The significance of antiquities from more than 2,000 years ago is indeed extraordinary. The Chinese civilization is the only one in the world that has never been cut off. It has recorded a history of civilization spanning five thousand years. It is shocking to think about it.
"Mr. Qin, are these two gold and silver animal head bow holders from the Eastern Han Dynasty expensive?"
Li Mo shook his head and said: "It should be said that their historical value is higher. If they are put in a museum, they will never come out again."
Li Mo was indeed surprised to find antiquities from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in such an open-air square. You must know that several of the gold and silver bow-bearing vessels displayed in domestic museums were unearthed from a certain noble tomb, which means that the two pieces I found were also unearthed from a certain tomb. I wonder if all the other antiquities in the tomb were lost to the United States.
But it also shows from another aspect that in the United States, "wealth is hidden among the people." As long as you take the time to look for it, you will definitely find amazing discoveries.
"Steven, do you know any of the more well-known country fairs around Boston?"
"I'm really not familiar with this. If Mr. Qin wants to know about this, I'll go back and collect information from various sources."
"Well, we'll discuss this later when we have time."
Everyone continued to wander around the open-air market. Li Mo stopped from time to time to pick up an item. By the time they finished browsing the row of stalls, they had picked up a total of thirteen items, five of which were Chinese antiques. This kind of harvest is not small.
"Mr. Qin, you see there are antique shops in the shops on both sides of the market. I want to go inside and have a look. Maybe there are better antiques from China in there."
Steven's suggestion was good. Li Mo nodded and walked towards the antique store first. There were several antique shops along the street, and Li Mo randomly chose one and walked in. The shop area is very large, and it is mainly divided into two areas. One is the weapons area, which displays a variety of weapons, including swords, clubs, spears, bows and arrows from China, as well as knight armor, axes, and broadswords from the European Middle Ages. Wait, there’s a dazzling array of things to offer.
The other area should be a multi-functional area, which contains jewelry, jades, handicrafts, Chinese calligraphy and painting, European and American oil paintings and sculptures, etc. The shop assistants here are also very good, wearing black business suits and white gloves. The female shop assistants have their hair tied up, and the male shop assistants have their hair combed meticulously.
At this time, there are many customers shopping and negotiating in the store, and there are also dedicated clerks who make fresh cups of coffee for customers. Business looks good.
I saw several more people entering the store, and one of them, a young blonde beauty, came over with a smile. Steven's eyes lit up, and he took the initiative to communicate with her briefly. The beautiful clerk made an invitation gesture to Li Mo.
"What did you say to him?"
"Mr. Qin, I just told her that you are very rich." Steven answered honestly. Rich people in the United States have many intangible privileges, so when the clerk heard that Li Mo was a rich man from the Eastern country, his attitude was unusual. enthusiasm.
Li Mo didn't have any unpleasant thoughts. Nine out of ten people who came to the antique store were rich. He looked at the multi-functional area and saw a truss in a corner filled with various porcelain items.
"Can I see the plum vase?"
Li Mo pointed to a blue and white plum vase on the truss. Judging from the appearance, the craftsmanship was quite exquisite and beautiful, and it was not the kind of thing that was played casually.
The blonde beauty carefully took off the blue and white plum vase and placed it gently on the counter, then motioned to Li Mo to take a look.
The things are really well made and are among the best among high imitations.
Li Mo looked at the bottom and almost couldn't help laughing. There was a clear four-character pattern at the bottom, written in large seal script with ancient rhyme and xuan system. I didn’t expect that the master was so powerful. Even the high-imitation porcelain he personally customized has been shipped across the ocean to the United States.
"Thank you." Li Mo smiled and nodded towards the tall young woman. He also started to look at them one by one. Yi Tong scanned them and found that the more than 20 ancient Yunxuan pieces on the trusses were all modern high imitations. After spending more than ten minutes shopping around, I was really disappointed. There was no good stuff in this antique store.
He was about to leave and go to the antique store next door to have another look. At this time, someone pushed the door open and came in. They were a man and a woman in their forties. The man looked a little sloppy in his clothes, and the woman didn't have a very good appearance, just like a homeless person on the street.
Li Mo glanced at them and saw the man holding a rectangular box in his hands, which seemed to contain swords and the like. I thought they were going to the weapons area, but they went directly to the jade jewelry counter.
The two of them seemed to be in bad condition, but the store clerk still received them warmly and asked them if they needed help.
Steven walked to Li Mo and whispered: "The man said that he found the wooden box in his grandfather's old house. There were some things that looked like antiques in it. He wanted to ask the appraisal experts here to help. See what it is?”
After hearing what he said, Li Mo was not in a hurry to leave. He was curious to see what was in the rectangular wooden box.
When I got closer and took a look, I suddenly felt uneasy.
He saw that there were more than a dozen pieces of jade placed in the wooden box. Not all of them were jade. Two of them looked like they were carved from a certain kind of stone. One was shaped like a finger ring, and the other was shaped like a ring. It is a stone knife, and the other thirteen pieces are all genuine jade articles. Basically, every jade article has an obvious clear color. This shows that the dozen or so pieces of jade are not handed down from ancestors, but dug out of the ground.
The strange boy looked around and saw that the body carved from two stones actually emitted a halo of black and white. They represented the ancient artifacts of the Neolithic Age. Looking at the next dozen or so items, Li Mo's face is terrifyingly gloomy. Some of them emit a purple-gold halo, some emit a golden halo, some have a red halo, and some have a blue halo.
In other words, the fifteen pieces of jades placed in this wooden box are from the Neolithic Period, the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Tang Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty. Damn it, what exactly does the grandfather's family of this middle-aged man and woman do? How could they collect so many jade articles over such a long time span?
Just as Li Mo was about to withdraw his gaze from the strange boy, he suddenly discovered that the rectangular wooden box had two levels of space. There were fifteen pieces of ancient jade on the upper level, and there were things on the lower level.
His eyes had seen through it, and it was in the shape of a knife.
Suddenly, a gray halo shot out from the blade, and then turned into a halo of light, spreading layer by layer into the void space, where a five-clawed dragon was swimming. He had seen this phenomenon in the Nine Dragon Sword, the first sacred sword to control the country in the Qing Dynasty, and the Baihong Sword, the first sacred weapon to control the country in the Qing Dynasty. Although the scene in front of me is slightly weaker than them in terms of momentum, there is no doubt that the knife hidden under the wooden box is absolutely extraordinary.
No matter what, get them back.
