Chapter 40: Surprised, Not Surprised?
Early the next morning, Tao Xiaoyao was woken up by a series of phone calls.
"Where did you move? Why don't you talk to us? ”
"You're a girl, do you know it's dangerous outside? The lesson from last time hasn't been long, has it!"
"Go home!"
On the phone, Tao Ran and Chen Lihua's anxious voices alternately hit Tao Xiao's eardrums.
Tao Yaoyao asked lazily, "Is Tao Yan still at home?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone, and then there was a squirming voice, as if several people were discussing something.
Tao Yaoyao was just about to hang up the phone, and Tao Yan's voice came from the other end: "Tao Yaoyao, this is also my home, I will not leave until I get married, you can't go back!"
Tao Yaoyao pressed the phone and was about to continue sleeping, but the door was knocked fiercely: "Sister Yaoyao, you are going to be late!" Get up!"
Tao Yaoyao yawned, covered her mouth and said tiredly, "There are not many classes today, I don't want to go to school......"
Zhang Xiaowei no longer bothered her, however, her sleepiness gradually faded.
That dream last night was really ......
She opened the comment end of "Absolute Love Northern Zhou", and sure enough, that paragraph was complained by a bunch of readers:
"The heroine was abused too badly, woo~"
"Abuse ~ Author's stepmother!!"
“……”
The effect of this paragraph is good, and many diving readers have been blown up, although they came out to scold her.
When exiting the novel's web page, Tao Yao glanced at a photo of the headline on her mobile phone and was shocked.
Click on the headline and zoom in on that photo, isn't it the Christmas present she received yesterday?
It's just that the phoenix crown of Empress Wude, which is exactly the same as the one given to her by Yu Wenmu, was placed on the booth and protected by an anti-theft glass cover.
SHE TOOK A CLOSER LOOK AT THE NEWS, AND IT PROBABLY SAID THAT THE PHOENIX CREST FROM CHINA WAS SOLD BY A MYSTERIOUS BRITISH MAN FOR $900 MILLION AT HUASENG'S AUCTION IN FRANCE, MAKING IT THE MOST EXPENSIVE COLLECTION IN HUASENG'S HISTORY.
$900 million!
Nearly 6 billion RMB!
Tao Xiaoyao hurriedly took the code box containing the gift to the bed and hid it in the bed.
Although I don't know if this phoenix crown is real or fake, even if it is a fake, it is made of real gold, and it is still frighteningly expensive!
Tao Xiaoyao glanced at the headline of the news again: "Empress Wude's phoenix crown was auctioned for 900 million US dollars in HUASENG!"
"Empress Wude Phoenix Crown!" Tao Xiaoyao exclaimed.
Empress Wude, isn't this the nickname given by Yang Jian posthumously after the death of Ashina, the empress of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong?
The heroine of her novel "Absolute Love in the Northern Zhou", Ashinaying, is based on Ashina, the empress of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
How could it be such a coincidence?
The last time Chen Datou arranged to go to Xianyang to participate in the activities of the fake scientific expedition team, Professor Meng said that the phoenix crown of Empress Wude was auctioned off in the foreign market in August last year? Why is it being auctioned again this year?
Also, if the phoenix crown has already been auctioned, why are they still targeting the tomb of Empress Wude? Could it be that there is something more precious in that tomb than the phoenix crown of Empress Wude?
Or is it that the phoenix crown that appeared at auction before is not the real phoenix crown of Empress Wude?
Tao Yaoyao turned on the computer and searched for news related to the phoenix crown of Empress Wude last year.
Sure enough, the phoenix crown auctioned last year was different from this year's.
Compared with this year's, last year's one was simply too low, but the commentary is reasonable, and it is basically the same as the record in the "Book of Zhou":
"Emperor Wu is still thrifty, wears cloth clothes every day, bedding cloth quilts, and eats three vegetarian meals" and even the edict requires "the tomb is not a grave, no burial, and the concubines and concubines who have no children will be released and returned home". In 1993, Xiaoling was stolen, and the recovered and national scientific expedition team excavated not many cultural relics, and there are no representative objects, the Northern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Wu Yuwen Yong as the Northern Zhou Dynasty has the greatest achievements of the generation of heroes, and the funeral goods are not even as rich as his wife Ashina. It can be seen that the production of Empress Wude's phoenix crown is also as frugal as possible.
However, in Tao Yaoyao's view, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty originally married the Turkic princess in order to ally with the Turks to enhance the strength of his country, and even if he was simple, he would definitely not treat the Turkic princess badly.
Moreover, before he married Ashina, he paid tribute to the Turkic old man Mupole Khan every year as his future son-in-law, and the gifts were generous, so how could he be stingy when he was newly married?
The phoenix crown auctioned last year may have been the crown of a noble woman from the Northern Zhou clan when she got married. In order to increase the value of the collection, the auctioneer deliberately said that it was just the phoenix crown of Empress Wude.
"Sister Yao, are you already awake? Would you like to come out for breakfast? At this time, Zhang Xiaowei knocked on the door again.
Tao Yao touched her stomach, she was really hungry, hid the password box, and went out.
During the meal, Zhang Xiaowei said intentionally or unintentionally: "Have you seen the news headlines this morning?"
"See." Tao Yaoyao pretended to be calm.
