Live Appreciation, Congratulations to Brother

Chapter 65 The goal is to piece together a bronze gui
"Who said I just watch but don't buy? This is definitely a rumor."

"I just bought a fragment of a bronze sword, which cost 89 yuan. If you don't believe me, look at my payment record."

Zhang Yang made a gesture to take out his mobile phone to maintain his innocence.

"All right, all right, I don't want to read it, you're not spending money on me."

The stall owner waved his hand, turned around, and moved the bamboo basket of bronze shards to Zhang Yang.

"300 yuan a piece, no bargaining."

Seeing so many fragments, many passing buyers were also attracted.

But before they had time to start, they were stopped by a pair of white gloves.

"Don't break the rules, first come, first served, you will read after I finish watching." Zhang Yang said in a deep voice.

There are basically fakes here, and it is really positive for this group of people to be deceived.

"Then hurry up." A middle-aged man next to him muttered.

"I know, I know."

Zhang Yang nodded, and started the appraisal immediately.

Fake, fake, modern, last year...

Even the bronze shards that are already very cheap are still mostly fake.

The antique market stands out as long as you are willing to buy, I am sure there are fakes waiting for you.

When Zhang Yang was looking at each of them, two old men squatted beside him, staring at the one in his hand and watching with him.

While watching, he also gave pointers.

"Young man, can you see clearly so quickly?"

"You are too fast!"

"Those few just now don't feel right."

"Hey! Don't lose the beast-mask pattern. This is the Taotie pattern from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties."

Taotie pattern?Zhang Yang built it and took a look, it is indeed, but the production date is 2019.

"Don't give it to me!" said the uncle on the right.

Without thinking about it, Zhang Yang handed the things to him.

Let go of helping others and respect the fate of others.

"Hey, thank you." The uncle was still very polite.

"You're welcome." Zhang Yang responded, turning his head and continuing to look at the things in the basket.

Seeing that the old man on the right had lost 300 yuan and walked away cheerfully holding a piece of the taotie-patterned bronze tripod, the old man on Zhang Yang's left couldn't hold back.

"You can't do this, the rust color is fake at first glance, hurry up and look at the next one."

Next?Zhang Yang shook his head.

That's it!

"Name: Fragment of a bronze gui (three tones of gui)"

"Material: Copper, Tin, Zinc"

"Production time: 981 BC"

"Detailed information: A fragment of a sacrifice head gui with animal face patterns in the Western Zhou Dynasty, with incomplete inscriptions on it, which has a certain historical value"

Zhang Yang looked at the thing in his hand, it should be a fragment of the mouth of the bronze gui, and according to the curvature of the mouth, the whole utensil should be slightly larger than the bowl of instant noodles in the bucket.

Gui is a tableware used by ancient scholar-bureaucrats to hold staple food, so it looks a bit small.

"What's the matter? Young man, you don't think this thing is real, do you?" The uncle on the left is still instructing.

"Look at this green embroidery, it's not even at all, it floats on the surface of things, it's obviously a new imitation."

"Master, it's too much, I'm an old thing, where did I get a new imitation?" The stall owner said unhappily.

The uncle ignored him and continued to tell Zhang Yang:

"Young man, look quickly, it's past five o'clock, and it will be dawn later."

"Okay!" Zhang Yang nodded: "Boss, this is what I want, help me wrap things up."

Seeing this, the stall owner pulled out a red plastic bag from under the mat and handed it to Zhang Yang.

"Hey, hey, install it yourself. Scan code or cash?"

"Don't worry, it's not over yet!"

Zhang Yang continued to search, and after a while, he found another real thing.

"Bronze Gui Fragment... 981 BC?"

"What a coincidence, in the same year?"

Zhang Yang took out the piece just now and put it together for comparison.

In addition to the almost rust color, in other respects, it can be said that there is no connection.

The fragment just now had animal face patterns and half inscriptions on it, but this one is bare on both sides without any patterns.

"The one you are holding now looks real, like the belly of a bronze vessel..." The uncle began to criticize sharply again.

Zhang Yang ignored him, put both pieces into the bag, and continued to search.

If there is still something from 981 BC, it is from the same tomb, if not the same bronze.

Sure enough, at the bottom of the basket of fragments, he found a third fragment.

The fragment this time is the handle of the gui, and the animal face pattern on it is somewhat similar to the first piece.

Zhang Yang already had a clear idea in his mind.

Now it is no longer a question of picking up or not, it is possible to find a bronze gui with an inscription!
With the current restoration technology of cultural relics, as long as all the fragments are found, they can definitely be completely restored.

"How much did you choose?" Seeing that Zhang Yang seemed to be stunned, the stall owner asked.

"A total of three yuan."

Zhang Yang didn't rush to ask where he was, but paid the money and brought the things to his two companions.

……

"Are you sure it's from the same bronze gui?"

Both Wang Jianye and Mr. Huang were skeptical of Zhang Yang's statement.

It is nothing to collect three real bronze fragments here.

But it is a bit strange that the three fragments have the same origin.

"I'm [-]% sure that they come from the same bronze vessel or the same tomb."

Zhang Yang gave a very sound opinion.

Teacher Huang held the fragment in his hand and looked at it over and over for a while, then shook his head and smiled wryly:

"I don't understand that either."

"However, if it really comes from the same artifact, it is very likely that the tomb robbers accidentally smashed it and sold it directly to these vendors."

"I think so too." Zhang Yang nodded: "Now, unlike decades ago, no one should sell bronze wares as scrap copper."

"If it was smashed decades ago, the probability that it will be handed down into the same basket together is too small."

"The biggest possibility is that someone accidentally broke it and didn't dare to send it for repair."

"Well, you go and keep an eye on the stall owner, and I'll contact the cultural relics protection department in Yangcheng." Teacher Huang said, "But I don't know if they sent someone over today."

"Usually when the antique market opens, people from the museum will come and hang around to see if there are any national treasures left outside."

"Aren't you going to call the police?" Zhang Yang asked back.

After dealing with the police a lot in the live broadcast room, Master Zhang felt that it was very reliable to leave the matter to the cultural relics police.

"If you call the police, I'm afraid..." Teacher Huang looked at the crowd behind Zhang Yang: "This place will probably disappear in the future."

"Two years ago, things from the tomb were also sold here. At that time, the old experts who came here saw the things and bought them for 5000 yuan. Now they are stored in the Yangcheng Museum and have been on the list of [Prohibited to exhibit cultural relics abroad]."

What Mr. Huang meant was that this small yard was considered a gray area, and at least there were traces of tomb robbers selling things here.

Zhang Yang didn't quite agree with this point of view, but Teacher Huang's words reminded him.

Experts from museums have been here before. Isn’t there a director of museums beside me?

Zhang Yang turned around and looked at Wang Jianye with a smile on his face.

Curator Wang suddenly shivered.

(End of this chapter)