The fat old man came to the outside of the village in a daze. Shunwa and I walked out from behind the old locust tree. The fat old man said, "They ran away, and even my companions were not found."

Shunwa said: "Let's stay here tonight, don't worry, this kind of thing is not urgent."

While the fat old man was not paying attention, Shunwa secretly gave me a wink, and then asked loudly: "Daigou, do you know anyone in this village?"

I know what Shunwa wants to say. Of course he knows that I have an acquaintance in this village, and this acquaintance was introduced by Shunwa. When Fat and I mentioned his experiences over the past few days to him, we also mentioned to him the old goat man in Zhoujiakou Village. The reason why Shunwa deliberately asked me this is because he didn't want the old fat man to know that he had a relationship with the old goat man.

Since I don’t want the fat old man to know, there must be some conspiracy between Shunwa and the old goat. Maybe a pit has been dug and I am waiting to push the fat old man down.

I took them to knock on the door of the old man goat's house. A picture of a lady was spread out on the Eight Immortals table in the old man goat's house, which was the ancient painting inscribed by the Lord of Taohua Temple.

When the fat old man saw the ancient painting, he felt like he had a shot of a cardiotonic agent. He said to the old man goat cleverly: "I have found out clearly the Lord of Taohua Temple. How do you sell this painting?"

The old goat man said, "I don't sell it. I keep it for myself to appreciate it. I have to read it carefully every night before going to bed before I fall asleep."

Why does this sound so familiar? Oh, I remembered that when I first tricked the man and a woman from the provincial capital, Shunwa taught me to say this.

The fat old man said: "Didn't you say someone had booked it a few days ago? Why is it still here with you?"

The old man goat said, "The goods should be sold to the consignee. After the buyer came, he was very angry and did not take me and my painting seriously at all. I returned the money to him and stopped selling it."

The fat old man said, "What if I know the goods?"

Goatee said, "Then tell me the origin of this painting."

The fat old man sold the set he heard from the old monk to the old man goat. He said that the Taohua Temple was Tang Bohu, who was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty. In his later years, he was determined to have a career in the mountains and forests, planted peach blossoms in front of the courtyard, and planted bamboo forests behind the house, and called himself the Taohua Temple Master. Tang Bohu had painted landscapes, flowers and birds, and among them, the best pictures of ladies were famous in later generations.

The goatee said with emotion: "I have hidden this painting in my heart and waited for a long time. I just want to sell it to the consignee. Today I finally waited for you. This is what the Bodhisattva sent you."

After the goatee finished speaking, he said sadly: "This picture of a lady is the favorite of my father and the heirloom of my family. My ancestors were an official in Jiangnan and were close friends with Tang Bohu and had helped him many times. In order to repay his kindness, Tang Bohu gave his most proud painting to my ancestors. My ancestors regarded this painting as a treasure for the housekeeping, and passed it on from generation to generation, and passed it to me for more than ten generations. If it weren't for the family's depravity and five dou of rice, I would never have sold my property."

The fat old man was also deeply moved. He held the old man's hand of the goat and said, "Don't be sad. Although I bought it, I actually kept it for you. When do you want to come and watch it? I will open the door to welcome you."

The goatee became more and more moved, and his tears were flowing out. He said, "I will only give you one person in this way."

They started to negotiate the price, and the old goat man said, "If it were someone else, I wouldn't sell it if I lost a thousand yuan, but you are the consignee. Tell me, how much money you said, as long as it's almost done, I'll give it to you."

The fat old man said 200 yuan, and the old man goat pondered for a moment and finally agreed. However, he put forward a condition that he had to come here the next day because his family could no longer make the case.

The fat old man agreed.

I think the fat old man said 200 yuan acres of ocean, maybe he wanted to get the 200 yuan acres of ocean given to the young man with a vest, and handed it over to the old man goat. The old man goat agreed when he heard the 200 yuan acres of ocean. Maybe he knew that the fat old man could take out only these 200 yuan acres of ocean.

Two hundred yuan was a lot, so you could buy a yard in the county town at that time.

That night, Shunwa and the old man goat didn't say a word. They just nodded, as if they didn't know each other. But I think they must have known each other, just pretending not to know each other.

The fat old man just jumped out of the wolf's nest and entered the tiger's mouth again. The picture of Tang Bohu's ladies is very likely to be fake.

The next day, the fat old man had to go back to the county town to find the young man with a vest and the old man with coarse cloth, and to get his own 200 silver dollars.

Shunwa asked: "Do you know where they are?"

The fat old man said: "I asked each family in the county town, but I don't believe I can't find them."

Shunwa said, "I know this group of people. Isn't the old man with coarse cloth just a cold bone? Everyone knows this area and is so dark. Their stronghold is outside the north gate. There is a coffin shop outside the north gate, which is their stronghold. There is a small furnace maker on the coffin shop. The stall specializes in repairing reading glasses, which is their eyeliner. There is a basin jar on the other side of the street. The stalls are slinging the broken porcelain bowls and porcelain basins and can continue to hold things. This is also their eyeliner. You must be careful of these two stalls. After the bone cold, 80% of them are hiding in the coffin shop, waiting for you to raise money."

The fat old man said, "I'll go find him now and get the money back."

The old man with coarse cloth nickname is Shuguliang, and he really deserves his nickname. Not only did he cheat the fat old man with only 200 silver dollars, he also opened his mouth wide, trying to cheat the fat old man with a house in the capital and buy a fake tomb from him. Such a person's heart is simply black.

The old man in coarse cloth looks loyal, but is actually a treacherous person.

After the fat old man returned to the county town, he planned how to get his 200 silver dollars back.

It is not easy to get close to the coffin shop, because there are small furnace makers around the coffin shop. These two stalls are eyeliners of the coffin shop. At that time, the small furnace maker mainly had two main ways of living, one was to connect the legs of the glasses, and the other was to change the tip of the plowshare. The legs of the glasses were like this. The small furnace maker held an old-fashioned hand drill, punched his eyes, and nailed it. The reading glasses with broken legs were connected. The tip of the plowshare was like this. The plowshare was used to plow the ground, and the front was sharp, so that it could penetrate into the soil. If there were stone iron blocks buried in the ground, the tip of the plowshare would be broken and needed to be replaced. The little furnace maker set up a steel charcoal furnace, pulled up a small bellows, the flames rush up, and the cast iron turned into iron, and the little furnace maker put the plowshare on the ground.

The iron is leaping into the mold and connected with the preheated plowshare. After the iron is cooled, a pair of sharp plowshares will be fine. The basin maker has only one way to do, which is to repair the broken bowl, break the basin and urn. It is easy to do, butt the fragments, fix them with a thin rope, and then drill several holes on both sides of the gap with a hand drill, put rivets into the holes, connect them with aluminum sheets, untie the thin rope, and repair the broken bowl. Serve a bowl with a bowl of water, so that the water will not leak. Zhang Yimou's movie "My Father and Mother" has a picture of repairing the bowl. People at that time were very poor, and bowls were the property, and as long as they could be repaired, they would be repaired. The repair method of breaking the basin and urn was exactly the same, but it was much more difficult.

Shunwa said: "These two craftsmen generally don't take care of their jobs, because they will affect their stalking. How much money can they make by picking up a glass and sewing a broken bowl? As long as they target an outsider and do a big business, they can earn money. The two craftsmen have another task to prevent anyone from coming to the coffin shop to make trouble."

The fat old man said: "I won't make trouble with them, I will talk to them."

Shunwa said: "County towns are different from capital cities. There are ways to make county towns, and capital cities have ways to make capital cities. When things happen, they talk about things, present facts and reason, while the county town is just a mess. They don't make sense, they are talking about fists. Whoever has a hard fist and who has a deep background will win."

The fat old man said: "Since that's the case, I have a way. There are ways to reason, and there are ways to not reason."

The afternoon is the most leisurely time in the county town. After lunch, some people in the county sit under the eaves to calm down, while some stand at the doorstep to look around. On the street, every shop is open and wandering people are in groups of three or five.

A few people suddenly came outside the south gate of the county town. The fat old man walking in front was beating a gong and greeting everyone he saw. Two people followed him, carrying a wooden plaque with five words "Killing people without blood". Behind the wooden plaque was a child, and firecrackers were set off every time he arrived at the intersection. On weekdays, life in the county town was stagnant, and now there is finally a lively view. Everyone was happily running around and told each other.

The fat old man led these people through the county town and walked towards the north gate. Before he could reach the north gate, there were already a vast crowd behind him, with thousands of people.

When they were about to reach the coffin shop, they saw a little furnace maker sitting on the street, sitting on one side. However, they stood up happily and watched the fun. They were illiterate and did not know what words were written on the wooden plaque.

After the fat old man came to the door of the coffin shop, he stopped. He stood on the stone steps and said to the dark heads below: "My fellow villagers, wait a minute, I will go in and say something, and I will come out in a while."

The fat old man walked into the coffin shop, and he asked for a name to find Tongguliang. The guy in the coffin shop saw that his visitor was not good, so he quickly informed the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper heard the noisy outside the door, and just lifted up his robe and stepped out the threshold, he saw the fat old man. He also felt that the fat old man was not good, so he quickly asked the guy to make tea and see the seat for the fat old man.

The fat old man waved his arm and said, "I don't drink or sit. I came here to want my 200 yuan ocean. I won't want it today and I won't go out. There are still thousands of people waiting for me outside the door. You can do it."

What you are most afraid of when doing old business is to mobilize others. Everyone knows that if that happens, even if the government does not investigate, you will have no shame to see others. The shopkeeper advised the fat old man kindly, stabilized him, and then secretly ran to the back room to find the old man sleeping inside. The old man of coarse cloth crawled in the crack of the window and looked out, and then said to the shopkeeper: "Get out of the 200 silver dollars for him."

The shopkeeper withdraws money in the drawer, and the old man in coarse cloth pushed the thin old man who was sleeping with him, and he said, "Go out quickly and don't come here again in the future."

The fat old man took the two hundred silver dollars he had lost and recovered, and walked out of the coffin shop proudly. In the coffin shop, the old man with coarse cloth called the clerk and said to him: "Look at the fat old man just now and see who he interacts with. Grandma's, the coffin shop can also be found. This is a weird thing."
Chapter completed!