Chapter 201 A Pile of Junk? (Second Update)

These days, Gray Fang and the others have been playing in the back mountain all day, mainly practicing hunting skills, and often send the prey they caught to Su Ming. Sometimes it is a small wild rabbit, sometimes it is half a mountain mouse, and even wild fruits.

These things are not very useful, but barbecue is still quite good, so Su Ming often eats wild game during this period, and he is a little tired of it.

The piece of copper in front of him is dirty and looks like a rag. It can't be eaten or sold. I don't know where the dogs found it.

Su Ming took the copper block and walked into the water pavilion. He turned on the faucet to rinse off the mud on it. With the help of the light, he saw that the copper block was an arc-shaped thing, rusty, with some unclear patterns on it. It looks like a fragment, maybe a small piece of a vessel.

"Did you pick it up from the back mountain?" Su Ming laughed and asked Wangcai.

Wangcai stuck out his tongue and nodded. Su Ming muttered, "It can't be an antique," and then put the fragment on the table at the side.

How can there be so many antiques in the world? Can a few dogs just run around and pick up antiques? Besides, there are many imitations these days, even modern furniture has a lot of antiques. It is not too rare to find fragments of ancient bronzes in the mountains.

I played games online for a while and fell asleep.

The next morning, just after dawn, I heard the sound of claws scratching on the door panel, creaking one after another. Su Ming rubbed his eyes and got out of bed and opened the door of the waterside pavilion.

"Oh my god, did you move the garbage dump here?"

Su Ming was shocked by the scene in front of him. At the door of the waterside pavilion, there was a pile of broken porcelain bowls and broken bronzes covered with mud. The wolfdog brother was holding a rotten rag in his mouth, standing in front of the pile of rubbish, wagging his tail at Su Ming.

Su Ming felt something was wrong.

There was no one in the back mountain area, where did they get so much garbage that looked like daily necessities? Looking more closely, the 'rag' in the wolfdog brother's mouth seemed to be a piece of clothing.

Su Ming took the rag from the wolfdog brother's mouth, and a rotten smell came to his nose, and it was a bit foul. He covered his nose and shook it twice against the wind. When he unfolded it, it was indeed a piece of clothing that looked like an ancient robe, with strange embroidery patterns on it, but the clothes were seriously decayed and could not be seen at all.

Seeing this thing, Su Ming was a little uneasy. Fortunately, the zoo was not open yet, and there was no ghost near the waterside pavilion. He quickly moved the broken plates and bowls, including the rag, to the waterside pavilion.

If it was just one or two pieces of porcelain, or a few pieces of broken copper, it would not be surprising, but such a large pile of things in front of him was too abnormal. Especially since they were obviously dug out of the soil, it made people more suspicious!

You know, the back mountain is a branch of the Qinling Mountains.

The Qinling Mountains can be said to be one of the birthplaces of the entire Chinese nation and the largest "dragon vein". Since ancient times, many ancient cities have been built around the Qinling Mountains, and many emperors and generals have chosen to build their tombs in the Qinling Mountains.

Even if they are not emperors and generals, there are countless cities and towns built on the mountains, so there are quite a lot of ancient tombs in the Qinling Mountains. Due to the ruggedness and difficulty of travel, most places have not been visited by people until today, and it is not surprising if some mysterious things appear.

The wild man Su Meng was found in the Qinling Mountains.

Su Ming's heart was shocked. Could this group of dogs have dug up someone's grave?

People of his age have read a lot of novels and movies about tomb robbing, and immediately thought of tomb robbing adventures.

However, tomb robbing sounds exciting, but in fact it is not as interesting as described in novels.

After more contact with Zhao Yun, Su Ming knew that the so-called "tomb robbing" is actually a dangerous and boring job. Not only are there huge safety hazards, the key is that it is not as profitable as imagined.

First of all, most of the tombs are buried underground. After hundreds of years, the burial objects inside have long been dilapidated. The appearance of antiques is very important. The same Ming Xuanhua, a complete one, and a damaged or even broken one, have a huge difference in price. For example, the pile of "junk" in front of us is almost all broken pieces. Things of this quality, even if they are antiques, are not worth much money.

Secondly, there are not many valuable things in the lower-grade tombs, but in a few high-end tombs, such as the emperors and generals, some good things may be found, even the so-called "artifact national treasure" level, such as the Simuwu Ding, the Jinlu Yuyi and so on.

But this kind of thing is priced but not marketed, and the true value is hard to estimate, but if you take it secretly to buy, it is difficult to find a buyer, and it may only be a few million in the end, and you have to risk losing your head.

Like the level of the twelve animal heads, an auction can sell for hundreds of millions, and most of them are hyped.

I once heard Zhao Yun tell me an example. A few years ago, a group of professional tomb robbers dug several tombs from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The burial objects were quite rich, with dozens of pieces in total, but they only made about one million or two million. In the end, they were caught and sentenced to more than fifteen years.

Even if Su Ming lives a stable life and does nothing, he can still make tens of millions a year. There is no need for him to resell cultural relics for these millions or tens of millions, risking his life and going against the whole country.

Zhao Yun is the best example. He manages the museum, and it would be convenient for him to resell some national treasure-level cultural relics, but Zhao Yun would never do that. It's a simple truth. The money he can make from legitimate business is far more than the crooked way.

Then again, Su Ming didn't know what the pile of things in front of him were. The so-called antiques were just his guess, maybe they were just a bunch of useless modern imitations.

"Let's go, take me to the place where these things were found."

Su Ming was about to follow the wolfdog brothers to the back mountain. As soon as he went out, the phone rang. It was Zhao Yun who called and said that he had some things about the winery to discuss with him and asked if he had time to go there.

Su Ming thought about it. If there really was an ancient tomb or something, he had no experience at all. It would be too dangerous to go rashly. What's more, he was doing well now. He didn't expect to make money by reselling cultural relics, nor did he need to commit crimes for a few "cultural relics". His biggest hope was to go on an adventure and play with them if he really found an ancient tomb.

So I just took a bag of ‘garbage’ and drove to Zhao Yun’s place, and let him identify it, and then I’ll see what to do next.

PS: There’s more to come!