Beyond the Noisy World: The Long Lost Eight Sects: 167. Monogatari

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The two turned around and looked around, and saw another two walk into the shop. One of them was wearing a police uniform with a shoulder-carried law enforcement recorder. The boss hurried forward and said: "Director Guo, why are you here?"

The man in the police uniform is named Guo Yi. There are many shops in this area and the flow of people is complicated. Therefore, the Xinshikou Street Police Station has specially set up a public security joint defense office in the market. There are only three officially staffed police officers and a few co-ops. Guo Yi is just the person in charge, not much. Officially the leader of the establishment, but the shop owners in this area call him Director Guo to show their respect.

Director Guo replied: "I was on duty today, and I happened to meet a leading friend, so I accompany him to stroll around. Boss Wang, let me introduce to you, this is Section Chief Li Pin Li of the District Procuratorate. Section Chief Li is fine. I also like collecting, he just saw your two bricks."

Boss Wang hurriedly shook hands with Chief Li to greet him, bending over and handing over his business card. Section Chief Li didn't have any smile on his face, his expression was serious, and he nodded slightly and said: "Boss Wang, I also like those two ancient bricks, can you sell them?"

Boss Wang said with a smile: "What you said, when you open the door to do business, how can you drive customers out? But this gentleman has already taken a fancy, I promised to sell it to him."

Section Chief Zhang is not at all polite, and still sternly said: "I heard it. He wants to buy it. He wants you to make a price. The two bricks are ten yuan in total, right? I haven't bought it yet. I want to leave. Buy, the higher the price, I will pay 20."

Boss Wang: "It's just two worthless bricks, but you need to pay attention to credibility in doing business. This gentleman is also a regular customer. I'm not going to turn back."

Guo Yi interjected: "Isn't I a regular customer? I met every day!" He turned on the law enforcement recorder.

Section Chief Li said again: "Doing business has to be like doing business. They are all customers, and whoever pays the highest price to sell to whom! Boss, are you right?"

The face of Zhang Wangxiong on the side did not show much abnormality, just like an ordinary customer, and he just said at this moment: "Boss, I really like these two ancient bricks, I sincerely want to buy it, no It’s hard for you, let’s not let you suffer. Let’s pay 20 yuan. This Chief Li, he has to pay attention to first come, first come when he is doing business. I like it first!"

When he said that, he wanted to continue to pay. As soon as the two ten-dollar tickets were taken out and they were not handed out, Chief Li suddenly said: "I'll pay two thousand!"

The other people were stunned. They had never seen such an increase in the price. This Chief Li had a soaring temper. Just now it was 20 yuan, and Zhang Wangxiong was also willing to pay it. He did it well, and there was no increase of ten or eight yuan, and it was directly increased by a hundred times. Is he crazy if he buys two worthless bricks for two thousand dollars?

Either he really wants to buy it, or he just came to find fault. Open the door to do business, if the price is not sold, either the boss has a problem, or the two bricks have a problem, or the customer Zhang Wangxiong has a problem.

Boss Wang came back to his senses and hurriedly said with a smile: "Chief Li, I can't sell two thousand. Do you think this is good? I will buy you a few more old bricks of better quality. It’s valuable, and I don’t take any money, so I’ll send it to Director Guo when I’m back."

Section Chief Zhang frowned and said: "I just go shopping and buy something. What do you mean, do you want to corrupt party and government officials? I want to buy these two bricks. If someone else wants it, then bid on the spot. Hey." While speaking, he looked at Zhang Wangxiong with provocative eyes, as if he meant to say-if there is a kind, you would call 20,000.

Zhang Wangxiong's face is also not very good-looking, so he lowered his voice and said, "Section Chief Li, as a national political and legal cadre, he went to the market to buy things, so hesitated, so he wouldn't pay attention to the influence?"

Section Chief Li was angry when he heard it, and he stepped forward and stared at Zhang Wangxiong’s eyes, and almost touched the tip of his nose: "Who are you, what do you mean? I didn’t buy or sell. You pay twenty and I pay two thousand. Does the boss have to sell it to you and not to me? Then you are bullying and dominating the market! Less yin and yang here, what I hate the most is your kind of stuff!"

