Chapter 25: The Jade Pill
To be honest, at this moment, Zhang Guozhong looks down on this prince Hao, a typical businessman with a desire for profit. And no matter what kind of jade it is in its hand, it knows that it is an evil thing and sells it to others to make money, causing accidents in other people's families, this alone should not be helped, and a few people in his family deserve to die.
But looking down on it, my brother's face still has to be taken care of, "Mr. Wang, don't worry, if you have something to say, I need to know what happened to your family and what kind of situation your family encountered." ”
"Mr. Zhang, you don't have a foundation, my grandfather likes antiques, he put all his efforts into those things, all the savings of his life, how much money do you have in the foundation...?"
Zhang Guozhong was helpless, this Wang Zihao was as off-topic as Captain Li, and asked him what evil things he had encountered, and he sold off his ancestral property.
"There are more than 200 million yuan!" Seeing that Zhang Guozhong didn't talk, Wang Zihao himself began to talk about the south and the north.
"My grandfather started in the leather business, and later went to the Americas to sell Chinese medicinal materials, you are the foundation of the Oh, how convinced of our Chinese patent medicine in the Americas, the most happy department to rent the 10,000-ton freighter, after the embellishment, simply bought one..., specifically run the Americas..."
"Mr. Wang, I want to know, what evil things happened to this piece of jade in your house, and how did those buyers die..."Zhang Guozhong didn't want to listen to him describe his grandfather's family history in this kind of broken Mandarin that speaks two thirds slower than ordinary people, "Also, is your grandfather and his old man alive now, and who bought this piece of jade from...?" ”
"Oh, you're talking about this, let me think about it..."After taking a sip of water, Wang Zihao said again: "This jade grandfather bought it from an English knight, and it cost more than a million Oh, what is it called, but the silver doesn't matter, it has already been washed off, he was killed and washed the ground, and it has nothing to do with this jade!" ”
"Mr. Wang, are you saying that the people who bought jade from you in the past were not killed?"
"Hmmm! Well! Say it and scare the silver! ”
Zhang Guozhong learned that Wang Zhongjian, the grandfather of Wang Zihao, was once a famous medicinal tycoon in Hong Kong, but in his later years, he suddenly played with antiques, and almost all his previous savings were tossed in, most of the antiques on Wang Zhongjian's hands were bought from the British, and many of them were snatched when the Eight-Nation Alliance burned the Old Summer Palace, and there were many national treasures. This made Zhang Guozhong less annoying this prince Hao, after all, his grandfather was a conscientious Chinese who did what all Chinese wanted to do.
About this piece of jade, Wang Zhongjian bought it from a declining lord named McCriss in London a few years ago, there was no problem at the time, and since the Wang family moved to a new villa, strange things have happened frequently, first the sound of ancient pipes in the attic every day, and then the sound of a team of people walking neatly in the basement every day, stirring up the family chickens and dogs, and even Wang Zihao's father suffered from mild schizophrenia, and found no less than ten famous Taoist elders before and after to see, none of them worked, and the family thought it was a house problem at first, In the end, the whole family bought two high-end apartments in the most lively place in Central and moved in, which was considered to stop, but since there was a little girl upstairs who was raised by someone jumped off the building and committed suicide, there were strange things in the house, always inexplicably heard someone crying, and the sound of singing, and pets similar to cats and dogs died inexplicably, the most bizarre is the dog, when he died, his eyes were red, and his face was full of tears. Dogs are spiritual creatures, and dogs cry to death inexplicably, which indicates that the dog has discovered something that poses a great threat to its owner before it dies.
Later, Wang Zihao adopted a stupid method, that is, all the old man's antiques from the screen stele to the pocket watch jewelry to a rented warehouse, and then the house was quiet for a while, I thought it would be good, but within a few days, something strange happened at home, but what was even more strange was that when Wang Zihao opened the safe, he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants on the spot, and this piece of jade was placed in the safe. The password of the safe is only known to Wang Zihao, and all the suspicions of evil things are concentrated on this piece of jade at once.
Later, the prince wanted to sell this piece of jade to others, and also held an auction, a Malaysian rich man bought the jade, but within a year, he sent the jade back, saying that this is an evil jade, several people died in the family, the cause of death is myocardial infarction (vulgar is scared to death), Wang Zihao is also a thief, so he returned the money to others, and later, this prince Hao was introduced by someone and sold this piece of jade to a Taiwanese businessman, but suddenly one day, this piece of jade appeared in the safe of the Wang family, As soon as Wang Zihao inquired, the Taiwanese businessman's entire family died of myocardial infarction on the same night, and the police suspected that someone had committed a high-tech crime and were making every effort to investigate it.
Wang Zihao also once wanted to bury the jade, and even threw it on the high sea, but every time he threw it away, the jade would come back inexplicably, sometimes in the safe, sometimes on the bookshelf, sometimes in his wife's makeup box, he couldn't throw it away, and he didn't dare to smash it, and it was difficult to ride a tiger.
This time, Wang Zihao is even more restless, after inviting several of the most famous gentlemen in Hong Kong to no avail, only to bring this piece of jade to the mainland, this Wang Zihao is greedy for money, he still cares about his family, because his wife just gave birth to a daughter to him, he is worried about the safety of his wife and daughter, so he took the jade to the mainland alone, nominally an investment, in fact, he wants to find someone to deal with this piece of jade, this way Wang Zihao is also restless, afraid of derailment by train, afraid of crash by plane, He was even afraid that this jade would fly back to the safe at home from his hands, but fortunately, the jade was still in his bag, and Wang Zihao originally wanted to hire someone to do this, but after thinking about it carefully, he still felt that he was more relieved to come in person.
