the last priest

The time to prepare for the transaction with the Hong Kong businessman is two days later. A bronze tripod weighs seven to eight hundred catties. Let alone a genuine product, even if it is a fake, there are not five people who dare to take over this thing on the whole road.It can be said that large bronze wares are basically priceless in the antique world. If this thing is too big, it is a top national treasure, and if it is small, it is a job that loses its head.

Chaozi is actually a cultural relic, but the most valuable thing about bronzes is the inscriptions inside. As a noble patent, each large tripod has its own unique story behind it, and the inscriptions engraved on it record these stories.With one more word, the value of this tripod can be doubled.Chaozi's colleague was originally He Lao's favorite student, and he had a deep knowledge of ancient Chinese characters. He carved a string of fourteen characters on oracle bone inscriptions, and said that King Mu's beau Sheng Ji died on the way and was buried.

The agreed date is getting closer and closer. Of course, the transaction cannot be in the Cha Family Courtyard. The location of the meeting is an abandoned kindergarten in a small town. The place was previously leased to a carpentry factory and has now ceased operations. .

These days, Zha Wenbin is more concerned with studying his teachings, and doesn't interfere with the lives of these people, so he didn't notice anything strange at all.The Hong Kong businessman arrived as promised, and when Chao Zi and Zhuo Xiong lifted that big guy out of the trunk, his eyes turned green.

The trading time was of course at night, and Chaozi covered it with a few large floral plastic bags, exposing only three legs.There were four or five people from the other party. The Hong Kong businessman was about 50 years old, and there were also a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl and two men in suits. They all wore sunglasses at night.

Similar to the gangster delivery scene in the movie, Chaozi opened the plastic bag and gestured to the other party, the Hong Kong businessman nodded to the girl, and the girl went to see the goods.

Chaozi thought to himself, if you get a yellow-haired girl to inspect the goods, I will be blind to find someone to make such an exquisite fake. The things from the blacksmith shop on the East Street are enough to fool you, and he was a little nervous at first. After putting it down, he joked to the Hong Kong businessman: "Are those two of your men playing erhu?"

The Hong Kong merchant took out a box of [-] brand cigarettes with flat shells from his pocket, took out one and put it in his mouth, a man in a suit next to him immediately lit it for him, he took a puff, exhaled a circle of cigarettes before replying: " Boss He, you are so funny, we are businessmen."

"Pretend to compare!" Chaozi scolded viciously in his heart, feeling unhappy, and naturally his mouth would not be clean: "Oh, businessmen, I thought they were street singers, they all look like blind A Bing have to."

"Ahem..." The Hong Kong businessman was so angry that he choked on his cigarette twice. The two men in suits also saw that the kid was making fun of themselves. Nothing is more important than face in this way. .Before his boss could speak, one of them immediately stepped up, stretched out his big hand and was about to grab Chaozi's collar.Before he could catch it, he heard the man yelling "Ouch". It turned out that Chaozi kicked the man's leather shoe first, and gave it a firm kick. It is estimated that one of the toenails was about to be scrapped.

"You man, what kind of sunglasses do you think you wear at night, you can't see clearly when you walk, hey..." This sarcastic remark was a delight, and another person saw that his companion was injured, and immediately wanted to help, I don't want the girl to speak at this time: "Boss He, please make a price for this thing."

Chaozi pretended to cover his mouth with his hands and coughed, thinking: I can't take advantage of you today.

"Emperor Mu's stuff, dated to the Western Zhou Dynasty, I think it can be worth 200 million anyway."

The Hong Kong businessman rolled his eyes and pulled the girl aside and whispered, nodding and shaking his head non-stop.Seeing this, Zhuo Xiong lightly kicked Chao Zi's feet and said, "You are too dark."

Chaozi glared at him angrily and said, "Don't talk nonsense!"

After a while, the girl came over with a smile and said to Chaozi: "The price is fair, 200 million is 200 million."

"Wait, I haven't finished talking yet. The rule on this road is to buy it and leave it. As long as this product goes out of my place, it has nothing to do with me. You carry it away by yourself. If you are caught by the cop or planted on the road It has nothing to do with me."

"Of course!" After speaking, the girl walked into the imported Mercedes-Benz they drove, and soon, two travel bags were brought out and placed in front of Chaozi.

