Chapter 623: A Leopard in a Tube
"How can I be, my father has taught me to be harmonious since I was a child in order to make money. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info this is my ancestor handed down shoes, how many years can not be worn, I also came in an urgent need of money, otherwise I would not be reluctant. You give the palm of your eyes, give you a number, and if it is suitable, I will give you all this baggage and shoes. Liu Dadao looked innocent, looking at the burden, as if he was afraid that Zhang Chaofeng at the counter would drop his bag of shoes.
What a poor sour! Are you so nervous about this bag of broken shoes?! It's really a poor person who can't live without a pawnshop! However, in the past, the poor were angelica, but they also took the shoulders, leather jackets, and slightly valuable clothes to solve the urgent need, but it was the first time that they sent a bag of smelly shoes!
I've been doing the pilgrimage for more than ten years, this bag of broken shoes, is the most speechless thing I received, not to mention the valuation of this bag of broken shoes, it is a fucking obstruction when it is placed, and the valuation, estimate your mother! Open a pawnshop to make money, not to do charity!
The shoes that have been handed down from the ancestors?! Are you here to be funny?!
Alas?
Wait a minute?!
Just this bag of broken shoes, why is this dirt bun so nervous? Shouldn't it be, could it be that there is another mystery in it? Ancestral shoes?!
Zhang Chaofeng's eyelids suddenly jumped, and then he remembered the example that his master often used to educate him when he first entered the industry:
It was about twenty or thirty years after the Jingjing, not long after the opening of another pawnshop called Xinglongchang on this street, a nobleman surnamed Zhou came to pawn a painting in Beiterraiji Hutong. This Zhou's family is not an ordinary family, their ancestors are the hereditary uncles who were rewarded when the Ming Dynasty opened the country, but because their family stood on the wrong side during the Jingjing, the family road fell after the Jingyan battle, and the descendants were more than one did not succeed, and they had to make a living by selling their money.
Zhou surnamed Xungui came to the Xinglongchang pawnshop, asked for thirty taels of silver pawn his ancestors handed down this painting, Xinglongchang pawnshop received Zhou surnamed Xungui is an old pawnshop shopkeeper, good eyesight, experience. After taking the painting, take a closer look, this painting should be the old earl's practice of the painting, not a famous work, the structure of the painting and the painting look very immature, not to mention thirty taels of silver, even ten taels of silver is not worth it. In the painting, an old man hides behind a forest, using a bamboo tube to his eyes to observe a creeping leopard in the woods, and the inscription "Leopard in the tube" is inscribed. Other than that, there is nothing else on the painting, no inscription, no time, and no inscription.
Not seeing the big picture?!
The old shopkeeper is very experienced, and after carefully studying it for a few minutes, he discovered the secret of this "Leopard in a Tube" painting. At that time, the courtiers of the pawnshop felt that the painting was only worth ten taels of silver, but the old shopkeeper agreed to the thirty taels of silver requested by the noble surnamed Zhou, and let people set up a pawn ticket according to the thirty taels of silver, and set the current period for three months.
This is a three-month pawn ticket, which means that within three months, as long as you pay thirty taels of principal and three taels of interest, you can redeem the painting, but if you do not redeem it after expiration, the painting will belong to the pawnshop.
On the evening after the transaction was completed, after the pawnshop closed, the old shopkeeper took out the painting in the pawnshop alone. I lit an oil lamp, looked at the painting closely, and groped around the painting with my hands, and finally discovered the secret hidden in the painting.
The general scroll part of the painting is made of solid jujube wood or pear blossom wood, but the scroll part of this painting is made of fine Xiaoxiang bamboo, knocked by hand, there is an echo inside, and it is hollow.
The old shopkeeper smiled when he found out, and after groping around the scroll for a while, he found that the scroll was made of two pieces of bamboo, and if you rotated it in a clockwise direction by hand, you could pull out one of them. After pulling it out, it was found that a piece of silk was exposed at the other end, and the silk was carefully pulled out of it, and then a string of 13 rare Laokeng glass bracelets were found.
The old shopkeeper has a deep study of jade, this string of 13 jadeite, each bead round jade, the color is symmetrical and unified, it should be from the same stone, priceless.
It is estimated that the ancestor of the noble surname Zhou was seized and hidden privately when he accompanied the army to conquer Nanban Burma, and it was also kept secret in the painting.
Feed, leave also. - "Guangya"
The treasure in the tube, that is, there is a treasure in the bamboo pipe.
The Zhou family's downfall, coupled with the fact that they stood on the wrong side during the Battle of Jingjing, were suppressed and purged, which led to the interruption of this secret passed down by word of mouth.
The old shopkeeper quietly wrapped the bracelet with silk, put it back into the bamboo tube, and then put the scroll back in good condition, and put the original object back.
This is a well-known thing, the Zhou family makes a living by selling their money, how can it be redeemed. Sure enough, the surnamed Xungui of Zhou quickly spent all his time drinking and losing the thirty taels of silver, and did not redeem the pawn on time.
As a result, the old shopkeeper of Xinglongchang pawnshop made a shocking windfall.
Generation after generation
This allusion is regarded as a classic case, educating every new pilgrim to educate them to polish their eyes and polish them again when valuing.
