The Book of Appreciation

"The disaster of extinction? The disaster of extinction is not inevitable, but the world is in chaos. This matter is very troublesome. Lao Han made it public at the Battle of Treasures. He just wanted to remind everyone, but he didn't expect that what he was afraid of would actually come. This news must be tightly sealed, so please don’t act yet, I guess only a small number of these items have flowed into antique shops, and a large number of transactions should be completed in private, and we can discuss it later.”

When Mr. Chang heard Wu Di's report, he had a headache and couldn't come up with any good opinions for a while, so he just asked them to wait.

"A catastrophe? I'm so convinced by you, kid, that I dare to fool my own master! What's the matter, the old man won't let you move, are you going back with me, or keep going?"

"Turn around, of course I'll keep on turning around. It's hard to come here. I don't want to just look at your big and small Wan grandpas and Wan grandsons and get out!"

Wang Yuwan chuckled, a silvery expression suddenly appeared on his face,

"That's it...brother, can we discuss something?"

Wu Di backed away a little, and looked at this guy vigilantly,

"Say, as long as I'm not allowed to sell myself, I can consider it."

Wang Yuwan glanced at the smiling Wen Lan speechlessly, and said weakly:

"I just want you to look at something for me. Do I need that kind of expression? Besides, even if I want to sell it, can you sell that copy?"

"Looking at something? Let me tell you earlier, I'm the best at this kind of thing, let's go, take a look, at worst, I'll cut my ass off if I like it!"

"Just cut it off, that guy wants another [-] million!"

"One hundred million? There are still things worth one hundred million in this market? Then we really need to take a closer look."

"Oh, it's really sad and inexplicable to say it. That's what happened. My brother and I are quite well-known in this market. There are often shopkeepers who ask me to help them look at the goods. They also know My hobbies, I keep all the bowls and dishes, and I have lost some friendship after going back and forth. But there is a guy who is too unethical. I don’t know where I got it two years ago. A Ru kiln celadon-glazed Arhat bowl from the early Song Dynasty, I knew I couldn't see it, but I showed it off in front of my eyes. "

Ru Kiln Celadon Glazed Arhat Bowl?Although the thing is said to be priceless, if it is really traded, if you can't find the right buyer, 5000 million will be the sky.However, Wu Di glanced at Wang Yuwan, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. When he met this guy named after the bowl, even if the boss reported [-] million yuan, it would not be too outrageous!

Wang Yuwan didn't pay attention to Wu Di's expression, he rubbed his hands together, as if there was something unspeakable, and after a while he said mysteriously:

"Do you think this Ru porcelain is so easy to get? When I saw that enamel porcelain just now, I was thinking, this one is not the same, huh? What is that?"

I rely on!Wu Di looked at this guy dumbfounded, bad guy, this guy is definitely a bad guy!How similar is his performance at this moment to a celebrity in history!What's that guy's name?Seems to be making the top ten villains happy in vain?Which history book records this?

Songxianqiao Antique Art City is located in the famous Huanhua Cultural Scenic Area by the Modi River in downtown Rongcheng. After more than ten years of painstaking management and development, it is now a prosperous scene.The antique shops and open-air stalls in the market are lined up one by one, like a "maze", and there is a feeling of "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, only because I am in this mountain".

Along the street, you can see countless Qin bricks and Han tiles, Ming and Qing porcelains, jade, pearl agate, mahogany carvings, bronze Buddha statues, crystal stones, etc., which are dizzying.It's just that after doing this, even a layman like Wen Lan saw something wrong. Are there really so many antiques?

Wang Yuwan led the two of them, turned around in this maze-like street, and came to a decorated antique shop, Wu Di looked up, hehe, Jianguzhai, the name is so worry-free Ah, just like Xiao Ming, it can appear in almost every antique market!

