Chapter 35 Chapter 35 Counterfeit Trap

Just when I was guessing how many games Wang Kui would win tonight, I was dragged away by Lao Zhong, and I was on the phone while walking, looking very anxious about the situation. Seeing such an anxious expression, my head buzzed, everything was taken out? "Is it all true?" Faced with my question, Lao Zhong seemed to have no time to answer, and kept making arrangements on the phone. After a while, I came to a room where our old man, Song Xudong, and several comrades in uniform were sitting.Old Zhong motioned for me to sit down, and then continued on the phone. I looked at everyone with some doubts. Everyone had serious expressions on their faces, as if some serious accident had happened, and it made people feel a little shuddering.

Cautiously asked Grandpa: "May I ask what's wrong?" Grandpa shook his head and motioned me to wait for Lao Zhong to finish his call. After a while, Lao Zhong finished the phone call, looked at us, and said seriously: "We are all here. I will introduce the situation and assign tasks now. Our time is too tight. We must keep everything in mind. Because I just want to say it once. Xiaolou, you will take that suitcase with you, and I will take you to the airport, and then you will take a red-eye flight to Beijing. Give it to him, and give him this letter, and tomorrow morning someone will arrange for you to board the plane and bring the box back. Don’t ask why, I will explain to you on the way later. Xiao Song, you go tonight In the provincial capital, go to Professor Ling of the provincial research institute and report to him today's situation. It would be best if he could be invited back. You go to Professor Fan to get a recording pen. Do you understand?" Old Zhong asked seriously.

I said: "If you understand it, you understand it, but..." "No, but, just tell me if you understand what you want to do?" the old man asked me seriously. I nodded quickly: "Understood, of course I understand." "It must be clean and tidy, and you can't stay there for too long." Lao Zhong emphasized. Song Xudong and I glanced at each other and said firmly, "Understood!" Five minutes later, I was carrying a huge iron box, which felt as heavy as a box of gold nuggets.Lao Zhong drove a Toyota cruiser and waited for me in front of the hotel.

After getting in the car, I looked at the huge iron box next to me and was a little curious. What is in it? Lao Zhong looked at me from the rear car mirror: "Do you have a lot of questions to ask?" "Yes." I answered honestly. "Then ask?" Old Zhong continued to stare at the road ahead. I tried not to distract him before I got on the expressway, so I didn't dare to ask. I didn't dare to ask until I saw the airport expressway: "Did we find the real Jiubaolong Seal Box and Jiulong Jade Plaque in their boxes?" This is what I am most concerned about. Really, not only Lao Zhong and the others will not be able to eat and walk around, but it also shows that there are robbery holes or passages into the tomb that we have not discovered. This is the most frightening, because there will be a steady stream of cultural relics from that passage. The middle stream is on the market, and we are likely to become the sinners of history.

Old Zhong shook his head: "Those two cultural relics are not real, none of them are even fakes, they are just two handicrafts made according to the general appearance of the legend, which are far from the real ones, even the ones made by your grandfather .” "Oh, since that's the case, then there's nothing to worry about, but why are you still so nervous? I'm going to fly to Beijing in the middle of the night?" I thought to myself, I'm full. "There was no real artifact found in his box, but we found other cultural relics, and they were quite important cultural relics." Old Zhong's words were obviously tinged with anger.

"Oh, what is it? Can it make you so angry?" I was a little curious.To be honest, Lao Zhong's self-cultivation is almost top-notch among the people I have met. No matter how I say it, he is a good-tempered old man, so to be able to make the old man angry like this shows that It's a big deal. When the show started in the multi-purpose theater here, they had already opened Mr. Yang Weichen's room and successfully got the suitcase containing the cultural relics.Experts from relevant departments opened the suitcase on the spot. The suitcase was divided into four compartments and contained four things: the Nine Treasures Dragon Seal Box, a pair of copper plates with two ears, a copper dragon with a cobra pattern, and a bronze sword.

