treasure hunter

"This... this..." Zhang Yue stammered, "Old Ye, is there anything wrong?"

Ye Lao shook his head and said: "I haven't found any other clues for the time being, but I feel that the pair of chicken bowl cups are exactly the same, and they are exactly the same as the chicken bowl cups in the Forbidden City. Even the movements of the chickens on them are the same, just like copying paintings. Same, have you taken any samples for testing?"

"It's been tested." Zhang Yue said, "It's something from the Ming Dynasty."

"Oh..." Mr. Ye nodded slightly when he heard the words, and said thoughtfully, "This is strange. To be on the safe side, I suggest that you don't put this pair of chicken bowl cups on the auction for now, so as not to cause accidents, and there is nothing wrong with the chicken bowl cups." How precious, I don’t need to remind you.”

"But the advertisements have all been sent out." Zhang Yue looked puzzled, "If we say that we won't auction the chicken bowl cup at this time, not only will there be problems with this auction, but our company's reputation and reputation will also be affected."

Ye Laodao: "I just kindly remind you. As for what to do, it's up to your company's senior management to decide. Anyway, I don't like this pair of chicken bowl cups."

Zhang Yue was also helpless when he heard the words, and said, "Then I'll call my cousin."

He said and took out his cell phone to make a call.

Who is Zhang Yue's cousin, no one knows, maybe he is the big boss of Rongbaozhai, since Zhang Yue called him at this moment, it means that this person has a lot of power in Rongbaozhai.

After Zhang Yue called, he explained the situation and repeatedly reminded his cousin that Mr. Ye was by his side. He was afraid that his cousin would say something wrong and offend Mr. Ye.

Zhang Yue's cousin was also witty, he didn't dare to say anything disrespectful to Ye Lao, but asked Zhang Yue to hand over the phone to Ye Lao, and he talked directly to Ye Lao.

Ye Lao talked with the other party and expressed his judgment on the chicken bowl cup. The other party expressed his knowledge and said that he would discuss with several major shareholders.

Then the phone was hung up.

At this time, Pei Miao said: "Old Ye, I seemed to see something in the chicken's eye just now."

"There's something in the chicken's eye? What is it?"

Pei Miao said: "I didn't see clearly, there seems to be something, why don't you take a closer look with a magnifying glass?"

Ye Lao didn't say anything, picked up the chicken bowl cup and magnifying glass, and started watching again.

The chicken cup is very small. If it is filled with wine, it may not be able to hold two taels of wine. There are two groups of chickens painted on such a small cup. The second group is a male chicken, a female chicken, and a chick. three.

In the first group, the rooster held its head high, the female hen and one chick were pecking at centipedes, and the other two chicks were playing.

In another group, the male rooster crowed, and the female hen and three chicks pecked at a centipede.

In other words, a total of ten chickens are painted on each chicken cup.

The cup was already very small, and the chicken painted on it was even smaller, and the chicken's eyes were naturally even smaller. Pei Miao actually said that there was something in the chicken's eyes, which made people wonder whether Pei Miao was wrong.

Ye Lao looked at the chicken cup with a magnifying glass for a long time, and then looked at the eyes of each chicken, and finally saw a small black spot in the eyes of the crowing rooster.

After looking carefully for a long time, he didn't think it looked like a small black spot.

Ye Lao watched for a full 15 minutes. During these 15 minutes, no one dared to make a sound, for fear of disturbing him. Finally, Ye Lao reluctantly put down the chicken bowl cup and magnifying glass, raised his hand and squeezed the Jingming acupoint, and sighed helplessly : "Oh... old, useless, eyesight can't keep up."

Huang Lao asked: "Teacher...do you see anything?"

Ye Lao said: "There is something, but I can't see what it is, it's a black mass."

He pushed the chicken bowl cup and magnifying glass in front of Pei Miao, and said, "Pei Miao, you have sharp eyes, come and take a look."

"Okay." Pei Miao carefully picked up the chicken cup and the magnifying glass, looked at it for a while, and said, "Three words."

Elder Ye hurriedly asked, "What word?"

Pei Miao said: "Bo Guxuan."

"Boguxuan?" Ye Lao frowned when he heard the words, and said, "What is the origin of this Boguxuan? It stands to reason that the chicken bowl cup is made by the imperial kiln. How can there be any Boguxuan?"

Pei Miao said: "It should be a counterfeit workshop, I have seen one of their imitation paintings."

"Oh?" Ye Lao hurriedly asked, "Where did you see it?"

"In Jinling." Pei Miao said, "Professor Han also knows about this."

Professor Han on the side hurriedly said: "That's right, someone used that imitation painting to blackmail us in our store, insisting that they bought a fake painting from our store."

Ye Lao asked: "How did you solve it in the end?"

