Chapter 20: The Spirituality of Antiques

Enjoying the coolness coming from his chest, Yu Lifei was half-lying on the stone bench, his eyes slightly closed. The three-dimensional figure of the jade plaque in his mind, under the control of his mind, kept changing angles. It made him find it fun, like he was playing with a toy. But after playing for a long time, there will always be some fatigue.

Before he knew it, Yu Lifei fell asleep. As expected, Yu Lifei dreamed again. In the dream, he "saw" a man in ancient costume dressed like a Ming Dynasty costume, sitting in front of the desk, holding a strange knife, concentrating on a piece of white jade, and constantly carving. Looking at his oblivious appearance, he seems to have forgotten everything outside of his body.

Yu Lifei learned a set of knife techniques from the old man, of course, the big knife he used. He uses a knife, pays attention to turning strength into strength, and opens and closes. But the carving knife used by this ancient man is a bit strange. The knife had two blades, and they were bent backwards as if two pieces of the knife were overlapping each other, and the tip of the knife was swirling to the back of the knife. This knife is much larger than a regular carving knife, almost the size of a palm.

It is said that such a large knife, when carving jade, will drag mud and water. But this knife is in the hands of this person, like a cook dissolving a cow, the jade is splashing, and the knife is like flying, so fast that only the shadow of the knife can be seen. It doesn't look like it's carving, but it's like dancing, and the feeling of flowing water is really pleasing to the eye. From the beginning of carving to the completion of the final carving, Yu Lifei can be said to have "watched" the birth of this jade plaque.

When it was finished, the man seemed very pleased with his work, and it took a long time to raise his head. Yu Lifei tried hard to see his appearance, but no matter how much he stared, he always looked hazy. When he tried to reach out and pat the man on the shoulder, trying to catch him to see the real thing, he missed it. That person seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. At this time, Yu Lifei suddenly woke up, and he realized that he had just had a dream.

This is not the first time that Yu Lifei has dreamed like this. Last night on top of the pavilion outside the museum, he also had a dream. But that dream was a pigtailed Qing Dynasty man carving the boy bathing cow ornament. Every time he sleeps, as long as he comes into contact with antiques, he can have dreams related to antiques, which makes Yu Lifei feel very puzzled.

He speculated that this was the process of the birth of antiques. But in this process, how can you enter your own dreams through antiques? If it's fake, then how can he feel so real? And if it's true? How can this be explained? For unexplainable things, Yu Lifei can only put it down for the time being, and then slowly explore it later.

After waking up, Yu Lifei felt more intimate about the jade card in his mind. He witnessed the birth of the jade plate, just like having its life, and the jade card seemed to be able to communicate with Yu Lifei. Yu Lifei stretched out his hand and took out the jade plaque and held it in his hand, he suddenly felt that the jade plaque in his mind seemed to be smiling at himself.

Yu Lifei thought that he had "seen" wrong, he wiped his eyes in a hurry, but he immediately felt good. The image in my mind has something to do with the hair of my eyes!

This action brought Yu Lifei back to reality, no matter how amazing the scene he saw, the most important thing now is to solve the problem of eating and sleeping. Although the problem of sleeping is easy to solve, what about washing? You can't sneak into the Tanjiang River at night to solve it, right? It's okay once or twice, but I really can't stand it after a long time.

If you want to solve the problem, you have to solve the problem of funds, and Yu Lifei remembered the ornament of the boy bathing cow again. If you want to dispose of this thing, you have to fix the secret door. But this thing is easy to destroy, but to repair it, I can't think of a good way for a while. Go to the stall to buy a bottle of 502 glue? It's easy to fix, but if it's done, will it break things? And most importantly, will it reduce the original value? It seems that we have to ask experts for help in this matter.

Although he has only been in Tanzhou for a day, Yu Lifei has met three experts. Wu Wengu father and son, and Ren Jingtian's father Ren Zhiwei. But if you look for them, you will definitely ask about the origin of this secret door, and you will inevitably have to explain that the secret door still has this jade plate. Although Yu Lifei can't say the origin of this jade plate, there is one thing he is sure of, this should be something from the Ming Dynasty.

