Jianbao life

Chapter 516 Competition

Hearing this, Chu Chen secretly shook his head and sighed, so sometimes people's cognition is completely different from the truth.As far as he is concerned, before worshiping Mr. Liu as his teacher, he always thought that Wang Daoren was a heinous person. Whenever he thought of those scriptures lost overseas, he hated Wang Daoren so much that he gritted his teeth.

It wasn't until later that he read the relevant information from Mr. Liu's study that he realized that compared with those people who had vegetarian corpses, Wang Daoren had already fulfilled his duties.

But sometimes it's like this, good intentions often do bad things, let's say that this kingly man, if he had done nothing in those years, maybe he wouldn't bear such a big reputation now.

Everyone was moved with emotion, and the atmosphere in the room became a little dull because of this.

Seeing this, Zhao Qirui quickly changed the topic to a lighter topic, and under Chu Chen's deliberate guidance and Liu Sizhe's tricks, the atmosphere in the room became cheerful again.

When it was almost time, Cao Hui came to the door. After a while of pleasantries, everyone got into the business car he hired, and then set off for the venue of the auction.

In fact, Zhao Qirui had already known where the auction would be held in advance, and they could have gone there without Cao Hui, but Cao Hui had done his best after all, so it might not be possible for him to show his hot face to their cold buttocks.Although Cao Hui's purpose was more utilitarian, if he really had to do this, it would be somewhat inappropriate. ...

The location of the auction is actually in a villa of nearly [-] square meters on the other side of Repulse Bay. In a place like Xiangjiang where every inch of land is expensive, and in a high-end location like Repulse Bay, even if the house price in Xiangjiang has fallen now There are many, and they are not affordable by ordinary rich people. It can be seen from this that the energy of the auction organizer must not be small.

Everyone got out of the car and walked towards the gate of the villa under the leadership of Cao Hui. There, everyone met Cao Hui's friend, a middle-aged man in his 40s, who was a little short and fat.

This person has the same surname as Cao Hui. Perhaps Cao Hui has already explained the identity of Chu Chen and the others before, so this person seems very enthusiastic, but the enthusiasm is just right, and it doesn't make people feel artificial.

Although Mr. Cao seemed to be familiar with a housekeeper standing at the door, the housekeeper still asked Chu Chen for an invitation, and then let Mr. Cao walk in with a group of people.

The decoration of the courtyard of this villa belongs to the European pastoral style, with a strong local flavor and a very tasteful taste. It can be seen at a glance that it was designed by a master-level designer.

After walking through the garden, they arrived at the main building of the villa. Unlike Chu Chen's villa, there was a two-story building beside the main building. According to Cao Hui, it was the residence of the servants.

In fact, Chu Chen's villa also has a place for servants to live in. The difference from here is that it is not a separate building, but a whole with the main building.Of course, the main house and the area where the servants live are still separated, and they will not be affected by each other.

The living room of the villa is very large, a full [-] square meters. The decoration style is also European-style pastoral style, but it is closer to Chinese style.

At this time, the layout of the living room is like a reception. The sofas, tables and chairs, etc., have been moved around. In addition, there are some snacks and drinks on the table. It may be to take care of many people who have not had dinner. There are still some staple food.

Of course, if you really eat the staple food on this occasion, the image will be somewhat ugly. Therefore, although there are already 30 to [-] people in the living room, at most everyone just holds wine glasses and eats a little snack to satisfy their hunger.

Among the 30 people, only one is a young man in his 20s, and the others are at least nearly 40 years old. From the perspective of clothing and temperament, these people are all successful people.

However, these people are rich if they are rich, but it is not known what their social status is. At least Chu Chen did not see any of them who are very well-known in Xiangjiang.

When Chu Chen and the others walked in, these people divided into four groups, each sitting on the sofa or standing in a corner of the living room talking.In addition, there are several waiters wandering in the living room to serve these people.

Coupled with the beautiful melody playing in the living room, if he didn't know that an auction was being held here, Chu Chen would have thought he had come to a high-end banquet.

As soon as the eight of Chu Chen and the others walked in, the living room became silent for an instant, and everyone's eyes turned to them. Then, more or less of the four waves of people came forward and greeted Zhao Qirui enthusiastically. Hello, this made others curious about Zhao Qirui's identity, and they all guessed who he was.

But what shocked those people even more was that the owner of the villa, the organizer of this auction, also came forward, greeted Zhao Qirui politely and respectfully, and then he greeted Zhao Qirui and his party. The innermost and quietest seat made tea for Zhao Qirui and the others.

At this point, even if those people don't know Zhao Qirui's real identity, they know that he must be a big shot.

