Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Lin Ran was not afraid that Tang Lanxuan was pretending to be someone from the treasure hunting club. Although there had been cases where people from the treasure hunting club pretended to be staff members and kidnapped him, Lin Ran still judged that it was him through some of Tang Lanxuan's little habits.

After the car slowly stopped, Tang Lanxuan asked: "Lin Ran, there is something I want to ask you."

"Yes." Lin Ran woke up and turned to look at Tang Lanxuan, "What are your instructions, teacher?"

Tang Lanxuan looked a little embarrassed and said, "Lin Ran, I want to tell you something. You'd better keep it in mind."

Lin Ran knew that when Tang Lanxuan said these words that he should keep in mind, it often meant that it was a very important matter.

He sat up straight and looked at Tang Lanxuan.

Tang Lanxuan seemed hesitant.

It wasn't until the red light turned to green and the car started that Tang Lanxuan slowly said, "It's like this. About three months ago, a person came to the museum."

"This person's identity is very special, so I won't tell you who he is."

"He took an ancient artifact and asked me to help identify it."

"Actually, there are many antique shops in the capital, and there are many master craftsmen in the shops. Although they may not be as powerful as the experts in the museum, after all, they have experienced hundreds of battles, and they will not make mistakes."

Tang Lanxuan's body suddenly froze, as if he saw something terrifying in his eyes, and he suddenly stepped on the brakes.

If they hadn't all been wearing seat belts, this might have been dangerous.

Lin Ran was also frightened and looked at Tang Lanxuan.

You must know that the other party is the curator of the National Palace Museum. He has seen a lot of troubles and is basically a humble expert. How could he look so anxious?

It seems that a lot of things happened during the month when he was not in the capital.

Tang Lanxuan reluctantly stopped the car, with a bit of embarrassment on his face.

Asked: "Lin Ran, are you not injured?"

"No." Lin Ran replied, "Teacher, did something happen to you?"

Tang Lanxuan finally said: "Yes, Lin Ran, listen to me."

He simply stopped driving, parked the car on the side of the road, and reorganized his words.

“Very few people bring antiques to museums for appraisal, although the level of appraisal in museums is higher than outside.”

"But when you bring it to a museum for identification, you usually sign a hidden agreement."

"If the thing you bring is a national treasure-level cultural relic, it will belong to the country."

"The person agreed at that time and promised that if he could identify it, he would donate a large sum of money to the museum."

Lin Ran nodded, this is the unspoken rule of the antique industry.

The people in antique shops are the same as the people in museums. They can all help outsiders conduct appraisals, but they all need to pay a certain fee.

It's not about greed for money, it's about opportunity.

As the saying goes, you can't change other people's lives easily, and the same goes for helping others make appraisals.

After the appraisal, the other party must pay you, but how much you pay depends entirely on your personal wishes.

If you give more, you can accept it, but if you give less, you won’t refuse.

But if you give less, it will not be easy to find someone for appraisal next time.

Tang Lanxuan has a higher rank. He does not help others conduct appraisals to make money for himself, but to help the museum obtain funds.

After all, funds are limited, and if the museum wants to buy more cultural relics, it still needs to find ways to make money on its own. After all, everything is moving towards marketization.

Lin Ran nodded silently, acknowledging the rules mentioned by Tang Lanxuan.

If you go to a museum for identification, you may lose your cultural relics.

This is also normal. If you take it to an antique store outside and find it to be of top quality, the master chef in the store will try his best to persuade you to keep it. After all, picking up missing items can only be described as something you can only encounter but cannot ask for.

They sit in the store and help others identify them, but they are actually hoping to find something wrong.

Tang Lanxuan was silent for a while, seeming to be organizing his words again.

Lin Ran tilted his head and stared at Tang Lanxuan, waiting for him to continue.

After a while, Tang Lanxuan smiled.

But his smile was a little forced, looking a bit like self-deprecation.

"I agreed and then I saw what he came up with."

"At first I thought it was quite ordinary, but after careful inspection I found..."

"It's not easy."

Tang Lanxuan's tone became calmer, as if he was carefully recalling what happened.

Is it only possible to encounter terrible things while appraising antiques?

Lin Ran was really confused, but looking at Tang Lanxuan's expression, he felt that things were not going in the direction he imagined, at least not that smoothly.

"I took a look at the jade."

"But I was surprised to find that I couldn't tell the age at all."

"Because there are no marks on the jade. You must know that I am the curator of the museum, and I have been rotated from various departments. If you can't recognize it, then this thing is either a fake, or it was buried in The best among the dust of history!”

Tang Lanxuan is not a person who can disguise himself. He is relatively sincere. He cannot judge the age of the jade, but he is very interested in it.

So I exchanged contact information with that person.

After he left, he went to the library to read information.

But after searching through the information, I have never found any antiques that correspond to the image of jade in my mind.

Tang Lanxuan began to become interested, and he wanted to invite that person over for a meeting. If it was really a cultural relic buried in history, Tang Lanxuan would definitely try his best to keep it in the museum.

But when he said this, his face began to look heavy.

Obviously what is about to happen next is the key.

Tang Lanxuan said: "When I called him, I learned one thing: he was dead."

"Dead?" Lin Ran originally wanted to hear the process of appraising the treasure, but he didn't expect that the other party died suddenly.

This incident had a great impact on Tang Lanxuan. He really wanted to know what happened to the piece of jade, so he drove to his funeral.

After some polite exchanges with his relatives, he got down to business.

I hope I can buy his piece of ugly jade at a high price.

As a result, his family's answer surprised him.

It turned out that the collector was in good health, but suddenly suffered a heart attack for unknown reasons that day, and showed a horrified expression before he died.

He was not suffering from ordinary heart paralysis, but was scared to death!

When Lin Ran heard this, he also showed a surprised expression.

Because of this matter, it sounds like the piece of jade is actually cursed!

He had already seen similar things in the ancient tombs, but it only required a triggering medium, such as chanting a spell.

A piece of jade can actually have the same effect?