Raising a sword in Zizhu Courtyard, the time is not midnight, but from the ugly time to the yin time, the time when the earth's qi quietly turns from yin to yang before dawn. Another three days have passed, "Qin Yu" finally saw the first rays of sunrise after the unearthed, at this moment look at this ancient sword, the tear-like mist on the sword body has completely receded, the color is like the moonlight reflected in the pool water, and it also faintly emits a light light like the surrounding autumn bamboo.

The sword cultivation finally came to an end, the sword was seen again and the spirit was not lost, You Fang gently stroked the sharp blade with spiritual awareness, it felt like a master of art had completed a beloved masterpiece, and he breathed a sigh of satisfaction, and put the sword back in the sheath and hid it in his waist.

You Fang did not go home directly, but went to the National Library of China next to Zizhu Courtyard, formerly known as the Yanjing Library, which is the largest library in Asia, with a collection of tens of millions of books, including rare ancient books, oracle bones, gold and stone rubbings, ancient Chinese maps, Dunhuang testaments, ethnic minority books, manuscripts of celebrities, genealogies in various places, local chronicles, etc., and there are more than 2 million rare books alone.

You Fang went to the National Library to look up two characters, which were engraved on a jade plaque. The jade plaque and the ancient sword Qin Yu are of the same origin, and they are all worn by a wreckage occasionally found by Crazy Fox and others when they robbed tombs. The man died under the pebble layer outside the tomb, according to the wild fox, it is speculated that he was a tomb robber who missed, and the time was at least in the Republic of China.

This jade plaque is about five centimeters long and three centimeters wide, and its white texture is very shiny, with a faint layer of yellow floating light on the surface in the sun. The pattern carved on the edge of the surrounding edge is unusually smooth and exquisite, the front and back sides are yang carvings, and the back is a delicate landscape painting with knife skills, which looks very much like the feng shui pattern of "coming to the dragon and standing in the water". On the front side are two characters written in the script, and the upper and lower outlines are each in a semicircle, like a decorative group pattern in the center of the jade plate. You Fang knew Fu Zhengwen, so he could see that these were two words, but he couldn't recognize what the words were, after all, he was not very familiar with Fu Zhengwen.

It is really worthy of being the world's largest library of sinology, and You Fang found it in a document dedicated to ancient Taoist talismans, which is a simple character "Luan", which he originally read wrongly and regarded one word as two words. There are various variations in the writing of the Fu Gong script, and the glyphs recorded in the literature are not exactly the same as those engraved on the jade tablets, and can only be confirmed by mastering the rules of its writing.

You Fang secretly cursed in his heart: "Who, write so many tricks in one word? Then he took out the jade plate from his pocket and looked at it carefully, and finally checked it again, and it was indeed correct.

This jade plaque also has a strange sense when swept by spiritual sense, but it is not a simple yin and yang qi and evil qi and the like, in short, its object surname is very special, and it seems to contain very complex information, but you Fang does not really understand it. How to describe it, you can barely use an analogy, it's like a book, you know that it is full of words and what is going on, but it is all in foreign languages that you can't understand.

Touching with spiritual sense like this, it would also disturb the surname of the jade plate, and You Fang suddenly had a strange alertness, not from the jade plate, but from someone in the seat at the back of the side of the reading room. The man was sitting behind the table next to him in the back row, not far away, and he should have seen the jade plate in You Fang's hand clearly. You Fang didn't look back, so he naturally couldn't see who that person was, this feeling was related to his internal kung fu, don't forget that he had reached the realm of "responding to touches and feeling with feelings".

Legend has it that when kung fu reaches this level, even if he falls asleep and someone stares at him through the window with malice, he will wake up immediately with a sense of it, although the statement is a little exaggerated, but it is not completely unscored. This kind of induction is not unconditionally omnipotent, nor is it that anyone who walks on the street will feel it no matter who looks at you, it must be within the range of your spiritual sense, and the other party's spirit is focused on you for a moment, and there is a clear aggression in the mind.

You Fang's heart was inexplicably alert at this moment, and the sweat pores of the hand holding the jade plate were slightly opened, and he realized that someone had noticed this jade plate and might have bad intentions. You Fang did not expand his spiritual sense to test that person, but cautiously restrained his spiritual sense and made a look of no reaction and awareness, and continued to watch the jade plaque as if nothing happened, without immediately putting it away.

