World Tibet Bureau

Chapter 540 Waiting for the tea to sink in
After half an hour.

Sanheizi ran out of the terminal panting.

This is so...

The skin seems to have darkened a lot.

Fatty Xiao held a cigarette in his mouth and teased: "If I hadn't seen the teeth, I would have thought a ghost got off the plane and ran over!"

Sanheizi replied: "If I hadn't seen the cigarette butts, I would have thought a pig was smoking in front of me!"

These two guys started fighting as soon as they met.

It made Xiaozhu next to him laugh.

I told them to stop making trouble and get in the car.

This time I rented a car.

When we come to Dianxi, there are only four words for clues: Xiuzhong, Qidao, Jade Shop, and Dianxi.

West Yunnan is a place that is west of the Nujiang River in a narrow sense and west of Kunming City in a broad sense. The area is really too large.

Just relying on these four keywords to find a person who has been hiding for more than 30 years is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

But we also analyzed it on the plane.

Although Western Yunnan is a big concept.

But jade is a small concept.

Qidao is the owner of the jade shop.

We initially locked the area in Ruili.

It's like looking for an antique shopkeeper in Kyoto. The first person that comes to everyone's mind is Panjiayuan.

Ruili is a small city with a population of only about [-], but it has always attracted the attention of the antiques and jewelry industry because of its three major features: jade, tourism, and customs clearance.

The stone gambling industry in Ruili is particularly developed.

To put it bluntly, stone gambling is a game where madmen buy, madmen sell, and madmen are waiting.

But because it is so stimulating for people's adrenaline, stories of poverty, wealth, and sackcloth are played out every day.

Some people think that stone gambling started in the 90s.

This view is completely wrong.

In fact, the real stone gambling industry started as early as the Qing Dynasty.

However, the earliest stone gambling was full of ritual.

Stone gamblers must eat vegetarian food one week before the rough stone is opened, and are not allowed to have sex. They must burn incense and worship the purchased rough stone every day.

On the day when the stone is cut open, a rooster is usually slaughtered and its blood is poured onto the stone.

The stone gambler ate the cooked rooster head.

Bones cannot be chewed to pieces.

The rooster head must remain intact.

The stone bettor throws the bones of the rooster's head at the original stone from a distance of more than ten meters. If the beak of the rooster's head pecks at the stone, it proves that the stone can be opened, and there is a high probability that a good jadeite will be found; if the rooster's beak pecks the stone, If the head touches the stone in other directions, it means that the stone should remain unchanged; if there is no rooster and the head does not touch the stone, then the stone should be given away, which will bring bad luck.

Although this is a relatively superstitious approach.

But the stone gambling industry at that time was full of mystery and piety.

Not like now.

The wealthy boss, with a shy belly, patted a piece of rough stone, tossed a stack of banknotes to the side, shouted "open", and the master opened it for you.

In the 90s, border trade took off.

Many Burmese people have taken a fancy to our huge domestic market and have continuously shipped raw stones, and the stone gambling market has begun to flourish.

Of course, we have also been fooled by many Burmese people.

They cut holes in the stone, stuffed green toothpaste into the original stone, and then sealed it. When polished, the green color will show through; some directly made several layers of fake leather to imitate a high-grade jadeite black sand shell, which they could bite with their teeth. It's like biting the skin of a peanut; what's more, they make stones on the mountains of famous producing areas and take people to dig them out at night, etc.

Many people were deceived and bankrupted.

but.

They don't deserve sympathy!At first I called Jin Diobantou.

I want him to ask Ruili's Laoliang to help his subordinates find someone for me.

After all, the Laoliang Gang is the best in the world in finding people.

But Jin Laobao told me that Ruili is too small and geographically remote. There is no branch entrance. The branch entrance is only found in Kunming City.

I had to give up.

After settling down at Ruili Hotel.

I settled for the next best thing and had no choice but to get in touch with quacks.

I do know one of the quacks.

The Vulture Whistle of Jinling.

When I was in Jinling before, I asked him to find Mr. Hua and Lu Xiaoxin, and they handled things quite honestly.

I called him.

After hearing this, Vulture Whistle said: "I am beyond my control on cross-provincial matters. I can only introduce you to my colleagues in Yunnan Province."

an hour later.

Vulture Whistle called me back: "Master Su, we went through several hands before we got on the line. There is only one colleague in Ruili. I don't know this person. I don't know how he is doing. I'll give you the address." , you can figure it out yourself."

There is nothing left to talk about.

I asked Sanheizi and Fatty Xiao to stay in the hotel for the time being, and went to the teahouse with Xiaozhu according to the address.

On the way to the teahouse.

I thought about it carefully.

Xiuzhong doesn't seem to be a name.

Most likely it is a human character.

The so-called characters are like Liu Bei, whose courtesy name is Xuande.

Liu Bei is the name and Xuande is the character.

In ancient times, when people were addressed, they were generally addressed by their names, such as "Xuan De Gong" and "Yun Chang".

If you call someone by their first name, it seems very disrespectful, and if you don't keep it in check, the other person will get angry and fight with you.

There is a term called "naming people by name", which has a derogatory connotation, but that's what it actually means.

Of course, today's people generally only have names and no characters.

The reason for canceling the word was in the 60s and [-]s, which was mainly to facilitate the census.

But a few people still follow the ancient system, such as university professors or older generation intellectuals.

The reason for guessing that "Xiu Zhong" refers to the same person is because the leader of the Sijun family is a university professor. He wrote the letter 30 years ago, so there is a high probability that he will still follow the ancient system.Secondly, it is relatively rare to use this character as a surname.

Xiuzhong came to western Yunnan to hide with the Xu family's artifact 30 years ago. If we look for him using his name, it will be almost impossible to find him.

Only target Qida.

The word "Qida" has a strong Jianghu flavor, and is most likely a nickname. He is also a local jade shop owner, so asking local Jianghu pigeons in western Yunnan to find him will have a more focused target and better results.

Pigeons are generally settled on site.

Xiaozhu and I withdrew a lot of money in advance and went to the agreed teahouse.

In accordance with the rules of the world for connecting with pigeons, we specially ordered a pot of copper tea. We directly took off the lid of the copper teapot, turned the lid upside down, and placed it on the table.

I said it before.

This is called "turn the lid on the herbal tea and wait for the tea to enter the stomach".

Tea represents news, indicating that we are impatient for the arrival of the dove selling news.

After a while.

A guy who looked like Maitreya Buddha came in.

He glanced at the copper tea lid first, then went directly into the box and picked up the tea lid with his fat hands.

(End of this chapter)