While Fan Ning and Su Liang were buying books in the bookstore, about dozens of steps away from the Bowenzhai bookstore, an obscene-looking man was squatting under a big tree, wearing a brown short coat, a half-worn hat, a pair of black pants, and a cloth belt around his waist, looking like an idler everywhere in the capital.

But his eyes were fixed on the gate of Bowenzhai, he had just come over on a donkey from Zhang Qiao'er Inn, and he had been following Fan Ning and Su Liang from a distance.

At this time, Fan Ning and Su Liang came out of the bookstore and walked directly into the side door of the Daxiangguo Temple opposite, and the man patted his ass and followed quickly.

There happened to be a transaction of 10,000 surnames today, of course Fanning had to rush over to take a look, the books they bought were bundled with the bookstore, and if they paid an extra twenty yuan, the bookstore would directly help them deliver them to the door, saving them a lot of trouble.

The two of them entered the Daxiangguo Temple from the side gate of the temple located in the northeast corner, which was a shortcut pointed out to them by the bookstore shopkeeper, and they could reach the Wan surname trading market across the temple, which was more than half the distance around the perimeter of the temple.

"Fanning, you can go over here!"

The two walked through a long aisle, and finally found a small door at the end of the aisle, and Su Liang shouted happily.

The two walked quickly through the small door, and at this time, dozens of steps behind them, the lewd man was hiding behind a wall, watching the movements of the two.

He saw the two of them enter the small door, and was about to speed up his pace to follow, when he suddenly heard a strange sound behind him, and before he could react, he felt a pain in his neck, and his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.

........

Although it was not the first time for Su Liang to come to the capital, it was the first time for him to participate in the trade of ten thousand surnames, and the corridors on both sides of the temple were full of small stalls, which were crowded and extremely bustling, and most of the stalls were a mat, on which were placed a dazzling array of various gadgets.

"Fanning, look!"

Su Liang lightly touched Fan Ning, looked at the two stalls in front of him, and said in a low voice: "There are actually tomb robbing antiquities!" ”

Fanning also saw that there were many bronze utensils on the two mats under the corridor, some of which were still stained with mud, apparently tomb robbers.

Song Dynasty law forbade the excavation of ancestral tombs, but it was vague about ancient tombs, but it was morally condemned.

Of course, the seller will never admit that it is a tomb robbery, but only say that he dug it out of the rice field when he turned over the soil, so that people have nothing to say.

Fanning was not interested in bronzes, so he squatted down in front of a small stall selling porcelain, "Shopkeeper, is there any better porcelain?" ”

"My porcelain is the best of the folk kiln, no worse than the official kiln, you look at this porcelain fetus, this luster, and this open, high-quality Ru porcelain."

Fanning saw a bulging black cloth bag behind him, and estimated that he still had good things to take out.

He shook his head and said: "I can't buy the things from the folk kiln outside any porcelain store, since I came here to buy goods, of course I want to buy something rare." ”

The shopkeeper glanced at Fanning and saw that he had a good appearance and was dressed well, so he smiled and said, "There are good things, the key is whether you can pay that price." ”

Fanning also smiled: "As long as you have a fair price, how do you know that I can't pay?" ”

"Okay!"

The shopkeeper took out a wooden box from the cloth bag behind him, inside was a blue-glazed eight-petal pumpkin pot and a pair of tea cups, the shape was exquisite, and the fetal porcelain was as delicate as jade.

The shopkeeper turned the teapot and teacup around to prove that they were intact, and said triumphantly: "Authentic Ru porcelain official kiln, one hundred yuan, not a penny!" ”

Fan Ning had seen the Ru porcelain official kiln in the Zhu family, and at a glance he knew that the shopkeeper was genuine, and he knew that this kind of official kiln porcelain was hard to find even in the Song Dynasty.

He did not hesitate to take out five ingots of silver from his leather bag and handed them to the shopkeeper, "One hundred taels of silver, all of them are Jianzhou official silver." ”

The shopkeeper was taken aback, and actually gave the silver directly, he hurriedly took the heavy silver, looked at it carefully, and was immediately overjoyed, and handed the box to Fanning.

"The little official is a person who knows the goods, it's really happy!"

