Chapter XXIV

"Mr. Chuck, you speak Chinese so well. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ji Zhe looked at Chuck, and then praised.

The eyes of the others followed him down the stairs, and when they came to the crowd, Chuck pointed to the couch in the living room and motioned for everyone to sit down.

"Where, it's just an occasional study. Chuck said modestly, then left his eyes on Ling'er, and praised in English, "This girl is so beautiful, like an angel in the lost world." ”

"Thank you for the compliment. Ji Zhe could understand Chuck's words, but Ling'er, including Li Xuyang and others, didn't know what he was talking about, and Ji Zhe didn't translate to them, but his tone seemed to be praising Ling'er.

"Let's get down to business!" Chuck said as he looked at Ji Zhe, and then asked what the names of the people in the room were.

"I haven't introduced it yet, I'm Ji Zhe from the Embassy in the United States, and I'm also the reporter for this interview. These people are all my assistants, they are..."Ji Zhe pointed to Li Xuyang, Wei Tu, Jiang Botong and Ling'er and introduced them to Chuck respectively.

Of course, while introducing them, everyone stood up and shook Chuck's hand.

Li Xuyang also took out the notebook and pen he bought when he came out, although they were not from the reporter group, but at least they had to pretend.

"Let's start with the first question. Ji Zhe also took out a notebook, then looked at the content without words and asked, "Mr. Chuck, I heard that you are a very passionate collector, right? Can you tell us why you love collecting ancient relics so much?"

"This has something to do with a dream I had decades ago. Chuck leaned back on the couch, his hands propped up on either side of the couch.

"Oh, what kind of dream is that?"

"More than 20 years ago, I had a strange dream that night. I dreamed that there was a treasure hidden in the yard of my house, but I didn't pay attention to the dream at the time, and I didn't tell anyone about it. But then, this dream appeared in my dreams from time to time, and from then on, things began to change in my home..."

In 1980, Chuck, who was only twenty-six years old, was already a rich man, not only in real estate companies, but also in his own financial enterprises, home appliances, etc., and was also the youngest successful person in the area of Washington and Surban.

He married a beautiful wife three years ago, and two years later, his wife gave birth to a lovely son, and Chuck also thought that he would live happily with three.

However, this did not last forever, as he had a hunch, and the happiness lasted. It wasn't until he fulfilled that dream that he did, and from that moment on, something drastic changed in his home.

This happened to his fifteen-month-old son, who had a fever at first, but after finding a doctor, he was given an injection that was too young for fear of danger to the child, so he only used fever-reducing medicine.

But the medicine didn't play any role, and after returning home, I thought I could reduce the fever, but I didn't expect my son's to be more serious, so I had no choice but to send it to the best hospital overnight for treatment. But after rushing to the hospital, his son was already dying, that is, he didn't even go up to the operating table, and he died.

The child's death brought Chuck to a near-breakdown, almost insane. But his wife couldn't bear the pain of losing her child, and the next day, she went crazy. Chuck suffers the biggest crisis in history, and his company and business are beginning to be paralyzed, which makes another company, the Hall family, rise to power.

And half a year after his child's death, Chuck lived that dream again, and there was something in his yard or in that place. Chuck didn't ignore it this time, just picked up the lamp, and then braved the heavy rain outside, picked up the shovel and came to the place he dreamed of, and began to dig.

After digging for half an hour, a gray ceramic appeared in front of him, and he was a little surprised when he saw it. He didn't know the text on it, and after consulting some information later, in comparison, he learned that the font on the ceramics was written in Chinese - Jingdezhen.

Jingdezhen is the representative and symbol of the "country of porcelain", with a long history of porcelain making, exquisite porcelain, famous all over the world, and the inherent "porcelain capital". Jingdezhen has a long history of producing porcelain, and the Tang Dynasty fired white porcelain as white as jade, which is known as "fake jade". In the Song Dynasty, the emperor Song Zhenzong gave the year name Jingde to Jingdezhen, so Jingci is famous all over the world. After that, after the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it became the national porcelain-making center of "the world's kilns". In the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties, porcelain developed to the peak of history.

More than 2,000 years of porcelain-making culture and skills have been accumulated to establish Jingdezhen's status as a world-recognized porcelain capital. Jingdezhen porcelain is "as white as jade, as thin as paper, as bright as a mirror, and as sound as a chime", especially the melting process, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, and poetry in one furnace, which is really "more expensive than the treasure and more than the mirror, and the book is more than the Jingguan word than Su".

