Chapter Twenty-Nine: Poisonous Jade
"Hehe, Zhang Zhangjiao is really taking people's money and eliminating disasters with people." Qin Ge said with a smile, "Unless you promise to help me, please return the money to the Wang family, and then take the name of Maoshan Mountain, without me, you don't want to know the secret of this piece of jade for the rest of your life." ”
Qin Ge's trick is too powerful, returning the money is a trivial matter, picking the name of Maoshan is not a joke, the Maoshan Sect emphasizes a letter, the predecessors of Maoshan heirs, when they encounter something they are not sure of, they either don't accept it, or risk their lives to complete the task, there has never been a precedent for returning money. This Hong Kong is a prosperous place for Taoism, and if this matter spreads, I am afraid that Ma Zhenren will not be blind under the Nine Springs.
"Okay, I promise you." A burst of blood rushed to Zhang Guozhong's head at this moment, and he didn't care about Lao Liu's head and kicked his leg vigorously.
"Good! Deal! Qin Ge laughed, turned his head and stared at Lao Liu with a smile.
"That's it! There should be octagonal rice in my life, and I am not satisfied with the rise when I go all over the world, you say! ”
Qin Ge picked up the jade in Zhang Guozhong's hand: "This is a piece of poisonous jade." ”
Zhang Guozhong frowned at this moment, he had heard of poisonous jade, but he had never seen it, in his opinion, poisonous jade should be similar to dead jade, and it should also be a jade species that is not in good condition, so when he got this piece of jade, he didn't think about it.
Legend has it that during the Warring States period, Wei once dug up a piece of poisonous jade, but what happened later, no one knows. There is such a strange phenomenon in the world, the more beautiful the insects, the more toxic they are, the more fancy the mushrooms, eating the quasi-dead people, this poisonous jade is the same, just looking at the appearance, it is definitely a peerless jade, but it has an unknown strange power, in terms of modern science, jade has radiation, and this poisonous jade, it is also very likely that many radioactive elements have reached a specific proportion, which can release radiation different from other jade.
"I once had a piece of poisonous jade," Qin Ge fiddled with the jade, "It has been measured in the United States with special instruments, and the radioactivity intensity is more than ten times that of ordinary jade, and it can emit a weak pulse, which other jade does not have, especially pulses. I've also consulted a few friends in the spiritual world, who believe that the trait of poison jade has the potential to affect both the people and ghosts around them. ”
"Then why did this piece of jade return to the Wang family by itself?" Zhang Guozhong frowned.
"You'll have to answer that question yourself, I don't study the paranormal." Qin Ge thought for a while, "But let me tell you, this piece of jade is one of the treasures of the Later Jin Dynasty, when a group of tomb robbers dug up a secret room where the treasure stone platform of the town was hidden, and sold the jade to a missionary, this piece of jade entered Britain during the Opium War, and there was a large auction at that time." ”
"How do you know that?" Zhang Guozhong was puzzled.
"Do you know this Mr. Sun Qilin?" Qin Ge handed over the business card again, "His grandfather was the auctioneer at that time, and he also heard him say that this kind of thing was poisonous jade, he described this piece of jade to me, and I didn't expect to see it at Wang Zhongjian's house." Qin Ge took a sip of water, and he was afraid that he would say a third of his life's words on this day.
"At that time, the person who bought this piece of jade made up a big lie, saying that this piece was China's Heshi Bi, so he specially found a Chinese main shot to set off the atmosphere, and later the person who bought this piece of jade, the family became a murderous house, dead and dead, crazy, and the jade also changed hands several times, and finally it was said that the first mate on a cargo ship spent 20 pounds to buy it, but there was no accident in his home. I didn't think that after dozens of years, I asked Wang Zhongjian to buy it again, I originally wanted to warn him, but at that time, I was not 100% sure that this was the poisonous jade, so I didn't want to destroy Wang Zhongjian's Yaxing. ”
"What do you mean..."Zhang Guozhong thought for a moment, "put this piece of jade back to the town of the treasure of the Later Jin Dynasty?" ”
"Teachable!" Qin Ge smiled, since Zhang Guozhong and Lao Liu Tou promised him to help break the treasure of the Hou Jin, there were obviously a lot more words than before.
"And what if he's going to come back on his own?"
"Probably not, this piece of jade has been there for a thousand years, and there must be a special way for him to stay there. If you can go to the field and learn that method, it is not impossible to take this piece of jade home by yourself. ”
"Not necessarily, right?" Old Liu Tou also spoke at this time. "Mr. Qin, look here..."
Old Liu Tou took the jade and pointed to the mud marks on the edge.
"You..." Qin Ge took the jade, took out a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully, his brows furrowed.
"Mr. Qin, you claim to be an expert in ancient jade, haven't you heard of such a thing as jade?" Old Liu asked listlessly.
"Jade?" Qin Ge's eyes were full of suspicion, he took the jade to the window and looked at it again and again in the sunlight. "Gao Ming...," Qin Ge muttered, this piece of jade was an irregular round shape, about the size of a cigarette case, but only one-third of the thickness of a cigarette case, obviously it was a whole piece of jade before, and then it was made into a jade ball.
The so-called jade is to open a very thin gap on the side of the whole piece of jade, and then grind it to the inside of the jade with a special tool, and carve a thin layer of pictures or characters on the inside of the jade under the condition of invisibility, and then fill the gap with jade powder, and finally seal it with a special material. This stunt began in the Spring and Autumn Period and is said to have been extinct at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
"What's written in there?"
