Chapter 1221 Eastern Zhou Tiger Talisman

On the second floor of Shengjing Antique City, just as the billboard outside said, the atmosphere here is more like an antique city, and the things displayed inside are more comprehensive, including stamp collections, red collections, and ancient coin collections that are rare in other places. There are many, and the area of ​​​​the shops is not small.

Yan Yangyang's current studies mainly focus on the appraisal of porcelain, calligraphy and painting, and bronze ware, supplemented by miscellaneous antiques. She is not too familiar with many niche gadgets or has not invested much time in research.

In addition to the reason for his strange eyes, Li Mo also gained more experience because he traveled around and saw a lot. In fact, in terms of his own talent, he is probably not as good as his disciples.

"Master, can I walk here alone?"

Yan Yangyang suddenly asked in a low voice.

Li Mo saw something in her eyes. She wanted to be independent, and she still had to walk the road ahead.

"Okay, then I'll go sit at the teahouse opposite the Antique City. I'll be back soon after having my hair shaved. I'll just ask him to follow you from a distance. After all, we're not familiar with the place here."

"Okay, thank you, Master."

Li Mo went downstairs and when he walked out of the antique city, he saw Sha Tou dragging his car back.

"Boss, where is Miss Yangyang? You don't want to visit the antique city anymore?"

"On the second floor, you go and follow her, but don't disturb her."

"clear."

The boss just asked him to follow from a distance and let Yangyang act on his own.

There was a faint aroma of tea in the teahouse, and soft music was playing. It was probably almost noon, and there were quite a few guests inside, sitting together in twos and threes and chatting.

"Welcome, sir. Are you alone?"

"one person."

"There's just one booth left by the window over there. I'll take you there."

Although the location is a bit out of the way, it is indeed close to the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Sir, what would you like to order?"

Li Mo looked through the order and said, "A pot of buds, a fruit platter, and some nuts."

"OK, just a second."

The service here is really good. There is a complete tea set for boiling water. You can add boiling water while drinking.

"Sir, you can eat some fruits and nuts first. After the water boils, you can make tea. Please use it slowly."

Li Mo nodded, but after a round of boiling water washed over him, the aroma of tea that rose made him frown slightly.

"waiter."

The previous waitress in her twenties hurriedly came over and asked, "Sir, do you need to add anything else?"

Li Mo pointed at the tea leaves and said: "Tell your boss that this is not Yuqian tea. If he doesn't admit it, I will ask tea experts to come and verify it."

The waitress's face changed slightly, and then she looked at Li Mo nervously.

"Forget it, just change it for me."

"I'm sorry, sir, I'll change it right now."

Li Mo sighed secretly, it was probably the waitress's trick. She thought she could deceive people by using shoddy goods, but she never expected that the three-leaf tooth came from the person in front of her.

The tea she brought had the right taste, and Li Mo stopped worrying about her. While eating fruit, he looked at the traffic outside through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Look, another deputy palace Qibao in Genghis Khan's secret collection has started live broadcast. Today, we are going to take down the gold tablets from the stone wall. It is said that Genghis Khan's great achievements in his life are engraved on them. Even if this matter is left alone It is also a very big project now. How much manpower and material resources would be required to build such a secret treasure at that time, and in the end, it would be impossible for anyone to find its existence.”

Suddenly, there were several young people chatting excitedly next door.

"Genghis Khan is quite awesome, but I think Li Mo is the real awesome one. I heard that there are many professional treasure hunting teams in the world who have been looking for the whereabouts of Genghis Khan's secret treasure, but Li Mo found it alone. This I don’t obey anyone in the world, but I obey the man named Li.”

"Tch, didn't you always say that you dislike him the least? Why are you so admired by him now?"

"Am I envious, jealous, and hateful of him? Come on, just watch the live broadcast quietly."

The room next door finally became quiet, and a slight smile appeared on Li Mo's lips. He sat there for thirty or forty minutes before he saw a text message on his phone. After getting up to pay and leaving the teahouse, Yangyang walked out of the antique city a little discouraged and followed behind with his shaved head.

"Didn't you find anything good?"

Seeing her listless look, Li Mo knew that he had nothing to gain on the second floor of the Antique City. Sure enough, she sighed softly and said, "Master, I have to continue to study hard."

