Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 181 National Hero?

Gao Dongxu followed the Huang family servants into the bright vermilion gate, crossed the courtyard, and went directly into the main hall which was decorated in an antique style and filled with porcelain and antiques.

Huang Kewu was in the inner room on the right, sitting upright on a throne chair with his back against a huge mahogany display case. He was looking at Gao Dongxu who walked in with a faint smile on his face, wearing glasses, across from the huge mahogany desk.

"coming--"

"Mr. Huang——"

"Sit down - serve tea -" Huang Kewu smiled and pointed at the chair opposite him with a cigarette butt in his hand, then ordered the servants.

Gao Dongxu sat down with a smile, put the bag in his hand on the ground, took out a Panda cigarette and lit one for himself.

The two of them smoked their cigarettes, smiling at each other. After the servants brought tea, Gao Dongxu flicked the ash from his cigarette and said with a half-smile, "Mr. Huang, you are a bit unethical..."

"Oh? What do you mean?" Huang Kewu asked with a raised eyebrow and a smile, his old eyes bright and sharp.

"How many days has Yanyan been in Qishan? Are you not planning to let her return to Beijing?" Gao Dongxu asked directly.

"Haha, are you here to accuse me?" Huang Kewu sneered, "Yanyan has a business deal with Qishan that she needs to be in charge of. I believe she has already told you."

"Mr. Huang, you are boring now." Gao Dongxu sneered.

"Ah..." Huang Kewu sighed softly as he smoked his pipe. He said helplessly, "Yanyan will be back in three days. I hope you won't let her get hurt in the future."

"You can rest assured about this, Mr. Huang. I won't let her get hurt. I know what you are worried about. Don't worry, as long as you don't tell her, she won't think I have other women. I will lie to her for the rest of her life and make her happy for the rest of her life." Gao Dongxu promised Huang Kewu seriously and shamelessly.

Huang Kewu's face was as ugly as it could be. If the cold light in his eyes could kill people, Gao Dongxu would have been killed countless times.

"You are such a shameless bastard!"

"Thank you for the compliment. Good people don't pay with their lives, but evil deeds will last for thousands of years. You old foxes, old villains, have done a lot of bad things, but don't you all feel at ease enjoying wealth and glory, living a life of success and fame?"

Gao Dongxu didn't give Huang Kewu any face at all. There was no need to be nice to old foxes like them. You know, if it weren't for his background that could intimidate the other party, the other party would not have spoken to him nicely and would have used all kinds of means on him long ago.

The so-called Five Plum Blossom Veins, to put it nicely, are a family of treasure appraisers, but to put it bluntly, they are a criminal gang that monopolizes the antique industry and bullies the market. It's just that over time, they have accumulated a lot of foundation, and they have judged the situation and stood on the right side, and have transformed themselves and been whitewashed.

Huang Kewu's expression became even uglier. He stared at Gao Dongxu with a pair of cold old eyes and said in a cold voice, "It seems that you have an extraordinary understanding of the Five Meridians."

"Okay, I'm not interested in digging up the ugly and bad things about your five clans. Among the five clans, only the Xu family is a good family, and the only good family's property was swallowed up by you. Oh, there are also Xu Heping and Su Dinglu..." Gao Dongxu said with a smile as he looked at Huang Kewu, whose face changed drastically.

Huang Kewu's eyes flashed coldly, and his expression was sinister. Seeing Gao Dongxu's playful smile, his expression suddenly changed, and a warm and kind smile appeared on his face. "Haha, you said on the phone that you found something good again? Take it out and let me see..."

Gao Dongxu picked up the bag from the ground with a smile, opened it, and took out the Buddha statue. He sneered in his heart, thinking, if I don't teach this old fox a lesson, you really think I'm easy to bully.

