In the former Qing Dynasty, there was a pulse of the ancient people surnamed Jiangu, who was said to be the descendant of a famous collector in the Southern Song Dynasty. Although his feet are not good for walking, he was born with special eyes and can distinguish color differences that are difficult for ordinary people to discern.

He relied on this skill to read countless treasures and sat on many rare treasures. When this man was old, he suddenly disappeared, and he could not see anyone alive or dead. Only one orphan girl was left to inherit the great family's business, although the orphan girl inherited the eye of this famous collector, but due to her own lack of mind, she failed to learn the skills of antiquity.

Later, under the control of her elders, this orphan girl found a husband to come to the door and gave birth to a son within a few years. This child not only inherited the talent of the Qu family, but also was very intelligent, and when he grew up, he became a rare treasure connoisseur in the world.

The ability of the Qu family to appreciate treasures has been passed down for hundreds of years, until the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the Qu family gradually lost the ability to appreciate treasures, and can only use the experience accumulated over the years to try to continue to inherit the identity of treasure connoisseurs. Not only that, but the Qu family is also getting thinner and thinner.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qu family was almost a single lineage, and the last head of the Qu family, his wife had nothing before he died. Therefore, it is rumored in the antique industry that because the Qu family overused their natural ability, they were blessed, which caused the Qu family to lose their heirs.

In fact, outsiders are just rumors, and they don't know that before the death of the last head of the Qu family, his wife was pregnant, and after she became pregnant in October, she gave birth to a posthumous child, but this posthumous child is also not a man but a girl!

The girl was named "Qu Lingyan", he was kind-hearted, but because his father left too early, he failed to inherit the ancestral treasure appreciation craft, since then the Qu family quit the antique shop and moved to live in Beizhili. Relying on the early years, the Qu family had some wealth, so they lived a very rich life.

In the winter when Qu Lingyan was sixteen years old, after a heavy snowfall, Qu Lingyan saved a young man in the snow. This man was in his early twenties, with injuries on his body, and he was still holding a pouch in his arms, Qu Lingyan did not open the pouch, but just took the young man home for careful treatment.

After the young man woke up, in order to repay the grace of saving his life, he opened the bag and wanted to give the contents of the bag to Qu Lingyan. The bag is carefully wrapped in cotton wool and oiled paper and a statue, which is the black jade chisel gold black sky statue.

Qu Lingyan saw that the treasures were valuable, and refused to accept anything. Because the young man was seriously injured, he stayed at home for another half a year. His name is Chen Feng, and he didn't say how the black jade statue came about, but after long-term contact, Qu Lingyan's mother felt that the young man had a good character.

Half a year later, Chen Feng gradually recovered, and he fell in love with Qu Lingyan day and night, and finally became husband and wife. A few years after marriage, Qu Lingyan gave birth to several children one after another, and this originally deserted home gradually became lively. A few years later, Qu Lingyan gave birth to another son and named the child Chen Zhifei.

Originally, Chen Feng had a good understanding of antiques and artifacts, and with some notes left by Qu Lingyan's father, Chen Feng quickly learned the ability to appreciate antiquities. Although the Qu family is rich, they are always afraid that one day they will sit on the mountain and eat empty, so Chen Feng used his ability to learn from the ancients, went to the poor countryside to collect some old goods, and then took the valuable ones to Tianjin and Beijing to sell.

After coming and going, Chen Feng also began to become famous in the antique shop. and once hosted a banquet at home, among which there was a villain who was at odds with Chen Feng, and ridiculed Chen Feng for being a son-in-law by getting drunk.

Under the instigation of the wine, Chen Feng took out the black jade statue to display and blocked the person's mouth, but the news that Chen Feng had the black jade statue in his hand spread far and wide, who would have thought that this would cause him a catastrophe.

Not long after, several people came to the door late at night, led by Lu Zhengxiong who died on the auction table, and Xie An, who was almost arrested as a suspect.

