Chapter 2694

The next day.

At noon, Ye Chen arrived at the hillside villa of Champs Elysees Hot Spring.

Zhang Ermao had arrived an hour early to wait.

Seeing Ye Chen, Zhang Ermao said respectfully: "Master Ye, what instructions do you have for me?"

Ye Chen smiled slightly and asked him: "Zhang Ermao, did you bring the things I asked you to bring?"

Zhang Ermao nodded repeatedly, took out a briefcase from the car, and said to Ye Chen: "Back to Master Ye, I have brought everything you wanted!"

"Good." Ye Chen greeted him: "Let's go in and talk."

Ye Chen took Zhang Ermao to the villa living room. Zhang Ermao couldn't wait to open the briefcase and took out several pieces of wood of different sizes and thicknesses, but all of them were as black as charcoal.

As he took these pieces of wood out, he introduced them to Ye Chen: "At that time, you said you wanted lightning-struck wood. This is all the reliable lightning-struck wood I could find from yesterday to now. Nine out of ten lightning-struck woods sold in our market are fake goods made by humans. If you really want to know where a tree was struck by lightning, the local people would have snatched it clean as soon as the buyers came to the door. So don't look at the quality of these lightning-struck woods I found, they don't look very good, and they aren't very old, but I can guarantee with my head that these are real lightning-struck woods, absolutely no problem!"

Ye Chen nodded, took a rough look at the wood he took out, and nodded: "These are indeed lightning-struck woods. Although the quality is a bit poor, it is exactly what I want."

Zhang Ermao was confused and asked subconsciously: "Master Ye, how can the poor quality be what you want? I was afraid that these things I got wouldn't catch your eye..."

Ye Chen smiled: "I can't explain this to you in three or five sentences."

As he spoke, Ye Chen asked him again: "Did you find the old thumb ring I asked you to find?"

"Found it!" Zhang Ermao hurriedly took out two jade thumb rings that looked very old from his pocket, handed them to Ye Chen, and said: "Master Ye, look, these two jade thumb rings are from the early Qing Dynasty. The things are real, but the material is not very good. It's ordinary Hetian jade, and the quality is average."

Ye Chen nodded, took the two jade thumb rings, looked at them roughly, and said: "These things look like 'cooked pit' items. They must have been unearthed for at least several decades, right?"

Zhang Ermao gave a thumbs up and praised: "Master Ye, you really have eyes like torches. These two thumb rings are indeed 'cooked pit' items. I guess they have been out for at least thirty or forty years."

Ye Chen said: "I want 'raw pit' items. The rawer the better. It's best if they look like they were just unearthed a month ago. Can you get them?"

"This..." Zhang Ermao said awkwardly: "Master Ye, tomb raiding is illegal... In these years, there aren't many people doing this in our Jin Ling, and most of the tombs that can be raided now are broken things. It's really hard to encounter a jade thumb ring."

As he spoke, Zhang Ermao asked Ye Chen: "Master Ye, I'm being talkative, but I dare to ask you, why do you insist on wanting 'raw pit' items?"

Ye Chen said: "Zhang Ermao, you are now Hong Wu's person. In other words, you are my person, so I won't hide it from you. I want the 'raw pit' thumb ring to deceive people. If it's a 'cooked pit' one, it will be very difficult to deceive people."

Zhang Ermao was confused and said subconsciously: "Master Ye, why do you want to use real 'cooked pit' things to pretend to be 'raw pit' things to deceive people? To be honest, tomb raiding is checked very strictly these years. Like us antique dealers, we actually don't dare to want 'raw pit' things, fearing trouble and lawsuits. But if it's a 'cooked pit' thing, that's another matter. After all, it's been a long time, and it was dug out thirty or fifty years ago. Even if it's black, it's been washed white now."

Ye Chen waved his hand and said: "You don't need to ask why, just tell me if there is a way to get it done."

As he spoke, Ye Chen pointed to the lightning-struck wood again and said: "And these, I want to use them to make something. It's best if they can also give people a feeling of having just been unearthed. Do you have a way?"

Zhang Ermao thought for a while and said: "Master Ye, it's simple to say. I started by making fakes, which you know. What we are best at is disguising new things, turning them into the appearance of just unearthed Qing Dynasty official kilns to deceive people. Of course, this kind of fake can deceive novices and half-bottles of water who haven't been in the industry for long, but it can't deceive experts."