Pei Miao said: "The other party did buy a painting from our store, which is exactly the same as the imitation painting, but our painting has an authentication certificate, and they insist that the authentication certificate is also a fake, you know, the authentication certificate It was issued by the Cultural Relics Bureau. They thought we didn’t dare to bring this matter up, but I was not afraid of the shadow, and I was not threatened by them at all. I offered to contact the Cultural Relics Bureau and called the police. In the end, the mastermind behind the other party personally came forward to compromise with me and gave me enough compensation, so I let them go."

Ye Lao thought for a while after hearing the words, and said: "So, the mastermind behind the scenes should be related to Boguxuan?"

Pei Miao shook his head and said, "I don't know about that."

Ye Lao turned his head to look at Zhang Yue, and said, "Mr. Zhang, please give me a high-power magnifying glass."

"Okay, Mr. Ye, wait a moment." Zhang Yue took out his mobile phone and made a call.

After a while, a beautiful woman brought over a large magnifying glass. This magnifying glass was about a dozen centimeters in diameter, much larger than the previous magnifying glass.

Ye Lao took the magnifying glass and picked up the chicken bowl cup to observe again.

This time, he finally saw the three small characters in the chicken's eyes, and it really was the three characters Boguxuan.To be cautious, he picked up another chicken bowl cup to check.

After a while, Ye Lao put down the chicken bowl cup and the magnifying glass, and sighed: "It really is the word Boguxuan, Mr. Zhang, I am sorry to tell you that this pair of chicken bowl cups is not the real one, but a modern imitation .”

"What!" Zhang Yue's face suddenly turned ugly when he heard the words. He really wanted Ye Lao to look at it again, but he didn't dare. squeak.

Ye Lao said: "Call your boss and tell your boss, this pair of chicken cups cannot be auctioned, otherwise it will be blatant fraud and illegal."

"Yes." After Zhang Yue finished speaking, he took out his mobile phone and called his cousin again.

When his cousin heard what Zhang Yue said, he fell silent immediately.

He applied to talk to Ye Lao again, and Zhang Yue handed the phone to Ye Lao.

Ye Lao waved his hand, raised his voice, and said, "You don't need to talk to me anymore, this pair of chicken cups is not a fake, you should think about how to stop the loss now."

The person on the other end of the phone naturally also heard Ye Lao's words, so he told Zhang Yue to cancel the auction of the pair of chicken bowl cups first, and he immediately sent them from Jingdu Tiaozhongbao to Modu to replace the chicken bowl cups, trying to make up for the company's reputation.

Zhang Yue wanted to put away the chicken cup, but Ye Lao suddenly raised his hand and said, "Don't move."

Zhang Yue shyly put away his hands and asked, "What instructions does Elder Ye have?"

Ye Laodao: "Next, I will investigate Boguxuan. This pair of chicken cups is very important evidence, and I will take it away."

Zhang Yue was puzzled when he heard the words: "But... this is a valuable item entrusted by our company to be auctioned by the customer, and we gave 500 million yuan just as a deposit..."

Ye Laodao: "Speaking of the entrusted person, your company should have his contact information. Contact him immediately and ask him to come over. I want to ask him about the situation."

Zhang Yue was completely dumbfounded when he heard this.

Seeing him in a daze, Mr. Ye urged, "Hurry up and call."

"Ah! Yes, I'll call now, and I'll contact him right away." After Zhang Yue finished speaking, he took out his mobile phone to make a call.

But when he dialed out, he was stunned, then turned his head to look at Ye Lao as if he had seen a ghost, and said, "This is... an empty number."

Ye Lao frowned and said, "Turn on the speakerphone."

Zhang Yue immediately pressed the hands-free button, and sure enough, the system voice prompt: "Hello, the number you dialed is an empty number, please confirm before dialing..."

Ye Lao said: "Show me the customer information immediately."

"Yes." Zhang Yue called again.

A few minutes later, the materials were printed and delivered.

Ye Lao glanced at the information, frowned instantly, and said in a bad tone: "Why is this information so simple? It doesn't even have an ID number and home address?"

Zhang Yue hurriedly said: "The other party said that he is an overseas Chinese, has no ID card, and has no residence in the country for the time being. He lives in a hotel and often changes hotels, so he didn't fill in the address."

"Overseas Chinese?" Ye Lao snorted coldly, "I think he is the person in charge of Boguxuan selling offal!"

Ye Lao just stared and snorted coldly, the whole room seemed to be warmed several degrees in an instant, and there was silence for a while, Zhang Yue stood there, his calves were shaking a little.

Ye Lao knew that this customer information was useless, so he threw the information aside, turned to look at Pei Miao, and said, "Pei Miao, who was the one who blackmailed you with Boguxuan imitation paintings last time, I want to send someone to Go check it out."

Pei Miao said, "It's Zhao Kai from the Jinling Zhao Group. Their family has opened many chain stores of antiques in Jinling, called Zhao's Antique Stores, and they almost monopolize the antique market in Jinling."

