Chapter Eighty-Six: Overseas Strange Tales
The opening of the EXPO can be described as unprecedented, and it is no wonder that people love new things, and the EXPO, where rare and exotic treasures gather, has naturally become a place that people flock to. It's very good to describe the fair as very good, very powerful, a lot of money. Both coarse and fine colors in the expo hall sell quickly, and every day after midnight, Jin Wuwei soldiers will escort a long motora to the expo hall to deliver goods. There are so many treasures, the inside and outside of the expo hall are naturally heavily guarded, the first three days to catch a little less thieves, the fourth day to open to the public, the thieves will be more, a day to catch a dozen, all flail up and locked up in Chang'an County.
The afternoon auction on the third day can be described as wonderful, how wonderful was it? To put it simply, neither the main writer of "The History of Chunming Dynasty" nor "This Spring and Autumn" can describe the scene. Wang Jian and Zhang Ji wrote a few poems lamenting that "those who are all over Luo Qi are not silkworm breeders", but this argument obviously did not conform to the public's perception and was quickly drowned out. The two newspapers can only use clichΓ©s such as "shoulder to shoulder" and "although they want to gain a foothold but can't get it" to describe the hot scene, which is smooth and smooth but not exciting enough to be detailed enough to attract readers at all, but the storyteller took this opportunity to make a lot of money.
"β’β’β’β’β’β’ that glass bead is so big. How big is that? Do you have pigeons at home? Have you ever seen pigeon eggs? As soon as it is full, it is so big. And it's not one or two, it's dozens! Everyone, let me tell you the inside information, there are so many beads, all Chang'an, no, only Princess Youning has it in the whole Tang Dynasty. But I heard my father-in-law who was on an errand in the palace say that when Princess Youning was fine, she took the beads and put them on the ground to play, which is called playing glass balls, and the two bumped together, and heard a crisp sound. Bad? It's not going to be bad, that's the princess's baby. But I've heard that if it's not the county lord and the county king, you can't play at all. Who has so much money? β
The storyteller spits and spits on it, the listener is fascinated, and the storyteller sees that the time has come, and picks up the teacup and drinks tea. Naturally, there were apprentices who went to collect money with plates. Suddenly, the clanging sound was endless, and there were also those who threw money without making a sound, and naturally threw paper money. The storyteller saw that it was almost over, and continued:
"This treasure money is really good, it is light to carry in your hand, so that you don't have to hire a car to buy something valuable before. Of course I can't afford it, but someone can. Heard of Mo (haven't)? The chief dart master of several dart bureaus in the West City is worried, and everyone will use treasure money in the future, so no one will ask them to deposit money. The amount of this exposition can be seen mile, and the treasure money collected is a pile of money, each pile is so thick, all of them are from Lingyan Pavilion, at least hundreds of thousands of yuan, right? Those who sell goods have their eyes spent. Okay, okay, talk about the auction, talk about the auction, you little brother, what's the hurry, this paragraph doesn't charge money. β
"β’β’β’β’β’β’ the third floor of the expo hall is full of treasures, have you ever seen such a long ivory? Have you ever seen such a big rhino horn? It is inlaid with pearls, this pearl can be heard, it is Kunlun Nu who is thousands of miles away on the other side of the sea, on the night of the fifteenth month, with fifty cows to the sea to lead the mussel demon in the sea, while the mussel demon is supported by the cow, the shell can not be closed, from the crack into it, steal out, steal out to run away, you can't take more at a time, take more time to run, if you can't run fifty miles, the mussel demon slows down, and you can suck people back in one breath. (There's a lot of talk below: No wonder it's so expensive.) οΌβ
"The most prominent person at the auction is Judge Ziqing Li, I heard that it was Ziqing Li Dashuai who said it himself when he came, if you don't get the most precious one back, you don't want to come back. But the most precious is the most valuable, and I want more miles. What to do? The highest bidder wins. That night pearl, the starting price is 10,000 guan, 10,000 guan, Li Dashuai wants it, Wang Dashuai also wants it, and King Jian also wants it, so this five hundred, that one thousand plus up, how many did you guess in the end? (Someone shouted below: 80,000 guan) yes, 80,000 guan, 80,000 guan, enough to say how many years of books? This auction is really money-saving, do you want to hold an auction for this book (shout below: If you are auctioned, you will listen to Chen Cripple)? Don't you dare to talk nonsense, what's so nice about Chen's lameness? He didn't even enter the door of the exhibition hall. After Li Dashuai took the photo, he changed hands and honored the emperor, saying that the best treasure should be the emperor. But you know what? That pearl of the night is not the best. β
"What's the best? The best one is a one-man tall coral, red and sparkling all over, without any blemishes. Except for the emperor, who has the blessing to endure that thing? So that treasure is not for sale at EXPO. β
This one is talking about the exposition, but there is also another way, talking about navigation.
"There is a saying that when the trumpet sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold, which is not a lie. Lord Liu has to go to sea for many months, tens of thousands of miles, and even the rats on the ship have become treasures when they go so far, let alone goods? Legend has it that in the south of the sea, there is a place where three mosquitoes can fry a plate of vegetables, and scatter seeds to harvest rice, which is Yazhou. It is said that Yazhou is remote and desolate, who knew that it was such a good place? The forehead is lame, otherwise the forehead has to go there, and the woman there is said to be beautiful! To the south of Yazhou, that place is better, I heard that some beaches are full of gems, agate. If you are hungry, you will kick a tree and drop a fruit that you can eat for a day. However, I heard that the sun is poisonous, and people are as tanned as Kunlun Nu. β
"I heard that some desert islands overseas are full of treasures, and some desert islands are inhabited by monsters and savages. When he saw the ship coming from afar, he did it, and a strong wind blew up, blowing the boat over and arresting people to eat. There was a merchant ship from Fujian, who went somewhere in the Western Ocean, and at night he had a ghost and drifted the ship to the edge of an island, and a gust of wind swept the ship up, and when he woke up, he was already lying on the island. There was a Putian man, blowing under a rock, heard his companion on the other side, about to pass, just put his head out, he saw a five-foot tall wild man, with green face and fangs, running down from the mountain with a jump, reaching out and pulling over a branch, picking up the people over there like chickens, and putting the branch around his neck, and putting the person up. The Putian people were frightened, but fortunately a boat came from that side, beating gongs and drums to scare the wild people away, and the wild man dressed the people in a string, like a fish, hung on his waist, jumped and jumped and ran away, and the Putian people guessed that they had escaped with their lives. β’β’β’β’β’β’β