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[The Golden Eyes]
[Episode 9]
Okay. Today, my grandson and adoptive grandson are complete.
Let's drink together and celebrate later.
But, Grandfather, I want to go back and read the letters my Grandfather left.
Okay, that's okay.
Today we just met up.
We still have time to meet. No rush, no rush.
Here wait.
Keep it safe.
Don't forget. Make sure you visit me.
Well if you don't visit me, I will come to you.
Adoptive grandson.
Grandson, go send your older brother.
Okay. Let's go, Older Brother.
- Goodbye, Grandfather Gu. - Good. Goodbye, go!
Peking University, Department of Archeology. For : Gu Tianfeng.
Qiming, the gods are really making fools out of us.
You can see the entire sky filled with rosy glow.
Fame and fortune disappear like mist in a breath (from the song "Heart of a Loafer, sang by Hong Kong singer Sam Hui).
I can't never return the life I owed you.
Fortunately, we have Zhuang Rui.
Remember? What I told you guys?
Be careful!
Carefully take and carefully put down! It's all very expensive!
Careful! Careful!
- What are you doing? - Moving things.
Go, go.
How can you do that? You are a rich person. This kind of rough work,
how can it be done by you?
Rest well. Enjoy the breeze.
Drink some milk. Do the things that make you feel comfortable.
You are so good.
Here, quickly.
Bring it inside. Gently. Be careful.
Hurry, hurry, over here.
Look! Take a look!
This is indeed the kind of place rich people like us should stay in.
It shows that we have spiritual and cultural pursuits, right?
We are rich in our hearts, and have depths.
But, there are so many rooms. How are we going to live in them?
You have to pay quite a bit of attention when you live in Sihe Courtyard.
The main room is located in the north. It is the room of the owner, the bedroom.
It is your room then.
Of the rooms in the east and west wings, those east is more esteemed.
It is normally normally used as a study. You can read your books there.
It will be the place where you ready your books then.
There is a saying like this, a nobleman stays away from the kitchen.
So, the kitchen is normally located away from the main bedrooms.
So, the kitchen is here!
This is the bathroom.
This isn't ours.
If it's not ours, don't open it.
Open, open. Let's take a look.
Let me see who gave it.
It's from Miss Qin.
There's nothing in Jiangnan.
I gift a sprig of spring to you.
Great stuff!
A housewarming gift. Do you like it?
This house is so pretty.
Miss Qin, we are moving house. We should be the ones treating you to a meal.
How is that you are sending us gifts instead?
This...is a bit embarrassing.
Please call me Bing Bing. Don't be so courteous.
To celebrate your house moving, I should treat you to a meal.
But, I'm busy later. I have to make a trip to Ping Zhou city.
So, you will have to take a rain check.
Ping Zhou city? The Ping Zhou where the Ping Zhou jadeite pre-auction transactions will take place?
Why? Are you going too?
That...Brother Ma told us about this previously.
He wants to invite us over to take a look.
But, aren't we so busy these two days moving house?
I had no time to go.
Why don't you go on our behalf?
I will stay back to guard the rear.
I came over just to inform you. We will contact each other again when I return to Beijing.
Your gift is too valuable.
This is to thank you for coming to my rescue at the Precious Stones Cultural Exchange Meeting.
I'll see you in Ping Zhou city then.
Hello?
I'm not certain yet whether he is of any value to us.
Okay. I know.
What are you looking at?
A socialite like this from the upper-class society,
definitely she doesn't belong to the same world as us.
If your youthful heart is really sprouting,
I think that Police Sis is not bad.
If you really like Police Sis so much,
I will say hi on your behalf the next time I meet Police Officer Miao.
You can't do that. I belonged to Teacher Xiao Jia a long time ago.
Furthermore, Police Sis is not interested in me at all.
She is not interested in you. Is she interested in me then?
I think it is very interesting.
I think it is not interesting at all.
