Chapter 74

When people encounter unknown phenomena, they will always subconsciously look for sustenance and protection. The amulet Yao Yumen gave me plays this role.

After spending a long time, Sister Hong and I finally came to the end.

There is also a cave entrance on this slope.

Looking down from a high position at this moment, the scenery is picturesque, like a secret realm.

There are some stone carvings remaining around the stone walls of the cave. One of the stone carvings, although damaged, can be vaguely seen. The theme of the stone carvings is several horses.

Sister Hong pointed to this mural and told me that this should be the Eight Horses of King Mu. It is said that the eight horses in the Eight Horses Picture had names during their lifetime, just like the Six Horses of Zhaoling in Li Shiming's tomb, but it was too long ago. The Zuo Zhuan of Spring and Autumn Period mentioned that there were eight horses of King Mu, but the names of these eight horses were The name has not been passed down and no one knows it.

This mural recessed into the stone wall was nearly two meters long and about one and a half meters wide. Sister Hong lamented that it was a pity. If she could take it away, this thing would definitely fetch a sky-high price on the black market.

"Sister Hong, these are all broken. Stone carvings can be so powerful. Look, half of the heads of these two horses have fallen off." I pointed to the missing horse heads and said.

Sister Hong shook her head, "Yunfeng, you are new to the industry and you don't understand some things yet. Even if these stone sculptures with special meanings are broken into a hundred pieces, after being put together, there will still be a lot of people rushing to get them, especially the big red-haired ones." Nose, they are very fascinated by our ancient stone carvings."

"You know the Six Horses of Zhaoling, right?"

I nodded, "Among the Six Horses of Zhaoling, the Quan Maojun and Sa Lu Zi were stolen by Lu Qinzhai and sold to Big Nose in the 1940s. We still have four more in our country. They are Shivachi, Qingzhui, Tellerqiu and Baitiwu."

Sister Hong probably didn't expect that I could accurately report my name. She praised: "Yes, you are right. Lu Qinzhai stole two of the pieces back then. Let me ask you again, do you know if you sold them to the United States?" Man, how much did it cost?"

I didn't know this, so I tentatively guessed: "Eight thousand yuan?"

In the 1940s, this amount of money was already an astronomical figure. Ordinary people could not save enough money in a few lifetimes. This was such an ocean, and I felt that I tried to exaggerate the price.

Sister Hong shook her head in denial, and said directly: "Not eight thousand, two yuan, one piece was sold to Philadelphia, and the other piece was sold to Bincheng, the total price is 125,000 oceans."

"So many!" I was shocked.

If you know the prices back then, a whole set of courtyard houses in the Second Ring Road of Beijing cost only a few hundred yuan, or 125,000 yuan! What is the concept? A courtyard house is worth eight hundred yuan. This amount of money is enough to buy one hundred and fifty-three units of a courtyard house!