Almighty Wizard

Chapter 90 Picked up a shocking leak!!

I won’t go into details about the bidding process. Anyway, with Tangcheng and Ning Weiqiang, two rich and powerful Yameni, there were originally one or two bidders. As soon as they saw this action, they immediately stopped and they just insisted.

I only spent 60,000, the lower limit of the estimated price, and successfully purchased it.

After acquiring this Buddha statue, Qin Fang and others really had no interest in the subsequent auction, and just came here in a daze. Everyone was waiting for the mystery to be revealed.

After paying the money and delivering the lot, Qin Fang and the other four sat down in a private room of the Mingshi Salon. Ning Weiqiang also specially called the appraiser of the Mingshi Salon over. This appraiser

The level is much better than those of other brick-and-mortar companies.

"Master Tang, Master Ning, you two are..."

After the appraiser came over, he was a little confused. Several people were actually surrounding a Ming Dynasty Buddha statue that was not very valuable.

"Don't ask me, ask him..."

Tang Cheng sat firmly on the Diaoyutai. Ning Weiqiang glanced sideways and threw him directly to Qin Fang.

"Don't worry, just wait for me..."

Qin Fang ignored him, but carefully observed the Buddha statue. He was holding a very small hammer in his hand, and he was making gestures in the air, as if he was thinking about where to start.

"Sir, this matter about you..."

The appraiser looked at Qin Fang in surprise. He couldn't understand what he wanted to do, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Where do you think I can break this Buddha statue with the hammer without damaging the things inside?" Qin Fang glanced at him sideways. He also knew that this was the antique appraiser of the famous salon.

Being considered an expert, I couldn't help but ask.

When the appraiser heard this, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes. However, he had been hanging out in famous salons for a long time and had seen many such behaviors of second-generation rich and second-generation officials. Although this value was not considered expensive,

The Buddha statue felt a little distressed, but after all, he still didn't dare to disobey the demands of these young men, even though Qin Fang's clothes seemed to be of much worse quality than what he was wearing.

"Let's start with the head...the base is too thick and can easily cause damage to both sides!"

In fact, the appraiser himself was quite strange. He couldn't understand how Qin Fang knew that there was something in the belly of the Buddha statue. He had to know that this Buddha statue had also passed through his hands. He carefully examined it and found no gaps. Naturally,

It is also impossible to see whether there is anything in the belly of the Buddha statue.

However, in order to save his job, the appraiser still gave a more pertinent opinion, which was similar to what Qin Fang had thought in advance.

So, with the help of the appraiser, Qin Fang and he leveled the Buddha statue, placed the Buddha's head on the edge of the table, raised the small hammer in his hand, and then gently dropped it.

There was a crisp sound, followed by a very slight cracking sound, and the head of the pottery Buddha statue was immediately smashed.

"Hey...there really is something!"

Chen Jiangnan was also watching. When the Buddha's head cup was smashed, apart from a few fragments of pottery, something was actually exposed inside.

Hearing Chen Jiangnan's scream, the two yamen sitting aside drinking looked at each other in surprise, stood up, and walked over.

At this time, Qin Fang carefully pulled out the thing hidden inside the Buddha statue. Fortunately, the Buddha statue was hollow. Although it was not very spacious inside, the thing hidden inside was still there.

A certain range of activities.

"This is……"

When Qin Fang took out the cylindrical object, which was about thirty centimeters long, everyone gathered around the table.

I saw that this thing was in the shape of a long strip, wrapped with something similar to oil paper, which was a commonly used waterproof material in ancient times, and Qin Fang twisted this layer of oil paper, which seemed to be quite old.

"You do it……"

After thinking about it, Qin Fang still did not dare to touch this layer of oil paper, and handed over such an important and meticulous task to the appraiser who was specially called here.

The appraiser was nervous from the moment something really appeared after the Buddha statue cup was broken. Now that Qin Fang has given him such a task again, it would be nonsense to say he is not nervous.

Fortunately, he is in this business himself, and he is excited about every antique that is born in his hands or comes to the world.

Qin Fang and the others couldn't understand this layer of oil paper material, but it didn't mean that he didn't understand it. He could tell at a glance that it was from the Ming Dynasty, so the things wrapped inside were at least from the Ming Dynasty or even before.

And this thing has been hidden in the Buddha statue, which shows that the value of this thing is far higher than that of the Buddha statue. How could this not make the appraiser excited?

"Be careful, don't break it..."

Seeing the appraiser's slightly larger movements, Chen Jiangnan shouted from the side, as if he was afraid of damaging it.

"understand……"

The appraiser also had a wry smile on his face, and he wanted to scold Chen Jiangnan, but there were two Yameni in the room who he couldn't afford to offend, so he had to swallow this breath himself.

He agreed with his mouth, but the movements of his hands were not slow at all. He carefully removed the layer of oil paper that was almost stuck to the outer wrapping, and only then could the contents inside be fully revealed.

When the contents inside were exposed, the first thing he saw was a roll of yellowed paper, and the appraiser carefully spread the roll of paper on the table slowly, and finally revealed its true face to the Qin Dynasty.

In front of Fang and others.

hiss……

Almost everyone present couldn't help but take a breath.

"This is……"

In comparison, the appraiser who had seen many authentic antiques recovered quickly and began to carefully appreciate the things displayed in front of them. However, when he took a closer look, he was about to have a convulsion.

.

"Lanting Preface!"

Originally, Qin Fang and others were still a little bit lucky, but when the appraiser squeezed out these three words almost one by one, they were almost ready to smoke.

Anyone who knows a little bit about calligraphy, even if they have never actually written a few big characters, will probably know the Lanting Preface, which is known as "the first book in China".

"Look again, which dynasty it is from and who copied it..."

Tang Cheng was a soldier after all. Although he was quite surprised, fortunately he was relatively calm and immediately ordered the appraiser.

There are many versions of the Lanting Preface stele rubbings circulating in the world, and many people have copied them. Even since the Lanting Preface was handed down, everyone in the past dynasties has copied the calligraphy, and this volume of stele rubbings has been hidden like this.

It is secret and obviously of extraordinary origin. Maybe it is an extremely precious antique as Qin Fang estimated.

"No need to read it, it's the "Lanting Preface" from the Shenlong edition, which was copied by Feng Chengsu in the Tang Dynasty from Wang Xizhi's original work... As for whether it is the original, we can't tell for the time being. I have seen that engraving at the Palace Museum in Beijing, and it is exactly the same as this one.

…”

When the appraiser spoke, his voice was trembling.

Although he couldn't be sure whether this was the original, judging from some clues, he was almost certain that it was the original.

And once it is confirmed that this is the original, it means that in his hands, this original volume that has disappeared from the world has come back to the world, and he will be the first witness, and may become famous throughout the ages.

"Are you sure you read that correctly?"

When he said these words, the faces of Tang Cheng, Ning Weiqiang, Qin Fang, and Chen Jiangnan no longer showed the joy of picking up the leak, but were filled with caution.

"It's the original! Brother Tang, call someone..."

At this time, Qin Fang threw an investigative skill at the volume of rubbings. After identifying the result, the expression on his face looked very helpless, but he still said to Tang Cheng.

This is no longer just picking up a leak, it is simply picking up a huge leak, which is too much for their small bodies combined...