Chapter 144: Demon Beasts
The Chinese personnel who broke the jar stared at the debris on the ground in a daze, his lips trembling. It is an indisputable fact that this national treasure was shattered by him in front of everyone's eyes. This is a national treasure of the Western Zhou Dynasty, not last week's ......
On behalf of the Chinese side, it was a certain deputy curator of the Palace Museum who saw the jar shatter. He slapped his thigh, pointed at the entourage who was still in a daze, and said, "Why are you so careless?" This is a national treasure! This is the only one that has been handed down in such a capped faience pot, and now there is no one! ”
In the blink of an eye, the handover ceremony was a mess. However, except for Sun Fatzi and a few of the clergy in San Marino, no one noticed the black gas that came out just now, and they didn't know if the people who were in a mess on the stage didn't notice it, or they couldn't see it at all.
The black gas dissipated into the air unconsciously. It was different from the way the black mist that the python had turned into dissipated in the cabin. After this black gas came out, it turned into the shape of a man. The misty man glanced at the shattered fragments of the clay pot, then turned and walked back.
Every time this misty person took a step, the mist dissipated a few percent, and after three or four steps down, in Sun Fatzi's team, the Ximen Chain, which had the strongest ability in the sky eye, couldn't see where the mist went.
It was only a matter of a few breaths for this black gas to transform into a human form until it disappeared into the air. The bishop of San Marino had just untied the cross from his neck, and before he could recite the Bible, the fog had disappeared.
As soon as the fog of the human form lifted, the people of the church of San Marino gathered together and whispered something with their fingers. They bypassed the Chinese interpreters, and even Hugo was kept out of the way. It's just that none of them noticed that there was a young man on Sun Fatzi's side who was looking at their mouths, repeating exactly the same words in his mouth, while Sun Deputy Sentence Chief next to him was listening with his ears pricked up.
After Ximen Chain finished speaking, he looked at Sun Fatzi and said, "Great Sage, what are they discussing?" It doesn't look like a good thing."
Sun Fatzi smiled, took his eyes off the Bishop of San Marino, turned to Simon Chain's face, and said: "If you get into trouble, you want to run, didn't I say, how can it be so cheap?" ”
Ximen Chain was stunned for a moment, not understanding the meaning of Sun Fatzi's words. Wasn't it the jar broken by the Chinese just now? Who is responsible for this disaster? Before he could speak, the San Marino Church had already sent a representative to find Deputy Director Liu, who was in charge of the handover ceremony. Bishop Anthony is also very sorry that such a thing happened. However, strictly speaking, the capped faience amphora has been handed over to the Chinese side, and theoretically the handover ceremony is over. Although the results are very regrettable. I believe that the Chinese side still has the aftermath to be dealt with, and if there is nothing else, Bishop Anthony and the clergy want to leave first, go back to rest, and leave tomorrow following the transfer of Prime Minister San Marino.
No matter how you look at this incident, it was caused by the mistake of the Chinese personnel, and it has nothing to do with the San Marino Church. After thanking Bishop Anthony for his concern, Deputy Secretary Liu immediately sent a special person to send the clergy of San Marino back to rest.
Just as Bishop Anthony was walking out with the crowd, Sun Fatzi suddenly shouted an Italian word. As soon as these words came out, the old bishop and the clergy stopped at the same time, staring at Sun Fatzi with straight eyes.
Deputy Director Liu didn't know what was going on, but fortunately, the clever translator next to him repeated Sun Fatzi's words in Chinese in his ear: If we don't deceive us with fakes, we want to leave
This capped faience amphora has been inspected by experts before handover, and the identification results of the genuine product have been given. Moreover, after the appraisal is completed, it will be handed over to the Chinese side for safekeeping, and it will be returned to the San Marino side before the handover to complete the ceremony, so it can be said that they have no time to drop the bag or other behavior.
At this time, there were already official personnel from San Marino who came out to protest to Deputy Director Liu. Seeing that it was a diplomatic incident, Deputy Director Liu went directly to Sun Fatzi: "I said Sun Juchang, do you have any evidence for saying this?" Do you know how passive your work will be if you say it so casually without responsibility? ”
Sun Fatzi smiled heartlessly at Deputy Director Liu, and after he finished speaking, he said, "Do you want evidence?" Wait," he spoke, and he was already walking towards the location of the shard. Picked up the fragment of the base of the capped faience amphora on the ground, stretched out his hand and pounced on it, and after a while, he raised his eyebrows, glanced at the fragment, and two words popped out of his mouth: "There is"
As soon as he spoke, everyone in the room, including the people of San Marino, gathered around. I saw Sun Fatzi put the fragments of the base under the light, and said: "Come and see, what is in this" The Chinese personnel who had broken the jar just now immediately came over, and looked through the light, and there were a few small words on the edge of the base with a clay print - produced by Jingdezhen.
