Chapter 32 Chapter Thirty-Two
After talking for a long time, the old man saw that I still didn’t understand. He sighed and said, it’s too late for you to learn these things now, and these harmful things don’t appear much now, and because of the relationship between the wood and the terrain, the effectiveness It is not as good as before, so it is not something that can be explained clearly in a sentence or two, and I will teach you slowly later.
Just when I was obsessed with these unique decorations, a tangy and pleasant fragrance entered my heart secretly. Looking back, Li Xin was already very familiar and started to make tea.
At the beginning, the fragrance is tangy, rich and lingering, and the room is full of fragrance. If you sniff carefully, there seems to be a variety of fragrances in the fragrance, sometimes like orchid musk, and sometimes like osmanthus.
Seeing this tea, he brought it up for everyone to taste.I am very surprised, even if I don't know much about the tea ceremony, I know that this tea is generally not drunk and must be thrown away. The insider said: "wash the tea".
However, Li Xin gave everyone the first tea, which was beyond everyone's expectations. The two old men did not hesitate at all, took a sip, smashed it for a while, said "good tea", and put it in their hands. I drank my tea in one gulp.
I suffocated the tea in my hand a long time ago, and I didn't feel anything unusual at all.
On the contrary, our old man took a deep breath after drinking this cup of tea, and he took a deep breath after he was depressed for a long time.
"Lightning strikes Dahongpao in Wuyi Mountain in Lingnan. It's such a good tea that I haven't had it for many years. I never thought I could drink it here." The old man even raised his cup to signal Li Xin to pour tea.
Li Xin's eyes lit up, he didn't expect the old man to be an expert, so he poured another glass in a hurry.
The old man took another mouthful, tasted it slowly and swallowed it slowly.
"It's mellow but not thick, fragrant but not strong, straight but not strong, beautiful but not lewd, the tea has five colors and six flavors, only the half-grown Thunderbolt Dahongpao in the Wujian in the south of Lingnan has this taste." .” The old man began to drop his book bag.
Li Xin was even more delighted, and hurriedly sat closer: "Since the old man knows the origin of this tea, do you know the exact location of this tea tree?"
The old man opened his eyes, looked at Li Xin for a long time, and smiled: "This was a tribute back then. Only the old man in Wuling knew where the half of the Thunderbolt Dahongpao was."
The Dahongpao that was struck by lightning, hence the name Siyi, is the Dahongpao that has been struck by lightning.Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a poor scholar who went to Beijing to take an exam. When he passed Lingnan, he fell ill on the road. Fortunately, the old abbot of a temple saw him and made him a bowl of tea. Sure enough, he recovered from his illness. The number one scholar was also recruited as the son-in-law of the east bed.One spring day, the number one scholar came to the temple to thank him. Accompanied by the old abbot, he shouted and embraced. When he arrived at the place where the tea trees were planted, he saw three tall tea trees growing on the cliff, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and clusters of tender leaves. The buds, shining purple in the sun, are truly lovely.The old abbot said, last year you suffered from bloating, and it was cured by making tea with this kind of tea.
A long time ago, when tea trees germinated in spring, drums would be played to summon a group of monkeys to put on red clothes and pants, climb up the cliff to pick tea leaves, and store them after frying, which can cure all diseases.After hearing this, the number one scholar asked to collect a box to pay tribute to the emperor.
The next day, the temple burned incense and candles, beat drums and rang bells, and summoned monks and monks to pick tea.Everyone came to burn incense and worship under the tea tree, and shouted in unison, "Tea sprouts!"After the number one scholar brought tea to Beijing, he met the queen with a bloated stomach and was bedridden.The champion immediately offered tea to the queen to drink, and sure enough, the tea cured her illness.The emperor was overjoyed, and handed a Dahongpao to the number one scholar, and asked him to go to the tea mountain to reward him on his behalf.Along the way, salutes were fired and candles were brightly lit. When they arrived at the tea mountain, the champion ordered a woodcutter to climb halfway up the mountain and put the big red robe bestowed by the emperor on the tea tree to show the emperor's favor.Strange to say, when the Dahongpao was opened, the buds and leaves of the three tea trees shone red in the sun, and everyone said that it was the Dahongpao that was dyed red.Later, people called these three tea trees "Dahongpao".
After Dahongpao became famous, some local evil gentry wanted to monopolize the tea tree, so they sent evil slaves to shovel the tea tree back overnight. Unexpectedly, there was a thunderstorm that night, and the evil slave who stole the tea tree was killed, and at the same time, the tea tree was broken, leaving only half of the charred black Who would have thought that new buds would sprout again in the coming year? Since then, only half of the real Dahongpao is left, and it produces only a few catties every year.
After hearing this story, our old man laughed and said that this is a local legend that is unbelievable, but the really delicious Dahongpao does grow in the deep valley.Just because the location of the Dahongpao plant is really ingenious, surrounded by mist all year round and not lacking in light, the quality of the tea is extremely high.
In the past, this catty of tea leaves went straight to Da Nei as a tribute.Now this tea tree can only produce seven taels of dry tea every year, and the price is sky-high at the annual tea fair.
Li Xin is quite proud of this: "The only one in the world who knows this tea tree is the old man's family in Wuling. There are probably no more than three families in China who drink this tea."
"Blow it, is it so expensive?" I took another sip.
"Every year, these seven taels of tea are always taken away by a large Japanese consortium. Since last year, several of our tea merchants joined hands to take away these seven taels of tea, and divided the tea according to the proportion of investment. Today, the small Japanese I will never drink this delicious tea again." Li Xin seemed very proud of what he had done, and persuaded everyone to have another cup.
I asked casually: "It's really rare to see a Japanese consortium that likes Chinese tea so much, is it that consortium?" Li Xin thought for a while and said, "What is it called Zhenzang Co., Ltd., the chairman is a man in his eighties. The old man is a China hand, and he especially likes Chinese culture."
"Well, Japanese culture originated in China, and it's not surprising that many Japanese people prefer Chinese culture." Lao Zhong took over the topic and turned the topic back to the purpose of this time: "Mr. Li, it's like this , The purpose of our visit this time is not only to solve the possible problems in your house, but also to ask Mr. Li for help."
Facts have proved that the old clock rarely goes wrong, but this time, he really delayed things.Afterwards, we realized how important this discussion on tea culture was to us. If Lao Zhong hadn’t changed the subject and kept asking, we wouldn’t have been groping in the dark for a long time like blind men, let alone You will be led by the nose everywhere.Later, our old man sighed, it seems that there is a destiny in the dark, and there is no calamity that should be experienced.He is an idealist thought. As a supporter of Marxist-Leninist materialism, I despise him from the bottom of my heart.
Li Xin slowly read the photos brought by Lao Zhong, and then listened to Lao Zhong's general description of the situation. Of course, Lao Zhong also introduced with reservations, only saying that these guests may be related to a pile of illegal cultural relics In the case of buying and selling, I know that this guest was invited by Mr. Li. Could you please arrange for Mr. Li to meet together.
Li Xin frowned when he heard this.
Seeing that Li Xin was in a difficult situation, Lao Zhong planned to find a way to persuade Li Xin to help him, but he didn't know that Li Xin said first: "Teachers, it's not for me to refute your face, if you want me to persuade these guests to let you search their luggage, Or ask them, then I really can't do it. These few guests are either rich or expensive, and they are all heavyweight figures in the Southeast Asian Chinese circle in Hong Kong. In fact, I don't have a deep friendship with them, but everyone is Director of the Greater China Tea Culture Association, nothing more. Speaking of their trip to Xinzheng this time, I actually did not arrange it. It was a large chamber of commerce in our province who arranged for them to come to worship their ancestors, but it was only in name that I came It’s just an invitation. In fact, the deeper purpose is to invite them to invest in some projects in the Central Plains. So if you want to investigate them, if there are no formal procedures and orders, I personally think that you can think of some other ways if you don’t have to be so businesslike.”
Li Xin made it very clear, I'm sorry, these people are too important to me, I don't have the ability and I don't want to offend them.If you need me to introduce or introduce you, that's of course no problem, but if I offend these big guys because of this, I'm not that stupid.
The businessman is indeed a businessman. Although we seem to have helped him a lot, although it seems that he is very grateful to us, although he has shown great sincerity, he still refused without hesitation when it comes to his principles of doing things. .We expected this, as we hadn't expected that this stranger whom we had met for the first time a few hours earlier would be of any special help to us.
But Li Xin still provided us with a lot of useful information. There are three important guests who came to Xinzheng this time. One is a leader in the auction industry and Mr. Cai Dasheng, a leader in the gold, silver, jewelry and jade industry, and Mr. Zhang Zhenhua, the boss of the famous China Star Films.According to the information we got, the suspected cultural relics are in the oversized suitcase of Mr. Yang Weichen, the boss of the auction industry.
