Last Dang (Folk Tales)

During the Republic of China period, there was a "Evergrande pawnshop" in Huazhou, and the owner was called Li Hengda.

The door had just opened early this morning, and a man walked into the Evergrande pawnshop. He took a brocade box from his arms and placed it on the counter. The jin box was locked with a small lock, and when the hanzi opened the jin box, Li Hengda's eyes lit up, and it turned out that there was a jade jar in the jin box.

The jade jar was a little larger than an adult's fist, and judging from the texture and color of the jade, Li Hengda concluded that it should be carved from Hetian seed jade. The wall of the jar was also carved with the dark pattern of the Erlong Play Bead, and Li Hengda concluded that this thing should have flowed from the imperial palace, and it was a cockroach jar used by those relatives of the imperial state to fight the clams, let alone more than 10,000 oceans.

Li Hengheng asked Hanzi how much money he wanted to be. Hanzi said a hundred pieces of ocean, a month. Li Hengda understood that there must be something urgent going on with Hanzi.

Li Hengda told Hanzi that only one month's interest was ten percent, and Hanzi agreed, asking Li Hengda to quickly issue him a ticket.

Li Hengda put the jade jar into the jin box, nodded at the guy, and the guy began to do the ticket. Li Heng was just about to put away the jin box, but he was stopped by the man, so he saw that he had locked it, pulled out the key and picked it up.

Li Hengda was a little surprised and looked at Hanzi. Hanzi seemed to understand Li Hengda's thoughts and said, "The key is still in my custody, then I will have no money to redeem, the thing is yours, and that little lock is nothing to you." ”

Li Hengda had no choice but to put away the jin box and give a hundred pieces of ocean to the man along with the pawn ticket.

Unexpectedly, the man came again in the afternoon and said that he wanted to redeem him. Li Hengda said that it was not a month, how to just be in the morning and redeem in the afternoon? Hanzi said that he had money, so he came to redeem him.

Li Hengda said that it was okay to redeem it, but the interest still had to be calculated according to one month. The man didn't say a word, and poured out a bunch of oceans on the counter. Li Hengda counted, one hundred and ten pieces, not a lot. Li Hengda accepted the pawn ticket and gave the jin box to Hanzi. The man opened the box and looked at it, then took it in his arms and left.

Unexpectedly, just two days later, the man came again. Still that jade jar, when a hundred pieces, a month. Li Heng checked the goods and nodded. The man was still the same as last time, taking the money, locking the box, and taking the key.

In the evening, just as Li Heng was preparing to close, the man came again. Pour one hundred and ten pieces of ocean to the counter, when the ticket is auctioned, say redemption. Li Hengda ordered the money, collected the ticket, and gave the jin box to Hanzi. As before, the man opened the jin box and looked at it, put it away and left.

Li Hengda wondered, he had never met such a patron, if it was all like this, it would be too easy to make money. The next day he asked someone to inquire about it, and it turned out that the guy was a gambler. Li Hengheng couldn't help but think. He knew that as long as he was a gambler, it would be difficult to stop, and he believed that the man would come back. Sure enough, two days later, the man came again. After putting the jin box on the counter and opening it for Li Heng to see, it was the same as the last time, or a hundred pieces, a month.

This time, Li Hengda did not agree, saying that it was okay for a month, but it needed to be a thousand pieces. But the man did not agree, as long as a hundred pieces. Li Hengda insisted that either a thousand pieces or let him go elsewhere. Hanzi hesitated, and Li Hengda understood that Hanzi was afraid of entering the casino and losing all the money, and then there was no money to redeem it. When it is due, it is not redeemed, but it is dead, and the pawnshop of dead things can be handled at will. That is to say, if the Hanzi does not come to redeem it after a month, then the jade jar will be Li Hengda's.

That's why Li Hengheng had to give Hanzi a thousand yuan, he wanted Hanzi to send all the money to the casino, so that he would have no money to redeem himself. He didn't believe that Hanzi's luck would always be better.

Hanzi couldn't talk about it at first glance, and he hugged the jin box and prepared to leave. Li Hengda showed a sneering smile at the corner of his mouth, he believed that if Hanzi wanted to take things out for a hundred yuan, he would have to come to him. Because other pawnshop owners don't know the goods, they are afraid that they will not even give out fifty pieces.

Han Zi took a few steps out of the pawnshop holding the jin box, and suddenly ran back, panicked and said to Li Hengda: "Boss, can you find a place for me to hide." Before Li Heng could figure out what was going on, he rushed in a few people from outside.

One of the guys with big waists and round waists pointed at the man and shouted, "Wang Ni, you are a bastard, you owe Lao Tzu money and dare to run!" Do you think that if you hide from the East Mansion to the West Mansion, Lao Tzu will not be able to find you? Say, when will you pay it back?" Wang Ni cried and said, "Big brother, I really don't have any money, if I had money, I would have paid you back!"

As soon as the leading man waved his hand, two people came up and threw Wang Ni to the ground, and one of them drew a knife from his waist. Wang Ni's face turned pale with fright, and while struggling desperately, he shouted that there was money...

As soon as Hanzi waved his hand, Wang Ni was let go. He hurriedly took out the brocade box from his arms, opened it and held it in front of the man. The leading man picked up the jade jar inside the jin box, looked left and right, and said annoyedly: "Mother, what kind of broken jar is worth five thousand yuan?" Saying that he was going to throw it up, Wang Ni hurriedly grabbed it and put the jade jar into the jin box.

The leading man said, Don't fool Lao Tzu with this broken thing, today, if you don't pay back Lao Tzu, you will be ruined. Wang Ni looked at Li Hengda and said, "Boss, you can see, this jade jar is not worth five thousand pieces." If it is worth it, you help me, and I promise to redeem it a year later. ”

Li Hengda looked at the jade jar, there was nothing wrong with it, it was something he had seen before. Then he said, "Worth so much money for now, I can help you with this." But after a year of redemption, the time is too long, you have to guarantee a month later redemption, I will accept. ”

Li Hengda actually forced Wang Ni to sell him five thousand pieces of jade jars.

Wang Ni hesitated, but when he saw the fierce god's vicious debt collector, he finally nodded.

Li Hengda asked the guy to go to the accounting office to pay the money. At this point, the few debt collectors were surprised, and the leader said, "Mother, this thing is really valuable!" Saying that, he went forward to pick up the jade jar to see, but he was snatched by Wang Ni and put it into the jin box and "snapped" and locked it. Wang Ni took the jin box in his arms and said that he would not let the guy see it.

When the guy saw the situation, he said angrily: "If you don't look at it, don't look at it, Lao Tzu is not rare, just have money." Soon the guy took five silver tickets and put them on the counter, and the leader identified the authenticity of the silver tickets, and then picked up a wave of his hand and led people away.

Wang Ni held the jin box and watched several people walk out of the pawnshop. Suddenly, he shouted, "Oh, wait, the IOU hasn't been returned to me yet..." He said and put the box on the counter and chased it out.

Li Hengheng couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this, looking at the jin box on the counter, he knew that the jade jar was already his. Now, he only waited for Wang Ni to come back and make up the formalities. However, most of the time had passed, and Wang Ni still did not see Wang Ni return. Looking at the locked jin box, Li Heng suddenly "giggled" in his heart, and a sense of foreboding surged into his heart. He was busy letting people pry the lock, opened the box and looked at it, it was empty inside, where was the shadow of the jade jar?

Li Heng was shocked and fell into his chair, he knew that those people must have disappeared at this time. Li Heng's body suddenly went soft and he collapsed in his chair.