Chapter 6 Theravada Golden Buddha Statue
Eight o'clock in the evening.
The night is enchanting.
Coming to the place where the point of light was, Zheng Jing parked the car in the old place.
Then he waited quietly for a while.
He got out of the car only after seeing that no one had come out of the village.
With a sapper shovel and a metal detector, he went to the point of light, probed it with the metal detector, and found that the thing was still there.
Then, he picked up the armory shovel and began to dig slowly.
In the darkness of the night, the sound of digging was so distinct.
In order not to be noticed, he was very careful when digging.
I dug slowly for more than two hours.
With the sound of the "bell", his heart pounded.
With the help of the moonlight, he saw a rusty tin box appear in the pit he had dug.
Only a corner of the box was exposed, and it was not easy to see how big it was.
As the box appeared, he was full of motivation and dug along the box.
An hour later, a square tin box more than a meter wide appeared in front of me.
In order to see what was inside the box, he carefully opened it.
The inside of the chest was not the gold and silver jewelry he had expected.
Rather, it's a mahogany chest.
The mahogany box is much smaller than the tin box, and I don't know what's inside.
He picked up the mahogany box, which was heavy and didn't know what was inside.
When he took out the mahogany box, he saw that the inside of the tin box was empty.
"Woohoo!"
As a dog barked outside the village, Zheng Jing was like a frightened rabbit.
He didn't have time to see what was inside the mahogany box, so he put the tin box into the pit and filled it with earth.
After refilling the digging hole, he patted it with a shovel and walked towards the parking place with his hands empty.
As he passed by the entrance to the village, he carefully observed his surroundings.
After noticing that there was no one around, he hurried back to the car.
"Whew~"
Sitting in the car, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Open the map and find that the point of light has disappeared.
Sure enough, as he had guessed, this point of light was where the treasure was.
The mahogany chest that he had just put into the space was the treasure of this time.
He resisted the urge to open the box and drove away.
Returning to the hotel safely, he saw that the innkeeper was still waiting for him, so he thanked him and went back to his room.
He went back to his room and locked the door, then checked it carefully, and was relieved to see that no one had come in.
He went to the bathroom to take a shower, opened the door to take a look, and when he found that there was no one outside, he locked the door again.
Coming to the bed, he put on his white gloves and took the mahogany box out of the space.
I checked the lock and found that it was not locked, so it was best not to break the lock.
He carefully opened the box so that it didn't make a sound.
As the box opened, he saw the contents of the box, and he snapped the lid with an excited snap.
The whole person's face turned red with excitement, as if he had drunk fake wine.
He gasped for breath and laughed silently at the thought of the contents of the box.
When he calmed down, he opened the box again.
Although he had seen it just now, he was still excited to see what was inside.
Inside the box, two Buddha statues, one large and one small, lay flat on the box.
The large Buddha statue looks like it is about 30 centimeters long, and the whole body is golden, and it looks like it should be made of pure gold.
The small Buddha statue is more than ten centimeters high, it looks like it is made of golden glass, the Buddha statue is transparent and bright, without the slightest impurity, if he guessed correctly, this should be made of jadeite.
In addition to the two Buddha statues, there was something else inside the box.
On the left side of the golden jade Buddha statue, there were three gold bricks, he picked up one and turned it upside down, about ten catties.
Three pieces is thirty pounds.
In addition to the gold bricks, on one side of another Buddha statue was a large mass of gold jewelry, and in addition to necklaces, he also saw gold bracelets and gold rings.
Judging by the marks on the jewelry, these pieces of jewelry should have been worn.
He picked up a few and looked at them, and found that they were all real gold.
In addition to these, in the empty space of the chest, there is also a fist-sized jadeite.
The jadeite is dark green, without the slightest impurity, if he guessed correctly, this piece should be imperial green jadeite.
In addition to this, next to it, there is a golden jadeite.
The color of this piece of jadeite is the same as that of the small Buddha statue.
This piece of jadeite is very golden and heavy, and it looks like yellow glass.
Golden jadeite? It was the first time he had seen it.
Compared with the imperial green jade next to it, it is more than a circle smaller than the imperial green.
Seeing the two pieces of jadeite with different colors in his hand, he smiled.
Although he didn't know the price of jadeite, he also knew that the price of this small circle of imperial gold jadeite should be higher than that of this piece of imperial green.
It's really the color of this jadeite that is too eye-catching.
This would be fine if you carved a statue of the Buddha or the God of Wealth.
I put the two pieces of jadeite on the mahogany box, and then took out my phone and clicked to take a few photos.
And then put it into the space.
When he returned, he was going to find an auction company to sell the Imperial Green Jadeite.
Golden jadeite he is not ready to sell, because it is too rare.
Later, he put three gold bricks and a pile of gold jewelry into the space.
In the end, there are only two Buddha statues, one large and one small, inside the mahogany box.
Seeing these two Buddha statues, he couldn't help but rub his hands.
Take the big Buddha statue out of the box, good guy, so heavy?
Feeling the weight of the Buddha statue, Zheng Jing was very happy.
This weight, at first glance, is made of pure gold.
The Buddha statue was exquisite, and he looked at it from top to bottom and found no signs of bumps.
Placing the Buddha statue in front of him, he found that the gesture of the Buddha statue was to put his hands on his back in front of his abdomen, his right hand on his left hand, and the fingertips of his two thumbs touched.
This should be the meditation seal of Buddhism.
