Cat Gu Notes

Said you came to ask me for help? "

Xia Mingruo shook his head: "Actually, it doesn't count, let me tell you, lest you worry about it."

"You kid has a bad mouth." The uncle said, "However, I'm really willing to help you with this."

Xia Mingruo had a smile on his face, as if he was watching the prey rush into the trap, old things would eat this.

The uncle raised a finger: "You don't know, in our business, a tomb usually can only hold one thing. If you take too much, it will break the rules and harm your morality, especially for an elegant thief like me. This tomb is in his hands." As many rare treasures as there are, I'll take a fancy to the mechanism box, and no one will try to snatch it from me."

Xia Mingruo grinned: "That's good, but you know the rules of our old boss Li, everything belongs to the country... By the way, where did you hide that Shanshan princess in Lop Nur?"

The uncle solemnly declared: "What Shanshan Loulan, you are framing me!"

"This time the things and Princess Shanshan have been found, you have to return them to our old man, or..."

The uncle interrupted him: "Let's wait and see, let's see if we can find it first."

"Okay." Xia Mingruo nodded, rubbed his neck and said, "I seem to have just completed a deal worthy of beheading."

"It's a disaster if you keep it!" The uncle and the leopard scolded in unison.

Xia Mingruo scolded back and said go to you, and made an appointment to meet on the road at 06:30 in the morning, and take a ride to the county together.When they set off, Xia Xiubai wanted to follow, unwilling to be lonely, Xia Mingruo said: "Go and play by yourself, it's useless to follow your son all the time."

Xia Xiubai pretended to say, "Who is following you? I'll go to the county and call your mother to say that I miss her. It's best to bring Wang Xin back before Lao Li finds out. The young man was momentarily confused. It is normal to go the wrong way, and there is no need to pay for it for the rest of your life.”

"Whatever you want." Xia Mingruo said angrily.

When the two parties met, Xia Xiubai shook hands with the uncle enthusiastically. One said, "I am a god, I have heard about the great name for a long time, and I saw it today, and it is really a fairy-tale style."

Xia Xiubai rushed over to shake hands with the leopard again: "Oh, this strong man has a leopard head and eyes, and is full of righteousness, which makes people admire him. May I ask the hero Gao's name?"

Leopard blushed with excitement: "Wan...Wan Gao, just keep calling me Leopard!"

The uncle whispered to Xia Mingruo from a distance: "No mistake, you and your father are definitely related by blood."

Xia Mingruo held his chin and asked: "Then you can't see that the blue is better than the blue?"

The uncle looked at him, then changed the subject, and said: "The car is coming, the wind is very fierce here, let's go, hurry up."

The car was old and the road was poor, the road was bumpy, and it was already afternoon when we arrived at the county seat.Four people and one cat found a wonton shop near the station and managed to eat a few mouthfuls, so they split into two groups.Xia Xiubai and Leopard stayed at the station to block Wang Xin all the way. The main reason was that Xia Xiubai was powerless, and if Wang Xin resisted, he had to rely on Leopard.Xia Mingruo, Lao Huang and Uncle went all the way, going to the black market in the county town to inquire about news.

Now it is the 80s, but this small county town in the south of the Yangtze River shows no sign of an imminent economic take-off. It is still so old and undeveloped. A main road called "Dajie" is actually a relic of the former Qing Dynasty, only three meters wide. .Fortunately, the thin and dense rain in the south of the Yangtze River has covered this small town with a layer of warm green, and the fragrance of gardenias permeates the rain and mist, which is refreshing.

The black market is located in a back alley. It looks very ordinary, but when you walk in, it is quite unique.Turn left at the depths of the alley, and enter a yard with the words "The warehouse is an important place, no idlers are allowed to enter" beside the door, and you can see a lot of people talking in twos and threes.

The uncle said: "Let's go to the shopkeeper Liu Amao, he has the longest claws."

Xia Mingruo asked, "Why are you so familiar with this place?"

The uncle smiled and said, "I also have long claws."

This pawn shop is obviously illegal, so it is disguised as a small grocery store.Pushing open the rotten wooden door, there are dusty bottles and jars on the old shelves, and there is a counter below, and the creams displayed inside seem to be out of date for several years.

Liu Amao was standing behind the counter, making plans, with a pot of strong tea in hand.

He was a middle-aged man with no distinctive appearance. If he met on the street, he would definitely forget it.After learning their reason for coming, Liu Amao said: "I have never been here before. Besides, according to your tone, that person is a novice. Don't say that he can't get here. Even if he comes, I dare not accept it."

The uncle laughed loudly: "You still have something you don't dare to accept?"

He pointed to the purple sand teapot and said, "Shi Dabin's pot, I read it right, right?"

Liu Amao quickly apologized with a smile: "No, no, dude, if it's a real pot, how dare I bring it out? This is made according to Shi Dabin's appearance, but it was earlier, from the Republic of China. The following ones are deposit."

