Upon hearing this number, Xiao Nie slightly stuck out his tongue at his ignorance.
Cheng Yu was also able to continue making up stories.
"The old gentleman was very interested in the innocent card in my hand. He asked me if I could play with it for him. I didn't expect him, so I showed it to him." Xue Changyun heard this,
He immediately frowned and said: "It's not like he asked you if you could resell the innocent card in your hand to him after reading it, and offered a pretty good price. But you think it's not that big of a deal?
It's so simple, so you didn't sell it to him. Instead, you found out that he had the remaining part of the 'treasure map' in his hand, so you paid for the remaining half of the map from him, right?" Cheng Yu
He rolled his eyes and said: "If it is really such a simple scam, will I be fooled? If it is true as you said, how many copies of this innocent card have been copied in Vietnam, and the so-called remaining half of the picture is
Only
More. In what age, am I so distracted by the words "treasure map"?"
Xue Changyun laughed and said, "This is what I thought of as a common trick following what you said. So what exactly is going on?" "After the old gentleman read the "Nothing" card, he returned it to me and asked me if I wanted to
I am willing to wait for him in Mong Cai for two days. He is going back to Ho Chi Minh City and there is something he wants to show me. Although we met by chance, I met him by chance.
The old gentleman was quite excited, and asked me to wait at Mong Cai instead of following him to Ho Chi Minh City. I thought there would be no danger and there would not be too much trouble, so I agreed," Cheng Yu said.
When I got here, I paused, picked up the beer at hand, took a big sip, and continued: "Then, I canceled my plan to return to China the next day and continued to stay in Mong Street to wait for the old gentleman. Two days later, the old man
gentlemen
He actually came, and we met in the lobby bar of the hotel. He showed me something first, not the half picture, but a huanghuali wood base."
With that said, Cheng Yu opened his phone, pulled out the photo of the crown base, and showed it to Xue Changyun and others.
"It's actually sea yellow. I thought it must be Vietnamese yellow in Vietnam." Xue Changyun said with certainty after reading it.
"Indeed, I didn't realize it at first when I got it. After looking at it carefully, I realized that it was actually a purple avocado Hainan huanghuali. Moreover, this thing was actually carved from whole wood. Even if it is not an antique, it is still worth some money.
." "It is almost impossible to find such a large whole wood of modern huanghuali. It is all about technology and hard work. Usually, you can wait for it to grow to three centimeters in thickness. You are quite patient. The diameter of your base is
How many?
"
"The head circumference is slightly larger than that of a normal person."
Xue Changyun said: "It must be close to thirty centimeters. The lines are so clear. It's really a good thing."
"Then the old gentleman started telling me stories."
Xue Changyun showed enough interest and hesitated to take a sip while holding the beer. Obviously, the "story" in Cheng Yu's mouth had completely aroused the interest of the other three people at the table. "The old gentleman said, this Huanghuali's
The base was passed down from his ancestors. His grandfather told him that his ancestor was a Yao soldier in Hezhou, Guangxi during the Qing Dynasty. It is said that he was still a general soldier. This thing was passed down from that time.
Come down."
Xiao Nie hurriedly interrupted: "This looks too much like a scam. This old man isn't going to sell that base to Mr. Cheng, is he?" Although the other two people didn't speak, Cheng Yu could tell that they were
In fact, I also have this kind of doubt, because the beginning of the old gentleman's story is really like the way a liar tells a story. Although this is actually quite normal in the antique circle, whoever has some unknown treasure in their hands,
You definitely have to find a way to make up a story. Just like when the reform and opening up was just beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, the cultural and entertainment industry also recovered, and at that time there were no clear legal terms for the transaction of these things.
Restrictions, especially in places like the imperial capital, where all day long someone was holding a tattered embroidered shoe, saying it came from the palace, and someone with a nose and eyes said it was his great-great-grandfather who ripped off the feet of Concubine Zhen who jumped into the well.
It came down, so there was only one left. Originally, there was an egg-sized luminous pearl embedded in the upper of the shoe, but after his great-grandfather left the palace, he smoked heavily and dug out the luminous pearl.
He came down and sold it. But interested people asked him, how could your great-grandfather stay in the palace? He said that his great-grandfather was Li Lianying's most effective eunuch at that time. Everyone laughed at it. How did the eunuch give birth to his grandfather?
In those days, this kind of story was told and believed every day in art and game markets across the country. But the beginning of the story Cheng Yu is telling now is really very similar to those messy stories. Cheng Yu clicked
The head said: "I kind of felt the same way at the time, but I thought that after waiting for him for two days, I might as well listen to what he had to say. After he finished, he told me that it was just a base for some kind of sacrifice.
, he didn’t know exactly what kind of sacrifice it was. He only heard from his grandfather that it was passed down from his ancestors that this thing was originally offered in a certain ancestral hall, and that person was also a big shot of their Yao people. Of course, who exactly was it?
, and what kind of big
None of the characters were passed down from his ancestors. But they left behind a tubular piece of wood, which should be made of golden nanmu. It looked a bit like a pen holder, but it was much thicker than an ordinary pen holder. They kept that tubular piece of wood in their family.
