Origin Chapter 46: Mysterious Taoist

Wu Zhongyuan is very sensitive to jade now, and even more sensitive to white jade. Before Mr. Li could finish speaking, he eagerly asked, "What kind of white jade?"

"A special kind of jade, delicate and white, with no structure," Mr. Li flexed his thumb and index finger, "about 80 grams, and the shape is not very regular."

"Is it pure white or gray?" Wu Zhongyuan asked in confusion. The jade described by Mr. Li was exactly the kind he had seen before, but the color was different. The piece that was chased for him, and the piece that Wu Qianshan was buried with were all gray and white.

"Pure white, rare white, I have never seen similar jade before, it should be a special kind of jade," said Mr. Li.

Although Wu Zhongyuan was puzzled, he did not ask questions immediately, but raised his hand to signal Mr. Li to drive.

Mr. Li is very nervous and sweating all the time. In order to let him concentrate on driving, Wu Zhongyuan did not rush to ask the details of the incident.

Mr. Li will naturally not hide anything from Wu Zhongyuan, and will tell the truth.

In fact, Mr. Li had already started a business before moving the graves for his parents, but at that time he was doing other businesses, which belonged to the kind of people with small money but not big money. With a little spare money, Mr. Li began to collect antiques. In fact, he followed the trend. Because of the popularity of antiques in the past few years, collecting antiques is a shortcut to making a fortune.

Mr. Li didn't have a lot of money at that time, so he couldn't go to any auctions, and he took a relatively low-end way of collecting antiques. Streets and alleys collect old things, as long as they receive decent ones, they will call him and ask him if he is interested.

That's how the iron tool came from. It was originally found by a farmer in the wild. The farmer didn't know this thing, but he knew it had a history, and he didn't sell it as scrap iron. He asked the hawker for 5,000 yuan .

In the eyes of the hawker, the real metal antiques should be bronze, not iron, so they suspect that this thing is fake, but the villager insists that this thing must be old, absolutely not bad, Also let him invite experts to see.

So the hawker came to Mr. Li, but Mr. Li is also a half-ass, and he is not sure if this thing is true. If he is sure that Mr. Li can afford the price, the farmer will ask him if he can prove This is an old thing, Mr. Li will definitely buy it.

Mr. Li gave him a positive answer, so the farmer took him to the place where the iron tool was found. It was at the foot of a high mountain. At the foot of the mountain was a large square stone. The stone had been chipped and the inside of the stone was empty. The farmer pointed to the stone and told Mr. Li that the iron tool was originally wrapped in the stone.

Mr. Li was worried that he was lying, so he asked him why he smashed the stone for no reason. The farmer's answer was that in recent years, he has been engaged in construction, and even the stone can be sold for money. He came to the foot of the mountain with a tractor to pick up stones and sold them to others to build a house for foundation. He couldn't move the stones that were too big, so he used a few chisels to nail them together to break the stones.

Listening to what he said, Mr. Li also felt reasonable. He observed the stone from a close distance. The stone was square, with a length, width and height of about 1.5 meters. There were many fuzzy lines around the stone. children and patterns.

There is a square hole dug artificially on one side. There are green rust stains and rust around the hollow area where the ironware is located. Mr. Li determined that this stone was artificially carved in ancient times for storage. In addition to the iron, there should have been a bronze box for this piece of iron, but the copper box has been rusted for a long time.

Although he didn't know what this thing was and what it was used for, Mr. Li knew that this thing was old, so he gave the farmer 5,000 yuan and bought the iron tool back.

After he bought the ironware, Mr. Li began to study it. This thing is round and has very old decorations on the outside. Mr. Li is not a professional collector. Others asked for advice, and a professional told him that they had never seen this thing in Mr. Li's hand, but they had seen similar things. Later generations called it Yin-Yang Ball. It was very common in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and consisted of two parts. , it can be unscrewed. In ancient times, most wealthy people were superstitious about medicine pills, and this thing was used to store medicine pills.

At the reminder of others, Mr. Li tried to remove the rust and opened the yin and yang ball, which was the jade.

Mr. Li's mood at that time was very similar to that of the peasant. This piece of jade is hidden so secretly, it must be a good thing, but he couldn't understand what this piece of jade was. He consulted many jade experts. No one knew it, and in the end, I had to let it go and put it aside.

More than a year later, someone came to the door. It was a middle-aged Taoist priest with a foreign accent. After he came, he directly offered to exchange the iron ball that Mr. Li bought back then.

What this person brought was not cash, but gold, which weighed more than ten kilograms. Mr. Li felt puzzled and asked the use of the iron ball. The middle-aged Taoist did not tell him clearly, but repeatedly emphasized that the thing was right Mr. Li was useless, but very useful to him.

