There are many interesting legends about the jade watermelon, of course, it may not be true, but the story is interesting.

One year, there was a stir of thieves in the Summer Palace, and a few ingots were lost today, a few pearls were lost tomorrow, and even a few pieces of furnishings were stolen from the Duobao Pavilion in the Le Shou Hall! Cixi was about to instruct her to take good care of the jade watermelon, when a eunuch knelt down in a panic to report that the jade watermelon was missing! When Cixi heard this, she was furious and beat several eunuchs guarding the jewels to death, but no one confessed, but just cried and shouted, "Wronged!"

Cixi ordered a careful search in the Summer Palace, and a notice was posted inside and outside the capital, offering a reward for treasure hunting. At that time, in the area of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens, the sentry Luobu was closely investigated, and there was talk of jade watermelons everywhere.

At this time, there was a Wang Lao Dao living in the cemetery camp on the west side of Yuquan Mountain, which attracted the attention of the official. This Wang Lao Dao came from Shandong half a year ago and lived in the Li family, which opened a shop. He has a red face, a high nose, a bun on his head, a blue cloth belt wrapped around his waist, and is forty years old.

He is not in business, he does not farm, often goes back and forth between the three mountains and five gardens, and some people have seen him drinking alone in the Qinglongqiao Erhelou tavern many times. Some people say that he gets up every day without falling three stars, goes to the first spring in the world in Jingmingyuan to wash his face, goes to Qingshui Courtyard to kick his legs and exercises, and sometimes goes to the Xiding Temple temple fair to take two punches and kicks to help the field join in the fun, and the people who see him say that he has practiced a superior martial arts. Some people also say that he has a handful of hair under his feet, can jump high and long jump, cross the ridge of the house, walk as fast as flying, and travel thousands of miles a day, which is a well-deserved Scud.

Regardless of whether these rumors are true or not, anyway, after Wang Laodao settled in the grave camp, a lot of strange things happened in the nearby Sanli Wutun. For example, Li Huazi in the elephant grave camp. He was so poor that he lived a half-starved life by showing graves. Wake up one morning. He found two ingots on the windowsill with a note pressed underneath. It reads: "The family is poor, you can't be without money, don't spend the money, buy land and farm." ”

Li Huazi thought that his life was good, and it was the God of Wealth who sent money from the lower realm, so he bought a few acres of mountainous land and planted crops. Another example, like Ao Xuhe in Beiwu Village, his 80-year-old mother was seriously ill and had no money for treatment, so she was so worried that she couldn't keep her spirits up. However, when cooking and lighting the fire, I found a paper bag in the stove, and when I opened it, I saw that it was wrapped in plain silk with two beads. He cured his mother's illness and bought a few acres of land to plant, so he didn't have to worry about running out of food.

The government heard about these strange things, and after repeated investigations, they paid attention to Wang Laodao's whereabouts.

One day after dinner, Wang Laodao said to the shopkeeper Li: "I have lived in the store for more than half a year. I am very grateful for your many care, this is the money for your store. As he spoke, he took out an ingots and handed it to Shopkeeper Li. Shopkeeper Li said, "Where do you need so much?" Wang Lao Dao said, "You can take it! If it causes you trouble." I'm sorry, if you lose anything because of me, it's my compensation!" And he went east.

As soon as the shopkeeper Wang had collected the ingots, he broke into a group of officials. Holding a sword and hanging a sword, shouting to catch the old way of the mountain and the east. They interrogated Shopkeeper Li. I rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, tossed and turned for half a night, and then left the cemetery camp in disappointment.

There is a double water gate outside the cemetery camp village, which is the only place to pass from the Summer Palace to Xiangshan. Uncle Jian from Beiwu Village passed by here when he was picking up dung, and he smelled a foul smell and choked people, thinking that someone had thrown away the dead child. When he opened it with a dung stick, it turned out to be two watermelons wrapped in rotten pork -- one was the pair of jade watermelons that had been lost in the palace! Uncle Jane was afraid of causing a big disaster, so he reported it to the government. Because Uncle Jian found the national treasure for his meritorious service, he rewarded him with the errand of transporting spring water from Yuquan Mountain to the palace in the city, and the money and rice were very rich, and the Jian family became a wealthy family in this area.

The jade watermelon returned to the jewelry room of the Summer Palace, but the treasure thieves never caught it. One day, a bricklayer from Jingmingyuan went to the Yufeng Pagoda to repair the tower gate, and when he climbed to the seventh floor, he saw an old Taoist sleeping. He didn't dare to alarm the old man, so he quickly reported it to his boss. When the officers and soldiers armed with knives and weapons went to arrest them, the tower was already empty, and I saw a few lines of poetry that had just been inscribed in blood on the wall of the tower: "I took the red gold ingots, and I took the jade watermelon." If you ask where our family lives? "The payment is "Wang Lao Dao".

The Empress Dowager Cixi hated this old man to the core. She ordered the Shadow Graphics to be seized throughout the country, but Wang Laodao was never found.

It is said that after the death of the Empress Dowager Cixi, according to her will, the pair of jade watermelons were buried with her. She used it as a pillow and pillowed it under her head. During the Republic of China, the warlord Sun Dianying used explosives to open the tomb of the Empress Dowager Xi and stole the jade watermelon.

