Chapter 13: The Gandhara Buddha Head

We listened to Tian Minwei tell about the duel between him and the famous "boxer" Wang Da expert of the Wenbo Academy ten years ago, and we all laughed, Qi Liye said: "Our master in charge of Luo is like this, so it's too normal to not understand the truth and falsehood." ”

I smiled and turned my head to look at Tian Minwei on the side: "Uncle Tian, have you and your aunt finished watching the preview?" ”

"We just arrived, didn't we just run into you when we came in?"

I nodded: "Uncle Tian, let's go together?" ”

Under the leadership of Qi Liye, we walked to the central exhibition area, and saw that the central exhibition area was built like a courtyard, antique, very elegant and noble. In the middle of the moon gate of the courtyard, there is a wooden carved plaque with three big characters written on it: "Jichang Garden".

"Several bosses, this is the "Jichang Garden" porcelain miscellaneous boutique special launched by our *** auction company this time. This Jichang Garden is now located in the east foot of Huishan Mountain on the east side of the western suburbs of Wuxi City, in the Xihui Park in the middle of Huishan Hengjie, adjacent to Huishan Temple. In the nineteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1591 AD, Qin Yi took the poem "Promise Rafters" from Xizhi, and said: "Take Huanren, Zhile, and send Changshan Shanyin" The word "Jichang" in the sentence is used as the name of the garden. The two emperors of Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty have traveled many times in the Jichang Garden, and have repeatedly inscribed poems in the garden, which shows their love and appreciation of this garden. The Harmony Garden in the Summer Palace in Beijing, the Grand Duke of Kuoran in the Old Summer Palace, now also known as Shuanghe Zhai, are all built in imitation of the Jichang Garden of Huishan in Wuxi. ”

Uncle Tian and I listened to Qi Liye's introduction to the history of Jichangyuan, and we really admired his erudition. Uncle Tian couldn't help but smile and nodded.

"Liye, I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable in your early thirties, and you have done so much homework, which is really terrifying."

Qi Liye smiled embarrassedly: "Thank you, Brother Tian, for raising me so much, our fine porcelain miscellaneous special session is composed of porcelain and jade treasures from the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty." ”

We nodded, and he led us through the collection. The overall level is indeed quite good, although there are a few fakes, but there are also excusable circumstances.

Leaving the courtyard in the central area, we came to a black room under his leadership, just entered, we heard the sound of Buddhist scriptures and Sanskrit everywhere, in the darkness in front of us, a variety of Buddha statues displayed under the position of each spotlight, we are like coming to the Western Elysium, under the echo of Sanskrit chanting, the sense of substitution is very strong.

We followed the sound of the Buddha into the depths of the room, and we shuttled among the Buddha statues one by one. Suddenly, I was attracted by a broken Buddha statue in front of me, and I walked over to the booth in front of me to see a male Buddha head carved in black stone. The head of the Buddha is more than 40 centimeters in diameter and is fixed with a black iron frame. The difference between this Buddha head and other Buddha statues is not only the material, the most important thing is that his open face is much different from the feeling of the Central Plains, and there are some Greek stone nude statues of physiognomy feeling, not quite like the face of Chinese.

I looked at this Buddha head, my head was clever, I was dizzy, and the world was spinning. Shaking his head, he hurriedly called Qi Liye on the side: "Liye, how much is the starting price of this Gandhara statue?" ”

"Four hundred thousand."

I nodded, took out a platinum bank card from China Construction Bank from my bag and handed it to Qi Liye: "Liye, no matter how much money it is, you have to help me buy this Buddha head." ”

Qi Liye was stunned for a moment, and was very puzzled: "Master Qiutang, although this thing is very good, it is not very rare, and the quality is not good." This part of the road is ...... to you."

I waved my hand, covered my head, and couldn't help but feel displeased: "If you want to buy it, you can buy it, and you don't have to spend your money." ”

Qi Liye noticed that my state was a little abnormal, so he stopped talking, and I raised my hand: "Liye, you take Uncle Tian and Auntie to go first, and I'll take a look here and wander around." ”

Uncle Tian saw that my face was very ugly, and hurriedly walked over: "Qiu Tong, what's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, I didn't eat well early when I woke up early, and I have a little low blood sugar."

