Chapter 64: The Buyer of the Sarcophagus
He was rummaging there, and I was looking around. I didn’t know anything about antiques, and it was impossible to find some useful information like Master Bao.
He also dragged a round stool over and sat in front of the bookshelf, rummaging around. Many of the books were ancient, there were also thread-bound books, and some were hand-copied books.
At first, I was quite scared in this room. After an hour, I didn't find anything unusual, so I happily followed Ren Qiancang and looked at the books on the bookshelf. The bookshelf was so big that it covered the entire wall.
This needs to be checked in one book instead of a whole night?
I also dragged the stool over and started flipping through the book next to Ren Qiancang. For a while, the room was so quiet that there wasn't even a sound.
At this moment, the ringtone of my cell phone suddenly came. I was startled, and the hand-written book bound in thread in my hand fell to the ground.
He looked at me, picked up the book for me, and then answered the phone.
It's very quiet here, and I can also hear the voice coming from the mobile phone. Mr. Bao's voice said: "There is a book that says that a tomb robber in the Ming Dynasty saw the coffin and opened it. What was in the coffin?"
It’s all black water, nothing. That’s it, it can only mean that the thing is from before Qin Dynasty. I’m really upset, after reading it for so long, this is the only information.”
Ren Qiancang said: "Go to rest early. I'm looking for you here too."
After hanging up the phone, we fell into silence again. In this silence, my attention was always on the book in my hand. Suddenly a black figure jumped across my peripheral vision. I looked at the black figure in shock.
The shadow turned out to be a pet cat. It jumped onto the window sill in a few steps and gave a sharp "meow" towards the outside.
Ren Qiancang whispered: "Someone is coming."
"Then let's..."
"It's okay." Ren Qiancang said, "We are the masters here."
As soon as Ren Qiancang finished speaking, he heard a voice outside saying: "Why is there still a cat? I thought all those cats were dead. Who is inside?"
Ren Qiancang shouted outside: "I'm here!"
A man wearing a security uniform ran over outside the window, laughing: "Are you Mr. and Mrs.? Are you reading? I looked at the lights in this yard and thought there was a thief here."
"Does a thief dare to light up like this?" Ren Qiancang said angrily.
The security guard smiled and said: "Yes. Well, I'll go check somewhere else first."
Just as the security guard left, Wu Guang came in. Unlike the security guard, Wu Guang walked in directly instead of standing outside the window.
When he walked in, I still put down the book in my hand a little uneasily, but Ren Qiancang continued to flip through the book motionlessly. Wu Guang said: "Sir, your wife hasn't rested yet?"
"Read some books."
Wu Guang smiled and said: "Look, this yard is empty anyway."
"Uncle Wu, there is Tai Chi on a sarcophagus, and there are many inscriptions on Taoism. What is that used for?" Ren Qiancang asked casually, seemingly without any malice, and even his eyes were still looking at him.
In that book.
Wu Guangyi smiled and said: "I saw the message sent by the library. Sir, I think you should discuss this with some old gentlemen in the library. If you lose the coffin, the loss will be huge.
"
"Maybe if I trade the entire Ren family, I will lose money, but I am willing to trade. I am a dead person, why do I want these? I just want to know what secret is willing to make my father not want me as his son." Ren Qiancang finally said
She raised her eyes to look at him.
Wu Guang still said with a hypocritical smile: "Mr. Ren is good. He has found this place in just a few months. But even if he knows what the coffin is for, what's the use? It's right down here. I
It can't be reached, and neither can you. No one can touch it. It's enough for us to just take care of the well above it."
"How do you know I can't get it? Uncle Wu, do you want to collude with the tomb robbers outside and let them come in and take away the coffin?"
"Huh!" Wu Guang's face turned cold. He couldn't pretend anymore, "I have been in the Ren family for so many years, and your father has never doubted me."
"Uncle Wu, why are you nervous? It's just a joke. I remember all the kindness Uncle Wu did to the Ren family. It's just that he didn't treat me well. Uncle Wu, go to bed early. I will handle the collection matters.
good."
Wu Guang snorted and went out. He had no position to drive us away. As soon as Wu Guang went out, Ren Qiancang said: "He can leave so easily. It seems that there is no information we are looking for here. Go back.
Businessmen.”
"Why are you so sure? Maybe he turned around and left because you were suspicious of him and felt unhappy. Think about it, he has been in the Ren family for so many years and has always had to be reused. But when you came back, he couldn't touch you. You were harassed everywhere.
