After making a wish, financial freedom

Chapter 331 Herefordshire Treasure

After reading it, Li Zhuo put it into a gift box, covered it, and placed it on the long table in the living room.

After waiting for a short time, Zheng Kun came in sweating.

Bangkok is very hot today. After seeing his condition, Li Zhuo lowered the temperature of the air conditioner by a few degrees and asked:

"Why is it so hot? I didn't sweat much when I came from the airport."

Zheng Kun looked at his figure, shook his head and said:
"It can't be compared with you. I feel that your exercise effect is very good now, and your physique is stronger than mine. I walked a certain distance on the street before, and I sweated when I was exposed to the sun."

"Hurry up and drink some water to save yourself from heatstroke." Li Zhuo got up and took out a bottle of water and handed it to him.

Zheng Kun drank half a bottle of water in one breath, went to the bathroom to wash his face, and sat down after feeling better.

Li Zhuo chatted casually with him, and after a while he felt that he had almost rested, and then said:
"Well, I got something from England. It's a gold cross. Look at it?"

Zheng Kun had seen a box on the table a long time ago, and when Li Zhuo signaled, he knew that the things were in the box.

He laughed:
"I don't know much about crosses, mainly because I have less contact with them."

He opened the cover while talking, took out the cross, looked it over and over for a few times, and then said:
"This cross should be a bishop's cross. Judging from its material and weight, it is definitely not usable by ordinary people. It may be the personal belongings of a richer diocesan bishop or a great nobleman."

"Looking at its size and weight, this cross should be close to pure gold, and it's no wonder that one side of it is curled up. There are bas-relief scroll decorations of ferns on the cross, and the style is close to that of ancient Greece. Ionic capitals with a central inlay of turquoise."

After hearing this, Li Zhuo realized that this kind of plant was a fern plant, and the bun-shaped decoration that looked like a scroll turned out to be a scroll decoration, which he didn't know much about before.

Zheng Kun looked at the turquoise carefully for a while, and then said:
"This piece of turquoise should be turquoise from the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is green and blue. The fluorescence is moist and has a deep sense. The iron lines on it are reddish brown. This is the most important feature of gem-quality Sinai turquoise. We generally call it 'Egyptian red spider', because the Sinai pine has been mined for a long time, it was mined more than 7000 years ago, and now there are basically not many stocks, so the price is very high."

Li Zhuo had obtained a piece of Iranian turquoise before, and at that time he was looking for Zheng Heng to sell it in China, so he knew that Iranian turquoise was of the highest quality and the most expensive in the world, and the price of this Sinai turquoise was probably not cheap.

Moreover, Egypt is in northern Africa, and it can cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe through seaports such as Alexandria, so it should be said that it is not surprising that this gem can be spread to the UK.

Li Zhuo asked:

"So how much is this turquoise worth?"

After hearing this, Zheng Kun said:

"It should not reach the level of 10 yuan per gram of top turquoise, but if you sell turquoise alone, it is estimated to cost 10 to 50 grams. The price is very high. The only pity is that this turquoise is small. It is estimated that it is about [-] grams, and it is no problem to sell the beads alone for [-]."

He then added:
"Of course, the gold and turquoise cannot be disassembled and sold separately. It must depend on the price of their cultural relics as a whole. I have to find someone to look at it. I'm not sure."

Li Zhuo reminded:
"Try to find a reliable person. This thing comes from England. It is probably a medieval cultural relic. It is best to be careful so as not to be noticed."

Zheng Kun obviously understood this truth, and said:

"Don't worry, the old people I'm looking for in my aunt's jewelry company are all cautious Chinese masters. They have worked in the company for many years, and they are very tight-lipped, so they won't ruin anything."

Li Zhuo nodded, he never asked Zheng Kun how to ship the goods, this time he respected his business partners.

Just like Zheng Kun never asked how Li Zhuo got his things.

However, Li Zhuo also understands that if the cultural relics returned by missions in the future have a high price, such as tens of millions of RMB, or even US dollars, and they are relatively eye-catching, then he will directly use the recycling function of the incense burner.

Although the incense burner is only charged at half the price, it is at least safe and there is no risk of exposure.

He doesn't want to be targeted by the government or intelligence agency of any developed country in the West. His secrets may be exposed and his personal safety threatened. This is something he cannot bear.

Zheng Kun put the cross into the gift box, then put the gift box into the backpack he brought, bid farewell to Li Zhuo and left.

After dealing with this matter, Li Zhuo looked at his watch, it was almost five o'clock.

He called Nana, and after the call was connected, Nana's surprised voice came:
"My dear, have you returned to Thailand?"

"Yes, I'm back, in Bangkok, where are you now?"

He now has four suites in Thailand and two in Bangkok, one is a 230-square-foot mansion in his Mandarin Oriental apartment, and the other is a 49-square-meter single-family villa on Thong Lo Soi 700 in Sukhumvit District.

He has a 22-acre manor near the lake in Pattaya, and a 10-acre sea view villa in Yamu Bay, Phuket.

There are many houses, and if he wants to find Nana now, he has to call her to ask her.

After hearing this, Nana laughed and said:

"I was still in Bangkok yesterday. If I knew it, I would have been waiting for you for a day. Isn't this the two-day holiday of Bangkok International School? Including the weekend, I brought Medina to Phuket."

After hearing this, Li Zhuo asked:
"Is there something missing over there?"

After he bought this villa, he was in a hurry to upgrade the incense burner, and he flew away the next day after buying it, leaving the villa alone.

Nana says:

"Everything else is okay. The kitchen supplies and so on were all ready when I bought the house. Now, it may be that there is a lack of a car. After all, it is far away from Bangkok, and the car is not available. It is not convenient to go out. I will go today. When I was shopping for groceries, I was still thinking about buying a scooter."

Li Zhuo said at this time:
"Then I'll fly here to find you now, don't worry, let's go shopping together when I fly over."

"Okay, then you are not in a hurry to fly, it's getting late now, wait until tomorrow, and come here calmly."

Not long after hanging up the phone, Li Zhuo was planning to go out to find something to eat, when Zheng Kun called:
"Brother Zhuo, fortunately you are more cautious, this thing is really tricky.

I found an experienced master craftsman to look at it, and he said that the workmanship of this golden cross is a typical early Anglo-Saxon style. According to the characteristics of the decoration and the letters engraved on it, it should be in the 7th century AD. It is indeed cultural relics.

The key is its overall styling, which is very close to the style of the treasure found at the Eye Court farm in Herefordshire, England in 2015. The old master speculated that it should be a treasure relic of the Kingdom of Mercia established by a branch of the Ansa people. "

Li Zhuo was a little confused. He didn't know much about British history. He didn't know that the Kingdom of Mercia was one of the seven kingdoms established in England after the Ansa people invaded England.

Zheng Kun continued:

"The key point is that after the treasure was discovered, two treasure diggers sold the treasure privately at a low price. As a result, almost 300 pieces of jewelry, cultural relics, coins, etc. were missing and difficult to trace. The master suspected that this cross was one of them. pieces."

Li Zhuo was a little dizzy after hearing this, could it be that the two treasure diggers missed it?Or did they hide it quietly?
Difficult to determine.

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(End of this chapter)