Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

"Look at the word 'Wu' on the bottom of this bowl, could it be the brush washer used by Wu Daozi?" Su Yuan took down a gray celadon brush washer from the highest shelf, and the low end of the brush washer really wrote A small word 'Wu'.

Dynasty nodded, indicating that it was possible.

Zhao Hu rubbed his chin, looking seasoned and knowledgeable, "Looking at the fineness of this brush, it is undoubtedly from the previous dynasty. And look at the dust on it, it must be an old thing. Someone surnamed Wu used this brush to wash it." Painting, who else could it be if it’s not Wu Daozi.”

Su Yuan praised Zhao Hu for his insight, "Even if it wasn't Wu Daozi's brush washer, the brush washer used by a random person surnamed Wu in the Tang Dynasty is equally valuable. Three liang of silver is not a loss, buy it! Keep it and pass it on to others. My son, then passed on from generation to generation, this is the most valuable treasure!"

"This is the gray green glaze from Ge Kiln, which belongs to this dynasty."

Bai Yutang couldn't help frowning when he heard Zhao Hu's saying that ashes are old things, what nonsense these people are talking about.

Zhan Zhao suddenly nodded, and was about to praise Bai Yutang for his knowledge, when he heard what Su Yuan had to say.

"Fifth Master is sure that there must have been no such gray-green glaze in the previous dynasty? Perhaps this style of gray-green glaze was not popular in official kilns at that time, but there were already people who could make it in private and sell it everywhere, and it happened to be bought by Wu Daozi. arrive."

The gray green glaze of Ge kiln does have its own characteristics, but who can say for sure its origin?no one!

"That's right, can you be sure?" Wang Chao asked.

"Yes, yes, are you sure? You can't be sure! Unless someone who lived in the Tang Dynasty came to tell us if there was any, otherwise no one can be sure that this kind of gray green glaze must have been produced in the Tang Dynasty." In terms of unreasonableness, Zhao Hu is more talented than Dynasty.

Zhan Zhao saw the situation clearly, and if he realized something, he slowly rolled his eyes and took a peek at Bai Yutang.

Of course Bai Yutang also understood the situation.No matter what Su Yuan said today, Zhao Hu and Wang Chao would definitely support her without thinking.This is after Sun He, she has taken in two younger brothers?

"Since that's the case, you can get what you want." Bai Yutang stopped arguing with Su Yuan.

Su Yuan smiled triumphantly, and really took the brush.

"Boss, boss, here is the sword used by Li Bai! And the writing brush used by Di Renjie!" Sun He showed Su Yuan the treasures he had collected.

"Let me see."

Su Yuan saw the word 'Taibai' engraved on the body of the saber, and the word 'Huaiying' engraved on the barrel of the writing brush. She immediately said that she had bought both of them, and she paid for them.

Zhan Zhao secretly laughed in his heart, and took another sneak look at Bai Yutang.He found that Bai Yutang did not show any temper other than heaving a sigh of relief and paced elsewhere, let alone raised any objections.Maybe you are forcing yourself to think about it?Anyway, as far as he is concerned, these things are not worth a lot of money, as long as they can make Su Yuan happy.

The person who was going to get engaged was indeed much more mature and stable than before.If it were the former Bai Yutang, if he encountered the word 'cheat', he would never tolerate it anymore. The knife is no longer in its scabbard.

Zhan Zhao began to think, if he also got married, would he also become more mature, rational, and tolerant?

The group walked around the second floor of the Untitled Building for a while before going downstairs to pay the bill.

At this time, a father and son were arguing on the first floor.

The elderly father, with gray temples, clutched the money bag in his hand, hesitating.The young son holds a painting in his hands and looks anxious.Both of them have dark skin, wear coarse clothes, rough hands, with small wounds on their hands, it seems that the father and son do a lot of rough work on weekdays, and the family is not rich.

"Father, there are many treasures hidden in this untitled building that outsiders don't know. Someone who knows the goods found a painting by Wu Daozi earlier, and the price has increased by more than a thousand times. Ours must be the same. If we don't buy it sooner, Otherwise, this cheap price will be picked up by others!" Li Erhei hurriedly comforted his father Li Deqiang.