She is either brandishing the handcuffs or the gun everyday.
Being with her is like filming a cop and robber movie everyday.
How can that be interesting?
I think it is not interesting at all. What is this place?
Master bedroom.
Handcuffs?
It's really exciting!
No, there are still so many boxes!
Are you expecting me to move all of them myself? Where is your code of brotherhood?
How can rich people like us do this kind of work?
When he was twenty-four years old, Feng Quan was gifted with the Golden Eyes. When he lifted his eyes and looked around,
everything in the world became clear and vivid before his eyes.
Slowly, he discovered that his eyes could penetrate objects.
His eyes could penetrate into the cracks on the surface of the objects and look into the structure within.
But, this also brought disasters upon him.
In his eyes, everything
became like death.
All the birds beside him,
cats, even children, looked like skeletons.
When he stared at the stone, the pattern of the grains in the stone
emerged layer upon layer before his eyes.
He found someone to cut the stone up.
As a result, he discovered that the pattern of the grains in the stone was exactly the same as what he saw.
Xiao Rui, this is a good brother of mine,
San'er. His roots are in Ping Zhou, and he has devoted himself to the precious stones trade.
He takes care of me every time I'm here.
San'er, this is also a good brother of mine, Zhuang Rui.
Don't be deceived by his young age. His power of judgement is so good even robbers would use it.
- Hello, hello. - Hello.
Brother Ma, are you tired?
If you aren't tired, let me bring you guys to Pingzhou's night market and take a look.
After we shop at the night market, let's go get some tea. What do you think?
Sure!
There's also a night market here?
Is it this young fellow's first time coming to Pingzhou?
In this place, the antiques and relics,
pre-auction jadeite whose price is not yet determined, are all available in the night market.
The night market has all the jade products.
Night time is a lot more fun than during the day.
So many people come to Pingzhou for the night markets.
You must go see.
Okay.
Then let's go!
Okay. Let's go.
♫ Can't tell apart ♫
♫ Whose faces are these ♫
♫ Seeking in the crowd ♫
♫ Only the moon in the water is found ♫
♫ A dream is like the smoke ♫
♫ It disappears at one glance ♫
♫ When we meet again ♫
♫ Don't know which year it will be ♫
♫ Love must travel through a few thousand years ♫
♫ Before it can exchange for one moment ♫
♫ That moment that you gave ♫
♫ Even if it is goodbye forever ♫
♫ I still must miss it by a few thousand years ♫
♫ Only then can I overcome this calamity ♫
♫ No matter how many calamities there are ♫
♫ I want to return to be with you ♫
♫ Love must travel through a few thousand years ♫
♫ Before it can exchange for one moment ♫
♫ That moment that you gave ♫
♫ Even if it is goodbye forever ♫
♫ I still must miss it by a few thousand years ♫
♫ Only then can I overcome this calamity ♫
♫ No matter how many calamities there are ♫
What are you doing, standing here like this?
Let's go. Go. Go. Let's go.
This Ping Zhou night market is all about rules and regulations.
People on the walking paths, ghosts on the bridges,
no one gets into trouble, the King of Hades will give way.
In this night market, the rough stones are all from the various pre-auctions.
Buyers are all pitting their luck and power of judgement.
The difference between paradise and hell is in one thought.
They are comparing pre-auction goods.
It is really very exciting.
- It is lively over here. Let's have a look. - Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go and take a look over here.
- Let's go. - Let's go.
Here, take a look at this.
Shine on it.
Look at this one.
It should not be a problem to make a bangle out of it, right?
Brother, I think you are too optimistic if you want to make a bangle out of it.
But, floating-blue is very popular in the market right now.
Here, let me help you look.
Look, look at the crack here.
It's cracked?
Let's continue looking.
Where is he?
Boss, how much is this?
Fifty.
- Wrap it up for me. - Okay.
Look how full this one is.
It's not bad.
Not this one.
Good color, but without moisture. Isn't it so?
