When faced with a treasure, Xue Chen felt a little anxious. He didn't want to wait until he returned to Haicheng to cut it open. After asking the hotel lobby manager, he learned that there was a jewelry store five minutes away from the hotel.
The shop is equipped with a cutting machine for cutting jade.
The lobby manager enthusiastically said that the manager of the jewelry store was his friend and asked Xue Chen to take his business card and use the cutting machine for free.
After Xue Chen thanked the lobby manager, he walked out of the hotel again accompanied by Uncle Shen, holding a cloth bag with iron knots in his hand.
A few minutes later, Xue Chen and Uncle Shen stood in front of a jade and gold jewelry store called Jinyushengsheng. After entering the store, they met the manager of the store.
The manager of this store had already received a call from the hotel lobby manager. Knowing that Xue Chen and the others wanted to borrow a cutting machine, he politely took them to a warehouse behind the store.
At this moment, the lights in the warehouse were bright, and there was a strong hissing sound that shook the eardrums.
Xue Chen and Uncle Shen entered the warehouse under the guidance of the manager, and saw someone using a cutting machine in the warehouse. What they were cutting was none other than raw jadeite.
Xue Chen and Uncle Shen stood aside and waited quietly.
The three young men who were cutting the rough stones looked like they were rich men in their clothes and demeanor. From their conversation, one could roughly tell that the twenty-odd jadeite rough stones placed on the ground belonged to the man with silver-dyed hair holding the cutting machine.
Brought back from the southwest border.
At this time, the rough stones in the area had been cut into pieces, but it seemed that there was no big harvest, because the expressions of the three of them all looked unhappy.
When the last rough stone was cut, there was only a piece of light green garbage dyed with white flakes inside. The young man with silver hair put down the cutting machine and spat: "Damn, twenty-six rough stones bought for 800,000 yuan.
I got two rubbish bean sprouts, which were not enough to carve two bracelets. I really lost my money to my grandma’s family.”
A tall, thin young man with an earring in his left ear laughed playfully and said, "Haozi, I'm telling you you're not for this business. Eight hundred thousand is not much, it's only a month's pocket money at most."
"That's easy to say. Even if you throw 800,000 yuan into the water, you can still make a sound. It's enough to sleep two third-tier stars. Damn, it's really unlucky." The young man named Haozi looked unhappy.
"Ahem, have you finished using the cutting machine?" Xue Chen asked.
The three young people glanced at Xue Chen. Haozi waved his hand and said impatiently: "It's done."
Xue Chen nodded and walked to the cutting machine with his cloth bag. Uncle Shen saw bottles of mineral water scattered on the ground beside him. He picked up a bottle and prepared to help cool down during cutting.
The three young people were discussing and preparing to leave. They planned to find a nightclub to have fun and relax. When they just raised their feet, they accidentally saw Xue Chen taking out a big iron lump from his pocket, so they didn't leave in a hurry.
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"Hey, what is this? Why does it look familiar to me?"
"Xiaohua, have you forgotten? We used to have several pieces in our compound that were used as small benches to cushion our buttocks."
"Oh, you said that and I remembered it. These should be the iron lumps left over from the large-scale steel smelting. My grandfather sighed when he saw this thing and said that it was all made by smashing the iron pots in every household."
When the three people saw the big iron lump that Xue Chen took out, they all started talking curiously. When they realized that Xue Chen was going to use a cutting machine to cut the iron lump, they looked at each other and were all surprised.
The discussion began in an evasive manner.
"It's interesting. This kid actually got such a piece of iron to cut. What is he doing?"
"Haha, maybe he thought it was a raw jade stone, and he could get out the treasure after cutting it open."
"You're full after eating."
Xue Chen turned a deaf ear to the mocking words of the three people and ignored them completely. He was not so petty and angry with these rich young men who looked like they had enough to eat and drink and had nothing to do all day long.
He placed the iron lump on the tray under the cutting machine, held the handle of the cutting machine, pressed it down, and used perspective to look at the inside of the iron lump to prevent the bronze item inside from being damaged.
Although this thing is an iron lump, its hardness is not very high because it is mixed with a lot of impurities. It is much lower in hardness than normal iron products, and may even be lower than the hardness of raw jadeite, so it is cut with a cutting machine.
Cutting is absolutely no problem.
When Xue Chen was about to start cutting, the three young men did not leave in a hurry. Perhaps it was because Xue Chen did not respond at all to their "lofty talk", which made the three young men feel an unpleasant feeling of being slighted. In addition,
I just lost nearly 800,000 yuan in the original stone, so what I said is even more unpleasant.
"At first glance, he looks like a foreigner. He probably doesn't have much knowledge. He doesn't know the origin of this iron lump, so he cut it as a treasure and has a look." Haozi, a young man with dyed silver hair, raised the corner of his mouth and hummed.
"We three brothers will stay here for a little longer. Don't tell me, I have never seen what the inside of this iron lump looks like."
