Chapter 1 Identification

This is a very spacious terrace.

The terrace is located on the third floor and the weather is very good, so sitting here you can see the brilliant rippling light on the lake opposite, which looks as bright as molten gold. The mountains in the distance are also spread across the fresh air. It looks very charming.

Even in this luxurious club, the terrace where Du Yuqi is located is considered a prime location.

Du Yuqi leaned comfortably on the recliner and took a nap with his eyes closed. There was a book, "Pride and Prejudice", next to his left hand. There was a cup of coffee on the table next to his right hand, and a stack of freshly baked coffee still exuding warmth. Warm cookies.

It took too long to go this time. It has been three days since Du Yuqi came back. Du Yuqi still hasn't recovered. He feels like he is a piece of porcelain. It's full of cracks and needs to be cared for.

So these days, he never stands when he can sit, and never sits when he can lie down. But my mind didn't stop, digesting the kendo experience gained from Casillas, and trying to apply these experiences in actual combat!

At this time, a white waiter with blond hair came to Du Yuqi's side with one hand behind his back, bowed slightly and whispered to him:

"Hello, sir."

This white man spoke very standard Mandarin, even better than Du Yuqi. Du Yuqi opened his eyes and said lazily:

"What happened?"

The white waiter said politely:

"I'm Paul, I'm very happy to serve you. The membership card you hold is a diamond card, so I will give you a unique dessert. Would you like a Shizuoka honeydew melon or a strawberry from Nottingshire? No ice cream?”

"Huh?" Du Yuqi suddenly became interested. He has long heard of Shizuoka honeydew melon, a luxury fruit that sells for up to 1,600 yuan a piece.

Shizuoka honeydew melons are called "one tree and one fruit", which means that there is only one melon growing on each melon vine. In order to grow first-class honeydew melons, melon farmers in Shizuoka cut off all other melons on a vine to ensure that sufficient and rich nutrients are provided to this single melon.

Shizuoka honeydew melons use the heat of hot springs to heat the greenhouse to maintain the temperature in the greenhouse. Therefore, delicious honeydew melons with stable quality and a sweetness of up to 16 degrees can be produced all year round.

Because of its high selling price,

So there are a lot of counterfeit products, but presumably a place like this would not embarrass itself with fake and shoddy products.

Soon, a plate of chilled Shizuoka honeydew melon was placed in front of Du Yuqi. The flesh of the melon was a mixture of light green and golden yellow, with a hint of air-conditioning, and it melted in the mouth, giving it a refreshing feeling. It is transmitted to the brain, making people feel extremely comfortable.

At this time, Du Yuqi felt that someone seemed to be staring at him. He suddenly turned around and found three people sitting on a table a few meters away. The person staring at him was an old man in Tang suit who looked energetic. , after the two people's eyes met, the old man nodded and smiled apologetically, and looked away.

Immediately afterwards, the terrace door was opened, and under the guidance of the waiter, Mr. Chu rushed over in a hurry, loosened his tie, and drank the glass of lemonade in front of him in one gulp, and then he exhaled and his eyebrows were beaming. The way:

"Good stuff, really good stuff! Do you still have any in stock? Xiong Ben Soup and Deer Ming Soup are both fine, as many as you want!"

Du Yuqi secretly thought that the fish had finally taken the bait, and said simply:

"Now I only have two doses of Xiong Ben Tang and only one dose of Luming Tang here."

Young Master Chu immediately said:

"I want it all, when can I give it to me? The old man took the Luming Decoction and felt like he was regaining his glory. What's even more rare is that your product has a long-lasting effect and no side effects at all. I will definitely take this dose. Take it back to fulfill your filial piety."

Du Yuqi said:

"You can just ask someone to pick it up from my place tonight, but once these three doses are made, the raw materials won't be able to keep up."

Young Master Chu chuckled and said:

"Don't worry, why do you want to meet here this time? It's because I have already made an appointment with someone."

