Crown Sword

After taking out two deeds and betting the things on the black market for some living money, the four of them got dressed up, dressed up as jade merchants, and brought their guards to Dongshikou Caibao and Jade Market to search for goods.

The streets are full of people, and things are piled up on the ground. At first glance, it seems that they are worthless jobs, but when you look closely, they are all treasures.Qiao Min and Gong Yangyue walked with strides, looking at Shuang Li, they were terrified, afraid that if they accidentally stepped on the wool of the gambling stone, if it was cut open, it would be a big piece, and they would have to lose all their wealth.

The four of them wandered around, and found the turquoise from Persia and the red and sapphire from the Western Regions all fascinating, but reselling jade was rare.Looking at the past in turn, there are many Kunlun jades in Khotan, and Dunhuang jades are almost rare.

Gong Yangyue took the lead, and glanced at him with airs: "Just like this, fooling people?"

"Look at what you're talking about, the quality of the clothes under your eyes is one of the best." The businessman clasped his hands in his sleeves, squinted his eyes with a friendly face, and smiled on his fat and quivering cheeks.Looking at the flower scarf wrapped around the head, I can see that it is not Han, but the Chinese is not bad at all.

"I don't think so."

Gong Yangyue took a pendant casually, played with it in the palm of her hand, and threw it to Shuang Li beside her.The little girl held the jade and looked at it against the sun, then cleared her throat and said, "Look, there is a crescent moon lock growing in this groove. The master who carved it was skilled, so it was hidden, but if there is one, there will be."

As she spoke, she returned the things to the peddler, pointed to the jade wares on the stall, each had some flaws, and finally dropped a certain amount of money: "What we are looking for is flawless jade."

"The villain only has these, and if you want to take them, you can't take them out again." The dealer took the gold away, seeing that they were knowledgeable and sincerely begging to buy it, so he made a move, "A few of you are first-time customers, Chongbao If there is a price but no market, it will cause disaster, and basically do not walk from the stall, only Jumbo will dare to use it for public bidding."

Shuang Li shook her head calmly, indicating that she had never heard of it.

The businessman took advantage of it, he was very good at observing words and expressions, and said: "If you are not a regular customer, it is difficult to know the way. The time varies from year to year, but you will always be in the innermost part of the black market."

black market?

"People's desires are endless. To be able to do this kind of work, it is not enough to rely on great power. There are a lot of details and rules. In order to keep track of who comes and goes, most of them will register and compile a book. If you can look it up, you may be able to find this piece of jade carving." Origin." Chao Chen gathered the three together and speculated.

This word of enlightenment is undoubtedly clearing the clouds and seeing the moon.

The other three are all Lianjiazi, and for a moment they only thought of going into the house to arrest people for questioning, but they never considered that there is such a safe method.Gong Yangyue thanked him personally, and led them back to the black market.

The black market is not hard to find, it's just in the west of the city, and it's not a secret among the travelers. Gong Yangyue and Shuang Li came here once in the early years, but they only looked at the superficial stuff when they were shopping, eating and drinking. .

Dunhuang is a battleground for military strategists, and sits on the road of business. Under the chaos, it is easy to give birth to tyrannical local snakes. Even famous masters, in other people's territory, would not dare to challenge it by themselves.

Compared with the gorgeous East Street, this criss-cross alleyway looks very dirty.The alleys are full of beggars, and when you walk in, you can bump into many gamblers and alcoholics, and there are also fierce-looking swordsmen, arguing with others, yelling loudly, and there is a miasma of smoke everywhere.

Walking through the low earth and stone houses, it is much cleaner inside. On the second floor, there are dancers on the floor to entertain customers, and businessmen competing for treasures.

After this area is deeper, there are a lot fewer travelers, so that Gongyangyue and his party of four are really eye-catching.

"Why do those rogues from the Western Regions keep staring at me?" Shuang Li lowered her voice, pulled Gong Yangyue's sleeve and leaned towards his feet, unconsciously seeking shelter.

Gong Yangyue chuckled: "People don't care about you, they care about your pocket."

At first Chao Chen also felt the same way, feeling a little uncomfortable being stared at, secretly protecting his vitals with his hands, listening to the movement with his ears up.When the four of them stepped over the legs and feet of the ronin, many of them held their weapons and drew their knives secretly, but when they crossed the boundary, those people lay back again, as if it was a farce.

At the end of the black market is a small courtyard in the south of the Yangtze River with carved dragons and painted buildings. Flying pavilions and suspension bridges have been built, and mountains, rocks and flowing water have been built.

It's just that the door is closed tightly, and the four of them can only stop in front of the door.

"I know these three characters..." Shuangli pointed to the plaque on the top and read from right to left, "Absurd... Zhai? Hey Laoyue, did we make a mistake? It's a grand gambling house, it doesn't look like Boss Hei's residence, it's clearly worthy of someone like Brother Chao."