With a "crash", the girl unzipped the zipper, and under the moonlight, there were bundles of hundred-yuan bills in the travel bag.Chaozi gasped, and only sighed in his heart: My mother, so much money!He originally quoted 200 million as a price increase, and he would be satisfied if he could knock the other party's 50 million. He didn't want the other party to refuse to counter the price, and it was still cash.Although there were quite a lot of rich people in that era, this sum of money can be called a huge sum of money anywhere.

Chaozi's eyes were almost blurred, Zhuo Xiong pulled him back and said in a low voice: "Are you crazy, if they find out by then, something will happen!"

"You know the ball. Antiques are sold with a hammer. If you miss them, you have to carry them around yourself. This is the rule! Besides, the people who can eat this kind of goods will definitely not be ordinary people. They understand the risk better than us."

They are discussing here, and they are also muttering over there.

"Susu, you didn't miss it." The Hong Kong businessman fixed his eyes on the bronze tripod, and from time to time glanced at the two bags of cash on the ground.

The girl smiled like a string of silver bells, "Giggle, Uncle Chang, when did I miss it?"

The Hong Kong businessman took out a brocade handkerchief from his pocket, wiped his forehead lightly and said, "That's good, that's good!"

A big hand and a shriveled little hand were held together, and the deal was concluded. Chaozi slapped the Hong Kong businessman firmly on the shoulder and said, "There will be a date later!"

Chaozi hurriedly turned around and picked up two bags of money and was about to get in the car. As soon as it started, Uncle Chang trotted over and said, "Hey, hey, can Boss He help you next time?"

Chaozi showed half of his head and asked angrily, "What's the matter?"

Uncle Chang rubbed his fingers and pointed at the bronze tripod: "That thing is too heavy, can you help me lift it?"

Chaozi didn't want to stay for one more minute, he was guilty of a guilty conscience, and it would be good to run away a minute earlier, so he immediately pretended to be impatient and said, "I don't do physical work." After speaking, he walked out of the window again. He threw out a hemp rope and said, "Find two sticks on the ground and put them on. It is said that this rope is made from the hemp left over from Liu Bei's straw sandals. I will give it to you as an antique!"

A beautiful reverse, the gas pedal whirred, Santana's unique lattice taillights slowly disappeared into the night sky.

The Hong Kong businessman took the hemp rope and scolded: "Slick-tongued mainland boy, you have never come out to mess around with me as Uncle Chang. What Liu Bei uses is straw, you are hemp!" "Both of you, carry it up!" "Be careful A little bit, this thing is very expensive!" "Slow down, slow down, you are so stupid!"

In the night, a black Mercedes-Benz and a truck left Wulipu one after the other.

In the Mercedes-Benz, Uncle Chang on the co-pilot took out an exquisite mobile phone: "Hey, boss, the goods are ready, see you at the pier!"

After hanging up the phone, Uncle Chang turned his head and asked the girl who was driving: "Susu, if that Dalu boy doesn't pick up the first half, how much is that item worth?"

The girl tapped the steering wheel lightly with her fingers, and blinked her long eyelashes: "It can be doubled ten times, but his craftsmanship is not too good, so it won't be so badly damaged."

Uncle Chang leaned his head on the seat, and for a long time came out an idiom: "It's superfluous!"

One evening a week later, Chaozi was drinking wine with Zhuo Xiong and Dashan in the Cha family compound. Cha Wenbin arranged tools to collect the next day's dew in the yard. This thing was collected for bathing the three-legged toad. use.

"Boom, boom, boom" There was someone knocking on the door outside, this time, Cha Wenbin thought someone from the village was looking for him, opened the door, and there was a girl with a delicate face standing outside the door, smiling at him, take a closer look, That person is somewhat similar to Yuan Min.Beside her was a middle-aged man, wearing a black woolen top hat, a gray and white checked coat, and his leather shoes were spotlessly polished.

The girl spoke first: "Hello, may I ask, does Mr. He Yichao live here?"

"You are?"

The girl said with a smile: "We had a deal with him before, and now I have some questions to ask him."

Cha Wenbin didn't ask any more questions, opened the door and said, "Come in."