"Big fish." Ye Lao sneered, and said slowly, "Thank you for the clues you provided, this Zhao family... must investigate carefully."

At this time, Mr. Huang hurriedly persuaded: "Teacher, why get so angry, let the people below do this kind of trivial matter, how can you kill a chicken with a sledgehammer."

"Yes, yes, yes..." Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhu nodded in agreement after hearing the words.

Ye Lao sighed after hearing the words: "It's been decades. Since Zhu Fang, I haven't seen anyone who can imitate porcelain so perfectly. Do you think it's a trivial matter?"

Huang Lao and the others were afraid to speak out when they heard the words.

Ye Lao got up slowly, paced in the room, and said as he walked: "At that time, Zhu Changshun made the world of antiques and porcelains turbulent, but now this Boguxuan is even better than Zhu Changshun. I don’t know if there are any imitations of ancient paintings and other types of antiques, this Boguxuan must be eradicated as soon as possible, otherwise there will be endless troubles!”

Pei Miao nodded vigorously when she heard the words: "Old Ye is right, there can't be such a cancer in the antique world, otherwise the whole antique world will be in chaos."

Ye Lao suddenly stopped in his tracks and said, "You all go out for a while, I'll make a call."

After hearing the words, everyone got up and walked out of the reception room.

I saw four bodyguards in black suits and hairstyles standing on both sides of the door of the reception room. The four of them stood there motionless like four statues.

Seeing the four bodyguards, Shulong felt a little nervous, and suggested, "Why don't we go back."

Pei Miao nodded, "I agree."

Huang Lao said: "Ye Lao didn't say anything, let's wait here."

Pei Miao and Shulong had no choice but to wait here.

After about 5 minutes, the door of the reception room opened. Ye Lao stood behind the door and said, "Come in, Pei Miao, and everyone else should go back first."

Pei Miao walked into the reception room full of doubts.

Ye Lao pointed to the sofa and said, "Sit."

Pei Miao sat down as promised.

Ye Lao sat down opposite him, pushed a cup of tea in front of him, and said, "Give me a cup of tea."

Although Pei Miao was confused, he still picked up his teacup, respected Ye Lao, and said, "Ye Lao, please drink tea."

Ye Lao took the teacup, with a smile on his face, took a sip of tea, put the teacup back on the tea table, and said, "Okay, this cup is apprentice tea, from now on, you will be my closed disciple, and I will be you Master."

"Ah?" Pei Miao was stupefied when he heard the words, and after being stunned for two seconds, he hurriedly waved his hands, "No, no, this won't work."

Ye Lao was unhappy when he heard the words, and stared: "Why not, do you think I am unworthy?"

"No, no." Pei Miao hurriedly waved his hand again, and said, "Mr. Ye, don't get me wrong, I just think... I'm not worthy."

Ye Lao smiled when he heard the words, and said: "Don't worry, I will accept you as an apprentice. If I say you are worthy, you are worthy."

"I'm really not worthy, I..." Pei Miao hesitated to speak.

Ye Lao laughed and said: "I can't think of a reason to refuse, you have to know, how many people are crying and begging to be my student, but I refuse to accept it, you know, students and apprentices are completely two This concept, if it were someone else, I would probably wake up laughing from a dream.”

Pei Miao hesitated for a while, made up his mind, and said, "Old Ye, I'm really not worthy, because I'm terminally ill and won't live for a few years."

Ye Lao frowned when he heard the words, and hurriedly asked: "What terminal illness?"

Pei Miao said, "I can't say that. I can only live for three years at most. This is the best situation."

Ye Lao asked: "What's the worst case?"

"Worst case..." Pei Miao thought for a while and said, "Maybe they won't survive this year."

Ye Lao frowned and asked: "What disease do you have, you tell me, I will find a doctor to treat you, and I will find you the best doctor in the world."

Pei Miao shook her head: "It's useless, no doctor can cure it, this is my privacy, I really can't say it, please forgive me."

Ye Lao saw that he refused to speak, and it was not easy to force him, so he could only sigh helplessly. After sighing, he slowly said: "Even so, I still want to take you as my apprentice. Isn't there a saying that is good, Chao Wen Dao, it’s okay to die in the evening, you follow me, as long as you learn something, it’s fine, don’t care how long you can live.”

"I..." Pei Miao did not expect Mr. Ye to be so determined to accept disciples, and seeing Mr. Ye smiling so kindly, the resistance in his heart collapsed instantly, and he said, "Okay, since Mr. Ye thinks highly of me so much, then I will do it." Your apprentice, if you can live one more day, I will be your apprentice for one more day."

Ye Lao grinned happily when he heard the words: "Okay, that's how it should be."

Pei Miao reached into her bosom to grope for a while, took out a note, handed it to Elder Ye, and said, "Master, this is my teacher's gift."

"Oh? A teacher's gift?" Ye Lao raised his eyebrows and smiled, reaching out to take the note.