master of the deep

Chapter 61

"Professor Tao is an expert in appraising ceramics. We were invited by the Jizhen Hall to be a witness today." At this time, the girl stood beside Lin Fan and said to him with a smile, a faint fragrance came from her body. The upload made Lin Fan feel her heat.

Wang Biao and Zhou Xiaolin took a step back, and winked at Lin Fan with the girl behind their backs, because all three of them could feel that this girl was interested in Lin Fan, so they deliberately stayed by Lin Fan's side to look for him. say.

"Then our luck is really good, I'm afraid this kind of scene will not be encountered many times in a lifetime." Lin Fan responded with a smile.

"My name is Tao Jingjing, how about you?"

The girl nodded, then suddenly leaned over, approached Lin Fan and said softly, a strand of her hair brushed Lin Fan's nose, the faint fragrance made Lin Fan take a deep breath secretly, full of Tao Jingjing the taste of.

"So it's Senior Jingjing, I'm Lin Fan." Lin Fan replied quickly, and then thought to himself, Tao Jingjing, is it possible that she is a relative of Professor Tao.

"Professor Tao is my grandfather. My grandfather's graduate student inherited his archaeological career." Tao Jingjing seemed to have guessed what Lin Fan was thinking, and turned her head to whisper to him again, making Lin Fan suddenly realize.

Generally speaking, girls are unwilling to study majors like archeology, because if they work in archaeology in the future, they will have to live in the wild for many years and deal with ancient tombs more often, and ordinary girls can't bear it at all.

"Sister Jingjing, you are really amazing." Lin Fan said to her solemnly, he really admired this girl from the bottom of his heart.

"Have you finished your whispering? Everyone is going to the second floor." At this time, Wang Biao who was next to them interrupted them, and the two discovered that Professor Tao had led the students to the second floor.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and suddenly a tacit understanding emerged in their hearts. They stopped talking and walked towards the second floor one after the other.Tao Jingjing walked in front, her ponytail was bouncing, her hair was flying, full of youthful vigor, and the fragrance emanating from her body made Lin Fan feel a little strange.

A group of people quietly followed Professor Tao to the second floor, where they also saw the exhibition hall.It's just that the exhibition hall here is a little different from the one downstairs. Instead of placing the collections in rows together, there are many separate booths. Each booth is independent. Only one collection is displayed inside, and there are pairs of collections next to it. A basic introduction, as well as a price tag.

Therefore, although the area of ​​the second floor is similar to that of the first floor, the collections on display are much smaller.However, these collections are basically high-quality goods. The cheapest ones are priced at more than [-] yuan, and the most expensive ones are even hundreds of thousands.

"It's too expensive. Such a small cup costs more than [-] yuan." Zhou Xiaolin sighed standing in front of a jade cup.

Lin Fan also took a closer look at the jade cup, and found that it was only the size of an ordinary wine cup, white in texture, slightly yellowed, with the four characters Fu Lu Shou Xi embossed on the body of the cup.The introduction next to it said that it was a jade cup made in the year of Qianlong, but the price was actually 12 yuan.

"What is this? The collections on the second floor are only high-quality goods, not treasures. All the valuable collections in the Jizhen Museum are on the third floor, but ordinary customers cannot go up, and regular customers are required. To lead, but also to pay a deposit of one million to be eligible to go up.

According to my uncle, although the collection on the third floor is no more than a hundred, its value is incalculable. It may be worth millions, or it may be worth tens of millions. "Wang Biao whispered beside him.

"Yes, I saw an ancient calligraphy work on the third floor with my grandpa last time. It was purchased by a private collector for 7000 million Chinese dollars. It is said to be the original work of Liu Gongquan." Tao Jingjing also clicked He nodded and told Lin Fan and the others, Lin Fan and Zhou Xiaolin clicked their tongues.

"Professor Tao, welcome. Mr. Yu and Professor Chen have already arrived, and now we are waiting for you to grow old."

At this moment, a middle-aged man in his 40s came in front of him. He stretched out his hand and said to Professor Tao with a smile, then shook hands with Professor Tao, took a half step sideways, and stretched out his hand to lead Professor Tao Behind the showroom.

"Someone really wants to smash treasures? We can open our eyes today and go to the treasure smashing field together." Wang Biao looked very excited and said to Lin Fan and Zhou Xiaolin.

"Come with us." Tao Jingjing invited Lin Fan and the three to follow them.

Everyone followed Professor Tao and the middle-aged man around a screen, and found that behind it was a place similar to a performance studio, with a ten-square-meter table on the top, a few seats on the right side, and a small table in the middle .

In front of the platform, there are more than 20 seats, which appear to be auditoriums.When Lin Fan and others came in, they found that there were several people sitting on the seats above the platform, and there were more than ten people sitting in the audience seats below.

Professor Tao followed the middle-aged man onto the platform and walked towards the seat on the right side of the platform. At the same time, he was laughing loudly and greeting several people sitting there. It seemed that they were all acquaintances.