Li Deqiang still hesitated: "My son, these ten taels of silver are all our family's wealth! If there is really some valuable treasure hidden in the Untitled Building, why don't you keep it for yourself and wait for you to buy it?"

"The shopkeeper must also want to keep good things, but he doesn't know the goods. His family used to run a pawn shop, and they took care of a lot of things that were not needed after the imperial court ransacked the house. They stored too many old things and had nowhere to dispose of them. That's why they opened the Untitled Building , all are here for anyone to choose.

I heard that not counting the items in the warehouse, there are tens of thousands of items in the Untitled Building alone. How can they have the time to pick them one by one?I had no choice but to pile up everything here, no matter what I sold, I only sold it according to its size, and didn't care about whether it was good or not. "

Li Erhei advised his father Li Deqiang to be bold and take a gamble.This year is "starving to death the timid, and supporting the bold". If their family wants to get rid of poverty and live a good life, it depends on whether they have the courage to stop this time.

Li Deqiang was a little shaken, and asked Li Erhei: "What you said is true?"

Li Erhei looked left and right, and glanced defensively at Su Yuan and the others who were closer to them.He pulled Li Deqiang away a little, lowered his voice and continued to explain to Li Deqiang.

"Father, I have looked at this painting carefully, and it must be the authentic work of Han Gan. I heard that people in the Tang Dynasty usually painted on silk, while people in this dynasty painted on paper. You see, this painting is a silk painting, a scroll. It's still a bit old. Have you seen the pattern on the side? This is Baoxiang flower, which was popular in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Also, the horse on this painting is just like a real horse, with strong legs and round buttocks. The painting is very real, just like those literati The said Han Gan painted horses with the same characteristics."

"And I found this thing under a box of clothes on the second floor. I think it's likely that when the imperial court confiscated the house, they didn't look carefully at the things. They left this painting under the box, and then sent it as old clothes. Their house was sold."

Li Deqiang was heartbroken after hearing this, and gave the money bag to Li Erhei.

Although Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were not too close to the father and son, they were martial arts practitioners with good ears, so they could still hear their conversation clearly.

Su Yuan smiled and said to everyone: "Let's go, let's pay the bill."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao walked up to the father and son one after the other.

Bai Yutang: "This is a fake painting."

"I advise you two to think carefully, after all, ten taels of silver is not a small amount. This famous masterpiece is rare, so how can it be so easy to be discovered by others." Zhan Zhao also persuaded.

Li Deqiang hesitated again.

Li Erhei sized up Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, and saw that Su Yuan and the others were with them, holding several things they had picked up in Untitled Building.He immediately hugged the painting in his arms and moved closer to Li Deqiang.

"Father, don't trust them! You see, they have also found several items in this building. They must have overheard our conversation just now, knowing that the painting in my arms is a good thing, and deliberately tricked us into letting go, so they can come Pick up this baby."

Li Deqiang rolled his eyes and hurriedly urged his son to go to pay the bill.

When Li Erhei agreed to Li Deqiang, Bai Yutang made a quick move and took the painting from Li Erhei.

Bai Yutang didn't unfold the painting, but just glanced at the scroll, and brought it to his nose to smell it.

"I've never seen a silk painting scroll made of cedar. This scroll will crack within half a year after you buy it."

After Bai Yutang finished speaking, he returned the painting to Li Erhei before he could yell.

Chinese fir?Li Erhei didn't understand why the fir scroll would crack. He felt that Bai Yutang looked very confident when he said this, but he was not sure.

Li Erhei hesitated and said uncertainly: "Don't deceive me, think that I am a rough person who doesn't know how to paint."

At this time, the waiter of the shop in the Untitled Building shouted at the door: "Pass by, don't miss it, the small shop is full of second-hand goods, and the pieces are exquisite. No matter what the object is, the small ones are all three taels, and the large ones are all ten taels. All twelve!"

