"This is a goblet, which is a container used for drinking in ancient China and also used as a ritual vessel. It has a high circle foot, an open mouth, a long body, and a trumpet shape at the mouth and bottom. This bronze shape appeared in the Shang Dynasty and the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and became very rare by the middle Western Zhou Dynasty.”
Li Mo looked at it with strange eyes, and saw a colorful halo coming from its body. This was an authentic bronze from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, an important weapon of the country!
Because bronze wares are important to the country, Li Mo has almost never encountered genuine ones among the people in China, so there are very few opportunities to use them on his mobile phone. However, the United States, far away across the ocean, unexpectedly encountered a well-preserved bronze goblet, an important artifact of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
Another item in the wooden box is also an authentic bronze goblet.
At this time, Sima Haotian and Steven walked in. Li Mo looked back at Sima Haotian and said, "Come here and take a look at these first."
Sima Haotian walked up to him and his eyes were immediately attracted. His expression became obviously serious. He took out something with both hands and looked at it carefully at the light.
"Mr. Qin, this is a bronze goblet that appeared in the Shang Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty. If it is authentic, it will definitely be a first-class national treasure."
"I initially identified it as genuine, but unfortunately I didn't see the inscription on it. Come on, let's move this wooden box away, and I'll take a look at what's in the second wooden box."
Soon the second wooden box was pried open, the protective whiskers were pushed aside, and a bronze vessel was revealed again. Li Mo took it out with both hands and put it on the ground. Sima Haotian took out a flashlight from his bag and looked at it.
"Mr. Qin, there is an inscription here."
Sima Haotian suddenly shouted excitedly. Li Mo looked quickly and saw that there were indeed two inscriptions, but he couldn't identify what the two inscriptions meant.
"Drinking pot, this is a bronze pot." Sima Haotian touched the inscription with his fingers and gave a translation, "I have seen similar bronzes of this kind in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the treasure house of the Bay Island Museum, but those None of them have inscriptions. But this one has its own inscription. If it is authenticated, it will definitely be a national treasure. It’s amazing, it’s amazing.”
This bronze pot is small in shape, with an oval shape, a hanging belly, a circle foot, and a handle on the top of the lid. There are curved ridges on all four sides of the vessel and lid. The edge of the lid and the foot are decorated with symmetrical curved snake patterns. The neck of the vessel is decorated with symmetrical bird patterns. The cover and abdomen are decorated with symmetrical deformed scroll dragon patterns. The whole vessel is decorated with fine details. Thunder pattern decoration.
Li Mo's eyes looked at it and saw that it still emitted a colorful halo. It was definitely a weapon of the Shang and Zhou dynasties that carried inscriptions.
He originally wanted to pry open the remaining four wooden boxes, but turned around and gave up the idea. Instead, he looked directly with his strange eyes. The remaining wooden boxes contained genuine bronzes.
"Re-reinforce the two wooden boxes, Dashan, and have all six wooden boxes moved to the hall outside. Remember, anything can be discarded, but there must be no flaws in these six wooden boxes."
Dashan immediately understood that these bronzes were the supreme national treasure.
"Don't worry, with us here, nothing will go wrong."
Dashan turned around and went out to call for someone. Li Mo took the initiative to pick up the packing box on the ground and said, "Mr. Sima, we have carefully packed the porcelain on the shelf. They are all authentic products from the Qing Dynasty. There are forty-two pieces in total."
Sima Haotian then turned his attention to the porcelain on the shelf. He picked up a piece at random and looked at it: "This is an authentic yellow ground pastel fruit-pattern jar from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Mr. Qin, who was the previous owner of this antique shop?" The origin and how I could have so many genuine antiques in my hands is simply unbelievable and I can’t even imagine it.”
"I suddenly had a bad premonition. In order to avoid long nights and nightmares, we must safely transport all the antiques out overnight today, and then let Gulishi and Steven transfer this antique shop immediately tomorrow."
"You're right, we're not familiar with the place here, so we'd better play it safe."
It wasn't until after seven o'clock in the evening that all the forty-two pieces of porcelain were packed and transported to the hall outside.
"Mr. Qin, the support team from Washington will not arrive until around midnight. When will we ship these things that have been sorted out?"
