That night, at around 10 o'clock, I followed Lao Mian into Huozhuang Village next to the reservoir. Finally, Lao Mian took me to a small bungalow. The surroundings were very quiet. Through the window, I saw a light on in the house.
Lao Mian stepped aside and said, "You go in, it's not convenient for me to go in."
Taking a deep breath, I straightened my clothes and hairstyle, then straightened my back and pushed the door open.
In the room, an old scholar with a wrinkled face was sitting in a wheelchair, and a young man with a flat head standing next to him had an indifferent expression. This man was the old scholar's personal bodyguard, Northeastern Xiaokai from Tagou Martial Arts School.
I haven't seen him for several years, and the old scholar is even older. Not to mention his white hair, his wrinkled face is like a piece of dead tree bark covering his face. I roughly calculated that he should be no less than 98 years old this year.
The old scholar was leaning on his wheelchair with his eyes closed. If it weren't for the string of jade beads spinning in his hand, I would have thought he was dead.
I took two steps forward to get closer to the wheelchair, but Xiaokai blocked me with his hand.
The old scholar didn't open his eyes to look at me or speak. I wasn't in a hurry, so I sat on a chair nearby.
The two sides fell into silence for a short time.
Finally, the old scholar slowly opened his eyes. Unlike his old face, his eyes looked very clear, like that of a young man.
He said in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Xiangzi, how many years have we not seen each other?"
I said: "Old man, it has been three and a half years since we said goodbye to Heishui City in Yinchuan."
"Well, is your master's thousand-year-old vixen in good health? Is he dead?"
"Thanks to you, my master is in good health."
The old scholar suddenly covered his mouth and coughed violently. Xiao Kai, who was taking care of him, immediately handed over a towel.ωωw..net
The old scholar wiped his mouth, pointed at me and said, "Xiao Xiang, do you know that you are going to die this time? I ask you, tell me honestly, have you ever killed anyone?"
"No!"
I immediately stood up and said excitedly: "I, Xiang Yunfeng, swear to God here! I usually don't even dare to kill a chicken! How dare I kill someone!"
The old scholar coughed twice more and said, "It's okay that I haven't killed anyone, so that's probably only about ten years. But unfortunately, by the time you come out, the children of your confidante will probably be in elementary school."
When I heard this, I thought to myself: "I'm not frightened! Old man, who are you trying to scare? Are you afraid of you? Don't forget, you were also a tomb robber in the beginning! You are not clean either!"
Of course, I dare not say these words openly.
I said: "Old man, to you, I am just an insignificant little thief. You can make a fool of me with just your words! The key is whether I, a little person, can bring you great value."
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The old scholar turned the jade bracelet in his hand and nodded: "Keep talking."
I immediately said: "We can make a deal. I have discovered many large tombs in my travels over the years, and quite a few of them are still intact, but they have not been discovered! Just pretend that I have not come to Handan this time.
Then I will immediately write out a list of the locations of the tombs and hand them over with both hands. Isn’t your ultimate goal to protect cultural relics?"
The old scholar frowned and asked me: "Oh? You won't eat it if there is a big tomb?"
"It's not that we don't want to eat, it's that we haven't had time to do anything yet!"
He thought for a while and asked Xiaokai to hand me a pen and paper, saying that he would write down a few locations of the tombs and I would take a look.
I thought back quickly in my mind, and I was thinking about the contents of the notebook that Lord Wu gave me! I didn't lie to him, that notebook did record ancient tombs in many places.
I first wrote down the locations of the two Warring States Tombs in Jize and Zaozhuang, and then showed them to him.
The old scholar took the paper, looked at it twice, frowned and asked, "If you dare to lie to me, do you know the consequences?"
I immediately expressed my position: "I know! But I can only guarantee that the information on these ancient tombs is true. As for whether they have been stolen in the past two years, I cannot guarantee it!"
The old scholar returned the paper to me and asked me to continue writing.
I wrote hard and wrote out most of the information about the ancient tombs recorded in the Northern Notebook. There were at least forty ancient tombs that had not been discovered.
The old scholar took it over and looked at it carefully for a long time. You could see a little excitement in his eyes.
Then, he folded the paper and handed it to Xiaokai, and said to me: "I can make this deal with you. I will turn a blind eye this time, but I can only guarantee that these agreements are only with me."
It's valid while you're still alive, do you understand what I mean?"
"Then I'll pack my things and leave Handan immediately when I get back!"
I understood what he meant. He can pretend he has not seen me while he is alive, but when he dies one day in the future, all agreements and agreements will be invalid. At that time, it will be up to me whether I will be liquidated or I will continue to live happily.
Lucky for you.
"No, you can't leave yet," the old scholar suddenly shook his head and said, "You have to continue to stay here at Jiu Qingning, and you have to do something for me."
"you say."
"What I want you to do is very simple, listen... No matter what reason you use, I want you to convince that woman Jiu Qingning, and then let her take the Daimyo's goods to the south to sell them.
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"Why?" I asked with a frown.
Xiao Kai helped the old scholar stand up from the wheelchair. The old scholar walked up to me with his hands behind his back. He said coldly: "In recent years, some cultural relic dealers in the south have been too rampant and don't take us people seriously at all."
Here, old man, I must say this, this batch of goods from the north is the most delicious bait, I use it to catch big fish in the deep sea in the south."
I immediately understood what he meant.
At that time, the majority of cultural relics smuggled out of the country were in the south. The north accounted for 30% of this matter, and the south accounted for 70%! And among the 30% share in the north, Luoyang alone
The four brothers of the Song family alone accounted for more than 20%!
Let me put it bluntly. This is the top priority to combat the smuggling of cultural relics. You must know that many national treasure-level cultural relics are shipped abroad by boat in the south! At the same time, I am secretly glad, because the head and I have always followed the principles over the years.
That is: "Goods are sold within, not outside!" This time the old scholar's main target is not people like us!
The old scholar took a sip of tea and suddenly asked: "Xiao Xiang, I also want to ask you, how much did you sell that bird for later?"
"Bird? What bird? I don't know." I pretended not to understand.
The old scholar reminded me with an expressionless face: "I'm talking about the national treasure Wonderbird, the one from Blackwater City."
"Ah? Didn't that thing get taken away by you in the end? There was also the Buddha of Tears." I continued to act crazy, and he couldn't get the truth out of me anyway.
The old scholar kept staring at me.
After a few seconds, he moved his eyes away from my face, looked out the window, and said calmly: "Go ahead and remember our deal. In addition, I hope you will never become like your master, because like that
People can make people feel scared.”
After I came out, I felt restless. What did the old scholar's last secret phrase mean?
...
(At the time, I thought I was so good that I could negotiate terms with such a big shot. But a long time later, I realized that the reason why I was able to save the day this time was because the old scholar had done it in Yinchuan three years ago.
I agreed to the first condition! That condition is to let me go in the future.)
(I don’t know what I paid for it, but it seems that I bought a safety insurance for me a few years ago.)
(In other words, there are some secrets hidden in Blackwater City that I don’t know about when I returned to the city...)
