Jin Yutong

Chapter 290 The Trace of the August Osmanthus Cup

"Old man, to tell you the truth, I am really planning to collect a set of blue and white multicolored December flower god cups from the Kangxi Dynasty. Do you think there is something interesting?" Chen Ran nodded noncommittally when he heard Mr. Bai's advice, but Suddenly, he said such a sentence in a leisurely manner.

Old Man Bai was taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't expect Chen Ran to say such words, he was taken aback for a moment, but his smile subsided, and he looked at Chen Ran for a while, then shook his head solemnly and said: "Little Of course, your luck is so good, if you exchange for other antiques, I will definitely believe that you can collect them, but this Kangxi dynasty blue and white multicolored December flower god cup is an exception, the exception is the twelve flower god cups The August osmanthus flower cup in the middle... Don't look at when you get the lotus cup, I told you to keep it for your own collection, and collect it slowly in the future. With your luck, you might actually be able to collect a set. I said this The words are just a joke with you, but in fact it is impossible, this involves a secret between us old guys, I can't reveal this secret to you, because we old guys The guys have all made promises that this secret cannot be announced, but I see that you are determined to collect a set now, so I will tell you about it, so as to dispel your thoughts, but after you hear it , just rot in your stomach, and you little bastard too..."

Seeing that Chen Ran and Bai Lei were about to talk, Mr. Bai waved his hands to signal Chen Ran and Bai Lei not to interrupt him. He sighed, shook his head and said, "Almost every old guy in my circle is a member of the Kangxi Dynasty. Blue and white multicolored December flower god cup 'fans', at the beginning, each of us was committed to collecting a set, for this wish, we even joined forces to search for it, the other eleven flower god cups were collected, But the August osmanthus cup was never collected. In fact, we joined forces to search, mainly for the osmanthus cup. However, after several years, there was still no trace. The trace of the August osmanthus cup became a mystery. To solve this puzzle, we checked a lot of data and information. According to the data, the Japanese emperor at that time was a super fan of the Kangxi Dynasty Blue and White Colorful December Flower God Cup. As early as 1926, Japan’s The government' established the "Oriental History Museum" to collect precious cultural relics from Asian countries. After the July 1937th Incident in 1945, the Japanese Oriental History Museum once specially collected the blue and white colorful December flower god cups of the Kangxi Dynasty in China. The Huashen Cup was hidden in various material bases in batches according to the monthly cups. When Japan was defeated in 1977, the Japanese army retreated hastily. Some material locations were directly destroyed, some were buried, and some were transported away in a hurry. We checked Among the ships that the Japanese army retreated, among them, in the archives about the Awa Maru, there is such an internal mimeograph document distributed in [-], which is particularly eye-catching. There are blue and white flowers of the Yuan Dynasty, Huashen Cup, copper tripod, jade jewelry and other handicrafts, artistic products and valuables. These were all smuggled out of China after Japan occupied China during the war... According to the above information According to the research and speculation, we infer that the August osmanthus cup among the blue and white colorful December flower god cups collected by Japan in the Kangxi Dynasty from China may be on this ship called Awa Maru!

It was just that the ship traveled to the waters east of Niushan Island in Fujian Province, China, and was spotted by the US submarine "Queen Fish" cruising in the waters. It was attacked by several torpedoes and sank quickly 3 minutes later.

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Although my country began to salvage the wreck of the Awa Maru in 1977, until 1980 when the country announced the successful completion of the salvage project of Awa Maru, there was no trace of these August osmanthus cups, not just this batch of August cups. Osmanthus cup, in this salvage operation, in addition to no trace of the August osmanthus cup, a large number of recorded cultural relics were also missing, and even one or two of the recorded gold was not found.This is still a 'mystery' at present, although various sources of information indicate that Awa Maru was indeed loaded with gold and other valuables, but it is unknown how it disappeared.

According to our inference, a large number of August osmanthus cups should have completely disappeared with the sinking of this Awamaru ship, so it is impossible to collect a complete set of Kangxi blue and white colorful December flower cups , we old guys decided to hide this news in order to leave a thought for the fans of the Flora Cup. After you hear the news, you should let go of this thought and keep it as a fun collection. You can play, don't think about collecting sets..."