The shout immediately summoned several passers-by in brocade clothes.

On the east side of the first floor, there were a few people dressed as scholars, and they started discussing at this moment, feeling that someone found Wu Daozi's paintings here two days ago, and bought a painting worth several thousand taels for ten taels of silver.

When the new guests heard this, they searched the building with interest.

"You said 'listen to the scholars' before, but how many scholars?" Zhan Zhao asked Li Erhei.

Li Erhei glanced at the group of scholars, and when he hesitated, the store manager walked over with a smile.

"The villain saw that the guest officers have been standing here for a long time, but you want to pay?"

"The shopkeeper!"

After Su Yuan shouted, he put Wu Daozi brush washer, Li Taibai sword, Di Renjie brush and other objects that he and Sun He had chosen on the counter.

"Hey," the shopkeeper agreed with a smile, and received Su Yuan warmly, "Miss has good eyesight, these things are not vulgar at first glance. Hey, why didn't we see them ourselves? If we saw them, we would definitely not sell them." gone."

Su Yuan: "Shopkeeper, does this brush belong to Wu Daozi? There is also this sword, but what is the name of the one who knows how to write poems best?"

"Li Bai!" The shopkeeper helped correct him.

"That's right, that's the Li Bai who wrote the poem 'Chun Mian Unaware of Dawn'." Su Yuan hurriedly nodded in agreement, expressing that he knew who Li Bai was, but he couldn't turn his head around for a while, and suddenly he couldn't say he was famous.

Zhan Zhao was talking to Li Erhei, when he heard Su Yuan's words, he couldn't help but chuckle, and Bai Yutang immediately rolled his eyes.

"Is that funny?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao with a cold voice.

Zhan Zhao: "Isn't Li Bai in 'Chun Mian Unaware of Dawn' funny?" Bai Yutang must know more about this than him, so why ask him if it's funny.

Bai Yutang's tone was firm: "She said Li Bai did it, and it was Li Bai who did it. If you don't believe me, ask Wang Chao and Zhao Long."

Wang Chao nodded: "That's right, that's right, it's Li Bai."

Zhao Long agreed: "Yes, who is it not Li Bai?"

Zhan Zhao: "..."

It was he who lost!

It wasn't until this moment that Zhan Zhao finally understood the main purpose of Su Yuan's trip today: she is the most reasonable, she is what she says, no one can argue with her, she must win.

Her behavior was probably aimed at Bai Yutang, but because he joined temporarily, she accidentally got hurt along with him.

The shopkeeper was about to correct Su Yuan's statement, but after being echoed by Wang Chao and Zhao Hu, the shopkeeper scratched his head in self-doubt. Could it be that he remembered it wrong?That's right, Li Bai wrote so many poems, each of which is catchy, and it's possible that he misremembered it.

"Shopkeeper, do you think this writing brush engraved with 'Huaiying' is the brush used by that famous official Di Renjie from the Tang Dynasty?" Su Yuan asked the shopkeeper again.

The shopkeeper took a look at the brush, and was shocked: "Oh, this brush is actually from our shop? This, this, this..."

Looking at the regretful expression on the shopkeeper's face, it seemed that he had changed his mind and didn't want to sell the brush to Su Yuan.

Su Yuan still looked at the shopkeeper in doubt, waiting for his answer honestly.

After being agitated for a while, the shopkeeper saw that the girl was honestly waiting for his answer, unlike the previous customers who were afraid that he would change his mind and not sell, and immediately rushed to check out and leave.

The shopkeeper didn't want to say more, but seeing that Su Yuan bought a lot of things, he could earn a lot of money.

The shopkeeper looked around and whispered to Su Yuan: "I heard that the former prime ministers had a habit of using pens. They would engrave their own characters on their special pens. Isn't Di Renjie the word Huaiying? Just like the silver in our treasury, it will be stamped on the official silver. I heard that most of the objects in Gaomen's mansion are like this, and they will be stamped on it. I have a friend who works in Kaifeng mansion. He said Mr. Bao's pen washer The following is also similar to yours, write the word 'package'.

