Don't pretend, anchor, I've seen you touch the golden talisman!

This uncle Wang is quite open-minded.

As soon as I heard they mentioned Liulichang, I immediately knew what they wanted to ask.

It's no wonder that the two brothers were just unknown apprentices in "Wen Gu Zhai".

Who can remember them?

It was simply because he participated in that incident that he was "remembered" decades later by the little Fuzi from Liulichang.

After a few people exchanged pleasantries, Uncle Wang completely opened up the conversation.

"It's been several decades, counting back. At the beginning, Haizi and I were sent to 'Wen Gu Zhai' as apprentices.

At that time, our land in China had just come to a standstill.

The two of us thought we could learn some real skills in the capital, and after a few years as apprentices, we would be able to do some serious business ourselves.

At that time, our "Wen Gu Zhai" was still the best in Liulichang. Although it was well-known, the shopkeeper did have a job on his hands. Your grandfather must have told you about it, right?

As long as it's something from Wenguzhai, you should treat it like an old man. Most people can't see the problem at all. If they want to find fault, they have to be the shopkeepers who have been struggling for some years in the antique business. eyesight. "

Speaking of the past events, Uncle Wang's eyes shone brightly.

It is not difficult to judge from his words that he was quite proud of the "faking" behavior of "Wen Gu Zhai" back then.

No wonder.

In the antique shop, the emphasis is on "catching the thief from the opposite side". If you have any questions, just ask them in person.

I took this thing from you. After looking at it, I thought there was nothing wrong with it. I held hands, calculated the price, settled the deal, paid the price, and left.

From this point on, no matter whether this thing is old or new, damaged or broken, it has nothing to do with the seller.

If you pick up the leak, you will catch it, and you will make a fortune in silence;

You slapped your eyes and gave yourself a slap in the face, so you took it as a lesson.

The whole Liulichang knows that "Wen Gu Zhai" sells a mix of old and new, it just depends on your own taste.

Quite willing to take the bait.

"Later, according to our shopkeeper, the reason why the 'Longmen Stone Wall Case' was unearthed was because someone bought something from him and went back to get a punch. He couldn't save his face, so he found out what happened back then. "

Hearing him take the initiative to bring up the "Longmen treasure theft case", Lin Yi quickly followed up what he said:
"I heard from my husband that what shopkeeper Yue sent to Lao Mei were two distressed things?"

Uncle Wang was silent for a long time without speaking, and finally let out a sigh of relief.

"Well, it depends on how this matter is discussed.

Back then, the warlords were fighting, and the people were in dire straits. There were wars all over the country. Yu Province was the territory of 'Yu Shuai', and his base camp was in Luojing. So what could be done?

Aren’t the Longmen Grottoes riddled with holes?At that time, not only Americans, but also young devils and old men came to join in the fun.

You have also heard the old saying, "Buy antiques in prosperous times, buy gold in troubled times."

At that time, it couldn't be considered prosperous, right?

Many shops in Liulichang were unable to survive and were closed down.

The old American offered a very high price, 4000 yuan now.Even if Wen Guzhai doesn't do this, other bosses will.Even if everyone in Liulichang doesn't work, there will always be someone in Jinmen or Jinling who takes the job.

In the end, our shopkeeper agreed to the job. You should also know what happened next. After arriving in Luojing, he opened up all the joints, from the security chief to the mason, and was beaten by several local bandit leaders. Bang, let’s not even mention this matter. In the end, these two reliefs were indeed broken into pieces and brought back to Shangjing.

However, the two-piece relief sculpture that was finally handed over to the foreign devils and brought back to them was not at all the two pieces brought back from Luojing. "

"Why are you so sure it's not the case? Did Shopkeeper Yue tell you the truth later?"

"What's the use of telling the truth? After he was taken away, he told everything that happened that year. He told everything he could. The superiors even sent people down to verify the situation with us. Only then did we know what was going on here. .

But no one believed him at all at that time.

What really matters is Mr. Zhang Boju Zhang. He saw the photos our reporter sent back from there and said in one sentence that he had seen the original sculpture on site and it was hanging in a museum over there in the United States. , not like the original.

Because of this sentence, our shop owner originally gave me the death penalty, but finally changed it to a two-year suspended sentence. "

"Zhang Boju? Mr. Zhang Boju, one of the "Four Young Masters of the Republic of China"?"

"Yeah, other people don't have that level of talk!"

Zhang Boju was a famous collector during the Republic of China. He later donated many antiques from his personal collection to the country free of charge, many of which were national treasures.

Including the volume of "Pingfu Tie" by Lu Ji in the Western Jin Dynasty, "Spring Outing" by Zhan Ziqian in the Sui Dynasty, "Poems for Zhang Haohao" by Du Mu, "Praise for Taoism" by Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty, Cai Xiang's self-written poems, Huang Tingjian's "Tie of Masters", and Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty "Thousand Character Essay" etc.

His words back then could indeed turn Boss Yue's case around.

"What have you been doing for the past two years? I just want you to spell out the original relief. If you can recover, the matter will be slow. If you can't spell it out, then it's useless for anyone to say anything.

This project was really too big. The masons at that time were not particular about their work at all, and they were very ruthless. The stones they knocked off ranged from big to small, some as big as a head, and as small as a walnut.

It is said that when they were packed into boxes, the two murals of the Emperor and the Empress were mixed together. When they were transported out of Longmen, one of the boxes was turned over, and not all of the things that were picked up were complete.

There was such a long gap in between, even if we asked our shopkeeper Dai Zui to make meritorious service, he wouldn't be able to figure out the whole thing at that time.

Later, Haizi and I had been back for a while, and we received a letter from the master’s wife, saying that the shopkeeper was gone and died of illness in prison. "

After talking about this past event that had been buried for decades, Uncle Wang's eyes were still full of tears.

Bai Lu took a tissue and handed it over. The old man waved his hand and didn't take it. He got up and went back to the study and took out a photo frame.

This photo frame looked quite old at first glance. There was a black and white photo inside, which already had some yellowing marks on it.

The photo was taken at a photo studio in Liulichang. Below is the photo studio’s signature and the time of taking the photo.

A serious-looking old man wearing a long gown sat in the middle, and two young boys with timid expressions stood behind him.

"The one in the middle is our old shopkeeper. This is my senior brother, Yu Zhaohai. The one next to him is me."

Bai Lu stood up, took the photo with both hands, looked at it, handed it to Lin Yi, and asked casually:
"Then do you still have contact with your senior brother?"

Uncle Wang was startled for a moment, then slowly shook his head.

"He is in Luanzhou and you are in Cangzhou. They are not too far apart. Don't brothers and sisters move around more?"

Uncle Wang still didn't answer, but shouted loudly outside:
"Is the table ready? It's time to serve it!" (End of Chapter)