It's spring again.

As the so-called spring sleepiness and autumn deficiency, blown by the warm wind of early spring, the whole person has become lazy, in the Bazhen Pavilion, Zhou Tong is bored with his head to read, he is over thirty years old, the moist and gentle of his youth has been precipitated by the years to a mature charm, but that face is still as he was in his twenties, handsome and elegant, the sword eyebrows fly obliquely into the temples, and there is a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, except that the temperament of the body has become more elegant and calm, there is almost no sign of time to sharpen on him.

Glancing at the courtyard where there were no people, Zhou Tong thought about whether he wanted to go to the surrounding cities with Ling Yuan to play in the good spring outside, it was not a weekend, there were few people, and he was comfortable playing. At this moment, a guest walked in from outside the door, holding a wooden box in his hand, and cautiously walked in front of Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong started his spirit and asked, "What do guests need?"

Yin and Yang Eyes walked on the man's body, and found that it was a short-lived one, and then looked at the box in his hand, the anger rose to the sky, and it was estimated that it was filth from the ground.

Zhou Tong's face did not change, as if he hadn't found anything, and his smile was gentle.

Wang Tian hugged the box and asked cautiously, "Boss, can you identify the authenticity of the treasure here?"

"Yes. "Zhou Tongshou.

Wang Tian asked again: "Then will you keep it a secret for me?"

"Of course. Zhou Tong said, "The consistent rule is not to reveal the identity of the guest." ”

"That's good. Wang Tian muttered, and carefully looked at Zhou Tong before daring to take out the things in his hand, "Then trouble the boss to help me see if this thing is real or fake." ”

"Okay. Zhou Tong nodded, took the box from his hand, and when he took over, he obviously felt Wang Tian's hesitation, and at the moment of handing, Wang Tian also retreated, and struggled for a moment before completely handing it over to Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong opened the box and saw that it was a bronze covered with patina, like a part of some device, the bronze was carved with complex patterns, but this corner couldn't see what the pattern was, and there were many small holes on it, and it was not like a deliberately carved hollow pattern, Zhou Tong put it in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, and asked: "This is one side of the bronze tripod?"

"Yes, the owner has good eyesight. Wang Tian asked, "Then whether this bronze is real or fake, what dynasty can the boss of the dynasty be able to see?"

"The bronze should be real, the surface of the patina is the same, the color is uniform and natural, and the sound is crisp, but only based on this one corner to make a conclusion, the pattern painted on it is not very complete, and it is difficult to judge which dynasty it is. Zhou Tong said, "This should be a standing ear holding a bronze incense burner, right? If there is only such a small piece, it is estimated that the price will not be very ideal." ”

"What is the real possibility?" Wang Tian asked nervously.

Zhou Tong said: "Fifty percent." ”

"It's only fifty percent?" Wang Tian was stunned.

Zhou Tong nodded.

Wang Tian cursed in his mouth, and Zhou Tong said, "Does this gentleman have a complete photo of the bronzes? ”

"Photo?" Wang Tian frowned, hesitated for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he took out his mobile phone and pulled up a photo and handed it to Zhou Tong.

When Zhou Tong saw the photo, he was shocked, and after looking at it quietly, he said to Wang Tian: "It should be almost the late Western Zhou Dynasty." ”

Wang Tian's face was happy, as if this point in time was enough to make him satisfied, he nodded and stopped asking, for fear of leaking more information, put Li'er back in the wooden box, paid and left.

After Wang Tian left, Zhou Tong said, "Tianyan, help me close the door of the store." ”

Tianyan Town Tanmu jumped up from the table, opened the doors on both sides, and Zhou Tong entered the back hall, rummaging up and down in the study.

Ling Yuan leaned against the door and asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Gutanda's secret record, a notebook, worn with twine, it is estimated that near this shelf, you can help me find it. Zhou Tong said while looking for it.

Ling Yuan swept up and down the bookshelf, and finally fixed his eyes on a book, he pulled out the book, his hand was not so strong that it almost made the whole book fall apart, Ling Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth in embarrassment, holding the book and asked Zhou Tong: "Is this the book?"

"I'll see. Zhou Tong walked through the bookshelf, nodded after seeing the book in Ling Yuan's hand, and boasted, "Amazing, I found it so quickly." ”

Zhou Tong pulled out the chair next to him and sat down, put the book on the table, and turned it carefully, Ling Yuan sat next to him and asked, "What kind of book is this?"

"My dad collected a notebook about the kingdom of Gutanda. In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, the royal family declined, the royal power collapsed, divided into many small countries, in the western region, adjacent to Persia there is an ancient country called Tanda, Tanda people serve the mountain gods, there is a very strong atmosphere of god worship, this notebook is very interesting, you can see it when you have time. ”

As he spoke, Zhou Tong flipped the notebook to a page, on which a bronze stove was drawn in pencil, almost exactly the same as the photo that Wang Tian had shown him before.

Zhou Daodao: "Sure enough, this is it." ”

Ling Yuan looked at the contents of the page casually, there were many exotic ancient characters on it, he couldn't understand it, but fortunately, there were annotations made by the person who wrote the notes on the side, and he could barely understand the content recorded on it.

This stove was originally an incense burner for burning incense and sacrifices, the spice has a long history, the earliest in the Shennong period has used grass leaves to expel insects and mosquitoes, the ritual of burning incense in the Shang and Zhou dynasties was prevalent, King Wen of Zhou sacrificed to the sky with "smoke ritual", passed to the Han Dynasty, the spices from the Western Regions were introduced into China, and the "Boshan furnace" came into being, but the earliest origin of the incense burner is really impossible to study.

The incense burner on the album comes from the late Western Zhou Dynasty, earlier than the "Boshan furnace", the shape is very strange, most of the general incense utensils are square four-legged or round three-legged, this incense burner is round eight-legged, and there are two legs long, the front is supported on the ground, the whole furnace body shows a tendency to fall backwards, the shape is like a spider, the vertical ear brought by Wang Tian stands in front of the incense burner, just like a pair of mouthparts of the spider.

The author of the notebook also specially marked that this bronze incense burner has "many fine holes for the purpose of dispersing gas", and basically the whole body is covered with tiny holes like the upper ears except for the base, which is definitely not as simple as an ordinary incense burner.

Zhou Tong told Ling Yuan about Wang Tian's affairs and said, "The life line of the person who came today is extremely short, I'm afraid he won't survive these days." ”

Ling Yuan said coldly: "This bronze is very evil, since you have the intention of making evil money, you must be prepared to die. ”

Zhou Tong smiled and nodded: "What you said is true, but I am a little interested in this bronze, aren't you curious about what this thing is for? They must have dug out more than just this small piece of ear, and the tomb robbers are not stupid, the bronze market has always been very confusing, not only paying attention to the dynasty but also paying attention to the integrity of the artifact itself, and a standing ear is not enough for him to be so careful to find a partial appraiser like me for identification." If they do dig this evil thing out of the ground, I'm afraid something will happen again. ”

Ling Yuan raised his eyebrows, looked at Zhou Tong's eager expression and smiled helplessly, he rubbed Zhou Tong's hair and said, "You can come as you like." ”

Zhou Tong deliberately made a straight face, looked at Ling Yuan with a straight face, and said, "I'm thirty-two years old, it's not good for you to be like this, okay?"

Ling Yuan rubbed the tip of Zhou Tong's nose affectionately and said, "When you are eighty/ninety years old, you will still be my wife, and you will still be my sweetheart." ”

Zhou Tong shuddered and said disgustedly: "You are really numb." ”

Ling Yuan chuckled, took Zhou Tong's lips and kissed them deeply.

Sure enough, as Zhou Tong expected, three days later, Wang Tian's body was found by the police.

Wang Tian died in a small hotel, his death was miserable, his body seemed to have been bitten by poisonous insects, there was no intact place on his body, the deepest hole was enough to see the bones, and almost all the blood in his body was sucked dry. The special state department took Zhou Tong to see Wang Tian's corpse, and Zhou Tong found that the holes that had been bitten out were filled with the same terrifying aura as the evil qi wrapped around Hitachi's body.

Zhou Tong asked the police: "Did you find anything around him?"

The police spread out all Wang Tian's relics in front of Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong put on gloves and carefully examined them, Luoyang shovel, wolf's eye flashlight, turned on the ancient mirror, entanglement net, black donkey hooves, etc., this person's identity could not be more obvious. However, after looking for a long time, I didn't find the Li'er I saw that day.

It is definitely not possible to rob the tomb alone, except for Wang Tian, he must have other accomplices, and the ears of the bronze furnace should have been taken away by his accomplices.

Wang Tian's matter was put aside for the time being, Zhou Tong asked the police to pay attention to Wang Tian's movements some time ago, and sure enough, in addition to Wang Tian, five suspicious characters were also found to sell a batch of dirty in the city, and by the way, they took a few illegal dens, but those people were obviously veterans and hid very deeply, and they couldn't be found at all for a while.

The police handed all the information to Zhou Tong, who sat in the store and looked at the information and speculated on the activities of the tomb robbers.

The things they stole back have a very heavy mythological taste, most of them are sacrificial things, the most precious is a set of more than ten pottery puppets for sacrificing to the sky, and there is a bronze mirror with a burial, there is a huge spider coiled on the back, eight claws grasp the edge of the bronze mirror, and the edge of the spiral ancient mirror is engraved with a line of exotic ancient characters that snake like insects, which translates to roughly as: all things in heaven and earth are precious to oviparous.

Looking at their recent movements, the theft should be an ancient tomb near Xinjiang, according to the unearthed content of the tomb owner should be a priest or something, considering this bronze mirror, it is very likely to be a woman, but in the early days, the emperor is generally associated with myths and legends, and the possibility of an emperor's tomb is not ruled out, but the probability of a female emperor is not high. 166 Reading Network