Volume 2 Southern Xinjiang Heterodox Chapter 7 Take the sheep by the hand
It's been more than three months since I came back from Yongxian Mountain.
In the past three months, I didn't go anywhere, I quit my job, and I just stayed at home and looked through the "Qingyi Miscellaneous Records" left by my grandfather all day long. I also studied my grandfather's account of bloody corpses in his book. Grandpa wrote in the book that he had also encountered bloody corpses when he was younger. The bloody corpse was awakened by the infestation of tomb robbers, and later escaped from the tomb, often going to nearby villages and towns at night to do evil. Grandpa also took a lot of effort to get rid of it. The book says that the blood corpse is extremely powerful and has a strong attack power, which is the same as what I have seen, but the book also says that the blood corpse can walk and run like an ordinary person, but the speed is not as high, which is very different from the blood corpse I saw. The bloody corpse that guarded the jewel was always on all fours, and was not only powerful, but also very fast, and if it were on straight flat ground, it would have to be sixty or seventy miles to the eye, and it could swim nimbly on the wall like a gecko...... Where does this look like a blood corpse, I think it's more like a monster, or an evolved version of a blood corpse?
While I was thinking, there was a knock on my door. When my mother went to open the door, I heard her calling out to me in the outhouse: "Ah Gan, the altar is looking for you!" I agreed, picked up my packed backpack, walked out of the door, and said to my mother, saying that I was going to go with the jar to open the seal, and by the way, see if there was a suitable job. I had already said hello to my parents more than half a month ago, and they strongly agreed, after all, I have been at home for more than a month, and they always whispered in my ear to let me go out to work, saying that it is always good to have a little thing to do.
Actually, to be honest, it's true that I went out with the jar, and it's also true that I'm going around, but looking for a job is completely a starting point. The two of us went out this time to sell something, something we brought back from Yongxian Mountain. This matter has to start from the fact that I just came back from Yongxian Mountain three months ago......
At the time, the two of us had only been back for a few days. Early one morning, the jar mysteriously came to me and said that he wanted to show me something good. I laughed at him and said, "What's so good about you?" But when he pulled open the backpack he had brought, I was really taken aback. I didn't expect that this kid would sneak back the bronze incense burner in Yongxian Mountain.
"How? It's a good thing, right? The jar asked me proudly, "If this thing is taken out, it can be sold for a lot of money!" "I didn't really look closely at this censer until this time. This bronze incense burner is about the same size as the antique incense burner that is usually placed on the table, although the surface of the incense burner is a little rusty, but the overall appearance is still good. The body of the furnace is engraved with strings of exquisite patterns, some long and some short, arranged vertically. Although the length of the pattern is different, it makes the whole incense burner look more simple and beautiful. It's just a pity that I can't see what it paints.
"What is this?" I saw the blue on the front of the censer and screamed.
The front of the incense burner body is a very translucent green jade, the size accounts for one-third of the front of the furnace body, but the fly in the ointment is that there is a stain of unknown shape on it, some like trapezoidal, very irregular, this time it is broken.
"It's a pity...... "Jar said with a look of pity, "If it weren't for this dirty thing, the price would have doubled!" ”
I nodded, and went on. The biggest difference between this incense burner and what we see in daily life, except for this piece of jade, is its lid. The lid of the usual incense burner is often above it, with small holes left in it to allow the smoke to escape. However, the lid of this bronze incense burner is on the reverse side of its body, opposite the green jade.
"It's a very chic look!" I wondered, "However, if you use this incense burner to light incense, it won't contain much incense ash!" Before the spices inside could burn, the ashes came out through the small holes in the lid. Then I shook my head and said, "That's not practical." ”
The altar had a different opinion from me, and he said disapprovingly: "Since you say that it has a unique shape, it means that it is a work of art in itself." How many pieces of art are practical? The less practical it is, the less it will be produced. If something is scarce, it will definitely be more valuable. Maybe we'll get rich this time! ”
"What kind of bullshit logic are you? What does it mean to be worth money if it is not practical? This is the same as the value of art, right? "When I heard the fallacies of the altar, I was a little speechless.
"Don't worry about it so much!" The jar said excitedly, "Even if it's not a work of art, it's still an antique, right?" ”
I agree with this, after all, it is a thing more than 2,000 years ago, even if it is a garlic at that time, as long as it can be preserved to the present, it will definitely be sold for a lot of money, not to mention a bronze incense burner.
"As long as it's an antique, it can be sold for money, right?" The jar asked me.
I nodded again, I can't deny that, but......
"There are also high and low antiques, not all antiques can be sold for blue and white porcelain money." I said to the jar.
"Of course I do! But if you can't sell hundreds of millions, you can sell hundreds of thousands! "I'm in contact right now to see if I can get a good price." ”
I frowned: "Who are you contacting?" ”
The altar said, "Isn't it that we haven't been contacted yet!" I've heard that the water in this business is quite deep, and if the two of us break into it recklessly, we won't have to hit our heads and break the bloodstream? If it's not good enough, you'll have to lose all your money! So I thought to myself, this is the first time we have done this business, and we need to find a safe and reassuring middleman to contact the buyer. Even if he makes a little difference from the middle, it is better than losing money, do you say this is the reason? ”
I looked at the altar carefully: "Why do you think so sensitively and cautiously when you think about money?" ”
"How else do you call you a poor ghost? All your life is the life of poverty! This involves matters of vital interests, even fools know how to pull in! "But you have to thank me for this, if it weren't for me, where would you have found such a good opportunity to make a fortune?" ”
"Yes yes yes I thank you! I thank you for the eighteenth generation of my ancestors......"
In the two months since then, the altar has been asking people everywhere to inquire and find a way. Finally, half a month ago, he came to me again and said that one of his relatives was pouring antiques in Kaifeng, and he was a veteran and more reliable. And I heard that his relative has really made a lot of money over the years. The altar didn't know at first, but later it was through many inquiries that it found this line.