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Chapter 85 Ghost Eye Gate, the past is like smoke

Xiao Ying nodded solemnly and sat down slowly.

"Big Palm Eye is the top manager of Ghost Eye Sect."

"Ghost eye door?"

Yu Yao actually felt weird when he heard that there was a "top manager" behind the "Ghost Eye Gate".However, he also faintly smelled something else from this.

Sure enough, Xiao Ying said next: "Actually, the Ghost Eye Gate has long since ceased to exist."

"Then you just now?"

"Even so, our Xiao family has never broken the inheritance of Yinzikou, and we have never been able to know whether Dazhangyan has any inheritance. Now, I am the only male left in the Xiao family, and I finally got my wish!"

Xiao Ying took a sip of the cold coffee, "I said just now that Dazhangyan saluted, mainly for my great-grandfather's last wish. My great-grandfather Xiao Gong taboo Zuoqi, when Xu Taiyan was Dazhangyan, he used the hidden word "Kouzhang" However, when Xu Taiyan passed away suddenly, my great-grandfather didn’t know the reason, and he didn’t see him for the last time, so he always regretted it.”

Just as Yu Yao was about to speak, Xiao Ying raised his hand, "Listen, let me tell you from the beginning. However, it has been passed down to my generation, and there are always shortcomings; what I know, it won't be too comprehensive."

"The Ghost Eye Gate was founded in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, the emperor took the lead, and the style of folk antiques was also very popular. The Ghost Eye Gate was originally a group of a few ghost market masters with good eyesight. Yanmen. Later, it grew gradually and made a fortune in antique trading. In the middle of the Qianlong Dynasty, it had a large scale and an orderly structure.

"At that time, there was one person named Da Zhangyan, and six people with different characters. They cast a total of seven ghost faces to spend money. The one in your hand is the token of Da Zhangyan of the Ghost Eye Sect, and the other six are the tokens of each ghost face. A keepsake with the mouth and eyes. Money is gold, and the five elements are cast on the back, so the unified internal incision is 'five elements wear gold'."

"The big palm eye leads the ghost eye gate, and the ghost face spends money to cast characters with five elements on the back, with a unique incision 'ghost eye piercing the heart'. The five-character mouth of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, each with a corresponding five-element character cast on the back, with a unique incision They are: ghost eyes piercing gold, ghost eyes piercing wood, ghost eyes piercing water, ghost eyes piercing fire, ghost eyes piercing earth."

"These five characters correspond to the attributes of the five elements, and are responsible for different types of antiques. Jinzikou is mainly responsible for gold, silver and bronze wares; Muzikou is for furniture, wood, and ivory and rhinoceros horns and other wood miscellaneous items; Shuizikou is for ink calligraphy and painting. Lord, take into account all kinds of ancient book engravings; Huozikou is mainly ceramics; Tuzikou is mainly jade, stone carvings, seal stones, inkstones and so on.”

After the introduction, Xiao Ying paused for a while, and Yu Yao took the opportunity to go out and told Pu Jie that he needed to chat for a while.Seeing that nothing happened after chatting for so long, Pu Jie couldn't help but nodded and relaxed.Afterwards, Yu Yao asked the waiter to serve two cups of hot coffee again.

Apparently, Xiao Ying knew more about Yinzikou, so he continued:
"Yinzikou, palm-eye keepsake, ghost face, there is no word on the back of the money, but its meaning is the hidden five elements. Huaqian is also a square mouth, which means the sky is round and the place is hollow. You should understand now, the hidden word The mouth is not solely responsible for any kind of antiques, but is good at Taoist techniques, and has a unique incision 'ghost eye piercing the sky'."

"This group of antiques is all-encompassing. In addition to the objects unearthed from the tombs, there are also strange weapons and strange attributes among the handed down objects. Yinzikou deals with these, and acts with Fengshui. At the same time, it often eliminates disasters for the Ghost Eye Sect."

"The five word mouths of the ghost eye gate have a lot of communication and cooperation, and they are familiar with each other. But the hidden word mouth only listens to the big palm eyes. People with other word mouths know that there is a hidden word mouth in the ghost eye door, and they also know the hidden words What is the dry mouth; but I don't know, there is a grimace with different characteristics from the five characters, and there is a "ghost eye piercing the empty" incision.

