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Chapter 13 The Origin of the Golden Cake【Please vote for me】

"I don't know how much it can be sold for?"

Li Yu picked up the gold cake on the table and wanted to take a photo and send it to Zhou Ruotong, but felt it was inappropriate.

She had just sold a Northern Song Dynasty silver ingot in the morning, and here came a Han Dynasty gold cake. She would be damned if she didn't doubt the origin.

But you can ask about the price first and warm up the gold cake.

Li Yu thought for a moment, then picked up his phone and sent a message to Zhou Ruotong:

"Miss Zhou, I would like to ask, are the gold cakes from the Han Dynasty worth now? My grandma said that bandits once buried gold cakes in the dry well in the backyard of my hometown. If the price is high, I plan to go down and look for them."

Li Yu's hometown is in the countryside. There is indeed a dry well in the backyard, but it has long been filled with gravel, bricks and other debris.

Use this as an excuse to find a suitable reason for selling cultural relics.

Zhou Ruotong was having lunch at the archaeological team's station. When he saw this news, he frowned slightly.

She put down her chopsticks and went outside, dialing Li Yu's phone:

"Are you short of money?"

Isn't this obvious... Li Yu on the other end of the phone didn't know what the sudden call from this beautiful lady meant, so he smiled and prevaricated:

"I'm a very curious person, and I've wanted to go and have a look at it since I was a child."

Zhou Ruotong was a little speechless:

"If you are really short of money, I can lend you some. Dry wells are very dangerous. Not only do they lack oxygen, they can easily collapse. Moreover, the legend about bandits burying gold and silver is not reliable. Don't take your own life for granted."

How come the person who was chatting and laughing at the dinner table yesterday turned into a childish person today?

Do men really remain young men until they die?

She muttered a few words in her mind and answered the previous question:

"The market price of gold cakes in the Han Dynasty was no more than 100,000 yuan, and the museum purchase price is usually 60,000 to 70,000 yuan... Now the price of gold is high, and it can be sold for more than 100,000 yuan if sold as gold jewelry. However, it depends on the purity and weight, so it cannot be generalized."

More than 100,000?

Li Yu was immediately stunned by this number.

Yes, you can take this gold cake to a gold recycling shop and sell it instead of going through the cultural relics channel.

Not only can you make more money this way, but it doesn't involve reselling cultural relics, so you get the best of both worlds.

"Thank you, Miss Zhou. I thought about it and decided that digging a dry well is too dangerous, so I won't go there."

Li Yu thanked him and hung up the phone.

He picked up the gold cake again, observing it while thinking about ways to turn it into cash.

Gold cakes were a very common ancient gold artifact in the Han Dynasty. More than two hundred pieces were unearthed from Guanghaihunhou Tomb. Gold cakes can also be seen in other large tombs of the Han Dynasty.

It is said that tomb thieves in the past liked to dig the tombs of the Han Dynasty, especially the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty.

The reason is that there was a lot of gold in the Western Han Dynasty, and the gold rewarded by the emperor often amounted to tens of thousands of kilograms. At that time, generous burials were popular, and even ordinary people would be buried with one or two gold objects in the tomb.

Moreover, most of the gold vessels buried with them will also have words engraved on them to commemorate them.

"Eh? Why isn't there any inscription on this gold cake?"

Li Yu took the gold cake in his hand and looked at it twice, but he couldn't find any writing, not even scratches.

This is wrong. I remember that the gold cakes in Haihunhou’s tomb all have inscriptions on them.

Li Yu left the restaurant with the gold cake, followed the stairs to the study room on the second floor, and pulled out a picture album from the bookshelf. This was a commemorative picture album he bought when he visited the tomb of Marquis Haihun last time.

"Woof?"

On the carpet next to him, the sleeping golden retriever raised his head and looked at Li Yu suspiciously.

"Keep sleeping, I'll check some information."

Li Yu sat cross-legged on the carpet where the golden retriever was sleeping. This made him very dissatisfied. After snorting, he turned over and got up, staring at the golden cake curiously.

Most of the gold cakes in the tomb of Haihunhou have marks, either stamps, engravings, scratches or repairs and beating marks.

As for the piece given by Lu Bu, not only did it not have any human markings, the workmanship was even rougher.

Compared with the gold cake in the picture, it looks like a knockoff without imitating the essence.

Haihunhou is a tomb from the Western Han Dynasty, and Lu Bu's gold cake comes from the Eastern Han Dynasty two hundred years later. Logically speaking, the technology of the Eastern Han Dynasty should be better, and this should not happen.

Li Yu scratched his head and picked up the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" next to him, trying to find the answer from it.

As a result, he flipped through the pages and finally found it, which was the description that after Dong Zhuo decided to move the capital, he ordered Lu Bu to dig up the imperial mausoleum to find treasures and take them all away.

Excavation of imperial tombs?

Thinking of Dong Zhuo's actions of desecrating the harem as soon as he arrived in the capital, murdering the young emperor Liu Bian and the Queen Mother He, and massacring ministers, it makes sense that he planned to build the imperial mausoleum as soon as he arrived in Luoyang.

