Chapter 440 Drawings and Drawings

"You think so, too? When I first saw this shape, it was very familiar, and I don't know where I saw it, so I can't remember it. I said.

"At my house..."Yun Ximing said suddenly.

"What do you say? In your home? Have you seen this map at home too? "I asked, I've always thought that Grandpa Yun must have some secret, but I can't tell what kind of secret it will be, plus Grandpa Yun always looks smiling on weekdays, so I've ignored this, and I don't know if Grandpa Yun really knows anything.

"No, no, I haven't seen this map, I just think I've seen a pattern that looks like this one somewhere in my house, so..."

"Don't do that, you hurry up and think about where you have seen it, but after you say this, you said that your family, that is, Grandpa Yun's family, the Yun family, has seen it in the Yun family..."

"That painting!"

"You thought of it too?" Yun Ximing asked me.

"That's right, when I first arrived in Shanghai, I was instructed by my grandmother to visit your grandfather, and my grandmother asked him to explain to me the origin of my life talisman, that is, at that time, Grandpa Yun showed me a treasure of your family, that thing seems to be very old, Grandpa Yun took it very precious, it should be your family heirloom."

"Isn't that a scroll of gold leaf?" Yun Ximing asked.

"That's right, it's a scroll of gold leaf." As I spoke, I was reminded of what it was likely...

(My Memories)

"Grandpa Yun. I heard you used to be with my grandmother...... Upside down? I asked cautiously, for fear of offending something, who knew that Old Man Yun would laugh.

"You children love to listen to this, but I don't hide it from you, I say it's me and your grandmother, let's just say that these antique experts in our country, Lao Yu, Wu Jiu, and Yan Luokong, aren't they all a little disgraceful? It was back in those days. When the bark of the hungry grass roots has been eaten. Who hasn't been down a few times? Push it a little further, do you say that the tomb robbers were the tomb robbers in the first place? I shook my head, I was really asked, tomb robbing is a special profession. It must not have existed in the first place, but when did the tomb robbers begin?

"Tomb robbing is a matter of pinning your head to the waistband of your trousers. It's not for the sake of life and death. Who would do this kind of life-breaking business. At first, it was some craftsmen who built cemeteries, who were poor and crazy and started the idea of the dead, and then became desperate mediums. The courtiers in the pawnshop, you dig up the ancestors of everyone in the antique industry for three generations, which is not a poor person, a rich person who will do this, only the wisdom of the working people is unlimited. How many people died under the institutions they designed, how many people were buried in the pile of dead people because they never saw the light of day again, the industry of tomb robbery should be synonymous with tragedy, and now the southern and northern factions, that is how many tomb robbers have summed up the experience of the blood and life of the ancestors. Do you know why I love to study calligraphy and painting so much? ”

I shook my head in confusion. Old Man Yun took another sip of tea. "The sun rises and rests, and the sun does not work. Do you know what a profession it is? ”

"Corpse Sweeper!"

"Clever girl, it's not in vain that the old woman loves you so much, my ancestors have been walking craftsmen for generations, and later my great-great-grandfather's generation has a worse and worse life, not much money, living poorer and poorer, most of them are poor scholars who die in other places, and they will look for us to drive out the corpses. My great-great-grandfather discovered that not all scholars are poor, and you know that the most important thing for pedantic scholars is morality, and even if they starve to death, they will not sell saint books. My ancestors once sent a poor scholar back to his ancestral hometown, after sending the errand, but the family could not get the money to press the foot, the old lady of the scholar took out a roll of gold silk ancient scrolls, saying that the scholar left nothing to sell, and now the people are gone, so they took this to offset the press foot money. Since then, my ancestors began to collect all kinds of ancient books and paintings, sometimes without taking a penny, just to those scholars left behind the ink treasures and ancient books, over time our family also relied on these to prosper. Later, the dynasty changed, there were wars everywhere, the family fell, our family relied on the thirty-six exercises of the ancestors to drive away the corpse of the craftsman, and went to the cause of the inverted fight, we were not afraid of the dead, not to mention that some of those zongzi were not as good as a dead man, and that's it, our family also started to rob the tomb. ”

After the old man Yun finished speaking, he sighed, walked into his bedroom, and came out after a long time, with an extra scroll in his hand, I only glanced at it to know, it was the golden silk ancient scroll obtained by his ancestors, he carefully unfolded the scroll, I thought it would be a tablet or an ancient preface, but I found that it was actually a painting. The painting is carved on the gold silk with a relief hollow technique, the painting is a young girl, stepping on auspicious clouds, holding a treasure in her hand I don't know what it is, I can't see what kind of treasure it is, because the position of the treasure in my hand is sunken, there should have been something embedded in it, but now it is gone.

