With a beautiful woman accompanying me, the atmosphere in the car is indeed different.
Originally, everyone looked sleepy when they got off the plane, but now, because of Lin Qianyi, everyone deliberately found a topic to chat with Lin Qianyi after driving.
Lin Qianyi is worthy of being an associate professor in the university. She is well-informed, and she is able to deal with the siege of these wandering guys around me. She can answer questions whether it is about local customs or cultural relic appreciation.
But Wang Daquan and I were not among the people chatting with Lin Qianyi.
Because of Wang Daquan's personality, he closed his eyes and rested his mind as soon as he got in the car. He hugged the suitcase tightly with both hands, looking like a dedicated soldier on a mission.
Because I have seen too little of the world, I don’t understand many things. Not only what Lin Qianyi said, but also many of the things my companions said, I couldn’t relate to.
Out of boredom, I secretly looked at Lin Qianyi's profile from the side.
But I don’t have any bad thoughts about her. To use a popular saying, she is a goddess and I am a loser. The two of us are basically parallel.
The reason why I secretly looked at her like this was because I accidentally discovered something just now, that is, this Lin Qianyi looks somewhat similar to my father.
Especially those eyes, they are exactly the same as my father’s!
Maybe I had been staring for too long, and Lin Qianyi noticed something. She suddenly turned around and asked me what I was looking at.
I was stunned for a moment, then a thought flashed through my mind, and I replied: "Ms. Lin, do you know the origin of the Buddha statue we transported to Hong Kong this time?"
There are quite a few Buddha statues circulating in the world. In the few years I have been in the security company, the auction house has accepted dozens of cases of Buddha statues. But this time, it is particularly grand. It is obviously an ordinary statue that cannot be used.
No matter how ordinary a bronze Buddha statue is, it actually caused Manager Lei to come to Hong Kong in person.
Thinking back to the dream I had on the plane today, I couldn't help but be a little curious about the mysterious Buddha statue.
The others also stopped talking at this time and pricked up their ears curiously.
Lin Qianyi smiled and said, "Didn't Manager Lei tell you?"
We all shook our heads.
Lin Qianyi continued to smile and said: "In terms of artistic value, this Buddha statue is actually very ordinary. The information I have shows that this Buddha statue came from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Buddha statues from that time are not uncommon on the market today.
And that Buddha statue is not the work of anyone, it seems to be just a Buddha statue cast by a monk in a temple. The material of the Buddha statue is just ordinary pure copper, and even the gilding process is not done. At most, it is only worth a penny.
A million or so."
Now I was even more curious: "Then why does Manager Lei want to mobilize so much? Just because he happens to have those Buddha eyes in his hand? Shouldn't he?"
Lin Qianyi continued to explain: "That's because although this Buddha statue has no artistic value, it does have historical value. I heard that this Buddha statue once fell into the Qing Palace and was later stored in the Old Summer Palace.
The Empress Dowager Cixi’s tribute.”
Everyone in the car was surprised at the same time.
It turns out that he was worshiped by Lafayette!
I thought to myself, no wonder, although this Buddha statue looks ordinary, if it is something that has been used by the royal family, its value will be different. What Chinese people like most is the royal objects, no matter what they are, as long as they are in harmony with the royal family.
If it occupies one side, the value is hard to estimate.
I still remember that when I first joined the security company, the auction house once auctioned a set of cabinets used by Qianlong's daughter-in-law. The broken wooden cabinet was sold for a sky-high price of 20 million. Now
The price of this Buddha statue used by Cixi cannot be cheaper than that broken wooden cabinet, right?
After I asked my question, Lin Qianyi also became interested in me.
"Xiao Lin, how come your name is Sijiu? Are you from the capital?"
Before I could answer, Jiang Kai, who was sitting next to me, took over the topic and said, "You're from the capital city, Xiaolin is just an ordinary small town person."
As he spoke, he announced the name of my hometown.
