Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

"Say it again?" I thought I had heard it wrong.

Ye Meimei looked at me and said: "My third sister said on the phone that she knows where there is a bird statue that can be sold. It seems to be unearthed the year before last."

"impossible!"

I jumped up and said excitedly, "Northern faction hasn't produced a Bird Zun in the past two years! Just tell me who the seller is!"

"Mr. Lai, what is the Northern faction?"

Realizing that I had slipped my tongue, I hurriedly interrupted: "Anyway, there are fake bird statues everywhere, and some museum exhibitions are also fake, and this thing has been imitated since the Ming Dynasty, and there are many old imitations! Over there in Nanyang There is a bronze village that once made bird statues in batches."

Zheng Bo said from the side: "Boss Ye, the matter is very important. We must make sure that what we buy is genuine, and we must not buy fakes."

After Zheng Bo finished speaking, he sneaked a glance at me.

I know he misunderstood me, he probably thought I had this thing, and wanted to sell it to Meimei Ye at a high price!After all, it was I who proposed using the Bird Zun to press Fengshui on my own initiative. The truth is, I don't have such a thing in my hand.

Meimei Ye thought for a while and said, "Uncle Zheng is right, but my third sister said that this matter has always been controversial."

I asked what's going on?

She explained: "This bird statue came out a few years ago. My third sister had some business dealings with the seller. She saw the real thing once, but she didn't dare to accept it. It is said that twenty experts have looked at it. There are [-] experts who say that the things are not replaceable, so my third sister dare not accept them."

"Do you have a photo of the bird statue?" I asked with a frown.

She shook her head: "The seller is not allowed to take pictures, so the actual photo of the bird statue has not been released. Sir, do you still appraise antiques?"

I said I know a little bit.

Just kidding, I have never convinced anyone in terms of eyesight. No matter which expert has appraised it, I only believe in my own eyes when I buy things, and I even boast that I have developed sharp eyes.

The final result of the discussion is that she let me live here for a day with peace of mind. Tomorrow night, I will ask the seller to deliver the things in person, and her third sister will also come over at that time. Let's look at the real thing and study it.

I agree to this.

Sunrise and sunset, in the blink of an eye the next evening.

I really experienced the life of the upper class once, and I can eat caviar, high-end red wine and so on.

At about 08:30 that night, Boss Ye's third sister, Ye Xinyue, brought the seller.

Along with Ye Xinyue was an old man who looked to be in his 80s. This old man had lost all his hair, his face was wrinkled, and his eyelids were always drooping.

Ye Xinyue is not as tall as Ye Manyue, but the two look alike. The seller looks to be in his 40s. His name is Wang Jianping.

After chatting with each other for a few minutes, Wang Jianping put a large wooden box on the table.

He looked at our group of people and said: "Guys, I didn't want to come here at first, but recently I urgently need a sum of money to turn around. I know the source of this thing very well. It can't be fake, let alone an old imitation. ! Definitely from the Shang Dynasty!”

The third sister Ye Xinyue said with a smile: "Boss Wang, don't be angry. It is because of the controversy that we should be more careful. This time it is my little sister who wants to buy this thing from you, so I asked the experts from the Forbidden City to take a look." .”

The implication of the third sister is, "I don't want things, because it is controversial not to open the door. This time, my sister asked me to invite you, and she gave you the money. I am just a middleman. The so-called expert from the Forbidden City is this 80-year-old man."

Businessman Wang Jianping nodded: "Anyway, the things are here, you can take a look."

There is a brocade box in the wooden box, and the newspaper is wrapped in the brocade box, which is well protected layer by layer. When the other party took out this bronze ware and put it on the table, I was stunned.

How did this happen?

This bird statue is about [-] centimeters high, made of bronze, and the bird's head is made into a cover, which can be removed.

A serious bird statue should be covered in gold and silver, and the bird's eyes are inlaid with gemstones, but with this one, even the eyeballs are empty, and the tail seems to have been welded. In short, the quality is very poor!Moreover, there is no green rust unearthed from the birth pit all over the body. If it comes out of the soil, it is impossible to have no green rust. Anyway, it looks very awkward.

The expert old man picked it up and looked at it for less than 2 minutes, then gently put it on the table.