And after the people who greeted Zhao Qirui just now went back, the others knew immediately that Zhao Qirui was the son of the old general Zhao who had outstanding military exploits during the Anti-Japanese War. (Fictional characters, please don't take your seats by numbers!)

Knowing Zhao Qirui's identity, those people immediately understood why even the owner of the villa was alarmed.

You must know that the mainland is very particular about human relations, unlike countries with gold and yuan policies, any trouble in the mainland can be solved as long as a powerful person greets them.

Since gold and yuan are not as powerful as power, these businessmen of course like to associate with powerful figures in order to bulge their wallets. It goes without saying that his popularity is getting bigger and bigger.

The owner of the villa is named Mu Tianguang, who is mainly engaged in real estate business, and is considered a relatively well-known figure in Xiangjiang.

After everyone sat down, Zhao Qirui first introduced the two parties. When Mu Tianguang learned that Chu Chen was Zhao Qirui's nephew and the grandson of Mr. Chu, he was shocked and excited, and immediately presented his business card enthusiastically. .

After Mu Tianguang finished handing out his business card, Zhao Qirui said, "I'm talking about Mr. Mu, you shouldn't have a problem with what I said earlier, right?"

Mu Tianguang patted his chest and assured, "Mr. Zhao, don't worry, I'm also a patriotic businessman, so I'm sure I can handle this kind of thing."

Zhao Qirui sneered when he heard his heart, if Mu Tianguang was really patriotic, why didn't he buy the tortoise shell and the more than 100 scriptures before?He is not an auction house, and he doesn't have so many rules.After all, Mu Tianguang is still a mother if he has a milk. If there is no profit, he will not do it.

What Mu Tianguang didn't expect was that not long after he finished speaking, two men and a woman walked in from outside the door, and one of the middle-aged men, whom he had seen several times, was a member of the island country. A businessman named Akita Tsunesuke.

This caused cold sweat to break out on his back immediately, and he even cursed at the person who brought Akita Tsunesuke in.

The leader is surnamed Yang. Because this boss is engaged in foreign trade business and the business is not small, he has many foreign friends. In order to connect with customers, Boss Yang often takes customers to participate in some friends’ events. He has also taken clients to private auctions, banquets and the like.

Because of this, Mu Tianguang specially called him in advance to tell him not to bring foreign clients here today. Unexpectedly, not only did he bring clients, but he was actually an islander.

You must know that Zhao Qirui hates the islanders because of family factors, and the islanders will definitely be interested in oracle bones and those scriptures. At that time, the two sides will definitely compete fiercely. It will also be much more than normal.

At that time, even if this matter has nothing to do with him, Zhao Qirui may take his anger out on him because of it.

Thinking of this, Mu Tianguang really regretted it. If he had known that this kind of thing would happen, he shouldn't have bought these two things before coveting the several million commissions.And now it's almost time, everything has been placed on the table next to it, and there is no time to remove it, even if he wants to remedy it, there is nothing he can do.

You know, he also has real estate investments in the mainland, and Zhao Qirui's mouth will be twisted, and his loss may be several times, or even dozens of times, the commission, which is really too much.

Originally, Zhao Qirui didn't know that the man was from the island country, but it was not without people who knew Changsuke Akita. From their chatting and laughing, he immediately heard that the man was from the island country, which made him angry, really want to Beat Mu Tianguang hard.

Seeing Zhao Qirui's murderous eyes, Mu Tianguang's heart trembled, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he quickly explained: "Mr. Who would have thought he would come up with such a moth!"

"Then won't you ask the housekeeper to help you pay attention?" Zhao Qirui said through gritted teeth.

"After all, it's a guest brought by a friend, so it's unreasonable to do so!" Mu Tianguang said with a mocking smile.

"You mean I'm unreasonable?"

Zhao Qirui said with a sneer, in fact, he also knew that Mu Tianguang was not to blame for this matter, but it would be fine if people from other countries came, but an islander came, which made him a little unbearable.

You must know that although Mr. Zhao has made remarkable military achievements, his military achievements were also paid for by his life. The war that year left him with countless wounds, including several fatal gunshot wounds at the time.Whenever Zhao Qirui saw the scars on his father, apart from his heartache, he hated the islanders even more.

"No! No! Mr. Zhao, I really didn't mean that!" Mu Tianguang waved his hands anxiously.

"Okay, okay!" Zhao Qirui waved his hand impatiently and said, "Now go and give me the information about Mr. Yang!"

"This..." Mu Tianguang was somewhat hesitant about this. After all, he was the one who sent the invitation. Mr. Yang invited him. If Zhao Qirui really retaliated at that time, then Mr. Yang would definitely blame him superior.

