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"So it turns out that many years ago, you two were fighting shoulder to shoulder. Brother Yu, Brother Chen, now I have fought alongside you, I am very happy to be able to join you two!" Silang said.

Lao Yu nodded his head: "I am also very happy to meet a little brother like you."

He did not mention that during the fierce battle against Ah Da, Silang wanted to hold back.

"However, Brother Yu, brothers and sisters still need to settle their debts. I will help you all find the Nine eyes Heavenly Bead, but after finding it, you must not lose my ten million." Silang emphasized.

Lao Yu: "Don't worry, I have plenty of money from your Brother Yu, we will have to work harder to create and sell Heavenly Bead s later. Because of the puppeteer incident, we have wasted our time recently."

Chen Xi opened his mouth and said: "Looking at our situation, we will be able to leave the hospital in two days."

At that moment, there was a knock on the door.

Lao Yu turned his head to look and saw that, the boss of Antique City, had appeared at the door.

Lao Yu gestured for him to come in, and Xu Liang walked into the room with a guilty look on his face. He placed the two boxes of Insect Caterpillar Grass on the table and bowed three times to Lao Yu and the others, then said: "Lao Yu, I was in the wrong earlier.

"Boss Xu, what are you doing?" Lao Yu said.

"Officer Jeb has already told me about you two helping me catch the Thang-ga, I was very touched when I heard it. Although we were neighbors for the past few years, but the facts that I did did did not stand up to you, I was always against you, and in the end, when I got into trouble, you actually took revenge on me for my virtue. Brother Yu, you are my big brother, in the future, if anyone dares to speak ill of you in Antique City, I, Xu Liang, will be the first to refuse!" Xu Liang said emotionally.

Lao Yu immediately waved his hand: "We are neighbors, you don't have to feel sorry for me for what you should do, it's fine."

As he spoke, Lao Yu glanced at the Insect Grass that Xu Liang had brought over. After estimating its weight, he said in his heart that these two boxes of Insect Grass should at least be worth tens of thousands and thus, he was unwilling to accept such a precious gift, and said: "Lao Xu, you should take these two boxes of Insect Grass back first. This time, helping you to find the Thang-ga was actually a coincidence.

Xu Liang, however, firmly disagreed, and said: "Brother Yu, that Thang-ga was worth millions, this bit of Insect Grass is only worth a few tens of thousands of dollars, regardless of what your original intentions were, in reality, you have helped me find the Insect Thang-ga, you have to accept this Insect Grass!"

Lao Yu looked troubled, and after a moment of hesitation, he nodded: "Since that's the case, then I can only accept your request."

"That's right, you all have to recuperate from your injuries in order to help me." Xu Liang said with a smile.

After exchanging greetings, Xu Liang left the hospital. Lao Yu opened the insect box, took out the Insect Grass and sniffed it, then placed a Insect Grass into his mouth and chewed on it. He frowned: "Pah, this is the same Insect Grass from last year, it isn't worth much, it's only worth a few tens of thousands."

Silang was a little doubtful, and asked: "Brother Yu, you helped him to recover the Thang-ga that was worth millions, why did he just buy some old grass for you? Could it be that he was tricked by someone and spent a high price to buy Chen grass? "

Lao Yu laughed coldly: "Before Xu Liang started the antique business, he had been in the insect grass industry for a few years, I can understand why you said that other people would buy insect grass and be cheated, but I do not believe that you would say that he was cheated, Silang, you are still young and inexperienced, Xu Liang is still a villain. He knows that we have to show our gratitude to us for helping him catch the Thang-ga, but he did not want to spend a large sum of money, didn't he just buy the previous years' worth of bug grass to fool people?

Chen Xi also opened his mouth: "Silang, as the saying goes, one should know the face but not the heart, Lao Yu is right, Xu Liang is an ungrateful and short-sighted person, if not, with Lao Yu's personality, why did he make such a big fuss over nothing? Look, that year when we helped Ciluo, Ciluo gave us the Heavenly Bead and gave us another hundred thousand as a thank you, the hundred thousand yuan from that era was at least equivalent to today's one million. If you look at Xu Liang again, in order to help him find the Thang-ga, we were almost exterminated by that puppeteer. Silang, the human heart is sinister, and not everyone is kind and honest, on this point, you should learn more from your Brother Yu, he has a good eye for people. "

Silang nodded seriously, as he thought back to what Chen Xi had said to him, and felt a sense of disgust towards him.

Just then, Lao Yu's phone rang. He glanced at his phone, it was from an old customer.

"Hello, Boss Zhao?" Lao Yu said.

"Lao Yu, how's your business recently?" A lazy male voice came over the phone.

"Just so-so. What about you? Are you rich?"

"You're still like that, I won't nag you anymore. Do you have the copper gilded statue that you brought in during the Eternal Music Era?"

"Yes, which year do you want to enjoy life forever? How big, what kind of appearance, what subject are you talking about? I'll make it for you now!"

"Any year is fine. It's all quality, from 25 to 30 centimeters high. Immeasurable Sentinel, if it's passed down, don't create an unearthed piece for me, can you?"

"No problem, but it might be a bit long. I estimate that it'll take at least a month to keep it safe, as you know, I want 20,000 yuan. If you think it's alright, then I'll give you 10,000 yuan as deposit."

