treasure hunter

"Let me take a look, what is the gift..." Ye Lao smiled and unfolded the rolled note.

After unfolding it, he took a closer look, and suddenly his whole body was shocked, and he stood up, his hands holding the note trembling with excitement: "This... this..."

Seeing him trembling with excitement, Pei Miao was afraid that he would suffer from some kind of illness due to his excitement, so she quickly got up to support him, and said, "Master, don't get excited, don't get excited, let's sit down, don't get excited."

After all, Mr. Ye was someone who had seen the big scene, so he quickly stabilized his mind, sat down with Pei Miao, and asked Pei Miao, "Where did you get this Tang Sancai manufacturing process?"

Pei Miao said, "Hidden in a high imitation Tang Sancai horse."

"Is the Tang Sancai horse still there?" Ye Lao said, "I want to see it."

Pei Miao shook her head and said, "It was broken, and it was because of it that I found this note hidden in the ponytail. This must be my luck."

"You are so lucky." Ye Lao said, "Do you know who wrote this note?"

Pei Miao originally wanted to hide it, but he thought it would be bad to lie to the old man just after he was a teacher, so he said, "I know, it was written by Zhu Changshun, and his Zhu imitation caused quite a stir in the antique world back then."

"Oh, you also know Zhu Changshun." Ye Lao chuckled and said, "It seems that you have really put a lot of effort into antiques, and now many people don't know these old things."

Pei Miao smiled modestly: "I can't help it. If you want to eat this bowl of rice, you have to work hard. The road of antiques is really not easy to walk."

"Yeah, it's really not easy to go." Ye Lao sighed with a smile, "So now there are fewer and fewer young people in this industry, and there are really no young people."

Pei Miao smiled: "No way, young people like new things. This is the nature of young people. If I hadn't studied archeology, I probably wouldn't have entered this industry."

"That's right." Ye Lao said with tender eyes, "Thinking back to when I was young, it was the same. Entering this industry was completely by chance. I didn't expect a coincidence to stay in this industry for more than 60 years."

He paused, and said again: "By the way, where did you get that tricolor horse?"

Pei Miao said: "I bought it in a black market for antiques in the East, and when I bought it, it was deliberately broken by a person who had a feud with me, and then I found the note inside, combined with the content of the note, I Only then did I realize that the three-colored horse was Zhu Fang."

"It turns out to be like this." Ye Lao said, "I'm still wondering, Zhu Changshun is still in prison, logically speaking, he has no possibility of contacting the outside world, and this tricolor horse is also his work when he was young, fortunately. , You were the one who discovered this note, if it fell into the hands of someone with bad intentions, I'm afraid there will be an uproar in the antique world again."

Pei Miao said: "I keep this note close to me all the time. I just want to offer it up when I meet someone like you, Master, who has absolute prestige and trust in the antique world. This thing is a double-edged sword. If you use it Well done, it will play a huge role in the research and restoration of Tang Sancai."

"That's right." Ye Lao smiled and nodded in agreement, "Actually, you can donate it directly to the country, there is no need to be so troublesome.",

Pei Miao said: "I can't trust ordinary people, after all this thing is extraordinary, I must be very careful."

"Well, it's always right to be careful." Ye Lao nodded, got up slowly and said, "Let's go, come home with me, you gave me a teacher's gift, I have to pay you back Christian gift."

Pei Miao got up and waved her hands: "No, no."

"Just accepted you as an apprentice, do you want to disobey the teacher's order?" Ye Lao said with a smile, "Put away the chicken bowl cup and bring it with you."

"Okay." Pei Miao smiled helplessly, put away the chicken bowl cup, followed closely behind Ye Lao, and walked out with him.

Walking out of the reception room, four bodyguards came up immediately. Ye Lao glanced at them and said, "Identify you, this is Pei Miao, and he will be my closed disciple from now on."

The four bodyguards nodded one after another: "Mr. Pei!"

Pei Miao hurriedly waved her hands with a smile, "Hello everyone, everyone has worked hard."

"Let's go." Ye Lao said, and walked out.

Two bodyguards immediately went to the front to open the way, the other two walked behind, Pei Miao and Ye Lao walked in the middle.

When I left the Rongbaozhai Auction Company, I saw three cars outside the door, a black Hongqi car, and two jeeps. The three drivers stood beside the car, with their backs straight, seeing Ye Lao After getting out, the driver of the Hongqi car hurriedly opened the door to welcome Mr. Ye into the car.

After Ye Lao got into the car, he said to the driver, "Open the door for Pei Miao."

The driver didn't know who Pei Miao was, but there were only three people here, so there was no need to guess who Pei Miao was. He immediately went to the car and opened the door for Pei Miao.

"Thank you." Pei Miao thanked with a smile, got in the car, and sat in the back seat with Ye Lao.

The four bodyguards boarded two jeeps respectively.

Three cars set off, a jeep opened the way in front, the red flag was in the middle, and another jeep followed.

All the way back to Ye Lao's residence, as soon as he entered the door of the villa, he saw Ye Xiangnan lying on the sofa playing with his mobile phone in the living room, and put one foot on the coffee table.

