Nine-tiered fairy lotus

Chapter 63

After eating and drinking enough, the two of them felt much warmer and went back to the hotel in the snow.After hesitating for a while, Hu Tu knocked on the doors of the two girls' rooms, and showed Xu Qiuyu the suspected antiques he bought, but he didn't say where he got them from.He was worried that if he told the source, she would, like Chen Guotao, treat it as a cheap handicraft without even looking at it, or it would affect their judgment.

They had already changed into their pajamas, apparently ready to rest.But it doesn't take much time to identify something, Xu Qiuyu didn't refuse.She took it and took a serious look, and suddenly put it on the table with an incredulous expression on her face, and said, "Where did you get this white jade scripture?"

"I bought it." Hu Tu said with a smile, "I bought it on the road just now." He saw Xu Qiuyu's expression, and basically confirmed his guess in his heart that this thing must not be ordinary, and the rest is the question of how much it is worth. .

"You bought it?" Xu Qiuyu said in surprise, "Where did you get so much money to buy this stuff?"

When she said that, Chen Guotao didn't understand. He looked down a few times and asked first, "Why, is this thing very valuable?"

Xu Qiuyu said bluntly: "Things carved from mutton fat jade are many times more expensive than gold, so of course they are valuable. And the carving is also very good. You can see that the font is as small as a sesame seed, and the strokes are as thin as gossamer. It is graceful and elegant, which shows the skillful carving level of the sculptor. It's just that the last part of this thing is engraved with the imperial system of Qianlong, so I'm not sure if it's real. It’s not an antique, but at the price of mutton jade in recent years, such a piece of jade is worth 30 to 4 yuan, plus the carving, there is no 5 yuan that can’t be bought.”

Hearing this, Hu Tu was already grinning from ear to ear.Although he had been mentally prepared and guessed that this thing might be worth a lot, he was still very excited when this result was really in front of him.

Chen Guotao was already so surprised that he could not close his mouth from ear to ear, and his eyeballs almost fell off. He said, "Qiu Yu, what are you talking about? This thing is worth 5 yuan, is it real or not?" He still can't believe it now, thinking Xu Qiu Yu was joking with him, after all, the origin of this thing is too unreal.

"More than [-] yuan, just a little more." Xu Qiuyu confirmed again, proving that she was not joking, and then she "slapped" Chen Guotao on the head, "Why, are you questioning my level of appreciation?"

"Don't dare, dare not." Chen Guotao repeatedly begged for mercy, and then he looked at Hu Tu with an incredulous expression on his face, "Hu Tu, you heard me, this thing is worth at least 5 yuan, you are rich."

"Get rich?" Xu Qiuyu thought about these words repeatedly, and deduced a conclusion from it. She asked with a smile, "So, you didn't spend much money to buy this thing. Tell me, how much did you spend?" ?”

Hu Tu stretched out three fingers and said, "I got a big deal today. I spent this amount. Guess, can you guess right?"

"3 yuan?" Xu Qiuyu didn't think about it.The price she guessed was quite reasonable. After all, the value of this mutton jade was already over [-], so her guess was very reasonable.

"I guess 3000 yuan." Wang Pinqiu said suddenly.Then she looked at Xu Qiuyu who was puzzled, and explained, "Hehe, if it is 3 yuan, it means that the person who sells this thing knows that it is suet jade. If they know, it is impossible to sell it so cheap. So I Guess that person may have sold it as a fake and sold it cheaply. But if it’s 300 yuan, even a fake modern handicraft is more than that price, so I guess 3000 yuan.”

Chen Guotao shook his head, and said the answer first: "You all guessed wrong, he really bought this thing for 300 yuan. Damn it, it's like picking it up for nothing! Let me do the math, three hundred to five Wan, it has increased by almost two hundred times. If it is an antique, it has increased by a thousand times. Hu Tu, you have made a lot of money today, you have made a lot of money."

The two girls found it incredible that they bought a piece of suet jade for 300 yuan, and it might be an antique, which is really weird.

Wang Pinqiu said with a smile: "I bought a piece of mutton fat jade for 300 yuan. The seller is not a fool!"

Hu Tute happily revealed the final answer: "It must not be a fool, because the fake monk is a liar."

Wang Pinqiu was very interested in the story behind this, and said: "Oh, there must be a story in it, so tell me quickly."

