Chapter 1 The Short Sword Enters the History Books
"Alas, you have a really good eye, this is the blue and white porcelain of Jingdezhen white ground during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty! Although it is a folk kiln stone green, the glaze is crystal clear, and the end is the top grade of the folk kiln! A young woman in a tight secretary outfit rubbed a piece of blue and white porcelain against her chest repeatedly, her eyes charming, and most of the male customers standing around her, swallowing saliva one after another.
On the other side, who was also surrounded by customers, a man wearing a classical Tang costume with gold-rimmed glasses had a serious face, "Wow, this lady, this one you see is even more amazing, carving a dragon and a jade phoenix, this is what we collected from the descendants of the prince, only 30,000!" β
"Don't want it? Well...... Then take a look at this pair of jade bracelets, from the same piece of jade rough from the Myanmar Huika Ming pit, to ensure that you and your daughter wear it together and go out like sisters! β
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Li Zhishi sat at the counter next to him boredly, he was the most idle in this antique shop, for no other reason, the two colleagues in front of him, the woman was born as a salesperson, and her professional clothes could almost hook the eyes of all the male customers who did not enter the store; Another rare is the professional antique appraiser, although he has no name, but his professional knowledge cannot be faked. And he? Although I grew up in the antique market and was exposed to these things since I was a child, I didn't have the fluency enough to make people confused, nor did I have the stereotypical knowledge of the jargon that kept popping out, so I didn't have these two guys in front of those customers.
"Sketched by plain embryos, blue and white, the brush strokes are thick and ......light," Li Zhishi hummed softly, not noticing that the person who had just come in at the door of the antique shop looked left and right and walked straight to him.
"Ahem, hello little master, may I ask ......" This is a middle-aged man with a dark face, and there is a small but clear scar at the corner of his eye, but it is surprisingly not made it hideous.
"Sandalwood, through ...... Eh, what do you say? Li Zhishi was stunned, under the bombardment of the two people in front, there was still someone who could find himself in front?
"Ahem, ahem, ahem......" The middle-aged man coughed a few more times, then looked left and right, frowned a few times, and then spoke as if he had made some kind of decision.
"Well, do you guys collect something?"
Someone who came to sell something? Li Zhishi's eyes lit up, and it was no worse than selling good things to receive them.
"Yes, of course." He immediately sat upright, and at the same time took out his gloves and put them on, the magnifying glass was in his breast pocket, these are the guys who eat, and they are always within reach, "What is it?" There are some things that still have to be said in the front, we have three non-collections, those that come out of the soil are not collected, those who are patina are not collected, and those who are mortgaged are not collected. β
Hearing this, the middle-aged man immediately shook his head quickly, "I'm ...... It's not those three things, it's the ancestors...... Cough...... Ahem...... Passed down from ancestors. β
The man kept coughing while talking, his words were intermittent, his breath was weak, and Li Zhishi was a little hairy when he saw it, wondering if this person would have some lung disease, but don't infect himself.
As for what the other party said, he didn't fully believe it, a lot of people who came to the antique shop to sell things in recent years were specialized in pouring local goods, the ground was wet and cold, and many of them were joint and lung diseases.
However, since the other party said it, then he has no responsibility for any trouble in the future, which is why he has to say the rules whether he believes it or not.
Seeing that Li Zhishi didn't say much, but sat quietly and waited, the middle-aged man coughed lightly, then pulled down his chest from the zipper of his jacket, and took out a small cloth bag from his arms and put it on the table.
"Ahem...... This is really handed down by my ancestors, I don't know the specific year, but when I was a child, the elders in the family said that it was passed down with the family tree, and the year is more than 100 years......"
More than 100 years, even if it comes for another 100 years, it is also a thing of the Qing Dynasty, most of the shape of this cloth bag is not porcelain, look at its so precious appearance, the family has been inherited for a hundred years, it seems that it is also a big family, is it what kind of official order? That's a real treasure.
But after the middle-aged man opened the cloth bag as he spoke, he saw a long object quietly placed inside, and Li Zhishi knew that he had thought wrong before.
"This ...... Is it a short sword? After obtaining the consent of the middle-aged man, Li Zhishi stretched out his left hand and picked it up together with the cloth bag, holding a professional cylinder magnifying glass in his right hand, "The Shang and Zhou dynasties were called daggers, and then they were all commensurate with short swords and short blades, but in recent times, they are called daggers again." β
The middle-aged man smiled reluctantly and nodded, "This black iron short sword...... How much is the little master worth? β
It seems that this person is in a hurry to make a move. Li Zhishi began to speculate about the true identity of the middle-aged man in front of him, after all, from the beginning to the present, this person's performance made him feel too much like an inverted bucket, "Don't panic about this, I'll take a look first, maybe I have to call the master master to palm the eye." β
But as soon as these words came out, the middle-aged man was a little panicked, and hurriedly refused, "No, no, the little master just said a price, or 30,000?" β
Thirty thousand?!
Li Zhishi almost didn't call out when he heard this number, not because there were too many, but because there were too few! This year coincides with the first half of the sentence of "Prosperous Antique Troubled Gold", let's not talk about the truth or falsehood, you must know that every person who comes to sell objects is either 58,000 yuan, but this person is ......
