reverse travel

Ou Qing is the son of an eunuch and a businessman who resells cultural relics.There are many people like him in Jixiang Hutong.

His adoptive father is not the most powerful, but he is the one who is the best at hiding things.But Ou Qing obviously didn't have the scheming of his adoptive father. He sold things with great fanfare, and gradually attracted the attention of others.He stole other people's business, and others naturally wanted to snatch something from him.Ou Qing fell into the opponent's trap time and time again, and the treasures in the family were also sold out one by one at a low price.

He recorded the details of his contacts in "Auspicious Hutong Notes", hoping that one day he could use these notes to seek some benefits.

But before this plan could be put into practice, he fell ill.

The man standing indoors was pale and skinny.It was the season when it was warm and cold, and he was wearing very thin clothes. The muscles of his legs could not hold up the shape of his trousers, and he looked empty.

"Who?" He asked again in a hoarse voice.

Gao Qiong turned to look at Zhang Xiao.

Zhang Xiao stared at him nervously. "I'm a newcomer!" He opened his mouth and said silently, "You want to cover me."

Gao Qiong turned his head expressionlessly and looked directly at Ou Qing: "We are here to find you, Ou Qing."

Zhang Xiao became even more nervous.He didn't expect Gao Qiong to be so direct, and thought that he would take a detour first, and then take the opportunity to leave with him first, and come back when the night is quiet.

After all, his task goal is the manuscript, and he doesn't need any contact with Ou Qing.In Zhang Xiao's poor knowledge base, if people who go back to the past come into contact with people and things casually, it will cause a butterfly effect and change the future.Is Gao Qiong not afraid? This question flashed in his mind for a moment, and he suddenly understood the reason: Ou Qing was about to die. anything.

Ou Qing narrowed his eyes: "What did you say?"

Both Gao Qiong and Zhang Xiao were taken aback.

Ou Qing's pronunciation is a little different from the current Beijing accent, and the intonation is a little weird, but the two can still understand it.But Ou Qing might not be able to understand what they said smoothly.Zhang Xiao suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly tugged on Gao Qiong's clothes: "He spoke the official dialect of the Republic of China, which is different from ours now. I said it in language class."

Gao Qiong: "I have never taken this kind of class."

Zhang Xiao: "...?"

Gao Qiong: "Go and chat with him and ask him where he kept his notes."

Zhang Xiao wanted to refute, but Gao Qiong said "this is a work task" and sent him back.Ou Qing stood in the room, although his face was full of vigilance, he probably could tell that these two were not common guys on the ground in Beiping. "Are you foreigners?" Ou Qing asked, "You look like us Chinese."

Anyway, I couldn't explain clearly, so Zhang Xiao simply admitted: "Yes, we are foreigners."

He has forgotten a lot of things he learned in language class at school. Zhang Xiao has little interest in social science courses, and he never listens carefully in class. He passed the theoretical and practical exercises in the final exam with a passing mark.He still remembers that the practical test questions at that time were to give routine commands to his mental body in the official language of the Tang Dynasty, such as sit down, run, and come back.Standing in the corner of the room, Zhang Xiao watched the mental bodies of all the students scurrying around, and calmly accepted his last-to-last result.

So he could only slow down his speech and pronounce every word abruptly.

More like a foreigner...he thought to himself.But it was obviously effective: Ou Qing understood.

"What are you going to do?" Ou Qing's hands kept shaking, but he took out a knife from behind the door, "I, I have nothing left."

Zhang Xiao didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to look to Gao Qiong for help.

Gao Qiong looked calm, and imitated Zhang Xiao's slow pronunciation: "We are here to see you. Your father is our friend."

He said the name of Ou Qing's adoptive father.Seeing that Ou Qing was still dubious, Gao Qiong continued: "Are you his son Ou Qing? He mentioned you to us. He picked you up at the bridgehead, when you were still holding a blood Baby. That's your brother. Your mother gave birth to him under the bridge, but neither of them survived, only you."

Ou Qing suddenly opened his eyes.

This is something he has never told anyone, except for himself and his adoptive father, he only mentions it in the "Jixiang Hutong Notes" at hand.

