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Chapter 118 Last Week's Antiques

In a small and narrow rented house.

Lin Chuan cursed and greeted the developers of the system in his heart.

The system's voice sounded again——

[Congratulations host, the profession you randomly obtained is antique maker, and you have obtained the exclusive ability of antique maker: antique manufacturing method. ]

【Using 'virtual reality' technology, a new world is being created for you. 】

【Host, please be prepared! 】

"Antique manufacturing method...done!"

Lin Chuan cursed inwardly, thinking, experiencing professional life is like life, and life is like that, it is better to enjoy it than to resist!
In that case, let’s just go wild!
We are all in the virtual world, who would be timid?
Anyway, as long as you don't cheat or buy fake goods in real life, you won't be investigated or taken to the police station.

It's not illegal to forge antiques, so there's nothing wrong with writing a novel about antique forgery techniques, right?
At this time.

Virtual and reality begin to intertwine.

The moonlight outside the window gradually became hazy in Lin Chuan's eyes, and the scene of renting a house faded in front of Lin Chuan's eyes, replaced by an old courtyard.

Lin Chuan's consciousness descended into the virtual world.

He stood in front of the gate of the old courtyard. The copper ring on the mottled wooden door had been worn smooth by time.

I pushed the door open and it creaked. At the same time, a strong aroma of soil and charcoal hit me in the face. I looked up and saw that the bluestone floor inside was brightly washed by rain.

The blue bricks on the wall have turned yellow. There are several strings of wind chimes hanging under the eaves. When the breeze blows, they make crisp and pleasant sounds. There are also ceramic bodies of various shapes hanging, some are round like jade, and some are simple and elegant.

"Brother Lin, you're back!"

At this time, a young girl about eighteen years old came running over.

She was wearing a simple sky blue cloth dress, which made her look elegant and generous in its simplicity. She had a refreshing scent of earth on her body, and her face was dirty and covered with mud.

However, her expression showed a hint of pain.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Chuan didn't know the whole story yet, so he asked curiously.

"The ceramic merchants in our county have united and refused to accept our ceramics, which has forced us into a dead end. We can only sell them in small quantities, but the money we earn is not enough to support the continued operation of our Lin's workshop." said the NPC girl.

“Why are they rejecting our ceramics?”

Lin Chuan frowned.

The girl lowered her head and said softly, "The son of the president of the Ceramics Association studied abroad. His philosophy on ceramics is completely opposite to yours, but your ceramic works are always better than his. Last time, you got drunk and said something wrong, saying that no one in the entire county knows how to appreciate your work. So, he exaggerated the words and made a big fuss about it, which led to the current situation."

hiss!
Lin Chuan couldn't help but take a breath.

This opening has the flavor of an online novel.

"So we can't continue to make Lin's Ceramics now, right?" Lin Chuan looked at the NPC girl and asked.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on until the next month." The girl's voice was filled with tears.

Lin Chuan thought for a moment and said, "Then we won't support it. We will declare bankruptcy now and give workers a subsidy. Remember it's N+1. We are a conscientious company after all."

"what?"

The girl was stunned for a moment, "What else can we do if we don't make ceramics?"

"Let's switch to antique ceramics first." Lin Chuan smiled and said, "My Lin family is a ceramics family. It's reasonable to pass down a few pieces of vintage ceramics, right?"

The girl was even more confused and couldn't understand what Lin Chuan was saying.

Lin Chuan quickly put himself into the role of the virtual world: the owner of Lin’s Ceramics, and learned some basic information.

but.

The first thing he did was to change the name of "Lin's Ceramics" to "Lin's Antiques".

Since my profession is an antique maker, I must deal with antiques!
As for the so-called son of the president of the Ceramics Chamber of Commerce, Lin Chuan ignored him completely. He switched from the ceramic circle to the antique and collectibles circle to achieve a dimensionality reduction attack.

Well known.

Gold in troubled times, collection in prosperous times.

There is a chain of contempt in all circles.

At the top of the contempt chain in the ceramic circle is the cultural relics circle.

Say what you want and do it.

