The Plough

Chapter 87

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The donkey meat is bubbling in the pot, and the aroma of the sauce and the sauce can float from the front to the outside for three or four miles.

Ling Shu picked up a piece of overcooked donkey meat with chopsticks, and regardless of the hot meat, he gave the second master a thumbs up while heaving a breath.

"This is the real feast for the wind and dust, the second master is very atmospheric!"

"You can eat as long as you like, if you don't have enough, you can call again." The second master smiled reluctantly and said politely.

next moment-

Ling Shu raised his hand: "Man, another pound of donkey meat in sauce, and a serving of Chinese cabbage!"

The corners of Guan Er's mouth twitched, he didn't expect Ling Shu to take the polite words seriously.

He decided not to speak politely again.

"Xiao Ling, since you are Dingtang's friend, I will not treat you as an outsider. I will call you nephew, and tell me how Zhang Chaofeng died. How did it get to you?"

Ling Shu said: "Second cousin, don't worry, you have to tell us first, how did you meet Zhang Chaofeng, and where did these things come from? Let's be honest with each other, so that we can have no reservations!"

He happily ate a mouthful of donkey meat, but said rude words in his mouth.

Master Guan's teeth were itchy, looking at Ling Shu's expression like Ling Shu's expression when he was looking at a donkey meat pot.

"Then can you return those gold-leaf ivory sutras to me first?"

Ling Shu: "Didn't you say it wasn't yours?"

The second master smiled dryly: "Then let me take a look, what if?"

To the second master, who was so anxious that he still had to show a light-hearted look, Ling Shu smiled, and finally took out a piece of ivory carved scriptures.

Slightly yellow in white, lustrous and shiny palms and elephant tusks, not only as thin as cicada wings, but also as thin as rice paper.

But it is densely engraved with countless characters smaller than ants.

Ling Shu and Yue Dingtang once borrowed a magnifying glass to study carefully on the road. The characters under the lens are clear, and the carvings are all the Tripitaka, including the Heart Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, etc. It is also divided into Chinese, Tibetan, Manchu and Mongolian characters, ivory and gold leaf. The slices are incomplete, and if there is a silk thread connecting all the gold leaf and ivory into a book, it must be a complete treasure.

"The old man liked to collect antiques when he was alive. I was influenced by him since I was a child, and I also have this hobby."

It wasn't his own nephew, Ling Shu refused to say it, and the second master couldn't force him by grabbing his neck.

Looking at Yue Dingtang again, I don't know if he was a stuffy gourd, or he was lukewarm to his relatives, and he refused to say a single word.

The second master had no choice but to continue talking.

"When he was seriously ill at the end of last year, I used to serve him. When the old man was happy, he said he would give me something, and he brought a gift and a box from the study, and took out half of the gold leaf and ivory sutras to give to him. got me."

"I'm ashamed to say it. At that time, the brothers in each room were divided, and the eldest and the fourth were fighting fiercely. The old man was seriously ill and spent money like running water. What kind of ginseng, deer antler and ganoderma lucidum were moved to the house without money. I have no money, so I have no choice but to take the carved scriptures to the pawnshop, thinking whether I can change some medicine money for the old man, I met Zhang Chaofeng."

"I heard from others that this carved sutra was probably the treasure that the ancestors enshrined in the old palace in Shenyang before entering the customs. Later, the situation was turbulent, and they were stolen and sold by those palace maids and eunuchs. But Zhang Chaofeng told me that those whole It’s a fake, although the gold is real and the ivory is real, but it was deliberately made old by the people of the time, and they were sold as antiques, and the old man believed them to be real and took them away.”

"Isn't it?"

When the second master said this, he was interrupted by Ling Shu.

"If it is said that blue and white porcelain and famous paintings and calligraphy are fakes, then it is good to say that this carved scripture is like corn, and it is not forged by ordinary people who want to forge it. It takes time and money, so how can it be a fake?"

The second master blushed.

"I originally said the same thing, but I've known Zhang Chaofeng for a long time. As for this antique, you all know that this past dynasties, descended from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, even though it is thousands of years, but if you really want to talk about it, there must be very few fakes. Many, the old man claims to be a famous collector, and sometimes when he misses the point, he talks about it, and with a drink and vegetables, I was persuaded to be dizzy and agreed to put the carved scriptures with him for the time being and wait for him to help me. Find a good buyer, who knows that this post will go wrong."

