The Book of Appreciation

Wu Di closed the door, thought for a while, and went back to get the car keys. Maybe he would explain a lot less when he saw this thing.

As usual, it was a morning meeting. After the morning meeting, Manager Zhao hurried out with Sister Leng. They had to bid at 09:30, and it was said that they were quite sure.Wu Di informed everyone in the business department that he invited him to dinner at noon. Several people speculated about his purpose, and he said mysteriously:

"Hehe, I made a small fortune, please have a good meal."

Wu Di left the company and went straight to Panjiayuan. It was only nine o'clock after he parked the car. He came to Mingtangzhai. Wen Yaru had just finished breakfast and was reading the morning newspaper.Surprised to see him coming, he asked:

"Not going to work? Why are you here again? By the way, I forgot to ask you last time, is the weight of the brick and inkstone filled with some metal?"

Wu Di stretched out his thumb and said:

"That's right, the lead water was evenly applied on the wall of the cave. I guess the weight of the lead water should be the same as the weight of the things he dug out. By the way, I took a picture. It was too messy last time, so I forgot to take it." come out."

It was taken with an antique Gionee straight phone, and the effect was not very good. Wen Yaru looked at it twice, shook his head and sighed:

"The thoughts of the ancients, hey, I found that prodigal son again. He didn't know where his old man got the brick and inkstone. He didn't even know when he collected it, and he couldn't even tell the approximate time. This In fact, it is the sorrow of many Tibetan friends, who have collected a lot of treasures with painstaking efforts, and some of the successors can say that if none of the descendants likes them, most of these things will end up in the fate of being auctioned."

Wu Di didn't know how to answer the conversation, so he smiled embarrassingly.Wen Yaru laughed and said:

"Old man, I feel a lot of emotion, by the way, what are you doing here today?"

"I'm going to resign and I want to learn some knowledge of appraisal. Brother Wen, you can be my master in the future."

"It's impossible, you know everyone like Chang Lao, why don't you ask him?"

Wu Di smiled wryly, where is this going? I'll talk about it later, Wen Yaru waved his hand and said:

"I can teach you what you want to learn, but let's not talk about apprenticeship."

Seeing his resolute attitude, Wu Di nodded.Wen Yaru looked at him with a half-smile, and Wu Di was very uncomfortable to see him, so he quickly checked his clothes and asked:

"Brother Wen, what, what's wrong?"

"What's wrong? Of course it's very wrong. Since you're learning appraisal from me, even though I'm not your master, shouldn't you change this name?"

"Oh, Brother Wen, no, Uncle Wen, can I call you Uncle Wen from now on?"

"The old man is already in his sixties. He is more than enough to be your uncle. Hey, I feel so relieved. I was careless on the train and asked you to call Brother Wen for so long. Now I have finally corrected my seniority."

Wu Di smiled bitterly and said:

"Uncle Wen, if you have an opinion, you should say it early. By the way, I call you old brother, and I call myself a lot older."

"Don't talk nonsense, what do you want to learn? Porcelain? Jade? Miscellaneous?"

"Jade mainly refers to ancient jade, so I'd better learn porcelain first."

Wen Yaru stood up, took out a few books from the bookcase behind him, and handed them to Wu Di,

"Read these few books first, come to take the exam in a month, if you fail, don't mention playing collection!"

Wu Di picked up the book and read, Geng Baochang's "Ming and Qing Porcelain Appraisal", Ye Zhemin's "History of Chinese Ceramics", Feng Xianming's "Chinese Ceramics", and Xu Zhiheng's "Yinliuzhai Talking about Porcelain".There are four big rushes, and I can't help complaining.Wen Yaru had a smile on his face, but he was not tolerant, and said:

"If you want to learn something but don't want to endure hardship, what's the matter? I won't keep you today, go home and study hard."

Wu Di smiled wryly and went out, walking towards Stone City.

On Monday, there were no people in Stone City. Because the glass seed was released, all the shop assistants knew Wu Di and greeted him warmly.Wu Di returned the salute one by one, and walked quickly to the backyard. He was afraid that the secret of his palm would be exposed more easily when Boss Qian came down to accompany him.

Wu Di thought about it in the middle of the night yesterday, and repeated experiments with double-sided tape. He found that although the cover of the wordless book is made of paper, it looks like it has been waxed or coated. After using the double-sided tape, it can be easily peeled off. After coming down, I used a little double-sided tape to fix the inner pages, and then stuck the book of heaven on the palm of my left hand after coming out of Wen Yaru's shop.

Wu Di clasped his left hand and walked into the backyard. There was no one in the backyard, only Xiao Liu followed in. Wu Di waved away people.

"Go ahead, I'll call you when you're done."

Xiao Liu promised to leave, and Wu Di took the time to walk towards the small pile of stones on the ground, one, two, three... Grabbed ten in a row and put them aside in order. Just as he straightened up, he heard Fatty Qian's voice ,

"Hey, little brother is here, don't worry, pick slowly, do you know that after you left yesterday, the stones here are almost sold out, fat brother, and these are urgently transferred from the warehouse Woolen cloth!"

