Chapter 118 of Eavesdropping
When it comes to the return of cultural relics, we still have to find Chen Dengxing.
After Gu Jinshui called Chen Dengxing to tell him, he was very excited and said on the other end of the phone: "Little Gu, you have done a great thing. Tomorrow, I will take people to pick up these cultural relics."
Gu Jinshui made an appointment with him.
The next morning, he and Chen Dengxing, as well as the Cultural Relics Bureau, the museum, Professor Bai and others went to the dock to carefully return the boxes to the Cultural Relics Bureau.
The staff carefully pried open the lid, took out the cultural relics inside one by one, and placed them in the yard.
Shang and Zhou bronzes, Tang Dynasty painted pottery, Yuan blue and white porcelain, Ming Ru kiln...
There are even ancient swords and fossils from ancient times, and so on.
All the cultural relics are well preserved and sparkle in the sunlight. At that moment, decades seem to have passed by in a hurry. Gu Jinshui seems to see an old man holding cultural relics in his hands with a solemn look on his face.
"These are all first-class cultural relics!"
Chen Dengxing's eyesight is beyond words. After just a quick look at a few of them, he was so excited that his face turned red. He grabbed Gu Jinshui's hand and said, "Little Gu, Mr. Yamamoto has done a great thing. We must commend him and not let good people suffer losses."
Gu Jinshui smiled and shook his head with a bewildered look on his face. "Mr. Yamamoto said that he didn't want to show off his achievements, and he felt guilty about it. Doing these is just his job, and he doesn't want to make a fuss. Everyone knows it."
After hearing these words, Chen Dengxing and others sighed and admired Mr. Yamamoto even more.
Chen Dengxing said, "People are different from each other. To use that person's words, the Chinese people and the Japanese people in the world are the same. There is only one enemy, which is Japanese militarism and the Chinese national scum! [1]"
Professor Bai agreed deeply.
"Yes, Mr. Yamamoto does not want to take credit, but we cannot erase his contribution. Since he donated these cultural relics to our country, why not leave his name on the Cultural Relics Bureau so that future generations will know how these cultural relics were obtained."
After Chen Dengxing and others discussed it, they all thought this was a good idea.
It did not let the good people suffer injustice, and it also fulfilled Mr. Yamamoto's idea.
The staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau went to find a camera.
Everyone took a photo with the cultural relics, and left a line of words under the photo - Donated by Japanese international friend Mr. Yamamoto on June 12, 1990.
The photos were developed a few days later, and Gu Jinshui specially developed an extra one and sent it back to Professor Yamamoto's housekeeper, thinking that Mr. Yamamoto might be happy to see that the things had been returned intact.
Gu Yinxing was pregnant and was soft-hearted. After hearing these things, she cried even more.
Her eyes were swollen like rotten peaches: "Brother, Mr. Yamamoto is so pitiful. It would be great if the cancer could be discovered earlier."
"Who can think of this in advance."
He Chunlian wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said, "You are pregnant now, you dare not cry like this, hurry up and wipe your tears."
Gu Yinxing took the handkerchief and sobbed, "I'm just crying for a while, I will be fine after a while."
She talked for a long time, but when she turned around, she saw her brother holding his chin and staring at the wall in a daze. She couldn't help but slap Gu Jinshui's arm in annoyance, "Brother, did you listen to me?"
"I'm listening. Yes, mom is right. You are pregnant now, so you can't cry too much. Otherwise, if you give birth to a night-crying child, I wonder what you and Yan Qian will do?"
Gu Jinshui deliberately changed the subject and said with a smile.
Gu Yinxing became more and more annoyed, and punched Gu Jinshui with his hand. Gu Jinshui dodged quickly, ran into the kitchen to get a box of raw dumplings that He Chunlian had made that morning, and hurried out. "Mom, you talk to your sister slowly, I'm going to find my master."
"Hey, brother, why are you in such a hurry to leave? I still have something to ask you."
Seeing that Gu Jinshui was about to run away, Gu Yinxing stood up and shouted, but it was too late, so he could only stamp his feet in anger.
Gu Jinshui was relieved when he left the house.
Mr. Yamamoto's matter was too heavy. He thought about it every day these days and felt guilty. He shouldn't have been so rude to him before.
Moreover, when he thought about Mr. Yamamoto's matter, Gu Jinshui thought of his master.
The courtyard where Xi Han lived was just a few steps away. Gu Jinshui saw that the door was open, knocked on the door, called "Master" and walked in.
The old man was practicing calligraphy in the study. The post he was imitating was the work of Wen Zhengming. He had a good hand in running script with
a clear and elegant style, but there was a sense of pause between the lines, which made people feel sorry, a beautiful jade with a slight flaw.
"Master, what great handwriting! This "Pipa Xing" is really well written!"
After Xi Han finished practicing his calligraphy, Gu Jinshui smiled and rolled up the handle of a towel and handed it to him. The old man took the towel, wiped the ink off his hands, and said, "Stop flattering me. What are you doing here? You've finally come back from outside, why don't you go take a look inside the store?"
"I took a look yesterday. Everything in the store is good."
Gu Jinshui picked up the lunch box as if he was presenting a treasure. "My mother made dumplings with sauerkraut stuffing this morning. I know you like them, so I brought them to you. You haven't had lunch yet, I'll make the dumplings for you."
The old man hummed and a smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
The dumplings stuffed with pickled cabbage and pork were steaming hot and full of juice. They were eaten with vinegar. Even the old man, who had a poor appetite, ate twelve dumplings before putting down his chopsticks.
Gu Jinshui also poured a cup of rice wine for the old man.