Liu Changshui, the shopkeeper, was drinking tea with his legs crossed. Today's business was good. He fooled two foreigners. A set of Jingdezhen fine porcelain, a modern art piece, sold for 32 yuan!Save a little, enough to cover the store's expenses for half a year.

Wang Yuwan took the lead, stepped into the door of the store and began to greet loudly,

"Old Liu, my brother has brought you a big customer. Hurry up and take out the treasure of your town store. As long as the price is right, you can let it move today!"

The light in the store was a little dim, and Liu Changshui squinted his eyes for half a second before he recognized Wang Yuwan, who hadn't been in the store for almost two years. He couldn't help being overjoyed, trotted up to greet him, and said with a smile:

"Master Wang, looking forward to the stars and the moon can be regarded as looking forward to you. Let's not talk about business matters, let's talk about the past, and try my real West Lake Longjing!"

Wang Yuwan shook his head and said seriously:

"I'll talk about drinking tea later. Greet my little brother. As long as your Arhat bowl is worth [-] million, even [-] million will be fine!"

Liu Changshui and Wu Di smiled wryly at the same time, the resentment in Wang Yuwan's words is very great!

Several people exchanged pleasantries, and the waiter led the three of them straight to the VIP room on the second floor, while Liu Changshui went to invite his baby.

The VIP room is not big, and the decoration is very elegant. The waiter went downstairs after serving the tea, and Wu Di didn't sit down. He looked around, and his eyes were involuntarily attracted by a painting on the wall.

"I have become a poor man for half my life, and I have been studying in my study room. There is nowhere to sell the pearls at the bottom of the brush, and I throw them among the wild vines. Hehe, Xu Wei's black grapes, this boss is also a person who is unwilling to be lonely!"

Xu Wei, courtesy name Wenchang, nicknamed Tianchi Shanren, was a famous writer, calligrapher, painter, and military strategist in the Ming Dynasty. His artistic style is bold and unrestrained, and he is best at majestic wild grass.His freehand ink flower-and-bird paintings, full of vigor and unrestrained momentum, had a great influence on later generations. Zheng Banqiao, Qi Baishi and others highly respected him.

Grapes are a subject that Xu Wei painted quite a lot, but there are several versions of "Ink Grapes", which are collected by the Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the Palace Museum. Moreover, speaking of "Grapes", there is a widely circulated story .Wu Di saw that Wen Lan had also approached, so he started to show off.

"It is said that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Lei Mingyang, who lived in the official residence, built three very exquisite pavilions from bottom to top on the Nanshan Mountain behind Jingzhong Temple. Ask a well-educated and talented scholar to write the names of the three pavilions according to the transformation of the mountain scenery, and Xu Wei, a talented scholar from Shanyin in Kuaiji, came to mind.

Xu Wei lived up to his high expectations, went up the mountain to view the scenery and came up with a name. After a tiring day, he inscribed three plaques for the three Mingyang pavilions, "Dicui Pavilion", "Yixin Pavilion" and "Tide Viewing Pavilion". Later, seeing that it was getting late, he decided to stay overnight. In Jingzhong Temple.In the evening when he had nothing to do, he just wanted to play a game with the abbot.He never thought that just after stepping into the abbot's room, he would be attracted by a "Picture of Grapes" hanging on the wall facing him.He watched it carefully and figured it out carefully. He felt that this picture has both spirit and shape, and the objects are like today and lifelike.

Xu Wei was very puzzled, so he asked the abbot for advice.The abbot said: "This is the posthumous work of Master Zhiyuan, the founder of our temple in the previous dynasty. Because he loved the wild vines and grapes he planted all his life and was good at painting, he left this picture and became a treasure handed down from generation to generation in this temple. As for the inscription The main reason for the inscription is that I am afraid that mediocre people will spoil this picture."

