Chapter 156: From Today Onwards, the Cultivation World Will Have No Howell Family!_1
"The quality of this jade is very good, and so is the carving. This could not have been done by just anyone."
"The character is in ancient seal script, it’s a ’Qi,’ and this character is slightly different from the ancient seal ’Qi’ we are familiar with; this stroke is slanted, not horizontal. Only in the city of Western Wei in A.D. 708 was this type of writing used. After Western Wei, this horizontal stroke was always written horizontally."
"Considering all these factors, this piece of jade is likely an antique, probably carved during the Western Wei era. The inscription was naturally written in this manner, and it could also have been done by a remnant of Western Wei who completed it in the years following the dynasty’s end, using the Western Wei style of script for the carving."
"The jade has excellent quality and the carved character is quite rare. If one were to investigate along these lines, it might be possible to find out some origins of this jade, since such pieces are quite scarce."
After leaving the text expert’s home, Carson Flores and Shirley Miller returned to the car, where Shirley Miller asked, "What now? Even though the expert said this jade is unique, no one can guarantee that there’s a historical record of it, let alone finding a record from hundreds or even thousands of years ago. It’s going to be very hard to trace the past twenty some years."
Carson Flores nodded in agreement, "Indeed, I’ll get someone to help look into it first."
Shirley Miller suggested, "Why not put it online and stir up some interest under some pretext? Maybe someone related will recognize it."
Carson Flores shook his head with a smile, "It’s not appropriate. The quality and value of this jade indicate that my parents are definitely not ordinary people. The fact that my parents abandoned me when I was a child might involve some secrets. If it’s put online and the wrong people see it, what may come my way may not necessarily be my parents, but rather huge trouble."