Chapter 940: Chapter 929: Pandora’s Heart
The counters here are different from those downstairs. Compared to those, the counters here are much more refined, and each item’s display is quite large. For example, the jewelry in front of us is placed in a display case about the size of a laptop. There are detailed historical docunts and descriptions of the previous owners of this jewelry, very comprehensive and informative.
However, after searching for a long ti, they still couldn’t find anything Hua Qingcheng liked.
It was at this mont that the person in charge from the Song family appeared in front of Song Yun.
This was an old acquaintance.
Brother B!
This Brother B was the manager Song Yun had seen at the treasure building in Sunan!
Back then, he was just a district manager, but now he had beco the general manager of the flagship store in Beijing, which made Song Yun sigh at the unpredictability of life!
"Hahaha, Brother Song Yun, how co you didn’t say anything when you ca here? If I hadn’t seen you in the monitoring room, I wouldn’t have known you were here!" Brother B said with a smile, standing in front of Song Yun.
"Haha, long ti no see!" Song Yun replied with a smile, "You were still in Sunan back then, how co you’re in Beijing now?"
"Thanks to the boss’s favor, I was promoted." Brother B said, "I just took office this year, haven’t been here long, and now I’ve t you, Brother Song Yun. Is this fate at work?"
"Fate, my foot." Song Yun joked, "I’m not going to talk fate with a man!"
"Hehe." Brother B touched his forehead and glanced at Hua Qingcheng.
"By the way, I plan to buy sothing she likes from you. We’ve checked everything on the lower floors and they don’t please us. Do you have any private collections?"
"Private collections... well, actually you ca at the right ti." Brother B said, "Because later at 8:30, we are going to hold an internal auction specifically for mbers. There are quite a few pieces of jewelry for sale. You can take a look then. By the way, I have the materials for all the lots tonight. Would you like to co to my office to take a look? You might find sothing you like!"
"Qingcheng, what do you say?" Song Yun asked Hua Qingcheng.
"Alright then." Hua Qingcheng said, "Anyway, if there’s nothing that catches my eye again, I’ll go sowhere else."
"Great, follow !" Brother B said, leading the way and taking the two of them upstairs. The people on the third floor, both old and young, looked at Song Yun and Hua Qingcheng being led upstairs by Brother B with surprise. One person curiously asked a nearby staff mber, "Wasn’t that guy your manager?"
"Yes!" The staff mber nodded with a smile.
"Then who are those two young people? To have your manager personally co out and greet them?"
"We don’t know!" The staff mber said, a bit puzzled, "I’ve never seen the manager co out specifically to greet anyone before."
Song Yun followed Brother B to the fourth floor, which was the so-called treasure room, and next to it was Brother B’s office.
The office was decorated in an ancient style, many things Song Yun could imdiately tell were real antiques.
Using antiques as everyday items, the treasure building truly had an impressive collection!
"Co, have so tea." Brother B warmly invited Song Yun and Hua Qingcheng to sit down, then picked up the tea set to brew so tea himself.
"This is aged Pu’er tea, not available outside!" Brother B said with a smile, "However, compared to the things in your Song family’s house, it certainly can’t be compared, Brother Song Yun, don’t be a stranger!"
"Look at you, I can’t tell the difference in taste, no matter what tea I drink." Song Yun said with a smile.
After several cups of tea, Brother B took a small booklet from the side and handed it to Song Yun, saying, "This is the material for all the lots tonight,"
The booklet wasn’t thick, but the material was very good, a small, rectangular book that could be opened.
Song Yun directly handed the booklet to Hua Qingcheng.
The first page was about so antiques, like Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain, rosewood, which neither Song Yun nor Hua Qingcheng was very interested in.
Hua Qingcheng quickly flipped through a few pages and finally reached the jewelry section.
There weren’t too many pieces of jewelry up for auction tonight, only five items, including two necklaces, a pair of earrings, a bracelet, and a ring.
Hua Qingcheng opened the introduction for that ring and was imdiately stunned.
It was a platinum ring, the entire ring looked very delicate, with hollow floral patterns carved on the band, looking very enchanting. What moved Hua Qingcheng the most was the jet-black gemstone set on the ring.
Hua Qingcheng didn’t know what kind of gemstone this was, but the jet-black color seed to have a kind of magic, directly penetrating Hua Qingcheng’s heart, making her whole body tremble.
The shape of the gemstone was very peculiar, resembling a heart. However, because the facets were all perfect, under the light, this heart-like jet-black gemstone emitted an alluring glow, making one inadvertently want to sink into it.
Of course, this was all from the pictures in the booklet.
Looking further at the description.
The na of the ring was quite unusual, called Pandora’s Heart.
As everyone knows, in mythology, Pandora represents a woman endowed with all gifts, and such a woman usually brings doom to n. It is said that Zeus gave Pandora a box called Pandora’s Box, filled with diseases and plagues, and other disasters, and once opened, diseases and plagues would descend upon the world.
So, in short, anything related to Pandora is generally beautiful yet deadly.
And this introduction fully showcased the terror of this Pandora’s Heart.
It is rumored that Pandora’s Heart was crafted by a great dieval European artisan, and the original na of the ring was Athena’s Kiss, which was a rather nice na. The original diamond on the ring was white and heart-shaped!! However, when the craftsman completed this ring and planned to give it to his fiancée as a proposal ring, he was shocked to discover that his fiancée was having an affair. So, the craftsman took a long sword and killed both his fiancée and her lover, then cut open his fiancée’s chest and hid the ring in her heart.
Later, the craftsman was executed by hanging, and his fiancée, after being cremated, had that ring mixed into the ashes, which was discovered by soone.
However, when the ring was found, the diamond, for reasons unknown, had turned jet-black, and the originally heart-shaped diamond had taken on the realistic shape of a human heart. Allegedly, the person who discovered it felt its heartbeat when staring at it.
Since then, the ring began to circulate in the market.
If it were just like this, it would not have earned the na Pandora.
Since this ring was made, for hundreds of years, with docunted evidence, Pandora’s Heart has had 18 owners, and without exception, all 18 owners t untily deaths!
The first owner is said to have died of a cerebral hemorrhage while ’having fun’ with his woman. The second owner reportedly died of poisoning after being bitten by a venomous creature while having an illicit affair.
Up until the most recent owner, the madman who, several decades ago, commanded an army to sweep across the Eurasian Plate in a bid for world domination, died alongside his mistress in a basent. This ring was then seized by the Allied forces at the ti, handed over to the authorities, and due to its notorious reputation, no one has dared own this ring until now, when the treasure building managed to acquire it from Europe and Arica and brought it to Beijing for auction.
The reason for bringing it to Beijing for auction is unknown.
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