"You're not curious?"
"I'm a little curious, I ask you, will you tell the truth?"
“……”
When Zhang Xiaowei was about to go out, he threw Tao Yaoyao a new key and instructed again: "The gift that Mr. Yu gave you, remember not to talk nonsense."
"Got it!"
Tao Xiaoxiao finished breakfast, cleaned up, and went back to school.
She was late, and it happened to be Professor Li's class in the history department of S University.
Professor Li is a highly myopic patient, over half a hundred years old, with gray hair, and can only see things within 10 meters with his eyes.
Because Professor Li's classes are very popular, not only in this major, but also in other majors, students often come to skip classes, so his classes are in large classrooms, and he himself is immersed in his own academic world, and he never worries that someone will be late or skip class in his class, so he never names him.
So, when Tao Xiaoxiao slipped in from the classroom door and sat in the front row, Professor Li found the first latecomer of the day, and his expression was simply unbelievable and angry.
"Why is this classmate late?"
Tao Yaoyao said truthfully: "When I got up this morning, I saw the news headline Empress Wude's phoenix crown auctioned in France, and I fell into deep thought for a while, compared with the same news in August last year, and went to the Internet to check the historical materials, delaying the time, so I was late."
The anger on Professor Li's face disappeared, but his expression was still serious: "Tell me, what have you thought about?"
"The piece that was auctioned abroad last year was not the real Empress Wude's phoenix crown, but the seller deliberately said it in order to increase the value of the collection."
"Why?"
"It's the narration that exposes the clues. According to the "Book of Zhou", in order to win over the Turks, Emperor Wu of Zhou asked to marry the Turkic princess six times, and paid tribute every year...... how could he let years of hard work be wasted for a frugal decree
Professor Li walked up to the podium, lifted the heavy frame of his glasses, took the roll call book and pen in his hand, and said to Tao Yaoyao, "What is your name, this classmate?"
"Tao Yaoyao......" Tao Yaoyao was a little aggrieved, thinking that Professor Li was because she was late to remember her name, so he said it very quietly.
"What do you say? Be louder. ”
Tao Yaoyao was still aggrieved and refused to speak, but a male classmate behind her said for her very "enthusiastically": "Her name is Tao Yaoyao, the big writer of our class!"
Tao Xiaoyao was a little embarrassed.
"Mr. Tao, your thinking is very politically conscious, do you have any thoughts about taking the postgraduate examination in history and politics?"
Tao Yao was stunned, many students in the class who were preparing to take the postgraduate entrance examination wanted to ask Professor Li as a tutor but were refused, and she was the first student in the class to be personally invited by Professor Li.
What to do? She doesn't like history very much! It was purely because she wrote novels that she read the relevant history books and classics of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and she was a big fool in other dynasties, and she didn't know anything about world history.
But refusing in public seems to be too faceless for Professor Li, in case he is angry and fails her in the final exam......
Well, for the time being, it is not certain that she will not be able to pass the exam at that time, as long as she deliberately fails the exam and refuses to take the postgraduate examination, Professor Li will only feel that he has seen the wrong person at that time, and he will not blame her. Besides, the postgraduate entrance examination is in the next semester, and I will get through the end of this semester first, and everything else is easy to say.
"Yes."
"Very good, you can communicate with me more after class in the future."
"Thank you, Professor Li!"
Tao Yaoyao sat down, feeling that her back was cold, and the top students in the class must be slashing her with jealous eyes.
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Tao Xiaoyao didn't expect that she promised to go to graduate school in exchange for the second half of the semester.
Professor Li is not easy to accept apprentices, but he is very responsible for his students, just like the high school class teacher, who assigns tasks to them almost every day, checks them the next day, and often conducts academic exchange seminars.
Finally stayed up until the end of the final exam.
Her efforts were not in vain, and Professor Li's usual performance score almost gave her a full score, and the paper score was also very high. Tao Xiaoyao felt that Professor Li was a little partial to her, she knew that she had a few pounds and a few taels, and she was never good at endorsing, and the exam answers all depended on making up.
Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, Tao Yan has not left Tao's house yet, so Tao Xiaoxiao is still eating and drinking at Zhang Xiaowei's house.
Except for the occasional assignment from Professor Li and the need to go out, Tao Yaoyao spends most of his time in the room coding.
If you don't go out, you will have a lot less expenses. Tao Yaoyao found that the monthly manuscript fees received by Kari had accumulated to tens of thousands, and finally consciously helped Zhang Xiaowei pay the water and electricity bills and property management fees for January, and also bought him some new household items.
So when Zhang Xiaowei returned home from the company, he saw the pink tones all over the house, almost thought that he had entered the wrong house, and looked at the house number again in disbelief.
"You're back? What did you buy today? Tao Yaoyao just turned off the computer and walked out of the room, stretching.
Zhang Xiaowei saw that she was wearing a pink pajama pants, even the slippers were pink, and the whole person was like an elf coming out of a pink marshmallow.
"Tao Yaoyao, is this your home or mine?"
"Your home, of course." Tao Yaoyao blinked and smiled sweetly, "How is it?" Surprised, surprised? ”
Zhang Xiaowei laughed twice and sat on the sofa angrily: "I'm scared!"
I poured a glass of water and drank it, and it turned out to be pink, rose tea.