Chapter 354: The Consequences of Gaining an Inch
"You!" Ah Cai said, "You know that this jade pendant is an old product, and it is basically the same age as your small stove." ”
When the old man heard this, his eyes lit up: "Then I can't say anything, you are so rich, why don't you give some more, and I'll tell you about it." ”
As soon as I heard this, the fire immediately became bigger, but I still held it back.
"Then since the old man doesn't know the goods, he returned the things to us, and you didn't tell me what we wanted to know. I said.
The old man smiled proudly and stuffed King Yupei's waist: "Let's go, old man, I want to sleep, I don't have time to take care of you, the secrets of the ancestors have been said, and you still have to inch in." ”
I laughed when I heard it, it was originally because he didn't respect his ancestors, so he casually sold the antiques of his ancestors, and we gave him the treasure, but it was still ours.
Wu Shu couldn't stand it anymore, so he picked up the firewood knife and put it on the old man's neck: "Don't give you a shame, if you don't say anything more, I will make you unable to eat." ”
"Don't threaten me, you kill me, and don't even know the whereabouts of the stove. ”
At this time, I was deeply aware that this old man Dong was a complete loser, a shameless stinky scoundrel. I pulled a handful of Wu Shu: "Let's go, people don't want to say it, even if we plant it." ”
"No, I've given him everything, so I can't just leave it at that. ”
I was alone, pulling Ah Cai and Wu Shu out of the yard in a hurry, and Ah Cai kept complaining about me.
"I need to get my stuff back. ”
"Wait, I have another way. "I gave Ah Cai a reassurance.
After a while, we crept down to the back window of the old man's house and looked through the gap in the window.
I could clearly see that the old man had packed the jade pendant in a small box and tied it tightly around his waist.
"Hmph, a few hairy boys, I still want to take advantage of Lao Tzu, don't want to know where the little stove went if I don't get something better when I come back. The old man hummed a little song and went out of the courtyard: "Old man, I have a good meal today." ”
Looking at the old man's beauty, Ah Cai kept scolding, and I waved my hand to the two people: "Go, follow him, see where he goes?"
We followed the old man all the way into the city, and at a tavern in the middle of the city, the old man was full of food and drink, and staggered to an alley in the middle of the city.
Standing at the entrance of the alley, he walked in very carefully, looking back as he went.
We lay down at the entrance of the alley and looked inside, and before long the old man stood at the door of a dilapidated house and learned to meow twice, and soon the door of the house was opened.
"I doubt that he will be able to find an old buyer, they are all antiques, and it is impossible for him to know how much this thing is worth with his intelligence, and he will go and see the excitement in a while. ”
Ah Cai smiled: "Actually, that thing is not too valuable at all, but the antique is indeed an antique." ”
"Then you still care so much. ”
", that's something I got so easy to get from the cemetery. ”
"The tomb of King Huainan?"
"yes!"
Wu Shu and I looked at Ah Cai together: "Didn't you say that you didn't take it out at all?"
"That jade pendant is still good?"
"Nonsense!" I said in unison.
But before we could get there, we found the old man staggering out of the door again, carrying a bag of money.
"Old fellow, I don't need you to be beautiful, I'll let you say it sooner or later. "Ah Cai is ruthless.
I told Wu Shu to go back to the Yellow Turban Army to surround the antique dealer, and Ah Cai and I followed the old man, and when I saw the old man return home, he put the money under the bed and fell asleep.
"It looks like they've sold. Ah Cai said.
"Let's go inside. ”
"What for?"
"Robbery!" I said, covering my face, lowered my voice and jumped into the courtyard, quietly leaning in front of the old man, and pressing the broken sword in front of the old man.
The old man looked at me in a daze, full of alcohol: "Who!"
I pretended to be hoarse: "Old immortal, hand over the money to make you immortal, otherwise today next year will be your sacrifice day." ”
The old man was shocked by me like this, and suddenly he sobered up, as if he had sobered up.
"What are you going to do?"
"We're going to want one thing, either money or your life. I said.
Cold sweat was already breaking out on the old man's face, and he reached out and took out a few copper coins from behind the pillow and handed them to me.
"That's all?"
"How much money can an old man have?"
"lie, you can still have wine for that little money?" I asked.
The old man is really cunning and cunning, and he is still playing tricks with me at this time: "It's really no, it's all the wine that others invited me to eat, you see where I look like a rich man." ”
"I see you looking for death, and in a moment I will dig out the money and kill your dog. After I finished speaking, I waved my hand to Ah Cai, who began to search in the old man's room, and then pulled out the bag of money from under the bed.
I put the money bag in my hand and padded it: "Old boy, it seems that you have lived enough, so I will take your life today." As I spoke, the broken sword in my hand had sliced blood through the flesh of his chest.
