Chapter 506 Cornered
Shacheng, the supreme capital community, at the door of the single-family villa, a group of people are politely greeting, this group of people is not small, either they seem to be rich or expensive big bosses or polite scholars and experts, in fact, they are really these identities.
The so-called talk and laughter have a great Confucianism, there is no white ding, the guest is so extraordinary, then the owner of this room is naturally the same, and when the crowd disperses, an old man with gray hair walks back to the villa with his hands behind his back, opens a heavy security door, and enters the room.
This room has no beds, it is a showroom, and the rows of cabinets are filled with all kinds of gadgets, all of which are from his collection, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, all of which are boutiques.
These things are the guarantee of his reputation, and it is by virtue of these things that he has become famous in the circle of folk collections, and his story is circulated in the outside world.
For example, when he was still a teacher in college, he predicted that the price of antiques would rise sharply in a certain period, so he started to buy them in advance, not only cutting down on clothes and dieting, but even borrowing money to collect antiques.
As for the story of him going to the countryside to pick up leaks, it has inspired countless people who want to get rich, after all, in the illiterate countryside, you may buy a rare treasure at the price of cabbage, and it will be thousands of times tens of thousands of times the return when it changes hands, isn't this what many people dream of, so back then, he even triggered a Taobao fever.
Even the fact that he resigned from his job as a stable university lecturer and became a private collector full-time is talked about, and over the years, he has been praised by many people as a private expert and even asked by some TV stations to do programs.
At this point, though, he didn't stop in the showroom, and when he walked over a wall, he opened a painting to reveal a high-end, state-of-the-art security door, which led to his personal treasure trove.
This treasure vault is located in the basement, the basement is poured with reinforced concrete walls up to one meter thick, and the thickness of the security door is more than ten centimeters thick, weighing thousands of catties.
No one had ever entered the treasure vault except himself, not even his son, and when he walked into the vault, there were still several tall cabinets with a few small things on display.
However, the value of these things is extremely amazing, and all the collections displayed in the hall outside are not as valuable as the one here, he believes that if these treasures are made public, they are all the kind of existence that has caused a sensation throughout the country, even if they are donated to museums, they will be in the ranks of first-class national treasures, and they will not even be able to be exhibited abroad.
"That's all there is to it."
The old man looked at those treasures, and sighed infinitely in his heart, the treasures of the past could have filled this small treasure trove, but now, there is no one out of ten.
Looking at these treasures, his mind also returned to thirty or forty years ago, when he saw all kinds of young generals raiding his home, stealing his ancestors' collection of hundreds of years, breaking the exquisite collections, and even those bronzes were even returned to the furnace for calcination, and his father was so angry that he vomited blood and died.
And because he loves these antiques, he has also become an outlier among the people of the same year, no one is friends with him, and during the time when he went to the countryside, he was sent to the most difficult countryside, he remembered that it was a village in the mountains, dozens of families, and dozens of kilometers of mountain roads from the nearest town, most of which were paths that could only be walked by one person.
In that village, he endured all the hardships, and even wanted to commit suicide several times, but he still survived, and picked up a book in that village, a strange book about feng shui, bored, he quickly ate the book thoroughly, and waited until many years later he learned that the book described the stunt Tianxing feng shui in the feng shui world, specially used to serve the royal tomb, very magical.
And his re-engagement with antiques is also legendary, in his small mountain village where birds don't poop suddenly one day, a few strangers from other places came to the village party secretary with a letter of introduction, saying that it was from the Survey Bureau and wanted to explore some minerals.
In that kind of closed mountain village, almost no one was suspicious, so the village party secretary asked him and another villager to lead the way for the exploration team, and the reason why he was looking for him was because he was the only literate person in the village at that time.
He didn't think about it so much at the time, and did his best, but by chance, he heard some conversations with those people, talking about some gossip and other things, some things were similar to what he saw in that feng shui book, and some were different, which immediately made him suspicious, and after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that these people were here to explore minerals and rob tombs.
But he wasn't prepared to expose these people, he couldn't afford to take this risk, and a month later, the exploration team returned disappointed, and he didn't take it to heart.
A few years later, the activities of going to the mountains and going to the countryside ended, and the people who had the conditions were transferred back to the city, but he, as if he had been forgotten by the world, he would be sent back several times, and he did not agree at all.