A few days ago, a classmate of Zhang Guoyi met Wang Zihao when he went to Guangzhou to open an order fair, and after hearing about this incident, he directly gave him the address of Zhang Guoyi's house, saying that this person knew a great immortal, this Wang Zihao did not do two things, and took a train from Guangzhou to Tianjin on the same day, at first Zhang Guoyi did not want to cause this trouble for his brother, but for the sake of the golden Hong Kong dollar, he still blew his brother, and this Wang Zihao was also fooled by Zhang Guoyi, and immediately regarded Zhang Guozhong as a savior.
"Mr. Wang, in this way, whether this piece of jade can stay with me for the time being, I need to study it..."
"Good! Good! No problem! Of course! Wang Zihao hurriedly said goodbye as if he had thrown off the plaster.
At night, Zhang Guozhong opened his eyes once, and he didn't see anything special about this piece of jade, at this time, the only thing Zhang Guozhong could count on was the old man and brother, after all, when it came to antiques, he was more than himself.
When he came to Lao Liutou's house, Zhang Guozhong was taken aback first, this old Liu Tou is really enough to toss, the traces of the original house raid in the house are completely invisible, a full set of antique furniture; The Eight Immortal Table, the Taishi Chair, and the Four Treasures of the Study Room are all available, and Lao Liu Tou himself, his hair has been cut, his beard has been shaved, he is wearing a magnificent Tang costume, and his face is oily.
Holding the jade handed by Zhang Guozhong, Lao Liu played with it for a while, "Brother, this thing is a good thing, where did you get it?" ”
Zhang Guozhong told the story of Wang Zihao to Lao Liu Tou, of course, the history of Old Man Wang's fortune was omitted.
"This jade doesn't seem to be anything special, senior brother, do you think there is something wrong with him somewhere else?"
"This is a good piece of jade, and it has been around for many years, in my opinion, it is very likely that it was tossed out by the gang of inverted buckets (the jargon of tomb robbers), but this jade is not ordinary," Lao Liu Tou took a sip of tea, took out a magnifying glass, and held up the jade to Zhang Guozhong, "Look, here..."
Following the place of Lao Liu's finger, through the magnifying glass, I did see that there was a small mark on the edge of this jade, and if I didn't look carefully, I would think it was a mud mark that had been silted for a long time. At this moment, Zhang Guozhong had to admire Lao Liu Tou's eyesight, and he didn't see a meridian after holding it all night, and this old Liu Tou saw the flaw in less than five minutes.
"Since there is a mouth, there is a reason to have a mouth, come..."Saying that Lao Liu took Zhang Guozhong to a booth lamp, turned on the lamp, to say that this profession is professional, Zhang Guozhong is an eye-opener, this lamp looks ordinary, but in fact it is a high-brightness halogen lamp, the brightness and the street lamp have a fight, close the curtains, Lao Liu Tou put the jade on a shelf under the lamp, with the help of the light from the back of the jade, the whole jade is permeable and slippery, but there is a dark part in the middle, It's very incongruous with the crystal clarity of other places, as if something is in the middle.
"Senior brother, this is..."
"This is called jade, it is a method used to hide confidential documents in ancient times, and it is difficult for ordinary people to see the Tao without the help of a magnifying glass." Old Liu Tou turned off the lamp, "But listening to what you said, it seems that there is more than just confidential documents hidden in this jade." ”
"What else would there be? Could it be the soul locking jade (the jade that imprisons the living evil ghosts of animals, Maoshan is called the soul locking jade, and the dead jade of the Qing Dynasty jinshi imprisoned by the aforementioned Ma Zhenren is the soul locking jade)? ”
"Unlikely. The ancients would not use such a good jade to do that kind of thing, and this is not a dead jade, and the effect is not necessarily good, I think it is used for other purposes. Now the key is to ask that Wang Zihao, where did this jade come from, if you can't figure out the origin, I'm afraid no one can do anything..."
Wang Zihao sat in the old Liu Tou's house, both eyes were spent, his grandfather also played antiques, grew up in the antique pile since he was a child, but when he arrived at the old Liu Tou's house, he still opened his eyes, and the calligraphy and paintings on the wall were the most recent Qi Baishi, and even Dong Qichang's paintings were hung in a not very conspicuous place, and the main hall was hung with the works of Yan Liben and Li Sixun, who were all grandmaster-level figures.
Looking at the shadows in the jade under the lamp, Wang Zihao immediately threw himself to Zhang Guozhong and Lao Liu Tou, although he didn't find a solution, but he saw the flaws in the jade, which was already a big breakthrough.
"Mr. Wang, you must find out the origin of this thing, otherwise we won't be able to do it."
"Alas, I'm going to ask my grandfather about this, but it's my grandfather, he's not in good health now, and he may not be able to ask anything..."
"What's wrong with your grandfather?"
"It's dementia, but when you see something that excites you, you still have some reason (reason)."
"And what do you think I have in my house that excites him?" Old Liu Tou smoked a cigarette with a flirtatious face.
"It's not a good thing, but I can bring him..."