He was so engrossed in playing with his mobile phone that he didn't even notice when someone entered the door.

Ye Lao and Pei Miao walked to the sofa, Ye Xiangnan was still chatting excitedly with other people's messages, Ye Lao coughed.

Ye Xiangnan suddenly felt as if he had been electrocuted, and was so frightened that he dropped his mobile phone. He didn't have time to pick it up, so he quickly got up, stood up straight, looked like Ye Lao, and lowered his head and called: "Grandpa."

"Something that doesn't live up to expectations." Ye Lao snorted coldly, turned around and left.

Ye Xiangnan covered his chest with his hands, as if he had received an amnesty, he was really scared to death just now, if his heart is not good, he probably has a blockage by now.

Ye Lao said to Pei Miao who was beside him while walking, "I'm just such a grandson, unfortunately I'm not good enough, I know how to play every day, if he can be half as good as you, I can wake up laughing from my dreams."

Pei Miao hurriedly said modestly: "Master, please don't say that. I look at Brother Nan as a man of talent, and he is also very well educated, without losing the vitality of young people. It's pretty good."

Ye Laodao: "Look, when you praised him, you couldn't think of any advantages to praise him, right?"

Ye Xiangnan in the back was depressed when he heard the words, and muttered angrily in a low voice: "It's this guy again, why should he compare with me..."

Elder Ye led Pei Miao to the study room, and said as he walked, "I'll take you to visit my treasure room. I've been playing with antiques for so many years, and I've accumulated some good things."

When he said this, Elder Ye's face was full of complacency, and Pei Miao could imagine that there must be a lot of treasures in Elder Ye's treasure room, and they were also very precious.

Ye Lao led Pei Miao directly into the inner room of the study, and walked to a bookshelf. Ye Lao took away a few books on the bookshelf, revealing the electric button inside. Pressing the button, the bookshelf slowly moved to the right. An electric sliding door.

The bookshelves were removed to reveal a door, wooden with no handle, a pull tab, and no lock.

Ye Lao pushed open the door directly and said, "Come on, come in." He walked in and turned on the light after entering, and the room was brightened immediately.

Pei Miao walked in and said, "Isn't the treasure room locked?"

Ye Lao laughed and said, "No need, no one dares to enter my place without my permission."

This is arrogant.

Pei Miao could also understand that Ye Lao's bodyguards seemed to be from special forces, and Pei Miao had already seen through the Quan Shen Domain that these four people were all carrying hot weapons, who the hell dared to come in and seek death.

After entering, I saw that this was an ordinary room, except that there were no windows, and it was a bit like a storage room. The decoration inside was still in the old style, and there were tables and chairs.

Take a closer look at the tables and chairs. It's incredible, a set of Hainan Huanghuali tables and chairs.

Seeing that Pei Miao's eyes fell on the huanghuali table and chairs, Ye Lao proudly introduced: "I bought this set of Hainan huanghuali table and chairs 40 years ago, and I spent almost all my money at that time. The old woman... of course, she was not an old woman at that time. She quarreled with me, quarreling, dying, saying that life could not go on, haha, now that I think about it, I find it funny. That's right, in a few years, the market for antiques has risen, and by then, the old lady stopped making trouble with me, and after that, he didn't object anymore when I traded antiques."

Pei Miao smiled and said, "Master, playing with antiques is like gambling."

"At that time, I was only in my forties. It was the time when I was not young. I felt that I was very good. I would never make a mistake. When I saw a good antique, I wanted to buy it. If I didn't buy it, I couldn't sleep at night. I also made a lot of determination on this table and chair.”

Pei Miao turned her head and saw a blue and white pot next to it, and found that it was Zhu Fang. Pei Miao was surprised, "This blue and white pot with plum patterns..."

Ye Laodao: "This is something I drilled. After the age of 45, the only time I drilled it was on this Zhu imitation. Although this jar is not authentic, it is very commemorative, so I have kept it in my treasure chest. in the room."

Pei Miao nodded frequently when she heard the words, and continued to look at other collections.

While Pei Miao looked at it, Elder Ye introduced it to him. Although not all the collections here are expensive, Mr. Ye can tell a story about each item, which shows how colorful Mr. Ye's life is. .

After all, Mr. Ye is an official, and his personal funds are not very sufficient, so most of the treasures here are picked up by Mr. Ye or bought at a low price. There are not many extremely precious treasures, and nearly half of the valuables are from him. On his birthday, the children gave him everything, and the origin of each item is clear, which shows that Mr. Ye is innocent no matter whether he is in office or retired at home.

After looking at it for a while, Pei Miao suddenly froze. He stopped in front of a museum shelf, looked at a pottery figurine on the corner grid, and couldn't take his eyes off it.

I finally saw it. I didn't expect to meet this terracotta figurine in Ye Lao's treasure room. The manufacturing style of this terracotta figurine is basically the same as the one he bought from Boss Qian before, but the shape is different.

This terracotta figurine portrays a middle-aged man with a long beard, without a crown, wearing a long gown, standing upright, with his head held high and his hands behind his back. The color on the surface of the terracotta figurine has not completely faded, although the facial features are not very clear. But the demeanor gave a feeling of arrogance.

