Chapter 16: Blood Jade Cicada
After Yun Xi understood what Zhang Yude meant, he couldn't help but say again: "Elder Zhang, I'm still a student in school, it's impossible to come here every day, if you find that gang of thieves, how can you notify me?" ā
Zhang Yude smiled slightly and said: "Yunxi Xiaoyou, I have already thought about this question of yours, as long as you go and buy a better piece of jade, I can separate some of my soul and store it in your jade, and when I need your help, I can appear in front of you through this jade and communicate with you." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
"Wow, it's so powerful, it's even more convenient than making a phone call, it's really a good way, hehehe."
"Yunxi Xiaoyou, this way of communication also has limitations, once you and I are too far apart, we will not receive a signal, so we can only use it in the same city. There is another point to remember for Xiaoyou, that is, Xiaoyou's jade must not be separated, it is best to wear it on the body, so that it is more convenient for us to communicate, and at the same time, please take care of the jade, if the jade is damaged, it will also hurt my soul, please remember, remember. ā
Yun Xi nodded cautiously and agreed, but he said with some embarrassment: "Elder Zhang, I'm a poor student, and I don't have much money on me, how much does it cost to buy the good jade you said?" ā
Zhang Yude was stunned for a moment, but he quickly laughed and said: "Yunxi Xiaoyou, for your sake of helping me, I will give you a fortune, on the stall not far in front, there is a wood-carved statue of Guanyin sitting on the lotus, I once sensed that there is a good jade hidden in this statue of Guanyin, as long as you buy this statue of Guanyin and take out the jade inside, it is definitely worth the money." ā
"Oh, there is such a good thing, then I must buy it, by the way, Zhang Lao, how much is that wood carved Guanyin statue worth? I don't know if I have enough money? ā
"Hehehe, that Guanyin statue is just carved from very ordinary boxwood, not worth much, I think it should be the owner of the jade in order to hide people's eyes, only to put this piece of fine jade into a very ordinary boxwood, and then carved into a Guanyin statue and placed at home, but I don't know what happened later, so that this Guanyin statue fell to the stall. I also know the stall owner, his name is Chen Liangui, he is a suburban farmer, he often sets up a stall here, sometimes he will go to the scrap yard or some remote countryside, buy some small items and come back to sell here, so you can go and trade with him in a while. ā
Yun Xi was already smiling when he heard this, he walked quickly to the stall area, and under the guidance of the Ghost Eye Chapter, he arrived at Chen Liangui's stall, and sure enough, here he saw a wooden statue of Guanyin sitting on the lotus about 70 centimeters high and 45 centimeters wide.
At this time, Yun Xi stabilized his mind, he slowly squatted down and looked at the other objects on the stall casually, and then he saw a middle-aged uncle who looked very ordinary, and even a little obscene, said to him: "Little brother, you want to buy something, I have a lot of good things here, and the age is more than a hundred years of good things, if you sincerely want to buy it, little brother, I can also give you a discount." ā
Yun Xi smiled and said: "Boss, I can still see if it is a good object, I just want to buy a Buddha statue from you and give it to my mother, who made her believe in Buddhism, I think your wood carved Guanyin statue is good." ā
"Little brother, you really have good eyesight, my statue of Guanyin sitting on the lotus is specially invited to the master to open the light, and this material is also carved with the best boxwood, at the same time this Guanyin statue is still an old object made in the Guangxu year, when the Empress Dowager Cixi believed in Buddhism, so this item was also accepted into the palace as a tribute, and it took me a lot of effort to acquire it. In this way, little brother, for the sake of your filial piety, I will give you a discount, and you only need to pay 5,000 yuan for this treasure. ā
When Yun Xi heard his offer, he couldn't help but glance at Chen Liangui, he didn't expect that this middle-aged uncle who looked honest would actually come to a lion with a big mouth, he said angrily and funny at this time: "Boss, let's not take such a foolish person, this is obviously a modern handicraft, and this material is also the most ordinary boxwood, you look at its carving, how can there be a trace of the master's demeanor, and also Guangxu Nian tribute, if anyone dared to dedicate this thing to the palace, he would have been pulled out and beheaded." I promise that the age of this Buddha statue will never exceed 30 years, I will give 300 yuan now, if you want to sell it, I will take it, if you don't want to sell it, I will leave. ā
"Little brother, the price you offered is too low, why don't you add some, when I accept it, it's not just the price you gave, you can't let me lose money and make money." In fact, when Chen Liangui first received this item, he only spent eighty yuan, he originally thought that Yun Xi was young and easy to fool, but he didn't think that Yun Xi would see the clues, so he had to admit it.