It turned out that there was a master of inverted fighting, nicknamed "Ghost Eye Exploration" named "Wen Jie", who specially selected the tomb of the emperor and general. Wen Jie is also a descendant of the tomb robber Wen Tao in the late Tang Dynasty, and the teacher of Yan Zhiyi secretly mentioned in the Red Castle, Mr. Wuji Wen Ru is the same clan.

Wen Jie also has several apprentices, the eldest apprentice is Lu Zhengxiong, the second apprentice is Xie An, and the third apprentice is Chen Feng.

Although Wen Jie is a tomb robber, he has three rules for not stealing, first, the tomb of the Ming monarch who loves the people like a son and treats the people well does not steal, second, the tomb of loyal ministers and righteous men does not steal, and third, only seeks the tomb of the ancient tomb and the present person does not steal.

Among the three apprentices, Chen Feng was picked up and adopted by Wen Jie, so he followed Wen Jie since he was a child, and naturally became a tomb robber, but Chen Feng's personality is a little pure and good, and he is not suitable for this business. And Lu Zhengxiong and Xie An are people who see money and are mercenary.

That year, Wen Jie explored a large tomb of the Liaojin period outside the pass, and took a few apprentices to open the tunnel and drill into the tomb to get treasure. The black jade chisel gold statue of the big black sky was found in this tomb.

Because of the proceeds of each tomb robbery, after Wen gave his hands on it, only thirty percent was left with his apprentices, and the other seventy percent was used to help the poor people, so Lu Zhengxiong and Xie An had long been quite dissatisfied with their master Wen Jie.

When Lu Zhengxiong and Xie An saw a large number of treasures in the tomb, especially the priceless black jade statue, they suddenly had bad intentions!

The two of them joined forces, taking advantage of Wen Jie and Chen Feng's unpreparedness, to launch a sneak attack, seriously injuring Wen Jie. After Wen Jie was injured, he knew that it was difficult to survive, so he handed over the black jade statue to Chen Feng, and sacrificed his life to activate the tomb mechanism, wanting to trap Lu Zhengxiong and Xie An in the tomb and die with them.

When the tomb door mechanism was opened, Wen Jie first pushed Chen Feng out of the mechanism, and then trapped himself in the tomb with Lu Zhengxiong and Xie An and waited for death.

Chen Feng was attacked by a sneak attack because he was also injured, but he relied on a willpower to support, fled back to the pass on horseback, galloped all the way and finally even the horses were tired to death, Chen Feng did not enter the water and rice for many days, and the injuries on his body were aggravated, and finally fell to the ground from exhaustion in the area of Beizhili, but later he was fortunate to be rescued by Qu Lingyan.

He originally thought that Lu Zhengxiong and Xie An both died in the tomb with their master Wen Jie, who would have thought that these two guys should not die, found a shaft leading to the outside, and finally escaped. And for many years, the two have been looking for Chen Feng and the black jade statue.

Chen Feng mistakenly showed the black jade statue after drinking, and the news spread, and Lu Zhengxiong and Xie An followed it up.

That night, Lu Zhengxiong not only robbed the black jade statue and a lot of money and treasures of the Qu family, but also beheaded and killed Chen Feng's family, and finally set a fire to burn the Qu family to a white ground.

But among them, there is no Chen Feng's youngest son, Chen Zhifei!

Not far from the Qu family, there is a couple surnamed Xu, who have no children all year round. The two families are on good terms, and the couple likes Chen Feng's youngest son Chen Zhifei very much, so they often take him over to play, and they love Chen Zhifei very much.

In the past, superstition said that if there were no children at home, they would find a little boy to pee on the family's kang, and they would soon be able to bring a child.

On this day, the couple surnamed Xu picked up Chen Zhifei and went to their house, wanting the child to pee on the kang. Who knew that Chen Feng and Qu Lingyan's family encountered an accident that night, and they were killed by Lu Zhengxiong and Xie An.

The couple surnamed Xu was about to send Chen Zhifei home at that time, but they unexpectedly witnessed Lu Zhengxiong, Xie An and several others coming out of the Qu family, everyone had blood on their hands, and the couple hurriedly hid in the corner. Chen Zhifei was almost six years old at the time, and he watched these people set fire to his home, and the seeds of hatred were buried in his heart.

