The 29th Chapter: The Maiden Who Sold Herself to Save Her Mother

  Another loud whistle came from the backyard, startling everyone.

  The tiger also cried, and the sound of the dry horn scared Ye Qiufeng into stopping her crying abruptly.

  Ye Qiu Shuang stared into Li Yuan Xing's eyes and said word by word: "You keep your promises, today I am yours!"

  Li Yuanxing nodded silently, but immediately changed the subject: "First help me take a look at these things, Old Five gave one thousand yuan to Lai Tou for living expenses."

  Wang Wu happily took out 10,000 yuan and placed it in front of Ye Qiufeng.

  Ye Qiu Shuang wiped her face with her clothes, wiping away tears, and restored the strong girl's expression. She pointed to several younger brothers: "Go move a few more tables, then put a few stools together to put the boxes on, they must be stable. Take bed sheets, the table can't have seams."

  A few people looked at Wang Wu, and Wang Wu cursed with a smile: "Don't go to work yet! Wait for the aunt to get angry!"

  Ye Qiu Shuang didn't care how Wang Wu called her, anyway she had already made up her mind to sell herself, everything else was irrelevant.

  Looking at the few people working, Wang Wu walked to Li Yuanxing's side and whispered: "Xing Ge, she must have some other reason. Normally, if someone were swapped into our situation, they would be scared and ask us for help, and we wouldn't force her to really sell herself."

  "It's reasonable, but even if one can sell their body to save their mother, there's a limit to how bad they can be. A filial child is not greatly evil!" Li Yuanxing also replied in a low voice.

  Wang Wu nodded slightly, and it was enough to just mention it briefly, there was no need to say more.

  The table is set up, Yu Shengnan's letter is placed on the table, a magnifying glass and lamp are all in place.

  Ye Qiu Shuang looked carefully for a full five minutes: "Seventy percent is real, it's not easy to preserve so well. It should be the heirloom of some big family, I'll help you think of a way to launder it, and you can get almost twice as much money. But laundering also costs money."

  "This is it, it's white!" Li Yuanxing laughed.

  "Impossible!" Ye Qiufeng was confident, how could this kind of thing be a clean thing.

  "The Provincial Museum can provide a certificate, so it's all white." Li Yuanxing said here and didn't explain any more. He then told Wang Wu: "Call out Xiao Bao to make a record and list the items clearly. Gather reliable brothers to guard this courtyard with their lives, losing one item would be too great a loss for us!"

  The little leopard came out with his laptop.

  Li Yuanxing smiled and rummaged through the box, pulling out three knives: "These three things are no longer mine, take note, one for Xiao Jun, one for Nü Mó Tóu, and one for Gui Ye." Xiaobaozi recorded while saying: "I don't know if we're being taken advantage of, Lianzi Ge said that Xiao Jun invested only 50 million in the film company!"

  "If it's a business deal, you're losing out on this price, but if we're friends, then the price is fair!" Ye Qiufeng spoke with growing confidence and a firmer tone.

  Li Yuanxing just said, "It seems that Little General is a fair person!" While speaking, he reached into the box and pulled out a purple sandalwood long wooden box, opening it as he spoke: "This thing, as far as I know, has several good ones, not just the few scraps that people say are left in the world. This one belongs to Chang Hong, Chang Ge's brother. It must be donated, no guts to keep!"

  "Are you afraid?" Ye Qiufeng thought to herself, this is just a box of things, the police can make Li Yuanxing never have to spend money on food for the rest of his life. He dares to open up a sky-high price to kill people. Li Yuanxing's calm demeanor made Ye Qiufeng not believe he would be afraid.

  Li Yuanxing smiled: "One day I'll take you to see a real national treasure."

  When it comes to national treasures, everyone shuts up, and national treasures are a taboo word.

  For Ye Qiu Shuang, apart from the unresolvable knot of death deep in her heart, it was already impossible to cure her mother whose life had entered countdown. She didn't care about anything else, not even afraid of death, not even regretful of selling herself, what else could intimidate her?

  What is a national treasure, she doesn't care, snatching the Tang-dynasty wooden box from Li Yuanxing's hands and opening it: "This box comes from the Tang imperial family, inside is..." As Ye Qiushuang opened the scroll again, she was stunned once more. Today had already shocked her many times, but this time the shock was like a thunderbolt.

  "Guo, Guobao!" Ye Qiufeng was trembling all over, her whole body shaking.

  He slapped his hands a few times to calm himself down, threw away the original white gloves, put on a new pair, took two deep breaths, and opened the scroll. He said word by word: "Please record! Suspected to be an authentic piece, with over 70% possibility of being genuine. A replica of 'Preface to the Orchid Pavilion' by famous Tang Dynasty calligrapher Yu Shinan, classified as a national treasure, priceless!"

  "Priceless!" A little brother shouted out loud and was slapped in the face by Wang Wu: "Forgot the rules!"

  Everyone clenched their teeth tightly, not letting out a single sound.

  Wang Wu said to Li Yuanxing: "Do you want me to invite the cabinet master?"

  Li Yuanxing nodded silently: "Please, originally thought this thing could make Chang Hong laugh so hard that he couldn't close his mouth, now it seems that he will cry instead. This thing is donated, he may not be able to stay in the provincial museum. Please, Master Guan! You go and invite him yourself. Tell my brothers to prepare all the hunting guns."

  Wang Wu left.

