When he returned home, he opened the treasure box again and let his mother Rao Yuqiu choose.
"Mom, take out whatever you like. Then I'll pick out a few fine pieces to keep, and give the rest to the auction house."
Rao Yuqiu picked up each piece of jade and couldn't put it down, saying: "Son, didn't you say you should keep the good things? How can you be willing to sell them?"
Lu Cheng smiled and said: "Too many. I still have more than a hundred stones to cut! Just keep a few exquisite pieces, and I can hold them all in my hand? Wouldn't that make me a brave man?"
He didn't say that he sold the jade to buy stocks, because in Rao Yuqiu's view, stock trading was unreliable! Jade can still be seen and touched, but stocks are just numbers that can be seen but not touched.
Rao Yuqiu lost a lot of money in the stock market in the past, and she felt angry when she mentioned it.
Lu Cheng didn't want to make his mother angry, so he simply didn't mention it.
Then, he told about the dinner between the two families.
"Okay! Go tell your dad and ask him to come back soon!" Rao Yuqiu was overjoyed, picked two pieces of jewelry, and closed the treasure box!
Even though it was Saturday, Lu Tianming still went to work.
Lu Cheng called his father.
It wasn't until 5 p.m. that Lu Tianming came back, his expression looking a little serious.
Lu Cheng asked: "Dad, what unhappy thing happened to you?"
Lu Tianming replied: "Originally, I should be happy, but I always feel a little uneasy in my heart."
"What on earth is going on?"
"There are two unexpected things. One is that there are some Han cypress trees in Dai Temple, which were almost dead at first, but recently they have regained their vitality and sprouted new branches in autumn and winter. The second thing is even weirder. Do you know the fifth doctor?
Is it loose?"
"I know. Legend has it that the pine tree where Qin Shihuang took shelter from the rain."
"According to "Historical Records", in 219 BC, the first emperor of Qin Dynasty visited Daishan Mountain in the east. When he encountered a storm, he took shelter under a tree. Because the tree served as a protector, he was awarded the title of "Five Doctors". "Five Doctors" was originally the name of an official rank in the Qin Dynasty.
At that time, there was only one pine tree that was sealed. In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Zhi wrote the sentence "I don't envy the five pine trees" in his poem "Forbidden Green Pine", and mistakenly thought it was five officials, so later generations understood it as five pine trees.
The trees are pine.
In the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1581), Yu Shenxing wrote in "The Record of Climbing Mount Dai": "There are five pines, and thunderstorms destroy three of them." The remaining two were washed away by flash floods in the twenty-third year of Wanli (1602).
Walk.
"Daicheng County Chronicle" also records: "In the first month of the eighth year of Yongzheng (1730), the imperial envoy Ding Zaobao was ordered to replant five pine trees." There are two existing pine trees, which are nearly 300 years old.
The two Pinus tabulaeformis trees are juxtaposed from north to south, 9 meters apart. Their trunks and branches are twisting and twisting, making them one of the eight scenic spots in Dai City. The tree has now been included in the Daishan World Cultural and Natural Heritage List."
Lu Cheng asked: "Are those two trees dead?"
Lu Tianming said: "The tree is not dead. What makes me uneasy is that ten meters away from the two pine trees, a tree stump with a diameter of three meters suddenly appeared, and new shoots sprouted from the stump, no more, no less, just right.
Five buds!”
Lu Cheng thought to himself: "So what?"
Lu Tianming added: "As the leader of the expert group of the Dai Temple Cultural Management Committee, I inspect the palace buildings on both sides of the mountain road every year, and I will never forget to inspect the Five Doctors Pine. I have never seen such a huge tree stump before, no.
You know when, it emerged from the ground and even sprouted!"
Lu Cheng was speechless: "Dad, could it be that Qin Shihuang was resurrected from the dead?"
"What Qin Shihuang? I mean that old pine tree! There used to be an old pine tree at that location. Before the Ming Dynasty, it was killed by thunderstorms!"
"Tsk, tsk, this has caused a big fuss!"
Lu Cheng walked out of the mountainside villa, stood in the yard, and looked up at Daishan Mountain.
