Chapter 53: Gřiler, an antique dealer
Early the next morning, Ye Lingwen drove me to the airport. She chattered again along the way, and I listened to it drowsy.
She probably saw that I was a little impatient, so she parked the car on the side of the road, stared at me and said: Qingyang, I really don't worry about you going like this!
I saw that she was a little angry, and hurriedly smiled: Miss! I've written it down! Besides, I am now infinitely powerful, and the invincible sword you gave me! What are you worried about? This is an opportunity that you have only been waiting for in 800 years, and after this village, there will be no such shop!
Ye Lingwen sighed and started the car worriedly.
But what I experienced in Qinghai later made me understand what it means to not listen to the old man and suffer in front of me. This old lady does eat more salt than I eat.
Saying goodbye to Ye Lingwen, I boarded the plane to Xining, Qinghai, at around 1 p.m. The plane landed at Xining Caojiabao International Airport, and as soon as I left the terminal, I saw a man in his forties walking towards me in the crowd of people who picked up the plane.
Probably because he often went to the countryside to receive goods, Geril had tanned skin, a thin figure, and a shrewd and capable appearance.
He enthusiastically took the suitcase in my hand: Mr. Shen, you are finally here, the hotel has been arranged, we will go to dinner first, and I will take you to see things in the afternoon.
I was anxious all the way, how could I still have the heart to eat, so I said straight to the point: Boss Geril, you know the rules of the company, and the things that are collected must pass the company's appraisal and evaluation before the payment is made to the salesman, this time Mr. Ye saw the photo you sent and paid half of the money, and the price was not returned, you should know that she is very interested in this thing, don't eat first, take me to see your things first.
Gerille smiled awkwardly and said, "Okay, okay, Mr. Shen!" Then I'll take you to the store first.
He drove me to a commercial street in Xining to sell antique art, which is not small, some like the antique art street on Dongtai Road in Shanghai, but there are few pedestrians on the street. The shops on both sides of the street are also very busy!
All the way, Geril complained to me that business was getting harder and harder, and that he was now losing money every month after removing rent and workers' wages. And now this line is a prevalent fake, which makes people unguardable, he said that he has been cheated twice this year!
I had something on my mind, and I echoed absentmindedly, and it didn't take long for us to arrive at his shop, which was not big, just two faces. However, there are a lot of things inside, and the two facades are full.
A young man was sitting on a grand chair and playing with his mobile phone boredly, and Geril explained a few words to the young man, and then led me up the squeaky stairs to the second floor.
The second floor is actually a low-rise attic, and the shelves against the wall are filled with all kinds of antique and old objects.
Geril took down an old wooden box from the innermost shelf against the wall and put it on the floor, he carefully opened the wooden box and said to me: Mr. Shen, everything is here, you can see it!
I squatted down and saw that there were two broken thread-bound books in the box, a cloth bag containing some broken bamboo slips, in addition to a rusty bronze mirror and a jade bowl.
I carefully took the bronze mirror in my hand and looked at it, the copper mirror was covered with patina, and the back could be vaguely seen carving a monster with a human body and a tiger's head, and the body was a naked woman's body, and there was a baby hanging on the long fangs of the tiger's head, which made people shudder.
I once heard Ye Lingwen say that the back of ancient bronze mirrors is generally cast or carved with decorative patterns or some inscriptions, all of which have beautiful meanings! There are very few carved figures, let alone such eerie and terrifying monsters.
I picked up the jade bowl again, the jade bowl material is as white as mutton fat, but as thin as cicada wings, my fingers are placed in the jade bowl, through the thin bowl wall can show the shadow of the fingers, the bottom of the bowl is not signed but with gold wire inlaid with a symbol I am familiar with, some like the English M.
My heart is pounding! Isn't this the symbol engraved on the jade pendant of the Ye Ling pattern, I quietly took out the jade pendant and compared, it is almost exactly the same, it seems that this trip to Qinghai is the right one!
"Mr. Shen! You don't have to say anything about this condition, do you? Not to mention anything else, this bowl alone is not much for 300,000! Geril's words interrupted my thoughts.
I didn't know anything about the market for antiques, so I could only pretend to nod my head, and then I asked him: Is that just something? You don't want to sell two, do you?
"Ouch! Mr. Shen, my brother! That's a lot, and it's a few brothers who paid for it with their lives," Geril complained to me with a wry smile.
But before he could finish speaking, he stopped abruptly, as if he realized that he had said the wrong thing!
I know it's wrong, this guy must have lied to the spirit pattern, I'm afraid there is something wrong with the origin of these things!
Then my face sank, and I said:
"That's not what you and Mr. Ye said! What the hell is going on, you make it clear, as long as you tell the truth, we will receive the goods! If you don't tell the truth, you can return the money to me, and we won't cooperate in the future! ”
"Don't, don't! Mr. Shen, you really wronged me! I mean, a few of my guys also took a big risk when they went to the village to collect the goods! After all, these are all stolen by the villagers! ”
As soon as I heard that this guy was still fooling, I sneered: Do you think I have a bad brain? Since Boss Ge said so, then okay, I can only report to the Cultural Relics Bureau, I don't dare to accept this kind of looting!
With that, I turned around and headed downstairs!
"Brother Shen! Brother Shen! You see you're more serious! I said I can't do it yet! ”
As he spoke, Gřilī grabbed me and pressed me to a low table beside him and sat me down!
He sighed and said, "Alas! Mr. Shen! Actually, I don't mean anything bad when I say this, just to avoid unnecessary trouble! To tell you the truth, these things were fished up from the ground by a few brothers who touched the gold, the three of them have cooperated with me for many years, and it can be said that they have never missed, but this time the three of them went down and only two came up, I am afraid that things will be big and bad for Mr. Ye and the company! That's why you told such a white lie, you see why you are so serious! As long as the thing is real, it's not good...
I was pleasantly surprised to hear him say this, and I was glad that he was fished out of the tomb! Those two Tufuzi must know the location of the tomb, and if they really only fished out such a small thing, the artifacts in the tomb are likely to still be there! Amazingly, one of the three veterans who had never missed a shot failed to come up, and only brought out this little thing, which can only show one thing: the tomb is very dangerous!
In this way, it seems that these things are really exchanged for their lives!
So I said to Grile, "Help me find those two brothers, and I want them to take me to the tomb!"
When Geril heard me say this, his mouth opened wide and he stuffed a fist, and after a long time he said to me:
Mr. Shen, you were sent by Mr. Ye, right? I've never seen a rich man like you who wants money and doesn't want to die! Mr. Ye, does he think I make too much? I said Mr. Shen, there are rules for the industry! There is food for everyone to eat. Besides, didn't you hear me say just now? It's already dead down there, and if you go down, you thin skin and tender meat, won't you be a shell and a lantern...... Looking for death? Do you think it's that easy to go to the grave? If it were that simple, I wouldn't have come to open a store! Come on! You've seen the stuff too, so you can pack it up and take it away when you pay the rest of the money.