Chapter 104: Unifying the Folk Collecting Circle
Since Four Eyes kept trying to escape, Officer Tu had no choice but to handcuff him first.

Officer Tu's apprentice was driving nearby and waiting. When he heard the noise, he followed.

This time, the bespectacled guy was taken back to the police car and locked up.

Officer Tu followed Zhang Yang into the store.

Before he even sat down, he began to sigh:
"I was wondering, when did a Master Zhang who can make Fa Qiu seals appear on the antique street of Yanjiang Road in Qingzhou? I didn't even know about it."

"So it's you, Zhang Yang. You came here to open a shop!"

"You also know about the Fa Qiu Seal?" Zhang Yang really didn't expect that things could be so coincidental. "Are you in charge of this case again?"

"What case?"

"You're playing dumb with me, right?" Zhang Yang showed a look of contempt. "It's a case of tomb robbers fighting each other, right?"

"You also know this? This is incredible!"

Officer Tu looked at Zhang Yang with a wary look on his face, as if he had seen a monster:
"Honestly, are you legally involved in this case again?"

"Did you instigate the fight between these two groups of tomb robbers?"

"Yes, yes, yes, even you are my son." Zhang Yang said unhappily.

I'm really tired of blaming myself for everything bad.

"Why don't you think about which group of tomb robbers that four-eyed guy just now belongs to?"

"he?"

Officer Tu showed a surprised expression on his face and guessed:
"He slipped through the net?"

"Yes, he is from the gang that is against Uncle Seven."

"Uncle Qi, oh, you mean Ghost Leg Qi, right? So that's what you call him in the industry."

This case was handled by Officer Tu's junior. She just happened to be in Qingzhou and came over to help inquire about the situation, so she didn't know much.

In consideration of Zhang Yang's help in catching the escaped criminal, Officer Tu revealed some details of the case to him.

such as:

The name "Ghost Leg Seven" comes from the fact that when the tomb robber went to the tomb in his early years, he was tripped by a corpse and broke his leg. Everyone said it was a punishment from the tomb owner.

Another example:
As soon as the brothers of Four Eyes entered the police station, they were interrogated separately by the police. Several of them immediately quit, especially the eldest sister-in-law, who said that the men in their team "stared at her" every day and she couldn't stand it anymore.
As for why Officer Tu came to find Zhang Yang, it was because of the Fa Qiu Seal.

"Look at this."

Officer Tu took out a pre-printed photo from his arms.

Inside is a display of the seal, including its six sides, and the pattern after it is stamped.

"Did you make a copy of this seal for them?" asked Officer Tu.

"If you look at the photos like this, you can't be sure."

Zhang Yang gave his opinion very conservatively.

What if the imitation you make is incompatible with the real thing? So it is better to be cautious.

The certainty is 50%.

Either it is or it isn't.

"Forget it, let me ask you another way. Can you imitate a seal like this?"

“I want to order a few.”

"Oh my?" Zhang Yang looked at Officer Tu in disbelief.

What does this mean? Are the police going to organize their own “civilian archaeological team”?
"Officer Tu, if you want me to, I can definitely imitate it. Even if I can't, I will learn it right away and imitate it for you."

"Okay, that's great."

Officer Tu pushed the photo in front of Zhang Yang:
"Then I'll order 100 pieces first."

"Okay, then you pay 100 million first."

"???"

"How much did you just say?"

"One wave of ten thousand." Zhang Yang said, raising his right index finger.

"Ten thousand dollars a piece?"

"Yes." Zhang Yang nodded and said with a smile: "I sold this one in the photo for 10,000 yuan at that time."

“That’s the way things are right now.”

"Bullshit market conditions! With our relationship, don't we have an internal price?" Officer Tu said unhappily.

He wants these seals, they will be of great use.

But Zhang Yang's price was so high that even if he was promoted three levels, he still couldn't apply for so much funding.

"Is that all?" Zhang Yang asked after listening.

"What's missing?"

"You have no more bargaining conditions?"

"You're just playing the emotional card and not threatening me, like asking the Price Bureau to investigate me or something like that?" Zhang Yang asked back.

“Is the Price Bureau useful?”

"Of course it's useless." Zhang Yang shook his head. "What I made is an intangible cultural heritage handicraft. Strictly speaking, it's even a work of art."

"When it comes to art, how can there be a market price?"

"..."

Officer Tu found that he could hardly keep up with Zhang Yang's train of thought.

So he decided to look at Zhang Yang quietly and sincerely.

Exchange one true heart for another true heart.

This is obviously useful.

Zhang Yang couldn't stand the "male gaze" anymore, so he thought about it and told him:
"If I make this kind of seal, it will really be 10,000 yuan each."

"But we have another top-notch craftsman in our store, her name is Shen Yiyi."

"Her price is slightly lower, the cost price is only three hundred yuan per piece."

"So cheap? Then it's her!"

"By the way, is its quality guaranteed?" Officer Tu asked worriedly.

"Yes, for this kind of small bronze seal, her level is about the same as mine, but..."