He was surprised to find that at some point, Daishan Mountain was enveloped by a green air! The green air filled the sky with steam and almost covered the entire city of Dai!
Lu Cheng opened his eyes wide and his heart trembled!
"This has changed so much! How could this happen? Where did Qingqi come from? Is it harmful to ordinary people?"
He took a deep breath and felt the vitality contained in the green air. He stared at the steaming green air and vaguely saw some runes, but he couldn't see them clearly.
He turned back and asked his father: "Where are the ancient emperors' enshrinements?"
Lu Tianming replied: "Feng Chan means two things. Feng Daishan to worship heaven, and Feng Liangfu to worship earth."
"Dad, what I want to ask is, where exactly is the closing ceremony?"
"There are two places, one is on the top of Haoli Mountain and the other is on the top of Dai Mountain! Especially the latter, climb to the top of the mountain and build the Yuan Altar to worship heaven! As for that location, the top of the mountain is so big and there are not many places to choose from.
I guess it should be the Jade Emperor’s Peak!”
"Then I'll go take a look tomorrow!"
"What are you looking at?"
“Look at the top of the mountain to see if there’s anything weird!”
"I will go with you."
At nearly 5:30 in the evening, the family went out and Lu Cheng drove to "Shangshanfang".
As soon as I arrived in the private room and sat down, Jiang Qiuyun's family of three also came.
Lu Tianming and Rao Yuqiu both congratulated Huang Yingyi and congratulated her on her upcoming promotion to academician.
"Academicians of the Academy of Sciences are very rare. There are more than 500 in total in the country. They are mainly concentrated in big cities such as Shangjing and Shanghai. There are 80 in Shandong Province, which is already a lot. But in Daicheng, there were two in the past. In the future, you will
It’s the third one!”
"Especially, you are still so young, less than fifty years old."
Huang Yingyi smiled and said: "I have to thank Lu Cheng. Without the muskwort and psoralen he provided, I would not have been able to develop strong muscle protein, gamma bone protein and vitamin G."
Rao Yuqiu said: "Thanks for what he did! He is a junior and should make some contribution."
Jiang Fangsheng smiled and said: "We are now one family, we don't talk about two families."
Rao Yuqiu said: "Yes, this is fate."
Because Lu Cheng and Jiang Qiuyun have lived together for a long time, what their parents thought should happen must have happened. What is rare is that the two of them get along harmoniously, and the next step is to get married.
Afterwards, various dishes were served in turn, and everyone talked while eating.
Everyone present except Lu Xinyuan was an adult. Several bottles of red wine and white wine were opened, and they could drink as much as they wanted.
Jiang Fangsheng picked up the wine glass, clinked it with Lu Tianming, and said with a smile: "Do you know? I am very happy this year. Lu Cheng gave me a set of brushes. I used that brush to write a calligraphy, which shocked my colleagues in the calligraphy and painting world. I
Even more happily, Xiaoyun has also become a calligrapher, and one calligraphy piece sold for more than 30 million yuan!"
Lu Tianming was surprised: "Really? I don't know yet! Lu Cheng, why didn't you tell me?"
Lu Cheng grinned and thought to himself, "This is such a trivial matter that I didn't even think of mentioning it."
Jiang Fangsheng smiled and said: "This is not a matter of how much money. I am very proud of Xiaoyun! She has become a great calligrapher! Except for my daughter, I can't think of any contemporary person who sells a calligraphy for such a high price.
!”
As an archaeological expert and appraiser, Lu Tianming is no stranger to the situation in the calligraphy and painting world. Hearing this, he said: "Yes, if you say there is a calligraphy painting by Mi Fu, Huang Tingjian, and Zhao Mengfu, it is not a problem to sell it for hundreds of millions. But modern people’s calligraphy is rarely even worth millions.”
