Immortal Sand Sea Chapter 27: Chaotian Palace

The train slowly entered the station after ten minutes, and the two of us followed the flow of people out of the station, the weather was fine and cloudless, the sun was already hanging in the air, and the streets were bustling with the shouts of vendors.

It's also strange to say, there are often sweeping parades in our small place, but the atmosphere in this big city is very peaceful, and the faces of every pedestrian are full of smiles, if you don't come here, you can't believe it.

We inquired that Chaotian Palace was still a little way away, so we found a rickshaw to sit on, Qiangzi is a nagging master, and the owner of the car chatted in a few words and became familiar with his own brothers.

From the chat with the owner of the car to know that the original Chaotian Palace is a "ghost market", that is, the meaning of closing the shop during the day and opening the shop at night, and doing antiques such a shady business, to say that to make money you have to admire these people in the city, in this environment still dare to do this business, but the buying and selling of buying and selling is only sold, and this line of money is fast, there are three years of not opening and opening for three years, so there are many people who take risks to do business.

I asked the owner if he had heard of a man named Chen Laogou, and he shook his head again and again and said that laymen don't inquire about insiders, so we have to find them ourselves.

The car stopped in the southwest of Chaotian Palace Tangzi Street, he said that this area is the most prosperous place, I may be able to ask the person I am looking for, the owner of the car is also a warm-hearted, before leaving also specially reminded us that the place is mixed with dragons and snakes, to be more careful, don't fall into the profiteers when "pay tuition".

It's just that Tangzi Street is as lively as he said, there are closed shops everywhere, only some stalls selling breakfast, haircuts and ears, and sugar paintings are still on display, we went straight to the center of the street to find a shop with half a door open, I looked up at the signboard, it is a plaque with blue background and gold paint engraved with two hair seals of "Yufang".

"Boss." As I paced into the room, I saw that the shop was lined with glass-enclosed booths with all sorts of jade bracelets, all shining against the headlights of the glass cover on the roof.

After calling twice, a middle-aged man came out of the back room at this time, wearing a black suit and shiny leather shoes, and immediately greeted us when he saw us: "The two bosses are looking at the bracelet or the pendant, I have a good price here to satisfy you." ”

I hurriedly shook my hand embarrassedly and said with a smile: "I want to ask you personally, do you know Old Dog Chen?" ”

He looked at me and Qiangzi for a few moments, then walked to the door, looked left and right, and closed the half-open door.

"Boss, it seems that you want to find something, regardless of the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, blue and white from the official kiln, water jade from Myanmar, and sandalwood from thousands of years, we have all of them here." He whispered to me.

The boss thought that we inquired about this person was to find some old goods, so he reported to his home to introduce the business, I could only tell him the truth to find Chen Laogou is to ask him to help, not to do business, and he said that I can't afford to buy those bright utensils, he immediately changed his face and said impatiently: "Go out and turn right and go straight for 500 meters, there is a newspaper there." ”

We looked at each other and had to turn back and go out in embarrassment, and just as we reached the door, the man called out to me again: "Wait a minute, who do you say you are looking for?" ”

"Old Dog Chen!" Hadron shouted.

Now his attitude changed again, and he ran to us: "Yo, a few of you are looking for him, why didn't you say it earlier, I'll take you there." ”

"Is this man really confused or is he making fun of us?" Qiangzi looked at him and frowned.

The boss took us to Chen Laogou's residence when he went out, and asked us not to call him the boss one by one, and called him Lao Zhou.

After chatting with Lao Zhou on the way, I knew that the reason why I knew Chen Laogou was because every time they wanted to receive the goods, they were afraid of being blinded when they were not sure of eating, so they had to ask Chen Laogou to help see the authenticity of things, and he became a celebrity in Chaotian Palace in this area.

After turning a few alleys, Lao Zhou took us to an old house, the door was hidden, Lao Zhou knocked on the pair of copper lions on the door, and called Boss Chen one by one.

It wasn't long before the door opened from the inside with the sound of a latch.

In front of the door, a middle-aged man wearing a round-necked narrow-sleeved waistcoat, a gold pocket watch on his chest, gold-rimmed glasses, and alabaster on his head was dressed in the old Republic of China.

"Master Dog, this little comrade said that he had something to ask you, I saw that he was not familiar with the place and brought it, then you say, I have to go back to see the shop." Lao Zhou said hello to Chen Laogou and walked back.

"Have you ever panned sand or sold ingots in my place, I am clumsy, and I can't think of where to meet your Buddha for a while?" The man asked politely, thinking that we were his old customers.