You are so lucky, girl, you have touched such a good thing!And this Li Taibai's sword, oh my god, I lost a lot of money on this business! "

"Really?" Su Yuan's eyes widened in surprise.

"Of course it's true." The shopkeeper pretended to be reluctant to sell, and urged Su Yuan, "If you don't believe me, it's even better. Hurry up and give me the things, I don't want to sell them!"

"I want it!" Su Yuan simply put the 100 taels of silver on the table.

The shopkeeper happily collected the money, helped Su Yuan wrap up these things, and handed them to Su Yuan, not forgetting to praise Su Yuan for his good vision, and picked out a bunch of treasures to go back.

Seeing this, Li Erhei hugged the painting in his hand, and handed the bag of money that Li Deqiang gave him to the shopkeeper.

Because the money is too small, the shopkeeper needs a little count, which took a little time.

"It's really troublesome to count. It's better to be the girl who just took the silver ticket."

"Shopkeeper, you have already received 110 taels of silver in such a short time." Su Yuan sighed.

According to the law, if the amount of deceit exceeds fifty horses, the heaviest punishment will be applied.The price of fifty horses is far less than 50 taels, and this 110 taels is more than double.

The shopkeeper laughed and said, "I'm only here, I'm getting a small amount of money, but you guys are making a lot of money."

"We don't make a lot of money, we take people's lives." Su Yuan winked at Wang Chao and Zhao Hu, and the two reacted immediately, and immediately grabbed the shopkeeper.

"Huh? What are you doing!" The shopkeeper refused to accept being arrested, shaking his shoulders to struggle.

Su Yuan showed his waist badge in front of the shopkeeper, "The Kaifeng government handles the case."

When the shopkeeper saw that the waist card said that Kaifeng Mansion Judiciary joined the army, his face turned pale.

At this time, the faces of the few scholars who were discussing Wu Daozi's paintings also changed suddenly, and they all lowered their heads and hurried out.

Zhan Zhao and Sun He immediately stopped them.

Li Erhei and Li Deqiang originally took the painting and wanted to leave, but seeing the sudden change in the situation, they all froze in place, staring at Su Yuan and the others in shock.

Li Deqiang was the first to react, and he went up and slapped Li Erhei on the head.

"You bastard, a prodigal bastard! Sure enough, we were cheated! If we hadn't been lucky enough to meet officials and gentlemen who were handling the case today, you would have almost wiped out my family fortune!"

Li Erhei finally came to his senses, and it turned out that what the handsome man in white had said to them was true.But when he saw that they also bought something, he refused to believe it. He actually took the kindness of others as the liver and lungs of a donkey!

Zhan Zhao asked Li Erhei: "I asked you a question just now, but you haven't answered yet."

Li Erhei looked at these scholars, "When the villain came here yesterday, he heard a group of scholars talking through the shelf, but he didn't see their faces clearly. But their voices sound familiar. If they repeat the little What a man heard yesterday, a villain should be able to recognize."

Just now those scholars were talking about Wu Daozi's paintings, but yesterday Li Erhei heard more about Han Gan's paintings, mentioning Baoxianghua and the shape characteristics of horses.

Several scholars were forced to repeat what Li Erhei asked.Some of them tried to lower their voices or use falsetto, but Bai Yutang saw through.Only after being threatened with "if anyone cheats again, they will be punished with fifty deceitful sticks", these scholars honestly repeated their words.

Li Erhei recognized the voices of the two of them immediately.Immediately after the two were identified, another group of scholars were confessed.The group of scholars is making up blind in the teahouse outside.

After arresting all of them to the Kaifeng mansion, it was known at the first trial that they were all charlatans.The so-called scholars are not scholars at all, they are all rough people who don't know a lot of Chinese characters, but they are fair-looking, they are chosen by the shopkeeper to dress up as scholars, and they lie inside and outside the Untitled Building to deceive those lucky guests Come here for treasure hunting.