In the virtual world, Lin Chuan has always been a man of action. He has already decided in his mind which piece of antique ceramic to forge... bah, he has already decided which piece of antique ceramic to make.

Five-color bowl with fish and algae pattern from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

This piece of porcelain is not particularly old, but its market price ranges from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan, so Lin Chuan plans to use it to practice.

then.

Lin Chuan then went to visit the antique market in the county.

The first step in replicating antiques is to imitate them.

The commonly used methods of imitation include new painting on old body, old glaze on new body, new ware on old parts, and re-firing.

After strolling around the antique market, Lin Chuan found a batch of Qing Dynasty white-bodied bamboo bowls with a diameter of about 21 cm and a height of 7.5 cm, which are basically the same size as the 'Qing Dynasty Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Patterned Bamboo Bowl'.

Of course, this is a virtual world.

It is a gift from the system.

Therefore, Lin Chuan planned to imitate it using the method of "new painting on old tires".

The so-called old body with new painting is more commonly made by using white body from the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and painting overglaze colors such as pastels on it. In this way, people cannot tell the authenticity from the condition of the body.

Having only the white body from the Qing Dynasty is not enough.

As the saying goes, 'One spoonful is clear, two spoonfuls are Song, and three spoonfuls return to the cave on the top of the mountain.'

If you want to turn modern products into ancient collectibles, you need both technology and hard work.

Lin Chuan ran to a few more places.

I bought some chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid, permanganic acid, and also went to get some Chinese medicine.

This made the NPC girl Xiaoqing startled: "Brother Lin, are you sick?"

“Not getting sick is the key to making money.”

Lin Chuan smiled.

Imitation is the first step, and the second step is to make it look old.

This step is done very skillfully. Even the bowls that the chickens at home peck at can make an expert look at them with a magnifying glass for a long time, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Everything is ready, let’s start working now!
Back at Linchuan Antiques, Linchuan took out the newly purchased white-bodied bamboo hat bowl and began to imitate it.

The first step is painting.

'Qing Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Pattern Hat Bowl' is an overglaze color.

Therefore, Lin Chuan took out the prepared white body of the conical bowl and colorful pigments, and began to paint patterns on the inner and outer walls of the bowl.

The 'antique manufacturing method' allowed Lin Chuan to master the relevant skills, and drawing patterns was not a difficult task for Lin Chuan.

Soon, the painting was completed. The next step was the second firing.

Lin Chuan skillfully puts the glazed bowl into the kiln for the second firing.
This process is called glaze firing.

The temperature and time of glaze firing need to be strictly controlled to ensure that the glaze can be completely melted and tightly combined with the white body of the bowl.

At the same time, glaze firing can also make the painted colors more vivid and durable.

Remove from oven and allow to cool.

Lin Chuan and the NPC girl Xiaoqing saw a colorful bowl with fish and algae patterns that was skillfully and elegantly painted and brightly colored.

The outer wall of the bamboo hat bowl shows four swimming fish in blue, green, black and red.

The inner wall of the bowl is decorated with colorful patterns of flowers, birds and butterflies, with lush branches and leaves, clusters of flowers, colorful butterflies fluttering in the air, and kingfishers leaping onto the branches, forming a vivid painting of flowers and birds.

After polishing, it’s the third step.

Make it old.

There are many ways to make something look old.

Such as: calendering, polishing, glazing, hand grinding, water grinding, oil grinding, acid immersion, mixed immersion, oxidation, oil staining, and soil burial.

Other methods include boiling with tea, fumigating with incense, and applying fine charcoal ash.

Of course.

Nowadays, many low-end imitations, in order to reduce costs, generally use potassium permanganate to create an effect on the glaze.

Relatively high-end imitations will use the method of soaking in traditional Chinese medicine to create the effect of old porcelain.

However, there are not many people who can master this aging technique.

Lin Chuan used this method to imitate the 'Qing Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Pattern Cone-Hat Bowl'.

Before this.

He lightly tapped the rim of the bowl, and a 'chicken claw pattern' appeared.

Afterwards, Lin Chuan placed the colorful fish and algae patterned bamboo bowl into the well-proportioned Chinese medicine, added a small amount of alcohol, and dropped a small drop of potassium permanganate.

