Chapter 554: Taoist Treasure
PS: The state is not good, there is only a 5000-word chapter, everyone give me some time to adjust it
The sound of the piano is melodious and crisp, without a trace of noise, just like the moon in a clear sky, without a cloud to cover it, and the accent is like the water waves in the big river, majestic and long, listening to Li Yi and Ma Weizhong are fascinated.
A few minutes later, when the song ended, Li Yi applauded lightly, his eyes were full of smiles when he looked at Qin Chuan, while Ma Weizhong's eyes lit up,
"Now, if you don't have 400 million, you should have 200 million, right?"
Unexpectedly, Qin Chuan shook his head with a calm face,
"There is still a big problem with this piano......"
"Big question?"
Li Yi and the two couldn't help but look at each other, they already sound very good?
Qin Chuan glanced at the two of them, shook his head with a wry smile,
"Of course you can't hear anything...... And this piano is also in urgent need of maintenance, and it must no longer be carried around like you......"
He said as he took his phone out of his pocket,
"I asked Lao Huang to take a look, he is the premier luthier in China, and I always feel that something is wrong here in Longchi."
A phone call went out, and after a while, Qin Chuan showed regret on his face,
"He's not at home, and he won't be back until tomorrow night at the earliest, so he'll come over the day after tomorrow anyway, and you should have a way to bring Qin with you then."
Li Yi nodded, of course it is best to have a way, but even if there is no way, this qin can make the sound just now, it should not be considered a waste qin, in this way, his business will not be lost......
"Loss? 3.8 million to buy such a Jiuxiao ring Pei Tang Qin, will you lose? Do you know that even if this is a waste piano, its value will be more than 50 million! I ......"
Qin Chuan was depressed to death, he had lived in Chang'an all his life, and he didn't run to those antique markets, but he hadn't seen any good pianos for decades, as soon as this kid came, he got two of them in half a day, and they were all without knowing the origin of the guqin, which ...... It's almost like vomiting blood!
"Huh? Qin Lao, didn't you say that the guqin depends on the timbre ......"
"That's what I said, but you also have to see what it is! Do you know the origin of this Nine Heavens Ring Peiqin? ”
Li Yi shook his head, on the way here, he had carefully checked the information about the Jiuxiao Huan Peiqin, but what was introduced on the Internet was the one in the Forbidden City, and as for the others, he really didn't know.
"At present, several Jiuxiao ring peiqins handed down are all made by the Lei family, a family of violinists in Shu Province in the Tang Dynasty. And yours, like the one in the Forbidden City, and the one you said with an estimated value of 400 million, were all made by Lei Wei, the first patriarch of the Lei family during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. ”
"Moreover, these three qins have all appeared in the succession ceremony of Tang Suzong in 756 AD, when there were a total of five Jiuxiao rings, as well as five great sage relics, and the current surviving great sage relics should be specially made for the ceremony, so there is a sense of Zhide Bingshen, but that qin is not made by the Lei family, and the age is decades worse than this one, but it is still worth more than 100 million ......"
Li Yi and Ma Weizhong gasped together, it turned out that the origin of this piano was really exactly the same as the one in the Forbidden City!
"No, this piano is far worse than that one in terms of inheritance, there is not only Su Shi and Huang Tingjian's retention on that piano, but also the three famous teachers of the Qing Dynasty, in this sense, that piano is the real priceless treasure."
"However, the timbre of your piano is better than that one, and I believe that after restoration, it should not be inferior to the Jiuxiao Huanpeiqin with an estimated value of 400 million!"
Seeing that Li Yi and the others were still a little dizzy, Qin Chuan sighed, walked to another piano table on the side, opened the piano case, gently stroked one of the guqins and said:
"I was going to give you this guqin I used to use, but now that you have this piano again, my old fellow can't give it away, oops, what a headache!"
"Piano? Why? ”
Ma Weizhong blinked, and asked Li Yi in a low voice, Li Yi was also a little confused, so he couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan, hoping that he could give an explanation.
"That Great Sage's Relic Piano, the normal auction is almost more than 20 million, but it's ......"
