When she said there would be a sentencing, no one was surprised, but just fell silent.
After all, anyone who takes cultural relics will be sentenced, so it is only natural that the Terracotta Warriors should be sentenced.
However, Gu Shengsheng thought about it and said, "I've thought about it carefully. It's possible that this Terracotta Warrior could be sentenced to life imprisonment."
Netizens in the live broadcast room immediately rushed over and asked: "Why, host? Aren't these the Terracotta Army from the time of Qin Shi Huang? A prison sentence is enough, right?"
"Yeah, this thing ended up overseas. I don't know what happened. Was it Sakura who took it out back then?"
"Anchor, you're so anxious! Why do I feel your eyes are so serious?"
"Yeah, what's the big deal?"
The couple was unusually not nervous, but rather calm.
Then Gu Shengsheng looked at them and said, "Didn't you dig this thing up in Anxi City?"
The wife said, "Yes, in Crane City."
Then Gu Shengsheng asked some questions about professional details.
Finally, the man in the couple looked at Gu Shengsheng and asked, "Miss Gu, what do you think of this cultural relic?"
Gu Shengsheng said, "These aren't the Terracotta Warriors from the Qin Dynasty. These are... living human figures from the Shang Dynasty."
Living human terracotta warriors... Not only netizens, but also people from the Cultural Relics Administration Bureau all looked unhappy when they heard this.
During the Shang Dynasty, it was popular to bury living people with the dead, and there were no lifelike people made of clay or pottery as burial objects.
The pottery making technology was not developed until after the Qin Dynasty. During the Shang Dynasty, people always revered the practice of burying living people with the dead.
Therefore, the large number of terracotta warriors and horses during the Qin Shihuang period were almost all made of clay.
But during the Shang Dynasty, real people were taken away to be buried alive before they died.
Gu Shengsheng continued, "During the ancient slave period, the practice of burying people alive with the dead was very popular. In He City, over 5,000 people have been found buried alive with the dead. This person is one of them."
When Gu Shengsheng said this, everyone shuddered, mainly because the terracotta warrior head discovered today was taken away by someone.
The more I thought about it, the more scared I became. Many people in the live broadcast room were posting comments expressing their concern.
"Host, what happened to this living human figurine? Could it be that the person wasn't even dead, but was just taken away and buried?"
"It's like the horror novels I read before, where they just seal it with mud and eventually suffocate to death due to lack of air."
"I heard that this kind of death is the most difficult, even the most torturous way to die."
“…”
Gu Shengsheng nodded and said, "That's right."
"To be precise, making living human figurines is also a form of punishment. It's similar to what you're talking about. First, the body of a living person is wrapped in white cloth and then baked in a kiln to form a figurine."
"After that, they were covered in paint and clay, and then added their own belongings, and thrown in to protect the monarch or the owner of the tomb. In fact, most of them were death row prisoners or ordinary slaves."
When Gu Shengsheng said this, everyone sighed that they lived in such a good era.
Fortunately, those were in the ancient times.
At this moment, Lian Mai's wife also spoke for the first time: "Miss Gu is right."
Logically speaking, the police would have gone there to investigate soon. These people were already in such a miserable state, being made into terracotta warriors, and now they don't even have a complete body, and their heads were taken to a foreign country. This kind of thing is really ridiculous.
The relevant departments must take him in for questioning, but this will take some time abroad.
Gu Shengsheng didn't say much, because she felt that something was wrong with the couple. They deliberately exposed themselves in their live broadcast room, which seemed like they were surrendering themselves... As for the assistant next to the couple, he was even more nervous than them.
Gu Shengsheng had a bad feeling.
She typed a message on her phone to Zhao Dehai, expressing her suspicions. Zhao Dehai replied, "Please wait another twenty minutes, and someone from our embassy will be there."
"OK."
Gu Shengsheng continued to ask: "Do you have anything else to be identified?"
The couple took out another thing, which was an exquisite small cup. Later, Gu Shengsheng focused and looked at it carefully. He saw the pattern on the cup and then paused.
"Madam, could you please take a look around?" Gu Shengsheng's eyes were filled with anxiety.
You know, among those who watched her appraise treasures, few people could see Gu Shengsheng so uneasy.
Gu Shengsheng saw it clearly and counted it carefully. There were nine dragons in total.
Each dragon head extends towards the bottom, and the tails together form the handle of the cup. The other eight dragons, four facing upwards and four facing downwards, are also symmetrically distributed.
Gu Shengsheng's face was a little excited: "This is the Nine Dragon Cup from the Ming Dynasty!"
"This artifact has been missing for over fifty years. People only heard of it when it was first unearthed, but no one has seen it since. Legend has it that it belonged to Zhu Yuanzhang during the Ming Dynasty and was made by officials in Jingdezhen to curry his favor. It's a truly remarkable work."
"I didn't expect such a good thing to end up abroad."
Gu Shengsheng was not only lamenting about this, but also because the couple were, in theory, appraisers with great achievements and well-known experts.
How did he get involved in these thefts? Now I have no idea how many years I will be in prison.
While Gu Shengsheng was lamenting, the lady said quietly, "Miss Gu, how long will it take for China to come over and see the cultural relics in person?"
When saying this, he deliberately emphasized the word "personally".
Gu Shengsheng made a “1” gesture with his hand, and then said, “Almost there.”
Just as she finished speaking, the tall and strong assistant also reacted, grabbed the woman's neck, and pointed a gun at her head: "You lied to me! You said you were unsure about this cultural relic and needed a Chinese person to identify it!"
"But why are there so many Chinese people outside?"
The lady had no will to live anymore. She was crying, closing her eyes and looking like she wanted to die.
Then her husband took advantage of the foreign assistant's inattention and hit him on the head with a blue and white porcelain vase, and the tall and strong foreigner fell to the ground.
Just as he was about to shoot, people from China arrived and handcuffed him, and the country's law enforcement agencies also came.
So he had no room to resist.
After watching the assistant being taken away, the lady quickly grabbed the people from the Chinese Embassy and said anxiously, "He has accomplices, many accomplices. It's an organization that specializes in trafficking cultural relics. I have evidence here, I have evidence."
As he spoke, the husband brought over a large pile of organized documents. "Excuse me, please take them away."
"And us two, take us with you." The couple looked at each other. As long as they caught those people, it would be worth it to lock them up for life. (End of this chapter)
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