The reason why Huang Kewu was at a loss when Gao Dongxu mentioned Xu Heping and Su Ding Lu was because when Huang Kewu was young, he had been thinking about the Xu family's Su Ding Lu, which recorded the twelve treasure appraisal skills. Of course, the other three families were also thinking about it, but unfortunately, the Su Ding Lu was written in code. People who didn't know the key couldn't read the book at all. Only the Xu family in the world could understand the Su Ding Lu.

During that special period, Huang Kewu sent people to approach Xu Yuan's father Xu Heping. When he failed to obtain the Su Dinglu, Xu Heping happened to discover the whereabouts of Lao Chaofeng. Huang Kewu took the opportunity to have someone use Xu Heping's students to create an accident and killed Xu Heping in the chaos.

To be honest, if Gao Dongxu was not familiar with the plot and had a God's perspective, no one would know about this matter except Huang Kewu himself.

"nice one--"

After seeing the Happy Buddha statue, Huang Kewu's eyes immediately lit up. He reached out to take it and began to appreciate it carefully.

"...The Laughing Buddha is a deity of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, also known as Yu Tian or the God of Love in Buddhism.

The male body represents the Dharma, and the female body represents wisdom. The man and the woman embrace each other tightly, indicating that the Dharma and wisdom are combined into one person, which symbolizes the infinite wisdom of the Dharma realm.

Based on the oval lotus base and overall shape of this Happy Buddha, combined with its historical characteristics, if I'm not mistaken, this is a Buddhist relic from the Yuan Dynasty, dating back over 700 years. It has important significance for the study of ancient Buddhism and the integration of Chinese and Western cultures."

After hearing Huang Kewu's appraisal conclusion, Gao Dongxu nodded in agreement. He had to admit that although this old fox was not a good person, he was indeed at the top level in terms of appraisal.

"Are you so sure?"

Huang Kewu glanced at Gao Dongxu with a smile, then continued to touch the Buddha statue and said, "When I participated in the sorting and appraisal of antiques collected from all over the country, I handled tens of thousands of Buddha statues. I can tell whether it is from the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty just by touching it with my eyes closed, because the feel is different.

Before the Ming Dynasty, Buddha statues in central China were generally cast in red copper, which was imported from Nepal. The gilded color was orange-yellow, a very warm yellow, and the hand felt light and soft.

On the other hand, because it is made of red copper and is relatively soft, its wall is not very regular and is very flexible. Therefore, its bottom cover adopts the rolling bottom method, or the wrapping bottom method, that is, the wall is rolled back to enclose the Buddha statue.

By the Qing Dynasty, with its vast territory and growing national power, the problem of copper resource shortages had been overcome. Tibetan Buddhist statues in the capital region of the Qing Dynasty were mostly cast in brass, resulting in thick walls, a stiff feel, and a heavy weight. Furthermore, because copper is hard and brittle, it could no longer be rolled like in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the bottom of the statues was chopped off, making them easier to identify. "How much are they worth?"

Hearing Gao Dongxu directly asking about the price, Huang Kewu couldn't help but look at him with a smile, put down his pipe, sniffed the Buddha statue with his nose, and said lightly.

“…Buddha statues have been rising in auction prices since 2000, especially those from before the Ming Dynasty. Because of their age, few surviving pieces, and difficulty in preservation, they are extremely valuable.

In addition, with the hot collection market in recent years, people have begun to pay more attention to the collecting world, so the prices of these Buddha statues with extremely high religious, historical, artistic and scientific value have been rising.

In recent years, many Buddha statues have been sold at sky-high prices. Although the subject matter of your Happy Buddha statue is a bit unusual, it does not hinder its collection value. If it is auctioned, the lower price is conservatively estimated to be between 30 and 50 million yuan. If it is hyped well, it is possible to exceed 100 million yuan.

If you are patient and hold on to it for a few more years, it will be easy to sell it for over 100 million yuan.

I have to say, your luck is really enviable. You can even pick up something like this..."

