ask incense

"Boss, please tell me about the origin of this in detail." Pei Ling saw that Sai Tianxian was interested, so he wanted to ask the boss to explain in detail.

The boss, who had withdrawn from the memory, rolled his eyes. In order to make a deal, he had no choice but to apply the past to the curium nail he just received this morning.

"Curium work is a craft, as long as you are skilled, there is no utensil that cannot be mended. Of course, most of them are mending porcelain, and drilling and drilling on porcelain with a diamond drill is not something that ordinary people can do. They are all counted, so as the saying goes, if you don’t have diamonds, don’t take this porcelain job.”

Listening to the beginning of the boss, it seemed to be a long story. Pei Ling's eyes twitched, trying to get the boss to the point quickly, but what the boss said next didn't seem to be nonsense, so Pei Ling didn't interrupt.

"In addition to mending porcelain, I also mended a statue of Avalokitesvara with folded palms about ten years ago. It was a statue of Avalokitesvara made of old sandalwood. It can forget the troubles of the world. Several times I wanted to keep the Guanyin statue and keep it as a family heirloom."

Upon hearing this, Pei Ling immediately asked, "Then did you accept it? How much can I pay?"

He saw the infatuated expression on the boss's face when he talked about the Guanyin statue, and he knew it was a treasure, and he heard it was made of Laoshan sandalwood.

It's a pity, the boss smiled and shook his head, "You outsiders think you are a treasure, let alone with others, can you be willing to sell? Besides, to others, it's not just as simple as a treasure. Children who are sick and evil."

Pei Ling asked suspiciously, "Suppressing disease?"

The boss nodded, "The child in his family has a light horoscope. I heard that someone had a fortune teller before, saying that he had violated the evil spirit of the gate of hell, and told him not to go near Yin temples and cemeteries. Of course, parents should be careful. Tight. Just like this, I passed the age of seven without incident. After a long time, nothing happened, so I naturally thought that this test was over. Unexpectedly, the old man in his hometown dreamed that the ancestral tomb collapsed, and told them to go back to the grave to worship. The family went back in a hurry. On the day of worship, the child played around and stepped on someone's grave. When he returned home that night, he had a high fever, vomited continuously, and the medicine stone did not work. Naturally, the parents were anxious, and the old man was also angry. , took out a Guanyin statue that had never been seen before, hoping to make up for it. Not to mention, this heirloom treasure is different. Once it was taken out, the child recovered that night. Although the illness was cured, People are a little demented, and then I went to a fortune teller, and they said that the person who was half-stepping on the ghost gate was pulled back, and the soul became unstable, so the person became insane."

Pei Ling listened, and felt that this situation seemed to be similar to that of Sai Tianxian. When he went to see Sai Tianxian again, he didn't know if he had heard him, but he just looked down at the lotus nail in his hand.

"Then what happened later?" Pei Ling asked impatiently, "Is the child cured later? What method was used?"

The boss shook his head, "It's not cured, it's been like that all the time, people can still understand, people are better if they stay with the Bodhisattva, if they go out to school, it will be a mess, don't know the way to school, don't listen to the class, the teacher doesn't recognize it, and the family members don't recognize it for a day. I can go to school three times because my child always has accidents at school. The teacher gently persuaded the child to be autistic and sent him to a rehabilitation center for treatment. Parents naturally knew what was going on with their child and said it was not autistic. The teacher thought it was the parents who could not accept it The reality. Later, I couldn’t go to school anymore, so I could only hold the child in the courtyard. There happened to be a Bodhisattva at home, and the child could wake up a bit every now and then. But there were also times when he was not awake. It is easy to cause trouble. The base of the Guanyin statue was cracked somehow, and the child broke his head. The mother took the child to the hospital, but it is common for the child to go to the hospital. The child came with the Guanyin statue It’s the first time for me to come here. When I came here, I saw the situation of the Guanyin statue and asked if it could be repaired. I told him at the time, hey, repairs can be repaired, but it must not be as good as before. I'm worried, but I can't do it, I have to make it more beautiful, and I have to take this Guanyin statue to participate in some kind of competition. When I heard about the competition? It must be some kind of treasure, I thought, anyway, it's for the show. Baby raises the price, why don't you just let me accept it directly, and they are not happy. Please make it more beautiful. I think the carving of the Guanyin statue is good, but it's a pity that the craftsmanship is used on the portrait, and the base craftsmanship is a little bit It was scribbled, with a few random knives, and a rock was carved at the bottom. I wondered if the base of the Bodhisattva should not be a lotus seat, so I would make a lotus nail to fill the gap."

