Yan Leisheng
Chen Jianjun is a native of Yixian County, Anhui Province. His parents were ordinary wage earners and did not live well, but the family had a small ancestral house. When Chen Jianjun was a child, he heard from his parents that this house was bought by his grandfather. Grandpa Tai was originally mixed in Shanghai, but after making a fortune, he did not settle in Shanghai like others, but returned to his hometown and bought this house.
Grandpa Tai's fortune was also a legend at that time. People say that he accidentally rescued an old Taoist priest who was in distress, and the old Taoist priest gave him a treasure and later sent his home. But after Grandpa Tai died, the family fell into ruins, and Chen Jianjun's grandfather could only work as a worker to make a living at a young age. In the late 70s, Chen Jianjun lived in an ancestral house with his parents and grandparents, and he was safe.
Chen Jianjun was born in 1970 and attended elementary school in 1977. At that time, there was a calligraphy class in school, and I had to practice two large characters when I went home. After buying a brush, because there was no place to put it, his father wanted to buy him a pen holder, but he heard his grandfather say: "What to buy this, I saw an old pen holder thrown away in the west wing room, wash it and use it." ”
Because the Chen family has a large house, they can't finish living, and the west wing room has been used to pile up sundries. Chen Jianjun's grandfather went in to look for it, and sure enough, he found it, it was made of bull horn, and a copper seat was set underneath.
After washing it, there were still three words on the copper seat, but they were very strange fonts, and Chen Jianjun did not recognize them. This thing is quaint, but there is a small horn missing at the top of the horn, and grandpa said that when grandpa was dying, the house was in chaos, and he fell down and broke it. Because no one at home used it, it was always there.
Chen Jianjun liked this tube very much, and played with it in his hand every day, and he had to do his homework if his father scolded. His parents' education level is not high, and he can still tutor in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in the first and second grades, and he can't cope with the four calculations in the third and fourth grades, so he can only go with him, so Chen Jianjun does homework every day is a hard work.
On this day, Chen Jianjun encountered a problem when he was doing his homework, and he also wanted to be upset, so he simply wrote big characters first. It's just that this question is in his heart, and he has been thinking about what to do. Just thinking about it, I suddenly heard someone whispering in my ear, and it seemed that it was the steps to solve the problem.
Chen Jianjun immediately listened and found that the sound came from the pen holder, as if there was a radio with a very small sound inside. He was surprised and delighted, and made the question at once, thinking that he really had a baby. Later, if there was any problem, he would listen to this tube, but sometimes he could hear it, sometimes he couldn't hear it, and he really didn't understand what was going on.
Once there was a question and couldn't do it, he once again put his ear to the pen holder to listen, but he heard a voice from inside saying: "Ze Qiusai rough drop", the accent is very strange, really incomprehensible, he is also inexplicable. When I went to class the next day, a substitute math teacher came to the class, who spoke Cantonese Mandarin, which was very difficult to understand, and when explaining yesterday's difficult problem, the teacher said: "This question is wrong." ”
As soon as he heard this voice, Chen Jianjun suddenly realized that the strange words he heard yesterday meant exactly this thing. He also understood that what he heard was actually the sound of the teacher explaining the homework the next day, but not every time he explained, and the voice was a little deformed, if it were not for this teacher's very characteristic general language, I am afraid that he would not be able to hear it now.
As soon as he figured out this secret, he couldn't help but be ecstatic. It's just that although this tube is a treasure, it doesn't seem to be of much use. Because he had to know the topic that would be explained the next day, he could hear the answer from the pen holder in advance, and naturally it was impossible to know the topic in advance during the exam, and he couldn't hear the sound at all. What's more, the sound coming from the pen holder is very low and slight, and it is also very blurry, and it is really inaudible.
But even so, having this tube is equivalent to having a home teacher, and most of the problems that you don't understand can be hinted at, and Chen Jianjun's grades suddenly improved, and when he entered junior high school, he was already at the top of the class.
