Chapter 114: Bronze
"You are Professor Guo in the province, I am the village chief of this village, Yu Erbao. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info"Village Chief Yu had already received a notice from above that Professor Guo from the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics would come to their village to conduct surveys in the next two days, so he warmly greeted him and shook hands with Professor Guo.
"Hello Village Chief Yu, what happened just now?"
When Professor Guo asked, the staff of the Cultural Relics Administration Bureau around Village Chief Yu were all embarrassed and a little depressed.
"It's a long story, it's not too early, let's find a place to invite Professor Guo to have a light meal, let's talk while eating."
Yujiagou is a poor village with only a few hundred households, and there is not even a decent restaurant in the village, so the village chief Yu led Professor Guo and them back to his own house, and asked his mother-in-law to slaughter a big rooster and invite Professor Guo to dinner.
"There are no good things in the countryside, it's all coarse tea and light rice, don't dislike it."
Village Chief Yu's family was too small, so he moved the table to the courtyard and let Qin Fan and Professor Guo sit on the bench to eat.
"Hehe, when we were out for archaeology, we often slept in the open air, and many times we could only eat our own dry food, and even eating a bowl of hot white rice was a luxury. The meal was already hearty for us. "Professor Guo is not very particular about eating, and he can eat green vegetables and tofu with relish.
Guo Jing is not a delicate girl who grew up in a greenhouse, she often follows her grandfather everywhere to endure hardships and hardships, but she will not be petty and dislike the unpalatable food.
Xu Bin and Guo Jing originally thought that Qin Fan was a child from a rich family, and he would not be able to eat these coarse tea and light rice if he was used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, but how did they know that this product could eat faster than them, and after a while, they swept all these wild vegetables and tofu into their stomachs.
After driving all morning, Qin Fan was also hungry, and he ate wild vegetables and tofu deliciously.
As for the tiger, it is not as picky and delicate as some precious dogs, Qin Fan loves to eat any food when he feeds it, but it is very easy to feed.
"By the way, Village Chief Yu, you haven't said what the hell is going on just now, that fellow really dug up the bronze?" After eating and drinking, Qin Fan put down the dishes and chopsticks, and asked Village Chief Yu with some curiosity.
Village Chief Yu sighed and said leisurely, "Alas, it's all these bronzes that provoke it. ”
"Last week, due to heavy rains, there was a mudslide on the mountain, which buried all the roads outside the village, so that the relief materials sent by the government could not be delivered. So I organized the villagers to take shovels and try to clean up all the soil washed down from the mountain. ”
"Who knew that this shovel went down and dug up dozens of bronzes in the soil. I didn't study these cultural relics, and I didn't know at the time that they were cultural relics that could not be moved casually, so many bronzes were dug up by the villagers. ”
Hearing the words of Village Chief Yu, it seems that there are still a lot of these bronzes, and they are not just a few as reported on the news.
"Village Chief Yu, do you know how many bronzes these villagers have dug up in the soil?"
Village Chief Yu hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "The specific number is not clear, most of the bronzes have been broken, and there are only about twenty intact pieces." ”
"And have all these bronzes been recovered now?"
"Well, if I can get it back, I won't have to worry about it." Village Chief Yu took a puff of dry tobacco and said with a headache, "You don't know, those cultural relics dealers have a nose that is smarter than a dog." Not long after the news of the discovery of the bronzes in the village spread, the government had not sent anyone over before several antiquities dealers came to the village. ”
Qin Fan's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Could it be that those bronzes were bought by these cultural relics dealers?" ”
"At that time, the people in the village did not know that these bronzes were protected by the state, and they did not know how much they were worth. Later, a cultural relics dealer found a bronze tripod in good condition in a villager's house, and planned to buy it for 50,000 yuan. ”
50,000 yuan is already a lot of money for Yujiagou Village, which has a per capita annual income of less than 1,000.
The villager didn't know that this bronze was forbidden to be traded, and when he heard that he could make so much money, he sold the bronze tripod without saying a word.
Fortunately, the local police station acted in time and quickly caught the antiquities dealer and chased the things back.
After this incident, the village chief Yu mobilized the villagers to hand over the excavated bronzes to the government, and finally recovered more than a dozen bronzes.
However, there are also some villagers with a weak sense of the legal system who see that these bronzes are so valuable, so they put Dong XC up and resolutely refuse to admit that they have dug up the bronzes from the ground.
"There is no way, in the past two days, I and the comrades of the Cultural Relics Administration can only go door-to-door to persuade them to hand over the hidden bronzes. It's okay to run into a reasonable person, but if we meet someone who is as unreasonable as the iron egg just now, we don't have much to do. ”
Since the news spread that these bronzes dug out of the ground could sell for a lot of money throughout the village, this iron egg started to use his crooked brains and took a shovel to the mountains to dig treasures.
