Chapter 68: Xuanwu (2)
Zhang Can's request was so strange that everyone was puzzled and strange, what do you want to do?
Besides, this group of people are all big men, and they are basically rich people, who will have needles? And even if there were, it would be thrown at home, and who would bring it to this scene?
"No ......"
"No ......"
"No needles!"
Zhang Can was a little embarrassed, looked left and right, frowned and said to Wang Qian: "Mr. Wang, there is no needle, it is really difficult to tell the peculiarity of the copper turtle......
Wang Qian immediately turned his head and said to the bodyguard behind him: "Xiao Zheng, you go out to buy needles immediately, go and come back quickly!" ”
The bodyguard Xiao Zheng answered and was about to go out, when a man standing by the door stretched out his head and said, "Boss, can I have a brooch here?" As he spoke, he took a small badge from his chest, and the badge was a badge, just like the badge worn by employees working in the supermarket, with a copper needle attached to it, and a sharp head was used to wear it on the clothes on the chest.
Zhang Canxi said: "Okay, okay, that's it!" ”
The bodyguard Xiao Zheng hurriedly went to pick it up, and then gave it to Zhang Can.
Zhang Can took the badge, then straightened the copper needle on the back of the badge, made the pointed end face outward, and picked up the copper turtle on the table in front of him, then looked at everyone and said: "Everyone can look at it, the secret of this copper turtle is actually in its mouth, because its mouth is closed, there is only a trace of seam, so it can't be seen like this." ”
Everyone felt that Zhang Can said something strange, and they couldn't help but stretch out their heads and stare at him tightly, and several people around Zhang Can, Tang Yuan, Wang Qian, Zhu Linlin, Lao Su, and so on, also opened their eyes wide.
Zhang Can put the tip of the needle of the badge into the turtle's mouth, looked at a point, and then stabbed it with the needle, with a soft "click" sound, the copper turtle was in the eyes of everyone, and the head, feet and tail were stretched out of the turtle shell, shaking endlessly.
Zhang Can put the copper turtle on the table, and the turtle crawled slowly on the table, the turtle's mouth was open, and the tongue in the turtle's mouth could be seen stretching and contracting.
This spectacle suddenly stunned everyone!
If this turtle is equipped with a mechanism, a mechanism that can make its limbs move its head and tail, this is not surprising, the current technology can do it lightly, but this thing has been tested by the appraisal masters present, and it is confirmed that it is an antiquity thousands of years ago, and the strange place is here, if it is something thousands of years ago, how can this kind of automatic mechanism be made?
There are only two results, one is that all of them have the wrong eyes, this is just a modern fake, it is a toy of modern technology, and all of them have lost their eyes.
The second result, it can only be true, they also paid three or four hundred thousand yuan in front, if it is a modern toy product, it is not worth three or four hundred yuan, but Zhang Can should not be a fool, right? If he wasn't stupid, how could he have bought it for a million? Besides, after buying it for a million, how can he explain the action he is doing now to unlock the turtle's secret? Did you slap yourself?
Zhang Can saw that everyone was staring at him in surprise and surprise, smiled faintly, took the turtle in his hand, and then stretched out two fingers to the wide open turtle's mouth and put its tongue on it, the turtle immediately stopped moving, and then closed its mouth, and returned to its original state.
Zhang Can smiled and said, "I think everyone must be very strange, since this thing has a mechanism, how can it be an antiquity?" Hehe, I'll tell you a little story first, I don't know if you have heard of it, in the first year of the Common Era, Wang Mang instructed Yizhou to offer auspicious things in the name of 'Yue Shang Clan', and wrote to the emperor to commend Kong Guang, Wang Shun and others, in fact, they wanted to accept it themselves. In order to make the emperor and the queen mother believe, he privately invited a peerless master craftsman to cast the four elephants such as the green dragon and the white tiger and the red bird Xuanwu, it is said that after the four elephant auspicious beasts were presented to the Golden Palace, the Vermilion Bird flew, the Xuanwu climbed, the green dragon surrounded, and the white tiger walked, so that the emperor and ministers on the Golden Palace were pleasantly surprised......"
Before Zhang Can's words were finished, Tang Yuan interrupted him with a trembling voice: "You...... Wait, you're talking about...... You say this copper turtle is a 'Wang Han Xuanwu turtle'? ”
"I don't know what its exact name is, but I see that its shape and style are very similar to the basalt turtle in the ancient records of the ancient chronicles I saw in an old book. Zhang Can smiled and replied lightly, but looking at his expression, where did he look like "I'm not sure"?
Tang Yuan's face changed unpredictably, he took the copper turtle over and observed it carefully, and pricked the tongue of the copper turtle with the copper needle borrowed by Zhang Can in his hand, making the copper turtle move, and checked the internal situation of the copper turtle, the mechanism was very ingenious.
Tang Yuan himself is an antique appraisal master with extremely good eyesight, and after passing through his eyes, he basically didn't miss anything, but this copper turtle made him go!
The origin of this thing, Tang Yuan knew very clearly, it was a long line of his, obtained from an ancient tomb, this thing would never be fake, even if it was fake, it would not be hidden from his eyes, now point it out to Zhang Can, he could see at a glance that Zhang Can could not have done anything wrong, and Zhang Can could not have touched him before, so he was a little sure in his heart, this was the thing he had just thought of!
