The next day, it was raining heavily.

When Ji Cheng woke up, it was already noon, and he drank too much wine last night, and his head felt a little painful.

He recalled the sporadic memories before he got drunk last night, as if it was Lu Junjie's final account.

And what did Zhu Chengyu brag about himself after drinking too much?

Boasting that he is a descendant of the Ming Dynasty royal family?

Ji Cheng smiled and shook his head, in fact, Zhu Chengyu had boasted about this matter many times as early as high school, but none of them took it seriously.

I was about to brush my teeth and wash my face.

Suddenly, WeChat came in.

Ji Cheng picked up his mobile phone when he heard the message ringtone, and found that it was a message sent by Zhu Chengyu, only to see that it was written: Old Ji, I brought you something, and the security guard in your community didn't let me in, so I had to call you.

Stuff?

What is it?

Ji Cheng was in a fog, and how did the other party know that he lived here?

Could it be that I said it when I was drunk?

Ji Cheng's heart tightened, and he said that I drank too much and didn't tell others the secrets of the system, right?

However, since the other party came, it didn't look good to turn him away, so he called directly.

Soon connected, Zhu Chengyu said: "Old Ji, are you sleeping?" ”

"Well, just woke up, you asked the doorman to answer the phone." Ji Cheng yawned.

"Okay."

There was a change on the other end of the phone, and the voice of the doorman came.

Ji Cheng told him about his address, and then asked him to let people in.

Then he hurriedly went to brush his teeth and wash his face, and then went downstairs.

It just so happened that Zhu Chengyu's car was parked in the open-air parking space outside, and he was shouting loudly at the side of the house.

Although Ji Cheng didn't hear clearly, he still ran out with an umbrella, "Lao Zhu, what's wrong?" ”

"Hurry up and help me with the umbrella, and I'll carry the things in your house." Zhu Chengyu said loudly: "It's okay if I'm wet, but the books in the box can't get wet." ”

Book?

What books?

Ji Chengzhen is getting more and more confused, and hurriedly stepped forward to give Zhu Chengyu an umbrella.

Zhu Chengyu opened the trunk of the car and took out a large wooden box from it, which looked quite heavy.

Ji Cheng hurriedly said: "I'll help you move together." ”

"Don't! Don't! You just have to use an umbrella, it's not good if the books inside get wet. Zhu Chengyu is quite nervous about these books.

Ji Cheng couldn't say anything more when he saw that he was so persistent, so he had to hold an umbrella for the other party.

After entering the house.

Bang.

Zhu Chengyu panted and put the box on the ground, then shook his arm and said, "It's really heavy." ”

Ji Cheng had time to ask, "What kind of books are in the box?" ”

Zhu Chengyu was stunned, "Didn't I tell you when we sang last night, there are some ancestral books at home, all of which were brought out of the palace in the past, you insist on saying that it is an antique, let me bring it over to show you, no, I brought all these dilapidated books at home to you." ”

"Books from the palace?" Ji Cheng became interested, "Which dynasty?" ”

Zhu Chengyu couldn't cry and laughed: "The ancestor of my family is Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, which dynasty do you say these books belong to?" ”

Ji Chengxin said that you are bragging to me again, isn't this cowhide tired of blowing from high school to now?

It's just that the other party kindly sent something over, and he didn't say much, just said, "Well, open it and let me take a look." ”

"Okay."

Zhu Chengyu opened the wooden box and said with a smashing mouth: "To tell the truth, I don't know if these books were brought out of the palace, but my family has been circulating like this, and the books were in tatters decades ago, so I can't tell what books there are." ”

With that, the wooden box had been opened.

Ji Cheng leaned over to take a look and found that as Zhu Chengyu said, there were a lot of dilapidated books inside, basically every book was full of holes, and even the words could only be read clearly.

"Is it an antique?" Zhu Chengyu asked.

Ji Cheng shook his head and said, "It's too bad, I can't see it clearly, even if it's an antique, it's not worth much." ”

"Okay." Zhu Chengyu shrugged and said: "Anyway, my dad said, you saved our family's business this time, these books are given to you, if you think it's garbage, go back and throw it away, I have to rush to the factory now, I won't tell you first." ”

"Okay, you go get busy first, call me if there's anything."

Ji Cheng sent the other party out.

Back in the house again.

Ji Cheng squatted down and picked up a book at random...... Well, to be precise, half a page is watched, this half page has a lot of insect bites, and he can only see a few words sporadically, all of which are traditional characters, and he can basically understand them.

For example, the top is written "Wu", and the bottom is "Hongwu" and "Feed", because the preservation is so poor, I really don't know what is written in the back.

He flipped through other books or pages, some of which seemed to be spitting in half.

"What kind of books are these?"

Ji Cheng was a little puzzled.

