Chapter 80: The Pilgrimage Says
The shopkeeper Tong has felt a little abnormal since I saw him yesterday when I unloaded the car, and when he was so shocked by Chamber's disappearance that he overturned the teapot, it completely strengthened my thoughts. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
I suddenly realized that this experienced old shopkeeper must know something special about this exhibition. And Chamber's disappearance may have nothing to do with these insiders and the porcelain in his hand.
In my eagerness, I stood up, walked over, supported the swaying shopkeeper, and asked him with concern: "Shopkeeper, what's wrong?
When I asked, the shopkeeper Tong was still flustered, but he didn't answer me immediately, he first pushed me away, ran to the counter next to the month card to take a look, and then pinched his fingers.
With a look of remorse, Shopkeeper Tong stretched out his hand and asked me, "Huo Laosan, are you from the east?"
The shopkeeper asked me wide-eyed, but there are two entrances to the east and west of Heihu Street, so the people who come over are naturally in these two directions.
Surprised, I nodded, "It's from the east!"
After listening to my affirmation, the shopkeeper Tong patted his thigh and said: "Oh! I specially calculated the yellow calendar this morning, it is the snake day rushing to the pig, the noon life is mutually lu, the Emei crescent moon, and the year is coming to the east! Boss Huo! You are going to be unlucky!"
As he spoke, the excited shopkeeper Tong shouted again, making people think that he had taken the wrong medicine.
If it were someone else, and within one day, he would have met this Qian Bo evaporation, Wang Tianhu making a scene, and the shopkeeper Tong crying and mourning, I am afraid that I would really be scared, but ...... I'm not afraid.
Because Lao Tzu thinks to himself, now I am the number one unlucky ghost in Tianzi, all kinds of yang house ghosts, hotel monsters I have become commonplace, no matter how unlucky, what else can I do?
After smiling helplessly, I patted the old neighbor on the shoulder, and while soothing his panic, I told him: "Thank you for the reminder, but these feudal superstitions don't believe me." Will you tell me more about Chamber's disappearance?"
Seeing my unexpectedly calm, Shopkeeper Tong was a little stunned at first, and then under my comfort, he finally calmed down completely and regained his former appearance.
After returning to calm, Shopkeeper Tong first walked to the door and hung up the sign that was temporarily closed, and then sat back in front of me and Chen Bamiao, and said to us with a melancholy face: "Boss Huo really doesn't hide it, I can't help you with the disappearance of your Qian Bo, but the porcelain at this exhibition is ...... I can help you with one or two answers. ”
As soon as I heard this, Chen Bamiao and I couldn't help but be stunned, and after the two exchanged glances, I spoke again: "Sure enough, this time's problem...... Is it antique porcelain again?"
In the face of my judgment, the shopkeeper Tong calmly said: "Hey, I'm a person! I don't have any hobbies on weekdays, one is antique, and the other is delicious, so in the urban area, whenever there are new antiques unearthed and the news of the exhibition, I will go to see and take a look." ”
Therefore, just more than half a month before the start of the Lubei Catering Exhibition, when the shopkeeper Tong heard that Taiwanese businessman Kuan Tiandu was taking Baolai to participate in the competition and was going to give away antiques as prizes, he was naturally very excited.
In his happiness, the old shopkeeper who was obsessed with antiquity dragged the relationship with our urban antique research association, and spent a lot of money to buy VIP tickets for press conferences and exhibitions, just to feast his eyes and let himself take a photo with those rare treasures and leave a memory.
And the baby at this exhibition did not disappoint the shopkeeper Tong.
According to the shopkeeper Tong, the five prizes at the exhibition competition are all very cherished national cultural relics, and all the valuations given by Kuan Tiandu are very conservative, and it can be said that if they are really sold, they are far higher than the price of hundreds of thousands.
While speaking, the shopkeeper Tong specially mentioned the treasure bowl called "Eighty-one Partridge Spots".
He once again gestured at us with envy on his face: "...... There is absolutely no second quality of that bowl at home and abroad! Its good condition and exquisite craftsmanship are completely at the level of a national treasure! It is the pinnacle of perfection, priceless! Priceless!"
After listening to the exclamation of the shopkeeper Tong, I asked puzzledly: "You like those things so much, but why didn't you go to the exhibition to see them? Not only you, but even other antique shop owners, I don't seem to have seen them?"
After listening to my words, the shopkeeper Tong's face changed back to serious, and he slowly spoke, telling me from the beginning meaningfully: "If you like something, people will study it, but sometimes you study it deeply...... It becomes afraid. ”
"Afraid?" I was surprised, and immediately asked the shopkeeper Tong: "This antique is not yours, what are you afraid of?
When I said this, the shopkeeper Tong waved his hand and told us that the antique industry pays attention to a "clear eye for authenticity and orderly", but for all antiques, the first important thing is how the real and fake goods are, whether they have been handled in the place and so on.
As for the "orderly inheritance", it is the second important point of these antiques, which means that the origin of the antiques should be as clear as possible, otherwise the collection of tomb robbers or stolen cultural relics will add trouble to themselves.
And the "fear" that the shopkeeper Tong said is the fear of the origin of the inheritance of these cultural relics, and because of the strange origin of these cultural relics, he is even so afraid that he does not dare to take another look and ask more.
He also told me: "Because we are the shopkeepers who play with antiques, we really like these porcelains, so a few days ago, we made a special study of their inheritance, and the result of this exquisite study is ......"
At this point, the shopkeeper Tong told us in a trembling voice: "...... These things are 'ghost porcelain'!"
"Ghost porcelain?!" Chen Bamiao and I repeated at the same time.
"Ghost porcelain!" the shopkeeper Tong nodded, and then told me: "These porcelain, I asked an old friend who was a court in Huizhou to verify the way over, they are a batch of national treasures that were hijacked by me in the 17th year of the Republic of China. ”
Tong's shopkeeper's friend also said that the composition of these things is complex and comes from different ways, such as the eighty-one partridge spot, which was unearthed from the northern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the Yuan Dynasty court plum vase, which was unearthed at the site of the Yuan Zhongdu, and the Ming Chenghua bucket vegetable furnace was found in the northwest mountainous area of Guizhou, and so on......
However, although these things were unearthed in different places, it is said that when I found them, they all had an obvious common feature, that is, when they were unearthed, they were all sealed in a stone box of a certain quality, and there was cinnabar on the inner wall of the stone box, which seemed to be a scripture incantation smeared for embalming and sacrifice.
Because of some unsightly reason, after such a batch of things were unearthed, he gathered them one after another, forged the documents for customs clearance, and bribed a group of people from the customs and coast guard of the Republic of China through their intelligence department, so that these national treasures were smuggled out of the country from Tianjin Port.