At this time, Chen Jianjun joined the school's physics interest group, and was assembling speakers after class, and suddenly had a whim - the sound in the pen holder is so low, if it is equipped with a resonance box, can't the sound be amplified? He said just do it, removed the speaker of the speaker, buckled the pen holder on it, and listened closer. Sure enough, the voice suddenly became much louder and clearer.
Just a few minutes after listening to it, suddenly there was a "click", but there was no sound. He fixed his eyes and saw that the horn had been split in half. Chen Jianjun was distressed and got white glue to glue it, but no matter how he fiddled with it, he could no longer hear the sound coming from it.
Seeing that the matter had come to this, Chen Jianjun couldn't help but regret it, but there was nothing he could do. Fortunately, although he did not have a pen holder, he had also developed a good habit of studying, and his grades rose steadily, and at the end of the 80s of last century, he was admitted to university, and after graduation he became a national cadre, which can also be regarded as a glorious ancestor.
Time entered the 90s of the last century, and Chen Jianjun has already started a family. At that time, there was a treasure connoisseur program on TV, which was dedicated to identifying various treasures collected by the people. Chen Jianjun saw it by chance and remembered this pen holder. Although he never heard the sound from it after cracking, he kept it well. So I signed up and took the pen holder to the TV station.
At that time, there were three experts in treasure connoisseurship, but after reading it, they had different opinions, one said that it was a Song Dynasty product, the other said that it was a Tang Dynasty cultural relics, and the youngest expert surnamed Luo had been silent, just typing a few words haha, probably not visible. Whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, it is a pity that it is damaged, otherwise it can be worth tens of thousands.
At this time, the show was about to end, and Chen Jianjun asked casually when he was about to leave: "What are the three words on this bronze seat?" This question stumped the old expert. He looked at it for a long time before saying, "I can't see what font it is, it may be just a decorative pattern." ”
His words fell, and the expert Luo, who did not speak very much, suddenly said: "It's the three words 'Di Listening Horn'." ”
Chen Jianjun didn't expect this person to recognize it, so he asked, "Does Sir know about this thing?" ”
Expert Luo said that he had never seen it, but he had heard his father talk about it. It turned out that this expert Luo had quite a background, and his father was the adopted son of Hartung, a wealthy merchant in Shanghai in the early 20th century. Around 1920, the monk of Mount Wumu, who had designed and built the Ai Li Garden for the Hartung couple, suddenly came to visit and said that he wanted to borrow an antique Listening Corner from the Hartung House.
Although this Wumushan monk is a monk, he has great ambitions and is Sun Yat-sen's best friend. It's just that it's a little strange that he is a foreigner to borrow this thing, and Hartung asked him what was the use, and the monk Wumushan just laughed and didn't answer.
At that time, the monk of Mount Wumu had a small sami by his side, and he was very familiar with Hartung's housekeeper, Ji Juemi. Ji Juemi secretly asked him what was the use of the Wumushan monk's use of the Di Listening Horn, and Na Shami said that Mr. Sun wanted to establish the Shanghai Stock Exchange to raise funds, so the Wumushan monk had this trip. It's just that antiques and securities and items exchanges are too far apart, and Ji Juemi can't think of the relationship between the two even if he wants to break his head.
After the death of the monk of Mount Wumu, Ji Juemi went to the Qixia Temple in Nanjing, where he had hung up the order, to recover the object, but heard from the monk that the thing was taken away by the Shamiu scroll next to the monk of Mount Wumu. Although Ji Juemi knew Na Shami, he only knew that his surname was Chen, he was originally from Anhui, and he knew nothing else.
When Chen Jianjun heard this, he suddenly realized. This listening angle can hear the news of known objects, and most applicable, it is stocks. With this, you can know the stock price the next day in advance, no wonder Grandpa Tai was able to make a windfall in Shanghai.
However, when he got this truth, there was no such thing as securities in China, and he could only use it to listen to the teacher's lectures.
Although he later tried in every possible way to repair the true hearing angle, he was unsuccessful, so he had to treasure this hearing angle at home.
Excerpted from "Ancient Legends and Stories Edition" (Duan Mingtu)