He was still thinking about whether to invite Master Cheng over to palm his eyes.

Suddenly, something occurred to him!

"Eh, didn't the system add a time repair function before? I can try to restore these books with time, and see if I can restore these books. ”

Ji Cheng thought about picking up a relatively complete book at random, and then turned on the time repair.

A second passed, and nothing happened.

More than ten seconds passed, and there was still no response.

Ji Cheng calmed down, but five minutes passed and it was still like this.

"Holy! Five minutes is equivalent to being able to turn back twenty-five years of time without any reaction? ”

He was ready to stop.

But the next moment, the books gradually changed a little!

The pages gradually became a little more complete.

"Eh, there's a change!"

Ji Cheng leaned over to look carefully, and found that the text written on the top was a little clearer, and the words "Yongle Da" were written on the far right.

"Yongle Da?" He blinked and said, "It can't be the Yongle Grand Ceremony, right?" ”

Immediately, he himself felt that it was ridiculous, how could it be, how many years had the Yongle Ceremony been lost? It is said that there are only more than 9,000 copies left during the Qianlong period, and the original volume has disappeared since after Akihito, how can it appear here?

But because time repairs worked, he persevered.

After another five minutes or so, the book became more and more complete!

Finally, in the twelfth minute of time restoration, the book was fully restored, and although it still looked a little worn, it was already a complete book.

At this time, Ji Cheng finally saw clearly what was written on it!

On the far right is written "Yongle Dadian Volume 2,345, Six Models" several traditional characters, and on the left side, in addition to the "Wu" character at the beginning is relatively large, the rest of the fonts are very small, which is written "Hongwu Zhengyun Wang Hu cut black also" and a series of content!

"! Yongle Grand Ceremony? ”

Ji Cheng's eyes widened, he really couldn't believe that the data Zhu Chengyu brought was the legendary Yongle Ceremony that had been lost!

He suddenly became excited, and hurriedly carefully flipped through the book, and found that the book jacket was made of multi-layer rice paper, and the outermost layer was wrapped with a layer of yellow silk, a bit like a modern hardcover book, which can be stood up and placed on the shelf, this kind of book was called "packaging book" in ancient times, plus the book is very large, the prefix is a large character, and the font size of the text is not very small, which is equivalent to the current No. 1 word, isn't it exactly the same as the Yongle Ceremony he saw on the Internet before?

"Hey, if it's the Yongle Grand Ceremony, it's too precious!"

Ji Cheng was a little unsure if it was not, after all, his professional level was very low, he thought about it, picked up his mobile phone and took a photo and sent it to Master Cheng: Mr. Cheng, do you see that this book is a Yongle canon?

Not long after the message was sent, Master Cheng called directly!

Ji Cheng answered the channel: "Hey, Mr. Cheng." ”

Master Cheng was startled and said, "Ouch, I'll go, boss, looking at the picture is really like a Yongle ceremony, can you bring the real thing to the company to show me?" ”

Ji Cheng was now eager to know if this book was the Yongle Canon, so he said, "Okay, I'll come over now." ”

"Okay, wait for you."

Hang up.

Ji Cheng hurriedly closed the box, and then struggled to hold it to the closet in the upstairs bedroom and locked it.

Immediately, he was relieved to drive to the company.

……

Ancient and Modern Art Company.

As soon as Ji Cheng came over, he went to Master Cheng's office.

The two men worked on the book behind closed doors.

Master Cheng's eyes lit up, and his tone trembled, "This ...... This is really the Yongle Canon, if I'm not mistaken, this is the model word rhyme lake word book, precious, too precious! ”

Ji Cheng blinked and said, "How can you be sure that this is the real thing?" ”

Master Cheng carefully held the book, "The Yongle Ceremony is packed on the back of a bag, the book jacket is made of multi-layer rice paper, the external yellow silk, the cover bookmark and square sign...... It is also called the position of the scroll, the proportion is fixed, and it is two layers, the bookmark is a layer of blue silk, the top is a small number of yellow silk, the four words of the Yongle Dictionary on the title, the number of bets, the upper right of the cover is the square sign, it is also two layers of blue and yellow, the upper title of a rhyme, the second line of the title belongs to the rhyme of the book of the order, these books are in line. ”

Ji Cheng listened slightly.

"Secondly, the Yongle Grand Ceremony has a grand opening, with a single volume of 50.3 centimeters high and 30 centimeters wide, a plate frame of 35.5 centimeters high and a width of 23.5 centimeters. Master Cheng is very proficient in professional knowledge, and also told a little interesting story, "How can you ensure the speed and quality of hand-painted so many board frames?" Let's look closely, we will find that there are needle holes around the board frame, when it is a stack of paper according to the size of the eye fixation and then hand-painted, the process is very good. ”

Ji Cheng suddenly realized.

