The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The banquet will be held on time at 5:30. The way is a long table banquet that combines the East and the West, which is common in the Long Island Manor. The layout is Western style, and the food is a combination of Russian and Chinese cuisine.

　　 even give out red envelopes before eating. Zhang Nan’s repertoire is much more intuitive than typing a number in someone’s account.

　　 There are not only people on the train, but also outsiders who participated in Moscow's "mass raids". Of course, this has been distributed through the company before.

　　 The money is not much, 20,000 US dollars each. This task is not difficult. It is troublesome to find out and clean up the underground Chinese robbery gangs in Moscow before it is time. Everyone is asking for a prize.

　　 Joseph, Tu Haibo and others are dispensable to this, they are all rich people, they just think the boss is close. Originally, the guys in Moscow felt different. Such a red envelope can count as a very good income. I really thank the boss for his generosity.

Jiang Aihua is still here, and he will return to the capital by plane tomorrow; Nongbosheng who arrived in Moscow a few days ago is also there, but the curator is not in Moscow for a week. He just took the famous Red Arrow train from St. Petersburg this morning. Back in Moscow, there were also bronze experts Liu Chengjun and Lao Liu.

　　Because of the previous work schedule, accepting Zhang Nan’s invitation, only two experts, Nong Bosheng and Liu Chengjun, went to Moscow from Kazakhstan.

　　 Although only two people are enough, Nongbosheng is very knowledgeable, and Liu Chengjun's ability to appreciate ancient bronzes is even more of China's top!

Liu Chengjun and Lao Liu have a deep research on ancient bronzes, and they are also familiar with bronzes from the Tang and Song dynasties, especially those from the Song Dynasty. Who made Song Shizhi people particularly like to imitate high ancient bronzes? How many modern people have pitted.

　　 Zhang Nan was not in the hotel during the day and took Charlie out to play, but the two experts seemed to have chosen the wrong means of transportation: they were a little bit older and didn't even rest well in the first-class Red Arrow train box.

　　 When Zhang Nan returned to the hotel, the two experts were resting. This was the first time Zhang Nan and the two met after Nong Bosheng and the others went to St. Petersburg in recent days.

　　 The Red Arrow train departs at 11:55 in the middle of the night and arrives in Moscow and St. Petersburg at 7:55 the next morning. All four sleeper boxes can be reached after a sleep.

The two staff who accompanied the two experts to St. Petersburg made this arrangement out of good intentions, but for young people, a sleep can complete the journey and the Red Arrow Express, which can save one night’s accommodation fee, is really not suitable for the Agricultural Expo. Rise two.

　　 Today is to celebrate the guys who stopped the train robbery. Naturally, many people talked about train-related topics in small talk.

Nong Bosheng was talking about taking the car, and he still had some memories and emotions: "When I was young, I made two Red Arrow trips. At that time, it was all night, and I could stay in the library until the administrator drove people. Go to Leningrad. It is enjoyment to sit on the Red Arrow once, and you can go to the place once you sleep.

　　 It’s not working anymore. I dozed off in the waiting room before getting on the bus. I really waited until I got on the bus and it became fresh. I couldn’t sleep at all..."

Old Liu on the side of 　　 smiled and said: "You are not too noisy in the car to sleep, you are full of sleep in the waiting room!"

Several people on the side laughed. Xiang Weirong, who was drinking a small amount of old southern Ukrainian coastal wine, slightly shook the glass in his hand, smiled and said to Nongbo: "We are all sick with wealth. The better the life, the more problems there are.

　　 I remember when a recruit went to the army. It was the first time I saw a train with my own eyes, and it was also the first time I took a train. I had never been out before in the basin of my hometown..."

　　Yuan County is surrounded by high mountains 800 to 1,200 meters above the base of the county seat on all sides, and it merges with the neighboring Xinchang County to form a typical small basin.

　　 Don’t talk about Xiang Weirong’s 1970 when he was in the army. Even if Zhang Nan was 48 years old, he didn’t get the train: it was going to be built, it was under survey, and the year of completion would not be until 2021.

　　 Xiang Weirong continued here: "The first time I took the train was fresh, but there were no coaches, not even hard seats. It was a genuine stuffy tanker.

　　 The railway department has such a stuffy tanker that transports goods when it needs it, and never pulls a pig.

　　 There should have been wooden bunk beds made of square wood in the original carriage, but the number of recruits was very large that year, and it was quite cold in November, so let's just hit the floor!

　　 Fortunately, the ground is covered with a thick layer of straw, and it won’t freeze even if it hits the ground. The conditions were fresh, that was, I was accidentally turned into buns by recruits from Shangyu, Zhuji, and Kuaiji at the beginning.

　　 Trains have been available to them for a long time. As long as we and Xin-Chang are not there, they have been fighting for us and Xin-Chang’s recruits, and the recruits in the neighboring Zhu-Ji and Shang-Yu.

