Chapter 0882 – Ming Weapon (III)

“Boss, don’t be angry, he’s just a mongrel who can’t speak.”

Zhang Daniu kicked his brother in the ass and apologized to Zhuang Rui, then said, “Boss, you have something to ask, as long as we know, we will tell you.”

“I …… I ……”

Zhuang Rui really was that the mixed people almost forgot to ask what, would have suspected that the two brothers are not singing a double act, now it seems not much like, Zhang Erniu whole is missing a string in the brain.

“Do not ask? Then look at the stuff!”

Erniu put the package in his hand on the table and said, “We are here to sell things, why ask so many questions?”

“You dare to sell, but also want me to dare to buy ah?”

Zhuang Rui laughed bitterly in his heart, and after thinking for a while, he said, “Erniu, I’ll just talk to your brother, you go out to eat! Immediately the food delivery will come.”

Zhuang Rui really couldn’t talk to Zhang Erniu, with him interrupting on the side, Zhuang Rui couldn’t ask anything.

“Good, good, brother, then I’ll go out!”

Zhang Erniu heard that there is a meal, immediately glowing eyes, turn around and run outside, in his heart, do not care about the things to sell or not, just can eat such a delicious meal, this trip will be worth it.

After Erniu went out, Zhuang Rui was relieved and looked at Zhang Da Niu, asking, “Da Niu, can you say where these things came from?”

“That’s what you’re asking about, boss?”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Daniu grinned and said, “Where else could this come from, it was plowed out of the ground, these were dug up by me and Erniu, you can rest assured that they are definitely our own.”

When Zhuang Rui heard this, he froze, he had already prepared himself to listen to the story, but he didn’t expect that Zhang Dainiu actually admitted that it was from grave robbing, which made Zhuang Rui unable to continue with his question.

Zhuang Rui was silent for a while and then asked, “Da Niu, where is your family from?”

“We are from Mengjin County in Henan Province, that is near Luoyang, but our village is in the mountains, this is the first time we have traveled so far!”

Zhang Daniu didn’t know why Zhuang Rui asked these questions. But his impression of the boss is very good, one by one to say out, even parents in the last year and added a sister to them are not hidden.

Zhuang Rui now know, the two brothers are not under the set, is not singing a double act, is the real Henan Mengjin County farmers.

The big ox is okay, once on the 2 years of elementary school, the two ox is even their own name will not write, the ground illiterate, originally the two brothers also go out to work, just two oxen temper is too straight, to the contractor hit after the two people and go home to plant the land.

But these days there is no money in farming! See around the neighbors to go to the grave, the two brothers also follow the wind dry, the two lucky, dug a large tomb no one has touched, pulled out a lot of good things.

Other grave robbers, generally have the next family, but this brother and sister who do not know, took something to the folks to go see, others are only willing to give a few hundred dollars, so the two brothers a plan, simply go to Beijing to find the buyer, which is not …… now sitting in front of Zhuang Rui.

Others are close to even parents have told you, Zhuang Rui what else can ask ah? At that moment said, “OK, Da Niu, open the package, I look at things!”

“Hey, well le, just went to a store that sells antiques, that little brother even said it was fake, but also a store old man let us go in the afternoon, boss if you fancy, these things will be sold to you, you are thicker than that old man.”

Da Niu heard Zhuang Rui’s words, happy parcels spread out on the table, he said this is not intentionally show their own objects are good someone to grab, but because just went to another store, not even a mouthful of water, and finally looked at his objects, the young man actually said it was a fake. And to Zhuang Rui here is even eat and drink, treatment is completely different ah! Farmer brothers really, by others’ favor, that heart is not implemented, always thinking about how to repay.

“This …… this?”

Looked at the big cattle from the package out of the object, Zhuang Rui froze, he just used the aura induction, and now see the physical, suddenly a little dumbfounded.

The first thing that Da Niu took out was a bronze candlestick that was about thirty centimeters high.

The whole candlestick is covered with bronze rust, the shape is very exquisite, a woman with sideburns, kneeling on the ground, hands holding up the lotus eight-petal tray, there is a small hole in the tray, connected to the woman’s body, which should be inserted to put the wick of the place.

The whole candlestick hollow, inside the fuel after a long time, has long been evaporated, but this candlestick craftsmanship of exquisite ingenuity, is Zhuang Rui in the Yu’s tomb raiding gangs in the stolen goods have not seen, not to mention that, just this one bronze candlestick, can be called a national treasure.

But let Zhuang Rui deplored is, in the bottom of the candlestick has mutilated, originally should also have a fixed bracket, but now it is gone, obviously was violently twisted.

Zhuang Rui asked Da Niu, sure enough, this candlestick was originally set in the wall of the tomb tunnel, was Er Niu froze with brute force to yank down.

