Wei Xingxing is Chinese New Year's Eve eight years old and looks like an elitist.

His father Wei Dongshan made a fortune in the 90s during the reform and opening up, and the family took the lead in living in a small villa and hired two nannies. His mother, Qian Xuebin, is a university teacher, who has been staring at Wei Xingxing's studies since she was a child.

When Wei Xingxing was in elementary school, Wei Dongshan had just made money, began to pursue a quality life, and wanted to be a cultural person, so he began to be fascinated by calligraphy and painting. At that time, Wei Dongshan had many friends, traveled extensively, and was sought after a lot, and the director of a small factory that did business with Wei Dongshan bought his calligraphy and painting works with a lot of money. Qian Xuebin can also be regarded as a peach and plum in the school, the circle of friends of the husband and wife is not small, Wei Dongshan also paid money to become an important member of the provincial calligraphy association, and supported many calligraphy and painting activities.

Wei Xingxing remembered that his mother said that his father was paying to buy someone to support him. When he was a child, he thought it was his mother's reputation for his father's eyes, and it wasn't until he went to college that he felt that his mother was right.

At that time in the 90s, the country was first opened, and the cultural undertakings in China flourished like never before.

Wei Dongshan entered the Tao from calligraphy and painting, and began to deal with cultural relics. At the beginning, Wei Dongshan only wanted to collect some famous calligraphy and paintings for family heirlooms or collections, and he didn't want to make money from them. Wei Xingxing remembered that his father often said to him when he was a child, "This is all left to you", "instead of leaving you money, it is better to keep these, which can maintain value and taste".

But it is obvious that Wei Dongshan, who became a monk halfway, is not good at calligraphy and painting, and his eyesight is not good, so he has paid a lot of tuition. In order to adopt Tibet, Wei Dongshan is no longer limited to calligraphy and painting, he starts to accept whatever he can, and resells what he doesn't want to make hard-earned money. He was cautious, remembered the lesson after suffering losses and misbelief, and in the end he didn't lose his home, and he could still have spare money to change houses and cars for his family, and send Wei Xingxing to study abroad.

But Qian Xuebin didn't like Wei Dongshan doing this, and felt that doing this was not a proper business, so why not continue to do business? She quarreled with him, Wei Dongshan said that doing business smelled of copper, he is now a cultural person, and if he runs to do business again, he will go downstream, and his friends will laugh at him when they know about it.

Qian Xuebin felt that this argument was ridiculous, and felt that he was just stubborn. Neither of the two could convince anyone, and on the eve of Wei Xingxing's graduation from high school, the two quarreled the most. Later, Wei Xingxing went to a foreign country and did not come back for five years, and then I heard that my parents were separated, and this point was divided into Wei Dongshan and died.

How did Wei Dongshan die? Why so suddenly? Why didn't he know anything beforehand?

Wei Xingxing has a lot of questions, but he doesn't know who to ask.

He had planned to settle in the area, but hurried back after hearing about his father's death. When I came back this time, I found that this family and my mother, as well as the one I was familiar with before, were very unfamiliar.

It is true that he has rarely come back in recent years, and the last time he came back was two years ago. At that time, he was eating alone with his parents, and the two of them didn't even want to sit at the same table. And neither of them is willing to mention each other. When he mentioned his father to his mother, his mother refused to speak coldly and did not want to pay attention to him anymore; He told his father about his mother, but he just sighed.

However, at the funeral, he learned that the family's original house had been sold. My mother lives in a new house that she bought a year ago, and she already has a boyfriend.

My father also has another girlfriend, or two. This couple, who are over half a hundred years old, is actually advanced and plays their own games.

After my father's death, the family's collection was long gone. Of course, Wei Xingxing can't accept it, because his father said two years ago that the conservative valuation of the family's collection is about 80 million, and if it meets a good time, a good buyer, and a credible auction house, there is no problem with 100 million.

And he is an auctioneer abroad, and he also has a small auction house, and he is also famous.

The father did not have a second child, so Wei Xingxing postponed the date of returning and began to work on the property he should inherit.

