After recovering, there was a more important issue before them.
"I have to find Lao Yuan."
"I'll go."
Yue Dingtang shoved the kettle into his hand.
In Ling Shu's state, if he walked a few steps, he might faint directly.
"Do you know the approximate location of Lao Yuan?"
Ling Shu thought for a while, "He said to go down the mountain to help me find a doctor. Later, Zhen Congyun and the others said that they met Lao Yuan and threw himself into the net, they were afraid that something happened to Lao Yuan on the road, and he was outnumbered. Find him sooner, maybe There is still hope."
"No, wait until you remember to find me, the day lily is already cold!"
The sound came before the footsteps, not far or near.
The steps were light and heavy, slowly, and after a while, Lao Yuan's figure came into sight of the two.
The lantern placed on the ground elongated the shadow behind him.
"His grandma's, the doctor couldn't find it, he almost folded himself in!"
He breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down beside Ling Shu, his legs stretched out, and he didn't move.
"How are you?"
Ling Shu was quite surprised to see that he could come back.
"Fortunately, I didn't get shot. I jumped off a cliff by myself. I was stopped by a tree halfway, and my arm and leg were broken. I was afraid that they would find you here, so I quickly went up the mountain to find it again." Lao Yuan spat out blood and was exhausted. , "What about the vicious woman, is she dead?"
Ling Shu: "The corpse is right in front of the corner, you can see it if you stand up and walk a few steps."
Lao Yuan's words were exactly the same as he just said: "I have no strength to get up, let me rest for a while, it's better to take a nap."
Ling Shu felt a little cold.
It was cold and humid here, and ordinary people couldn't stay for long, not to mention that he only had half his life left.
No matter how much he wears, he can't stop the layers of cold seeping in through the cracks of the slate and the soil. The wound is still painful, and the half-dried blood is sticky with the clothes, giving people the illusion that it will become moldy and decay over time.
"cold?"
Yue Dingtang found him shaking.
"fine."
Ling Shu replied in a low voice, stretched out that intact leg and kicked Lao Yuan.
"Before you go up, show me what's in those two boxes."
Lao Yuan: "What can you do if you see it, can you still pocket it?"
Ling Shu: "If you can't take it personally, I have to watch it. In order to help you escort this batch of things, I almost put my life in it. If you don't let me look twice, I won't close my eyes! Stop talking nonsense, get up and open the door, I'm down. Let’s see, even the ivory carved scriptures and pagodas, the old man can throw them out as bait, what rare treasures are in that box!”
Lao Yuan: "Speaking of the pagoda, that pagoda is also a very precious treasure. When the old man gave it up, he was so distressed!"
Ling Shu was annoyed: "I don't know, after being snatched by Zhen Congyun, his whereabouts are unknown. Maybe it will be discovered by accident in a few decades! You don't care about him, hurry up and open the door, or you will pay The money for my half bowl of noodles is now at least ten yuan from Li Gunli!"
Lao Yuan couldn't do anything about him, and stood up while cursing.
"Didn't you say that you used to be a noble man? People say that there are still three-inch nails in a rotten boat. How can you be like a person who has never seen the world, and you have fallen into the money pit, and you can still talk about it now after eating half a bowl of noodles from you. !"
In Yue Dingtang's impression, Lao Yuan, who he heard from others, was a taciturn person who hardly spoke much in front of the Guan family. When he opened the warehouse that day, the Guan family brothers quarreled like that, and did not see him. Coming out to preside over the overall situation, and now arguing with Ling Shu, it seems like a different person.
Maybe this is what he really looks like. Old Yuan in front of him is just the shadow of his brother who died early. Old Yuan in the back is the real comrade-in-arms who lives and dies with Ling Shu on the battlefield.
Lao Yuan walked to the door, bent down and stuffed the round stone into the groove.
After a dull sound of rolling stones, Lao Yuan pushed the door with his hands.
He bared his teeth and grinned. One arm couldn't be used up, so he had to use his shoulder to push it, but it still felt laborious.
"Then who, Young Master Yue, come help me!"
Ling Shu couldn't count on it, the eldest young master knew that he was sitting slumped on the ground, and he opened his mouth and clothes to stretch out his hand.
