Five hundred and ninetieth chapters all into my hands
"Help me fill the hole." Xue Chen, with Du Tao's help, the two of them backfilled all the excavated soil. After stamping it hard, they grabbed a lot of dead tree leaves and sprinkled it.
, no one can imagine that this place has been dug up before.
After dealing with the traces left behind, Xue Chen gestured to Du Tao, picked up the porcelain pillow and went down the mountain.
Xue Chen was driving, and Du Tao didn't mind being dirty. He sat in the passenger seat and hugged a porcelain pillow full of dirt.
After the car drove far away, Du Tao asked him the question he was most concerned about: "Xue Chen, how much is this... porcelain pillow worth?"
"Guess." Xue Chen smiled and narrowed his eyes, showing that he was also very excited at the moment.
"That plum vase you mentioned is worth two cars. It's so big, it must be worth at least three cars, right?" Du Tao smacked his mouth. He felt that his heart was beating like a drum, although the porcelain vase was beating like a drum.
The pillow wasn't very heavy, but it did feel heavy to him, and he didn't dare to be careless.
"Three?"
Although I haven’t taken a closer look at the pillow, its value is high.”
"Four...forty million?" Du Tao's heart almost jumped out of his chest, his eyes widened, and he took a big breath.
"Li Qingzhao once wrote a poem, Drunk Flower Yin. One of the lines is 'During the Double Ninth Festival and the Double Ninth Festival, the jade pillow and gauze cabinet are cool in the middle of the night.' The jade pillow refers to blue and white porcelain, which is also the porcelain pillow of shadow celadon.
With this sentence, the value of this porcelain pillow must be at least 10 million more!" Xue Chen said slowly, talking to Du Tao, whose brain had lost the ability to think, about the antiques.
There are two types of antiques worth collecting. One is extremely rare, such as his Xuande furnace, which is an example of this. The other is one with historical background and story.
The former is suitable for investment, while the latter is not only suitable for investment, but is also the favorite of those real antique collectors, just like his collection of Jin Nongqi paintings and Liu Songnian's Four Scenes, both of which are among them.
And this porcelain pillow has both qualities. Its collectability and market value are not inferior to his most cherished collection, the Xuande Furnace!
Even he didn't expect that he accidentally discovered that there would be such a big receipt, which far exceeded his expectations.
"Xue Chen, you are really awesome. You have made a fortune again." Du Tao exclaimed. He felt like he was in a dream. He got a sky-high price antique just like this. He just used a wooden pick to dig it up. How much did he get?
Money that no one can earn in a lifetime.
"Don't worry, I said I will make you rich, and your share is indispensable." Xue Chen said with a smile, looking at the road ahead.
Du Tao scratched his head and sighed: "Forget it, I didn't do anything. I just gave you a flashlight. I think you can handle it easily even without me. I understand what you mean.
Being able to have such an experience makes me feel that it is worth it, regardless of the money."
Du Tao got off the car at the Four Seasons Garden Hotel, and Xue Chen drove away from Qinan County overnight and rushed back to Haicheng. There was really no place to put such a big porcelain pillow, and it was inappropriate to put it anywhere. It would be inevitable if someone saw it.
It will attract some attention.
Early the next morning, in the breakfast room, Guan Hong and Han Shiying were surprised to learn that Xue Chen had returned to Haicheng overnight, and they all felt that they had left in a hurry.
"Hey, why did Xue Chen leave so fast? I haven't given him his reward yet." Guan Hong shook his head and said.
"Forget the reward, I don't think he will care." Du Tao grinned. He had already taken away tens of millions of porcelain pillows. Would he still care about the thousands of dollars in reward?
"Xue Chen left?" Han Shiying was surprised. Even if she left, there was no need to be in such a hurry. Seeing Du Tao's slightly uncomfortable look, she felt that there must be something fishy in it.
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It was already past ten o'clock when Xue Chen drove back to the lotus pond. When he entered the living room holding a porcelain pillow, Jiang Huilan came down from upstairs wearing pajamas and a coat.
"Xue Chen, you're back. It's so late. Why don't you come back during the day tomorrow? It's not safe to drive at night." Jiang Huilan said softly, and was stunned for a moment when she saw Xue Chen holding something covered in mud in his arms.
"It's okay, you can go and have a rest. Don't worry about me." Xue Chen rushed upstairs to the private bathroom of his bedroom with the porcelain pillow in his arms. He used water and a brush to brush off all the mud on the porcelain pillow and make it clean.
Then wipe it clean with a bath towel.
"call!"
He took the cleaned porcelain pillow out of the bathroom and placed it on the bed.
Under the light, the porcelain pillow's bluish-white glaze is clear and clean, and its color is as warm as jade, just like a baby's skin. It doesn't look like porcelain, but like jade.
“No wonder shadow celadon is called ‘fake jade’.”
Xue Chen gently touched the hard glaze surface with his hand, and then carefully appreciated the colorful patterns on the porcelain pillow.
The glaze of this porcelain pillow is milky white with light blue in it. The green and white glaze is also outlined with a colorful pattern in three colors: crimson, light blue, and orange. There are floating clouds and mist, long sleeves dancing, and a bright moon in the sky.
