89. Mysterious treasure 06
This is an anti-theft seal. "They are not qualified." Geng Wenqiu said lightly.
"Why don't you pass?" Fang Xia asked.
"You have too many problems." Geng Wenqiu said.
"You have to understand a young man who is ignorant of the world... Uh, the young man, the uneasiness after coming to a strange place, and the mood of eagerness to get familiar with the environment as soon as possible."
Geng Wenqiu raised his eyelids and looked at him coldly, not believing in his nonsense.
"Why did I choose you as the heir to the Geng family? You will naturally understand it." Geng Wenqiu finished speaking, and did not give Fang Xia any more chance to speak. He pushed a carved rosewood square box the size of a palm in front of him, "This is a property passed down from the Geng family's ancestors and stipulated that it will be kept by the heads of the family in history. Now the head of the family is temporarily represented by your cousin, but this position will be handed over to you soon, so this thing will be handed over to you in advance."
Fang Xia picked up the square box of rosewood, looked at Geng Wenqiu, and saw that she did not stop her, she opened the box as she moved. The bottom of the box was covered with red silk, and a jade ring lay on the silk. The color was greasy and white, and the texture was delicate and gentle, and a greasy luster was emitted from the inside and outside. The shape was ring-shaped, with a gap about a finger wide on the ring body, and the gap was carved into two totem-like dragon heads, and the eyes were met. The position where the tails of the two dragons merged together was tied with a red rope. Depending on the length, it was used to hang it around the neck.
"This is the white jade double dragon ring. From now on, you will wear it close to your body." Geng Wenqiu said.
"Is this an antique? Do you want to wear antiques with your body?" Fang Xia twitched his mouth slightly. He didn't have much research on antiques, but he studied painting. The way of painting this dragon is definitely not a work from recent dynasties. It has to be traced back to at least a thousand years ago! With the Geng family's demeanor, he would not use imitations of descendants as ancestral objects, so this jade ring is mostly a genuine product with a history of more than a thousand years. But even if jadeware of this year is to be displayed, it must be placed in the display cabinet. How can one wear it close to you?
"When you wear it, how can you get so much nonsense?" Geng Wenqiu said impatiently.
"What if I lose it?" Fang Xia closed the rosewood square box and continued to talk nonsense.
Geng Wenqiu: "You will be retribution."
Fang Xia: “…”
"Wang Ke is the assistant assigned to you. You can find him in your daily life and study of Geng's heirs in the future. I will arrange your entry into the family tree tomorrow, go pack your luggage and have a rest early." Geng Wenqiu waved his hand.
Fang Xia picked up the small tea bowl in front of him and drank the half-cool tea water. Then he put the jade ring's square box into the pocket of the coat and got up to walk outside the tea room. As soon as he put his hand on the door handle, Geng Wenqiu suddenly called him.
Fang Xia turned around.
"That white jade two dragon ring..." Geng Wenqiu paused slightly, looked up at Fang Xia's direction, but the focus of his gaze fell on the void beside Fang Xia, as if he was staring at something. "His name is Fu Jin."
Against the light, Fang Xia did not see Geng Wenqiu's vision deviating strangely.
"I understand." A jade ring actually has two names? Fang Xia Yingwan muttered in her heart while opening the door and walking out of the tea room.
Fang Xia walked out of the tea room and found that Wang Ke was still waiting in the hall with his suitcase.
When Wang Ke saw him come out, he hurried over, "Young Master Fang Xia."
"Don't call me that." Fang Xia rubbed her arms with an exaggerated expression, "You have goosebumps called me. Do you call me a name? This title really needs to be changed, it's too dated."
"Mr. Fang Xia..." Seeing Fang Xia squinted, Wang Ke hurriedly changed his words, "Fang Xia, I'll take you to your room."
Wang Ke led the way, and Fang Xia followed him with his suitcase, his eyes falling on his back. Why the Geng family insisted on him coming back as the heir is still a mystery. Since Geng Wenqiu refused to tell him, Wang Ke must not get an answer here. First, Wang Ke didn't know the reason, and second, Wang Ke knew but was ordered not to say it. With Wang Ke's somewhat rigid personality, Fang Xia could not get an answer in either of these two situations. It was precisely because of this that he did not ask Wang Ke on the way he came before, but chose to ask Geng Wenqiu directly. However, Geng Wenqiu did not cooperate and refused to answer.