After checking the accounts, it was found that since the opening of Untitled Building, the daily profit has approached ten thousand taels.Don't look at the three taels or ten taels every time, it doesn't seem to be much, but it can't stand the high flow of people in Wazi, and there are many rich and wealthy people in Beijing.In addition, buying things from other houses will give people the illusion of treasure hunting to gain a big advantage. Many people who have no money will try it out with a gamble mentality, so the total accumulated amount is huge.

A customer who felt cheated after buying something from his house came back to the shopkeeper to comment, but the shopkeeper refused to go out on the grounds of "what do you choose for me, I never guarantee that it must be a treasure".The guests couldn't tell what they were suffering, and they wanted to report the case and found no evidence to identify the shopkeeper, so they had to give up.

The shopkeeper confessed to the crimes he had committed, and wept bitterly and kept admitting his mistakes.He took a fancy to Wazi's high flow of people, and thought that it would be difficult for the government to detect the operation at night, so he used his brains to search and even ordered a batch of old things. He planned to operate in Wazi for ten and a half months, and leave after deceiving a group of people. He thought It's definitely not a problem to operate for a short time.I never thought that it was only the fourth day of opening, and the "King of Hades" would come to the door and expose his tricks.

Li Erhei and Li Deqiang took back the ten taels of silver that belonged to them, and thanked Su Yuan and others several times before leaving.

Su Yuan took Wu Daozi's brush and planned to go back to his room.

"What do you want this thing for?" Bai Yutang asked.

"This may really be Wu Daozi's writing brush! I said, I want to keep it and pass it on to my son." Su Yuan said.

As soon as Sun He heard this, he quickly took Li Taibai's sword and Di Renjie's writing brush.

Zhan Zhao almost couldn't hold back, and burst into laughter again.He pretended to touch his nose to hide the unconcealable smile on his face.

When Su Yuan was looking at Bai Yutang, he didn't hear the sound of harmony, and immediately cast a warning gaze at Wang Chao and Zhao Hu.

"Yes, who has evidence to say that this is not Wu Daozi's writing brush?" Zhao Hu hurriedly became serious, and responded solemnly.

"That's right, unless Wu Daozi jumps out on his own, no one has any evidence to say that the money is not his." Wang Chao agreed resignedly.

Zhan Zhao suppressed a smile and responded, "I think so too."

Bai Yutang immediately gave Zhan Zhao a cold look.

Zhan Zhao felt quite innocent, why did everyone open their eyes and talk nonsense, but Bai Yutang turned cold eyes on him alone?

Su Yuan took her pen washer to the well to wash it, then tore the fish she had baked in the stove into small pieces, put it in the pen washer, and served it to Bai Yuanzi.

Bai Yuanzi liked her new job very much, and after meowing cheerfully, she buried her little furry head in the brush washer, eating happily.

Sun He came to Su Yuan with her Li Taibai sword and Di Renjie pens, and was about to ask Su Yuan how she treasured her brush washers, when she saw Bai Yuanzi's 'bowl' for dinner.

"Boss, you're playing tricks on me!" Sun He angrily threw away the two things in his hand.

"Who fooled you? I left this thing to pass on to my son." Su Yuan motioned to Bai Yuanzi who was eating, she had already informed everyone that Bai Yuanzi was her son.

Sun He was so choked that he couldn't say a word.

"Use your Li Taibai sword early, otherwise it will rust and you won't be able to pull it out in two days." Su Yuan kindly reminded Sun He.

Sun He snorted and left angrily holding his sword.

She was so innocent, but she was completely deceived!

When Sun He was discharged from the hospital, he met Bai Yutang coming over.

Sun He couldn't help but said to Bai Yutang: "My daughter-in-law still has to take care of it."

Then with a 'whoosh', Sun He ran back to his courtyard, for fear that Bai Yutang would beat her up.

When Bai Yutang walked up to Su Yuan, he saw Su Yuan teasing Bai Yuanzi with Di Renjie's writing brush that Sun He had left behind.Bai Yuanzi used her soft and furry little claws to grab it lively, but she couldn't catch it.It just lay on the table shamelessly, kicking its four legs to deal with the brush.

