Giving Pointers

It was impossible for normal cats to have a nose ring. So when Zhang Zian heard Wang Yaning say that there was a golden nose ring on the statue's face, he was confused. The nose ring on the Holy Cat statue had already been sliced off by Old Time Tea, and Zian himself had sent it to the Longfeng Jewelry Store to recycle. By now, it had probably been melted into liquid gold and recast into a piece of new gold jewelry that was on some lady's finger. So where had the nose ring on this statue come from?

The Holy Cat statue that they were facing now was a replica, and only the nose ring was a product contemporary of the real thing. However, because it had been buried for more than 2000 years in the dark, it had lost its original shade of pure gold, and could no longer be linked with shiny gold. Anyone unaware would definitely mistake it for bronze.