Then he complimented Xu Wei and begged him to write poems and leave words, and Xu Wei readily agreed.He stared at the picture of grapes, thought for a long time, and thought, Master Zhiyuan can find good varieties of grapes from wild vines in the mountains and cultivate them, and he will become famous for them, but I am full of literary talents, but like a pearl that no one knows, I only lose my talent. Frustrated in his official career, his life has been bumpy, and now he is in his [-]s, and he is still homeless... Thinking of this, I can't help but feel sad, so I took a pen and wrote this famous work called "The Picture of Grapes" on the picture..."

"Okay, this little brother is a gentleman at first glance. Although I have heard many versions of this story, none of them are as complete and beautiful as my little brother's telling!"

There was a burst of applause at the door, but it was Liu Changshui who arrived with his baby.

There were three pieces of porcelain that Liu Changshui brought over, and Wu Di fixed his eyes on the Arhat bowl at a glance.I saw that the Arhat bowl was about 7 cm high, 14 cm in diameter, and about 8 cm in base.The shape is ancient and clumsy, the bowl body is skimmed, the rim of the bowl is extravagant, the belly is deep and arc-shaped, the ring foot is skimmed outward, and there are obvious tear marks on the bowl wall.

Gently knocking, the sound is crisp, the carcass is light and thin, and the whole body is covered with light azure glaze, which is a standard incense ash carcass.

There are three small sesame nails on the bottom of the bowl, and there are papillae in the center of the bottom of the bowl. The overall glaze color is warm and moist like jade, and it feels very delicate and comfortable when brushed.There are small cracks on the glaze surface, and when viewed with a magnifying glass, many agate crystals can be vaguely seen in the glaze, shining golden light, which is very exquisite.

Wu Di looked at the bowl once, and then stared at the thin part of the glaze on the wall of the bowl. There is a slight redness here, which is the color of the bottom glaze, and there is no problem.

"Thin as silkworm wings, the sound is like a fragrance, and the glaze is like a lake reflecting the blue sky. Not bad, this bowl is a typical early Song Dynasty Ru kiln azure-glazed Arhat bowl, a good thing hidden by Mr. Liu."

Liu Changshui smiled modestly, and said not without complacency:

"By chance, by chance, this treasure is really lucky!"

Wang Yuwan glanced at him resentfully, since Wu Di said so, it seems that this stuff is really genuine.Your grandma, since she got it by chance, she just opened her mouth and asked me for [-] million. Isn't that obviously bullying me, a fool like me?

Wu Di looked at the remaining two pieces again. Although they could barely be called high-quality goods, they were far worse than this bowl, and asked immediately:

"Boss Liu, your Ru Kiln Arhat Bowl is indeed a masterpiece, I am very interested. I don't know what price you want to give it up?"

Liu Changshui pondered and said:

"Little brother, since you were brought here by Yuwan, I won't tell any stories, but this thing is indeed hard-won, so I'll give you the same price as I offered Yuwan at that time, what do you think?"

"One hundred million? It's a bit expensive, boss. Since you are brother Yuwan's friend, I won't lower your price. 6000 million is fine. If not, I'll look at the others. What do you think?"

Liu Changshui began to quickly calculate in his mind. This piece of porcelain has been famous in the past two years, and many people came to see it, but the highest price is only 800 million from a giant merchant. It is reasonable that Wu Di's price is already very good.

However, he did not believe at all that this young man wanted to buy the Arhat Bowl. This was definitely a trick played by Wang Yuwan, and he found a puppet who could change the price!According to this, the price can of course go up and up, but this Wang Yuwan is also a stubborn donkey. He offered a price of [-] million, and he didn't even pay the price. If he missed it, how long will it take to sell it at this price again?

Wu Di waited for a while, saw that he was still hesitating, stood up, and said with a smile:

"Boss Liu, I think this price is fair. Since you don't want to give up, please put it away. But, I suddenly fell in love with the picture of grapes on your wall. May I ask which famous artist copied it?" ?”

Liu Changshui was taken aback for a moment, what do you mean?I don't want this porcelain anymore, so I bought a painting instead? (To be continued.)