Chapter 29: Poisonous Jade
"Hehe, Sect Master Zhang is really taking someone's money and eliminating someone's disaster." Qin Ge laughed, "Unless you promise to do me a favor, then please return the money to the Wang family and take off the name of Maoshan, without me, you won't be able to know the secret of this jade for the rest of your life."
Qin Ge this move can be too powerful, refund money is a small matter, take off the name of Maoshan is not a joke, Maoshan religion is about a word of faith, the previous generation of the Maoshan heir, encountered no certainty of things either not to take, or give up their lives to complete the task, there has never been a precedent of refunding the money. This Hong Kong is a place where Taoism flourishes, if this matter is spread, I am afraid that Ma Zhenren will not rest in peace in his nine springs.
"Okay, I promise you." A rush of hot blood rushed Zhang Guozhong's head at the moment, not caring that Old Liu Tou was kicking his legs one after another.
"Good! It's a deal!" Qin Ge laughed out loud and turned his head to stare at Old Liu Tou with a smirk.
"Also! There should be octagonal rice in your life, and you can walk all over the world without being dissatisfied with a liter, go ahead!"
Qin Ge picked up the jade swan in Zhang Guozhong's hand, "This is a poisonous jade."
Zhang Guozhong frowned at the moment, he had heard of poisonous jade, but had never seen it before, in his opinion, poisonous jade should be similar to dead jade, it should also be a poor grade of jade, so when he got this piece of jade, he didn't even think about that.
Legend has it that a piece of poisonous jade was once unearthed in the state of Wei during the Warring States period, but no one knows what happened to it. There is such a strange phenomenon in the world, the more beautiful bugs, the more toxic, the more fancy mushrooms, eat a quasi-dead, this poisonous jade is the same, just look at the appearance, is absolutely the world's most beautiful jade, but has an unknown strange power, in terms of modern science, jade radiation, and this poisonous jade, it is also very likely to be a number of radioactive elements to reach a specific ratio, can release a different than other Jade's radiation.
"I once had a piece of poisonous jade," Qin Ge fiddled with the jade swan, "measured in the United States using a special instrument, the intensity of the radioactivity was more than ten times that of ordinary jade, and it was able to emit a kind of weak pulse, which other jades did not possess, especially the pulse. I've also consulted a few friends in the spiritual world, and they believe that this characteristic of poisonous jade has the potential to affect both the people and ghosts around it."
"Then why did this piece of jade return to the Wang family by itself?" Zhang Guozhong frowned.
"You'll have to answer this question yourselves, I have no research on paranormal phenomena." Qin Ge thought for a moment, "But let me tell you, this piece of jade is one of the treasures that held the treasure of Hou Jin, back then, a group of grave robbers dug up a secret room that hid a stone platform that held the treasure of the town as an ancient tomb, and sold the jade to a missionary, and this piece of jade flowed into the UK during the Opium War period, and a large auction was held at that time."
"All these, how do you know?" Zhang Guozhong was puzzled.
"Know this Mr. Sun Qilin?" Qin Ge handed over his business card again, "His grandfather was the auctioneer at that time, and I heard about things like poisonous jade from him, he described this piece of jade to me, and I didn't expect to see it in Wang Zhongjian's house." Qin Ge drank a mouthful of water, a lifetime's worth of words I'm afraid I've said a third of them on this day.
"At that time, the person who acquired this piece of jade made up a big lie, saying that this piece is the Chinese Heshi Bi, so specially found a Chinese main auction to set the atmosphere, and then the people who bought this piece of jade, their homes became murder houses, dead, crazy, the jade also changed hands a few times, and finally it was said to have been purchased by the first mate of a freighter for 20 pounds, but nothing happened in his home. I didn't think that after dozens of years, it would let Wang Zhongjian buy it again, I wanted to warn him, but at that time, I wasn't 100% sure that this was the poisonous jade, so I didn't want to ruin Wang Zhongjian's elegance."
"You mean..." thought Zhang Guozhong, "putting this piece of jade back in the town table of the Hou Jin treasure?"
"The child is teachable!" Qin Ge laughed, since Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu Tou promised him to help break the treasure of the Later Jin, they obviously talked a lot more than before.
"What about if he wants to come back again on his own?"
"I don't think so, this piece of jade has been sitting there for a thousand years, so I'm sure there must be a special way for him to stay there. If you can go to the site and learn that method, it's not impossible to bring this piece of jade home yourself."
"Not necessarily?" Old Liu Tou also spoke up at this time. "Mr. Qin, look here..."
Old Liu Tou took the jade and pointed with his finger to the clay marks with the edge.
"You guys..." said Qin Ge as he took the jade and found a magnifying glass to take a closer look, his brows furrowed.
"Mr. Qin, you claim to be an expert in ancient jade, haven't you ever heard of something like a jade swan?" Old Liu Tou asked listlessly.
"Jade swan?" Qin Ge was filled with skepticism and brought the jade to the window, looking at it again and again in the sunlight. "Gao Ming..." muttered Qin Ge, this piece of jade was an irregular round and square shape, about the same size as a cigarette box, but only one-third as thick as a cigarette box, apparently it used to be a whole piece of jade that was later made into a jade swan.
The so-called jade-swaning is to open a very thin slit on the side of the whole piece of jade, and then grind it into the interior of the jade with a special tool, and carve a thin layer of picture or word on the interior of the jade under invisible conditions, and then fill in the slit back with jade powder, and finally seal it with a special material, which is still a piece of beautiful jade on the surface, while the slit on the side is probably neglected as a mud stain in the long run. This kind of stunt began in the Spring and Autumn period, and is said to have died out at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
"What is written here?"
"You'll have to answer that question yourself, we have no research on ancient jade!" This old Liu head swore to fuck with Qin Ge.
