He Ziying suddenly remembered the last time he asked Yi Mu to help one of his clients, Yi Mu also remembered, saying that this matter was very impressive, He Ziying's client is a person who studies art, has some maverick personalities, and even sometimes makes behaviors that are difficult for ordinary people to understand.

He Ziying said, Dr. Li and I met more than two years ago, we met at a tea party, at that time Dr. Li was already a well-known figure in the domestic art investment industry, and later we didn't meet much, but sometimes we chatted with each other on WeChat, and that day he told me about something that seemed strange to him.

Dr. Li majored in the study of ancient Chinese costumes when he was in school, so after many years of miscellaneous work in the company, he has now become the supervisor of the company's ancient clothing collection and auction.

Two years ago, the Empress Dowager Cixi had a dharani quilt covered on her body in the underground palace, and Dr. Li also participated in it at that time. Dr. Li has handled a lot of other official uniforms and even the emperor's dragon robe. Since it is dealing with antiquities, and the clothes are all personal things of the ancients, it is natural that there will be some strange rumors occasionally, but those who do this business are no longer strange.

At that time, I contacted an overseas collector of antique costumes, the collector was an old French man, who was very interested in Chinese silk fabrics since he was young, and had been collecting for more than 50 years.

Dr. Li also brought an assistant to France to see the goods, and after seeing it, it was really a lot of collection, although the price of the old man was a bit high, and finally Dr. Li decided to accept it.

Wait until Dr. Li and the others have cleared their money. The old man told them one thing, there are two pieces of clothing in this suit, and when they are sold, they must be in a set, that is, these two clothes must be together, and if they are separated, something bad will happen.

Then the old man listed all kinds of supernatural stories that he had told when his previous collector sold them to him, including the inexplicable house on fire, or the owner's dream of something strange, and so on, which were similar to the ghost stories we usually tell.

After hearing this, Dr. Li just regarded him as an old man's superstitious nagging, and did not take it to heart.

Because this batch of clothes is very valuable, so when packing and transporting, Dr. Li is personally responsible for supervising the work, perhaps in order to show Dr. Li the power of these two clothes, when packing, it is so good that the two clothes are packed separately in two boxes, so a strange thing happened, when the car is about to start, no matter how the ignition can not be fired, and there is no problem when you get off the car to check.

Dr. Li didn't think about it at first, but then the old man saw them messing around outside the house, and came down to remind Dr. Li of the problem with their two clothes, and Dr. Li remembered that it seemed that he had really separated them, so he immediately asked people to open the box and check, and sure enough, the two clothes were not put together.

So I quickly put them together, and then drove again, and something wonderful happened, as soon as the car started, it caught fire. This made Dr. Li also feel very surprised, but he didn't have time to think about it at that time, so he hurriedly rushed to the airport with this batch of clothes, and missed the plane, and the next auction exhibition would not be able to be set up.

After returning to China, the more Dr. Li thought about it, the more strange he felt, and his curiosity about these two clothes became heavier and heavier, so he also went to check the origin of these two clothes.

But in addition to the style of embroidery can be judged to be the Shu embroidery in Sichuan, the rest of the information is nothing, but this is a common situation in antique clothing, because after all, clothing is not that kind of expensive antiques, and the circulation process of precious antiques can be very closely researched.

Since he couldn't find it, Dr. Li slowly put the matter away, because these two clothes are not particularly expensive things, and compared to some of the clothes in this batch, they can really only be said to be very ordinary things.

The two clothes at that auction were not very outstanding, but there was a person who had a soft spot for these two clothes, and kept holding up his cards, determined to win, and auctioned both clothes.

Coincidentally, the person who took these two clothes also often collects antique clothes, so he and Dr. Li are also somewhat acquainted.

As for why that person has a special affection for these two items in so many clothes in the audience, Dr. Li also asked him specifically, hoping to get some clues from his mouth, but that person always smiled mysteriously and perfunctory, with Dr. Li's understanding of that person, there must be something special about it. But others don't want to say it, and there is no way to force it.

