Chapter 422: One-Armed Palace Maid
After drinking two cups of tea in a row, Durin put down the teacup and spit out a breath with the fragrance of tea,
"Curator Ding, your tea is really good. ”
"Prizes have been awarded. Ding Bogu smiled and nodded, he had put a lot of effort into this tea ceremony.
At this moment, there was a knock on the office door, and the staff member named Xiao Zhang walked in with a brocade box, Ding Bogu nodded, took the tea tray and teacup, and motioned for Xiao Zhang to put the brocade box on the tea table, and then handed the tea tray to Xiao Zhang, waving his hand to mean that he could go out.
"Please, Dr. Du. Ding Bogu took out a pair of white gloves from a small box under the tea table and handed them to Durin.
Durin nodded and put on his gloves and gently opened the lid of the brocade box, and Durin immediately frowned, because he could see at a glance that although the jewelry box in the brocade box looked the same as the one in the cover, it was definitely not the same thing, so he looked at Ding Bogu suspiciously.
"Director Ding, what does this mean?"
"Dr. Du has good eyesight, this is indeed not the one on the booth, but you can rest assured, it is a model that I paid for 3D printing, and this is the real thing. ”
"Why do you want to make a fake one?"
"Don't hide it from Dr. Du, this jewelry box is called 'Eight Treasures Exquisite Trap Box', which is the first collection I started after I started to play with the collection, so it means a lot to me, I am afraid that something will go wrong with it, just like that kind of thing, if it happens, I really can't find a tune to cry. I had no choice but to get a Xibei and put it over there to fill the number, and the real thing was put elsewhere by me. ”
"Director Ding is cautious. Du Linxin said no wonder, compared with the one he just brought, the one buckled in the outer cover has less aura, so he has to look like it, and this one is similar to both form and spirit, "Uh, that Qing Dynasty Xiuyan green jade bottle just now......"
"Oh, that's the real thing, it's just ......" Ding Bogu smiled embarrassedly, "That bottle has been broken once before, and today it broke again after it was repaired." ”
Du Lin didn't have anything on his face, but he "hehe" N times in his heart, I don't know if that Cai Xingxing will be so angry that he vomits blood when he knows about it?
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about that," Ding Bogu also knew that he was not kind to this matter, and wanted to quickly reveal it, "Doctor Du, let's take a look at this 'Eight Treasures Exquisite Trap Box'." ”
"Good!"
Durin closed the lid of the box, laid the box flat on top of it, and pressed a protrusion on the side of the box.
Ding Bogu's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart that this Doctor Du seemed to be very familiar with this jewelry box, and when he saw this jewelry box for the first time, he fiddled with it for a long time before he found the key, but he didn't expect him to find it at once.
With a few slight spring sounds, the lid of the box automatically opens upward, and the upper and middle two interlayers open to the left and right, revealing the bottom layer of the jewelry box, the whole process only takes a few seconds, although there is no jewelry in the jewelry box, but just look at the exquisite design of the jewelry box, the mystery of the mechanism, it is enough to make it an extremely rare antique.
"Dr. Du has seen this box before?" Ding Bogu asked curiously, he felt that the only explanation was that Du Lin happened to be here on the day of the official opening of his museum, because the only day on display was the actual object of this jewelry box, and he also demonstrated the subtleties of this "Eight Treasures Exquisite Box" on the spot. 666 Literature Network
"No, first time I've seen it. Durin shook his head.
"Dr. Nadu seems to be familiar with it. ”
"Because I have this. Durin pulled the needle box out of his pocket.
Ding Bogu's eyes immediately lit up, he was a knowledgeable person, and he could see at a glance that the two boxes must have come from the same person.
Hurriedly took out another pair of white gloves from under the tea table, Du Lin shook his head and said:
"I don't need to wear it, it's something I use every day, not an antique. ”
Ding Bogu took a closer look and sure enough, although there was no slurry on the surface of the needle box, but there was no kind of light emitted by the utensils that had not been in contact with popularity for a long time, and the sense of antiquity was very natural, and it was obviously a thing for daily use. So I directly pressed the spring, and the process of opening the jewelry box is basically the same, but the speed is slightly faster, which is also normal, after all, the volume of the two is still much different, and the jewelry box is almost ten times the size of the needle box.
"How did Dr. Du get this needle box?"
The origin behind an antique is often the added value of the object, so people who play antiques pay attention to the orderly inheritance.
"Well, that's the money I received after I saved someone in my early years. Du Lin smiled slightly, and his thoughts returned to the last years of the Ming Dynasty more than three hundred years ago......
According to the year of the Common Era, that year should be 1643, Li Zicheng established the Dashun Dynasty in the northwest, at the end of the same year, Du Lin, who was working as a military doctor in the Dashun army, crossed the Yellow River with the Dashun army, marched to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and captured the capital in March of the following year.
Emperor Chongzhen ordered the eunuchs to send their three sons out of the palace, then killed all the concubines and daughters in the harem, and finally hanged themselves in the coal mountain.
The Dashun army rushed into the Forbidden City and plundered, but Du Lin disdained this and stayed in the outer city.
One evening, a Dashun officer came to Du Lin's residence, and brought a comatose female patient, who should be dressed as a palace maid, and said that he had found such a person in the palace, but he was cut off an arm, and he was about to die of excessive blood loss, and he looked good, and he was reluctant to let her die like this, and it was good to bring him back to his hometown to be an aunt after being rescued, so he asked Du Lin to help.
The officer was afraid that Du Lin would not be satisfied, so he deliberately left a piece of royal goods snatched from the palace as a medical fee, which was the needle box.
Durin looked at the wound and felt that although it was a little tricky, it was not incurable, and the needle box was exquisitely made, and it was indeed a rare thing, so he asked the officer to leave the wounded and pick him up when he was healed.
During the treatment, Du Lin found that this so-called "palace maid" behaved very appropriately, and her gestures always inadvertently revealed the nobility and pride of the superior, so he doubted her identity.
After some questioning, this woman finally couldn't hide it and admitted that she was the daughter of Emperor Chongzhen, Princess Zhu Yujiao of Changping.
As a princess, Zhu Yujiao didn't want to commit herself to the thieves who killed her country, so she begged Du Lin to save her from the city, Du Lin was kind by nature, and he didn't want such a young girl to be destroyed by these rough people, so he found the officer and lied that the palace maid had died, but the officer had found a new love, and had long forgotten the one-armed palace maid, and the matter was over.