Dashan put down his cell phone. He had just contacted the people at the embassy again and briefly reported what he had discovered here. The most important thing is that bronze vessels with inscriptions were also found this time. In Li Mo's words, everything else can be discarded, but these vessels that protect the country must be transported back.
Only two of the six wooden boxes were opened, and more valuable bronzes may be found in the remaining four. Li Mo didn't verify them one by one, they just had to obey the order.
"Don't attract too many people's attention when it's quiet in the middle of the night."
"yes."
"Steven, please take the two brothers out to buy some food. If you see Chinese restaurants around, buy more Chinese food. If that doesn't work, just get some fast food and have a midnight snack when you get back to the hotel."
"Okay, I'll go out and buy it now."
At this time, Wuyue carried a protective box to the hall. After putting it down, he came to Li Mo and whispered: "According to your instructions, I asked people to search the bedroom and found a secret door in the bedroom. There was a staircase extending below. There is another space. I didn’t go in to check because I was afraid of unknown dangers.”
That's right. How could such a large antique store with so many authentic antiques be just a simple warehouse? Therefore, there should most likely be a secret room in an unknown place in this antique store.
"Let's go over and take a look."
Dashan and Xingkong stayed in the hall to take charge. May and Thorny accompanied him into the bedroom, where there were three security guards waiting. The secret door is behind a bedside table. Because it is integrated with the bedside background wall, you really can't find it unless you look carefully.
The secret door has been pushed open, and when I shine a flashlight, I can see that there are stairs going down, and there are turns, so I can't see what is going on below.
Li Moyitong looked carefully, and after two minutes he said in a deep voice: "Wuyue and Ci Tou will go down with me, while the others are waiting outside."
"Yes, Mr. Qin."
"I'm in front, you follow."
Li Mo got in first and walked down step by step with a flashlight. After walking about thirteen steps and turning a corner, there was no danger for the time being. The three of them walked another thirteen steps to the basement floor, but what appeared in front of them was a black door.
The thorn head came forward and knocked on it and said: "It is made of pure copper. There should be a control switch to open it. Let's look for it together."
As for the switch, Li Mo had already discovered it through clairvoyance, but he couldn't find it directly, so he followed the other two people to look for it on the wall and on the ground.
"There are many raised shapes on the wall, and the control switches are probably hidden among them. Everyone, please be careful."
Li Mo did not forget to remind them, and then saw Wuyue touching the control switch.
"Mr. Qin, there is something abnormal about this bulge."
Li Mo hurriedly walked over, stretched out his hand and touched it: "You all go back to the stairs."
"Mr. Qin, let me do it. You go back to the stairs." Thorny grabbed Li Mo's arm to prevent him from trying. "When it comes to safety issues here, you must listen to us."
There was no danger. Li Mo nodded hesitantly and retreated to the stairs.
"Trick Tou, be careful."
Thorn took a deep breath, and the raised button began to rotate. With a click, the black pure copper door slowly opened with a harsh friction sound. At the same time, there was a faint light coming from inside. After the heavy door was fully opened, with the help of the weak light, Li Mo saw a passage of about ten meters in front of him.
As soon as he looked at it with his strange eyes, he suddenly became cold, as if he had fallen into a thousand-year-old ice cave. The walls on both sides of the passage are covered with dense round holes. The first half of the road behind the wall is equipped with mechanical crossbows, while the back half of the wall is covered with fully automatic firearms. Once the mechanism is touched, this ten-meter-long passage will become a road to death. , five people can survive by chance.
"Mr. Qin, I'm exploring the way ahead."
Tatou was about to walk in first, but Li Mo grabbed him.
"Don't move. This road is the road of death. Don't be reckless."
"How did you know?"
"You should know from my information that I once lived in exile on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean and survived an undersea earthquake and tsunami. I have a very strange sense of unknown dangers, just like many people in the animal kingdom. Animals have premonitions before an earthquake strikes." Li Mo said in a deep voice, with a solemn expression. "When I saw this passage, I got goosebumps all over my body. It was very ominous. This feeling was just like when I had a premonition of a tsunami under the sea. Cold all over."