Qin Chuan pondered for a moment and said:
"But if there are other piano schools that compete with us, the price is ...... So, I should thank you so much. Okay, let's do it first, you put the piano in this case first, don't remember to have too much vibration, and then come over early the day after tomorrow, I'll let Lao Huang help you take a look. ”
The two said goodbye and left from Qin Chuan's house, and in the taxi, Ma Weizhong pondered for a long time,
"Hey Li Yi, you say, how much is this piano worth? Qin Lao was going around just now, and he didn't seem to give an accurate word in the end......"
Li Yi scratched his head, Qin Chuan's words just now were indeed a bit detouring, but even if they were not repaired, at present, they should be worth more than 100 million, right?
With the jade pot spring bottle and the white jade tiger pendant, they can continue to visit the market, but now that there is a huge piano case, it is a bit inappropriate, so the two decided to go back to the hotel first, rest for a while and then go out to shop.
The hotel booked by the two is not far from the Xiaodongmen Market, but the way back is a little blocked, so when they returned to the hotel, it was already 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yi just walked into the lobby, and saw two young people in the rest area not far away.
"When did you two boys come back? Don't give me a call either! ”
"Haha, Brother Yi, we have been preparing to surprise you for a long time, how could we notify you in advance?"
Li Yi smiled and slapped the two of them the shoulder,
"Brother Ma, introduce you to two friends, this is Gu Feng, this is ......"
It turned out that these two people were Gu Feng and the fat elephant who had just returned from dealing with the walled house in Taiwan, but they didn't notify Li Yi after they arrived, but went directly to Chang'an to surprise him!
The four of them chatted for a few words, and Li Yi took Gu Feng and the fat elephant back to his room. It stands to reason that the two of them should have been able to come back half a month ago, but there was something wrong with the batch of wood during transportation, so it was delayed until Li Yi went to Huashan to sketch before returning to the capital. After the two learned about Li Yi's whereabouts from the left-behind Hongchen, they rushed from Yanjing to Chang'an non-stop, just blocking him.
In the evening, the four of them found a place to have a beautiful drink, and the next day, the fat elephant was left in the hotel to watch the family, Li Yi took Gu Feng and Ma Weizhong, and went straight to the Eight Immortals Palace Cultural Relics Market.
The Eight Immortals Palace Cultural Relics Market is very close to the Xiaodongmen Cultural Relics Market, the whole market is an antique cloister-style wooden structure building, there are more than 40 merchants, and there are dozens of stalls on the central axis of the corridor in the middle of the ground floor for a long time, because the opposite side is the ancient wood towering to the sky, the smoky Taoist Temple of the Eight Immortals Palace is named.
Originally, Li Yi's harvest in the Xiaodongmen market was enough for him to take to the party Zhong Haoqing said without falling behind, but the harvest of just one market was so rich, not to mention Li Yi, even the irrelevant Ma Weizhong wanted to see again, how far his luck could go against the sky this time. Therefore, the two of them still followed the original plan and came to the second stop of the planned itinerary, the Eight Immortals Palace Cultural Relics Market.
"How can there be so many genuine products here......"
Stepping into the antique gate of the market, the three of them still started from the stalls as usual, but after looking at a few of them, Li Yi found more than 10 genuine products, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
Although he has not been to too many antique markets, with such a high rate of authenticity, not to mention the stalls, he estimates that even if the shops are counted together, there are not many in the antique markets in China!
"What you just asked for, are they all true?"
Ma Weizhong was also a little surprised, yesterday they only inquired a few times after looking at a hundred and ten stores, but today, there are only a few stores, and Li Yi asked no less than 10 things.
"It's true, it's just that the price is outrageous, and there's nothing really good."
Ma Weizhong nodded, although he couldn't understand it, but he could still see whether the things were good or not, just like Li Yi collected those few pieces yesterday, which one was not exquisite and elegant to the extreme? Seeing these today, almost all of them are crooked melons and cracked dates, not to mention, and a few of them are remnants......
