Door-to-door dragon son-in-law

Seeing Ye Chen's firm attitude, Zhou Liangyun couldn't help but tell him: "Master, you must not have any head-on conflict with the Rothschild family because of me. If you don't tolerate it, you will mess up the big plan..."

Ye Chen nodded: "Uncle Zhou, don't worry. Now the enemy is overt and we are covert. It can be said that it is easy to make the Rothschild family look bad and make them uncomfortable."

With that said, Ye Chen looked at Zhou Liangyun and said, "Uncle Zhou, I still have some questions that I would like you to answer for me."

Zhou Liangyun said hurriedly: "Master, just say it."

Ye Chen quickly asked: "I also want to know how my father came into contact with the "Nine Mysterious Sutra Preface" and the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scripture"? In addition, how did my father get involved with the Po Qing Society?"

Zhou Liangyun sighed: "Your father has a similar experience to you. His process of obtaining the "Nine Mysterious Sutra Preface" is very similar to your process of obtaining the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Sutra"."

Ye Chen thought of some information that his uncle once said and asked in surprise: "Did my father also get the "Preface to the Nine Mysteries Sutra" from an antique?"

"Yes." Zhou Liangyun nodded heavily.

Ye Chen quickly asked: "What exactly happened?"

Zhou Liangyun said: "You got the "Nine Mysterious Scriptures" because your father entrusted me to bring the "Nine Mysterious Scriptures" to you, but your father got the "Nine Mysterious Scriptures Preface" completely by accident."

As he spoke, he explained in detail: "Back then, your father, like me, also liked to study the Book of Changes and all kinds of Chinese antiques, so he often came to the store in Queens to find me, and we often studied some antiques together; "

"At that time, I hadn't started to recover cultural relics lost overseas for China. I was just doing antique business. However, your father had been doing this, so I was influenced by him later and started working with him to help those precious cultural relics. Chinese cultural relics return to China;”

"Because of our common hobbies and common ambitions, your father and I became very good friends. During that time, our family's antique shop encountered a lot of troubles one after another and was plotted by many people. It was all thanks to your father's help. He is the benefactor of our whole family."

Speaking of this, Zhou Liangyun sighed, recalled for a moment, and said: "One day more than 20 years ago, a down-and-out British aristocrat came to our store in London. Because he encountered a major change, he had many antiques at home. The cultural relics are in a hurry to be cashed in, and a large part of the antiques come from China. He knew that our family is relatively professional in Chinese antiques, so he approached us and hoped to pack up and sell all the Chinese cultural relics at home to us; "

"At that time, I flew to London specifically to participate in the evaluation. There were a total of 480 and seven pieces of Chinese cultural relics in the house of that down-and-out nobleman. There were indeed many good things among them. There were more than a dozen pieces of blue and white porcelain from the Yuan and Ming dynasties alone. In addition, There are also two very precious pastel pieces, and there are countless other official kiln porcelains of the Ming and Qing Dynasties;"

"In the antique market, blue and white porcelain and pastel porcelain are the ceiling of porcelain, and the price has always been very high. The official kiln is also synonymous with quality and high price, and the price is also very strong;"

"In addition, there are several palace collections that have been clearly recorded by the Qing court, and the prices are even higher;"

"For such a large number of ceiling-level cultural relics, even at a discounted price, the other party's lowest offer more than 20 years ago was US$[-] million;"

"Although our family's business scale was relatively large back then, the antique industry was a very capital-intensive project after all. The family property may have been worth over a billion or even billions of dollars, but a large part of it was from around the world. It’s really hard to spend [-] million U.S. dollars on inventory in stores everywhere;”

"Furthermore, in the antique business, you can't liquidate inventory too quickly. The more inventory you have, the more calm you have to be;"

"Because the antique industry, like the stock market, is most afraid of concentrated selling and smashing the market. I can buy ten Yuan blue and white porcelain from all over the world in one go. The more I buy, the higher the price of blue and white porcelain on the market, but I You must not sell ten Yuan blue and white flowers at once, otherwise other collectors of Yuan blue and white flowers may panic and then sell off, smashing the price of Yuan blue and white flowers to the ground.”

"So, even if we wanted to sell things to raise funds, it was not realistic at that time. Otherwise, the profit from this order might be lost invisibly due to our own behavior of smashing the market. In addition, the mortgage loan period is also relatively long. , so I almost couldn’t place the order at that time;”

"At that time, I knew that your father was also very interested in antiques, so I wanted to get him into a partnership. Firstly, it could solve the problem of funds on hand for me, and secondly, we could make some money together, because I had estimated at that time that the antiques would If we bring it in and then bring it back to Hong Kong Island and auction it to domestic collectors one after another, there will be absolutely no problem in clearing it out and recovering US$5000 million in two years;”

"So, I propose that your father and I each contribute half of the capital, and then we share the profits in half. But what your father means is that he can contribute [-] million U.S. dollars, but he hopes that I can divide the antiques into two parts. I will handle half of it myself, and the other half, he wants to donate back to China through the Chinese Embassy in the United States;"

"I really admired his decision at the time, so after we jointly acquired this batch of antiques, I secretly transported them to New York, and then asked him to come and select them personally;"

"My idea at that time was that no matter what your father chose and how much it was worth, as long as he chose it, he would take it and hand it over to the embassy. Even if our Zhou family ends up losing money, I would accept this deal."

