Chapter 704 703. Evolution, Four Wings (Subscribe)
After the little flying insect got into the thick and thick vase, Li Du was surprised to see that there was something inside!
What really attracted the little flying insects was the thing inside. From its perspective, it was a bronze pot with a straight mouth, a long neck, a long round belly, and a circle of short feet underneath.
There are two folded handles on the neck of the pot, one in the shape of a beak and the other in the shape of an animal's head. There is a ring around the mouth of the pot, the whole body has corrugated patterns, and there are cloud patterns inside the patterns. The overall pattern is complicated.
After the little bug burrowed into the copper pot, it immediately opened its mouth and began to absorb the time energy in it.
Li Du hurriedly stopped him, and then asked about some cultural relics in the shop.
The boss was an old man with glasses, and a pair of walnuts were spinning around in his hand.
He saw that Li Du was not like a lover of cultural relics collectors, so he dealt with it. Li Du asked the price and he would quote a price, and he didn't say much if he didn't ask him.
After going around in a circle, Li Du gave Hans a wink.
The two have been working together for a long time. Seeing Li Du's wink, Hans understood what he meant, so he looked at the vase at the door and asked, "Hello, old man. I think this vase seems very special. It is also made of Chinese porcelain. Antique?"
The boss didn't understand English, so Li Du translated it.
Hearing the translation, he smiled perfunctorily and said, "Yes, it's also an antique. It's a hibiscus vase with two ears printed in the Qing Dynasty. If you like collecting cultural relics from the Qing Dynasty, this bottle is definitely a good choice."
Hans asked, "How much?"
The boss said: "One price, 10,000 yuan."
Li Du frowned and said, "Isn't the price a bit exaggerated, boss? The vase you used to block the door is obviously not a genuine cultural relic. My American friend likes it. Why don't you give me a real price?"
The boss took a sip of tea and said, "Come on, your American friend is really weird. You like this thing? Let me tell you the truth, this vase is really a double-eared hibiscus vase, but it is a copy of the Qing Dynasty style."
Li Du said: "He likes this kind of big and heavy things, maybe he wants to buy them back and put them in the living room as decorations."
The boss thought for a while and said, "Since you want it sincerely, I'll give you a sincere price, two thousand yuan, and this vase costs two thousand yuan!"
Li Du said: "If it's cheaper, it's worth a thousand yuan. If you bring a chair over here, it can block the door, and you can earn a thousand yuan for nothing."
He knew that buying antiques should not be too straightforward, and if he behaved too straightforwardly, it would easily arouse the suspicion of the other party.
Sure enough, the boss was not tired of his bargaining, and finally waved his hand and said, "Okay, I'll sell you for 1,000 yuan, but you have to move out by yourself, and I'm not responsible for manpower."
Li Du nodded and smiled, "Okay, no problem."
I ordered a thousand dollars to the boss, and he put the little flying insects into the vase.
After flying in, the little flying insect frantically absorbed the energy of time without hesitation.
Picking up the heavy vase, he was about to leave. The boss became enthusiastic and asked, "You foreign friend like heavy things, don't you? I also have a Ming Hongwu gilt-bronze dancing crane boy's ear melon-shaped furnace. Do you two want to close your eyes?"
Li Du asked, "How much?"
"I won't hide it from you, this is a serious antique from the Ming Dynasty, and the market price is no less than five million..."
Upon hearing the offer, Li Du resolutely left, and spent five million to really buy a decoration? He is not crazy!
When the little flying insects absorbed time energy from the copper coins and seals, it only took a few seconds.
This time lying in the copper vase, it absorbed it for a minute or two before stopping.
As it stopped, its body gradually shrank a little, and a pair of wings grew out of its back.
In this way, so far, it has changed from four-legged and two-winged to four-legged and four-winged.
Li Du was looking at the copper vase and lost all the energy of time. Its surface has lost its luster and is covered with copper rust from the inside to the outside. However, because it is supported by the outer porcelain vase, the overall preservation is still relatively good.
Walking with him on the road, Hans asked expectantly: "Hey, Li, what's so rare about this vase?"
Li Du shrugged and said, "There is nothing rare about it, I just like the pattern on it, and I want to buy it back for my parents to decorate the house."
Hans looked at him suspiciously and said, "Just because of this reason?"
Li Du handed him the vase and said, "Otherwise, why else? Do you think I missed some cultural relics? To be honest, I want to do the same, but it's too difficult."
This is not an exaggeration. Although the market is huge and there are many things, the smart bosses did not leave people with the opportunity to pick up the leaks.
He continued to browse the shops afterwards, and visited almost all the shops in the antique street, and found nothing else.
Since there was no harvest, he drove away without hesitation.
He once thought that maybe he could use the ability of the little flying insects to pick up antiques and cultural relics in the market to make money.
Now in a peaceful and prosperous age, the prices of antiques and cultural relics continue to rise, even if he can only get one treasure every week, the income will be very considerable.
But tonight's experience in the antique street disappointed him. This road is impassable. There are many Chinese and many smart people. There are especially many smart people in the antique market. As long as an item looks valuable, they will think about it. Do everything possible to ascertain his true identity.
This bronze piece tonight is an exception. For unknown reasons, the previous owner used it as a skeleton to paste clay on the outside and inside to make porcelain.
This kind of opportunity is rare, and there may not be many cultural relics that have been treated in this way in history.
After getting in the car, he was curious about the identity of the bronze vessel, so he searched it online.
However, he searched for keywords about this bronze ware, but did not find a photo of it, but found a similar thing called a bronze owl-head lifting beam pot.
The overall shape of this girder teapot is quite similar to that of the pottery, except that it has an extra lid and less moiré on the outside, and its two girders don’t have animal heads, but have the same bird’s beak.
According to the introduction, this thing is a national first-class protected cultural relic, born in the late Shang Dynasty and early Western Zhou Dynasty, and is a national treasure that cannot be exported.
As for value? There is no specific valuation on it, because there has never been a transaction of this kind of thing in history, and some people even doubt its authenticity.
Judging from the energy of time absorbed by the little flying insects for so long, Li Du was sure that the bronze ware he got was definitely from the same era as the bronze owl-head ewer that was in the National Museum.
Unfortunately, according to his experience, all the time energy in this thing was sucked away by the little flying insects, and it was over...
After confirming the identity of the copperware, he began to wonder about the new abilities brought about by the evolution of the little flying insect.
From biped to biped and wings to quadruped and wings, the three appearance evolutions have brought about three changes in the ability of the little flying insect. He is looking forward to what new abilities the little flying insect will have this time.
Back in the hotel room, he released the little flying insect and began to rack his brains to figure out its new ability.