  Li Yuanxing turned around and said to those younger brothers: "Every family builds a new house, counts as brother's, all three-story small buildings!"

  Everyone was unresponsive, they had already been taught a lesson by the cabinet master last night, the cabinet master had a gun in his hand, it was a real military gun used by the troops. The cabinet master's original words were "carrots and sticks", he had long taught these people discipline. Especially selected to watch the house, all of them were former soldiers, they were extremely reliable.

  Those who have never been soldiers, such as Little Leopard, are the younger brothers of the tiger and will not betray their elder brother for whom they have risked their lives.

  Moreover, Guan Gong also said that a filial person has no great evil.

  Ye Qiufeng stared at the couplet without blinking, looking very carefully. Li Yuanxing said beside him: "Choose a gift to give someone, choose the cheapest one."

  Ye Qiu Shuang didn't say anything, she just quietly and carefully rolled up the letter.

  Then he took out all the things in the wooden box and placed them on the table, finally picking out a pair of jade horses: "This pair is worthless. Although it's an antique, the jade is not good, the craftsmanship is poor. It's estimated to be from a small merchant's house in the Tang Dynasty, and there's no obvious origin, it can only be inferred from the jade and the style of carving that it's from the Tang Dynasty."

  Li Yuanxing recognized this thing as one of the gifts brought by that what will conference.

  The name is domineering, called something like Jade Flowing Gold Emerald Horse or something, at the time I thought it was some kind of treasure, who would have thought that Ye Qiu Shuang evaluated it as the cheapest thing in this box.

  He picked up the horse and looked at it, then casually put it on the table.

  Ye Qiu Shuang said at this time: "Actually, the horse is not that worthless, it's just that the things in your box are too valuable. Of course, if we were to put them in the Tang Dynasty era, these items would be considered mid-range treasures, and this pair of jade horses would also be worth a lot more than those three Obstacle Knives."

  "Ah-ha!" Li Yuanxing nodded his head, thinking he had misunderstood that merchant.

  "How much did you get for these things?" Ye Qiu Shuang also casually asked, but Li Yuan Xing burst out laughing: "Business secret, business secret." The awkwardness was written all over his face, even the little brother guarding the door could hear the embarrassment in Li Yuan Xing's laughter.

  The old man arrived quickly, but after entering the yard, he slowly walked into the house, sat down with a big fan, and tapped on the table: "Not even tea is available, and you still ask an old man to come out in such hot weather."

  Making tea is naturally a task for the younger brother, but as soon as Cabinet Master took a sip, he started complaining: "A bunch of useless kids, you've wasted good tea by drinking it like leaves." Upon hearing this, Ye Qiufeng walked over and rechecked the temperature of the hot water bottle, opened the lid to let it cool down, then went to smell the tea leaves.

  Gu Ye showed interest in looking at Ye Qiufeng, but didn't ask who it was and just ignored him.

  Li Yuanxing took out a cloth package from the bottom of the trunk, carefully opened it and took out a bowl: "This thing is the tea bowl used by the Mixed World Demon King of the Great Tang Dynasty. This will be used to make tea for Master Gui, which will show off Master Gui's identity!"

  Ye Qiu Shuang took the tea bowl, examined it carefully, then poured a little water into it and put it down. She still used a modern tea bowl to brew a cup of tea for Guan Ye, presenting it to him with both hands. Guan Ye sniffed the fragrance of the tea and asked: "Did you figure out anything from that bowl, tell me about it!"

  "It is from the Tang Dynasty, an early celadon of Yue Kiln, and its craftsmanship is not as good as that of the mid-Tang period. However, it is still a valuable antique, but whether it was used by Cheng Zhijie is difficult to verify. Unless there is more evidence to prove it, for now, there is only one point, which is that this bowl was supplied by Yue Kiln to the royal family."

  Ye Qiu Shuang replied in a straightforward and square manner.

  The old man nodded in satisfaction: "It's passable, sixty points, better than my own granddaughter. However, you didn't examine it carefully, the ones presented to the imperial family and those used by the imperial family as rewards are also different, this difference was even more pronounced during the Wude era. The floral pattern, pay attention to the floral pattern. So when Xingzi said it was used by Lu Guogong, it's not entirely nonsense. But what you said isn't wrong either, the evidence is still insufficient, not enough to prove that this is from the Lu Guogong estate!"

  After saying this to Ye Qiufeng, Guiye asked Li Yuanxing: "What's the origin of this little girl!"

  "My woman!" Li Yuanxing's face was originally not thick-skinned, and he said this with a sense of righteousness.

  "You still need to learn and cultivate yourself a lot to match this young lady!" The two sentences from the shopkeeper immediately put Li Yuanxing down.

  Li Yuanxing smiled and didn't respond.

  The old man took a sip of tea and praised the good craftsmanship. He put down his teacup and slowly said, "Let's take a look at that copied Lanting Xu."

  Ye Qiu Shuang wore it, and in her heart, she had a hundred ways to bear with it.

  This old master has a high taste and sharp eyesight. The most impressive thing is his calm demeanor, originally thought the old man didn't know about that character paste, but who would have thought he knew, and could still be so calm, first drinking a cup of tea before looking at things.

  Just this point alone, Ye Qiu Shuang believed that there were not many people who could achieve it.

  The old man knew that he had to calm himself down first when facing a national treasure, or else he might make a big mistake if his eyes wandered.