Chapter 522

Hearing this, Chu Chen secretly shook his head and sighed. Therefore, sometimes people's cognition is different from the truth. For example, before he worshipped Mr. Liu as his teacher, he always thought that Wang daoren was a villain. Whenever he thought of the Scriptures that had been lost abroad, he hated Wang daoren.

Only later, after reading the relevant materials from Liu's study, did he realize that compared with those who were dead, Wang daoren had already done his duty.

But sometimes it's just like this. Good intentions often do bad things. It's said that Taoist Wang, if he had done nothing in those years, maybe he would not bear such a big name now.

There was a burst of emotion, and the atmosphere in the room became a little dull.

Seeing this, Zhao Qirui quickly changed a more relaxed topic. Under the deliberate guidance of Chu Chen and the trickery of Liu Sizhe, the atmosphere in the room began to be cheerful again.

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

In fact, Zhao Qirui has already known where the auction will be held in advance. They can go without Cao Hui. However, Cao Hui has done his best to make him stick his hot face on their cold buttocks. Although Cao Hui's purpose is more utilitarian, if he does, it's more or less inappropriate

In fact, the location of the auction is in a villa with an area of nearly 1000 square meters on the other side of Repulse Bay, in a place like Xiangjiang, and in a high-end area like Repulse Bay. Even now that the house price of Xiangjiang has dropped a lot, it is not affordable for ordinary rich people. Therefore, the energy of the auction organizers should be great.

When they got out of the car, they went to the door of the villa under the leadership of Cao Hui. There, they met Cao Hui's friend, a middle-aged man in his forties and a little stout.

This person, like Cao Hui, also has the surname of Cao. Maybe Cao Hui has already explained their identity to Chu Chen before, so this person seems to be very enthusiastic, but his enthusiasm is just right. It doesn't make people feel affected.

Although Mr. Cao seemed to be familiar with a housekeeper standing at the door, the housekeeper asked Chu Chen for an invitation and then let Mr. Cao and his party go in.

The courtyard decoration of this villa belongs to the European pastoral style. The local flavor is very strong and has a lot of flavor. You can see that it was designed by a master level designer.

After walking through the garden, you arrive at the main building of the villa, which is different from chuchen's villa. Next to the main building stands a two-story building. According to Cao Hui, that's where the servants live.

In fact, chuchen's villa also has a place for servants to live. Different from here, it does not build a single building, but a whole with the main building. Of course, the main room and the area where the servants live are separated, and they will not be affected.

The living room of the villa is large, with a total area of 200 square meters. The decoration style also belongs to European idyllic style, but it is closer to Chinese style.

At this time, the layout of the living room is like a cocktail party. The sofa, tables and chairs are all moved around. In addition, there are some snacks and drinks on the table. Maybe it is to take care of many people who haven't had dinner yet, but there are some staple foods on the table.

Of course, if you really eat staple food on this kind of occasion, it's a bit of a shame. Therefore, although there are 20 or 30 people in the living room, at most, they just take their glasses and eat a little to satisfy their hunger.

Among these 20-30 people, only one is a young man in his twenties. The others are at least nearly 40 years old. Judging from their clothes and temperament, they are all successful people.

However, these people are rich, but their social status is unknown. At least Chu Chen didn't see any of them who are very well-known in Xiangjiang.

When Chu Chen came in, these people were divided into four waves, sitting on the sofa or standing in a corner of the living room talking. In addition, there are several waiters in the living room to serve these people.

In addition to the beautiful melody playing in the living room, Chu Chen thought he had come to a high-end banquet if he didn't know it was an auction.

As soon as Chu Chen and eight of them came in, the living room was immediately quiet, and everyone's eyes turned to them. Then more or less of the four waves of people came forward to greet Zhao Qirui warmly, which made other people very curious about Zhao Qirui's identity and guess what he was.

However, what shocked those people even more was that the owner of the villa, the organizer of the auction, all came forward, politely and respectfully said hello to Zhao Qirui. Then he welcomed Zhao Qirui and his party to the innermost and quietest seat and made tea for them.