"Fake, fake!" After knowing that what he had broken just now was not a national treasure, this guy almost cried, he ran to his leader, the deputy curator, with the fragments of the base, pointing to the mark on it and saying: "Jingdezhen's, not Western Zhou's"
At this time, people kept coming over to check the imprints on the inside of the pedestal, and then they all turned their eyes to the people on the San Marino side. At this time, almost everyone concluded that the top faience amphora was a fake, but no one thought why there were such fresh marks inside the closed clay pot.
"Anything else to say?" Sun Fatzi grinned at the bishop, and then said a few more words of Italian. The translator said in Deputy Director Liu's ear: "Sun Juchang is saying that this jar has harmed your Jinuo, do you think that if it is broken, there will be no proof of death?" ”
Regarding the situation in the cabin, Deputy Director Liu has heard a little. Although I don't know what happened, I also learned that it was a monk named Gino who suddenly happened before getting off the plane, which caused chaos among the San Marino personnel. The official explanation given by San Marino is that Brother Gino has relapsed into his old disease, but after taking special medicine, his condition has been effectively controlled. This time, together with Bishop Anthony, he participated in the handover ceremony.
But now it seems that this matter is not as simple as San Marino officially said.
Bishop Anthony took a deep breath and said a few words of Italian to Sun Fatzi. Fat Sun nodded with a smile, and then said to Deputy Director Liu: "Old Liu, Bishop Anthony said that there was some misunderstanding here, and he wanted to meet us alone, so as not to deepen this misunderstanding."
Deputy Director Liu had nothing else to say, and dismissed the Chinese escort. Bishop Anthony and his entourage were arranged with Sun Fatzi and a few of them to the lounge next to them. When he went in, people on both sides wanted to hand over Hugo to their team, but Sun Fat Man was quick to talk and said: "Director Hugo, you're welcome, let's come together" Hugo glanced at Bishop Anthony, who was staring at him, and then lowered his head a little embarrassed, and followed Sun Fat into the lounge.
At this time, Deputy Director Liu took the initiative to ask for recusal. Sun Fatzi also admires him a little bit at this point, he is worthy of being an old diplomat, he knows what not to listen to, and what to avoid.
After the guests were seated, Sun Fatzi said directly to Bishop Anthony: "You don't have to waste time asking, I'll tell you the truth, the jar is real, whether it's inside or outside." But the grievances between Gino and this jar, do you also talk about it? In order to make Ximen Chain and several of them understand, Fatty Sun said directly in Chinese.
Anthony was silent for a while, and then, at the behest of the bishop, the bearded man, who had a good relationship with Hugo at the airport, told the whole story. j
After Sun Fatzi's translation, the incident was as follows: When San Marino officially decided to visit China, the church did prepare a Chinese cultural relics from the period of the Eight-Nation Alliance as a gift to be returned to the Chinese side, but it was not this capped faience amphora. But just a week before he got on the plane, Brother Gino, who was in charge of the storage, was sorting out his belongings when he accidentally noticed something wrong in the top faience amphora, and he faintly heard the sound of something shaking inside the jar.
When sorting out the church's collection before, Brother Gino also came into contact with this topped faience amphora, but did not notice anything else in it at that time. Hearing the sound of running water inside, Brother Gino immediately thought of the ancient clay pot used to hold wine, and the shape of this capped faience amphora in front of him was not a container for wine.
Brother Gino usually likes to close the door and take a few sips, and the guess that it may be a fine wine hidden for thousands of years begins to itch in his heart. This clay pot has been kept by itself for several years, and no one will know even if it is slightly damaged. Thinking of this, he found an awl and drilled a small hole in an inconspicuous position, trying to pour out the fine wine inside.
The location chosen by Brother Gino was at the bottom edge of the jar, after all, it was thousands of years old pottery, and the quality and density were not much better. It didn't take much effort for him to drill a small hole in the bottom edge of the clay pot in less than half an hour. Gino leaned his nose over to smell the wine inside, but as soon as he took a breath, his eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything, and by the time he realized that he was already on a plane parked at a Chinese airport.