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Chapter 612: The Bull and Tiger Bronze Case

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Liu Dong is naturally very familiar with such a treasure as the Ox and Tiger Bronze Case, but he never imagined that he would actually see a Ox and Tiger Bronze Case with an almost identical shape and structure on the antique street in Chongqing, and the difference is only slightly smaller than that of the Yunnan-South Museum!

If it weren't for the fact that the relics of Yuanguang would never make mistakes, and the identification results of the relics also told Liu Dong the truth, he would never have believed that such a national treasure with the same name as 'Ma Stepping Feiyan' actually had a similar genuine product!

After suppressing the excitement in his heart, Liu Dong re-shuffled the Niuhu copper case that had been put together, and then selected some of these broken copper pieces, about sixteen or seventeen pieces, and then bought them at a price of five hundred yuan. ←，

The whole process was very smooth, and the owner of this antique stall did not raise the price with Liu Dong, because these broken copper pieces were all picked up by him from the garbage station or when he was digging out the old house, and it didn't cost much at all, and most of them were fake fragments, which was already good if he could make money!

"Liu Dong?"

The familiar voice made Liu Dong, who was immersed in his rich harvest, wake up, and then looked in the direction where the voice came from, with a hint of surprise on his face, "Old Wu?"

I saw the old man standing six meters away from Liu Dong, who was Wu Banghan, the vice president of the Quancheng Collection Association, and one of the elders Liu Dong had the closest relationship with in the Collection Association.

However, the old man in a white short-sleeved shirt next to the old man, Liu Dong didn't know.

"I didn't expect to meet you kid here!"

See Liu Dong. The old man was very happy. Hurriedly strode over.

"Huh. I didn't expect to meet you here!" Liu Dong said with a smile.

"Hey, did you get the baby again?" After approaching, Old Man Wu naturally saw Liu Dong's backpack behind him, and then thought of the environment at the moment, needless to say that Liu Dong must have taken out the baby, and thinking of Liu Dong's amazing appearance when he joined the club, the old man also felt a little urgent in his heart.

Noticing the old man's eyes looking directly behind him, Liu Dong knew that if he didn't let the other party take a look. Don't think about Ansheng today.

"Old Wu, why don't we talk about it in another place, it's not safe to have too many people here!"

Liu Dong's words made Old Man Wu come back to his senses, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, you should change places!"

After finishing speaking, the old man also forgot his original intention of coming to the antique market, and pulled Liu Dong and prepared to go outside. After some introductions on the road, Liu Dong also met the old man who came with Mr. Wu, who was the president of the Chongqing City Collection Association, and obviously the other party was no stranger to Liu Dong. There is a sense of closeness in the words!

After arriving at the hotel where Wu Lao was staying, Liu Dong naturally took out the things in his backpack. However, in addition to the broken copper pieces bought at the end, others such as the painted Wei Tuo statue of the Ming Dynasty, the carved copy of the "Diamond Sutra" of the Qing Dynasty, and more than a dozen other antiques were all received by Liu Dong in the mustard seed space!

In order to avoid the impact, Liu Dong didn't take it out.

"These are the antiques you picked up?" Looking at the tattered copper pieces on the table, and many fakes that looked like fakes, Old Man Wu couldn't help frowning deeply.

"Of course!"

Hearing this, Wu Lao looked at the confidence on Liu Dong's face, and his expression became solemn, with his understanding of Liu Dong's appraisal level, these copper pieces are definitely not as simple as they seem, and there must be some mystery hidden in them.

And just as he was contemplating and thinking, Yang Guofeng, who came up with him next to him, had already rummaged through the dozen pieces of broken copper after a light 'huh'.

What surprised Liu Dong was that the other party actually gathered a total of 6 pieces of the Ox and Tiger Copper Case that he had put together with the relics of Yuanguang.

Noticing Liu Dong's expression, Wu Lao smiled and said, "Xiaodong, Lao Yang is a domestic bronze repair and appraisal master!"

"Hehe, you can't talk about it yet, it's just some research...... Young man, I like these copper pieces very much, if you want, I am willing to buy them for 20,000 yuan!"

However, although the other party covered it up well, Liu Dong also saw the excitement in the other party's eyes. However, Liu Dong, who understands the thin bottom of these copper sheets, will definitely not sell them.

"Elder Yang, the Niuhu Bronze Case is a national treasure, although this one is a little smaller and has been damaged, but it is not difficult to repair it!"

"So you know!" Yang Lao sighed.

Although he understood that since Liu Dong bought these copper pieces, he should understand the mystery, but in the face of the national treasure, Yang Lao still wanted to try his best to fight for it, although this may be very small.

"Niuhu Copper Case, Lao Yang, you said this is the Niuhu Copper Case?"

After being smashed into six pieces by an external force, the body of the tiger has been broken into two, and the big cow and the calf under it are also separated, so if it is not for the very good study of the bronze, if the six pieces are not put together, ordinary people will not be able to see its original appearance at all.

After nodding to his old friend, Yang Guofeng looked at the six fragments on the table with fiery eyes, and said with emotion and excitement: "That's right, this is the national treasure 'Niuhu Bronze Case' comparable to Ma Ta Feiyan!"

"But isn't the Niuhu Copper Case in the Yunnan-South Museum? I haven't heard of it being stolen!" Although Wu Lao, who specializes in porcelain identification, knows about the existence of the Niuhu Copper Case, he has not conducted special research.

"Who sued you for the 'Niuhu Copper Case' and only one piece!"

"Could it be that there are two such national treasures?" said Wu Lao with puffed out his eyes in surprise.

After nodding, Yang Guofeng showed a trace of memory on his face, thinking that when the ancient tombs of Lijiashan were excavated, he was also one of the witnesses, but he was only in his twenties at that time, and he was just a small soldier who followed many archaeologists to draw pictures and records.

However, the story before and after the excavation of the ancient tombs of Lijiashan at that time is still fresh in Yang Guofeng's memory.

First of all, the ancient tombs of Lijiashan, like most of the ancient tombs in China, are not the prophets of archaeologists, but the villagers near Lijiashan first found a large number of bronzes here.

Of course, due to a lack of knowledge, people at the time did not realize the meaning of these bronzes, which were once buried deep in the ground, but they were well aware that poor families needed more money to support their families.

In addition, the price of copper at that time was relatively high, at 4 cents per kilogram, almost twice that of iron, so most of the villagers took the excavated bronzes to the scrap yard in the town to sell them for money.

Of course, most of the bronzes were smashed, because the newly unearthed bronzes were covered with a lot of dirt and rust, which were too heavy for the scrap yard to want, so they had to be removed before selling.

Ordinary people don't have the patience of archaeologists, and it is far easier to clean up a piece than a whole piece!

Of course, after the Niuhu Copper Case was dug up, it was not smashed, because this thing was too exquisite, and the villagers who dug it out also thought it was a good thing, but no matter how good it was, it was not hungry, and for the sake of money, the villagers sold the Niuhu Copper Case to the acquisition station.

At that time, the scrap collection station belonged to the state-run, and all the copper materials had to be returned to the furnace after being collected, and smelted into copper to support national construction, but although the secretary of the scrap collection station at that time did not have a high level of education, he also knew that this exquisite Niuhu copper case was a good thing.

So he used his own salary to fill in the accounts of the scrap yard and kept this bull and tiger copper case.

I have to say that people's consciousness at that time was much higher than now, and no one dared to embezzle even a few dollars.

As more and more bronzes were excavated in Lijiashan, the rumor naturally reached the ears of the archaeological experts of the Yuxi Cultural Relics Workstation at that time.

Just a trip, after a simple field trip to Lijiashan, the fact that there is a large ancient tomb group buried here from the Warring States period to the early Han Dynasty was determined by archaeologists.

The next step is to consider the issue of excavation.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of cultural treasures of the ancient Dian Kingdom period, such as the "Ox and Tiger Bronze Case" and the "Gilded Knight Shell Storage Vessel", which are the treasures of the Sichuan Museum, came out, and also caused a sensation throughout the country.

But a few years after the archaeological excavation was completed, archaeologists learned that there was not only one national treasure, the 'Niuhu Copper Case', but a small amount of it had been sold to the county's scrap yard at that time before the ancient tomb was excavated.

Such news is enough to make anyone involved in the excavation of the ancient tombs of Lijiashan very excited, you must know that the Niuhu Copper Case is a national treasure, and it is one of the only two national treasures in the sixties and seventies that are as famous as the 'Copper Galloping Horse'.

But when the archaeologists found the secretary of the scrap purchase station who had retired at home at that time, the other party told him that because of the excavation of the ancient tomb of Lijiashan and the sensation of the 'Niuhu Copper Case' in the country, in order to avoid causing trouble to himself, he smashed the little Niuhu Copper Case as early as before he retired!

As for where the fragments went, because the time was too long, the other party couldn't remember clearly.

Faced with the loss of a national treasure due to a weak sense of conservation, archaeologists have no other way but to sigh.

"So this is the Ox and Tiger Copper Case that was smashed and lost back then?" Wu Lao said in surprise as he stared at the six pieces on the table.

"It shouldn't be wrong, but further identification is needed!" Yang Guofeng said.

However, in the face of Yang Lao's expectant eyes, Liu Dong shook his head very happily, he knows better than anyone the truth of this bull and tiger copper case, and the appraisal means that it will be handed over to others, if you meet a greedy person, this thing that could have been regarded as a lost cultural relic, I am afraid that it will really not come back!

Therefore, despite Yang Guofeng's vigorous persuasion, Liu Dong was just resolute in his heart! Even if Wu Lao helped, Liu Dong refused the other party's request to take it back for identification.

As for the problem of repair, Liu Dong's relics Yuanguang can do it, but if he wants to restore the Ox and Tiger Bronze Case that has been scattered into six pieces to be complete, he has to turn to his cheap master, but now the other party doesn't know where it is, so he has to wait.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (To be continued......)