"Hey guy, why are you squatting here?" A voice suddenly sounded, awakening Yang Jing from his thoughts.

Yang Jing looked up, but found that it was the boss who sold it to him just now and the pair of Ru porcelain fragments.

The guy was riding a three-wheeled cart with a lot of things wrapped in colored cloth on it, looking at him with a smile.

"Oh, it's nothing. I just thought about things just now and was so traumatized." Yang Jing smiled and then stood up. As a result, when he stood up, his legs suddenly felt sore and numb, and he almost couldn't stand firm and fell down.

"Oh, you have to be careful. You have been squatting for a long time and your legs are blocked." The street stall owner was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He sat on the seat of the car and grabbed Yang Jing, and said to Yang Jing with a smile.

"Thank you! I didn't expect that after squatting for so long, my legs became numb." Yang Jing smiled and thanked him, and then he slowly stood firm.

"Let's go, hurry up and go in. It's been ten minutes since the door opened. My location just now was a little far away, otherwise I'd already squeezed in."

Yang Jing raised his hand and looked at the watch, and then he realized that it was already 4:40. He had squatted for twenty minutes without realizing it.

"Okay, you go in first, I'll walk in afterwards." Yang Jing said to the street stall owner.

The boss smiled and waved his hand, exerted force on his legs, and stepped on the tricycle and entered the market through the door.

Yang Jing also shook his head and followed the door across the road.

It was the darkest time of the day. In the huge Panjiayuan fresh goods market, except for two hanging light bulbs at the door illuminating the small group of places near the door, the rest of the places were also dark.

Even when I entered the market, it was still dark and I couldn't see anything clearly. However, the market was completely lively at this time, especially in the greenhouse area, where hundreds of small light bulbs combined to light, which also gave the greenhouse area some light. Countless figures gathered in the greenhouse area. Under the dim light, they really seemed like shadows of ghosts.

He just collected three large-open treasures and a bunch of more precious Ru porcelain fragments, which made Yang Jing more confident in the ghost market of this era. He tightened his backpack and Yang Jing walked into the greenhouse with the crowd.

As he walked, Yang Jing slowly stopped, and finally, he stopped in front of a stall.

This stall sells various objects made of bamboo, wood, teeth and corners. There are many kinds of objects. In addition, there are several Buddha statues of different shapes on the edge of this stall.

What attracted Yang Jing's attention was not the other things on the stall, but a Buddha statue that was about fifty centimeters tall, with four arms, and seemed to be dancing.

Judging from the vaguely reflected light, this Buddha statue should be a bronze statue, but the posture of this bronze Buddha statue is really too different from the posture of the Buddha statue you usually see.

Buddhism has an important position in the history of China. Many monarchs in history have destroyed Buddhas, but more emperors are devout Buddhist believers. As for the Chinese people, Buddhism is a sect that can be compared with Taoism, and it is widely circulated. It is no exaggeration to say that Buddhism has a more powerful status in the minds of the Chinese people.

There are many uneducated old ladies and old men in rural China. If you ask them who the ancestors of Taoism are, they may not know, but if you ask them Guanyin Bodhisattva, there is almost nothing you don’t know.

This is the power of Buddhism.

Therefore, Buddha statues are often seen in all dynasties, from the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, to the Yungang Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes, from miniature Buddha statues that are only a few centimeters high to Leshan Giant Buddhas that are more than 70 meters high, there are countless Buddha statues in China.

But most of these Buddha statues in China have dignified shapes. Even the Thousand-Handed Guanyin Bodhisattva, although the dense arms make people feel a little frustrated, Guanyin Bodhisattva's appearance is extremely dignified.

The Buddha statue in front of me deviates from the usual dignified and generous tradition of the Chinese Buddha statue. The Buddha carved in this Buddha statue seems to be dancing, with his right leg bent and leaning alone on the ground, his left leg cross-legged posture sitting cross-legged, his left arm bent, his left hand is flush with his shoulders, and he is holding an object similar to the shape of a jade bi in his hand, while the Buddha statue's right hand makes the same move, but he is holding a cylindrical object.

The worst thing is that this Buddha has more than two arms, it has four arms!

In addition to the original two arms, the Buddha also grew one arm on each of the left and right shoulders. The palm of the right arm also made a posture of erecting upwards, bent four fingers, and facing forward palms.