Aunt Wang on the side hurriedly took out a piece of chocolate from her bag and handed it to me: "Come, eat it, just eat it." ”

I nodded and motioned for them to go first, and they saw that I was accompanied by Mengya, and then left the Buddha statue exhibition hall with Qi Liye.

Mengya, who was standing on the side, looked at me, patted me on the back, and said with concern, "What's wrong with you?" ”

I closed my eyes and pointed to the Gandhara Buddha head on the side: "Look at this Buddha head." ”

Mengya walked into the head of the Gandhara Buddha, looked at it carefully, and suddenly shuddered: "How can this be?" How did this thing end up here? ”

My face was solemn, and I sighed helplessly: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, and it's a loss to come to see the preview this time." ”

Meng Ya looked at me with concern: "Otherwise, let's go home first, anyway, I will also explain to Qi Liye to help us bid." ”

I nodded forcefully, and she helped me out of the black room and drove back home, leaving the Beijing International Hotel Conference Center.

When I got home, I was restless, and my heart was beating fast as if it had been beating early. Mengya went to the kitchen and made me a cup of instant coffee and handed it to me: "Don't think about it, since you can buy this Buddha head, it won't be anything." ”

I looked at her, sighed, my nose was sour for a while, and I held back the tears in my eyes to prevent it from falling: "I really feel sorry for you, I shouldn't have involved you in this matter." ”

Mengya looked at me, and I smiled sweetly on the other side: "Qiu Tong, why are you getting more and more fragile?" Are the eye sockets getting shallower? I said it all yesterday. I don't regret everything I've done for you, because I love you, and I don't have any complaints even if I die for you. As he spoke, he hugged me, and his jade shoot-like hand touched my head. It's okay, and me. ”

I fell into her warm embrace, a few tears fell from my eyes, and I slowly fell asleep and fell into a deep sleep.

I don't know how long it took, but I woke up from my sleep in a daze, and when I opened my eyes, it was still dark. Looking left and right, Mengya, who was lying next to me, was gone.

"Mengya, Mengya."

I called her a few times, but no one responded to me. I sat up from the bed, looked left and right, and called out to her twice, still no response.

I took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it from my mouth. I got up from the bed, walked to the foyer and looked left and right, there was no one. I walked into the kitchen again and looked around, but there was still no one. But as soon as I passed by the bathroom, I felt a very thick bloody smell wafting out.

I was stunned and walked slowly towards the toilet. I saw a "pop" sound of objects falling to the ground in the bathroom, followed by the sound of a ball rolling.

I was almost so frightened that I sat on the floor, calmed down the fear in my heart, and slowly walked to the side of the bathroom step by step. If you look closely, there is no light in the bathroom, and the door is still closed. There was a small "creaking, creaking" sound coming from the inside of the door, and I really didn't have the courage to open the door, so I was ready to put oil under my feet and walk.

Just as I was about to take a walk, there was a click, and the bathroom light was suddenly turned on and lit up. My heart stirred, my heart raced, and I sat down on the ground in fear.

"Click".

The door suddenly opened from the inside, and I almost fainted with a belch.

I heard Mengya's voice in the bathroom: "Qiu Tong, what's wrong with you?" Why are you sitting on the ground? ”

I just sat up, and I saw Mengya sitting on the toilet and making it convenient.

"Why did you go?"

"Go to the toilet, my old friend has come here these days, and I'm sick to death, I'll get up and deal with it."

I exhaled deeply, wiped the cold sweat from my head, looked at her and nodded, and then looked up at my watch, which was just over four o'clock. I shook my head, went back to bed, lay down and continued to dream about Zhou Gong on the bed.

When the two of us were still sleeping soundly, I heard a sound of Sanskrit sound in my ears, I sat up with sleepy eyes, it turned out that my mobile phone rang, I picked up the phone and looked, it turned out to be Qi Liye.

"Can you change the ringtone of your mobile phone, it's like doing something every day." Mengya said irritably.

I connected the phone, and Qi Liye's voice came from inside.

"Lord Qiutang, the Gandhara Buddha head has been bought, and the price is 490,000 yuan, plus the commission is 570,000 yuan."

I hummed and asked him to pay directly with my bank card and pick up the goods and deliver them to my home.

I hung up the phone, let out a sigh of relief, and patted Mengya on the side: "Mengya, the Buddha head has been bought." ”

Meng Ya also sighed when she heard this: "I hope nothing goes wrong." ”