Wait for completion.

"Brother Lin, this porcelain is already of great artistic value, why do you need to soak it?" Xiaoqing on the side still didn't know what Lin Chuan was going to do, so she asked curiously.

Lin Chuan smiled and said, "It's not enough to have artistic value, it also has to have historical value."

"Huh? What does that mean?"

"After it's soaked, it will turn into porcelain from the Qing Dynasty. One piece of porcelain is worth hundreds of thousands." Lin Chuan raised his eyebrows.

Xiaoqing's eyes widened and her mouth opened wide: "So much, it makes much more money than making ceramics!"

"Of course." Lin Chuan said with a smile.

Wait until the soaking is complete.

Lin Chuan did a series of processing work, and then he and Xiaoqing took the "Qing Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Pattern Conical Hat Bowl" to the most famous treasure appraiser in the county for appraisal.

Not surprisingly.

The treasure appraiser carefully examined the newly fired 'Qing Kangxi Five-Colored Fish and Algae Pattern Conical Hat Bowl' and was greatly surprised. He immediately expressed his desire to buy the bowl at a high price of 40.

But Lin Chuan did not sell it to the treasure appraiser.

I have to find a way to sell this bowl to the son of the president of the Ceramics Chamber of Commerce, otherwise I would be sorry for his efforts in trying to trip me up.

……

Later, Lin Chuan imitated various antiques.

Calligraphy and paintings, bronzes, jades, wooden antiques... He was so good at it all, without ever having to try his hand at anything. He created a great reputation in the antique circle and was hailed as a master in the antique circle.

Ah, master of counterfeiting.

But the philosophical question of 'truth and falsehood' is difficult to delve into.

The pinnacle of antique counterfeiting: As long as no one says it is fake, then it is real!
The experience life in the virtual world ends.

Lin Chuan's consciousness returned to reality.

After many virtual world simulations, he gradually got used to this kind of mental stress.

The system's voice sounded——

[Host, you have acquired the ability: Antique Manufacturing Method. ]

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"Twenty thousand average subscriptions... Damn it!"

Lin Chuan spat and went straight to sleep.

Twenty thousand average subscriptions, there are not many copies of the entire Qihang novel, is this so easy to do?

Sleep, sleep, everything is in your dreams!
The night gradually fades.

The rising sun in the early morning casts golden light, covering the ancient streets in a hazy golden hue. The blue-grey bricks and stones are covered with mottled moss, and the dew on them shines in the sun.

Outside the window of the rented house, the breeze blew gently, bringing a hint of coolness and the fragrance of flowers and plants in the distance. Occasionally, there were a few birds singing, crisp and pleasant.

'bang bang bang-'

The iron door of the rented house was knocked heavily, breaking the silence of the early morning.

Lin Chuan woke up from his sleep and heard the landlady shouting outside the door: "Chairman, get up, I have something urgent to discuss with you!"

"what's up?"

Lin Chuan, wearing shorts, opened the iron door and let the young landlady into the room.

As she didn't have to go to work today, the young landlady wore a loose white T-shirt that covered her denim shorts. Her "bottom part was missing," revealing her long white legs as she swayed in front of Lin Chuan.

Lin Chuan's sleepiness was somewhat shaken off.

The young landlady smiled brightly, pulled Lin Chuan to sit down, put two breakfasts on the table, blinked, and looked at Lin Chuan.

Lin Chuan was slightly startled: "Don't you have something urgent to do?"

"Yes, the urgent matter is to wake you up and have breakfast." The young landlady said with a smile.

"Thanks."

Lin Chuan looked at the breakfast on the table, then looked at the landlady, and asked with a smile, "Is there really nothing else?"

The landlady giggled, a hint of playfulness appeared on her face, and then she took out a bracelet and said, "Yes, this morning, a customer sent me a message asking me if I would sell this century-old red agate bracelet. I didn't know what was going on, so I came to you for advice."

Lin Chuan glanced at the hundred-year-old red agate bracelet and frowned: "Isn't this the one that Aunt Liu gave you?"

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