"You don't have to make fun of my academic qualifications every time the guests make fun of me, there are several people who have graduated from Yenching University and come out to sell pork these years, and I am not worse than a thrift dealer."

Professor Gu said angrily, and then dropped the bookbag in a sloppy manner: "Heroes don't ask about the origin, and grass don't ask about their origins, there are thousands of avenues in the world, just ask for a comfortable road." ”

"You see, being literate is different." Shopkeeper Feng coaxed.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Such an old bone dealer in Kochi, no wonder he can come up with such a connotative store name for the shop.

As for why this old professor of archaeology, who is rich in five cars, gave up his discipline and devoted himself to this profession, there is no need to get to the bottom of it.

Everyone has their own past and aspirations, as long as they are not involved in breaking the law and committing crimes, there is no need to use the standards of saints.

Immediately, everyone turned their attention to the temporary objects on the counter of the shop.

The objects in this counter are all bones!

And the sources of these bones are almost all special!

"What bones do you want to see, but I basically have them here, and even if they don't, I can find them for you." Professor Gu pointed to the four big characters "Thousands of dollars buy bones" painted on the wall, and said very forcefully: "The premise is that you can afford the price, it can be said that most of my bones here are worth thousands of gold." ”

Song Che didn't rush to move, and walked to the counter to browse through them one by one.

According to the label of the goods, the bones displayed inside include ivory, dinosaur fossils, Siberian tiger bones, dzi made of white rhinoceros horn, and even the 450 million-year-old "Gubohua jade" dzi in the western Tibetan plateau!

This is really an eye-opener.

Professor Shang couldn't help but question: "You sell these, no one cares?" ”

Professor Gu smiled disapprovingly and said, "Seeing that this friend is also a cultural person, he must be too strict, in fact, in the law, many bones are not prohibited from being bought and sold." ”

"For example, I mainly deal in ivory products, and according to the requirements of the forestry department, as long as the ivory products sold meet their age requirements and have been approved for approval, then they can be circulated among the people." Professor Gu raised his hand and pointed to the ivory products: "Look, every piece I put out here has an approval!" And I have such a big certificate hanging on the wall. ”

Everyone took a look, and sure enough, there was a "Ivory Products Collection Card" hanging on the wall.

"Speaking of dinosaur fossils and Siberian tiger bones, yes, the state expressly prohibits the trade of large vertebrate fossils, but the scope of the law is only limited to those found in China, that is, the treasures found above and below the ground must be handed over to the state. But what I sell here is basically bought abroad, and they are all through legal channels abroad, and there is no shortage of various certificates. ”

That's the truth.

Due to different national conditions, many foreign countries are openly selling these special bones, and in recent years, there have been more and more examples of foreign auctions of dinosaur fossils.

For example, two years ago, a Parisian auction house publicly auctioned a 9-meter-long carnivorous dinosaur fossil, which was eventually acquired by a mysterious buyer for more than 2 million euros.

There is also an episode in the middle: many archaeologists jointly wrote letters to condemn and protest against the auction house, asking them to keep these treasures of great archaeological value, but the capitalists of the auction ignored them and only replied with one sentence: If you have money, buy it, and if you don't have money, don't BB.

So Marx was right: the capitalists can do anything wrong in order to make money, and if they want to put it under the socialist system, they have long asked the auction house to hand over the fossils to the state.

As for the poor countries in Africa, they are even less sophisticated, as long as you can afford to pay for it, they can sell you the pyramids.

Hearing this, Song Che and the others couldn't help laughing again.

Sure enough, cultured hooligans are just different.

There is a saying that ignorance and prohibition can be done.

The law does not prohibit it, but it does not allow it, which is tantamount to an ambiguous attitude.

Shang Ke heard it with emotion again, and said with a smile: "I probably understand why you are engaged in this business." ”

This intellectual, who came out of the archaeological department, is too familiar with the relevant legal provisions, so familiar that he knows how to walk on the edge of the law and never cross the line!

And there is a subtext in his words: the bones he puts on the container are all legally allowed to circulate, so who knows if there will be anything under his counter that is not allowed to circulate by law?

"So, you have to tell me what bones you want first, so I can pick and choose for you." Professor Gu said vigilantly.

If the bones that Song Che asked for were not allowed by law, then he had to be cautious.

At this time, everyone stopped talking, and looked at Song Che in unison.

Professor Gu knew that Song Che was the backbone of this group of people, and he also looked at this little white face carefully.

Song Che swept around the shop again, considered the wording, and said, "Professor Gu, I want to ask you a little bit first, your research attainments on animal bones are so profound, so in your collection experience, have you ever handled those animal bones excavated from the mausoleum?" ”

Professor Gu thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "The culture of animal burial was very common in the Yellow River Valley in ancient times, that is, in the northern region now, especially before the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the ancient ancestors admired animal culture very much, and would polish animal bones into ornaments to wear, the more special the source of this animal bone, the higher the status of the wearer in the tribal group." ”

And when these high-ranking chiefs die, many animals and beasts are often buried together. But so far, I have handled very few bones of these animals, almost a handful. Because no matter how well-preserved the mausoleum is, once it is artificially intruded, not to mention the bones, a dried corpse may be destroyed by oxidation in an instant. ”

A professor deserves to be a professor, and he is full of work as soon as he exits.

Song Che's heart moved, and he asked, "Then can you tell me about the bones excavated from the tombs you have handled?" ”

"What do you want me to say about this?" Professor Gu spread his hands and said: "These animal bones that can be preserved after the excavation of the mausoleum are actually made of dried corpses, and there is nothing special about them. So you'd better tell me just what animal bones you're looking for, young man, there's no need to beat around the bush with me. ”

"I didn't ask for a specific animal's bones, the main purpose of the things I asked above was to ask for the bones of this animal, which were excavated from a good mausoleum." Song Che said in a condensed voice: "To put it bluntly, I don't care about the bones, but the owner of this mausoleum. And the bigger the identity of the owner of this mausoleum, the better, so the bones of such a martyred animal are naturally worth my money. ”

Professor Gu raised his eyebrows and smiled strangely: "You have to buy bones and it depends on the master." ”