From the perspective of an onlooker, Li Pin is not at all ill. Buying things is usually bargaining downwards, but if several people are interested in one thing at the same time, it is raising the price. The business between Boss Wang and Zhang Wangxiong has not yet been completed, and there is no problem with Li Pin offering a higher price.

If you have to say there is a problem, it is that the price of Li Kechang is too high. Two thousand yuan for two bricks, although ridiculously expensive, is not a sum of money that ordinary civil servants cannot afford. And Zhang Wangxiong's words were vaguely threatening, and it could reflect his usual habits.

The atmosphere suddenly smelled of ignition, but don't forget that there is a policeman standing next to him, and the law enforcement recorder is also on. Zhang Wangxiong suddenly took a step back and laughed, and waved his hand: "Forget it, I won't buy it. Since this leader has paid a high price, boss, you can sell it to him. You can't breathe the two bricks."

After speaking, Zhang Wangxiong turned and left, because he saw two people outside the door, Zhu Shanxian and Ding Qi, and immediately realized that many things had been exposed. In the eyes of Lao Jianghu, the problem between him and that boss Wang is simply not to confess. Zhu Shanxian also turned around and walked with him, and Ding Qi stepped into the shop.

Seeing Zhang Wangxiong is gone, Li Kechangju also waved his hand: "Forget it, it's really not worth it for the two bricks. Since the gentleman doesn't buy it, then I won't buy it either."

The boss was surprised: "You don't want to buy it?"

Leader Li: "It’s not that I don’t buy it, but you don’t sell it. I don’t sell it if I sell it for twenty thousand, and you don’t sell it for two thousand just now. Now I don’t want to buy it, even if it’s free. !...Xiao Guo, let's go, how do we meet this kind of boss?"

Detective Guo Yi was confused. He glanced at Boss Wang dissatisfiedly and said, "What tricks are you doing, do you want to do business well?" After speaking, he went with Chief Li. Passed by Ding Qi, who had just entered the door.

The boss sighed and shook his head, put the ancient bronze sword back on the two-brick bracket, turned around and smiled professionally again: "Mr., you want to make fun of it. What, or just take a look first?"

Ding Qi pointed to the bricks on the shelf and asked: "Boss, what happened just now? I seem to hear two customers quarreling to buy bricks, and they didn't buy it until the end?"

The boss sighed exaggeratedly: "Oh, it's just to get angry! People nowadays are so angry, why bother?"

Ding Qi has been observing the reaction of the boss. Under normal circumstances, if any shop owner encounters the one just now, it is estimated that he will be destroyed by the game, but the reaction of the owner is obviously not normal. Before Zhang Wangxiong showed his attitude, no matter what the price of the sudden disruptor Li Kechang paid, the boss obviously did not dare to sell the two bricks to others without authorization.

In fact, from the perspective of Boss Wang, there is no offense to Zhang Wangxiong. If Zhang Wangxiong is just an ordinary customer, and he hasn't bought anything yet, Li Pin wants to buy it too. It's normal to pay a high price.

To open the door to do business here, in fact, it is the "Director Guo" who cannot be offended. Li Pin was accompanied by Guo Yi. He paid such a high price. The boss still didn't want to sell him. Obviously there was a problem. It is said that Li Pin stirred up such a meal and finally stopped buying. The boss should be very angry, but when Li Pin left, Boss Wang was obviously relieved.

When you encounter this kind of thing in an antique store, for example, an unreasonably high price is reported for something that is obviously worthless. Usually the boss will have another reaction, whether this thing has been misguided by yourself, in fact It's a treasure, so I don't want to sell it anymore. But Boss Wang’s focus was not on those two bricks from beginning to end.

Ding Qi can see these details, he picked up the bronze sword and asked: "Boss, how do you sell this sword?"

Boss: "I just received five thousand yuan recently!"

Ding Qi: "Can it be cheaper, how about five hundred yuan?"