As for the extra arm on the left, the arm is straightened to the lower right, and the palm is directly below the right palm, making a downward erect gesture. The extra two arms make the gesture of Xiaobai and Xiaohong using the "Dugen" Qibogong in the "Fast Trial"...

The entire bronze statue looks like it is in this Buddha's ceremony.

If you want to sculpt the Buddha statue into a dancing... Oh no, it should be a ritual posture. It is not without Buddha statue sculptures in Chinese history, but suddenly there are four arms and ritual Buddhas. What the hell is this?

If there is any reasonable explanation, it is that this Buddha statue is not a Chinese Buddha statue at all, but an imported product. Especially for the gods with this strange shape, the greatest possibility is that they come from India in the south.

India is a very strange country, and it is strange in all aspects, especially in terms of faith, which makes people speechless.

In the faith of Indians, there are so many gods that even Indians themselves cannot count, from the three main gods of Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu to the wisdom god of elephant head god, to the cow god, horse god... and so on. It seems that as long as they are animals, they can become gods in the minds of Indians.

Well, even monkeys can become monkey gods - Little Luoli's Monkey God uncle... It seems to be a Bollywood movie...

OK, it's skewed...

Anyway, there are many gods in India and their shapes are all kinds of strange. Although the god with four arms in front of me has a strange shape, Yang Jing still recognized the true identity of the god created by the sculpture at a glance.

That's right, this is not a Buddha statue, but a bronze statue of a god from India, and it is also a bronze statue of Shiva, one of the three famous master gods in India.

Lord Shiva has five faces, four arms and three eyes. Although the bronze statue in front of him has four arms and one face and three eyes, its posture is really special.

In India, Shiva often appears in this posture. After all, Shiva is also the legendary god of dance. They can have 108 kinds of dances...

If you make this kind of ritual movement into a dance movement, it is probably only this dance god who will do this.

Yang Jing once saw bronze statues of similar styles in an "Auction Yearbook".

The bronze statue that Yang Jing once saw was called "The statue of Shiva, the King of Bronze Dance, inheriting the mortal descending from the Ganges River". It is a bronze statue from the Jura Dynasty in Tamil Nad in southern India in the ninth century.

This bronze statue was sold at a high price of US$2.85 million at the 2015 Christie's-Jinse Nianhua-An Siyuan private collection auction.

However, the bronze statue collected by Mr. An Siyuan is only 41.2 cm tall, almost ten centimeters shorter than the bronze statue in front of him. The most important thing is that the bronze statue in front of him is not only larger, but also has a better appearance.

The image of the Dance King Shiva inherited the Ganges River that Mr. An Siyuan collected has turned black in color. The bronze statue in front of him, whether it is patina or the original copper color, is undoubtedly better. Obviously, the bronze statue in front of him should have been worshipped for a long time and often wiped, so it can be preserved so well.

I just don’t know why this bronze statue that has been worshipped for a long time has fallen into the hands of dealers in the Panjiayuan fritter market.

This bronze statue and the bronze statue collected by Mr. An Siyuan have almost no difference in other aspects except in size.

If this bronze statue is genuine, then if it is taken back for photography, it will definitely be easier to surpass the "Bronze Dance King Shiva's statue of the Ganges River descending" collected by Mr. An Siyuan. Especially recently, the Indians have actually produced several world-class moguls. This kind of foreign antique that they are unwilling to collect but are of high value. It would be quite good if they can be taken back and sold for money.

Thinking of this, Yang Jing pretended not to know anything and said to the stall owner: "Boss, how do you sell the Buddha statues here? I have an elder who likes Buddhism in my family and want to invite a person to go back and worship."

The stall owner was amused when he heard this. The young man in front of him knew that he was a "blind bear" (rookie). Oh, why is the color of his eyeballs of this guy in this color? Could it be a bad guy?

Haha, I like Wei Guoren the most. He is stupid and has a lot of money! Who will you kill if you don’t kill?

"Hello, little brother, the Buddha statues here are all genuine and authentic. Look at this stone Buddha. This was invited from the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Look at this one again. This was invited from the Longmen Grottoes..."

It is said that taxi drivers in Yanjing can talk, but Yang Jing feels that if the taxi drivers in Yanjing come to Panjiayuan, they will definitely be disgusted by these dealers in less than ten minutes!

