After coming back from the Grand Canal, Pockmarked Li and I felt tired all over, which simply pushed some businesses to lead a leisure life. I often accompanied Yin Xinyue to go shopping, which finally made her feel the presence of her husband.
This day, Pockmarked Li brought a basket of hairy crabs and two bottles of Shaoxing yellow wine to the store. Before he stepped into the store, he asked me to steam crabs.
As soon as the crab is steamed, we can't wait to catch it and eat it.
Unexpectedly, before the first crab had finished, a figure came in.
"Yo, Mr. Liang, what brings you here?" Pockmarked Li was facing the door, and when he saw the visitor, he was greeted with a flattering smile.
As soon as I heard the address, I quickly wiped my mouth and turned around and said with a smile: "Mr. Liang, what's the matter with you?"
No wonder we have this attitude. Mr. Liang is just in his early sixties this year, and his hair is half white. He looks like an ordinary old man. In fact, he is a god level figure in the antique circle. None of the antiques in his palm has gone wrong. His reputation is very high.
Although we all mix in the antique circle of Wuhan, we usually don't have much contact with each other. Liang Ye, a shop like ours that uses antiques as a cover, can't really see it. I don't know how he came to visit today.
Mr. Liang took a look at us, with a little worry on his face: "little brother Zhangjia, today Mr. Liang is harassing us. There is really an antique that he can't understand."
"Liang Ye said that if you can't understand the antiques, we can't understand them even more." Li Mazi said stupidly.
I stared at Pockmarked Li and asked him not to make trouble. Can the antiques sent by Mr. Liang be normal antiques?
Pockmarked Li quickly responded and smiled at Mr. Liang and said, "this way, please."
Take Mr. Liang to the back room. I asked him if he had any strange things. This antique game, especially if it's a good thing like Mr. Liang, can be touched without asking where he came from. It's not strange to have some strange things.
"It's kind of weird..." Mr. Liang looked hesitant. I didn't urge him. He winked at Pockmarked Li. He quickly touched a pot of wine and poured him a glass.
Mr. Liang took a sip and then opened his mouth: "I have collected a jade fan recently I didn't expect to see the antiques I've played with all my life. "
"This jade fan is a blind one?" I asked, weighing.
Blind goods are the jargon in the circle, that is, fake goods. No one who plays antiques is willing to put the word "fake" on his lips, so he changes his rhetoric.
Mr. Liang shook his head: "it's not true that the goods are good. I have picked up the leak. But now it seems that the seller was eager to get rid of it, which made me take advantage of it. Tut, it's not easy to take advantage of this! "
I looked at Pockmarked Li for a second, and I was more sure that the jade fan was weird. I smiled and said, "since you are here today, you must know what we are doing. Do you think it's time to get to the point?"
After all, I have no patience to go around.
Liang Ye also smiled: "I'm really impatient, and I don't want to go around. I really don't know whether this is the Yin in your mouth or not." He said, glanced at me, saw that I didn't say anything, and went on: "after taking this jade fan back, I put it in a special treasure house. The other day, because I was late in the treasure house studying a painting and calligraphy, I simply had to sleep. Who knows that in the middle of the night, I felt fever all over my body. I thought it was a fever. I thought of drinking some water. I couldn't find it until I got up The jade fan was burned. "
"Burned?" I was shocked. Although I had never been to Liang Ye's treasure house, I also knew that the protection measures of his treasure house were very strict, let alone being burned, and even a Martian could not enter.
Mr. Liang explained with a wry smile that it was not burned, it should be spontaneous combustion, because after a while, the fan returned to its original state. He thought he was old-sighted and kept it for a few days, only to find that from midnight to midnight, the jade fan would suddenly catch fire.
"Brother Zhang, do you think it's strange?"
I asked Mr. Liang a few more questions, and found that this jade fan did not cause him any negative effects except spontaneous combustion, even if the collection was put together without any loss. I don't think it's a big problem, but looking at Mr. Liang's prudent appearance, I still put forward to have a look at this fan.
Who knows that Mr. Liang didn't take it with him? When he asked the reason, he was not sure whether the jade fan would burst into flames suddenly, for fear that it would be unsafe to take it with him.
"In that case, Mr. Liang, I'll come with you." I got up and asked Pockmarked Li to look at the shop first. Without bringing anything, I followed Mr. Liang to his antique shop.
I also came to Liang Ye's antique shop for the first time. I don't know how much higher than our pattern, but I'm embarrassed to see him in a hurry. I went directly to the treasure house with him.
"That's it." Liang Ye carefully took out a jade box from Duobao grid. After opening it, a jade fan slightly shorter than an adult's forearm lay in it.
This jade fan is exquisite in workmanship and transparent in quality. At first glance, it really can't be seen as an antique. At most, it's a jade product of high quality.When Liang Ye saw me like this, he explained with a smile that Yuzha looked like a new one, but as long as he started to touch it, he knew it was extraordinary. If he looked at the texture and the words carved on the handle of the fan, he could determine the dynasty.
I studied it carefully and nodded: "Mr. Liang, you can make a lot of money! In my opinion, this is not only an ancient thing of the Ming Dynasty, but also probably from the palace. "
I'm embarrassed to see Mr. Liang's face as usual. He has seen many things, and naturally knows where the value is.
I didn't talk nonsense any more. I went around the treasure house and saw the lattice where the jade fan was placed. Then I shook my head at Liang Ye: "I didn't see anything strange."
Mr. Liang obviously didn't believe it. I couldn't help it. I took out two talismans from my arms and asked him to press one under the jade box and put the other on his body. It was good or bad to calm his mind.
Back in the shop, the heartless Pockmarked Li is solving the last hairy crab. Seeing that I am busy asking about the specific situation.
I shrugged and said that it was OK. I think it was the fan that came from the wrong way. Mr. Liang had a ghost in his mind.
Pockmarked Li said, "I said brother, it's impossible. Mr. Liang has been dealing with antiques all his life. How many of his treasures come to the right way?"
I also know that the explanation is not clear, but I really don't feel the slightest Yin Qi, and nothing serious happened, so I impatiently perfunctory a few words when it passed.
Pockmarked Li didn't get tangled up either. He put a toothpick in his mouth and waved it to me. I looked at the crab shell at the table angrily and picked up the rag to clean it up.
In the evening, Pockmarked Li came again. He just came to me to have a drink and boast. Later, both of them were dizzy and fell asleep directly on the table.
Bang bang bang!
I didn't know how long I slept. I was woken up by a loud knock. I frowned because my head, which was dizzy with drinking, didn't immediately respond to the sound. I didn't realize that someone was smashing the door until the sound made another deadly sound.
"Who is it?" I roared, rubbing my head and shaking it to open the door.
As soon as the door opened, before I knew it, my arm was caught: "something's wrong, brother, something's wrong!"
"Mr. Liang?" I look at Mr. Liang. Why did he come in the early morning?
Liang Ye took me and ran. He said something. In the middle of the run, I finally understood that the treasure house was on fire!