antique appraiser

Wen Liyan was given the task of translating this English book, and the convenience he gained was more than that on the surface. He already knew English and didn't need to spend too much time studying the possible meaning of each word, and the spare time, Just to make up for his shortcomings.Although he has a unique advantage in understanding antiques, relatively, he has no knowledge of antiques at all, even a little bit.

What is patina?What is Baoguang?How to judge the material and origin of an object?Even if he knows the purpose of this thing, he can't tell people "because I have used this thing, I came from ancient times, so my judgment must be right", right?He must tell everyone the origin of this thing in a way that people agree with, so that he can grow into a real appraiser.

Wen Liyan needs time.

Because of taking on the responsibility of translation, Wen Liyan doesn't have to stay behind the counter every day and is always ready to test his meager appraisal ability. His main job now is to translate this English book.After inquiring about the research progress of ancient characters and the number of occurrences of English through the Internet, Wen Liyan suddenly discovered that the one-page translation he originally planned to submit every day was actually too amazing.How many people are experts and scholars who have studied ancient characters for so many years, but they still stay in the superficial meaning, and they are still entangled with a word or a sentence.In contrast, English, which is not a research hotspot and does not have many cultural relics to support its research... is basically in a situation where everyone thinks it is a ghost.If Wen Liyan can translate one page at a time in this way, the result must be to attract people's inquiry.Excessive genius becomes a monster.Monsters without enough power to protect them can only perish.

So Wen Liyan immediately revised his original plan and directly set his speed to translate one page a month.In fact, this is also an unbelievably fast speed, but if you want to slow down, Wen Liyan always feels like insulting his IQ.Moreover, at his age, even if he understands the meaning of keeping a low profile, he still can't help but want to express himself. At this time, in Wen Liyan's heart, there is a hidden desire to show off.

Young and inexperienced, that's all.

However, Wen Liyan himself did not realize his vague desire, nor did he feel that there was anything wrong with his approach.After deciding to translate one page a month, he applied to Qu Jingshui for a batch of cultural relics or photos of cultural relics in English in the name of collecting relevant information. Useless.The most important thing is that what Qu Jingshui gave him must be the real thing, and maybe the eyesight for looking at antiques in the future will depend on this to save up.

After such a calculation, Wen Liyan felt a little complacent, consciously playing with many people in his hands, it was really rare to think of such a good way.

However, no matter how much superiority Wen Liyan feels, even if he wants to translate this book at a rate of one page a month, if he cannot give Qu Jingshui all progress signals, this matter cannot proceed.What's more, there is another Mo who bites everyone like a mad dog, and he is also his target.

It is easy to solve this problem, take back the English book and the batch of materials given by Qu Jingshui for three days, and Wen Liyan stays at home during these three days, making himself look decadent.With black eye circles, disheveled hair, rumpled clothes, sloppy and no image, just rushed all the way from the residence to the antique shop, causing the group of people in the antique street to look sideways.

When Wen Liyan entered, Qu Jingshui was in the lobby.Anyone who came to take a look at this time could see that he was in a good mood.The reason for saying this is because this kind of emotion was clearly shown on Qu Jingshui's face, with a smile on his brows, but he didn't know where he had lost that usual rigid and gentle expression.When seeing Qu Jingshui's expression, Wen Liyan was very curious, what made this person so happy that he didn't even hide his emotions?

"Mr. Wen." It was the guy standing aside who spoke first. It is said that in the past, these guys would not embarrass Wen Liyan for Qu Jingshui's sake, but they can't be said to have any respect for him. The tone of the speech at this time The arc of the bent body seemed a little subtler, and it seemed that there was a little bit more of a friendly relationship, but it was a pity that Wen Liyan himself did not notice this.

Because Qu Jingshui immediately walked up to Wen Liyan in two steps after hearing the clerk's greeting, patted Wen Liyan's shoulder kindly, and said, "Liyan, you've done a great job this time!"

This rhetoric, how come it sounds like the official words spoken by superiors to subordinates in the officialdom in TV dramas?Wen Liyan murmured to himself, but also pretended to be flattered in a daze, and asked repeatedly: "Here, what's the matter? What happened?"

Seeing his stupid look, Qu Jingshui shook his head, and took out something with metallic luster from his pocket.He said, "This, you always remember?"

It was the USB flash drive, which was sold by a famous scammer in Antique Street.Wen Liyan recognized this thing at a glance, and then remembered how lucky he was when he later found out who Wu Shi was.Fortunately, that Wu Shi was wary of Qu Jingshui, and chose to swindle money by shoddy goods instead of fake ones, otherwise he would definitely be ashamed.At that time, I was only thinking about the value of the USB flash drive, but I didn't think that it might be a fake.

Now, Qu Jingshui took out the USB flash drive, does it mean that the data in the USB flash drive has been interpreted?

Quite excited, Wen Liyan knew that as long as the contents of this USB flash drive could be deciphered, and someone knew that he was the first to discover this matter, he would be able to gain a bit of foundation for himself.And in Qu Jingshui's eyes, he would certainly not be such a dispensable role as he is now.

"This is the one that Wu Shi brought the other day..." He was still a little dazed, and then slowly became stunned, pleasantly surprised.Wen Liyan's eyes lit up, and then he spoke to Qu Jingshui: "Boss! Have you deciphered the contents here?"

Qu Jingshui nodded, shook his head again, and then explained: "It took several experiments to find a way to read this information correctly. We have seen the ancient texts inside, but we haven't been able to translate them one by one, but as long as It is something related to ancient characters, which one is not worth a hundred times? Moreover, this is an object that stores data directly from ancient times, and the price should be comparable to that of books. We have acquired many such objects in the early stage, and the next step is to make a lot of money It's time for a sum."

Wen Liyan nodded fiercely, as if he was also excited about this matter.Then he hesitated for a moment before asking in a low voice: "Then, boss, can I participate in the research of ancient texts stored in these things? This is a rare opportunity... Although I already have a job to translate , but I really don't want to miss this opportunity."

"Huh?" Wen Liyan's request made Qu Jingshui hesitate, just like Wen Liyan himself said, he was already translating that English book, and now he wanted to add a foot in the translation of ancient characters, on the one hand, it was his Insufficient qualifications, on the other hand, will it affect the progress of the work of these two parties?

After thinking for a while, Qu Jingshui still shook his head, "I think you should concentrate on doing the work at hand first. Ancient characters are important, but this completely different culture is also very interesting, isn't it? Besides, you have The burden is too heavy, and it will also affect your health."

A little disappointed, but Wen Liyan knew that this result was expected, so he quickly mentioned the reason why he came to the antique shop today: "Boss, in the past three days, I have roughly read the English meaning that can be understood through ancient characters." , but there is a big discovery!"