"The remnants may not be unprecious, but they ...... Hey? Boss, how do you sell this? ”
In the next dozen or so, even if Li Yi saw some suspected genuine products, he didn't stop to take a closer look at them if they were not in good condition, until he found a blue and white bowl, and then he stopped again.
This big bowl, the diameter of the bowl mouth is close to 15 cm, the outer wall is painted with blue and white melon and fruit ornamentation, and the bottom of the vessel is left with the "Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year" double row of six-character blue and white style, from the circle foot, the carcass is delicate and tight, and the white glaze bottom is white and moist, it is a genuine official porcelain in the Chenghua period!
When the boss saw Li Yi inquiring, he didn't speak, his finger pointed at the stall, and motioned for him to look at it himself.
Li Yiyi lowered his head and saw that there was still an appraisal certificate stamped with a steel seal on the place where the blue and white bowl had just been placed, and the market valuation of this porcelain was written on it, 3.5 million!
"3.5 million? How much can I sell? ”
"That's the selling price!"
"Boss, you clearly say that it is an appraisal ......"
"This appraisal certificate is the year before last, and you don't know the current market, the price itself is a bit low, if you don't wait for the money, I'll do an appraisal again, I estimate that 5 million is possible."
The boss looked not salty or light, Ma Weizhong was a little angry when he saw it, and just as he was about to say more, Li Yi waved his hand to stop him,
"Okay, 3.5 million is 3.5 million, help me wrap it up."
Seeing Li Yi handing over the things to Gu Feng, Ma Weizhong came up,
"Is this one weird?"
Li Yi nodded slightly and said softly:
"There is also a similar lot on Sotheby's Hong Kong's spring auction catalogue this year, which is a Ming Chenghua blue and white tangled melon pattern bowl, with an estimate of 4.5 million Hong Kong dollars, but then this thing was not auctioned, but was sold in private, guess what the transaction price is?"
"How much? 6 million? ”
Li Yi shook his head and stretched out two fingers,
"It's 20 times, 90 million!"
"Shhhh
Ma Weizhong gasped loudly, how is this possible?!
"Nothing is impossible, and according to my friend, there's no such thing as a dark box here. It's just that this matter has not been made public, so I guess this boss doesn't know yet, otherwise it ......"
Ma Weizhong let out a long sigh,
"I hope he never knows, otherwise, I guess he'll go to the rooftop, and he'll drag the expert who helped him with ......."
Li Yi shook his head with a smile, and didn't speak again, antiques are such things, sometimes they really can't be done by eyesight alone, many times information is more deadly than eyesight, just like the Jiuxiao Ring Peiqin he bought before, he thought that it was only a thousand things at most, but when he showed it to Qin Chuan, he actually said that even a waste piano was worth more than 50 million!
If he was in a hurry to wait for the money at that time, and 10 million was sold, then should he also go to the rooftop?
After shopping for a while, after reading all the stalls, Ma Weizhong turned his head to look at the shops around him, looked at the time again, and said:
"After reading these, accompany me to the Eight Immortals Palace, I heard that it is quite spiritual to ask for a sign there."
"Oh? Brother Ma also asked for a signature? What do you want to ask for? Peach blossom luck? ”
"Ha, you kid, my son is about to enter junior high school! But...... If it weren't for you, with my dashing appearance, why would I ask for a signature! ”
"Then it's even more demanding, please be safe, bless peace from being discovered by sister-in-law......"
"You kid, it's not a good thing......
The two talked all the way and went from store to store, but I don't know if they ran out of luck yesterday, and until they finished shopping in 40 stores, they didn't see a single thing worth selling.
"I think you kid should go and ask for a sign...... But forget it, if it's all like yesterday's luck, how can others live! ”
Seeing that Li Yi found nothing, Ma Weizhong let out a long breath softly. When he first bought the blue and white bowl, he almost thought that Li Yi would replicate yesterday's madness again, if that was the case, he would definitely suspect that this kid was not a human at all, now it's okay, it turns out that his luck has run out......
Opposite the cultural relics market of the Eight Immortals Palace, it is known as the Eight Immortals Palace, the largest Taoist temple in northwest China.