He immediately believed Gao Qiong's words.

"Come see what I do?"

Gao Qiong continued to lie without changing his face: "He gave us a jade bottle back then, and now someone wants to buy it. We don't know the price, so we want to ask him."

Ou Qing's eyes changed.

"He died a long time ago." Ou Qing said, "It's the same if I help you to see."

He took two steps back, gave way to the door, and invited Gao Qiong and Zhang Xiao into his dark little room.

Gao Qiong glanced at Zhang Xiao, and signaled with his eyes: "Okay."

Zhang Xiao couldn't say a word, he was so impressed.

After Ou Qing made money, he also lived in a richer and more beautiful house outside.After all, Jixiang Hutong is the residence of eunuchs, and it is not a good place to say it. He bought houses in four places in Beiping, but in the end they were swallowed up bit by bit.

Only the old house in the auspicious alley, the old house that he disliked, was still there.

When the two entered the room, Ou Qing immediately closed the door.He hunched over and coughed heavily, and when he raised his head again, his protruding eyes were shining brightly: "Where's the jade bottle?"

Zhang Xiao looked at Gao Qiong again.

Gao Qiong sat down very calmly.The furnishings in the room are extremely simple, even crude. Although it is a hall, there is only an Eight Immortals table in the middle and a low bed by the wall. There is a altar by the wall, and a lonely God of Wealth stands on it.The brazier was burning very warmly, but the room was still cold, not the coldness of popularity and hope.

"There is a dragon pattern on the jade bottle, without any damage, how much can it be sold for now?" Gao Qiong asked.

In his own room, Ou Qing looked Gao Qiong up and down carefully.He understood that among these two people, the shorter one is probably the follower, and the one in front of him is the one who can talk.

"When did you get it?" Ou Qing looked again and again, and suddenly found that although the two people were dressed a bit bloated, they obviously didn't look like they were carrying an extremely precious jade bottle with them. In the strange pocket, "You lied to me?! Where's the jade bottle?!"

"There are jade bottles, they are quite big, and we can't bring them out." Gao Qiong gestured for a while, "It's so tall, with such a wide opening, and it's blue-gray."

Ou Qing frowned, staring at his hand.

"Straight neck, wide abdomen, ring feet, double beasts with flexible ring ears (*)." Gao Qiong said, "There are cloud dragons playing with beads on it, as well as cross patterns and hooked cloud patterns..."

Standing beside him and listening, Zhang Xiao suddenly understood what he was talking about.

This is an ancient relic on the large shelves on both sides of the reserve.He only glanced at it briefly at the time, but he remembered that there was a handwritten cardboard under the jade bottle, with a line of words on it: Treasure, Gao Qiong, don't touch it.

After Gao Qiong finished speaking, Ou Qing's expression changed drastically.

"This is... a treasure of great size, a priceless treasure, a priceless treasure..." Ou Qing muttered, "Impossible, it is impossible for him to get this thing, let alone give it to others at will..."

Gao Qiong was still talking calmly, with an extremely leisurely demeanor, on the contrary, he looked more like a businessman who was sitting on the ground and raising prices: "It's not a priceless treasure, I heard that someone bought a similar jade bottle, it was a jade cup with two ears (*). One is a human and the other is a dragon. I guess mine is more expensive, but I don’t know how much more expensive. Thinking about the poor quality of the jade bottle, it is at most several hundred dollars more expensive..."

"Nonsense!" Ou Qing shouted and jumped up.

He was so excited that he immediately fell down again, coughing earth-shatteringly while lying on the bedside.

Zhang Xiao took the opportunity to look down at Gao Qiong, but Gao Qiong happened to be looking at him too.

"You know a lot." Zhang Xiao moved his mouth and said silently.

Then he seemed to see Gao Qiong smiling again.And at the same time, this subtle expression disappeared too quickly, Zhang Xiao felt lost.

"You, the jade cup you mentioned, the double-eared jade cup, is a treasure of the Song Dynasty with the pattern of rites and music, but... ahem... but this jade bottle with dragon patterns and live rings is a court item in the Yuan Dynasty!" Ou Qing coughed It's over, with a bit of earth-shattering aftertaste, and I can't wait to reason with Gao Qiong, "It's hard to find even one three-dimensional jade carving in the Yuan Dynasty... You foreign devils, don't understand anything, don't talk nonsense! You bastards! "

Gao Qiong snorted, crossed his legs, and said slowly: "You said it so clearly, have you ever seen that jade cup with human ears?"

