Grand Collection

Early the next morning, Luo Zigeng went to knock on the door of Kong Xin's room, took some salvaged goods away, and entrusted a fisherman to resell them to other antique dealers.

Holding the 8 yuan in hand, Kong Xin remained silent.

Luo Zigeng looked down at him, with a faint wry smile, raised his hand to touch his ear, but restrained himself the moment he fell, changed direction and landed on his shoulder, and said coldly, "I didn't let you You have something to lose."

"You also let me earn 3000 yuan," Kong Xin said dumbly.

"...Well," Luo Zigeng said with a blank expression, "If you still plan to continue to collect, I will come and take it away. Maybe you won't even earn 300 yuan next time."

Kong Xin was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed at himself, "Are you implying that if I want to see you, I will only accept seafood?"

Luo Zigeng gasped for breath, looked at him with complicated eyes, met his mocking eyes for a moment, and looked away, "I'm not in the mood to joke with you."

"Isn't life just a big joke?" Kong said, "Are you living so seriously and happily every day?"

"I don't violate discipline or break the law. I don't have to worry about the police coming to my door. Of course I am happy."

After finishing speaking, Luo Zigeng looked at his watch, turned and walked out of the room without hesitation. It was already six o'clock in the morning, and the tide was about to rise. He hired a fisherman to take him out to sea. If he missed the tide, he would not be able to go out today.

Kong Xin chased him out and grabbed him, "Don't go, I'll treat you to breakfast."

"I've eaten it," Luo Zigeng grabbed his wrist and pulled it away. When his palm touched the familiar skin, his heart trembled slightly. He wanted to pull Kong Xin into his arms and kiss him until he couldn't kiss him again. No sweet words, no more lies.

He calmly took a deep breath and let go of his hand. He couldn't look back. Now that he had decided to draw a line with him, he couldn't get entangled anymore.

Life is like chess, one wrong move will lead to wrong moves, he is determined to get rid of Kong Xin, and he can't destroy the Great Wall for a moment of pleasure.

Kong Xin reluctantly changed his hand to hold him, "I know you look down on me, you hate me from the bottom of your heart, you think I've given you a cuckold, but Luo Zigeng, you say with conscience, we are together How did I treat you in those five years? Have I ever slept with someone else?"

Luo Zigeng turned his gaze and looked straight into his eyes, "You treated me very well in those five years and made me very happy, but Kong Xin, not sleeping with others is not the same as being loyal, since you have to rely on your conscience, In your conscience, during the five years we were together, did you really let go of your cousin?"

Kong Xin was taken aback.

Luo Zigeng sneered and pushed him away. The ignorant are the happiest. He was happy in a daze for five years, and then he was woken up by a hammer five years later. That incident was like a hard thorn in his heart. The piercing pain, if you can't be an ignorant person, you can't be truly happy anymore. The phone rang, and Luo Zigeng answered the phone. It was the hired fisherman who was urging him to get on the boat. He hung up the phone twice. Kong Xin, "I'm leaving, you can go back to Nanjing if you have nothing to do, and don't think about the Golden Reef Forest anymore."

"Where are you going?" Kong Xin frowned, "I heard that man talking to you just now? Going to sea? What are you doing going to sea at this time?"

"It's none of your business."

"I like you, everything about you has something to do with me!"

Luo Zigeng paused, "Don't make trouble."

"You won't let me collect the goods from the sea, and you won't accept it yourself," Kong Xin said firmly, "then you don't go to sea to steal. This sea area is not clean, full of mudflats, and you can't be Go to play, as far as I know, you are not interested in sea fishing, so you have no reason to go to sea."

"Enough, stop making trouble, I'm in a hurry."

Kong Xin grabbed his collar, "If you don't make it clear, you don't want to leave today."

"You!" Luo Zigeng was angry, "Are you still a child? I have broken up with you, we have nothing to do with each other, there is no need to tell you what I do."

Kong Xin remained calm, "That's not what you said when you stopped me from collecting seafood."

Luo Zigeng choked.

