After lunch, Christopher Xiao was already dressed up and urged Jas Ye, "Jas, hurry up and get ready. Take our new car and drive to the antique street. A shop there just got a Tang Dynasty official kiln vase, and I want to go appreciate it."
Jas couldn't help but advise, "Dad, are you getting into antiques again? We don't have much money. Isn't buying antiques a bit too extravagant?"
Christopher Xiao didn't have much talent for making money, but he had plenty of dreams of getting rich. He loved wandering around the antique street, always dreaming of finding a hidden treasure.
However, over the past few years, he had mostly been swindled.
He had stopped for a while, but now it seed he was back at it again.
Seeing Jas dare to question him, Christopher snorted coldly and said, "Stop talking nonsense and drive there."
Jas had no choice but to comply and drove his father-in-law to the antique street.
On the way, Christopher sat in the back seat of their new BMW, feeling very pleased with himself.
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He didn't sit in the passenger seat but rather in the spacious back seat, crossing his legs and directing Jas on how to drive while also having him play his favorite treasure-hunting audiobooks.
According to him, reading strained his eyes at his age, so he preferred listening to audiobooks every day.
Jas listened to a few segnts with him and realized that the protagonist in the stories could spend ten bucks and end up with a jade stone worth billions.
Hearing this, Jas understood why his father-in-law was always dreaming of striking it rich.
Christopher listened with great interest, sighing, "Oh, when will I get such luck? Spending ten bucks on a stone and making a billion... Even a hundred million would satisfy ..."
Jas coughed awkwardly and said, "Dad, stop thinking about gambling on stones. It's all a scam."
Christopher sneered, "What do you know?"
As they approached the antique street, Christopher hurriedly instructed, "Find a parking spot quickly. Don't make late for my appointnt!"
Jinling was a historic city, and the antique street outside the scenic area was quite famous nationally, attracting antique dealers and treasure hunters from all over the country.
The local tourism departnt had invested heavily in renovating the antique street, turning it into a tourist attraction.
Upon arriving at the antique street, Christopher confidently walked to the entrance of an antique shop and inford the staff about his appointnt. They then invited both of them to the VIP room in the back to view the items.
Jas was about to follow when Christopher turned and said, "You don't need to co in. You won't understand anything anyway. Wait for at the VIP room entrance!"
Jas nodded, "Got it, Dad!"
With his hands behind his back, Christopher followed the staff into the VIP room, while Jas sat down in the waiting area.
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A few minutes later, Jas suddenly heard a loud crash from inside the VIP room.
He then saw his father-in-law, Christopher, rushing out with a panicked expression.
He was muttering, "It's over, it's over! This is bad!"
Jas quickly approached and looked behind his father-in-law, seeing a tall, slender ceramic vase broken into two pieces on the floor, with many small ceramic fragnts scattered around.
From the fragnts, it was clear that the broken item was a Tang Dynasty Yuhuchun vase.
Having grown up in the Ye Family, Jas was well-versed in antiques and could tell at a glance that the vase was genuine, worth several million in the market.
It seed his father-in-law was in big trouble this ti.
Inside the VIP room, a middle-aged man with a dark expression said, "Mr. Xiao, this Yuhuchun vase cost us over five million. Now that you've broken it, you must compensate us!"
This man was Zhou Liangyun, the manager of Jiqingtang.
Christopher pulled Jas over, unable to hide his panic, and said, "This is my precious son-in-law. Do you know how much money he has? Five million is nothing to him, even fifty million is no problem! You two discuss the compensation. I have sothing to do, so I'll leave first!"
With that, Christopher pushed Jas inside and ran out.
Jas was dumbfounded. His father-in-law was shaless, clearly trying to make him take the fall!
Zhou Liangyun looked at Jas and asked coldly, "Sir, the total is five million three hundred eighty thousand. Will you pay by card or transfer?"
Jas spread his hands, "I have no money."
He could afford to pay, but he wanted his father-in-law to learn a lesson and stop dragging him to the antique street every day.
"No money?" Zhou Liangyun gritted his teeth, "You think you can get away with just saying you have no money after breaking sothing in Jiqingtang?"
Jas sighed, "I'm not trying to get away, but I really don't have money. Besides, I didn't break the vase. Why should I pay?"
Zhou Liangyun was furious, "Isn't he your father-in-law?"
Jas nodded, "You said it yourself, he's my father-in-law, not . Whoever broke it should pay. There's a saying, 'The debt has a debtor; don't involve the innocent.' Don't you understand that?"
Zhou Liangyun was enraged but realized Jas had a point.
If he forced Jas to pay, it would ruin Jiqingtang's reputation.
So he quickly instructed his staff, "You guys, go catch that old man!"
Jas watched them scramble to chase his father-in-law, smiling silently.
He could have paid the money directly, but that would let his shaless father-in-law off too easily.
It was better to let the old man suffer a bit.
Otherwise, if sothing like this happened again, he would still try to drag Jas into it.
With everyone from Jiqingtang chasing his father-in-law, Jas had nothing to do and looked at the broken vase on the floor.
The vase was about half a ter tall, now broken into two halves and a pile of fragnts. It was quite a pity.
However, he suddenly noticed sothing hidden at the bottom of the lower half of the vase.
He quickly reached in and pulled out a small wooden box!
Unexpectedly, there was a hidden chanism inside the vase!
The Yuhuchun vase had a small mouth and a large belly. The wooden box was clearly two or three tis larger than the vase's mouth, indicating it wasn't placed inside later but was made into the vase during its creation!
This ant the wooden box was also from the Tang Dynasty!
Jas held the wooden box and examined it carefully before using so force to open it with a snap.
As the box opened, a burst of exquisite fragrance filled the air, making Jas feel refreshed.
Inside the box lay a tiny ancient book, no larger than his palm!
Jas picked up the miniature book and saw four ancient characters on the title page: "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures."
"The na is interesting. I wonder what it's about." Jas flipped through the book.
The first chapter was "dical Techniques," containing nurous cases and treatnt thods.
Jas frowned slightly. He had so knowledge of traditional Chinese dicine, but the content in this book was far more advanced than current dical practices.
So of the treatnt thods were unheard of, and towards the end of the dical chapter, Jas even found alchemy techniques, with so elixirs having effects that seed beyond reality.
Intrigued, Jas sat down and continued reading.
Unexpectedly, the "Nine Mysterious Heavenly Scriptures" also contained sections on Feng Shui, divination, treasure appraisal, and restoration, as well as many other strange and mysterious topics.
Jas read for a long ti, feeling as if every word in the book was drilling into his mind, his heart boiling with excitent.
He had struck gold!
This was a priceless treasure!
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