After two steps back, the two entered the Zhou family's gold shop where the door was wide open.

Ancient gold shops were different from modern gold shops. After all, there were no glass display cabinets in ancient times, and they were located in a border town with complex conditions. The shops did not place gold ornaments everywhere.

The Zhou family's golden shop has no magnificent scenes, but is arranged similarly to the ordinary pawn shop. Manager Zhou sat behind the counter, and could only hear the jingling sounds, and even if he approached, he couldn't see his head.

The counter repairs are really high.

"Shopkeeper."

Chen Yuan shouted, and the jingling finally stopped. The young shopkeeper Zhou put down his work, stood up and looked out of the counter, "I wonder what the two men are saying to come?"

Because of this outfit, coupled with his unpretentious figure, he was treated as a yamen runner by someone he didn't know. Chen Yuan was used to it, "Can the jewelry made by your Zhou family gold shop retain the patterns?"

It takes more protection from a yamen runner to do a gold shop. Manager Zhou is kind to Chen Yuan and Zeng Shuisheng, "Yes, I wonder if the two men want to check which family made gold jewelry in which year?"

Chen Yuan was not very familiar with previous emperors of Nanli Kingdom. People who were used to the dates of the Western Calendar were difficult to convert the emperor's year name to the emperor for a while.

Moreover, Chen Yuan had doubts about Sheng Dongyue's identity who died in the Sheng family's ancestral home. At that time, Yu Shouqian could not be in the Sheng family's hometown, but there was a mark of the same auspicious cloud pattern as the longevity lock appeared on his butt.

Chen Yuan couldn't tell the reason, so he simply turned the drawing board to the page where Zeng Rong painted it, raised it high and handed it to Manager Zhou, "What kind of auspicious cloud pattern are you creating here?"

Manager Zhou leaned forward and looked at it, and then said the source, "This auspicious cloud pattern is designed by my grandfather. Many customers like to use it, so it's not special."

This answer disappointed Chen Yuan very much.

But I heard from Manager Zhou again, "But the auspicious cloud pattern in the picture I handed to me seems to have added crescent moons to hide behind the auspicious clouds. Because the drawing is not very clear, I cannot be sure either. If it is the moth eyebrows, the crescent moon, the wing moon, the full moon, it should be added by Mr. Sheng on the pattern draft drawn by my grandfather, and the long-lived lock customized to celebrate the birth of his daughter Dongyue..."

What is the moon with the moon and the crescent moon? Chen Yuan didn't see it at all on the drafts drawn by Zeng Chi's wild painting skills.

But Manager Zhou revealed the origin of this drawing jewelry in one sentence. He should have known the design drafts of the family. Chen Yuan did not doubt what he said, so he could not hide his excitement.

Before she could ask again, Manager Zhou said again, "This draft is too unclear. I can't see all the details clearly. If there is no loss of moon or waning moon on it, it will not be the long-lived lock customized by Mr. Sheng for his daughter."

For some reason, Chen Yuan's heart was filled with intuition, and he felt that this matter was very important. "Why did Manager Zhou say that if there was no loss moon and the waning moon there, then who customized what kind of gold jewelry for whom?"

"It was a permanent lock created by Shengdongyue to my father. The woman hopes that the relationship between husband and wife will last for a long time. She naturally does not want the relationship to be full and lose. So she specifically asked my father to remove the patterns of the deficit moon and the waning moon."

Concentric lock!

This word was like a thunderbolt, slashing Chen Yuan's mind that was in a daze and unable to touch the direction, and also dispelled the fog in front of her.

More than one lock!

If so, then the suspicion in her mind was explained.

To confirm the speculation, Chen Yuan still has to see the patterns with his own eyes. "Please ask Manager Zhou to find out the patterns of these two locks for me."

"Hold on."

The yamen runners come to find fault, so the shopkeepers burn the incense.

As long as it is not to cause trouble for one's own business, how can a person who opens the business not cooperate with the investigation of the yamen runners?

Manager Zhou left the counter and went to the back cabinet to search for two old yellow booklets. He turned to the page where Mr. Sheng customized long-lived lock and Sheng Dongyue customized concentric lock was placed on the counter and pushed it to Chen Yuan's head.

Chen Yuan reached out to pick up the first booklet, which contained the first draft of the Long Life Lock, the revised draft and the final style, as well as the time, the guest's name, the name of the person who designed the draft, and the request made by Mr. Sheng under the first draft.

I hope my daughter will be rich and peaceful in the winter moon. The added patterns have auspicious meanings and fit the two words "Winter Moon". Eight or nine out of ten things are unsatisfactory in the world. If you don't want everything to be as good as you wish, half of it is enough. Therefore, there is no need to avoid the waning moon and the deficit moon. Follow the laws of heaven. If the worst is too good, it will naturally come.

The design pattern is a moon behind the clouds. It is sorted in sequence by the new moon, Emei moon, the upper crescent moon, the gradually full moon, the gradually declining moon, the lower crescent moon, and the waning moon (the lower Emei moon).

Zhou's gold shop's painting skills are more stable and clearer than Zeng Chi's drawings through memory paintings, and the details of each moon can be seen more clearly.

But Zeng Jung Written can still remember the style of a certificate 17 years ago and remember some details to draw it, which is also very impressive.

By comparing the two, Chen Yuan can be sure that the paintings of Zeng Rongzhu were indeed long-lived locks customized by Mr. Sheng for Sheng Dongyue.

There is nothing to doubt about this anymore.

It can be seen from the guest's message that Mr. Sheng is not a man who is forced, and he is full of fatherly love for Sheng Dongyue, his daughter.

Chen Yuan picked up the second booklet.

The auspicious cloud patterns on the outer ring are indeed exactly the same, they are all classic cloud patterns on Zhou's gold shop.

There is also a moon behind the clouds, sorted in sequence by the new moon, Emei moon, the upper crescent moon, the gradually full moon, and the lower crescent moon.

Compared with the two artworks, the concentric lock customized by the mid-winter moon does not have any gradual deterioration of the convex moon and the waning moon.

Sheng Dongyue did not leave any comments, "Can you meet your father? I want to know what Sheng Dongyue said at that time."

Manager Zhou lowered his eyes sadly, "My father came back from escorting gold ingots in Chaozhou Prefecture three years ago and encountered bandits killing people and robbing goods, and he had already passed away."

"I'm really sorry. I just came to Weiyu County not long ago and don't know the situation." When I first arrived, I was so embarrassed. Chen Yuan bowed sincerely to apologize.

"It's not a problem." Manager Zhou also saw Chen Yuan's identity at this moment. Seeing Zeng Shuisheng beside her, he thought about it carefully and knew who she was.

I knew that although she was a coroner, she was highly valued by the magistrate. She should be investigating the murder of Yu Shouqian.

Whether it is better to sell one of Shengfu or one of them, Yu Zhou's gold shop is beneficial or not.

Thinking of this, the young shopkeeper Zhou took the initiative to speak, "When my father is still alive, I once sighed that Shengdongyue urged her father to build the Tongxin lock, and she was planning to take Mr. Yu to lock the marriage after Qingming Festival. But she died just two days after she got the lock. I don't know if this lock has been handed over to Mr. Yu."

In this way, Old Master Sheng may not know the existence of this concentric lock.

The lock appeared just so coincidental, just two days before the fire broke out in the ancestral home of Shengfu.
Chapter completed!