Chapter Seventy-Nine: Deception is also an art
Rosie didn't dare to be careless.
Blasphemy has very serious consequences, and being tied to the stake of judgment and burned to death is already the best ending. By the way, the Judgment Pillar is not the same as the Judgment Column, the former is a criminal law for people within the Church, and the executed person is tied to a bronze cross and crucified in thirteen places with copper nails. The executed are exposed to the sun in the square of the church headquarters for three days before they are executed, i.e., burned. Countless clergy throughout history have been tied to the stake of judgment and burned to charcoal, and most of them have blasphemed.
What Rossi and Hano are doing is blasphemy.
Hano replaced the image of God in his mind with Rossi, and Rossi actually approved of this behavior and spread it to a limited extent. Both guys are blasphemous heretics and both are cat-ass-eyed and audacious thieves. Together, they steal faith that can only belong to God.
In fact, Rossi has more serious blasphemy, which only he knows about.
It was a piece of paper with a line written on it:
I walked on the earth, and everywhere I went, there was a ...... of the kingdom of God.
More than once he wanted to destroy the fact that he was blasphemous, but every time the paper came close to the flames, he hesitated. He had a wonderful feeling that this piece of paper, the words written on this paper, were very important to him, more than his life.
Vena and Sheila had begun to pray to the idol of the blasphemous one, and he could sense a subtle reaction as two threads were drawn to him. Although he has not yet figured out what these two strange threads do, he firmly believes that this will be his greatest gain in this world.
Maybe this is the ethereal power of faith, but the power of faith is so small that there is no way for him to find any use. But he believed that as more and more of these wonderful threads grew, he would surely discover something.
Once again, the two of them strolled through the streets of the imperial capital, and Rossi thought he was still very dedicated, at least he had only seen two of his colleagues in the afternoon.
In some novels on the earth, the rich and powerful sons must be little hooligans, even worse than little hooligans. I saw a lot of nobles on the way, but these nobles didn't behave so badly. If you think about it, you have been educated by the elite since childhood, lived in a privileged environment, and the social groups that come and go can be said to be the ruling class of the empire. The starting line is floating in the stratosphere, how can it be possible to cultivate a scum-like temperament in such an environment?
In the distance, a bunch of people gathered together, Rosie raised his head, Hano ran over and back, and said disdainfully: "There are scammers cheating money." ”
"Look at it. Rosie has seen a liar, but he has never seen such a blatant liar in the imperial capital.
Hano is very dedicated to taking the great profession of lackeys to the limit, rudely stretching out his hands to push the crowd away, and protecting Master Rosie behind him from being squeezed.
Entering the middle of the crowd, Rosie understood at a glance. The trick is very simple, similar to some people on the planet, there is a wooden board on the ground, there are three opaque metal cups on the board, and the stall owner has a small steel ball in his hand, he will cover the small steel ball with a certain cup, and then quickly change the position of these cups. If someone thinks that the steel ball is in a certain quilt, they can place a bet.
This man and Avery are peers, both magicians.
From the mouths of the onlookers, Rossi heard some things, such as the fact that it is always the cups with fewer bets that win, such as the stall owner who has been winning since the end of the lunch meal.
In fact, you don't need to look at Rosie to know that the name in this is in the hands of the stall owner, in fact, there are two small balls in this game, one is buckled in the cup, and the other is caught between his fingers. As long as the hand speed is fast enough, it is enough to stuff the small steel ball into any cup unconsciously, and you can also take out the small steel ball in the cup when changing positions.
If you can lose like that, then hell.
Unskilled liars.
Compared to the loyal and honest faces on the streets and alleys of Greater China, these people are simply too unprofessional.
Rossi suddenly remembered a shocking scam that had happened in her hometown, and what happened was like a Hollywood blockbuster.