　　 It’s also interesting to think about it. After less than a year as a soldier, all those who have done it have become the best little fellows. "

　　 As a soldier in Xichuan, people in Shanghai can be regarded as fellow villagers, and people in one province are genuine. Of course, people in the same area have become small fellow villagers.

　　 "...The young man feels comfortable with the stuffy tanker, but he doesn't work anymore."

　　 Xiang Weirong was also a little bit emotional.

　　 Zhang Nan heard this story more than ten years ago, and he will hear it again, which still feels a bit interesting.

　　 Charlize Theron on the side felt that he had discovered a loophole in Xiang Weirong’s words, and said to him: "Brother-in-law, there seems to be a missing Kuaiji."

　　 "You said fight"

"Uh-huh."

　　 "We don't fight in Kuaiji, and we don't like to fight with them. It's boring, as if we haven't fought before."

"Why"

　　 Charlie puzzled: I'm all despised, why don't I **** my fist?

　　 Without Xiang Weirong's answer, Zhang Nan rushed to say: "Master Hueiji, you understand?

　　 People who talk and do nothing, at most quarrel, basically can't fight. "

　　 Forget it, except for the sitting Chinese people, no one else can understand the essence of Zhang Nan's words. Even Charlize Theron, who has learned a lot of Chinese culture, can't fully understand it.

　　Of course, this is also an argument. Of course, Xiang Weirong's comrades from Kuaiji can fight, and there are many. This is a regional convention.

　　 Or imagine that if Lu Xun was smoking a cigarette, instead of thinking about writing an article with a pen in his hand, he would roll up his sleeves and fight with others, that scene...

　　 Anyway, there is absolutely no harmony in the scene when Du Fu talks about the guitar.

　　 Now the conditions are good, too good to be better, even sleeping in a box sleeper would not be used to it, all for the rich!

　　 Zhang Nan and Nong Bosheng also talked about the scene of taking the train for the first time. The latter was still before the liberation, and the passenger cars were called ticket cars.

　　 While talking, Zhang Nan promoted to Nongbo: "The Heavenly Sage Bronze Man sent to the port of Southern Russia the day before yesterday. It is estimated that it will take almost two months to reach Yongcheng after turning around.

　　 Anyway, I won’t go back for the time being. I can borrow you to exhibit for a month or two. "

　　 "That feeling is good!" Nong Bosheng smiled.

　　Neither land nor air transport is used, all to avoid customs on both sides, lest things come to China before there will be a hot news or something, and the Russian customs will be embarrassed.

Liu Chengjun on the side of 　　 heard this and said, "Xiao Zhang, how about lending me one time in the future? It won’t be too long. Just borrow as many as the month for a special exhibition."

　　 "The chronology of that thing was finally made by the two of you, of course it’s okay."

　　 Zhang Nan graciously agreed that this old Liu is relegated to the second line, but as an expert, he always wants to let more people see the real Chinese treasure.

　　 The old Liu and Nong Bosheng judged from their rich experience that the acupuncture bronze man Zhang Nan obtained in an ant was around 1000 AD.

　　 Whether judging from the shape, the copper, the feeling of patina, and the time when the wood carving organs were left inside, they should all be objects before and after the Northern Song Dynasty.

The two told Zhang Nan that only the "Tiansheng Bronze Man" of the historical records of acupuncture and moxibustion bronze man can be opened. In addition to the detailed record in the history book, this bronze man disappeared into the history of the "Tiansheng Bronze Man". "What else can be outside of one of the

　　Scientific analysis, research, judgment, plus the method of exclusion, this is it.

The identity of the "Tiansheng Bronze Man" was confirmed. The two experts were very happy for the return of another real national treasure that had disappeared in history: Zhang Nan said that this thing would not be donated, but it would be shipped back to China. Put it into an exhibition in his home museum.

Before the two were happy, Zhang Nan told them: In the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, there is also an ancient Chinese acupuncture bronze figure, which can be life-sized. It is probably when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China. The one that was stolen by the hospital too.

　　 At that time, when I heard the Nongbo promotion, I was a little unbelievable: "I studied at the Hermitage Museum for 3 months in 55, and I haven't seen any bronze people at all."

　　 Zhang Nan replied: "I said, brother-in-law, there were a bunch of things that you, the old curator of decades did not know, in the warehouse of the Yongcheng Museum a few years ago. There will always be millions of cultural relics in the Hermitage Museum.

　　 Three months, I can’t see it carefully for three years.

　　 I guess I didn’t know which corner of the warehouse to collect dust. I visited there a few years ago and I didn’t see any ancient Chinese acupuncture bronze figures on display. "

　　 Not much to say, Nong Bosheng and Liu Chengjun wanted to go to St. Petersburg to see things, so Zhang Nan asked them to make arrangements.