The face of this Lord Guan is so well carved.
- It's really not bad. - The face is open.
Brother, look at this piece.
Look.
Rui, take a look at this one. Is it real or fake?
Brother Ma, please don't joke like this. There is no real or fake items here.
Only the difference between good and bad quality, right?
- Boss, over here. - Coming. Coming.
When you are buying things outside,
- you have to pretend to be muddled-headed even if you understand everything. - Boss, which one do you have eyes on?
- Bring this out for us to have a look. - Okay.
Here it is. Please take a look.
Look at this one.
Go. Go. Go.
This piece of jade is old enough.
Furthermore, the quality of the jade is not bad.
But, the value of jade disks with a hole in the center are not very high these last few years.
If you could keep it for a couple of years after you bought it,
perhaps it will give time for its value to go up.
Okay. Since Little Zhuang Brother also judge it to be good,
as an object of ancient sacrifice and ceremonial rites, this jade disk is worth collecting.
Get some good luck.
As the common saying goes, a beautiful piece of jade is a gift for the gentleman.
Some people of status use such jade disks as gifts to one another.
Wearing jade disks as part of their garments was the style popular from the Warring Period all the way to Han Dynasty.
I think you can collect it as a symbol of good luck.
But, this piece is not naturally aged, right?
What do you mean, naturally aged?
Naturally aged means that within the circle of ancient jade collection,
this has never been used as a funerary object and buried in the ground.
This is called naturally aged.
To put it in layman's term, naturally aged objects are clean objects.
- But, this piece— - Hey, Boss.
how do you know that this object is unclean?
From where, and under what environment, is this piece of jade mined
can all be judged and differentiated from the colors impregnated in it.
First of all, look at this patch of yellow color.
This yellow patch should be due to the color of the soil embedded in it.
And, the reddish brown patch over here, if I didn't guess wrongly,
should be during the time when it was used as a funerary object,
embedded by the color of the metals around it.
That is the reason it is stained with such a special color.
Okay, so much for all this liveliness. This is an object for the dead.
Okay, keep it.
Brother, you can't talk about it like that.
There are very few naturally aged jades.
I think you can still collect it, except that it is not worth that much.
Boss, Boss, since your are an expert,
why don't you name a price then? If we agree, you can take it away.
If we disagree, I will keep it for myself. Is that okay?
Okay. We have troubled you. Let's go over there and take a look.
Boss,
- Select the best one for me. - Please wait a moment.
- how about a 60% discount?
Boss, Boss, 60% discount is not possible.
An item that is two thousand years old is so well preserved.
Even the preservation fee is worth something, right?
You know that too. In ancient times, jade disks
are the playthings of aristocrats and court officials.
If you are sincere, offer a better price.
Boss, look at the way you talk. There's nothing new to what you said.
I am also in this trade.
This piece of jade like this, how many pieces can be brought in and sold.
we both know very well.
Consider this as selling beyond the agreement between two merchants within the same trade.
Okay?
Did you see that?
Let San'er do the bargaining. He's like a wolf.
He's really good at it.
Okay. This brother appears quite loyal.
He won't let go the moment he takes a bit.
Okay, since you already said so.
then I'll treat you as the first customer for my business.
50%. It's 50%.
Agreed.
Brother Ma, please come over here.
50%.
- Good. - Please keep it.
Sawadee krub (men's way of saying "Hello" in Thai language).
Swipe my card.
Okay, Brother.
Let me wrap it for you.
- You got it. - I got it. You collected another piece of good jade today.
Here, here, don't be courteous.
Here, let's eat.
I want to change to a bigger cup.
This place has a lot of rain.
The weather is quite cool.
I think it is too cold.
This is too cold.
Brother,
you can't drink. You can't drink anymore.
There's ice inside there.
You...can't drink anymore.
Say, what's the matter with you?
- Don't, don't, don't. - Your wine is untouched.
-Brother, - Look, look.
you drank too much already.