"Grandpa Yun, ...... here" I gestured to the location. Old Man Yun nodded.

"Girl with poisonous eyes, this is it, I haven't figured out what it is, such a size, so thin, I can't think of what it can be. If you talk about value, this scroll of pure gold is already priceless, is this small piece of thing worth more than that scroll? "I carefully looked at the vacant position, the shape was irregular, like an irregular hexagon, I couldn't see the reason for a while, Old Man Yun and I studied for a while, and when we saw that it was getting late, Old Man Yun put away the scroll.

(Ripping back to reality)

"That's right, it's that painting scroll, my grandfather treated it like a treasure, and it was easy not to show it to others." Yun Ximing said.

"I remember that the painting was of a young girl, dressed in a gauze dress, with a fluttering skirt, stepping on auspicious clouds, and holding a treasure in her hand that she didn't know what to do. The outer edge of the painting is exactly the same as the outline of the current map. I said.

"yes, that's right, and, more than that, did you notice the size of this map? This is not like the specification of ordinary rice paper, which is narrower than normal rice paper. Yun Ximing said.

"What's so special about being narrower?" I asked.

"If this map has been transcribed for proper preservation, then this person only needs to draw it as it is, why should the size of the paper be carefully cropped?" Yun Ximing said.

"You mean to say..."

"The mounting of ancient calligraphy and painting is sometimes for the sake of beauty, and the edge of the paper can be changed without destroying the calligraphy and painting, and the gold leaf painting scroll in our house, because the painting shaft is hollowed out and engraved on the gold leaf, so it is different from the natural size and specifications of ordinary paper calligraphy and painting, so if I am not mistaken..."

"You're saying that this map, exactly the same size as the gold leaf scroll in Grandpa Yun's hand, can be completely overlapped." I asked.

"That's right, if you look at this location again, this location with special markings on it doesn't look like it..."

"It's the position of the treasure on the scroll, where the girl is holding the treasure...", I said, "but I remember when Grandpa Yun showed it to me, this position on it, with a concave place, must have been something that was taken away later." I said.

"We didn't take it, my grandfather said that it was passed down from our family, maybe it was lost before." Yun Ximing said.

"So did Grandpa Yun say what kind of treasure is on it?" I asked.

"I don't know, because this scroll grandfather is very baby, so I don't know what kind of treasure it is, but it looks like it should be a very valuable thing, grandpa guessed, the owner of this scroll was once a down-and-out poor scholar, and then died in a foreign country, this thing is the so-called honorarium that her mother gave our ancestors, so it is possible that life can't go on, and it is possible to take off the treasures on it." Yun Ximing said.

"It seems that it is still necessary for us to see this treasure with our own eyes, Grandpa Yun said that he was going to be a neighbor to my grandma, so he asked you to go back?" I asked.

"Yes, my grandfather is to your grandma, don't you know, our family is all lovers, but it's a pity, I always fall in love with your family, and no one is worry-free." Yun Ximing has something to say, and I don't pick it up.

"So, your grandfather will also carry such a treasure with him, right?" I say.

"Are you listening to me? Ay! Really, well, I don't know if my grandfather will bring something, and he will also store some valuable things in the Swiss bank, but he seems to have kept this scroll at home all the time, but there is no intention of saving, but I haven't seen it for a long time recently, and it used to be always placed on the top layer of the bookshelf, and now I don't know if it has moved. Yun Ximing said.

"I moved my position, so to speak, Grandpa Yun, like my grandma, likes to often change the position of things that are important to him? My grandmother used to hide things by herself, but she forgot where to hide them, so she asked me to look for them, and over time I was especially good at looking for things that my grandmother hid. I said.

"Come on, my grandfather is not your grandma, one of his books has an inch of gray on it, and the back is also eaten by rats, he hasn't moved, how can he have this habit." Yun Ximing said.

"In this way, I'm afraid it's true, Grandpa Yun is so abnormal, I'm afraid it's not for no reason, it seems that Grandpa Yun knows a lot of things that we don't know, Yun Ximing, I'll go back with you, there are some things, I think I need to ask Grandpa Yun in person." (To be continued.) )