Jianbao life

Chapter 539 Engagement

Wu Ke said with a frowning face: "Ah! Then we must not run to our deaths during the New Year holidays!"

Chu Chen explained with a smile: "It's not as exaggerated as you are. Our family usually gathers for dinner during the New Year and holidays. At most, it's just a few more places where grandpa will visit."

Hearing what Chu Chen said, Wu Ke finally breathed a sigh of relief. If he really had to run all of them, his legs would be broken.

When Chu Chen and Wu Ke finished talking, Liu Sizhe came up to him with a charming smile and said, "Brother Chen, how did you do that trick just now, teach me!"

Seeing his appearance, Chu Chen knew that nothing good happened, but he also didn't understand what Liu Sizhe meant, so he asked, "What kind of trick?"

"Just now you said that someone is coming soon, and then Mr. Chu and the others all came over."

Liu Sizhe rubbed his hands together and said, "Do you have any secrets, teach me!"

Chu Chen said dumbfoundedly: "What's the secret of this thing? I just said it casually. Who knew that Grandpa and the others just happened to arrive?"

"Really?" Liu Sizhe said in disbelief.

"Is that still false?" Chu Chen said speechlessly, "If I could really predict, then I wouldn't stay at home and speculate in stocks. It won't take long for me to become a billionaire."

"That's right!" Liu Sizhe said with some distress: "It would be great if you really had the ability to predict!"

"Why, what's the trouble?" Chu Chen asked with a smile.

"Am I being so obvious?" Liu Sizhe asked curiously.

"Trouble is written on your face, do you think it's obvious!" Chu Chen said with a smile, "Tell me what's going on!"

"This one……"

Liu Sizhe glanced at Wang Xiaoyue who was talking to Wen Yuting and the others, and then leaned into Chu Chen's ear and said:
"Brother Chen, you don't know. My grandpa and parents found out about Wang Xiaoyue and I being in a relationship. That day, my ass blossomed. If I hadn't argued hard, my parents would probably have known about it. Forced to break off relationship with Wang Xiaoyue. In order to punish me, they not only cut off my source of income, but also had to pay for the money for Meimei (Wen Meimei)’s family. Uncle can bear it, aunt can’t bear it. !"

After listening to Liu Sizhe's explanation, Chu Chen was a little stunned. No wonder Liu Haoran and his wife looked at Wang Xiaoyue with strange eyes just now. So that's what happened!

"Then why did you still have a smile on your face when Brother Haoran was present just now?" Chu Chen said with a chuckle.

"Both girls, if I really have to show them face, then Xiaoyue and I really have to forget about it." Liu Sizhe said with a sad face.

"Oh!" Chu Chen said with a chuckle, "Then tell me, what do you and Xiaoyue think?"

"Well, of course we want to get married!" Liu Sizhe said naturally.

"So soon?" Chu Chen looked stunned. Although he and Wu Ke had only been friends for a few months, they had lived together for two years, and they knew each other's personalities very well, so they thought of it so quickly. marry.

"Soon? Xiaoyue and I have been classmates for several years!" Liu Sizhe said with a strange face: "And I think, Xiaoyue's personality just complements mine. When we get married in the future, she will definitely be mine. A good wife."

"Forget about it!" Chu Chen patted his forehead, and then said: "Then if you don't have enough money, you can borrow it from me then!"

"Aha! Brother Chen, I really love you!" Liu Sizhe laughed while hugging Chu Chen.

"Go away!" Chu Chen laughed and cursed, pushing Liu Sizhe away.

Seeing Liu Sizhe's appearance, the others were all very curious, and Fatty Dong winked at Wang Xiaoyue and said, "Xiaoyue, it seems that your guy has begun to develop a habit of breaking sleeves."

Fatty Dong waved his hand before Liu Sizhe laughed and cursed, "Get out of here!"

Everyone laughed for a while, and Chu Chen asked, "By the way, Ah Zhe, when are you going to go to your cousin's hometown?"

"I think this month's No. 15 will be about the same. Let's go over there first to find out the situation!" Liu Sizhe said after thinking about it.

"No.15!" Chu Chen frowned and thought for a while, "I promised others to participate in a treasure appraisal program, and the date seems to be around No.15. If I go that day, it seems impossible!"

Hearing what Chu Chen said, Liu Sizhe immediately asked excitedly, "Appraisal program? National TV?"
"No way, it's from Beijing TV Station." Chu Chen replied.

"The ones in Beijing are not bad either!" Liu Sizhe said excitedly, "I didn't expect you to be on TV, brother Chen. Also, with your qualifications, it's more than enough to be on appraisal shows."

"No, I participated in..."

"There are guests!"

Before Chu Chen finished speaking, Fatty Dong yelled again. Chu Chen stretched out his head to see that the family came this time, but Zhao Qirui's family was missing. It is said that the car broke down halfway. .

Next, there was another introduction and pleasantries as before, and then Chu Chen and Wu Ke invited Mr. Zhao into the house together, followed by Liu Sizhe and the others who were holding a lot of presents.