Jiang Fangsheng sighed: "At present, most of the works of famous contemporary calligraphers only cost a few hundred or a few thousand yuan per square foot, and the most expensive ones only cost hundreds of thousands of yuan. Compared with the price of traditional Chinese paintings, which can easily reach millions of yuan, The gap is not even a tiny bit. For example, the late Chinese master Qi Gong, the creator of Qi Ti, is a household name. His calligraphy sold for RMB 10,000/square foot before his death in 2005, but the current price is RMB 500,000/square foot. .Unless one dies, the price cannot go up; even if one dies, it cannot compare with painting.”
Lu Tianming praised: "This further shows that Qiu Yun is a rare talent. You and your family are all talented. Lu Cheng, you have to treat Qiu Yun well. If you make her angry, I will deal with you later!"
Lu Cheng laughed and said, "How dare I."
Jiang Qiuyun raised the corners of her mouth and said with a smile: "Why don't you dare? You are so courageous."
Lu Cheng said: "No, my courage is as small as a needle nose."
Jiang Qiuyun didn't say any more, still thinking in her heart: "People have moved here to be neighbors! I looked from a distance several times and saw Guan Sangyue standing in the yard, looking at our house from time to time! Hum, forget it, I I’m too lazy to argue with you!”
In her opinion, no matter what Guan Sangyue did, as long as he was not with Lu Cheng, it would be fine.
"Humph, unrequited love is useless! Lu Cheng is an ignorant 'Lu man'."
Lu man means that during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named "Uncle Yan" in the State of Lu. He had neither uncles, brothers, wives, or children, so he lived alone in a room. His neighbor was a widow who also lived alone in a room. Suddenly at night A storm came, and the widow's two thatched huts were overturned by the wind and rain. She ran to knock on Mr. Lu's door. During the storm, she told Mr. Lu through the window that her thatched hut had collapsed and she could not rest. She begged him to look after her old neighbor on the old street. For her sake, she opened the door and stayed overnight to avoid the wind and rain. Man Lu advised her to leave quickly to avoid causing trouble. The widow said: "There is no one else in the king's house. Who knows if she stays overnight?" Man Lu said: "It's because of this. I dare not open the door unless there is no one to testify. Otherwise, if the news spreads, wouldn’t it be difficult to cleanse myself by jumping into the Yellow River?” The widow begged, but Mr. Lu still refused to open the door.
Jiang Qiuyun and Lu Cheng live under the same roof, and she knows him very well. She is confident in her beauty. Although Guan Sangyue is a beauty, she may not be able to surpass her. Lu Cheng is not even willing to bully her who is close at hand. How could he get close to Guan Sangyue?
Jiang Qiuyun thought of the old joke. It was said that a man and a woman slept on the same bed. The woman drew a line in the middle of the bed and said to the man that if you dare to cross the line at night, you are an animal. But when he woke up the next morning, the man really didn’t When you cross the line, the woman says, you are worse than a beast.
Regarding this joke, Jiang Qiuyun also discussed it with her roommates when she lived on campus.
"If you sleep with someone you like, do you want that person to be a beast, or worse than a beast?"
At that time, Hong Qingni laughed and said: "Of course we can do it after we sleep. No matter what, we are all adults. We can't solve anything after we sleep."
Zhang Min also said: "Sleep, sleep, sleep. Once you sleep with me, you will be my mother. I will let him never forget it."
There was a girl in the room at that time, named "Kong Minzhan", who said: "Although I have never been in love, if the person I like sleeps next to me and doesn't have any desire for my body, I will be useless.
I am more afraid of a person who is interested in me than if he is messing around."
Jiang Qiuyun knows: Lu Cheng is very healthy. He has won 7 Olympic gold medals. If he were not healthy, there would be no healthy people in the world! Lu Cheng also has no mental illness. He is a graduate student in acupuncture and moxibustion and knows better about health preservation than ordinary people.
It's just that I'm addicted to cultivation and temporarily abide by the three chapters of the agreement.
She looked at Lu Cheng with a smile and asked, "What are you going to do tomorrow?"
Lu Cheng said: "I'm going to wait for Daishan and go to the top of the mountain to have a look."
"I am coming too!"
"Okay, my dad and Xin Yuan will go too."
"What time will you go tomorrow?"
"How about half past nine?"
"Okay, where to meet?"
"Outside the Red Gate, at the foot of the mountain."