At this time, the students brought by Professor Tao had found their seats in the auditorium and sat down. The three of Lin Fan also quickly sat down next to them, and Tao Jingjing happened to be next to Lin Fan.

"The old man wearing glasses is called Yu Guohua. He is a collector and a person who has done a lot of research on antiques. The other old man with thin hair is called Chen Qingyou. He is an epigraphy expert and a professor at a university." Tao Jingjing Seeing Lin Fan looking at the people on the platform, he turned his head and introduced him to him in a low voice.

It turns out that even in the Treasure Smashing Field of Jizhen Hall, it is not always possible to encounter people smashing treasures.And once someone wants to smash a treasure, the Jizhen Museum will invite some experts to come and appraise it, and Professor Tao and others are the experts that the Jizhen Museum often invites.

However, in addition to Yu Guohua and Chen Qingyou, there was also a fat-headed guy next to him. He was also in his 50s or [-]s. His face was full of flesh, but he had a pigtail hanging on his head. He looked a bit nondescript. .

"Is that guy also an appraisal expert?" Lin Fan pointed at this person and asked.

"I haven't seen it, I don't know it." Tao Jingjing shook her head, her eyes were also full of doubts, and she realized that her grandfather hadn't greeted that person, so maybe she didn't know him either.

Lin Fan turned his gaze to the platform, because he saw that the small table above the platform was covered with red velvet, and there was a collection on it, but it was a golden Buddha with a height of seventy or eighty centimeters, which could be called Up there is the Big Golden Buddha.

Based on Lin Fan's knowledge, he could only recognize this Buddha statue as a sitting statue of Sakyamuni with hair tied in a bun. The Buddha's head was blue, his eyes were slightly closed, his ears dropped to his shoulders, he was sitting in lotus position, he cast a magic seal, and he was wearing a light and close-fitting cassock. , showing the right shoulder.The proportion of the body is coordinated and the shape is beautiful.

"Such a big golden Buddha should be very valuable." Lin Fan asked Tao Jingjing for advice.

"This Buddha statue should be a gilded bronze Buddha statue with gilded gold all over. It is not made of real gold, but a layer of gold powder is cast on the inside and coated with copper on the outside. It is cast in copper or bronze with a gilded surface and a movable Buddha statue. Statues, commonly known as gilded bronze Buddha statues.

This kind of Buddha statues were used in palaces, temples, and other places; its appearance began in the Han Dynasty, became popular in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and continued to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.In the Republic of China, and even in modern Hong Kong and Taiwan, gilt bronze Buddha statues were still in use.There are several types of gilt bronze Buddha statues, the common ones include Sakyamuni, Guanyin, Manjusri, Samantabhadra, King of Heaven, Mother Duva, etc. "

Tao Jingjing shook her head lightly, and slowly explained to Lin Fan that she had heard her grandfather talk about this for a long time, so she still had some knowledge.When she shook her head, the ponytail on the back of her head was also gently shaking, and her hair was fluttering, stroking Lin Fan's face softly, giving him a numb feeling.

"So, the collection to be smashed today is this gilt-bronze Buddha statue? I don't know which guy is so courageous to smash a Buddha statue." Lin Fan quickly diverted his attention and said to himself.

"I think it's probably that guy. Looking at him, he doesn't look like a person who can worship Buddha." Tao Jingjing heard it, and pointed to the little braid with a smile on her face.

"It should be him." Lin Fan saw the little braid standing up suddenly, shook hands with the man from Jizhen Hall, and walked to the Buddha statue together.

"Everyone, today everyone was lucky enough to meet someone smashing treasures in our Treasure Smashing Field. It was a worthwhile trip. However, I still want to introduce the rules of our Smashing Treasure Field.

If someone buys a collection on the second floor of our Jizhen Museum, if he is convinced that the collection is fake, he can apply to us for a treasure.After the collection is smashed, the authenticity will be verified by experts.

If the expert identifies the collection as fake, we will refund the money paid for the collection and allow the customer to choose a collection that is equivalent to the price of the smashed collection for free.

However, if an expert identifies the smashed collection as authentic, the customer will have to pay our collection store double the price of the collection to make up for our losses and bear related expenses.

Today, Mr. Zhu bought a gold-plated bronze Buddha statue from the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Han Dynasty at a price of 25 yuan.However, Mr. Zhu thinks this collection is fake, so he applied to us to smash the treasure.

Next, Mr. Zhu will personally destroy this gilt-bronze Buddha statue, and then submit it to experts to appraise the authenticity of the gilt-bronze Buddha statue. The appraisal results will be used as the basis for the final judgment. "

The middle-aged man in the Jizhen Museum introduced the rules of smashing the treasure field with a smile on his face, and explained that what the little braided Mr. Zhu was going to smash today was indeed the gilded bronze Buddha statue on the table.

(End of this chapter)