This murder has made the valley even more foggy, but in any case, our immediate priority is to take out the blind man without the slightest delay. Although there is no conclusive evidence yet, we vaguely feel that these bloody murder cases should be related to the blind man.

The day after the "round-up plan" was formulated, we were ready to start taking the bottle of corpse worms and seriously searching for traces of the blind man in the major gold and silver jewelry shops, pawn shops, or antique shops. Of course, in order to ensure that our consciousness is not spied by the blind man, we still go to the pavilion in the lake every day and stay for an hour or two.

In this small county, there are only a few gold and silver jewelry shops, pawn shops, and antique shops, and there are certainly not as many customers every day as in the big cities, which is obviously beneficial to our actions.

But we are not just "waiting for the rabbit", which would be too passive.

My cousin came up with a trick: we were going to go to gold and silver jewelry shops, pawn shops, and antique shops one by one, and falsely claim to collect the silver ingots of the Kangxi era at a high price, which were the silver ingots used by the blind man to exchange money. In this way, those who receive this kind of silver ingot will definitely take out this kind of silver ingot, and at that time, we can quickly grasp the relevant whereabouts of the tall blind man.

My cousin's trick is really amazing, and Jiang is still old and spicy.

The cousin also analyzed that the most likely place for a blind person to go should be an antique shop. Because it is only in the antique shop that the value of this silver ingot in terms of cultural relics can be reflected, and the price will be the highest; If you go to a jewelry store and sell it for silver, the price will be very limited.

Early in the morning, Xiao Lei and I accompanied my cousin to the largest antique shop in our county. Unexpectedly, from this antique shop, things took a series of unexpected turns.

Because of my cousin's work, the owner of this antique shop actually knew my cousin, saying that he had heard his cousin's class before, which was a class that taught cultural relics and the like, and as long as his cousin held a lecture or something, the owner of the antique shop would try his best to participate, he said that he admired his cousin's knowledge very much, but he never had the opportunity to meet, he once called a friend and wanted to invite his cousin out for dinner, but it may be because his cousin was busy at the time, so he couldn't make an appointment.

Now that you've met fans, it's easy to do the next thing.

The shopkeeper greeted us warmly, let the three of us into the back room, and made a good pot of tea. The decoration in this room is very exquisite, and there are all kinds of antiques and cultural toys on the antique shelves. The cultural atmosphere in the room is a bit out of step with the temperament of the shopkeeper - the shopkeeper is about fifty years old, and he looks fat-headed, big-eared, shrewd, and not a little urbane.

After chatting for a while, my cousin cut to the point, smiled and asked the shopkeeper: "We are also fateful, I didn't expect you to come to listen to my classes often, since you are also so fond of cultural relics, antiques, and still engaged in this industry, then there will be a chance to learn more, recently, an old colleague in the Provincial Cultural Bureau, is an expert in the study of Qing history, he said that the recent study of Guò found that some silver ingots cast in the Kangxi period are very special, and they are the Kangxi Emperor to commemorate' The victory of the Ping San Domain, and specially minted, this silver ingot has a high cultural heritage value and also has a lot of room for appreciation.

And according to his research, because this special batch of silver ingots was robbed when passing through our area, so a large part of it should be scattered in our area, because you are in the antique business, so you are most likely to come into contact with this kind of silver ingots, so I just came to disturb it today, even if I haven't seen it, it doesn't matter, I think this is an important information, in the future, if you encounter this kind of silver ingot, you can buy it without hesitation, and you won't miss it. ”

When my cousin asked this, Xiao Lei and I were next to me, quietly observing the expression of the owner of the antique shop, and we found that the owner of the shop listened to these words of my cousin, his eyes lit up, and we were shocked in our hearts: it looks like there is a door.

Sure enough, after the cousin finished speaking, the shopkeeper seemed to be a little unable to hide his excitement and said, "Oh? Mr. Wang, are you telling the truth? ”

My cousin still nodded with an unusually calm expression and said: "This kind of information is still very reliable, you know, I am a consultant of the Provincial Cultural Bureau, my old colleague, and a first-class expert in this field, so there is absolutely no problem with the source of information, you also know that for us cultural relics lovers, the happiest time is to play and appreciate cultural relics, so, after I heard the news, I am also very excited, and I want to see it, compared to you also have this feeling about cultural relics, of course, for laymen, You may not understand how we feel."

"That's, that's" the shopkeeper nodded like garlic, and then he leaned over and said to his cousin in a low voice: "However, Mr. Wang, you are the right person, I really received a silver ingot from the Kangxi era, but I don't know if it is the kind you said, I will take it for you immediately."