The two experts didn’t ask where Zhang Nan knew about the bronze man of acupuncture and moxibustion in the Hermitage Museum. They only knew that this man had great magical powers. Maybe it was the staff in the Hermitage Museum who gave the news. It's not necessarily what comes out.

　　 The famous and well-known Mr. Allen loves Chinese cultural relics, and spend a small amount of money to know what Chinese cultural relics are in the warehouse of the Russian museum. There is still a way.

This will say that the bronze man in the Hermitage Museum, Nong Bo ascended: "That thing is still in the warehouse, relying on your relationship to get through the joints, and it took a day to find out which warehouse it is in. I guess no one has ever moved the bronze man since the October Revolution.

Later, I found it after searching for a long time. It was erected in the corner of a warehouse that hadn't been cleaned for decades, with a canvas on the outside, and the ash on the top could be two inches thick... I and Lao Liu studied carefully for a long time and thought that the copper The man is the orthodox bronze man who was snatched away! "

　　 An exaggerated statement, no matter how much the dust accumulates, it will not reach two inches.

　　 Speaking of this, Liu Chengjun interrupted, "Mr. Guan called us to eat just now. I didn't put the photos in my pocket when I was busy. I prepared them all. I'll get them."

　　 I had to show Zhang Nan to see the photos.

　　 Liu Chengjun's name was Zhang Nan and Xiao Zhang. That was Zhang Nan's request. Otherwise, the old expert of the Nongbo promotion would call him Mr. Zhang a little awkward.

　　 It is the courtesy of Liu Chengjun to call Guan Xingquan, who has been out of Star City for a few days, Mr. Guan.

I didn’t expect this one before, and now Zhang Nan also wants to see the appearance of the bronze man immediately: I heard that the "Orthodox Bronze Man" was in the Hermitage Museum in the Hermitage in the previous life, but Zhang Nan didn't know which one. I haven't even seen a picture of what the copper man looks like.

　　 A stack of 7-inch color photos were quickly taken. The bronze figure has several directions, various parts, and details. The photos were taken very carefully.

　　 There are no digital cameras today, and Zhang Nan doesn’t know if there is a concept of "digital camera".

This will use film cameras. If you want to see photos, you have to wash them first, but they are not as convenient as digital cameras on LCD screens or computers. Not to mention that the era of smart phones has almost wiped out household-grade digital cameras. NS.

　　 It takes two or three days to take a color photo, and it takes more than a week to get the photo. In some small photo studios, the waiting time is longer!

　　Who made this? Many photo studios in the county have no machine for color photo processing, and the negatives have to be mailed to a large place to be cleaned and then sent back.

　　 However, there are urgent and additional money laundering of photos everywhere. Of course, this can be done in the big St. Petersburg.

　　 Zhang Nan looked carefully one by one at the dinner table. The bronze statue was well preserved, there was no green show at all, and the whole body was a slightly lustrous dark brown that only appeared after years of deposition.

　　 From the photo, the warehouse where the bronze statue is stored is very dry. Just now, Nong Bosheng said that the bronze statue was wrapped in thick hemp canvas as a whole, and it is estimated that it did not move much.

　　 The disappearance of nearly a hundred years has almost ceased for this bronze statue~www.readwn.com~ is definitely less damage than being displayed in a public showcase.

　　 It can be said simply: Except for the damage that may be caused during plunder, there is no better preservation state than such a static for decades.

　　 The bronze statue is the image of a man. According to the measurement of Nong Bosheng, the continuous hair bun can be 175.5 cm high on a cuboid base.

　　 With both arms drooping naturally, palms forward, fingers stretched out, upper body exposed, barefoot.

　　 the head is tied in a bun, the photo is very good, and the hair on the head can be seen very clearly.

　　 The bronze statue looks plump, with broad chest and shoulders, rounded body, straight nose, straight eyes, full-fledged expression, smiling teeth, and humble expression, giving Zhang Nan the feeling that he still has a refined and wise temperament.

　　 Regardless of other things, the casting technology alone is the same as the artistic attainments in the image, it is a national treasure!

　　 After reading all the photos carefully, an idea popped up in Zhang Nan's head. Nong Bosheng, who happened to be on one side, said: "It would be nice if this orthodox bronze statue can be returned to China."

Liu Chengjun on the side of 　　 heard it and said, "Go back and tell the Ministry of Culture."

　　 Zhang Nan immediately said: "Don't! If the cultural ministries know about this, don't think they can go home!"

　　 Liu Chengjun understood as soon as he turned his mind: Don’t be funny, the stuff stolen by the Allied Forces of the Eight Nations, or if you don’t come back, people don’t think the birds will kill you!

　　Nongbosheng frowned, "Anan, you have a way."

　　 Zhang Nan smiled, and said in dialect: "Two, one uses the method of the idiot of Waibamiao, but it is not necessary.

　　 If you don’t use the ninth-rate method, you don’t need it. I can change it back with Russian things. "