The fat old man came to Zhoujiakou with two hundred silver dollars with great enthusiasm, found the old goat, and bought Tang Bohu's picture of a lady. On that day, they left the county town in a carriage. The carriage and groom in the carriage store were finally released by cannon fodder like locusts.

I watched the fat old man leave the county town and asked Shunwa: "Is that picture of Tang Bohu's lady real?"

Shunwa smiled and said, "Where will there be real ones? Where can I find the original works now? They are all painted by people today."

I asked, "Who painted it? It was so good, like a real person."

Shunwa said: "What you have seen is the thin old man who painted in the calligraphy and painting shop."

I was stunned.

It is too dark to do old business. It is pretending to steal the treasures from the owner's home, pretending to be the treasures dug out of the ancient tomb, pretending to be the treasures from the family, and anyone who wants to buy the treasures will be caught if they are not careful.

These exquisitely designed scams have made people applaud, but compared to the scam I will write later, it is a big deal.

During the years when I was a prestigious, my master Ling Guangzu told me many times that the Jiangxiang School in the world is a family. When I went out with my second uncle, I would get help from people in the world, and even a heavyweight figure like the leader of the throne was invited out. However, if you do old karma, let alone a family, it is like an enemy. Although I am in a city, I have been using all kinds of tricks that cannot be used to the table.

How come old karma is so dirty? Compared with Jiang Xiangshou, they are simply a world of difference. Circus relies on stealing, Jiang Xiangshou relies on wisdom, and doing old karma relies on insidiousness. The more sinister the more wealthy they can make.

To be old is to be fake. Those who make fake in the world are the most unmoral and dirty, melamine, gutter oil, sick pork pretend to be fresh beef... To be old is to cheat money, and these toxic foods harm life. Can a nation extend its poisonous hand into the bottle of its descendants? Can this nation still save itself? Who made a kind nation with a civilization of five thousand years so terrible and cruel? God can still forgive evil; if it does evil, it cannot survive.

I once asked Shunwa if we had any conflicts with the old men of coarse cloth. Shunwa told me a past story.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a coffin shop in Baoxing County, and the business was light. In order to make the business prosperous, the boss came up with a solution and instigated two large families to fight. If the fight was fought, people would die, and the coffin shop would become popular.

One of these two big families is Zhang and the other is Wang.

The Zhang family's children and the Wang family's children were classmates and friends in private school. One day, the owner of the coffin shop first sent someone to steal a book that the Wang family had read, and then pretended to be a member of the Wang family and kidnapped the Zhang family's children. They deliberately talked about the Wang family's affairs in front of the Zhang family's children; they also deliberately threw the book that the Wang family had criticized at the kidnapping site.

The Zhang family's child was kidnapped into a cave. After dark, he took advantage of the slackness of the guards and fled home. In fact, this was the case of the coffin laying. The Zhang family was holding the book used by the Wang family's child and were discussing countermeasures. Suddenly, he saw the child coming back and heard him talk about the content of the kidnappers' conversation, so he concluded that the person kidnapped was definitely from the Wang family.

The Zhang family sent someone to ask for an explanation and asked why they kidnapped the Zhang family's children. The people of the Wang family naturally refused, and the two sides started arguing. The result of the quarrel was that the problem was not only not solved, but was seriously escalated.

So, the two families started a large-scale fight, killing dozens of people in total. The business of the coffin shop suddenly became popular.

I was shocked when I heard this story. The coffin shop is like a pharmacy shop, which is a special business. If a doctor prescribes big prescriptions, abuses drugs, and kills money in order to make more money. In a society, if doctors lose their professional ethics and aim to make money, then there will be a serious crisis in society. Doctors and teachers are both the weather vane of society. One of them treats the body and the other treats the soul.

After listening to this story, I asked: "Is this coffin shop the coffin shop where the old man coarse cloth is located?"

Shunwa said, "Yes."

Shunwa continued: "The owner of the coffin shop is not satisfied with earning money for coffin boards, and they also have to engage in old business. At that time, the largest boss of the county town's old business was surnamed Chu, and the owner of the coffin shop became in-laws with this family surnamed Chu. However, unexpectedly, the daughter of the family surnamed Chu was always beaten and scolded after marrying. Later, the family surnamed Chu sent someone to reason, but was beaten out. So, the family surnamed Chu took their daughter home, and the two families began to become enemies, slandering each other and stumbling against each other."

I asked: "Are you talking about Chu Runxuan's family?"

Shunwa said, "Yes."

It turned out that there was such an indissoluble bond between them.

I thought the version that Shunwa told was the most authoritative version, but I didn't expect that later, I heard another version.

It seems that the contradiction between these two companies is complex, endless and confusing.

The fat and thin old man left, and I also completed the task assigned to me by Shunwa, and returned to the seal carving stall and calligraphy and painting shop.

When I returned to the calligraphy and painting shop, it was already night. The door of the calligraphy and painting shop was half open and half closed. Bingliuzi and three teenagers were chatting under the wall opposite the calligraphy and painting shop. I had seen the three teenagers before, and they lived nearby, one called Dayan, the other called Xiaoyan, and the other called Shiyan, and Shiyan was cross-eye. In our youth, we didn't like to call others' names, they all like to call them nicknames, such as Shican Tiger and Sloppy Ghost. Shican Tiger is a person who does anything half a beat slower than others, and we don't like to play with him. There is a layer of dirt on the sleeves of the sloppy Ghost, which is formed after layers of snot dry. Whenever his nose runs down, he wipes it with his sleeves. Over time, it becomes like this.

