Chapter Forty-Seven: Borrowing Flowers to Offer Buddha
"Sixty thousand!"
The focus of everyone's eyes at the auction site was no longer on Zhao Bin, and they all gathered on a young man in white next to Qiu Nuo.
Whether it is eye-catching or imposing, the young man is obviously much better than Zhao Bin.
The auction scene was noisy, as if it had completely become a stage for Zhao Bin and young people to play, and everyone subconsciously looked at Zhao Bin.
"Sixty-two!"
Zhao Bin obviously didn't have much confidence when he raised his hand this time, and it was obvious that this price had exceeded the range he expected, but because of the face in front of everyone, he still didn't plan to give up.
The young man actually smiled slightly, raised his hand without pressure, and his movements looked relaxed and chic.
"Seventy thousand!"
There was another uproar below, and the young people completely pushed the atmosphere and enthusiasm of the scene to **.
Zhao Bin hesitated whether to continue or not, and the strength and strength of his opponent seemed to far surpass him.
"Forget it, it's just a painting, but fortunately, I don't have to force it too much." I said with a smile in his ear.
Zhao Bin seemed to have finally found the steps, smiled awkwardly, and never raised the sign in his hand again.
When the auctioneer finally announced that the "Twelve Sages and Bright Pictures" had been won by the young man, the audience burst into warm applause, and the young man didn't even look at the painting in his hand, and sent it directly to Qiu Nuo next to him.
"Hehe, it turns out that there are people who understand the goods, don't think that you are the only one who understands." Yue Qianling glanced at me and said lukewarmly.
"It turned out to be a flower offering to the Buddha, no wonder I worked so hard to buy this painting." I didn't seem to hear what Yue Qianling said at all, and my eyes kept looking at the young man in white.
"To whom do you borrow flowers and offer them to the Buddha?" Xiao Lianshan asked boredly.
"I haven't seen it yet, this is to curry favor with Qiu Nuo, and looking at the action he just made when he took the painting, I know that he doesn't know anything about antiques."
"Yo, I feel very sour when I hear you say this." Yue Qianling looked like she was smiling. "This is called demeanor, and it is pleasing to the girls, of course, telling you these is simply playing the piano to the cow, anyway, you will never be able to learn."
I didn't answer Yue Qianling's words with a wry smile, but gave the young man a few more looks.
After this episode, the auction continued, but the young people no longer raised their hands as they did just now, but as long as there were antiques from the Tang Dynasty, whether they had artistic value or commercial value, the young people would bid at a high price, and then turn around and give them to Qiunuo next to them.
Halfway through the auction, Qiu Nuo was already full of all kinds of antiques, all objects from the Tang Dynasty, but Qiu Nuo didn't have the slightest expression of joy on her face, and her face was still as cold as frost, as if everything in front of her was nothing more than that.
I thought of Qiu Nuo's reaction to the terracotta figurines in Qingyang Palace that day, and suddenly understood that Qiu Nuo was very fond of things from the Tang Dynasty, and she was completely fond of them, no wonder young people only bought cultural relics from the Tang Dynasty and gave them to her.
"The seventeenth collection, the eight-petal silver cup with the Tang lady pattern, the starting price is 10,000 yuan, and the price is increased by 2,000 yuan each time, please bid."
The belly of the silver cup on the auction table is in the shape of an eight-petal flower, the mouth is connected with beads along the outer edge, the abdomen is arc-shaped, and the lower abdomen has eight petals of the lotus protruding on the surface of the cup. Ring-shaped single handle, the handle is covered with a ruyi cloud head-shaped flat stalk, and the crest deer is chiseled together, and the circle is engraved with flower branches.
The eight petals on the belly of the cup are the eight ornamental areas, and each area is engraved with a group of figures, or ladies, or hunting figures.
The picture of the ladies is the ladies playing with babies, the ladies dressing, the ladies dancing and the ladies playing; There are three hunting pictures of horses chasing deer, one is bending the bow and shooting fierce beasts, and the lower part of the cup belly is filled with honeysuckle patterns.
The inner bottom of the silver cup is lined with water ripples, and a Capricorn head and three small fish are engraved in the middle, and the eight lotus petals in the depression are carved out of flowers and plants, so that when the cup is filled with wine or water, it is like in the microwave rippling pool, the fish swim, the aquatic plants float, and the ordinary eating and drinking activities also add a little ornamental pleasure, and the exquisite conception is breathtaking.
I smiled faintly, probably rarely seeing a happy and impulsive expression on my face, Yue Qianling asked curiously.
"This silver cup...... Worth the money? ”
"This silver cup is also ordinary, and there are a lot of unearthed, there is nothing particularly rare, but this silver cup has an allusion, I thought it should be lost, but I didn't expect to see it here again." I said with a smile.
"It's obviously just a wine glass made of silver, why do you see such a big reaction?" Xiao Lianshan asked puzzled.
"yes, tell me what the allusion is." Yue Qianling seems to be much more interesting to listen to a story than to look at a cup that can't speak.
"You are studying archaeology, so test you, the most famous smile among women in history is that smile?" I said to Yue Qianling with interest.
Yue Qianling didn't think about it, and answered confidently.