Objects are placed on this base and kept at home
中. But the tubular object was already cracked badly when it was passed to him. He even thought for a time that it was unlikely to be made of golden nanmu. But no matter what kind of wood it was, in short, it was used by his
The grandson secretly took it out to play one day, but it was completely broken. After the thing was broken, they discovered that there were some strange lines on the inside of the wall, which looked a bit like a map, but
There was obviously a big piece missing. There was no way to get that tubular thing, and after the grandson broke it, he ignored it. The old gentleman went to look for it himself, but he didn't find it.
All the fragments could be found, but only the parts that were later taken into photos were put together.
As for the missing part, they once thought it was caused by missing pieces of wood, until he saw the Wu Shi card I was playing in the casino. He felt at that time that the lines on the Wu Shi card were the same as the ones he kept at home.
The lines in the photo were too similar. So he took the liberty of asking me to stay in Mong Cai for two more days. He went back and took this picture and put it on my "Nothing" sign.
After putting it together, all the lines match up, and it is almost certain that this is the picture, or the missing part of the pattern carved on the inner wall of the barrel-shaped wood." Cheng Yu's mouth went dry as he said it.
I really have a bit of a storytelling artiste, so I made up a fairly round story in a short time. There are some truths and falsehoods here, it's quite legendary, and it also sounds like the words of a charlatan.
But he also let the other three people listen. After taking a sip of beer, Cheng Yu moistened his throat, and then said: "The photo was taken when he was middle-aged. Later, with the advent of computer technology, in order to prevent the photo from changing over time,
If the photo was not clear enough, he would find someone to add it to the photo
The pattern was made into a completely realistic rendering, using the golden background of golden nanmu. My photos were taken from his renderings." Cheng Yu completely took the photo directly from behind.
The photos of Guan were rounded up. When he said that half of the photos were taken from the broken tube, Xiao Nie actually had a strange look on his face. It was just Cheng Yu’s business.
He would not disclose the details easily. Now after Cheng Yu's description, Xiao Nie also felt that the credibility was relatively high. "The old gentleman told me that their ancestors were so careful to preserve the graphics in that tube.
Among the things, it was placed on the bottom shelf of huanghuali, which was obviously worth dozens of times more. It must be because of the picture in the tube. The reason why more expensive materials were not used was probably because I was worried that future generations would buy the coffin and return it.
He completely ignored the patterns carved on the inner wall of the tube. But his ancestor probably didn’t expect that the descendants of their family would not even buy the coffin.
Zhu didn't even think about it. If the tube hadn't been completely shattered, no one would have discovered that there was a mural carved inside."
Xue Changyun smiled slightly at this and said: "At this point in this story, it doesn't look like a charlatan anymore."
Cheng Yu waved his hand and said, "Then don't say anything too early. From now on, you will start to act like a charlatan again."
The three of them immediately acted like primary school students listening to the lecture, staring directly at Cheng Yu. "The old gentleman said that after his grandson broke the tube, they discovered the pattern on the inner wall. He was in his forties at the time.
While their father was still alive, the family felt that there must be a great mystery behind this thing that their ancestors had treasured for so many years. So they went through all the records about their ancestors left at home, and finally discovered that their Ming Dynasty item
An ancestor, as the commander-in-chief of the Yao soldiers, guarded the border of southern Xinjiang. Their ancestor should have fought many battles with Vietnamese soldiers, and even fought very deeply into Vietnam. He was a Han soldier of the Ming Dynasty.
Something they would never do. They collected a lot of rare treasures in Vietnam, and then
Hidden somewhere. This pattern looks like a map no matter how you look at it, so there is a high probability that it is a treasure map."
The three of them laughed in unison: "Indeed, this paragraph is a bit like a liar's trick." "I thought so too at the time. I also thought that Mr. Bao Qi would say, I don't know why,
As a result, their home map was missing a piece. Maybe the tube was not the original treasure map.
Or maybe the chief soldier and the deputy chief soldier each held a part of the map at that time, and now he wants to buy the idle card in my hand at a high price. And when I don't want to sell it, he asks me to bid for the other half of the map in his hand.
Picture."
"So things didn't develop like this?" Xue Changyun asked with interest, "Is it possible that the old gentleman gave you his picture directly? Or was it that you took the opportunity to secretly take the photo?" "I can't do this secretly.
I just told the old gentleman that his ancestors were Chinese anyway, and if this is really a treasure map, there is no telling whether the hidden things have been dug out over hundreds of years.
Even if the treasures are still there, they should at least belong to China, not Vietnam. Unexpectedly, the old man agreed with this, so he said that he had no intention of getting involved in those treasures that may or may not exist, but planned to use those treasures
Part of the map was given to me free of charge. The huanghuali base was also handed down from the Ming Dynasty, and he wanted to give it to me as well. Of course, I didn’t ask for it in vain, and after repeated offers, I gave him 200,000 yuan and bought the map.
Huanghuali wood bottom
seat."
Gao Yiming said anxiously: "That old gentleman just wanted to sell the base. He made up a story for a long time. I can't defraud you for a lot of money. It's okay to defraud you of 200,000." "This base is more than 200,000. Mr. Cheng is willing to give me 50,000."
Take it." Of course, the only one who said this was Xue Changyun.
