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Chapter 244 Check

Hu Yuan's words surprised everyone, and they couldn't help looking at Zhao Yiping. Could it be that Zhao Yiping really teamed up with Mr. Cao in front of him to defraud the museum of money?

Just now, Zhao Yiping was still thinking about how to explain the Avalokitesvara statue to the curator, and he didn't expect Hu Yuan to make a sudden attack. When he reacted, Mr. Cao had already said what he said just now.This made him yell at the idiot secretly, and at the same time, he was even more flustered, and said anxiously, what should we do!
When Hu Yuan scolded and everyone looked at him in surprise, Zhao Yiping panicked, his hands and feet became weak for a while, and he almost sat on the ground. Finally, when he calmed down, he pointed at Hu Yuangao without thinking too much. shouted:
"No, no! I didn't identify him at all yesterday! This police officer, he was very drunk yesterday, and what he said now is all his own imagination! You can't take it seriously!"

Mr. Cao also reacted when he heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes! I was drunk yesterday, and I didn't remember some things clearly. I was talking nonsense just now. Ah! I remembered, I was the night before yesterday. The one who asked Zhao Yiping for the appraisal was that I was drunk and made a mistake!"

Seeing Zhao Yiping and Mr. Cao "singing together", Hu Yuan almost laughed, this is not only a teammate who is like a pig, this Zhao Yiping is a pig, as I said just now, there are cameras in the restaurant, can you tell if you are drunk or not? come out?

So he said with a smile on his face: "Isn't that right? Then when I saw you go out yesterday, you were talking about being happy? Don't forget, I just said that there are cameras in the restaurant."

Hearing what Hu Yuan said, Zhao Yiping and Mr. Cao couldn't help being dumbfounded, and they didn't know what to do for a while.And at this point, everyone still doesn't know that there must be something wrong with these two people.

At this time, Director Wang, who accompanied Chu Chen and the others, controlled Zhao Yiping at a fast speed, and with the help of Hu Yuan and others, he and Mr. Cao were temporarily escorted to the security room of the museum, waiting for support. When they arrive, transfer them to the police station. ...

Watching Zhao Yiping being escorted away by Director Wang, while shouting that he was wronged, there was silence in the recruiting department.

Especially museum staff like Professor Qin and the others showed shock on their faces.They didn't expect this kind of thing to happen around them, especially when it happened to Zhao Yiping, an old employee who had worked in the museum for seven years, which made them feel unbelievable.

Chu Chen coughed lightly, and asked Professor Qin, "Professor Qin, how long has this Zhao Yiping been working here?"

Professor Qin said sadly: "He has been working here for seven years, and he is also an old man in our museum. I never thought he would do such a thing!" At the end, he couldn't help sighing.

"Since he's been here for so long, shouldn't he check the things he's handled before?"

Hearing what Chu Chen said, Professor Qin and others immediately reacted, so they quickly ordered the staff to notify the curator of the matter, and sorted out the list of cultural relics that Zhao Yiping had handled.

When such a major event happened, how could the curator still sit still? Not long after, an old man in his 60s rushed to the collection department.

As soon as the old man came in, he asked Sun Jing directly: "Mr. Sun, what happened to that Zhao Yiping?"

Teacher Sun told the old man about the specific situation, and said with a wry smile: "Who would know that Zhao Yiping is such a person. Fortunately, the curator made a regulation two days ago, and Mr. Chu and his companions helped, otherwise this This time, he must have succeeded again."

After hearing the cause and effect, the old man said angrily: "This Zhao Yiping is really not a thing. Fortunately, he is still an old man in the museum. I don't treat him badly. He knows that the funds of our museum are not rich enough, but he actually made such a wasteful act." A good thing is really worse than a pig or a dog!"

While the old man was angry, he kept blaming himself for not managing well, so that Zhao Yiping took advantage of this loophole. In terms of responsibility, he must also bear it.He only hoped that this was Zhao Yiping's first crime, otherwise he would suffer heavy losses and he would have to take the blame and resign.

When the old man came back to his senses, he noticed Chu Chen and the others, and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry for letting you all see a joke. I wonder who is Mr. Chu?"

"Curator, this is Chu Chen, an expert from the capital." Professor Qin hurriedly stepped forward to introduce the two parties.

The old man saw that Chu Chen was so young, and he was still a disciple of Mr. Liu. He was surprised and shook hands with Chu Chen enthusiastically, and said, "Mr. Chu, this time is really thanks to you, otherwise our museum will suffer a heavy loss." gone."

The old man was right to say that. After all, it was Zhang Shoushan's work with a great reputation, and it was a rare green-glazed work. Even if the price offered by the museum was lower than that at the auction, it would be at least hundreds of thousands.