The dealer's eloquence is so good, so roaring, so romance, so romance... Anyway, this guy kept talking for three minutes, before he could understand the origin of the six or seven Buddha statues on his stall. Even the statue of Shiva, the dance king, took over the mortal descending from the Ganges, was said by this guy to be a Bodhisattva invited from the Buddhist holy land of Putuo Mountain...

Finally, the dealer pointed to the Buddha statue invited from the "Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes" and said, "Little brother, I think you are quite sincere. The Buddha likes sincere people, so I suggest you invite this Buddha statue back."

Yang Jing thought to himself: "Since you are pretending to be blind, then just pretend to be the most." So he asked with a smile: "How much does this Buddha statue cost?"

"Little brother, please don't ask how much money the Buddha is. You are a taboo. You should say that I want to offer the Buddha 20,000 incense money..."

Yang Jing rolled his eyes and felt very regretful of pretending to be blind. Just now, while the boss was talking, Yang Jing used the holy ring to identify it and confirmed that the bronze statue was undoubtedly authentic, and the bronze statue treasured by Mr. An Siyuan came from the same place and the same dynasty as the bronze statue collected by Mr. An Siyuan.

His sister, this is obviously a stone Buddha produced in batches from a stone factory. This guy dared to speak for only 20,000 yuan, and he didn't have the name "the money for incense to be worshipped by the Buddha"! Are you a little novice monk who serves the Buddha?

Yang Jing shook his head, looked at the boss with a smile and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, the boss smiled and said, "Brother, you are going to invite the Buddha. There is nothing else to ask the Buddha. If you are sincere, you will be virtuous. So you can't worry too much about this incense money!"

"Damn, my buddy doesn't want to beg you, are you so arrogant? Don't force me to use 'good roots' for you, you're all over the ground!" Yang Jing thought to himself.

Seeing Yang Jing still silent, the stall owner continued to fool him: "Little brother, you see that this Buddha statue was invited from Dunhuang, which is a national first-class protected cultural relic. If you want to ask for it, if you don't have more incense money, do you think about the Buddha's ability to go with you?"

Yang Jing was amused by this guy, "Boss, can you be sure that this is the stone Buddha in Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang?"

"Then there are fakes? All the people I sell here are real people!"

"Okay, you just said that this is a national first-class protected cultural relics. You are selling national first-class protected cultural relics here openly. Are you not afraid that the police will invite you to have tea? Although I am a British Chinese, the blood of our Chinese Han people flows on me. If you sell our country's first-class protected cultural relics like this, are you not afraid that I will turn around and tell the police after buying this Buddha statue? Or do I just go to the police to call the police now?"

When the boss heard this, his face changed immediately.

However, Yang Jing did not give him a chance to speak, but continued, "Boss, don't treat me as a blind bear. Although I have been abroad for many years, I can also see that your Buddha statue is fresh and pissing. If I read it correctly, there are many stone factories in Fangshan and Mentougou that have produced this kind of Buddha statue. How much does it cost? Twenty or thirty? You ask me for 20,000, which is a bit unreasonable."

The boss's face changed a little again, and now he finally stopped talking.

Yang Jing pointed to the other Buddha statues without hesitation and said, "These Buddha statues should be together with your so-called Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, right? Even this bronze statue is probably not a good product. In our country's myths and legends, Sun Wuzi, Erlang Shen, both have three heads and six arms, Chi You have eight arms and nine toes, and Thousand Arm Guanyin, but I have never heard of that god with four arms? Could it be that this bronze statue was imagined out of thin air? Boss, you have to buy goods and you have to buy something reliable. Look at what the bronze statue you entered!"

"Boss, don't wink at me. I'm a Chinese from the UK and don't understand the rules in the circle. And I just say whatever I say, I can't hide things in my heart. Nothing that you have entered can stand the test. You also ask me for 20,000 yuan. Do you really treat me as a sucker? Look at your..."

The boss's face turned green. If the young man in front of him was from the country or in the circle, and he was just quarreling so randomly, it would be a taboo. Even if he hit someone, no one could say anything else. Who would let you talk nonsense?

But I just said that he is not a person in this circle, and even he is not a Chinese nationality. He is a bad guy. Can you expect bad guys to follow the rules? Do you dare to take action against bad guys?

It is considered that the police will not let you sit in prison and be able to do so!
Chapter completed!