According to legend, this jade watermelon is a treasure of Fanbang's tribute, and Cixi loves it like a treasure. According to Cixi's confidant eunuch Li Lianying and her nephew's "Aiyuexuan Notes", after Cixi's death, the pair of jade watermelons were placed at her feet and buried together in Tangling. In the summer of 1928, Sun Dianying, then the commander of the 12th Army of the Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang, caused the appalling Donglin treasure theft incident and looted the burial goods in Cixi's tomb.

After Sun Dianying's Dongling treasure theft incident, Jiang Jieshi ordered the investigation of the case. Sun Wei exonerated himself and bribed everywhere, and the gifts of the bribes were those Tanglin treasures. Sun's chief of staff, Wen Qiang, said that Sun had personally told him that he had given the pair of jade watermelons to Song Ziwen. But some people also say that what Sun gave to Song was only a jade cabbage, and the Treasure Island Palace Museum does have such a jade cabbage.

There is also a theory that in 1947, Sun was a prisoner of General Xiao Yongyin, commander of the 6th Column and 18th Brigade under the command of Liu Deng's army, in the Battle of Tang Yin. In the biographical literature about Generals Xiao and Wei Jie, it is described that the army seized "jade watermelons" from the boxes that Sun carried with him.

But many experts say that the jade watermelon does not match the legendary jade watermelon, so it should not be the same thing.

But as for whether it is or not, there is no way to investigate, and Zhang Tianyuan does not have such idle time to investigate.

However, he can be sure that the piece he sees in front of him is definitely a real jadeite watermelon, and its materials are consistent with the legend, which are all tourmalines from San Diego, California, USA, although it is called jadeite watermelon, but it is not actually jadeite.

In addition, the age and shape are also exactly as described, if this is not a jade watermelon, then there is no real.

In the past 80 years or so, although the Chinese academic community has carried out a lot of collation research, it has not been able to make meaningful progress in academic research due to the lack of physical objects and empirical evidence.

A few years ago, there were media reports that this amazing national treasure had been lost to the United States and had been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum. This statement once again whetted the appetite of the Chinese people. However, Dr. Wang Chunyun of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has been working on the natural history of ancient Chinese jewelry, denied this claim, saying in a conversation with reporters that the report was not credible, and that the material of Cixi's jadeite watermelon was not Burmese jadeite, but tourmaline from San Diego, California, USA.

Whether it is the academic community or the collection world, they all have a soft spot for this thing, after all, it is also a national treasure, and there is no whereabouts, which is really a bit of a sigh.

Mr. Li, Mr. Dong, and Professor Li Mingguang and a group of people in the older generation of collectors have mentioned this thing many times, Zhang Tianyuan used to think about whether he would have the opportunity to go to the United States once to see if he could find this thing, but what he didn't expect was that this time when he came to Europe, he actually saw this national treasure.

He has enough reason to believe that once this thing is shipped back to China, it will definitely cause an explosive sensation in the domestic collecting circle.

That's a good topic for hype in itself.

"The missing national treasure is in France, and the celebrity boss returns home with the treasure!"

News like this is estimated to be overwhelming by then, after all, the return of this missing thing is the most curious to arouse people's curiosity.

"Mengmeng, do you want to touch this watermelon?" Zhang Tianyuan asked Liu Mengxun on the side with a smile.

"Forget it, there are still a lot of things, you look at it first, after reading it, let's buy it back and enjoy it slowly, these things should be able to be bought back, right?" Liu Mengxun looked at Zhang Tianyuan and said, "If the money is not enough, I can give it to you." ”

"How can I ask for your money. Zhang Tianyuan hurriedly shook his head and said.

"Hmph, you are only allowed to do such great things, not me? No matter, I have to make money this time, since I married you, I haven't spent my own money, what is the use of those money kept, money is still money, there is no point. Husband, you just let me pay some money, I want to be happy too. "Although Liu Mengxun is not an antique specialist, she likes these novelties very much, and she organized the previous trip to Shenluo Valley.

Besides, this time Napoleon VII's treasure trove has a lot of things that Liu Mengxun likes very much, she is really worried that Zhang Tianyuan will not be able to buy it back if he doesn't have enough money on hand, which is also one of the important reasons.

Zhang Tianyuan understood Liu Mengxun's thoughts, so he smiled and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you, but there is a request, write down all the things you like, and I'll talk to Napoleon VII later, okay?"

"Okay!" Liu Mengxun smiled sweetly, and took his mobile phone to buy things, he didn't have to memorize, but used his mobile phone to take pictures of what he wanted, in fact, this is okay, it is more intuitive.

Napoleon VII didn't know what he was fascinated by at this time, and he didn't care about the situation here, and the wait was more than two hours.

Zhang Tianyuan and Liu Mengxun both chose what they wanted to buy, to be honest, if he could, Zhang Tianyuan really wanted to move the whole room back, but unfortunately he really had limited funds, no matter how he calculated, it was impossible to buy them all, so he couldn't grab it, or wait until he had money in the future, and then buy it slowly.

"Monsieur Napoleon likes football?"

"Oh, Mr. Zhang, have you finished watching it?" Napoleon VII finished watching the ball game, and was playing football games on his mobile phone there, when he was suddenly startled by Zhang Tianyuan's voice, and directly dropped the mobile phone, but fortunately, Zhang Tianyuan quickly picked it up. (To be continued......)