Zhuang Rui took a closer look, there is no inscription on the bronze candlestick, the body surface of the green embroidery is very thin, seems to be vaguely flooded with a layer of gold, which is academically speaking, called the Panjin, mostly found in Shaanxi, Henan and Gansu excavations.

Flood gold does not mean that the casting of mercury or gold plating, but the bronze in a specific soil environment, the formation of a special oxidized layer, also known as “gold” or “back to the copper”.

This phenomenon usually only occurs in just casting is completed, has not been used on the earth of the bronze, and to successive generations in the arid, sandy environment, but also need to tomb closed tight, never been stolen, which can appear in the superb pan-golden bronzes.

In the eyes of some experts who only have theories, such an object is like a fake in general, it is estimated that this Zhang brothers just went to the antique store, sitting in the hall is a white-necked expert (theory lack of practice experts).

Monkey did not know when he also entered the room, looked at the bronze candlestick in Zhuang Rui’s hand and said, “Brother Zhuang, I looked at this thing in the morning, it should come out of a big tomb, just I can’t see what kind of tomb it is.”

“This is an object unearthed from a dry pit, it is extremely well preserved, it is more valuable than some of the things from the water pits, look at the shape and molding of this candlestick, it is in the style of the Han Dynasty, a tomb built according to this system is at least a princely one.”

Zhuang Rui said the puddle artifacts, unearthed in Hunan, Hubei, and Zhejiang area, usually show bright colors, most of the surface is glossy as a mirror, or green as a superb, or black as a greasy, as if just fished out of the water.

Giving the monkey an answer, Zhuang Rui looked at the rest of the objects, and the same bronze candlestick in his hand, there are four more, all with the same shape, it seems that the tunnel of that tomb is not short.

“Da Niu, when you just pulled out this thing, was there color on it?” Zhuang Rui held a twenty centimeter tall and short pottery figurine and asked Zhang Daniu.

Zhang Daniu had an astonished look on his face and nodded his head repeatedly, saying, “Yes, boss how did you know? That would be nice to look at, I just don’t know what happened, once I took it out, the colors were all gone.”

“Alas, it’s a pity, Da Niu, have you emptied out the things in the tomb?”

Looking at this terracotta figurine, Zhuang Rui had a feeling of powerlessness in his heart, the terracotta figurine with glaze color, if it is well maintained, it may not be able to retain its original shape, but now it is all destroyed.

“Boss, why are you asking this?”

As soon as Zhang Daniu heard Zhuang Rui’s words, a wary look appeared on his face, and as soon as Zhuang Rui took a look at him, he knew that there must be something else in the tomb.

“Da Niu, do you know that this digging of ancient tombs is an illegal act?” Zhuang Rui asked tentatively.

When Da Niu heard Zhuang Rui’s words, he waved his hand uncaringly and said, “What’s illegal? Our place is full of graves, a township at least a few hundred people are digging, some are relying on digging graves, built up a small house, but also married a daughter-in-law, why others can dig we can not dig ah?”

Da Niu brothers are also to see others are night grave robbers, sleep during the day, the day is very fast, the hand seems to have not broken the money, which makes the brothers heart is very unbalanced, on the mountain to find a hidden grave, digging out these things.

“The police of the Public Security Bureau don’t care about these things?”

Zhuang Rui is listening to the cold sweat, a township has hundreds of people who are excavating ancient tombs, then a county or a city, how many people will be engaged in this business ah?

To know, archaeological excavation is a very detailed work, in the excavation process, not only to maintain the integrity of the tomb, even the tunnel can not be destroyed, because those stone walls, often carved with exquisite murals.

So the site excavation of ancient tombs, are to be carried out by professionals, but to be as Zhang Daniu said, a township everywhere in the excavation of ancient tombs, Zhuang Rui do not know, there will be how many tombs were destroyed?

“The Public Security Bureau’s in charge! If you catch them, you’ll be fined, the Erhu across the street from our house was fined five thousand dollars, that’s why we took it to Beijing to sell it.”

Zhang Da Niu’s words make Zhuang Rui even more speechless, destroying a valuable ancient tomb, only five thousand yuan fine, such regulatory efforts, will only make more and more grave robbers, grave robbing trend is becoming more and more rampant.

Previously, I just heard that grave robbing is a trend in Henan, but Zhuang Rui can’t imagine how, grave robbing has actually become an industry, farmers don’t farm, specializing in grave robbing for a living. And these farmers tomb raiding, the harm to the ancient tombs, but also far more than those professional grave robbers, their means are often more intense, explosives and axes dare to use anything.

Tomb excavated by these peasants, almost like a crop looted by locusts in general, not an inch of grass, that is, can not take away the things, many people will also be cracked to destroy it.