Jin Yutong

Chapter 252 Dog Head Gold, Gold Mining Gate

Mu Weiwei put the brocade box on the table, and everyone looked over it curiously, only to see that there was a five or six centimeter long thing in the brocade box, which was about as thick as a big mother's finger, and was yellow in color. , the surface is rough like coral, giving people a kind of dumpling made of dumpling skin made of gold, but this dumpling seems to be gnawed by a dog, and the overall shape is somewhat like a dog.

Liu Cuie stretched out her hand and tapped it lightly, then asked hesitantly, "Isn't this a gold bar?"

"Haha." Hearing Liu Cuie's words, Lu Lingfeng suddenly laughed: "This is not a gold bar, and the gold bar is not as valuable as this thing."

"It's not a gold bar." Liu Cui'e said something wrong, and smiled a little embarrassingly, but she was still a little puzzled. This is obviously a gold bar, why is it not a gold bar?

Hearing that it was not a gold bar, all the people present looked at Lu Lingfeng, as if asking what it was if it was not a gold bar. Of course, Chen Ran was naturally excluded, and he still looked at the piece in the brocade box. thing.

Others couldn't recognize it, but he could of course see it. Although he hadn't seen this thing before, he took a look at it and recognized that it was a piece of dog's head gold.

Dog head gold is a kind of natural nugget produced from vein or placer, that is to say, it is a naturally occurring gold nugget. This kind of natural gold is named dog head gold because its shape resembles a dog's head.

Dog-head gold is a good thing. All countries in the world are proud of having dog-head gold. This kind of dog-head gold is completely rare, and once found, it will be preserved as a town treasure.

According to legend, in the Qing Dynasty, in order to win the favor of Lafayette, local officials wanted to dig out a piece of dog head gold as a birthday gift for her. They mobilized many people to look for dog head gold but failed to find it. The birthday was getting closer and closer, so they finally had to Let it go, it can be seen how rare this kind of thing is.

The texture of natural gold nuggets such as dog's head gold is not pure, and generally contains a small amount of other metals, silver is the most common, and others include copper, iron, platinum, etc.Large natural nuggets are extremely rare and can only be obtained by extreme chance.

Dog head gold is rare in the world and not easy to get. However, because of its high value, it is regarded as the treasure of treasures.Finding dog head gold often has a certain degree of accidentality. Once dog head gold is found, it often causes a social sensation.

Before this, Chen Ran had never seen a dog's head gold. He didn't expect that Lu Lingfeng in front of him would find a piece. This is a good sign.

Out of curiosity, Chen Ran took the brocade box over and looked at this piece of gold.

The three members of the Mu family looked at Lu Lingfeng, but Lu Lingfeng remained silent. It can be said that he was putting on a show, let alone Chen Ran, even Zhao Ying couldn't stand it any longer. She glanced at Lu Lingfeng and smiled. , Said: "Auntie, this thing is called dog head gold."

"Golden dog's head, I know..." Liu Cui'e groaned when she heard that it was gold in the dog's head. There are still many stories about the golden dog's head in folklore. There is a river in Liu Cui'e's hometown The story of Goutoujin.

"What do you know?" Liu Cui'e was about to tell the story of Goutoujin in her hometown with great interest, when Mu Laoshi suddenly gave her a glare to stop her from being ashamed and conspicuous.

Liu Cuie glared at Mu Laoshi angrily, and then closed her mouth, but stretched out her head to look at the dog's head that Chen Ran was holding.

"What? Brother Chen has seen this kind of thing?" Seeing Chen Ran looking over and over at the dog's head gold in the brocade box, Lu Lingfeng asked with a smile.

His words also made everyone in the room focus on Chen Ran, and the room became silent for a while.

"I've seen it but I haven't." Chen Ran shook his head noncommittally, weighed the dog's head gold in his hand, looked at Lu Lingfeng, and asked leisurely: "Your dog's head gold is about 15 taels, right?"

"I didn't realize that Brother Chen is still an expert. Your estimate is very accurate, it's exactly 780 grams."

