The most "precious" of the relics is a Yuan blue and white plum vase, about 30 centimeters high, which is the relic of Mr. Wu. The wild fox came out to commit the crime but took this thing with him, of course, he had other plans.

What does the wild fox want to do, You Fang also knows that this matter not only involves a public case in the field of Chinese cultural relics and archaeology, but also involves a recent hot news event in the domestic collection industry.

This public case is about the number of Yuan blue and white porcelain handed down. On July 12, 2005, Christie's auction house in London auctioned a Yuan blue and white porcelain jar decorated with the pattern of "Guiguzi Descending the Mountain" at a sky-high price equivalent to 230 million yuan, which detonated the frenzy of speculation in the collection market about Chinese Yuan blue and white porcelain and Ming and Qing dynasty official kiln porcelain.

Yuan Qinghua was hot for a while, but the number of surviving cases around it has triggered a controversy in the domestic archaeological collection circles, one faction is represented by experts from the Palace Museum, known as the "palace faction", and the other faction is of course the "palace outside the palace".

The view of the "Imperial School" is that there are only 300 pieces of Chinese Yuan blue and white flowers in the world, 19 pieces are in the collection of the Gao'an Museum in Jiangxi Province, 9 pieces are in the Yanjing Palace Museum and the Hebei Provincial Museum, and all the others are abroad. There is no Yuan blue and white porcelain handed down from the people, and the Yuan blue and white porcelain seen in the domestic cultural relics market are all fakes.

The "palace outside the school" believes that although Yuan blue and white flowers are rare, it is impossible for the Chinese folk to have no heirloom collections, and there will only be more unearthed in recent years in underground burials, and the number is definitely more than 300 pieces, and it is impossible to be all abroad. A group of scholars argued over such a naïve question, and even Mr. Wu, who had studied archaeology for many years, felt that he did not understand it, and specially researched the source of this statement.

It turned out that Jiang Qiqi, a doctor of archaeology at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, had inspected several museums in Turkey, Yueben, Iran, Britain and other places from 1993 to 1996 and came to the conclusion that the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty in China is only known to be handed down to only 300 pieces. There is also one most important note to this conclusion: the fine and precious porcelain is not in China, but all abroad.

For a certain purpose, this investigator expressed an opinion that was purely his personal point of view, but it has been repeatedly quoted by public opinion at home and abroad, and has gradually become a conclusion of the academic community -- "There are only 300 pieces of Yuan Qinghua in the world, and the fine works are all outside China." According to the Chinese idiom, it is the standard of all mouths and gold, and three people become tigers.

Wu Lao just didn't understand before the research, and after getting the research results, Wu Lao couldn't even figure it out, and then You Fang explained to the old man with the doorway on the rivers and lakes, this is not an academic problem but a complex issue of interests, all parties have their own considerations, Wu Lao suddenly realized. (Note: The details of the interaction between You Fang and Wu Lao will be described in a special chapter later.) ）

The controversy between collecting and archaeological academia has not stopped in recent years, and many large domestic collectors even feel that the views of the "Imperial Interior School" have hurt their national feelings. This controversy triggered a ** incident in 2010, a big collector in the south, an unnamed rich man, for the domestic collection community to offer a reward to collect Yuan Qinghua, and said: as long as it is genuine, there will be a heavy prize, if willing to transfer, willing to buy at a high price.

This incident did not have much impact outside the circle, but it was a sensational incident in the antique collecting world, of course Crazy Fox heard about it, Wu Lao also heard about it, and even You Fang knew about it.

The place where the big collector collected Yuan Qinghua was in Guangzhou, and he did not come forward himself, but entrusted a lawyer, a notary public, and an appraisal team to handle it on his behalf, and promised that the identity of the participants in the collection could not be disclosed. Because this kind of genuine work is so precious, many private collectors often have the psychology of not exposing their wealth.

I heard Crazy Fox mention that he planned to take this plum bottle to Guangzhou to participate in this solicitation activity after stealing the "Zhu Yuanzuo Tomb". If there is also a Yuan blue and white in Zhu Yuanzuo's tomb, he will also take it with him. How could the tomb of a Ming eunuch have Yuan blue and white porcelain? This kind of thing is not easy to say, Zhu Yuanzuo lived in Jingdezhen before his death, and he may also collect porcelain from the previous dynasty, maybe he will be brought into the ground for burial after death.

