I was taken aback when I saw that something was suddenly wrong with Mr. Lu.

Did I just say the wrong thing?

The other person is stimulated?

No, I don't. I just explained how I judged that the Ru kiln azure glazed bowl that Dunzi bought for 1.2 million yuan was an imitation. I didn't say anything else. It's just that on the basis of the explanation, I talked about the difference between the ancient soil and the current soil, and talked about some environmental pollution, that's all.

I suddenly noticed that Aqiu was also a little excited. After I finished speaking, I saw Aqiu's face showing joy, walked quickly to Mr. Lu, and said, "The second master is still alive?" ”

This sentence was completely unintentional by Aqiu. I was stunned. Second master? Which second master? Who is the second master?

At this time, I saw Mr. Lu grabbing my arm excitedly, his voice trembling, and said, "Brother, you must have seen someone, right?" ”

"Who have you seen?" I don't know why. However, I was surprised that the other party called me brother. He was disdainful of me just now, but now his attitude has taken a 180-degree turn, which makes me a little uncomfortable.

"There is a scar on the left eye socket, one larger and the other smaller. You must have seen this guy, right? ”

This time it was my turn to be surprised, "yes, there is such a person." But, how did you know I had seen it, Mr. Lu? Besides, who is he? ”

"Don't ask me how I know. Tell me where you met him, where is he now, and what is the situation now? ”

Seeing that Mr. Lu's face was excited and anxious. I know that I will not go back empty-handed when I come to the south to see Mr. Lu this time.

I'm going to explain it next.

When I was in my last year of senior year at Ninghuang Institute of Archaeology, the school selected a group of outstanding students in professional courses to visit the East Thousand Buddha Caves. The East Thousand Buddha Caves are a large-scale group of grottoes, located in the city of Guazhou on the Silk Road. The reason why the school organizes students to visit the East Thousand Buddha Caves is because there are 23 grottoes in that place, and each grotto contains murals and statues left by various dynasties. The purpose of the visit is to learn about the history of each period of the hot summer by comparing the differences in the murals and statues of each dynasty. To study archaeology, you must be proficient in history.

After a long journey, we finally arrived at the East Thousand Buddha Caves. Despite the remoteness of the place, there are still many tourists who come here. Legend has it that Xuanzang passed through this grotto and stayed in the grotto when he traveled to the west, and there is a portrait of Sun Monkey in the grotto, which can be said to be the most primitive portrait. When I visited the grotto, I noticed a man in dirty clothes, staring at one of the murals, unlike ordinary tourists, this man was very attentive, his eyes were fixed on the murals, and he didn't blink for a long time.

I was curious, so I took a closer look at the man. I found that this person had a blue and gray complexion, and his face was very normal and different. Moreover, to my surprise, this man's eyes were not the same as normal, and the two eyes were actually different sizes. Also, this man seems to have not had a haircut for a long time, and it is a mess, and it is simply unkempt. Its image is very reminiscent of a beggar.

Actually, I did think of men as beggars at the time. I find it strange that the tourists who come here come in groups, and they are all well-dressed, and they are all from the big cities. Why did a beggar suddenly appear?

As I looked at the man, I noticed that the man seemed to have suddenly fallen ill, shook his body, and fell to the ground. If the other party is a beautiful woman or a handsome guy, the people around him will definitely care about it. However, the man's whole body was very dirty, and no one around him reached out to help him. Since I was the closest to the other party, I felt that I couldn't die without help, so I hurriedly walked over and helped the man up.

When I got up, I found the man unconscious. I immediately used the car that took us here from the school to the local hospital. The road was very difficult to walk, and the wind was strong, on the way to the hospital, the man woke up, his face was even more gray, and he said to me weakly, don't go to the hospital, don't.

After the man finished speaking, he took out a prescription from his pocket and handed it to me, and he asked me to grab the medicine according to the prescription. Seeing that the other party insisted on not going to the hospital, I had no choice but to arrange for the man to live in a local hotel first, and then quickly go to the pharmacy to grab the medicine. After the medicine was retrieved, the man instructed me to get the utensils for boiling the Chinese medicine, and I boiled the medicine according to his request, and waited for the other party in the hotel for three days. Three days later, the man's body returned to normal.

The man asked me what I was doing, and I said I was studying archaeology. The man said he knew a thing or two about identifying antiques, and he didn't know if I would like to learn it. If you are someone else, you will definitely think that the other party is neurotic, one is an excellent student of a formal archaeological college, the other is a dirty beggar, and the latter is ashamed to instruct the former, which is simply ridiculous.

I didn't think so, though. I was very impressed by the way the man looked at the mural in the grotto, and I couldn't judge people by their appearance. Maybe the man is a very powerful master.

I said yes right away. The man and I went back to the East Thousand Buddha Cave Grottoes, and he randomly pointed to a mural and told me that this mural was from the Western Xia period, and I didn't think there was anything, and most of the murals in the grotto were from the Western Xia period. However, the next sentence of the other party surprised me, he said that this mural had been restored by people in the Song Dynasty.

I said it was possible, and he said how it couldn't be. I said, it's not impossible, it's that even if someone repairs it, they can't see it, how do you know that the mural has been restored, and you also know that it was done by the people of the Song Dynasty.

The man said that the pigments used in murals are divided into three categories: inorganic pigments, organic pigments and non-pigment substances. The red color in the inorganic is cinnabar, lead, realgar, and alum, the blue is lapis lazuli and ultramarine, and the white is lead powder and gypsum. The organic pigment red comes from safflower extract, yellow has garcinia cambogia, and blue is organic blue. Non-pigment minerals are mostly white, including kaolinite, quartz, etc.

After explaining the differences between the various pigments to me, the man pointed to the mural just now and explained that the Western Xia murals were painted with dry murals, and the pigments were treated with coarse mud, fine mud and lime slurry on the bottom surface, and then painted. In the Song Dynasty, frescoes were painted with frescoes, and when the base was semi-dry, they were painted with clear lime water and pigments.

The man said that from the perspective of painting techniques, the main feature of this mural is a dry mural, and the rest is a fresco. From this, it can be judged that the murals were painted by the Tangut people and were restored in the Song Dynasty.

I was amazed to hear it. The professor of the School of Archaeology had said this in class, but it was only on paper, and although I knew the theory, when I stood in front of the mural, I could at best see what kind of paint was used, and I could not see the painting technique, whether it had been restored by later generations, and so on.

Not only can I not see it, but I believe that even if the professor of the Faculty of Archaeology is called to the scene, he will not be able to see it.

I know I've met someone superior.