The Nine Treasure Dragon Seal Box was identified as a street stall at that time, but when they saw the following three cultural relics, the faces of Lao Zhong and other comrades all changed. The only jade-inlaid golden black human face unearthed at the same time is a rare national treasure, but this national treasure has been lost for nearly 30 years. lost?How could it be lost?I'm a little curious. Old Zhong smiled wryly: "At the end of the ten-year catastrophe, we worked with a teacher at that time in charge of cultural relics. The tomb where these cultural relics were unearthed was located by the river, and it was washed away by rain. To flush this ancient tomb, we forcibly robbed it in the rain for two days, and finally got back a few cultural relics, including these bronzes and a jade-inlaid golden black human face, which is called a national treasure. Everyone They were all too tired. They had been struggling for several nights, and Iron Man couldn't hold on any longer. That night, they lived in a few dilapidated houses near the river. Comrades slept very hard because they were tired. That night, the heavy rain soaked the foundation of the temporary warehouse, and even several comrades inside and the cultural relics rescued that day collapsed in. Then, the river diverted and washed away the collapsed houses and cultural relics. The next day When they woke up, the house next door was gone, and the bodies of those comrades were found downstream three days later, and those cultural relics could not be found no matter how they were salvaged, only some photos from that time were left as evidence.”

No wonder Lao Zhong was so excited when he saw this batch of cultural relics. There is a history of blood and tears in his feelings, but what do you mean by asking me to take this suitcase to Beijing?Could it be that the three cultural relics are contained here? Lao Zhong nodded: "We just organized experts to look at it. Everyone thinks it may be real, but they still suspect it is a fake, but if it is fake, it will be too realistic, so only those who have seen these cultural relics in the past are welcome. The old leader has a look at these things, and he is an expert in bronze ware, no matter which aspect it is." Lao Zhong deliberately emphasized no matter which aspect it is, which impressed me deeply.But I still don't understand Mr. Yang right now!

I'm a little puzzled, what a coincidence, Mr. Yang's suitcase is full of rare things, and it's fine to put it in a street stall version of the Nine Treasure Dragon Seal Box. If you like cheap goods, no one cares about it, but you packed three A cultural relic with a history of blood and tears was discovered by the sufferer. Isn't this going into the hut with a lantern-looking for shit? "Wait, you take out these three cultural relics, what about Mr. Yang's suitcase?" I suddenly thought of this question. "We went back, we went back early in the morning." Old Zhong replied.

"But, if you go back, people won't find out?" I wonder why these people are so unprofessional when they are liars. You put their empty boxes back and they don't call the police? "Hehe, you don't have to worry about this. First, we put back the things with the same weight. Second, we changed the password of that box. Even if he wants to open the box, he will find that the password is wrong. At least he will feel that he is old. Big forgot the password. There are so many cultural relics in it. He must not open it violently. He can only take it back to Hong Kong to open it. Also, do you think he still has the heart to look at the suitcase before getting on the plane tomorrow? I guess he will have to hug it tonight. Sleeping with that pot of lotus."