After all, just buying Lu Bu cost one thousand taels of gold, so buying other ministers and celebrities should cost even more.

This much money definitely did not come from the bitter cold land of Xiliang, it could only come from the capital.

If you want to get a large amount of gold quietly in the capital, stealing the imperial tomb becomes the best choice.

Li Yu sat down against the bookshelf and made an inference about the gold cake in his hand:

The gold cakes in the tomb were all stamped and engraved and could easily be exposed, so Dong Zhuo had the gold cakes melted and recast to erase the traces on them.

But because the craftsmanship was not refined and the time was too short, it was turned into a knockoff.

Gee, it makes sense when you think about it.

In this case, Li Yu decided to sell the gold cakes to a gold recycling shop.

Without written traces, there is no way to prove the origin. On the contrary, this gold cake is rough, more like a gold nugget made by refining gold from scraps.

"Woo~~~"

Just as he was thinking about when to cash out, the big golden retriever came over and barked flatteringly.

Li Yu asked curiously:

"What's wrong? Are you hungry?"

The big golden retriever barked twice more, stood up and took out a small brown irregular ball from the corner next to it. He put it on the carpet and pulled it with his paws a few times.

Li Yu picked it up and looked at it, and found that it was a chestnut. He asked doubtfully:

"What do you want to do? Want to play ball?"

"Woof!"

The golden retriever denied it, licked his tongue and made a eating motion.

"You want to eat this?"

"Woo~~~~~~"

The big golden retriever was wagging its tail excitedly, as if he was being guessed.

Li Yule said:

"Why do you suddenly want to eat this stuff? There happens to be a chestnut forest nearby. We can go pick some."

After saying that, he patted his head and went back to stocking up on grains, oil, rice and noodles. In fact, chestnuts could also be stocked. Whether entertaining Wu Song and Lu Bu or giving them to Zhou Ruotong, it was a good choice.

Moreover, chestnuts can not only be used as snacks, but can also be used to stew chicken, stew meat, stew ribs, and even make chestnut stewed rice or various snacks. It is also very delicious. It is a versatile ingredient.

Since the dog wants to eat, go ahead and pick it up.

Li Yu put the gold cake in the bookcase and planned to visit a gold recycling store in the city in two days to check the situation.

You can't rush this, you have to take your time.

When he came downstairs, he carried a basket with two woven bags in it, then picked up the iron pliers for picking chestnuts, drove an electric tricycle, and pulled the big golden retriever down the cement road.

Walking to the middle of the mountain road, there is a forest on the gentle slope next to it, full of chestnut trees.

The chestnuts growing inside are large, glutinous and fragrant, and are very popular with the villagers of Shitou Village. A few days ago, Li Yu saw them running down the mountain to pick up chestnuts.

Parking the electric tricycle on the side of the road, Li Yu carried a basket, iron pliers and a woven bag, and led Gouzi to attack the chestnut forest.

At the archaeological team station, Zhou Ruotong had had lunch and was sorting out the morning's excavation data. Pang Donghai, the leader of the archaeological team, suddenly came over.

"Ruotong, I heard that you are dating someone?"

Pang Donghai is nearly fifty years old and is the proud disciple of the Zhou family. He also has a close relationship with Zhou Ruotong's father, Zhou Bingren.

Today he heard that a handsome young man came here and wanted to ask what was going on.

The ticket check lady must be gossiping about me... Zhou Ruotong rubbed his temples and explained:

"It's not the object, it's a silver ingot seller. It's him who sold the Northern Song Dynasty silver ingot to the second uncle...Uncle Pang, why do you ask this?"

Pang Donghai pulled the chair next to him and sat down, and said seriously:

"Your father wants you to practice for a while before going to work in the National Museum. The conditions in the capital are much better than here... I'm worried that if you have a date here, the two places will be separated by then, so I'd like to remind you."

But I don't want to go back to the capital, I just want to do research on the front line... Zhou Ruotong wanted to refute, but felt it was impolite, so he had to protest silently in his heart.

The economy of Yinzhou is indeed poor, and it is incomparable with the capital in all aspects, but it is the front line for studying the culture of the Shang Dynasty, so she does not want to go back.

And after returning home, the elders in the family will bring some strangers over for no apparent reason, saying they want to communicate, but in fact they are just blind dates.

Zhou Ruotong was a little disgusted by this. In her opinion, if she had the time, she might as well study oracle bones for a while.

The subtlety of the writing is much more interesting than that of men.

In the chestnut forest, Li Yu and Gou Zi enjoyed picking.

While he was busy, a middle-aged man in his fifties came over on a battery car. When he saw Li Yu, he stopped the car and said hello with a smile:

"Xiao Li, why are you picking chestnuts like us old people?"

Li Yu turned around and saw that the other person was Wang Shengli, the village director of Shitouzhai Village, and said with a smile:

"It's almost winter, so I'm going to collect some for snacks. Uncle Wang, what are you doing here?"

"Coming to find you..."

Find me?

Li Yu put down the basket in his hand and asked curiously:

"What's the matter?"

Wang Shengli had a smile on his face: