Every day, the Earth, with its population of 6 billion people, is surrounded by storms. For people, only a storm that is personally relevant can bring about a real shock.

Just like now, despite the busy work of the gentlemen of the Vatican, the initiators, the two German professors, and Chen Yi, who made up the numbers, sat in the living room of the museum and drank tea.

Professor Lang sat beside him, acting as a translator, while wantonly drinking the best Biluochun sent by the museum, and praised in English: "The same doctor (doctor), Chinese doctors can only drink tea, and German doctors can drink good tea, which is unfair." ”

After speaking, he frowned and said to the two Germans: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to drink such a good tea." ”

Chen Yi laughed when he heard this. Professor Lang's chubby big hands, holding two or two small teacups, are really very joyful, not to mention his surname is humorous, and the whole person is full of happy elements.

Karl replied in English: "If we had stayed in Jiangning for a month, I'm afraid there wouldn't have been such a good tea." ”

He knew that Chen Yi could understand simple English.

"It's always the best treatment for guests." Professor Lang said, drank the tea in the cup in one go, turned his hand and poured the water again, and said: "Jiangning Museum, in addition to dinosaur fossils, the most famous is tea. ”

Everyone laughed.

After the whole pot of tea was drunk, Professor Lang patted his straight stomach and said with a smile: "It's time to go, Lu Zaiyuan is afraid that he has been waiting for a long time, in fact, for such a thing as appraising artworks, you should find an appraiser." I found an appraiser and I didn't feel at ease, this kind of ah, it's an official, but I'm tired of three people. ”

"It's right to be careful, especially when something like the day before yesterday happened." André said sympathetically in English: "It's really sad that the Vatican gives gifts and no one dares to accept them. ”

"It's sad indeed." Professor Lang laughed. They are going to identify some of the artworks that the Vatican has given to China, although they don't need to pay money, but for the museum, as long as they sign it, it means risk, and if someone else finds out that it is a fake, it will be more than a shame.

Therefore, after hearing that the famous Satsuma cylinders were suspected of being forged thousands of years ago, Lu Jae-won, the originally happy museum director, couldn't sit still, so he asked Professor Toro to help identify it. He is also a good idea, there are not many experts and scholars in China who can speak in this regard, and Professor Lang is one of the more prestigious, so as long as he says that it is genuine, he will not dare to call it casually.

As for Chen Yi, he was a high-level coolie who was pulled by Professor Lang, and unlike a pure low-level coolie, he was qualified to drink tea and chat with the three professors. Although he couldn't insert a few sentences in English, he was much more comfortable than Lu Fan and other graduate students.

The curator, Lu Zaiyuan, was really anxious to wait in the small hall outside, turning around in front of a group of graduate students regardless of his image, like a dog who hadn't gone out for two days.

Professor Lang greeted him by relying on the old man, Lu Zaiyuan was very demanding, his posture was very low, he only smiled and pulled the two people on the sofa behind him, and introduced: "Several professors, this is Mr. Duan Rongduan, our first-class appraiser in Jiangning, and this is Cui Ju, a researcher in our Jiangning Museum." ”

Chen Yi hid behind the three heavyweight professors, and was basically one of the "several professors", looking at the humble appearance of the others, he had an illusory feeling - when was he actually qualified to identify historical relics and works of art with world-renowned professors. Not to mention the huge difference in age, even the level of knowledge is also far behind.

However, it feels very good.

The reason why Cui Ju and Duan Rong are modest and even restrained is because they are influenced by the intellectual level and academic status of Professor Lang and others, and this low profile is completely different from the gentlemen under their father.

Chen Yi followed the three of them and walked towards the museum.

Behind the heavy steel door, you can see many cultural relics arranged neatly, among which sculptures and inscriptions are the majority, the total number is about 500, and there are only dozens of colorful paintings. It is said that the total number of cultural relics donated by the Vatican is one of the largest gifts from foreign countries in the past years, but in terms of total value, it is not very high, about 10 million US dollars.

