Chapter 0318: Cleaning Up the Debris
Now that I'm out, and it's time to eat, I temporarily change my attention, and I'm looking for a place to solve lunch on the street of G City, and by the way, I want to learn about this strange city.
Back at the hotel, Xu Shu locked himself in his room and put the three bronze fragments he had acquired on his desk.
Xu Shu really doesn't know how to identify antiquities, but you can first learn about the three bronze fragments, keep in mind their appearance, and the ornaments on the fragments, maybe they can be used today.
The three fragments appeared to have just emerged from the ground, and although they were not stained with dirt, they were covered in dirt and rust.
Visually, the environment of these three fragments should be very good, there are no traces of erosion by water, cleaning up the bronzes, Xu Shu has never done it, he has never seen it, he has only heard it said.
There were no cleaning tools, so I took a toothbrush, a few cotton swabs, and a few toothpicks, and started the cleaning work.
First of all, there is no ornamentation and inscription on the piece, and it looks like it will be relatively easy to clean up, as a practice.
The toothbrush brushed gently, and the dirt quickly loosened, and even brushed off some directly, and then wiped it lightly with a cotton swab, and a blue-gray bronze piece appeared, and it had a certain thickness, and it was a little pressure in the hand.
The color of the bronze is quite beautiful, some are called "gold", and in modern terms, it is bronze, just like the skin color of a star in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Xu Shu carefully examined it, the fragments without ornamentation and patina were very flat, triangular in shape, very flat on both sides, and some traces of polishing could be seen, while the other side was a relatively rough section.
Xu Shu put down and cleaned up the bronze fragments, picked up one of the other two, and the remaining two bronze fragments, the same shape, although it seems to be a triangular switch, but it is not a flat piece, there is a fold angle from a vertex downwards, dirt and patina coexist, and it feels very uncomfortable to pick it up in his hand, if it is a dense phobia, he feels uncomfortable even looking at it.
Xu Shu continued as usual, first with a toothbrush, then with a cotton swab, the dirt deposited over the years was disposed of, but the patina was still there, Xu Shu gently picked with a toothpick, and then gently brushed with a toothbrush.
Only then did he clean up a piece of bronze fragment in his hand, and it looked much more comfortable.
The ornamentation on the bronze fragment is clear, but there is only ornamentation, no inscription.
The ornamentation is two concave lines, evenly arranged on the two sides, to the bottom because the original object is knocked out, the line is interrupted, such two parallel lines, called string pattern.
The second fragment has a raised dot on either side of the side, in addition to the string pattern.
Other than that, there is no other information on the fragments.
Xu Shu cleaned up the third fragment, and the third fragment was also ornamented, but only with string patterns and no dots.
Xu Shu looked at each fragment again, but he didn't get any information on the fragment, and suddenly felt that his nine hundred yuan had been spent in vain, so he casually took the fragment back into the ghost ornament, and stopped paying attention to it.
The time of the trip, Zhang Hongjun has not been notified, Xu Shu has nothing to do in the hotel for a while, and is about to go out for a walk again, when suddenly Zhao Dabao comes.
"Brother Xu, I heard that you spent nine hundred to buy a few scrap products?" Zhao Dabao asked after seeing Xu.
Xu Shu nodded, this information must have been told to Zhao Dabao by Xu Hong.
"Since it's a waste and you still buy it, then take it out and I'll take a look." Zhao Dabao said to Xu Shu with the demeanor of wanting to help Xu Shu check the gates.
Xu Shu chuckled, took out three fragments and handed them to Zhao Dabao, after Zhao Dabao graduated, he became a professional agent for Xu Shu, and he had a lot of free time, he used this time to learn antique appraisal, but the level needs to be considered.
Zhao Dabao saw the three fragments in his hand and said to Xu Shu: "Clean it up, aren't you afraid of being fooled?" ”
"At first, I was worried, so I watched from the sidelines, and then I bought it." Xu Shu described the process in one sentence, omitting a lot of information, "I cleaned up the fragments myself, and they looked like they were newly unearthed at first. ”
"That's even more suspicious, it's mostly a deliberate illusion, just to let the big head be fooled." Zhao Dabao looked like an old qualified person and educated Xu Shulai.
Xu Shu nodded, as a lesson.
Zhao Dabao looked at Xu Shu's attitude very well, so he moved his gaze from Xu Shu's body to the bronze fragments, and after carefully examining each fragment, he suddenly frowned and said: "I have eyesight, these fragments are indeed old things, and they are things from the early Western Han Dynasty, so they can't be faked." ”
"That's it." Xu Shu couldn't help but flutter lightly.
Zhao Dabao turned to say: "However, although the thing is real, a few fragments are not worth much, and they are not even worth your nine hundred yuan." ”
If the bronze is high and the price is high, it can cry ghosts and gods, but the price is at the bottom, which is equivalent to taking it to the scrap purchase station as scrap copper.
Xu Shu knew that the bronze tripod bought by the owner of the antique shop must have made money, otherwise people would not have paid nearly ten cash.
But these fragments, whether it is the results of the owner of the antique shop, or the agent Zhao Dabao thinks that if he doesn't take the money, the nine hundred yuan is wronged, but the old man who sells the fragments and Xu Shu don't think so, many things have to depend on the owner, especially some antiques, if you like a million is not expensive, if you don't like ten yuan is expensive.
"I like it!" Xu Shu simply replied to Zhao Dabao, saving him from pretending to be a senior in front of him, and he looked unpleasant.
Zhao Dabao smiled and said: "That's right, it's hard to buy if you have money!" ”
"I saw that the fragment looked like it was new, and it had obvious fresh fractures, so I bought it!" Xu Shu truthfully told Zhao Dabao his thoughts.
Zhao Dabao's eyes lit up when he heard this, so he said excitedly: "Brother Xu, I want to use this to find some clues and find the artifact that was originally with this fragment, the artifact is very valuable, repair the fragment back, the artifact will be complete, and the condition will return to its original appearance, just buy it." ”
Zhao Dabao fell into the eyes of money, since Xu Shu knew him, he never forgot about money, as if only money is the biggest in the world, and money is the ancestor.
Xu Shu shook his head helplessly, but what Zhao Dabao said was indeed what Xu Shu had at the beginning, but it was not to sell it for money, the cultural relics in the ground did not belong to a certain person, but to the people of the whole country, and even to the cultural heritage of the world.
"You're thinking too much!" Xu Shu can only say this, otherwise Zhao Dabao's imagination can conquer Xu Shu.
Zhao Dabao took a photo of the three fragments with his mobile phone, and then handed them back to Xu Shu and said: "There are ornaments on them, and the shape of the fragments is also triangular, I don't know what artifacts they may come from, but I can ask others, maybe a well-informed expert can deduce what artifacts they appear on." ”
Xu Shu let Zhao Dabao play, and nodded without speaking.