How can we confirm that Mr. Yang's suitcase is really the cultural relic in the photo?Comrades in the public security department are also quite troubled. If they rashly apply for a search warrant, it’s fine to find cultural relics. It's too big, and it's impossible for this matter to end well.
How to get those suspected cultural relics, it takes a lot of brains.However, I believe that according to the two old evils' ways of doing things, they will definitely play their cards unreasonably, and there must be surprises.
As expected, the two old men did not disappoint me. On the way back, they only made a few phone calls to finalize a plan. This plan seemed to me to be more like the idea of Song Xudong and us, born in the 1980s, rather than The scheme of these two old and refined old men turned out to be: "Go in and steal those luggage, and see if there is anything we want in it."... At that time, I shouted, what is this? What a bad idea, the two old men were immediately blushed.
Although Li Xin expressed his apologies repeatedly at the time of parting, we still expressed our gratitude to him, and we got a very useful message, that is, there will be a small magic show in the multifunctional theater in the hotel after the dinner tonight The performance was performed by a world-renowned Chinese magician who came to Xinzheng Baizu in a low-key way to dedicate friendship to several big shots.
"Who? Who's coming? Is it Liu Qian?" I was very interested. Although many of Liu Qian's magic tricks were relatively small in scale and didn't look so soul-stirring, they were still very interesting.
Old Zhong Tou'er smiled: "This magician is called King Louis. It is said that he is very famous in Las Vegas. He is also the pride of the local Chinese in the American Chinese circle like Yao Ming."
Our old man was very happy when he heard the magic trick: "What kind of magic trick, the hands are too slow, and the work is too rough. If we want to see the magic trick, why don't we plan to hand it over to the Public Security Bureau? If the kid acts deceptive, What kind of master, it's not his stature at all."
I know who he is referring to, the kid we brought up from under the tomb, the guy who can cleverly send people into the sky and disappear, the most mysterious and fantasy family among the five tomb robber families... the king of the Hejian Wang family Kui.
I suddenly had an idea, maybe we can use this magic show to do something, for example, prolong the time of this show, so that our people can successfully steal the suitcase, if it is really in our underground palace For cultural relics, the civet cat was exchanged for the prince to find a high-quality imitation handicraft and put it in, so that the dumb man would suffer from eating coptis. If it was just a handicraft, he would return the original as if nothing had happened.
After hearing my plan in the car, Lao Zhong had the audacity to say that’s how he discussed it with my grandfather just now.
Immediately, the two of them began to ask me about the details of the implementation of the entire plan, and there was a very important link that I must pay attention to, that is, the entire performance of King Louis was only 20 minutes long, and it was impossible for us to complete everything in such a short period of time. action.I laughed at that time, my two elders, have you forgotten, we have an illusion trump card in our hands, Wang Kui.We can ask Li Xin to convey to King Louis the wish of a master of folk magic to perform on the same stage with him. In this way, we can increase the duration of the show, so that we can leisurely steal the suitcase and check the contents.
"Well, this idea is okay, let's try it." It can be seen that our old man is very happy but still suppressing his emotions.
"Will this action violate the law?" Song Xudong, a good baby who was driving, asked carefully.
The three of us directly ignored his words, ignored his existence, and continued to discuss the details of the implementation below. Song Xudong knew what a stupid question he asked, so he just shut up.
When it was time to get off the car, the old man patted Old Zhong on the shoulder with a sincere expression: "It's all up to you, whether you can persuade that boy Wang Kui to perform the magic show willingly is the key to the success of this operation. "After saying this, he turned around and kicked me, "You child, you are not at all reassuring. If you don't study hard, you run back and forth, and see if I don't break your legs when this is over."
I'm not afraid of the old man breaking my leg at all, because I understand that he said these words to Lao Zhong, meaning: our grandpa and grandson are just here to help, so you must deal with Wang Kui, otherwise, all The consequences can only be borne by you.
What a cunning old fox Old Zhong was, how could the old man fail to hear the overtones, smiled wryly, and got into the small building in the backyard.I know that there are a few young people living there. Although their freedom is not restricted, they are not willing to wander around because the cicada poison on their bodies will attack at any time, so staying here for one more day will reduce the safety factor. One point higher.
Things went smoothly beyond my expectation. I thought that Lao Zhong would have to spend a lot of time to deal with the little brother of the Wang family who didn't dump us before. Who knew that Lao Zhong came back in less than five minutes and said: "It's done, No problem."
Now that the first difficulty has been overcome, we proceeded to the second step. Song Xudong called Li Xin and asked Li Xin to propose to the world's top magic master Louis Wang that a local folk magic master would like to join hands tonight to come from afar Presented a magic feast for distinguished guests.