Thinking of an identification function, he examined the Buddha statue.
【Theravada Golden Buddha Statue】
[Country: Myanmar]
[Year: 1864]
[Material: Gold]
[Size: 32×13 cm]
[Weight: 13.2 kg]
[Condition: flawless appearance, no bumps, excellent condition.] 】
[Introduction: In July 1862, a wealthy family in Bagan City entrusted the Ananda Temple to preside over the creation of a Buddha statue with 30 catties of gold for worship.
The presiding officer at the time, Minhua, thought about it for a long time and agreed to this request and asked the craftsmen in the temple to help build it.
After two years of construction, on June 4, 1864, the Buddha statue was finally completed.
The family was beating gongs and drums to bring the Theravada Buddha statue home.
At the time, it caused a sensational impact.
Later, after the changes of the times and the impact of the war, the wealthy family in Bagan gradually fell into decline, and in 1944 the family moved to a village 13 kilometers away from Jiaoshi Town.
Because of the chaos in the country at that time, in order to protect the Buddha statue and the remaining wealth of the family, the family buried all their possessions in a dry river outside the village.
I wanted to wait until the country was stable and then dig it out, but life was impermanent, and the cruelty of the war made their family flee back and forth, and gradually, the descendants of this family also disappeared in history. 】
[Value: 35 million ~ 80 million]
Seeing the information that appeared in his mind, Zheng Jing sighed with emotion.
I can't imagine that the origin of this Buddha statue is like this.
It's a pity.
I don't know what he regrets.
Seeing the value of the Buddha statue at the end, Zheng Jing couldn't help but laugh.
I didn't expect the identification function to be so powerful, and the value of the Buddha statue was calculated.
If this value is true, then he has changed from a poor and white poor man to a "poor man" worth tens of millions.
Looking at the Buddha statue in his hand, Zheng Jing felt that his mood was very complicated.
I never imagined that an orphan would one day become a multimillionaire.
I have to say that life is really impermanent, and the large intestine encompasses the small intestine.
Thinking of this, he suddenly had an idea, he wanted to go to Bagan to have a look.
As soon as this thought came to him, it spread wildly, and finally, he decided to go to Bagan tomorrow to see what the place where the Buddha family used to stay was like.
Take a look at whether Ananda Temple still exists.
He then put the Theravada Buddha statue made of pure gold into the space, and then looked at the Buddha statue carved from golden jade.
【Emperor Golden Shakyamuni Buddha Statue】
[Country: Myanmar]
[Year: 1481]
【Material: Jadeite】
[Size: 17.2×7 cm]
[Weight: 1.7 kg]
[Condition: excellent condition, no traces of use.] 】
[Introduction: In 1480, the second emperor of the Ava Dynasty, Ming Kang, ascended the throne, in order to celebrate his accession, a palace craftsman carved a Buddha statue of Shakyamuni for him with a five-pound piece of golden jade.
Ming Kang was very happy when he saw this Buddha statue made of golden jade, and gave him an official position, gold and silver.
Time passes.
In 1501, Ming Kang II died, and the second son Ruinan Kyaw Hin ascended the throne, and the Mu Shan in the north, the Bei Mu in the south, and the Donghu began to make trouble, and finally in 1526, the Mu Shan King Serungfa conquered Ava, and the Burmese kingdom perished.
On the eve of the death of the country, the craftsman who carved the Buddha statue took advantage of the chaos to quietly take away the imperial golden jade Buddha statue.
Along the way, he hid and returned to his hometown in Bagan.
Over the centuries, his descendants became famous merchant families in Bagan, and he used the gold he brought from the royal palace to create a pure gold Buddha statue.
Until the war came, in order to avoid inspection, his descendants put the last of the family's wealth in a mahogany box and buried the box in a small river. 】
[Value: 130 million ~ 350 million]
"Shhh Seeing the price given by the system, Zheng Jing gasped, this Buddha statue can be sold at such a high price.
He's going to get rich.
If it weren't for the wrong environment, Zheng Jing would have jumped up excitedly.
Trying to calm himself down, he turned his gaze back to the message of the Buddha statue.
"Good girl, the origin of this Buddha statue is so big, it is still something in the palace."
After reading the introduction information, Zheng Jing was surprised, he couldn't imagine that this Buddha statue was actually something in the palace.
After thinking about it, too, apart from the emperor, who can have materials like the emperor's gold jade to carve Buddha statues?
Even if there is, it can't be used to carve Buddha statues, right?
Unexpectedly, this Buddha statue was actually carved by the ancestors of this family, and it is really fateful.
But how is this Buddha statue going to be sold?
The minimum price of 130 million is definitely not affordable for ordinary people.
Moreover, he did not know such a person.
He thought about it, and finally thought of the auction company.
Several of the world's largest auction companies have this strength and customers, and he decided to entrust the two Buddha statues to the auction company.
It seems that we should pay more attention to the information of the auction company these days.
Look at the big auction house that has been holding an auction recently.
Thinking about this, he looked at the time, and when he saw that it was late, he cleaned up and put the gold bricks and gold jewelry back in the mahogany box.
He had just identified the mahogany box, it was just an ordinary box, and it was a pity that he wanted to throw it away, so he just left it to put things.
He didn't put the two Buddha statues back in the box, he put them into the space alone.
After putting everything into the space, he didn't wash up, just lay on the bed, thought about tomorrow's itinerary for a while, and fell asleep not long after.