Yuan Sihai's words made me feel energetic all of a sudden, and that bronze head really had a doorway.

"I'm in a bit of a hurry, you three eat first, if I'm done, I'll come back in time, if I'm not busy, I'll treat you tomorrow." I said hello, stood up and wanted to go.

"If you do this, you are detaching yourself from the masses." Lao Wang stopped me and didn't let go.

"It took more than an hour to line up, and you have to leave without eating, are you stupid." Ning kitten also tugged at my arm: "It's good to eat two bites." ”

I sat down and ate with them for a while. It's just that I have something in my heart, and I can't eat it, Zhang Momo saw that I couldn't give up, so he made the decision to let me go first.

I hurried back to the original Sihai's home, and when I got home, the original Sihai was drinking tea with Cheng Sheng.

"Master Cheng." I was so anxious to eat this meal that I couldn't wait a minute after I arrived, and I asked, "What's going on with that thing?" ”

"Don't worry, take a sip of tea, Master Cheng has just been free." Yuan Sihai poured me a cup of tea, and after sitting down and drinking two sips, I also felt that I was a little rough, the thing was here, I couldn't run for a while in the morning and in the evening, and I was not in a hurry at this time.

The three of us sat down to drink tea, and my heart calmed down a bit. After chatting casually, I wanted to know the details of this bronze head, so I asked Cheng Sheng.

"Master Cheng, can you tell the approximate age and origin of this thing?"

"This thing, it's weird." Cheng Sheng is sixty-seven or eighteen years old, quite healthy, and very kind, probably thinking that it is not clear to say this, so he put down the teacup and took me to the workplace.

The bronze skull has been trimmed in the process, and all the dirt and patina that can be removed from the surface have been removed. When I looked at it, I felt that the bronze skull was much smaller than when I first brought it. It used to be the size of a basketball, but it was trimmed to be about the size of a normal human head.

This avatar has all the features, but it is missing an ear, and I am not an expert on it, and I can't see anything from it.

"It's hard to judge the age of this thing." Cheng Sheng put on reading glasses and said: "I have seen a lot of goods from the old Zhou family, but in comparison, this thing is relatively rough and not normal." ”

In the bronze three dynasties of the pre-Qin era, the Xia Dynasty is not mentioned, and the mainstream historical circles do not recognize it. Since the Shang Dynasty, bronze has been a precious material controlled by the state, and the workshops responsible for casting bronzes are all official, and there are no private smelting workshops to cast bronze.

Bronzes are mainly ritual and sacrificial vessels, which are not allowed to be sloppy at all, so all the strict requirements of the smelter have also given birth to the development of bronze smelting. The bronze skull I brought with me was cast in a one-to-one ratio, and although it lacked nothing, it was not exquisite.

Cheng Sheng said that when this bronze head was cast, the smelting technology was relatively backward, there were many ore impurities, and the alloy ratio was not standard.

"So, this thing was from a long time ago? Earlier than Shang Zhou? ”

"I can't say that." Cheng Sheng shook his head and said: "The roughness of casting is related to smelting technology and ore quality, and I think it may be regional differences." ”

The Shang and Zhou dynasties were feudal states, some places, maybe the smelting technology was developed, some places were relatively backward, and now if there is no specific physical evidence to show when this bronze head was cast, then experience alone can not make a final judgment.

"Sihai told me on the phone just now, this thing is a little strange, what's the problem?" As soon as I saw that the age of the entangled bronze skull might not work, I turned to the topic.

"It's here." Cheng Sheng made a circle above the forehead of the bronze skull and said, "There is a slit here." ”

"A seam?"

"Yes, it's a seam."

Cheng Sheng said that this bronze head is not the same as other bronzes, many bronzes are cast, because the utensils themselves are relatively large, so there is not such a large mold, and they need to be poured in batches and finally smelted into a whole. This bronze skull, which is not large, should have been cast by the one-time pouring method, but it was divided into two castings.

That is, the bronze skull is not a single unit, it is divided into two parts. Ancient metallurgical technology was practical, because there was not so much time and resources to engage in those flowery intestines, and the things that could be solved at one time would not be taken off and farted, and it was divided into two steps. Since this thing is divided into two parts, it means that there must be a reason and a need to divide it into two parts.

If you follow Cheng Sheng's experience, there may be articles inside this bronze head. When this thing was cast, the metallurgical technology was not developed, and it was necessary to complicate simple things, and it was also problematic to think about it with the heel.

