Chapter 63: Stone Carving

After visiting the Maritime Museum, Yu Xing took everyone to the Greenwich Observatory, and then to the British Museum, where most of the treasures from all over the world that Britain has collected or plundered for hundreds of years are collected, and only a part of them are exhibited, and most of them are hidden in the depths of the museum.

The various collections in the museum have successfully attracted everyone's attention, although Yu Xing also wants to go with them, but on the way here, a professor who asked Chen Wei to contact was already waiting for him in the office, so he could only temporarily separate from everyone and take the stone carving to find the professor Chen Wei said.

William was just about to get off work, but suddenly received a contact, saying that it was a Chinese man who wanted to find himself to identify a stone carving, although he was a little dissatisfied, but William still stayed, and waited for the other party to come to the door, planning to take a casual look, and sent the other party away, it is estimated that he didn't know which thrift market to buy, and he thought he had picked up a treasure, this kind of person, William has seen a lot in the past.

A rhythmic knock sounded on the door, William came back from his daze, "Please come in", of course it was Yu Xing who opened the door and came in, "Hello, you are Professor William, right?" Nice to meet you, I'm Yu Xing."

"Oh, Mr. Yu Xing, hello, I heard that you are going to identify a stone carving, right?" William put on a very hospitable expression, left the desk and walked towards Yu Xing, stretching out his hand as he walked, after all, the person who asked him to help with the identification was one of William's financiers, and this bit of face still had to be given.

"Well, there is a stone sculpture that was given to me by a friend" Yu Xing shook hands with William, then took out the stone sculpture from the bag and handed it over.

"Okay, let me see" William took over the stone carving, for his own work, William still will not be sloppy, and William believes that many years of museum and antiquities research work is enough for himself to distinguish most forgeries with the naked eye.

But at this time, William looked at the stone carving in his hand, but there was a lot of surprise, judging from the shape of the stone carving, it should be from the hands of the primitive tribes in Africa, and from the degree of wear and tear of the stone carving itself, it is not a very old item, so thinking, William opened the toolbox placed aside, took out an instrument from it, and began to scan the stone carving.

Yu Xing watched William fiddling with the stone carvings with tools, and he was not in a hurry, and began to observe the professor's office, a bookshelf full of books occupied more than half of the wall on the right, most of the books were taken out of the thickness of the kind that could be used directly as weapons, next to the bookshelf was a display case, which contained some of Professor William's personal collections, half of which were statues of different shapes, and the rest were some crafts and strange stones.

The pattern of this stone looks good, and that statue is carved with the goddess of love? This kind of snuff bottle has only been seen on the Internet before, Yu Xing admired these collections, his eyes gradually looked down, and when he saw the penultimate layer, Yu Xing stumbled and almost hit the display case, why is there a magical girl animation figure that has been relatively hot recently? And if Yu Xing remembers correctly, that animation is still child-oriented.

Thinking of this, Yu Xing's expression became very exciting, and he couldn't help but think of the scene of the professor in the room, looking at the transformation of the magical girl in the projection with a serious face, and then destroying the enemy with the light wave of love... Yu Xing felt that something had broken with this brain hole, and it looked like three views...

"Mr. Yu Xing? Mr. Yu Xing? The professor's voice woke up the sluggish Yu Xing, "Huh? Ha? I didn't see anything, don't worry, I won't say it"

"What don't you see? Won't say anything? Professor William looked at Yu Xing with a strange expression, and then noticed the figure in the display case, "Oh~ Do you mean this little doll?" That's my granddaughter's, she has to put it in, no matter how much she is told, I can only follow her" The professor shook his head with a wry smile after speaking, with a doting expression on his face.

"I see, by the way, this stone carving, what is the professor doing with your identification?" Yu Xing was a little embarrassed, so he could only divert the topic.

"I just checked it and found that in this stone carving, the human body part and the spear are of different eras, the human part is about five hundred years ago, the preliminary guess is that it is something used by a tribe in Africa to exchange goods with others, and this spear..."

"Ten years ago?" Yu Xing was taken aback, because this spear seemed to match the stone carving itself, as if it had been carved out of a whole stone, at least Yu Xing did not find that there was a difference between the spear and the human body.

"Well, and as far as the structure of this metal inlay is concerned, it is not something that can be made by people from primitive tribes in Africa, as for why it looks no different, this is the craftsmanship of the counterfeiters is very superb," William explained, and then drew a scan result analysis table from his terminal to Yu Xing's terminal, although he couldn't understand some of the technical terms above, but Yu Xing could still understand the results, "So what is this metal?" Can I take it out? Intuition told Yu Xing that the key was the metal in this spear, ten years ago, at this point in time.

"Hmm... Maybe there's a way," Professor William thought for a moment, "Please wait here for a while, I'll be back later," and then walked out of the office.

Professor William didn't let Yu Xingjiu wait, and when he came back, the spear that was originally fused with the stone carving had already been taken out, and the outer layer of stone camouflage had also been removed, and the metal filling inside was taken out, a small metal round stick about 5cm long.

"I just checked it with some tools, but I didn't get any information about this metal, I hope that Mr. Yu Xing can transfer this stone carving and metal rod to me so that I can do more in-depth research," Professor William said to Yu Xing as soon as he returned to the office.

"I'm sorry, I have no intention of selling"

"I can give half a million pounds," Professor William did not give up.

"No, I'm still not going to sell"

"Eight hundred thousand pounds, young man, that's already a lot of money"

"I'm sorry, this is an important gift from a friend of mine, I can't resell it"

Looking at Yu Xing's expression, William knew that the other party would not sell it, even if he quoted a price of 800,000 pounds, the other party's face did not show much greed, just surprised, so William gave up the plan to continue to raise the price, after all, no matter how high it was, he felt that it was not worth it.

"A gentleman doesn't take people's favor, I didn't think about it well in this matter" William replied to Yu Xing in Chinese, and then returned the stone carving and metal rod to Yu Xing.

"Thanks, by the way, you can speak Chinese?" Yu Xing took the thing and asked.

"I often go to some universities in China to give lectures and exchanges, so I can still say a lot," William replied with a smile.

Then why didn't you communicate with me in Chinese just now... Yu Xing was a little disdainful of the other party in his heart.

"I see, you have to worry about it this time, this is some hard work" Yu Xing sent a sum of money to William's terminal through the terminal.

"Mr. Yu Xing, you are too polite, this is just a gesture" William said with a smile, but he didn't mean to refuse at all.

"Then I'll say goodbye first, and I'll see you later" Yu Xing didn't talk nonsense with the other party, and left the office directly after saying goodbye, as the door closed, William picked up the terminal and looked at the transfer reminder above, "Well, it's not bad, this young man is quite good at being a person", closing the terminal, William cleaned up, and also left the office, thinking about what to eat later.