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[The Golden Eyes]
[Episode 9]
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, too.
Anyway, we've already met today.
We still have time to see each other. No rush. No rush.
Wait.
Keep it safe.
Don't forget. Make sure to visit me often.
Well, if you don't visit me, I will come to you,
my adoptive grandson.
Grandson, go send your older brother off.
Okay. Let's go, Older Brother.
- Goodbye, Grandfather Gu. - Good. Goodbye. Go now.
[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 a 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 never return the life I owed you.
Fortunately, we have Zhuang Rui.
Remember what I told you guys.
Be careful!
Lightly lift it and put it down! They're all very expensive!
Careful! Careful!
- What are you doing? - Moving things.
Stay here.
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! Here!
Look! Take a look!
This is indeed the kind of place rich people like us should stay in.
Low profile. Luxurious. Meaningful.
It shows that we have spiritual and cultural pursuits, right?
We have fullness and depth in our hearts.
But there are so many rooms. How are we going to live in them?
In living in a courtyard house, there are actually particular rules.
The main room is located in the north. It is the room of the owner, the bedroom.
It is your room then.
Among the rooms in the east and west wings, the eastern one is more esteemed.
It is normally used as a study. You can read your books there.
It will be the place where you read your books then.
As they say, a nobleman stays away from the kitchen.
So, the kitchen is normally located away from the main bedrooms.
So, the kitchen is here!
That is the bathroom.
This isn't ours.
If it's not ours, don't open it.
We should open it. 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 the ones moving, so we should be the ones treating you to a meal.
How come you are sending us gifts instead?
This... is a bit embarrassing.
Please call me Bing Bing. Don't be so courteous.
To celebrate that you've moved, I should treat you to a meal.
But I'm busy later. I have to make a trip to Pingzhou.
So, you will have to take a rain check.
Pingzhou? The Pingzhou where the Pingzhou Emporium will take place? (Emporium: displaying of goods to people within the circle - not necessarily experts - for them to assess the estimated price prior to a trade/auction )
Why? Are you going, too?
That... Brother Ma told us about this before.
He wants to invite us over to take a look.
But aren't we going to be very busy moving our stuff these next two days?
I have 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 Pingzhou then. I'm going.
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 that from the upper-class,
she definitely 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 belong to Teacher Xiao Jia.
Furthermore, Police Sis is not interested in me at all.
She is not interested in you, how can she be interested in me?
I think that she's very interested.
I think she 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. He could see from the surface of the objects 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 were exactly the same as what he saw.
Xiao Rui, this is a good brother of mine,
San'er. His roots are in Pingzhou, 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 extremely good.
- Hello, hello. - Hello.
Brother Ma, are you tired?
If you aren't tired, let me bring you guys to Pingzhou's night market to look around.
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?
This young fellow, it's your first time here in Pingzhou. Right?
In this place, the antiques, relics,
and rough jade stones from the emporium
can all be seen in the night market.
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 it since it's your first time here.
Okay.
Then let's go!
Okay. Let's go.
♫ Can't tell apart ♫
♫ Whose faces are these ♫
♫ Seeking the crowd ♫
♫ Only finding moon in the water ♫
♫ Dream is like smoke ♫
♫ Disappearing at one glance ♫
♫ When we meet again ♫
♫ What year would it be ♫
♫ How many years did love go through ♫
♫ Before it was able to exchange for this moment ♫
♫ This moment that you gave ♫
♫ Even if it is goodbye forever ♫
♫ How many years must I still must miss ♫
♫ Before I can cultivate this tribulation ♫
♫ No matter how many tribulations ♫
♫ I will still return to your side ♫
♫ How many years did love go through ♫
♫ Before it was able to exchange for this moment ♫
♫ This moment that you gave ♫
♫ Even if it is goodbye forever ♫
♫ How many years must I still must miss ♫
♫ Before I can cultivate this tribulation ♫
♫ No matter how many tribulations ♫
What are you doing, standing here like this?
- Let's go. - Go. Go. Let's go.
This Pingzhou night market is all about rules and regulations.
People walk the paths, ghosts take the bridges.
No arguments, no fights. The King of Hades will give way.
In this night market, there are rough stones from different emporiums.
Buyers depend on luck and good judgment.
The difference between paradise and hell can happen in one decision.
This is more exciting
- than the actual emporium. - Right.
It is lively over there. Let's have a look.
Let's go and take a look over there.
- Let's go. - Let's go.
Here, take a look at this.
Light.
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, at the crack here.
It's cracked?
Let's continue looking.
Where is he?
Boss, how much is this?
¥50. ($8 USD)
- Wrap it up for me. - Okay.
[Sowing Fortune with Jade]
- Look how full this one is. - No.
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. [Duke Guan, originally General Guan Yu of the Warring States Era, is worshiped as a god of justice, wealth, and even longevity]
- It's really not bad. - Look at how this face was opened...
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 a difference of qualities.
- Boss, over here. - Coming! Coming!
When you are buying things outside,
- you have to pretend to be muddle-headed even if you understand everything. - Customer, 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.
However, the value of jade disks with a hole in the center are not very high these past years.
If you buy it, you must keep it for a couple of years.
Perhaps, its value will go up.
Okay. Since Little Zhuang Brother also judges 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 States Era all the way to the 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 by "naturally aged?"
Within the circle of ancient jade collectors, naturally aged means
that the jade has never been used as a funerary object and buried in the ground.
That's what you call naturally aged.
To put it in layman's term, naturally aged objects are clean objects.
- However, this piece— - Hey, Boss.
How do you know that this object is unclean?
From where and under what environment a jade is 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, after such intense talk, this item was actually owned by a dead man.
Okay. Just 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.
Customer, since you're 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 also know that 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.
