Grand Collection

Five years later

Kong Xin parked his car outside the Zijin Hotel, and walked into the hotel. The magnificent lobby was full of feasting lights. Kong Xin and several acquaintances nodded their heads. Walking into the lobby, he saw Luo Zigeng in a suit and leather shoes facing a booth from a distance. Only "Qing Qianjia powder enamel with a hundred flowers without revealing the twelve flower gods with two ears and big vases" can be talked about with eloquence.

"Boss, come here..." The man saw him with sharp eyes.

Kong Xin raised his hand to stop his yelling, took a glass of red wine from the waiter, and looked at Luo Zigeng hidden in the crowd.

"The so-called 'Hundred Flowers Not Showing Ground' refers to the painting of large flower patterns such as peonies and peonies, covering the whole vessel with fine patterns without revealing the background color, implying prosperity and prosperity. This kind of decoration is also called 'Baihuajindi' or ' "Wanhua Xianrui" appeared in Yongzheng's blue and white painting and bucket color, but it was officially recognized as a means of decoration, and it really began in the prosperous Qianlong period..." Luo Zigeng smiled confidently, "Qing Dynasty connoisseur Zhao Ruzhen "Antique Guide" once wrote: Jiaqing... there are not many treasures, but Wanhua porcelain..."

A charming lady smiled coquettishly, "Mr. Luo's speech is really good, easy to understand, much better than those old men. I bought a bottle at a British auction last year. No matter how I look at it, I have doubts. Mr. Luo has time to come." Palm your eyes for me?"

Luo Zigeng smiled, "Antique business depends on eyesight. Experience and ability are indispensable. I still have a lot to learn. Mrs. Guo needs someone to appraise. You can go to Gujin Pavilion to make an appointment. We have professional connoisseurs who can help you at any time." Troubleshooting."

The lady folded her fan and covered her mouth with a smile, "Can I make an appointment with Mr. Luo?"

"It's better to make an appointment with him than to make an appointment with me," Kong Xin walked out of the crowd, winking at the lady, "I'm Mr. Luo's mentor, so is my appreciation not as good as his?"

"Hey, you are so annoying," the lady smiled familiarly, and walked to other display cabinets with a wine glass, jokingly, Mr. Kong is notoriously protective, whoever dares to moles his apprentice will definitely be molested back a hundred times , she didn't hit the muzzle of the gun.

Luo Zigeng couldn't help laughing, and whispered in his ear, "You are not only my teacher, but also my wife."

"What's the matter?" Kong Xin raised his eyebrows, "Do you think I've ruined your good business? How much is Mr. Luo? How about going to my house to appreciate it?"

Luo Zigeng fell in love with this little guy's protection, and bit his ear calmly, "I'm going to your house tonight, no! I want! Money!!!"

Kong Xin laughed loudly and patted him on the back, "Not tonight, we have to go to Wen's house after the exhibition here is over, Zhijun called me just now and said that he restored the wood kiln piercing ear vase .”

Luo Zigeng was stunned for a moment, "The broken porcelain from back then?"

"Well," Kong Xin nodded, "he glued the broken porcelain pieces together, and it has basically recovered."

This porcelain display exhibition was hosted by the Nanhua Foundation. At the end of the meeting, Pan Nanhua appeared on the stage with a cane, "I am very glad that you can come to this exhibition, and now it is the fourth collection boom in history. , Many people like porcelain, I think this is a good thing, in the past, antiques were collected in the hands of a few wealthy people, but now they are collected by the whole people, we say that treasures are hidden in the people, this is the progress of history..."

Standing under the stage, Luo Zigeng looked at Pan Nanhua's hale and hearty look, and snorted coldly, "Favorites for all... More idiots will be deceived."

"Idiots buy, idiots sell, and there are idiots waiting," Kong said, "Pan Nanhua is a businessman, he has no profit, so he naturally hopes that more people will enter this business, and be deceived by them with a lot of money. However, this is also Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, after all, the money is in their own pockets, if they don’t want to speculate, no one else can take out their money.”

Luo Zigeng nodded and sighed softly, "It's all self-inflicted."

After the exhibition ended, the two drove to Wen's home, pushed open the door of Wen Zhijun's study, and saw a strangely shaped bottle glowing under the desk lamp.

"This..." Kong Xin frowned suddenly.

Wen Zhijun sat on the rattan chair and watched them, "According to the fragments you gave me, I finally reconstructed this result."

Luo Zigeng stood by the table and looked at it for a while, then turned to look at Kong Xin, "This is not the ear piercing bottle at all."

Kong Xin didn't say a word, just stared at the bottle on the table, and the information in his mind was mixed together in a mess.

"Brother Kong?" Luo Zigeng called.

"It's impossible..." Kong Xin murmured, "How could this happen? The bottle was dropped? When was it dropped? Who did it?"

Luo Zigeng put his hands on his shoulders, "Don't do this, calm down, we need to discuss this matter carefully."

Kong Xin closed his eyes, "The three of us have been guarding the bottle since the deal was concluded, until we returned to Nanjing to meet Xiao Ji, and then Xiao Meng had a car accident... Xiao Meng's car accident was not accidental? Was he murdered? To seize the pierced ear bottle..."

"Call the police," Luo Zigeng said.

Wen Zhijun shook his head, "It's useless, the police can't find anything in this situation."

After five years, Kong Xin could not accept such a conclusion, so Luo Zigeng had no choice but to send him back to Kong's house and report the incident to Kong Yangshan.

Kong Yangshan frowned and thought for a long time, then slowly said, "This matter is already an unsolved case, Kong Xin, let him pass the past."

"I can't make it through," Kong said, "Now the facts are in front of us. Xiao Meng was murdered. Someone deliberately caused a car accident to kill Xiao Meng in order to seize the firewood kiln!"