Hezhou has a very wealthy owner who is particularly fond of collecting antiques. In several collecting circles, he is very famous. As soon as I was willing to spend money to buy antiques, hundreds of thousands of antiques were bought without blinking as long as I liked them. Second, he also has a deep study of antiques, buys a lot, plays a lot, and suffers losses, but he has become a good doctor for a long time, and many people often ask him for advice.
At a meeting within the cotery, an old acquaintance pulled the boss into a corner and showed him a very "new" antique. Said that it is very new, because the earthy smell on the antiques has not been dispersed, and the treasure is still damp, and the boss knows at a glance that this thing is something that has just been unearthed, and to put it bluntly, it is stolen from the tomb. He liked it, but he didn't want it. In these years, tomb robbing is not as easy as before, and it is easy to go wrong, and once these people are caught by mistake, they will definitely be implicated. But he likes the treasure in his hand and has been hesitating.
At this time, this old acquaintance, who had known each other for more than two years, said to the boss that the market value of this thing was at least 200,000, but as long as he was given 100,000, he would immediately make a move.
100,000 is not a small amount, real life is not like in novels and movies, where everything is millions and tens of millions at every turn, and even if someone dares to sell such things, no one dares to buy them.
After thinking about it, the boss gritted his teeth and agreed, and after the two finished trading, the old acquaintance said another thing.
It turned out that they found an ancient tomb in the Han and Tang dynasties in Luzhou, not far from Hezhou, and the tomb chamber had been opened, and there were more than a dozen treasures in it intact. He, along with the people he knew, was in a hurry to make a move, and if the boss could eat it all at once, he would give him forty or fifty million antiques worth fifteen million at one time. The two of them pulled the price, and finally bit to death at the price of nine million.
The boss was really tempted, but he didn't let his guard down, he first promised to come down, asked a general location, and began to check the information after returning home. Not to mention, he really found such a piece of information recorded in a book, Luzhou had a very powerful person in the late Tang Dynasty, and he was buried in Luzhou after his death. From the age and style and specifications of the antiques in his own possession, he deduced that it should be more or less true.
But even so, he was cautious.
First of all, I went to the field with an old acquaintance to see it, although I can't see the thief hole, but from the geographical point of view, it should not be bad. He visited the local area for half a month, asked many native farmers, and finally thought that it was indeed many old people who said that there was a great general buried near here.
He called his relatives, seven or eight men in two cars, armed with machetes and stun guns, and went one night with old acquaintances to the top of the tomb. The old acquaintance immediately asked people to open the tomb, and used an excavator to dig the surface in front of the boss, revealing the outer wall of the tomb seven or eight meters below the surface. The grave robbers then went in bare-bottomed and came out bare-bottomed, bringing out almost twenty complete antiques.
The boss was attracted by a Tang Sancai at first sight, and it happened to be the most popular era of Tang Sancai in the past nine years, and a Tang Sancai was auctioned at a sky-high price abroad, resulting in a soaring price of Tang Sancai in China. After carefully identifying it, he could confirm that it was indeed genuine, and then handed over the money in person and delivered it in person, and loaded the rest of the antiques into the car.
On his way home, his suspicions grew and he immediately took out all the other antiques. Except for a few antiques worth tens of thousands of yuan that are genuine, the rest are fakes!
In order to deceive the boss, a gang of crooks spent four years making an ancient tomb based on historical sources, and several of them even took root in the local area, and constantly created rumors that there were ancient tombs in nearby villages and towns.
10 million in 95 years is not a small amount, at that time, a house was only 30,000 or 40,000, and the boss would definitely not give up if he was deceived of 10 million. He first called the police, and then offered a reward of 2 million bonuses to take these scammers, and the scammers have not been seen since. (This story is not fictional, it is a real happening, of course, there is much more specific content than written, I, the older generation of local people who play antiques, know about it, and later the boss himself admitted that he was greedy, otherwise he would not have been deceived.) )
Compared to these liars who sublimate deception to art, the liars of this world are simply pediatrics.
This kind of technology is just enough to be a beginner's craft in the big Chinese liars, and after learning something, he was forced by the master to go out to practice the stall.