Speaking of this, Zhou Liangyun said with emotion: "The majority of the antiques at that time were porcelains. Together with your father, I began to check and count the porcelains one by one. The verification was very simple, just open the individual packaging of each piece of porcelain. Check the list and find the specific details on the list. After checking, take it out and check it. If there is no problem, put it back and continue to check the next one; "

"When your father took out a Yue kiln celadon ewer from the packaging box, the ewer fell directly to the ground and cracked. Like your father-in-law, your father also clearly felt the vibration of the ewer at that time. Then the two of us Everyone saw that after the pot was cracked, there was an ancient book the size of a palm inside;"

"At that time, we thought that the book recorded some important unknown history. The two of us sat on the ground together, and I watched your father open the book with my own eyes. But then, the book turned into something out of thin air. The ashes disappeared..."

When Ye Chen heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that the hidden logic and triggering logic of "Nine Mysterious Scriptures" and "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures" are the same."

"Yes." Zhou Liangyun nodded and said: "At the time, I just thought it was a little strange, but your father told me that the contents of the book had completely entered his mind. Naturally, I didn't believe it at the time. I thought your father was I was joking, but I didn’t expect that he actually used the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the store to write out the contents of the book word for word, and he couldn’t stop writing;”

"I noticed something was wrong and quickly informed your mother to come to the store, so the two of us accompanied your father. He kept writing, and your mother and I followed the pages he wrote and sorted and bound them. It took two days and two At night, I sorted out all the "Preface to the Nine Mysteries Sutra"."

Ye Chen quickly asked: "Uncle Zhou, have you also read the "Preface to the Nine Mysteries Sutra"? What is recorded in it?"

Zhou Liangyun said: "The content recorded in the "Nine Mysteries Sutra" is all-encompassing, but its real core is actually a map that needs to be deciphered bit by bit from the text. At that time, your parents were very interested in researching and deciphering the "Nine Mysteries Sutra". I was very interested in "The Preface to the Scriptures". Thanks to your father's blessing, I also briefly studied it. However, I was born and raised in the United States and my Chinese foundation is not very good. I found that the content was indeed obscure and difficult to understand, and I quickly lost it. Research interest;”

"Later, your parents left the United States and returned to China. It is said that they spent a lot of effort to find the places mentioned in the "Nine Mysterious Scriptures" and finally went through a lot of hardships. The "Nine Mysterious Scriptures" are the places your father came from. Brought out of that place.”

Ye Chen hurriedly asked: "Is that place called the Secret of Immortality?"

"I don't know..." Zhou Liangyun said: "Your father didn't tell me in detail. He just told me that I'd better not know too much about these things. I believe it must be because he didn't want to say more. Because of my consideration, I didn’t ask in detail.”

Ye Chen asked him: "Uncle Zhou, do you still have the content of "Preface to the Nine Mysteries Sutra"?"

Zhou Liangyun hesitated for a moment and said seriously: "Master, your father once gave me a set of photocopies of his handwritten version of the "Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface". Although I did not study it in detail, I have kept that set of photocopies."

Ye Chen said excitedly: "Great! I wanted to study the "Preface to the Nine Mysteries Sutra" before, but I never knew where to find the content of this book. Since you have a photocopy, I might be able to get it from There are some clues found in it.”

Zhou Liangyun said with an expression of embarrassment: "It's just that, young master, when your father handed me the jade pot spring vase containing the "Nine Mysteries Sutra", he once told me that he got the "Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface" and said to him, It was a disaster for your mother, and a blessing and a disaster for you. He also regretted studying this book very much, and said that if he was given a chance to choose again, he would rather he never got it. I have never studied the content recorded in this book..."

"So, are you sure you really want to read this book?"

Ye Chen laughed at himself and said seriously: "Uncle Zhou, the reason why my father regrets it is because he was originally an outsider. He could have lived his life in peace, but because of this book, he was involved and became a trap. among the people;”

"But, he still had a choice back then, but I didn't!"

"When I was born, or when I was eight years old, when my father gave me his fate, I was already a part of the game."

"I am not qualified to choose whether to join this game, or whether to get the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures", because my father has already made the decision for me, and my father must have been forced to have no choice. He knows, I was born in this game, and the only thing I can do is to survive in this game as much as possible."

"So, do you think that with things at this point, do I still need to hesitate to read the Preface to the Nine Mysterious Sutras?"