Pei Ling was surprised, "You have made up all of it, so what about the lotus nail now?"

"This..." The boss was a little flustered for a moment when he was caught wrongly, but he is a businessman with a face, so he immediately said, "Isn't this something happened to his family later?" The boss pointed at the dessert shop , "Old Qi's house is opposite to my shop."

Pei Ling looked puzzled, "An accident?" Following the boss's instructions, he looked at the small dessert shop they had just left, thinking that the family's surname was Qi.

Sai Tianxian, who had been staring down at the lotus nail, raised his head and looked at the boss.Pei Ling kept talking to the boss, but didn't notice Sai Tianxian's reaction.

"What happened?"

The boss shook his head and said that he didn't know what happened, "It wasn't long after I mended the Guanyin statue for him, and their shop didn't open much. Occasionally, I saw the hostess come back a few times, and she was very haggard, and asked what was wrong. , I just said that the child was hospitalized. After a while, I never saw him again. When the shop expired, a few strangers came to clean up all the things in the shop, and said no more to the landlord. The landlord is also strange , It seems that this is not what was said on the phone. I asked the owner and his wife where they went, and they only said that they took the child back to their hometown. Alas, maybe the child was cured with money, and the rent was not renewed after the money was exhausted. The family went back to their hometown. When I was mending the Guanyin statue, I heard from my old Qi that there is hope for the child’s illness.”

"Their shop?" Seeing that the boss seemed to know him very well during the conversation, Pei Ling asked, "Boss, are you familiar with his family? Do you know the current address of their family?"

Pei Ling wanted to find out the other party's address, to find out how to cure the lost soul, maybe Sai Tianxian could also recover.

The boss looked at the dessert shop opposite and fell into the past, "Their family is an incense maker. It turned out that the business was good, and they could make that kind of big incense. Then they closed, and I didn't hear from them. There were many stores in that store. Someone rented it, and now it has become a dessert shop. Speaking of which, the framing shop was closed not long ago, and only my old shop and that bonsai shop are left. The bonsai shop is okay, after all, many rich bosses like this. Well, my antique shop just..." The boss was about to say that the business is not good, but Pei Ling and the others are outsiders after all, and finally said, "There are fewer and fewer people who know the goods."

Pei Ling was a little disappointed. He thought he could find out something from the boss, but in the end he still didn't know what happened to the family.Pei Ling turned her head to look at Sai Tianxian, seeing that he was holding on to that lotus nail, thinking that he really likes this thing.

Pei Ling asked the boss, "This lotus nail, how much do you bid, boss?"

The boss smiled happily, "It's not expensive." He compared five, "Five thousand."

Pei Ling looked at the five opened by the boss, and then at the lotus nail in Sai Tianxian's hand, "That's it? You want five thousand?"

Sai Tianxian put down the lotus nail in his hand with a little reluctance.Pei Ling saw him like this, touched him with his hand, and whispered, "I will buy it, but I have to pay the price back to the boss."

Sai Tianxian smiled a little when he heard this, and gave Pei Ling a cheering look.Seeing that his complexion had improved, Pei Ling felt relieved, and when she turned her head and saw the boss was staring at Sai Tianxian again, Pei Ling dragged Sai Tianxian with some displeasure, making him hide behind her.

The boss noticed the displeasure on Pei Ling's face, and smiled sarcastically, "I just think..." The second time I said something like an acquaintance to avoid offending people, the boss changed his tone after thinking about it, "Maybe I'm old, see Wrong."

Pei Ling didn't want to discuss with him about Sai Tianxian's appearance, so he still negotiated with the boss on the price, "Boss, five thousand is a bit too much for your little thing."

"Oh, don't look at this thing as small, but it's exquisitely crafted, and it's made of gold."

Pei Ling couldn't believe it, "Is it gold?"

"Of course." The boss lied without blushing, and said that there was nothing in the sky and on the earth with that little curium nail, "Do you know that in the past, when curium work was fashionable, a piece of porcelain was deliberately watered and cracked?" , specially looking for someone to make it up, but the price is higher after it is made up. No matter what kind of craftsmanship he has, once it is not limited to basic needs, but pursues the beauty of the spiritual level, this thing will start to be valuable. "

Pei Ling didn't understand beauty on the spiritual level, so he asked the boss directly, "You can tell me how much is the minimum."