But things are not as easy as they first thought.

First of all, the two ladies that Wei Dongshan had dated said that they did not know the whereabouts of Wei Dongshan's collection other than the gifts they received. And the gifts that the two of them took out were just Wei Dongshan's more proud pen and ink back then, and even the two of them disliked it and said that it would take up space in vain at home, so he could take it away if he wanted it.

And both revealed that his mother should know best about it.

Wei Xingxing went to his mother to ask, but his mother was very angry, "Do you think I stole your money?" ”

"Your dad thinks his treasures are bigger than the sky! Now you come back and don't ask anything, that's the first thing you ask? It's just like your dad! ”

After Wei Xingxing apologized repeatedly, Qian Xuebin said, "Four or five years ago, your father started to sell things, half sold and half delivered, he said that he only left one or two beloved, and then I don't know if I left or sold them all"

But these sold things are not easy to find. First, the valuation of the collection is very free, and there is no certain standard.

Second, Wei Xingxing didn't know how many collections Wei Dongshan had, how many Tibetan friends he had, and who took away his things.

So after tossing and turning for half a year, I only found a few things, but it was difficult to buy them back. In short, there is a disproportion between giving and receiving.

Wei Xingxing had to give up after thinking about it.

Only this stone lotus platform is the most likely thing to come back.

But he never expected that Shilian Terrace had been destroyed.

Wei Xingxing didn't really believe it after learning from Professor Dai's mouth that Shiliantai was smashed, but found Hetian and asked if it was a girl from another school who came to visit who accidentally smashed it, and the Wei family's Shiliantai in the school's collection was indeed a remnant, as evidenced by the restoration picture made by He Tian.

The restoration picture is three-dimensional, and after Wei Xingxing borrowed Hetian's computer, he confirmed that it was the Wei family's stone lotus platform.

He Tian was curious: "How do you know it's your family?" "There's also an exhibition in the museum, and it's not a unique thing.

"Here," Wei Xingxing said, pointing to a ramp at the bottom of the three-petal lotus, "this is what I carved before." "It's engraved with the word Wei, and I'm afraid that Wei Dongshan will find out, so I deliberately carved it under the petals.

He Tian was a little envious, what he and his classmates and professors dared to touch only when they wore gloves was an ordinary thing in the hands of others.

After Wei Xingxing came, Professor Dai inquired about the Wei family, intentionally or unintentionally.

Friends don't say bad things about his father to Wei Xingxing, but in fact, Wei Dongshan is not a thing.

Wei Dongshan's reputation in the circle was very bad a long time ago. He wears the mask of a man of culture, but he is still a businessman and is mercenary. often deceives the two families, that is, he pulls the line for the owner and sells things to the west, but he tells the owner that it is a 200,000 transaction, and he can talk to you about 250,000 at most; What I said to the West is that something can be sold for 300,000 yuan, and I will try to press it to 290,000 yuan for you.

Then he took the things of the owner to the West family, and after receiving 290,000 yuan from the West family, he gave 250,000 yuan to the East family. This reversal is 40,000 to hand.

But that's not all. Because he negotiated business for the Xi family, the Xi family wanted to give him 15% of the red envelopes from 290,000 li; And he sells a high price for the owner, and the owner also has to give a red envelope, which is also 15%.

Because of his good "reputation", buyers and sellers praised him, and naturally customers came. After that, he even helped people sell fakes. But this kind of fake doesn't care about three packs, and there is no return period, and there is no □□ when you buy it. People who buy fakes can only consider themselves unlucky.

Wei Dongshan made a lot of money for ten years, and after hearing that he had a terminal illness, he quietly sold all the collections like crazy, and finally lost a lot of money, and he seemed to use the money to treat the disease or buy his life, God and God. But in the end, the man died.

When did Shiliantai start by Wei Dongshan, this is not clear. Wei Xingxing said that he had it at home when he was in high school, and it was about ten years.

Professor Dai initially suspected that Wei Dongshan died because of Shi Liantai, but if it had been in the Wei family for ten years, Wei Dongshan would have finally become terminally ill, and He Tiancai would have died in half a year.

