Chapter 112: The Orb (Part II)

As soon as Jiang Chen entered the door, he asked Shopkeeper Lu for a pen and paper, and then while drawing the shape of the phoenix hairpin, he whispered: "Shopkeeper Lu, help me make a hairpin, exactly the same as this one!"

Without waiting for Jiang Chen to finish painting, the shopkeeper Lu laughed: "It's the Phoenix Dance Nine Days of the Zhou Family's Gold Shop, right?"

"Shopkeeper Lu knows about this hairpin?" Jiang Chen was stunned.

"Of course I know!" "Boss Lu said with a smile: "I'm afraid this is the most valuable jewelry that can be found near Yunlan Town, I don't know how many people want to fight it." Daoist Jiang asked me to make a fake phoenix dance for nine days, could it be that I want to mix up the pearls and try to bring out the real one?"

Jiang Chen shook his head again and again: "It's just used to give it away! Could it be that Shopkeeper Lu can make a treasure hairpin that is enough to be fake?"

"Other treasures may be able to confuse the real with fakes, but the phoenix dance for nine days can't! The hairpin body can be faked, but that gem is unique. Imitation gems can only fool the layman, Zhou shopkeeper is an expert, he only needs to take a closer look at the quality of the gem, to know the authenticity. ”

"It's enough to fool the layman!" Jiang Chen said happily: "Then please ask the shopkeeper Lu to imitate it quickly, can it be completed before the Chinese Valentine's Day?"

"No!" shopkeeper Lu shook his head: "Our store does not do counterfeit products. ”

"I'll pay double, no, triple the salary!" Jiang Chen said.

"Still no!" shopkeeper Lu insisted.

Jiang Chen coughed lightly, and whispered in his ear: "I heard that there is a branch of the demon race, called the Six-Fingered ......."

Before he finished speaking, Shopkeeper Lu's face changed greatly: "You, don't talk nonsense!"

Jiang Chen smiled slightly: "You also know, I am the local Dao Master! With me here, even if other Dao heroes know your identity, they don't dare to embarrass you! However, you also have to do me a favor, how about it?"

Shopkeeper Lu sighed: "Okay! You Dao heroes like to use this to blackmail me! It was like this before, and it is like this now! What kind of demon bloodline, how many years ago was it, and we, the descendants, will still be implicated!"

Jiang Chen heard what the shopkeeper Lu said, and asked curiously: "There were also Dao heroes who used this to blackmail you before? Are there other Dao Heroes in Yunlan Town? Why don't I know!"

"It was many years ago, and you weren't born at that time!" said the shopkeeper Lu.

Jiang Chen's heart moved, could the Taoist in the mouth of Shopkeeper Lu be his parents? He hurriedly asked: "What's going on, Shopkeeper Lu tell me carefully!"

Shopkeeper Lu thought for a while, and then said: "Okay, anyway, this matter has been so long, and the parties involved have already died, so it doesn't matter if I tell you." But you don't just go around talking nonsense. If it is known that my Lu family has made a fake of the imperial court, it will be a big crime!"

"Imperial court fakes?" Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment, becoming more and more interested.

Shopkeeper Lu took Jiang Chen to the backyard, made a cup of tea, and said slowly.

"Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with Aunt Li?"

"Which Aunt Li?"

"It's your former landlord, Aunt Li! Her husband's surname is Li, and he was originally a Taoist hero, but he is not good at cultivating the Tao, and he is far less promising than a young man like Jiang Daozhu. However, Li Daoxia is honest and reliable, and he knows a little Taoism and secular martial arts, so he went to the Yamen to be a fast catcher, and also became the local chief catcher. ”

"Aunt Li's husband is a Taoist hero? Why did she never mention this to us? She used to always say that our brothers didn't do their jobs, so they knew how to pretend to be gods!"

