Master Tianzun could easily help her realize this wish, because Magistrate Yang, who was far away on the way to Beijing, was unable to find out anything even if he wanted to.
However, after receiving the souvenir from Magistrate Yang, Magistrate Tang packed up his things and went to chat with the Ming Governor for a while, and then got an excuse to go to Luojiang County on business.
Before leaving, Magistrate Tang thought for a moment and decided to meet Man Bao, so he delayed his departure and waited in front of the drug store. From a distance, Man Bao carried her small basket on her back before arriving at the intersection.
The county magistrate got out of the car and waved to her from a distance.
Zhou Lang returned home yesterday. Man Bao knew that everything was fine at home. When he saw Magistrate Tang, he ran up to him, looked up at him and asked, "Master Tang, do you have something to do with me? Should I?"
You’re not going to ask my dad and my brother-in-law again, are you?”
Magistrate Tang looked at Man Bao and smiled, "Man Bao, what kind of people do you think your father and brother-in-law are?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said, "I have never met my brother-in-law, but from what I heard from my parents, brothers, and people in the village, my brother-in-law is a good and loyal man."
"What about your father?"
Man Bao said: "My father is timid, kind-hearted, and loving and protective of his family. He is a good man."
Magistrate Tang looked at Man Bao and was sure that she was not lying, but he was also sure that the mangy man in Yang Heshu's confession was lying, so he sighed: "Man Bao, people are the most complicated things in the world, especially the human heart. He
You are kind and kind here, but not necessarily elsewhere. Have you ever thought that your father is a bad person?"
Man Bao shook his head and said firmly: "My father will not be a bad person. Mr. Tang, are we friends?"
County Magistrate Tang hesitated for a moment, fearing that Manbao would talk to him about favors at this time and also fearing that she would not mention anything, but in the end he nodded and said: "Of course."
"Then tell me, what did my father do?" Man Bao affirmed: "My father hasn't gone out recently. My fourth brother has gone home and asked about it. My father has never even left the village entrance. Even if the maniac says
Nothing can be trusted. He is a gambler. Can you believe what a gambler says?"
Magistrate Tang looked at her neck and asked, "Do you have a longevity lock on your body?"
Man Bao was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
County Magistrate Tang asked: "Can you show it to me?"
Man Bao vaguely guessed something, hesitated for a moment and then took out the longevity lock, untied it and showed it to him.
Yang Heshu had attached the style of the longevity lock to the letter and sent it to him, but Magistrate Tang still took a closer look at the longevity lock. As Yang Heshu said, it was not something that ordinary silversmiths could make.
As soon as he lowered his head and met Man Bao's shining eyes, Magistrate Tang pondered for a moment and asked, "How did you get this lock?"
Man Bao said: "I have been wearing it since I was a child."
Magistrate Tang returned the longevity lock to her and said: "Manbao, this lock is not something your family can afford, especially the Zhou family eleven or twelve years ago. For the sake of my friends, I can only
I’ve told you so much.”
The magistrate of Tang County knew that Man Bao and Bai Shan were intelligent, so he rarely treated them as children, and most of the time treated them as equals.
He was not as cautious as the Zhou family and Bai family, and felt that this kind of thing should not involve children, so he was willing to tell Man Bao, and at the same time, he hoped that she could do Zhou Jin's work.
He didn't trust Zhou Jin, but Zhou Man's character could still be trusted. He didn't think Zhou Man would go out of his way to protect his father when he knew he was doing evil.
Magistrate Tang got on the car and whispered to his entourage: "Let's go."
He didn't tell Man Bao that he was going to Luojiang County for business, and Man Bao naturally wouldn't have guessed it. She watched Magistrate Tang's carriage go away in a daze, and then she looked down at the longevity lock in her hand until she couldn't see it anymore.
.
She has worn this around her neck since she was a child. Her parents said that they specially gave it to her because she was in poor health. They wanted her to live a long life, so they must not take it off.
Can't even lose it.
When she was a child, she thought it was too heavy and secretly took it off and stuffed it under her pillow. Her mother even complained about it several times.
Man Bao turned the longevity lock in his hand over and over, but he didn't see any difference between this longevity lock and others. At most, the silver pattern on it was more unique and beautiful...
Silver streak...
Man Bao's heart moved, and he stared at the longevity lock in his hand carefully.
Xiao Gu saw Man Bao standing in front of the door and didn't come in, so he peeked out. Seeing her in a daze, he called her twice. When she didn't respond, he ran to the backyard to find Dr. Ji, "
Doctor Ji, please go out and take a look, Man Bao and Magistrate Tang have become stupid while talking."
Doctor Ji put down the medicine pestle in his hand and went out to see. Man Bao had already put the longevity lock back on. When he saw Doctor Ji, he raised his hand and said hello sadly.
Doctor Ji smiled and asked, "What's going on?"
Manbao thought for a while, took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from his backpack, and immediately drew the silver pattern of the longevity lock that he had just written down, and asked: "Doctor Ji, have you ever seen such a silver pattern of the longevity lock?
?”
Doctor Ji took one look at it and smiled and said: "It looks pretty good. Do you want to get a longevity lock? Then you have to find a good silver shop. The silver pattern looks unique, so I'm afraid it's not easy to get it."
Only then did Man Bao remember that since it was a silver pattern, he had to ask a silversmith. For medical treatment, he had to ask a doctor, for reading, he had to ask a teacher. If he wanted to ask about longevity locks, he had to ask a silversmith.
Man Bao crumpled the paper and threw it away. Before the patient came, Man Bao lay on the table and carefully drew the entire pattern of his longevity lock.
After seeing the doctor at noon, Manbao went to find Yinlou early in the morning, carrying a basket on his back.
Man Bao took the style to the shopkeeper of the silver house. The shopkeeper took one look and said with a smile: "This is a double-life long-life lock. Although it is not easy to make, our silver house has a master craftsman who can make it. If you want it, I can do it."
If you order one in our store, the labor will be higher."
"How much higher?"
The shopkeeper said: "It depends on how good you want it, as little as seven or eight taels, or as much as twenty or thirty taels."
The silver used for a long-life lock is less than one tael for a small one, and only about two or three taels for a large one. In the end, the labor cost alone is so much?
Man Bao thought for a while, took out her longevity lock from her clothes, showed it to the shopkeeper, and asked, "What if it's like this?"
The shopkeeper took the longevity lock and looked at it, looked up at Manbao in surprise, then returned the longevity lock with both hands, and said with a smile: "Since you can buy the longevity lock made by Master Xia, why don't you go there again?"
Buy one? It’s hard for our silversmiths to make such a long-lasting lock."
Man Bao said: "I don't think it's much different from other longevity locks. I thought you could use them too."
The shopkeeper smiled, thought for a moment and took one of their longevity locks. It looked about the same size as Man Bao. He put the longevity lock on Man Bao's palm and asked with a smile: "Miss, can you do it?"
Feel it, what, are they different?"
Man Bao felt it carefully, weighed it and said, "Mine seems to be heavier?"