Professor Dai thought about it, shook his head and smiled, feeling that he was thinking too much.

Wei Xingxing was unwilling, but he was helpless. The worst part is that he has put a picture of Shi Liantai on the company website, which is an old photo of him at home, and now, someone is looking for him to ask for this stone lotus platform.

He wanted to ask Professor Dai to buy the one in the museum, but the school is not in business, and it takes a lot of time and energy. Wei Xingxing had no choice but to quietly take a photo of the stone lotus platform in the art museum and pass it to the buyer, asking if this one would work?

The buyer replied to him: I didn't see it with my own eyes, I don't know if it will work.

After Wei Xingxing asked Professor Dai again to no avail, he secretly blocked a student in the warehouse and asked him to steal the stone lotus platform in the art museum at a price of 50,000 yuan.

When the student saw the money, he remembered that the girl from another school seemed to be fine if she smashed Shiliantai before, so he thought that even if he was discovered, it would not matter, just take the girl from another school as an example, and the school probably wouldn't trouble him.

Professor Dai only learned about the theft of the stone lotus platform in the museum on Monday, and the trouble is that although the museum has surveillance, the table where the stone lotus platform is placed is in the corner of the surveillance camera. The camera only captured a group of students walking by, and one student reached out and took the stone lotus platform, but he couldn't see who it was, because only one arm was filmed.

Professor Dai immediately suspected that he had fallen on Wei Xingxing, and after the school reported the case, he did not publicize the matter, but immediately went to Wei Xingxing, but he did not expect that he had already gotten on the plane last night.

Professor Dai was so angry that he smoked, and after he tried his best to catch the student who stole the things, the student cried and said that he did it because he saw that people from other schools smashed Shiliantai, so he did it.

Professor Dai scolded: "Can that be the same thing?!" You are for the money! Is it for money that people smash the stone lotus platform? You think it's okay to smash it, and it's okay to steal it? ”

No matter how much he scolds, he can't expel the student, and in the end, he will be punished and made to lose money, but the student's family is also an ordinary person, and after returning the 50,000 yuan he collected, the school only fined 10,000 yuan.

After Wei Xingxing went back with Shi Liantai, unexpectedly, the buyer touched Shi Liantai and said that it was not the original one. Wei Xingxing hurriedly said that the original house had been destroyed, and this was another.

The buyer said as long as it was the original one.

Wei Xingxing was puzzled: "It's all the same thing." ”

After the buyer left, Wei Xingxing became curious, or he was always the most patient and willing to work things that made money. He began to study the original stone lotus platform in his home.

Before that, he had never thought about what this stone lotus platform was, and after looking for some information, he found out that the stone lotus platform turned out to be a burial tool, a tool used to worship the gods, just like a plate on the offering table. It's just that the stone lotus platform is empty, and the things it enshrines are not flowers and fruits, Wei Xingxing guessed that the vacant lotus platform should be enshrined by human animals.

If a lotus platform represents a human animal......

Wei Xingxing looked at the stone lotus platform on the table, and remembered that this thing had been brought to it thousands of years ago, and a slave or sinner was beheaded and killed, and his heart fluctuated.

"I didn't expect you to be such an amazing thing." Wei Xingxing touched the lotus platform and had a whim. He came back the next day and brought a mouse, and then cut off the mouse's head and placed it on the stone lotus platform.

The blood infiltrated into the pores of the lotus heart of the lotus platform, and a blood line slowly bypassed the nine-petal lotus flower under the lotus platform, and he looked down with curiosity and found that the blood did not flow down the base, but after a while, the blood began to seep out from under the base. He picked up the lotus platform and found that the stone lotus might be hollow, so the blood was descending from the lotus pedicle into the base.

Even this point is imitated, hollow and straight.

This thing, that's interesting.

Wei Xingxing actually felt a little reluctant to sell it.

But in the end, he will still sell. He put the stone lotus platform on the table, intending to play for a while.

When he spreads this story, and adds some bloody historical legends, presumably, its price will become even more gratifying.