"This pottery figurine..." Pei Miao turned to Elder Ye, "Is there any story?"

"This pottery figurine..." Ye Lao recalled it for a while, and said slowly, "I bought it at the stall of Panjiayuan. It should have happened in the [-]s. At that time, the boss asked me for [-] yuan, and the last [-] yuan The money was sold to me, and although the craftsmanship of this pottery figurine is not very good, it is still something from the Ming Dynasty after all, and it has been around for some years."

Pei Miao nodded, and immediately activated the Quanshen Domain to check the inside of the terracotta figurine. Sure enough, there was a piece of gold leaf inside the terracotta figurine. There was a pattern painted on the gold leaf, which was the other half of the treasure map he was looking for.

Pei Miao thought to herself that she had to find a way to ask Master to come over, but how to speak was a problem.

He was wondering how to ask Ye Lao for this pottery figurine, Ye Lao said: "I have 150 seven treasures here, and you gave me such a precious gift of apprenticeship, I can't be stingy, you can just do it from here." Pick one."

Normally, Pei Miao would have politely refused, but he really wanted this terracotta figurine, so he didn't bother to be polite, and pointed directly at the terracotta figurine, "I want this terracotta figurine."

"You want him?" Ye Lao was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled, "You boy are being polite to me, aren't you, pick expensive ones, okay."

Pei Miao shook her head, "I want this terracotta figurine."

Ye Laodao: "Don't worry, I'm not testing you, I'm sincerely thanking you for the recipe of Tang Sancai, choose it as best you can."

Pei Miao insisted, "I just want this terracotta figurine."

Ye Lao was a little speechless for a while, and laughed and scolded: "You boy, there is a treasure map inside this terracotta figurine, I like it so much."

Pei Miao couldn't help feeling guilty when he heard the words, Ye Lao just said a casual joke, but he didn't expect it to be hit by him, he pretended to be flat and said: "I think this terracotta figurine is pretty good, it doesn't even matter if it has nothing to do with it." It is clear, but it can make people feel that the characters portrayed have a haughty aura, which is amazing."

Hearing this, Old Ye stared carefully at the pottery figurine for a few times, and said slowly: "It's really... I didn't realize before that your kid's eyesight is really good."

Pei Miao smiled modestly, "Compared to Master, I am far behind."

"Syphony." Ye Lao laughed and said, "Since you like this terracotta figurine so much, take it away."

"Thank you, master." Pei Miao thanked happily, and picked up the pottery figurine, feeling so happy that the treasure map was assembled.

Ye Lao reminded: "There are still many treasures here that you haven't seen. Keep looking, maybe you will change your mind when you see other good treasures. As long as you don't leave this door, you can change your mind. door, no return or exchange."

"Okay." Of course Pei Miao wanted to continue watching, it was impossible to change her mind, but watching the baby was a must.

After visiting Ye Lao's treasure room, the two of them came out and reset the bookshelves. Ye Lao took Pei Miao to the rows of bookshelves and said, "Compared to the treasures in the treasure room, the books here are much more valuable than the bookshelves." It is a real treasure, and knowledge is always the most important thing. The books on archeology and antiques here are all collected by me through hard work. Many of them are orphans and cannot be found outside. Which one do you want to read? Pick whatever you want."

"Let me take a look." Pei Miao went to the bookshelf and checked the books.

After seeing the titles of these books, he was shocked. Sure enough, as Ye Lao said, many of them were orphans. Pei Miao thought he had read many books on archeology and antiques, but the books here, He has never read 90% of the books, even the titles of many books he has never heard of, and the knowledge involved is also very professional.

Antique books, but those that cover a wide range of topics, are mostly not good books, and are only suitable for beginners to read. What kind of books are good books, that is, those that specialize in a certain subject, and the more in-depth research, the more research. The more in-depth, the more exquisite.

For example, here is a book dedicated to the study of mural paintings in the Tang Dynasty, another book dedicated to the study of paintings by the four Ming schools, and another book dedicated to the study of Emperor Qianlong. This book is very thick, after all, Qianlong’s life was very long. , preferences are also very wide.

It is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Ye has more than 20 books on studying various emperors here, and one book is an emperor. These books are hard to find outside.

Pei Miao was very excited after watching it, and said in disbelief, "I can really watch it casually?"

Ye Lao spread his hands and said with a smile: "You can read it now, whether I am here or not, you can read the books in this study room, you can use my desk as you like."

"Give me back the desk?" Pei Miao hurriedly shook her head after being surprised, "That's no good, then where can I sit?"

Ye Lao smiled and said, "You can sit across from me."

"I think that's fine." Pei Miao smiled happily, and immediately took a book from the bookshelf, walked over to move a chair, and sat by the desk, just facing Lao Ye.

Pei Miao walked to her seat and sat down, smiled at Pei Miao, and said, "You look at yourself, don't worry about me."

"Yeah." Pei Miao immediately opened the book and started reading.

Mr. Ye picked up a notebook, turned the book on the table to the place marked by the bookmark, and took notes while reading the book. The master and apprentice were busy in their own way, and they were tirelessly wandering in the ocean of knowledge.