"After a few days, I remembered this, and asked Zhang Chaofeng to inquire about the progress. The person who came back said that the surnamed Zhang had disappeared a few days ago and had never returned to the pawnshop again. Only then did I know that I was completely exhausted. I was fooled! I thought these things were swept away by that bastard, but I didn't expect to find them now. Good nephew, Xiaoling, thank you so much! Otherwise, you can return the things to me, and go back to the second cousin. Sell it at a good price and treat you to a good meal, how about it?"

"Second cousin, if these treasures are treasures, their value is invaluable, and they can't be offset by a meal, not to mention that Zhang Chaofeng will be killed for this, and we are also taking the risk. This meal Even if it was dismissed?"

Ling Shu said with a smile, there are many things that Yue Dingtang, a nephew, is inconvenient to talk about, but Ling Shu has no scruples and will come when he opens his mouth.

The second master secretly scolded the little bastard, but he had to laugh on his face: "I know, a meal must be simple for you, isn't it because the second cousin has no money now, when he has more money , I will give you a large amount of travel expenses before you leave. Look, the old man specified that he should leave something for your mother. Now that your mother is dead, hers belongs to Dingtang, and the old man liked to collect antiques during his lifetime. Come on, are you sure what baby bumps are left for you?"

Ling Shu was full of food and drink, and finally put down his chopsticks and spoke slowly, without any fireworks.

"Second cousin, it's not that we refuse to return the things to you. Since Zhang Chaofeng died because of this, can you guarantee that the other party has no accomplices and will not follow him all the way? We checked, and after Zhang Chaofeng left Fengtian, he went all the way to Tianjin first. After going to Nanjing, Anhui and other places for several months, we have no idea who we met, what happened, and what troubles we caused. If the other party follows the path to Guan's house, who is the real target?"

Master Guan Er was really startled, calmed down, waved his hand and said: "Impossible, I don't have any enemies, even if there is, it must be the old four tricks. I don't know how many people are, and even the Japanese are famous here. His temperament is easy to offend people, and it can't be me! Good nephew, please return the carved scriptures to me first, this time I will take good care of them. , will never leak out!"

Yue Dingtang suddenly said, "Give the slice to Uncle Biao."

Ling Shu smiled, but he was not reluctant. He took out a bag of handkerchiefs from his pocket and pushed it on the table.

"Second cousin, hexagonal sheet carved scriptures, gold foil three, ivory three, we can all return to Zhao."

Master Guan untied the knot on the handkerchief with a look of joy on his face.

"Good nephew, you really are my cousin's lucky stars. As soon as you come, my things will be lost and found!"

Ling Shu took advantage of the fire and robbed: "Second cousin, I heard that there is a Fulai Building in Fengtian City. The cook in it came from the capital. There are people in the family who used to be the royal chef in the palace. Those dishes are delicious!"

Master Guan's face twitched.

"That, exaggerating, it didn't taste as good as that..."

Ling Shu smiled innocently.

"But we just want to see and experience something new, so we can't come all the way to Fengtian City and end up eating nothing. After returning, friends and relatives asked if it was possible that we would say that we eat cabbage dumplings every day at Guan's house. ?"

"Please, I please, you must eat!"

These words, Master Guan Er uttered through gritted back molars.

After finishing a meal of donkey meat pot, when the bill was paid, Mr. Guan Er's heart had already broken into several pieces, and even a good paste could not stick together.

"You young people sleep late, go and play by yourself, the second cousin will not accompany you. Although it is dark now, some parts of the city have not closed, like casinos or something, you can go for a walk, but Don't bet big, bet small, if you lose too much, your family will go bankrupt, and the second cousin will have nothing to do with you, but there is no extra money to help you, ah?"

Mr. Guan Er was afraid that Ling Shu and the others would ask him to borrow money, but he would not stay for a while. After the account was settled, he immediately anointed the soles of his feet with oil and walked so fast that there was no shadow in the blink of an eye.

Ling Shu opened his mouth to yawn and stretched.

"The second master is lying."