- Are you pretending? - No.
You know that I can't drink that much.
- If I drink somemore...Brother, don't drink anymore, don't drink anymore. - I wan to drink some more.
We have both drank too much.
- Bring me another flask. Another flask. - We have both drank too much.
He won't be able to move the two of us if we both drink so much. Don't drink anymore.
- Drink this. - Drink this?
You can drink this. You can.
This is too thick.
I found out that basically, you started to pretend as soon as you sat down.
- Right. - You can't pretend.
He can pretend. He can.
- Little Zhuang. Little Zhuang. - Right, little zhuang (pretend).
What little zhuang (pretend)? His surname is Zhuang.
You are pretending in a big way.
I'm pretending to be Sun Zi.
- Then, you must know Sun Zi well. - Right. I'm pretending to be Sun Zi.
Then go ahead and pretend to be Sun Zi.
My Brother and I had gone through many things together.
Little Zhunag, last time...
- Right, right. In Jinling last time, - Right, right, right.
he got me so drunk I sprawled on the ground.
Nothing happened to him at all. He's just pretending here.
Why are you pretending? No, no, no.
Your Brother and I,
we went through much difficulties before we managed to buy a pair of horse-hooves lion head (a kind of walnut shaped jade).
Correct. It's clear-water.
That right. Clear-water horse-hooves.
It looked real in the shop.
When we held it in our hands
and examined it, it was counterfeit!
- Tuition fee. - Right, right. Pay tuition fee.
Later, when we turned back, even the shop was gone!
So, this thing about antique jade, once you've bought it,
even if you made a loss, you can only blame yourself. Treat it as paying tuition fees.
I paid a lot of tuition fees.
The amount of tuition fees is enough for me to get three doctorate degrees.
- I keep paying tuition fees. - Here, Brother.
You look like you are just observing the fun the whole day.
What...did you buy? Take it out for me to have a look.
Right, right, right, Little Zhuang Brother.
- Expert Zhuang. - This.
- This? - From whose house did you get these broken floor tiles for renovation?
Brother, this little brother of yours is quite special.
Let me take a look.
I've seen this one before.
- Isn't this the ancient passion flower... - No,
Brother, it's Vassal State of the Western Region.
Vassal State? Do they have passion flower there too?
- They don't have any. - They do.
This is definitely... let me tell you,
this is antique porcelain. Pieces of antique porcelain, right?
Brother San,
do you know Uncle De from Beijing?
That...of course I know him. But, how can he be the Uncle De from Beijing?
He is the Uncle De from the entire antique trade!
He is the best master restorer of antique jade artifacts!
There isn't anyone who doesn't know him.
I have ever seen him restoring porcelain ware.
Is that so?
Such things as gaining from loopholes
is not a kind of pursuit.
It is something that one accumulates.
Why would there be so many loopholes for you to profit from?
It should be a kind of learning that is like a long stream of water.
Looking from the surface, it has the ability to discard what is fake and keep what is genuine.
But, what it is really doing is
Look at these few broken pieces.
This is Official Kiln?
You don't have to be bothered whether it is Official or Folk Kiln.
The value of porcelain collectibles lies in their historical and artistic values.
Although these broken pieces are not worth anything,
but if we are able to restore it into a complete object,
then its price would flip more than ten times immediately.
Although it is still a damaged articale,
its value has been restored.
So, what does it matter if there is some discount in its price?
Even if the broken pieces are incomplete,
but, because they passed through your hands,
its value would increase by tens of times.
This...
- What is it? - This...this...wait a moment.
You saw passion flowers?
This is from the Ru Kiln of Emperor Huizong's time!
- Who? - This little brother,
Ru Kiln from Emperor Huizong!
Brother,
this little brother of yours is not an ordinary person.
He will definitely become very rich in future!
Of course.
Little Zhuang,
if you become rich in future, don't forget about me.
Sit down quickly.