In You Fang's opinion, one of the most important reasons why Crazy Fox wants to go to Guangzhou is that he can't tell if this plum bottle is real or fake? The antique appraisal industry has a strong professional surname and is very experience-oriented. The amount of Yuan Qinghua is too small, and the wild fox has not studied the real product, so it is impossible for him to go to Turkey, Iran, the United Kingdom, the Forbidden City and other places to take out the heirloom Yuan Qinghua to try his palms, so he is not sure.

But after all, the wild fox is an archaeological expert, the plum bottle in the hands of Wu Lao, who is known as "Mr. Kong", according to the usual experience in the identification of ancient porcelain, the wild fox did not see the slightest flaw, and it is very likely to be a genuine heirloom. There are two obvious advantages to bringing it to Guangzhou to participate in the solicitation: first, since the other party dares to solicit at a high price, there must be authoritative professional appraisal personnel and equipment, and saving appraisal fees is secondary, mainly because it is not easy to identify in this aspect; Second, if the plum bottle is indeed genuine, not only can you make a lot of money, but you can also not reveal your identity.

The wild fox's wishful thinking played well, but he never expected that he would be planted in the hands of the young wanderer, and this plum bottle also became his talisman.

In addition to the plum bottle, You Fang also put away a notebook of Crazy Fox, and the palm-sized notebook recorded the contact information and notes of many people, most of which were written in code names and code words, and there was no special mark on it that could indicate identity. Except for the wild fox himself, it is not easy for others to understand, and even if they do, they don't understand what is going on.

This may contain the contact information of the entire gang and the contact information of the people involved in activities such as whitewashing, smuggling, auctions, etc. As mentioned above, the main profit of tomb robbery is in the subsequent circulation link, that is, how to turn the stolen cultural relics into a collection of cultural relics, and sell them through the open or underground market, and the real big fish in this industry are not directly involved in the excavators.

The leaders of big tomb robbery and smuggling gangs such as Du Xiucai and Crazy Fox must have other bigger instigators behind them, and they can vaguely see the figure of transnational smuggling and stolen goods groups. Many of the illegally excavated cultural relics are smuggled out of the country at low prices, turned into legal collectibles abroad, and sold to the ultimate collector at a staggering high price.

The reason why Wu Lao used the identity of a private collector to find Du Xiucai and Crazy Fox was not only to catch the evidence of these tomb robbery gangs breaking the law and committing crimes, but more importantly, to find out the clues of the transnational smuggling middlemen behind them.

Mr. Wu Pingdong is a person who can dedicate his life to his ideals, and You Fang can't do it if he asks himself, which is why he respects Wu Lao. If possible, he was also willing to complete the task of helping Wu Lao complete his will, and there might be clues in the Crazy Fox's notebook, so You Fang put it away.

The mobile phone of the depressed son and the big bald head was still there, You Fang thought about it, copied and stored all kinds of information in the two people's mobile phones into his mobile phone, and then pulled out the mobile phone card and destroyed it, except for some cash, there was nothing valuable or able to identify the remaining things.

You Fang divided the things into two parts, one included the compass, the plum bottle, the wooden box containing the ancient sword, the jade plate he got last night, the notebook of the wild fox and his belongings, and the other was the relic that he planned to dispose of and discarded, packed two travel bags and left the room to check out at the front desk.

The front desk manager of the guest house only mentioned "What about the other people?" You Fang replied casually: "I went out to do errands, and asked me to check out and get the deposit." ”

After going out, You Fang walked towards Qingxian Railway Station, and threw many things into the trash can along the way. When I arrived at the train station, I found a shipping company, put a wooden packing box of foam for the plum bottle, and consigned it back to Yanjing. At first, the shipping company was reluctant to transport fragile large porcelain, and you did not insure the price and did not say that it was an antique, and deliberately added money to customize a very expensive special packaging before the trip.

Why would you consign such a "precious" Yuan blue and white plum vase by rail, and you are not afraid of losing it on the way? Because he knew very well that it was a fake, although the imitation was so skillful that it could almost be real. It can be recognized not only because You Fang's eye for identifying ancient porcelain is above the wild fox, but also because this thing is from the hand of his father You Zuming.

You Fang's father is a master of imitating antiques, how can his son not recognize the fake made by Lao Tzu? It is because of this plum vase that the relationship between You Fang and Mr. Wu Lao will go further, and gradually become a year-old friend - I think You Fang told the truth at the beginning and told Wu Lao the origin of this piece of Yuan blue and white porcelain in his collection.

It is also inconvenient to move with a large piece of porcelain, and the plum bottle took the train north, but You Fang took a taxi in front of the train station to go south. He didn't take National Highway 104, but let the taxi get on the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, told the driver that he was in a hurry, and sped all the way to Cangzhou City.

