Chapter 2912

Seeing Ye Chen's firm attitude, Zhou Liangyun couldn't help but urge: "Young Master, you must not have any direct conflict with the Rothschild family because of me. If you don't bear small things, you will mess up big plans..."

Ye Chen nodded: "Uncle Zhou, don't worry. Now that the enemy is bright and I am dark, it is easy to make the Rothschild family look ugly and uncomfortable."

As he spoke, Ye Chen looked at Zhou Liangyun and added: "Uncle Zhou, I still have some questions I would like you to answer for me."

Zhou Liangyun hurriedly said: "Young Master, please speak."

Ye Chen hurriedly asked: "I also want to know how my father came into contact with the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' and the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra'? In addition, how did my father get involved with the Anti-Qing Society?"

Zhou Liangyun sighed: "Your father had a similar experience to you. The process of him obtaining the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' is very similar to the process of you obtaining the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra'."

Ye Chen thought of some information his uncle had mentioned and asked in surprise: "Could it be that my father also obtained the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' from antiques?"

"Yes." Zhou Liangyun nodded heavily.

Ye Chen hurriedly pursued: "What exactly happened?"

Zhou Liangyun said: "You obtained the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra' because your father entrusted me to bring the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra' to your side, but your father obtained the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' by complete accident."

As he spoke, he explained specifically: "Back then, your father and I both liked to study Zhou Yi and liked all kinds of Chinese antique cultural relics, so he often came to the shop in Queens to find me, and we often studied some antique cultural relics together;"

"At that time, I hadn't started to find Chinese cultural relics flowing overseas, just doing antique business, but your father had been doing this, so I was influenced by him later and started to help those precious Chinese cultural relics return to China with him;"

"Because of common hobbies and common aspirations, I became good friends with your father. During that time, our family's antique shop encountered many troubles and was calculated by many people. It was all thanks to your father's great help that we were able to overcome the difficulties. He is the benefactor of our whole family."

Speaking of this, Zhou Liangyun sighed, recalled for a moment, and told the story: "One day more than twenty years ago, a down-and-out British nobleman came to our shop in London. Because he encountered a major change, he was in a hurry to cash in many antique cultural relics at home, a large part of which came from China. He knew that our family was relatively professional in Chinese antiques, so he found us, hoping to sell all the Chinese cultural relics in his home to us in a package;"

"At that time, I flew to London specifically to participate in the evaluation. There were 487 Chinese cultural relics in that down-and-out nobleman's home, and there were indeed many good things. Just the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan and Ming dynasties alone had more than a dozen pieces, and there were two very precious pastel pieces, and other official kiln porcelains of the Ming and Qing dynasties were countless;"

"In the antique industry, blue and white porcelain and pastel are the ceiling of porcelain, and the price has always been very high. Official kilns are also synonymous with quality and high prices, and the price is also very firm;"

"In addition, there are several palace collections clearly recorded in the Qing court, and the price is even more expensive;"

"Such a large batch of ceiling-level cultural relics, even if it is a package discount price, the lowest quotation of the other party more than twenty years ago reached 200 million US dollars;"

"Although our family's business scale was relatively large back then, the antique industry is after all a project that occupies a lot of funds. Calculating the family property, it might be one or two billion or even billions of US dollars, but a large part of it is the inventory in shops all over the world. It is really powerless to take out 200 million US dollars;"

"And, in this industry of antiques, inventory cannot be cashed out too quickly. The more inventory, the more you have to be calm;"

"Because this industry of antiques is like the stock market. What is most afraid of is centralized selling and smashing the market. I can buy ten Yuan blue and white porcelain pieces from all over the world in one breath. The more I buy, the higher the price of blue and white porcelain on the market. But I must never sell ten Yuan blue and white porcelain pieces in one breath. In that case, other collectors of Yuan blue and white porcelain might panic, then follow suit and smash the price of blue and white porcelain to the ground;"

"So, it was unrealistic for us to sell things to turn around funds at that time, and the cycle of mortgage loans was also relatively long, so we almost couldn't eat this order;"

"At that time, I knew your father was also very interested in antiques, so I wanted to pull him to partner, one to solve the problem of my funds, and two to make a profit together, because I estimated that the batch of antiques would be brought in, and then brought back to Hong Kong to be auctioned to domestic collectors, it would definitely be no problem to clear out in two years and recover 350 million US dollars;"

"So, I proposed that your father and I each contribute half, and then the profits would be split in half. However, your father meant that he could pay this 100 million US dollars, but he hoped that I could divide the batch of antiques into two. He would handle his half himself, and he wanted to donate his half back to China through the Chinese Embassy in the United States;"

"I was indeed very impressed by his decision at that time, so after this batch of antiques was won by us together, I secretly transported them to New York and invited him to come and choose in person;"

"My idea at that time was that no matter which ones your father chose and how much they were worth, as long as he chose them, he could take them away and transfer them to the embassy. Even if our Zhou family eventually lost money, I would recognize this order."

