Chapter 1331: Human Treasure

Strictly speaking, this is not a drawer. After opening it, it is simply a big bucket, with a depth of more than 80 centimeters.

In this drawer, there are a lot of wooden sticks placed diagonally, some high, some short, and different lengths. The thickness is very close, basically about seven or eight centimeters in diameter.

Shi Lei took out one at random and took a look. He found that it was not a stick, but a barrel.

The wood was golden yellow with lines on it. Shi Lei, who already had a good understanding of wood, could tell at a glance that it was golden nan wood.

The reason why it is called a barrel, not a stick, is because there is an obvious interface about one-third of the way through the thing in Shi Lei's hand.

Shi Lei pulled out the upper part, but it didn't move at all. Then Shi Lei tried to turn it, and soon the upper part of the tubular object was rotated down.

Inside, there was a scroll. Shi Lei suppressed his excitement and took out the scroll.

By the light of the flashlight, Shi Lei saw that the color of the scroll was slightly yellowish. He almost immediately pulled out the identification card from his mind and used it once. Then, he saw the scroll in his hand suddenly blooming with brilliance.

A ball of light surrounded the scroll. Even before it was unfolded, Shi Lei could already tell that the scroll was an object from the Tang Dynasty, and its value, judging from the intensity of the light, was at least hundreds of millions of soft sister coins. .

After all, it was too dark here and Shi Lei couldn't take a closer look.

Moreover, these scrolls are too old. If they are hurriedly unfolded in such a place, incomplete preservation will cause certain damage to themselves.

So Shi Lei stuffed the scroll back into the golden nanmu wooden tube without hesitation. He looked at the wooden tubes and found that the number was indeed twenty-three. This could almost confirm that this was the target of the mission released by the black card. .

Shi Lei suppressed his inner excitement and tried to pick up the wooden tubes, but thinking that there was still a very troublesome journey ahead, he hesitated, bowed to the altar again, and said: "Senior, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I need to bring this bucket up. I will return it after I put down the calligraphy and paintings in it. Please don’t blame me.”

Having said that, Shi Lei pulled out all the drawers. After all, this was considered part of the coffin. It was normal for Shi Lei to apologize to the two tablets.

Returning the way he came, Shi Lei didn't hesitate at all.

Carrying the huge drawer, Shi Lei returned to the ground. Then, he immediately entered the study room, cleared the 1.4 by 2.3 meter desk, and then took out all the painting tubes in the drawer.

The sky was getting dark, and the natural golden threads of the golden nanmu wood were not so dazzling, but Shi Lei couldn't care about it. He impatiently took out a wooden painting tube and took out the scroll inside.

Carefully laying the scroll flat on the table, Shi Lei put on a pair of white cotton gloves very carefully, and then slowly spread the scroll.

The effectiveness of the appraisal card had not yet passed. Shi Lei took a quick look and saw that this painting was indeed the best of the best. It was another painting by Wu Daozi, with a Buddha statue on it, but its appearance was closer to that of a human being.

Shi Lei knew that this was because many of Wu Daozi's Buddhist statues were actually based on the appearance of the emperor at that time, or were based on the portraits of the late emperors at that time. This could be regarded as an alternative way of flattering.

After carefully putting away the painting, Shi Lei returned it to the painting tube as it was.

He took a second painting tube and placed the scroll inside on the desk.

The light on the scroll is extremely dense, which means that the painting in this scroll is extremely valuable, even more than Wu Daozi's painting.

Shi Lei was slightly shocked. Whose work is this? It can actually exceed the price of Wu Daozi's paintings?

But the colors on the scroll showed that this work was from the Two Jin Dynasty. Shi Lei was slightly startled, and then realized, the Two Jin Dynasty? Is this a work by Wang Xizhi?

Perhaps only Wang Xizhi's works can surpass Wu Daozi's paintings in value.

Shi Lei slowly unfolded the scroll with excitement.

Sure enough, this is not a painting, but a piece of calligraphy. The flowing calligraphy is simply pleasing to the eye.

Even without looking at the signature, Shi Lei knew that this calligraphy was definitely the work of Wang Xizhi, the sage of calligraphy.

After unfolding everything, Shi Lei was extremely excited when he saw that the signature in the lower right corner was indeed Wang Xizhi.

The third painting, Wang Xianzhi, although somewhat inferior to his father, is definitely a national treasure.

The fourth painting is Leonardo da Vinci.

The fifth painting, Van Gogh.

The sixth painting is Mi Fu.

The seventh picture...

The eighth picture...

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Shi Lei was already numb. These works, which could be called treasures in history, now all appeared in front of his eyes. Moreover, they are all 100% authentic, which is simply jaw-dropping.

The work that was thought to have been lost to the world unexpectedly came to light, and Shi Lei almost fell in admiration for Heika. If there were no black cards, these calligraphy and paintings would really be buried underground. Even though Mr. Zheng told Shi Lei that there were antiques collected by his ancestors hidden in the house, who would have thought that these antiques would be of such value?

This is no longer something that can be measured by money, but is directly related to the history of human art. This represents a high position from the artistic perspective in human history.

It took Shi Lei a long time to calm down. Even though he had received the list of calligraphy and paintings from Hei Ka a long time ago, a list was definitely not as shocking as the twenty-three works in front of him.

In fact, Shi Lei was not a person who was too keen on art. Compared with Crawford's enthusiasm for calligraphy and painting, Shi Lei was actually a layman who was well versed in the art. He always held the simplest price measurement method for these artworks.

But today, as his understanding of calligraphy and painting art can be regarded as the most profound person on this earth, he was indeed shocked by the pearls at the top of these art halls, which were almost the culmination of human art.

Pouring himself a glass of wine, Shi Lei forced himself to suppress his excitement.

He did not forget to return the drawer, then he exited the secret room, returned to the ground, went down to the well again, and restored the brick to its original state.

As the brick was put back to the distance, there was a lot of movement in the well again. Shi Lei hurried back to the ground. He saw that the floor tile that had sunk into the ground beside the well was slowly restored to its original state.

Except for some gaps, it is hard to tell that this brick can be moved.

But Shi Lei knew that if he used external force to destroy this brick, it would definitely cause the collapse of the entire secret room. The ancestors of the Zheng family would rather their coffins and bodies be destroyed than allow these things to fall into the hands of outsiders.

He tried to press down the brick, but the brick did not move at all. This fully shows that even if Shi Lei knew that this brick was the mechanism, he could not open the secret room smoothly.

There must be other tricks to activate the mechanism.

Shi Lei bypassed these tricks and found a direct way to trigger the mechanism from the middle of the mechanism, and finally found the location of the secret room.

After studying around the well platform for a long time, Shi Lei roughly judged that the floor tiles around the well platform had a name. Otherwise, the well platform was usually carved from a whole piece of rock, and rarely made into floor tiles, but this well platform was paved with a circle of floor tiles.

Shi Lei estimated that these tiles needed to be stepped on in a certain order to trigger the mechanism under the well platform, so that the brick would sink into the ground, completely opening the mechanism in the well and thus opening the secret room under the pillar.

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