The Last Apostle Chapter 1: Authentication
This is a very spacious terrace,
The terrace is located on the third floor, and the weather is very good, so sitting here, you can see the radiance on the opposite lake, which looks as dazzling as smelted gold, and the mountains in the distance are also lying in the fresh In the air, it looks charming.
Even in this luxurious clubhouse, the terrace where Du Yuqi is located is considered a golden location.
Du Yuqi leaned comfortably on the recliner, closed his eyes and took a nap. There was a book, "Pride and Prejudice" next to his left hand, and a cup of coffee was placed on the table next to his right hand. Little cookies exuding warmth.
It's been too long this time, and it's been three days since Du Yuqi came back. Du Yuqi still hasn't slowed down. He feels like a piece of porcelain. There are cracks all over the top and bottom, and it needs a good maintenance.
So these days he never stands when he can sit, and never sits when he can lie down. However, he didn't stop in his mind, digesting the kendo experience he got from Casillas, and trying to apply these experiences in actual combat!
At this time, a blond white waiter came to Du Yuqi's side with one hand behind his back, bowed slightly and whispered to him:
"Hello, sir."
This white man spoke very standard Mandarin, even better than Du Yuqi. Du Yuqi opened his eyes and said lazily:
"What happened?"
The white waiter said politely:
"I'm Paul, I'm very glad to serve you. Your membership card is a diamond card, so I will give you a special dessert. Would you choose a Shizuoka honeydew melon or a Nottingshire one? Strawberry Arno ice cream?”
"Huh?" Du Yuqi became interested immediately. He has long heard of Shizuoka honeydew melon, a luxury fruit that sells for as much as 1,600 RMB a piece.
Shizuoka Honeydew Melon This kind of melon is called "One Tree One Fruit", which means that only one melon grows on one melon vine. The melon farmers in Shizuoka, in order to grow the first-class honeydew melon, cut off all the other melons on a vine to ensure sufficient and rich nutrition for this single melon.
Shizuoka honeydew melons use the heat of hot springs to heat the greenhouse to maintain the temperature in the plantation shed, so delicious honeydew melons with stable quality and a sweetness of up to 16 degrees can be produced throughout the year.
Because of its high price, there are many counterfeit products, but presumably this kind of place will not be ashamed of selling fake and shoddy products.
Soon, a plate of chilled Shizuoka honeydew melon was served in front of Du Yuqi. The feeling is directly transmitted to the brain, which makes people feel extraordinarily comfortable.
At this time, Du Yuqi felt that someone beside him seemed to be staring at him all the time. He suddenly turned around and found three people sitting at a table a few meters away. The hale and hearty old man, after the two eyes met, the old man nodded and smiled apologetically, and looked away.
Immediately afterwards, the patio door was opened, and under the guidance of the waiter, Young Master Chu hurried over, loosened his tie, and drank the glass of lemonade in front of him in one gulp, before exhaling. In a tone of voice, he said happily:
"Good stuff, really good stuff! Do you still have any goods there? Both Xiongben soup and Luming soup are fine, as many as you want!"
Du Yuqi thought in his heart that the fish had finally taken the bait, so he said simply:
"Now I only have two doses of Xiongben Decoction at most, and only one dose of Luming Decoction."
Eldest Young Master Chu immediately said:
"I want them all, when can I give them to me? The old man took Luming Decoction, and he felt that he had regained his glory. What's more rare is that your medicine has a long-lasting effect and no side effects at all. I must take it back and fulfill my filial piety."
Du Yuqi said:
"You can ask someone to get it from me at night, but once the three doses are made, the raw materials will not be able to keep up."
Eldest Young Master Chu laughed and said:
"Don't worry, why did you ask to meet here this time? It's because I've already made an appointment."
After the two chatted for a few words, they saw a waiter walking over with a woman with short hair. , The two exchanged a few words in English directly, and then the woman made an apologetic gesture, and then walked to the next seat to say hello, the two seemed to be old acquaintances.
Du Yuqi noticed that the old man who had been watching her before had a high status, and the woman introduced by Young Master Chu showed respect from the bottom of her heart when she saluted.
Immediately after the woman came back, Young Master Chu introduced her as Michelle, a high-level executive in Christie's auction house, with a wide social network. Come, Young Master Chu promised to give 15% of the agency fee.
Soon, the two clients that Michelle had invited came. Of course, the two sides can't talk outside, but there are many vacant meeting rooms here, so the two parties can start to have close talks.
However, the negotiation and cooperation this time can be said to be not very smooth, because the two parties actually present a very peculiar relationship. The antique seller feels that he is very sincere, and what he brings is the best among the antiques. However, although what Du Yuqi wants are antiques, they must be things that have left their own brand in history. Some of these things are very valuable, such as He's Bi, but some collection value may not be high, such as Du Yuqi before. The pen I got
Because of this, the seller of antiques felt that the two buyers looked very unreliable-because they looked young at first glance-and they were actually not in the following conversation. Reliable, I didn't know the goods at all when I bought it.
Fortunately, Du Yuqi finally found a cultural relic among the goods brought by the first customer. To be precise, it was a cultural relic with the power of time.
This thing is a bowl, the firing process is very exquisite, but the bottom of the bowl has no money, so it is destined not to sell at a high price.
After Du Yuqi picked up the bowl, he saw a strange scene from inside, that is, an **** in Qing Dynasty costume was holding this bowl to drink medicine for a young man who was bedridden. This young man lived in a very ordinary place. He died soon after, and the young man was wearing bright yellow clothes, and there was a dragon pattern on the pillow.
Du Yuqi thought about it for a while and then recalled that when the Qing Dynasty was about to perish, the Empress Dowager Cixi felt that her life was not long, so she sent Li Lianying to reward Guangxu with a bowl of medicine to poison him to death. The most common arsenic, as a result, Empress Dowager Cixi also died the next day.
Because Guangxu wanted to drive Yuan Shikai and conspired with him to imprison Cixi during the Hundred Days Reform, so Cixi was very harsh on him, which is why he lived in a poor place, without the enjoyment of an emperor.
The bowl I got should be the one that Li Lianying used to hold the arsenic that day. I don't know what happened, but it was passed down.
The first customer secretly laughed at the two young people for their ignorance, so he made a big deal when asking the price. This porcelain bowl is from a folk kiln in the Qing Dynasty, and it has no style. It's only 60,000 yuan, and he directly asked for 200,000 yuan, which is already the top price of folk kiln porcelain in the Qing Dynasty.
Young Master Chu and the invited experts inquired~IndoMTL.com~ and they made a decision very simply, because they felt that they had killed a fortune on this matter, so they were in a good mood, so this customer was in the heart Ridiculous, the surface is still very polite.
However, the second customer who was invited had a bad temper. When he realized that the two young people were picking out the things they brought, they suddenly broke out, and the two sides had a quarrel. It was very unpleasant, the root of the problem was concentrated on the inkstone that Du Yuqi had taken a fancy to.
According to the customer, this inkstone is very famous. Zheng Banqiao personally found a strange stone and invited famous masters to carve it. It is very precious and has been used for twenty years, so the asking price is very high.
However, the clue of the power of time that Du Yuqi read from it, the most shining moment of this pen is when he wrote a line:
When you didn't look at this flower, this flower and your heart died together. When you look at this flower, the color of this flower becomes clear for a moment. I know this flower is not in my heart!
This line of characters is very famous, and it is the foundation of Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind, and Wang Yangming was from the Ming Dynasty, which is nearly two hundred years behind Zheng Banqiao's time. How could it be carved from a stone found by Zheng Banqiao himself?