The mobile phone rang again, and the fishermen were getting impatient. The sea area around here had a semi-diurnal tide. If you miss this tide, the next high tide will be at night. If you don’t go to sea for a day, you will suffer a loss for nothing.

Kong Xin took out his cell phone which was ringing non-stop, glanced at the cell phone screen, "Boss Chuan? Hehe, I'm so anxious, how about it, since you won't tell me what you are doing, then I have no choice but to follow you .”

"No!" Luo Zigeng refused.

"You must be taking risks," Kong Xin was sure, "Luo Zigeng, I know exactly how many hairs there are on your buttocks. I can tell what kind of little girl you are by looking at your eyes. You can't hide it from me."

Luo Zigeng looked at him in frustration, "Okay, let me tell you, I heard that Pan Nanhua took a boat to the Golden Reef Forest, I want to see what he is doing, this is not a risk, and I don't plan to do anything, you are satisfied gone?"

"I will go with you."

"no!"

"Why didn't you let me go if there was no danger?"

The ringing had ended, Luo Zigeng looked at the time and was defeated, "Okay, but you have to make sure that no matter what you see or hear, you are not allowed to act without authorization."

The two went straight from the hotel to the pier. It was the sea raising period, and the large fishing boats were moored at the pier to rest, but the small motor sailing boats were not included. Small boats drove out of the pier with the sound of motors. Luo Zigeng rushed over. A dark boat boss Standing on a sailboat with legs apart, waving, "Here!"

When the two got on the boat, the tide was already rising, and the boat swayed from side to side. Kong Xin's face turned pale, and Luo Zigeng frowned, "Sickness? Then you go back, don't meddle in it."

"Not dizzy," Kong Xin gritted his teeth.

Luo Zigeng gave him a meaningful look, not understanding what he was insisting on.

The engine boat did not sway so much when it started, and Kong Xin felt a little more comfortable. He secretly thanked himself that he hadn't eaten breakfast, otherwise he would have thrown his face at his grandma's house if he vomited it out on the spot.

Sitting in the cabin and watching the pier getting farther and farther away, there is no reference when the boat enters the vast sea area. There is a vast ocean as far as the eye can see. The nearest boat seems to be hundreds of meters away from here.

The boat was slow, and it took them half a day to reach the Golden Reef Forest. There have been frequent shipwrecks here since ancient times, because there are too many hidden reefs. These hidden reefs will emerge from the water when the tide is low, but they are hidden under the water when the tide is high. Fortunately, the boss of the boat is very experienced. The boat passed between the reefs.

The sound of motors increased. Dozens of motor boats came to this sea area from all directions, moored in a mess, and they kept coming. There was an oil slick on the sea surface, reflecting the dazzling light in the summer sun.

There are water ghosts jumping down or coming out of every boat. Every time they come out of the water, there must be fresh porcelain coming out of the water. The boss of the boat who brought them over also put on his diving suit and went into the water with his equipment.

Luo Zigeng didn't show up in the cabin, he took out his camera and pointed it out of the window to shoot quickly.

Kong Xin became serious, "What are you doing? Are you crazy?"

"I'm very sensible," Luo Zigeng took pictures for a while, put away the camera, picked up an old-fashioned telescope in the cabin, and looked at the tense big ship not far away.

"Are you looking for Pan Nanhua?"

"I've already found it," Luo Zigeng put down the binoculars, took out a long-range lens from his backpack and replaced it with the camera, carefully adjusted the data in a certain direction, and said with a little regret, "He's too cunning, I can't take a clear picture of him. The photos can only be taken of the people around him, and those who are always by his side are his confidantes."

"Ho!" The boat boss got out of the water, with a rope tied around his waist, climbed into the boat and slowly dragged a big fish basket up with the rope, opened it, and three blue and white porcelain appeared in front of the two of them.

"How much is there underwater?" Luo Zigeng asked.

"There are too many," the captain of the boat wiped his face, took a ladle full of fresh water and poured it over his head, and shook his hair. Tens of thousands of bottles have been filled, I think, even if everyone fishes together, it will still take a week or two."

"The country has lost a lot," Luo Zigeng lamented. "The protection of underwater cultural relics is inherently difficult, and if they are robbed, they will simply be unstoppable."