"This is because the big palm eyes of the past dynasties are often all-rounders, and their eyesight is no less than that of any palm eye in the five elements. I am not afraid of what will happen between them. But the Yinzikou is a bunch of strange people. Strangers can only be controlled by Dazhangyan alone, and cannot be won over by any word."

"By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the power of the Ghost Eye Sect had been greatly weakened. It was mainly the antique business, with huge profits. The longer the time, the more internal struggles. Artifacts fell into turbulent currents, and there was also a climax in counterfeiting, with mud and sand falling together, fish and dragons mixed together."

"Among the chaos, there is one man who can turn the tide, and he is Xu Taiyan, the big palm eye at that time."

"Xu Taiyan's obvious identity is the treasurer of Liulichang Geguzhai. He is a genius in antique appraisal, and he also has a very high reputation in Ming's business, known as 'Xu Yiyan'. The so-called Three words of cultural relics, half of the country, Xu Taiyan is the first among the three."

"According to the word of mouth passed down by the ancestors, Xu Taiyan has an exquisite mind and great ambitions. He changed the way of the Ghost Eye Sect to focus on profits without asking where they go, and tried his best to prevent heavy treasures and treasures from flowing out of the country. Contributed a lot to the fight against the Japanese. At the same time, a large number of unqualified disciples were eliminated."

"The five characters at that time were all holding heavy weapons in their hands. They would rather not make a move temporarily and investigate carefully, and resolutely prevent the flow into the West and the East. However, with the full-scale invasion of China by the Japanese, the days of the Ghost Eye Sect are getting worse. It is getting more and more difficult, so we can only disperse our forces to various parts of the country and act flexibly."

At this time, Xiao Ying took a sip of coffee, looked at Yu Yao, "You are from Jiangzhou, and Xu Taiyan's heir came to you, which is a bit more in line. You know, when Yanjing fell, Xu Taiyan struggled to get around I tried my best to protect a heavy weapon, and the Jiangzhou cultural relics department finally took it in."

Yu Yao was taken aback, "Could it be Tai Dian Fang Ding?"

"That's right. Although my great-grandfather was out of town at the time, I just heard about it, but it shouldn't be bad."

Yu Yao suddenly remembered what Pu Jie's father, Pu Cunzhi, said. The Qianhe Art Museum in Japan said that the Taidian Fangding of Shengbo was fake, and the ones in their collection were the real ones.If Xu Taiyan handled it, how could it be fake?

"What's the matter?" Seeing Yu Yao's expression was different, Xiao Ying couldn't help asking.

"It's okay, I'm a little emotional. You continue."

Xiao Ying continued: "On the third day of September 1938, there was news of Xu Taiyan's death in Liulichang. It is said that he died in Geguzhai. Some people carried away Xu Taiyan's body from Geguzhai, but after that, it disappeared into the sea like a mud cow, and there is no news about it."

"My great-grandfather has been investigating the whereabouts of 'Ghost Eye Piercing Heart', but to no avail. Xu Taiyan married a wife and had children relatively late. He only had one son, named Xu Changan, who was only seven years old. Before the Japanese invaded Yanjing, the The wife and brother-in-law left Yanjing with them."

"Later, when my great-grandfather finally found Xu Taiyan's wife in Yuzhou, she was dying of illness and had only her last breath left. The words left to my great-grandfather were: On the way from Hankou to Yuzhou, she, her younger brother, and her child went missing one after another. Already!"

"Xu Taiyan passed away in a strange way, and the current situation was turbulent and the flames of war were raging. The Ghost Eye Sect fell apart, and the connections between the various characters were gradually broken, and finally completely disbanded. Back then, my great-grandfather was Yin Zikou Palm Eye, and the big palm eye Xu Taiyan I respect it very much, and thinking about this matter, I have passed down my whole body of Taoism and 'ghost eye piercing'."

Xiao Ying had come to an end here. After he stopped, he slowly took a sip of his coffee. When he put down the coffee, he said again, "Oh, there is one more thing that I forgot to explain to you."

　I also forgot to mention one thing. After the finale chapter of "Treasure Hunting", there is a free episode, which is actually a wedge of "The Master of Playing Treasures", but I didn't take it; it is about Liulichang and Xu Taiyan A small clip of , less than a thousand words, if you are still interested if you haven't read it, you can watch it by the way.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)