Antique Dealer

Chapter 46

Fang Hao sat in Zhou Yongsi's car and went to Zhou Yongsi's home to appraise the rubbings.

After the exchange just now, Zhou Yongsi was very convinced by Fang Hao's appreciation of inscriptions, so he invited Fang Hao to his old house to appraise a copy of inscriptions left by his grandfather.

Zhou Yongsi's old house was in an old alley on the second ring road, and it was not easy to park in the alley, so Zhou Yongsi found a parking place outside the alley.

After getting out of the car, Zhou Yongsi took Fang Hao towards his old house.

Zhou Yongsi chatted while walking: "Fang Hao, I heard what you said before, and planned to open an antique shop. Where do you plan to open it?"

Fang Hao said with a smile: "The elders helped me prepare for this matter. They haven't told me the exact location yet, they just said it's near Panjiayuan."

"Oh, when it opens, you have to tell me!"

As soon as Zhou Yongsi finished speaking, she heard a loud voice not far away: "Catch the thief!"

There are thieves in broad daylight!
Fang Hao was thinking about which thief would be so bold, when he saw a man running towards where they were.

The thief was actually holding a dagger in his hand, and he was waving it wildly while running, yelling not to stop him.

When encountering such a situation, self-protection is the top priority. The surrounding people dare not stop him when they are angry, for fear of hurting themselves. Some people quickly call the police, steal things and threaten them with murder weapons. up.

The thief ran very fast, and because he was not far away, he ran in front of Fang Hao and the others in the blink of an eye, and the two quickly moved to the side.

At this moment, Fang Hao noticed that there happened to be a mop made of rags at hand. He didn't think much, picked up the mop, and swept towards the thief's face.

How could the thief have imagined that he would still encounter this trick. His face was covered with rags from the mop, and he let out a scream. In the plank, the bag held in the other hand also fell to the ground.

Seeing that the thief had no weapons and was still in the trap, several men around immediately rushed up and restrained the thief. Someone even took the opportunity to kick the thief a few times, and the thief screamed in pain.

At this time, the owner of the owner also ran over. Seeing that her things had fallen on the ground, she hurried forward to pick them up, cursed at the thief, and then came to thank Fang Hao: "Young man, thank you so much!" , if it wasn't for your help, he would have taken my things away!"

Fang Hao immediately said that this was a righteous act and what he should do.Fortunately, the law has become more and more perfect in the past two years, otherwise he might not dare to stop the thief like this.

The owner is an old lady, Zhou Yongsi also knew: "Aunt Qian, what's going on, this thief dared to go to your house to steal things in broad daylight, it's too brave!"

"He lied to me that he was collecting antiques!"

It turned out that the thief pretended to be a shovel collecting antiques, and rode a tricycle to Aunt Qian's house. At that time, Aunt Qian happened to be at the door of the house. Her wife had passed away for more than three years, and now she was the only one in the house.

At that time, the thief asked her if she had any antique furniture in her home. As long as he could fancy any, the price would be more than [-] yuan. Aunt Qian was moved.

Some time ago, two shovels also asked her if she had any antiques at home. Aunt Qian just wanted to ask how much the antiques left by her wife were worth, so she took them home to have a look.

After the two saw the items, they told Aunt Qian that these items were not very valuable. Now that the antique market is in a downturn, these items are at risk of depreciation. Let her sell them now, otherwise they will get cheaper and cheaper.

Although Aunt Qian didn't know much about antiques, she could tell that the two shovels were lying to her, so she didn't agree.

Unexpectedly, those two people are like a cat seeing a fish, they refuse to let go, and Aunt Qian is upset, but Aunt Qian is a soft-hearted person. promise.

So, these two people came here every now and then, making Aunt Qian tireless. Now that someone is collecting antiques, and the price is not low, she is moved.

So Aunt Qian took the thief to her house, and she put the things in a box in the back room. The thief went and said that the light was too dark, and wanted to take it to a place with better light outside.

Aunt Qian agreed at the time, and then the thief carried the box outside, opened the box, looked at it pretendingly for a while, and then told Aunt Qian that he was thirsty and asked if there was any water to drink.

Aunt Qian didn't expect at the time that the other party wanted to steal her antiques, so she went in to pour water, and while she was pouring water, she heard someone calling her outside, saying that someone had stolen her house.

It turned out that Aunt Qian's old friend, Sister Zhang, came over and rushed out the door. Seeing the thief stuffing things into her pockets, she felt that the thief was not a decent person, so she stopped her loudly.

Seeing that the thief was wrong, he also panicked, and ran towards the door without thinking about taking other things.

Hearing that this was the case, Fang Hao said, "Will those two people be suspected as well?"

Aunt Qian nodded repeatedly: "Those two people must be accomplices, otherwise, the thief would not know so clearly!"

Zhou Yongsi saw the police approaching: "Let the police worry about this matter. Anyway, people have been caught, so it shouldn't be difficult to investigate."

Next, the police took the thief to the police station, and Fang Hao, as the person involved, also went to record the transcript.

The thief took a knife and threatened, which is no longer a simple crime of theft. The calculated value of Aunt Qian's stolen items has become one of the keys to sentencing.

Knowing that Fang Hao and Zhou Yongsi both knew about antiques, Aunt Qian asked them to help identify the value of the antiques, and the police agreed.

In a panic, the thief stuffed three things into his pocket, one of which was a painting of scriptures.

The so-called scripture writing, in simple terms, refers to the copied Buddhist scriptures.

The writers of scriptures are generally monks, scripture students, and court scribes, especially scripture students who specialize in copying scriptures.They have been exposed to the basic training or strict assessment of calligraphy. Because of the inheritance of skills or the teaching from master to apprentice, or the mutual influence of customs, the posture and demeanor of the pens have the same conventionality. body sideways.Therefore, scripture writing and calligraphy have never been valued by scholars.

Even so, it is an unshakable fact that famous calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty, such as Chu Suiliang and Yan Zhenqing, all borrowed money from writing scriptures in their regular scripts.

Naturally, some scriptures written with a long history and outstanding fonts have extremely high value for collection and research.

The scripture that Aunt Qian was robbed of is "Miaofa Lianhua Teaching No Learner's Notes". I saw that the scripture paper was dyed and decorated, calendered and waxed. The surface was smooth and even, and the paper was thin and delicate. The curtain pattern is clear, the ink used in the whole volume is full and rich, the composition is rigorous and neat, the pen is skillful and exquisite, both square and round, the structure is tight and neat, and meticulous, showing a very high level of calligraphy.

Combining the various characteristics of scripture writing, Fang Hao judged that it should be Dunhuang scripture writing in the Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)