"Ignorant brat, this is nothing but a cheap attempt to attract attention!"
"Who gave you the courage to spout such nonsense!"
"What are you all standing there for? This kid is spreading rumors and causing trouble, arrest him right now!"
Several experts from Yandu also angrily shouted their rebukes.
"Wait!"
Liu Zhongyi immediately stepped forward and said, "Everyone, please don't be impulsive. I, Liu Zhongyi, swear on my honor as the president of the association that Mr. Lin would never speak carelessly. We are all doing this to protect the interests of the country. Let's hear what Mr. Lin has to say first!"
Zhang Jiefang nodded heavily. "Alright! Kid, since you say this Buddha head is fake, then give me a straight answer. If you're talking nonsense, I'll sue you for spreading rumors and put you in jail!"
Lin Yu shook his head. "You don't need to scare me. Whether the Buddha head is real or fake has no conflict of interest with me, so I have no reason to lie. But this is a national treasure, and it concerns the interests of our entire country. As a citizen of Great Xia, I have a responsibility to point it out!"
Lin Yu slowly walked to the glass case and spoke eloquently: "This Buddha head is called the Tianlongshan Grottoes Buddha Head. It originated in the Sui Dynasty, inherited the advantages of the Mogao Grottoes Buddha Head, and carried it forward. The Buddha statues of the Sui and Tang Dynasties mainly belonged to the Gandhara school, and their most important feature is reflected in their hairstyles! The vast majority of Buddha heads from that period were shaped like water ripples!"
At this point, Lin Yu pointed to the Buddha head in the glass case and said, "However, look at this Buddha head. Its hair is a spiral-shaped ushnisha, a typical style of the Matula school, which was common in the Ming and Qing dynasties! The person who made the Buddha head, although very skilled in forgery, still had a very shallow understanding of history, which is blatantly obvious!"
Everyone listened in stunned silence.
Zhang Jiefang's face was very unpleasant. He snorted irritably, "Just based on this, you can't say that the Buddha head is fake. That doesn't seem sufficient, does it? When appraising cultural relics, you can't just look at a single style, because every era has one or two oddities. How can you know what the creator was thinking at the time!"
Zhang Jiefang snorted and continued calmly, "We're already in the 21st century. The most reliable way to authenticate cultural relics is with instruments. We've already used instruments to measure it precisely. This Buddha head is definitely a product of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, not some Ming or Qing Dynasty piece!"
Lin Yu shook his head. "The age of something is simply determined by the degree of weathering. This kind of thing can be artificially aged. If you give me some time, I can even make it look like it came from the pre-Qin period. But that can't hide the fact that it's a replica!"
"Heh?" Zhang Jiefang laughed angrily. "You mean you're even better than the instruments?"
"Haha, I don't know how powerful the equipment is, but I think his mouth is more powerful than the equipment!"
"According to him, what's the point of scientific development? We can just rely on talking!"
"A cheap trick!"
Other experts also joined in the mockery.
Liu Zhongyi frowned and asked, "Mr. Lin, this Buddha head was indeed examined with instruments before and it belongs to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. What is your basis for saying that it is faked?"
Lin Yu shook his head. "I don't have any basis, I'm just going by feeling!"
Zhang Jiefang couldn't help but scoff, "Feeling? After all that, you were just guessing too?"
Lin Yu said calmly, "Appraising cultural relics relies on color, sound, smell, taste, and touch—these are the five senses. The feeling I'm talking about belongs to the sixth sense. This isn't guesswork! If you insist that I prove this is a fake, I can tell you the simplest and most reliable method!"
Lin Yu stared at the Buddha head and said, "Just smash it! The outside can be aged, but the inside cannot. If this Buddha head is really a product from a thousand years ago, the texture inside would have been loose and would have crumbled into plaster-like powder. But if it is new material, its fragments would be very intact. I'm sure you all know that!"
"What? You're going to smash the Buddha's head too?"
"Are you crazy? This is a national treasure returned by Japan!"
"There are very few Buddha heads left in the Tianlongshan Grottoes. If you really smash one, can you afford to pay for it?"
The experts all started to ridicule them.
Zhang Jiefang's face immediately darkened, and he shouted to the surrounding security guards, "What are you all standing there for? I suspect this kid is a spy sent by Japan to deliberately destroy cultural relics. Tie him up and send him to the police station to accuse him of spreading rumors and causing trouble!"
"Old Zhang, what are you doing?"
Liu Zhongyi and his grandson tried to stop them, but a group of security guards rushed up.
Lin Yu's eyes flashed, and he kicked out suddenly. With a bang, the lead security guard was sent flying backward and crashed into the glass cabinet.
Whoosh!
The glass case shattered instantly, and the security guard crashed heavily into the display stand, causing the Buddha head on it to shake violently!
Everyone's hearts jumped into their throats, but the Buddha head showed no mercy, swaying twice before collapsing to the ground.
With a bang, it shattered!
The atmosphere froze instantly.
Everyone stared wide-eyed at the scene on the ground in disbelief.
At this moment, the Buddha head was not shattered into powder, but remained solidly in two halves, and it could be seen that the stone had a uniform internal texture, resembling marble.
This is clearly new material!
Lin Yu was right, it happened last week!
"How...how could this be?"
Zhang Jiefang collapsed to the ground with a thud, seemingly unable to accept this fact.
The other experts were also devastated, their faces extremely grim.
Who would have thought that the Buddha head returned by the Japanese Emperor was actually a fake?
When they received it, none of them noticed!
If this gets out, whose face will be slapped?
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