I asked you to write a book, not to disclose your criminal record!

Chapter 145 Doesn’t this online writer know too much? (Subscribe)
A police car drove out of the Magic City Airport and sped along the wide and straight lane.

Lin Chuan sat in the police car, looking out the window. The high-rise buildings of the Magic City gradually appeared in front of his eyes, showing their prosperity, but soon retreated from his sight and disappeared.

The windows of the police car were not open, so the wind from outside could not get in.

Lin Chuan felt a little depressed, but he secretly sighed: "The Magic City is really hospitable. As soon as I got off the plane, a police car came to pick me up. It's great!"

The police car drove through the busy streets and soon arrived at the Magic City Police Station.

The layout of the Modu Police Station is not much different from that of the Anling Police Station, with a reception hall, various function rooms... But when Lin Chuan looked around, he couldn't help but think of Shen Qianqian, Xia Qingqing, Zhang Biao, Hu Daqiang and others.

The police station in Anling is still the most friendly and home-like.

There isn't a single familiar face here.

The only thing that made Lin Chuan feel comforted and warm was Youyou, the very responsible editor who stayed with him from the airport to the police station.

Originally, Lin Chuan asked her to help carry the luggage to the hotel first, but Youyou was worried and followed along.

Lin Chuan even comforted Youyou: "Don't worry, Youyou, I'm writing a book seriously. As for the illegal sale of cultural relics, it has nothing to do with me."

"I know you write books, but don't I know whether they are serious or not?"

Youyou curled her lips and looked at Lin Chuan twice more, with a trace of sadness in her eyes.

She was worried because she knew what book Lin Chuan had written.

Is there any serious book among these?

Honey, you must not have a criminal record!
Lin Chuan twitched the corner of his mouth and gave a wry smile, thinking to himself, this can't be blamed on me. If you really want to say that it's not serious, then it's the system that's not serious. I'm absolutely serious!

"Comrade Lin Chuan, please come with us to the interrogation room."

Chen Hui came over.

Lin Chuan nodded, then followed Chen Hui into the interrogation room.

At this time, it was already afternoon.

The sunlight slanted through the gap in the curtains and fell into the interrogation room. Golden spots of light danced on the floor. On the table by the window, a pot of green plants was particularly green, with leaves sparkling with crystal luster and swaying gently in the breeze.

After completing the routine information registration.

Chen Hui sat across from Lin Chuan and asked, "Comrade Lin Chuan, do you know someone named Bai Yang?"

"poplar?"

Lin Chuan was slightly startled and frowned, "I know him, he is my reader, what happened to him?"

Chen Hui smiled and explained, "Here's what happened. He is currently suspected of illegally buying and selling cultural relics, but he claimed that he learned the technique of counterfeiting bronze artifacts from your novels and successfully counterfeited a 'Taotie Patterned Urn'."

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original.

During the interrogation of Lao Bai, the police in Shanghai were also investigating Lao Bai.

His mentor confirmed that Lao Bai did not have the time to rob tombs, so it was initially judged that Lao Bai was suspected of illegally buying and selling cultural relics.

But Lao Bai insisted that he had forged this cultural relic!

The police repeatedly confirmed with several experts, and the experts all clearly stated that this is the real "Taotie Patterned Urn".

In desperation, Lao Bai thought of Lin Chuan.

It just so happened that he knew that Lin Chuan was flying from Anling to Shanghai today, so he pleaded with the police to invite Lin Chuan over. As long as Lin Chuan came, he could clear himself of suspicion.

Chen Hui looked at the expert and at Lao Bai at the same time.

Both sides seemed very confident.

Therefore, Chen Hui immediately applied to summon Lin Chuan to assist in the investigation.

After listening to this "outrageous" case, Lin Chuan breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled helplessly, thinking, Lao Bai, Lao Bai, you are really born to cause trouble, but since you gave me a silver alliance right at the beginning, I will help you this time.

Next time, you can get the Golden Alliance!
"Officer Chen, Bai Yang is a master's student majoring in cultural relics restoration. It shouldn't be difficult for him to imitate a bronze ware." Lin Chuan thought for a moment, then looked at Chen Hui and said with a smile.

"We understand that he has the background in cultural relic restoration, but it is hard to explain how he could deceive several experts, including the museum's chief expert Gao Qinglin and his mentor Cheng Qing."

Chen Hui thought about it and replied.

Fake a bronze ware, deceive the anchor and the audience, deceive the mentor and a group of experts!
This is an outrageous thing no matter where you put it!

Lin Chuan rubbed his temples and said, "Officer Chen, can I go and take a look at the bronze vessel with the Taotie pattern? If it was forged according to some of the methods in the book, I might be able to help him prove that it was a counterfeit."