"Why do you think so much? The country already knows how to collect taxes. Have you given me a meal? This is the meal offered by Lord Haiwang," the boat boss grinned, and squatted in front of Luo Zigeng with the porcelain in his hand. "Brother, you are an expert, come here Look, what kind of porcelain is this? How much is it worth?"

Kong Xin was struggling to resist seasickness. He glanced at the porcelain with thick scale, and saw that the exposed white part was as white as jade, and the blue and white color was thin and bright. The Dehua porcelain produced is famous for its white porcelain, which sounds like a chime and is as white as jade. It enjoys the reputation of "China White" in the world. Porcelain is exported in large quantities, look at this pattern," he picked up a large plate, "although it is blue and white, but the pattern is painted with a biblical story, this is a typical example of export porcelain, the combination of Chinese and Western, this is the cultural exchange between China and the West after the opening of the sea ban As a result, there was basically no market for this kind of porcelain in China at that time, but it was very popular among Europeans."

"Hey!" The boss of the boat was full of surprise, "My friend, you know a lot, you must be a big shot?"

Luo Zigeng glanced at Kong Xin, who was obviously seasick and his face was pale, and he was still holding on to the big plate, and couldn't put it down, and smiled wryly, "Well, big shot."

"Hey, tell me how much I can sell these three porcelains for?"

Kong Dao said, "If you sell these three items to an antique dealer, you can get 3 yuan, which is considered a great skill. Send it to a domestic auction house for about 30 yuan, and send it to an international auction house. Hey, make another somersault."

The boat boss gasped, "Mother, it's so expensive!"

"However," Luo Zigeng said coolly, "our country's law stipulates that all underwater cultural relics belong to the state. If you are caught by the coast guard, you will not get a penny and all will be confiscated."

The boat boss stared, "I didn't steal or rob, why should I confiscate what I got with my strength?"

Just as Luo Zigeng was about to speak, his phone rang suddenly. He glanced at the screen, lowered his voice and connected the phone, hummed twice, put away his phone, and smiled at the boat boss, "Just received the news that the coast guard is already on the way. If you don’t hurry up and return to the voyage, everything will be in vain.”

"Fuck! Which son of a bitch reported to the coast guard!" The boat boss yelled, turned around and ran away with the boat.

On the way back, the plane passed by five coast guard ships. Luo Zigeng looked at the white police ship with a sneer on his lips.

Back at the pier, a layer of sweat broke out on Kong Xin's forehead. His face was pale and pitifully fragile. He looked at Luo Zigeng with deep eyes, "What are you laughing at? You recruited the coast guard?"

"It's useless to simply recruit the maritime police, they will only deport the pirated boats," Luo Zigeng said calmly, "Before I boarded the boat, I asked a friend to call the National Underwater Cultural Relics Research Center. Tolerate the country's property being salvaged or even divided up so roughly? We will definitely respond immediately, but we did not expect such a quick response, and we dispatched the coast guard before we could return to our voyage."

"You!" Kong Xin was taken aback, grabbed his collar and cursed, "If others find out, you will be hated! You silly boy, anyone who dares to organize water ghosts to steal is a desperado , you are digging your own grave by blocking their money, do you know that?"

He was seasick and fainted for half his life, and his fingers were limply clutching his collar, but Luo Zigeng pushed him away easily, "If I'm not completely sure, I won't shoot," he took out the memory card from the camera, "Now I just need to Send this anonymously to the Coast Guard and the whole thing has nothing to do with me."

Kong Xin stared blankly at the small card in his hand, which contained the photo of Pan Nanhua's confidant directing the water ghost to steal it. Even if Pan Nanhua could not be brought down, it would definitely bring him bad luck. He couldn't believe it. Biting his lips tightly, why did he no longer recognize the young man in front of him in just a few months?It seems that he is no longer the young boy who was touched by porcelain on the antique street, no longer the young man who nursed himself to sleep in front of the hospital bed, and no longer the man who kissed himself frantically under the street lamp after the battle.

He has become gloomy, deep, and ruthless, and he is no longer his own Luo Zigeng.