The more than 40 kilometers journey is a big job for local taxis, and the driver is very happy, and excitedly tells the tour party a lot of local hearsay along the way. You Fang had a ride or a hit, and his attention was almost all on the back, and he didn't find that there were other cars deliberately following him along the way, so he gradually put his mind at ease.

Yesterday, after the "crime", he was stepped on by a mysterious strange old man, and the car drove unfast on the national highway at night and turned back and forth, and it is possible to be caught up by the master on foot. But today I took a small car on the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, if the old man can still track on foot, it is simply a myth, since there is no car to chase behind, it means that he has gotten rid of the strange old man.

The old man is indeed very mysterious, mysterious and even like a nerve, but You Fang knows very well the rules of walking the rivers and lakes, and don't take unnecessary adventures because of curiosity. Since he has done murder and arson, it is best not to be entangled by witnesses, no matter what kind of master he is, he must get rid of it if he can get rid of it.

About half an hour later, the car got off the highway and entered Cangzhou City, and the driver asked him how to go? You Fang pointed to a large shopping mall in front of him and said, "Just stop at the door." ”

After getting off the bus, you entered the gate of the mall, blended in with the crowd, and soon came out of the side door next to another street and got into a local taxi. The driver asked in a thick Hebei accent, "Where to go?" You Fang replied casually very skillfully: "Cangzhou Hotel." ”

He is the first time to come to Cangzhou, I don't know anywhere, but now I have walked more in various places and should have a common sense surname experience, but in any slightly larger city, there will usually be a hotel or restaurant in the name of the city, such as the xx hotel or xx restaurant in xx city, just say it casually, and the general taxi driver will know.

If you don't want people to track down your whereabouts, the best thing to do is to decide randomly without a clear foothold in advance. There is indeed a Cangzhou restaurant in Cangzhou, and the scale of the state-owned time-honored brand is not small, although it is only a three-star, but it is not bad in the local grade. Although You Fang followed the wild fox out to commit the crime this time, it was not for money, but it also made a small fortune, even if it was a suite in a five-star hotel, it could afford to live for a few nights.

Entered the Cangzhou Hotel, changed an ID card and asked for a standard room to live in, it was already dark, and the tour party was completely relaxed. He hadn't had a good rest since last night, and he felt not only physically tired but also mentally tired.

I went downstairs for a meal, and this restaurant even operated special medicinal food, which was timely for tonic. After returning to the room and taking another shower, changing into a clean shirt, You Fang did not go to sleep immediately, but meditated on the bed.

In fact, there is no need to misunderstand, people who practice martial arts will meditate, and scholars in ancient times will also meditate, nothing more than because this posture is the most stable and upright, the body is conducive to calmness, and the shape is conducive to mental stability. The monks in the temple also meditate when chanting, most of them are not for the sake of cultivating any supernatural powers, but to stabilize the body and spirit.

Of course, formal double-disc meditation is also a kind of "kung fu", which requires a period of practice to be upright but not stiff and loose but not loose, although it is not profound. You Fang has learned the art of internal boxing since childhood, and there are also exercises to nourish qi internally, which can help nourish the muscles and bones of the five internal organs, and can also make people energetic, more concentrated, and more perceptual.

You Fang sat cross-legged and adjusted his breathing to calm down his chaotic thoughts, and at the same time fade away the fatigue of his body and mind, and concentrate into a more sober state. The next step should be to relax and relax like flesh and bones melting, the dantian seems to be guarded, and the abdominal breathing reaches a very subtle, almost silent and unintentional state.

In the depths of the exercises, there is a warmth that rises from the abdomen and spreads into the veins of the body, and the subtlety of the mind seems to be able to feel the movement of qi and blood in the whole body, and at the same time there is a sense of comfort and pleasure that is indescribable in words. Practicing meditation may seem very hard, but there are all kinds of strange feelings after getting started, the most obvious of which is the comfort and pleasure of the mind, and the master often reminds the disciples not to indulge in it, and then they can practice all kinds of mental methods.

However, tonight, You Fang has just "entered", and the depths of his soul are full of horror; I heard the sound of screaming and rattling on all sides, like a gust of wind blowing the endless corn leaves; In front of me, I saw a bottomless black hole, and there were faint but clear wails and laughter in the hole; I smelled a smell of gunsmoke and blood in my snort, not only from the cave but also all over my body; The skin tightened and chilled, and the hairs stood on end.

Startled, he immediately opened his eyes, turned on the bedside light, and took a long deep breath before calming down.

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