"Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang?" Yu Yao couldn't help but be stunned.

"Yes. I'm not talking nonsense, my teacher Lang Gong once had a relationship with him, this is what he told me. Cai Pengxi responded.

"Oh. Old man, Lingshi's previous public identity seems to have been on the scene a lot?"

"I forgot, but what you know from other people is limited after all. The family teacher actually has another name: Lang Qianyu. That's all outsiders usually know. ”

Humble gentleman, gentle as jade.

Yu Yao didn't have time to think about this, and shouted out in a lost voice, "Lang Xiankun and Lang Qianyu are the same person?"

"yes. Cai Pengxi explained, "Lang's name is Qianyu, the word Xiankun, after returning from studying in the UK, except for the inside of the Ghost Eye Gate, he no longer needs Xiankun's font size. ”

Lang Qianyu was a very special collector during the Republic of China. He was originally a person who had stayed abroad, and after returning to China, he served in the Beiyang government for a short time, and later he was dissatisfied with what the Beiyang government did, so he abandoned politics and engaged in business, and accumulated a large amount of capital during his business.

Although he was a businessman, most of his contacts were from the cultural and collecting worlds. And a lot of money has been used to acquire cultural relics.

In the fifties, Lang Qianyu also worked for two years in a public-private joint venture company in Shanghai, during which time he also discovered and rescued a number of jade slips from the Warring States period, which were later collected in museums.

At that time, Yu Yao saw some information about this person, and felt a little strange.

I see!

Cai Pengxi looked at Yu Yao, "There is another thing, the family teacher didn't know before he died, I found it a few years ago." ”

"His daughter?" Yu Yao remembered that Cai Pengxi had told him that Lang Xiankun's daughter had followed an officer to Taiwan Island in 1949 and had not been heard from since. ”

"Yes. Cai Pengxi said, "She and her husband went to Taiwan Island, but her husband died in the line of duty soon after, and later, she remarried Tan Rusu's son." In fact, although Lang Gong and Tan Rusu have different paths, they are old acquaintances, Tan Rusu's son has always liked Lang Gong's daughter, but she already belonged to her heart at that time. It wasn't until I went to Taiwan Island that such a marriage happened again!"

Yu Yao heard this, "Old man, you have investigated this matter, but you have also found Tan Rusu's descendants? Is there one named Tan Xinning?"

Cai Pengxi raised his eyebrows, "That's right, this is Tan Rusu's great-granddaughter, and you are also investigating?"

"It's true! It turns out that the Tan family is still making antiques and imitations, and it seems that the scale is even bigger!" Yu Yao responded, "I didn't check, but I accidentally ran into Tan Xinning, who went to Jiangzhou with an uncle to participate in the Tianhe Autumn Auction for a set of dzi." ”

"Yes, making dzi has a tradition on Taiwan Island and is also part of the Tan family's business, but the biggest business is calligraphy and painting. ”

Cai Pengxi then introduced, "Lang Gong's daughter and Tan Rusu's son have both passed away. According to what I found, the two have a son and a daughter, the son is named Tan Yulun, who is currently at the helm of the Tan Group, in his sixties and in good health. ”

Tan Yulun is Tan Xinning's father.

Tan Yulun has a son and two daughters, of which the eldest son and eldest daughter were born to Mrs. Yuanpei, named Tan Xinding and Tan Xin'an, respectively, and the second daughter was born to his later little wife, which is Tan Xinning.

Yu Yao nodded, "This Tan Xinning has good eyesight, but he is only in charge of the Dzi business, and his eldest brother and sister must be in charge of the big items." Tan Xinding must be the successor, and it is estimated that he is the most important calligraphy and painting business he controls. ”

"It's nature. Cai Pengxi thought for a while, "However, I really haven't heard of the 'qin, chess, calligraphy and painting' in the Tan family's private collection you said." ”

"The Special Cultural Relics Investigation Bureau has not raised eyebrows when it has visited like this. Don't talk about you and me, it is estimated that the people of the Tan family, I am afraid that only Tan Yulun and Tan Xinding know. ”

Cai Pengxi nodded, "After you just said, I am also thinking in my mind, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are related, and the clues hidden in these four things, maybe, can be attributed to one thing or one thing." ”

"Very likely!" Yu Yao said, "If that's the case, this unheard-of jade mystery should be among them!"

The two chatted devotedly, and time passed quickly. When the nanny came to ask for instructions, she was a little hesitant, because from the outside of the door, they were talking happily.

During the meal, Cai Pengxi and Yu Yao were at one table in the main room, and Lao Man and the nanny were at one table in the wing room.

After dinner, he returned to the living room to sit down for a while, drank a cup of tea, and Yu Yao got up to say goodbye.

"Then let's contact at any time, I do have a habit of taking a lunch break. "Cai Pengxi is not polite.

Yu Yao was just about to leave, when Lao Man came over, "Old man, Jiade's Xiao Chen is here again, waiting outside the gate." ”

Cai Pengxi frowned, "Just say I'm not here!"

"Okay old man. ”

"Wait, you tell him that those two pieces of Tang Dynasty lion-pattern jade belt thallium tail were given away by me yesterday!"

"Understood. Lao Man withdrew.

Since someone was waiting outside the door, Yu Yao couldn't go out immediately, and asked casually, "Old man, Jiade is auctioning off, do you want you to send these two thallium tails?"

The jade belt is actually a piece of jade belt plate inlaid on the belt. Inlaid jade belt plates, in the Tang Dynasty were the highest gauge belts, followed by gold, silver, copper, and iron.

The so-called thallium tail is the two largest of a group of jade belt plates on the belt, and it is also the two pieces at both ends of the belt, which are generally rectangular but with an arc at one end.

The jade belt of the Tang Dynasty is very rare to have a complete set handed down, and most of the ones that can be collected are one piece or two. Among them, thallium tail has the highest value.

"Whew!" Cai Pengxi waved his hand and lit a cigarette, "This Jiaerde's Xiao Chen is a fox friend and dog friend that Zhihuang made before, and he doesn't interact much now." These two pieces of lion-patterned jade with thallium tails, Zhihuang and I have been playing with them for a while, and I have also shown them, but fortunately they were returned to me later. ”

"It sounds like you've turned him down, why is he so persistent?"

"What perseverance, this is called stalking. Cai Pengxi explained, "He didn't know where he found a group of collectors with Tang Dynasty lion-patterned jade belt plates, a total of thirteen pieces, who had already agreed to next year's spring auction, and this group was just two pieces short of thallium tails." Isn't this trying to mobilize me, add these two thallium tails, and shoot them on a complete set of jade belt plates?"

"Ah, what a coincidence? Are you the pair of missing thallium tails?"

"It's not. But the jade color, as well as the craftsmanship of bas-relief lions, are very similar. Galder is a big auction house and will not mix the original with the auction. However, even if it is not the original match, to illustrate, if you can find such a similar group, the transaction price will inevitably rise sharply. ”

"Hmm. Yu Yao nodded, "Old man, since it is your beloved thing, there really is nothing to say to him." ”

Cai Pengxi waved his hand, "I can't get to the point where it's hard to part with the two thallium tails." It's just that it's more annoying to Xiao Chen, this person is not very old, but he is a veteran of Fengyue, and Zhihuang is brought bad by him in this regard. ”