Luo shook his head indifferently: "No, after my grandfather's piece was lost, he also thought about finding another one, but he never got his wish." Later, he also investigated in this regard, on the one hand, because the texture of jade essence is fragile, only some outstanding quality will be handed down, on the other hand, with the passage of time, the color of jade essence has changed, making everyone think that it is Khotanese jade, plus jade mine goaf, slowly disappeared from everyone's field of vision. ”

Cheng Qiheng said: "That means that there are still jade essences among the people?"

Luo said indifferently: "It should exist, but the surviving amount must be quite rare, and you can only rely on luck to find it." ”

Meng Zitao nodded, and then said, "Master Luo, it's convenient to say, how did your grandfather lose the jade essence?"

"Well, this is the real-life story of the farmer and the snake. Luo sighed indifferently and spoke slowly.

It turned out that the jade essence was stolen by a person named Li Sicun, who had been a soldier in the army, and after he was discharged from the army, he was arranged to work as a worker in a local state-owned factory.

Anyway, Li Sicun made the wrong friend and became addicted to gambling, and after a long time, his monthly salary was squandered by him, and the people in his circle of friends were almost borrowed by him. There was no money to borrow, so Li Sicun took a piece of jade at home, found Luo Danran's open pawn shop, and made up a lie that his father was sick and needed money urgently, so he wanted to mortgage a loan to treat his father's illness.

Luo Danran's grandfather was a warm-hearted child, and after listening to Li Sicun's words, he was immediately moved by his filial piety, not only recognized Li Sicun as a little brother, but also borrowed him 40,000 yuan in cash, plus 10,000 yuan in jade, and told him to take care of his father's illness.

In the first few months, Li Sicun would also call Mr. Wang and tell him that he would be able to repay the loan immediately, but then he lost contact, and after realizing that he had been deceived, Luo Danran's grandfather found Li Sicun's unit, and only after inquiring did he know that Li Sicun had taken a long leave.

After some painstaking inquiries and tracking, Luo Danran's grandfather finally found Li Sicun, at this time, Li Sicun, who couldn't hide, immediately cried that he wanted to make money and repay the money, but he didn't expect to fall deeper and deeper, and now he can't afford to repay the arrears, and he is willing to work in Luo Danran's grandfather's store to repay the money.

The matter has come to this point, and now Luo Danran's grandfather is soft-hearted, and after taking it back, he arranged for Li Sicun to work in his own store, and Li Sicun also diligently helped Luo Danran's grandfather take care of the business in the store every day. More than 1 year has passed in a blink of an eye, and seeing that Li Sicun has lost his way back, Luo Danran's grandfather was very relieved and told Li Sicun that the money owed does not have to be repaid, as long as you take the right path. Unexpectedly, he was "luring thieves into the house".

Li Sicun's nature is difficult to change, he secretly started gambling again, and finally lost his eyes, not only lost all his belongings, but also owed 150,000 yuan. This money must not be repaid, otherwise it will be a fatal thing, so Li Sicun beat Luo Indifferent's grandfather's things, and finally stole more than a dozen pieces of antique jewelry, including the jade essence, and sold the things immediately.

Luo said this indifferently, his face was full of anger: "Therefore, unless a gambler has great perseverance, it is impossible for him to have the possibility of getting lost!"

Meng Zitao said: "Do you know who that thing was sold to?"

Luo said indifferently: "Li Sicun said that he didn't know, he only looked at money and not people when he sold things, and what was even more infuriating was that he only sold more than 500,000 of things worth millions at that time, which was simply a problem with his brain!"

Meng Zitao felt that there seemed to be some problems inside: "No, didn't he work in your grandfather's shop for a year, doesn't he understand the value of things? No matter how stupid he is, he will not sell things at such a cheap price." ”

Luo said indifferently: "He said that he was in a hurry to make a move, so he hastily sold things, to be honest, I don't believe it, but the police can't find a place for him to hide money, so that's the only way." ”

Meng Zitao said: "Master Luo, can you give me his information, and I will ask someone to investigate." ”

Luo was indifferent to this, and quickly nodded: "No problem, but I don't have a photo of him in my hand." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "It's okay, I can find out." ”

"Good. ”

Luo indifferently wrote down some of Li Sicun's information, and said a little embarrassedly: "I only know this superficial information. ”

"It's already possible, I can find the rest. Meng Zitao took the paper and looked at it, and then put it away.

