Chapter 12: Green Eyes
Wan Wenyu saw that the torture technique was really anxious, and immediately said: "Don't don't, don't be, Master Xing, I'm kidding, if you want to use it, just take it, it's okay, it doesn't matter how long it takes." ”
"Bright!" Xingshu immediately touched the pen and paper and typed a note, pressed his handprint and handed the note to Wan Wenyu, and then turned around with something to leave, Wan Wenyu chased after him and asked, "Master Xing, you said earlier that next time you will not give me any good things, it won't be a joke, right?" ”
He didn't look back at the torture technique, he left with Tian Lianfeng, and threw down a sentence: "When did I break my promise in the torture technique?" ”
Wan Wenyu stood at the door and smiled, and said proudly to the boss who had just walked out of the opposite store: "At most, ten days and half a month, I have another big deal to come to the door!" ”
Xingshu went downstairs, and drove with Tian Lianfeng towards the address written by Wei Dabangzi, because time waited for no one.
On the way, the torture technique told Tian Lianfeng that the Yi Sun Zibi borrowed from Wan Wenyu before was a modern thing, not an antiquity, because the Yi Sun Zibi of the Han Dynasty was not like this, it looked a bit like a hanging mirror, with carved double dragon buttons, and the words "Yi Sun Zi" in the center of the body, or other words, which were generally auspicious words. But the brand in the hand is used in modern times, basically it is a pendant, which can be used to wear, due to the difference in texture and craftsmanship, some are also expensive.
After hearing this, Tian Lianfeng asked, "What are you borrowing it for?" ”
"Try this person named He Chenxue, you must know that if even Wan Wenyu can see things that are eye-catching, then the degree of simulation is very high, if she is really a person from the Jade Casting Society, she should be able to see it at a glance." Torture looked at the front of the car and said with a smile, "This will save effort." ”
Half an hour later, the two finally arrived at the Jiuding auction house written on the address, and before entering, Xingshu deliberately found a suit from the car, changed into it and tidied it up in the back, making himself look like a person who does financial business.
Tian Lianfeng watched from the side and asked, "Do I want to disguise it too?" ”
"You don't need to disguise, you can tell at a glance that it's my driver or attendant or something." After the torture was sorted out, he got out of the car and left, and Tian Lianfeng reluctantly followed behind.
When I entered the auction house, I was immediately greeted by a man with glasses and greeted him in standard Mandarin.
The torture technique didn't talk nonsense, and directly took out the prepared brocade box: "I'm going to entrust your auction house to produce a thing, jade." ”
The man nodded, invited the two to the living room of the inner room, then put on gloves and asked politely, "Can you open the box and have a look?" ”
Torture nodded: "Of course." ”
Tian Lianfeng stood on the side, watching, waiting.
The man opened the box, looked at it for a long time, and used a magnifying glass and a flashlight, and then put down the piece of Yi Sun Bi and said: "If I'm not mistaken, this should be Yi Sun Bi of the white ground green seed, and it is the craft of the Bao family in Bengbu, Anhui Province, right?" ”
Torture smiled, didn't say yes, didn't say no.
Tian Lianfeng snickered on the side, thinking to himself, sure enough, as Wan Wenyu said, most people will look away. Seeing that the torture technique didn't speak, the man simply said, "Sir, I don't know your surname?" ”
"My surname is Xing." Torture Dao.
"Mr. Xing, what is your ideal price?" The man asked tentatively.
Xingshu said calmly: "I don't understand, what do you think?" ”
The man lifted his glasses and said, "Sir, do you want to set a reserve price, that is, if you set a reserve price, then when this price is not reached, we cannot bid for this auction object......"
Before the man could finish speaking, the torturer raised his hand and said, "Three hundred and fifty thousand." ”
The man couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Okay, well, then I have to explain that the commission is fifteen percent of the hammer price according to the relevant laws, and I have to inform you of this first." ”
"Okay." Torture nodded, looking quite calm, and then the man with glasses said that he was going to prepare the contract and got up to leave.