Fang Xia withdrew her gaze, turned to the edge of the patio, carved exquisitely carved railings, and casually said, "This house has a long history, right?"
"It's been about a few hundred years." Wang Ke turned around and looked at Fang Xia and began to talk about the history of the old house he knew in a stern way.
The ancestors of the Geng family were once famous local wealthy families. The Geng family's old house was originally built with more than ten houses, and the entire family lived together. Later, with the division of the family, the side branches no longer lived with their direct descendants, and the population gradually decreased. Due to the changes of the times, the houses of more than ten were demolished, and now there are only three houses left in the Geng family's old house.
Compared with the past, the Geng family's old house was indeed shrinking significantly, but now, the land occupied by the third-entry house cannot be considered small. Fang Xia's room was arranged in the east wing room on the third-entry second-floor. Wang Ke led him to the door and walked for almost five or six minutes. Although the time was short, neither of them had short legs and did not walk slowly, which was enough to show that the Geng family's old house was so big.
He took Fang Xia to the door, Wang Ke handed him the key, turned around and wanted to leave, but Fang Xia shouted.
"Mr. Fang Xia... Fang Xia, what else do you have?" Wang Ke asked.
"Is there no one else in this house? I mean, besides me and you, there is also that old lady Geng." From entering the gate of the Geng family's old house, he had seen Geng Wenqiu, and now he was led by Wang Ke to the east wing on the second floor that was inside, he had seen two people - one Wang Ke and the other Geng Wenqiu, and the others had not even seen a personal figure.
"Sorry, I was negligent and forgot to tell you." Wang Ke said apologetically, "In this old house, in addition to you, Mrs. Geng and I, there are also Uncle Tong, Aunt Chen and Brother Cheng Dong. Today, Uncle Tong took Brother Cheng Dong out, Aunt Chen probably was busy in the kitchen. Uncle Tong is the housekeeper, and the affairs of the old house are basically managed by him. Aunt Chen is responsible for cooking, washing and other house chores, and Brother Cheng Dong is mainly responsible for external contact. In addition to us, Geng's old house also employs a lot of people, but they don't live here."
"Wait! I hired a lot of people but didn't work in the old house. Is it helping to manage the Gengjia company?"
"Geng's company is managed by people from the Geng's side branch. Now the company is in power, your second cousin Geng Chongmin, who is your grandmother's sister and Geng Qiulan's second son. The eldest son Geng Chongzhi is the current head of the family. Originally, their family was going to move into the old house here this year, but since you are the heir now, they shouldn't move in..."
In other words, only the Geng family's old house can live in, and it is feudal. But it sounds strange. The side branch holds the power of the company, and the direct family specializes in guarding the door of the old house? And a large group of people were hired to look at the door, and those people were not in the old house.
"Since the group of people hired by Laozhai are not in charge of the company, what kind of business do they do?"
Wang Ke closed his mouth, was silent for a while before he said to Fang Xia hard, "Mrs. Geng said he can't tell you now."
I can't say it now!
Fang Xia narrowed her eyes, then smiled, and half-jokingly said, "Is it a bad business?"
"No." Wang Ke quickly denied, "I have something to do, let's go down first. I'll call you after dinner."
Wang Ke turned around and ran away. Fang Xia lost the object of the cliché and had to bring the newly added mystery, open the door with the key, and enter the room with the suitcase.
The old Geng family house looks ancient and ancient, with carved beams and painted buildings everywhere, but the decoration inside the room is in a modern style. There is a solid wood floor, a bed in the middle, the bed facing the window, and the side of the bed is a sliding door wardrobe with a touch-top door, and a cloakroom and bathroom behind the wardrobe.
Fang Xia changed his shoes and entered the house, stuffed his suitcase directly into the wardrobe, then spread his limbs and threw himself on the bed for a while, then sat up and took out his cell phone, and called his senior brother Shan Yichun.
"Hey? Senior brother, have you received your medical expenses?" Shan Yichun answered the phone, and Fang Xia asked straight to the point.
"Ah? Oh! The medical expenses...the medical expenses have been received."
Shan Yichun's tone sounded a little tense, which made Fang Xia feel a little strange.
"Senior brother, is there something wrong with you? Your voice sounds a little nervous."
bsp; "It's okay... cough, I just don't have a good throat recently?"