As he spoke, Zhang Ermao changed the subject and said: "But you are planning to use real Qing Dynasty things and disguise them as real Qing Dynasty things just dug out. This is much simpler. To put it bluntly, I will first handle the patina for you, then go to the soil next to the rural latrine to dig some soil, get some pig offal and pour it in, bury these things with the pig offal for a night, and finally sprinkle a bubble of urine on it. When it is dug out the next day, it will be like something just unearthed!"

Ye Chen asked him: "Can this method be discovered by others?"

Zhang Ermao shook his head: "If you take new things and do this to deceive others, they will definitely find flaws. But you are using real things to put in, so who can find out? Even if an expert comes with a carbon-14 instrument to identify it, this thing is also from the Qing Dynasty. They judge whether this thing is 'raw pit' mainly by the patina, and also by its own smell, whether it has that faint earthy smell, bloody smell, and corpse smell. As long as this is done well, they will think this thing is newly unearthed."

Ye Chen nodded and said with a smile: "Good, then this matter will be handled by you."

Zhang Ermao asked with confusion: "Master Ye, what exactly do you want me to do?"

Ye Chen didn't answer his question, but asked with great interest: "Zhang Ermao, since you followed Hong Wu, are you still doing the antique business?"

Zhang Ermao said hurriedly: "Master Ye, I have been favored by you and Fifth Master, and have the opportunity to follow Fifth Master. How can I have the heart to engage in any antique business? I have long since thrown it aside and ignored it."

Ye Chen said seriously: "The matter I want you to handle really requires you to take some time to continue to return to operate your antique business."

Zhang Ermao asked with surprise: "Master Ye... what do you mean by this? I don't understand, please clarify."

Ye Chen smiled slightly, took the two jade thumb rings and a piece of lightning-struck wood, and said to Zhang Ermao: "Wait for me for a moment."

Immediately, Ye Chen went to the inner room and used spiritual energy to set up a very simple protective formation in the two jade thumb rings, and used spiritual energy to set up a simple thunderbolt formation in the lightning-struck wood.

In this way, these two jade thumb rings became two simple protective rings, which could block a small disaster for the wearer, and this lightning-struck wood also became a thunderbolt talisman that would break and shatter after being used once.

After doing these, he returned to the living room from the room, handed the two thumb rings and a thunderbolt talisman to Zhang Ermao, and instructed: "You take these three things to do first, and you must make them look like they were just dug out of the soil."

Zhang Ermao said immediately: "Okay, Master Ye, I will handle it for you as soon as I go back! Should I send it back to you after handling it?"

"No need." Ye Chen said lightly: "You go to the Antique Street, find two smart vendors that you can completely control, give them one ring each, let them wear it on their hands, and then one goes to the arrival hall of the airport, and the other goes to the exit of the high-speed railway station, holding a sign to wait for someone. As for who to pick up, it doesn't matter. You can write any name for them."

"Uh..." Zhang Ermao looked surprised: "Master Ye, who exactly do you want to pick up? Just writing a name, I guess you won't be able to pick anyone up?"

Ye Chen said lightly: "I'm not picking anyone up, I'm waiting for someone!"

After saying that, Ye Chen said very seriously: "Zhang Ermao, the words I say to you next, you must listen to them word for word! If this matter is handled well, I, Ye Chen, will promise you glory and wealth in the future!"

Hearing this, Zhang Ermao sat up straight with excitement and said respectfully: "Master Ye, please give your orders! Ermao will definitely go all out!"

Ye Chen nodded and said word for word: "You spend a high price to let them both wait from the moment the airport and high-speed railway station open until they close every day, waiting until someone asks about the origin of the jade thumb ring on their hands. You must let them both clearly say that they bought it from your hands. Also, tell them that if the other party offers a high price to buy it, let them ask for 100 times the actual market value, and don't sell it for even a cent less."

Although Zhang Ermao was confused, he still understood Ye Chen's requirements and said hurriedly: "Master Ye, don't worry, I will definitely do as I am told!"

Ye Chen nodded with satisfaction, handed the thunderbolt talisman to Zhang Ermao, used some spiritual energy, and instructed him with psychological suggestions: "Keep this thing yourself, take it back to your Antique Street, continue to operate your antique stall, but remember, you must place it in the most conspicuous position of your stall, and no matter who asks for the price, you ask for five million, and you can't be a cent less. If someone asks you where this thunderbolt talisman came from, you tell them it was dug out from a 'raw pit' some time ago. When someone asks you, you must firmly believe from your heart that these three things were dug out from a 'raw pit', understand?"