After the two chatted for a while, they saw a waiter walking over with a woman with short hair. The woman was dressed in OL clothes and looked very smart and capable. Young Master Chu immediately stood up to greet her. They chatted a few words in English, and then the woman made an apology gesture and walked to the seat next to her to say hello and greetings. It seemed like they were old acquaintances.

Du Yuqi noticed that the old man who had been looking at him had a high status, and the woman introduced by Master Chu saluted with respect from the bottom of his heart.

Immediately after the woman came back, Mr. Chu introduced her as Michelle, a senior executive at Christie's auction house with a wide social network. This time, he made an appointment with two customers who liked collecting and were interested in cashing in. Chu Da Shao promised to give 15% agency fee.

Soon, the two clients Michelle had made an appointment with arrived. Of course, the two parties could not discuss things outside, but there were many empty conference rooms here, so the two parties could start close negotiations.

However, the negotiation and cooperation this time was not very smooth, because the two parties actually presented a very strange relationship. The seller of antiques felt that he was very sincere and brought the best of antiques. However, although Du Yuqi wanted antiques, he had to have left his mark in history. Some of these things were very valuable, such as the Heshi Bi, but some of them might not have high collection value, such as the fountain pen Du Yuqi had received before.

It was precisely because of this that the seller of antiques felt that the two buyers looked very unreliable - because they looked very young at first glance - and they were actually unreliable in the subsequent conversation, and they did not know the goods at all when they bought.

Fortunately, Du Yuqi finally found a cultural relic in the goods brought by the first customer, to be precise, a cultural relic with the power of time.

This thing is a bowl, the firing process is very exquisite, but there is no mark on the bottom of the bowl, which is destined to not sell at a high price.

After Du Yuqi picked up the bowl, he saw a strange scene from it. A eunuch in Qing Dynasty costumes was holding the bowl and giving medicine to a young man in bed. The young man lived in a very ordinary place and died soon after. The young man was wearing bright yellow clothes and there were dragon patterns on the pillow.

Du Yuqi thought about it and recalled that when the Qing Dynasty was about to perish, Empress Dowager Cixi felt that her life was coming to an end, so she sent Li Lianying to give Guangxu a bowl of medicine to poison him. The most common arsenic was used. As a result, Empress Dowager Cixi died the next day.

Because Guangxu wanted to drive Yuan Shikai during the Hundred Days' Reform and conspired with him to imprison Cixi, Cixi was very harsh on him. This is why he lived in a very poor place and had no emperor's enjoyment.

The bowl he got should be the one that Li Lianying used to hold arsenic that day. I don't know how it happened, but it was passed down.

The first customer secretly laughed at the two young men for not knowing the goods, so he made a big offer when he opened the price. This porcelain bowl was from a folk kiln in the Qing Dynasty, and it had no style. Although it was exquisite, the market price was only 60,000 yuan. He directly opened the door and asked for 200,000 yuan, which was already the top price of Qing Dynasty folk kiln porcelain.

Young Master Chu asked the invited experts, and W.A.C. made a decision very straightforwardly. Because he felt that he had made a lot of money on this matter, he was in a good mood. So this customer laughed in his heart, but was still very polite on the surface.

However, the second customer who was invited was not in a good temper. When he found that the two young men were picking the things he brought without any rules, he immediately got angry. The two sides were very unhappy. The root of the problem was concentrated on the inkstone that Du Yuqi liked.

According to the customer, this inkstone is very famous. It was a piece of strange stone that Zheng Banqiao found personally and invited a famous artist to carve it. He cherished it very much and used it for 20 years, so the asking price was very high.

However, the clue of the power of time that Du Yuqi read from it, the most brilliant moment of this pen, was when he wrote a line of words:

When you have not seen this flower, this flower and your heart are both in silence. When you look at this flower, the color of this flower suddenly becomes clear. Then you know that this flower is not outside your heart!

This line of words is very famous, which is the foundation of Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind. Wang Yangming was a man of the Ming Dynasty, and the time difference between him and Zheng Banqiao was nearly 200 years. How could it be carved from the stone that Zheng Banqiao found himself? wt