Gong Yangyue glanced at Chao Chen, who said, "The great hermit lives in the city", and consciously stepped forward to knock on the door.

After a while, the door opened a crack, and a boy about the same age as Shuang Li climbed on the edge of the door, squeezed his head out and looked out.Qiao Min stepped forward with his sword in his arms, intending to put pressure on him, but the kid seemed to be not surprised, his eyes only paused on his weapon for a moment, and then slipped away.

Chao Chen was about to announce his family name, but the door boy took the lead: "The Absurd Zhai doesn't accept outsiders, and the owner of the Zhai doesn't see outsiders either, everyone, please go back."

Seeing that he was about to close the door, Gong Yangyue grabbed onto the copper ring, but couldn't close it immediately, her big eyes met her small eyes.The doorman stepped back cautiously, as if trying to lure him into the door: "What are you going to do?"

"It's not easy to come all the way, and I don't want to talk about it." Gong Yangyue stood outside the threshold, refusing to take a step, and just stood in a stalemate with him.

The door boy's martial arts were mediocre, and he couldn't pull the door open, but he didn't dare to let him in, so he blushed instantly.

Chao Chen has learned a lot, and when he sees an opportunity, he joins in, chatting from "Book of Songs" to "Book of Rites", from "Book of Changes" to "Spring and Autumn".How did the little door boy know this, he just felt a hundred thousand mosquitoes buzzing around his ears, his mouth shrunk, and he shouted inside, "Miss Fanxi, come and have a look."

Taking advantage of his distraction, Gong Yangyue widened the crack of the door by three inches, only to see an old man sitting under the wisteria trellis in the courtyard, his eyes were blurred, staring at the tree in a daze, and beside him stood a woman in black, who heard the sound and rushed to the door. Head glanced over.

The woman has double red phoenix eyes, a mole of tears dotted under her eyelids, no smile on her face, but no pitiful sadness, long hair and high bundles, more than capable but lacking some warmth, walking from a distance, like in the desert The untainted snow lotus in full bloom.

"Perseverant people, what they want is not easy. Doesn't this chivalrous man intend to share it here and announce it to the market?" Fanxi stared at the hands holding the door, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

"I was the one to be rude."

Chao Chen cupped his hands, and went to pull Gong Yangyue's forearm, but the latter sat still like a stone, motionless, Chao Chen was a little anxious, and couldn't help saying: "The master must be arty like this in the courtyard, but all literati and poets always have a strange temper." , don’t use force, it’s rude to be careful!”

"Are you sure?" Ram Yue let go.

Chao Chen turned around and smiled at the girl.He never thought that the ice beauty was unreasonable, before he stepped in, the door slammed shut, smashing ashes on his nose.

Gong Yangyue sniggered unkindly, and pushed the dumbfounded Chao Chen away: "Go to the other side." As he said that, he knocked on the door by himself, hooking the jade ring on the forbidden step with his little finger and playing with it: "Can you get a girl?" Blue eyes, it is my blessing, and it is a pleasure to eat this closed door, and after many years, it will be well received, maybe it will be another gifted man and beautiful woman..."

Fanxi, who was inside the door, stretched her hands to her waist, and found that her personal belongings were shoved away, her face was livid, and she turned to open the door.

Gongyangyue has excellent hearing ability, when he heard someone turn his head, he immediately stuffed the forbidden step towards Chao Chen's waist, only the tassels were exposed.The angry woman couldn't tell the difference at all, so she raised her hand and slapped her.

Shuang Li covered her eyes, feeling distressed when she saw it: "Lao Yue is really getting more and more immoral."

Fortunately, the slap didn't fall, and Fanxi's hand was caught by Gongyangyue Lingkong, and he didn't make a move.One was still expressionless, the other was still smiling, but Shuang Li had no doubts at all, and would turn his back on her in the next moment, she hurriedly pulled over the forbidden step, pushed their legs apart, and squeezed into the middle of the bar.

"sister."

Shuang Li tied it on for her, and he opened his mouth to say beautiful words, and it was even easier to act coquettishly and pitifully.Fanxi was suddenly hugged by her leg, feeling like a glow on her back, feeling uncomfortable all over, and subconsciously wanted to brush her away, but when her eyes touched the feathered pregnant butterfly orb on the little girl's waist, she withdrew her hand back.

Under the gaze of the three big men, Fan Xi suddenly pursed her lips into a smile, stroked the top of the little girl's hair with her palm, and leaned over to lead her across the threshold: "Your name is Shuang Li? Come in."

Gong Yangyue put her hands on Chao Chen's shoulders, she couldn't believe it: "This woman who looks like a lump of ice actually eats this!"

"Despicable!" Chao Chen didn't pay attention to listening at all, remembering the teasing just now, feeling angry in his heart, unable to put on a good face, stomped on Gong Yangyue, and followed into the Absurd Room.