"There will be fewer and fewer treasures in the Antique City in the future, because there are more and more treasures in our Gu Yunxuan Museum, so don't expect to miss anything in the Antique City in the future."

The shaved man on the side also nodded repeatedly. The boss was right. Almost all the good things from all over the country have been gathered in the Gu Yunxuan Museum. Whatever you want is available.

"How about we go back to the hotel after lunch?"

"Master, I have no appetite, so I just want to drink something refreshing."

"Okay, the weather is quite hot. Let's have a glass of lemonade per person." Li Mozhen was about to go to a nearby store to buy some when he saw Yun Li's phone call coming in.

"Brother, are you still in the antique city?"

"Yes, I've finished shopping here and am about to find a place to eat."

"Oh, don't eat out. Everything is ready at home. It will take at most ten minutes to get from the antique city to your home. We are waiting for you."

"No, no, let's just eat something outside."

"Brother, we are waiting for you, see you later."

Shi Yunli hurriedly hung up the phone, not giving him a chance to refuse again.

"Is it my aunt calling?"

Yan Yangyang asked curiously.

"Come on, let's go to your aunt's house for dinner."

When I went to Mr. Zhang's house in the evening, I didn't feel that there were many people in the community. When I entered the community again during the day, I saw many old men and women looking this way curiously. There are more or less one or two following them. Li Mo knew that most of the people who could live in this community were retired cadres. They probably also heard that Li Mo came to the community. They only learned about his legend from the media, and this was the first time they had the opportunity to see him up close.

"Brother, how was your score today?"

Yunli stood at the door and greeted him with a smile.

"There's still something to gain. I'll give you a family heirloom today." Li Mo got out of the car and pinched her face gently, saying dotingly, "I need to eat more meat, I'm already losing weight."

"No way, I'm ten pounds heavier now than before I got married."

"Mr. Li." Three generations of the Zhang family are also here and have not gone to work. It seems that they will not go back to work normally unless Li Mo leaves.

"Mr. Zhang, did you get drunk on that old wine yesterday?"

Mr. Zhang was in good spirits today. He smiled slightly and said, "The more I drink, the more I want to drink. But the doctor told me to only taste it briefly, so it's quite enjoyable to smell the wine. But Xiao Mo, that bottle of wine costs hundreds of thousands." , or even millions, I can’t bear to swallow even a small sip.”

"Haha, what's the point of not having good food in your stomach? Mr. Zhang, if you have the opportunity to be a guest in Kyoto, I invite you to try other brands of old wine." Li Mo helped Mr. Zhang into the living room, shaved his head and Yangyang was moving things, and Zhang Mingzhi and Zhang Mingren, who were discerning, quickly stepped forward to help.

The antiques that Li Mo can get back from the antique city must be good antiques, worth at least hundreds of thousands.

Everyone gathered in the living room, and everyone in the Zhang family looked at those things curiously. Yunli took Yangyang's hand and smiled: "How many treasures did our beauty Yangyang find?"

Yan Yangyang was a little embarrassed as he picked out what he found and put it aside and said: "My ability is limited, so I found a doucai plate imitating Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty in the mid-Qing Dynasty and a gloomy wood tiger carving."

"Gloomy wood, this thing is worth a lot of money." Shi Yunli has naturally heard of what gloomy wood is, so when he saw such a palm-sized gloomy wood tiger carving, he knew it was worth at least a million, "How much did you spend to buy it?" Arrived?"

"Six hundred and six."

"Yangyang, you are so amazing. You have learned your master's true skills."

"Auntie, I'm just scratching the surface. But Master also took action twice. He must have found countless times better than me."

Li Mo just smiled, picked up the square iron box, looked at it carefully and said, "Mr. Zhang, do you have a toolbox at home?"

"Yes, Mingren, you go and get it from the storage room."

Zhang Mingren ran away in a hurry and returned soon with a tool box. After opening it, he said: "Mr. Li, which tool do you want to use?"

Li Mo looked through the tool box and found there was sandpaper, so he had to use it for polishing. He picked a tool and scratched the surface of the square iron box, and then polished it along one edge with sandpaper. After a while, I continued to ask for tools to tap there, and soon the surface of the rusty iron sheet was polished until it was shiny, and a seam was clearly visible.

Then pick a suitable flat-head screwdriver from the tool box, and then slowly pry the gap wide.