"Why, are you refusing?" Zhao Qirui sneered and said, "Okay, I will keep this in mind!"

Seeing Zhao Qirui's attitude, Mu Tianguang felt a little nervous, thinking that even if he offended Mr. Yang, he couldn't offend Zhao Qirui, so he quickly said, "All right! I'll send someone to sort out his information for you right away. !"

After finishing speaking, Mu Tianguang didn't care about other things. After leaving, he went to prepare materials.

After Mu Tianguang left, Zhao Qirui sighed: "Man is not as good as God. When it is critical, God likes to see good things take a long time!"

Chu Chen chuckled and said, "No matter what, we'll just do our best when the time comes!"

Zhao Qirui smiled and nodded, "Yes! I can't believe it, I can't beat that little guy!..."

After a while, the waiter came to inform them that in the next half an hour, they could go to watch today's lot, and half an hour later, the auction would officially start.

That being the case, everyone stood up and followed the waiter to the side where the lot was placed.

Those lots were being placed on small decorated dining cars one by one, and there was a waiter standing next to each dining car, and several of the waiters were watching the people appreciating the lots, for fear that something might happen to the lots.

Chu Chen and the others took a pair of white gloves from the waiter. After putting them on, they first went to the dining car where the oracle bones and scriptures were placed. After all, this is their main goal this time. OK.

In fact, the value and significance of oracle bone inscriptions need not be elaborated, especially the ten oracle bones in front of us are large and have many handwritings. It can be said that each piece is a precious national treasure.But precisely because the value of oracle bones is so high, there are also many fakes on the market, especially some high-quality imitations, which can confuse people's eyes.

Generally speaking, the discrimination of oracle bones mainly lies in three aspects.

The first is to look at the material, that is, to see whether the bones are old or not.It takes hundreds of thousands of years or even millions of years for bones to become fossils. The Xia and Shang Dynasties have only been around 10 to 4000 years, and bones are still far from "fossils".However, whether it is color or shape, the difference between Oracle bones and new bones is also very obvious.

Chu Chen carefully examined the ten oracle bones one by one, and was sure that they were genuine from the aspects of the color, patina, dirt, texture, weight, etc. of the bones.

The second is to look at the edge of the knife.Just like the writing on the ten oracle bones in front of Chu Chen, the knife edges are very sharp and neat.Because the inscriptions were all carved on the new bones back then, and the new bones are very flexible. The oracle bone inscriptions on the oracle bones in Chu Chen's hand have the characteristics of the inscriptions on the new bones. They are sharp, can be bent, and can be at right angles. .

Not only that, since there must be fat in the cortical bone and bone marrow in the cancellous bone, these things will naturally seep into the incision, so Chu Chen can clearly see that there is also oil and patina in the incision.In addition, the ancients practiced calligraphy directly on bones, so oracle bone inscriptions also have a very unique charm.

However, modern people have been practicing calligraphy on paper since they were young. Therefore, not to mention the charm, even the font and layout are very different.

Finally, the ancient oracle bones were used for divination. Divination at that time was a very sacred thing. Therefore, the bones used for divination are of course also very important. In the oracle bone inscriptions, there is a record of someone offering oracle bones.

Therefore, after careful identification by Chu Chen, it is not difficult to find that each oracle bone has obvious processing marks. It is necessary to cut the bone and treat the surface. These characteristics are difficult for imitation products to be in place.

In addition, when the bone is processed, the fat and bone marrow in the bone will definitely ooze out, so after thousands of years of natural evolution, its unique characteristics cannot be imitated so easily by forgers.

Finally, Chu Chen carefully observed other details, and confirmed that the ten oracle bones were indeed genuine.

After confirming that these oracle bones were authentic, everyone went to the place where the scriptures were placed, checked all the more than 100 scriptures one by one, and found that they were also genuine.This made Chu Chen happy, and made up his mind to bring them all back to the country.

It’s just that the difficulty is also obvious. Everyone present basically knows the value of those oracle bones and scriptures. It can be said that everyone wants to keep them in their pockets, and these people are at least multi-millionaires, with hundreds of millions or even Billions are not uncommon.

Not to mention, the look of Akita Tsunesuke's eyes glowing when he saw these oracle bones and scriptures, and the intensity of the next competition, needless to say.

Half an hour seems like a lot of time, but it will take nearly 10 minutes for Chu Chen and the others to appraise these oracle bones and scriptures, and there are more than 30 lots left. If you want to carefully appraise them, 10 minutes will definitely It is too late.

So Chu Chen and the others quickly dispersed, found something they liked and looked at it.

