Yu Fei and the three of them didn't expect Ye Lao to have such an expression at all. The monkey didn't expect that the signature smile on Ye Lao's face would disappear. In his opinion, it was no longer a smile, but just a conditioned reflex of the facial muscles.

Yu Fei looked at Ye Lao, paused, and replied: "This piece of jade was given to me by my old man to ward off evil spirits, and it is said to have been handed down by my ancestors. ”

"Ancestral? Hehe......" Ye Lao was obviously not satisfied with Yu Fei's answer, but Ye Lao did not continue to ask, but turned around and walked a few steps, then turned back to Yu Fei and said, "Mr. Yu, can you give me this piece of ancient jade, the price is yours." ”

"It was actually taken by an expert, could it be that this ancient jade is a treasure!" Yu Fei felt a burst of excitement in his heart. The thought that he might be able to make a windfall in no time made his heartbeat even faster. He took a deep breath and said secretly: "Calm down, calm down, you must be calm!" First of all, we have to figure out the value of this ancient jade! ”

Yu Fei tried his best to calm down his fluctuating emotions, so as not to let Ye Lao see the changes in his heart.

"This ...... Jade...... I don't really understand, the price is ...... I can't open it......" Although he tried his best to restrain himself, Yu Fei's words still had a slight trill.

"Haha, since that's the case, then I'll make a price first, two million, how about it?" Ye Lao had a signature smile on his face again.

What the? Million! Yu Fei was so excited that his heart almost didn't jump out of his throat. And the monkey who had just finished turning the account and was sitting on the side couldn't hold it back, so he stood up from the chair and said in his heart: "Damn! It is so much more expensive than this excellent old pit jade, how can Hetian jade be so valuable. I'm afraid there is some article in this. Thinking of this, he poked Yu Fei, who was already a little fluttering, and said: "Ye Lao, don't fool our juniors, everyone knows the jade market now, even if it is a top-level Hetian jade, such a small piece is definitely not worth this price." However, since Ye Lao is willing to offer such a high price, it is better to tell us the reason for this, and let us have a long experience. ”

After the monkey finished speaking, Ye Lao did not answer, but put down the jade pendant in his hand and walked towards the door of the store.

"Could it be that when the monkey said this, this old man Ye felt that it was not worth it and regretted it?" Seeing this situation, Yu Fei muttered in his heart, he turned his head and glared at the monkey fiercely, and quickly followed behind Ye Lao.

Ye Lao stopped when he walked to the door, he looked out, but hung out a plaque that said 'closed today' and closed the door of the store smoothly, then turned to look at Yu Fei and the others, smiled slightly, and said: "Since Mr. Hou asked, I won't hide it from you, this jade pendant may really have some origin." ”

As soon as Ye Lao said this, he aroused the curiosity of Yu Fei and the others, and they all pricked up their ears and waited for Ye Lao's next words. Ye Lao leaned on his cane, slowly paced back to the coffee table, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and beckoned everyone to sit down together, and began to speak:

"I don't know if you've heard of the legend of the Red Flame Divine Beast. In ancient times, Shennong's descendants of the fire god Zhu Rong and the water god Gonggong are incompatible with each other, in a big battle between the two, Zhu Rong who rode the fire dragon won a big victory, Gonggong was angry, collided with Buzhou Mountain, causing the water of the Tianhe River to pour into the world, in order to balance the power of water and fire in the world, Zhu Rong let the fire dragon wander underground, and one of the descendants of the fire dragon is this red flame beast.

Legend has it that the Red Flame Divine Beast with a blazing body around it has an extremely violent temperament. Once the whim comes, it will swallow the clouds and spit fire, which will bring disaster to the world. The Red Flame Divine Beast was raging everywhere, and Emperor Shun ordered people to go to the extremely cold land of the North Sea to obtain the essence of water and seal the Red Flame Divine Beast in it. The spirit of the water from yin to cold is the nemesis of the Red Flame Divine Beast, and the power of the evil fire of the Red Flame Divine Beast trapped in the ice spirit can no longer be exerted, and its violent aura is gradually dissolved by the cold air of the ice spirit. ”

Speaking of this, Ye Lao stopped and glanced at everyone, took a deep breath and continued: "Of course, what I just talked about is just a legend, but what I want to talk about next is a specious ancient past.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong was addicted to jade, and for a time, whether it was the court or the people, the scholars or the grass people, there was a jade collection craze throughout the country. Cai Jing, the minister of power at that time, in order to win the joy of the dragon's face, voted for the emperor's favor, placed Suzhou should be in the bureau, collected strange flowers and stones from all over the world, and transported them to Kaifeng, Tokyo by water. These ships transporting flowers and stones, every ten ships are organized into a program, from Jiangnan to Kaifeng, along the Huai River, Bianhe River and upstream, the boats are connected to each other, and they are endless, which is called the Huashi class at that time.