"Can you ask some challenging questions, this also wants to stump me, the most famous laugh is of course the favorite concubine of Tang Xuanzong in the Tang Dynasty: Yang Guifei, she has the beauty of the city and the country, natural beauty, and proficient in music, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing the pipa, so that Tang Xuanzong is very fond of her, the Tang Emperor above 10,000 people in order to win the favor of Yang Guifei, who is "3,000 beauties in the harem, 3,000 favorites in one", always appoint a special person to transport fresh lychees with dew through the post station every five miles and ten miles during the lychee season," As soon as the concubine laughed on the red dust, no one knew that it was a lychee." At that time, what a moving scene when Yang Guifei tasted lychees in the Huaqing Palace. ”
"It turned out to be a foodie, hahaha." Xiao Lianshan was laughing happily beside him.
"Looking back and smiling, the six palaces have no color." I took a deep breath and said unfinished. "The most valuable antique so far, this is the Tang Ming Emperor rewarded Yang Yuhuan, this set of wine is a total of five cups, the cup is a silver cup, the wine pot is made of pure gold, Yang Yuhuan loves this set of wine utensils, he carries it with him wherever he goes, and it is recorded in the funeral book that Yang Yuhuan was given to die Ma Weipo, and this set of wine glasses does not know the whereabouts."
"Huh?!" Yue Qianling looked at me in surprise. "This ...... This is what Yang Yuhuan used? ”
I nodded nonchalantly and said lightly.
"Yang Yuhuan is also recorded in the history of good wine, she looks back and smiles at Bai Meisheng, the six palaces have no color and three thousand pampered in one, but she also fell out of favor for a while and borrowed wine to drown her sorrows, and forgot about it when she was drunk, and let her go into a dissolute form."
"You mean the concubine is drunk?" Yue Qianling said with a wink.
"Everyone in the world knows this allusion, but they don't know the connection between this allusion and this set of wine glasses."
"Don't sell it, hurry up, what does the concubine's drunkenness have to do with this silver cup?" Yue Qianling asked eagerly.
"Tang Xuanzong made an appointment with Yang Guifei one day, ordered him to set up a banquet in the Baihua Pavilion, and went to enjoy the flowers and drink together, Yang Guifei then went to the Baihua Pavilion first, prepared the imperial feast and waited, Tang Xuanzong's car did not arrive, and suddenly reported that the emperor had been fortunate to the Jiang Concubine Palace, Yang Guifei heard the news, and was annoyed to death, and it was difficult to dismiss for a while, and the wine was sad, and the three cups were also drunk, who knew that Tang Xuanzong was worried about Yang Guifei, and moved the Baihua Pavilion, just saw Yang Guifei's spring love, and couldn't help laughing, so he ordered someone to create a set of wine utensils and give Yang Guifei."
Yue Qianling looked back at the silver cup on the auction table, according to what I said, the value of this silver cup is completely immeasurable.
My eyes slowly looked at the young man next to Qiu Nuo, with Qiu Nuo's understanding of the cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty, the origin and value of this silver cup, she must also know very well that Qiu Nuo has a soft spot for cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the silver cup used by Yang Guifei in front of her, presumably the young man next to her will not give up this opportunity to do what she likes.
"Thirty thousand!"
As soon as I finished thinking about it, the young man had already raised his hand to ask for the price, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he added 20,000 yuan, and the posture of spending a lot of money to smile for Bo Hongyan was not much worse than that of Tang Minghuang.
It is clear that the auction house has underestimated the value of the silver cup, and although I don't know much about the market and price of antiques, the value of such an object with historical records and cultural heritage is completely impossible to measure with money.
The young man's previous move had always been magnanimous, and when he heard him speak, the price was raised to 30,000, and no one in the venue raised a sign except for the sound of talking about it.
"Thirty-two!"
The voice came from the last row, old and calm.
The others and I looked back, and the voice came from the mouth of an old, well-dressed man.
"Hehe, I finally know the goods again." I said with a faint smile.
"Forty thousand!" The young man raised his hand nonchalantly.
"Forty-two thousand!" The old man raised his hand expressionlessly.
"There's a good show to watch, it looks like these two people are burned, guess which of them will win." Xiao Lianshan said with a gloating smile.
"I'm optimistic that Mr. Wei will win."
I looked back and saw Zhao Bin very confidently and said, looking at his appearance, he was full of confidence in this old man, maybe he was robbed of the limelight by the young man just now, and he was still indignant, and finally waited for someone to vent his anger, looking very happy.
"Who is Wei always?" Xiao Lianshan asked.
"It's the person who quoted just now, Wei Youcheng, one of the best people in the southwest business community, who does steel business, people in the business community call him Mr. Wei, the business is very big, and he supplies the steel used in infrastructure projects in Sichuan and Chongqing." Zhao Bin explained in a whisper.
"Fifty thousand!" The young man raised his hand without looking back.
"Fifty-two!" Wei Youcheng raised his hand unhurriedly.
The young man finally couldn't help but look back at Wei Youcheng, Wei Youcheng's way of raising the price was low-key and practical, compared to the young man's publicity, he seemed more calm, but in the eyes of the young man, Wei Youcheng seemed to be deliberately against himself, no more, no less, only two thousand.
"Eighty thousand!" The young man said aloud with impetuousness.
"Eighty-two!"
Wei Youcheng's movements were still calm and gentle, as if no matter what the young man did, there was no pressure on him.
I saw Qiunuo tugging at the young man's sleeve, apparently trying to persuade him to give up, and judging from Qiunuo's expressionless appearance, she didn't seem to like what the young man was doing.
Regarding the abstract thing of face, sometimes it is difficult to associate it with reason, and people compete for a breath of Buddha and a pillar of incense, which is nothing more than fighting to show others, let alone in front of a girl who wants to please herself, so I believe that this game will not end so soon.