"Alright, I'll give you two months time to transfer money."

After hanging up, a voice message quickly came through Lao Yu's phone, saying, "The payment is ten thousand dollars." Silang, on the other hand, opened his eyes wide and asked in confusion: "Brother Yu, I didn't hear wrong, isn't Yongle the emperor of the Ming Dynasty?

"Of course I didn't hear wrong. Boss Zhao, Zhao Huaiyuan wants a Immeasurable Scented Buddha, a copper gilded statue from the Elysian years. I made it for him right now, no problem, everyone knows that I, Yu Jingyan, am selling it for blind work, and he is begging for a copy. Do you think that he wants me to get the real one for him? I don't have the time, furthermore, other than the Pure Heavenly Bead, I don't have to deal with any other antique classes, but let's talk about imitation work. Other than the fact that I have rich experience in New Heavenly Bead s, I also have a lot of experience in creating statues, Thang-ga s, magic tools, miscellaneous items, and so on, and so on. As you can see after a long time, last time there was someone who wanted me to help him make a Tang Dynasty stool Buddha, I also took a month or two before I finished. " Lao Yu said in a matter-of-factly tone.

Silang nodded his head, and asked softly: "Brother Yu, then does this count as a fraud?"

"It's fine, it's still a scam. I only earned money for crafts. The buyer knows that it was a blind job and I didn't ask for a random price. I didn't tell him that the Buddha statue I made was real, so it's not really a scam." Lao Yu said.

Silang thought about it, and felt that what Lao Yu said made sense. If Yu Jingyan made a new Buddha statue and sold it as the old one, that would be called cheating.

But then again, in this business there is no such thing as cheating, where people are willing to buy and sell, where they have the eye, and where the ability to pick up the loot (antique jargon, where the buyer buys an antique at a lower price), where the seller doesn't pay for it, where the buyer eats the medicine (antique jargon, where the buyer buys the fake or the inferior stuff at a high price), where the rules are set, where the money is delivered at one hand, and the money is sold at the same time, and no matter the loot or the medicine, the seller takes the burden and doesn't want to find trouble with the seller.

Although Lao Yu could not be considered a proper antique dealer, he had always been very obedient and had his conscience. He sold all kinds of blind jobs, but he never took them for real.

Just like Boss Zhao had asked him to make Mingyongle Infinite Life-Buddha, he calculated that the cost was around ten thousand and the price was twenty thousand, which meant that he had to work hard for ten thousand yuan.

After that, Lao Yu called a craftsman in charge of crafting and casting Buddha statues. After explaining the requirements of Boss Zhao, the person on the other side of the phone agreed readily, ensuring that it was completed within half a month.

Lao Yu did not know how to create Buddha statues, but he knew how to make old ones.

The craftsman who hid behind the scenes was his old friend who helped him forge more than 50 Buddha statues. After they were handed to him, he would sell them according to the buyer's request. He and the craftsman would each receive their share of the money.

"Brother Yu, are the statues in the Eternal Music Era so easy to fake?" Silang asked again.

Lao Yu pointed to the door of the ward, which Silang immediately understood, and used the bed sheets to close the gap between the doors. Lao Yu then took out a cigarette and lit it up, and said: "I shall recount to you, the construction of the statues in the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the pinnacle of the creation of all the generations of the Chinese people. From the early days of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, from Emperor Yongle to Emperor Xuan De, all those years of power and wealth flourished in the country, the social productivity was unprecedented. It also became a big center for the spread of Tibetan Buddhism in the Mainland.

Emperor Yongle himself is a pious disciple of the Tibetan Buddhism. Within nine years, Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, has been bestowed with the titles of two great Law Protectors, five Great Education Kings, as well as a few Imperial Scholars, State Scholars, and Zen Masters. He has also bestowed many everlasting Buddha statues to the senior monks of the Emperor Yongle. Therefore, there are not many statues of Buddha in the history of the Ming Dynasty that have been circulating around the world.

As for why Ming Yongle was famous for his image, it was just as I said before. Back then, his country was powerful, and he was supported by the emperor. 'Buddhist works' were highly skilled at creating statues, and the Buddha statues he created could be said to have reached the pinnacle of perfection in the entire history of Buddha statue creation.

In simple terms, the sculptural style of this period, the Buddha statue's face was relatively broad and flat, the body structure was well-proportioned, the shoulders were thin and waist was slender, the body shape was dignified, the limbs were beautiful and full of muscles, there was a strong sense of power, the garment lines, decorations, lotus petals, etc. all had their own specific patterns, the bottom of the Buddha statue was cut by eight classic knives, these were all the fixed styles of the Ming Dynasty's Yongxuan statue.

Therefore, when we imitate Yongxuan's statue, we must pay attention to the style described above. When we create Buddha statues according to the style and style mentioned above, even if we are experts in the field, we would subconsciously recognize them to be the standard tool for creating Yongxuan's statue, because every detail of the Buddha statues we forge is strictly according to the actual Yongxuan statue. "

Lao Yu's words had greatly benefited Silang. After he carefully savored it, he said: "In short, the Ming Dynasty's Yongxuan statue creation skills are extremely high, and there are many standard details, so when you are imitating the statue, as long as you copy the details one by one, you will be mistaken for a genuine Yongxuan statue, right?"