The Eight Immortals Palace, formerly known as the Eight Immortals Nunnery, is said to be the place where Lu Dongbin ignited the Han Zhongli. In that year, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Yanjing, and the Guangxu Emperor fled west to give the name of the Eight Immortals Palace, which is a famous tourist attraction.
Outside the gate of the Eight Immortals Palace, there is a cement square, on the square, there are more than a dozen stalls lined up, mainly dealing in some incense candles and tourist souvenirs and the like, of course, there are also dolls of the Eight Immortals and some portraits of Taoist immortals, but most of the quality is not very good, so Li Yi and others just took a few simple glances, then found a stall at random, bought a few bunches of incense, and then walked directly towards the gate.
"Have you watched "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"? Let me tell you, this is the portrait of the supernatural king Chongyang of the Quanzhen Sect patriarch, and you see, this portrait is definitely not a printed ......"
As soon as they reached the door, they saw a middle-aged man dressed in a nondescript robe, holding a portrait of a longitudinal scroll on silk, stopping in front of two young tourists, a man and a woman, foaming at the mouth.
"Wang Chongyang? Is there a portrait of Zhou Botong? ”
The girl was very interested in this portrait, but the question she asked made the middle-aged man's face darken.
"Zhou Botong is a fictional character, how can he have a portrait? Two, let me tell you, this painting is definitely an old object of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China......"
"And how are you going to sell this painting?"
Ma Weizhong just glanced over there curiously, and was attracted by the portrait, although this painting, although I don't know if it is a real old object, but the person who painted, the attainment of Gongbi figure painting is not low, it is true, if it is cheap, buy it and take it back to give it away.
As soon as the middle-aged man saw that someone was inquiring, he gave up the two young men and women, walked in front of Ma Weizhong, opened his mouth and boasted fiercely, but he always refused to quote, which made Ma Weizhong depressed.
"This portrait is really the treasure of my Daomen, but I think you are also destined to be a person, otherwise you will not be able to find the subtleties in it, so let's do it, 100,000, as long as 100,000 yuan, this Daomen treasure of the late Qing Dynasty is yours!"
100,000? Ma Weizhong rolled his eyes, you are in the wrong place, opposite, do you see it, there is an antique market on the other side, you should go over there and fool around!
"Hey, my portrait ......"
Before the man could say more, Li Yi suddenly said:
"Brother Ma, this thing does look like something from the Republic of China, if you are really interested in Taoism, you might as well buy it, and the painting will be completed."
With that, he reached out and took the portrait from the man's hand, and looked at it carefully.
"Twenty thousand, twenty thousand or not?"
"Not for sale!"
"Cut, if you want to sell it, I won't buy it! Let's go, brother, I thought that something that cost a few hundred yuan, buy it back and give it to someone or something, it's so expensive, let him pit someone else. ”
After saying that, Ma Weizhong raised his feet and wanted to leave, but suddenly found that Li Yi had not moved the nest, so he couldn't help but take the portrait from his hand curiously and looked at it carefully.
"It's not as good as my drawing......
"If 20,000 is not sold, how much will it be sold?"
"100,000, a penny less......"
Before the man's voice fell, Li Yi took the painting from Ma Weizhong's hand,
"Give, sell to whomever you like! I sincerely ask you the price, you put up the shelf, let's go! ”
"Hey, don't worry, haven't I finished saying this yet? Others don't sell a penny less, a destined person like you, little brother, 80,000, you take it! ”
The two of you talked back and forth, and finally Li Yi spent 40,000 yuan to buy this portrait in his hand.
"Brother, is there anything wrong with this?"
After all, Ma Weizhong is engaged in calligraphy and painting, for some calligraphy and painting works, as long as the author of the era is explained, he can still judge the approximate price, this portrait made by an unknown painter, in his opinion, even if it is really a work of the Republic of China, it is only worth a few thousand yuan, but Li Yi spent 40,000 ......
He shook his head, he didn't believe that he would look away!
Li Yi pondered for a moment, this Ma Weizhong really didn't look away, but what he liked was not this portrait, but something hidden in the scroll above this portrait, which was a Taoist treasure! (To be continued.) )