"Mr. Wang, can we discuss this? I will lend you this relic for the time being. I have a friend who works in a hotel chain. He is quite knowledgeable in collections. Do you think it would be convenient for him to see it?
How about appraising the market value of this rare treasure?"
"I like it. Mr. Bao has the final say. However, this rare treasure is rare in the world. You must cherish it even more and never damage it!"
"I know this, let's do this. Now you take the prescription to the drug store to get the medicine, and I will take the relic to see my friend. We will contact you again this afternoon, how about it?" Bao Xiaofei asked.
"I won, it's a deal!" Mr. Wang agreed boldly to Bao Xiaofei.
The two shook hands and said goodbye, and Bao Xiaofei carefully held the relic and walked out of Mr. Wang's club.
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Inside Songshan Shaolin Temple Chain Hotel.
Guo Haitao's eyes shone when he looked at the relic. This was the only time he had seen it in his life. The relic was as big as a walnut, but there were crystals around it. It was crystal clear. Because it had been preserved for a long time, it had basically lost its luster. It only needed
After cleaning, the original color will still appear.
In addition to being busy with business matters, Guo Haitao actually has a little-known hobby of collecting. This secret was revealed inadvertently while he was drinking with Bao Xiaofei when he and Bao Xiaofei became close friends.
He could probably explain the origin of this relic. Therefore, he told Bao Xiaofei the legend about the relic.
According to legend, in ancient India, there was King Suddhodana, who had ruled ancient India for more than half a century. He only had one prince under his knees, and he lived a life without worries about food and clothing.
On the prince's sixth birthday, King Suddhodana invited his ministers to celebrate his birthday, which of course included a banquet.
During the dinner, a fortune teller came to King Suddhodana and said that he wanted to predict the future of his child to see whether the prince could rule the entire India in the future.
After getting permission, the fortune teller made a divination for the prince, and there were two results. The fortune teller told King Suddhodana one by one.
The first is that the prince will become a great saint in the future and a big figure worshiped by generations to come. The second is that the prince will rule the entire India in the future, but he needs to be taken care of well. If he is not taken care of well, he will definitely become the number one in the future.
kind of result.
King Suddhodana certainly hoped that he would become the second kind of person, that is, he hoped that he could rule the entire India in the future.
Therefore, King Suddhodana gave an order not to allow the prince to step out of the palace, so that he could grow up in the palace without any worries.
Time flies so fast, ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the prince has grown up and is about to inherit the throne.
One day, King Suddhodana led his ministers to go hunting, and he relaxed his supervision of the prince. The prince took a few followers and walked out from the palace to have a look.
Not far from the palace, he saw a few beggars begging along the street. The scene deeply shocked the prince. He felt that everything he saw in the palace was an illusion. Especially the leg of one of the beggars.
On top of it, it was no longer able to walk due to rot and was infested with maggots.
This scene deeply shocked the prince.
When he returned to the palace, his whole world had changed. The beautiful little girl he usually took care of now looked not beautiful at all. The servants who were usually submissive to him also became not cute at all because of human greed.
At this time, the prince was ready to change this situation. So, under the condition that he could not convince his family, he just left the palace to cultivate himself.
After coming out of the palace, he only ate a handful of bran noodles every day for seven whole years.
For seven years, I thought about it day and night every day, how to save all this suffering.
Because he hasn't had a haircut in seven years, his hair has grown very long, and birds have even made nests on his head.
Until all the birds flew away, his doubts were still not solved. One day, he felt that practicing hard like this was not an option and decided to change his way of practice.
So, he went to take a bath in the Ganges River. Due to long-term malnutrition, when he was about to go ashore, his head became dizzy and the prince fainted.
At this time, a shepherdess happened to pass by. When she saw the prince fainted on the ground, she gave him a bowl of porridge. After the prince drank it, he slowly woke up. Legend has it that the angel came on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
After waking up, the prince saw that the shepherdess was still so happy tending the sheep every day. He felt that his practice method was wrong. So, he meditated under the big tree where he woke up.
Later that tree became known as the Bodhi tree.
After the prince meditated hard for seven days and seven nights, he finally achieved enlightenment on the morning of the eighth day. Therefore, at that moment, he realized the true meaning of life under the bodhi tree and became a Buddha.
Around 500 BC, this enlightened Buddha passed away in a forest in India.
Because he founded Buddhism, his disciples spread all over the world.
The disciples cried and cremated his body. In the process, some of the bones became crystallized and some were blackened.
But those were preserved by his disciples, and those that were refined into crystallized form were what later generations called relics.
These relics of his were worshiped by later generations of disciples and have been passed down to this day. During the period of the Han Dynasty in China, a large number of relics have penetrated into the Central Plains. The relic in front of you must be a real relic.
Bao Xiaofei listened with some rapt attention, so he didn't say a word in the middle.
I heard that this relic has another benefit, that is, it can help people who have lost their lives return to the world.
"What? Is this really happening?" Bao Xiaofei's mouth opened in shock. He didn't know anything about legends.
"Yes, I have only heard of it. It seems that some of the eminent Shaolin monks knew how to do this before. During the Song Dynasty of China, there was a Daoji master who knew how to do it."
"Oh, Daoji, that's Monk Jigong." Bao Xiaofei said, pretending to shake his hand like a fan.
"But one thing is, the harder the relic touches something, the harder the relic will be when the two collide. But if it collides with an egg, the relic will break into pieces in an instant. I also read this from the book
Yes, but this has never been proven." Guo Haitao said and looked at Bao Xiaofei.
"What about the market value of this relic?" Bao Xiaofei actually wanted to know the market value of this relic most, so that he could easily measure it with money.
"This is a priceless treasure that currently cannot be measured with soft sister coins." Guo Haitao said solemnly.
After a few minutes, Guo Haitao put the relics on the table and walked outside.
Bao Xiaofei looked at the relics and thought in his mind that King Suddhodana's son had such superior conditions, why did he go out and suffer so much? Is it because the prince had nothing else to do?
While he was thinking wildly, Guo Haitao came in with an egg. Bao Xiaofei took the relic with some seriousness.
"Mr. Guo, you just said that this is a priceless treasure, and it will shatter into pieces if it collides with the egg. Don't try it!" Bao Xiaofei looked at Guo Haitao nervously.
"Mr. Bao, everything I just told you is a legend, and we have never seen it. How can we prove whether it is true or false? Right?"
"Now that I'm telling you, this thing is just a Buddha bone. It's not as magical as the legend says. It's okay. It's mine to smash. Let's give it a try!"
With that said, he took the relic from Bao Xiaofei. He wanted to prove whether the previous legend was true.
Bao Xiaofei saw that Guo Haitao insisted on trying, and he felt that with his worth, he could afford to pay for the relics even if they were damaged, so he took out the relics hidden behind him.
Guo Haitao looked at it carefully, then concentrated on throwing the relic at the egg.
"Snapped!"
The egg and the relic collided, making a muffled sound, and instantly...