Around July 13, 1993, Han Guangyun, a 21-year-old farmer from Dong Village, Houzihe Township, Datong County, Hai Thanh Province, stepped on a train to the ancient city of Xifeng.

A week later, he boarded a bus for a day trip to the east of Xifeng to visit the world-famous Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. Just as he was watching, he only heard a person next to him say: "The year before last, a young man named Wang Gengdi came here to steal a figurine head, and sold it for millions of ......yuan at once." At this time, Han Guangyun heard it clearly, and his heart was pounding, and he was a little afraid to make him believe that a clay figure head was worth millions of yuan, which was not nonsense but also a myth, and he thought about how much his two mud houses were worth? The value of the terracotta warriors and horses left a deep impression on him.

Around December 25 of that year, Han Guangyun scraped together 80 yuan and embarked on the journey to Xifeng. When he stood in the square of Xifeng Station, because the ticket cost 29 yuan, and only 51 yuan was left on his body, Han Guangyun's life was in a desperate situation. When the last cigarette butt was thrown into the ground and trampled on hard, a strange trick quickly crossed his mind.

He remembered the explanation of the "volunteer docent" when he visited the hall of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum a few months ago, the clay figures standing or lying all over the place, and the clay figures worth millions of yuan. If one of these tens of millions of clay figures belonged to him, what would he look like? Not only would the girl in her hometown be captured, but even the young ladies in the ancient city of Xifeng, who were greased and powdered and had eyes on their foreheads, would look at themselves differently. Now that he was at the end of his rope, why not steal a fortune from the hair of a clay figurine?

At about 5 p.m. on January 5, 1994. Han Guangyun took a dozen yuan borrowed from his fellow villagers and rode to the Qin Warriors Museum. By the afterglow of the setting sun. He reconnoitred in detail around the museum, and then quietly came to the south of the Qin Warriors Pavilion and lay down in a pile of corn stalks in the wheat field of Wangyi Village. Midnight. He drilled out of the corn stalk pile. Lifting the black handbag, he touched the Qin Warriors Pavilion through the night.

The Qin Warriors Pavilion was getting closer, and a few street lamps in the courtyard were burning tiredly in the twilight, and the bleak light reflected the shadows of the trees and the walls that were not too high.

Han Guangyun climbed over the outer wall of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, and he began to be bold, taking advantage of the gap between the staff on duty to inspect other places, and rushed towards the No. 1 hall. Fly up the walls into the paradise of your dreams, crawling between heaven and hell. When you find a target, you will shoot when it is time to shoot, and you will twist when you see it.

After taking the head of the terracotta warriors, Han Guang ran and ran to the gates of heaven and hell.

After stealing the head, Han Guangyun took advantage of the night to escape from the ancient city of Xifeng. Later, although he was arrested, there was only one Terracotta Warriors and Horses left in his hands, and the other had been sold for 500,000 RMB for a British tourist in China.

He thought he would live happily ever after, but was arrested soon after. Sentenced to prison for theft of national first-class cultural relics.

At this point in the story, it should have been over, but Zhang Tianyuan didn't expect it. This is a story that he often heard people talk about when he was a child, and there is actually a follow-up.

If that's as expected. This general figurine head must be one of the heads stolen by the Qin figurines, and he was a little excited in his heart. Although a third of the head has been cut off, most of it is still intact, and the cut third is lying next to it, not discarded, and if you use your own complement to fix it, it will definitely be fine.

This thing, he must buy it, no matter how much it costs, he must let this head return home, but it can't wander in a foreign country, this is his conscience as a Chinese, of course, it is also related to his sufficient economic strength, buying such a terracotta army head actually does not cost much.

The fortunate thing in the misfortune is that the human head of this terracotta warrior was not thrown away because of damage, otherwise, it would be a bit too pity, I am afraid that this head will never be able to return to its neck, which makes people feel chilling to think about.

The shopkeeper has been observing Zhang Tianyuan, of course he also knows the origin of this terracotta warrior head, if the thing is intact, he will not put it here, just take it to the auction and auction it directly, but because it is broken, and he is reluctant to throw it away, he wants to wait to see if there is any wronged man from China who is willing to buy it at a high price.

I have to say that this is indeed one of the most outstanding works of art in the world, and when he first saw it, he couldn't believe that it was made by ancient people 2,000 years ago.

But no matter how good the thing is, he is not a good collector, he wants to take things to sell for money, his father took this thing and spent 500,000 RMB, came back to do a lot of research, now although it is broken, but he thought about it, 250,000 RMB is always wanted, so he has kept it and did not throw it away.

But unfortunately, although many guests from China stopped in front of this terracotta warrior head, no one bought it.

In fact, this is normal, because even if you buy this thing, it is impossible to collect it, once it is discovered, it will be sentenced, and if you want to donate it to the museum, you feel reluctant, so most people are unwilling to pay this unjust money.

People who have this kind of consciousness may not have that kind of money, and those who have money may not have that kind of awareness, and it is not easy to meet people who have both.