They didn't see me coming, they were all listening to Bingliuzi's preaching of ancient scriptures with concentration. We call the story Ancient scriptures.

Bingliuzi said: "Old people often say that animals are stupid. In fact, they are sometimes very smart and smarter than humans. Our neighbor feeds a big yellow dog, which is very fierce. He is not afraid of wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, and is also very obedient. No one dares to go to his house. One night, the neighbor heard the big yellow dog barking, so he walked out of the door and looked out through the fence door. Under the moon, under the pile of firewood at his door, a branch was swinging back and forth under the pile of firewood at his door. The neighbor felt very strange. He thought it was a thief, so he released the big yellow dog. After the big yellow dog pounced on the pile of firewood, he suddenly squeaked and stopped. Then, the neighbor saw a money leopard biting the big yellow dog's neck and dragging it away from the pile of firewood. He was frightened, and ran back to the house with a scream and inserted it into the door. Do you know how the money leopard deceived the dog?"

Big Eye asked: "How did you cheat?"

Bingliuzi said: "The golden leopard wants to eat the dog, but the dog is in the fence and cannot enter. Besides, the dog is also very far away and is not afraid of it at all. So the golden leopard hides behind the pile of firewood, biting a branch in his mouth and shaking it. The dog doesn't know what it is, so he pounces over. When the dog pounces over, the golden leopard suddenly jumps up from the side and bites the dog's neck."

Xiaoyan said: "Although the money leopard is smart, it is still far from the wolf. There is a family in our village who feeds a big fat pig. At night, they drive the pig into the pen, block the door with a millstone, and block the millstone with a bar. In this way, the wolf insects, tigers and leopards want to get into the pigstone, but they can't get into it because there are millstones and bars. However, one night, the owner of the family did not go home, and there were only children and his mother at home. They heard the pigs shouting in the pigstone and dared not go out, so they looked out through the window and saw a wolf coming into the yard. The wolf wanted to eat pigs, drilling

If you don't enter the pigpen, you want to climb the wall, but the wall is too high. The wolf is hiking in the yard. When you see a bench in the corner of the wall, the wolf drags the bench to the edge of the pigpen, jumps onto the bench first, then jumps onto the wall, and then jumps into the pigpen. In theory, the wolf jumps into the pigpen and can't jump out of the pigpen, but the wolf can actually drag the bars away, push the millstone away, and drives the pig out of the sill. The wolf holds the pig's long ears in his mouth, and whips the pig's butt with his tail. The wolf pushes to the left, and the pig goes to the left; the wolf pulls to the right, and the pig goes to the right. In this way, the pig and the wolf run far away together."

Big Eye said: "Wolf is indeed very cunning, and the old wolf is even more cunning. The old wolf can learn from the crying of a baby, learn from pigs, sheep, and cows to tempt people. When you confront the wolf, the wolf will dig on the ground to scare you, and suppress your voice and prevent your cry from coming out. When you see it running far in front of you, you relax your vigilance, but it will suddenly attack you from behind you. There is a group of children in our village playing outside the village, and the wolf will waving its tail. The children think it is a dog, so they teased it. He ran to a child's door, suddenly bit his neck, and ran away on his back. Many people chased him, but they didn't catch up."

Bingliuzi said: "The people in our village have a way to deal with wolves. The wolf is suspicious by nature. We sprinkle a circle of white gray on the wall of the pigpen and sheep pen. When the wolf looks at the white gray, he will not go in to eat pigs and sheep. There is a man in our village called Yang Dadan. One winter, he went to the night to hire a doctor. His mother was in an emergency, but was blocked by the wolf. He waved a stick to scare the wolf, but the wolf just didn't leave. What should I do? He heard the old man say that the wolf is suspicious by nature, so he put the sheepskin coat on his back and climbed on the ground and slowly approached the wolf. The wolf saw a monster with white hair approaching him. He didn't know what it was. It was a sheep, much bigger than a sheep, a bear, and much smaller than a bear. The wolf slowly retreated and made way out, and the person passed."

He said to his eyes: "If you want to be smart, no animal can compare to weasels. We call weasels Huang Taixian, which can predict life and death. Weasels are cartilage, and their bodies can shrink and can penetrate after a little gap. If we want to enter the yard to eat chicken, they will drill in from the sewer. Some people make clips that can catch weasels, nail them into a slender wooden box with wooden boards, separated by barbed wire, and put the food weasels like to eat, making bait. There is a mechanism in the box.

As soon as the weasel eats food, the door of the box will be closed and the weasel will be locked inside. This clip is usually placed at the sewer entrance that the weasel must pass. But weasel has never stopped. One night, the family forgot to close the yard and slept until midnight. When they heard the rooster in the yard calling. When they looked through the crack in the window, they saw their own rooster running out of the gate. There was a weasel standing on the rooster's body. The weasel had the rooster's fat cockscomb in its mouth, fiddling with the chicken's head, and directing the rooster to run forward."

I heard them chatting lively and came over, and I said, "The money leopards, wolves, and weasels you mentioned are indeed smart enough, but they are nothing compared to the toads in our hometown."

They laughed together: "Haha, the toad is still smart, this is the first time I heard of it."
Chapter completed!