"Brother, this is not complete."

"It's just a tin box. It was tightly closed after being covered. Later, I don't know where it was placed and it rusted. As time went by, its true appearance was no longer visible. At first glance, I thought it was just a rusty tin box."

The iron cover was finally pried open, and there was a layer of black substance covering something inside. Li Mo carefully cleaned the surface layer of material, and then took out a tiger from inside.

"Is this a tiger charm?"

Mr. Zhang asked a little surprised.

Although Li Mo had long known that there was a tiger talisman inside, he was very surprised at this moment and said: "This is probably a gold and silver tiger talisman from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. I have found such a tiger talisman in an antique market in Europe." One piece, but the shape and specifications of the tiger talisman are much higher than this tiger talisman. To be clear, the one I bought before was the troop mobilizing tiger talisman used by the emperor, but this one is the general-level troop mobilizing tiger talisman."

"Mr. Li, I would like to take the liberty to ask you, how can you tell the difference between their physical appearance?" The granddaughter of the Zhang family who had never spoken a word couldn't help asking at this time. She should not have graduated from college yet, and she is probably only two years old. About ten years old.

"The tiger talisman I found in the European antique market had wrong ancient gold and silver characters on it. It was the highest grade tiger talisman. As for this one, it is very simple. There are only carved patterns on the surface, and then it is divided into two parts. The right one can The troop deployment was successful."

Li Mo briefly explained the differences between the two tiger charms.

"Then Mr. Li, how much is this tiger charm worth?"

"I don't know. This thing won't go to auction. Normally, it's a national treasure or something like that and should be kept in a museum forever."

There is no doubt that this tiger charm is priceless.

Li Mo handed the tiger talisman to Yang Yang: "Keep it under protection and take it back to Yandu and put it in the Guyunxuan Museum."

"Yes, Master."

Tuk-tuk-tuk——

Someone was knocking on the door, and the Zhang family's nanny quickly stepped forward to open the door. Then she shouted respectfully: "Mr. Yu, Mr. Fu, please come in quickly."

The Zhang family all stood up and looked toward the door. Li Mo knew that the two old men who came must be big bosses, with similar status to Grandpa Qin and the others.

"Knowing that the famous Academician Li is here as a guest, we two old guys couldn't help but come over to join in the fun."

"There were a few others who wanted to come over, but we stopped them because we were afraid that Mr. Zhang wouldn't have a seat at home."

"Everyone comes here and there's a place to sit. At worst, we can sit on the ground with you. It's not like we've never sat before."

The three old men all laughed, and Mr. Zhang then introduced the identities of the two old men to Li Mo.

"Hello, Mr. Yu, hello, Mr. Fu."

"Okay, okay, young people are really amazing. We've heard so much news about you that our ears are almost getting calluses." Mr. Fu sat next to Mr. Zhang and looked at the things piled on the coffee table, "Academician Li, Where did you go shopping for treasure again?"

"Mr. Fu, you should call me Li Mo, otherwise I will be under too much pressure."

Li Mo said pitifully, causing the three old people to laugh.

"Okay, okay, then you guys should show us what good things you found today."

"My disciple Yangyang found two items, and I also found one or two items. They are being sorted out. Yangyang, let Grandpa Fu and Grandpa Yu take a look."

Yan Yangyang placed the three confirmed antiques in a row and took the initiative to introduce them: "Grandpa Fu, Grandpa Yu, this first antique is an imitation of a fighting game from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty in the mid-Qing Dynasty. Color plate, the second one is a tiger carved from dark wood, these two are small items I found. The third one is a gold and silver tiger charm that my master found, probably during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, that is, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period That period.”

Probably because they were both soldiers, they had many plates and were not interested in carving anything. They only had a soft spot for the tiger talisman. The two old men came closer to look at it carefully. They did not hold it with their hands, but they just got closer to take a look at the tiger talisman. true colors.

After a while, Yu Lao said: "They are all national treasures, but I heard that treasures like this are usually stolen from some big tomb."

The antiquities from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods must have come from a large tomb, but no one knows which tomb it is, and it is no longer possible to study its true origin.

"Girl, put these three treasures away. We can just enjoy the pleasure." Mr. Fu looked at the piled wooden boxes and cloth bags again, "Are they filled with calligraphy and paintings?"