"You have to answer this question yourself, we have no research on ancient jade!" This old Liu Tou swore to die with Qin Ge.
The reason why even Qin Ge didn't see that this piece of jade was actually jade was because this thing was too unpopular, according to the "Maoshan Shuzhi" record, China's first jade pill appeared in the Warring States period, originally existed as a form of handicraft, and gradually evolved into a way to transmit secret information during the war at the end of the Han Dynasty (not all jade is made of peerless jade, most of the jade that transmits information belongs to the usual miscellaneous jade, ancient people used to hang jade on their bodies, just as it is normal for modern people to wear watches, Under the concealment of this custom, most of the military intelligence can be safely disseminated by the jade ball, and some jade balls can even be made in a copper coin in the miscellaneous jade, and the place with a large fingernail cover can even draw a map), because each time the jade is made is a confidential military intelligence, so a "stone carpenter" will be secretly executed after being used for a period of time, and then some people who master the "stone stunt" are forced to remain incognito, until the Tang Dynasty, this stunt has reappeared in the rivers and lakes, and the Tang Dynasty court was impressed by this long-lost stuntWith the preferential treatment of the court, these craftsmen began to pass on this secret skill only to their own descendants, and passed on the male to the female, so as to avoid outsiders from robbing their own jobs, which eventually led to the loss of this unique science.
In the Tang Dynasty, where the "Soul Attraction Method" was sought after by the aristocracy, the masters of the Maoshan Sect once invented the "Soul Attraction Method" with the jade as the carrier in combination with the inscription of the ancestor of the Pavilion (in rural China, there are often children who are easy to lose their souls, some children suddenly lose consciousness and are unconscious without experiencing any external blows, but the pulse and breathing are normal, at this time the family will think that the child has lost his soul, and under normal circumstances, please ask a witch god to summon the soul to be cured, but there are also some children such as the heirs of high-ranking officials and nobles, due to weakness, Soul loss is often lost, so adults will wear jade slabs with inscriptions on the child to prevent the occurrence of soul loss until the child grows up. Of course, most of the people who can enjoy this kind of treatment are court dignitaries, and ordinary people can't afford that thing. This is described in detail in the secret books of the Zhongge Sect, "The Mantra of the Zhongge" and "Maoshan Tuzhi", which is also the reason why Lao Liu Tou can recognize this as a jade ball.
In the late Tang Dynasty, this method was used in the funeral, sacrifice, etc., and even used in the tomb and formation, some masters even directly made the dead jade into a jade, the inscription or incantation in it, and the evil ghost and livestock were sealed in it, when he just learned that this was a piece of jade, Zhang Guozhong also had the idea of cutting the jade to see what was going on, but for safety reasons, Lao Liu Tou still did not do it, because Ma Zhenren seemed to have suffered the loss of the text, and had repeatedly taught himself: Most of the jade in the late Tang Dynasty had a text or mantra, It's not good stubble. Judging from the size of this piece of jade and the faint pattern of the monkey (also known as "Kiln", an evil beast with a human face and a dragon body in ancient legends, and likes to eat people), it is definitely not for children to wear to summon spirits, so for safety reasons, Lao Liu Tou still chooses to observe. And at this moment, after learning that this was a piece of "poisonous jade", he was even more glad that he was not tricked by Zhang Guozhong to cut the jade at the beginning, otherwise he might attract something tricky.
"You don't know it's a jade ballast?" Zhang Guozhong said strangely, he originally thought that Qin Ge, an ancient jade expert, would be able to give him a little answer.
"Can I see what's inside?" Qin Ge didn't care about his own negligence, and he wanted to cut the jade pill with the intention of cutting it.
"If I could, I would have seen it. But if you want to watch it, you can also watch it, and when Guozhong and I return to the mainland, you can see it as much as you like..."Old Liu Tou said contemptuously. At this moment, Qin Ge was also silent, staring at Lao Liu Tou and Zhang Guozhong for a while, "What if I say that I can see it without destroying this piece of jade?" At this moment, Zhang Guozhong and Lao Liu Tou were stunned, they couldn't see it with their own eyes, what can this Qin Ge do?
Reality has proved that the Chinese people who have been washed by * are indeed outdated. Qin Ge told Zhang Guozhong and Lao Liu Tou that there is a lot of advanced technology now, and it is not impossible to see the internal situation without destroying the jade ball. Qin Ge believed that the most advanced acoustic scanning technology at the time (a specialized fluoroscopy technique for radiological hybrid ultrasound imaging, which could act on stone fluoroscopy) made it possible to see the contents inside the jade.
After a period of silence, the three of them reached an agreement, Qin Ge took Gu Yu to the United States to scan, while Zhang Guozhong and Lao Liu Tou went back to the mainland to prepare for the guy style, at this moment Zhang Guozhong was still worried about the start of school, only to see Qin Ge sign the check very neatly, "Zhang Zhangjiao, the ancients, the big husband is ambitious, if you like to teach, after we succeed, you can run a bigger school by yourself." After that, he handed a check for 500,000 Hong Kong dollars to Zhang Guozhong, "I don't know how much money Wang Zhongjian gave you, I am not as rich as him, I can only give you so much first... Zhang Zhangjiao, you can resign temporarily, even if we don't succeed, I believe that in Hong Kong, you will be richer than me with your ability. "Although I haven't seen what Zhang Guozhong is capable of, Qin Ge still trusts Zhang Guozhong's title very much.
"Mr. Qin, can we take you, the ancient map of the Jin Dynasty and this piece of silk silk, back to study it?" Zhang Guozhong took the check and said.
"Of course you can ......"