Play treasure master

Chapter 244
"Peking opera master Mei Lanfang?" Yu Yao couldn't help being startled.

"That's right. I'm not talking nonsense. My teacher, Mr. Lang, once had a relationship with him. That's what he told me." Cai Pengxi replied.

"Oh. Old man, the commander's public identity before, it seems that he often walks around on the scene?"

"I forgot. What you know from other characters is limited after all. The family teacher actually has another name: Lang Qianyu. Outsiders generally only know this."

A modest gentleman, gentle as jade.

Yu Yao didn't have time to think about this, and cried out, "Lang Xiankun and Lang Qianyu are the same person?"

"That's right." Cai Pengxi explained, "Mr. Lang's name is Qianyu, and his style name is Xiankun. After returning from studying in the UK, he no longer uses Xiankun's name except in the Ghost Eye Gate."

Lang Qianyu was a very special collector during the period of the Republic of China.He was originally a person who had stayed abroad. After returning to China, he worked for the Beiyang government for a short time. Later, he was dissatisfied with the behavior of the Beiyang government and abandoned politics to go into business. During his business, he accumulated a lot of capital.

Although he is a businessman, most of the people who have close contacts with him are people in the cultural and collecting circles.And spent a lot of money to buy cultural relics.

In the 50s, Lang Qianyu worked in a public-private joint venture company in Shanghai for two years. During this period, he also discovered and rescued a batch of jade slips from the Warring States Period, which were later collected in museums.

At that time, Yu Yao saw some information about this person and felt a little strange.

That's it!

Cai Pengxi looked at Yu Yao, "There is one more thing that my teacher didn't know before he died. I only found out a few years ago."

"His daughter?" Yu Yao remembered that Cai Pengxi once told him that Lang Xiankun's daughter went to Taiwan Island with an officer in 1949, and there has been no news since then.

"Yes." Cai Pengxi said, "She went to Taiwan with her husband, but his husband died shortly after on duty. Later, she remarried to Tan Rusu's son. In fact, although Langgong and Tan Rusu have different paths, they are old acquaintances. , Tan Rusu's son has always liked Langgong's daughter, but at that time she already had her own heart. Until she went to Taiwan Island, such a marriage happened again!"

Yu Yao heard it, "Old man, you checked this matter, but you also found Tan Rusu's descendants? Is there anyone named Tan Xinning?"

Cai Pengxi raised his eyebrows, "That's right, this is Tan Rusu's great-granddaughter, are you also investigating?"

"Really! It turns out that the Tan family is still making high imitations of antiques, and it seems to be on a larger scale!" Yu Yao responded, "I didn't check, but I accidentally ran into Tan Xinning. He and some rich uncle went to Jiangzhou to participate in Tianhe The autumn auction is for a set of dzi beads."

"Yes, there is a tradition in Taiwan to make dzi beads, and it is also part of the Tan family's business. However, the biggest business is calligraphy and painting."

Cai Pengxi went on to introduce, "Mr. Lang's daughter and Tan Rusu's son have both passed away. According to what I found out, they have a son and a daughter. The son's name is Tan Yulun, who is currently at the helm of the Tan Group. , over 60 years old, in good health."

Tan Yulun is Tan Xinning's father.

Tan Yulun has one son and two daughters, the eldest son and the eldest daughter were born to Mrs. Yuan Pei, named Tan Xinding and Tan Xinan respectively; the second daughter was born to the later concubine, named Tan Xinning.

Yu Yao nodded, "This Tan Xinning has good eyesight, but he is only in charge of the dzi bead business. His elder brother and sister must be in charge of the major items. Tan Xinding must be the successor, probably he is involved in the most important calligraphy and painting business."

"Naturally." Cai Pengxi thought for a while, "However, I have never heard of the 'qin, chess, calligraphy and painting' you mentioned privately kept by the Tan family."

"The investigation by the Special Cultural Relics Investigation Bureau has no clues. Don't talk about you and me, it is estimated that only Tan Yulun and Tan Xinding know about the members of the Tan family."

Cai Pengxi nodded, "After what you said just now, I was also pondering in my mind that piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are related, and the clues hidden in these four things may be attributed to one thing or one thing superior."

"Very likely!" Yu Yao said, "If so, this unheard-of jade mystery should be among them!"

The two chatted deeply, and the time passed quickly.When the nanny came over to ask for instructions about the meal, she was still a little hesitant, because the two of them had a good conversation from outside the door.

When eating, Cai Pengxi and Yu Yao sat at the table in the main room, while Lao Man and the nanny sat at the side room.

After dinner, he returned to the living room to sit for a while, drank a cup of tea, and then Yu Yao got up to say goodbye.

"Then let's get in touch anytime, I do have the habit of taking a lunch break." Cai Pengxi was not polite.

Just as Yu Yao was about to leave, Lao Man came over, "Master, Xiao Chen from Gard is here again, waiting outside the gate."

Cai Pengxi frowned, "Just say I'm not here!"

"Good old man."

"Wait, tell him that I gave away those two pieces of lion-patterned jade belt tails from the Tang Dynasty yesterday!"

"Understood." Lao Man withdrew.

Since someone was waiting outside the door, Yu Yao went out immediately without any inconvenience, and asked casually, "Master, is Garde doing the big auction, do you want you to send these two tails?"

The jade belt is actually a piece of jade belt plate inlaid on the belt.The inlaid jade belt plate was the belt with the highest specification in the Tang Dynasty, followed by gold, silver, copper, and iron.

The so-called thallium tails are the two largest pieces among a group of jade belt plates on the belt, and they are also the two pieces at both ends of the belt. They are generally rectangular but have a rounded arc at one end.

A complete set of jade belts handed down from the Tang Dynasty is very rare, and most of the jade belts that can be collected are one piece or two pieces.Among them, thallium tail has the highest value.

"Hey!" Cai Pengxi waved his hand and lit a cigarette, "This little Chen from Gardner is Chi Huang's old friend, and he doesn't have much contact with him now. These two pieces of lion-patterned jade belt tail, holding Huang went with me to play for a while and showed him, but luckily he returned it to me later.”

"It sounds like you have already rejected him, why is he still so persistent?"

"What is perseverance? It's called stalking." Cai Pengxi explained, "He didn't know where to find a collector who had a set of lion-patterned jade belt panels from the Tang Dynasty. The total amount was 13 yuan, and he had already agreed to the spring auction next year; One set is just missing two thallium tails. Isn't this trying to mobilize me to add these two thallium tails to form a complete set of jade belt boards?"

"Huh? What a coincidence? These two pieces of yours are the tails missing from that group?"

"No. But the jade quality and color, as well as the craftsmanship of the bas-relief lions, are very similar. Garde is a big auction house, and will not pretend to be the original match for the auction. However, even if it is not the original match, let me explain that it is possible to find such a similar one. If they are put together as a group, the transaction price will inevitably rise sharply.”

"Yeah." Yu Yao nodded, "Old man, since it's your beloved, there really isn't much to talk about with him."

Cai Pengxi waved his hand, "I still can't get enough of the two thallium tails. It's just that I'm annoyed by Xiao Chen. He's not very old, but he's a seasoned veteran. In this regard, Chi Huang was led by him. bad."

(End of this chapter)