The main house on the second floor behind the garden is the real Absurd House. There is a pair of couplets engraved on the pillar in front of the door, and it is painted with gold paint, which attracts people's attention.On the right side, there is a sentence "By the seaside of Zhuo Lin, galloping in the desert", and on the left hand side, there is a sentence "Only a sage and a bright world, the world is called a hero".

Looking at the left and right, there are two accompanying pavilions whose roofs have collapsed. According to Fanxi, one is "Fanruo" and the other is "Wanggui". The former is a bow handed down from generation to generation, and the latter means a good arrow. momentum.

Behind the rocks is a clear pond with a square meter of one zhang. A slab bridge is built, paved with boxwood outside the Great Wall, and there are tables and lamps under the bridge head, where the four people sit.

Gong Yangyue took a look around, but he didn't see the dazed old man under the wisteria trellis again, even the little boy was missing, and Fan Xi personally did the serving of tea and food.They were all ordinary people, and they only thought they would see a big brother who was surrounded by servants everywhere, but they didn't expect that the mother-in-law and handyman didn't see half of them, and there was an indescribable lifelessness in the whole room.

"What do you want to know?" Fanxi did not sit down at the master seat, but retreated to the auxiliary seat to make tea.

Gongyangyue cut to the chase: "Jade, palm-sized Dunhuang jade."

Fanxi has been in charge here for several years. Hearing his tone, he knew that he was coming for the treasures. He knew it in his heart. After thinking about it for a while, he shook his head: "There are a lot of colored gemstones and jades here, and even rare plum blossoms. Blood and Kunlun chalcedony are not absent, but there is indeed no record of Dunhuang jade, and this kind of jade is not a famous species, even if it has a watery color."

Chao Chen asked: "Is there any chance I missed it?"

"Yes, but it's not an omission," Fanxi glanced at him, and said firmly, "Personal acquaintances of Zhaizhu are not included in the book."

Shuang Li immediately moved up, handing over tea cakes and ovens, and said in a soft voice: "My good sister, just let us meet the Vegetarian, just one meeting."

"Actually, you have already met the Lord of Vegetarianism." Fanxi led Gongyangyue to look at the wisteria flower stand, then put her finger down, pinned the broken hair on the forehead for the little girl behind her ears, and sighed softly, "Isn't it?" The little girl does not help, but... Zhaizhu has a strange disease, he only has one day's memory, even if he doesn't remember it, how can he remember Yu."

"Huh? Just remember one day?"

Disappointed, Shuangli accidentally knocked over the water for making tea in the container on the table.The water was boiling water, flowing down the folds of the clothes, panic flashed in Fanxi's eyes, he hurriedly grabbed the little girl's wet sleeves, and gently wiped her with a handkerchief, but was snatched away by Gongyangyue.

When the handkerchief fell to the ground, the woman in black was stunned for a moment, stood up and stood sideways, and soon regained that inhuman indifference: "There are still private goods transactions in the black market, you might as well find another way out."

Since they had already issued the order to evict the guests, there was no reason why they would be boring themselves, so Chao Chen got up to say goodbye without losing the courtesy.Before leaving, Gong Yangyue turned her head and asked, "Who is Miss Zhaizhu?"

"I was born as a floating duckweed. Thanks to the Lord of Vegetarian's help, I stayed here to repay my kindness."

Fan Xi sees each other off, and stops under the wisteria flowers in front of the door.Outside the courtyard is yellow sand and flying gravel, and inside the courtyard is a small bridge and breeze. She is alone, like a wandering soul.

"Is that really the way to go?"

Unwilling to resign, Shuangli turned her head to take another look, tripped over the threshold, and hit her head on Gongyangyue's waist.

"What are you going for?" Gong Yangyue tugged at Shuang Li's braid.

"Old Moon, do you still have a solution?"

The three of them looked over together, the willful swordsman blew off the dust from his nails, and looked up: "The black market is here, why don't you play two?" Following those gazes, the lights in front of you are brightly lit, which is a big place. In a casino, almost two entire buildings were sold. A brawny chest-haired man at the door winked at several people.

Qiao Min was noncommittal, but Shuang Li was already used to his surprise, and just pushed people forward: "Let's go, there are so many people, and the absurd scene is windy, like a haunted house. Do you think there are really such forgetful people?"

Left and right are not doctors, forgetful or not, no one can tell

Chao Chen intends to try again, but seeing Gong Yangyue's playful appearance that is eager to try, it doesn't seem like a joke, and his heart suddenly turns cold: Could it be that there is no way out?

Seeing that the scholar was hesitant to speak at the end, Gong Yangyue deliberately slowed down a step, side by side with him, hooked his shoulders and said loudly: "Hey, let me show you the amazing gambling skills of the master." Chao Chen straightened up. Just as he was about to push and push, he looked up and saw that the face of the person beside him was not laughing, but his eyes were heavy, and the hands clamped on his shoulders were still following a little bit.

I just heard him say: "Chao Chen, go forward and don't look back."

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There is not a single day when Chao Chen is not punished by Gong Yangyue...