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

When the people who had just said hello to Zhao Qirui went back, others immediately knew that Zhao Qirui was the son of General Zhao, who had made outstanding achievements during the Anti Japanese war. (fictional characters, please don't sit in the right place!)Knowing the identity of Zhao Qirui, those people immediately understand why even the owner of the villa was shocked.

You should know that the mainland is very particular about human relations. Unlike Jin Yuanzheng's country, any trouble in the mainland can be solved by a powerful person saying hello.

Since Jin Yuan is not as powerful as Jin Yuan, these businessmen, in order to drum up their own pockets, naturally like to associate with real power figures. As a leader of the crown prince party, Zhao Qirui's popularity is needless to say.

The owner of the villa is mu Tianguang, who is mainly engaged in real estate business. He is also a well-known figure in Xiangjiang.

After everyone sat down, Zhao Qirui first made an introduction for both sides. When Mu Tianguang learned that Chu Chen was Zhao Qirui's nephew and the grandson of Chu Lao, he was shocked and excited, and quickly and enthusiastically presented his business card.

When Mu Tianguang finished his business card, Zhao Qirui said, "I said general manager mu, what I said before, you shouldn't have a problem?"

Mu Tianguang patted his chest and assured: "Mr. Zhao, don't worry, I'm also a patriotic businessman. This kind of thing must be clear."

When Zhao Qirui heard his heart, he immediately sneered. If Mu Tianguang was really patriotic, why didn't he buy tortoise shell and more than 100 scriptures before? He's not an auction house. He doesn't have so many rules. After all, Mu Tianguang still has milk and is a mother. If he doesn't have any interests, he won't do it.

Just to Mu Tianguang's surprise, not long after he finished his words, two men and a woman came in from the door. One of them, a middle-aged man, he had seen several times. His identity was a businessman from the island country, named zhaotian Changjie.

This made him sweat on his back immediately, and he cursed the man who brought him in.

The leader's surname is Yang. Because the boss Yang is engaged in foreign trade business, and the business is not small, he has many foreign friends. In order to get in touch with the guests, boss Yang often takes the clients to the banquets held by some friends or private auctions.

Because of this, Mu Tianguang specially called him in advance and asked him not to bring foreign customers here today. Unexpectedly, he not only brought the customers, but also came from the island.

Because of his family, Zhao Qirui hated the islanders, and the islanders would be interested in the oracle bones and the Scriptures. At that time, the two sides would fight fiercely. Even if Zhao Qirui could finally get the things, the price would be much higher than the normal situation.

At that time, even if it doesn't have much to do with him, Zhao Qirui may be angry with him.

When he thought of this, Mu Tianguang was so regretful that he should not have been greedy for millions of commission before he bought these two things. And now it's almost time. Everything has been put on the next table. There's no time to take it down. He can't do anything to remedy it.

You know, he also has real estate investment in the mainland. If Zhao Qirui talks awkwardly at that time, his loss may be several times, or even dozens of times, of the Commission. It's too much to be worth the loss.

Originally, Zhao Qirui didn't know that the man was an Islander, but the people who knew zhaotian Changjie didn't. from their laughter, he immediately recognized that the man was an Islander, which made him angry. He really wanted to beat Mu Tianguang.

Mu Tianguang saw Zhao Qirui's murderous eyes, his heart trembled, and his forehead was sweating. He quickly explained: "Mr. Zhao, it's really none of my business! I have reminded Mr. Yang in advance not to bring his customers here. Who knows he will have such a moth! "

"Then you won't let the housekeeper pay attention to it in advance?" Zhao Qirui gritted his teeth.

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

"You mean I'm unreasonable?"

Zhao Qirui sneered. In fact, he also knew that Mu Tianguang was not to blame for this. But if people from other countries were OK, an Islander came, which made him a little unbearable.

You know, although Mr. Zhao has made remarkable achievements in the war, he has also made great contributions. The war of that year left countless wounds on his body, including several fatal gunshot wounds at that time. Whenever he saw the scars on his father, Zhao Qirui felt heartbroken and hated the islanders.

"No! no Mr. Zhao, I really don't mean that! " Mu Tianguang waved his hand anxiously.

"All right, all right!" Zhao Qirui waved his hand impatiently and said, "now go and give me the information of general manager Yang!"