"How is the situation of Master?" Fang Xia paused for a long time and then asked.
"Master is pretty good, don't worry." Shan Yichun said, "How are you doing there? The Geng family didn't make things difficult for you, right?"
"I'm pretty good too. They asked me to come back as the heir. What can I do to make things difficult for me?" Apart from the divine nagging, it's strange and weird. This can't be said now, but what can't be said now is a bit annoying.
After chatting with Shan Yichun for a while, he confirmed Ma Guangping's situation, and after the medical expenses were received, Fang Xia hung up the phone. He stuffed his phone back into his pocket, and then took out the carved red sandalwood square box containing a jade ring from the other pocket.
He didn't need to eat or sleep, but he had never told Fang Xia clearly, nor did he intend to stop him of these behaviors, because he enjoyed this treatment. Whether it was giving him food or leaving him with half a bed, he would not take the initiative to refuse. However, it would make Fang Xia look too weird in the eyes of ordinary people, such as Fang Xia's actions that just now gave him a chair, Fu Jin decided to try to avoid it. Fang Xia himself was very enthusiastic and did not care about other people's opinions, but he did not like to see others looking at Fang Xia with such weird, incomprehensible, and even ridiculous eyes.
Fang Xia paid the money and waited for a while. The waiter at the front desk prepared the ice cream and handed it to him. The pink ice cream ball, half a fist-sized, was placed in the crispy cone. Fang Xia took the ice cream, opened her mouth and took a big bite on it, and was trembling with cold.
Fu Jin felt that Fang Xia's reaction was quite interesting, like a frightened little puppy, and couldn't help but take a look. Fang Xia didn't show up, and while being frozen, he turned slightly. After glancing at Hu Jia and her friends walking out of the coffee shop together, he walked towards the door of the shop slowly.
While eating ice cream, Fang Xia fell behind Hu Jia and the others not far away.
Hu Jia and the others were obviously here to visit the mall. After leaving the coffee shop, they walked into the mall. Fang Xia followed them two turns and then turned to the elevator.
The two elevators here are relatively remote in the mall, but it may be because of the crowds on weekends. In addition to Hu Jia and her friends, there were five people waiting for them.
Fang Xia stuffed the last small tip of the cone into her mouth, licked the corner of her lips, and then quietly smuggled into the five people, stood firm at the rear of Hu Jia's right, and looked up at the numbers jumping on the elevator display board.
The number of words on the display board jumped downwards as the elevator went downwards. Fang Xia's left hand in his pocket moved a little, slowing down his breathing, and making preparations secretly.
Soon, the elevator arrived at the first floor, and the elevator door slowly opened, and the waiting passengers walked inside.
Fang Xia also followed and approached Hu Jia. Before Hu Jia stepped into the elevator, she took the lead and entered the elevator from her right. The moment she passed by, with the cover of her body and the hem of her clothes, she quickly and easily pulled out the wallet from Hu Jia's pocket and flipped her hand into her pocket. While Fang Xia stepped into the elevator with her feet, the short white wallet that still had Hu Jia's body temperature was already lying safely in Fang Xia's pocket of her coat.
The elevator arrived on the second floor and the elevator door opened again. Fang Xia walked out of the elevator, smiled proudly at Fu Jin beside her, and then walked towards the escalator, preparing to turn back to the first floor.
Fang Xia was skillful in stealing Hu Jia's wallet and his movements were fast, but he did not escape Fu Jin's eyes. Fang Xia turned his head and showed him a big white teeth, and he instantly understood what the other party was proud of.
After being shaken by Fang Xia's snow-white teeth, Fu Jin paused slightly before asking lightly: [Where did you learn it?]
"In the town where I lived when I was a child, there was a habitual stealing, known as Qianshou Aaron, who learned from him." Fang Xia stood on the escalator, looked at Fu Jin, who was half a head taller than him, stared at the other party's cold and beautiful eyebrows, and whispered: "But in addition to pranks, at most, I touched cigarettes from my second senior brother when I was a child, and I never really stole other people's things. This is the first time I was serious today, and I am also famous for my master."
[Hmm.] Fu Jin nodded slightly.
Sure enough, this child is just a purely careless person and does not have a bad intention.
Fang Xia turned back to the first floor of the mall, but he did not go into the cafe again, but asked Geng Shudan to come out.
