In fact, the origin of this bronze bell is also a twist and turn, when I first visited the antique street when I encountered this bronze bell, I did not care, until I returned to the shop again to see this bronze bell felt that it was a little different.

At that time, the bronze bell was placed at the door of an antique jade shop, and friends who had engaged in antique jade knew that the antique press box at the bottom of the good goods was placed directly at the door of the antique shop, and you didn't need to look at it to know whether it was a fake or a fake.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been reduced to being used as an ornament to be placed at the door as an ornament, so I didn't pay any attention to the bronze bell when I first saw it, but just as I was about to come back and pass by the door of the antique jade shop again, I suddenly noticed that the bronze bell was a little unusual.

Because the bronze bell was not one, but a pair of two almost identical bells, which the owner of the antique shop had placed at the door as decorations, but it was these two almost identical bells that made me realize that there was something wrong with them.

The antique shop is an antique shop specializing in jade and collectibles, in fact, I know almost all the owners of that antique street, and the owner of that shop is no exception, although I don't buy and sell antiques, but I often go there to hang out, and I am familiar with the owner of the antique shop on that street.

Of course, this is also due to my antique skills, and many shop owners have asked me to help them see some strange things that they have been storing for a long time and do not know the age and variety.

I also became a regular customer of theirs, of course, I did not buy and sell antiques because of the rules set by my grandfather, so it is more appropriate to say that a regular customer is more like an acquaintance, and that day I found something unusual about a bronze bell and planned to enter the store to inquire about the origin of the bronze bell of the owner.

Who knew that the boss greeted me before I entered the store, and the boss was first surprised when he saw me, but then there was a look of frustration, and I saw the boss with a strange expression and asked him what was wrong.

The boss told me that he had no business for almost a month, and he saw someone staying at the door thinking that there was business coming to the door to greet him, who knew that the person who came was actually me, and the boss also knew me, and he knew that I was just coming to see and would not buy his antiques.

So this is the first surprise and then the frustrated look, he was pleasantly surprised by my arrival, because he happened to have something that he didn't know the origin, and he was frustrated that he thought it was a business but now it blew it.

But he invited me into the store anyway, and after I chatted with him for a while, the owner pulled out an object he had received a month earlier, and he never understood what it was.

He had also seen it privately with his colleagues in the antique street, but without exception he didn't know what this thing was, so he always kept it and didn't dare to take it out and sell it at will.

One is that he is afraid that he will sell things cheaply, and the other is that he feels that this thing is not an extraordinary product and does not dare to sell it at will, so I can be regarded as solving his problem.

"Brother, help me see what the hell it is." I was accustomed to this antique street, and I was basically familiar with them, so the owner of the antique shop was not polite to me, and as he spoke, he took out a milky white tortoise shell the size of half a fist, beautifully carved like a stone and jade.

This tortoise shell is very exquisitely made, there are pieces of carved tortoise patterns on the back, and the whole tortoise shell is still heavy in my hand, and I can see what this thing is after playing with it for a while.

At that time, the boss was anxious when he saw that I had been silent for a long time, handed me a cigarette and hurriedly asked, "How is it, brother, do you see what's wrong?" I took the cigarette and lit it and took a puff, then I said slowly: "The thing feels warm and moist and the texture is precipitated, it should not be ordinary."

But what age is this thing from, or what it is, I don't know for the time being, or this old man, you come in like the two bronze bells outside, which two bronze bells I am more interested in, as for this tortoise shell, you let me think about it first. ”

The boss didn't know what I was looking at the bell, but he didn't dare to disobey me if he asked for it, so he had to put the two half-meter-high bells into the store again and put them aside, "Hey, that's not right." "The more I looked at the fist-sized tortoise shell, the more terrified I became.

When the boss saw that my face was getting more and more ugly, he couldn't sit still, threw aside the half-brewed tea and hurriedly asked me, "Brother, what have you discovered?" ”

"Brother Wen, go and close the store." I suppressed the shock in my heart, didn't answer the antique shop owner's words, turned to him and said, "Brother, do you have a flashlight and a magnifying glass?" ”

The boss's surname is Wen, and he has a relatively small and fresh name, called Wenyi, and he is a relatively honest business boss in the capital antique street, unlike other ones who are all engaged in some deceptive deeds.

As soon as the owner of the antique shop saw me and asked him to close the door, and remembered the solemn expression on my face just now, he immediately realized that he might have received something good.

Without saying a word, he put some large pieces of antique jade into the shop, and then slammed the door shut, and the owner of the antique shop closed the door of the shop, and then closed all the windows, and then closed the curtains and then went back to me again.