"As you said, what could be inside the lump of iron? It's just a piece of scrap metal."
The three of them laughed at the same time: "Haha."
Zizzi.
At this time, the cutting saw blade had fallen down and cut on the iron knot. For a moment, there was a harsh sound and sparks were flying. It was so gorgeous.
Uncle Shen kept watering the area where the saw blade and the iron lump were in contact to cool down.
The three local young people in the capital couldn't help but look over with their feet raised.
Xue Chen remembered that the melting point of iron is higher than that of bronze, so the fact that this piece of bronze can be intact including gold can only be thrown in when the iron solution is about to cool down, and within a very short period of time.
, before the bronze vessel melted, the cooled iron enveloped it.
Perhaps it is for this reason that although this piece of iron seems to be solid, in fact it is not. Not only does it wrap the bronze, it is not closely connected to the bronze, and there is a small gap.
Zizzi~zizi~
Under Xue Chen's precise control, the saw blade cut back and forth in the iron knot.
After using it for more than ten minutes, Xue Chen breathed a long sigh of relief. After turning off the cutting machine, he bent down and forcefully broke open the pieces of iron that had been cut, revealing what was wrapped inside.
Uncle Shen stood aside and immediately saw what Xue Chen said. His expression could not help but freeze, and he looked very surprised. Although Xue Chen had said it before, but seeing it with his own eyes now, he still felt incredible.
Then, the three young men who were standing two or three meters away and had just made fun of Xue Chen in a weird way also saw the foreign object wrapped in the iron lump. Their expressions suddenly changed, their eyes flickered, and they stared at it.
"Hey!"
Xue Chen used his hands hard to break open the remaining adhesions between the cut iron knots, and then peeled off the contents wrapped inside bit by bit like peeling a grapefruit.
Soon, there was only one piece of bronze in his hand. Although there were still bits and pieces of iron filings on it, its origin could already be seen.
"Jiujue?" Shen Wanjun said in surprise.
What Xue Chen was holding was a bronze wine jute! It was about five inches tall, with a round belly, three cone-shaped legs, a tiger handle on the side, and cloud and thunder patterns all over the body.
"From the Western Zhou Dynasty!" Almost in unison, both Xue Chen and Uncle Shen quickly gave up on this bronze wine baron!
A few steps away, the three young wealthy young men from the capital city were all dumbfounded. Each of them seemed to have been struck by lightning, their eyes widened, and they looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief. They smelled it in their eyes. A treasure was actually cut out of the worthless iron lump?
When I heard that it was a bronze ware from the Western Zhou Dynasty, my expression changed even more. The Western Zhou ware was 2,780 years ago. Let alone a bronze ware, it was just a piece of shit. It had been there for more than 2,000 years. It has become an antique and has great research value!
"Uncle Shen, let's pack up and let's go." Xue Chen handed the wine cup into Uncle Shen's hands. He put the cut pieces of iron into his cloth bag and prepared to take them away and throw them away.
After doing all this, the two of them walked out of the warehouse. From the beginning to the end, they did not look directly at the three young men who stood aside in silence and looked a little embarrassed.
"F*ck! How could this happen?" When Xue Chen and Uncle Shen walked out of the warehouse, the young Haozi couldn't help but yelled. His face was very ugly. He was laughing at each other just now, but in the blink of an eye, a big slap hit him. on the face.
Not only him, but the other two people were also confused by this slap, as if they were dreaming, a little afraid and unwilling to believe it.
"Haozi, your old man also likes to pick up antiques. You should know something about it. How much is that wine baron just now worth?"
Seeing his two friends looking at him, Haozi lowered his head slightly and said in a low voice: "I don't know the specific value. I'll call and ask."
Haozi called his second uncle who was very knowledgeable about antiques and asked about the price of Western Zhou Jiujue. After hanging up the phone, the corners of his mouth twitched fiercely.
"My second uncle told me that there are very few Jiujue from the Western Zhou Dynasty. The last time it was auctioned, the starting price was 10 million, and the final price was more than 25 million. That was the year before last, and the price should have risen again in the past two years. Some."
For a moment, all three of them were silent, and the expressions on their faces became wonderful. For some reason, all three of them were in a bad mood, very unhappy, and very irritable.
Back at the hotel, Xue Chen played with the quaint wine baron, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
The next day, Uncle Shen's friend Hong Yuanqing drove to pick them up.
After Xue Chen and Shen Wanjun got into the car, Uncle Hong said, "I have made an appointment to meet at a teahouse."
"Old Hong, please excuse me." Uncle Shen nodded.
"Nothing, but there is one more thing. It seems that we are not the only ones interested in the Flower God Cup. From what I heard on the phone, the other party took time out today to meet not only us, but also other buyers. If so, just
I'm afraid it will be even harder to get a cup." Uncle Hong said in a solemn tone. (To be continued)