Eight hundred and eighty-first chapters (Chapter Three)
Chapter 881 Ming Weapon (3)
"Boss, don't be angry, he is just a jerk and can't speak..."
Zhang Daniu kicked his younger brother on the butt, apologized to Zhuang Rui, and then said: "Boss, if you have anything to ask, just ask. As long as we know, we will tell you..."
"me……"
Zhuang Rui was so annoyed by that bastard that he almost forgot to ask anything. He originally doubted whether the two brothers were oboe singers, but now it seems that they don't look like it. Zhang Erniu simply has a missing string in his mind.
"Don't ask? Then let's take a look..."
Erniu put the package in his hand on the table and said, "We are just here to sell things, why do you ask so many questions?"
"You dare to sell, but you want me to dare to buy?"
Zhuang Rui smiled bitterly in his heart, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "Er Niu, I'll just talk to your brother. You go out to eat. The food delivery guy will be here soon..."
Zhuang Rui really couldn't talk to Zhang Erniu. With him interrupting, Zhuang Rui couldn't ask anything.
"Okay, okay, brother, I'm going out then..."
As soon as Zhang Erniu heard that there was food to be eaten, his eyes immediately lit up, and he turned around and ran outside. In his heart, regardless of whether the food could be sold or not, just being able to eat such delicious food made the trip worthwhile.
After Er Niu went out, Zhuang Rui breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Zhang Daniu, and asked: "Daniu, can you tell me where these things come from?"
"Boss, is this what you're asking about?"
When Zhang Daniu heard this, he grinned and said, "Where else could this come from? It was dug out of the ground. Er Niu and I dug these. Don't worry, they are definitely ours..."
When Zhuang Rui heard this, he was stunned. He was already mentally prepared to hear the story, but he didn't expect that this big cow actually admitted that it was obtained by robbing a tomb, which made Zhuang Rui unable to ask any more questions.
Zhuang Rui was silent for a moment, then asked: "Daniu, where is your family from?"
"We are from Mengjin County, Henan, which is close to Luoyang, but our village is in the mountains. This is the first time we have traveled so far..."
Zhang Daniu didn't know why Zhuang Rui asked these questions. But he had a very good impression of this boss and told him everything. He even didn't hide the fact that his parents gave them a younger sister last year.
Zhuang Rui now knew that these two brothers were either scammers or oboe singers, but they were real farmers in Mengjin County, Henan.
Daniu was a bit better, he went to primary school for 2 years, Erniu couldn't even write his own name, he was completely illiterate. Originally, the two brothers also went out to work, but Erniu had a too straight temper and beat up the foreman.
After that, the two went home to farm again.
However, there is no money for farming these days. When they saw their neighbors robbing graves, the two brothers joined Feng. They were lucky enough to dig a large tomb that had not been touched and found many good things.
Other tomb robbers usually have subordinates, but these two brothers didn't know anyone. They took the things to the villagers to see, but the others were only willing to pay a few hundred yuan, so the two brothers added up.
You might as well go to *** City to find a buyer, why not... Now you're sitting in front of Zhuang Rui.
Others have almost told you your parents, what else does Zhuang Rui have to ask? He immediately said: "Okay, Daniel, open the package, let me take a look at the things..."
"Hey, well, I just went to a store that sells antiques. The guy actually said it was fake, but the old man of the store asked us to go there in the afternoon. If you like it, boss, these things will be sold to you. You
More kind than that old man..."
When Daniel heard Zhuang Rui's words, he happily spread the package on the table. He said this not because he was deliberately showing off his belongings so that others would rush for them, but because he just went to another store and didn't even drink.
When I finally saw his item, the young man actually said it was fake.
But when I arrived at Zhuang Rui, I only had to eat and drink, and the treatment was completely different. Farmer brothers are really, if they receive favors from others, they don't put it into practice, and they always think about how to repay it.
"This this"
Seeing the object that Daniel took out from the package, Zhuang Rui was stunned. He just sensed it with his spiritual energy, but now that he saw the real thing, he was a little dumbfounded.
The first thing Daniel took out was a bronze candlestick about thirty centimeters high.
The entire candlestick is covered with bronze rust, and the shape is very exquisite. A woman with one sideburn on her head is kneeling on the ground, holding a lotus eight-petal tray with both hands. There is a small hole in the tray, which is connected to the woman's body. This should
This is where the wick is inserted.
The entire candlestick is hollow, and the fuel inside has long evaporated over the years. However, the craftsmanship of this candlestick is so exquisite and ingenious that Zhuang Rui has never seen it among the stolen goods from Yu's tomb robbery gang. Apart from anything else, it is just
This bronze candlestick can be called a national treasure.
However, what makes Zhuang Rui sad is that there is a flaw at the bottom of the candlestick. There should have been a fixed bracket, but now it is missing. It was obviously broken by violence.
