Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

"Found it?" Tang Laixuan came back from his thoughts, but he felt that it was not surprising that Lin Ran saw anything.

Lin Ran opened the drawer and found a needle and thread head inside.

Then, he pierced the edge of the patina on the ground, piercing back and forth inside, as if he was picking something out.

It didn’t take long before I really picked out a piece of thread!

Tang Lanxuan saw it clearly and was a little surprised.

Why is there a thread in the patina?

Lin Ran pinched the thread at his fingertips, and then pulled the thread as if peeling off a cocoon.

Tang Laixuan originally wanted to remind him to pay attention to his safety, but seeing how focused he was, he didn't bother him.

As Lin Ran kept pulling the thread out of the patina, he didn't know what the thread was made of. It looked a bit like fishing thread and was particularly tough.

It kept getting longer and longer, roughly estimated to be at least two or three meters.

And when it was pulled out of the patina, it didn't break.

Lin Ran felt a strong pulling force, which meant that the line had reached the end.

He exerted a little force, and with a crisp "snap" sound, a whole piece of patina peeled off directly from the bronze mirror, fell on the white cloth, and then shattered like a biscuit.

Tang Lanxuan watched in shock as his apprentice peeled off the entire patina so easily, as if by magic.

As the patina disappeared, the overall appearance of the Chu-style six-mountain mirror from the Warring States period also appeared in front of them.

There is still some patina on it, Lin Ran said: "These should be real patina."

Tang Lanxuan didn't react for a moment and stood there in a daze.

Lin Ran smiled and said: "Teacher, this good apprentice of yours is really insidious. He deliberately mixed fake patina with real patina."

He was also lamenting his luck. What he peeled off at first was fake patina.

"Haha, you are so awesome." Tang Lanxuan didn't know what to say, so he could only say this compliment, "How did you think of this?"

"I have been speculating before that this bronze mirror might be...actually the real thing." Lin Ran said.

As soon as these words were spoken, Tang Lanxuan stood straight on the spot as if he had been electrocuted.

The corners of his mouth opened and closed, and he said slowly: "What? Is this the real thing?"

"En." Lin Ran nodded.

Now it was Tang Lanxuan's turn to feel groggy all over, and the best way to describe it was as confused.

He could never imagine that what Chen Cheng gave him he thought was genuine at first, but later sent a letter telling him that it was a fake, completely playing into his hands.

If Lin Ran hadn't seen through this, perhaps this bronze mirror with a long history would have been destroyed as a fake in the near future.

"Of course, I can't guarantee that it's true, but it can be seen that Chen Cheng deliberately left loopholes!" Lin Ran said, and a lot of the confusion in his heart disappeared.

The reason why he said what he just said was not that he had completed the appraisal of the bronze mirror, but that he believed that Chen Cheng would deliberately leave this wire behind so that when he gets the bronze mirror back in the future, he can remove the copper wire. Mirror surface camouflage!

Therefore, the probability that this bronze mirror is genuine is not 80.00%, but [-]%!

The problem that had always troubled Tang Lanxuan was discovered by Lin Ran.

He stood there and didn't react for a while.

Seeing the confident expression on his apprentice's face, Tang Lanxuan couldn't help it.

He smiled and said to Lin Ran: "It's amazing. It's really better to be better than someone who is good at it!"

Lin Ran did not respond to this sentence, but explained: "Actually, when I first discovered that the patina was fake, I had a guess in my mind."

"What is the purpose of spending a lot of effort on disguise?"

"Obviously the purpose is to make others think that it is a fake, and that the research is very difficult, so that people will give up."

"But I really don't know what his purpose is, but I believe that he will not just take the things back."

"So I studied the internal structure under strong light, and sure enough, I found this line in the groove."

"This is the secret door that Chen Cheng left to clean up the patina."

Lin Ran told Tang Lanxuan his reasoning for academic reasons, and the latter was even more surprised.

Tang Lanxuan also understood the reason and had the same idea in his heart.

"Chen Cheng, is he testing me on purpose?"

"Yes." Lin Ran nodded and said, "Teacher, you should have told Chen Cheng not to let the outside world interfere with his appraisal work."

"Chen Cheng deliberately sent you the authentic Chu-style Six Mountain Mirror of the Warring States Period, and then wrote to you to tell you that it was a fake. In fact, he was practicing your teachings."

Lin Ran took a deep breath and handed the bronze mirror to Tang Lanxuan, asking him to look at it too.

Tang Lanxuan took the bronze mirror, his hands trembling a little.

Lin Rancai continued: "Teacher, I guess that when he sent the bronze mirror, Chen Cheng had already had the idea of ​​returning to you, but he didn't get a reply for a long time, so he..."

Lin Ran did not continue. He knew that his teacher must understand what this meant.

Without Lin Ran's help, Tang Lanxuan would never have thought of this.

His heart was filled with emotion: "Chen Cheng, is this a test you are giving me as a teacher?"

It's a pity that I had already determined that he was a "counterfeiter" at that time and did not firm up my idea.

Under Lin Ran's words, he finally thought clearly.

"Lin Ran, can you please bring Chen Cheng? I want to make it clear to him in person."

"There's no rush." ​​Lin Ran said, "It was just my guess. Now is the beginning of the real identification work."

After Tang Lanxuan saw the bronze mirror, Lin Ran was not polite to his teacher and reached out to take the Chu-style Six Mountains Mirror of the Warring States Period that Tang Lanxuan handed over.

Then, he took out the magnifying glass he always carried from his pocket, dimmed the light of the desk lamp slightly, and began the identification work.

Most of the fake patina has been removed, and the general condition of the mirror surface is clear enough to identify its authenticity.

Next, it's time to really test Chen Cheng.

"Senior brother, don't let me down." Lin Ran looked at the bronze mirror on the table, and the look in his eyes began to appear when Tang Lanxuan and Chen Cheng were communicating.

Tang Lanxuan's impression of Chen Cheng was obviously not very good, but Lin Ran believed that what Tang Lanxuan saw might not be the truth.

Seeing is not necessarily believing.

When Lin Ran saw the upright Chen Cheng in Liuyunbao Market, Lin Ran actually felt very fond of him.

He vaguely felt that things might not be that simple.

And the answer lies on this bronze mirror.Taking a deep breath, I began to appreciate the ancient bronze mirror.