Super Zoo

Chapter 199 A Bunch of Junk? (Second Update)

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In these days, Huiya and the others spent their days frolicking in the hills behind the house, mainly honing their hunting skills. They often brought their catch to Suming. Sometimes it was a small wild rabbit, sometimes half a large field mouse, and even wild fruits.

These things weren't of much use, though they were pretty good for barbecuing, so Suming had been eating game frequently and was starting to get a bit tired of it.

The copper piece before him was dirty and looked like a piece of junk, inedible and unsellable. He had no idea where the pack of dogs had found it.

Suming took the copper piece into the pavilion, turned on the tap to wash off the mud, and under the light, he could see that it was an arc-shaped object, covered in rust with some indistinct patterns on it. It looked like a fragment, possibly a small part of a vessel.

"Did you pick this up from the back hill?" Suming chuckled and asked Wang Cai.

Wang Cai, with his tongue out, nodded his head, and Suming muttered, "It's not an antique, is it?" before casually placing the fragment on a table.

How many antiques could there be in the world, that a few dogs could just stumble upon them? Besides, there are plenty of counterfeits around these days, and even modern furniture often imitates ancient styles. Finding a piece of what looks like ancient bronze in the mountains isn't all that rare.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

After playing some online games, he went straight to bed.

Early the next day, just as dawn began to break, he heard scratching noises on the door panels, followed by creaking sounds. Suming rubbed his eyes and got out of bed, opening the pavilion's door.

"I'm going, did you guys move the junkyard over here?"

Suming was startled by the sight. Piled in front of the pavilion's door were mounds of mud-stained broken porcelain bowls and rotten copper vessels, with the wolf dog brothers holding a tattered cloth-like item in their mouths, standing guard in front of this pile of junk, wagging their tails vigorously at Suming.

It was then that Suming felt something was off.

Secondly, tombs of lower status didn't contain many valuable items, and those few high-class tombs, belonging to emperors and high-ranking officials, might contain some quality items, even so-called 'divine national treasures' like the Simuwu Ding or gold-threaded jade clothes.

But such items are priceless; their true value is impossible to estimate. Yet, if you try to sell them surreptitiously, it's hard to find buyers. In the end, you might only get a few million, all the while risking execution. Experience exclusive tales on empire

Those auction-level items like the twelve zodiac animal heads can sell for billions, but they're mostly driven by speculation.

Once, Zhao Yun told him about a group of professional tomb robbers who had unearthed several tombs from the Ming and Qing Dynasty times. The accompanying burial items were relatively abundant, adding up to dozens of pieces, but they only made one or two million at most. Eventually, they were caught and sentenced to over fifteen years each.

Suming, even by simply staying safe and doing nothing, could earn tens of millions a year; it simply wasn't worth it for him to deal with relics for a few millions and risk going against the entire nation and losing his head.

Zhao Yun was the best example. He managed a museum and could easily sell off national treasures if he wanted, but Zhao Yun would never do such a thing. The simple reason was that he could make far more money through legitimate business than through crooked means.

Looking back at the pile of items, Suming was also unclear about what exactly they were. The so-called antiques were just his guess, and they could very well be a bunch of useless modern replicas.

"Let's go, take me to the place where these items were found and let's have a look."

Suming was preparing to follow the wolf-dog brothers to the back mountain when his phone rang. It was Zhao Yun, who said there was some business with the distillery that he wanted to discuss with him and asked if he had time to come over.

After thinking it over, Suming reasoned that if there really was an ancient tomb, he had no experience and going there recklessly would be too dangerous. Moreover, his current prospects were bright, and he had neither the need to rely on selling relics for money nor the desire to commit a crime for a few 'cultural relics.' His greatest wish was merely to go on an adventure for fun if an ancient tomb was indeed discovered.

So he simply took a bag of 'trash' and drove to see Zhao Yun, deciding to leave further actions pending until after the appraisal.

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PS: There's more to come!