Waiting for Luo to leave indifferently, Cheng Qiheng asked, "Zitao, is this jade essence very important to you?"

Meng Zitao said: "It's not that you have to ask for it, it can be regarded as picking grass and beating rabbits." ”

"I'll let you know when I meet you then. Cheng Qiheng said with a smile.

"Then I'll thank you in advance. Meng Zitao said with a smile.

After chatting for a while, Meng Zitao saw that the jewelry company was in good order that Yu Wei had just taken care of, and at the same time, he was happy and more relieved.

However, the problem of jadeite raw materials that Yu Wei just said may need to be solved by Meng Zitao, and Meng Zitao is ready to go around next year's jadeite market, which can basically solve the problem.

Since the jewelry company had nothing to do, because Meng Zitao was short of time, everyone had a simple dinner and returned to Lingshi.

However, he said that early the next morning, Meng Zitao had just set off from his home to the antique street, when he received a call from Yu Xingyan, saying that he had arrived at the Appreciation Pavilion. Meng Zitao smiled and shook his head, asking him to wait for a while.

After getting out of the car, Meng Zitao walked towards the store with two brocade boxes, and when he came to a corner, his intuition reminded him that there was an accident, he stopped and heard a messy footstep, it should be someone rushing in his direction, if there is no intuitive reminder, the other party is likely to hit him.

Of course, with Meng Zitao's skills, it is impossible for the other party to hit him, in order to protect the heavy weapon in his hand, he will definitely shoot, the easiest way is to kick the other party away, and the result is needless to say, it will definitely be dead or injured.

Within a few seconds of Meng Zitao's stoppage, a young man who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old ran by, sweating profusely, followed not by a person, but by an electric baton, which smashed heavily on the young man's back.

"Oops!" the boy cried out in pain, and he fell to the ground with a stumble, and the thing in his hand fell out with it, but it was a long box. Ignoring the physical pain, the boy forced himself to get up and took the box into his arms again.

It was just like this for a while, the people behind had already caught up, but it was a big man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and two yellow-haired young men, the fierceness on the faces of these three people, at a glance, you knew that they were not easy to get along.

"Run, run!" said the big man with a hideous expression.

"Help! someone is robbing!" the young man suddenly shouted, which had already attracted the attention of the people around him, and this shout attracted more attention.

However, the big man had no fear, and sneered: "It is natural to repay debts, even if we go to the police station, we have nothing to be afraid of, on the contrary, I can't wait to go to the police station to solve it!"

The young man said angrily: "The debt should indeed be repaid, but that is the money that my father owes you, you go to him to ask for it, what are you going to do with me and my mother, my mother has been divorced from him for so many years, I have been with my mother, why should you ask us!"

Dahan said: "Hehe, we don't want your family's money, as long as you give us the things in the box, won't it be over?"

The young man snorted coldly: "Why! This thing is mine now! Even if it was given to me by my father, but that was a year ago, did you ask him for money a year ago?"

A yellow-haired man behind the big man said impatiently: "Brother Zhong, what are you talking about with him, just take the things away, the IOU is written in black and white!"

Dahan didn't want to bother anymore, and it was almost nine o'clock now, and there were more and more people, so he didn't want to make trouble for himself.

"If you can't say it, you will rob, you are robbers!"

Seeing the three people approaching him, the young man yelled at them angrily, looked around again, and begged everyone to help, but there were not many onlookers, although they had pity for the young man, but the debt dispute, they couldn't say anything, as long as a few people didn't treat the young man too much, it was estimated that no one would make a move, so the young man was desperate, could it be that people today are so numb?

Just as the young man's face was as dead as ashes, he heard a heavenly voice next to him: "What are you putting in your box?"

The young man looked in the direction of the voice, and saw that the other party seemed to be just a weak scholar, and he was very disappointed, but it was very good to have someone stand up at this time, and he hurriedly said: "It's a Damascus knife, very precious, my dad told me before that this knife can be worth millions! Even if my dad owes them money, it is impossible to owe so much!"

"Oh, can you show me?" When Meng Zitao heard that it was a Damascus knife, he became a little interested, ignored the threat of the three people, and walked towards the young man.

"Boy, do you want to be nosy?" the big man glared angrily at Meng Zitao.