Storytelling is a skill, and Hu Tu, who didn't even pass the college entrance examination, can't do it, and Chen Guotao is a little bit reluctant, so they made up their minds and acted it out.Hu Tu played the role of a fake monk, and Chen Guotao played Hu Tu, making this matter smooth.

During this process, Hu Tu, who has a strong memory, repeated exactly what the fake monk said, allowing the two girls to intuitively understand what happened at that time, while Chen Guotao's words were a bit vague, just covering up for Hu Tu.

After the performance, the two girls were dumbfounded, and their expressions were the same as when Chen Guotao just heard that this thing was very valuable.It's not their fault, anyone who encounters such a bizarre thing must have an even more exaggerated expression than theirs.

Xu Qiuyu said: "You two are saying that this mutton fat jade carving is a liar who bought and sold it by force, and insisted on selling it to Hu Tu. He is not willing to buy it. You gave him 300 yuan, He thought he had made a fortune, and fled away in a hurry."

Hu Tu nodded, and said, "Yes, that's how it is." He knew that this was not the case, and the fact that he bought this piece of mutton fat jade was actually the result of his own initiative.But it was impossible for him to explain anything, their misunderstanding was the best cover for him.

"Stupid people have stupid blessings." Xu Qiuyu was really jealous of Hu Tu's good luck, "A few days ago when you climbed a mountain, you dug up wild Ganoderma lucidum, and after walking a few steps tonight, a fool gave you the treasure. Have you been possessed by the God of Wealth in the past two days? Why do you share in all the good things. Others spend money to travel, but you are good. You earn a lot without spending a penny. It's really evil."

Hu Tu spread his hands and said nonsense, "Maybe it's because I'm more handsome!"

Several people collectively vomited, speechless at Hu Tu's narcissism.Wang Pinqiu stopped first and said: "As the saying goes, Hu Tu is the ugliest when traveling with four people in Wutai Mountain. I think it may be that God made you so ugly that even the gods in the sky couldn't stand it, so I gave you some material compensation."

Several people laughed for a while, and Hu Tu suddenly asked: "I just thought, did that monk pretend to be a liar, and just like what he said, delivered this Buddhist vessel to me?"

"I don't think so." Chen Guotao subconsciously denied it. Compared with the so-called fate, he believed it was a coincidence. "I think this is retribution. That old clapper lied to people in the name of Buddha, and Buddha made him lose more as retribution."

"It's not an extra vote." Xu Qiuyu also agreed that he was a liar.

"It's obvious, that's a liar." Wang Pinqiu said with certainty, "Consecration, his explanation of consecration is completely wrong. If it is true, it is impossible to be so ignorant." Then she explained the concept of consecration and She talked a lot about the correct meaning, which can be summed up as follows:

"The meaning of the word consecration is very good. It is to let the images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and these buildings develop our own light. It is absolutely not to say that finding a monk to consecrate the statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will be effective. A monk is still an ordinary person. If an ordinary person replaces the Buddha When a bodhisattva image is consecrated, the Buddha and Bodhisattva will also become ordinary people. If it is really consecrated, it will be spiritual, and if it is not consecrated, it will not be spiritual. Why do you worship the Buddha and Bodhisattva? It is better to worship this mage. The mage is more spiritual than the Buddha and Bodhisattva. wrong idea.

Therefore, the consecration ceremony is the inauguration ceremony. It is to tell the public what it means to shape Buddha statues and build buildings, and what kind of mentality we should use to worship them. We must explain these directors clearly.These facilities are the means of Buddha's education, not the end.The magnificence of Buddha's education is to combine teaching and art.This is something that many people have thought of but have not been able to achieve. Buddhism has been thoroughly implemented thousands of years ago. This is the most perfect teaching. "

Hu Tu nodded again and again, but there was still some difficulty in understanding, so he said, "Can you make it simpler?"

Wang Pinqiu thought for a while and said: "For example, if you are an administrator, if someone explains to you the meaning of the scriptures engraved on it, it will consecrate this Buddhist vessel; another example is the Avalokitesvara statue, if you know the great mercy and great compassion Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva’s words, worshiping Buddha can think of compassion, and it can be regarded as enlightenment. You can understand it as a teacher’s teaching to students, not a mysterious religious ritual.”

(End of this chapter)