As a result, he dug in the mountains for a few days, and really dug up a complete bronze statue for him.
However, before Tie Dan had time to be happy, he was stabbed to the village chief about digging up the bronze statue on the mountain. So there was a scene where Village Chief Yu took the staff of the Cultural Relics Administration to ask for the bronze statue, but was blasted out by the iron egg.
"These days, there are a lot of strangers in the village, and I heard that there are still tomb robbers inside, and the local police station can't manage it even if they want to, and I'm afraid that something big will happen in the village."
The head of the village was full of sadness, and the matter of the iron egg digging up the bronze on the mountain could not be hidden for long, and soon there would be cultural relics dealers eyeing the bronze statue in his hand. If this bronze statue was bought by cultural relics dealers and smuggled out of the country and exiled abroad, then his sin would be great.
"Professor Guo, in my opinion, there should be a large tomb of the Shang and Zhou dynasties on the mountain near Yujiagou, and it is very likely that this iron egg discovered the tomb by mistake." After hearing so much, Qin Fan was even more convinced that there must be a big tomb on the mountain near Yujiagou.
"But that iron egg refuses to speak, how can we know the specific location of this tomb from his mouth?" Guo Jing scratched his head in annoyance, even Village Chief Yu couldn't do anything about that iron egg, how could a few of them outsiders let him speak.
However, Qin Fan was not too worried, he already had an idea in his heart.
"You have all forgotten why this iron egg went to the mountains to dig things with so much effort, he couldn't have gone to archaeology." Qin Fan said with a smile.
Village Chief Yu scolded with a smile, "That rammer knows a fart archaeology, and roasted sweet potatoes are about the same." ”
"Of course he wants to dig up things and sell them for money." Guo Jing said as a matter of course.
"Qin Fan, what do you mean, we can pretend to be a cultural relics dealer and get the words out of his mouth?" Xu Bin's eyes lit up, and he guessed Qin Fan's method.
"Yes, that's it. But we just need to send one person to pretend to be an antiquities dealer. There are too many people for fear that he will be suspicious. ”
After saying this, Qin Fan found that Professor Guo and Xu Bin were both looking at him directly, as if there was something on his face.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Do I have flowers on my face? Qin Fan subconsciously touched his cheek.
"Village Chief Yu, these people have seen iron eggs, so let's pretend to be cultural relics dealers. Brother Qin Fan, I can only ask you to pretend to be a cultural relics dealer and lure that iron egg to the bait. ”
Professor Guo and Xu Bin both nodded in unison.
In your eyes, buddy looks like a dealer of cultural relics. Qin Fan's face was depressed, and he felt like he was lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.
"Alright then, let's role-play buddy."
Several young people tossed for a while, changed Qin Fan into a dirty suit and big scalp shoes, held a black leather bag in his hand, and wore a pair of big sunglasses on his face, looking like a Xiangjiang boss in the nineties.
"Are you sure this is the antiquities dealer's dress? Wouldn't that be too pompous. ”
Qin Fan admired this new image in the mirror, it was really earthy and creative.
"This iron egg has never seen the world, and if you dress like an ordinary farmer, he will ignore you. You have to pretend to be rich, maybe he will be fooled. ”
"No, you're a local tyrant, you don't have to pretend."
Guo Jing circled around Qin Fan a few times, and seemed to be very satisfied with his masterpiece.
Now that he has promised Professor Guo and them, Qin Fan has no way to regret it at this time, so he can only go to find Tie Dan, and it is unknown whether he will be fooled.
At this time, Tie Dan was taking a nap at home, and suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Is anyone home, fellow open the door."
"Damn, why are those people here again, and they don't let me sleep." Tie Dan got up from the bed with a furious face, picked up a stick and rushed to the yard.
"I said I didn't dig up the bronzes of Laoshzi on the mountain, and I will beat people up if you come again!"
Tie Dan angrily opened the door, only to see a stranger in a suit and a leather bag standing sneakily at the door of his house, not looking like a good person.
"Who are you looking for?"
"Fellow, I'm doing business nearby, and I happen to be passing by here, can I come to your house to ask for a bowl of water to drink?"
Tie Dan glanced at the man in the suit a few times, snorted and said unceremoniously, "Let's go, my house has no water, you go somewhere else to ask for it." ”
Just as Tie Dan was about to close the door, a hundred-dollar bill slipped in through the crack in the door.
"Fellow, I don't drink your water for nothing, do you think this money is enough?"
As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, and this is not true at all. Seeing the hundred-yuan bill, Tie Dan's heart was hot, and his eyes showed greed.