Chapter 56: The Ancient Bronze Sword

If it was usual, when he met these guys who took the initiative to come to the door to make friends, Jiang Tianjin wouldn't mind greeting them, but today was different, he had already locked up Ye Yi, and he was naturally impatient with these harassments.

He stopped and said to the special assistant who was following him, "You are in charge of the reception!" ”

"Yes!"

The thirty-year-old gold-rimmed glasses replied competently, and then skillfully greeted the guests from all walks of life, blocking all unnecessary greetings for Jiang Tianjin.

Jiang Tianjin walked straight to Ye Yi's side: "Ye girl, is there anything that catches your eye?" ”

Ye Yi rolled his eyes and said, "Mr. Jiang, are you deliberately pushing me to the brazier?" ”

Jiang Tianjin pretended to be stupid and said: "Ye Yatou is worthy of being a top student who was admitted to Huaqing University, and her speech is too standard, I can't even understand what you mean!" ”

Ye Yi was speechless.

She looked around and no one paid attention to herself, grabbed Jiang Tianjin's tie, and whispered: "You and I are already conspicuous enough today, and you are deliberately staring at me, this is not the same as telling the audience that there is an ulterior relationship between us!" ”

"How can it be crooked! Am I like that? ”

Jiang Tianjin thought that Ye Yi was worried that others would suspect him of raising a little girl.

Ye Yi glanced at him and said, "Where do you want to go!" I mean, you're too attentive to me, and you'll make people suspicious of Uncle Xia's position! ”

"Ahh

At this moment, Jiang Tianjin finally came back to his senses.

In the eyes of the people of Y City, Ye Yi and Xia Baoguo's family have a very good relationship, and she can attend today's charity auction because of Xia Baoguo. When others saw Jiang Tianjin and Ye Yi approaching, they would not suspect that Jiang Tianjin and Ye Yi had a special relationship, but they would immediately think of Xia Baoguo!

After all, collusion between officials and businessmen is an eternal law.

"Uncle Xia is the one who wants to enter the provincial party committee, don't hurt him!"

Ye Yi warned Jiang Tianjin.

Jiang Tianjin smiled and said, "Then I'll go and see the exhibits first!" ”

Ye Yi nodded and walked to Zhou Changxi, who was circling around the exhibition stand: "Uncle Zhou, are you in pain?" ”

In this charity auction, several exhibits were originally from Zhou Changxi's private collection.

Zhou Changxi smiled bitterly and said: "Pain is natural, it's all my heart and liver baby!" Who made me shy, I can only endure the pain and cut the meat. ”

Ye Yi smiled and pointed to Jiang Tianjin, who was walking around the porcelain area, and said, "Oh, the ready-made wrongdoer, it depends on whether you can hurry up!" ”

Zhou Changxi looked over and couldn't help laughing: "You, you!" Elder Jiang must know that you are actually calculating him so much in private, you have to vomit blood! ”

Ye Yi said: "If you want to beg me to do something, how can I do it without some blood!" ”

Then, Yeila began to walk around the exhibits.

Zhou Changxi got Ye Yi's promise, and he no longer worried that his baby would be taken away by people who didn't understand, and walked among the exhibits with her, introducing the ins and outs of everything naturally with a smile.

After several years of study, Ye Yi also has a little experience in antique appraisal, but it is still worse than Zhou Changxi.

So she listened to the lecture with an open mind all the way, asking interesting questions from time to time, and Zhou Changxi also knew everything, not only could tell the subtleties of the antique exhibits, but also could tell the anecdotes behind the antiques.

Such a wonderful Q&A inevitably attracted antique connoisseurs to stop and listen, and soon they were surrounded by people attending the auction.

“…… It can be seen that the value of an object is also directly related to its former owner. Like this string of jade beads, the color is medium and high, and the grinding is also ordinary, and the value itself is only 10,000, but it is the personal property of Li Gonggong, the chief eunuch of the previous dynasty, so the auctioneer set its starting price at 100,000! ”

Zhou Changxi stopped talking, and thunderous applause suddenly sounded behind him!

"I see! It's really better to listen to your words than to read a book for ten years! ”

"I said why is this broken bead so expensive, it turns out to be Gonggong Li's thing!"

"I'm telling you, I've been eyeing this thing for a long time! None of you are allowed to rob me! ”

……

Everyone was gossiping, and the originally inconspicuous jade beads suddenly became a hot item.

Unexpectedly, his popular science inadvertently increased everyone's competitive interest in the auction exhibits, and Zhou Changxi suddenly felt ashamed of Jiang Tianjin.

At this time, Huang Mantang walked to Ye Yi's side.

"Mr. Zhou, Miss Ye!"

Ye Yi nodded and said, "Uncle Huang." ”

Zhou Changxi also said: "Lao Huang, your business is getting more and more prosperous now!" ”

Huang Mantang said: "TOEFL and TOEFL, it's a fluke!" Come, I'll show you around! ”

Ye Yi said: "No need, Uncle Zhou has already introduced all the exhibits at the venue to me just now." ”

"No, there's another exhibit that he definitely didn't introduce to you!"

Huang Mantang took Ye Yi to a corner of the venue like a treasure, pointed to the staff who were still placing the exhibits and said, "This is the finale that was delivered to the venue half an hour ago, a sword!" ”

"A sword?!"

Ye Yi raised his eyebrows, and he was interested.

Huang Mantang lowered his head and whispered, "It's still a bronze dark checkered sword!" The craftsmanship is not lost to that Yue Wang sword! ”

"Are you sure ......"

After the Western Han Dynasty, iron tools completely replaced bronze tools, so the surviving bronze swords have a history of at least 2,000 years. And even in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when bronze weapons were prevalent, only nobles were qualified to decorate bronze swords with dark checkered patterns.

"By the way, the length and width of this sword are-"

"Don't you know it by looking at it yourself?"

Huang Mantang lifted the red cloth, revealing a bronze sword with a dagger, the sword body was intact, and the killing intent was pressing.

It must be known that when it first started, the bronze sword was only twenty or thirty centimeters long; By the time of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the length reached fifty or sixty centimeters; In the late Warring States period, bronze swords with a length of more than 70 centimeters appeared, and by the Qin Dynasty, the length of the Qin sword in Guanzhong reached a new level, with the longest being close to one meter.

And, unlike the perception of later generations, the quality of the bronze sword is not directly related to the age of its casting!

In the last three generations, bronze was a ritual vessel, and only nobles were qualified to use it, and each bronze vessel condensed the efforts of thousands of slaves. And the bronze is brittle, and you can't cast anything that is too long or too thin, so the length of the dagger is the most suitable size to play its effect!

If this bronze short sword decorated with dark checkered patterns on the surface is finally determined to be something from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, its value will be immeasurable!

"Are you sure it's from the last three generations?"

Huang Mantang said: "The person who gave a bronze sword said that a lot of cans containing human bones were indeed dug up at the unearthed location of this sword!" All children under the age of ten! ”

Hearing this, Ye Yi took a deep breath!

This sword is indeed from the Shang Dynasty!

You must know that the Shang Dynasty was famous for believing in ghosts and gods who loved to kill people, worshipping ancestors to kill people, fighting wars to kill people, natural disasters to kill people, and building houses to kill people...... And the bronze sword is the most commonly used magic weapon used by merchants to hold sacrifices!

No wonder after three thousand years, the sword body is still entangled with such a strong bloody killing intent!