Speaking of this, Zhou Liangyun sighed: "At that time, there were the most porcelain in that batch of antiques, so I started to check and count these porcelains one by one with your father. The check was also very simple, which was to open the independent packaging of each porcelain, compare the list, find the specific details on the list, check it out after checking it, and if there was no problem, put it back and continue to check the next one;"

"When your father took out a Yue kiln celadon ewer from the packaging box, the ewer fell to the ground and cracked. Like your father-in-law, your father also clearly felt the vibration of the ewer at that time. Then we both saw that there was an ancient book the size of a palm inside after the ewer cracked;"

"At that time, we thought that the book recorded some unknown major history. We sat on the ground together, and I watched your father open the book with my own eyes, but immediately after, the book turned into ashes and disappeared out of thin air..."

Ye Chen heard this and couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that the hidden logic and trigger logic of the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' and the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra' are the same."

"Yes." Zhou Liangyun nodded and said: "At that time, I only felt a bit weird, but your father told me that the content in the book had completely entered his brain. I naturally didn't believe it at that time, thinking your father was joking, but I didn't expect him to use the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone in the shop to write down the content in the book word by word, and he couldn't stop once he wrote it;"

"I noticed something was wrong, so I hurriedly notified your mother to come to the shop, so the two of us accompanied your father. He kept writing, and your mother and I followed and bound the pages he wrote. It took two days and two nights to organize the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' completely."

Ye Chen hurriedly asked: "Have you also read the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface', Uncle Zhou? What exactly is recorded in it?"

Zhou Liangyun said: "The 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' records everything. However, its true core is actually a map that needs to be deciphered bit by bit from the text. At that time, your parents were very interested in researching and deciphering the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface'. Thanks to your father, I also studied it shallowly, but I was born and raised in the United States, and my Chinese foundation was not very good. I found that the content was indeed obscure and difficult to understand, and I soon lost interest in research;"

"Later, your parents left the United States and returned to China. It is said that they spent a lot of effort to find the place mentioned in the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface', and finally succeeded after all kinds of hardships. The 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra' was brought out by your father from that place."

Ye Chen hurriedly asked: "Is that place called the Secret of Longevity?"

"I don't know..." Zhou Liangyun said: "Your father didn't tell me in detail. He just told me that it's best for me not to know too much about these things. I believe he didn't want to say more, which must also be for my consideration, so I didn't ask in detail."

Ye Chen asked him: "Uncle Zhou, do you still have the content of the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface'?"

Zhou Liangyun hesitated for a moment and said seriously: "Young Master, your father once gave me a set of photocopies of his handwritten version of the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface'. Although I didn't study it carefully, I have kept that set of photocopies."

Ye Chen said excitedly: "Great! I wanted to study the content of the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' carefully before, but I didn't know where to find the content of this book. Since you have photocopies there, maybe I can find some clues from it."

Zhou Liangyun said with a difficult face: "It's just that, Young Master, when your father handed the jade pot spring vase containing the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra' to me, he once told me that obtaining the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface' was a disaster for him and your mother, and for you, it was half good and half bad. And he also felt very regretful about studying this book, and said that if he had a chance to choose again, he would rather he had never obtained this book and had never studied the content recorded in this book..."

"So, are you sure you really want to read this book?"

Ye Chen smiled self-deprecatingly and said seriously: "Uncle Zhou, the reason why my father regretted it was because he was originally an outsider and could have lived a stable life, but because of this book, he was involved in it and became a person in the game;"

"However, he still had a choice back then, but I don't!"

"When I was born, or when I was eight years old, when my father stripped his fate to me, I was already a person in the game."

"I have no right to choose whether to enter this game, and even whether to obtain the 'Nine Mysteries Heavenly Sutra', I have no right to choose, because my father has already made a decision for me, and my father must have been forced to be helpless. He knew that I was born in this game, and the only thing I can do is to survive in this game as much as possible."

"So, do you think that now that things have reached this point, I still need to hesitate whether to read the 'Nine Mysteries Sutra Preface'?"