"Really?"

"Haha, it's all thanks to my little brother's glass seed."

"I said why do I feel that the pile of stones today is a bit different from the original one."

Fatty Qian lowered his voice,

"Five hundred is the same price as the ocean, but those people heard that the glass seeds were opened from this pile of stones. Apart from anything else, they put them in their pockets. I shipped another one yesterday. The car is coming, well, that's all that's left."

"Then you sold me a hundred and one, wouldn't you lose a lot of money?"

"Haha, I still asked you for money? Did you hit your fat brother in the face? I'll leave it at that today. You can take as much of this kind of stone as you want. If I charge you money, I'm not a man!"

Wu Di followed the fat man to drink tea on the stone table in the courtyard. He passed a big stone and touched it. He felt that the surface was relatively smooth, and asked:

"Brother Qian, I don't seem to have seen this stone before."

"Brother, take a look first."

Wu Di first carefully looked at the big rock. This guy is about one meter long, and its width and height are more than [-] centimeters. It is a standard big guy in the wool. Looking for Songhua, and finally looking for the python belt, I turned around the stone, my squatting legs were numb, I didn't find anyone!

Wu Di looked at Fatty Qian suspiciously, and the fatty smiled bitterly and said:

"Don't be confused, everyone who has seen it has the same expression as you. In fact, the worst thing is on the lower side. I opened three windows, and they are all made of stone. This material is solid old pit material. In my case It has been stored here for seven or eight years. A few years ago, I took it out for display. Later, my old friends laughed at me for being too picky, so I threw it in the warehouse in a fit of anger. When I saw it yesterday when I was pulling the goods, I pulled it over for a few days. No one wanted it. I don’t know how I was so obsessed with it at the time, I bought such a big stone and came back, I really don’t remember it at all.”

Wu Di smiled, stopped looking at the stone, and chatted with the fat man over tea.

Wu Di had a reason to look for Fatty Qian. Although his Tianshu could distinguish the jadeite in the wool, it didn't have the quantity, and he didn't know the value of the jadeite.In this way, some oolong incidents may occur. For example, Tianshu judged that there was jade, and after Wu Di paid for it, he found that the jade that was grown in water was not as valuable as buying it.If it's because of the size, it's fine. If it's because he doesn't understand the value of various jadeites, Wu Di will probably vomit blood depressedly. I can't find someone to complain about this kind of thing. Can I tell others with a loudspeaker? What kind of jade, but I don't know how much it's worth, so if it's cut to pieces, won't it make people laugh?

In the hall in front of Fatty Qian, there are all kinds of finished jadeite products, and there are often people bidding for clear materials in the yard. Fatty Qian must be the most timely and accurate in grasping the price of jadeite. I am really sorry if I don’t take the opportunity to learn. Own.

There were few people on Monday, and Fatty Qian had nothing to do, so he had an in-depth exchange with Wu Di on the prices of various jadeites.During the period, when it came to Xingchu, he took various finished jadeite products, and told Wu Di the price difference between finished products and Ming materials, the difference between the northern and southern schools of carving, various methods of jadeite counterfeiting, etc., Wu Di seemed as if A new world was opened, and I was fascinated by it.

Fatty Qian was talking nonsense, the inner courtyard was in a hurry, and he went to the bathroom. Wu Di took out the magnifying glass and glanced at the reminder in the heavenly book. The method really worked. The first ten pieces had stones and rough stones, but no emerald. The No.11 piece was more complicated , which actually contains three kinds of jadeite, bean seed, glutinous seed and ice seed, but the color is average, mainly floating flowers.There is also No. 12, which actually has a piece of high ice and green spinach green material.

Wu Di put away the Tianshu close to his body, and began to think that this No. 11 piece should be the big stone that no one wanted. Unexpectedly, it is also a treasure. There are three kinds of water in a piece of wool, so the size must not be small.But which piece is No.12?Did I remember the wrong amount?Impossible, the ten small stones are still neatly placed there.

Fatty Qian solved his personal problem and came in a hurry. Wu Di subconsciously hid his left hand under the table and touched the stone pier under his buttocks. Wu Di suddenly realized that the stone pier was actually made of wool.

Fatty Qian asked Wu Di to have lunch together, and Wu Di remembered that he wanted to invite people from the department to dinner. He looked at his watch and saw that it was past eleven o'clock.The fat man was listening to the phone, knowing that he was really busy, so he didn't force him to stay, but he was welcome to come and sit from time to time.

Wu Di stood up, hesitated for a while, and decided to act first, if someone came to move the big man during the meal, wouldn't it be regrettable?Pointing to the big rock that no one wanted, he asked:

"Brother Qian, how do you sell this stone?"

"What, bro want to buy it? If you buy it... I'll give you 20, hehe, that piece must be old stuff, it's just a big bet."

Wu Di quickly swiped his card to pay the bill, told the fat man when he left, and came back after the dinner to explain the stone.As for the ice-high stone pier, he hasn't figured out how to deal with it yet, so let's let it go first.