"The driver who caused the accident has been punished."

"He's not the culprit!" Kong Xin gritted his teeth. "There must be an instigator behind him. This person is lawless and vicious. How can we tolerate such a person in the antique shop?"

Kong Yangshan looked into his eyes, "You are not young anymore. After so many years in the antique shop, don't you see such things rarely? Xiaomeng is dead, no matter what the reason is, he is dead, no matter you No matter what you do, he won't be resurrected."

Kong Xin glanced at him with an ugly face, "Dad, you are old, really old..."

"Brother Kong!" Luo Zigeng interrupted him.

"I'm old, and I don't have any aggressiveness anymore. I just want to guard this home. Everyone can live a good life. That's my pursuit." Kong Yangshan sighed, and pulled out an invitation card from the desk file, " Sotheby's Hong Kong Spring Auction is coming soon, here is the preview album, you can see for yourself."

Kong Xin took the album, sat on the sofa and opened it. Ceramics and artworks, Chinese calligraphy and painting, contemporary Asian art, jewelry, precious watches... A series of exquisite pictures unfolded in front of his eyes. Suddenly he was shocked and died. Staring at the huge picture in the album.

——After the rain, the blue ear bottle is as blue as the sky, as bright as a mirror, as thin as paper, and as loud as a chime...

"This is..." Luo Zigeng looked at the album in disbelief, "Is this the ear piercing bottle from back then?"

Kong Xin closed the album abruptly, "Whoever is the master of treasure is the one who killed Xiaomeng."

"Calm down, it won't be that simple," Luo Zigeng said, "The preview starts on the weekend, and we put aside everything we are doing. I will accompany you there on the weekend."

Sotheby's is one of the largest auction houses in the world. Every spring and autumn auctions are previewed on a grand scale. Kong Xin and Luo Zigeng drove to Shanghai early in the morning. The entire exhibition center is full of beautiful things.

"Hey, my dear," put a salty pig's hand on Kong Xin's shoulder, "why do you look so bad? Brother Luo didn't satisfy you?"

Kong Xin shook it twice, failed to shake it off, and snorted coldly, "Wang Baxian, why did the guard let you in? Don't you think that the whole venue has been lowered by you?"

"Fart!" Wang Baxian yelled loudly, "This king's presence is a blessing he has cultivated in Sotheby's eight lifetimes!"

In an instant, the exhibition center was silent, and the eyes of Qi Shushu came over.

Wang Baxian embraced Kong Xin, and stood proudly in the middle of the venue, like a snowy winter plum, glamorous and noble...

Kong Xin looked for holes all over the ground with his head down, trying to bury himself in them.

Luo Zigeng forcefully pulled Kong Xin out of his arms, and smiled at Wang Baxian, "My lord is still so untouched by mud, isn't your old man always not interested in previews?"

"Isn't it for that thing?" Wang Baxian pointed at the display cabinet, "The firewood kiln ear-piercing bottle is from his grandpa in Japan. I can already smell the familiar smell with my butt."

Kong Xin looked at him, "This is the bottle we bought back then. Xiao Meng was killed by someone."

"It's possible," Wang Baxian nodded, licking his teeth with the tip of his tongue, "but don't you think the other possibility is bigger?"

"what?"

Wang Baxian grabbed Kong Xin's neck and whispered in his ear, "Xiao Meng is the one who replaced the ear-piercing bottle."

Kong Xin choked for breath, pushed him away suddenly, turned around and left, "Get lost!"

"Hey, hey, I'm telling the truth," Wang Baxian chased after him, "Think about it, the three of you guarded against death at the beginning, and finally brought the bottle back to Nanjing safely, why did Xiao Meng get into a car accident as soon as the two of you left? Did you send someone from Gujin Pavilion to pick him up? Why didn’t Xiaomeng wait for the picker to arrive? Why did he go to Kong’s house in a car like burning his ass? Is he so impatient?”

Kong Xin stood still, took a deep breath, and said calmly, "Old Wang, I will not doubt Xiao Meng, not at any time."

Wang Baxian pointed to his nose, "When you say this, you are already doubting."

"So I feel guilty."

"Hey, you..." Wang Baxian wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Luo Zigeng, "My lord, stop talking, let Brother Kong be clean."

"Hey, why am I not pure?" Wang Baxian was angry, and pointed at Luo Zigeng's nose, "Be careful what you say, although you are now a concubine, it's great to be a concubine, but this king is the main palace, ah bah! The king and him have a friendship of piss and mud, you can stay where you are cool, and don’t slander me, who can’t blow the wind beside the pillow, Xin is good, it’s boo.”

"What a mess, get the hell out of here." Kong Xin pushed Wang Baxian away with a slap, and pulled Luo Zigeng to go to Guan Er Ping, "Don't pay attention to him, whoever is serious with him is an idiot .”

Chai Kiln Piercing Ear Vase is one of the highlights of this spring auction. This is the first time that the legendary Chai Kiln has appeared in a large-scale auction. The appearance of ear vases filled the gap in history, and brought the firewood kiln from the altar to the front of the people, which is very precious in the history of porcelain..."

Luo Zigeng leaned over to look carefully at the pierced ear bottle behind the glass, and said in a low voice, "Brother Kong, do you think it is really that pierced ear bottle?"

"I look like, why, do you think it's not the same thing?"

"I can't see it," Luo Zigeng frowned, "I can't figure it out if I can't get started, but I always feel that something is wrong, it's just a kind of intuition."

Kong Xin leaned over, and the two stared at the bottle for a long time, still unable to judge, but judging from the shape and glaze color of the vessel, it was indeed the right one.

"Xiao Meng..." Kong Xin murmured, "What's going on?"