"This..." Mu Tianguang hesitated about this. After all, he sent the invitation, and Yang always invited it. If Zhao Qirui really retaliated, Yang would certainly take the blame on him.

"Why, you won't?" Zhao Qirui sneered and said: "OK, I'll keep this in mind!"

Seeing Zhao Qirui's attitude, Mu Tianguang felt a little flustered. In line with the idea that even if he offended general manager Yang, he could not offend Zhao Qirui, he quickly said: "OK! I'll have his information sorted out for you right away! "With that, Mu Tianguang didn't care about anything else. After leaving, he went to prepare the information.

After Mu Tianguang left, Zhao Qirui sighed: "it's better to count people than to count God. At the critical moment, God likes to see good things go on!"

Chuchen said with a smile, "anyway, let's do our best then."

Zhao Qirui nodded with a smile and said, "yes! I don't believe it. I can't spell that dwarf!... "

After a while, the waiter will inform them that they can watch today's auction in the next half hour, and the auction will officially start in half an hour.

In this case, they stood up and followed the waiter to the side where the auction was placed.

At this time, the auction items are being placed on a decorated small dining car, and there is a waiter standing beside each dining car. Several of the waiters are eyeing the people who appreciate the auction items, for fear that the auction items will have an accident.

Chuchen took a pair of white gloves from the waiter. After putting them on, they first came to the dining car where the oracle bones and scriptures were placed. After all, this was their main goal this time. They had to know the truth first.

In fact, the value and significance of oracle bone inscriptions need not be mentioned, especially the ten oracle bone inscriptions in front of us, which are big and have many handwriting, can be said to be precious national treasures. But it is precisely because the value of oracle bone is so high that there are many forgeries on the market, especially some high imitations, which can confuse people's eyes.

Generally speaking, there are three aspects to distinguish the false oracle bones.

The first is to look at the materials, that is, the bones can not be replaced. It takes hundreds of thousands of years or even millions of years for bones to become fossils. It is only three or four thousand years since the Xia and Shang Dynasties, and bones are far from "fossils". However, no matter in color or shape, the difference between Oracle Bone Inscriptions and new bones is also very obvious.

Chu Chen carefully looked at the ten oracle bones one by one and found that they were genuine in terms of color, coating, texture, weight and so on.

The second is to look at the knife edge. Just like the words on the ten oracle bones in front of Chu Chen's eyes, the knife edges are very sharp and sharp. Because the inscriptions were made on the new bones in those years, and the new bones are very flexible. The characters on the oracle bone inscriptions in Chu Chen's hands are all the characters of the new bones. They are sharp, can be bent, and can be at right angles.

Not only that, because there must be fat in the dense substance of bone and bone marrow in the cancellous substance of bone, these things will naturally seep into the edge of the knife. Therefore, Chu Chen can clearly see that there are oily and coated pulp in the edge of the knife. In addition, the ancients practiced calligraphy directly on bones, so oracle bone inscriptions also have a very unique charm.

And modern people from small to large are practicing words on paper, therefore, regardless of the charm, even the font, layout is very different.

Finally, ancient oracle bones were used for divination. Divination at that time was a very sacred thing. Therefore, the bones used for divination were of course very important. In the oracle bone inscriptions, there were records of so and so offering oracle bones.

Therefore, it is not difficult for Chu Chen to find that every oracle bone has obvious processing traces. It is necessary to cut the bone and treat the surface. These features are difficult to be imitated.

In addition, when processing bones, the fat and bone marrow inside the bones will certainly seep out. After thousands of years of natural evolution, its unique characteristics are not so easy for counterfeiters to imitate.

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

After confirming that these oracle bones were genuine, the people came to the place where the Scriptures were placed. After checking more than 100 scriptures one by one, they found that they were also genuine. This made chuchen happy, but also determined to take them back to the country.

However, the difficulties are also obvious. Most of the people present know the value of those oracle bones and scriptures. It can be said that everyone wants to collect them. At least these people are multimillionaires, and it is not uncommon for them to have hundreds of millions or even billions of assets.

Not to mention, when zhaotian Changjie saw these oracle bones and scriptures, his eyes glowed, and then the intensity of the competition was needless to say.