As soon as the three of us heard this, we immediately became energetic as if we had taken a sip of pure oxygen, but my cousin secretly gave us a look, and Xiao Lei and I suppressed our incomparably high emotions and tried to keep our composure.

The shopkeeper went into the back room, and then took out a red cloth bag from it, and put it on the table, and when he opened it layer by layer, he revealed a silver ingot, which he handed to his cousin with great anticipation; My cousin picked up the silver ingot, observed it carefully for a while, sighed softly, and said, "Alas, it's a bit of a pity, although this is also a silver ingot in the Kangxi period, it is the most ordinary, not the special silver ingot I said."

The shopkeeper's face immediately showed disappointment.

When my cousin saw him like this, he smiled and pretended to comfort him: "You don't have to be too disappointed, even if it's not the kind of silver ingot I said, but it was indeed made during the Kangxi period, and the price is much more expensive than the sterling silver bar, and I don't know where you got it, if you bought it from someone else, you can ask the person who bought you and ask him if he has that special silver ingot, that kind of silver ingot, in terms of value, it may be 10,000 times the price of this ordinary silver ingot, or even more than."

After my cousin said this, the shopkeeper's feelings were immediately mobilized again. However, he seemed to be very cunning, and quickly turned the conversation to several other antiques in the house, and refused to reveal the origin of the silver ingots, as if he feared that we would rob him of his business. We all know that it is not easy for such a cunning businessman to get his words out, so my cousin did not ask further questions.

However, the shopkeeper is doing everything possible to please his cousin, maybe he thinks that after knowing his cousin, it must be very beneficial to him in the future, such as identifying antiques, obtaining important information, etc., so he is extremely enthusiastic to invite us to dinner, and we have the heart to accompany him to eat, let it take a long time, only to find an excuse to push off the meal, and the shopkeeper sent us far away, when we were about to separate, he also asked for his cousin's phone number (at that time, none of us expected, This phone number soon played a special role).

After turning a street corner, the two of us eagerly asked my cousin if the silver ingot was Gao Blind, and my cousin nodded excitedly and said: "It is very likely that this kind of silver ingot is very consistent with the kind of silver ingot that my master mentioned and the kind of silver ingot used by the high blind man to exchange huàn, and, another point, from the perspective of the high blind man, he definitely does not want more people to know that he has this kind of silver ingot, so this antique shop should be a regular customer of the high blind man."

Now that the scope has narrowed down a lot, we didn't expect things to go so smoothly. But what do we do next? Even if the blind man did come to this shop to redeem huàn, how often did he come? If you squat here every day, I don't know how long it will take to "guard" him, and the way of "waiting for the rabbit" seems too passive. But what better way to do it?

My cousin said we'd go back and talk about it tomorrow.

After arriving at my cousin's house, we told Hongmei and Sister Li about today's situation, and then began to discuss what to do next. But until about ten o'clock in the night, except for squatting, we still didn't think of a better way, so we finally decided, or squatting today, just across the road from the antique shop, is a hotel, we can open a room facing the street, and put a telescope on the window of the room, so that we can observe the people entering at any time.

Everyone thinks that this method is not ideal, but for a while I really can't think of a better way. Because we were prepared for the attack of the blind man at night, we still didn't dare to go home too late, so Xiao Lei still drove the car and sent me and Sister Li home respectively.

But things under the world, many times, develop in ways that people don't expect at all, and the plan never changes, and on the night of that day, things change in an extremely strange way that no one expected.

Before going to bed, I still lock the doors and windows, prepare the tranquilizer gun, and one more thing to do every day before going to bed is to turn on the mobile phone, turn up the ringtone, and put it on the table at the head of the bed.

This is not my habit before, in the past, before going to bed, I always turned off my mobile phone, for fear that if there were spam text messages or calls coming in, it would affect my sleep, because as soon as I was woken up at night, it would be difficult to fall asleep again.

But because this period is relatively special, the blind man will come to attack us at any time, and there are many potential dangers, so we have agreed to keep our mobile phones and telephones open 24 hours a day, so that when we encounter danger, we can respond in time and help each other.

After I cleaned up, I lazily went to bed immediately, turned on the lamp at the head of the bed, and read it. If I'm not too tired, I like to read a book before bed, which makes me feel very peaceful. When I read for a while, dazed and sleepy, I glanced at the desk in my head, it was close to zero, and hurriedly turned off the light and went to sleep.

I don't know how long I slept, I was suddenly woken up by the ringtone of the mobile phone on the table, in this quiet night, this kind of mobile phone ringtone is particularly thrilling, I quickly turned on the light, picked up the phone and looked at it: it was my cousin's phone; Although my mind was not fully clear, my first reaction was that something big must have happened, otherwise my cousin would never have called me in the early hours of the morning.