Hearing Chen Ran's words, Lu Lingfeng was surprised. He asked Chen Ran, and it was just a casual question. If he understood this thing, he could hear it when he opened his mouth. Chen Ran seemed to understand something. , he was excited, he just picked up the leak, so he naturally wanted to show off.

Liu Cuie and Mu Laoshi didn't understand, and it didn't make any sense for him to show off. At most, he just talked about how much money he made in front of them to surprise them, but the value of the dog's head gold simply cannot be replaced by money. To measure, although shocking Liu Cuie and Mu Laoshi gave him a sense of accomplishment, it didn't satisfy him. Of course, it would be interesting to show off in front of experts who also know the industry.

"Brother Lu is really lucky, more than 700 grams, so the value of this dog's head gold is very high." Chen Ran did not disappoint Lu Lingfeng, and said such a sentence very face-saving, which made Lu Lingfeng burst into laughter laughed.

"This dog's head gold was bought when I passed by Zhongdu. It was collected according to the market price of gold and cost 16."

"16?"

Hearing the price reported by Lu Lingfeng, Liu Cuie and Mu Laoshi were immediately shocked, and even Mu Weiwei was quite surprised, and turned their eyes to the dog's head gold in Chen Ran's hand again, as if they were looking at why this piece of gold was so expensive. Valuable.

"16?" Chen Ran nodded: "Brother Lu picked up a big leak."

Lu Lingfeng laughed: "A friend of mine offered 160 million to buy my treasure, but I didn't sell it."

160?

Not to mention Liu Cuie and Mu Laoshi were dumbfounded this time, even Mu Weiwei was also frightened. For her, 16 is already an unimaginably large amount of wealth. Someone offered 160 million for this broken stone and still didn’t sell it. ?This is simply unimaginable to her, even such a piece of gold is not worth so much money.

Raising his head, Chen Ran looked at the dog's head gold in his hand and said, "It's true that it can't be sold, this thing is something that can't be found..."

"What Brother Chen said is that it seems that Brother Chen really knows a lot. Not everyone has the opportunity to collect a piece of dog's head gold."

Before Chen Ran finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lu Lingfeng excitedly.The meaning of finding a piece of dog head gold cannot be measured by money. This thing is a bit like attracting wealth and treasure. First of all, the dog head gold itself contains gold. Gold has always represented wealth in China, and there has always been a folk It is said that cats come to be poor and dogs come to be rich. The shape of the dog's head gold itself is quite similar to that of a dog. In addition, the gold it carries is still so rare and hard to find. In the end, it will become, whoever gets a Such a thing means getting rich, let alone getting it, even if it's just a chance to see it, it's a good sign, just wait for the money to roll in.

Therefore, Lu Lingfeng is still very proud of being able to find such a thing. This is not even a matter of picking up the leak, but that he was able to come across a piece of dog's head gold and let him get it, which is enough to show his good luck. Good fortune, good character... Coughing lightly, Chen Ran raised his head and glanced at Lu Lingfeng, changed the topic, and said suddenly: "I don't know much about this stuff, but I remember that I watched it from a movie "Golden Dog Head". I saw that someone above used a special method to imitate the dog's head gold, but this imitated dog's head gold was finally discovered. How was it discovered? I remember it seemed that the dog's head gold was put in a Fill the glass with lime water and seal the opening. If there is no reaction, it is real. If it bubbles, it is imitated by that method. The imitation method seems to be in the late Qing Dynasty , it was researched by a master called something, but it was lost later.”

As soon as Chen Ran's abrupt words changed, Lu Lingfeng was taken aback as soon as he uttered these words. When Chen Ran spoke later, Lu Lingfeng's face changed drastically, and he quickly grabbed the dog's head gold that Chen Ran had put down and pointed it at the light. I took out the magnifying glass and observed carefully, but I didn't see anything for a long time, so I was relieved.