As soon as the man left, Tian Lianfeng was anxious and asked, "Torture, aren't we here to find that woman?" How is it a man? All went to prepare the contract? And it's a fake, isn't it a scam if we find out? ”
Xingshu shook his head: "Don't worry, this man is just a first look, the real appraisal report and the like, it's not his turn, although 350,000 is nothing in the auction industry, but this price is the reserve price, I deliberately said a little less, in fact, their starting price will be at least about 600,000, and the estimated final hammer price is about 1.5 million." ”
Tian Lianfeng looked at the thing in the box and said in surprise: "That's it?" One and a half million? I'll go to his uncle's faster than robbing the money! ”
"But you also have to know that many owners don't know whether their things are real or fake, and sometimes the appraisers of the auction house will look away, and once they are discovered, the consequences are unimaginable." As he was talking, he heard the sound of high heels coming from the corridor outside, he glanced up at Tian Lianfeng, and said with a smile, "It's here!" ”
A few seconds later, the sound of high heels stopped at the door, and after the knock, the man with glasses walked in, followed by a woman wearing sunglasses and a full suit of business clothes, who looked to be twenty-five or sixteen years old.
The woman has medium and long hair, a good figure, especially those long legs, Tian Lianfeng's eyes have been falling on it, and when the torture technique stepped on his feet and reminded him, he subconsciously went to look at his face again, although he was wearing sunglasses, the fair skin exposed in other parts contrasted with the sunglasses, and he didn't need to look at the eyes, just the nose, lips, ears and other parts seemed to be carefully carved.
"This is the owner of this piece of Yizi Sunbi, Mr. Xing." The man with glasses introduced to the woman, and said to Xingshu, "Mr. Xing, this is He Chenxue, the appraiser of our auction house, she has the qualification of a national-level jewelry and jade quality inspector, and according to the process of our auction house, she needs to issue the final appraisal results." ”
Xingshu got up and shook hands with He Chenxue, feeling that the other party's hand was cold, as if he was sick, and He Chenxue didn't even smile. However, he was also surprised, he didn't expect that this He Chenxue actually had a national inspector qualification, that is, CGC, a national registered appraiser, in the whole of China, there are very few people with this qualification, but only a thousand.
After He Chenxue sat down, she didn't take off her sunglasses, but just said in a low voice: "You go out." ”
The man nodded, nodded towards the torture technique, opened the door and left, and after only three people were left in the room, Tian Lianfeng and He Chenxue, He Chenxue took out something from his pocket and pressed it, and then the light in the room dimmed, and only the light of the main lamp shone down from the top and shone directly on the box.
Immediately afterwards, He Chenxue said, "Mr. Xing, can I start?" ”
"Yes." Xingshu looked at He Chenxue and wanted to know how she looked when she took off her sunglasses.
He Chenxue took off her sunglasses, and the moment she took them off, the torture technique stared at her eyes, and found that her eyes flashed a trace of green light in the dark, although it was very short, but the torture technique could be seen clearly, it was definitely not an illusion, just like a cat's eye.
But when He Chenxue's face was under the light, the light in his eyes disappeared.
The torture technique looked at He Chenxue's eyes carefully through the light, and found that there was nothing unusual, although when she came in wearing sunglasses before, she was still excited for a while, and her first reaction was that she should be the person she was looking for in the tube building, but now she found that it might not be.
He Chenxue stared at the box for a few seconds, but she didn't get started, she directly put on her sunglasses and said: "Mr. Xing, I'm sorry, maybe my colleague didn't make it clear, the jade we auction here is mainly jadeite, and ordinary nephrite jade is not within the scope of our auction, please find someone else." ”
Tian Lianfeng looked at He Chenxue in surprise, and then glanced at the torture technique.
Torture said calmly, "I see, okay, excuse me." ”
As he said that he was packing up his things, He Chenxue felt the switch again, adjusted the light back to its previous appearance, and then sat there and waited.
After the torture technique covered the box, after picking it up, he looked like he wanted to leave and remained, turned around and asked, "I'm sorry, Miss He, I want to know, which other auction house can be commissioned?" Can you tell us about it? ”
He Chenxue didn't look up, her eyes looked straight ahead and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Xing, I don't know." ”
"Thank you." Xingshu hugged the box and left, and when he walked to the door, he pretended to remember something, turned around and said, "I have a friend who told me that I can go to the Jade Casting Society, does Miss He know about the Jade Casting Society?" ”
He Chenxue's body was obviously shocked, and then she shook her head and said, "Mr. Xing, I don't understand what you're talking about. ”
"Excuse me, goodbye." The torture technique smiled and left, Tian Lianfeng looked at He Chenxue, also bowed slightly, then closed the door gently, and turned to chase the torture technique that had already strode far away.
