Chapter 1317: 【1317】These two books are really Yongle Canon?
After the upgraded deep scan, the scanning range can be expanded to one kilometer.
The information of all items within a kilometer range is presented in front of Ye Feng.
"Go, go over there and have a look." Ye Feng naturally took Xia Qiu's tender little hand.
Xia Qiu struggled instinctively, but he held it tightly. She was afraid that struggling would cause his dissatisfaction, so she had to give up in the end, but her little face was already flushed.
Ye Feng pulled her forward, and soon saw a second-hand bookstore around the corner.
"These are the babies you said?"
Xia Qiu looked at the dilapidated bookstore. The front door was not big, and the space was only a dozen square meters. Even the signboard was faded by the sun. It didn't look like a treasure.
"Little girl, don't be fooled by appearances." Ye Feng said old-fashionedly, and then dragged her into the second-hand bookstore.
He first pretended to turn around the bookshelf, and then pulled out two booklets from the middle shelf.
Those two books are a little worn out, the pages are a little yellowed, and the cover has long since disappeared. It can be said that the appearance is extremely poor.
Ye Feng didn't even look through it carefully, so he walked to the cashier with two books, "How much are these two books?"
The boss just glanced up and quoted a price, "50,000 island national currency."
Fifty thousand to the national currency is equivalent to about 2,600 Chinese national currency, which is not expensive.
But Ye Feng still negotiated the price with him for a long time, and finally won it with 40,000 island national currency.
Xia Qiu looked at this rich man, who was sitting on hundreds of billions of Chinese national currency assets, bargaining with others for a few hundred dollars, and suddenly had an indescribable feeling.
This scene is too funny.
After Ye Feng paid the bill, he immediately pulled her out of the bookstore.
"Is this the treasure you said?" Xia Qiu looked at the two books in his hand with a look of disgust. They were so worn out that they didn't look like treasures.
"You don't understand this. I wonder if you have heard of "Yongle Dadian"?" Ye Feng deliberately kept it a secret.
"Yongle Grand Ceremony? I seem to have heard the name, but I don't know exactly what it is." Xia Qiu answered honestly.
"This Yongle Encyclopedia was edited by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di. The book has 22,877 volumes, about 370 million characters, and a collection of seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books. However, it has been lost in all dynasties, especially in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. Up to now , less than 4% of them survived..."
Ye Feng narrated without haste, and Xia Qiu also listened with great interest.
"Before, an auction house in Paris auctioned two volumes of the Yongle Canon, and finally sold them for a sky-high price of 6.4 million euros..."
When Xia Qiu heard this number, she was speechless in shock.
6.4 million euros is equivalent to about 65 million Chinese currency, which is an unimaginably sky-high price.
Immediately, she suddenly thought of something from Ye Feng's words, "You mean, these two books are... Yongle Canon?"
"That's right, these are two of them." When Ye Feng spoke, his voice was a little excited.
He was just planting willows unintentionally, but he didn't expect to be able to gain such a huge harvest in this kind of place.
Xia Qiu suddenly covered her mouth in shock, looked down at the two worn-out books, and then looked up at Ye Feng.
If these words hadn't come from Ye Feng's mouth, she wouldn't believe that these two books are worth tens of millions of Chinese currency even if she was killed.
Even if it was what Ye Feng said, she was still dubious in her heart.
Mainly because it's so unbelievable.
Ye Feng just walked into a bookstore at random, picked two books at random, and could they be worth tens of millions?
This is a bit too exaggerated, right?
Seeing that she didn't believe it, Ye Feng could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, "What I said is true, there is nothing you can do if you don't believe me. If you know an expert in this field, you can ask them to appraise it."
Hearing his reminder, Xia Qiu immediately thought of something, "I was filming a costume drama before. At that time, the crew invited a consultant. It is said that she is a professor of the Department of Archeology at Yenching University. I can ask her for advice."
After finishing speaking, he couldn't wait to take out his mobile phone to contact the professor.
Ye Feng did not stop her. If this matter could be spread through the mouth of the Yenching University professor, the influence of Maple Leaf Pavilion would definitely be greatly improved.
Of course, the premise is that the professor must be a knowledgeable person.
Xia Qiu quickly dialed the professor's video call.
In the video, an old lady with gray hair soon appeared, with a heroic look on her face, she was not easy to get along with at first glance.
"Mr. Xu, do you still remember me?" Xia Qiu immediately greeted the professor sweetly.
"Why don't you remember, you little girl is very smart, I like you very much." With a sincere smile on Professor Xu's face, it could be seen that she really liked Xia Qiu.
"I learned a lot from you during that time, and I have always admired you." Xia Qiu's sweet mouth made Professor Xu smile.
"Xiao Xia, why are you looking for me today? Just tell me if you have anything to do, I'm still busy here." Professor Xu saw that she was a straightforward old lady, and asked straight to the point.
"This is Mr. Xu. My friend found two books in Dao Guotao. He said it seemed to be some kind of Yongle Canon. Can you see if it is true?" Xia Qiu pointed the camera at the two books in Ye Feng's hand while talking. Book.
"Yongle Grand Ceremony? How much did your friend pay for it?" Professor Xu asked while picking up the reading glasses from the table.
"It seems to have cost two thousand Chinese currency." Xia Qiu told the truth.
When Professor Xu heard this, he immediately laughed, "Your friend must have bought a fake. Now every volume of Yongle Canon comes out, and it will be sold at a sky-high price. How can you buy it for two thousand yuan? Add four zeros after it." Just about the same."
Xia Qiu covered her mouth and smiled, "That's what I told him too, but he is very confident. Please help me to see, so that he can learn to be more humble in the future."
Hearing what she said, Ye Feng was suddenly a little unhappy, and began to threaten her with his eyes.
And Xia Qiu was not afraid, but waved his small fist at him instead.
It seems that with the support of Professor Xu, she has become confident.
Although Professor Xu thought it was unreliable, but because of Xia Qiu's face, he leaned in front of the phone and watched it carefully.
She was a little careless at first, but after only two glances, her expression became dignified.
"Xiao Xia, move your phone closer." Her voice was trembling, obviously a little excited.
Xia Qiu heard something strange in her voice, and hurriedly took the phone closer.
"Open the inside and let me see..."
"Let me look at the binding part..."
"Let me look at the paper again..."
Professor Xu kept directing her, and his voice became more and more excited. Until the end, he slumped down on the chair, his eyes were a little straight.
"Ms. Xu, are you okay?" Xia Qiu was startled when she saw her like this.
Teacher Xu couldn't be mad at seeing this fake, right? Then her sin would be great.
After a long time, Professor Xu slowly raised his head to look at the camera, "Xiao Xia, what does your friend do?"