Su Yuan poked the brush on Bai Yuanzi's belly, only a few times, Bai Yuanzi couldn't open his eyelids, snored and fell asleep.

"Look at how easy your son is to coax." Su Yuan sighed with a smile.

Bai Yutang originally had a stomach full of things to say to Su Yuan, but was taken aback by her sudden words, and forgot everything.Looking at Bai Yuanzi sleeping with her belly exposed, and the sweetly smiling 'mother' beside her, she just felt that the years are quiet and beautiful.

Bai Yutang put his hand on Bai Yuanzi's belly and rubbed it.Bai Yuanzi took advantage of the situation and rolled, lazily half-opened his eyes and glanced at Bai Yutang, then stretched his body, closed his eyes and continued to sleep.

"How did you find out about the Untitled Building?"

"When I went out for a stroll, I heard a few words from passers-by, and I felt something was wrong, so I went to have a look."

When Su Yuan saw Bai Yutang coming, his face was a little gloomy, but now his face was normal, and he could even see a little joy.

Su Yuan specifically asked Bai Yutang, "Fifth Master came to see me on purpose, do you have something to talk about?"

Bai Yutang sent a post to Su Yuan, "Before getting engaged, let's exchange draft posts, and after each fortune-telling, we will exchange the post. Since your marriage is up to you, I will share my post with you." Leave it to you."

"Forget about divination, I don't believe in it." Su Yuan accepted Bai Yutang's post, and followed the pattern to write his own reply to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang stopped her and said, "Even if it's just going through the motions, it can't be so fast. It just so happens that you are going to Daxiangguo Temple with Miss Sun tomorrow, just ask for a lottery."

Su Yuan: "Then what if I ask for a signature?"

"The lottery in the temple is not bad." Bai Yutang said calmly.

Su Yuan seemed to understand but didn't understand. Anyway, Bai Yutang didn't care, so she didn't care.

Zhan Zhao was bored, so he wandered around Bai Yutang's residence a few times, seeing Bai Yutang came back from Su Yuan, couldn't help teasing him and asked him, "Have we made it clear?"

"About what?" Bai Yutang asked back.

"Don't tell me you didn't see it, Miss Su has a problem with you." If Zhan Zhao doesn't believe what he sees, Bai Yutang will not see it.

"Don't talk nonsense, we're fine."

Bai Yutang replied lightly, then went into the courtyard and went back to his room to rest.

Looking at Bai Yutang's attitude, Zhan Zhao knew that he had completely tolerated Su Yuan. If the two of them ever quarreled in the future, Bai Yutang would probably follow Su Yuan.Otherwise, with Bai Yutang's temperament, he must have had a good talk with Su Yuan just now.

It's amazing!Such a sharp-edged, sharp-tempered and arrogant person, unexpectedly, was tolerant and patient by Su Yuan.

With Bai Yutang's temper, if you directly point out his problem, he will definitely lose face, refuse to listen, and even become angry.Su Yuan's method is very ingenious. While solving the case, he made excuses to be petty, but he didn't point it out, but let Bai Yutang know what she was caressing about, so he came to an epiphany and chose to tolerate her.

This method of training men is really high!

The next day.

In order to rush up to the first incense stick in Daxiangguo Temple, Su Yuan, Sun He, and Jiahe county magistrate Zhao Qingronghuan set off early before dawn.

When the three arrived at Daxiangguo Temple, the temple gate had not yet opened, so the three waited outside the gate.At this time, pilgrims rushed over one after another, and they all consciously ranked behind Su Yuan and the others.

Not long after, two imposing carriages drove over, and two richly dressed middle-aged women got out of them.

As soon as Zhao Qingrong saw the two of them, he immediately went over to greet them, and introduced the identities of the two women to Su Yuan and Sun He.

When Xiangli saw the head of Jiahe County, she had a smile on her face, but when she heard Su Yuan's identity, the smile on her face faded immediately.

"So you are Miss Su from Kaifeng Mansion." Xiangli sized up Su Yuan, with a hint of displeasure in his voice.