Chapter Forty-Nine: Perspective on God's Work
As the saying goes, happiness begets sorrow. Wu Di was in the first state just now, and after seeing his little brother, he was sad, he suddenly felt dizzy and fell directly on the chair.
After Wu Di rested for a while, he relieved himself and didn't dare to let his tail finger touch any part of his body again, he didn't know if it was because he was tired from seeing through too much, or because he couldn't see through people's bodies, anyway, there was time, take your time.
The phone rang, it was an unfamiliar number, Wu Di picked it up, and when he heard it, he immediately came to the momentum, that person was an ancient building restoration expert introduced by a friend of Zhong Qi's Ministry of Public Security, and he had time at the moment, and he was ready to go to his house to have a look.
Wu Di took a taxi and went straight to the courtyard, where a middle-aged man and a young man were waiting at the door, and the young man was curiously circling Wu Di's Land Rover.
Wu Di ran over quickly and introduced each other, the middle-aged man was called Yang Jinsong, a professor of Beijing Construction Engineering, and the young man was Liu Limin, a graduate student he brought.
As soon as he entered the gate, except for a pile of bricks and loofahs piled up on the wall, the rest of the place was cleaned up, Wu Di hesitated for a moment and understood, this is probably Director Qu is waiting for him to speak, before he dares to deal with these things, if this is the case, he is a person with a heart, I don't know how the official voice is.
"This yard has been empty for a long time, hasn't it?"
"For more than ten years, there have been disputes over property rights, and more than a dozen state-owned units have made a mess, and they can't sell them, and they don't have money to repair them, and then the district directly collected them."
Not long after Wu Di and the others arrived, Director Qu arrived, listened to the middle-aged man's words, and replied directly.
The middle-aged man pushed the glasses on his nose and sighed:
"The situation is not optimistic! Xiao Liu, take out that brick and try it. ”
Xiao Liu picked up a wooden stick that was sharpened at one end, and gently dug it out in the corner of the wall, and the dust fell down, and after a while, he actually took out most of the bricks from the wall! Wu Di's eyelids jumped for a while.
The section of the green brick is uneven, and a layman like Wu Di can see that this brick is crispy, Xiao Liu rubbed it on his hand, and it was really smoothed by him, this guy's childlike heart suddenly rose, and he stood like a knife, and cut the brick in half with one palm!
"Don't mess around!"
He poked a few times on the rafters exposed from the eaves with a wooden stick, and with a bang, a piece of paper was stabbed into it by a wooden stick as if it had pierced a layer of window paper.
The middle-aged man continued to poke around the corners of the house, the roof, etc., and after half an hour, he had not finished checking the first entry into the yard. Young people began to take photographs, from all angles, both partially and holistically.
Wu Di and Director Qu were like two idlers, hiding aside and smoking, Director Qu's face was a little unsightly, and he said stubbornly:
"This, this, Xiao Wu, we didn't find that it would rot like this before we sold it, or ...... You see......"
"Forget it, it's a big deal to tear down and rebuild, and you can clean up the snakes and insects hidden in the corners of the house, and maybe you can find any treasures, so won't my purchase money come back all at once? Oh, by the way, Director Qu, I donated the porcelain plate painting I got the day before yesterday to the Palace Museum, but it is still not suitable for publicity. ”
"Ah, donated? This house is set on which wall, what a face! ”
"It's too precious to call it a national treasure, and if I dare to put it on my own wall, the foaming stars will drown me. It's hard to hide it, so donate it. ”
"It's really not okay to sell it to them, the Forbidden City has a lot of funds every year."
"They rewarded me with 10 million, originally I wanted to have enough money for renovation, but now it seems that there is still a big hole."
"Hehe, hehe, it's all because we don't work meticulously."
was chatting Wen Yaru called, I heard that in the courtyard, I also want to come over to take a look, so that Wu Di, who has a net worth of hundreds of millions, can not miss the place where he can sell glass seeds to raise money.
Half an hour later, Professor Yang was still walking around the front yard, and Wen Yaru arrived, and as soon as he entered the door, he said:
"Can this place be inhabited?"
Yang Jinsong turned his head when he heard the words and shouted:
"Wen Yaru, what are you talking nonsense?"
"Hey, I didn't expect it to be your brick family showing Xiao Wu the house, okay, Xiao Wu, you can save a lot of money on survey and design construction fees, with my brother here, he dares to ask you how much?"
"Brother Wen, I've never asked for more money, okay?"
"How much did you charge for your last project? Do you dare to say that you don't have a black heart? ”
"Is that a public project? The money is not my own, and the professor must also follow the social trend, otherwise it is better to go back and sell tea eggs. ”
"Damn, you see, this is the quality of the professor now, misleading people's children."
After the two entered the courtyard, they turned much faster, and after reading it, Professor Yang and Wu Di said:
"Xiao Wu, you have also seen this house, it is decayed, there is no way to repair it, it can only be demolished and rebuilt, the entire investment is only afraid that it will exceed fifteen million, if you can rest assured that we will do it, I will arrange someone to come and measure it in a while."
"Okay, I'll leave it to Professor Yang, I don't understand these anyway. It's just that I want to do it as soon as possible, and I want to use modern decoration for the renovation of the house, and I can't stand the lack of heating, no air conditioning, and going to the public toilet. ”
"It's okay, don't worry, our construction team is very professional, and this kind of work has been done in recent years, but I haven't taken over such a big single set."
"Then please Professor Yang, if you need to sign a contract and pay for it, just look for me, I don't care about the rest, just give me a beautiful yard, this pool can be expanded."
"Maybe you still need to come over tomorrow, I'll rush out a few plans overnight when I go back, let's meet again tomorrow."
"Okay, you call me then."
When passing by the front yard, Wu Di pointed to a pile of bricks on the ground and whispered to Wen Yaru:
"There's also a treasure found in this wall, hehe."
"Where?"
"I'll tell you more about it later."
Wu Di handed over the key to Professor Yang and told Wen Yaru the story of the porcelain plate painting in the car, Wen Yaru was dumbfounded when he heard it, and complained that Wu Di did not inform him to come and see, Wu Di could only be taught with a smile.
Before returning to Zhong's house and starting dinner, Wu Di said hello to a circle of people, and then ran back to the house to check the shocking masterpiece that had been retracted for a while.
The tail finger put on the green and white jade face, and a burst of abundant cool air poured into the body, which lasted for more than ten seconds before gradually disappearing. Wu Di was excited, as if he had eaten ice cream on a hot day, and his comfortable pores were opened.
Through the green and white jade plate, Wu Di saw that there was a layer of metal on the inside of the jade plate, and remembered the matter of the brick inkstone, knowing that it was to make up for the weight, but he didn't care. Behind the metal plate was a space, and a sand table-like thing made of jade appeared in Wu Di's mind. Wu Di's tail finger is on the upper part of the stone, and the carving at this moment is like aerial photography.
The majestic bulge is the mountain, the winding long belt is the river, there is a Xiongguan at the foot of the mountain, the front of the Xiongguan is a large plain, and the villages are hidden in the green trees, as if it is time to eat, Wu Di actually feels as if he has seen the curling smoke. Not far away is another city, with houses, shops, and palaces, and the streets are full of people. In the distance, there is a big lake, sparkling, there are pleasure boats and fishing boats shuttling back and forth on the lake, the shore of the lake, acres of paddy fields are dense, and there are many hard-working farmers......
Wu Di kept seeing that he was exhausted, so he put down his fingers, and glanced at the time, half an hour had passed, and it seemed that the perspective ability of the tail finger was only about half an hour. Then you have to rest, but how long it will take to recover, and you will have to explore it slowly later.
He was lying on the bed in a daze, what did he just see? Mountains, waters, cities, lakes, people, horses, trees...... However, no matter how big a stone is, how many things can he carve? Micro openwork, is it not a partial micro-carving, but the whole is a micro-carving? I heard that a master miniature carver can carve a long poem on a grain of rice, but that was done with the help of a microscope, was there such an advanced magnification tool in the past?
Wu Di watched it for half an hour just now, but he only saw about half of the carving, and now when he thinks of Lu Zigang, his admiration can't help but be great, the grandmaster is no longer enough to describe his craftsmanship, and the divine master is almost the same!
After dinner, Wu Di continued to lie in the house, the old lady saw that his face was not good, thinking that he was tired from watching the house, so she called Zhong Qi to ask him to help and say hello more, Zhong Qi was naturally full of promises, but in his heart he scolded Xiao Wu happily and destroyed the world of the two, isn't this an unforgivable sin?
Resting until more than one o'clock in the middle of the night, Wu Di felt exhausted, this time he was not in a hurry to see the carving, but looked for seams on all sides, and looked around, no! There is not a single gap between the inside and outside of the four jade plates!
Wu Di shuddered, this Lu Zigang is an immortal? With a wave of the big sleeve, the inside of the stone becomes like this? Could it be that the metal plate is covering the gap? No, the metal plates on all four sides did not occupy the jade slabs, and there could not have been a connecting gap. Wu Di was not reconciled, and began to focus on the bottom side seam, with Lu Zigang's craftsmanship, it is entirely possible for him to hollow out a large piece of jade, leaving only a seam on one side, the bottom situation is complicated, it is the best choice. But I've seen it once, but I still haven't!
Wu Di thought of a possibility and began to check the connection between the metal plate and the stone slab, and sure enough, he found a clue, the seam was not on the four sides, nor on the bottom surface, but in the middle! Lu Zigang hollowed out the two pieces of jade, and the left and right connections were glued together, the outer gap disappeared after treatment, and the internal gap was also hidden under the metal plate! Could it be that he predicted that someone would see through?
Under careful inspection, Wu Di suddenly found words on a metal plate, carefully identified it, and found that it was Lu Zigang's italicized self-description:
"In the thirty-second year of Wanli, the remaining jade is a god, the body is very large, and it is said that it is colorful, with three years of work, painstaking efforts, into a miniature carved mountains and rivers. The stereotype said, the wind and clouds surged, the heavy rain poured out, the mountains and rivers changed color, the three days of the calendar did not stop, then closed the secret of this treasure, the family motto can not be opened, and the reverse will be punished by God! ”
Wu Di didn't believe in those nonsense at all, so he caught up with the heavy rain! Three more days! Knowing the details of this thing, Wu Di put his mind at ease and calculated, tomorrow afternoon, the glass species will be auctioned, then the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, go to Chang Lao, and find a way to get this thing away. When the courtyard is decorated, hide it in the basement, hehe. No, it's better to wait for the basement to be done before digging it secretly, so that it will be safe without knowing it.
However, the problem is that this god is unconscious, sitting on such a heavy treasure, but no one appreciates it, it is no different from the night walk in brocade, Chang Lao should be able to be trusted, right?
In the repeated entanglement, he fell asleep.