Sure enough, the spiritual sense that was contained but not emitted was inducted again, and the spirit of this jade plate was inexplicably disturbed, and the person in the back was a little unscrupulous with thaumaturgy, and directly released the spiritual sense to sense the jade plate in the hand of the traveling party. Since You Fang practiced the introduction of spiritual sense, it was the first time he met a "fellow Taoist", this person can also master and use spiritual sense, and his spiritual sense is stronger than You Fang, it should be more profound and the practice time is longer, but it feels less subtle and sensitive than You Fang's mastery.

The man swept away for a moment with his spiritual sense and then quietly retracted, thinking that what he was doing was very hidden, but he didn't know that You Fang was already vigilant, and was waiting to see what tricks this person could play? This is the Yanjing Library, not a wilderness, it is unlikely to be robbed, do you plan to steal or cheat?

The man made a move, quietly stood up and walked out of the reading room, turned around outside and pretended to have just walked in, "unintentionally" passed by You Fang's side, as if he occasionally looked down and saw the jade in his hand, sighed softly, and whispered: "Brother, your brand is good, it should be an old object, pay attention to it!" ”

He really has a ghost, otherwise he just walked over, so why pretend to have just come in and saw it by chance? If something is abnormal, there must be a demon, and my own sense is right. You Fang sneered secretly, but on the surface, he was "stupid" while looking at the jade plate, while flipping through the literature to frown and think, and when he heard the man's words, he raised his head in surprise and replied: "Yes, it's an old jade, I bought it from Panjiayuan, I want to see what words are engraved on it?" ”

The man smiled slightly: "This is Fu Zhengwen, the mountain character on the mountain, I don't believe you can check it." Because they were in the reading room of the library, the two of them didn't speak loudly, and they lowered their voices to make a mysterious appearance.

He was a man in his early thirties, with resin rimless glasses and a soft-spoken voice, looking like a harmless scholar. But in front of Youfang, the "old sea of rivers and lakes", as soon as he opened his mouth, he revealed the details, and the spoken language used one word to explain a word, generally using common words that everyone could understand. "Mountain" is a feng shui term, but it is definitely not a common word, and it is usually easy to understand by saying "mountain mountain".

Oh? This person understands feng shui, he should still be an expert, and his habit of speaking unconsciously brings out the terminology! Since the other party understood, You Fang simply pretended not to understand, so that the other party did not have to hide too much, he blinked his eyes and asked, "The steamed bun of the steamed bun?" ”

The man really smiled again, looked at his expression and seemed to be relieved, stretched out his hand on the desktop and said while writing: "It's the mountain character of the mountain, your jade card is very particular, not an ordinary object, it is a feng shui card." ”

"Feng Shui cards, is it valuable?" You Fang's rhetorical question is a question that almost every folk antique collector is concerned about.

The man shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter if it's worth it or not, its use is different, the ancient jade plate has evil spirits, blessings, gifts, and inscriptions, and the use of this jade plate is related to feng shui." Such an old jade can be worth thousands of yuan in Panjiayuan, and if you are lucky, it is possible to sell one or twenty thousand. ”

You Fang looked very happy: "I bought it for 5,000 yuan, but I didn't want to make a move, and it's not bad to wear it on my body to ward off evil." ”

The man hurriedly dissuaded: "Brother, you don't understand the importance of feng shui, this kind of thing can't be hung around your neck." In this way, I will pay 20,000 yuan, and you will sell it to me, I am studying this, and I am very interested. ”

You Fang grabbed the jade card tightly and put it back in his pocket, shaking his head like a rattle: "No, no, no, I don't sell it, please do it yourself." ”

The things that were taken out for 5,000 yuan changed hands for 20,000 yuan, why did You Fang have this attitude? In fact, this reflects a typical mentality of many ordinary people who engage in antiques, who always want to take advantage of the things in the hands of others, and always worry that the things in their hands will be picked up by others. If this jade plaque of unknown origin is placed in the antique market, it is already very high for people who know how to give 20,000 yuan. But when a layman collector hears that others are willing to pay a high price, he has an unconscious suspicion - is this thing more valuable, even priceless, he found it and I don't know?

