chasing him out.

Fifth Master Zha looked at the thief carrying two porcelain vases in front of him, constantly running and jumping like a flying eagle spreading its wings, seeing that the distance was getting farther and farther, he couldn't help but be a little anxious. It's a small thing to lose something, but if today's thing gets out, it's a big one. In broad daylight, in front of himself, he was robbed of an antique store, and where did he put his family's face. Thinking of this, Fifth Master Zha couldn't help but breathe fire in his eyes, and his feet sped up.

However, the robber in front of him swayed on the roof and disappeared all at once. Zha Wuye hurriedly stopped and looked around, but he didn't even see the shadow of the robbers again, Zha Wuye knew that there must be a hiding place for them nearby, but when he found someone to search again, I am afraid that the robbers would have already slipped away.

The fifth master had no choice but to jump and run on the roof anxiously, but he didn't find any clues, so he had to endure his anger, return to the antique store, and ask all the people to continue searching around here.

The clerk of the fifth master had already stopped a few foreigners, and he also found a translator, only to know that these three people were just ordinary foreign tourists, and they didn't know the two robbers. It was the two men who offered to be their guides for two days, and then took them for sightseeing and a visit to an antique shop selling porcelain in China. Hearing this, Fifth Master Zha was dumbfounded, such a simple means actually played himself, a figure who was in the capital, and his anger was about to rush to the sky.

Among the porcelain looted was a shady Ming ware (Ming ware is a code word spoken between inverted craftsmen, which means: antique objects obtained from tomb robbery. This matter is not easy to alarm the police, so the fifth master had no choice but to release the three foreigners. He gritted his teeth and commanded his men, "Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must find those two men for me." ”

As a result, the fifth master of Zha sent three capable subordinates, with dozens of people, to search the place where the robbers disappeared before, and found no trace of the two. What's even more infuriating is that the three right-hand men of the fifth master of Zha have disappeared one by one, and only the dozens of younger brothers who have no leader have returned.

Seeing that he had lost his wife and broken his soldiers, he was naturally so angry that he had to take someone out to find it himself, but he still found nothing, and the robbers disappeared without a trace as if they had evaporated from the world. The antique porcelain of the fifth master was robbed, and the people who were sent out were also missing, and the most important thing is that he can't call the police. He was angry and anxious, and his heart was so angry that he fell ill all of a sudden due to depression.

The fifth master fell ill, and the old man was wandering outside, not knowing where he was. Huang Tianming had no choice but to take the lead and instructed everyone not to leak the slightest hint of his words. As a result, how can there be such a thing in this world as a paper containing fire, not to mention what happened around a prominent person like Zha Wuye, not long after, the news that Zha Wuye's antique store was robbed spread far and wide, making the inverted craftsmen in the capital boil all of a sudden, and rumors arose.

The Chajia family in the capital is the banner of the inverted fighting craftsmen, and the flag fluttering in the wind has been splashed with dirty water, and many people have been impatient and restless.

A bloody storm is about to begin. (To be continued......)