Meng Zitao sneered: "I'll take care of my idle affairs, what do you say!"

"Beat him!" one of the yellow-haired people couldn't help it first, pulled out a slinger stick, and rushed towards Meng Zitao.

"Ahh

Originally, everyone thought that Meng Zitao was carrying something in his hand and should not be an opponent, but the result was unexpected, as soon as Meng Zitao retreated and swept away, the man flew out and fell heavily to the ground.

This result made everyone stunned, so he turned into a big man: "Boy, you dare to do it! I'll tell you, you're in a big deal!"

Meng Zitao glanced at him lightly: "Okay, don't talk nonsense, if you want to fight, you can fight, if you don't fight, tell your boss, I am Meng Zitao of the Appreciation Pavilion, welcome him to come to me!"

Dahan learned that this perverted young man was Meng Zitao, and when the words came to his mouth, he immediately took them back, and squeezed out a little smile on his face: "It turned out to be the shopkeeper Meng, we are the people of Boss Shi, ...... trouble"

Meng Zitao directly interrupted him: "Then you let Boss Shi come to me, remember, I'm going to the capital in the next two days, and I won't wait for the expiration date!"

After saying that, he greeted the boy and left.

"Brother Zhong, that's it?" the rest of the yellow hair was very unwilling.

"Otherwise, what else can you do, if you are not afraid of death, you will provoke Meng Zitao!"

Dahan was already angry, and when he heard him say this, he immediately gave a good lecture and went to see the people on the ground, but he was slightly injured, and left without saying anything, muttering as he walked: "It's really unlucky, how did you meet him!"

Yu Xingyan and Fang Lao had been waiting in the store for a while, and when they saw Meng Zitao walking into the reception room with the young man, they couldn't wait to get up and greet him.

After a period of greetings, Yu Xingyan looked at the young man: "What's the matter with this little brother, he is disgraced." ”

Meng Zitao smiled, and he didn't hide it, so he told him what he had just done.

Yu Xingyan didn't have any interest in the young man's family affairs at all, but when he heard the performance of the Damascus knife, it was almost like seeing the kiln yesterday, and he urged the young man to take out the knife.

When he arrived at the antique shop, the boy also knew that his knife should not be able to be saved, but for him, as long as the price was right, it would be harmless to exchange it for money, and even the money was real, after all, two birds were in the forest, it was better to have one bird in hand.

Opening the box, a beautiful Damascus scimitar appeared in front of everyone.

As mentioned earlier, real Damascus scimitars are quite rare these days, so everyone is full of expectations for them, and the real thing does not disappoint everyone.

"This head seems to be a Hindustan worker!" Fang Lao exclaimed.

Meng Zitao nodded, he had already found out.

During the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods of the Qing Dynasty, local officials and tribal leaders in the Western Regions paid tribute to Qing officials a large number of Islamic-style jade, which was called "Jindustan jade" at that time. The characteristic of the jade is that the jade craftsmen like to carve with pure jade, that is, one vessel and one color, especially white jade or green and white jade, which is transparent and crystalline. This is in stark contrast to the jade skin or variegated jade carvings of traditional jade in China.

At present, there are two kinds of traces of Dustan jade that we see in the Qing Palace, one is imported in the year, and the other is imitated by the craftsmen in the palace, called "Western Fan Zuo". Because of the superb attainments, peculiar craftsmanship, and exotic, the ink of the capital stan jade ornament style is favored by the Qianlong Emperor, the inner court was once popular imitation, the Qing Dynasty Qianlong ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to set up a special imitation of the trace of the jade workshop, the Suzhou City of the Zhuzhu workshop also has imitation.

The head of this product is the original trace Dustan-style ornament, using inlay technology, with a strong exotic atmosphere, the overall casting is excellent, brilliant and dazzling, extremely rare. The scimitar handle is in the shape of a horse's head, with round ears and eyes, and the eyes are inlaid with diamonds, which is luxurious and rich. The first hole is inserted with a steel blade, and the back of the knife is decorated with gold, which is gorgeous and colorful.

The blade is "100 steel" formed by forging many times, layered like water ripples, with clear intervals and obvious patterns;

This knife is completely in the artistic style of Western fan, with the unique shape of the ceremonial knife, in the real Damascus scimitar rarity in modern times, quite precious, can be regarded as a rare artistic treasure.