This Taoist carried a sword with him, and his tone was very cold when he spoke. Mr. Li did not dare to offend this person, and he did not dare to take the gold because he was worried that the origin of the gold was unknown.

The middle-aged Taoist seemed to have guessed Mr. Li's concerns, so he offered to not only give him the gold, but also give him some advice on the feng shui of the house.

After hesitating, Mr. Li gave the iron ball to the middle-aged Taoist priest.

The middle-aged Taoist took the iron ball and left, and came back half a year later.

Since the Taoist priest left, Mr. Li has been on the fence, because he knows that sooner or later the other party will find out that there is nothing in the iron ball, and will likely retaliate against him at that time. Seeing that the other party came back, without waiting for the other party to ask for it, he took the initiative to hand over the jade stone, only to say that it was not deliberately detained before, but his family took it out to play and forgot to put it back.

The Taoist priest took the jade, but he did not embarrass him. As a thank you, he pointed out the position just now, and told him that as long as his ancestors were buried there, he could become rich and noble.

After Mr. Li finished speaking, Wu Zhongyuan fell into contemplation. He studied archaeology and was more professional than Mr. Li. Iron ware was very rare before ancient times, and most of them were bronze ware at that time. Very limited, the melting point of bronze is eight hundred degrees, and the melting point of iron is one thousand and five hundred, which is more difficult to smelt than bronze.

Since the piece of jade was stored in an iron box, it shows that the people who stored the jade in those days valued the jade very much.

In addition, there is probably another reason, that is, according to the records left by the master, all metals can be penetrated by breath, except for iron, the other party uses iron **** to preserve jade , it is very likely to protect the jade from the influence of the outside world, or it may be to seal the jade's own breath from leaking.

Thinking of this, I suddenly realized that the reason why the jade preserved in the iron box is pure white is because the jade has not been used. The reason why the ones he saw were gray-white was because the special breath and energy contained in the jade had been partially consumed.

"Xiao Wu, besides raising the water level of the pool, do you need to do anything else?" Mr. Li asked nervously.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, "I haven't thought about it yet."

"Will there be any side effects?" Mr. Li asked again.

"There must be side effects," Wu Zhongyuan said honestly, "You shouldn't have left that piece of jade on your own, and he's not rewarding you, but punishing you by pointing you to the location of the house."

Mr. Li didn't know why, and looked at Wu Zhongyuan in surprise and doubt.

Wu Zhongyuan pointed to the road ahead, motioned him to pay attention to the road ahead, and then said, "In current terms, that piece of jade is likely to be radioactive, and when it leaves the iron ball, the energy contained in it will be released slowly. The jade stone was returned to him, but it reduced the energy contained in the jade stone, and it is reasonable for him to retaliate against you in disguised form."

Mr. Li gasped, "What should I do then?"

"I'll think about it first." Wu Zhongyuan said casually.

Mr. Li thought that Wu Zhongyuan was thinking about his business, but in fact Wu Zhongyuan was thinking about his own business.

The jade that this Taoist priest was looking for was very similar to the jade he owned and saw. It probably came from somewhere in the same period. Judging from the currently known clues, this jade is likely to have entered a wormhole. Since the Taoist was looking for this jade, he naturally knew what the jade was used for.

Who is this person?

Where is this person from?

What is the purpose of this person here?

Why does this person know what jade is used for?

What is this person looking for jade for?

Why was that jade stone hidden in the stone in ancient times?

How does this person know the exact location of the jade?

Is this person an enemy or a friend?

There are many doubts, it is difficult to sort out the clues for a while, and there are not enough clues, and it is difficult to figure out anything.

"What's that person's accent?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"An out-of-town accent." Mr. Li hurriedly replied.

"Which other place?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned.

Mr. Li thought about it for a long time, "I don't know where the accent is, in short, it's not a local."

"Is he coughing?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again.

Mr. Li heard it, but didn't understand, "What?"

"I ask you, does the Taoist have a cough?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

Mr. Li recalled and shook his head, "It seems not."

"Is the gold he gave you marked? Which dynasty does it belong to?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again.

Mr. Li shook his head again, "There is no mark, but the purity is not high, it should be something from ancient times."

"What style? Gold of different ages has different styles." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head helplessly. This guy doesn't even have basic knowledge of history, so he doesn't even pay for collecting.

"There are gold bars, ingots, and horseshoe gold." Mr. Li said.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded. Horseshoe gold was more common in the Han Dynasty. Ingots began to appear in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and gold bars appeared later. This shows that the gold carried by this person belonged to different ages.

"I'm afraid that Taoist priest can't be found." Mr. Li always thought that Wu Zhongyuan's pursuit of the Taoist priest was because he wanted to find the bell ringer.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer his words, "Did you take a picture of the line pattern on that rock back then?"

"I took it, I took it with a camera, and I still keep the photo," said Mr. Li.

"Hurry up, go back and find out..."