Riding the wind of rebirth

Because Meizhou used to be a county, Lu’s parents still hoped that their daughter could live and work in a city with better resources in the future, so the couple never thought about this aspect.

No parent really wants their children to be far away from them. They have to make compromises for the sake of their children's future.

If Meizhou really becomes a region and a city, then there is nothing to consider, it’s the best of both worlds!

"The old secretary still comes to stay with us for a few days every summer, and every time he comes quietly, saying he wants to hide away." Mother Lu said: "He actually said that college students now have two-way choices. If Qiaoqiao's job doesn't work, If it’s easy to arrange, be sure to tell him in advance.”

Zhou Zhi was so happy that he poured wine for everyone: "He has made it very clear. The people in the scene can only say this."

"Then how do we know now whether this matter is settled..."

"Policy changes in the future?" Zhou Zhi shook his head: "There's no need to ask. Judging from your relationship, if the old secretary wants to help Qiaoqiao, it must be for her own good. Then you might as well wait until after the holiday and you take Qiaoqiao there. It is definitely better to meet him, report to him about your study status, and listen to his opinions than to make decisions on your own. "

"That's right!" Dad Lu relaxed immediately and picked up the wine glass: "You have seen the world, and you are more thoughtful than us country people."

"Come on, come on, let me toast Xiao Zhou. The news brought today is very important to our family."

Zhou Zhi had a drink with Dad Lu: "But I also have something I want to ask Dad for."

"You are a noble person in our family. If you have anything to say, just say it!" Dad Lu said.

"As for the transaction with blind man Li Er, Qiao Qiao guessed the approximate price. If this matter is revealed, I am afraid it will shock the village and bring a lot of trouble to blind man Li Er. I hope everyone will keep it secret for him. ”

"That's no problem." Dad Lu touched his forehead with a bit of embarrassment on his face: "Just now that I think about it, was I too disrespectful to others in the past?"

"There are too many broken cardboards and broken boxes in our house. I used to call him to pull the tricycle." Mother Lu was also a bit dumbfounded: "In the days before and after the rain, I often called him to help pull the tricycle. Fifty-one days and two meals are provided, and he does it happily..."

After saying that, he quickly added: "I'm really happy, it doesn't look like acting..."

"Then let everything continue as usual. Next year, before tomorrow and after the rain, we will ask him to help." Zhou Zhile said, "I believe he will be happier."

The taste of Qingshen citrus wine is indeed very good, especially when Father Lu mixed it with nectar. It is quite delicious. After dinner, everyone went back to the coffee table to drink tea. Zhou Zhi could not put it down and looked at the Yongle blue and white lotus bouquet in his hand. Market: "It's only been a few years, but it's not going up well."

"As for the official kiln wares, the price is a small bargain." Zhang Cheng comforted Zhou Zhi and said, "What's the price of Qianlong's stuff on Hong Kong Island now, let alone Yongxuan?"

"When I was a child, my fourth cousin gave me a Xuande Cong-style bottle as a gift." Zhou Zhi told the story of his childhood: "As a leading cadre at that time, my uncle was not allowed to accept anything, so in the end he had to give it to my fourth cousin. A pound of food stamps!”

"Five pounds of food stamps..." Although Zhang Cheng has been in this industry for a long time, he doesn't know how cheap Chinese entertainment has been, so he couldn't help but feel stupid.

"Well, my fourth cousin said that my brother-in-law settled the accounts. I paid you three kilograms of food stamps. I will charge you another one kilogram of food stamps as a handling fee. The total is four kilograms. Now I will refund you one kilogram."

"Huh? Hahahaha..." Everyone was happy. It turned out that the five-pound food stamps were higher!

"If the elbow was born at that time, he would definitely be a super rich man by now, right?" Lu Qiao didn't know that Zhou Zhi was already a rich man, or that he was only as rich as "Cao Jingxiu level", thinking that if it were changed to that time , it’s not like I just pick up treasures everywhere.

"I don't have the courage of my fourth cousin." Zhou Zhi shook his head repeatedly: "In those days, if you kept these things at home, it might be a crime. In other words, his old man was the founder of our local education system. He was highly respected and respected. He was a revolutionary soldier and found a reason to dig out materials and educate the people at his own expense, so he saved a lot of things. "

"It's true to say that." Dad Lu recalled the past: "When Qiao Qiao Qiao Qiao and his grandfather were opening the tea mountain, they dug a hole in the boss's house, and there were a lot of broken porcelain pieces. The old people looked at the dirt and said That was the entrance to the kiln where dishes and bowls were made..." Zhou Zhi's heart moved: "Is that place still there?"

"Yes, it's right behind the mountain, just away from two ravines."

"What's the name of that place?" Zhou Zhi has done a lot of research on local history and knows that many place names actually contain answers to the questions he wants to explore.

Sure enough, I heard Dad Lu say: "That place is in Baiguo Township, and the name of the village is Tangu Kiln!"

The place is not far from the mountain, past the tea farm, and beyond the two gullies behind the mountain is a village. Surrounding the village are rice fields and fruit trees.

There is a hillside where the plants are not very lush, and the soil quality is somewhat different from the surrounding mountains. "That place is called Baipo'er. The grass is not very long and it is very conspicuous."

When everyone came to the bottom of the slope, Zhou Zhi took a look at the countless artifact fragments buried in the alluvial soil: "Damn it, this scale is a bit scary..."

"It's not just here." Dad Lu said: "Come from Songjiawan in the east, walk up the Minjiang River, and then go to Foeryan, Yaoping and many similar places."

"How many places are there in total?"

"Seven or eight places... maybe a dozen places."

Zhang Cheng had already bent down and dug out something like a pottery plate from the soil: "Elbow, is this a cushion cake?"

Zhou Zhi also bent down and dug out a rough pottery like a brush wash, but only half of it was destroyed: "Yes, there is a sagger here. This is undoubtedly an ancient kiln mouth."

The two of them knelt down to pick them up. When Lu Qiao and Lu's parents saw them, they also followed suit and picked out the larger pottery pieces that they thought looked better.

The reason why there are not many plants growing on this hillside is very simple, because the soil produced in this area was kaolin.

Kaolin clay, also called Guanyin clay, is an important material for making porcelain. It is white in color, so this place is called "Baipo", which is normal.

The kiln site had been destroyed when local villagers developed orchards, and now the hillside is littered with broken pottery, tiles, and porcelain pieces of various colors and shapes.

These things were not without value in Zhou Zhi's eyes. Soon, Zhou Zhi was able to identify kiln furniture such as pegs, saggers, cake mats, washers and other kiln furniture from the fragments collected by everyone.

Some saggers still have supporting pins in them, and white quartz sand is obviously accumulated on some of the cushion cakes and washers.

Based on these alone, we can already know that the craftsmanship of this kiln entrance is quite mature, and at least includes four firing methods: direct firing in boxes, stacked firing with pins, isolated firing with gaskets, and stacked firing with quartz sand intervals.

These methods can also show that local porcelain varieties have been divided into many grades and categories.

For example, box-fired porcelain is fired, which is more precious and valuable fine porcelain; pin-stack fired, which is larger and neater among common products, while the remaining two are mainly mass-produced. of ordinary goods. (End of chapter)