Chen Hui raised his head and took a deep look at Lin Chuan. Chen Hui asked with a little surprise: "You can also identify antiques?"

"know a little."

Lin Chuan nodded and said modestly.

Chen Hui was stunned, then he looked down at the relevant information in the transcript.

Name: Lin Chuan

Age: 24
Birthplace: Anling, Han River

Occupation: Online writer

"Your main job is an online writer, and your side job is treasure appraisal?" Chen Hui asked curiously.

"Appraising treasures is just my hobby, but I have a certificate for appraising treasures," Lin Chuan smiled slightly, "Can I go and take a look at that bronze artifact?"

Chen Hui and the policeman beside him looked at each other, then nodded: "Follow me."

He took Lin Chuan out of the interrogation room, through a long corridor with various merits of the police station on both sides of the corridor, and then turned into a relatively empty function room.

Inside the room, three spirited experts were carefully observing and studying a bronze artifact, and were also discussing whether this artifact should be submitted to the Cultural Relics Bureau and then kept, displayed and exhibited by the Shanghai Museum, as well as specific protection measures.

Cultural relics confiscated by the police are generally transferred to the Cultural Relics Bureau after the case is closed.

The museum is part of the Cultural Heritage Bureau.

On the side, there was an old man who looked uninterested, with a sad look on his face.

Lin Chuan guessed that this person should be Lao Bai’s mentor, Cheng Qing.

"Excuse me, experts."

Chen Hui brought Lin Chuan into the room and greeted them with a smile.

"Officer Chen."

Several experts also gave Chen Hui some face and smiled back.

"It's like this. There are still doubts about this bronze vessel called 'Taotie-patterned jar'. According to the request of the person involved, we have invited this... treasure appraisal expert to make an appraisal of this bronze vessel."

When Chen Hui introduced Lin Chuan, he originally wanted to say the words "novel author", but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he immediately replaced it with "treasure appraisal expert".

It always feels weird to ask a novelist to authenticate the authenticity of a bronze ware.

Inside the function room, several experts looked at Lin Chuan one after another.

Seeing Lin Chuan's handsome face, unwrinkled, and looking about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, he couldn't help but frowned.

Among them, there was a man in a Tang suit, about the same age as Lao Zhang, with a ruddy face, eagle-like eyebrows and sharp eyes. He looked at Lin Chuan, bowed and smiled, "Little brother, who is your master?"

Lin Chuan also cupped his hands and replied, "Self-study."

Everyone was stunned again, with complicated expressions.

One or two of them looked at Lin Chuan with a bit of indifference.

In the antique appraisal circle, especially among the older generation, the most important thing is the inheritance of the master.

The "self-taught" school like Lin Chuan is usually regarded as a folk treasure appraiser and is not worthy of being accepted by the upper class.

If there is a great teacher, he can be called a successor of a famous master, and his starting point is the end point of others.

Cheng Qing, Lao Bai's mentor, glanced at Lin Chuan and asked in confusion: "Little brother, are you really good at appraising treasures?"

Cheng Qing didn't understand why his student would want to ask this little brother to testify for him.

Even if he identified the bronze ware as fake, it would be of no avail.

Because, compared with those of experts such as Gao Qinglin, the identification results of this young brother are not authoritative and convincing.

"Let me take a look at Bai Yang's work first."

Lin Chuan nodded with a smile on his face, looking a little confident, and he did not show any fear because of the experts' contempt.

In front of several people.

The bronze 'Taotie-patterned You' stands quietly on the table, its surface covered with an irregular layer of dirt stains, underneath which copper-green spots can be seen, with Taotie patterns faintly visible, and several inscriptions engraved on the round and full body of the you.

Lin Chuan Lin Chuan stared at it for two minutes, raised his eyebrows slightly, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face.

No wonder Walter White was arrested.

This bronze ware called "Taotie Patterned Urn" is a replica with very high craftsmanship and almost no flaws. Generally speaking, experts cannot detect any traces of imitation.

The expert at At must be very familiar with this bronze ware called "Taotie Patterned Urn" and was able to determine that it was a counterfeit.

Lao Bai is indeed a genius in cultural relics restoration. If you follow my method, you can easily make the fake look real.

It is almost impossible for ordinary people to do it.

"Little brother, have you identified it?" The middle-aged man in Tang suit looked at Lin Chuan with a smile on his face.

He is the chief expert of the Magic City Museum, Gao Qinglin.

Lin Chuan smiled and nodded, saying, "This bronze artifact is indeed a replica."

"Little brother, you are so brave."

Gao Qinglin, the museum's chief expert, chuckled and said, "I wonder where this conclusion that it is a forgery comes from?"