Maybe most people don't know the allusion and legend that Zhang Can just said, and what he heard may be regarded as an illusory story, and it is impossible to take it seriously, but he understands that this story is true, but the other two things have been lost, and only one has been revealed, that is, the green dragon, which is a bronze dragon-shaped animal, in fact, it is the appearance of a snake, Tang Yuan himself has not seen it, but his grandfather has seen it, and the treasure was brought back to Britain by a leader of the British army who invaded China, and since then there has been news, Tang Yuan is an antique dealer who chases rare treasures, and the more rare things he has, the more he remembers them clearly, but he also wonders if there really are such things in this world.
But Tang Yuan has a unique old book, which has a record of the four elephants of Wang and Han, which records that Wang Mang spent a lot of money to invite a famous craftsman named 'Ghost Phase' to create these four elephants, if it is really the Xuanwu turtle in the four elephants of Wang and Han, even if it lacks three unique ones, it is also a priceless thing!
And because this thing came from Tang Yuan's own hands, he was even more sure of the authenticity of this thing, Zhang Can could tell it, that is, he saw through the secret of this copper turtle, which meant that he also knew the value of this thing, Tang Yuan regretted it for a while, and his intestines were blue!
Most of the people present didn't know this allusion, but Tang Yuan was the number one powerful antique dealer in Jincheng, and if he could be sure, it would probably be true.
Lao Su was frowning, thinking that Zhang Can was going to suffer a loss, but now it seems that he has made money again? The more you think about something, the more it turns against you!
Only Zhu Shulin and Wang Qian didn't feel anything, the two of them trusted Zhang Can, and they didn't know the true value of this copper turtle, Zhu Linlin didn't know at all, so he wasn't in a hurry at all, and he wasn't surprised, no matter what it was, as long as he could make one or two million.
And Wang Qian also knew in his heart, Zhang Can mentioned it to him, saying that it was worth about 20 million, but Zhang Can had not really experienced such a high-value antique business activity, nor had he gone through such a transaction, so he just estimated and guessed the value of the copper turtle according to the high-value things he had obtained before.
Tang Yuan stood on the spot, his face was red and purple, his hands were trembling, and after a long time, he looked at Wang Qian and Zhang Can, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Wang, Brother Xiao Zhang, is the current ownership of this copper turtle Brother Wang or Brother Xiao Zhang?" ”
Zhang Can smiled silently, and Wang Qian said lightly: "The ownership of this turtle belongs to Lao Zhu, me, and Brother Xiao Zhang, but the right to dispose of it is in the hands of Brother Xiao Zhang, he can deal with it however he likes, even if he gives it to others, that's fine, we have no opinion, hehe,...... Isn't it, Old Zhu? ”
Wang Qian said and turned his head sideways to Zhu Linlin and asked with a smile.
"Of course, of course, he can do whatever he likes!" Zhu Linlin was stunned for a moment and then hurriedly replied, this bronze turtle, I didn't say that I had his share before, Wang Qian said this, it was clearly said that he also had a share, and he was happy, of course, he had to follow Wang Qian's words, whatever Zhang Can did.
Of course, Zhu Linlin didn't know, in order to set a trap, Zhang Can had already told Wang Qian that he would share this copper turtle with him, and Wang Qian would naturally not object, Zhang Can's meaning was important, this money was a small meaning, and making friends with Zhang Can was the most important person.
Tang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then looked at Zhang Can and asked, "Xiao Zhang, then tell me, can you transfer this copper turtle to me again?" Price...... The price, you can tell ...... price."
After Tang Yuan said this, he immediately stunned everyone present, he sold antiques, and then asked to buy them back on the spot, they had never seen such a thing, didn't he embarrass himself? Otherwise, it would mean that Tang Yuan himself was also out of sight!
If Tang Yuan had lost his eyes, it meant that all of them had lost his eyes, because this copper turtle had been carefully examined by their hands.
Moreover, their distraction shows that Zhang Can has missed it!
Tang Yuan himself said that he wanted to buy it back, but when Zhang Can bought it, he suddenly increased the price, and bought it back for one million, which was to be sold back to Tang Yuan, and he would have to earn him four or five times as much, right?
Of course, they all underestimated the value of the copper turtle, how much was the thing worth, Tang Yuan at least had a spectrum, to be honest, an object like this was a priceless treasure to him, and it couldn't be measured by money.
Zhu Linlin and Wang Qian are both veterans in business, as soon as they saw Tang Yuan's expression and tone, they immediately knew that they could slaughter him with this copper turtle, Zhu Linlin didn't know the value of the copper turtle, but he would do business, so he thought that he could slaughter Tang Yuan at least ten times the price, but Wang Qian was smiling, he thought that Zhang Can was only afraid that the price should not be less than 20 million, because Zhang Can told him the value of this copper turtle.
Zhang Can smiled, his expression relaxed, at this time he was going to perform in front of Lao Su, touched his chin, and then said indifferently: "This price, of course it can't be calculated based on the price I bought, I think Boss Tang also understands, if this thing is brought back by Mr. Wang and then operated and sold, what level will the price code reach, I think Boss Tang should know best, right?" ”
Wang Qian and Zhu Linlin secretly cheered in their hearts, Zhang Can is really smart!
He didn't know what the price was, and he didn't bid, but he said that he would let Wang Qian take it back to operate and sell, and Wang Qian's energy, presumably Tang Yuan and the others knew best, and if he sold it with Wang Qian's status, the price would naturally reach the extreme.
Tang Yuan's face turned ugly at that time, frowning and uncomfortable, completely losing the demeanor and temperament of his boss at the beginning.