It's a new day, the sun is shining brightly outside, shining through the gaps in the curtains. Qin Sirui curled up in Li Mo's arms, her black hair covering her flawless face.
Li Mo wanted to get up quietly, but as soon as he moved his arm, Sirui snorted.
"Lie down a little longer and let me hug you."
Qin Sirui immediately turned over like an octopus and was about to lie on top of him. Suddenly her hand touched something and she rolled up the quilt and rolled to the side.
"Bad guy, after all the hard work last night, why are you still... I haven't calmed down yet."
Li Mo chuckled, then shook his arm and said, "This means that your husband's energy and blood are strong and his body is in great shape. If you sleep a little longer, I'm going to get up and go to the treasure house."
"Well, I'll squint a little longer."
Li Mo got up quickly, dressed and washed himself. Qin Sirui stuck out his head from the quilt and looked at his leaving figure, stuck out his tongue, wrapped himself in quilt and fell asleep again.
"Mr. Li, will you come back for lunch?"
"If you don't come back, make me a braised fish head tonight."
"Okay."
"Uncle Wang, where are my mother and two children?"
"The weather is nice. Let's go out and bask in the sun to promote calcium absorption."
"Okay, keep Sirui's breakfast warm until she wakes up and eat it, and stew some bird's nest for her."
"Okay, I'll prepare now."
By the time Li Mo arrived at Guyunxuan Headquarters, everyone else had already arrived. The museum is closed today, and the entrance to the Xiang Yu Treasure Museum, the Overlord of Western Chu, is already lined up with tourists waiting to enter.
"Boss, the preparations are all done and I'm waiting for you. In order to facilitate the live broadcast and live viewing, I have people move five boxes out of the underground treasure house first."
The brown bear was waiting for him at the door.
"Have officials sent a representative?"
"Three people came from the Cultural Affairs Bureau."
"Okay, let's enter."
Li Mo and Brown Bear took the elevator to the third floor. There was a huge conference room above, and the original conference table had been dismantled.
"Hello, Associate Professor Li."
"Hello Mr. Li."
"Hi boss."
Those who participated in the treasure opening include experts from Beijing University, experts from Tsingta University, experts from other museums, official representatives, and friends watching.
Li Mo saw Sima Haotian was there and said with a smile, "Everything goes well. We are all friends. If you need help, just ask."
"Thank you for everything you have done for me. Now I have officially joined the History Department of Renmin University, but the courses will not be officially arranged until the new semester. Now I mainly do theoretical research."
"We will talk about other things later. You will be my assistant later."
"I'm just waiting for your words."
There are five iron boxes placed in the middle of the hall. Due to the humidity in the cave, the surface is covered with rust. The two live broadcast cameras are aimed at the middle, just avoiding the group of people watching on the scene.
The tool used by Brown Bear is a hydraulic shear, which comes in various sizes. He first cuts off a few fixed iron straps on the outside, and then carefully breaks open the corners of the alley, using this as a breakthrough to slowly cut off the top surface.
A piece of iron sheet on the top was put aside, and there was a layer of black stuff covering the top. Sima Haotian picked up a piece and looked at it and said, "This is cotton."
Li Mo put on his gloves and peeled off a layer of black cotton, revealing a pair of long ivory tusks underneath. ….
Nowadays, there are many ivory products, but they have been banned from being sold in the market. Li Mo also has ivory jewelry and antiques in his hands. This is the first time he has encountered such complete ivory.
"This ivory is white in color, with a fine texture and fine cross-section texture. Look at the surface of this ivory. It has a warm tone in the milky white color. It has an extremely soft luster and is of very high quality. It is undoubtedly an ivory from Africa."
Judging from the size, it is more than 80 centimeters long. It is estimated that it was once placed in the Old Summer Palace as a decoration. It doesn't matter when it was picked from the elephant, after all, it is now a banned item.
"A pair of clear ivory."
The person taking notes next to him was Zheng Bin, who was busy registering the list into an online system.
Sima Haotian placed a pair of white ivory tusks in another customized box, protected them, and wrote labels on them.
There is a wooden board pressed under the ivory, and when the wooden board is taken out, it is protected by a layer of dark cotton.
After Li Mo opened it, there were actually two pairs of complete rhinoceros horns placed at the bottom.
The rhinoceros horn is broad conical in shape, tapering upward from the bottom, slightly flattened at the top, and bluntly rounded at the top, slightly curved. The horn is about thirty-five centimeters long, with a black surface and a lighter gray-brown lower part.
"Two pairs of Asian rhino horns."
The first iron box contained such precious African ivory and Asian rhino horns, which made everyone present very enthusiastic.
Especially the waves of gifts in the live broadcast room filled the screen. Treasured antiques like this are probably only suitable for the grand occasion of the Old Summer Palace.
The staff took away the first tin box and then moved the second box in front of the camera. Under the operation of the brown bear, the contents inside were quickly revealed. The items were large and small. They were wrapped layer by layer with cotton, and then wrapped and fixed with thread.
Li Mo first took out a slightly larger object from it and carefully cut it open with scissors to reveal its true appearance.
An antique that looked like a round box. Li Mo's first reaction was that it couldn't be a box used by some concubine for decoration, right? But I immediately rejected this idea, because historically, the boxes used to hold jewelry generally used precious woods, such as golden nanmu, Canaan wood, small leaf rosewood, Hainan yellow rosewood, etc.
The round box in front of you is about fifteen centimeters high and about thirty-two centimeters in diameter. It is completely gold-plated and inlaid with turquoise. The upper rock mouth is inlaid with red coral beads. You can tell at a glance that it is extremely precious and not an ordinary antique.
Li Mo glanced at it, and the round box emitted a dark gray halo, and then the world in front of him was filled with apertures. This was an antique from the early Qing Dynasty.
"Professor Sima, come and take a look. I can't identify what kind of antique it is at the moment."
Sima Haotian took it in his hand and looked at it carefully and said, "I have seen records about this object in an old inventory of the Bay Island Museum. This should be a gold-plated coral turquoise mandala."
"Mandala?" When Li Mo heard the word, descriptions about it came to mind, "This is a magical instrument used by Tibetan Buddhism to symbolize the structure of the universe!"
"Yes, if I remember correctly, the mandala in our hands was a gift from Lama V to Emperor Shunzhi in the ninth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty. This shows the close political and religious ties between the Qing Dynasty and XZ at that time. .”
"Professor Sima, please tell us the details about this mandala. Many netizens are very interested in comparing it."
An anchor smiled and asked.
Sima Haotian glanced at Li Mo, who also nodded, then he held the mandala and said to the camera: "The mandala plate is a common utensil in XZ, representing the multiple levels of the world. Various grains and grains are placed on the plate. Tribute."
"Above the mandala, the large round flower decoration in the center represents the steps of Mount Sumeru, the axis of the world. It is surrounded by the four continents of Brahmanism. Each continent is composed of three small islands. The sheep's horn shape in the west is the Dongsheng Shenzhou, and the south side is in the shape of a sheep's horn. Zhanbuzhou is usually rectangular in shape, Xiniuhuozhou in the east is round, and Beikuluzhou in the south is square.”
"The islands are represented by carefully inlaid turquoises, with four more leaf-shaped turquoises interspersed for purely decorative purposes. The mandala is richly decorated with foliage and features the eight auspicious signs of Tibetan Buddhism, namely the umbrella , goldfish, vase, lotus, right-handed conch, auspicious knot, victory banner and golden wheel. In addition, pure Chinese patterns are added, such as mirrors, tribute bowls and three-legged stoves."
Sima Haotian spoke as slowly as possible so that everyone could hear clearly.
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