Ye Xinyue immediately asked, "Teacher, what do you think?"

The old expert frowned and said: "The thing is already distorted, I dare not admit it, I personally don't recommend buying it."

Upon hearing this, Wang Jianping immediately started to collect things.

"Wait!"

I frowned and asked him, "Did you get this thing from the water at first? Then it burned in the fire for a long time?"

The other party immediately gave me a thumbs up and said, "Brother is really a master!"

"This thing came out of a puddle in the first place! So there is no rust! Last year, the original owner caught fire at home after he got it, and burned the thing to the ghost it is now."

I nodded.

This kind of situation is called "distortion" in the industry, because of external factors, the appearance of a certain utensil has undergone a huge change, and the important basis for judging its authenticity has been lost, so no one dares to recognize it.

However, I am sure that this thing is the bronze and gold and silver bird statue from the Shang Dynasty!

Just like a person, even if he is disfigured, he is still a person in essence!His soul is still there!I see its soul!

I immediately said: "Xiaoyue, even if this thing is distorted, it is definitely a genuine product! You buy it boldly! Anyway, you are not buying it for investment, you are buying it for your own use."

The expert old man glanced at me, and he said with drooping eyelids, "Young people are not simple. I dare not recognize things easily, but you dare to recognize them without even touching your hands."

"Teacher, do you agree?" Ye Xinyue asked back.

The old man drooped his eyelids and nodded: "I just said it was distorted, but I didn't say it must be fake. This bird statue is really rare, and there is only one similar to it in the Forbidden City."

Once the decision is made, let's talk about the price.

The Bird Zun has been burned beyond recognition. After talking and talking, the final transaction price is very low. I feel itchy and want to buy it for him!The price is only a little over 100 million!

If this thing is repaired by an expert like Liao Bo, it will be easy to double the price.

After the business was completed, everyone had a meal together. The third sister Ye Xinyue seemed to be very curious about what I was doing, and she kept talking to me intentionally or unintentionally.

When I had some free time, I called Wang Jianping out and asked him where the Niao Zun came from.

He secretly said to me: "Brother, you are not an ordinary person. I can only tell you that this bird statue came out of the Qiandao Lake."

I was shocked when I heard it!He asked for details again, but he refused to go into details.

I didn't give up easily, and continued to stalk and question. I said that if I didn't help you talk, you wouldn't be able to sell this thing at all!

He sighed and whispered: "Brother, there are many old houses and ancient buildings under Qiandao Lake, have you heard of them?"

I said I knew some rumors.

He said: "Decades ago, Qiandao Lake was relocated, and more than 30 people were relocated. Many old houses were submerged under the water. At that time, there was a village called Jia Village. There was a big landlord in the village named Jia. This Jia The landlord is considered a big collector and has many things. His ancestral home is called Jia's Mansion.

"When the flood came down, this landlord Jia refused to leave. Later, he sank to the bottom of the lake with his Jia mansion. This bird statue was one of the collections of Jia's mansion back then."

"You just need to know about it, don't talk about it to the outside world."

I said that during the great migration, how could there be any people left behind?This is impossible, right?

You know, in 1959, in order to build the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Station, the old Chun'an County including Hecheng and Shicheng were flooded, and the current Qiandao Lake was formed.

Looking at the data of the year, we can know that the areas flooded at that time included 2 counties, 8 towns, 39 townships, and 1377 villages, flooding hundreds of thousands of acres of cropland. According to preliminary statistics, more than 30 people left their homes and went to Zhejiang and Fujian. , Anhui and other places to rebuild their homes.

These people were all called "immigrants" after that year, and the surnames Wang, Yu and Xu were the most.

Wang Jianping chuckled and said, "Why is that impossible? The government didn't allow the report. Back then, some stubborn people left and went back secretly, and some were simply unwilling to leave. Anyway, there were many dead people in the old houses at the bottom of the lake. Of course there will be some antiques from the past."

He stamped out the cigarette butt and said, "The fish heads in Qiandao Lake are famous, right?"

I nodded: "Famous, I ate it once."

He grinned: "Have you ever eaten it? Anyway, I never dared to eat it. The big fish in Qiandao Lake ate a lot of human flesh, which is why they are so fat."