Baolu Tianxing

Not long after, I heard Xu Shaodong's hearty laughter, and saw him walk in with his head held high, followed by Wu Chen and Kong Si, holding a bronze statue horizontally, with heavy hands. When you put it on the desk, you can feel the weight.

"A fine cast bronze figure!" Seeing everyone's stunned faces, Xu Shaodong couldn't help but laughed and said, this bronze figure is real, but it has nothing to do with precision casting.

"Isn't this stolen from that temple? It's still a half-finished product." Wang Yourong also smiled. The bronze figure is 1.8 meters long, and it's straight. It is a half-cast standing Buddha statue.

"No! This shape is interesting." Mr. Li glanced at it, and immediately said loudly, "Look, the figure is standing upright, with both hands stretched out, palms facing forward. This can't be a Buddha statue, but it looks a bit like acupuncture copper Man! Litou, what do you say?"

"The general outline should be an imitation of the bronze figure of acupuncture, but the casting is very rough. It seems that it was not formed when the imitation was made, and it was discarded after the casting was broken." Mr. Li walked around the bronze figure and tapped it with his hands. , the copper skin seems to be too thick, without the clear echo of the hollow copper statue.

"Hey, I said the two of you are presenting treasure?" Wang Yourong couldn't help but said gloomily. Although he saw that Wu Chen had a close relationship with Xu Ershao and didn't intend to provoke him, his behavior towards Wu Chen this morning I was a little jealous, and I was very upset that I was a little bit on the edge, "It looks quite heavy, and it can be worth some money if you sell it in tatters."

"What's going on?" Elder Tian still had great confidence in Wu Chen. He didn't expect to bring such a bunch of things here, and he couldn't see them at all. It was just a mixed-cast bronze statue without even a gap.

"I don't know either." As soon as Wu Chen said that, Kong Si felt dizzy and didn't know anything. What are you doing to join in the fun!

Wu Chen went on to say, "I just think it's a bit weird, so I want to ask everyone to give me palms."

After finishing speaking, he talked about the process of how to get this bronze statue. Of course, it was natural, and the matter about Lin Zhen and Xu Jing was omitted.

"Hey, what's so weird about this, it's obvious at a glance!" Wang Yourong couldn't help curling his lips, his face full of sarcasm.

Wu Chen didn't bother to pay attention to him, and directly said the key point: "I have knocked this bronze statue many times, and it doesn't feel solid, but the weight is wrong, it seems to be laminated!"

Xu Shaodong and Kong Si haven't heard anything yet, but the old men have heard something from Wu Chen's words.

"Huh?" Elder Li walked over again, carefully knocking and touching the bronze statue, feeling that it was not satisfying, and asked Tian Zhongze for a small copper hammer, and knocked along the side of the bronze statue with a clanging sound. .

"What do you mean?" Xu Shaodong saw that Mr. Li's face was getting more and more serious. Could there really be some mystery.

"Have you never struck a copper bell? If it is a hollow copper product, there will be an echo when knocked. The echo will gradually increase and delay with the vibrating space, so the sound sounds crisp and long."

"However, if you listen carefully, there is almost no echo from this copper piece, which proves that the space under the copper skin is extremely small or even has no space. Although this bronze statue is very heavy, it cannot be solid, at most it is The copper skin is thicker."

Wu Chen explained softly, in fact, this was also an excuse he came up with on the spur of the moment. When he found this bronze statue, he was mainly attracted by its weird appearance. How could such an ugly object appear in an antique shop? demon.

Then he used his supernatural ability to look inside, only to find something strange inside, otherwise, he would have believed such a subtle difference in this small copper piece!

Xu Shaodong was so surrounded by him that he almost fainted, and he didn't go into it carefully. Looking at Li Lao's expression, he believed it in his heart.The others were also surprised. Seeing Mr. Li busy there, the doubts on his face became more and more serious.

In fact, things are like this. As long as you know the conclusion in advance, you can often find a hundred arguments to draw the conclusion. This is why the judicial field needs to set the presumption of innocence and attribute the benefits to the defendant.

Old Li put down his hammer, looked back at everyone, his eyes were a little lonely, and he said after a long while: "Young people are awesome!"

Hearing this, Wu Chen was completely relieved, knowing that Mr. Li had discovered something, and now it was equivalent to kicking the ball to Mr. Li, so he just waited for the result of the appraisal.Otherwise, it would be a headache for him to make up all kinds of reasons all the time.

Mr. Liu and the others hadn't seen Mr. Li so solemn for a long time. When he returned to his seat, they murmured together for a long time. Mr. Li couldn't tell what was going on inside. He could only guess that the outer layer seemed to be It is recommended to remove the copper skin first to see what is inside.

This layer of copper skin should be formed as a whole. If it must be removed, destructive methods can only be used. Everyone asked Wu Chen for his opinion.Wu Chen had no reason to disagree.

There is a workshop underground here, where you can usually do some identification and small processing. Old Li also knew that, so he called Tian Zhongze to go down with him.Wu Chen and Kong Si naturally carried the bronze statue again, followed behind them, went out and took the elevator to the basement.

Several people checked it again. If the method of melting and casting was used, there was not enough time, and they were afraid that the high temperature would damage the objects inside, so they finally decided to saw it open directly.Wu Chen knew the depth of the copper skin, so he personally cut a small slit on the head with a chainsaw, and saw that there was another layer of dark copper-colored copper skin inside, which was not connected with the outer layer. Many centimeters.

After knowing the approximate depth, Kong Si also took a chainsaw, squatted on the other side, and started sawing slowly with Wu Chen, sawing the outer layer of copper skin into pieces of copper, and then prying them off directly. It is physical work, the workload is heavy, and it takes a lot of time.

About halfway through, Xu Shaodong and Bai He also ran down, seeing Mr. Li squatting beside them, they seemed a little excited and looking forward to it!

What is it that makes this old man look like this?Surprised, Xu Shaodong also knelt down to help Wu Chen and the others.

When the outer shell of the bronze figure was removed, revealing the entire outline inside, it turned out to be a bronze figure as well!

Kong Si and Wu Chen stood up and gasped for a while, and together they straightened the bronze figure upright, and wiped it with a rag, and after a while, the bronze was shiny.

I saw that the bronze figure was about the same height as a young man. The cast was extremely exquisite, with a handsome face and a healthy body. There was even hair and a crown on the head. The upper body was bare, and the lower body had shorts and a belt!There are some densely packed marks on his body, which seem to be covered with acupoint maps.

"Bronze! Bronze man!" Elder Li rushed forward, stretched out his hand to caress the sturdy body of the bronze man, the excited look made Wu Chen and the others all excited, even if it was the eighteen bronze men of Shaolin Temple. Don't be so excited!

But I saw Mr. Li groping around on the side of the bronze figure, and with a soft "嘎", a crack appeared on the side of the bronze figure.

Wu Chen was right next to him, and he hurried over to help, while Elder Li slowly removed the outer shell of the bronze figure.It turned out that this bronze figure was composed of two parts, the front and the back, and was disassembled and combined with a special plug. When disassembled, the internal organs and bones carved in wood could be seen in the body cavity, which were as good as new!