"Huh?"

was thinking wildly, suddenly, a black gilt folded branch pattern cover bowl broke into Li Yi's sight, picked it up and looked at it, it turned out to be a silver cover bowl, only because of oxidation, so it turned black. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The bowl usually has no cover, but the bowl lid of this bowl is like an inverted bowl, just slightly shallow, slightly larger, folded down into the mouth of the mother and son and the bowl body below, the seam is threaded, and not only the cover has the words "two catties and one two and two and the bottom" and other words, the inner bottom of the bowl also has the words "two catties and one two and two and cover", which is enough to show that this is a set.

Li Yi guessed that this should be the thing that the local officials gave to the imperial court, but there is no clear indication of what dynasty and who made it, and these can only be judged from the gilded patterns on the surface of the bowl.

Gilding is a kind of metal processing technology, also known as "gold coating", "gold plating", "degree gold", "flowing gold", is a gold mercury synthesized from gold and mercury, coated on the surface of copper, heated to evaporate mercury, so that the gold is firmly attached to the surface of copper without falling off.

This kind of technology, the earliest began in the Warring States Period, the later period is not only limited to gilding, but also gilt, and the utensils used are not limited to bronze, in the history book "An Lushan deeds" is recorded, Tang Xuanzong rewarded An Lushan with two gold-plated silver-plated bowls, which is this kind of gilt silver bowl.

This bowl has six flowers composed of lotus leaves in the lid foot, six peach-shaped honeysuckle knots scattered around the cover, and six folded branch flowers are carved on the abdomen, and the flower is shaped like grape pomegranate. In addition, the cover and the outer edge of the bottom are decorated with petal patterns with narrow bands around the week, overlapping and continuous, chasing each other, the decoration is quite simple and elegant, but the production is very exquisite, it is definitely from the hands of the master craftsmen at that time.

Li Yi carefully observed for a while and found that this gaiwan was very similar to the gilded silver gaiwan with a gilded branch pattern unearthed in Hejia Village, Chang'an, while the flowers and leaves were hypertrophied, and the intervals were blank and patternless, which was also a popular decorative pattern in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, so it was speculated that this may also be a gaiwan of the Tang Dynasty.

After verifying it with the spirit identification card, Li Yi continued to walk forward, and after more than a dozen Western antiques, he picked up a black terracotta figurine and looked at it carefully.

This terracotta figurine is a pottery figurine, about 20 centimeters high, the dancer is dressed in a deep coat, the top hair is parted in the middle, and the back of the head is pulled into a bun, the eyebrows are delicate, the body posture is charming, and the body presents an "S" shape with the change of dance steps.

The dancing figurines raise one arm upward, and the left and right upper arms are each engraved with a "five" figure, and the long sleeves float down from the air to the back, full of movement.

This kind of dancing figurine Li Yi had seen the corresponding information before, but the real thing was the first time he encountered it, he remembered that this kind of dancing figurine should be called the pottery dance figurines around the cardigan, and the dance was the long-sleeved waist Chu dance that was popular at that time.

This kind of dancing figurines are only unearthed in more than a dozen tombs of the kings of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty near Xuzhou in China, and the total number is only more than 20 pieces. And this kind of right arm up, the upper body leans forward, the left arm naturally hangs down on the side of the body, like a dance after the end of the salute action like a cardigan pottery figurine, then only the basket mountain Chu King tomb unearthed two pieces, the number is so rare, with extremely precious is not enough to describe, I didn't expect to be able to see one here!

Tightly locked his brows, the more precious cultural relics he saw, the more he felt sad for the past of the motherland, more than 17 million pieces, like this, who knows how many more? And how much cultural wealth is contained in these things? But now they can only drift in a foreign land, dancing for others, for those who once invaded!

Putting down the pottery figurines and taking a few steps forward, Li Yi suddenly picked his eyes, and he saw another familiar thing, but this thing was not a cultural relic from Huaxia, but a group of three bone china hanging plates, one of which was exactly the same as the bone china hanging plate belonging to Gregory XVI that he found from Dean's box of old bone china porcelain!

In Li Yi's mind, the story told by the crazy old man he met in Bordeaux's St. André's Cathedral immediately came to mind, in order to fight against the increasingly rampant vampires and werewolves, the church concentrated all the high-level holy powers, and made a total of 7 holy relics that can cause great damage to werewolves and vampires, and one of them is a set of holy plates!

"This set of listing ......"

Seeing Li Yi holding the hanging plate with a puzzled face, Aemond sighed lightly and walked over,

"Mr. Li Yi, have you also heard of the legend of the Holy Plate?"

"Oh? Why do you say that, Mr. Aemond? Could it be that this legend is true? ”

Aemond smiled and shook his head,

"I don't know if the holy plate has holy power, but I know that there is indeed such a set of bone china hanging plates in the church, and it is indeed a holy relic of the church, this set is just a set of imitations."

Li Yi nodded,

"I heard that this set of holy plates was made under the leadership of the 256th Pope Gregory XVI?"

Aemond raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Yi strangely,

"I didn't expect Mr. Li Yi to have such a deep study of this matter? Have you seen a similar plate before? ”

Li Yi's mind was racing, and he didn't know whether to tell the story that he was still holding a holy plate in his hand.

"I just heard this story from an old man in the Basilica of Saint-André in Bordeaux, who said that the church had made a total of seven new holy relics, and that the set of sacred plates had lost its holy power because one of them had been lost in battle, and I didn't know if it was true or not. Mr. Edmund, are those three of those plates? ”

Edmund let out a soft "oh" and picked up the hanging plate that was exactly the same as the one in Li Yi's hand.

"Yes, there are only three of them, and one is missing. For more than 100 years, the Church has been secretly searching for it, and has offered amazing bounties for it. Mr. Li Yi, can you guess how much it is? ”

Li Yi knew that his hesitation just now had made Aemond suspicious, but it didn't matter, as long as he didn't admit this kind of thing, no one would be able to catch him.

He deliberately showed a very interested look and asked:

"Amazing bounty? How much money is there? If the price is sufficient, I don't mind keeping an eye out for it later when I look at the antiques. ”

"1 billion euros, or, sovereignty over a small island in the Mediterranean!"

"Shhh

Li Yi didn't hide the surprise on his face at all, an ordinary bone china hanging plate was worth 1 billion euros!

"Hehe, what is 1 billion euros, that small island is the real treasure, because the church will cede the sovereignty of that small island with an area of nearly 10 square kilometers to the person who returned it to them, and is willing to provide him with protection permanently, Mr. Li Yi, do you know what that means?"

John. Karui didn't know when he walked up to the two of them, and interjected with a smile.

"Sovereignty? What does that mean? ”

Li Yi only noticed the word sovereignty at this time.

That means that the Church supports the island as an independent and sovereign state, and that the country is still under the protection of the Church. In other words, in the future, as long as the owner of the island does not commit ****** great sin, no one in this world will be able to help him! ”

"I'll rub!" (To be continued.) )