Under the grief and indignation, he thought of the matter of the exploration team, it turned out that when he was herding sheep, he had passed by the place where the exploration team had touched before many times, and unconsciously remembered the knowledge in the feng shui book, and found that they had made a mistake, and the real ancient tomb was not in the part they dug at all.
In the dark and windy night, he acted alone, successfully found the ancient tomb that the exploration team was looking for, took a few jade treasures in it, and gave them to those in charge of dispatching, and successfully transferred himself back to the city.
But at this time, he still didn't want to be a tomb robber, after returning to the city, he actively prepared for the exam, and was successfully admitted to the university, a few years later, he became a teacher in the university, he felt that in this life, that's it, he would definitely become a respected university teacher.
However, by the end of the eighties, the social trend changed rapidly, the workers and teachers were no longer popular, the social status of the self-employed and industrial and commercial households was greatly improved, and everyone looked to money, and his salary was less than 100 yuan a month.
Moreover, the house leak happened to rain overnight, his wife was born prematurely, not only gave birth to a child who was weak and sick, but his wife was also riddled with diseases, his little salary was not enough, and the financial pressure was extremely great.
One day, he heard a student talking about a thing, saying that some foreigners had gone to one of the students' hometown to inspect and want to invest in building a factory, and when a fellow villager was staying at a house, he fell in love with the jar of pickles in their house, and actually bought the jar for 500 yuan.
You must know that at that time, his salary as a university teacher was less than 100 yuan, and 500 yuan was already a huge amount of money for the countryside, so this matter spread quickly.
When he heard the news, he suddenly remembered the ancient tomb in that small mountain village, so he inquired privately, and then he knew that antiques were heating up, the so-called gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, Chengping for decades, antiques have been some of the more and more hot, and many foreign collectors have spent huge sums of money to collect domestic antiques.
So he made up his mind to get a piece of this trend to solve the family's dilemma, so he also followed the wind, saying that in the future, antiques will become more and more valuable, and he will be engaged in some antique trading and so on, and go to the countryside to buy some things in person on the weekend.
In fact, he took the time to go back to that small mountain village, and moved out a lot of treasures from it, which he bought from the countryside, and sold them for a lot of money as soon as they changed hands, temporarily solving the family's predicament.
After tasting this sweetness, he basically didn't care about the things in school, and went to the countryside repeatedly, and when the treasures in the ancient tomb in that small mountain village were emptied, he used the knowledge in the feng shui book to find other ancient tombs.
In a few more years, he had become a well-known antique collector, and had resigned from his position as a university lecturer, and on the outside he looked like a serious antique dealer.
In fact, after several years of development, he has become the largest tomb robber in the rivers and lakes, established his own team, and set up a series of channels such as tomb robbery, smuggling, and money laundering, but he knows that sooner or later something will happen in this industry, so he prepared several fake identities early to hide from the world.
Sure enough, the increasingly rampant trend of tomb robbery attracted the attention of the state, and began to set up a special department to crack down on tomb robbery.
However, he was extremely thoughtful, and had already set up several early warnings, and before the people of the task force could act, he had already escaped, abandoned his old brothers, returned to society, and became his businessman.
For more than ten years, no one has found out his former identity, and his life has always been good, he sent his wife to the end of his life and cultivated his son to become a talent, so he wanted to enter the coffin with a secret.
But unexpectedly, a few years ago, his son failed to start a business, owed a huge amount of debt, faced the situation of his wife being separated, and even his son was depressed and almost committed suicide, even if all the collections on his surface were sold, it was not enough to pay off the debt.
He couldn't bear to see his son's miserable end, so he took some of the heavy treasures he secretly hid back then and sold them, falsely claiming that they were some treasures at the bottom of the box to help his son tide over the crisis.
But from that day on, he knew that he had committed a big taboo, and knew that he would definitely be caught exposing his tail this time, and he pondered the clues that he might expose, and finally thought of money laundering, which was completely out of his hands.
Because this line requires an extremely professional level, he did not have access to talents in this area, so he had to find someone to cooperate, the partner is extremely strong, and has a huge force overseas, and it is precisely because of this that the other party has always existed, but it has become a hidden danger for him.
Sure enough, just yesterday, I received news that several companies that had been used as transit funds for him had been secretly investigated for financial problems, and several old finances who had retired were nowhere to be found, and he knew that the countdown to his good days was coming.
"What to do, do you stay tied or abscond..."
His eyes were foggy as he looked at the treasures, but soon his eyes brightened again, for he thought of a better way.