Soon, a literary man with long hair followed Xiaojun with a camera. He knew who the young man in front of him was, so he said respectfully: "Professor Li, if you have anything to do, you can directly give me instructions."
"Thank you for your hard work. You first take pictures of the general environment inside, including all corners. Then I will open a few boxes to see what kind of antiques are inside."
"good."
After everyone was filming, Li Mo and Brown Bear lifted a wooden box from the welded steel frame. Under the camera lens, Li Mo used a tool to pry open the cover. The inside was covered with whiskers for protection.
Sima Haotian reached out and gently opened it, revealing a bronze vessel.
"Let's lift it out and take a closer look."
This is a square tripod.
The entire body of the tripod is covered with green rust. It is about 16 centimeters high and 15 centimeters wide. The tripod is rectangular, with square lips, double erect ears, straight walls, and four pillars. It has a flat cover with a ring-shaped button on it. The lower part of the mouth is decorated with animal mask patterns, the abdomen has three rows of nipple patterns arranged in a 'concave' shape, and the feet are decorated with triangular cloud patterns.
"Professor Li, there are inscriptions on this cover and the vessel."
Li Mo looked at it and saw that the cover and the vessel each had two lines of six-character inscriptions, which read: The sun reports the work, and the mother Xin Zun.
"The inscription means that it was a sacrificial vessel made by Rigao for his mother. Judging from the shape and surface cloud patterns, it should be a bronze vessel from the late Shang Dynasty."
"In the late Shang and Zhou dynasties, he was able to make sacrificial vessels for his mother. This Rigao might have been a powerful nobleman in the local area at that time. I don't know if there are other bronze vessels produced besides this Rigao tripod."
"Professor Li, let's open another one and have a look."
"Okay." Li Mo put the Rigao Fangding back into the box, then glanced at the steel frame and pointed to a larger wooden box at the bottom.
"I'll help you." Sima Hao quickly stepped forward to help carry it.
"No, you can't move it."
While talking, Li Mo had already moved the box to the camera lens alone.
"How heavy could this be?"
Sima Haotian thought he was joking, so he stepped forward to try it if he didn't believe in evil. But when he exerted force with his hands, his face suddenly showed embarrassment. It took me all my strength to lift the wooden box off the ground, and quickly put it down again.
"At least a hundred and dozens of kilograms."
Brown Bear opened the lid of the box again, Li Mo opened Mushu, and a Sanyang Zun appeared in front of everyone.
This second bronze vessel is more dignified and gorgeous in shape and exquisitely made than the Rigao Fang Ding. The two are not at the same level in terms of production technology.
"Professor Li, please take it out and let me take a closer look."
This Sanyang Zun is about 65 centimeters high and 54 centimeters in diameter. From the appearance, the statue has a large mouth and wide shoulders, thick lips folded outward, and three convex string patterns on the thin neck. The shoulders are decorated with three high-relief curled-horned sheep heads at equal distances, with eye-shaped patterns on the ground between them.
The abdomen is fatter and the decoration is more gorgeous. There are three groups of animal face patterns on the patterned ground. The most expressive eyes on the animal face are highlighted in an exaggerated way, adding to the solemn and solemn atmosphere. The foot of the circle is high, with two convex string patterns on the top and three larger circular holes at equal distances in the middle. This is one of the typical features of Shang Dynasty bronzes. The lower part of the foot is decorated with six groups of animals on the patterned ground. Facial lines.
The pattern layout of the whole vessel is intricate, complex but not chaotic.
This three-goat statue was cast twice. The body of the statue was cast first, and holes were reserved at corresponding positions on the shoulders. Then a pottery mold was placed on the holes to cast the sheep's head. This reflects the wisdom and skills of our ancestors three thousand years ago, and shows that the smelting and casting technology at that time had reached a very high level.
