Mantra

Chapter 126 Talking About Feelings

Lei Ren held a magnifying glass and kept looking at the back of the kitchen knife, as if petrified, he didn't speak, and refused to leave.

After a while, Zhao Haikun got impatient with waiting, and he sweated profusely: "Have you seen enough? If you have seen enough, go away!"

Zhao Haikun's order to chase away guests was very tough, and even Duan Tianshi, who was smoking a smoky cigarette, followed suit and said: "The master has driven you away, why don't you hurry up?"

Hearing Duan Tianshi's words, I sneered in my heart.

Yes!Now that Lei Ren is gone, no one will compete with you for the kitchen knife, right?
Facing the joint "forced palace" by Zhao Haikun and Duan Tianshi, Lei Ren raised his head unhurriedly, and asked Zhao Haikun a word with a smile.

Lei Ren, it's starting to be ridiculous!

At this moment, Lei Ren raised his head unhurriedly, and with a smile on his white beard, he said, "Brother Ah Kun! If you let me finish watching the sword, I will leave right away! But before I leave, I want to ask you In a word, in your northern dialect... How about we chatting?"

"I don't have time to spare!..." Zhao Haikun said violently.

At this time, I saw the right moment, and immediately interjected: "Uncle, let him talk, after finishing talking, he will give up."

My words are obviously helping Lei Ren.

You must help him, if Duan Tianshi blows him away, who will bite the dog with this dog, and who will grab the kitchen knife with him!

Of course, what I said was really beyond the expectations of Zhao Haikun and Duan Tianshi, but since I said it, there is no room for taking it back.

So, I forced myself to smile and said, "Uncle Lei, if you have something to say, hurry up, don't make my uncle angry, and don't embarrass everyone."

Taking this opportunity, Lei Ren smiled at me gratefully, and without waiting for Zhao Haikun to agree, he hurriedly asked him: "Brother Akun, I just want to ask you one question! Are you still the abbot of my Wu Zang Temple? Not the inheritor of the Confucius Temple?"

Zhao Haikun immediately returned: "Of course it is!"

Zhao Haikun's words made Lei Ren nod in satisfaction, and he smiled, not forgetting to continue his "emotional offensive".

Lei Ren wielded his white beard and continued to recall bitterness: "Since five years ago, when your leg was injured, you stopped working as a cook. I know that your family is in trouble, and you need money urgently, but you thought about selling the knife?" Are there any consequences for outsiders?"

Lei Ren speaks very cleverly and brilliantly. In a few words, he put himself, me, and Zhao Haikun into the same camp, making Duan Tianshi an "outsider", and every sentence pierced my uncle Zhao Haikun's heart In fact, it can be regarded as "several successes in one fell swoop".

Zhao Haikun can deny everything, he can look down on everything, and he can even sell his ancestral sword, but there are two things he cannot deny.That is his origin from the Lunan Confucius Temple and the hundreds of years of inheritance of the Zhao family.

Under Lei Ren's soft words, Zhao Haikun's attitude gradually weakened, Duan Tianshi wanted to intervene, but he was helpless because he was talking about "family" matters, so he couldn't intervene.

At this moment, Lei Ren felt that the time was ripe, and suddenly his face changed, and he said emotionally to Zhao Haikun: "...the Zhao family's ancestral kitchen knife is the foundation of our Wu Zang Temple! If you sell it to outsiders, then The history of the Zhao family... is really dead!"

Suddenly, my heart suddenly became clear!
His words are Lei Ren's biggest trump card.

What a wily fellow!
Previously, Lei Ren had been tirelessly talking to us about the origin and inheritance of kitchen knives. He seemed to be talking nonsense that had nothing to do with the subject, but in fact he was secretly strengthening Zhao Haikun's impression.

That is the importance and historical inheritance of this kitchen knife to the Zhao family and the Confucius Temple.

After all, it's not that Zhao Haikun doesn't know the meaning of this knife, nor does he have no feelings for him, he just doesn't want to face it because of his brother's death.