The three experts nearby, including Lao Bai's mentor Cheng Qing, had no doubts about the authenticity of the "Taotie Patterned Urn" and always believed it to be authentic.

Now a young treasure appraiser says it is fake?
Chen Hui and another police officer watched quietly from the side to see why Lin Chuan identified it as fake.

Inside the room, everyone's eyes were focused on Lin Chuan.

Lin Chuan is also a person who has seen big scenes. His face is calm and he smiled:

"Don't worry, experts. Bai Yang's counterfeiting technique is somewhat different from traditional bronze counterfeiting. From what I've seen, this should be a high-quality counterfeit with exquisite craftsmanship. Bai Yang first poured heated sulfuric acid on it to let the sulfuric acid paper solution corrode the bronze. Then, the key point is to rust it and apply patina."

"This step requires very high skills and the control of color. Bai Yang has a background in cultural relics restoration, so he did a perfect job in this step. The next step is to bury the soil..."

Lin Chuan recounted the steps that Lao Bai took to commit fraud one by one.

The two policemen didn't understand, but they felt it made sense.

Several other experts understood.

Gao Qinglin, the museum's chief expert, narrowed his eyes and snorted coldly: "We all understand what you just said about rusting and patina, but I dare say that no one has been able to forge it to such a realistic level."

In Gao Qinglin's opinion.

Lin Chuan is the fake treasure appraiser hired by Lao Bai to give false testimony. He is definitely here to cause trouble.

The most important thing is that the more Gao Qinglin looked at this "Taotie Patterned Urn", the more he liked it. He had already been thinking about how to bring it back to the museum for collection as quickly as possible.

"Senior, nothing is absolute, especially with the advancement of science and technology today, the difficulty of perfectly replicating a cultural relic is also decreasing." Lin Chuan shook his head and retorted.

At least, I can do it.

Gao Qinglin narrowed his eyes and looked at Lin Chuan sharply: "Tell me, if you want to imitate this bronze artifact, what materials should you use to rust and apply the patina?"

Lin Chuan looked at Gao Qinglin with an indifferent expression, and was not intimidated by his aura.

After all, Lin Chuan's level is that of a master of counterfeiting and a master of antiques.

Facing Gao Qinglin's questions, Lin Chuan answered fluently: "Real copper rust, glue, rosin, white hyacinth paste, varnish, mineral powder, pigment..."

Lin Chuan said the names of the materials one by one.

The people present couldn't help but frown after listening to the series of materials Lin Chuan said.

They are all antique experts and have profound attainments in counterfeiting and identification. Not only did they understand what Lin Chuan said, but they also gained a lot from it.

"We already have glue, varnish, rosin and other colloids, why do we need to add white hyacinth paste?" Lao Bai's mentor Cheng Qing couldn't help but ask.

Lin Chuan smiled slightly and explained, "Bletilla striata is a traditional Chinese medicine that can astringe and stop bleeding. It contains a lot of mucus, which is a natural thickener. It can solidify the patina in a short time, replacing chemical thickeners. It is more adherent to bronze artifacts, making the fake oxidized patina more natural and without any odor."

Lao Bai's mentor Cheng Qing frowned and thought about the feasibility of what Lin Chuan said.

The other two experts were also thoughtful.

The only one left was Gao Qinglin, the chief expert of the Magic City Museum, who still wanted to argue.

But Lin Chuan did not give him a chance to argue: "Officer Chen, brush off some of the patina on this bronze artifact and send it to the Materials Department for testing. Then they can identify the materials I just mentioned."

Chen Hui was a little dazed at the situation on the scene, it seemed... Lin Chuan had taken absolute control.

If this were to get out, four big names in the antique circle in Shanghai would have been taught a lesson by a young online writer.

hiss!
I can’t imagine what kind of shock this will cause in Shanghai’s antique circle!
"Officer Chen?" Lin Chuan called out.

"Ah, what's wrong?" Chen Hui came back to his senses and looked at Lin Chuan.

Lin Chuan repeated what he had said before.

Chen Hui had a strange look on his face, and he frowned as he brushed the patina off the bronze ware.

Is he commanding me?
Judging from the tone and instructions of his words, he seemed to be not just an online writer, but also very familiar with the police station and even had some experience in handling cases.

Doesn’t this online writer know too much?

These thoughts flashed through Chen Hui's mind.

Chen Hui couldn't help but look at Lin Chuan twice more, thinking to himself, Lin Chuan is from Anling, and it just so happens that he has a college classmate who works at the Anling Police Station.

After the case is over, I have to find her to find out more about this online writer!

　I strongly recommend a book by a friend. It has a big imagination, a fast pace, and is written by an old author. Friends who like it can go and have a look.
　　

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