"Of course I've seen it!" Ou Qing said angrily, "I still sold this cup from me!"

As soon as he said this, the room fell silent for a moment.

Zhang Xiao suddenly realized: Gao Qiong's scheme for Ou Qing started from the very first sentence.The reason why Gao Qiong mentioned the double-eared jade cup should have been seen in the first half of the first volume of "Notes on Auspicious Hutong".He knew that Ou Qing had sold it, so he mentioned it on purpose.

"Are you really selling it when you say it's selling?" Gao Qiong said, rolling his tongue, "Chinese people, sellers of treasures, are all liars. They are so good at deceiving people, I don't believe what you say."

"Fake foreign devil... go home and eat your foreign father's food..." Ou Qing was so angry that his face turned red.He was ill and was scattered around. The two people in front of him were friends of his adoptive father, but he hated his adoptive father, so naturally he would not show any kindness to his old friends.And these two "old friends" pretended to be experts in discussing these treasures with him in the tone he hated the most - Ou Qing couldn't calm down.His resentment, anger, and fear all motivated him to give this foreigner a good look.

"I remember everything, I remember everything." Ou Qing stumbled to the center of the main room, picked up the portrait of the God of Wealth, coughed and said, "I have written everything down, one by one. Collect debts from you..."

The statue of the God of Wealth was very old, and the incense in front of him was bleak, and the incense burner was gone, leaving only a bare statue, standing barely majestically.Ou Qing pawed at the statue for a long time, and his movements gradually stopped.

Gao Qiong and Zhang Xiao, who were staring at him closely, quickly looked away.

"I get it, I get it." Ou Qing chuckled strangely, "You guys are here to look for notes too...you're also here to lie to me..."

Gao Qiong didn't make a sound, so it was his acquiescence.

"How is it possible...in this world...how is it possible in this world to still see the jade bottle from the Yuan Dynasty." Ou Qing shook his body, and his voice trembled, "Dead foreign devil, fake heartless beast..."

"Yes." Gao Qiong said, "I have seen and touched the jade bottle with dragon pattern and live ring."

Zhang Xiao: "..."

His heart skipped a beat.There is a very clear statement in the staff rules of the Cultural Management Committee that non-related personnel are prohibited from touching cultural relics that have been listed as treasures after evaluation.

Ou Qing's gasping voice became thicker and louder.

He turned around slowly, staring at Gao Qiong with red eyes.

"Who..." he yelled weakly, "Which bastard sold you the jade bottle!"

He coughed a few more times, and suddenly bit his lip to silence the sound.

There was a creaking sound of the door opening in the yard.Someone walked in cautiously.

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*Jade bottle with dragon pattern and living ring: a vessel used by the royal family in the Yuan Dynasty, the characteristics are consistent with those described in the text.The three-dimensional jade carvings unearthed and handed down in the Yuan Dynasty are extremely rare, and this one is a masterpiece.It is now in the Palace Museum.

*Jade cup with double ears in ritual and music pattern: Song Dynasty jade, the characteristics are consistent with those described in the text.It is very exquisitely made, with unique decorations and ear handles. It is a precious material material both in the history of the development of jade cups and in understanding the ritual and music life of the Song Dynasty.It is now in the Palace Museum.

The above two cultural relics are from the "Dictionary of Chinese Cultural Relics" (Central Compilation Press).

The author has something to say: These two notes are not nonsense anymore 23333

This set of "Dictionary of Chinese Cultural Relics" was presented as a big gift before.Thank you so much www, even though she doesn’t know what to write here, I still want to write!At that time, I happened to be planning to create a story with such a theme. Covering my face, I happened to be doing a lottery, and then I won a prize that looked like a black box. I was so happy www This is a very good set of books, covering almost all of my country All the existing cultural relics are displayed in categories.Whether it is looking at increasing knowledge or as information, it is very useful.