Regardless of his age, he has superb skills in antiques and is well-known in the domestic collector circle. Although Chen Ran is well-known, it is only in the circle of the Central Plains, while Lu Lingfeng is in the The domestic circles are all well-known, this is because Chen Ran has not gone out of the Central Plains after all, and the famous domestic collection circles are still places like Beijing and Mingzhu.

Lu Lingfeng is still very confident in his eyesight. The significance of the dog's head gold cannot be measured by money. He is quite proud of finding this piece of dog's head gold, but he did not expect Chen Ran to say such a thing suddenly In a word, although he was confident that he would not be wrong, Chen Ran's words made him feel like a thorn in his heart, so he frowned and looked at Chen Ran: "Brother Chen, what do you say?"

"Brother Lu misunderstood, I just suddenly thought of this."

Chen Ran chuckled and shook his head. The fact is naturally not the case. At first, when he observed this piece of dog-head gold, he didn't notice it, but when he couldn't help detecting it with the energy aperture, he was surprised. Things are naturally formed, and the energy aperture detects carving or workmanship, that is, craftsmanship. Naturally formed things cannot be detected, but this piece of dog head gold strangely detects an energy aperture. There is a problem, an aperture is more than 100 years of history, even if the energy aperture can detect the naturally formed thing, then in this short period of time, no matter what, no matter what, the dog's head gold cannot be formed, and the result is self-evident.

Finding out that this piece of dog-head gold was not formed naturally at all, Chen Ran thought about it, and then thought of a way to imitate the dog-head gold.

Chen Ran saw this kind of imitation method of dog head gold when he was reading at Mr. Ma's house.

That book is a manuscript written by Mr. Ma himself. Mr. Ma himself translated it from an ancient letter he found. For her favor, they wanted to dig a piece of dog head gold for her as a birthday present. They mobilized many people to look for dog head gold, but they couldn't find it. In the end, they couldn't find it. But at that time, one of the officials didn't find the dog head gold. The master who imitated Goutoujin, this master's name is Goutoujin, or this is his title.

There are 36 categories and 72 lines of handicrafts handed down by the ancestors of China. There are also eight other skills such as gold points, beggars, thieves, thieves, inverted buckets, walking mountains, leading fires, and collecting water. In fact, everyone does not know, except for these In addition, there is also a very ancient and mysterious craft that has been passed down among the people, that is, mining gold.

The currency in circulation in ancient times was generally gold and silver, so how did gold and silver mines be discovered?

This has something to do with Caijinmen. The Jinmen sect aims to find the golden vein hidden in the deep mountains and rivers. This method of finding the golden vein can be said to be able to turn stone into gold. Therefore, the Kinmen faction acts in a low-key and mysterious way, and most outsiders don't know about it.

The highest honor in the Kinmen faction is the dog-head gold. Whoever finds the most dog-head gold will be awarded the title of dog-head gold in the Kinmen school.

At that time, the dog-head gold of that generation was not only good at finding the dog-head gold, but also developed a method to imitate the dog-head gold. The official found the dog-head gold and forced him to imitate a piece of dog-head gold. .

This official is just a low-level sesame official. Obviously, an official like him can't see Lafayette if he just wants to see him. He first wrote a letter to a classmate and friend of his who was a high-ranking official in the court. , as a result, this letter was not sent to his classmates and friends, but leaked out, and later caused a murderous disaster, and the dog-headed gold master also escaped, so this matter will not happen When it's over, even outsiders don't know about it at all, and there is no record in history.

Mr. Ma found that letter by accident, and later searched a lot of information, and wrote down the manuscript. On the day Chen Ran visited Mr. Ma, he was reading in Mr. Ma's study, and happened to see this manuscript.

As for the movie "Golden Dog's Head", although it does have such a plot, the method of counterfeiting is not the one used by the dog's head gold, but the identification method is somewhat similar, so Chen Ran adopted it.

The reason why Chen Ran told this matter was because he felt a little displeased with Lu Lingfeng's display in front of the three members of the Mu family. They don't know much about antiques, so what do you make of them?

Dissatisfied, Chen Ran revealed the incident angrily.