After thinking of this, Zhang Chaofeng ninja pungent stench, once again checked this bag of broken shoes over and over again, carefully rummaging through every sole and insole. From workmanship to materials, it was studied over and over again.
And then
Finally, I came to a conclusion: this is a pack of ordinary broken shoes, the materials are handmade without characteristics, and the time has only been made in recent years, if there is anything special, it is particularly smelly!!
"How much do you want to be?" Zhang Chaofeng asked with a gloomy bared tooth.
"100 Wen, no, 1 tael of silver, it can't be less, this is my ancestral ......."
Before Liu Dadao finished speaking, he saw a bag of stinky shoes thrown out of the window, and then Liu Dadao was driven out by the guys in the pawnshop.
"Damn, you dare to pawnshop, you don't have any eyesight, what good shoes. I still don't believe it, so I'll try to change to a pawnshop. After Liu Dadao got out of the pawnshop, he spat a mouthful of phlegm vigorously, with a posture of dissatisfaction.
"Oops......"
Just as Liu Dadao was about to leave to try another pawnshop, he suddenly heard a pig-like howl from behind, and then turned around and saw a person who looked like a butler fell down the steps of the pawnshop.
Oops, oops, oops
With an oops, he pinned his left foot to his right leg, held the sky with both hands, threw himself on the ground with his face, plopped plop, and fell down the steps, just under Liu Dadao's feet.
"Everyone saw it, you fell it yourself, don't rely on me." Liu Dadao snorted vigorously and expressed his innocence to everyone.
"How can it be, my Lao Zheng is not that kind of person." Steward Zheng said and stood up with Liu Dadao's legs.
"Thank you to this strong man, I helped with my legs, otherwise I am afraid that I will fall miserably" Steward Zheng got up and thanked Liu Dadao.
Liu Dadao looked confused, I saved you, you dragged my leg to get up.
"Hey, strong man, I see that you just came out of the pawnshop, but life is in difficulty, do you want to be something, just now the strong man saved me, in order to express his gratitude, the strong man should not go to the pawnshop, just give me the things, I will give the strong man a high price." Steward Zheng looked like he was grateful for his kindness.
"Which, which, yes, the road is uneven and pulls out a knife to help, this is my father who taught me since I was a child, cough cough, cough cough, what you said about the high price is true?" Liu Dadao's previous sentence was still righteous and awe-inspiring, but the latter sentence changed its taste.
"Of course. My Lao Zheng is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, but this bag of things should be a strong man? Steward Zheng asked seriously.
"Uh-huh." Liu Dadao nodded again and again.
"Strong man, just tell me a price, I will accept this thing." Steward Zheng patted the burden in Liu Dadao's hand, felt the shoes in the baggage, suppressed the joy in his heart, and said seriously.
"Okay, Zheng Lao is so refreshing, I don't be verbose, this burden and shoes are handed down by my ancestors, and my ancestors have a saying, if the family suffers, this burden shoes will be taken as a pawn, and they will not be sold if they are less than twenty taels. However, seeing that you Zheng Lao is so refreshing, and you have an appetite for me, I risk being scolded by my ancestors, ten taels of silver, and I don't want any more. Liu Dadao patted his chest, looking like a soldier who died for his confidant.
You died in the pawnshop before you dared to ask for 1 tael of silver! 10 taels of silver, are your shoes made of silver thread?!
Steward Zheng almost couldn't help but spit out Liu Dadao's saliva, but thinking of Zhao Daying's explanation, he still endured his anger, squeezed out an ugly smile, and reluctantly took out ten taels of silver to buy this burden of stinky shoes.
After getting the burden, Steward Zheng trotted all the way back to Zhao's mansion in Beibing Masi Hutong without saying a word, and reported the good news to Zhao Daying.
"Really got it?!" Zhao Daying, who was still at the wine table, looked happy after hearing this.
"The things that the master explained, the little ones have to complete it even if they work hard, look, sir, this is the baggage shoe." Steward Zheng offered the burden to Zhao Daying as if he were offering a treasure.
"Good, good, good." Zhao Daying was happy, and said three good words in a row, as long as the shoes are in hand, even if Zhu Ping'an catches those few wastes, it is useless, Lao Tzu is looking for a few people to top the shortage in the camp, what evidence does he Zhu Ping'an have to prove that those wastes are soldiers under Lao Tzu's battalion? !
In the excitement, Zhao Daying took the burden, opened it, and took out a shoe.
Zhao Daying almost didn't vomit out the overnight meal, and the other civil and military officials at the banquet were also pale and weak.
"! These are the shoes you desperately got together?! Playing Lao Tzu! ”
Zhao Daying looked at the patched rag shoes in his hand, and he was furious, and pressed one hand on Steward Zheng's face, and he couldn't remove it.
These baggage shoes are all patched and broken shoes, and none of them are green cloth boots in the barracks! It was obvious that he had been tricked, thinking about Zhu Ping'an's meaningful smile when he left, Zhao Daying's enthusiasm instantly surged to his head.
"Zhu Ping'an, I am inseparable from you!"
After a while, Zhao Daying's angry voice broke the tranquility of the North Terracotta Hutong.