Chapter 2098

Shortly after I got back to the shop, there was a knock at the door.

"Come in."

I don't need to look at it. I know it must be Xu er.

He is not in good health and has little courage. No matter what he does, he is light hearted.

Xu Er opened the door, his face was pale and he cried out in a panic: "manager Zhang, something happened!"

I slowly put down the teacup, calmly said: "don't worry, you sit down and speak slowly."

Needless to say, I know something is not right.

But now that it has happened, it's useless to be in a hurry. And I'm the backbone of antique street now. Once I'm in a hurry, they will be even more worried.

As soon as Xu Er saw that I was so calm, he settled down and took a chair.

"The two guys in my shop all went to the hospital inexplicably, and they all ate beef!"

"I see. How are they? Are they in danger?" I poured him a cup of tea and said softly.

"I didn't. I sent two guys to take care of me. I called back and said there was no danger of my life. But big shopkeeper, it's not right! He Fu came from the poor mountain area. He was reluctant to eat, drink or spend a cent. This time, he spent thousands of yuan to buy hotpot and beef. Qin Mengmeng is also very clever. Since he came to me, he has been working hard and making rapid progress. He is very obedient and sensible. He will never steal food in the warehouse. But It's too weird! I suspect that I may have received Yin. "

"Well." I nodded and pushed the cup in front of him: "what have you received recently?"

"The business has been very good recently. I've collected a lot of things, but I don't know what the problem is. This is the list of items I have collected recently. Have a look... "

I took over the list, glanced at it and put it on the table.

In fact, it's no use looking at the list or not.

Good people and bad people don't write on their faces, nor do they show their names.

Naturally, I can't find anything on the list. I glanced at it just to avoid his face.

"When collecting these things, which vendor looks strange or different from others?" I asked.

Xu Er thought about it carefully and said, "you know, chief shopkeeper, most of the people who come here to sell things are not on the right way. They are sneaky compared with normal people. Although I have been doing this for so many years, it is true that I have been observing words, observing colors, and understanding people's hearts... "

It's also true that Xu Er has some abilities in identifying calligraphy and painting, but he is quite insensitive to the worldly wisdom, or his EQ is very low. Besides, what he said is also true. Most people who come here to sell things, whether they are yin or not, are not from the right way. Even if it's from my family's ancestry, or it's picked up from elsewhere, I'm afraid that other people know something about it, and I don't want to talk about it.

It's really hard for him to tell which vendor is a little weird.

"Have you sold all these things?" I asked.

"Some are sold, some are not." Xu Er pointed to the list: "look, the one with the red line on the bottom has already sold, and the others are still in the shop."

"Has anyone else handled these things besides the two of them?"

"No!" Xu Er nodded with great certainty: "except for them, no one else can enter the warehouse, and each time they take it, they can only pass through their hands. These things are all newly received, most of them haven't showed up to see visitors."

"Have you touched it?" I glanced at him.

Xu Er replied: "some have touched, some haven't touched, and I can see the real thing at a glance, so I don't touch it. Shopkeeper Li Er told me that in this way, you can kill the price by pretending to be acceptable or not. "

I picked up the teacup and sipped it gently. "That is to say, have you touched this Yin thing or not?"

"That's it!" Xu Er nodded in fear.

He may be afraid that the hell will hurt his head again.

"Let's go and take me to the warehouse." I ordered.

"Yes!" Xu Er has been waiting for my words for a long time. He got up quickly.

The storehouse of shufangzhai is not big, just in the side door of the backyard.

Because most of the main businesses are the four treasures of the study, as well as the instruments of ancient scholars. So the whole warehouse is full of a strong smell of books.

I glanced at him roughly, but found nothing sinister. I sat down at the small table at the door and said to him, "take out all the things on the list, and I'll see what's wrong."

"Ah!" Xu Er agreed happily and walked forward for two steps, but he seemed to think of something. He stopped suddenly and rubbed his hands in some embarrassment and said: "big shopkeeper, this..."

After all, he didn't say what he was hesitating about, but I immediately understood what he meant.Since it is likely that Yin things are responsible for it now, and only a few things are left, he is afraid of touching Yin spirit, so he dare not take them.

I'm a little angry, but it's understandable.

No one wants to provoke such ghosts, especially Xu Er, who is so timid. Maybe if I don't come with him, he won't even dare to enter the warehouse.

"Just point out each of them." I stood up again and said thoughtfully.

"Thank you very much, master!" Although Xu er's EQ was a little low, he was not stupid after all. After a while, he recognized my voice outside, bowed to me, and then walked to the shelf and said, "the longest scroll in the middle is Yangzhou Eight monsters' chaotic landscape."

I went to the front, picked up the scroll, and unfolded it. There were many disorderly paintings on it, including bamboo, Buddha, fish, plum blossom

It's not a rule at all to put it all together. There's no difference between near and far. It's wonderful to leave blank. Even the layman can see it at a glance. Judging from the structure and layout, the painting is really not good.

I asked strangely, "is this really Yangzhou Eight strange paintings?"

"Yes! Xu Er nodded positively: "everything in the painting was done by one person, and everyone left their best scenery. But because of the confusion of layout, I temporarily named it" chaotic scenery map "

I glanced at it and said, "but there are far more than eight things on it?"

"The shopkeeper didn't know anything." Xu Er explained to me: "the eight monsters in Yangzhou were not really only eight people, but also the general names of some people who had similar painting styles in the early Qing Dynasty. Because at that time, Suzhou and Hangzhou were just rich places, and Yangzhou had always been the place where scholars and scholars gathered, so it was called Yangzhou Eight monsters. These eight are not exact numbers, but a function word. "

"Later generations of people who didn't know who was in the house had been arguing about who was among the eight monsters. In fact, there were more than a dozen of them. Of course, the famous ones are Zheng Banqiao, Huang Shen, Gao Xiang, etc. You see, this bamboo is Zheng Banqiao's, this stone is Gao Xiang's, this plum blossom is... "

When it comes to painting, Xu Er seems to have changed himself. His eyes are shining and he talks.

I even forgot why I came here.

At first, I wanted to avoid his face and let him finish, but I saw that this guy talked about their differences from several people's writing skills, and then discussed the painting style at that time, without stopping at all. So I had to interrupt him and say, "manager Xu, there's nothing wrong with this thing. What's next?"

"Er..." Xu ER was stunned. He then turned to his mind and pointed to the bamboo tube beside him and said: "this is the dark bamboo hollow pen tube in the late Ming Dynasty. It was made by Huang Yishan, the master of bamboo carving at that time. It's a rare rare rare treasure! Master Huang has exquisite sculptors and delicate ideas. Look at this... "

I picked it up and looked at it. Before he finished, I put it back and said briefly, "next!"