Seeing Pei Ling's lazy look, the boss didn't waste his time, and pretended to be generous and condescended to him, "Well, I don't usually have much business here, and since you've been listening to me for a long time, it's okay Count me as destined to be with you." As he spoke five fingers down two, "Three thousand."

At first glance, it cost two thousand, but it seemed a lot cheaper. Sai Tianxian looked at Pei Ling expectantly.Pei Ling didn't know if the price was really fair. He was really not very good at bargaining. Thinking about it, he had to take out the set that Da Chen used to use in the walking market, "Boss, I don't just buy this one. The others What else do I want, cheaper?"

When the boss heard it, his eyes lit up immediately, "I need others. What else do I need? I'll give you the total together."

Pei Ling looked at the things the boss had introduced to him just now, and thought to himself, when he was away from home, he saw that there were quite a lot of incense burners from the Tang family.The Tang family probably has an imitation animal incense burner, and it is not uncommon for them to bring this thing to the past. The engraved smoked ball seems a bit ordinary, and the Pisces jade sachet is not sure if it is real.

Pei Ling asked the boss to bring over the Pisces jade sachet to have a look, and the boss hurriedly showed it to Pei Ling.Although it was made of jade, it could be called a sachet. Pei Ling lowered his head and sniffed it, but he didn't smell any fragrance. "It's not fragrant either."

The boss started bragging again, "It's an antique, not many years old, no matter how delicious it was back then, there must be a time limit. Now let's see the age."

Pei Ling turned to Sai Tianxian, "What do you think of this?"

Sai Tianxian held the lotus nail and said, "It's up to you, you say, whichever is better, that's the one." Seeing that he was satisfied as long as he had the lotus nail, Pei Ling didn't expect him to give any advice. Looking back, I ordered the Pisces Jade Sachet.

The boss was overjoyed, took the calculator and pressed it in front of Pei Ling, finally came up with a number, Liang showed it to Pei Ling, and specially told him, "I'll give you two thousand for that lotus nail. I'm at a loss."

The boss's pre-emptive move made Pei Ling unable to find a chance to bargain. Pei Ling could only nod his head. Anyway, if he entered this shop, he was ready to bleed.

"Sure." The boss happily pointed to the QR code on the wall, signaling Pei Ling to pay.

Pei Ling looked a little dizzy when he saw the QR code. He doesn't use a smartphone.The boss who does business is the best at observing words and expressions. Seeing Pei Ling's expression, he immediately said, "Swiping a card is also acceptable." He took out a POS machine from under the countertop.

Pei Ling smiled awkwardly, "Boss, can I have cash?"

"Cash, yes, please be careful, be careful, I understand, there is a bank just outside this street."

"No, no need." Pei Ling pulled down the boss who was about to come out to show him the way, and took out a wad of money from one pocket of his multi-pocket overalls, "I have cash on me."

The boss was a little intimidated by Pei Ling's posture. Looking at Pei Ling's outfit now, he felt that he might be a fake. These days, who would bring wads of money to him? Don't be black money. .The boss was afraid that the business would be a scam, so his enthusiasm immediately faded, and the smile on his face froze.

He swallowed and said to Pei Ling, "I'm a small business, a good citizen who pays taxes on time."

Pei Ling was a little helpless. He hadn't encountered a place where he spent a lot of money in these years. Apart from work, he only spent money near where he lived. After a long time, he became familiar with various stores. Now he spends money all at once. , but was suspected.

He explained to the boss, "Don't worry, I'm serious money, I'm not just paying the wages I just got back from traveling on a boat. You know, it's not as convenient on the boat as it is now on land."

Speaking of which, the boss saw that Pei Ling's face looked a bit like a sailor's, dark and swarthy, but Sai Tianxian's white face didn't look like a sailor anymore, that body, that pale face, the more he looked at it, the more he looked like a sailor. For addicted people, the boss is still a little worried.

Seeing that the boss was still not at ease, Pei Ling certainly had something to say, "This is my cousin who went to school. The grandpa in my hometown celebrated his birthday. He came to me to discuss what gift to give to the grandpa for his birthday. Don't old people like rare things? It just so happened that I just paid my wages, so I came directly to your shop to shop. I promise, we are really serious people."

Pei Ling's empty words naturally couldn't dispel people's doubts 100%, but after all, the pile of money in front of him was so touching, the boss had no choice but to believe it, and accepted the money with his lips licked.When counting money, he raised his eyes to look at Sai Tianxian, thinking that he is the cousin of this tall man, so he should not be the Xiao Ning who was opposite him before.