After setting up this matter, our main headache is to imitate a Nine Dragons Jade Plaque and a Nine Treasures Dragon Seal Box in the shortest possible time.In case it is a real cultural relic, and we have nothing to replace it, it would be embarrassing.It would be best if the thing could be realistic enough to fool the average expert.
Old Zhong Tou'er took over the job without hesitation, and began to call around to recruit skilled craftsmen to imitate the Nine-Treasure Dragon Seal Box and Nine-Dragon Jade Plaque.Our old man folded his arms and looked at Lao Zhong with a half-smile and kept making phone calls, contacting skilled craftsmen everywhere to beg them to quickly make an old cultural relic, but in the end he either said that he was unwell recently and couldn’t hold a knife, or that he himself I have not yet returned to Xinzheng in other places, and I will be able to imitate several pieces when I return to Xinzheng in a few days.In a few days, people will board the plane tomorrow, and now until the evening performance, there are only about three hours for us to use.
After bumping into walls one after another, Lao Zhong began to sigh, lamenting that this man would be unlucky to drink cold water and get stuffed between his teeth, and at the critical moment when he should be using his life, no one could be found.
Our grandpa didn't answer the question, and still looked at the old clock with a smile like an ant in a hot pot.I suddenly thought of a question, and I was going to remind Lao Zhong, but I have never seen Lao Zhong in distress, so I want to take this opportunity to appreciate it for a while.
However, I soon realized that Lao Zhong was playing tricks. He was busy making phone calls, but he kept his mouth open. Praising our old man was the rebirth of Lu Ban, rebirth of Mozi, and a pair of magical hands. Carved dragons and dragons, carved phoenixes and dances, what they do look like, even experts can't see the imitation cultural relics.
The old man couldn't bear it anymore, and interrupted him: "Okay, okay, save it, I won't be able to find the north if I take a photo for a while. Go and get the photo, prepare another room for me, and then follow the above requirements Get some tools ready, come get things in an hour."
Old Zhong thanked him repeatedly, took the list and hurried out to get ready. We, the grandpa and grandson, and the silent Song Xudong were left in the room.Ever since I entered Li Xin's house, I found that Song Xudong's words had decreased. I thought something was wrong with him. I only found out after asking him. He had been thinking about the meaning of what Zhang Laowa said before he died.Zhang Laowa once said that there are bad people, who is this bad person?Is it the tomb robbery group that has been leading us by the nose all the time?Or are there bad guys in General Patrol?If it's the latter, it would be too scary. Usually I don't bother to think about such a brain-intensive question, so I just ask Song Xudong directly: "How is it, do you understand it?"
Song Xudong shook his head: "Since I heard these words, I have been analyzing non-stop, analyzing the gains and losses of our recent operations and some abnormalities after this burial."
"How is it? Did you get any results from the analysis?" I suddenly remembered something and asked casually.
"Not yet, but I believe I will figure it out sooner or later." Song Xudong didn't realize that I was teasing him at all.
"Oh, well, just tell me the answer before I graduate, anyway, I'm not in a hurry." After laughing, I immediately remembered what I was worried about just now. When Zhang Laowa was dying, he mentioned a map. When we went to Li Xin's house, we also sent the same team to Liukou Village to get the map. According to the time, we should have returned. Why is there no one there?
As soon as he thought about it, he saw that the car sent to Liukou Village had also returned. A young man took a bag of things, jumped out of the car and rushed to Lao Zhong's office quickly.
Not long after, I saw that map. Due to its age, although it was made of some kind of animal skin tannin, many handwritings were blurred due to the fact that many people handled it. outline drawing.After reading it, I felt a little familiar. Thinking about it carefully, didn’t I see a map similar to this one when I was in the underground palace?Facing the fluorescent tube, I tried my best to find the ink on the map, and finally saw a few blurred words on the edge of a page that was not seriously worn, "No. XXX in yellow font", and the back was too worn to be read. Clear.
Xuanzi, Huangzi, then there must be Tianzi and Dizi. Tianxuandihuang, aren’t these the four legendary artifacts that were once buried in Dongling by the old witch Cixi?
We already have two of the four industrial maps. If we find the Tianzihao and Dizihao industrial maps, wouldn’t we be able to reveal the secrets represented by these four industrial maps?
According to grandpa’s story, it seems that the Tianzihao Gongwu map is in the hands of Zhong’s family, that is to say, it is likely to be in the hands of Lao Zhong, so we have three Gongwu maps.