And Yu Lifei believes that this must be the real thing. From the ornaments of the boy bathing cow, to the Liuji inkstone of the end stone of Daxi Cave and the ancient pine heart ink made by Luo Xiaohua, as well as the old manuscript of Nanyue, and then to the red Sanskrit halberd lid jar in the glaze of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty. Every time it is a three-dimensional image of something, it can enter his mind and make him feel extremely comfortable, and the thing is naturally real. If he can't even realize this by now, then his IQ will tend to zero. It's just that he wants to explain the reason for this, but Yu Lifei can't do it.

And not to mention the precious procedure of this jade plate, let's just say that this incomparable knife technique, if not more precious than the "Nanyue Old Manuscript" and the Ming Xuande glaze red Sanskrit halberd lid jar, at least better than this boy bathing cow picture ornament. Otherwise, how could people be cautious and hide this jade plaque on the base of this ornament. In the mind of the person who hid the jade plaque, the value of the jade plaque is obviously far greater than the value of the ornament.

However, when Yu Lifei picked up the boy bathing cow ornament and the secret door, the two graphics in his mind were slowly rotating together. To be precise, it should be the ornament, revolving around the jade plaque. Maybe it's because Yu Lifei has made up his mind to sell the ornament of the boy bathing cow, and the ornament in his mind has a feeling of reluctance to give up on the jade plate. It's like, they're conscious!

This discovery made Yu Lifei startled. It is said that jade has spirituality, but I didn't expect that this boy bathing cow picture ornament also has spirituality! Seeing them in his mind, reluctant to give up, Yu Lifei was suddenly very reluctant. A thought quickly popped into his mind, should he tighten his belt again and survive this time?

As soon as his thoughts arose, the figure of the boy bathing cow ornament seemed to be felt immediately, and it suddenly stopped turning. Then he bowed towards Yu Lifei, and his upper body suddenly turned into a pair of hands and made a gesture at Yu Lifei. That's right, it's a trick. This action, Yu Lifei "watched" it really. This made Yu Lifei completely dumbfounded, he could still communicate with antiques?

"Forget it, I'd better let you stay." Yu Lifei said softly. He completely dispelled the idea of exchanging money for the boy bathing cow ornament, which was the first antique that attracted him to buy, so to speak, there is indeed a fate between them. Moreover, if there is no ornament of this boy bathing cow, the jade plate on Yu Lifei's neck will not appear.

Seeing that the sun was already in the west, Yu Lifei was ready to solve the problem of eating and staying overnight. Although the money on his body is only enough to eat for a few days, at this time, he has no better way to do it for a while, so he can only take one step at a time. Since he had promised the boy to bathe the cow ornament and not let it, he would naturally keep his promise.

At noon, Yu Lifei ate three bowls of rice, which made the restaurant owner look sideways. In the evening, he naturally does not need to eat more. And, even before, he didn't eat much at night. Coupled with his current economic situation, he is reluctant to eat more. When he was in his hometown, the old man often didn't eat at night. He often has a sentence on his lips: If you don't eat at night, you will be hungry and cure all diseases. In ancient times, the people did not eat at night, and even the emperor did not eat at night.

"Less than!" Ren Jingtian saw Yu Lifei coming over from a distance, and immediately shouted loudly, that look was not much different from Colombia's discovery of the New World.

Yu Lifei was still a while away from the rice noodle shop, when he heard Ren Jingtian shouting loudly, sounding like he was still very excited. There seemed to be a sense of relief in his tone.

"Brother Ren, why are you here?" Yu Lifei walked over quickly and asked puzzledly. If Wu Wengu appeared here, it would be forgivable. But where Ren Jingtian lives and the Red Star Police Station where he works, they have been away from here for a while, and they won't come here to eat rice noodles.

"I've been waiting for you here on purpose, I've been waiting for you all afternoon, and if you don't come again, I'm going to send a revelation." Ren Jingtian did look for Yu Lifei for an afternoon, but he didn't expect that Yu Lifei would go to the Tanjiang River and sleep there for an afternoon.

"Brother Ren, do you have something to do with me?" Yu Lifei saw Ren Jingtian's eagerness on his face and asked.

"Of course there's something, quick, hurry up and follow me!" Ren Jingtian pulled Yu Lifei, turned around and left.

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