- Don't forget about me. - If there's anything that concerns you,
- your Brother and I... - you belong to that
last dot in the six dots of the ellipsis.
You are dispensable. Sit down quickly.
This does not concern you!
I must have been lucky.
I'm also thankful to Brother Ma for bringing me around.
He's leading the horse.
You should be following behind with the baskets.
You are Second...Second...
Second Disciple Brother.
Here, let's toast.
Why have you changed this? Where is my wine?
Here, Brother, we must drink this.
Give me a straw.
- I want to... - Drink, drink. Let's drink.
Must drink.
According to the autopsy results,
the time of death should be around 8 pm to 10 pm, two nights ago.
The composition of the blood anticoagulant from the fatal wound
shows that it is a pierce wound made by a certain sharp object.
This cause blood loss from the aorta, resulting in dead.
Switch the lights on.
When we were in the tomb of Qi Yuan in Gansu,
the bomb vest that Boss Yu was wearing exploded suddenly.
At that time, I suspected that
something has gone wrong suddenly with the activities of the tomb robbers.
His higher-up wants to silence him.
This time,
they left the body in a very remote place. To come all the way here, they must have driven.
Zhao, get hold of
the surveillance recordings between 6 pm and 12 am from two nights ago.
Take a look at the cars that passed by.
Understand.
We must work faster.
I see it. It's here. Here. Here.
Stop running! Stop!
I don't want to play anymore.
I'm so angry.
Make a call to Teacher Xiao Jia.
Hello, Teacher Xiao Jia.
It's me, your Little...Yunyun.
What do you want?
That...there's a restaurant here that is quite nice.
Do you...
Busy.
No, I know that you're busy.
But, you should have time to eat a meal, right?
I really don't have time. I'm going on a work trip to Ping Zhou city tomorrow.
When are you leaving?
I will send you.
Now. I'm going now.
My flight is taking off, there's no more signal.
I'm hanging up, bye!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Ping Zhou city?
Isn't your flight taking off?
Why are you still eating and drinking here with me so leisurely?
I'm just talking rubbish. I'm leaving only tomorrow.
What is happening?
Who...is it?
- Brother Ma. - Brother Ma.
- Brother Ma! - What is it? What happened?
There's a shadow... floating pass here!
And it floated back this way!
What is this?
Are you alright, Brother?
I'm so frightened.
- Brother, there's no one out there. - There's nothing, Brother.
Who says there's nothing?
A shadow...floating by this way...
- and floating back this way. - Brother, we are on the third floor.
I know this is the third floor. Even if it's the third floor, the shadow did float past!
Not just the shadow. The lights too.
They kept flashing just now.
Why aren't they flashing now?
They are not flashing.
Flashing. They were all flashing just now.
No, no, Brother Ma, did you really see it?
I'm already so old, why should I lie to you?
That shadow was floating past before my eyes. It turned to face me...
a gush of cold air!
Say, Brother, have you ever encountered such things in the past?
Never. Wouldn't I have died a long time ago?
What is happening?
Brother, did you collect any old goods lately?
Nonsense. Everything I collected are old goods. Who would want new goods?
No, that is not what I mean.
What I mean is, stuff from underground.
It is stuff excavated from underground that I make money from.
Don't misunderstand. I have mining businesses.
Isn't coal something excavated from underground too?
Is there anything
that clashed with our Brother?
Someone told my fortune at the beginning of the year, saying that this year will be my unlucky year.
So, I din not dare to touch anything that is old. Instead, I played with stones.
Stones!
Stone! Stone! Stone!
It was still here just now! The jade...
No, it's not here.
It can't be because of it, right?
Isn't this thing excavated from underground?
What if the yin energy is too strong and comes into contact with this jade?
Could this be the case?
What you said is quite right.
The ability of jade to absorb is very strong.
Previously, someone wore a bangle excavated from a tomb.
As a result, all kinds of things happened.
This is because the jade come into contact with too much yin energy from the tomb.