At this time, I saw Yun Xi take out three hundred yuan from his pocket and put it in front of him, and said, "Boss, I will pay this price, whether I sell it or not." ā
After Chen Liangui hesitated for a while, he finally sold this statue of Guanyin sitting on the lotus to Yun Xi, and when Yun Xi held this statue of Guanyin, he was already so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. At this time, he couldn't help but say to the Ghost Eye Zhang: "Elder Zhang, how are we going to open this Guanyin statue?" Do you want to crush it now and see what kind of jade is inside? ā
"Xiaoyou, let's change places first, after all, there are many dragons and snakes here, in case you are targeted by someone with a heart, it will be troublesome. I remember there was a teahouse in front of us, so we could find a teahouse there and open it slowly after we sat down. ā
Yun Xi nodded admiringly, it seems that Jiang is still old and spicy, and the things he considers are more thoughtful than himself. Soon Yun Xi came to the teahouse and asked the waiter to open a box for him, and when the waiter made the tea for him, Yun Xi asked the waiter to leave the room, and then Yun Xi carefully took out the Guanyin statue.
Zhang Yude carefully looked at the Guanyin statue in Yun Xi's hand, and said: "If I am not mistaken, that jade should be hidden in this sitting lotus, you just need to follow the gap of the sitting lotus and use the fire to bake the viscose in the gap, I think you can open this Buddha statue." ā
After hearing this, Yun Xi immediately asked the waiter to bring him a lighter, and then he took the lighter and roasted it towards the gap in the lotus seat. Sure enough, in less than a quarter of an hour, the sitting lotus fell off, and when Yun Xi saw that there was really a jade artifact in the sitting lotus, he couldn't help laughing.
At this time, Zhang Yude was even more pleasantly surprised: "Xiaoyou, you are so lucky, I didn't expect that there is a thousand-year-old blood jade cicada hidden in this sitting lotus, now Xiaoyou, you are developed, this blood jade cicada can be worth at least millions, this is definitely a big leak, congratulations to Xiaoyou, congratulations to Xiaoyou, hahaha." ā
Yun Xi also said modestly at this moment: "This is all the credit of you, Elder Zhang, I just picked up a cheap one." By the way, Zhang Lao, do you have anything to say about this blood jade cicada? Yun Xi is now more and more fond of the antique industry, so he is not ashamed to ask, he also wants to know more about antiques to enrich himself.
At this time, I heard Zhang Yude say: "The jade cicada is also called the cicada, which is a kind of burial object specially placed in the mouth of the deceased. The ancients believed that cicadas were noble, and it was once mentioned in "Historical Records: The Biography of Qu Yuan Jia Sheng"; "The cicada molts in the law, to float outside the dust", the cicada lives in the muddy water before finally shedding its shell and becoming an adult, and when it is shelled and turned into a cicada, it flies to a high tree, only drinking dew, which can be said to be out of the sludge without staining, so it is very respected by the ancients. There is also a theory that cicadas burrow into the soil from the tree when the autumn is cool, and then come out of the climbing tree when the spring is warm the next year, so that the deceased can pray for reincarnation with the jade cicada in their mouths. The most distinctive of the jade cicada is the jade cicada of the Han Dynasty, its lines are concise, rough and powerful, the knife is sharp, the surface is smooth and bright, the edges and corners are sharp, and the tip of the wings can be pierced, known as the "Han Eight Knife". And the subsequent jade cicada, the ornamentation gradually became more and more complicated, some of the wings were set aside like fly wings, and the spirit of the jade cicada of the Han Dynasty had long been lost, especially the edges of the utensils and the tips of the wings were ground into rounded corners, which also became an important basis for judging whether the jade cicada of the Han Dynasty was made. Xiaoyou's blood jade cicada is the classic of the Han Dynasty's 'Han Eight Knife', so Xiaoyou, you must collect it, there are not many old objects like this now. ā
Yun Xi carefully took the blood jade cicada and said, "Elder Zhang, why do you call it 'Blood Jade Cicada'?" Could it be that it was carved out of blood jade? ā
"Hehehe, it's not such a little friend, blood jade does not refer to a kind of jade, but refers to the jade that has been penetrated by blood, whether it is jade, Khotan, or topaz and other categories, as long as it is really bloody, it is blood jade. The formation of blood jade is related to the corpse, when the person is buried, as the jade of the jade, is forcibly stuffed into the population, if the person has just died, when swallowed in one breath, the jade is stuffed, it will fall into the throat with the gas, into the dense blood vessels. Left for a thousand years, the dead blood is stained, and the blood goes straight to the heart of the jade, it will form a gorgeous blood jade, this kind of thing often falls under the swallow of the skeleton, and it is the most precious one of all the corpse jade stoppers, like this thousand-year-old blood jade, according to the market price, it is definitely estimated to be more than millions of yuan.
Now some pseudo-merchants also use a similar natural method to make blood jade, they stuff the jade into the dog's mouth, and then seal its mouth, when the dog is choked to death, the bones are buried in the ground, and after a few decades of digging out, you can get the blood jade. Of course, whether it is human blood or dog blood, blood jade is more spiritual, human blood jade is the best, and dog blood jade has resentment condensed in it, so there is no benefit to the wearer, and some blood jade is obtained through artificial dyeing, like this jade, it is not blood jade, and there will be no spirituality at all. ā
;