Who would have expected that after hearing about my hometown, Lin Qianyi's eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked Jiang Kai: "Where is he from in Sijiu? Then why does he have a Beijing accent?"
I laughed dryly and interjected: "I learned it from my father when I was young. He is from the capital."
Lin Qianyi blinked her beautiful eyes and asked me again: "From the capital? Is your father an educated youth?"
"Probably..."
I smiled, then closed my mouth, and turned my eyes to the car window, admiring the night view of Hong Kong.
If we are talking about other topics now, I will definitely be excited to chat with a beautiful woman like Lin Qianyi. But if we want to talk about my dad, I really don’t want to say more.
In fact, before I was ten years old, I had been an unknown orphan, living as a vagabond and begging in a small county in the west. It was not until I was ten years old that I was adopted by a kind-hearted uncle from the capital. That uncle
Later he became my father and gave me the somewhat weird name Lin Sijiu.
My cheap dad has had a great influence on my life. I have to say that he has made a lot of contributions to where I am today. But now I am very reluctant to mention it in front of others.
Because, my father and I only got along for less than a year. One morning, after my father told me that he wanted to go back to the capital, he never appeared in front of me again.
Until now, I think that my father actually abandoned me at that time, just like he abandoned my biological parents. Therefore, to this day, I still have some hatred for my father in my heart.
I would like to mention him in front of others.
Seeing me turning my head away, Lin Qianyi had no choice but to give up her plan to ask further questions. However, she was not left idle because other people saw that we had finished chatting and immediately came over.
Lin Qianyi is beautiful and has an easy-going attitude. She doesn't look down on us little security guards at all, so everyone is eager to talk to her.
While listening to the questions and answers between them and Lin Qianyi, I looked out the window and calmed down the waves in my heart caused by the mention of my father.
By this time, the car had already entered the city.
Watching the car passing between high-rise buildings and not leaving the city center for a long time, a colleague asked Lin Qianyi: "Ms. Lin, is Boss Li's home in the city center? Don't I see the rich people in Hong Kong on TV?
Do they all live in villas?”
This question made Lin Qianyi couldn't help laughing.
"Who told you we were going to Boss Li's home? Boss Li is a famous collector in Hong Kong. He has a private collection in the city center."
The colleague giggled, a little embarrassed: "Is that so? I thought those rich people like to hide good things in their homes."
Lin Qianyi said: "In fact, the collection of cultural relics requires special preservation equipment. How can ordinary people keep them randomly in their homes?"
The people around him also burst out laughing, saying how strange he was.
The car drove for another ten minutes and, as Lin Qianyi said, it drove straight into the underground garage of a high-rise building.
After getting out of the car, I saw that Manager Lei and Boss Li's cars had also arrived, but there was no one in the car, so it seemed they had already entered first.
Sure enough, at this time, a man in a security uniform came up to us. He told us that Manager Lei and the others had already entered the library first. Manager Lei also asked us to get our things in quickly.
With that said, the security guard led us into the elevator and took us deeper into the underground of the building. Boss Li's collection was actually at the bottom of the entire building.
Entering the collection hall, I found that the place is not small and well designed. It is surrounded by rows of glass covers, which are filled with antique treasures collected by Boss Li. They are divided into different categories and placed in different areas.
The eyes of several of us turned red when we saw it.
Darling! There are so many things here! What a collection, it’s like a museum!
If Wang Daquan hadn't glared at us from the front, we would have just started visiting here.
After wandering around for a while, the security guard of the museum took us to a large iron gate.
This large iron door looks a little exaggeratedly thick. It is actually the kind of vault door in a bank, and behind the door is undoubtedly the storage room of the Buddha statue.
Walking into this storage room with an area of more than 20 square meters, Manager Lei and Boss Li were chatting inside. In addition to them, there were several security guards from the storage room. Behind them, I had already
I saw the figure of the Buddha statue.
The Buddha statue was indeed as tattered as it looked in the photo. If I hadn't heard Lin Qianyi say it before, I wouldn't have guessed how valuable this tattered bronze statue was.
The next process is funny to say. Boss Li and Manager Lei stood face to face, with the Buddha statue in the middle of them, and we and Boss Li’s security guards stood behind them, just like drug dealers in the movie.
The scene looks like it.
Afterwards, Lin Qianyi wore white gloves and held a magnifying glass to repeatedly observe the Buddha statue. She whispered something from time to time, while Manager Lei stood beside her and nodded frequently.
Ten minutes later, Lin Qianyi put away the magnifying glass and nodded at Manager Lei. It seemed that she had confirmed that the Buddha statue was indeed an ancient artifact from the Ming Dynasty.
However, the identification step was not over yet. Next, Manager Lei waved to Wang Daquan, who immediately took out the black suitcase that he had been holding in his arms and beat the suitcase in front of us.
Come on.
I lay down behind Jiang Kai, stood on tiptoes, and saw that what was placed in the suitcase was exactly what I thought before, it was the pair of Buddha eyes that the Buddha statue had lost.
Lin Qianyi took out one of the Buddha's eyes with her white-gloved hands, as carefully as if she was holding a priceless treasure.
Of course, in my opinion, the Buddha's eye is just a black ball.
A low stool has been prepared in front of the Buddha statue. Lin Qianyi stepped on it. First, she placed the Buddha's eye on the right eye of the Buddha statue. She gestured and found that the position seemed wrong. Then she turned to the left eye. This time it seemed to be the right eye.
By the way, the Buddha's eye was easily placed in the hole in the left eye of the Buddha statue.
Seeing that the Buddha's eyes and the Buddha statue were indeed matched, and they fit perfectly after being placed on them, without leaving any gaps, Manager Lei and Boss Li both grinned and beamed with joy.
Soon, Lin Qianyi installed the right eye of the Buddha statue.
When a pair of Buddha eyes were installed, the Buddha statue once again showed its true appearance to us after a hundred years.
I looked carefully at the face of the Buddha statue, but a strange feeling emerged in my heart.
Because when Lin Qianyi pressed the pair of Buddha eyes up, I suddenly felt that the face of the Buddha suddenly showed a vicious aura.
Not just me, Lin Qianyi seemed to be aware of it too. She slowly stepped back from the stool, her eyes fixed on the Buddha statue, her brows still furrowed, as if she didn't understand why she felt this way.
At this moment, the lights in the storage room suddenly flickered quickly.
It's already late at night, and the storage room is a secret room. The lights are flashing like a ghost movie, which makes people feel scared.
Boss Li smiled awkwardly and explained that the circuit of this library seemed to be faulty recently, and problems often occurred. He had already called people to check it several times.
Sure enough, just after Boss Li finished speaking, the lights returned to normal.
After Manager Lei laughed and scolded Boss Li for being stingy, he excitedly discussed the business with him.
The two of them talked to each other in gibbering Cantonese. Although they couldn't understand what they were saying, judging from their expressions, the business must have been finally concluded. Because in the end, Boss Li even said
He expressed his gratitude to us little characters in Mandarin with a Cantonese flavor, and asked Manager Lei to enjoy Hong Kong’s nightlife with us.
It's a pity that Manager Lei immediately refused, because according to the plan, we have to transport the Buddha statue back tomorrow. It's already one or two o'clock in the evening. If we don't go to bed early, there will be an accident on the road tomorrow.
After everyone pretended to be polite, Boss Li sent us out, leaving the Buddha statue where it was.
This time we are just here to verify the authenticity of the Buddha statue, and we don’t have anything with us. Therefore, we can only take the Buddha statue away tomorrow until Manager Lei finds the vehicles and tools for us to escort it.
Manager Lei seemed to be in a hurry and had already called someone before he could leave the storage room. We followed behind him and left the room one by one.
However, when I walked to the door and was about to step through the vault door, I suddenly saw something incredible in the reflection on the door!
From the reflection on the vault door, I actually saw that the Buddha statue behind us actually raised his hands!
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