Zhuang Rui asked Da Niu, and sure enough, the candlestick was originally embedded in the wall of the tomb corridor, but Er Niu was stunned and pulled it down with brute force.
Zhuang Rui took a closer look and saw that there was no inscription on the bronze candlestick. The green embroidery on the body was very thin and seemed to be faintly glowing with a layer of golden light. Technically speaking, this is called pan-gold, which is mostly seen in cultural relics unearthed in Shaanxi, Henan and Gansu.
Pan-gold does not mean that the objects are plated with mercury or gold when they are cast, but that bronzes form a special oxide layer in a specific soil environment. In the old days, they were also called "returning gold" or "returning copper."
This phenomenon usually only appears on bronzes that have just been cast and have not been used yet. In addition, they must have been located in arid and sandy soil environments for generations, and the tomb passages must be tightly sealed and have never been stolen. Only then can top quality products appear.
of golden bronze.
In the eyes of some experts who only have theories, such objects seem to be fake. It is estimated that the antique shop that the Zhang brothers visited just now was attended by a white-necked expert (an expert with theories but no practice).
The monkey also entered the room at some unknown time, looked at the bronze candlestick in Zhuang Rui's hand, and said: "Brother Zhuang, I saw this thing this morning. It should have come from the big tomb, but I can't tell what kind of tomb it is."
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"This is an object unearthed from a dry pit. It is extremely well preserved and is more valuable than some things from water pits. Judging from the shape and shape of this candlestick, it is in the style of the Han Dynasty. A tomb built in this style is at least that of a prince...
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The puddle artifacts mentioned by Zhuang Rui were mostly unearthed in Hunan, Hubei and Zhejiang areas. They are usually brightly colored, and most of their surfaces are as smooth as mirrors, either green or shiny black, as if they had just been fished out of the water.
from.
After giving the monkey some answers, Zhuang Rui looked at the other objects, the same bronze candlestick as he was holding, and four more, all with the same shape. It seemed that the corridor of the tomb was not short.
"Daniu, when you first took it out, was there color on it?" Zhuang Rui asked Zhang Daniu, holding a 20-centimeter-tall pottery figurine.
Zhang Daniu had a look of surprise on his face, nodded repeatedly, and said: "Yes, boss, how did you know that? It's very beautiful, but I don't know what happened. When I took it out, all the colors were gone..."
"Oh, what a pity, Daniel, have you cleaned out the things in the tomb?"
Looking at these pottery figurines, Zhuang Rui felt helpless in his heart. If the glazed pottery figurines were well maintained, they might not be able to remain as they were, but now they are all destroyed.
"Boss, why are you asking?"
When Zhang Daniu heard Zhuang Rui's words, he showed a vigilant look on his face. Zhuang Rui knew from his look that there must be something in the tomb.
"Daniu, do you know that digging ancient tombs is illegal?" Zhuang Rui asked tentatively.
After hearing what Zhuang Rui said, Daniel waved his hands nonchalantly and said, "What kind of law are you breaking? There are graves everywhere in our place. At least hundreds of people in a village are digging them. Some of them just rely on digging graves."
We built a small western-style house and married a wife, so why can others dig it out while we can’t?"
The Daniel brothers also saw that others were robbing tombs at night and sleeping during the day. They lived a very happy life and seemed to never run out of money. This made the brothers feel very unbalanced, so they went up the mountain to find a hidden place.
These things were dug up from the grave.
"The *** police don't care about these things?"
Zhuang Rui broke out in a cold sweat when he heard that there were hundreds of people in one township robbing ancient tombs. In that county or city, how many people would be engaged in this business?
You must know that archaeological excavation is a very meticulous job. During the excavation process, not only must the integrity of the ancient tombs be maintained, but even the corridors must not be damaged, because those stone walls are often engraved with exquisite murals.
Therefore, on-site excavation of ancient tombs must be carried out by professionals. But as Zhang Daniu said, there are people digging ancient tombs everywhere in a township. Zhuang Rui doesn’t know how many tombs will be damaged?
"The police are in charge. If caught, they will be fined. The two tigers from our house were fined 5,000 yuan, so we got the police to sell..."
Zhang Daniu's words made Zhuang Rui even more speechless. He destroyed a priceless ancient tomb and was only fined 5,000 yuan. Such supervision will only make more and more tomb robbers more and more rampant.
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In the past, I had only heard that tomb robbing was a common practice in Henan, but Zhuang Rui never imagined that tomb robbing had actually become an industry. Instead of farming, farmers made a living by robbing tombs.
These peasant tomb robbers do far more harm to ancient tombs than professional tomb robbers. Their methods are often more violent, and they dare to use explosives, axes, and anything else.
The tombs excavated by these farmers are almost like crops that have been plundered by locusts. There is no grass growing on them. Even if they cannot be taken away, many people will break them and destroy them.