Master Cheng is still introducing, "Third, the Yongle Canon is said to be 370 million words, written in two colors, Zhu and ink, except for the first word of the title written in seal, li, and cursive style, the text is written by the calligraphers in the Ming Dynasty official regular script Tai Pavilion style, well, the Qing Dynasty called the Pavilion Style, one stroke at a time. There are inevitably errors and omissions in the transcription process, some of which are dug and repaired, but the technology is extremely high, and it is necessary to pass through the light or look at the back of the paper to identify; There are other reasons for avoiding the use of yellow, which are also in line with this. ”

"Finally." Master Cheng said: "The secondary leaves or leaf guards of the Yongle Canon have been cut. In addition, the last leaf of each volume of the "Great Canon" is the signature leaf of the re-recording official of Jiajing, and this leaf has no line, and the signature occupies a total of six lines. The last signed leaf of the extant "Canon" has traces of being cut except for the later supplements. According to the documents of the Inner Government in the Qianlong period, when the "Siku Quanshu" library was opened in the Qianlong period, Zhu Yun, a scholar and politician, asked for "the Yongle Canon, and selected the books that are not common among them", which was approved by Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty. In this process, Qianlong ordered people to cut the "remaining paper" to give to the ministers, and Weng Fanggang wrote "Yongle Ceremony Remaining Paper Song and Preface" has a detailed description. According to the records of the Inner Palace, some of the cut 'surplus paper' was used for re-copying. ”

Ji Cheng didn't understand a little, but he roughly knew what Master Cheng was talking about.

Master Cheng concluded: "According to the above phenomena, such as the needle eye of the column line, the plate frame, and the fishtail connection; the format and pasting of booknotes and square signatures; Traces of cutting of the front and back leaves of each volume section; As well as the digging subsidy yellow I just mentioned, and from the analysis of the font, paper, content, decoration and other elements of the book, it is determined that the Yongle Dictionary in front of me is genuine! ”

Since Master Cheng dares to say that it is genuine, it should be true, after all, his professional level is very high.

Ji Cheng's breath was a little bated, the value of a Yongle Ceremony may not be too high, after all, when it was auctioned in Europe before, the transaction price of the two volumes together was only 65 million soft girl banknotes, but just now Zhu Chengyu gave himself a wooden box containing I don't know how many copies of the Yongle Ceremony!

He recalled that if there were two or three volumes in one volume, at least about 200 copies were contained in the wooden box, and according to the price of the two volumes of 65 million soft girl banknotes, wouldn't it be worth 6.5 billion?

it!

Books worth 6.5 billion?

Ji Cheng's heart trembled, and he said that Zhu Chengyu was really generous.

However, when he thought about it, these books were all in tatters, and if he didn't have time to repair this magical skill, I am afraid that no one would be able to connect these books with the Yongle Canon, let alone repair them.

In other words, those books are worthless if they are not restored.

Only in your own hands can you restore it to its former glory!

Ji Cheng couldn't sit still, and carefully put away the Yongle Dictionary in front of him, "Okay, I know, don't tell the outside world about this matter, I'll see if I can get more from others." ”

"Okay, I know." Master Cheng hurriedly said: "You have to hide these things, it is best to prove the source of the items, otherwise I am afraid that it will not be auctioned, you must know that the two volumes of the manuscript during the Jiajing period were sold for a high price of 65 million, I think this looks like the original, I am afraid the value will be higher." ”

"Huh? You say that the auction in Europe is a manuscript from the Jiajing period? Ji Cheng was stunned for a moment.

Master Cheng couldn't help but laugh and said, "Otherwise, do you think that the two volumes will only sell for 65 million?" 650 million is about the same! ”

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Hiss!

Doesn't that mean that Zhu Chengyu gave him those books, if all the time is used to repair and restore them completely, these books are worth 65 billion?

Ji Cheng's heart is trembling, this thing is too valuable!

It's just that he knows that it will take a lot of time to repair, after all, repairing a book uses more than half of the energy of his energy slot, if all the two hundred or so volumes are repaired, I am afraid that all the energy stored in his energy slot will not be enough.

Don't worry, there is anti-positive energy every day.

Someday it'll be all repaired!

When the time comes......

Ji Cheng only thought of a steady stream of soft girl banknotes into his pocket!

Well, but this thing has to find a way to prove the provenance of the item, otherwise it will not be easy to put it up for auction.

But Ji Cheng didn't take it seriously at all, he had a mysterious space, what could he not bring out? When the time comes, if you hold an auction abroad, auction it yourself and bring it back to China, won't it become legal?

Of course, he will definitely not sell this level of treasure to foreigners, and at most it will be auctioned to Huaxia people in China.

This is the bottom line of his business.