"Oh!" The uncle touched the pot and smiled wickedly, "Since it's fake, why don't you give it to me?"

Liu Amao was taken aback, and the uncle continued to laugh: "What? You are Liu Amao, the rich man Liu!"

Liu Amao probably greeted the uncle's ancestors for more than a dozen generations in his heart, and finally pulled out a wry smile: "This... your brother... this and that... why don't you take this one, this is just Li Zhongfang's small pot, you can't go wrong. "

As he spoke, he took out a flat pot from under the counter. The base was only half the size of a palm, and the whole body was covered with iron-colored paste, which was shiny and lovely.The uncle put it into his arms without even saying thank you, and Liu Amao gritted his teeth in distress.

He sighed and said, "Brother, I have to complain to myself. Although I only opened this small pawn shop, I may have done more good deeds than the Bodhisattvas in the temple. I am the breadwinner. There are old and young, how can we not think twice. Besides, this black market was formed spontaneously by the common people. When life was hard in the first ten or twenty years, how many people counted on this black market to survive! Although the policy has been loosened now, the gang At most, people only dare to resell some steel and cement, how dare they touch cultural relics!"

Hearing this, the uncle stood up and said goodbye: "Okay, let's go to another place to ask. This time I was entrusted by someone, and I will meet you for tea when I am free."

Liu Amao kept saying polite words, and didn't go back until he sent the uncle and Xia Mingruo out of the alley and disappeared.

As soon as the uncle came out of the alley, he threw the small purple clay pot to Xia Mingruo.

Xia Mingruo asked pleasantly: "Uncle, don't you want it?"

"Fake, where did Li Zhongfang make this kind of pot?" The uncle sneered, "Let your father go to Beijing to resell it. If you meet a fool, it might be worth a watch."

Xia Mingruo put the pot away: "Don't worry, my dad will definitely sell it for Swiss watches."

"This Liu Amao treats me as a fool." The uncle was very upset.

"Is that Shi Dabin's real?"

"It's also fake, but it's only from the Republic of China, and it's only from last month."

The two walked and chatted, turned around a few times, and returned to the vicinity of the black market when it got dark.

"No mistake, it's here." The uncle squatted under the wall and said, "Even if Wang Xin sells it at a stall, he will end up here. Let's wait for the opportunity."

"Liu Amao really didn't say a single damn truth." Xia Mingruo also squatted down, "I just want to play the young master like a monkey."

The uncle said: "In their business, only half of the ten sentences are true. You can't tell people by their appearance. For a character like Liu Amao, even if there are more ants in the county, they will know it, let alone two treasures. The two of us This trip is a warning, if the thing is really hidden here, I am afraid Liu Amao will be in a hurry to make a move tonight, just wait."

They squatted under the wall all night, nothing happened. It rained heavily in the middle of the night, and there was no place to hide.At dawn the next day, I wanted to find a hostel to sleep in. As a result, several arrogant hostel waiters asked them for a letter of introduction from their unit, and they would not be allowed to live if they didn't have one. In the end, they had to find a bathhouse to settle down.

The uncle took a dip in the big pool, hummed so comfortably, and then couldn't understand it, and said, "Could it be that Liu Amao has changed his mind? Didn't he handle those two treasures?"

"Impossible." He said to himself, "A dog can't get rid of eating shit, and I haven't known him for a day or two."

Xia Mingruo said: "Perhaps he knows that we have nothing to do, so he is more at ease."

"Handle, handle..." The uncle chewed these two words repeatedly.

Xia Mingruo suddenly had an idea, and took a splash: "That's right! Can we go to the county hospital and squat?"

"Hospital?"

"Yes!" Xia Mingruo said quickly, "Let's assume that the lacquer box is really a trick box. If it is opened rashly, it will definitely spray poison or shoot hidden weapons, right?"

The uncle waved his hand: "I haven't seen that box with my own eyes, but I'm not sure."

"Let's just guess like this. It's a lock box. Once someone opens it, they must be sent to the hospital, right? As long as you guard the hospital, you will know who has the box!"

The uncle was deeply skeptical: "Is this reliable? It's all thousands of years ago. Who knows if it's still useful. Besides, they might not necessarily send it to the hospital."

"What else can you do? My aunt won't let you report the crime."

The uncle stroked Hu Zha'er for a while and said, "Never mind him, wash it quickly, and go to the station after washing. I don't know what's going on there."

The situation over there was obviously smoother than here. Wang Xin was caught by Xia Xiubai and Leopard. He had already bought a train ticket and was going north to return to his hometown.

Xia Xiubai was pointing at him and scolding him, saying: "Unlucky kid who doesn't know the goods, two cultural relics are sold for 100 yuan, you are cheated, do you know that? You might as well sell it to me!"

The uncle rushed over to hear it, and his face turned green with anger: "You can sell it to me! I'll charge two hundred! Damn you bastard! I'll beat you to death!"

As soon as he said that, he went up and hit, Leopard and Xia Mingruo were in a hurry