"But what?"

"But she's a weird person. She needs you to give her a certificate because she's a student and she values ​​this kind of official recognition."

"No problem." Officer Tu said very easily: "If this thing can be successful, in addition to the silk banner, I can even write her a handwritten thank-you letter."

"Is it settled then? I'll give you a 500 yuan deposit first."

"Okay." Zhang Yang nodded with a smile.

According to his understanding of police investigations, the 500 yuan deposit was probably paid by Officer Tu himself, so there was no need to haggle over it.

Lao Hu quickly stepped aside to help draft the contract.

After signing the contract, Zhang Yang asked Officer Tu to take all the stolen money back.

If you really make money, this wouldn't be a big deal.

"By the way, Officer Tu, I've done you such a big favor, can you do me a favor as well?"

"You go ahead." Officer Tu listened attentively.

"Didn't I say before that I had helped others to copy a few bronze artifacts? You later told me that those bronze artifacts were collections of folk museums."

"Yes, that's true."

"Then can you tell me which museums they are?"

"This……"

Officer Tu had an embarrassment on his face.

He did remember the name, but it was not easy to say it directly.

"If it's inconvenient for you, forget it."

"It's okay. It's convenient."

Officer Tu was afraid that Zhang Yang would go back on his word about the Fa Qiu Yin, so he quickly expressed his attitude.

He thought about it and said in the most tactful way:
"If you have time, go through the folk museums registered in Wudu and Linzhou, and you will understand."

"I understand. Thank you, Sir Tu."

"You're welcome. Just don't do anything illegal or criminal. Thank you."

"Will not."

Zhang Yang smiled with a crooked mouth, which made Officer Tu tremble.

The latter quickly got into the police car.

He was afraid that if he stayed with Zhang Yang for too long, he might get involved in something unbelievable.

After watching Officer Tu leave, Zhang Yang did not rush into the store, but walked to the plank road by the river and called Shen Yiyi.

"Junior sister, haven't you taken a nap yet?"

"What's wrong, senior brother?" Shen Yiyi asked with a yawn.

"There's something good."

"This morning, a policeman came to me and said he wanted to ask us to make something. When it's done, he can give us a certificate and write a handwritten thank-you letter to your school."

"Huh? Really?"

Shen Yiyi, who was originally a little sleepy, suddenly became excited.

Certificate? That’s a great tool for admission to graduate school.

"What to do? Can I do it?"

"Of course you can. It's just 100 bronze seals from the Han Dynasty."

"100 pieces...?"

Shen Yiyi repeated the number somewhat slowly.

"Do you think it's too much? Then I'll ask him to give it less."

"No, no." Shen Yiyi quickly denied, saying hypocritically: "I just think it's too little."

"But when the time comes, I'll need your help to guard the lower level, I'm afraid something might go wrong."

"It's okay. This time, I will watch you from beginning to end."

"But that guy is a bit stingy. He is only willing to give 100 yuan for each piece."

"You have no objection?"

"It's okay." Shen Yiyi answered decisively, "I'm not short of money. Brother, you can use this money to buy materials. I won't need it."

"Okay, then you have the day off tomorrow, we can talk more about this."

Zhang Yang was very happy.

He felt that he had mastered the essence of "subcontracting".

When he was about to hang up the phone, Shen Yiyi suddenly called him:
"Brother, are you going out with grandpa this afternoon?"

"Really...it seems so. If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten."

When Shen Yiyi reminded him, Zhang Yang remembered that their sect had voted and decided:
This afternoon, Zhang Yang accompanied Grandpa Lu to attend an offline gathering of the Qingzhou National Treasure Gang.

Grandpa and Zhang Yang voted in favor of this matter.

Xiao Shen was against it, she also wanted to go.

But because of the incident with the raw stone last time, her grandfather had not forgiven her yet, so Zhang Yang seized the opportunity to go and have fun.

"Can we switch?" Shen Yiyi pleaded coquettishly on the other end of the phone.

"Brother, as long as you agree, grandpa doesn't need to worry about him."

"Of course not. Actually, I'm not that interested. But since you want to go so badly, and it's such a party, I have to go."

Zhang Yang chuckled and hung up the phone.

……

When he woke up from his nap at noon, Grandpa Lu was already ready.

Prepare a giant backpack that is almost the same size as an adult's upper body.

It was filled with things that grandpa asked Zhang Yang to buy.

Mainly pottery and bronze.

There is also a broken pottery figurine and several pieces of Hetian jade that have not been completely patinated.

They are all defective products.

The terracotta figurine had a slight defect on its arm. My grandfather had said he wanted to study it, so Zhang Yang gave it to him.

Unexpectedly, today, grandpa would directly smash the defective part.

It is said that imperfection is also a kind of beauty.

We also have our own Venus de Milo.

Seeing Zhang Yang walk out of the room, grandpa consciously put on his bag.

He didn't even need Zhang Yang's help to move things, he had endless energy.

"Let's go. Today I want to unify the folk collection circle in Qingzhou."

　There's another chapter coming later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)