Of course, she won't mention that Li Daoxia's death was not glorious at all! That was twenty years ago, and Li Daoxia escorted a batch of imperial tribute, among which was a treasure bead, which was said to be a national heirloom, and was ready to be escorted to the capital. Li Daoxia guarded and stole himself, stole the orb and sold it to the people of Qi. Later, he was recognized. The court gave him death for treason, and he was beheaded after the autumn of that year. Aunt Li was also implicated and imprisoned for several years, but it was verified that she had nothing to do with this matter, Li Daoxia has always been popular in the yamen, and later let her go when she became the magistrate. ”

"Li Daoxia is very enthusiastic, he has a good reputation among the people of Yunlan Town, why did he make such a treasonous act, we always don't understand. My father said that he felt that Li Daoxia was wronged. The people still remembered Li Daoxia's kindness back then, and they didn't point a finger at Aunt Li, and they didn't mention this matter, you young people, naturally you don't know anything. ”

"Strange!" The more Jiang Chen listened, the more confused he became: "Could it be that Li Daoxia is from Qi State?"

"How is it possible!" Shopkeeper Lu shook his head again and again: "His family has been from Yunlan Town for generations, I have known him since I was a child, and he has nothing to do with Qi Guo at all!"

"That's even more weird!" Jiang Chen said: "He is not from the Qi country, why should he be treasonous? If it is for money, I haven't seen how rich Aunt Li is! Where did all his money go?"

The shopkeeper Lu said: "It's really weird! What's even more strange is that before that, Li Daoxia came to my father, and he took out a drawing and asked my father to imitate a treasure, saying that it must be fake! My father didn't do it, so he brought out the identity of Daoxia, saying that we have demon blood, my father was afraid of causing trouble, and he also believed that Li Daoxia's personality would not mess around, so he promised to help him forge a fake. ”

"What kind of treasure is it forged?" Jiang Chen's heart moved: "Could it be the treasure bead he stole from?"

"Just look at it! I've been secretly keeping that drawing, and I don't dare to take it out to meet people!"

Jiang Chen looked at it, and there was a crystal clear treasure painted on the drawing, red red, the size of an egg. The orbs are engraved with intricate patterns, which are clearly depicted on the drawings.

"It seems that I have seen this orb somewhere!" Jiang Chen frowned, he was pondering, and the shopkeeper Lu had already taken back the drawings.

The shopkeeper Lu said: "My father said that Li Daoxia probably wanted to use this fake to deceive the court. Fortunately, the imperial court did not find any clues about the fakes, otherwise our Lu family would also suffer. My father didn't believe that Li Daoxia was that kind of person, and he wanted to explain the matter to the court several times to rehabilitate Li Daoxia, but he was afraid of being implicated, so he never dared to say it to outsiders. Jiang Daoist is young, but he is a Taoist master, and the court will also give you some face, I don't know if you can find out the truth and give Li Daoxia justice!"

As he spoke, Shopkeeper Lu stuffed the drawing into Jiang Chen's hand again.

Jiang Chen walked out of the miscellaneous shop with the entrustment of the shopkeeper Lu and the doubts in his head. He always felt something strange, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

On the way, he met a clerk of the county government, surnamed Shang, who was responsible for sorting out the county chronicles and other copywriting work. Jiang Chen asked him about the incident twenty years ago, and Shang Wenwen nodded again and again: "Of course I know!" Twenty years ago, the two factions of the imperial court fought among themselves, the government affairs were chaotic, and many treasures were stolen and stolen by other countries, and the Red Star Bead stolen by Li Daoxia was just one of them. This incident is recorded in detail in the county annals. ”

"Take me to check the county chronicles!" Jiang Chen immediately followed Shang Wenshu to the Yamen to go over the county records twenty years ago, and the records at that time, the criminal case process and other documents were still preserved, and the process of this case was clearly recorded.

After Jiang Chen read it, his heart moved, Li Daoxia was likely to really die unjustly!

"Hurry up and tell Aunt Li, I'm afraid even she will be kept in the dark!" Jiang Chen said secretly in his heart. (To be continued.) )