Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Zheng Xueming was silent and glanced at Lin Ran with the corner of his eyes.

The corners of Lin Ran's mouth slightly curved under his beard, obviously sneering.

Just when Zheng Xueming felt embarrassed, Lin Ran said: "Mr. Ge, can you let me see your rap pottery figurines?"

"This is a pottery figurine from the Eastern Han Dynasty. Please be careful with it. If it is damaged, it is not a matter of money." Gray was obviously reluctant, but for Zheng Xueming's sake, it was difficult to refuse.

"Yes." Lin Ran nodded solemnly and replied, putting on his gloves and taking the pottery figurine from his hand.

Picking up the rap pottery figurine again, Lin Ran felt a little heavy.

By chance, the cultural relics that originally belonged to Lin Ran were snatched away by Gray.

But now is not the best time to exchange cultural relics, because everyone is looking directly at Lin Ran, and there is no way to do it in public.

At this time, Boss Ma looked at Lin Ran with a smile on his face and asked, "Master Xiang, what do you think of these pottery figurines?"

When he mentioned this topic, others looked over with smiles.

After all, Lin Ran came on behalf of Zheng Xueming in a sense, and his appraisal results usually also meant Tian Lexing's attitude.

Zheng Xueming was silent. He believed in Lin Ran when it came to appreciation.

But after learning about Lin Ran's plan, I didn't know how he would respond, so I had to wait and watch.

Lin Ran smiled and said: "The master chef just described it very clearly. Xiang agrees with him. This is indeed an authentic Eastern Han Dynasty pottery figurine."

I thought he had unique insights, but Boss Ma said disdainfully: "Old Zheng, I thought the masters in the antique shop would be better than our pawn shop, but that's it?"

He wanted to make Zheng Xueming look bad, but he was tricked: "Boss Ma is being humble. In terms of business level, pawn shops need to squeeze the maximum value of goods, which is naturally different from our antique stores for collectors."

"Hahaha, Lao Zheng is still so sharp-tongued. No wonder he can make Tianlexing so popular. Even Jiang Hua is no match for you."

"Excuse me. Brother Jiang is just more focused on his personal collection and doesn't care so much about business."

People around him nodded after hearing Zheng Xueming's explanation. Boss Ma wanted to embarrass Zheng Xueming, but he couldn't get off the stage and had to focus on Lin Ran again.

"Master, if you have finished appreciating it, why not return the pottery figurines to Mr. Ge? Or do you want to stuff the pottery figurines into your backpack and take them away secretly while no one is paying attention?"

Lin Ran was suddenly startled and quickly explained: "I misunderstood. The bag is full of books. I usually carry it with me for easy reference. There is no space for pottery figurines."

Fortunately, others didn't think so, so Lin Ran breathed a sigh of relief.

No, you have to give this guy some looks.

He handed the pottery figurine to the next borrower and said: "The master has already explained the details. Here, I will add some relevant background."

"This pottery figurine was unearthed in Tianhui Mountain near Chengdu. Before the cultural relics were unearthed, the tomb robbers had swept away all the metal instruments and jade objects, leaving only these pottery."

"The tomb robbers couldn't help but steal the cultural relics in the tomb, and even destroyed the positions of the burial vessels inside and trampled some pottery."

"The rapping pottery figurines are actually a group of ten pottery figurines composed of a dancing girl, playing the qin, listening to the qin, a cook, a vase-holder, a mirror-holder, a sitting girl, a shovel-holder, a fan and a rapping figurine. It is possible that It means that the owner of the tomb was a person who loved to have fun during his lifetime, and he would continue this hobby after his death, so he specially ordered this batch of pottery figurines."

After Lin Ran finished adding, the others actually applauded.

"Well, you are worthy of being a master of Tianlexing. He even knows the stories of the unearthed cultural relics. This is called professional." Gray also rarely showed approval.

It was not because he admired Lin Ran, but because he had written down the story so that he could brag to others more easily in the future.

Although Boss Ma was also applauding, he always felt that his expression was a bit playful.

The master behind him glanced at Lin Ran just now, and Lin Ran thought he must have seen it right.

That is a kind of cold meaning.

Is there a conflict between Zheng Xueming and Boss Ma?They were chatting and laughing at the door, but inside they were tit for tat.

Fortunately, the others didn't take it seriously, and seemed to be used to them exposing each other's shortcomings. It was like an upper-class gathering, with internal undercurrents surging.

After finishing the appreciation of the pottery figurines, Gray put the pottery figurines back into the glass cabinet and led everyone to continue to see other cultural relics.

His other collections are not as good as Zheng Xueming's. Even the Tang Sancai is scarce in quantity. Others only superficially agree with it, showing a lack of interest.

But Gray's goal has been achieved. He just wants everyone to see his newly purchased rap pottery figurine.

Afterwards, everyone is invited to dine at home.

His home decoration style is quite European and American. He dines in the large kitchen and talks about all kinds of high-end topics. He even talks about a special auction held in Paris.

"Do you know? What is the most eye-catching item in this auction?" Gray looked particularly proud because he attended the meeting.

Seeing that the others couldn't talk to each other, he smiled mysteriously: "It's the rabbit head!"

Everyone was startled, the rabbit head bronze statue!

It was one of the twelve bronze statues in the Old Summer Palace that were snatched away by foreign invaders.

As a national treasure and cultural relic of China, it is simply a shame to be auctioned in the distant land of Europe.

Gray didn't care, but said enviously: "Those white people are really rich, do you know? In the end, the rabbit head was bought by a businessman named Radisson for [-] euros, which was converted into Huaxia coins, that’s one hundred thousand!”

"Radison?"

Although the possibility of a foreigner having the same name was very high, the first thing Lin Ran thought of was the British businessman who asked him to steal cultural relics from the museum and buy them at a high price.

Zheng Xueming sighed and said, "It would be great if we also have their cultural relics in our hands. We can exchange them for cultural relics."

Gray spread his hands: "Old Zheng, you are too idealistic. These cultural relics fall into the hands of foreigners. As for us, if we have money, we can buy them back. If we don't have money, we can just watch the show."

There was also a sense of helplessness in his words. In fact, if he stayed in China, he would have been in danger of being destroyed more than ten years ago.

After all, in ancient times, a large part of the burial objects and daily necessities were closely connected with ghosts, gods and Buddhist ideas. In order to completely break people's feudal ideas, a round of destruction operations was carried out to destroy the past vessels.

Only a small part of the hidden cultural relics escaped. At that time, it was impossible for the museum to accept all the cultural relics. In desperation, a large part of the cultural relics ended up overseas.

Lin Ran couldn't help but sigh as he lamented how difficult China was.