My identity as a collector was exposed by the village flower

Chapter 369 Lu Ban's Mechanism Beast
"Actually, Boss Qiu has a nice treasure here." Suddenly, Fang Xing interrupted.

Everyone was taken aback for a moment. Every time Fang Xing spoke, he always made such unexpected words, which caught people off guard.

"Really? Which one are you talking about?" Boss Qiu was stunned.

He has been operating here for so many years, and he likes everything here.Close your eyes and see what it is.However, why doesn't he know that there are still good things here?

Although there are still many shelves, he basically sells them at the price of handicrafts and hand-made items.

The price is not expensive, and everyone knows it well, so don't expect him to produce any great treasures here.

"The shelf over there, the third floor, counting from the left, the fifth item." Fang Xing said, pointing to the other side.

Boss Qiu looked over and immediately caught the target.It was a bronze beast, which seemed to be hollow in the middle, but it was a bit light anyway, so it was definitely not solid.

That thing was already there when he ran the store.He has seen it, and it does have a bit of history, but he can't see what the name is.

With a price tag of two thousand dollars, no customer has ever touched it.

He stood up, walked over there, picked up the bronze beast and walked back.

"Is this what you are talking about? This thing, I think, should be from before the Han Dynasty. It has no special features and is hollow in the middle. It looks a bit like a rhinoceros, but it has no feet." Boss Qiu said.

Others nodded after seeing it: "It's a bit strange, why are there no feet?"

As you all know, there used to be rhinos in China, but they became extinct in the last century.

In the Song Dynasty of China, there were records of rhino horns, but due to human activities and over-exploitation, their habitats have been decreasing year by year; coupled with the high economic and medicinal value of the rhino horns on their heads, they have been used since ancient times. hunted by humans.

It is said that in the Qing Dynasty, in order to make the rhino horns the private property of the government, officials of the southern provinces issued a notice that the private hunting of rhinos was not allowed, and only officials were allowed to hunt and kill them.

In this way, the rhinos were hunted indiscriminately by the officers and soldiers. They killed the rhinos, sawed off the rhino horns on the spot, and then paid most of the tribute to their superiors and emperors, paving the way for their future promotion and fortune.At most thousands of officers and soldiers were dispatched at the time, and dozens of rhinos could be caught at a time. At that time, some folks also poached a large number of rhinos in order to make a fortune.

Finally, at the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese rhinos completely disappeared in China.

Therefore, it is normal to have bronze beasts with rhinoceros in ancient times.

"It's a bit rough." Expert Liang said after taking a look.

He really couldn't see what kind of treasure this thing was.Although it was before the Han Dynasty and has a long history, things are not only valuable if they have a long history.

There are many other criteria for measuring value.

Boss Qiu handed the bronze into Fang Xing's hand.

Fang Xing held the bronze beast and said with a smile: "When I first came in, when I saw it, I wondered why it only had a body. But now, I understand."

"Understand what?"

Fang Xing didn't answer, but went up and down a large number of bronze beasts, and he found that the tails of the bronze beasts were retracted.

So, he couldn't help hooking it with his fingers, then pinched the bronze rhino's tail and pulled it out.

At this time, everyone present heard the mechanical sound of winding.Suddenly, the rhinoceros' four legs hidden in its stomach stretched out, and the rhinoceros' eyes were still moving.

This scene stunned everyone.

"Mechanical beast?" Boss Qiu is not an ignorant person, he immediately understood the scene.

He never thought about it!

"An object from the Spring and Autumn Period, if I'm not mistaken, it should be made by Lu Ban." Fang Xing said.

Luban, everyone is familiar with, also known as Gongshuban, a famous craftsman and inventor, is honored as the ancestor of Chinese craftsmen by later generations.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty "Lie Zi. Tang Wen" the "singing and dancing" robot actor, Lu Ban's wooden flying kite in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhuge Liang's "Wooden Cow and Horse" in the Three Kingdoms...

These stories are popular.

"Youyang Miscellaneous Zu" records that Lu Ban once worked far away from his hometown. Because he was eager to miss his wife, he made a wooden kite. As long as he rode on it and knocked it a few times, the wooden kite would fly into the sky and fly home to meet his wife.

These stories, in today's view, are greatly exaggerated.

But many things in the world are not groundless. Since there are legends, at least a few things are sidelined.

For example, it should be true that Luban can make mechanical wooden birds, but it is not as magical as in the legend.It can fly with a few knocks, and it is either a fairy or a monster.

However, something even more amazing happened.

Since the bronze rhinoceros barked.

"Moo..."

Xia Yu, who was really drinking tea, almost choked.

The viewers in the live broadcast room, one by one, 666, awesome and so on.

"Outrageous! Is this really a technology from more than 2000 years ago?"

"That's why we should not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients. With today's industrial level, the production of these things is at best a toy. But in ancient times, it was properly high-tech."

"Don't tell me, this thing is quite cute."

……

"Why are you still screaming?" Fang Xing stared.

Obviously, this was beyond his imagination.

Expert Liang said to Boss Qiu: "Old Qiu, this thing is two thousand dollars, right?"

Boss Qiu gave him a sideways glance: "Aren't you awake?"

It's not what it used to be!

Two thousand dollars was the previous price. Now that he knew the importance and preciousness of this treasure, he would not sell it for the time being, let alone two thousand dollars.

"It's strange, everything will be different in Brother Fang's hands," Xia Yu said.

The bronze beast that no one cared about suddenly became a very popular mechanism beast, just because Fang Xing fiddled with it a few times.

If this is Lu Ban's masterpiece, then its value is incalculable.

Luban invented many things, especially tools, such as saws, rulers, ink fountains, etc., but there should be none of the things he handed down, because they are too far away after all.

Judging from Lu Ban's inventions, everyone can see that Lu Ban is still a wife-loving maniac, and many inventions were invented for his wife.

"This shows that Comrade Xiaofang observes meticulously, and those of us can't match it." Some experts praised.

Boss Qiu felt the deepest. After all, this organ rhinoceros had been placed with him for so long, but he didn't notice it.And Fang Xing just came in, just took a few more glances when he came in, and he saw that it was extraordinary.

"That's right! It's really the waves behind the Yangtze River pushing the waves ahead."

Xia Yu couldn't help asking: "So, it can bark, what's the reason for this?"

Being able to move is reasonable, but being able to bark is really confusing.

"I don't know. If I want to find out, I'm afraid I have to dismantle this mechanism beast. However, if I do this, it will probably be destroyed." Fang Xing said.

"Don't dismantle it." Boss Qiu shook his head resolutely.

(End of this chapter)