I was amused when I looked at him as if he was facing a great enemy, I was speechless and looked at him with a smile and said, "Brother Wen, you have closed the doors and windows, but you have to turn on the lights, otherwise how can I look at this black light." ”

The owner of the antique shop was stunned for a moment and then his face turned red when he heard this, and only after reacting did he say to me a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my brother is too nervous." So saying, he went and turned on all the lights, and at the same time found a magnifying glass and a flashlight and handed it to me.

I finally solved the doubts in my mind with the help of a magnifying glass and a flashlight, but at the same time my breathing became heavier and heavier, and I became more and more fascinated by it, until the antique shop owner could no longer resist interrupting me again: "Brother, you can say something then, this is a desperate death." ”

"Brother, where did you get this thing?" I didn't answer Wenyi's words, but stared at the tortoise shell in my hand, then looked at Wenyi, who was sitting in front of me, and asked again: "If the origin of the thing is not right, brother should give up this thing." ”

"What do you mean, brother?" Wenyi was also shocked when he heard what I said, and he also knew that if it generally involves cultural relics at the level of national treasures, as long as the origin is not correct, there will be great risks in the transaction.

And although he was found to be not shot, he would definitely be sentenced to ten or eight years, and he didn't expect me to say these words, and he was horrified to tell me the origin of this tortoise shell.

It turned out that the tortoiseshell was sold to him by a friend of his classmate, who was also a boss who was in the building materials business in Guangdong, but the business had gotten worse and worse in recent years, and his classmate friend had approached him just a month earlier.

said that he wanted to sell him a thing, this thing was handed down by his ancestors, and it has been passed on to him for at least ten generations, which means that this thing is at least a thing of the Ming Dynasty, and his classmate and friend are getting worse and worse because of their business.

It's almost to the point of running out of money, so he sold his family's ancestral treasure, and he didn't want to accept it, but because his classmates and friends were in trouble, he wasn't sure what this thing was.

What's more, his classmate friend told him when he sold him his things, telling him to keep them as much as possible, and when he turned over later, he would come back and get back his ancestral items for double the price.

That's why Wenyi didn't resell things twice, he was not only worried that he would sell things cheaply, but there was also a bit of favor in them, and now he couldn't pay attention to it when he heard me say this.

I felt a little funny watching him gasp and explain what had happened, and patted him on the shoulder and said to him: "Brother Wen, you don't have to be so nervous, if the thing is a regular transaction, no one can say what you do with this thing." ”

"I know, I know." Wenyi nodded again and again, looked at the jade tortoise shell in my hand, paused and asked, "Brother, now can you tell my brother what this thing is?" ”

"Hehe" I smiled and glanced at literature and art, slowly put away my playful expression and said word by word: "Ancient, Nanyue country, infant Qi tortoiseshell jade sky." ”

"What? Ancient, Yue country? As soon as Wenyi heard the words Gu Yue, he almost didn't sit down from the sofa, he looked at the tortoise shell in my hand for a long time, and then asked a little nervously: "Brother, you are not mistaken, I don't understand what this tortoiseshell jade sky is, but Gu, Nanyue Kingdom, and infant Qi I know." ”

The more I look at this literature and art, the more I look like a thief who has stolen something, for fear that the treasure that I finally got in my hands will be lost, and I am staring at his treasure with a nervous face, and I am amused by his thief appearance.

I laughed and said to him: "Brother Wen, you don't need this expression, it's too ,.... ...." I didn't finish the rest of the words, the implication was nothing more than that you were too obscene, but Wenyi didn't care at all at this time, he still shrunk his neck and stared at the tortoise shell in my hand tightly.

I saw that he didn't care about him anymore, and after a pause, I said again: "Since my brother knows the character of Ying Qi, then do you know the biography of Ying Qi's life." ”

Although Wenyi is an antique shop owner and knows about ancient history and documents and antiques, he really knows that he knows these ancient histories and biographies of people, and he only knows that there is such a person.

I glanced at the ignorant Wenyi, paused, and said: "Yingqi's surname is Zhao, he is the third generation of the monarch of Nanyue during the Western Han Dynasty, and Zhao Yingqi's life can also be regarded as a legend."

However, because of his existence, the fall of the Nanyue Kingdom laid the groundwork, Zhao Yingqi was the third king of the Nanyue Kingdom, but few people knew that he was still a master of the six fortune tellers.

At that time, the Nanyue Kingdom had existed independently since the fall of Qin, and after years of conquest between Chu and Han, Liu Bang established the Western Han regime and pacified the rest of the military forces in the Central Plains, including Xiang Yu.

Then Liu Bang began to divide the princes of all walks of life, and Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, set up Wu Rui as the king of Changsha, based on the two counties of Changsha and Yuzhang, and gave the three counties of Nanhai, Guilin and Xiangjun owned by Zhao Tuo to Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, and did not recognize that the three counties of Nanhai, Guilin and Xiangjun were owned by Zhao Tuo. ”