Chapter 62: Ancient Coins

"Okay, don't worry, uncle, it's not troublesome. ”

Agreeing on his lips, Chu Fengping felt a little strange in his heart.

At first glance, although there are many things in the study, they are not the treasures they imagined, most of them are mediocre qualifications, and they are sold for a few thousand yuan at most.

Walking slowly in the room with his hands in his hands, Chu Fengping's eyes swept lightly over every inch of the corner, and the more he looked at it, the more his brows wrinkled—it shouldn't be, in such a place with historical and cultural heritage, there is not even an antique that can be used. Could it be that good things have been bought in advance by peers?

Perhaps seeing Chu Fengping's thoughts, Uncle Liu hesitated for a moment and opened his mouth to break the silence: "Young man, actually...... The ancestor put the more valuable things into a small box, sorted them out and hid them at home, you wait a while, I will go and bring it to you to see. ”

According to the rules, the contents of the box should not be shown to outsiders, but now they are really empty and desperate, so they can only make an exception.

The tense nerve in Chu Fengping's mind suddenly relaxed a little.

No wonder there are no good goods, it turns out that Uncle Liu didn't show his hole cards.

He almost thought he had miscalculated!

After speaking, Uncle Liu turned around and left, his expression was heavy and hurried, and after about twenty seconds, when he returned to the study again, an extremely delicate-looking rosewood box appeared on his hands. The surface of the box is carved with layered patterns, dense and smooth, coupled with the lock made of pure gold, almost perfect pulp, which can be described as the best quality.

The light of expectation emerged from under Chu Fengping's eyes.

Even the boxes are worth so much, let alone the contents inside!

Uncle Liu lightly placed the sandalwood box on the table of the study, and his movements were so careful that he seemed to be holding a piece of tofu instead of wood.

He slowly lifted the lid of the wooden box, and the miscellaneous things in the box were also exposed to Chu Fengping's field of vision.

"This ......" The hope that had just risen in Chu Fengping's heart was instantly poured cold water - it's not that it's worthless, it's just that it's too far from what he imagined.

The bells and whistles of gold and silver jewelry lie quietly, the color is gray, the dust has been sealed for a long time, although each piece is exquisitely made, but at most it can only be sold for one or two thousand, far from being qualified to become a "family heirloom" passed down from generation to generation.

It's strange, the Liu family was once brilliant and prosperous, how could they use such a mediocre thing as a treasure at the bottom of the box? Chu Fengping originally thought that no matter how bad it was, it should be a porcelain or jade with a market value of seven figures, but he didn't expect it......

Chu Fengping's face turned a little pale.

His instincts told him that something had to go wrong.

Reaching out and taking out the jewelry from the sandalwood box one by one, Chu Fengping roughly calculated, and all of them together could only be sold for fifty or sixty thousand.

As the chest emptied and the bottom was exposed, several dusty silver and copper coins were revealed. Chu Fengping keenly sensed that something was wrong, and subconsciously asked, "What is this?"

He was not asking, of course, silver and copper coins, but the breath that emanated from them.

That's right, it's the same mysterious power as the stone lion in front of the antique store!

The heart involuntarily increased its beating speed, and Chu Fengping hurriedly picked up a copper coin and put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully: "Well, it is an ancient currency, with a history of more than a thousand years, if you take it to the antique market or auction house, it can be sold for a good price." ”

As he spoke, Chu Fengping turned over the copper coin.

Only then did he find that the place where the country name should have been engraved had been replaced by a strange and vague figure.

Is it a fake?

......

No, wait!

A spiritual light burst out in his mind, Chu Fengping's pupils narrowed slightly, and he suddenly realized: "It turned out to be an official model coin!"

He almost forgot that according to the rules of the time, when the official issued a new currency, the palace would first mint a batch of copper and silver dollars as a template, and then distribute them to local officials, so that these officials could mint exactly the same currency according to the template and circulate it.

These samples, which are marked with official markings, will be replaced by Taoist Bagua diagrams, in order to distinguish them from ordinary currencies in private circulation.

Chu Fengping glanced at the bottom of the sandalwood box twice-Uncle Liu's collection of silver and copper coins is still quite a lot, it is estimated that there are more than a hundred and ten, and each coin looks different from the others, maybe there are older and more valuable collectors mixed in it. According to conservative estimates, it must add up to 10 million.

It is more than enough to be used as a sale item at the auction of the Wang Group!

"Uncle, congratulations, although these gold and silver jewelry are not very valuable, the remaining coins are extremely precious historical relics, and it is not a problem to buy three houses in the center of City A. ”

Three suites, converted into a specific amount of about 3 million.

The reason why the price was quietly lowered was not entirely to help Wang Yunshi save money. After all, Uncle Liu has been poor and simple all his life, and if he gets rich all of a sudden, he will incur a lot of unnecessary trouble.

"Are you serious?" Uncle Liu was overjoyed, so excited that he even trembled slightly when he spoke, "Ouch, my God, young man, I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, your uncle and I have never seen so much money in my life......"

He originally thought that as long as he could help his son pay the down payment, he didn't expect so many "windfalls" at once.

Chu Fengping smiled but did not speak, doubts still lingering in his heart.

It is reasonable that these silver dollars and copper coins have become heirlooms of the Liu family, but how did those ordinary gold and silver jewelry get in?

The most important thing is that when he took out the jewelry from the sandalwood box one by one, he found that there were still inferior long-life locks that could be bought at a roadside stall for 30 yuan! Judging from the importance that the uncle attached to this sandalwood box, he had most likely kept it well and never opened it casually, let alone stuffed it with shoddy fakes made by modern industry.

Taken together, think about it, what does this mean?

Tsk tsk.

"Uncle, forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, has anyone touched your box?" Chu Fengping asked tentatively, suddenly feeling a little sympathy for Uncle Liu.

People are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden, this is true.

It is estimated that some of the relatives and friends who had a thief's heart saw that Uncle Liu was honest, and persuaded him to take out the sandalwood box, and then unknowingly secretly wrapped the contents of the box and walked away.

"No, how can the things given by the ancestors make people move casually! Oh, except for the distant relative who came to visit the door a few years ago. ”

"Distant relative, good and decent, why did he touch the contents of this box?"

"I want to think about ......"

Uncle Liu is old, his memory is a little bad, he squints his eyes and falls into memories.

Chapter 63