"Godfather, are you kidding me? You want me to keep this white jade Yinglong sculpture?"
"Well, that's why I called you here late at night. You are a newcomer and no one will pay attention to you, so it is safest to leave it at your place."
"But……"
I wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Master Liu raising his hand.
"It's nothing. Only you, me and the driver Xiao Wang know about this matter. Remember not to let the fourth person know, otherwise it will lead to death."
"For the sake of safety, I will force you to stay in the antique store during this period. Okay, it's getting late. The driver Xiao Wang will take you back."
After closing the lid, Mr. Liu handed the box containing the white jade Yinglong sculpture into my hands.
Mr. Liu Ba said so, and I couldn't put it off any longer, so I took it with both hands.
I was just planning on how to take it back when I suddenly remembered the backpack I was carrying. At the same time, I also remembered that there was something in the backpack that I wanted to give to Mr. Liu Ba.
"Daddy, I collected two things a few days ago and I brought them to you by the way."
As I said that, I opened my backpack, took out the two bronze items inside, and placed them on the coffee table in front of Mr. Liu Ba.
"Well, leave it there."
Liu Baye lit a second cigarette, and while smoking, he glanced at the two bronze vessels intentionally or unintentionally, and then said something.
But the next second, Liu Baye suddenly sat up straight, staring straight at the two bronze items on the coffee table with his eyes wide open.
He grabbed one with one hand, held it in front of his eyes, looked at it over and over again, and then looked at me with astonishment on his face.
"Who did you get this from?!"
"It was collected from a Shaanxi farmer. What's wrong, godfather?"
I didn't say that I went to collect antiques. That would make him angry.
But when I saw Mr. Liu Ba’s reaction after seeing these two bronzes, I thought to myself that there must be something wrong.
No, I think my eyesight can be considered outstanding in this industry, so I can't be mistaken.
"Collected from farmers? From Shaanxi? Could it be..."
Liu Baye's brows tightened, and he murmured to himself as he looked at the two bronze vessels in his hands.
"Daddy, what's the problem?"
Liu Baye regained his composure, and with an excited look on his face, he showed me the patterns of three different dragons on two bronze vessels.
"Did you see it? This is the Red Dragon, one of the nine dragon shapes. It's really great. The dragon soul of the Red Dragon must be in Shaanxi. Dongzi, you are really a good son to your godfather!"
"Can we still find the farmer?"
I thought for a while, nodded slightly and said, "The farmer sold me these things for his wife's surgery. It should be at our city hospital in Tongcheng."
"Great, I'll go to the city hospital tomorrow, find this farmer, and ask him where he got this thing from."
It is a rule in our industry to accept things without asking their provenance, because our main business is tomb robbing.
Liu Baye has been warning me about various rules in this industry since I was a child, and I have always followed them.
When Mr. Liu is happy, I am happy. I am willing to do things for him. Who asked him to give me a second life?
After leaving the door of the villa, I found that the passenger door of the Audi car at the door was open, and the driver, Brother Wang, was still humming along with the melody in the driver's seat.
Seeing me coming out, he hurriedly turned off the music and waved to me, which meant that he wanted me to get in the car so that he could take me back.
I smiled and waved my hand and told him no, because I came here on an electric bike.
Seeing my refusal, the driver, Brother Wang, had nothing to say. He just reminded me to be careful when I went back because Tongcheng was not very safe at night.
Hearing what the driver, Brother Wang, said, I understand deeply. Just now, I was blocked in an alley by eight or nine people. If I hadn't been pretty good at it, I'm afraid if I wanted to see me again, I would have to wait until tomorrow. The Asahi Shimbun.
After a brief chat, I got on my electric bike and left the villa.
By the time we returned to the antique shop, it was almost early in the morning.
I didn't have time to wash up, so the first thing I did was open the safe hidden behind an antique calligraphy and painting on the wall of the antique shop, and carefully put the box containing the white jade Yinglong sculpture inside.
After doing all this, I stretched my waist, yawned, washed briefly, and then fell on the bed.
When I woke up again, it was already past nine o'clock the next morning.
Seeing that it was already this time, I hurriedly got up, ate something briefly, left the antique store and went straight to the city hospital.
It would take a hundred days to break my muscles and bones, let alone remove a huge tumor in my stomach. Even if I felt sorry for the money to go home and take care of myself, I would still have to stay in the hospital for at least ten days and a half.
So I think your man and his wife must still be in this hospital.
But it backfired. I searched the entire floor, not in the corridors, and even in the wards one after another, but there was no sign of the man or his wife.
"Hey, aren't you the patient who escaped from the hospital a few days ago?"
I was frowning there when a nurse suddenly took the initiative to talk to me. When I looked up, it was the little nurse who went to my ward at that time.
"Ah, it's me. My ears are almost healed and I don't need to be hospitalized anymore."
"You said it would be fine. Penetrating injuries like yours require frequent check-ups at the hospital. Otherwise, there is a high risk of serious recurrence. Don't take your ears lightly."
While I was chatting with the nurse, something suddenly occurred to me, and I hurriedly asked the little nurse: "Sister nurse, I want to ask you something. I don't know if it's convenient."
"What's the matter? Tell me."
"On this floor, there was a couple from Shaanxi in this corridor three days ago. The girl seemed to have a tumor in her stomach and needed surgery. Do you remember it?"
The little nurse frowned and thought for a while and said: "Oh, I remembered it. There are couples who paid all the money, but the person disappeared. Do you know them? If so, call them back quickly to perform the surgery. Otherwise, it may be life-threatening."
"What? I paid the money but didn't do the surgery?!"
"Yes, this is not a joke to you. Human lives are at stake. If you know where they are, please ask them to come to the hospital and hear them. Okay, I have to change the patient's dressing."
After saying that, the little nurse turned around and walked into one of the wards.
I paid all the money and left without any surgery. How is this possible?
Could it be that something unexpected happened?
I was still full of confidence when I came here, but I never thought that reality would ruthlessly throw cold water on my head. No one could be found. How should I tell Mr. Liu about this?
The worst plan is to go to Shaanxi and look for him bit by bit, but for a province as big as Shaanxi, it will take a long time to find the man. I don’t even know what his name is. It will undoubtedly be like fishing from a haystack. Needle.
I walked out of the hospital door extremely frustrated. A gust of wind blew by, picking up pieces of paper on the ground. I don’t know who had no sense of ethics and threw away the test list. This is not an invisible increase in the number of people. What is the workload of environmental protection personnel?
Suddenly, I raised my hand and slapped myself on the forehead, turned around and ran back to the hospital.
In front of the main service desk of the hospital.
"Hello, can you help me check that there are laboratory test receipts for a Shaanxi couple three or four days ago?"
"No, it is not convenient for us to disclose the patient's information to outsiders, unless you are a police officer and are here to investigate the case."
"Yes, how did you know that? I am a police officer. Our captain asked me to investigate that... that child abduction case. That Shaanxi couple is highly suspicious."
"Oh, that's it. Then I'll check it for you right away."
Although Tongcheng is not big, there are more people visiting the hospital every day than the antique market.
Therefore, it was not easy to search. Although it took a long time, the hard work paid off, and we actually found the test report that the man brought his wife to check.