"I count one, two, three, we work together, the bearing is on the left, and we push on the right!"
Yue Dingtang hummed, he was also shot in one arm and could only use the other shoulder to reach the door.
"As the saying goes, two people are of the same mind, and their profits will break the gold. Come on, all of you!"
Ling Shu said lazily beside him, his voice was not strong enough to make his teeth itch.
"shut up!"
Lao Yuan gave him a fierce look, how could this person owe so much, it hasn't changed from before to now.
She was born beautiful, and most of the people she met were superficial people who loved Xiangxiyu, and they were given preferential treatment everywhere.
"Come on, one, two, three, push!"
The door finally opened slowly.
Gap from small to large.
In the stone room, a few boxes were piled up in the corner, but there was nothing else.
"The two boxes on the left are dry food, as well as water and wine. The water has been stored for a long time, so it has to be boiled on it. The dry food is also sealed in the jar, so it should still be eaten."
The box was not locked, so Lao Yuan took the small cloth bags they brought out of the coffin to the side of the box and put them in carefully.
Ling Shu also came to the side at an unknown time.
He took a lantern and looked inside.
Lao Yuan hurriedly said: "Be careful, there are calligraphy and paintings in it, don't touch it!"
"I know, I've seen more calligraphy and painting than the salt you eat, and I haven't seen anything broken." Ling Shu didn't bother to listen to his long-winded words, put it down and waited, and took out a scroll inside.
"Come on, Lao Yue, help me open it, let's see what treasure the old man left behind."
Yue Dingtang set up such a game for Mr. Guan, including the Yue family. He was also very curious about the two boxes of things he tried so hard to protect, but he was not as blatant as Ling Shu.
The scroll was slowly opened, and the light here was extremely dim, but a general outline could still be seen.
The vegetation is lush, the mountains are near the building, the lake is overlooking, the peach is dark green, and the high platform is like a fairy.
There is not a bright environment for appreciation, but this is more like a dream and a fantasy presented in front of you, with the thick and intoxicating smoke, but also with the beauty of the years.
"This is?"
""Forty Views of Yuanmingyuan"."
"Isn't it right, I remember this painting was taken away when it was burned in Yuanmingyuan, and now it is in France."
"This is not the real product, it is a copy, but the origin is equally extraordinary. After the Yuanmingyuan was burnt down, Emperor Xianfeng couldn't sleep. He wanted to make up for something, and wanted to leave something for future generations. A picture of the eight scenes of the Summer Palace, but the Summer Palace is not as good as the Old Summer Palace after all. The latter was built and operated by the whole country in a prosperous world. Emperor Xianfeng thought about it, and always felt that using the Summer Palace as a painting was less meaningful, so he called several court painters at that time. , and a minister who is good at calligraphy and painting, copied such a painting according to the drafts of the forty scenes preserved in the palace."
Having said so much in one breath, Lao Yuan was so tired that he opened a jar of wine, raised his head and took several sips.
"These are all what Mr. Guan told me. He said that although this imitation is far inferior to the real Forty Scenery in terms of skill and reputation, at least it can be passed down to future generations, allowing future generations to have a glimpse of the prosperous gardens of the past. When I see this imitation, I can also remember that the real one is still in the hands of foreigners. I don’t forget the past and the teacher in the future. It is more precious than any gold and silver treasure. It probably means this. I don’t read much, so I can’t move the words. All, it probably means that you understand it."
Yue Dingtang carefully re-rolled the painting and fastened it, and then went to look at the other things in the box.
There are only copies of Ming Dynasty books that survived after being ordered to destroy the "Siku Quanshu".
There are painted camels that have faded since the Tang Dynasty.
There is a pair of persimmons carved from red jade.
There are also two pagodas wrapped in yellow cotton cloth. They are exquisite and gorgeous. There are as many gems inlaid on them as at least twice as many as the pagoda obtained by Yue Dingtang. The skills and virtuosity are not comparable to the previous pagodas.
When Ling Shu saw the pagoda before, he felt that his eyes were going to be blinded. Now, when he looked at these two smaller pagodas, he felt that the previous ones were vulgar. Treasures of wealth in one.
He couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
There was a slight movement in his ears, and Ling Shu turned his head to look.
Lao Yuan didn't know when to take a few steps back, but he was watching them both with a wary expression, as if to prevent them from getting rich at any time and turning against each other.
Ling Shu laughed and laughed: "We are both brothers who were helped out from the ditch of the dead, and we just barely reincarnated from a mother's womb. Are you doing this, you make me look like a villain! Even if I want to rob money, now we Two, you only have one, you can't beat Lao Tzu, hurry up and get out of here!"
Hearing Ling Shu say this, Lao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled shyly: "How many fathers, sons and brothers have turned upside down because of money, you have seen the Guan family brothers, I can't help it, we haven't seen each other for so many years, I'm not afraid of you. Corrupted by the feasting and feasting of Shanghai?"
"Then you were plotted by me when you came down just now. Let me tell you, you were kissed by the locked pig, and I haven't changed!"
After Ling Shu finished scolding, the painting style changed, and he picked up the small Buddhist pagoda, touched it and touched it, tsk tsk.
"But then again, these treasures are really rare. Let's see if there are any pearls and gems that fell off during transportation. They were separated voluntarily. Let's pick them up and find a good home for them."
Lao Yuan: …
He watched in horror as Ling Shu picked them up one by one, and then put them down one by one. He was really afraid that if he was interested, he would pick them up and shake them and shake off one or two of those precious gems.
Yue Dingtang was a little puzzled: "Where did the old man come from so many treasures?"
There are a lot of things in here. At first glance, it is flowing out of the palace. No matter how beautiful the ancestors of the Guan family are, they have all been defeated in recent years. Folk collections are like looking for a needle in a haystack. One baby.
Lao Yuan sighed: "I know that. More than ten years ago, a fire broke out in the Forbidden City. It is said that the cause was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty who retired and still lived in the palace. He suspected that the eunuchs and guards had stolen the palace's property. He wanted to count things, but just two days after his words were released, Jianfu Palace caught fire."
Yue Dingtang: "I also heard about this fire. It burned for a whole night, and even the fire brigade of the foreigners came to help to put out the fire, but it is said that many treasures were burned just like that."
Lao Yuan: "That's all external rhetoric. How can there be such a coincidence in the world, it's clearly the eunuchs below who are so daring, seeing that the master is about to liquidate, and the matter is burnt out, the emperor can only be dumbfounded. If you want me to tell , This emperor was so embarrassed that he couldn't say anything about it. The country was gone, people were placed under house arrest in the Forbidden City, and even the one-third of the acre was not in his hands. If I were him, I would have Just lie down and close your eyes, close your legs, and pull down!"
Ling Shu: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, and hurry up and say what's important!"
Lao Yuan: "What else matters? It's just that the palaces and pavilions with the most treasures have been burnt down, and there is no need to find those ledgers. Later, one after another, in the pawnshops of folk antique shops, There are many treasures that are said to have flowed out of the palace, ranging from calligraphy and painting to utensils. These two boxes were collected by Mr. Guan in the past ten years, and some were bought from the old and young who fled from the capital. Some were bought from local antique stores, and some were from distant relatives who wanted to sell their heirlooms for some money, and you know what the Guan family is like, most of them are relatives and connections like this.”
Yue Dingtang: "There are so many treasures, even if you don't leave them to your children, it's also a lot of wealth to wait for which children and grandchildren will make a difference in the future."
Lao Yuan laughed: "If the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, where will the wealth come from, even if you have gold and silver mountains, you have to keep it! It is better to send it to the Japanese than to send it back to Beijing. The old man heard that the Forbidden City has started to transport everything to the south in batches in order to avoid the possible war. If the contents of these two boxes can be reunited with the large army, and they will be taken out after Guotai Min’an, then it will truly be regarded as a real gift for future generations, leaving a good fortune!”
It is impossible to say that Yue Dingtang has no resentment and dissatisfaction with Mr. Guan.
This old man called him all the way from Shanghai in order to use the Yue family to make this game more perfect.
Yue Dingtang, who got the pagoda, became the number one target. When everyone focused their envious eyes on him, Lao Yuanzheng was pulling two boxes of real treasures in the dark Chencang.
