Xia Yuanqiu asked the old man: "Is this jade of yours really from Jade City?"
The old man nodded hurriedly: "Of course, can I lie to you about this?"
Although the old man said with a serious face, his eyes were very erratic, and he didn't even have the courage to look at Xia Yuanqiu.
Xia Yuanqiu had an idea in his mind and asked bluntly: "Why do I smell a stale smell in front of your stall, and this stale smell is also mixed with the smell of earth? Why is this?"
The old man's expression changed, and he stood up with a huff. He bent his face and started to pack up the things on the stall. He muttered: "If you want to buy it, you can buy it. If you don't want to buy it, don't buy it. I don't know what the idea is after all this verbosity. I still don't know. I’ve been waiting for you, just in time to close the stall and go home for lunch.”
Looking at the old man's guilty look, what else don't you understand
Especially Gongsun Shuo, he felt that the old man was deliberately avoiding something, which must be related to the origin of these jade articles.
When he was about to take action, Xia Yuanqiu raised his hand to stop him, turned to the old man and said: "I advise you to tell the truth. Since we came to you, it is natural that there is something wrong with your things, and we just want to solve it." If you don't cooperate with this question, we have a hundred ways to know the origin of these jades. But we can't guarantee what your fate will be when the time comes. But I can assure you now that if you tell the story Tell us the truth, and maybe we won't make things difficult for you."
The old man's hands trembling slightly as he packed the things, but he still said stubbornly: "I don't know what you are talking about. What could be wrong with my jade? Is it possible that it can eat people?"
Xia Yuanqiu clapped his hands and said: "You are right, your jade can indeed eat people. Just now, just now, an eight-year-old child was swallowed by this hairpin into a ball of white light. I don't know what it is, but It must be related to this hairpin, and since it is related to this hairpin, then it is related to you."
The old man's baggage in his hand suddenly fell to the ground, with a look of horror on his face. He trembled and said, "What did you say? What did you just say?"
Xia Yuanqiu said word by word: "This hosta just swallowed up a child right in front of our eyes. And two years ago, the girl wearing this hosta suddenly disappeared mysteriously."
The old man's mouth was trembling especially fiercely, and he trembled: "Oh, it turns out it's true, it turns out what the old woman said is true, my big fat grandson was really swallowed by this hairpin, my God - God - Is this retribution? If it is retribution, it will be directed at me and has nothing to do with my grandson!"
The old man suddenly started crying in the street, attracting the attention of many pedestrians.
In order to simplify things, Zhu Yan quickly stuffed the old man into the carriage and everyone returned to the inn.
On the way back to the inn, the old man was tired of crying and howling. Once he returned to the inn, he finally began to tell the truth about these jade ornaments.
He is not a serious jade vendor as he said, he is a tomb robber. He dug these jade ornaments from ancient tombs.
Including the daisy hosta, which he took out from the coffin of a tomb owner. Strangely enough, there was no corpse in the coffin, only a piece of clothing and a few pieces of jewelry. This daisy hosta was one of them.
As Xia Yuanqiu expected, these jade pieces really came from the underground.