Chapter 269 - Chapter 269: Chapter 269: Hundred Herbs Diagram for Typhoid Fever (1/2)

Chapter 269: Chapter 269: Hundred Herbs Diagram for Typhoid Fever

After handling the two paintings, Chen Yu hung them up.

“Ladies and gentlemen, if I am not mistaken, this should be the legendary ‘Typhoid Hundred Herbs Chart.’

As his voice fell, everyone’s eyes widened, staring intensely at the two paintings.

This was, after all, a painting from legend, said to have been created by Zhang Zhongjing to teach his students, summoning top artists to illustrate based on his ‘Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases.’

Although the painting depicted landscapes, it concealed numerous medicinal herb illustrations and prescriptions.

However, to see what was hidden in the painting, one would need to use some special methods.

The media reporters at the scene rushed forward and started snapping pictures of the paintings, completely ignoring the Buddha head.

“Mr. Chen, which of these two paintings is the real one?”

A sly flicker passed through Chen Yu’s eyes, “Of course, it’s the one on the right-hand side!”

With these words, the venue once again erupted into a frenzy.

“What are you waiting for, host? We want this painting! Name your price quickly!”

Someone shouted, and the host came to her senses. She promptly pressed the communicator by her ear, had a quick discussion with the organizers, and then directly announced a staggering price of three billion.

The place was silent for only a moment before it erupted once again.

Such a price elsewhere would represent the full assets of a medium-sized family, but to those present, it was nothing remarkable.

Their frenzy even exceeded Chen Yu’s expectations.

While everyone was going mad with their bids, Chen Yu approached a middle-aged man responsible for managing the items backstage.

Chen Yu had noticed this guy early on.

Though he had been standing there doing seemingly insignificant tasks, he was able to control the order in which the treasures were brought up.

“Since these events were set into motion by me, it’s only right that I take responsibility. I’ll purchase these ruined Buddha heads and the fake painting at a proper price!”

The middle-aged man’s face broke into a joyous smile; he had been worrying about how to deal with these items, but Chen Yu had come to him out of the blue.

“Mr. Chen, we should be thanking you. Without you, we might have never known that we possessed such a rare treasure in our hands. As for those Buddha heads, just follow the procedure and you can take them directly. Don’t worry about the money, it’s not important!”

All of this was almost within Chen Yu’s expectations, so he said nothing more and directly found Katherine to help him take all these items away.

Once everything was arranged, Katherine sat next to Chen Yu with a bit of a grievance.

“Mr. Chen, I really don’t know why you want these pieces of junk. Now that we know they are fake, we shouldn’t have gone through so much effort.”

Chen Yu just smiled and said nothing, contentedly sipping his red wine.

Earlier, when he had spotted the issue with the Buddha heads, Chen Yu had immediately instructed the system to scan everything at the scene.

He discovered that within the Buddha heads, two were merely stone embryos and even imitations from the late Qing dynasty.

The rest were all precious treasures from between the third year of Tang Zhenguang to the first year of Tianbao.

Among them was the famous ‘Central Heaven Buddha Head.’

Legend had it that this Buddha head was crafted from tricolor gemstones and was exceedingly valuable.

Thus, Chen Yu directly smashed one of the stone embryo Buddha heads to create a distraction and took the opportunity to take away all the other Buddha heads.

As for the ‘Typhoid Hundred Herbs Chart,’ Chen Yu had taken the real one and left the fake behind.

This painting was originally created by hundreds of top artists, and apart from the secret hidden within it, it was impossible to tell the real from the fake.

The replica, too, had been replicated by a great many artists summoned by Li Hongzhang during the late Qing dynasty.