The old man not only cheated his cousin and nephew he had never met, but also his own son. He let several sons breed conflicts and disagreed with each other. He even brought wolves into the house, and came to the Russians and then to the Japanese.
But Yue Dingtang had nothing to do with the old man. Because he is already dead, the dead do not need to bear any responsibility. Even if Yue Dingtang curses at his grave now, he will not come back to life.
And in the final analysis, the old man is not for his own selfish interests.
His sons may not understand him, and even if they know the truth, they might blame the old man for being cheap to outsiders.
The person who understood him the most was Lao Yuan, who was willing to take the risk of transporting treasures.
"I'll take the box up first, and then I'll stay. I'm afraid that woman doesn't beat me up, and I'll have to freeze to death here first!"
Lao Yuan closed the box in annoyance and stopped letting Ling Shu linger and admire.
The two boxes had some weight, and the three of them were all defeated soldiers. They worked together for a long time to lift the box to the top.
The temple door was closed, a fire was regenerated, the water was boiled, the highland barley noodles and the beef that had been marinated and sealed, finally had some warm fireworks.
Ling Shu was lying on the straw pile, his face was flushed red by the flames, and he had walked from hell to the world.
When Yue Dingtang saw that the food in the jar was almost cooked, and wanted to call Ling Shu up to eat, he saw that he was sleeping soundly and couldn't wake up even if he shouted softly.
"Forget it, stop screaming, let him sleep for a while, and leave him some time to wake up before eating. If I hadn't pulled him into the pit this time, he wouldn't have been hurt like this. I'm a brother. I'm sorry for him. Just in time, I have something to ask you."
Lao Yuan scooped a large piece of braised beef into a bowl with a spoon and handed it to Yue Dingtang.
The taste of highland barley noodles and braised beef may not be called a feast, but at the moment, it is a rare delicacy.
Lao Yuan didn't go around in circles. He stared at Yue Dingtang and asked straight to the point, "If we ship these things out, will you stop us?"
Yue Dingtang also happily gave the answer: "No."
Lao Yuan is aggressive: "Then are you involved with the Japanese?"
Yue Dingtang: "Maybe someone in the Yue family has it, but I don't."
This answer is more intriguing, Lao Yuan was stunned for a moment and pouted.
"I hate dealing with literati like you who love to go around in circles. Everything is vague and unwilling to explain it clearly. Then I ask you, you clearly suspected Ling Shu that day, why did you let Ivanov and the others kill people? Stealing treasure?"
Yue Dingtang: "I only knew that he was hiding something from me at the time, and I guessed that you might know each other, but I didn't know your specific plan, I just wanted to figure it out and see what he was going to do. I was drugged by him that night. After being dazed, you were woken up by the eldest master, and you should know what happened next."
Lao Yuan was silent for a moment: "I asked him to steal the pagoda and divert everyone's attention. I didn't expect that Ivanov would appear, and he almost fell short, and it might even kill you. I'll give it to you. Do you apologize, at that time, in order to protect you, he specially made some movements to attract people, and Ivanov and the others would rush to escape."
Yue Dingtang raised his eyebrows: "He drugged me and almost killed me, what do you mean, and tell me not to blame him?"
"Whoa!"
Lao Yuan took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, lit it directly with the fire, and began to smoke. He didn't like this kind of cigarette, who knew that Yue Dingtang was rude, took three cigarettes at once, smoked one, and collected two, making him gasp in pain.
"The other day he went to the hospital to see you, and when he came out, your ward just exploded. He was going to go back to find you without saying a word, but I knocked someone unconscious. Later, when he was on the mountain, he said that after finishing the work for me, he returned I'm going back to the city to find you."
Yue Dingtang ignited his hand for a while.
Lao Yuan didn't pay attention, and continued to say sincerely: "Young Master Yue, I know that people like you never lack friends, especially those who hold you and please your friends. But Ling Shu, don't look at him on weekdays. Li loves to be lazy, and his whole body looks like he has no bones, but that is the root cause of the battlefield. Some people are unremarkable on the surface, full of hype without telling the truth, and they love money and life. In fact, they are more affectionate than anyone else , that's what the surnamed Ling is like."