Reborn Jewelry

Chapter 574 Bronze

The old village chief hadn't realized that the village he led had already left a very bad impression on outsiders.

He was squinting his small eyes and looking at Shi Jin, shaking the cigarette stick in his hand tremblingly and saying: "The thing is in the ancestral hall, Mr. Shi, let's go in and have a look right now?"

Shi Jin naturally nodded and said yes, and stepped out of the way, asking the village chief to go first.

The village head was very satisfied with Shi Jin's behavior of respecting the elderly, and he said a few more words of humility. Seeing Shi Jin persisted, he entered the ancestral hall first, with a hint of complacency in his swaying body.

Shi Jin and others followed closely behind.

After entering the ancestral hall, Chu Ning discovered that the exterior of the ancestral hall looked well-built, but the interior decoration was very simple.

Inside the ancestral hall, only a hand-painted portrait of the ancestor was hung in the main hall. Under the portrait was an old desk with an incense burner and wild fruits. In the house, it seems particularly small.

Chu Ning glanced at the desk and the incense burner, and found that these were ordinary things, not very old, and they were all modern products, not worth much.

On the contrary, the portrait of the ancestor is quite old.

However, the person who painted this portrait should have been from the village back then, and had not studied systematically in painting, so his painting skills were very rough, and the portraits he drew were almost no different from the award-winning works of elementary school students.

However, although this painting is rough, the expression in the portrait is vividly drawn, with a bit of charm, which can be regarded as a rare merit of this painting.

Presumably, it is precisely because of this that this painting will be enshrined here.

"Mr. Shi, all the old things in our village are here." The old village chief pointed to the things on the left side of the ancestral hall that covered half of the room, "Look, there is something that you can see of?"

When the old village chief talked to Shi Jin before, he put on the airs of an elder. Although he was polite to Shi Jin, he also seemed to be a bit superior.

It's good now, seeing that it's time to discuss business, the old village head will judge the situation, and his attitude has dropped a lot.

Chu Ning sneered in her heart.

What happened to the women in this village, she didn't believe that the old village head didn't know.

But he still pretended to be kind, if she didn't know, it would be fine, but now that she knows, naturally the more kind and kind the old village chief is, the more disgusting she feels!

When she gets out of this mountain, she will definitely make the people in this village suffer the consequences for themselves!
Shi Jin nodded to the old village head, glanced at Chu Ning, and brought Chu Ning forward together.

Chu Ning had actually seen this pile of things just now, but when she really got closer to look at it, she still felt speechless.

Tao Fei came to contact the old village head before, saying that he wanted to collect old things, but in fact he collected antiques.The old village chief and others didn't know, so they naturally moved all the "old" objects in the village.

In this huge pile of things, there are only shovels, sickles, hatchets and other agricultural tools, and I don't know how many there are.

Most of them are still rusty.

I can get all these farm tools together, and I don't know how the villagers in the village have been doing their work during this time.

Leaving aside the obvious modern items, what Chu Ning mainly looks at is the household porcelain and bronze wares mixed in.

That's right, in such a remote mountain village, there are actually bronze wares!
Moreover, these bronze wares are not modern bronze wares, but rare bronze wares!
In my country, the history of bronze casting has been nearly 5000 years.

It is made of copper-tin alloy and has a wide range of applications.And because the bronzes are handmade, no two bronzes are the same, each one is unique.

When the bronze ware is first fired, its surface will show a kind of earthy yellow like gold, which looks very beautiful.However, the bronze ware unearthed in modern times, because it has been buried in the soil for too long, the bronze ware gradually rusts and deteriorates, and it will turn into the green color that is more common today.

In front of Chu Ning, there were several bronze wares, all of which were green.

Obviously, if these bronzes had not become like this due to improper maintenance, then they should also be dug out of the soil.

Looking at the uncleaned mud layer on the surface of these bronze wares, Chu Ning became even more certain of this in her heart.

Seeing that Chu Ning and Shi Jin were looking at the old things in the ancestral hall, the old village head and the villagers didn't dare to show their anger, for fear that they would suggest that they don't want these things.

After all, even if they live in the mountains and haven't seen much of the so-called big world, they still know something about the world.

As for the things they moved out from each house, not many people would care even if they were placed in the mountains. They are all things that are available in every household, and they can be used in daily life.

The old village head and others really couldn't think of what the city people could do with these things.

Chu Ning's gaze slowly swept across the bronze and porcelain dishes in front of her, her back turned to the old village chief and others, and she winked at Shi Jin calmly.

Shi Jin understood immediately.

He turned his head to look at the old village chief with a troubled look on his face: "Village chief, although these things of yours are considered old, they are really worthless..."

Well, I was really afraid of something!
The old village chief's heart skipped a beat, and he said hastily: "Mr. Shi, your people said they wanted to collect old things, but I worked so hard to convince so many people in the village to collect these things. Anyway, you can pick and choose among them, even if you only need a few, it’s more or less meaningful, and you didn’t let us work in vain!”

Shi Jin's face suddenly became more difficult, but he did not directly refuse.

Seeing that there is a door, the old village chief hurriedly continued to persuade, and said how poor and miserable their village is. The whole village is in danger every year, and they have not even worn a new piece of clothes. They don't know how many people will be left in the village next year. etc.

As soon as the call was over, the old village chief's mouth was almost dry, Shi Jin let go, sighed, and reluctantly said: "The village chief's words make sense, I finally walked in, and I don't want to go back empty-handed However, I really don’t need the things you have here, those shovels and so on. But those bowls and dishes can still be seen after they’ve been cleaned. I want it all!"

The old village chief was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly called the villagers behind him to come over, and asked courteously: "Mr. Shi, what do you want, let me ask someone to help you pick out the things first?"

In fact, Shi Jin's proposal was exactly what the old village chief wanted.

After all, they could find other things to replace dishes, but they only had farm tools like shovels and sickles in their village.

If these farm tools were really taken away by Shi Jin, they would have to send people out to the villages and towns to buy them, which would cost a lot of money!

(End of this chapter)