"What do you mean?" I pointed to the slit on the bronze skull: "What's inside?" ”

"I'm just casually saying this, you don't have to be serious, you still have to take the idea yourself." Cheng Sheng smiled: "Anyway, this is an old Zhou family's goods, if it is really messed up, I can't afford to be guilty." ”

I understand what Cheng Sheng means, because such things are completely judged by experience, and it is impossible to be 100% sure, so he will not say anything to death. In case I get into trouble with him.

Yuan Sihai and I made eye contacts, and the two of them ran to the living room outside to mutter. He didn't ask me how I got it, he just asked me what I was going to do with it, and if I was going to sell it, it would be better not to do it. Yuan Sihai is a businessman, and everything must be considered from the value of commodities.

However, he probably knew in his heart that the item I asked him to look for two days ago was the body of a bronze statue, and he knew that I should want to put the whole statue together.

"I've been poor for so many years, and I don't expect this to get rich, this thing will definitely not sell, I just want to figure it out."

"If that's the case, you can talk to Master Cheng so that he doesn't have a psychological burden."

After I finished muttering to Yuan Sihai, I went to the studio to explain to Cheng Sheng. I told him that it didn't matter if it broke, as long as he could figure out the real situation.

"Atmosphere." Cheng Sheng gave me a thumbs up: "Ordinary people don't have the courage, but brother, I still have to tell you, if you do this, you will really destroy this product, it is now missing an ear, it doesn't matter, and the discount can't be too much." ”

"It's okay, I know it in my heart, you can just do it."

The only way to open the bronze skull was to use a saw to cut it through the gap in the forehead.

I have no objection, Cheng Sheng asked me again and again to confirm before he started to do it.

He worked meticulously, fixing the bronze head and sawing it down. Yuan Sihai and I were watching from the side, maybe Cheng Sheng was still apprehensive in his heart, after all, this thing was bronze, so it was very slow. The saw sawed a section of the slit on the forehead of the bronze head, which was exactly the same as Cheng Sheng's judgment, this bronze head was hollow.

At that time, the casting technology may not be able to directly cast a completely sealed hollow body, so the method of splitting and then merging was adopted. The bronze head can't be said to be seamless, but it's definitely hollow in the middle.

However, the gap created by the saw was only a little wider than the saw blade, and it was impossible to see the structure inside the bronze skull, nor could it be seen if there was anything. The only way to do this is to have the top half of the skull sawed off.

We started working at about nine o'clock in the evening, and it wasn't until two o'clock in the middle of the night that we were about to finish it, and seeing that the upper part of the bronze skull could be sawed off at the last point, I couldn't help but move closer to Cheng Sheng's side, wanting to take a look.

At this time, the lights in the workshop suddenly went out, and the lights went out for a moment, and it may not be a second before and after. The lights went out so suddenly, no one was prepared, the community where the original Sihai lived was not bad, and there would be no sudden power outage for no reason.

The time between the lights going out and the lights on was too short, and it was almost impossible for people to react, until the lights came back on for half a minute, Yuan Sihai smacked his lips and said, "Just now, did someone shout outside the window?" ”

If Yuan Sihai didn't say it, maybe I wouldn't have been impressed, but when he mentioned it, I really felt that at the moment when the lights went out just now, it seemed that someone was shouting outside the window. The shouting distance should be very far, the original Sihai family lives on the eighth floor, and the windows of the workshop are tightly closed, and the sound from downstairs is also very slight and ethereal.

"I'm ......" Cheng Sheng stopped his movements and looked at the two of us through reading glasses, as if he had something to say.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing, let's do it."

"You have something to say." I looked at Cheng Sheng's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and I felt very uncomfortable.

"It's nothing, just now you said that someone downstairs shouted, I think, the voice is very soft, but it's very close to us." Cheng Sheng glanced left and right in the workshop: "It seems to be in this room." ”

Cheng Sheng's words sent chills down my spine, there were only three of us in the room, if the sound came from the house, it would really be hell.

"Master Cheng, it's okay, you probably heard it wrong." Yuan Sihai also felt that Cheng Sheng seemed to be a little flustered, and hurriedly accosted him: "I definitely heard it wrong." ”

"Then it is estimated that there are just three of us, and there is no one else." Cheng Sheng felt that this job had been done for a long time, so he took the saw and prepared to continue to do it.

At the last point, the top half of the bronze skull was about to be sawed open, and I had completely forgotten what had just happened, and all my attention was focused on the bronze skull.

At this time, the lights in the workshop went out again, this time, for about seven or eight seconds. In seven or eight seconds, I can still react.

Because I could react, I immediately sensed that something was wrong.