Then, it was busy until ten o'clock, and many guests came again, such as Mr. Qian, Guan Guokang, Wang Xiangong, and some old seniors and friends from the antique industry, all came together.

"Xiao Chen, I'm so sorry we're late!" Just after ten o'clock, Zhu Dafu and Zhao Xueyi also came over together.

Chu Chen waved his hands with a smile and said, "Where is it! It's not too late!"

"Come here! This is my gift to you, see if you like it!"

With that said, Zhu Dafu opened the box in his hand and brought it to Chu Chen.

Chu Chen took out the contents of the box to have a look, only to find that it turned out to be a gilt-copper painted enamel Baoxiang flower fish basket statue.

Fish basket statues were fired in both the early Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty. The former was used as a container, while the latter was used as a high-end display.Mingyong musical instruments have straight mouths, slippery shoulders, bulging belly, and curved round bottoms.Xuande utensils have open mouths, sloping shoulders, round belly and rounded feet.The products made during the Yongzheng and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty deliberately imitated bamboo-woven fish creels, with a plate mouth, a neck, a flat belly, and a flat bottom.

This fish basket statue was made during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.The ring mouth and foot mouth are gilded.The inner abdomen is painted with turquoise and green, and the soles of the feet are painted with white.The outer wall is covered with yellow ground, the neck is decorated with six green leaves and red flowers between the three blue grounds, and the abdomen is decorated with three large precious flowers surrounded by symmetrical green leaves.

The whole vessel is finely made of copper, round in shape, bright and clean in color, and exquisitely painted. It should be made by the Qing Palace Building Office.

Chu Chen roughly estimated that the price of this fish basket statue should be around 60, so he declined:
"Uncle Fu, you are really spending too much money, I..."

Zhu Dafu waved his hand and interrupted Chu Chen's words: "Xiao Chen, what you said is a bit out of line, you call me uncle, can't I give you a gift that I can do? Or are you looking down on me? ?”

Chu Chen said quickly: "Uncle Fu, how can I look down on you with what you said? I accept this fish basket!"

"That's right!" Zhu Dafu said with a smile.

"Thank you, Uncle Fu!" Wu Ke also expressed his thanks with a smile.

"Come on! I know Xiao Chen that you like porcelain, let's see if you like the one I chose?" Zhao Xueyi also opened the box and handed it to Chu Chen.

Inside the box is a holding pot, a wine vessel that appeared in the Sui Dynasty, also known as "zhuzi" and "zhuhu".That is, the wine jug that often appears in restaurants in costume TV dramas.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the holding pot had a round mouth, a short neck, a bulging belly, a cylindrical or hexagonal short straight line, and a crank handle. .

From the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty, the body of the vessel gradually became taller, with 4-6 melon ribs pressed on the whole body, the flow gradually became slender and slightly curved, the crank was higher than the spout, the flat bottom became a ring foot, and most of them were matched with injection bowls.Most of the Yuan wares are in the style of jade pots and spring bottles, and the curved flow and the neck of the pot are connected by S-shaped ornaments; after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the shapes increased, and they were mostly used as tea sets.

The body of this handle holding pot is in the shape of a jade pot spring bottle. There is a long curved flow on one side of the abdomen. The flow and the neck are connected by a cloud-shaped plate. It is beautiful and practical, and the design is ingenious. The small series was originally used to bind the lid of the pot. The lower part of the handle is decorated with three breast nails. The shape of the vessel is complex and changeable, graceful and beautiful.

The whole body of this pot is painted in blue and white, with rich layers and proper layout, without any sense of red tape.The neck is decorated with folded branches of camellia and curly grass patterns, the abdomen is symmetrically decorated with diamond-shaped consecration, and the inside is painted with folded branches of pomegranate and grape patterns, implying auspiciousness. The outer wall of the circle foot is decorated with wave patterns. Seal script.

The blue and white painting method of this pot focuses on imitating the brushwork of Yongxuan. The workmanship is beautiful and meticulous. Elegant and majestic, just like ink and wash, the flowers painted are delicate in strokes, smooth in spirit, beautiful but vigorous, and the body of the pot is beautiful and solid, stable and elegant.

All these make this holding pot unique, and it can be said to be a rare masterpiece among the holding pots fired by official kilns during the Qianlong period.

No matter how you look at this holding pot, it should be genuine, but when Chu Chen took this holding pot in his hand, the strange feeling suddenly appeared in his heart, which made Chu Chen feel a little bit nervous. Suddenly, could this holding pot be a fake?
Thinking of this, Chu Chen quickly used Lingbao Eye again. To his surprise, the pot was indeed a fake, but there was something hidden inside the pot.

Just when Chu Chen was about to take a closer look, Zhao Xueyi said with a smile: "Xiao Chen, how about it, do you like this holding pot?"

Chu Chen came back to his senses, and quickly said: "I like it, thank you, Uncle Zhao, for the gift!"

Not to mention that there is something hidden in this holding pot, even if there is no hidden thing, he will take it away, otherwise he said that this pot is a fake, so where is Zhao Xueyi's face?Moreover, Chu Chen would not believe that Zhao Xueyi would deliberately use a fake to fool him.

(End of this chapter)