Waiting for the two to leave, He Chenxue stood up and opened the door, revealing a crack, but instead of raising his eyes to look, he listened carefully with his ears against the crack in the door, listening to the footsteps of the two getting farther and farther away, and then his brows furrowed, and his face was full of sadness.
Back in the car, Torture threw the box aside and began to change his clothes, without speaking.
Tian Lianfeng looked at the box next to him, then looked at the torture technique, and asked, "Technique, what's going on?" ”
"I don't know if she's the one that night now." Torture shook his head.
Tian Lianfeng didn't understand: "What do you mean?" ”
"Let's put it this way, from the behavior of the woman filmed in the video that night, I can tell that the woman is blind." Xingshu looked at Tian Lianfeng, "I don't believe you look at the video again, that woman walked by touching the wall, and when she took out things from my bag, she touched and smelled them, unlike ordinary people, she walked very slowly, and she didn't bring anything with any lighting." ”
Tian Lianfeng pondered for a while and said: "Contradiction, you said that she is blind and has no lighting, is that afraid of being discovered by you?" And if she was familiar with the environment, she wouldn't be able to walk by touching the walls, would she? ”
"That's right, this shows that she is not familiar with the environment in the building, and she hasn't been there for a long time, and the behavior of the blind man is something that normal people want to imitate, and I can see if she can't imitate it." "Do you remember that there were two blind brothers and sisters in the mental hospital?" Just think about how they behave on a day-to-day basis. ”
Tian Lianfeng recalled carefully, nodded and said, "Yes, I remembered, so the person who peeked at your things that night was really a blind man, but why did He Chenxue wear sunglasses?" I'm also weird. ”
Xingshu thought for a while and said: "At first, she was wearing sunglasses, and I was still thinking that she might be blind, but that person said that she was a national appraiser, so I wondered, although I also knew that there were blind people who were worshipped, relying on smell and touch, and listening to the sound of percussion, but when He Chenxue looked at this thing, she turned on the main light, and she just looked at it for a few seconds, and she didn't get started, so she told me in more euphemistic words that this thing was a fake, and she also knew that I knew that this thing was fake, and I brought it." ”
"That's right!" Tian Lianfeng suddenly clapped his hands and said, "The moment she turned off the light and turned on the main light before, I saw that there was green light in her eyes!" Did you see that? ”
The torturer who changed his clothes nodded: "I saw it, it was not an illusion, and it was definitely not caused by the refraction of light, it was like a cat's ......eye" After speaking, the torture technique leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes and said to himself, "Cat's eye, where have I heard it, I forgot, I want to think about it." ”
"Think about it, think about it!" Tian Lianfeng urged, looking more anxious than the torture technique.
Torture Shu lay there, his mouth closed one by one, and he said something silently, and after a long time, he suddenly sat up straight, looked at the front of the car and said, "Green pupils!" It's green eyes! ”
"Green eyes? What's that? Tian Lianfeng asked as he stared at the torture technique.
"Let's go back first, I still have to ask Zhang Dawen about this!" As he spoke, he immediately drove towards the antique city where his pawnshop was located.
Returning to the antique city, after parking, the torture took Tian Lianfeng and ran straight to Zhang Dawen's Wen Qingzhai, which specialized in Qing Dynasty objects.
Walking to the door of Wen Qingzhai, Zhang Dawen, as usual, sat on the recliner with a tablet computer and watched the Qing Dynasty through the novel with full attention, and after the torture opened the door and the bell at the door sounded, Zhang Dawen just habitually said: "Welcome, look at it casually, today is the store's preferential day, and all collections are sold at a 20% discount!" ”
When Zhang Dawen said this, he didn't even raise his head, and he didn't know that it was the torture technique and Tian Lianfeng coming.
Xingshu walked straight to the shelf, flipped through the pile of so-called ancient books, Tian Lianfeng squatted directly next to Zhang Dawen, looked at his tablet and said, "Boss Zhang, you have a discount every day here, and you have a 20% discount every day, right?" ”
Zhang Dawen was startled, then he turned his head and saw that it was Tian Lianfeng, and then he also saw the torture technique of turning things there, and immediately put down the tablet and stepped forward to stop the torture technique: "Alas-torture!" Punishment court, what are you doing again? You're not hurting me enough, are you? What are you doing today? Burn a book or a shop? Or are you going to burn me and burn a book? ”
The torture technique pulled Zhang Dawen away and continued to rummage.