If Zhao Yiping really got his way, it would be a big loss for a museum that doesn't have enough money.

Chu Chen waved his hand and said with a smile: "Director Gao, you're welcome, I just did what I can, and you have made new regulations before, even if I don't come, Zhao Yiping will definitely not succeed .”

"Mr. Chu, you are too modest. Without you, even if we knew this thing was a fake, we wouldn't suspect that Zhao Yiping would do such a thing."

Speaking of this, Director Gao sighed: "Hey, the key is that our management is not in place, otherwise he would not let him take advantage of such a loophole."

Chu Chen smiled slightly, and didn't say much about it. After all, this is his business, and it's not good for him to express any opinions in front of the master.

After a while, the staff sorted out the list of cultural relics handled by Zhao Yiping and handed them over to Director Gao.

Director Gao looked at it carefully, then looked at the time, and said, "The museum is about to close at noon, so let's check these things at this time. Mr. Chu, I don't know if I can ask you to do me a favor. Will you check it out for us?"

Of course, Chu Chen would not object to this request to increase his own experience, and happily agreed.

In the past seven years, Zhao Yiping has handled a lot of cultural relics, but after re-inspection, the cultural relics bought by him before this year are not a problem at all.

This made Director Gao and others very happy, and they all speculated that maybe today is really Zhao Yiping's first crime.

But Chu Chen didn't think so. He learned from Professor Qin and the others that Zhao Yiping was good at appraising porcelain. If so, why would he come up with such a low-quality imitation item? ?
Chu Chen reckoned that it should be because Zhao Yiping had successfully committed crimes several times before, so he felt relaxed, so when he saw that the Avalokitesvara statue was not bad, he just looked at it hastily and finished.

Moreover, Chu Chen thought of Zhao Yiping's weird expression when he heard that the acquisition required two people to sign, and he did not believe that this would be the first time he committed a crime.

Sure enough, after a while, a plain three-color butterfly bowl with dragon patterns engraved secretly, marked as the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, came into Chu Chen's sight.

The mouth of this bowl is relatively thin, and moist high-temperature white glaze is applied on the inside. The outer wall is first carved with the pattern of chasing pearls and dragons on the porcelain body, and then the pattern of flowers and butterflies is painted with plain three-color paint. Finally, low-temperature white glaze is applied on the color and fired in a low-temperature kiln. It is a high-grade classic variety of Kangxi official kiln.

It stands to reason that this bowl looks good, the painting is exquisite, and the picture looks more natural and lifelike. Most people would think this thing is genuine.But it was such a bowl that looked real, but Chu Chen's Baojue didn't respond, and the result was self-evident.

So Chu Chen picked up the bowl, observed it carefully, and immediately saw two problems.

Chu Chen put the bowl back, called Director Gao and the others over, and said, "Director Gao, take a look at this bowl."

Curator Gao's heart tightened when he heard the words, but when he saw that it was this bowl, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Mr. Chu, I also know about this bowl. After Zhao Yiping accepted it, there was controversy. It has been scientifically authenticated to prove that it is indeed the real thing."

After hearing what Director Gao said, Chu Chen chuckled and said, "Director Gao, sometimes scientific identification is not omnipotent. I think this bowl should be a successor from the old one, and the glaze used is from the old waste porcelain. In this case, it is impossible to identify the authenticity with scientific identification.”

There are generally two commonly used methods for scientific identification of antiques, namely "thermoluminescence dating technology" and "elemental analysis method".

Among these two methods, the thermoluminescence dating technique generally has an error of no more than 50 years in judging the age.However, in addition to the need to drill holes for sampling, it has the biggest disadvantage. The ability of thermoluminescence to deal with anti-detection is relatively poor. If the ceramics to be tested are exposed to sunlight for a long time or exposed to X-rays, it will greatly affect Test results.

There was a joke before this incident. The customs of a certain country seized several smuggled cultural relics, which seemed to be Tang Sancai in our country, so they conducted a thermoluminescent test, and the results showed that the ages of the three pieces were 500, 1000, and 3000 years.

So the customs officials who handled it reported to their superiors that three of them were cultural relics, one was Sancai in Qing Dynasty, the other was Sancai in Song Dynasty, and the other was Sancai in Shang Dynasty!In fact, all three of them were caused by farmers in our country in the 90s who burned them on horseback on Ziliu Mountain, and then irradiated them with X-rays.

Another elemental analysis method believes that in order to imitate certain characteristics of ancient porcelain, some modern chemical preparations containing certain trace elements are added to the glaze formula, and these trace elements are found on the real ancient porcelain. is absent or present in very small amounts.

(End of this chapter)