"Ah, it turns out that Wang Kui's performance was pre-designed by you? I began to believe in one sentence, that is, it is true that people are old and smart." I teased him. Old Zhong laughed and said, "It's not my fault alone, your grandfather also contributed to it." "Okay, I take back what I just said." I said blankly. We arrived at the airport in a short time. A man in the uniform of the aviation bureau directly led me through the aisle. Then Lao Zhong said goodbye to me and said in a low voice, "Remember, there are high imitation handicrafts in our box." "Understood, this handicraft must not be dropped or touched." I winked at him. "You boy, hehe, come back early tomorrow morning, we are still waiting for your news." These were the last words I heard when I got on the green passage. Come back early tomorrow morning?Just kidding, I thought you were joking when you said that at the meeting just now, but now you are in such a serious place at the airport, you still dare to make such a joke, you think the plane is a tractor, and the Civil Aviation Administration is run by your family? I thought that I would be in trouble when I came to Beijing. After all, it was so late at night. Who would have thought that as soon as I stepped out of the gate of the terminal, I would see a few large characters written on the sign of Douda majesticly: "Organ Lou." Standing in the evening wind in Beijing at that time, I wondered why I didn't vomit blood and die, and my grievances went straight to God, so that I would be less embarrassing.A white-haired old man stood beside a 1.90-meter black iron tower, holding a sign the size of a blackboard in his hand.The stewardesses on the same plane all covered their mouths when they saw my pick-up scene. I wanted to do that in a fit of anger, but after thinking about it, I didn't dare to get angry, and I still had a mission on my back. The old man is also short-tempered. After getting in the car, he asked me to take the things out of the box, glanced at him casually, and said two words: "Fake." I want to believe.I gave him the letter, and the old man read it with the light in the car, and after reading it, he said: "Drive." The big black driver who was 1.90 meters asked in a low voice: "Old Wen, go to the guest house Is it?" The old man waved his hand: "Go to my house, I'm going to have a good chat with this young man tonight." I had hoped to get a good night's sleep, but now it's good, it's ruined. When I came here, Lao Zhong introduced me to this old man, Professor of Hot Springs, his old superior, an expert in bronze identification, who had participated in many large-scale archaeological excavations of ancient tombs, full of energy and rich experience. When he said that he was full of energy, I was still thinking that an eighty-year-old man with full energy could beat me, a great boy, but I was wrong, I was really wrong.The old man didn't sleep all night and made me almost die. As soon as I entered his house, I was shocked, my God, is this home?This is simply a museum, filled with all kinds of bronze wares. The square pot with animal face pattern, tripod with triangular cicada pattern, Ziwei Jue, wind bird and cicada pattern, human mask, these have already shocked me, and there are many bronze wares that I can't name, standing proudly , My eyes are almost running out, I looked at these bronzes greedily, and I sighed in my heart that it is so good to be an expert, and this priceless treasure is just casually placed at home. Going inside, something that broke me even more happened. Many bronzes that seemed to be just unearthed were thrown on the ground casually. I carefully walked around these treasures, but the old man didn’t seem to care at all. Opening the door seemed to be in the way and even kicked one away. I was so heartbroken at the time, you don’t want it for me, I want it, don’t bring such a waste of things, look, this room is full of treasures, what a deal, when will I get so much property. Seeing me fascinated, the old man was overjoyed, and pointed to these things and asked me, "Which one do you like?" I was a little confused when I heard this, and asked tentatively, "Teacher, what do you mean?" Seeing my expression, the old man was overjoyed: "Look at your virtue, if you like it, pick one and take it away." "Really? Don't tease me." My excited voice trembled a little. "I am an old man, why are you teasing you? Pick, see which one is pleasing to the eye, and take it away." The old man waved his hand, meaning whoever loves it, whoever takes it.After hearing this, I like that one, I want this one after looking at it, and I want to take that one away after looking at it, I haven't decided after thinking about it for a long time. The old man was amused when he saw my expression: "Aren't you also thinking about having a car, so you can take it all away?" I'm a little embarrassed, the old man let me choose, no matter how greedy I am, I won't be ashamed.In the end, he made up his mind for a long time and pointed at a good woman: "That's it, I want it." The old man took a look and praised me: "I have a good eye, um, it's really good. It's a pretty good thing. If the rust is not from the middle, it can really be confused with the real one. Okay, wrap it up and take it away." What?Is the rust on the middle?Is it true or false?Could this be fake?I was dumbfounded. The old man smiled: "Young man, isn't it fake? Is it true? There is no real thing in my old man's house. These are all fake ones that I confiscated. I'm making an exception. Other cultural relics experts don't even have fake ones at home." Put it in order to prevent the suspicion of Li Xia in the melon field." After the old man retired, he specialized in identification and screening of bronze wares. Given his status in bronze wares research, he rarely misjudged, but this Fu Haojue almost missed it at that time. Did the old man ever lose to Maicheng? Professor Wen said with a smile: "Whoever you are, you have never made a mistake in your life. The mistake I made this time almost lost my life at the end of the day and caused heavy losses." It was the 1980s, just after the reform and opening up, all markets were booming. Although the cultural relics market was not as popular as other markets, it still showed an active scene. Due to the ten years of turmoil just experienced, coupled with the lack of attention paid to cultural relics before, the cultural relics market at this time was relatively chaotic. The old man picked up a copper cup in his hand and said: "I think back then, some real ones were displayed in cultural relic stalls in some places, and you could take them away for a few dollars. Many people didn't understand cultural relics or Knowing its value, it is enough to think that this object can be exchanged for money. Many collectors started at that time. The rules in the industry are commonly known as "picking up leaks". It's called 'eye punching'." The old man's favorite job at that time was to go to the cultural relics market to pick up leaks, hire a tricycle, pull a few apprentices from the research institute, and sweep from one end to the other in the markets of some large cultural relics markets, filling the streets When collecting bronze wares, anyone who asks will answer with two words: "Practice copper." At that time, the old man really took back a lot of good treasures for the country. Later, as people became more knowledgeable and the cultural management departments at all levels promoted the protection of cultural relics, the common people began to know that these objects were not ordinary bronzes, but cultural relics. Sell ​​for big bucks. When the antiques are almost sold out, fakes begin to appear.In the beginning, it was very rough, and one could tell the real from the fake at a glance, but later, the technology became more and more advanced, and the fakes became more and more realistic. One day, a student took a bronze cup to the old professor and asked him to confirm the authenticity. When the old man saw that the shape was from the Shang Dynasty, he fell in love with it.From the decoration, to the texture, to the patina, to the sound, everything is consistent, and the old man concluded that this title should be a genuine one. Upon hearing that it was genuine, the student became anxious, saying that it was secretly sold by someone. There were dozens of pieces, and a foreigner had already paid a deposit through a middleman. If no one intervened, it would be lost. What?The old man was surprised. What surprised him was not that cultural relics would be lost, but how could so many bronze wares suddenly appear on the market now, which is simply impossible. Could it be that another ancient tomb was stolen? The old man went down to see the batch of bronze wares under the leadership of the students, and was stunned at the time. There were dozens of them, there were hundreds of them, and the two fellow villagers packed two sacks like potatoes. Some regular customers in the international cultural relics market also came into contact with these two fellow villagers. These two fellow villagers are honest and honest, and they didn't dare to ask for more prices, so they asked for a carrot price. The old man wrote an application as soon as his head was hot at that time, imploring the relevant departments to allocate funds for the acquisition, but before the report was finished, the students came to report again, saying that dozens of such bronze wares had appeared on the market. The old man hesitated a little, saying that this is not a leek, and there will be another crop after cutting it. How could there be so many cultural relics?Gritting his teeth, he bought a cultural relic with his own pocket, which was this Fuhaojue. He took it back and looked at it carefully for two days, but he didn't see any results.Just when the old man was helpless, his cat jumped on the table and dropped the lady's dress to the ground. The old man quickly picked it up and looked at it. His heart ached so badly. Who knew he laughed after seeing it twice. He threw the jerk on the table casually.The old man breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and tore up the appropriation report he had written, and told his students: "Whoever likes to buy it, we don't buy it, and whoever buys it will have money." "What did you see at that time?" I was more curious about this. "Hey, it's really nothing. The main reason is that I had preconceived it at the time and thought it was genuine, and I was always influenced by my subjective impression. Actually, now that I think about it, this fraudulent technique is not very clever, but if you are not an insider, you will definitely not be able to see it. " The old man picked up the Fuhaojue: "The main point of identifying bronze wares is to look at the copper rust. The real rust is closely combined with the surface of the bronze wares, and some of them can form hard granular or massive protrusions, which cannot be removed by nails. The real thing buried in the ground for a long time; and the pseudo-rust soaked in acetic acid mixed with copper sulfate solution, which can be removed with a fingernail. Look at this copper rust, can you pick it off?" I picked it up with my fingernail and shook my head. "By the way, why can't you pick it off, because this piece of copper rust is real." The old man said proudly. "What, is this patina real?" I was a little taken aback. "That's right, take a closer look inside, is there a faint trace." The old man showed me a magnifying glass, and I nodded. "These counterfeiters first found some broken and incomplete bronzes, dug out the copper rust and copper blocks on them, and then planted them in the cast bronzes by digging and patching, and after various old methods, a piece High-end counterfeit products were born." The old man explained to me the mystery of this in detail. I asked curiously: "Professor Wen, is it difficult to learn how to identify bronze wares?" "It's not difficult to learn. There are several aspects of bronze ware identification, but as long as you master the tricks, you can quickly identify them. For example, pattern, which is an important point in identifying the authenticity of bronze ware. The bronze ware of Xia Dynasty has simple patterns; The patterns are gorgeous and complicated, and there are many flowers all over the body; the Western Zhou Dynasty is roughly the same as that of the Shang Dynasty, but tends to be simple in the later period; the patterns of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States are fresh and lively, full of life; It can also be inferred and judged from the changes in the content of decorative patterns in different eras. As for the style, it can be distinguished mainly from its fonts. The early Zhou Dynasty followed the "Bodou style"; The tadpole-shaped "hat bucket text" and the patterned "bird insect book"; most of the Warring States gold scripts are not elegant, but there are also fonts with vertical pens leading down, and the sharp end of the "hanging compilation" prototype; the Qin Dynasty unified the writing , universal Xiaozuan. After mastering these, it would be a joke if Xiaozuan script appears on a bronze vessel that is said to be from the Three Dynasties. In addition, it can also be judged according to the number and content of the script book. " As soon as the old man opened the topic, he couldn't finish it, and he made me sleepy after a while. Just as he was yawning, the old man grabbed my arm and asked me the detailed process of going down to the underground palace several times. I had no choice but to force myself to tell him the experience of going to the grave several times. The old man was silent after listening. Just when I wanted to fall asleep again, he woke me up again and started a little bit. One drop asked me the details, so I had to force myself to recall the description. The old man finally shook me vigorously to wake me up: "You have to go back early tomorrow morning, you tell Xiao Zhong and your grandpa that someone is distracting you, they are forcing you to pay attention to something completely unnecessary, and spend some time and energy. I can guarantee that the children of those aristocratic families are also being used. They don’t even know who they are being used by, and they don’t even know what the purpose is. Your energy should be put on those maps , maybe that is the key to solving so many puzzling problems. Also, you told me about the unintentionally discovered copper tomb of Shenlong hanging fillet welding. I think that is the key point. It's approaching, but you are running around like headless chickens, you children are really getting worse." The old man said at the end with a tone of complete hatred. I'm almost sleepy, and I haven't slept well for several days. I lean on the sofa and just have a thought, I want to sleep.Dimly, I saw the old man writing something at his desk. It just so happened that he wrote his and I slept with mine. I felt that I was shaken awake as soon as I closed my eyes. The old man took a large file bag and said to me seriously: "When you go back, immediately give the contents here to Xiao Zhong. There is a letter and some documents in it." , Let him strictly investigate the few people I mentioned in the letter, and deploy manpower at several points in advance to prevent others from going ahead of us again." I listened and nodded in a daze, until I got ready to get in the car and realized that the sky was already slightly bright.When I was about to board the car, the old man handed me a long and narrow iron box: "This thing was given to me by Xiao Zhong back then. I think you will not be able to open the brazing tomb without this thing, so you still put it Take it back." I picked it up: "Hey, it's so heavy, what is it?" "Go back and let Xiao Zhong tell you. In addition, I want to tell you that the double pupils can't be opened according to your current self-will. Go back and let your grandpa teach you well. I don't want to ruin a good seedling just like that." " After that, he patted me on the shoulder: "Get in the car, I have already made arrangements, Xiao Zhong and the others are already waiting for you at Xinzheng Airport." I looked up at the sky, and the morning star was still on. Just at this point, how can there be a plane taking off, old man, you are not entertaining me, are you? The old man picked up a small box and handed it to me: "This is the little thing you liked yesterday, don't forget, save me and curse me for being stingy later." I thought, by the way, it was the Fuhaojue, and I thought how cute this old man was, so I boarded the car.The driver was still the black iron tower, he smiled at me, showing a row of neat white teeth, and said: "Sit down." The car started steadily, and I waved goodbye to the old man, and settled into a comfortable posture. Wanted to take another nap on the way to the airport. Before I could sleep soundly, I was shaken awake again, told that the airport had arrived, I was so angry, you were driving a rocket, how could it be so fast.