Age of Dreams

Squeezing through the crowd, Xiao Qi and Lu Qin walked into the store to have a look. There were three groups of people standing in the spacious and bright hall.

On one side are Yang Xue, Su Zi and a group of employees of antique shops, on the other side are five or six men, and on the last side are two policemen.

Except for the policeman, people from the other two sides looked at each other angrily, without speaking, but the light in their eyes was not kind.

There are four antique store employees at the door, blocking the people watching the excitement outside. If they are all crowded inside at this time, there will be too many people, and it is easy to lose things.

But when they saw it was Xiao Qi and Lu Qin, they quickly stepped aside.

"What's going on?" Xiao Qi stopped at the door and asked without going up.

"Qi Shao, these guys drugged us!" A hot-tempered young man said angrily, "A few days ago they sent over a pair of copper maces, saying they were ancestral, and they wanted to sell them... It just so happened that we appraised them that day. Mr. Li who made the bronze ware went out, so he stayed in the shop. After Mr. Li came back, he identified the copper mace for them, and it was indeed a treasure of the Ming Dynasty. As a result, when they came back today, we took out the copper mace and found that there was a copper mace The mace broke for no reason! They insisted that we broke it! I said it was because they had a conspiracy!"

Xiao Qi thought about it: "When Mr. Li came back for appraisal, he didn't find any problems. But after two days of storage, he took it out again and found that it was broken?"

"yes!"

"Did Mr. Li say what caused the disconnection?"

"Uh... Mr. Li can't find it either, we won't destroy it on purpose, it's all in the leather case, and after taking it out today, the copper mace broke off like a knife, it must be weird !"

Like sharpening?

Xiao Qi shook his head, Yang Xue is definitely not such a nonsense person. Any normal person would not deliberately destroy the appraised item that does not belong to him, so it is natural that someone else is cheating, no wonder Yang Xue and the others are so angry.

While thinking about it, Master Meiren'er passed Xiao Qi and walked towards the confronting crowd inside.

"Sister Qin~~"

Following Su Zi's surprise call, everyone looked at Lu Qin and Xiao Qi.

Especially a pair of huge and plump girls on the chest. Almost all the men couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and looked at the heroic girl openly or secretly.

Only Yang Xue nodded to Xiao Qi, he was relieved.

He didn't call Xiao Qi to come, but with Xiao Qi by his side, he wouldn't suffer no matter what.

Xiao Qi looked at the pair of golden maces placed on the table next to the policeman. This kind of weapon often appears on the New Year pictures pasted at the door. It looks a little rusty, but the overall shape is well maintained.

Unfortunately, one of them was broken near the top third, just like the clerk said. The incision is very neat, it is really the same as a knife.

Not only Xiao Qi was watching, but Lu Qin also walked to the table and began to look at it carefully.

Among the group of people opposite, the leader was a man in his fifties, wearing a long martial arts gown, with sharp and dignified eyes, and withdrew his greedy gaze from looking at Lu Qin. He snorted coldly.

"Officer, isn't the matter very clear? I entrusted the appraisal. There was a mistake in their hands. I still have the original picture and the signature receipt. You can't keep dragging it on? Or is it that the police are partial to them?" the man said. He speaks fluent Mandarin with no accent.

"Don't talk nonsense! Is the matter so easy to judge? You are an antique worth 1 million!" The older policeman said seriously: "Our police have a police judgment method, please don't be impatient."

"Can you not be impatient? How much time has my third uncle given them? They said we were cheating, but they couldn't produce evidence. Isn't this an obvious repudiation?" A strong man behind the man roared angrily.

After the strong man spoke like this, Xiao Qi realized that all these people in this group were practitioners, and the five young people behind were all practitioners of hard skills, and a ferocious air radiated out.

"Repudiation is not bad. We need to investigate carefully. Give us some time. I have already called the experts from the bureau." The older policeman said kindly.

The young policeman next to him didn't say much, but he looked towards the strong man more.

The reason is very simple. The owner of this antique shop calls their immediate boss "brother", and the immediate boss is a person with a big background. There are nepotism everywhere, so I can't afford to offend others.

The leading man frowned: "You..."

"The copper mace is fake!"

Before he could finish a sentence, Lu Qin over there had already said it in a cold voice.

"What? Fake!?"

Yang Xue was pleasantly surprised here, but the man and others over there sneered.

But Lu Qin didn't give them a chance to explain. He picked up the intact copper mace and looked at Yang Xue and the others: "What is your basis for saying that this is a copper mace from the Ming Dynasty?"

An old man on the other side of Yang Xue replied, "The manufacturing technology of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the exquisite gilding technology of the Ming Dynasty, can't be faked."

"But the copper maces of the Ming Dynasty would not be so light!" Lu Qin said lightly: "I also have a pair of similar copper maces at home. If converted according to the ratio, it should be at least three taels heavier."

"Hmph, is there an identical copper mace in this world? Does it have to be the same proportion as yours to be considered authentic?" The man snorted and said, "Didn't the Ming Dynasty use modern technology to mix raw materials? The ones that come out are all different! Little girl, I, Gui Shuiwang, am not the one to allow anyone to frame me!"

While the two were talking, Xiao Qi also stood over, picked up the broken copper mace, and began to watch carefully.

Although he doesn't know much about ancient copper maces, he learned precision machinery in his previous life. Although he hasn't used it for a long time, his knowledge of various metals is still world-class.

After taking a few glances, he took the copper mace and scratched it hard on the table beside him.

"Hey, what are you doing?" A strong man shouted, "Put it down quickly! It's a cultural relic!"

Xiao Qi ignored him, wiped the scratch with white paper, and immediately took a lighter beside him, and lit it to burn the cut surface.

Gui Shuiwang vaguely felt that something was wrong, and frowned and said, "Bold! Do you want to destroy the evidence? Go and get it back for me!"

Some people couldn't bear it long ago, the two men rushed to Xiao Qi's side in two or three steps after hearing the words, and even the policeman just had time to open his hands to stop him.

"Bring you... ah!"

One of the two punched Xiao Qi's chest and abdomen, and the other reached out to grab the bronze mace, both of them had ferocious smiles on their faces.

But Xiao Qi was next to Master Mei Rener, she just frowned slightly, kicked her feet twice like lightning, and both of them knelt down amidst the screams of pain. (To be continued..)