Luo Mo stood upright, looking at the leader in front of him who was staring at his bronze mirror with a magnifying glass very nervously, he thought that the leader would disdain the bronze mirror he brought, but he never thought that from the moment he got the bronze mirror, the leader kept studying and groping for it like a demon, and even didn't know where to take out a pair of gloves to put on, and when he carefully held the mirror back and forth to look at this gap, he could clearly see the golden light coming out of his eyes, and he was about to bury his face in the mirror.

Looking at the leader like this, Luo Mo thought about whether to ask, and was hesitating, only to see the leader put the mirror on the table, took off his gloves, walked over and patted Luo Mo on the shoulder, and said.

"Xiao Luo, where did you get this mirror from?"

"Uh... A relative deposited it with me, saying let me help check the value of this thing, I didn't think that Mr. Wu you have a lot of research on antiques, so I will bring it to you to see, you give analysis and analysis, what is the reason for this bronze mirror? ”

Mr. Wu slowly took off the glasses he was wearing, held them in his hand, pointed in the direction of the bronze mirror, and said.

"It stands to reason that I have a certain amount of research on the bronze mirror, the style and pattern of your bronze mirror are very similar to the Zhenzi Feishuang mirror in the Tang Dynasty, but there is a sunrise map of Yunshan above your bronze mirror, but there is no Tianzi grid with the words "Zhenzi Feishuang", which is very strange. ”

"Could that actually be a fake?"

"No," Mr. Wu shook his head, "In ancient times, tombs must be made of mercury, so the bronze mirrors unearthed today must be dyed with mercury." However, because of the quality of copper and the strength of mercury, its mercury color is also different, some are silver and some are lead. The texture of the bronze mirror is crystal clear, and it is stained with mercury first, and it is old to the bone, full of mercury on the back, bright and white through the ages, called the silver back; If it is first polluted by blood and water, and then invaded by mercury, its copper is complex, and the color is like lead, and the color is stagnation in the long term, which is called lead back; There are also half-mercury and half-green cinnabar piles, which are first corrupted by flesh and blood, and their half a day is made green, and their semi-pure ones are dyed with mercury, so the back of a mirror is mixed between two colors. The bronze mirror is top-grade with a silver back, followed by a lead back, and a green one. If the lead back is buried in the soil for a long time, it becomes pure black, which is called black lacquer back, which is especially expensive, but this color is also easier to counterfeit. ”

Mr. Wu paused, took a sip of water from the teacup, and continued.

"There is a big difference between the new imitation copper mirror and the old one in sound and shape. The sound of the old bronze mirror is generally low and mellow, and the size and curvature of the mirror have a strict proportional relationship. The sound of the new imitation copper mirror is relatively crisp, even harsh, the arc of the copper mirror is generally disproportionate to the size of the mirror, the arc of the large copper mirror is very large, and the arc of the small copper mirror shrinks unnaturally.

As Mr. Wu spoke, he picked up the bronze mirror and handed it to Luo Mo.

"Distinguishing the rust on the bronze mirror and the taste of copper can also identify the authenticity of the bronze mirror. In terms of rust, the rust of the new imitation copper mirror was made later, with a smell of sulfuric acid and the smell of alkali burning, as well as a copper smell. And the old bronze mirror generally has a copper fragrance with the fragrance of the earth after being unearthed, you smell it. ”

Luo Mo took the bronze mirror, looked at it carefully like Mr. Wu, and sniffed it closely, although he didn't know how to appreciate it, he vaguely smelled a copper fragrance, which surprised Luo Mo.

Seeing Luo Mo holding the bronze mirror and smiling, Mr. Wu knew that he also felt the charm of the bronze mirror, so he said to Luo Mo.

"I really don't know the specific source of this, but I can be sure that this is a really old thing," Mr. Wu looked down at his watch, "It's just time to get off work, you go to other experts to take a look, maybe there will be surprises!" ”

Luo Mo thanked Mr. Wu, walked out of Mr. Wu's office with a bronze mirror, took his bag, and drove home.

Along the way, Luo Mo was a little confused, he had calmed down from knowing that the bronze mirror was a real antique, looked at the bronze mirror placed in the passenger seat, remembered the strange things he had encountered recently, and suddenly became more and more panicked in his heart - this thing is fake, fortunately, according to Mr. Wu's meaning, this thing is real, and it is estimated that it is worth a lot of money. So how could this thing run into his hands inexplicably?

Wait! Could this thing be a national treasure? Someone wanted to sell the stolen goods but had an accident, so he hurriedly scribbled an address and sent it to him. But it's not right, the sender knows his address, and he knows his name, which doesn't seem like it's written casually, it must have been done by someone he knows, but who is it? Why did he do that?

Luo Mo thought all the way, and drove completely according to the inherent route home in his mind, but he didn't expect that because his mind was too confused, the inherent route disappeared, and when Luo Mo came back to his senses, the car had stopped in a place where he didn't know where it was.