Later, the couple surnamed Xu adopted Chen Zhifei, and took one word in each of Chen Feng and Qu Lingyan's names, and renamed the child Xu Lingfeng!

When Xu Lingfeng grew up, he was successful in his studies and filial piety to his adoptive parents, and quickly became an antique appraiser by relying on the special ability of the eyes inherited from the Qu family, as well as his innate interest and talent in antiquities.

But Xu Lingfeng has never forgotten his family feud for so many years, and he is bent on seeking revenge on Lu Zhengxiong, Xie An and others!

Later, Xu Lingfeng was hired to join Durand Auction House and became the auction house's premier appraiser and auctioneer. However, the good times did not last long, Xu Lingfeng's adoptive father was seriously ill, in order to treat his adoptive father, Xu Lingfeng almost scattered all his family wealth, and sold all the valuable utensils that he had recovered by his eyesight over the years, but it was still a drop in the bucket for the huge treatment costs.

At this time, a dealer he met at a previous auction found Xu Lingfeng, and this dealer was none other than Lynch.

Lynch, who was also an orphan, was adopted by a painter who had emigrated to China from England and was nearly sixty years old when he adopted him, but he was the one who was thought to be Walter Siegel.

Lynch is not actually surnamed Lynch, but Siegel, whose real name is Lynch Siegel.

Walter Siegel was moody, so Lynch was often abused as a child. And Walter Siegel wanted to train Lynch to become a painter, but because of Lynch's own talent, he did not achieve anything in painting. However, years of painting have made Lynch a dealer specializing in collecting famous paintings.

Lynch found Xu Lingfeng and hinted that he wanted to cooperate with Xu Lingfeng to send some fake paintings of Walter Siegel to the auction house for auction. Because Lynch has been exposed to it since he was a child, he knows his adoptive father's paintings well, and he found a young man who is very good at painting and imitating Siegel's brushwork to draw many fake paintings.

Each fake painting has been verified by Lynch himself, ensuring that even he cannot distinguish the real from the fake, before it will be sent to the auction house for auction.

At that time, as long as Xu Lingfeng turns a blind eye, the proceeds after the auction can be distributed to Xu Lingfeng. At this time, Xu Lingfeng was in a hurry to use the money, and the two hit it off, and jointly bought more than a dozen fake paintings, which were only Siegel's at first, but later found that there was no East Window incident, so he imitated some famous paintings that had disappeared and put them up for auction.

Relying on the share of these auctioned paintings, Xu Lingfeng had the money to continue to treat his adoptive father. At this time, someone discovered that the painting of Siegel that had been sold before was fake, so he found the auction house, and Burroughs, worried about affecting the reputation of the auction house, painted a large sum of money to suppress the matter.

He thought that Xu Lingfeng was just looking away for a while, but he didn't expect that this was actually a scam jointly made by Xu Lingfeng and Lynch.

In the auction hall, everyone present listened quietly to Xu Lingfeng's story, and Burroughs was the only one who felt betrayed, and he was very angry.

Han Dada'er was digesting things about Lynch's identity and background in her heart. For a moment, he seemed to have figured out a lot of things, but there were still some things he couldn't figure out.

When Xu Lingfeng said this, Han Da'er suddenly said:

"I don't believe it, Lu Zhengxiong found you just by accident, I think some things were done by you on purpose!"

Xu Lingfeng just smiled faintly, and then said:

"Not bad! I made up my mind to work with Lynch, including the previous design to kill Lynch, but I actually got the help of one person!

Even the methods and tactics of killing here today were taught to me by him! ”

Han Da'er had already sensed that something was wrong in his heart, and at this time, when he heard Xu Lingfeng say that there was another mastermind behind the secret manipulation, his heart suddenly shook, and he hurriedly asked:

"Who the hell are you talking about?"

Xu Lingfeng said:

"I don't know who he is, he only asked me to call him - the mountain chief!"