You Fang has seen a lot of such people, such as a jar of lard handed down by the ancestor of a small staff member of a certain agency, and took it to identify as Qianlong pastel porcelain, the real product is genuine, but it is worth 100,000 at most. When he got Pan Jiayuan to try his luck, there were a lot of shops that he was willing to collect, but he was hesitant for a while when he bid at most 50,000 or 60,000 yuan. Later, I met a collector who really loved pastel porcelain, and the bid was really 100,000 yuan, but the small staff became suspicious, and immediately stated that he would not sell it if it was less than 1 million.

After returning home, this little clerk began to look up information from books and became an "expert" who "learned by himself". It is said that the auction price of Qianlong pastel porcelain in the international market is as high as tens of millions, so his lard jar must also be priceless, and those who offer "low prices" certainly want to take advantage. As everyone knows, the same age and the same type of utensils, its quality and collection value are very different, can not be so simple analogy, but the little staff don't think so, they don't understand but only with the highest value of the utensils to compare, of course, the things in the hand are tighter and tighter.

You Fang's expression imitated this mentality vividly, and he refused to buy at a high price. The man smiled bitterly: "Brother, it seems that you really don't understand the exquisiteness of this thing, this is not the place to talk, let's go out and talk, okay?" ”

You Fang resolutely refused: "No need, I also know how to do it, I really don't sell this brand." ”

The man also saw the "mentality" of the tour party, and understood that it was useless to make a high price on the spot, but would make the other party's expectations higher. According to common sense, You Fang rejected his asking price, and the next step must be to check the information or find an expert to identify it, to find out what is so particular about this jade plaque, and to prove that it has something special. So he smiled slightly and said: "I'm just interested in feng shui, and this thing is related to feng shui, if you are interested in research, you might as well give me a call and talk together, it doesn't matter if you sell it or not." ”

As he spoke, he took out a business card and put it on the table, You Fang picked up the business card and looked at it, and asked with some confusion: "Hu Xuyuan, International Feng Shui Research Council - what kind of unit is this?" ”

"This is an international research institute of feng shui and environmental science, my office is located in Yanjing Bada, and the business card says it, if you want to come, it is best to call in advance and ask if I am there." The man who called himself Hu Xuyuan left a sentence, turned around and left the reading room very chicly, pretending not to care.

Hu Xuyuan's trick of securing the threshold of the rivers and lakes is not very clever in the eyes of You Fang, but it is also decent, taking advantage of the curiosity, paranoia and greed of most folk collectors. If You Fang expects, or is driven by the expectations in his heart, and insists that there is something special about the jade plate in his hand, he will inevitably find a way to figure it out, and if he doesn't have a clue, he will still go to Hu Xuyuan in the end, at least he will try to find out.

You Fang looked at this business card and wanted to laugh in his heart, but he still tried his best to hold back. I remember that my cousin Mo Yan once approached another cousin Liu Yin, wanting to get a certificate of "International Senior Assessor of Human Settlements" issued by UNESCO, and at least they forged the United Nations seal and a decent foreign language certificate, but this Hu Xuyuan was good, and spent dozens of yuan to print the words "International Feng Shui Research Council" on his business card.

Will You Fang go to him? Of course not! Knowing that the other party has a mastery of spiritual sense, he set up a set, of course he will not take the initiative to drill into it, he has no interest in dealing with it, and he will not be smart enough to secretly test this person. This is the biggest difference between the really experienced "old Jianghu" and the novice, his first reaction is to quietly shake off this person's entanglement, try not to get involved.

Bada is a scenic spot on the outskirts of the city, where it is not comparable to the National Library, and it is okay to set up any kind of ambush and use all kinds of means. If You Fang really finds it, it is not "the art master is bold", but "the person is stupid and learns the art in vain". It seems that this jade plaque really has a doorway, but no matter what it is particular about, at least you will not lose anything by staying in your hands, and you can study it slowly in the future, so why risk biting the bait on the hook?

You Fang wasn't worried that there was an ambush in the Bada Place, he wouldn't go anyway, he was thinking about another thing. If Hu Xuyuan had already set his sights on himself and really wanted to make a move, he wouldn't really leave, but should have stayed outside the library.

As for whether this is the case, it can be confirmed when you go out, and you should leave quickly, otherwise the other party will take advantage of this time to call more and more powerful accomplices, and it will be difficult to deal with. Without hesitation, he stood up and put the documents back on the shelves, and then left the National Library.

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