Huang Kewu said this with envy. After placing the Buddha statue on the table, he continued, "It was wiped with gasoline. Was this Buddha statue painted?"

"Yes, when I found it, it was painted red on the outside," Gao Dongxu said truthfully.

"Well, this shows that the original owner of this Buddha statue knew its value..." Huang Kewu said with a slightly frown, his eyes fixed on the Buddha statue, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Mr. Huang, besides this Buddha statue, I have another thing I want you to take a look at—" Gao Dongxu took out the bronze gui fragments wrapped in a handkerchief from his bag.

"Oh?" Huang Kewu raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the five bronze fragments on the handkerchief that Gao Dongxu opened and pushed in front of him.

At first, Huang Kewu didn't take it seriously. He casually picked up a piece and looked at the very special pattern on it and said, "This is the cloud-thunder pattern, a unique symbol on Shang Dynasty bronze artifacts..."

"I know this. The key lies in the inscriptions on the remaining fragments—" Gao Dongxu said with a smile.

"Inscription?!" Huang Kewu immediately lowered his head and moved closer to fiddle with and examine the four bronze fragments with inscriptions.

Soon, Huang Kewu widened his eyes, his face full of shock. He looked up at Gao Dongxu in disbelief, then immediately grabbed the magnifying glass on the table with trembling hands. His face flushed, and he began to check it bit by bit, almost holding his breath.

Seeing Huang Kewu like this, Gao Dongxu knew that the bronze gui he had discovered was probably not just a national treasure.

“Hoo-hoo-hoo—”

Huang Kewu was extremely excited and panting rapidly, his voice trembling. He stared at Gao Dongxu intently and asked, "Where did you get these fragments? Where are the other parts? Do you know what this is? Oh my God, I didn't expect this thing to be broken into pieces. What a sin..."

Seeing Huang Kewu so excited, Gao Dongxu hurriedly asked: "Mr. Huang, what exactly does the inscription on this fragment record?"

"This is the inscription on the Ban Gui. Do you know the Ban Gui? You know the Four-Ram Square Tripod, right? The Ban Gui is a top national treasure just like the Four-Ram Square Tripod..."

Hearing this, Gao Dongxu's mind buzzed. He really didn't know the Ban Gui, but the Four Sheep Square Tripod was definitely well-known.

"How come I've never heard of..."

"Because the Ban Gui has been missing for more than a hundred years... I never thought that I would be able to see it in my lifetime. Unfortunately, it is only its fragments..." Huang Kewu's eyes were red, and his hands holding the fragments kept shaking.

"Mr. Huang, don't get excited. Can you tell me about this Ban Gui?" Gao Dongxu suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked Huang Kewu with burning eyes.

Huang Kewu puffed on his pipe and coughed a few times because he smoked too hard. After calming down a little, he looked at Gao Dongxu and told him the story.

The Ban Gui is a bronze vessel from the middle period of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was crafted by Mao Ban during the reign of King Mu of Zhou. It's impossible to verify when and where it was unearthed, but some historical records indicate it was unearthed during the Northern Song Dynasty and has been kept in the palaces of various dynasties ever since.

During the Qianlong Emperor's reign, the Ban Gui was already a treasured item in the imperial palace and was greatly appreciated by the Emperor. Unfortunately, the Ban Gui's prestigious life in the Qing imperial palace did not last long.

In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an. The imperial treasures fell into the hands of the invaders. The Ban Gui was likely taken from the palace at that time and then either sold or abandoned somewhere.

For more than a hundred years thereafter, there was no further news about the Ban Gui, and everyone believed it had long since disappeared.

I never expected that after more than a hundred years, it would reappear in the world, but in such fragments."

After saying this, Huang Kewu suddenly realized something. He stared at Gao Dongxu with burning eyes and asked in a trembling voice with expectation: "Where did you get these fragments? Are there any other parts? If you can find the Ban Gui, you will be a national hero!"

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