The old man trembled: "I know it's wrong, I'll just take all this money, you can take it, spare me." ”
"Old fellow, you're quite rich, it seems that you have the means to get money, no, I dare say you still have money. ”
The old man was so embarrassed by me that I told him where his money came from, which was used to prove that he was a poor man.
During this period, he really told the whereabouts of Xiaolu, and he also sold it to the family just now, and I unceremoniously accepted his bag of money and went back to the city directly with Ah Cai.
At this time, Wu Shu had already snatched back Ah Cai's jade pendant and brought the merchant who collected antiques with him.
"Let me ask you, you received a small stove back then, which was sold to you by the old man who sold jade pendants, do you have any impression?"
The merchant's surname Wang was not young, and when he saw that we were also dressed as Yellow Turban Army, he asked, "I don't know what the military master is looking for, is it the alchemy furnace of King Huainan back then?"
"Yes, it seems that Wang Lao is still insightful. ”
"Of course, I saw it at a glance, but it didn't give me a lot of trouble later. ”
I smiled and said, "Then hand it over, we will return the original price you charged." ”
"Money is a trivial matter, the key is that I wanted to sell this thing many times, and after each sale, my child will be seriously ill, and he will be completely expressionless all day long, talking nonsense, after taking it back, my son will heal himself, you say I ......"
I nodded, and after thinking about it for a long time, it turned out that this was still a problematic old thing.
At this time, I said to Wang Lao, "It's better to take me to meet your son, maybe we can help." ”
"Really?"
"Of course it's true, your son must be haunted by the contents of the small furnace. I said.
Elder Wang smiled immediately: "If the military master can really cure my son's illness, I will offer the alchemy furnace with both hands." ”
"That's not necessary, I'll make it up to you when the time comes. ”
Wang Lao took us to meet his son, and I noticed that there was an extra red mole on his son's left ear, and there was a small black mole inside the red mole.
I immediately gasped, this was originally a rich and longevity mole, but it was dominated by that black mole, which means that this black mole was the root cause of his illness.
"Did your son have this red mole when he was a child?"
Wang Lao looked at it and nodded.
"That's right, it seems that my judgment is correct. ”
I immediately dispersed the Yellow Turban Army, and then said to Wu Shu: "According to the layout of the tomb of King Huainan, find a place on the outskirts of the city to make a fake tomb." ”
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to lure out the contents of the alchemy furnace. I asked Elder Wang to take out the alchemy furnace, and then returned the bag of money I got from the old man to Elder Wang, but Elder Wang did not accept it.
Just from the way he does things, it can be seen that Wang Lao is a businessman after all, and he has considerable resistance to the temptation of money.
That night, in a vacant lot on the outskirts of the city, Wang Lao's son sat in the fake tomb we had arranged, holding the alchemy furnace.
"Brother, listen well, when we snatch the alchemy furnace in a while, no matter what discomfort you have, don't move, don't go out of this range. ”
Wang Lao's son was very obedient and sat honestly in the middle of the fake tomb.
I pulled Wu Shu: "When the alchemy furnace arrives, run immediately, run as fast as you can, and go back to the military tent directly." ”
"What do you mean?"
"You don't have to worry about it, I'll take care of the rest. Then I found a bamboo slip and wrote a few words on it according to what I saw in the sarcophagus.
"Leader Liu, we brought the old man. "A yellow turban soldier pulled Old Man Dong in front of me.
I smiled coldly at the old man: "You have to be obedient to Lao Tzu today, otherwise, be careful that I can't let you live or die." ”
Because I lowered my voice, and in the tone in which I had just spoken to him, the old man immediately heard that I was the robber, and when he saw the broken sword at my waist, he nodded his head in a trembling voice.
Just as the night was dark and the wind was high, the dark clouds covered the bright moon, the wolves roared, and the crows in the sky screamed.
I slowly walked into the fake tomb, handed over the bamboo slip I had just written to Wang Lao's son, snatched his alchemy furnace away, and threw it to Wu Shu, who didn't return to the alchemy furnace and ran directly into the camp of the Yellow Turban Army.
At this time, looking at the son of the old man, his whole body began to swing, and then he foamed at the mouth, his whole body convulsed, and his face turned purple.
"Master Jun, my son!"
"Don't worry, just wait a while. I then looked at the old man Dong: "Go in, take Boss Wang's son's bamboo slip into your arms, and then go home." ”
When Old Man Dong heard that it was so simple, he didn't think about it at all, grinned, rushed into the fake tomb, took the bamboo slip from Wang Lao's son, turned around and ran, and ran home with a smoke.
When Wang Lao saw my arrangement, he immediately took my hand: "What about my son, you see that he is about to die, and the whole person is screwed together." ”
"Don't worry, take a look, if nothing else, it should be fine in a while. "We slowly approached Elder Wang's son.