I remember.

When Lu Cenyin was looking for me in the rental house.

She once told me that the gambling stall was set up by her subordinate Uncle Wang to do tricks, and she just went to play that day.

This is very obvious.

At that time, it was fake for the scar-faced Uncle Wang to set up a gambling stall, but it was real to keep an eye on treasures.

I asked: "What treasure?"

Fatty Xiao said: "The gilt doll of Xixia Temple!"

I frowned and said, "Things from the temple?"

Fatty Xiao replied: "It used to be, but it's not now."

Only after Fatty Xiao explained it, did I know the reason.

Jinling has the custom of tying dolls since ancient times.

If a married man and woman cannot conceive a child, they will think that they have no chance of having a child in this life.

At this time, the couple will choose a good day to bathe, change clothes, and go to the temple to burn incense.

Under the altar table in the temple, there will be dolls donated by others, made of clay, copper, wood, gold...

After the couple burned the first incense, they donated a sum of merit money to the temple and began to use the red rope to tie the doll under the offering table.

The doll is brought home and placed on the bedside of the couple, which means that the doll will be reincarnated into the wife's belly after a while.

After the child is born, hang the doll on the child's chest to protect the child's healthy growth.

Xixia Temple is a thousand-year-old temple.

Many people from royal families, wealthy merchants, and ordinary people will donate dolls to temples to do good deeds and accumulate merit.

Many couples seeking children will go to Xixia Temple to tie their babies.

Nine years ago, Mr. Hu and his wife of the Dingyuan family, because they could not have children after getting married, asked a master to ask why.

The master told them to tie a doll back.

Mr. Hu and his wife went to Xixia Temple to tie one.

The doll was covered with fragrance dust.

Please go home and clean it up. It turns out to be a gilt doll, the whole body is pure gold, and the year is bright.

The Ming Dynasty Jinwa itself is very valuable.

The key is.

The base of this golden doll is also engraved with the words "Ying Tianfu's donation".

Yingtian Mansion was the residence of Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty in Jinling when he became emperor (Zhu Di later moved the capital).

I don’t know why this golden doll has not been tied away for five or six hundred years despite being placed under the Buddha altar table.

This incident was rumored to be a good story in the Jinling antique circle at the time.

Fatty Xiao said: "Mr. Hu of the Dingyuan family is rich and powerful in Jinling. After he married the golden baby, his wife actually gave birth to a big fat boy. Everyone called the baby the baby given by the Buddha. This was originally a great thing.

It's a pity that this baby gifted by the Buddha is stupid and has some abnormal brains."

"But Mr. Hu and his wife had a son in middle age. They felt very sorry for him and regarded him as a treasure. They hung the gilded doll around the neck of their stupid son to keep him alive. Recently, his stupid son had a serious health problem and was lethargic, but he fell asleep as soon as he fell asleep.

Sleepwalking. Once, he almost jumped from the third floor of the villa. Another time, he was sleepwalking and slashed his own neck with a kitchen knife!"

"Mr. Hu and his wife were frightened and went to consult the master who asked them to tie the doll again. The master said that the child is nine years old and has good fortune, so the gilded doll around his neck must be given away.

Give cause and effect to the destined person, otherwise the child's life will not be saved."

I asked: "Free?"

Fatty Xiao said: "At first it was planned to be free! But the master said it couldn't be free or sold, otherwise the cause and effect would not be achieved, and things had to be exchanged for things. Moreover, the stupid son had to choose the replacement by himself. Mr. Hu and his wife were very fond of this master.

Trust, so he plans to set up a market to sell goods tomorrow to see who has the chance to exchange the gilt doll."

Jianghu trading market is a way of communication between antique dealers.

The antique business is mainly divided into several categories: ceramics, calligraphy and painting, jade, and miscellaneous items.

The first three items are easy to understand, while the miscellaneous items are more broken, such as bamboo, embroidery, copper, Buddha statues, teeth, horns, lacquerware...

Antique lovers usually only indulge in one major item.

But for example, a person who specializes in calligraphy and painting receives a piece of lacquerware that he doesn’t like and doesn’t like very much. He wants to exchange it for calligraphy and painting that he likes. What should he do?

This leads to the existence of Jianghu channeling goods yards.

Different collectors took out items that did not belong to their own categories and came to the trading yard to exchange items they liked.

The reason why it is called Jianghu Trading Market is that this kind of transaction is all done according to the old Jianghu rules of the antique trade. The details will be explained later.

Gilt dolls cannot be given away for free or sold.

Mr. Dingyuan Hu adopts the form of trading in Jianghu, which is very smart.

Fatty Xiao said: "It's ridiculous to exchange things for things! Maybe if we bring a small thing over, the landlord's silly son will take a fancy to mung beans? The market price of gilt dolls can't be said now.

Over three million, if the replacement is successful, we will be completely transformed!"

I thought for a while and asked: "Although the gilt doll is precious, there are countless antiques in the Lu family's shops, so why would you focus on this thing?"

Fatty Xiao said: "I don't know! They never follow the routine, but they have been watching for a long time. Maybe they have some purpose behind it! Let's leave them alone... Su Zi, this is a leak, let's go and hit it

Just luck?"

I asked: "What did you say was wrong with Mr. Hu's son just now?"

Fatty Xiao took a sip of wine: "I'm in poor health and lethargic. I always have nightmares when I fall asleep, sleepwalking and seeking death!"

originally.

I heard that the ladies of the Lu family were eyeing the gilt doll, so I made the right choice and avoided the glare for the time being.

But Mr. Hu’s son wanted to give away the treasure because of a nightmare.

My heart is moved.

Xu Qing has a Yuan Bo Strange Bird card that is designed to swallow nightmares!

I asked Fatty Xiao: "Do you have tickets for the channeling yard?"

Fatty Xiao smiled and said, "What a coincidence! The teahouse that holds the Jianghu Trade Fair happens to be in my brother's jurisdiction, and there are tickets. However, we don't have any good items to trade in."

I'm stimulated.

This is substandard treatment!

Whether it is to break into the underworld or to enter the gangs and hustle and bustle, you all have to rely on others to give you tickets.

Antiques are the circle of money, status, and power!

Without these things, it is just like Mr. Zhu Ziqing's famous saying in "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond": "The excitement is theirs, I have nothing."

I said: "In the future, you must earn this kind of tickets based on your own face!"

Fatty Xiao was stunned when he heard this and replied: "Understood!"

I rarely drink.

I was in Lu Senyin's office just now and I didn't drink at all.

But at this moment.

But I finished a full glass of wine and placed the glass heavily on the table: "Breaking in!"

After saying goodbye to Fatty Xiao, I went directly to the hospital.

When I arrived at Xu Qing's ward, no one was there.

The nurse told me that her ward had been converted into a single room.

Moved to a single ward, there were several bouquets of flowers, several fruit baskets, and a dedicated nurse.

Xu Qing was half lying on the bed, his face full of astonishment.

After I entered.

When Xu Qing saw it, he quickly asked the nurse to go out first and told her to close the door.

"Brother Su, what on earth did you do?" Xu Qing asked in confusion.

I:"……"

Xu Qing said: "Hu San, the adopted son of Hong Kong! This morning, the little Hu San came to me with wounds all over his body, crying and crying. He even knelt in front of me and begged me for forgiveness. I told him to get up and die... these are too many

I don’t know who sent the things, the wards were changed, and nurses were hired. Apart from you, I really can’t think of anyone else who has such great abilities!”

Wang Datou is quite efficient in his work.

Not only did he deal with Hu San fiercely, but he also slapped me on the back.
To be continued...