Almighty in the city

"Ladies and gentlemen, please take a look. This is a bronze mirror from the Ming Dynasty. The surface of the mirror is flat and the whole is intact. According to the identification of a professor from the Department of Archaeology of Yandu University, this bronze mirror is likely to be a Ming Dynasty object. , There are not many that can have this kind of bronze mirror"

In the venue, the auctioneer who presided over the auction was agitating his tongue, trying hard to arouse the interest of the gentry who came to participate in the auction.

His voice was also simultaneously transmitted to the VIP room upstairs through the audio equipment on the auction stage.

Bai Yifan looked at the bronze mirror with thorns that had been specially focused by the camera in the giant screen projection.

This bronze mirror, no matter the front or back, is exactly the same as the photo in the auction catalogue, and the bronze mirror with thorns flowers he had seen in the Baifu auction house before, which is on the back of the bronze mirror. There are differences in the details of the thorn flower pattern, but the overall similarity is ninety-nine percent.

At the moment when he saw this bronze mirror with thorns and flowers, Bai Yifan confirmed his previous guess in his heart——

The bronze mirror with thorns flowers being auctioned in the venue downstairs, and the bronze mirror with thorns flowers he saw at the Baifu auction house, are definitely made by the same person, and they are the same series of works. !

Ancient artifacts are not like now, with machines that can be produced on an assembly line.

Therefore, the ancient objects were all hand-made by craftsmen, and each piece naturally carries the characteristics of the craftsman who made it.

Just like calligraphy and painting, the works of every calligrapher and painter naturally have their own characteristics that are different from other similar works, so that those who understand calligraphy and painting can tell at a glance who the character is and who. , Whose brushwork is that painting.

The same goes for the bronze mirror with thorns flowers that Bai Yifan has seen with his own eyes.

Just from the fact that they can’t distinguish the size with the naked eye, it can be concluded that the two bronze mirrors with thorns are definitely from the same mold, and from the thorns pattern on the back of their mirrors, we can further conclude that the two bronze mirrors with thorns The bronze mirrors are all made by one person.

However, Bai Yifan is still unable to determine whether this bronze mirror with thorns came from a certain craftsman in the Ming Dynasty, or is it a "handicraft" brought back from Xizhou when Zheng He went to the West.

The two possibilities, the subsequent guesses and judgments brought out, are two completely different directions.

"Why, Shao Bai is interested in this bronze mirror from the Ming Dynasty?" Ye Xia saw Bai Yifan's gaze, and at this moment, he focused completely on the close-up of the bronze mirror with thorns in the giant screen projection, and couldn't help but smile and ask One sentence.

"Ah—" Bai Yifan nodded, but he did not hide his interest in this bronze mirror with thorns flowers. "I used to see one side exactly the same in an auction house in Jiangcheng. I originally thought about this thing. It's the only one. I didn't expect to see you again today in Ye Shao."

Aaron Capet, who was leaning on a wicker chair and drinking coffee next to him, heard this and was drinking coffee a little stiff, but in an instant he returned to normal, just glanced at the two of them. Then it fell back to the giant screen projection in front of me.

"Oh? Shao Bai has seen other versions of this bronze mirror?" Ye Xia was suddenly interested, even her originally lazy body could not help but sit up straight now.

Bai Yifan's eyebrows suddenly raised, and his eyes finally turned from the giant screen projection to Ye Xia's body: "Other versions-Ye Shao, you use the term, it seems to know some mystery about this kind of bronze mirror. what."

Ye Xia didn't hide it, and nodded openly: "Don't be concealed from Young Master Bai, I really know a little--"

"Oh, then Ye Shaoke has to give us two people popular science." Aaron put down the coffee cup in his hand, and also cast his eyes on Ye Xia.

"Haha, since both of you are interested, let me talk about it--" Ye Xia smiled. "However, I also heard the elders in my family talk about it when I was young. As for the truth or not, I can't guarantee it. "

"Antiquities, it is a very difficult thing to study the origins of things. You can tell the story, Shao Ye, and we have the right to listen to the story." Bai Yifan laughed.

"Okay, then I'll show off in front of the two of you." Ye Xia smiled heartily and started talking immediately.

It turned out that when he was very young, the elders in their family seemed to have seen a record of "treasure" in an ancient book.

It just so happened that in their home at that time, there was a Ming Dynasty bronze mirror with a pattern of thorns engraved on the back mentioned in an ancient book.

So the elders of the "Ye" family began to look for the whereabouts of this thorn flower bronze mirror across the country, across Asia and even the world. After a few years, they finally collected two sides.

However, the "Ye" family suffered a big thief later, and many of the treasures in the family's collection were stolen. Among them, there was a bronze mirror with thorns flowers that the two elders collected after so much hard work. .

Not only that, the elders who brought back the two bronze mirrors with thorns back then died in accidents one after another after the theft at home.

This made the old lady of the "Ye" family feel that the bronze mirror with thorn flowers was "ominous", so he gave up his original plan to collect these bronze mirrors with thorn flowers, and stopped investigating the theft that year. .

The only side of the family bidding on the bronze mirror, because it was something passed down from the ancestors, the old man was reluctant to lose it or give it away, so he found a few high monks and chanted it to "seal" it.

Now that the old lady "Ye" has passed away, Ye Xia thought that leaving this thing at home might be a scourge. This time, he simply took advantage of this "market" auction and sold it for the calculation.

"So, personally, I really don't recommend that you two take this thing." After Ye Xia finished speaking, she shrugged. "Although what happened back then may have been just a coincidence, but this kind of'strange power' It’s better to believable, after all, a gentleman shouldn’t stand under a dangerous wall.”