It can only be like this. I was thinking in my heart.
It was already noon when we came out of the Summer Palace. I said to her: "The food in Beijing is really unpalatable. Let's go back to the hotel to have lunch. We will rest in the afternoon and watch a show in the evening."
She nodded.
I suddenly felt a little bored, and then I glanced at her and said, "Or, you can go play by yourself and look up some information in the room in the afternoon."
She glanced at me and hesitated for a moment, "Okay."
She got off at a subway station, and I drove back to the hotel by myself.
In fact, I really wanted to go back and do some things, because it suddenly occurred to me that I might meet Director Hou again in the next few days, and I should at least give an intentional reply to his request.
I didn't eat in the hotel, but simply had a bowl of noodles outside. After returning to the room, I first sent a text message to Qu Jin, telling her that I needed three tickets for the night.
Soon, she replied: I will have someone deliver it to you this afternoon.
Then, I lay in bed and called Mr. Liu. In fact, I had already thought about it. Only Mr. Liu might be able to provide me with some clues about that matter. After all, he is an expert in archeology.
After the call was made, I first said to him very apologetically: "Mr. Liu, I'm sorry for disturbing your nap."
He smiled heartily, "Mayor Feng, why are you so polite? Haha! I get it, you must have something to talk to me about."
His words made me feel a little embarrassed, "Mr. Liu, look at what you said. You mean, if I had nothing to do with you, you wouldn't be so polite, right? Yes, it's true, I do have something to do today.
Looking for you."
He smiled and said: "Have you eaten? If not, come to my house for a drink. My wife has just made the meal. I was lucky today. I bought a pheasant from the mountain on the street. The mushrooms are stewed and the aroma is fragrant.
.Come on, let’s have a drink together.”
I smiled and said: "It seems that I have no luck. Mr. Liu, I am on a business trip in Beijing. I have something to ask you."
He said: "That's right. Then just ask. Don't talk about anything else. Long-distance calls are quite expensive."
I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart: These old people are all like this. People like Mr. Liu, although they live in a courtyard and should be considered very wealthy, are still used to saving. In the final analysis, this is still a living habit.
I immediately said: "Mr. Liu, I want to ask you something. You know Yongzheng Red Porcelain, right?"
He said in a surprised voice, "Why did you suddenly ask about this matter? Yongzheng red porcelain, of course I know about it. Red porcelain is a rare thing and has been difficult to get since ancient times. It can be said that today's red porcelain
In the collection world, red porcelain is rare. Yongzheng red porcelain is even rarer. After all, Yongzheng only reigned for less than thirteen years, and Yongzheng also particularly liked red porcelain. This thing is so rare."
I added: "As far as I know, there seems to be a set of tableware from the Yongzheng period, but the collector has not collected all of them. It is said that two of the bowls are in our Jiangnan Province. I want to ask you, do you know these two bowls?
In whose hands is it?"
He said in a surprised voice, "Who collected it? Only two bowls are missing?"
I was a little embarrassed and felt that I shouldn't tell him such a thing. "Don't ask me this first. Please tell me first if those two bowls are in our Jiangnan Province? Have you seen or heard of them?"
He said: "First tell me who collected this set, and then I will tell you the whereabouts of the two bowls."
I was still in a dilemma, but I knew this old man’s temper, and I thought that if I didn’t tell him, he would definitely not tell me the truth. After thinking about it, I said, “Mr. Liu, you should have figured it out, right?”
After a few seconds, he said: "I know, it's the person we went out to Shangjiang City, right?"
I smiled and said, "You actually know this person very well, right? So you guessed it right away."
He said: "Well, tell me, what price is he willing to pay?"
I was secretly surprised: That thing just happened to be in his hand, right? I replied: "I don't know the price now, I just want to find out the whereabouts of that thing first."
He said: "I don't know. Mayor Feng, I think I should remind you that such things must not be given away with public funds. They are national first-class cultural relics. Buying and selling is illegal, and it is also a bribe.
It's also illegal. It's understandable that you agree to this for official reasons, but don't involve yourself in it. That's not cost-effective. Do you understand?"
I said: "Mr. Liu, I just want to know the whereabouts of that thing. As for how to operate it, I will pay attention to it."
But he still said authentically: "I don't know, I don't want you to make mistakes because of such things. You don't know this person well. I thought he had changed a lot after so many years, but I didn't expect that he was still the same as before. Hey!
If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have told you about this person."
I heard his words clearly, and I suddenly understood something in my heart: In fact, he knew the whereabouts of that thing, but he just didn't want me to make a mistake, so he didn't want to tell me. Maybe, that thing is really possible
It's hard to tell even in his hands.
Thinking of this, I immediately asked him: "Mr. Liu, you have the thing in your hand, right?"
He seemed to hesitate for a moment, "Xiao Feng, we'd better not talk about this matter on the phone, and you'd better not agree to this matter casually. I'll tell you everything when we get together after you come back.
, you can figure it out when the time comes."
Then, he hung up the phone immediately.
At this time, I seemed to understand something in my heart: it seemed that Mr. Liu did not know Director Hou very well, and there must be another reason why Director Hou was unwilling to return to his hometown for so many years.
Maybe the old man is right, and maybe I should be more cautious about this matter.
This phone call made me unable to sleep anymore, and I spent the entire afternoon reading in my room.
The person sent by Qu Jin came to me at four o'clock in the afternoon. He was a young man. He brought me three tickets, which were packed in a very delicate and beautiful envelope.
Qu Jin's concert officially started at 7:30 pm. Our director of the National Development and Reform Commission came back at 5 pm. When I saw him, I jokingly criticized him: "If I don't call you tonight, you will
You won’t come back yet, will you?”
He said something apologetically to me. After hearing this, I immediately stopped talking about him. He said to me: "My child is studying in college in Beijing..."
I immediately waved my hand to him, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? It's okay. I've already given you two days off. Then you should go and spend time with your children tonight."
He asked me: "Wouldn't this affect my work?" (To be continued)