Mr. Bai revealed this matter to Chen Ran because he was afraid that Chen Ran would really be fascinated by it. It is normal for people to be fascinated by the charm of antiques. Let alone Kangxi blue and white The colorful December flower god cup is like a person who was conquered by the flower god cup in the Kangxi period, and then collects the flower god cup. It may only make people crazy if they collect eight or nine, but if they collect eleven , there is only the last one left, and it has been collected for many years but still can't be collected. Slowly, this person will [-]% go crazy.

If it were someone else, Mr. Bai would not be worried, because the flower god cups in the Kangxi period were scarce, and it was difficult for one person to collect a lot of them. The more you collect, the easier it is to be enchanted. That's different. In the eyes of Mr. Bai, with Chen Ran's good luck, he might be able to collect a lot. After collecting eleven of them, but he couldn't collect the last one, something will definitely happen.

Now that he said that, Chen Ran naturally stopped thinking about it.

After listening to Mr. Bai's advice, Chen Ran remembered the origin of the seven August osmanthus cups he got.

He obtained these seven August osmanthus cups from the villa, so it is naturally related to the original owner of the villa, Li Jianjun, and from the diary written by Li Jianjun, the first fortune that Li Jianjun and the tomb robber made was excavated. A Japanese military material stronghold, in this case, it makes sense.

Mr. Bai's deduction is [-]% true, and his seven osmanthus cups were also dug out by Li Jianjun from the Japanese army's treasure base. The Japanese army searched China for more than just these seven cups, and there are other flower god cups. Maybe it was destroyed, or it was still buried in the ground, or it was transported back to Japan. It's a pity when you think about it... No wonder people in the collection industry basically hate Japan so much, and it is indeed hateful.

Chen Ran shook his head, throwing this thought out, now is not the time for angry youths, but thinking about it this way, he suddenly felt that it was a blessing in misfortune that he got these seven August osmanthus cups from the villa, and he was able to let them see the light of day again , not only the great fortune of these flower god cups, but also the great fortune of collectors like Mr. Bai who are obsessed with the blue and white colorful December flower god cups of the Kangxi Dynasty. Yes, but thinking about it like this is undoubtedly quite satisfying.

"Mr. Bai, even though you said so, I still want to collect a complete set of five-color flower god cups. I won't hide it from you. I am thinking about the three flower god cups you collected this time..." Chen Ran smiled lightly, then said calmly.

Chen Ran said it lightly, but he made old man Bai very angry. He said so much, but he said it in vain. The old man blushed with anger.

"Xiaoran, are you sincerely entertaining me? I've told you so much that it's useless. I said that it's impossible to collect a complete set of Huashen cups. Why do you still want to collect a complete set? I know you Good luck, but no matter how lucky you are, this is simply impossible, and you can't collect it, you can't have some achievements, you don't know the heights of the sky!"

Old Man Bai pointed at Chen Ran angrily and said, as he spoke, he became more and more angry. This is also Chen Ran. If it was someone else, he would probably be kicked out by him.

"Aren't you wishful thinking?" Bai Lei was not convinced by Chen Ran at first, but now he seized the opportunity, "Master, you see that you have been praising him in front of me, it's nothing more than that, at least I There is still a bit of self-knowledge, this person is clearly an arrogant person..."

"stop laughing!"

Old man Bai glared at Bai Lei angrily, turned his head and saw Chen Ran still smiling, and was even more angry, glaring at Chen Ran viciously.

"Old Bai, don't worry, just listen to me..." Seeing that old man Bai was really angry, Chen Ran quickly stood up and explained it funny, but before he could explain a few words, old man Bai interrupted.

"Listen to you big bastard..."

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Chen Ran didn't say much, just took out the leather box containing the August osmanthus cup, opened it and placed it in front of Mr. Bai: "Mr. Bai, don't rush to get angry, look at this before we talk..."