Elegant and beautiful blue and white, colorful paintings, colorful and gorgeous glazes, exquisite thin tires, and ingenious sculptures are all treasures of Chinese culture and art.

In the Qianlong period, there are many porcelain kilns in Jingdezhen, and they are widely distributed, in addition to the official kilns, there are two or three hundred private kilns, and there are tens of thousands of craftsmen. The color of the five-color porcelain is strong, magnificent, and there is a development compared with the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this is all that Chuck learned after looking up a lot of information. And the ceramics in his hand are not so smooth in appearance, but a little rough, and the ceramics in his hand are actually just an unfinished pottery embryo.

"I really didn't expect that Mr. Chuck would have an indissoluble bond with ceramics. Ji Zhe said, and Li Xuyang has always carefully remembered where he is with a pen. If you look at it, you will find that he is not writing Chuck's words, but where he is writing the layout of this villa.

"Yes, I've been alone since my wife and children left me. I felt sorry for them, so I didn't marry another wife, but began to collect antiques and famous calligraphy and paintings, and did a good deed every day, which can be regarded as begging for the forgiveness of my wife in heaven!" Chuck let out a long sigh.

Li Xuyang and the others can hear about it, and his words should have never been mentioned to the outside world except for them. Otherwise, when I just finished speaking, I didn't have that feeling of relief.

"Then what do you collect on weekdays?" Ji Zhe continued.

"Anything that has commercial value, I will collect it. Of course, I don't collect these to wait for them to appreciate in the future and sell them, but purely as a hobby. After Chuck finished speaking, he hurriedly defended himself to prevent the press conference from reporting it.

"Oh, I think Mr. Chuck may have misunderstood. Ji Zhe understood the meaning of his defense, and hurriedly explained, "I am doing a special interview alone, and I will not report it to the outside world." ”

"Oh. After Chuck heard Ji Zhe say this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Chuck, can you give us a look at your collection?" asked Ji Zhe again.

"Thisβ€”" Chuck looked a little embarrassed, but finally agreed after seeing that everyone else had expectant expressions on their faces.

"Come with me!" Chuck led the group to the bottom of the stairs on the first floor, where there was a door, which looked very sturdy, and still had three combination locks. The door is also made of special metal, but from the outside, it is difficult to penetrate with a modern bullet.

Chuck came to the door, first put his hand in the place to identify the fingerprint, and then heard a "click" sound coming from inside the door. Then, he put his face close to the metal door, scanned his eyeballs, and made another "click" sound, and finally when he entered the password, he looked at Li Xuyang and the others standing behind him.

They also turned around in amusement, not looking at the password Chuck had entered.

After the last sound, Li Xuyang turned around, and Chuck had already opened the metal door.

It's dark inside, and I don't know how big the space is, and I can't see what's inside. After walking in, Chuck walked last, then reached for the wall and turned on the light in the room.

As the lights turned on, their eyes were also hurriedly closed under the intense light. After getting used to it, it slowly opened up.

"Wow"

When they opened their eyes, what they saw was almost like seeing a museum of relics. The room is spacious, with three rows of metal shelves, each five meters long. On the metal shelves, there are either ceramics, jade, jade bottles, etc., and any one of them can be sold for millions of dollars.

On the wall, there are calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, which are placed very neatly. The words are on the wall on the left, and the painting is on the wall on the right, which is dizzying to see.

And just then, a bodyguard walked over, came to Chuck's side, whispered a few words, and left. And he stood at the door, looking at Li Xuyang and the others who seemed to have seen rare objects.

Tong Le took out his mobile phone from his pocket because of curiosity, and when he just took out his mobile phone, Chuck left and came to him, grabbed the mobile phone and said, "No photography." ”

Tong Le didn't understand what he was talking about, and turned his face to look at Ji Zhe. And after Ji Zhe heard Chuck's angry voice, he immediately came to Chuck's front and hurriedly apologized, "I'm sorry, my assistant is a little difficult to control because he saw these things, so he wanted to take a photo." ”

"You can watch, but don't touch it, and don't take pictures. Chuck still looked at Ji Zhe angrily and said, then pointed to the monitoring in the corner of the wall and said, "This is an all-round monitoring without dead ends, if you move something here, you should know the consequences." ”

After Chuck finished speaking, he angrily returned the phone to Tong Le, and then turned around and left.

"It's like a private museum!" Li Xuyang looked at the ancient relics in front of him and exclaimed.