Half an hour seems to be a long time, but it took Chu Chen nearly 20 minutes to identify these oracle bones and scriptures. There are still more than 30 pieces left. If you want to identify them carefully, it will be too late to take 10 minutes.

So Chu Chen and they quickly spread out and found what they liked.

The first thing Chu Chen noticed was a hu man riding a camel lamp, which was made up of a camel on the base, a hu man riding on the camel's back and a lamp held up.

Standing on a rectangular base, a bimodal camel with high head and vertical tail has long limbs, steady posture, docility and obedience. The Yihu people sat on the camel's body with their feet clamped behind them, holding the ring of the lamp post firmly in their hands, with the lamp post and round lamp plate inserted in the middle.

Hu people have round face, prominent cheekbones, smooth cheeks, slender eyes, and wide nose and mouth, which are typical features of northern nomads.

From the tall and honest camel and Hu people's attitude of hunchback life, we can see that it exudes strong grassland customs. The whole bronze sculpture is ingeniously conceived and exquisitely made. The base, camel, figure, lamp post and lamp are integrated, which is a typical craft of the Warring States period. Moreover, it's quite rare to be able to preserve it so well for more than 2000 years.However, although the lamp was good, what attracted Chu Chen's attention was not the copper lamp itself, but a layer of oily material covered by some impurities in the tray. This layer of oily material is transparent and tasteless. It's like a transparent jelly. It's placed in this obviously unearthed copper lamp, which is obviously the fuel of the copper lamp in front of us.

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

But time was pressing. Chu Chen didn't really have much time to spend on the bronze lamp. After he identified the truth with his powers, he walked to the side, but just a few steps later, his mind flashed.

"Is this the mermaid oil recorded in historical records?"

When it comes to the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Dynasty in historical records, there is a saying: "if you use Mermaid ointment as a candle, it will last a long time."

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

The mermaid ointment here, as the name suggests, is made of mermaid ointment. But what is a mermaid? "Shi Ji Ji Jie" quoted Xu Guang as saying: "Mermaid like standing, four feet." But this sentence is too vague to infer what mermaid is.

Some people say that "Mermaid" is commonly known as "wawayu", while others say that "Mermaid" refers to the whale. However, there are loopholes in both versions, so it is difficult to determine what kind of fish this "Mermaid" is.

In addition, although the mermaid oil is very famous, no one has seen any real object since ancient times. Chu Chen thinks that the substance in the lamp just now is probably Mermaid oil, because in addition, he really does not know which kind of candle oil can be preserved from the Warring States period to the present.

Of course, all this is just Chu Chen's guess. As for whether it is really Mermaid oil, it needs to be verified. It's a simple way to try, but there's no way to verify it. Therefore, he could only take a picture of the copper lamp later.

Next, Chu Chen originally intended to look at a pink lantern cap bottle in front of him, but he noticed that there were many people in front of a shooting object, including the Islander Akita Changjie. Moreover, the Islander's eyes were full of passion, which looked like he wanted to swallow the things in front of him.

This makes Chu Chen very curious, so he hurried to the other side and craned his neck to see that it turned out to be a Yaobian Tianmu cup. It's no wonder that zhaotian Changjie would look like this.

The Yaobian Tianmu cup is actually a kind of Jianzhan. The islanders like drinking tea very much. Correspondingly, as Jianzhan, which is specially used for drinking tea, they also have a special preference, especially the Yaobian Tianmu cup, which is regarded as a "national treasure" by them.

What is the change from Yao to Tianmu? The simple understanding is the Tianmu cup.

The book, written in the early 16th century, divides Jianzhan treasures into several grades, among which "Yaobian" is listed as "the supreme god of Jianzhan, which is nothing in the world."

The so-called "Yaobian" means that there are many irregular dots on the black underglaze. The dots are yellow, and they are surrounded by a dazzling rainbow light with blue as the main color, so it is named after this. Obsidian spot is widely distributed in the inner wall of Jianzhan, and changes with the direction of view. When viewed vertically, it is blue, and when viewed obliquely, it is golden.

Due to the great difficulty in firing "Yaobian", only four pieces were collected in the island countries, three of which were classified as "national treasures" and one as important cultural relics.