Zhang Ermao's eyes stagnated, and he nodded heavily: "Understood!"

Ye Chen could see that the psychological suggestion had taken effect on Zhang Ermao.

Thus, he said to Zhang Ermao: "If this lightning-struck wood is bought by someone, tell me immediately; if it is stolen by someone, also tell me immediately."

Zhang Ermao said respectfully immediately: "Okay, Master Ye! I will go handle it now!"

Ye Chen sent Zhang Ermao out of the villa, a confident smile passing across the corner of his mouth.

The reason he did these was to hang a "bell" on the two gates of Jin Ling, and those two "bells" were the two jade thumb rings he gave to Zhang Ermao.

These two jade thumb rings looked unremarkable, and ordinary people wouldn't have any interest in taking a second look. And as Zhang Ermao said, the material of these two jade thumb rings was average, and the quality and price wouldn't be very high. Even people who knew antiques wouldn't put them in their eyes.

Therefore, when the two people were wearing a jade thumb ring respectively, holding a sign at the airport and high-speed railway station waiting for someone, only one kind of person would pay attention to the jade thumb ring on their fingers, and that was someone who could see through the formation contained in the jade thumb ring!

And those who could see through the formation contained in the jade thumb ring must be people who mastered spiritual energy.

Who mastered spiritual energy?

Besides himself, Ye Chen only knew of five people.

One was the Lord of the Anti-Qing Society.

The other four were the four great earls of the Anti-Qing Society.

However, the Lord wouldn't come to Jin Ling himself, and one of the four great earls had died.

Therefore, Ye Chen's target was only left with three people, and that was the three remaining earls of the Anti-Qing Society.

At present, his maternal grandparents and Lin Wan'er were all in Jin Ling, and the probability of the Anti-Qing Society earls appearing in Jin Ling had greatly increased. However, after he finished these, he had a great grasp of receiving an early warning as soon as the earl arrived in Jin Ling.

The airport and high-speed railway station were the two gates of Jin Ling. The earl couldn't drive from surrounding cities, so the greatest possibility was to take the two means of transportation: airplane or high-speed railway.

And he let Zhang Ermao arrange for two people to squat here at these two places at all times. They might hold the signs of Zhang San and Li Si, and they might squat here for several days in a row, but it didn't matter, because the Anti-Qing Society would likely not send two earls to Jin Ling, and even if they sent two earls to Jin Ling, it was impossible for them to take the airplane and high-speed railway separately at the same time.

Therefore, this doomed the Anti-Qing Society earl to only meet one of these two people, and although the earl had high strength, he couldn't know that there was another person wearing the same jade thumb ring dozens of kilometers away, and he couldn't know that this person holding the sign had been waiting here for many days.

They would only be pleasantly surprised to find that they had actually encountered a magic weapon in Jin Ling!

Although this magic weapon was only a simple amulet, anyone would want to know if they could find other magic weapons if they used this jade thumb ring as a clue.

In the public eye, the Anti-Qing Society earl also had an important mission, so he would definitely not dare to be too arrogant and presumptuous in such matters, so he would definitely inquire about the origin of the thumb ring in a low-key manner.

In this way, the clue would point to Zhang Ermao.

When the Anti-Qing Society earl found Zhang Ermao, he would find that Zhang Ermao actually had a thunderbolt talisman there.

Even if they didn't recognize the thunderbolt talisman, they would definitely be able to see that this magic weapon could have an attack effect! Compared with the jade thumb ring that could defend the body, it was naturally much stronger.

At that time, they would definitely be like getting a treasure, and they would definitely not have any hesitation about the price of several million.

However, this thunderbolt talisman looked like a piece of ordinary lightning-struck wood. Zhang Ermao quoted five million. Even a rich second generation like Qin Aodong who was a prodigal wouldn't spend so much money to buy it. Therefore, those who would buy it must be people who knew the goods!

In other words, it must be one of the three great earls of the Anti-Qing Society!

At that time, the other party would get this thunderbolt command, and would definitely be excited. He would also definitely think about finding a place where no one was around to try it out, and he likely didn't have the "Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra", so he couldn't know that the thunderbolt command he specially refined could only be used once.

Therefore, once he tried it, this thunderbolt command would turn into ashes, and at the same time, it would trigger a heavenly thunder!

At that time, not only would he know that he had come, but he would also know his approximate location!