After Geng Shudan came out of the coffee shop, he followed Fang Xia out of the mall and was taken to a remote corner, and then a short female wallet was stuffed into his arms.
"Is this..." Geng Shudan was stunned by the stuffing and did not react for a while.
"Hu Jia's wallet! Don't you want something she often uses?"
"How did you come?" Geng Shudan opened his wallet suspiciously, which contained several hundred-dollar bills and various documents and savings cards. The photos and names on the ID card he took out casually can confirm that the owner of the wallet was indeed Hu Jia.
Fang Xia slapped Geng Shudan's hand on the hem of Geng Shudan's clothes, flipped his hand, and then Geng Shudan saw that his cell phone, which was originally in his pocket, was pinched between his fingers by Fang Xia.
Geng Shudan had a expressionless face: "...good skills, you can perform magic at the Spring Festival Gala."
Geng Shudan was not obsessed with Fang Xia's stealing behavior, right? He only felt relieved when Hu Jia got his wallet. Things had made some progress, and Fang Xia was helping him.
The little evil ghost who was temporarily sealed by him in the sable coat was not strong, but after all, he was a evil ghost, and it was prone to change after being dragged for a long time. It would be better to find out the matter as soon as possible, so that the matter could come to an end.
When asking about ghosts, they are asking about wandering ghosts wandering in the sun.
The wandering ghosts are different from evil ghosts. They die in accidents or die in their hearts, and they do not have a resentment in their hearts, and generally do not have much impact on living people. The reasons they stay in the Yang world are mostly because they have no wishes or are reluctant to leave their relatives. As long as they do not do many evils in their lifetime, the Yin Guard will not force them away. And these dead souls are only temporary in the Yang world. The Yang Qi in the Yang World will harm the dead souls. If they do not leave at the time, it will be the end of being eroded by the Yang Qi and scattered by the Yang Qi. However, these stranded guests in the Yang world can often see the secrets of many living people, so they have the art of asking about ghosts.
According to legend, the ancient technique of asking ghosts can tell the great disasters of heaven and earth, and the lower part can be used to know everything.
"What about now?" Fang Xia stood behind Geng Shudan, leaned against the wall, kicked the small stone beside her feet, and asked.
They are now in a narrow alley, opposite the community where Hu Jia lives, and Geng Shudan is squatting against a wall in the alley, fiddling with incense, candles and paper money. These things are bought after they have lunch and traveled to half a city, and they use the simplified equipment needed to ask ghosts.
"Now? Now, asking ghost skills can only ask about human affairs, not destiny, and require common items from the people they are asking about. It has become more troublesome, and it may not necessarily ask what you want to know." Geng Shudan paused and continued, "There is one thing that must be remembered for asking ghost skills - you must not believe in all the words, and you need to be careful to distinguish the truth and falsehood. Even if you are not evil ghosts, these wandering ghosts will not have good intentions to the living."
"Human words may not be credible."
Geng Shudan was stunned, then smiled and said, "That's right."
During the day, the yang energy is heavy, and the wandering ghosts will try to hide as much as possible, which is difficult to attract. If you want to recruit ghosts, it is easier to succeed at night.
When the night fell, the lights from door to door in the community started to turn on. The store where Fang Xia and the others were located was in the building materials business. There was no business at night, so they closed the door early, and there were gradually no people nearby.
Geng Shudan lit two white candles standing on the ground, lit three incense sticks with fire, inserted them into the can in the middle of the white candle, and placed Hu Jia's wallet next to it, and placed the paper money in a large white porcelain bowl, and began to mutter something.
Fang Xia didn't hear what Geng Shudan was chanting, but just looked at the props for offering sacrifices to ghosts under the shaking candlelight of the white candle. He couldn't help but sigh again that the props were simpler, which was worse than those of the liars in the world.
After Geng Shudan finished reciting the lyrics, he waited for a while. Fang Xia began to look around. Asking about ghosts is to attract the wandering ghosts who know the matters related to the owner of the item and then inquire. But after reciting Geng Shudan’s lyrics, Fang Xia has not seen a ghost yet. Oh, it is a ghost other than Fu Jin.
"I didn't come..." Fang Xia murmured in a low voice.
Geng Shudan calmed for a moment, then looked back at Fang Xia in a half-squat position, "Can I ask, Mr. Fu is here?"
Chapter completed!