Director Lu frowned and said, "In the past two days, I will have to trouble a few people." ”

Others already knew, Professor Lang turned to Chen Yidao: "You seem to be about to take the college entrance examination, you can watch it if you want to do it in the past two days, and it doesn't matter if you want to do anything else, you don't have to be restrained." ”

Chen Yi smiled and nodded, "It's okay, this is also a rare opportunity." ”

His eyes were not on the Vatican's relics, but at the treasury in front of him. It's full of prehistoric fossils, large and small, and the Jiangning Museum is famous for having the largest number of exhibitions in the country each year, and even more in the safe.

From his direction, in addition to large and small dinosaur skeletons, there are also full pages of fish, birds, and plant fossils, and some special prehistoric creatures, such as trilobites and other "famous stones", are placed in inlaid boxes and placed on stainless steel shelves. If needed, they can replace other fossils on display on their own with mechanical transmissions, a technique that can be used at great expense in museums such as the Smithsonian in the United States.

Larger, or less exhibit-worthy collections, are mostly stacked under tarpaulins, and with the exception of a few lucky ones, they have not seen the light of day since they were unearthed.

Everyone else was already busy, Chen Yi looked at the cool and comfortable storeroom with a length and width, and couldn't help asking, "Do you have any fossils of Archaeopteryx?" ”

"Archaeopteryx?" Researcher Cui Ju almost burst out laughing. Although he mainly studied Renaissance art, he could not know much about fossils in the Jiangning Museum, and for the sake of Chen Yi's young age, he explained kindly: "There are only 10 fossils of Archaeopteryx, most of which are in Germany, which is a national treasure, and it is difficult for us to see them." ”

He pouted to the two foreigners and said, "They have the archaeological shrine of Solrenhofen, Professor Lang should have been there a few times." Archaeopteryx's were basically unearthed there. ”

"The two of them are really from the Sorenhofen Institute, and they met there before." Professor Lang nodded with a smile and said in a slow tone: "You have less contact with archaeology, so Solrenhofen in Germany has unique geographical conditions, and the mud at the bottom of the lake is a natural custodian of fossils, as long as the animal carcasses enter the mud, they can be preserved quickly." They also once found a feather from an Archaeopteryx. Quite remarkable. ”

As soon as he said this, Chen Yi finally understood the joints, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Are there other similar fossils?" contemporaneous, or of the same type. ”

"If Mr. Chen is interested in fossils, I can give you one when I'm done." Director Lu, who was walking in front, was worried about wasting the professors' time, and raced against time.

Chen Yi smiled unceremoniously: "Then thank you very much." ”

Lu Zaiyuan was stunned for a moment, and also laughed.

After officially entering the appraisal process, Chen Yi took the initiative to ask to make a primary judgment on various cultural relics together with several graduate students.

Because it was only a rudimentary judgment, he only made an appraisal of the age. Any date that does not match the record is listed separately.

In this way, he really found three things that were not in accordance with the norm.

The professors only thought that he was specialized in the era, but they didn't care. Although a real appraiser is required to have a deep knowledge of the style, background, age, material, etc. of the cultural relics, in the actual work, except for a few top cattle who can meet this requirement, most of them still specialize in a certain item, and also specialize in others.

Chen Yi can give full play to his strengths, and then leave the aspects that he is not good at to others to deal with, but he is very praised by experts, especially his accuracy rate is extremely high, and after just half a day, others rarely ask questions about the age.

Lu Fan looked at him with admiration, and asked for the fifth time, "How do you judge?" ”

Chen Yi casually dropped a noble wine vessel from the dark period, and replied for the fifth time: "The point is feeling. Actually, I can't say it. ”

Lu Fan seemed to have gained, nodded excitedly, and then used a brush to help Chen Yi clean up the cultural relics at hand. He began to work primarily on instruments, as other graduate students did. But soon, he naturally became Chen Yi's leftovers, and continued to ask some unanswered questions.

Of course, no matter what Chen Yi answers, he can think positively and improve his brain.

This is the teacher's favorite child.

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