Boss: "You are not sincerely wanting to buy it at this price. I can only give you three thousand at least. I think you are a savvy sword. This sword is a good thing, but its appearance is a little bit cruel..."

Ding Qi: "Where did this sword come from?"

Boss: "We don't know the origin of the antique shop."

Ding Qi took the sword and closed his eyes slightly, feeling the breath contained in the sword. He was not only observing people but also observing things, and found that among the large and small objects in this room, there are probably only three objects that are truly antiques. At the same time, they are artifacts with a certain "spirituality". They are this bronze sword. The sword and the two bricks used as a sword stand.

Ding Qi is not an incomplete stone, let alone an expert in archaeological identification. What he feels is only the aura of the thing itself, and he can't tell whether it is healing or minimizing, or observing the body and looking into the air. It may be both, in short, it is the perception ability of today's realm. This thing seems to talk, telling it in a way that can only be understood.

The shop owner once introduced to Zhang Wangxiong that this was a sword of Chu during the Warring States Period. Ding Qi didn't understand this convenient professional knowledge, and of course he couldn't distinguish it. He could only tell that it was indeed an ancient relic, and it had been buried for a long time, only to be unearthed about a year ago.

How could the ancient sword of the Warring States Period appear on the shelf of an antique shop, and it only sells for five thousand yuan? This is also normal. In the past two decades, urban construction and development have been vigorously carried out in various regions, and the scale of urban agglomerations has rapidly expanded, and high-rise buildings have emerged one after another. Buildings are being built higher and higher, and the foundations have become deeper and deeper. Antiquities buried underground are often dug out.

If important historical relics are present, the cultural relics department will try to take protective rescue measures after learning it, and then organize archaeological research. But all kinds of scattered artifacts were dug out, often unknown, and often secretly flowed into the Wenwan market, and many things were robbed from tombs.

Many people may not be too clear about the difference between archeology and tomb robbery, and some people even deliberately confuse the rhythm of the audiovisual tape, so that many people have misunderstood. In fact, there is an essential difference between the two, which is completely different. Going on.

The purpose of archaeologists is not to find valuable treasures on the market. Their first task is to protect and rescue cultural relics. The so-called value of cultural relics and market prices are also two different things. It lies in the information carried and conveyed by historical sites and antiquities, which can tell people a certain era, a certain civilization's lifestyle, social structure, development level, and ideological and cultural core.

This is the ultimate goal of archaeological research, and it is also the so-called "text" of cultural relics. Some people may think that the older things are worth, this is actually the most common misunderstanding. The value of cultural relics does not come from pure time. The so-called time period is a historical parameter.

The value of cultural relics is the information they convey and carry, including the overall microcosm of systemic civilization and culture. The more representative the artifacts, the more precious. If the integrity of the information it conveys is destroyed, and only one thing is used as an antique in isolation, the value of its cultural relics will be greatly reduced.

So the value of artifacts is not given by the digger, but given by the overall civilization and cultural heritage in history. In the case of Chinese cultural relics, they are valued by the wisdom of their ancestors in the past dynasties, creation, and inheritance.

After the cultural relics are excavated or discovered, the archaeologists do not take the things as their own, but are only responsible for the protection and inheritance. First, they must carry out meticulous restoration and protection, and then conduct research and research.

This process is extremely long and difficult. For precious cultural relics, just restoration work often takes years or even decades, and the cost of investment is huge, even far more than if this artifact is put into antiques. Not to mention the price in the market, the effort and energy spent.

For example, Zhou Xiaoxuan, Shibuquan's mentor, has restored countless cultural relics in his lifetime, most of which came from rescue and protection excavations. These things are not his own, but are "reborn" in his hands.

And tomb robbery is another matter. It is completely destructive, not to mention the responsibility of protection and inheritance. What will be stolen depends only on the market price of antiques at the time and whether it is easy to sell. Those that are difficult to repair and preserve, and those that are not easy to realize, are largely destroyed and destroyed.