Until one day, that person suddenly came to Dr. Li and talked about these two clothes.

It turned out that the man's grandfather was also engaged in the resale of cultural relics, and was entrusted to go to Sichuan, Yunnan and other places to collect antique clothes.

This made the man's grandfather feel very strange, because most foreigners at that time were keen to collect clothes or handicrafts with distinctive Chinese patterns such as dragons and phoenixes, tigers and leopards, but few people proposed to collect golden crow patterns.

But the word in front, can not control so much, anyway, take people's money and people to eliminate disasters, that person's grandfather took a few assistants, together in Sichuan, Yunnan to collect clothes, it is also strange, this kind of antique clothing in the town is rarely seen, but after going deep into the mountains, there are some discoveries in the cottages of some ethnic minorities.

So according to the client's request, the man's grandfather collected a large box of clothes embroidered with the style of the golden crow and returned to Beijing, the client came to inspect the results of the receipt, after the selection, the client did not take away all the clothes, but only selected a few of them to take away, which of course made the man's grandfather very anxious, spent a lot of effort to buy only a few pieces of clothing, the money for this sale may not even be enough.

However, the client paid in full according to the original promise, which made the man's grandfather feel very strange, and spent so much money just to buy a few clothes, and these clothes were not expensive things, according to the market price at that time, the money paid by the client to buy the embroidered clothes in the palace was more than enough, and there must be something unknown behind these clothes.

When I wanted to ask the client again, I heard that the person had left China and went to France, and the whereabouts of these clothes were unknown, but this mystery has been haunting the heart of the man's grandfather, and then I don't know who I heard, or the result of my own blind thinking, thinking that these two clothes are related to a treasure that Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan at the end of the Ming Dynasty did not see.

Dr. Li's exhibition description happened to say that these antique clothes were returned to China from overseas France, and in the preview, he also happened to see these two clothes embroidered with gold and crow patterns, so the man was determined to get these two pieces of clothing, and he must clap his hands.

After the clothes were patted on his hands, the man turned the two pieces of clothing over and over again for several months, and after confirming them according to the relevant records of Zhang Xianzhong in history that his grandfather said, he was completely confused, as if there was no connection between the two at all, and one day, when he continued to rub the two clothes repeatedly, he suddenly found that the face embroidery pattern of the clothes, if you look through the light, from the perspective of the inner tulle, there seem to be traces of words.

Then re-check the seams of the face of the clothes, as if there are indeed signs of re-stitching, so I hurriedly called the tailor, the face of the clothes and the lining carefully separated, the two things separated, sure enough, the various patterns embroidered on the front, to the back of the stitches formed a similar to the appearance of the text, but this text is completely different from the Chinese characters, whether it is oracle bone inscription, Zhong Dingwen, large and small seals and even the descendants of the real grass and other fonts do not match the number.

The person has consulted many experts one after another, most of the experts think that the text traces behind the embroidery are just a coincidence, and there is no substantive meaning, thinking that the person himself thinks too much, but he firmly believes that the words handed down by the ancestors are not groundless, there must be his reason, because I heard that Dr. Li is also a doctor of ancient clothing, and he has seen a lot of strange clothes over the years, so after thinking twice, he came to find Dr. Li with these two clothes.

Dr. Li's statement about Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, the first feeling is nonsense, regardless of whether Zhang Xianzhong has a treasure or not, even if there is an age with this dress, this dress according to its texture and other exquisite products, about the middle of the Ming Dynasty, at that time Zhang Xianzhong was not born, where did the treasure come from. But the back of the clothes he said had a text-like pattern, and Dr. Li thought it was very amazing when he saw it.

Although after looking at the actual photo, Dr. Li could not recognize what kind of text it was, but Dr. Li thought that such a dignified and orderly arrangement could not be an unintentional coincidence, and things in the world are sometimes so coincidental, Dr. Li happened to get a batch of antique Taoist robes at that time, and this batch of goods could not be auctioned publicly because of some problems with the way, so Dr. Li asked a few collectors who were interested in ancient religious relics to come and see it privately.