Outside the pavilion, Tian Wenhai took two henchmen and family members to guard, and peeked inside from time to time.

In the hexagonal pavilion, a high platform was built, and the table was filled with various magic tools and things used to cast spells, as well as a Taoist gossip stove.

Yan Gongzi, who was wearing a seven-star robe, burned the talisman paper on the stage, recited the words, and then invited Zhu Kui to come up and salute, the two knelt down and muttered prayers to the heavens and the earth, and recited the incantation in all directions.

"Brother carefully watch my ways."

After Yan Gongzi finished speaking to Zhu Kui, he took out an ingot of about ten taels of silver from his arms with a solemn expression, stretched out his two fingers and pointed out a trick, put it into a clay pot, and took out a small medicine bottle from his arms, put some black powder into the jar, sealed it with a red cloth, and pointed to the mouth of the jar and recited the incantation.

Zhu Kui excitedly followed the mantra taught in his heart, but unfortunately it was too tongue-twisting and couldn't remember. At this time, Yan Gongzi ordered Dao Tong to start the fire, and soon the flames in the gossip furnace were burning, Yang Gongzi suddenly put the crockpot in, turned around and smiled: "Okay, we can see each other in a day and night, let's go out and rest for half an hour." Only one or two old and steady men are left here to guard the charcoal fire, and they are not allowed to talk nonsense, nor are they allowed to let the unclean come in and watch. ”

"That's nature." Zhu Kui beckoned to Tian Wenhai and the others, he had already given an order that no one was allowed to enter or leave the garden.

After explaining, the two came out and returned to the study, and Tian Wenhai saw that there was no excitement; But look, he trotted all the way over and invited Yan Gongzi to sit on the couch and eat tea.

Zhu Kui couldn't help but ask: "Brother Fit and Virtuous said, you can see it day and night. I wonder how many times the amount of silver can be refined after it is melted? ”

"Huh." Yan Gongzi explained with a smile: "A dozen taels of silver only takes a day and night, and if it is too much, it will take seven hundred and forty-nine days to complete." The silver that I put down before, called the silver mother, was cast, so in a day and night, the medicine can refine the silver mother thoroughly. Ten for one. At this time tomorrow, it can be refined into more than a hundred taels of silver. ”

ten taels of silver for a hundred taels, a hundred taels for a thousand taels, and a thousand taels for ten thousand taels. 10,000 taels for 100,000 taels? Zhu Kui and Tian Wenhai were ecstatic in their hearts, they simply met a living immortal and got a cornucopia!

Yan Gongzi looked at their excited expressions and smiled slightly, and said leisurely: "It is not easy to cast spells, Taoism pays attention to sincerity, and the so-called sincerity refers to the heart without distractions, so if there are distracting thoughts in the heart." It consumes longevity and is difficult to succeed. This time, I only refined a hundred taels of silver, which is a big fuss. Because I want to teach my brother this method, I will do my best to smelt the smelting skirt uàn wu meng squint seeds and recite the pan sheath diligent bath!

Zhu Kui saw that he was so cautious, and he said it with a nose and eyes, and he couldn't help but believe it. Besides, they are white, and they are very happy in their hearts, with a grateful look on their faces.

The problem is that I can't wait to learn it right away. If you want to squander thousands of dollars of silver, you are worried that you will not be good at learning, or people will deliberately keep one or two hands and not teach them all, or you have no talent. Not only is the effect likely to be greatly reduced, but I am afraid that I will not be able to refine it even if I learn it, who will make myself insatiable!

Wait for a few days for people to leave, isn't it in vain? Zhu Kui's mind was spinning. If the dark path is to see him refine it tomorrow, this qiē is true, then I will simply ask him to refine it again. Prepare one or two thousand taels of silver, wouldn't it be possible to refine one hundred and twenty thousand? Even if I can't learn, it's enough to get so much silver.

Having made up his mind, Zhu Kui said with a smile: "I have a reluctant request for my brother, I hope that my brother will forgive me, don't laugh at me." I would like to ask the virtuous brother if he can smelt the sand ×again, and if he can smelt the sand again, he can smelt the sand and sand and smelt the sand and smelt the tomb of the sand and

Yan Gongzi said happily: "Brother has a heart, you and I are confidants, why is the younger brother afraid of forty-nine days?" Well, my brother will prepare 10,000 gold tomorrow, simply as much as possible, I will teach the exercises while smelting, and in my spare time, I will have to bother my brother to take me to visit the places of interest in Jinling. ”

"Thank you, brother, why don't you take you to the palace for my brother?" Zhu Kui was overjoyed.

"Then you don't need to." Yan Gongzi laughed.

After dinner, Yan Gongzi rested for a while and went to the pavilion to practice, ordered to add some charcoal, and returned to the study to meditate.

Zhu Kui pulled Tian Wenhai outside and said: "I'm afraid that I won't be able to learn, so I ask someone to practice again, and I plan to do it without stopping, and prepare 120,000 silver, you also know that I don't have any money in my hand now, but how can I miss this big opportunity?" Now there is only one strategy, tomorrow morning you will pull out the warehouse and those screens, tables and chairs on the back floor, etc., from the back door and sell them secretly, you estimate that it is good to sell 10,000 taels, too much is too unusual. By the way, do you have any way? For the time being, if you borrow 18,000 taels, 20,000 is 200,000! Don't miss the opportunity. ”

Tian Wenhai groaned: "I have a way, but I have done it, and the silver will be refined in the future, and I will have to share more profits in my later life. ”

"You guy." Zhu Kui pointed at him and scolded with a smile: "How long did I lie to you? ”

Tian Wenhai said: "I'm not afraid that the owner will deceive me, it's better to explain the matter involving silver, and rely on it." With that, he turned around and went to the pavilion.

"Can it be true?" Zhu Kui stood in the courtyard and muttered to himself, probably in his own home, Tian Wenhai and two henchmen guarded him, and Yan Gongzi was not that kind of person.

Raising his head to look at the starry sky, Zhu Kuixin said that if he succeeded, he would also take the silver to help the poor, anyway, it was given by God, and he couldn't be punished by God for not pulling out a dime.

bowed to the gods and Buddhas, and he still went to gossip with Yan Gongzi. In the middle of the night, Yan Gongzi took the stage again to burn talismans and recite mantras, and instructed Tian Wenhai, "Be careful at night, the fire can't be broken." ”

When it was over, he said goodbye to Zhu Kui and went back to his apartment, and agreed to come back tomorrow. Zhu Kui saw that people didn't stay overnight, and they didn't want beautiful women to sleep or anything, he was really a master.

He was also busy all day, and before going to bed, he instructed Tian Wenhai, "Don't delay things tomorrow, and keep it secret, don't be known by the Xu Mansion, and you can't be known by Yan Gongzi that the silver is borrowed from selling, otherwise you will be ashamed of me." ”

"Got it." Tian Wenhai agreed with a smile.

In the early morning of the next day, Tian Wenhai, who had not slept all night, took seven or eight old people of the Zhu family, secretly opened the warehouse, went to the upper room of the wife of the Zhu family, opened the back building, moved out some tables, chairs, screens, etc., loaded three carriages, and pulled them directly to a famous pawn shop.

Tian Wenhai walked in first, arched his hand and said, "Shopkeeper, I have some furniture made of good wood, I don't know if the Guibao store can accept it?" ”

How could there be a guest so early in the morning, the shopkeeper greeted him and said with a smile: "Where is the furniture?" Let me look up and see, and if it is the best, I will naturally receive it all. ”

Tian Wenhai smiled reservedly and said outside: "Carry things in." ”

The shopkeeper and the guys opened their mouths wide and watched the furniture move in one by one, and everyone was shocked, and it was true that these pieces of furniture were too rare. Soon the proprietor also heard the news and rushed to see that the house was full of fine timber such as rosewood, ironwood, nanmu, etc., and the carved texture of the furniture was also very exquisite, and everyone knew that this transaction was not small.

The proprietor hurriedly instructed the guys to give up their seats and serve tea and water, and politely invited Tian Wenhai to talk in detail.

After toasting the tea, the proprietor said, "If you really can afford the shop, please ask for a treasure price." ”

Tian Wenhai put down the teacup and said with a smile: "If you don't really want to sell it, can't you bring these expensive and heavy things out to play?" But the price is wrong, I will never sell, I must seek a good price and sell. To tell you the truth, these objects are all the things of the Zhu family of Chengguo, and each of them is the best wood for weighting, and you can't buy it even if you look all over Jinling. ”

"It turned out to be something from the Zhu Mansion, no wonder." The owner nodded frequently when he listened, who doesn't know what happened to the Zhu family? But there are rules, he won't inquire about the details, "Then this batch of things is going to be sold?" ”

"Three months in the current period." Tian Wenhai finished vaguely, and added, "This is the order of the second prince of Zhu." ”

The proprietor naturally had a way to verify it, and said with a smile: "Okay, please make a price." ”

As long as it is a pawn to sell something, no matter how good the treasure is, it is not worth much, and this batch of furniture is not an antique, not to mention that it will be sold directly, it must be in urgent need of money, and the two sides tacitly understand this, and the actual price is about forty or fifty thousand taels of silver.

Tian Wenhai stretched out two fingers, "At least twenty thousand taels." ”

The proprietor immediately shook his head and said, "How can it be worth so much silver?" It's enough to build new ones! You will be given a maximum of eight thousand five hundred taels, and if you are not satisfied, the small shop will not be able to obey the order. ”

"No, no." Tian Wenhai shook his head again and again, "I was in urgent need of money, so I was willing to lose 20,000 yuan." Take a walk to a wealthy businessman, if you want to buy it, you can sell it for 19,000 at the worst, forget it, disturb your store. ”

He ordered the servants to carry him back, and he himself got up to leave. The proprietor hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, and said with a smile: "Please sit less, it's easy to discuss." I can't hide it, these things in your house and other idlers can't afford to buy them at all, and people with status will be unlucky, I will give you 8,500 taels of true justice, respect or not, you can go to someone else's house to ask, to ensure that no one is higher than the villain. Let's go, in front of the Zhu family, the housekeepers have spent so much effort, I will add another eight hundred taels, no more, I really don't want more. ”

There are many bigger pawn shops in Jinling, and the problem is that they are all disconnected from the major giants, so Tian Wenhai naturally does not dare to come to the door. At the moment, the two bargained and won 10,000 taels, and they would redeem it soon anyway, stating the current period of three months.

The guys in the store went out en masse, carefully checked the registration one by one, and then moved inside one after another.

The owner took Tian Wenhai to the silver number and exchanged the silver. Tian Wenhai got a benefit of one hundred taels, and the family members also asked for twenty taels of errand money.

"Send the money back."

Tian Wenhai asked them to go first, and he went to several merchants he knew, most of whom had long-term business dealings with Zhu Mansion before, and in the name of Zhu Kui, under the sign of Xu Mansion, he borrowed more than 6,000 taels everywhere.

The guy who called the silver number combined the loans of each family into a silver ticket, and returned to the house with it in his arms. (To be continued......) R1292