Judging from the large mouth, wide shoulders, low body, high ring feet and three large holes on the ring feet, intricate patterns, gorgeous and solemn shape, etc., this statue should belong to the late Shang Dynasty, and its era is equivalent to Around the thirteenth century BC.
"There is a similar three-goat statue in the National Palace Museum in Wandao, but it is much smaller than this one."
"There is also a similar Sanyang Zun in the National Palace Museum in Kyoto, which is also smaller than the one in front of you. Professor Sima, it seems that we have encountered the largest Sanyang Zun ever unearthed."
"It's such a blessing for me, so should we continue to unpack it?"
Li Mo turned around and looked at the boxes full of boxes placed on the steel frame in the container. He thought for a moment and said, "That's it for tonight. I'll go ask my superiors for help. After all, these are stolen goods and they will all be used as evidence in the future."
"OK."
Li Mo walked out of the container and saw the soldiers evacuating one after another, followed by the armed police and special police sent by the Jinmen government to board the ship.
"Brown Bear, use your special status to get rid of a team of armed police and come here to guard this place."
"Understood, boss."
The brown bear's special identity worked very well. Soon six armed policemen came over with guns, saluted Li Mo first, and then guarded the main entrance and the slit on the side of the container.
It was already past midnight when Li Mo and the others returned to the hotel. At this time, many people must have been woken up from their sleep, and it must be difficult for many people to fall back asleep.
Li Mo dialed Qin Yali's number and was quickly connected.
"Xiao Mo, how is the situation at the scene?"
"Hey, what a sin." Li Mo sighed.
"what happened?"
"You will know tomorrow, aunt. You can organize a group of capable experts to come to Tianjin Port. They are all in a container. There will be many media coming to interview at the scene. Do you want to bring two people with you? After all, you He is the one directly responsible for the management of antique cultural relics. You know how to say certain things and whether you can say them."
"Okay, don't worry, I'll call you now."
Qin Yali hung up the phone, but no one in the Jia family took a break.
"Mom, what exactly is brother-in-law doing that makes you wait until now?"
"Your brother-in-law discovered a container of smuggled cultural relics on a commercial ship in Jinmen Port. There may be other more serious things happening." Qin Yali thought of something, "Siyuan, go online and see if there is any news. come out?"
"I'm so sleepy that I'm going to watch it now."
Jia Siyuan opened her phone and looked through it a few times, then jumped up from the sofa in shock: "Mom, something really big has happened. The video leaked on the Internet is not clear enough, but you can still see dozens of ambulances." They arrived one after another, including people from the army, local police, and women who were lifted off the merchant ship one after another. They all seemed to be injured and unconscious."
"Your grandfather didn't say a word to me about such a big matter. It seems that the problem behind it is too big." Qin Yali thought for a moment, "You all go to bed. I'll make a few calls."
Li Mo didn't wake up naturally, but was awakened by a knock on the door. He looked at the time and saw that it was only after six o'clock in the morning. What could be urgent at this time.
Open the door and let the brown bear in.
"The news given to me by the deputy director general said that several major departments in Kyoto have been alarmed, and that different delegations will come over at dawn to learn about the situation. If you don't want to come forward to deal with it, why don't you find someone to deal with it in advance?"
Li Mo breathed a sigh of relief and stretched his body: "I thought it was such a big deal. You can just let the Jinmen officials deal with it. We were invited by the officials to come here to work. What can we know? You can contact us. I'll sleep for another half hour, I'm tired every day."
"Yes, boss."
Li Mo jumped back on the bed and continued his sleep plan.
I had a high fever for the past five days. I couldn't bear it anymore and went to the hospital. I waited in line for about four hours. The doctor said that you caught a cold and had a fever. So friends, if someone is exposed to the sun, they must pay attention to keep warm, stay out of the wind, not catch cold, drink more boiled water, and get more sleep.
I will make up for what I owed yesterday. I will definitely not be able to do it in the next few days.
(End of chapter)