The first thing Chu Chen noticed was a camel lamp driven by a barbarian. This copper lamp consisted of a camel on the base, a barbarian riding on the camel's back, and a raised lamp.

Standing on a rectangular base is a Bactrian camel with its head up and its tail down, with slender limbs, steady posture, and docileness.A barbarian sits on a hunchback with his feet clasped behind his back, his hands firmly holding the ring that connects to the lamp post, with a lamp post and a round lamp panel inserted in the middle.

Hu people have round faces, high cheekbones, shiny cheeks, slender eyes, wide nose and wide mouth, which are typical features of northern nomadic people.

From the tall and honest camels and the attitude of the Hu people who are used to living on their backs, it can be seen that it exudes a strong grassland style.The entire bronze sculpture is ingeniously conceived and exquisitely made. The base, camels, figures, lampposts and lamps are integrated into one, which is a typical craftsmanship of the Warring States Period.Moreover, it can be preserved so well for more than 2000 years, which is quite rare.

However, although this barbarian riding a camel lamp is good, what attracted Chu Chen's attention was not the copper lamp itself, but a layer of oily substance covered by some impurities inside the tray.This layer of oily substance is transparent and tasteless, like a transparent jelly, placed inside this copper lamp that was obviously unearthed, it is obviously the fuel for the copper lamp in front of you.

However, Chu Chen couldn't believe that the candle oil could be preserved from the Warring States Period to the present. Moreover, this candle oil was so special that he couldn't figure out what this layer of substance was.

However, time was running out, and Chu Chen really didn't have much time to spend on this copper lamp. After identifying the authenticity with his supernatural power, he walked to the side, but just a few steps away, a flash of inspiration came to his mind.

"Could it be that this layer is the mermaid oil recorded in the Historical Records?"

When talking about Qin Shihuang's mausoleum in "Historical Records", there is such a sentence: "Use the mermaid ointment as a candle, and the immortal will survive for a long time."

It can be seen from this sentence that candles made of mermaid ointment can last for a long time, almost forever.

The mermaid ointment mentioned here, as the name suggests, is an ointment made from mermaids.But what kind of fish is a mermaid? "Historical Records Collection" quotes Xu Guangyu saying: "A mermaid stands like a man with four legs." But this sentence is too vague, and it is impossible to deduce what it is a mermaid from this sentence.

Some people say that the "mermaid" is the commonly known "baby fish", while others say that the mermaid refers to the whale, but both versions have loopholes, so it is really difficult to determine what kind of fish the "mermaid" is.

Moreover, although this mermaid oil is very famous, no one has seen the real thing since ancient times, and Chu Chen thinks that the substance in the lamp just now is most likely to be mermaid oil, because other than that, he really doesn’t know Know which candle oil can be preserved from the Warring States Period to the present.

Of course, all of this is just Chu Chen's speculation. As for whether it is really mermaid oil, it needs to be verified to confirm.And the verification method is also very simple, just light it up and try it, but there is definitely no such condition in front of you.Therefore, he can only take a picture of the copper lamp for a while before making plans.

Next, Chu Chen originally planned to take a look at the bottle covered with a pastel lantern in front of him, but he noticed that there were many people gathered in front of a lot, including the islander Akita Tsunesuke, And the eyes of the islander were full of passion, as if he wanted to swallow the thing in front of him.

This made Chu Chen very curious, so he hurried over there, stretched his neck to have a look, only to find that it turned out to be a Yaobian Tianmu lamp, it's no wonder that Akita Changsuke has such an expression.

This Yaobian Tianmu lamp is actually a type of Jianzhan. Islanders love drinking tea very much. Correspondingly, they also have a soft spot for Jianzhan specially used for drinking tea, especially the Yaobian Tianmu. The lamp is regarded as a "national treasure" by them.

What is Yaobian Tianmuzhan?A simple understanding is the Tianmu lamp of kiln transformation.

In the "Juntaiguan Left and Right Accounts", which was written in the early sixteenth century, the treasures of Jianzhan are divided into several levels, and "Yao Bian" is listed as "the supreme god of Jianzhan, which is nothing in the world. "

The so-called "yaobian" is that many irregular dots are gathered on the black base glaze. The dots are yellow, and the surrounding area glows with blue-based dazzling rainbow-like light, so it is named.The obsidian spots are widely distributed on the inner wall of Jianzhan, and change with the direction of viewing. When viewed vertically, it appears blue, and when viewed obliquely, it shines golden.

Due to the extremely difficult firing of "Yaobian", the number of handed down is very small. Only four pieces are collected in the island country, and three of them are designated as "national treasure" cultural relics, and one is designated as an important cultural relic.

(End of this chapter)