But, Brother, don't be agitated. There is a solution to this matter.
Get a Master here to perform rites
to cleanse it. After that, everything will be okay.
This is quite a common occurrence.
- Common occurrence? - Yes.
What happens if the cleansing is incomplete?
Incomplete cleansing?
There're cases of family being bankrupted and deaths too.
Family bankrupted and deaths?
Brother, it's alright. it's alright.
This thing doesn't happen so often. You wouldn't encounter something like that in a few years.
Wouldn't you be dead if you encountered it even once?
Brother Ma, please don't be agitated. Why don't we do this?
If you encounter such happenings, how do you normally solved the problem?
Say it quickly.
There's a solution to that too. That is...return the item to its original owner.
Return the item to its original owner?
Return the goods?
Correct. Think about it,
if the original owner of this item
was a master who was especially cruel,
wouldn't he be going after the buyers and making a lot of trouble for them now?
Right? Reasonably speaking, you took something that belonged to someone.
If you returned it, you will be okay then. Correct?
Correct. This is reasonable. But, I have one question.
- Why didn't anything happen to the boss of the antique shop? - That's right.
Now that you mention it. Everyone has a different life.
Right. Their birthdates characters matched each other's.
- I am unlucky. - That is why nothing happened to him.
- This brother... - I...am out of luck.
Brother, it's okay. Like what we said just now,
we still don't know what is the matter with our piece.
Tomorrow, I will get a master to perform some rites
- to cleanse it. Perhaps it will be okay then. - Don't, don't, don't.
Don't provoke it casually. We will be in trouble if you make it angry.
Why don't we...later, Brother,
I'll bring you back to talk to that boss.
Ask him to refund you half the money.
No, no, no. Not like this.
Didn't you say that antiques has its own rules too?
Humans walk on the path, ghosts walk on the bridge.
When you have sold it, let go. There's no returning or changing.
How is that now we can return and change it?
Yes, there is such a rule.
- But, this item is unclean. - That's right.
In the antique trade, this is negotiable.
Brother, it's alright. I'll bring you there. Why don't we do this?
We will leave the things here, and we won't stay here today.
We won't stay here. Let's go. Let's go.
Don't change it. Can you spend the night with me instead? Okay?
- Over at my place? - I...don't snore.
Right, okay.
- Come over to my place. - Let me go to the antique shop with you tomorrow.
Okay. we will have greater momentum with more people.
Let's go. Let's go.
Let's not stay here anymore. Let's go.
- My thing... - Leave that thing here.
Little Zhuang!
Coming immediately.
Hello, Grandfather Gu?
I would like to ask you to help me with something.
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♫ The sky loses its color ♫
♫ It's all the rain's fault ♫
♫ Can you stop for a while, just give a moment of clear sky ♫
♫ Love is an apple ♫
♫ Only after taking a bite did I know ♫
♫ That everything about the Garden of Eden ♫
♫ Is true ♫
♫ I want to be the only one in your eyes ♫
♫ Even if I would be banished to the far horizon one day because of you ♫
♫ I want to be the only person in your heart ♫
♫ Just for you, why fear the wind and rain ♫
♫ My dream is hazy ♫
♫ All because of you ♫
♫ The rare rainbows are just refraction from my glistening tears ♫
♫ What's strange is ♫
♫ I'm not sad at all ♫
♫ The feeling when I weep ♫
♫ is actually bliss ♫
♫ I want to be the only one in your eyes ♫
♫ Even if I would be banished to the far horizon one day because of you ♫
♫ I want to be the only person in your heart ♫
♫ Just for you, why fear the wind and rain ♫
♫ I want to be the only one in your eyes ♫
♫ Even if I would be banished to the far horizon one day because of you ♫
♫ I want to be the only person in your heart ♫
♫ Just for you, why fear the wind and rain ♫
♫ The feeling when I weep ♫
♫ is actually bliss ♫