"It was introduced by Qian Jin." I came back to him, and he looked like he was in his early four heads at most, but he was dressed old.

The man's eyes were raised, and after thinking about it, he said, "Qian Jin...... I can't really think of a name for a while......"

I then took out a foreign lighter from my pocket and handed it to him: "He said it was from you."

When retreating from the Huanglong Temple, Qian Jin gave me his French Selin lighter, saying that if he really came to find Chen Laogou in the future, it would be a voucher to hand him over.

He took the lighter and looked at it, and immediately remembered: "Ouch, it turned out to be Comrade Xiaohui, what about others?" He said a word and looked towards the door.

I identified myself and said that I was his junior brother, but I couldn't tell where he was now.

Only then did Old Dog Chen remember to welcome us into the door and let us go to the house to talk slowly.

I thought that the homes of people in the big city should always look decent, especially the old dog Chen and the family that is mixed in this house should naturally be magnificent, but I didn't expect to enter the door and meet the appearance of an old house, in addition to a long pear wood table in the hall, there are some tree roots and porcelain bottles piled up on the ground.

Mr. Chen politely asked us to sit down, and he went to pour tea, but we found that there were sundries piled up on the chair and stool, and there was no vacant seat to sit down, and even some earthen jars with mud were placed on the sofa.

"I'm in a humble place, and there's a lot of clutter, so you're going to find a place to sit in the air." When he saw that we were still there, he brought some low stools from the kitchen.

"Why did you remember me here? Are you here for tourism or for old goods? He asked.

I sent him a red plum, and I told him what happened a few days ago, I didn't have nothing to do to play and relieve boredom, but the master was under a blood curse and needed Yu Hengxing to live.

"What is this? I haven't heard of it, but I'm in a hurry, since I'm here, I'll stay with your friends for a while, and I'll help you inquire. Chen Laogou prevaricated with a word, but I thought he was perfunctory to me, he politely sent out round after round of cigarettes in the box, and he just smoked all the boxes, and there were cigarette butts all over the ground.

"Master Dog, you have to make a lot of money doing this business." Hadron is familiar with him.

"Don't laugh at me, let alone call me a master, or call me an old dog. If you want to say that this business is good or not, it all depends on God's face to eat, if you are lucky to meet a broad boss, any thing in my house can be worth a few hundred dollars, and if you are unlucky, you can't open it for half a year. He put away his glasses, picked up his pocket watch, sighed, and wiped his sleeve as he spoke.

I heard that in recent years, foreigners have come to pour antiques one after another, so US dollars have become the hard currency in this antique market.

"By the way, I have something for you to give you a palm." While he was at his leisure, I took out of my bag the bronze disc I had found in the cave and handed it to him.

Chen Laogou first picked up the copper plate and walked to the yard to take a closer look, and then suddenly his face sank and said to me, "Where did you get it?" ”

I don't know why his face changed when he said it, and I don't know why he said this, so he told a series of things that happened in the mine.

Qiangzi naturally didn't know that these things had happened to me before, and he couldn't hear the clouds and mountains and fog covering, so he said: "Isn't this just a bronze plate, so rare?" ”

Chen Laogou saw that Qiangzi said so lightly, so he took out the book from the drawer box and flipped it up with his fingers, and when he turned to a certain page, he immediately walked to us and pointed it to us, it turned out that the book was painted with a pattern exactly the same as this bronze disc, and there were five words written on the side of the hexagonal pattern king mirror, and two lines of red pen fine words said, "This thing can move mountains and open tombs."

"I can't guess exactly when it was made, at least it was from the Warring States period, and it was the key to the coffin of the tomb," he looked a little excited.

In fact, I don't need to say it, I also know that this is likely to be the opening device of the hexagonal wrapped coffin, but I didn't expect someone to deliberately record it in the book, which means that there are some important secrets hidden in the hexagonal wrapped coffin.

After all, the purpose of my visit this time was to find Yu Hengxing, but this person was interested in my copper plate, so I had to lead him to the sleeve again, saying that if I found Yu Hengxing, I would give him this copper plate.

After hearing this, he hesitated for a while, and then opened the skylight and said brightly: "The thing is a good thing, but you also said that the mine has been blown up, and the big coffin is afraid that it will not be found, and this thing is worth a few thousand dollars at most, since you are on the road, I will not hide it from you, I do know a little about the Yuhengxing you said, but you have to do me a favor so that I can find it out for you." ”

"I don't know the old goods, I don't have hair, what can I do to help." I was amazed.

He smiled and said that as long as he was bold, he could help, and it was not until the end that he made it clear that he wanted us to go to Panjialing outside Nanjing to help him steal something from an old well.