As soon as the middle-aged man entered the door, he rushed to the house excitedly, shouting while running: "Shanzi, come out for me!"

Chaozi was drinking, when he raised his eyes and saw Uncle Chang outside, he sprayed Dashan's face with a sip of wine.He thought to himself: Not good, could it be that the old boy was found to be a fake when he delivered the goods.But soon he regained his composure, it doesn't matter if it's a fake, there have been rules in the antique business since ancient times, if you buy a fake, you can only blame your eyes.

He pretended to be calm and asked, "Oh, Uncle Chang, what's the matter?"

"You bastard, why are you so vicious? You intend to kill us, don't you?" When he said this, Uncle Chang's eyes were so murderous that he grabbed hold of him immediately. Super clothes.

"Hey, let go, why did I hurt you?"

The girl came in and quickly pulled Uncle Chang's hand away, and said in a reproachful tone: "Don't be like this, just speak up if you have something to say."

Cha Wenbin also came in from the outside at this time, and seeing the atmosphere, he immediately asked sullenly, "What's going on?"

Chao Zi fell silent for a moment. The Hong Kong businessman guessed that Cha Wenbin was in charge here, and immediately grabbed his clothes and shouted: "Are you guys from mainland China deliberately trying to get rich and kill yourself? Play this game with me!" It's not enough to take the money, what's the point of giving us a voodoo! I'm here today to ask for an explanation!"

Cha Wenbin glared at Chaozi who was about to come up to do something, he didn't get angry, and let Uncle Chang grab his clothes, "Dashan, go out and close the door!" Then, he glanced at Zhuo Xiong and asked, "What do you mean?" Well, what's going on."

"Me." Zhuo Xiong glanced at Chaozi, who looked like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, he sighed and said, "Hey, just tell me." Then he told the whole story , roughly Chaozi made a fake product to fool Hong Kong businessmen.

"Take out the money and return it to others." There was no room for negotiation in Zha Wenbin's words.

Chao Zi had nothing to do with Cha Wenbin, and he didn't dare to disobey him, so he resentfully prepared to go back to the house to get his bag, but the girl said, "Wait!" Then he looked at Cha Wenbin again, and there were a lot of people up and down. Some words: "You are Cha Wenbin Cha Taoist priest."

Cha Wenbin nodded and said, "It's me."

After getting the confirmation, Uncle Chang was even more terrified, and grabbed Cha Wenbin's clothes even tighter: "Hmph, you bastard, get a mage to lower his head and trick us!"

"Uncle Chang, can you let go first?" The girl's words were indeed useful, and the Hong Kong businessman reluctantly let go. The girl took out a hemp rope from the bag she was carrying and said, "Your friend and I I made a deal a while ago, but it seems to have been tricked."

Chaozi sneered coldly and said, "I was wrong, and now I'm looking for you? I don't know the rules or can't afford it?"

"No, Mr. He misunderstood. There is nothing wrong with the goods you provided. The upper part is so old that it can be mistaken for the real one. Those two feet were originally worth 200 million yuan, but you added a body and licked an extra one. Legs, I gave you a discount."

When Chaozi heard this, he could be described as stunned: "What do you mean?"

"I mean the cargo is not a problem, but we had a problem on the way back with the cargo, the truck overturned on the road, our two partners did not survive; another vehicle continued to transport, another accident occurred halfway After finishing speaking, she glanced at Zha Wenbin, and from her eyes, Zha Wenbin read the sophistication that did not belong to her age: "People have died on this bundle of hemp, and those two sticks were also taken Those who came to carry the coffin, these things have been lowered by people, that is, dirty things, four lives."

Cha Wenbin picked up the hemp rope and asked Chaozi, "Where did it come from?"

He confessed honestly: "I picked it up at the head of the village."

"Where's the stick?"

"Please wait." The girl went out for a while and then folded back. In her hands were two wooden sticks the size of bowls. The outer skin had been peeled off, and weathered red paper was stuck on both ends. Put it on the ground and said: "This is picked up from the place where the transaction was made that day. After the accident, we found an expert. They said that it was these two things. He couldn't untie them, but they said that you can break them, Mr. Cha. We I originally planned to come to Mr. He to take us to you, but I didn't want you to live together."

Cha Wenbin picked up the two sticks, and thought of something very early in his mind: