Chapter 32: The Snake Swallows Gold
Huang Xiaolin didn't answer, playing with the cup in her hand, looking at Wu Chen with a smile, she was happy to meet again after a long absence, she had long forgotten that there was still such a thing, and seeing that the two of them should not be doing well, she didn't plan to ask them for money, but she didn't say anything, she wanted to see what this guy who came to chase him when he was a child and let him call "brother" would do, especially after finding out that the other party would also blush, he was even more interested.
"Why don't you think that's going to work? When the big tooth comes, you will beat him up to the death! Who let that kid not have long eyes, dare to intercept your Miss Huang's way. Besides, that product has been beaten since he was a child, and he carried it very much, so you are polite. If he dares to run, I'll help you hold him down! Wu Chen saw that Huang Xiaolin was silent for a long time, and he was so angry that he could only run the train with his mouth full.
Huang Xiaolin laughed, few people have chatted with her like this over the years, especially the other party and herself still have a lot of past memories to recall, and said with a smile, "Still thinking about this?" It's not a big deal, I'll go to the 4S shop to fix it. But you can't drive like that, it's easy to have accidents, why don't you remind more? ”
When Wu Chen heard half of what he said, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he was also relaxed, but if you want to say a reminder, is it useful to remind the big tooth? But he didn't dare to show his face, raised the cup in his hand, and said with a flattering face: "Yes, yes, I will definitely make up my mind in the future, crack down hard, and never let him do it again!" That, I'll replace wine with tea, thank you for your magnanimity! Fill this cup! After saying that, he raised his head and drank. I thought to myself that what the old man said was right, and he would pursue other needs only after ensuring survival.
"By the way, where do you work now?" Huang Xiaolin raised her glass and touched her lips gently, she was really not interested in the tea made from the tea residue of five yuan a pound in a small restaurant.
"Me? A small civil servant who serves the people. Wu Chen touched the back of his head and said honestly.
"Oh......" Huang Xiaolin was just about to say something, when she heard the big teeth outside shouting: "Wu Chen, come and see, it's strange, this snake is still learning to swallow gold, is it trying to commit suicide?!" ”
Wu Chen and Huang Xiaolin walked out of the kitchen when they heard this, and saw Daya and the boss squatting on the ground and pulling something, and the little chef was also bent over to look at it with a bloody thin slice knife in one hand. As the two approached, they smelled a fishy smell.
"Hurry up and get a basin of water, why are you still stunned?" Big Tooth looked up and saw the chef looking at him with curiosity, and he was not polite, and gave an order directly to the chef.
The chef was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that the boss also waved his hand, he muttered dissatisfiedly and brought down the basin on the desk. Big Tooth picked up a piece of red and black that looked like iron and non-iron, threw it into the basin, scrubbed it with his hands, and then took it out, and the snake blood and mucus attached to it were gone, like a piece of black and gray iron.
Big Tooth took it in his hand and looked at it, and saw that the thing was about six or seven centimeters long, a round and bulging cone-shaped body, and the big one obviously showed signs of breaking, and it was alive with an iron chisel.
"Phew! I should have found a treasure, it turned out to be a waste chisel! I said you can't swallow a gold bar or something, what is there to swallow a broken piece of iron! Phew, bah~, you deserve to be caught to make soup! The big tooth was full of anticipation, and he threw the iron chisel into the basin, and complained about the dead snake.
Huang Xiaolin wanted to go back when she saw that there was no excitement to see, the smell here was really unbearable. Wu Chen felt strange, squatted down and picked it up from the water and took a closer look, this thing was black and gray, it was really similar to an iron chisel, but the small end was blunt, not sharp, and not round, and some traces of carving could be faintly seen on it.
"Let's go, let's go, what's so nice about a broken iron chisel." Daya stood up, saw where Wu Chen was still squatting, looked at the thing in the basin, kicked his ass, and urged him to go back.
This place he smelled fishy, just now the snake was nailed to the wall, first peeled off, and then pulled down the abdomen with a knife, clang, this broken thing fell to the ground with internal organs or something, and before he had time to clean it up, now it is really fishy!
"Boss, do you want this iron chisel, if you don't want it, I'll take it back and take a look." Wu Chen ignored the big teeth, reached out and scooped up the thing, washed it in the water, and then stood up and said to the boss.
After all, the boss only sold half of the snake to them, strictly speaking, this thing was not sold to them, Wu Chen is a cautious person, it is better to clarify the ownership first, so as not to turn back and have disputes.
"If it's broken, take it if you want it." The boss has also stood up at this moment, he also saw this thing really just now, just broke the iron chisel, he is now in a hurry to take out the snake gall bladder, soak in the wine and drink it, that thing is the big supplement!
"Okay, thanks!" Wu Chen stood up, took the piece of iron, turned into the bathroom, rubbed it with soap several times, and found some paper towels to dry it. Although there is still a fishy smell, don't put it in front of your nose, it can't smell it anymore, so I put it in my hand and entered the private room.
"How? It won't be a good thing, right? Daya was carrying the teapot diligently, replacing Huang Xiaolin with hot tea, and when he saw Wu Chen coming in, he put down the teapot and asked shyly. He knew that Wu Chen was not as unreliable as himself, and if he hadn't seen something strange, he wouldn't have come back with that iron piece.
"Well, if I'm not mistaken, this shouldn't be an iron tool, but a bronze tool, a broken bronze dingzu." Wu Chen sat down, looked outside the door, and saw that no one was following, so he put the object on the table and said slowly.
"Bronze?" Big Tooth grabbed the thing on the table, and looked left and right at a lump of iron, "Isn't all bronze green?" Why is this black? Is this bronze or black copper? ”
"Hehe, the green layer you said is bronze rust." Wu Chen really knows a little bit about this, bronzes have always been relatively unique in the field of collection, as a symbol of the identity, power and wealth of ancient emperors and nobles in our country, it is not only a heavy weapon of the powerful side, but also a supreme ritual vessel with clear hierarchies; Its shape is solemn and elegant, the ornamentation is exquisite and majestic, and the historical documents carried by its inscriptions have extremely high academic research value in the history of Chinese civilization, among which there are many national treasure-level heavy weapons.
However, because in China, the unearthed bronzes are prohibited from being listed and traded, and most of the black market transactions are on the market, coupled with the rampant counterfeiting, the price cannot go up.
But this does not prevent people who like antiques from loving it, and Wu Chen is no exception, every time he visits the museum, he will go to the bronze exhibition hall to learn some knowledge.
"Not all bronze rust is green! Generally, according to the location of the landing, the general rust unearthed in the dry areas of the north is more serious, and the red or green rust appears, which is called soil rust, just like the green surface layer that the big tooth said; In the more humid places in the south, especially in the groundwater, there is little contact with the air, and the rust is not serious, and the unearthed ones are often black and gray, called rust, just like this piece. ”
"You see the texture of this piece, it's not as tight as an iron chisel, if you use this thing to chisel something, I'm afraid that it will deform or break first after a few hammers." After Wu Chen finished speaking, he picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and when he saw the two of them looking at him dumbfounded, he hurriedly added: "Don't look at me like this, I'm not an expert, but once when I visited a museum, I saw various bronze exhibitions, and I flipped through some introductions." In fact, these are very simple, Baidu has them! ”
"Are you so sure?" Big tooth fluted for a while, and asked again.
"I'm not sure, I just think it's like it, but maybe it's the product of the great steelmaking back then, hehe." Wu Chen spread his hands, this thing is black and not slippery, the shape is a bit like a bottle with missing ears and feet, and it really doesn't look like a bronze from the outside.
But just now, when he was washing this thing, he secretly looked at it with his ability, exuding a dark purple sand light, it should be something above the pre-Qin period, but unfortunately it is an object that can no longer be broken.
"I think it's eighty percent so!" Huang Xiaolin took the things from Daya's hand, looked at them carefully and said, "Although I don't understand it, my father has collected some of them, and there are indeed some similar ones to this." And if you look at it, there should still be a casting pattern, but I can't see what it is. ”
"And what do you say this is? It doesn't look like a hairpin, it's not so thick, unless people at that time used it to perm their hair. "Although neither of them is sure, Big Tooth has already decided that it is bronze, which is worth more than scrap iron lumps.
As he spoke, he patted his thigh, "By the way, maybe it's a letterhead or something, you can see if it's hollow?" Maybe there's a treasure map hidden inside! I've seen this kind of bloody plot in online novels! ”
The two looked at the big glowing teeth on their faces, and they were speechless for a while.
"You know it's dog blood! This thing is so heavy-handed, it must be solid. Wu Chen glanced at him, hesitated, and said, "I think this should be a foot of a bronze tripod, I don't know how the road is broken, you see where the fracture is, there is a concave arc, which should be connected to the tripod body." ”
"Bronze tripod? That's a national treasure, it's worth the old nose money?! Big Tooth immediately gave up his groundless imagination and mentioned metaphysical problems.
This Wu Chen has no way to answer, he is actually the same as the current Internet army, a typical Bo but not refined, and said in a deep voice, "It depends on the situation, not all bronzes are valuable." There are many bronzes unearthed, and they are valuable unless they are national treasures. I don't know where this piece fell off, it is not even a remnant, and its cultural value is not great, let alone economic value. ”
Daya immediately lost interest when he heard this, and saw that Huang Xiaolin was still looking at the bronze dingzu, and said with a smile: "I said sister, since you like this thing, take it back and look at it again, it's not worth it anyway, it should be made amends for you." ”
Huang Xiaolin actually couldn't see anything, her father liked this thing, but she didn't have much interest, she just happened to touch it, so she took it in her hand and looked at it carefully, listened to what Daya said, put Dingzu back on the table, raised her head and said to Daya with a smile: "Dare to love you to give it to me because you know that it is worthless?" ”
"It's not!" Big Tooth categorically denied it, and retorted with a serious face, "As the old saying goes, courtesy is light and affection is heavy, and often this unworthy thing can reflect great friendship!" If you don't believe it, ask Wu Chen, I gave him a pair of slippers, he must wear it every day, I want to give him a BMW, does he dare to accept it? There is nothing to do, and it is not good to be courteous or thief, and others still think that we have a leg! Besides, he is a small soldier, he drives a BMW all day long, and the coffee in the discipline inspection department is enough for him to drink a pot! So, the closer the relationship, the less valuable the gift is! ”