On the way back, the speed of the car was neither too fast nor too slow.
I sat in the passenger seat and asked, "Look there, there is a white pagoda on the mountain. What is that place, a temple?"
He glanced at it and said: "What temple? It's the sanatorium in Yuquan Mountain. It's where the big shots live. We ordinary people shouldn't ask about it."
Driving through the Xiangquan Roundabout, it seemed like a green dry river road with four seasons. There were few people and cars, the roads were clean and the scenery was picturesque.
Qin Xida looked at the road and smiled and said: "Xiangshan is a good place. If I haven't entered it when I am 40 years old, I will settle here. Then I will climb mountains during the day, visit the botanical garden at night, and enjoy the red leaf festival in summer. Tsk tsk...
.Thinking about those days makes me long for them.”
"Yes, this place is good and suitable for long-term retirement."
"By the way, Brother Qin, can I ask you something?"
"explain."
"Can you give me one of your guns? The world is not peaceful now, and I want to get one for self-defense."
He smiled and said, "It's a small matter, no problem, I'll get it for you when I get back."
At around one o'clock in the afternoon, after returning home, he opened the closet and let me choose one.
I wanted a big shotgun, but it was hard to hide. After fussing around, I finally chose the smallest pistol, which could only fire bullets, but it was enough for me.
Of course I have the ability to buy it myself, but the boss has banned it a long time ago and he won't let me touch this thing. So I plan to hide this small pistol without telling the boss and use it for self-defense.
All the goods are sold. Today is the last day in Beijing. Tomorrow I plan to take Dr. Fan away and fly away.
Qin Xida said: "Brother, since your nickname is Shenyanfeng, you must have good eyesight. I have a few things here that I am always unsure of. Can you help me take a look?"
"Damn, Brother Qin, there's still something you don't understand? Take it out."
Soon, he brought two large wooden boxes from the inner room.
Opening the wooden box, I saw a large Qing Dynasty colorful dragon-patterned plate and a strange-looking bronze vessel.
Let’s talk about this colorful dragon-patterned plate first. There is no official kiln seal on the bottom. Nine dragons are depicted on the inside of the entire plate. The nine dragons’ tails are intertwined with each other, rolling and playing in the clouds. The whole thing looks extraordinary.
The bronze vessel I'm talking about looks very much like a mandarin duck pot used for hot pot. It has two ears and a copper piece between them to separate the pot into two sections. The bronze pot is decorated with a large number of grain and rope patterns and various animals.
Decoration.
I picked up the pot and tapped it with my fingers, and it made a clanging sound.
Qin Xida flicked the cigarette ashes, pointed to the plate and said: "This plate came out of a sunken ship in Guangdong. It doesn't look like an official kiln without money. I didn't pay much attention to it when I took it. Half a year ago, there was a foreign
Old Huang Maozi fell in love with this plate, how much do you think he gave me?"
I shook my head and said I couldn't guess.
"Three million! A whole three million! Those old men are always good at competition, and he was willing to pay this number. I thought, is there something weird about this plate?"
"Then where did this thing come from?" I asked.
He said: "This bronze pot was sent by a front line worker in Guizhou. I checked all the information, but I can't find what this type of pot is called, and I don't know what it is used for."
I thought about it and said: "Brother Qin, I don't know the scientific name of this thing. It should be what ancient people used to eat hot pot. Look, here is spicy, and here is not spicy."
"Are you serious?"
I nodded: "Of course, it doesn't matter what it's called. I think this thing was probably used by a tribe in Luo's Ghost Country in Guizhou, at least 1,500 years ago."
He showed an expression as if he suddenly understood, and said: "It turns out to be something from that ghost country. No wonder we don't know what it is called. What about this plate?"
"Brother Qin, as you said, all the idiots are smart. It's only right that you didn't sell this plate for three million. If you sold it, I dare say you will never see another one in your life."
Holding a cigarette between his fingers, he asked: "Then you mean this thing is of official kiln nature?"
I said: "This thing is not of the nature of an official kiln. Although it has no inscription, it is undoubtedly an official kiln, and it is an official kiln of an official kiln! This must be something from the Qing palace! I can't figure out why.
Will you run into a sunken ship?"
After hearing this, Qin Xida frowned and said: "An old expert from Bo also saw this plate. He thought that this plate might be a new variety that Tang Ying tried to bake. Later, because Qianlong didn't like it and didn't approve it, he didn't sign it and left it.
In the palace."
"Bullshit! I don't agree with this point of view."
"Look here!"
I raised the plate and held it up to the light and said, "Look at the head of this dragon. Although the color is very light, you can still see a hint of green, right?"
"Yes, I can indeed see a little bit," he said.
I put down the plate and said: "This kind of green is called lake green. It only appears on the early Kangxi porcelain. It was probably from the 20th to the 28th year of Kangxi. When was Tang Ying born? He was born in the 21st year of Kangxi. I
Give it to him until it’s full! Did he bake this plate when he was seven years old?”
"So, this thing is a five-color test-fired variety in the early Kangxi period. If one box of bowls was burned at that time, only five of them would survive!"
Qin Xida suddenly said: "Oh... So that's it. Why weren't such beautiful plates mass-produced back then?"
I shook my head: "I don't know. I'm not a god. How can I know what Emperor Kangxi was thinking back then? But I can take a guess. I think the lake green glaze color may have been used in the wrong place."
"How to say?"
"Dragon head, the dragon represents the emperor himself! A green head on the dragon's head is like wearing a cuckold. Emperor Kangxi was in his prime at the time. When he looked at the cuckold dragon, he thought of himself. Can he be happy?"
"Ha ha!"
"I admire you! If nothing else, Brother Guang, your vision is really amazing! You solved a long-standing mystery in my heart!"
"A thousand cups of wine is too little to meet a close friend. We must have a drink! Just treat it like I'm seeing you off before you leave!"
In this way, we drank from the afternoon until dark. Because the foreign wine we drank was too strong, he and I were both drunk. Later, he simply fell asleep on the table.
I went to the bathroom to drain the water and was peeing. I don't know what happened, but suddenly I felt a chill and wind on my back.
Qin Xida lay on the table and did not reply to me.
I staggered out of the door, and before I could start the fire in the back seat of the car, I suddenly heard a "buzzing" vibrating sound from my phone.
"Whose phone number?"
I saw that the screen of my phone was black, and the vibrating sound came from the back seat of the car.
I looked around and found a flip phone from the gap in the back seat of the car. This phone was exactly the same as Ryoko's phone. I thought it was Ryoko pulling the phone into the car, so I picked it up without thinking.
"I've been around here, why haven't I seen you yet? How is things going? Have you found Fan Yunbai's residence?"