Therefore, what Lei Ren wants is to arouse his deep feelings, so that he is reluctant to sell this knife, at least...or to a "family" who really knows how to do it.

After hearing Lei Ren's words, Zhao Haikun's complexion changed suddenly, I knew that his words had penetrated into my uncle's heart.

Facing this question, Lei Ren hit the iron while it was hot: "Hai Kun! Think about it, if you sell it to an antique dealer, in their eyes, it is just a kitchen knife bestowed by Emperor Jiajing, just scrap iron! But if you let If he continues to stay in the 'Five Viscera Temple', then the stories and inheritance attached to him are still there!"

This remark completely moved my Uncle Zhao!
Zhao Huo, Zhao Qingshan, Zhao Deguang, Zhao Haipeng... These vivid names condensed into the legend of this knife, and also condensed into the last "relic" of the Zhao family.

Yes!Antique dealers like this treasure and will treat it well, but they are good to it. It has no history of the Zhao family, and it is just a handful of old objects. The aura attached to it, the stories passed down by him, The inherited context is gone.

In the words of our Wu Zang Temple, that is, "the spirit of the knife is scattered, and the foundation is gone."

This is definitely not what we cooks want to see.On this issue, I agree with Lei Ren, this is "big right and wrong".

To this, I immediately nodded in agreement and said, "Uncle Master, Mr. Lei is right! The heritage of our Confucius Temple cannot be ruined by a liar!"

My words finally aroused Duan Tianshi's deepest level of anger!
He was so angry that his face was flushed, he threw the cigarette butt at my feet, and said viciously: "Zhao Haikun and I made an appointment in advance! Pay with one hand, get the goods with the other! Isn't Zhao Haikun?!"

My uncle Zhao Haikun is an honest man, his skill with the sword and the tongue is terrible, when he saw Duan Tianshi mention the previous agreement, he immediately nodded his head falteringly.

After Duan Tianshi got the exact answer, he immediately smiled and said: "See, we have already talked... How about this, brother Zhao, I will add two thousand to you, a total of seven thousand, I will take your knife now ..."

Before Duan Tianshi could speak neatly, Lei Ren suddenly interrupted: "I'll offer [-]! [-], I'll buy this knife!"

In one sentence, everyone was shocked!Jumping from [-] to [-] in an instant, what a big tone and wealth.

While speaking, Lei Ren's nephew Lei Wangcai cooperated with Lei Ren, and immediately threw Ten Thousand Mao Grandpa from his arms, and hit them in front of everyone with a "slap".

The power of this trick has a great impact on Zhao Haikun and his wife!
Facing the smiling Grandpa Mao, Gui Yuxiu immediately "opened her eyes". She trembling four chins, ran over with a smile and began to count the money, at the same time rushed to the celestial master and waved: "You go! It's none of your business." Already!"

"Ah?!" Duan Tianshi opened his eyes wide and said, "No...we have an agreement!"

Lei Ren took the conversation, and immediately refuted him with a smile: "You '呵呀boy'! Is there any agreement? A contract? Or a deposit? Nothing. You said that there is an agreement, and the law does not recognize it!"

As soon as he heard the word "law", little Ah Si also smiled and said to the celestial master: "That's right! Go back and study the 'contract law' carefully!"

Attacked from all sides, turmoil coming from all directions, and besieged on all sides, this Duan Tianshi was completely dumbfounded.

The cooked duck flew away helplessly, how could he not be stupid?
In desperation, Duan Tianshi stretched out his hand, pointed at Lei Ren's nose, then at me and little Ah Si, spat viciously, shook his head and walked away.

Seeing Duan Tianshi's disheveled and dejected look, I smiled from the bottom of my heart, but on this "serious" occasion, I was afraid that I would lose my composure, so I had to lower my head and suppress my smile as much as possible.

But as I lowered my head, the smile on my face suddenly froze.

Because, I saw something on the ground.

(End of this chapter)