As a result, Suzhou City has gradually become a distribution center for strange stones in the country, and jade craftsmen from all over the world have gathered here to collect jade rough stones and carve exquisite jade pieces one by one. Several of the more famous Northern Song Dynasty jade artifacts that are now circulating in the world are mostly from the hands of jade craftsmen in Suzhou City during the Huizong period.

One day, an exotic monk came to Suzhou City, and the monk was blind with a long crutche. The blind monk visited one by one along the jade workshop that stood in the city of Suzhou, and every time he arrived, he would take out a round stone that seemed to be the size of his palm, and claimed that this was Hetian Pushi, which contained a peerless beautiful jade, and now only twenty taels of silver were tattooed. When the shopkeepers of the Jade Shop saw that this man was ragged and blind, they all thought that he was nothing more than a beggar who had cheated on food and drink, and did not believe him at all.

The blind monk wandered in the city of Suzhou for several days, and on this day came to a jade workshop called the god workshop, the god workshop has just opened, the shopkeeper is called Chen Xiang, due to the opening of the new store, the business is cold, see a customer to the door, Chen Xiang immediately greeted the past. The blind monk understood his intentions, and then took out the round stone again. Although Chen Xiang has heard about it these days, he said that there was a blind monk in the Western Regions who picked up a stone out of nowhere and pretended to be Hetian Pushi to abduct him. But Chen Xiang was born with a soft heart, he couldn't pull his face to drive the blind monk away, so he beckoned the blind monk to sit down, instructed the people in the store to serve refreshments, and took the round stone in the blind monk's hand and tasted it carefully.

Chen Xiangzu has been a jade craftsman for three generations, and he has followed his father to identify jade rough since he was a child, and he also has a lot of research on jade. He didn't care about it, but he really felt that there was something in this round stone, so he ordered his subordinates to take twenty taels of silver, but at this time the blind monk laughed, and said: "I can't imagine that this Central Plains and Eastern Land, but there are really people who know this treasure." This jade is transformed by the ice spirit of the cold land, trapped in an ancient beast, since the donor knows it, it is a person who is destined, and the poor monk will give it to the donor. With that, the blind monk dodged away.

When Chen Xiang got the cobblestone, he immediately called someone to get a tool, found the incision on the side of the cobblestone, cut it with a knife, and the cobblestone opened in response. Chen Xiang picked it up and looked at it, and was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. I saw that on the cut surface of this round stone, a circle of white jade like mutton fat was wrapped in a fiery red. This mutton fat white jade can be regarded as the best in jade, and this red jade is even more rare in the world. As the saying goes: "Jade is red and valuable." Chen Xiang was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and he didn't expect that he had inadvertently obtained a piece of peerless jade.

The news that Chen Xiang got the treasure soon spread in Suzhou City, and the shopkeepers of the major jade workshops heard that this treasure was actually a round stone from the hands of the blind monk in the Western Regions, and they were so angry that they beat their chests. For a time, the whole city of Suzhou was in an uproar. It didn't take long for this matter to reach the ears of Zhu Mian, the general leader of the Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau, who was Cai Jing's confidant and had a lot of experience with Huashi. As soon as he heard about this, he immediately sent someone to Chen Xiang's divine workshop.

At this time, Chen Xiang was in the jade workshop in the backyard of his house, holding a carving knife and carefully carving the peerless jade. Suddenly, I heard that someone came to repay the bureau and asked to see him. As soon as he heard that someone should be from the bureau, Chen Xiang couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and he hurriedly hid Puyu and went out.

As soon as the official of the Ying Feng Bureau saw Chen Xiang, he arched his hand and said: "Congratulations to Shopkeeper Chen, Master Zhu heard that Shopkeeper Chen has recently obtained a strange treasure, and the special little one came here, please take the treasure with Shopkeeper Chen." The emperor's birthday is approaching, Lord Zhu is worried about preparing for the emperor's birthday gift, if the treasure of the shopkeeper Chen is taken by Lord Zhu and presented to the emperor, it will be a great joy for your shopkeeper Chen, and the golden signboard of this magic workshop will be known to the world in the future. "Happy event! This is clearly to be forcible and plundered. Chen Xiang scolded in his heart.

At that time, everything that should be served in the situation would be forcibly taken under the pretext of serving the emperor, and if it was not complied with, it would be punished with the crime of "great disrespect". Chen Xiang knew that he couldn't prevaricate, so he thought of an expedient measure, and said to the official who came: "The official has worked hard, the villain has indeed obtained a piece of white jade rough stone recently, but it can't be talked about any treasure, if Lord Zhu likes it, the villain should give it with both hands." It's just that as the so-called 'jade can't be cut into a tool', Lord Zhu probably can't look down on such a piece of rough stone, so it is better to wait for the villain to carve this jade into a delicate jade piece, and then personally send it over to invite Lord Zhu to appreciate. It's also a good opportunity to show off my craftsmanship in this magic workshop. When this official heard this, Chen Xiang was also reasonable. He promised to limit it to three days, and after three days, Chen Xiang personally sent it to Zhufu.