Du Ruo explained: "This matter is very important to me. I absolutely cannot lose it. Please help me get it back."
Seeing Du Ruo's serious look, Yuan Tingchuan knew that the thing was useful.
He nodded and said, "I'll have someone get it later. What is it?"
Du Ruo lowered his voice: "A samurai sword from Country R."
Yuan Tingchuan looked as if he had never seen the world before. What's so special about this thing?
Du Ruo continued, "This sword is called Thunder God. It is very important to a certain family. I plan to exchange it for something."
"Sato?"
The boss is indeed a boss. He even knows this.
Yuan Tingchuan frowned and said, "That guy is not someone you can easily deal with. I've dealt with him before, and he's quite cunning. You really need to be careful. What are you planning to exchange for?"
Du Ruo hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's change it to an antique from the Song Dynasty. We don't have any of them ourselves, and the few remaining pieces in the world are all in Country R."
"Yaobian Tianmu Zan." Yuan Tingchuan's voice was firm and his eyes were filled with surprise. This woman was too careless.
The Yaobian Tianmoku bowl is a cultural relic from the Northern Song Dynasty in my country and is also known as the "universe in a bowl."
This cultural relic is a special variety of Jian Kiln. It was also called "Haobianzhan" in the Song Dynasty. After the fall of the Song Dynasty, this porcelain was lost.
During the Song Dynasty, Jian Kiln was renowned as the "premier teaware." Yaobian, the most exquisite glaze color among Jian Kiln products, is not only complex to produce but also extremely difficult to fire. The production process requires extreme changes in both the glaze and the kiln fire to create a single teacup. This is a metaphor that goes something like this: "A general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers."
There are only three Yohen Tenmoku cups left in the world, all of which are in museums in Country R and are listed as national treasures by that country.
The reason why this bowl is called "the universe in a bowl" is because in the glaze it is fired, natural light spots of various sizes emerge. What is even more magical is that around these large and small light spots, there are other colorful light spots appearing in the bowl, and the colors change differently when illuminated from different directions.
The formation of Yohen Tenmoku is extremely accidental. "One bowl is fired and ten thousand bowls are incomplete." It was also a national treasure in the Song Dynasty.
Yuan Tingchuan frowned and said, "This is a national treasure of Country R. Are you sure Sato has it? As far as I know, there are only three pieces left in the world, and they are all in museums."
Du Ruo smiled. "Don't worry about how I know this. The Sato family does have a Yohen Tenmoku lamp. You should know its origins. The only three remaining in the world were brought back from Tianmu Mountain by monks from Country R during the Song Dynasty when they came to exchange and study. In fact, there was a fourth one at the time, and it's in the hands of the Sato family."
Yuan Tingchuan shook his head. "Sato wouldn't trade you for the Thunder God's katana. The Thunder God is indeed very important to their family, but he definitely wouldn't trade you a national treasure like that. You have to understand that scarcity makes things valuable, and we don't have any of our own. If he were to trade you the Yohen Tenmoku-lion, the pressure he would have to endure would be beyond your imagination. He wouldn't dare do it even if you killed him."
Du Ruo angrily poked the rice in her bowl with her chopsticks. In fact, she also vaguely knew that this was not easy, but even if there was a glimmer of hope, she would also like to exchange it for one, not only for her antique city, but also because she had a plan in mind to hand it over to the country sooner or later.
Now that Yuan Tingchuan said this, Du Ruo felt a little discouraged.
Seeing Du Ruo's dejected look, Yuan Tingchuan's eyes flashed. He touched his chin with his fingers and said, "I'll think about this matter again. If I think about it carefully, maybe it will work out."
Du Ruo's eyes lit up. The boss was still reliable.
Seeing Du Ruo looking at him with sparkling eyes, Yuan Tingchuan felt warm in his heart and blurted out, "Don't worry, leave this matter to me."
As soon as he said this, he was stunned for a moment. He has always been a meticulous person and never makes promises if he is not sure about it. He is not very sure about this matter.
Yuan Tingchuan touched his nose awkwardly. Du Ruo also noticed something and continued to flatter the boss: "I think it will definitely work. Your IQ is much higher than mine. I guarantee it will be no problem."
Yuan Tingchuan twitched his lips. He wasn't buying it. He said coldly, "My IQ is much higher than yours? Then what about those two truckloads of raw materials from Myanmar? Don't tell me you don't know."
Seeing Yuan Tingchuan bring up the past, Du Ruo blinked awkwardly. She wanted to say, I was just trying to protect myself. In that kind of place, if Aung San Suu Kyi really knew her special value, would she still be able to leave northern Myanmar? Even if she could leave then, the consequences would be endless.
Although Yuan Tingchuan had just told her to trust his abilities, Du Ruo still had reservations. Perhaps she was really too wary and she couldn't completely put her fate in the hands of others.
Seeing Du Ruo blinking at him, Yuan Tingchuan felt a little sad. Matters of the heart are extremely difficult to control. Although his original intention was not pure, his sincerity could not be faked.
He had to meet such a heartless woman. He tossed and turned, unable to sleep at night. He gritted his teeth and looked at Du Ruo: "Do you only blame me? Woman, check your conscience. I did go along with the kidnapping, but was I targeting you?"
Du Ruo said secretly in his heart, you want to kill two birds with one stone.
Yuan Tingchuan waved his hand: "Don't mention this matter anymore. Didn't you say it at the time? We are still friends, so let's be good friends. I'm serious."
Du Ruo shrugged and said, "Then let's be friends. It's good to make money together."
After dinner, Yuan Tingchuan sat on the sofa in the living room, staring at the teacup in his hand in a daze. He was actually quite sad. It was the first time in his life that his heart was moved. He was not sure whether it was deep or shallow, so he made a wrong judgment and put the situation into a desperate situation.
Don't look at Du Ruo smiling now, this woman has a hard heart, it will be difficult to change her even a little bit.
When Yuan Tingchuan was young, his grandfather held him on his lap and read documents. Dealing with these things had become instinct for him, just like eating and drinking. He had noticed the strangeness in his heart at the time, but did not take it seriously.
In a way, he and Du Ruo were a perfect match. They both put themselves before others, and their thinking patterns were exactly the same. Du Ruo always complained about his pretense, but she was the same. On the surface, she was elegant and detached, but in reality, she had a stronger sense of money than anyone else.
Perhaps it was because like attracts like that brought the two together, but now they are in a deadlock.
Yuan Tingchuan sighed deeply and let things take their course.
Du Ruo's ankle injury was not particularly serious, and he was able to walk a little after a few days.
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