Chapter 21: Mi Zhen investigates Su Baichang
Mi Zhen's face has been sneering since she mentioned Su Baichang just now, her eyebrows were originally cold, and now she has a contemptuous expression, the whole person thinks even colder, she leans quietly on the chaise longue, and her appearance is somewhat similar to Cleopatra more than 2,000 years ago. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoHer eyes were half-closed, and even so, I could still feel the cold gaze in her eyes as I looked at her. "Su Baichang's character simply exceeds the lower limit I set for him." She spat out the words with some resentment.
"You debunked him at the time?" I looked at her unkind face and asked cautiously. Although I myself knew that it was impossible, otherwise Mizhen would not have gotten the opportunity to work with him.
"How is that possible?" Mi Zhen looked at me with some anger, "If I demolish him at that time, it will be tantamount to digging my own grave." What chance do you think I have to work under him? In fact, I walked into his shop with a false smile on my face and a compliment that I want to gag when I think about it now. Of course, Zixuan also helped at this point, he knows a lot of professional knowledge, and he is more convincing than my admiration. Mizhen used her teacup to hide the embarrassed look on her face, and I think she was extremely reluctant to do so at the time.
I looked at her sympathetically: "How did you get involved in working under him?" And a lot of the treasures you stole before should have been his illegal gains, right? I don't agree with you, but I think you'll find more excuses to refute your theft in a moment. ”
Mi Zhen's expression finally relaxed, she no longer had a look of disgust, but became a little restrained, she gently pushed me: "Don't say it so ugly!" But it was only after this coquettish joke that she reverted to the serious expression on her face, "But you are right, I did take advantage of the opportunity to work under him to take a lot of things that should not belong to him in the first place." ”
Mi Zhen accentuated her tone when she said the word 'take', but seeing that I was still indifferent, Mi Zhen pursed her lips and continued: "Yes, I admit that it was stealing, didn't I admit it when I met you for the first time?" Please don't take it seriously now, I did get it wrong on this point. For your first question, though. Mi Zhen cleverly changed the topic, "How did I get mixed up and work under Su Baichang, this is very simple - just do what you like." Zixuan has a friend who is an auctioneer, and Zixuan has a matchmaker to help him anonymously auction some worthless things, but he makes a lot of money. After that, Zixuan and him established a friendship on the face, and Su Baichang sold a favor of his choice in order to let Zixuan's friend help in the subsequent auctions, and asked me, who was unemployed at the time, to be his assistant. In fact, the salary he gave me was far less than the auction money he received from Zixuan. However, Zixuan and I didn't mind this matter, and we were overjoyed to be able to sneak into his shop. ”
"But even so, he won't let you see those illegal gains easily, right?" I looked at Mi Zhen with some suspicion, and always felt that according to Mi Zhen, Su Baichang was not the kind of character who would be gullible with people, and keeping Mi Zhen by his side was actually a very easy decision to reveal his secrets. It stands to reason that Su Baichang should be reluctant to touch such a dangerous thing.
Mi Zhen agreed with my idea: "You're right, Su Baichang just asked me to do some paperwork at first. After all, Zixuan was able to help him auction, which shows that Zixuan has a certain foundation in the appreciation of cultural relics, and it is very likely to see through the secrets of those goods in his store, in addition to being afraid that it will be revealed, he is more worried that after Zixuan knows these secrets, he will come to share his share, so he actually restrained a little during that time, and did not put too many fakes in the store. But then, you know, his bad taste, and the ornaments he had personally selected to avoid suspicion in the two hundred places had not made much money for the sale of his shop in those months. At that time, the clerk gave advice, let him catch up with the current trend, find a few more famous designers to make some co-branded zodiac pendants, he was too much money, so he had to give up is the business of the store is tepid, so he is really anxious, and in the end he may also be unable to bear the anxiety in his heart, and can't think of other solutions, so he had to move out of the old routine, and the fakes made before moved out. After all, even if these fakes were improved fakes, the exquisite and refined style definitely surpassed the vulgar ornaments he had selected before, and naturally the business flourished again. And what he had been worrying about didn't happen, Mu Zixuan didn't make any trouble with him, and I was a vase with no ink in his stomach in his eyes, and I rarely made a comment about his broken things in his shop, he thought I didn't understand, so he didn't guard against me. In addition, during that time, Zixuan deliberately said that he had something to go to other places, and basically rarely came to the store, so he was completely fanfare doing the previous business. On the surface, I am acting like a silly white sweet, but in private, I will secretly take pictures of some new jewelry or ornaments in Su Baichang's store. After getting off work, he sent it to Zixuan and asked him to check if it was an imitation of those cultural relics that had not yet been published. After receiving the photos, Zixuan will start investigating these things. It was also at this time that we met your dad. ”
I was stunned for a moment, I didn't expect him to mention Dad at this time, I thought Dad would be a buyer at most in the whole thing, and he wouldn't have anything to do with the other three. "You." I was going to say that Mizhen was lying, but I didn't go any further, and I realized that Mizhen didn't need to lie to me about it, and the vague memory made me think that my dad was indeed involved. But I'm sure my dad won't do anything bad, and I don't have anything to worry about when I think of it. I looked into Mizhen's eyes and asked, "What did my dad help you with?" ”
"I thought you were going to lose your temper again and firmly deny my claim." After Mi Zhen finished speaking, she breathed a long sigh of relief, as if she had let go of something.
"I'm sure Dad won't do anything bad for you." I stressed to him very seriously.
Her expression was a little crying and laughing: "You really didn't grasp the point of what I said." Okay, didn't you argue with me last time? You don't have to stress it out anymore. However, it was indeed a very coincidental thing that we found your dad. At that time, your father seemed to have just been diagnosed with a very serious illness. Mi Zhen became a little cautious at this, as if she was afraid that her words would hurt me.
I shook my head and signaled that it was okay for me, and Mi Zhen continued with reassurance: "Zixuan saw a photo taken in Su Baichang's store, and there was a jade carved phoenix ornament that was very similar to the cultural relics excavated from a tomb of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty that was lost not long ago. The cultural relics were lost in the early stage of the excavation work, because the identity of the owner of the tomb was not confirmed at that time, and it was not clear that even the two cities were ancient tombs, and the excavation site happened to be at the construction site of a road repair project, and there were many people, and it was not impossible for many people to secretly take one or two of the small cultural relics because of greed. It wasn't until the excavation work was on track and the artifacts were classified and recorded that this kind of thing rarely happened. But even under strict supervision, there are still a few artifacts that have been excavated and their whereabouts are unknown. Among them, there is the ornament of the phoenix sculpture, which is only made of ceramics, and among the many bronze cultural relics, this ceramic cultural relic is very rare. Originally, after the excavation was completed, it would be sent to the local cultural relics protection bureau with some other cultural relics after registration. But when it was sent to the Cultural Relics Protection Bureau to compare with the records, this phoenix ornament disappeared mysteriously. One of Zixuan's teachers was involved in this work at the time, so he still had some impressions, and the teacher was also very sorry when he recalled it. When Zixuan saw the photo, he remembered the description he heard from the teacher a few years ago, and thought about checking it with the teacher again. I learned that the teacher was hospitalized because of joint disease. In fact, this matter could be visited when the teacher was discharged from the hospital, but I don't know if it was arranged in the dark, or as Zixuan himself said, he suddenly thought of the teacher's slightly regretful eyes a few years ago, which made him feel a little touched, so he wanted the teacher to confirm as soon as possible whether the imitation on the photo was the same precious ceramic ornament that the teacher had seen back then. At that time, Zixuan did not wait for the teacher to be discharged from the hospital, but went directly to the hospital, which was also the first time we met your father. Your father and Zixuan's teacher were living in a surgical ward at the time. Originally, we didn't want to disturb your father's rest, but your father accidentally caught a glimpse of a photo in Zixuan's hand and let out an exclamation. ”
"Did she see anything?" I asked eagerly.
Mi Zhen nodded: "There are two ornaments in the photo, your father said he had seen them elsewhere." Zixuan's teacher asked Zixuan to show the photo to your father, who was sure he had seen it, but couldn't think of where he had seen it. And he can be sure that there are some subtle differences in color and material between the objects and photographs he has seen. Zixuan was surprised, and Zixuan's teacher was even more surprised, because Zixuan's teacher was sure that not too many people would have seen these things. Because the objects on these photographs are some lost artifacts, such artifacts are not generally accessible to people who do not work in this field, let alone feel familiar. But your dad is pretty sure he's seen it. Later that night, your dad didn't seem to have much rest, and the next day he suddenly told his chosen teacher that he knew where he had seen the things in the photo. ”