Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 775 Bronze Lord

"Thank you so much for your help this time." After the communication between the two parties was over, Mr. Frey said happily, because Huaxia was not only willing to hold a ceremony in this regard, but also said that it would invite at least provincial-level media to report .

For this businessman who wanted to enter the Huaxia market before, he naturally knew what the Huaxia media was all about, so he was very satisfied with the high-level reception of the other party.

And the most direct conversion of this kind of satisfaction is in addition to verbal thanks.The greatest gratitude is reflected in his remuneration: in addition to the bronze vessel originally worth 30 yuan, he also gave Liang En additional several other cultural relics collected in the same batch.

"My family is a very large family, and one of them has been doing all kinds of antiques, and these things were found while cleaning out an apartment."

Taking advantage of the free time during the lunch together, Mr. Frey began to introduce to Liang En the source of his batch of Chinese cultural relics.

"At that time, the building should have been built in East Germany and was ready to be demolished, so my nephew who ran an antique shop at that time participated in the auction before the demolition as usual."

Hearing this, Liang En nodded with a clear face, because this kind of old house practice can be regarded as a common practice among antique dealers, whether it is in China or Europe and the United States.

However, unlike Huaxia, which is basically a private operation, many places in Europe and the United States have become a semi-official project.

That is to say, when a building is about to be demolished, it will invite those antique dealers to come and see the buildings that are about to be demolished and invite them to bid.

It's just that most of the effects of this kind of bidding can only be said to be average. After all, the residential buildings that often have treasures are only a very small part, and most of them are just some sundries.

Similarly, not all of those bidders were antique dealers. At least most of them did not expect to pick up any antiques when they came here, but hoped to find some second-hand goods that could be recycled to make a small profit.

From the statistical point of view, this situation is also very normal. After all, the chance of finding an old house with valuable things is too small.

But what everyone should know is that there will always be some people in this world who are much luckier than normal people, such as the nephew of Mr. Frey.

He bought the prospecting rights to a building at a very unexpected auction, and later searched and found a hidden mezzanine and recovered the goodies from it.

"Although we don't know the origin of the treasures in that building, we probably guess that they should be related to World War II and the Cold War. At that time, many people chose to hide their wealth." Finally, Mr. Frey concluded.

"It's just that for some reason, the owners of those hidden treasures failed to retrieve their treasures in the end, so that they were not discovered and found until the final house demolition."

After having a meal together, Liang En and the others considered their work to be over, so after saying goodbye, they left Switzerland by plane and returned to their hometown.

Somewhat unexpectedly, when they arrived home less than two hours, a person came to them with a gift from Mr. Frey.

"Look what this is." After sending the messenger away, Liang En moved the large suitcase into his laboratory, and said, "Now I'm curious what that bronze vessel will look like .”

He is a little excited now, because he didn't get any cards from the previous investigation. After all, the history of this investigation is not long, so the things in this box are all he has gained this time.hehe

"I'm also very curious. After all, I'm also very curious about what interesting things would be in the far east in that ancient Bronze Age?" Joan of Arc also looked at the box with curious eyes.

For her, after following Liang En's excavations in various places during this period of time, she is now also interested in those antiques that record various histories.Therefore, she also very much hopes to know what those histories are all about.

As the box was opened, the small box in the middle immediately attracted Liang En's attention. After the box's lid was opened, a turquoise bronze vessel appeared in front of them.

"I know it. This thing should be a bartender." Seeing the bronze vessel that Liang En carefully took out of the box, Jeanne said excitedly. "It's what the ancient Orientals used to drink, similar to a wine glass."

"Ah, you're half right." Looking at the three-legged bronze vessel, Liang En looked at Joan and said with a smile, "This thing is indeed a bronze bar, but it's not for drinking."

Many people's first reaction when seeing Jue is that it is the same as today's wine glass, which is a container for drinking drinks, but in fact it is not the case, because there are many kinds of Jue, and not all of them are suitable as drinking containers.

For example, this is an obvious example. If you really pick it up and prepare to drink, you will find that this thing is not suitable for this task.

To give a simple example, when a normal person uses this thing, he or she will choose to hold the wine cup with the right hand to pour the wine out, that is, the bronze U-shaped groove suitable for pouring wine into the mouth.

But in this case, you can only drink 2/3 of the wine, because if you continue to tilt the wine jug, the two pillars on the jug's mouth will hit people's eyes.

At this time, even if you put your head up, you can only drink four-fifths of the wine. If you want to drink all the wine in it, you have to tilt your head back.But at that time, the two pillars will also push against the face of the person.

If you think about sitting on your knees at that time, it would be too embarrassing to drink the wine inside, which does not meet the etiquette requirements of the nobles of that era.

So it can be said that as long as the jue with the column is basically not related to drinking, the misunderstanding of Joan of Arc is because the bronze ware is only mentioned by the name of this thing in history, and it does not say what these things look like.

So when the cultural relics were renamed in the Song Dynasty, because the time was too long, it was not very accurate, and as a result, it was passed down like this.

Jue is like this. Although this is indeed a drinking vessel, there are several different shapes of cultural relics called Jue. At least four different shapes have been found now, and these four shapes of Jue may not be the same as the ancients. Refers to Jue.

"So this thing is definitely not for drinking." Liang En said to Jeanne after making a simple gesture. "After all, few people are willing to drink in an acrobatic posture, especially in that kind of ancient high-end banquet."

"Then what do you think this thing is for?" Joan of Arc looked at the queen carefully and said, "It's inconvenient to do other things with a container of this size. If you don't have to drink, what else can you do?"

"Then there are many things that can be done." Liang En smiled and said that he had learned a lot of knowledge in this area from the few Huaxia experts last time, so this time he could just show it off. "Like something related to religion."

(End of this chapter)