The eight beauties raised their heads to look at the moon, as if they were about to float away to the moon palace, like banished fairies, the artistic conception is extraordinary and beautiful, what a picture of Chang'e flying to the moon!
This is exactly the Southern Song Dynasty three-color Chang'e Flying to the Moon Shadow celadon pillow!
Large size! It has exquisite three-color pictures! It is in perfect condition! It is a representative work of the shadow celadon large door.
Xue Chen was moved by what he saw. He lay down and carefully put the pillow on it. It was cool and hard, and it made his head feel a little uncomfortable. But he enjoyed it. It was the same as drinking tea from a chicken cup worth hundreds of millions.
With his eyes closed, Xue Chen felt very hot, thinking that there must be more than just this porcelain pillow under the forest, there must be funerary objects in other places, and their value would not be low.
He had been thinking about going back and looking for an opportunity to search again, but after thinking about it again and again, the idea gradually suppressed.
Being able to get this porcelain pillow is already a big gain, and it is also very secret. No one will find out. There is no need to continue to be greedy. It should be stopped in moderation. If you dig again and there are mistakes in the process, it will be a small gain and you will get into trouble.
Previous trouble.
Uncle Shen once heard some stories about tomb robbers. One story told about a young tomb robber in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties who received his master's dying instructions.
A young apprentice who had learned a skill was told by his master before his death that he was destined to commit "four" crimes, so in the future he would go to the tomb to get wealth, and he could only leave those three items immediately, and not more than three.
The young apprentice abided by his master's will. In three years, he robbed and excavated 20 tombs, large and small, taking only three burial objects that he considered to be the most valuable. Nothing ever happened to him, and he accumulated tens of millions of wealth.
The tomb of the twenty-two tombs he robbed was the tomb of a former dynasty official. Hundreds of gems and jade were buried with him. When the fire broke out, the treasures were unbridled and the room was full of splendor.
The young tomb robber picked through thousands of choices, trying to pick the three most precious ones. However, after picking through, he was left with the last four priceless treasures. He would not let go of any of them. A pair of spring and autumn pieces. A jade jade with a dragon and phoenix pattern, an East Pearl as big as a baby's fist, a Tang Dynasty three-color pottery figure of a golden boy and a beautiful girl holding a carp, and a five-horse phoenix car made of gold.
The young tomb robber liked these four priceless treasures more and more, his eyes were red, and he was reluctant to keep any of them. Finally, he threw the master's will behind his mind, put the four treasures into packages, and prepared Take him out of the tomb.
As a result, before they could leave along the robber's cave, the robber's cave collapsed and the person was buried inside.
Of course, it is difficult to say that this story is true. Uncle Shen told him the purpose of this story at that time, which was to tell him a truth: don't be blinded by greed, always stay awake and know how to make choices.
Open your eyes and get up, put the porcelain pillow in the safe, wash yourself, and go to sleep.
Although Du Tao said he didn't need a share, Xue Chen still sent him one million the next day. This amount of money was only a drop in the bucket compared to the value of the shadow celadon pillow, but he knew Du Tao's character very well. I might accept this one million, but I definitely won't accept more.
Following Xue Chen, he went digging for treasures at night and found a porcelain pillow worth tens of millions. Du Tao was so excited that he couldn't express it in words. He wanted to tell someone, but he felt uncomfortable. After thinking about it, he called Fatty Wang. I got on the phone and started bragging a lot on the phone.
Wang Dong was stunned for a while while listening on the phone. After hanging up the phone, he almost ran down from the second floor of the antique shop, drove all the way to the lotus pond, got out of the car, and rushed through the door using both hands and feet. I saw Xue Chen sitting in the living room drinking tea and reading the newspaper, with a look of resentment on his face.
"Old Xue, you are so rude. You and Du Tao dug up the treasure and didn't even say a word to me. You quickly took it out to give me some knowledge."
"I knew Du Tao would tell you to go upstairs." Xue Chen stood up with a smile.
When he went upstairs and saw the porcelain pillow, he held it in his hand. Wang Dong's eyes widened and he took a deep breath: "My dear, is this Ying Celadon? This is the first time I have seen such a big one. The porcelain pillow also has a picture of Chang'e flying to the moon, which is amazing."
"Du Tao didn't explain clearly on the phone, how did this porcelain pillow come from? Did it dig it out of the soil? Let me tell you, Lao Xue, you must have dug up some princess's tomb."
There was no need to hide anything from Wang Dong. Xue Chen sat on a chair and gave a brief explanation. As for why he could determine where to dig for good things, he didn't tell him. Fatty Wang also had a tacit understanding and didn't ask any more questions.
Fatty Wang looked at the other collections in the safe one by one, and said with a slur in his mouth: "If nothing else, Lao Xue, these treasures collected by you are really the best among the best. None of them are the best." I just got some Qianlong pastels, Jun kiln vases, and now I have got Ying celadon from Longquan kiln. I don’t think I can use them much. You have to collect all the good things from the five famous kilns.”
"That's for sure. Not only the five famous kilns, but also the blue and white porcelain from Yuan, Ming and Qingguan kilns are all in my hands!" Xue Chen said confidently and firmly. (To be continued)