Seeing Zhang Tianyuan standing in front of the head of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses almost crying, the shopkeeper felt that he really had met such a person, so he rubbed his hands and asked very carefully: "Boss Zhang, do you like this human head from the Terracotta Warriors?"

Zhang Tianyuan nodded and said: "Of course I like it, you know, I grew up near the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum since I was a child, and I am like a friend with these things, alas, it's a pity, it's a pity, who broke this thing, it's just a waste of good things, if it's intact, I'm willing to spend 100,000 pounds to buy it, but it's a pity that now...... What kind of good thing is a thousand knives to kill!"

In fact, Zhang Tianyuan said this, firstly, it is true, and secondly, he also wants to lower the price. Let the other person know that he likes this thing though. But they don't want to pay too much money. He didn't buy it to collect, but to return it to where it belonged. Although he doesn't care about money, it is always better to spend less.

"It's not a problem, Boss Zhang, we can negotiate the price, we spent 500,000 RMB to buy this thing, and it was already broken when we bought it......"

The shopkeeper is also cunning enough, and although this thing is broken, he is still reluctant to give the price very low in the first place. He still wanted more than 500,000 RMB, of course, he didn't dare to ask for 1 million, that would be a bit too much, for fear of scaring away the guest. ”

It would be a shame if we couldn't do it.

"100,000 RMB, if you want to, sell it to me, if you don't want to, forget it, this thing is bad like this, it is estimated that you will not be able to sell it at a high price." Of course, if you can introduce me to the good one, I can buy it for 1 million RMB!"

Although there are not many rumors of the theft of the heads of the terracotta warriors and horses, there are a lot of headless terracotta figurines in the terracotta warriors. At the beginning of the excavation, the management there was not strict, and I didn't know if I lost it. So he wondered if there was anything like it, if any. I just bought them all and returned them to the museum.

listened to Zhang Tianyuan's words. The shopkeeper shook his head with a wry smile and said: "This thing is difficult to get, even in the British Museum, it is basically impossible to see, where can I find a second one for you, can you give more this, how about 20,000 pounds?"

"Fifteen thousand pounds, no more......"

The shopkeeper calculated in his heart, although the price was still a lot lower than the price in his mind, but it didn't make sense for this thing to be placed here, and because he often received some inexplicable threatening letters, he couldn't sleep peacefully, so he simply sold it.

"Okay, fifteen thousand is fifteen thousand. The shopkeeper finally gritted his teeth and said, as if he had suffered a great loss.

Hearing this, Zhang Tianyuan also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he got the thing, it would be no problem, although 15,000 pounds is a lot, nearly 150,000 RMB, but he can invite this thing back, at least he is comfortable in his heart.

"Wrap up the things for me first, and then I'll continue to look at them. Zhang Tianyuan is still quite interested in the things in this vault, this terracotta warrior head is a discovery, maybe there are fragments of the "Yongle Canon", so he looked at each cabinet very carefully, and he didn't dare to be sloppy at all.

"Huh? This painting ......."

When Zhang Tianyuan walked near a few hanging Chinese paintings, he suddenly frowned slightly, he had never heard of the author of these paintings, you know, he already knows Chinese painting very well, but any painter, even if he has never seen a painting, he has heard the name, at least he knows the dynasty, but the author of the painting in front of him is really not impressed.

"Mengmeng, have you heard of Tang Sheng?"

"No, but Tang Bohu has a name called Lu Guo Tang Sheng. Liu Mengxun replied.

"No, no, no, no, this is by no means Tang Bohu's painting, the style of this painting is completely different from Tang Bohu's. Zhang Tianyuan shook his head, of course he knew that Lu Guo Tang Sheng was Tang Bohu's number, but he did not contact this aspect, because he confirmed that this was definitely not Tang Bohu's work.

Unwillingly, Zhang Tianyuan used the word appraisal trick to appraise it, but he showed an even more surprised look.

The dragon phase presents the appearance of a real dragon, which is undoubtedly a work of the Ming and Qing dynasties, looking at the color of the real dragon and the state of growth, it is estimated that it should be something of the Ming Dynasty.

Tang Bohu is also from the Ming Dynasty, could it be that this is really Tang Bohu's work?

No, it's not right.

"Boss, do you know the origin of this painting?"

Since I can't see anything strange here, I just ask the shopkeeper, and I guess the shopkeeper can tell a little clue.

"This painting, this painting was sold to us by a declining nobleman, and it cost 100,000 pounds at the time, it is really a good painting, you look at the composition, you look at the lines, all reveal the essence of Chinese painting. The shopkeeper hurriedly stepped forward and replied.

In fact, this painting was bought from the hands of the declining aristocracy, and it was also bought from Lancelot's grandfather, and it cost only ten pounds at the time, not a hundred thousand pounds at all, and the owner of the shop clearly wanted to understand how to get more oil and water, so he said so.

Zhang Tianyuan naturally won't believe his nonsense, but the level of this painting is still good, at least from Cheng Dù, it will not be much worse than Tang Yin's painting, but the painting style is too far behind. (To be continued......)