Fan Ning looked at the porcelain in the box, then put it in the leather bag, and said with a smile: "If the shopkeeper has other official kilns, you can go to the Zhang Qiaoer Inn near the Guanyin Yuan Bridge to find me, my surname is Fan, a scholar from Pingjiang Mansion." ”

After speaking, Fan Ning immediately got up and left, and several scholars next to him were envious in their eyes, they also took a fancy to this set of official kiln tea sets, and wanted to bargain, but they didn't expect Fan Ning to be so decisive and buy it without a bargain, so they lost this opportunity.

Several scholars hurriedly asked, "Shopkeeper, is there any porcelain from the official kiln just now?" ”

The shopkeeper sighed, "This kind of porcelain is hard to find, how can there be so much?" I just kept one set for ten years, and the first time I took it out and sold it, I was bought by the little official just now. ”

Several scholars were disappointed, and they all secretly regretted it, why didn't they be decisive?

Fan Ning found Su Liang and saw that he was also holding a bag in his hand, so he asked with a smile, "What did you buy?" ”

"A beautiful stone!"

Su Liang took out a fist-sized stone from the bag, Fan Ning was stunned for a moment, the stone in Su Liang's hand was a Tianhuang stone, about the size of a goose egg, oval-shaped.

"Where did you buy it?" Fanning hurriedly asked.

Su Liang turned his head and pointed, "Just that stall, there are all kinds of stones, this stone is cheaper, two taels of silver to take." ”

Fanning stepped forward, and sure enough, it was a stall selling all kinds of stones, and there were many people on both sides.

"Do you still have the stone that was sold to him just now?" Fan Ning pointed to Su Liang behind him.

The shopkeeper glanced at Tian Huangshi in Su Liang's hand, and said with a slight smile: "That kind of stone is called Phoenix Egg, I originally had five, and I sold them all today, although this kind of stone is not expensive, it is not easy to get, next month!" Let's see if you can get it? ”

Fanning just wanted to know if he had a stable supply, and he didn't want the Tianhuangshi vein to be preempted.

The other party obviously got it by accident, which made Fanning's heart let go a little.

He looked at the stall again, basically all kinds of jade, Hetian jade, Zhongyuan jade, as well as crystal, amber, Shoushan stone, bloodstone, Taihu stone and so on.

Fan Ning picked up a few small Taihu stones and looked at them, at least half of them were made by hand, and two of them were genuine, but at most they were medium-grade, and the grade was relatively low.

He picked and bought, bought three pieces of high-grade Hetian Meiyu and two pieces of bloodstone, and bargained again, and the fifteen taels of silver were sold, and he only had a few dozen dollars left in his pocket.

"Fanning, let's find a place to have lunch!"

Fanning looked at the sky, it was indeed almost noon, and said with a smile: "I am destitute in my pocket, or will you invite me?" ”

Su Liang was taken aback, "No! You have spent more than a hundred taels of silver? ”

Fan Ning whispered a few words to him, and Su Liang's eyes were suddenly full of envy, "It's actually an official kiln, show me quickly!" ”

"It's not pretty, let's talk about it when we go back."

"Then go back first, and I'll invite you to dinner when I get back."

The two hurriedly left the Great Xiangguo Temple and hired an ox cart to return to the inn.

.........

At noon, Xu Qing also returned to Zhu's mansion and reported his latest discovery to Zhu Pei.

"Master Qiqi, the subordinates have determined that the target of the monitor is indeed Fan Ning, the subordinates interrogated a monitor today, he is just a scoundrel in the capital, someone paid five hundred yuan a day for him to monitor Fan Ning, they don't care about Fanning's situation in the inn, the main thing is to understand who Fan Ning is in contact with."

Juppé asked a little strangely, "Did you say who paid to hire them?" ”

"It's a middle-aged man, who looks like a housekeeper, and they don't know who it is?"

"Would Fanning be unsafe?"

Xu Qing shook his head, "There shouldn't be, their task is to monitor who Fan Ning is in contact with, and they can't even let Fan Ning find out that he is being watched." ”

Zhu Pei was young after all, she couldn't imagine that this matter had something to do with Fan Zhongyan, and Fan Ning was just one of the links in the powerful group to prevent Fan Zhongyan from returning to the dynasty.

But Juppe was unusually smart, and she knew she might not know, but Fanning herself might know why.

After thinking about it, Zhu Pei said to Xu Qing: "Find an opportunity tonight to tell Fan Ning that he is being watched!" ”