Tian Lianfeng stepped forward and said with a smile: "It's reasonable to burn books, but what about Confucianism, just like you?" What about Confucianism? Confucianism of a dwarf, right? ”
Zhang Dawen didn't want to be poor with Tian Lianfeng, knowing that he was poor and poor, but this person who was born at the counter of the pharmacy station stepped forward and stopped the torture technique and asked, "Do you want to do it?" These are my treasures! ”
Tian Lianfeng squatted down, picked up a book, patted off the dust on it, read the title on the cover and said: ""The Secret History of the Qing Palace-Two or Three Things Between Her and Qianlong", I'll go to your uncle, you are really shameless, this kind of thing that you know at a glance is nonsense written by people on the Internet, and you still sell it as an antique?" ”
"You know the! It's called feelings! Zhang Dawen said dissatisfied, "My grandfather's generation is also a banner person, a royal family!" ”
Tian Lianfeng leaned on the counter, drank Zhang Dawen's tea, and said with a smile: "Even if it is a Manchurian, it is not one of the fifty-six nationalities, what is there to be good about?" Saying that, Tian Lianfeng also sang, "Fifty-six nationalities, fifty-six flowers, fifty-six brothers and sisters are one family, and fifty-six languages are combined into one sentence......
Zhang Dawen stepped forward to beat Tian Lianfeng, but Tian Lianfeng ran outside, and continued to sing while running: "Love my China, love my China, love my China!" ”
While the two were chasing, Xingshu had already found a book, took the book, walked directly to his pawnshop opposite, took out the key to open the door, and dragged Tian Lianfeng who ran past him, and then stopped the panting Zhang Dawen, and raised the book in his hand and said: "This book is borrowed from me, or sold to me, but I see that your store is not doing well and is going to close down, so let's do it, this book is a copy of the early years of the 'Republic of China', the imitation is not bad, you are it, I will give you five hundred yuan." ”
Zhang Dawen swallowed his saliva, panting and looking at the torture technique: "Five hundred? Not sold to you? Or should it be given to you? Are you drinking too much? ”
"Well, sell it to me, fifty, no more." Torture looked at Zhang Dawen with a grin.
Zhang Dawen immediately quit: "Okay, good!" I should, five hundred! Hurry up and give money! ”
The torture technique took out five hundred and gave it to him: "Five hundred, even if it is decided, right?" ”
"I'm not going to redeem it!" Zhang Dawen was overjoyed, knowing that he had earned the book and that he had bought it from the second-hand book market for five yuan.
"Good!" Torture said while pushing the door, "Actually, this kind of imitation, there are very few on the market, even if it is an imitation, the technology is not bad, it is good to do it, I estimate that it can be sold for a few thousand, well, let alone a few thousand." ”
"Hey-" Zhang Dawen stopped doing it when he heard it, "No!" Keep when! Keep when! ”
The torture technique walked straight in: "I'm teasing you, where is it worth thousands, more than five hundred." ”
Zhang Dawen didn't believe it, so he chased straight in, stood next to the torture, looked at the book "Strange Things in the Jade Book" in his hand, and saw that he didn't look at it from the beginning, he quickly browsed page by page, as if he was looking for something, and immediately said: "What are you looking for?" Tell me, I've memorized this book by heart! ”
Torture put down the book: "Green pupils!" ”
"Green eyes? Think about it! Zhang Dawen sat down, and the torture technique gave Tian Lianfeng a look, and Tian Lianfeng immediately closed the door.
In fact, the purpose of the criminal technique is to let Zhang Dawen dictate, although Zhang Dawen is a guy who likes to read through novels, but his memory is amazing, provided that as long as he is interested in the books, he basically reads it again, and he can't say that he recite it backwards, the meaning must be to remember it clearly, especially the books during the Qing Dynasty and the "Republic of China", he is most interested, and although the green pupil is recorded in the "Strange Things of the Jade Book", because of poor preservation, some of the pages rotted after the dampness, So I can only rely on Zhang Dawen's dictation.
"Strange Things in the Jade Book" is a compilation of folk tales, which tells a series of strange things that happened in Northeast China during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, among which the green pupil is recorded.
The first time he saw one or two times in torture, the reason why he was so impressed was because when he went to Sichuan, he once met an old Sichuan courtier, and the old courteer also mentioned that he had seen someone with green eyes when he was young, but it was only a one-sided relationship.