The old man looked at him suspiciously, took the small wine glass of two taels, took a sip, and asked, "If you have something to say, just say it directly, don't beat around the bush."
Gu Jinshui laughed and said, "Master, I don't mean to beat around the bush. There is something. Didn't I tell you about Mr. Yamamoto before?"
"Well, he is a real man."
Xi Han showed some admiration in his eyes.
Gu Jinshui smiled and filled the old man's glass. "I thought so too, and then I thought of your case. That Lin Dahai has done many evil things and betrayed his master and ancestors. As your last disciple, I should help you find this man and seek justice for you!"
Xi Han's hands trembled slightly. He looked at Gu Jinshui, and a gleam of water appeared in his old and sunken eyes. Then he lowered his head, as if he raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes. "It's enough that you have this intention. There are so many people in the world, where can you find this person?"
"Master, just tell me whether you trust me or not?"
Gu Jinshui grabbed Xi Han's hand and said, "You taught me how to eat, and I haven't been able to give you anything good in these years. I have to do this for you!"
Gu Jinshui knew that Xi Han had always been thinking about this matter, but he never took the initiative to speak up. But the old man is already this old. If he doesn't find the traitor and help the old man get rid of this anger, I'm afraid the old man will die with regrets in the future.
Xi Han's lips trembled.
He looked at Gu Jinshui, and after a long while, he said in a trembling voice: "Okay, I, Xi Han, have accepted you as my apprentice in this life, and it can be said that my life is not in vain!"
As the former shopkeeper of an antique shop, the old man Xi...
The family background is very impressive. The antique business requires good eyesight. If you have good eyesight, you can find bargains and become rich overnight. If you have poor eyesight, even if you have a fortune of ten thousand taels, you may still buy a house full of useless things.
But the old man is not a greedy person. He always holds the mentality of preferring a fairy peach to a basket of rotten apricots. Therefore, the collections in his home are all treasures among treasures, such as the Shang and Zhou bronze hu. The shape of this cultural relic can be said to be the ancestor of flower hu from the Shang and Zhou to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Almost every dynasty and generation has to imitate this shape.
This shows how valuable this Shang and Zhou bronze hu is. It is no exaggeration to say that this thing is priceless.
In addition, there is a Long Niu incense burner from the Song Dynasty and a Gu Yuexuan enamel bowl with a handle and a Buddha's hand pattern on the inside and a stone pattern on the outside made during the Qianlong period.
"Master, you even have Gu Yuexuan?!"
Gu Jinshui was really shocked.
Gu Yuexuan porcelain is so rare in the industry that many collectors may not see a Gu Yuexuan porcelain in their lifetime.
Xi Han showed a bit of pride on his face, and couldn't help but sigh: "Your master used to be the shopkeeper of a famous glass factory in Beijing. What does Gu Yuexuan have? I also collected a piece of Kangxi's stone blue satin embroidered flat gold dragon robe. It was a dragon robe worn by Kangxi that came out of the palace. Unfortunately, it was also stolen."
This is even more incredible.
Although there are many dragon robes in the Qing Dynasty, the dragon robes worn by Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong are naturally not to be mentioned together. If we talk about the price, it is also terrifyingly high.
Gu Jinshui took the notebook and wrote down the names of these antiques. After writing it down, Gu Jinshui suddenly felt more confident.
If his master collected some common porcelain and pottery from the late Qing Dynasty, these things can be found everywhere, and it would be difficult to find them, even overseas. But his master's collection is
all treasures. Apart from other things, there are definitely not many stone blue satin embroidered flat gold dragon robes worn by Emperor Kangxi on the market, and people who have seen them will definitely leave an impression.
This is not like blue and white porcelain. Some people may not be able to tell whether it is Yuan blue and white porcelain, Ming blue and white porcelain or Qing blue and white porcelain.
To be safe, he also specially looked for photos of similar antiques for comparison, and then began to use his connections to ask people everywhere to see if anyone has seen these dozen things.
Even Mr. Lan and Mr. Yamamoto's butler, Gu Jinshui, shamelessly asked for help.
But there is a saying that goes, "No matter how hard you try, you will find something worthwhile."
Just after Gu Jinshui had asked people to look for these antiques for a month without any news, the brothers An Yi and An Xin came to Beijing for a trip and happened to see these pictures on the counter of their store.
An Yi's eyes were attracted by the photo of the dragon robe. He said with a smile, "Gu Jinshui, I didn't expect you to be concerned about the dragon robe that was recently auctioned in the United States?"
Gu Jinshui's heart suddenly trembled. He hurriedly put down the teapot and asked, "What auction?"
An Yi pointed at the photo in surprise, "It's the dragon robe in this photo, but the dragon robe at the auction is much better than the one in your photo. I heard that it was worn by Emperor Kangxi and sold for 500,000 US dollars!"
It's a dragon robe, and it's Kangxi's.
Gu Jinshui thought, I'm afraid it's not such a coincidence.
He was afraid that he was overthinking, so he asked An Yi to get the photos of the auction. It was also a coincidence, because there was a gimmick about this dragon robe that it was worn by Emperor Kangxi, so there were really photos of it in foreign newspapers.
Without saying anything, Gu Jinshui took the photo faxed from the United States and hurried to find Xi Han.
The old man didn't have much hope, but when he saw the dragon robe in the newspaper, the muscles at the corners of his mouth trembled, and he grabbed Gu Jinshui's hand and said, "Yes, it's this one. I remember it clearly, because the sleeve corner of this dragon robe accidentally got wet and faded. Look, isn't it here!"
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