Could it be that this thing is fake?
There must be a demon when things go wrong, and when he thought of this, Li Zhishi looked at it more and more carefully. In fact, speaking of this antique shop, his appraisal level is not the highest, at least it is similar to the so-called appraisal expert invited by the boss, after all, he has been mixed in the antique street since he was a child, and his eyesight is also considered to be the elite of the amateur, but the theoretical knowledge is a little worse, and he relies on the experience that cannot be said with others, and he can't be introduced by a colleague who graduated from the major.
But no matter how he looked at it, he didn't find anything greasy in it, on the contrary, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was real, and it was likely to be an object from the Spring and Autumn Period! You must know that the things of the Spring and Autumn Period can definitely be regarded as priceless treasures, although it is not a bronze sword, but it has been circulated for so long and has not rotted into slag, this iron short sword is also a must. However, even if it is a bronze object, he does not necessarily dare not accept it, and now there are some arguments that the bronze country prohibits trading, which is so good, but it is only limited to public trading, and private transactions are not within its scope.
Although it was true no matter how you looked at it, Li Zhishi, who felt that things were strange, still kept an eye on it and didn't accept it immediately, "We accepted this thing, but the purchase money in the store has to be approved by the boss, why don't you come back tomorrow?" β
"Huh?" The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "Ahem...... I think the little brother is also a sincere person, so I'll put the things here first, and I'll get the money at night. β
Belch? Li Zhishi was stunned, obviously he didn't expect this person to say such a thing, there is such a simple person in this world?
When he was stunned, the middle-aged man took out the Polaroid and pressed the shutter on the short sword several times, and then urged Li Zhishi to sign the receipt on it.
"That's fine, little master, I'll leave first if I still have something to do." Li Zhishi, who found that there was no problem, signed the note, completed the procedures similar to pawns, and then watched the middle-aged man leave with his back bent, but the whole person was still in an unbelievable sluggishness.
"This ...... What's the matter......"
On the other side, the middle-aged man who walked out of the antique shop quickly and quietly walked onto a small road.
His eyes were bloodshot all the time he kept his head down, and he repeated intermittently in his mouth, "It chose you." "It's finally done." "I'm sorry, little brother." In this case, the whole person is like a mentally ill patient, and the frightened pedestrians on the street keep a considerable distance from him.
Just when the middle-aged man took a few deep breaths, chanting the scriptures and reciting the scriptures as if his mind was over, there was a sudden rush of brakes and horns on the road, and then, the middle-aged man felt that his body was hit by a huge force and thrown into the sky, and the next second, his vision was black, and there was no light.
After a few seconds, someone finally reacted and shouted loudly.
"Got into a car accident!!"
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Of course, Li Zhishi, who was in the antique shop, didn't know what happened to the middle-aged man who had already walked a street, but for the short sword left by the other party, he thought about it, and still put Zhi aside, just waiting for the other party to return it when he came again. Experience has taught him that it is best to avoid this kind of thing that is tired and he can't understand the situation.
Today is the weekend, and there are many people in the tourist season, and Li Zhishi, who is gradually getting busy, finally forgot about this matter, and it was not until he finally left that he remembered the matter of the short sword again, and after hesitating for a moment, he stretched out his hand and prepared to pick it up and take a look.
"Shhh
But it's okay not to take it, but when I take it, the rusty blade accidentally wiped a hole on the belly of the finger, and the blood suddenly flowed out, staining the sword body with a touch of blood.
Under the pain, Li Zhishi subconsciously wanted to throw away the short sword, but he was afraid that he would have to compensate for the damage, so he had to hold it with his other hand, and then walked to the back of the store to get the medical kit.
The opening was not big, and he put on a large band-aid and pressed it for a while before stopping, sighing that his luck was not good, Li Zhishi was about to walk back to the front store to pack up his things and go home.
But this aisle, the picture in front of him made Li Zhishi, who boasted that he was not small, dumbfounded, and rubbed his eyes again and again regardless of the pain in his hands, but even if his eyes were red, and his fingers hurt and showed signs of bleeding again, what he saw in his eyes still did not change.
I saw that the original store of more than 100 square meters has now become a narrow cave, and then I turned around, and the back store behind me has become a round cave belly that is not big or small, and a one-person high stone platform in the center is raised, and it is found that there are words engraved, Li Zhishi hurriedly turned around and stepped forward.
Under the mysterious blue light of the short sword in his hand, the stone platform inscription looked extremely strange.
[History Book: Chinese Era]
[Mission: Supplement the history books.] γ
γSpring and Autumn ,??? civil strife in the country,??? And??? Plotting against the rebellion, to?? For the dead, Yu? Year? Month? Day, Yu? Ground line?? Rebel ......]
[The Spring and Autumn language has been penetrated, and the mission will start within fifteen minutes. γ
[Novice mission difficulty, single-player mode.] γ
[If the mission fails, 100% of the life will be deducted.] Death in a mission is real death. γ
Seeing this, the lettering is over, and most of the large text in the middle that resembles a historical record is some question marks, according to the meaning of the lettering, you have to fill it in by yourself.
After being stunned in place for five minutes, Li Zhishi came back to his senses, with a wry smile on his face.
"I think something terrible has happened to me......"