For a 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 bite.
Okay, since you already said so,
I'll treat you as the first customer for my business.
50%. Just 50%.
Agreed.
Brother Ma, please come over here!
50%.
- Good. - Please keep it.
Sawatdee khrap. (Hello in Thai. Although how he said it here, sounded similar to 'swipe my card' in Chinese)
Swipe my card.
Okay, Brother.
Let me wrap it for you.
You got it. You collected another piece of good jade today.
[House of Harmony and Peace]
Here, here, don't be courteous.
- Here, let's eat. - Thank you.
I want to change to a bigger cup. A bigger cup.
This place has a lot of rain.
The weather is quite cool.
I think this 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.
Don't you know my alcohol tolerance?
- I want to drink some more. - Brother, don't drink anymore. Don't drink anymore.
We have both drank too much.
- Bring me another flask. Another flask. - We both have drank too much.
- Nonsense. - 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 noticed that you tend 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 pretend? His surname is Zhuang!
You are pretending in a big way!
I'm pretending to be your Sunzi. (Literally means grandson, but can be used as a derogatory word that you're inferior to someone or a curse similar to bastard)
- Then, you must know Sunzi well. - Right. I'm pretending to be Sunzi.
Then go ahead and pretend to be Sunzi.
My Brother and I have 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 lion head horse-hooves (a kind of walnut shaped jade).
- Correct. It's clear-water. - Right. 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 have been 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.
- Expert Zhuang. - This.
- This? - From whose house did you get these broken floor tiles for renovation?
Brother, this little brother of yours is quite unique.
Let me take a look.
I've seen this one before. This seems to be
- an ancient passion flower, that... - 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,
these are... pieces of antique porcelain, right?
- Brother San. - Yes?
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've 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,
it can turn even insignificant amounts of something into a larger, more meaningful entity.
Look at these few broken pieces.
This is from an official kiln?
You don't have to be bothered whether it is official or folk kiln.
The value of porcelain collectibles lie in their historical and artistic values.
Although these broken pieces are not worth anything,
if we are able to restore them into a complete object,
then its price would flip more than ten times immediately.
Although it is still a damaged work,
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 Uncle De's 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!
Brother, he was able to find one!
Fang Hua? I've watched the movie Fang Hua.
- Brother, this— - Fang Hua.
He was able to find one!
- 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 the future!
Of course.
Little Zhuang,
if you become rich in the future, don't forget about me.
Sit down quickly.
- Don't forget about me. - None of your business.
- Your Brother and I... - You belong to that
last dot in the six dots of the ellipsis.
- You are dispensable. Sit down quickly. - This...
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. - I would. I would.
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 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., 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 causes blood loss from the aorta, resulting in death.
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 had gone wrong suddenly with the activities of the tomb robbers.
His higher-up wanted 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 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. 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... Yun Yun.
What do you want?
That... There's a restaurant here that is quite nice.
You think...
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 to a work trip to Pingzhou tomorrow.
When are you leaving?
I will send you off.
Now. I'm going now.
My flight is taking off. There's no more signal.
I'm hanging up, bye!
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Pingzhou?
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 tomorrow.
What is happening?
Who... is it?
- Brother Ma. - Brother Ma.
- Brother Ma! - What is it? What happened?
There was a shadow that floated pass here!
And it floated back this way!
What is this?
Oh, my god...
Are you all right, Brother?
I'm so frightened.
- Brother, there's no one out there. - There's nothing, Brother.
Who says there's nothing?
A shadow... floated by this way...
- and floated 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 floated past me.
Not just the shadow. The lights, too.
They kept flashing earlier.
Why aren't they flashing now?
They are not flashing.
Flashing. They were all flashing earlier.
No, no, Brother Ma, did you really see it?
I'm already so old, why would I lie to you?
That shadow floated past before me. When it turned to face me...
...a gush of cold air!
Say, Brother, have you ever encountered such things in the past?
Never. Shouldn'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 a mining businesses.
Isn't coal something excavated from underground, too?
Is there anything
that clashed with our brother?
I had my fortune told at the beginning of the year and he said I'll be unlucky this year.
So, I didn't dare touch anything that is old. Instead, I played with stones.
S-Stones!
Stone! Stone! Stone!
It was just here! The jade...
- Th-This... - No, it's not here.
It can't be because of this, right?
Wasn't this thing excavated from underground?
What if the yin energy is too strong and it got absorbed by the jade?
Could it...
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 came 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 and 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 are also cases of destroyed families and bankruptcy.
Destroyed families and bankruptcy?
Brother, it's all right. It's all right.
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 solve it?
S-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 formidable master who was especially cruel,
wouldn't he be going after the buyers and torment them?
Right? Reasonably speaking, you took something that belonged to someone.
If you returned it, you will be okay then. Correct?
Correct. That is reasonable. But I have one question.
- Why didn't anything happen to the boss of the antique shop? - That's right.
As they say, each person has his own fate.
Right. Their birth characters just happened to match...
- 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 the problem is 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 provoke it casually. We will be in trouble if you make it angry.
This... Why don't we... later...
I'll bring you back to talk to that boss.
Ask him to refund you half the money.
No. No.
Didn't you say that antiques have their own rules, too?
Humans walk on the path, ghosts walk on the bridge.
When you have sold it, let go. There's no return or exchange.
How come now, we can return or exchange 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 all right. I'll bring you there. Why don't we do this?
We will leave the things here, and let's not stay in this room.
We won't stay here anymore. Let's go.
Don't get me another room. How about you just sleep with me tonight?
- My room? - I don't snore.
Right, okay.
- Come to my place. Let's go. - Let me go with you two to the antique shop tomorrow.
Sure. 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.
Oh, my god...
- Little Zhuang! - Yes!
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 ♫