For example, in many stolen monuments, a large number of pottery was destroyed, because this kind of thing can not be sold outside, and it will be destroyed if it is touched during the stolen excavation process. Many people probably don't know that when they were just opened and buried, many pottery was actually soft, and the impressions could be made by pinching them with their hands.

In ancient times, tomb robbers were mainly looking for red goods, that is, gold and silver treasures. For example, a tomb thief once dug into a jade garment with gold strands, and only pulled out the gold thread from the jade garment, while the jade pieces were destroyed at will. Because gold wire is valuable and easy to carry, scattered jade pieces are not valuable, and it is harder to tell their origins.

There are many gold and silver utensils, in order to prevent revealing their origin, they even melted directly into gold ingots and silver ingots. A large number of textiles, bamboo and wood slips, and book volumes in the relics are often destroyed or weathered because they are difficult to preserve, repair and sell.

In recent years, there has been a craze for collecting. Many artifacts have been auctioned at sky-high prices. Some people think that all antiques are valuable. This is actually an illusion. The market prices of popular collectibles are mostly the result of deliberate speculation, and there are often people behind the scenes.

This hype must meet several elements. First of all, it must be large enough in the world, and secondly, most people's aesthetic level can basically appreciate, on this basis, a public appreciation system and a large-scale circulation market can be formed. If there is no corresponding appreciation system, then establish one or even fabricate one.

When there is capital hoarding a large number of these kinds of utensils, the market craze for the purpose of capital speculation will appear. The artifacts that originally had a complete aesthetic value and appreciation system, the most typical representative is Ming and Qing porcelains. It was the first to be hyped, and it was also the hottest in the market.

Some things may not be cultural relics, and even no one paid attention to them before, but they suddenly appeared from nowhere. In fact, they all fit this routine. For example, the dzi beads, all kinds of bodhi seeds, and cliff cypresses in the past few years are more typical cases. Some people have also woven the so-called appreciation system while speculating.

In the final analysis, it is actually the threshold of the "ball game" of the Jianghu Cemen, but it has changed its pattern under the background of the new era.

The ancient sword in Ding Qi's hands obviously does not meet the above-mentioned hype conditions. This kind of things is limited in the world, most of which are of unknown origin. It is difficult to publicly auction, and it is difficult to appreciate and appraise. It is often only possible to privately transfer and trade, and a large-scale circulation market cannot be formed, so there is no clear reference price.

Don't talk about the value of cultural relics, only the market price of Wenwan. No one knows how much it is worth. The buyer and the seller can only negotiate. Moreover, there are huge differences between different artifacts, such as the Yuewang Goujian sword, which has no price at all, and it is a national treasure that cannot be circulated in the market. And an ancient bronze sword of unknown origin, incomplete quality, ordinary craftsmanship, and indistinguishable, may be able to sell for hundreds of dollars.

This sword was dug out by a worker who buried a water pipe a year ago, and then it was quietly sold at the antique market. Boss Wang received it for 500 yuan at that time. No one can tell whether this price is appropriate or not. If you dig out something that doesn't belong to you, it seems that you can make a profit by selling it for 500 yuan.

It was taken away by Zhang Wangxiong for a while, and then it was taken back. Maybe he didn't use it or it didn't work. But today, when it arrived in Ding Qi's hands, there was another feeling. Ding Qi seemed to be able to feel the "emotion" of this sword, and even a trace of sadness.

A sword may not be sad, but perceiving the breath left by its experience, people will produce certain emotions, which are not only the feelings conveyed by the artifacts, but also people's own feelings.

In Ding Qi's primordial perception, this sword seemed to be crying. When it was unearthed a year ago, its appearance was still intact, and its blade was still sharp, but it was not professionally repaired and poorly preserved. It was once left in a humid and sultry place, and it quickly became like this. It was touched by many hands at will, and some people tried to talk to it...

Standing in an antique shop to discuss business with the boss, Ding Qi can't get into the situation and feel it, only a rough perception. He felt that it was not impossible to learn from the method of Cemen to help cultivate spiritual consciousness.