You are suppressing it. Now you are still doubting his loyalty to the Ren family. No one will be happy if this kind of thing is done to him. If it were me, and my loyalty is still doubted, I would resign directly. "
"His loyalty has been attacked by us many times, but he still stays in the Ren family and refuses to leave."
"He is afraid that if something happens in the well after he leaves, no one will deal with it."
"If he is really hit, he should hate me. Even if he doesn't hate my dad and my grandpa, my dad is dead now, and my grandpa has been dead long ago, but he still insists on staying, so that we can give him a blow occasionally.
I think the reason why he stayed was not because of his loyalty to the Ren family.
, but there is a reason why he cannot leave here. Even if he is not happy here, he must insist on staying. His staying here is not at all a matter of loyalty to the Ren family, but because there are things that have a direct interest in him.
, such as the coffin down there.”
"By the way, Mr. Bao said that thing should be from Taoism. Maybe he really knows what it is for."
As we talked, we walked towards our yard.
Things seem to have completely come to a standstill here, and we can't get any information about the coffin. Just a few peaceful days passed like this. Ren Qiancang and I went out every day, he went to the library, and I went to Lele's.
Occasionally, I would eat with Fei Yi and a certain rich lady, and they would
It was not the case that the two men were left behind. Mr. Bao completely disappeared for a few days. He was not in the yard, school, or at home. Because his mother called me and said that the neighbor gave me some cuttlefish and stayed in the porridge and wanted to call Bao.
I went back to eat. But Baoye’s cell phone couldn’t get through.
Everything is calm, waiting for the news of the collection of the coffin to be reported.
I also made a special trip to that site to see the replies to that message. Many posts followed the question of the details of the coffin. But no one could say anything. This calm was broken on the fifth day.
of.
That afternoon, while I was still in Lele's shop, I received a call from Ren Qiancang. He was on the phone and asked me to take a taxi over for dinner. Master Bao was also there, as was Ye Yan, as well as the buyer of the sarcophagus.
The place chosen by Ren Qiancang was very close to the pedestrian street, so there was no need to take a taxi. I walked there in seven or eight minutes. It was a relatively large restaurant with private rooms and good security facilities, which was good for preventing theft.
listen.
When I walked into the private room, everyone inside was already in place. There were also waiters starting to serve food.
When I walked over, I was still wondering if what I saw would be a group of tomb robbers. But sitting at the round table, in addition to the familiar Bao Ye and Ye Yan, there were also any other people sitting at the round table.
Outside Qiancang, there were two men, both of whom looked very sunny, not like tomb robbers at all.
The two of them don't look very old, one is around forty and the other is in his twenties and thirties. Ren Qiancang is wearing a more formal suit because he is at work, and Ye Yan is wearing a
Casual suits. Compared with them, the two men looked much more casual. The old man was wearing a T-shirt. The young man was wearing a black windbreaker and jeans. When I walked in, Bao
I shouted: "Aunt Shang Shang, what took you so long?"
"I came here. It's only a few steps anyway."
The young man among them looked at me and asked curiously: "She is still so young, why did Master Bao call me aunt?"
"She was given to Uncle Ren. Uncle Ren is already forty, so it's right to call him uncle. Then isn't the uncle's wife an aunt?"
The young man looked at me, nodded, and stretched out his hand: "Hello. I'm @@"
I was a little confused, but I still extended my hand politely and said, "Hello." Ren Qiancang helped me arrange a chair and sat next to him.
The dishes were all served, and the table was full, and the business started to get down to business.@@asked first: "We are here very much to know the original intention of the Ren family to acquire this sarcophagus."
Ren Qiancang smiled and said: "Then what's the reason for your acquisition? This kind of thing has a price but no market, so it won't be of much use if you get it."
"It's very useful." Another old man yelled. Actually, it wasn't a yell, but his voice had this broken gong tone.
Because of his voice, which was also relatively loud, I was slightly startled. I unconsciously retracted my extended chopsticks, picked up the cup, and took a sip of water to cover up my gaffe.
22 Then he said to the old man: "Uncle Wu Ao, let me tell you. Don't scare Shang Shang with your voice."
Listening to these words, my heart trembled slightly. Speaking from a woman’s intuition, I felt uneasy. This was the first time @@ and I met, and there was no need for him to let others down just because of someone else’s loud voice.
They shut up. This made me embarrassed and said quickly: "It's okay, it's okay, you don't need to worry about me, just talk about your business."
In order to resolve the embarrassment, Ren Qiancang said: "For example? What can it be used for?"
"We won't say anything until we find the coffin."
Chapter completed!