The reason why even Qin Ge didn't see that this piece of jade was actually a jade swan was because this thing was just too cold, according to the Maoshan Art Journal, the first jade swan appeared in China during the Warring States period, and initially existed as a form of handicraft, and then gradually evolved into a way of transmitting secret information at the end of the Han Dynasty during the wars (not all jade swans were made from superbly beautiful jades, and most of the jades used for transmitting information belonged to the The ancient people used to hang jade on their bodies, just as normal as modern people with watches, under the concealment of this custom, most of the military information could be safely transmitted by means of jade swan, some jade swan could even be made in a copper coin-sized miscellaneous jade, and a map could even be drawn on the size of a fingernail), because every time a jade swan was made, it was a classified military intelligence, so a Because every time a jade swan was made, it was classified military information, so a "swan maker" would be secretly executed after being utilized for a period of time, and then some people who mastered the "swan technique" were forced to go into hiding until the Tang Dynasty, when the technique resurfaced again, and the Tang court was impressed by the technique, which had been hidden for a long time, and then it made the technique the imperial use of the court. The Tang court was impressed by this long-disappeared skill, so it adopted this skill as the imperial use of the court, with the generous treatment of the court, these craftsmen began to pass this secret skill only to their own descendants, and pass it on to men and not to women, in order to avoid outsiders from stealing their own rice bowls, which ultimately led to the loss of this mastery.
During the Tang Dynasty, when the "swan technique" was highly sought after by the aristocrats, the masters of the Maoshan Sect invented the "soul-inducing method" using the jade swan as a carrier, combining it with the wizards invented by the ancestor of the Zongge Temple (in rural areas of China, there is often a saying that small children are prone to losing their souls, and that some of them, without experiencing any external shocks, will suddenly become unconscious). Some children, without experiencing any external shock, suddenly lose consciousness, but their pulse and respiration are normal, then the family will think that the child has lost his/her soul, and usually a witch or goddess will be able to invoke the soul to cure him/her. However, there are also some children, such as the heirs of dignitaries, who are weak and lose their souls on a regular basis, so the adults will give the children jade swans with spelling words to prevent the phenomenon of losing their souls until the children reach adulthood. (Of course, most of the people who could enjoy this treatment were prominent court officials, and ordinary people's families couldn't afford to get that kind of thing.)" This is described in detail in the Zongge Sect's heirloom secret book, Zongge Zhengyan, and in the Maoshan Tuzhi, which is precisely why Old Liu Tou was able to recognize this as a jade swan.
In the late Tang Dynasty, this method was also used for burials, rituals, and even in tomb settings and formations, and some masters even directly made dead jade into a jade-swan, and carved waste texts or incantations into it to seal evil spirits and animals in it, and when he just found out that it was a jade-swan, Zhang Guozhong had the idea of cutting it open to see what it was all about, but out of safety considerations, Old Liu Tou didn't do it, because Ma Zhenren It seemed that Ma Zhenren had suffered from the loss of spelling, and had repeatedly taught himself that most of the jade swans in the late Tang Dynasty were carved with spelling or incantations, and they were not good. The size of this piece of jade and the vague pills of pills of immortality (also known as "Weaksauce", ancient legends of evil beasts with human faces and dragons, like to eat people) patterns on the surface of this piece of jade, it is definitely not for children to wear to attract the souls of the use of, so out of safety considerations, Lao Liu head still choose to observe. At this moment, after learning that this is a "poisonous jade", it is even more fortunate that they were not compelled by Zhang Guozhong to cut open the jade, otherwise it may attract what tricky things.
"You don't know that this is a Jade Swan?" Zhang Guozhong said strangely, he had thought that Qin Ge, an expert in ancient jade, would be able to give himself a bit of an answer.
"Can I see what's inside?" Qin Ge didn't care about his negligence, and by implication wanted to cut open the jade-swan.
"If I could look at it, I would have already done so. But if you want to look at it, you can, after Guozhong and I return to the mainland, you can look at it however you like..." old Liu Tou said contemptuously. At this moment, Qin Ge was also silent, staring at Old Liu Tou and Zhang Guozhong for a while, "What if I say that it is just as possible to look at it without destroying this piece of jade?" At this moment, Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu Tou were stunned, they could not even see it with their own open wisdom eyes, what could this Qin Ge do?
Reality proves that the Chinese people who have been *washed* are indeed outdated. Qin Ge told Zhang Guozhong and Lao Liu Tou that there are many advanced technologies nowadays, and it is not impossible to see the interior without destroying the jade swan. Qin Ge believed that the most advanced sonic scanning technology at that time (a kind of radiation mixed with ultrasonic imaging professional perspective technology that can be used to see through the stone) could possibly see the inside of the jade swan.
After a period of silence, the three reached an agreement that Qin Ge would carry the ancient jade to the United States for scanning, while Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu Tou would go back to the mainland to prepare for the guy style, at the moment Zhang Guozhong still had some worries about the time of the opening of the school, only to see that Qin Ge was very skillful in signing up for the check, "Sect Leader Zhang, as the ancient saying goes, a man's ambition lies in the four directions, if you like to teach, after we are successful, you can completely run a bigger school by yourself. school." He said and handed a check of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars to Zhang Guozhong, "I don't know how much money Wang Zhongjian gave you, I'm not as rich as he is, I can only give you so much first...Master Zhang, you can totally resign for the time being, even if we don't succeed, I believe that in Hong Kong, based on your skills, you will also be richer than me. " Although he hadn't seen what Zhang Guozhong was actually capable of, Qin Ge was still very trusting of Zhang Guozhong's title of Palm Sect.
"Mr. Qin, can we take this Jin Dynasty ancient map of yours and this piece of silk back to study it?" Zhang Guozhong took the check and said.
"Of course ......"
