Jianbao life

Chapter 648 One True Two False
That's what Ma Xiaoqiang said, but his character is in the same line as Ma Laocai. If he could kill him once, how could he not kill him? It's just because he is afraid of Ming Mazi, that's all he can say.Of course, if he really wanted to kill Chu Chen, he couldn't say it in person.

Ming Mazi also knew that what Ma Xiaoqiang said was beautiful, but he couldn't control these things. If Ma Laocai really dared to cheat later, or if the price was extremely high, then he would do what he said.

"Then let's go..."

Ma Xiaoqiang hurriedly led everyone into the hall, and then made a cup of tea for the three of them, then greeted them politely, and walked into the back room.

After a while, Ma Xiaoqiang pushed an old man in a wheelchair out. The old man looked like an honest man. If Chu Chen hadn't heard the story of Ma Laocai from Director Jin before, he would never have thought of it. Well, this ordinary old man in front of him turned out to be the kind of mean-spirited villain.

Ma Laocai was holding three boxes of different sizes. When he came to Chu Chen, Ma Xiaoqiang helped put the boxes on the table.

Afterwards, the two sides introduced each other and greeted each other, and Ma Laocai said with a smile: "Some time ago, I did miss a few things, but I can guarantee that there is nothing wrong with the things I took out today."

Those present, even Ming Mazi's brains are very good, otherwise he would not become a local snake. Hearing Ma Laocai's words, he said with a bad face: "According to your intention, these You can't guarantee that things are genuine?"

Ma Laocai spread his hands: "I really think that my things are genuine, but my level is limited. Whether they are real or not depends on your eyesight. You can't say. If I say something is genuine, you will believe it unconditionally." Bar?"

The reasoning is like this, but Ma Laocai's saying this is to clear his responsibility. Even if he deliberately brought out fake things, he can still say that he lost his eyes when buying things, and Chu Chen can't do anything about him.

Anyway, Ma Laocai already looks like this, and he doesn't have much fame at all. Even if rumors spread about him, it won't have any effect on him. Besides, with his current appearance, no matter how famous he is, he can't just rely on money.

After figuring out the tricks, Ming Mazi felt very angry. Just when he was about to say some harsh words, Chu Chen waved his hand and said, "First read the things before talking!"

"Please……"

Ma Laocai laughed, asked his son to open all the boxes, and then made a gesture of invitation.

Inside the three boxes are jade articles, pen holders and a figurine of a Hu man riding a three-color camel.

The three things looked pretty good, but Chu Chen took them out and looked at them carefully, but he only fell in love with the pen holder among them.

This pen holder is a bamboo carving Zhang Qian Chengcha pen holder in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Qian riding a raft is a well-known myth in ancient times. It is said that Emperor Wu sent Zhang Qian to find the source of the Yellow River. Zhang Qian traveled upstream on a raft (raft). After a long time, he passed through a deserted area and arrived at a densely populated market town. Men farm and women weave, orderly.

He walked into a house and saw the hostess of the house was weaving, and her husband was leading the ox to drink water.

Zhang Qian was very surprised and asked them, "What is this place?"

The host pointed to the river where the cow was drinking and said, "This is Tianhe."

The hostess gave Zhang Qian a stone to support the loom. After Zhang Qian brought it back, the well-informed Dongfang Shuo recognized it as a filling stone for the weaving girl in the sky.

Later, the allusion of "Zhang Qian rides a boat" was used as a metaphor for an envoy traveling far.

This story is involved in Tang and Song poetry, Yuan, Ming and Qing dramas, etc. Similarly, many sculptures in antiques are also made with this theme.

This pen holder is just like this. The whole body adopts high-relief carving techniques, with superb skills, and the characters and plots are vividly depicted. After careful observation, Chu Chen thinks that the technique of "San Zhu" bamboo carving should be used, which is considered a relatively good bamboo carving. pen holder.

Seeing that Chu Chen finished reading the things, Ma Laocai asked with a smile, "Young Master Chu, what do you think of these three things?"

Chu Chen pointed to the pen holder: "Just this one, the other two don't match."

Hearing what Chu Chen said, Ma Laocai felt a little anxious immediately, and the reason is very simple. Although he played tricks with his words earlier, he bought the things with real money. Although what Chu Chen said now is euphemistic, The meaning is already there, the two most expensive items are fakes.

Ma Xiaoqiang was even more impatient than Ma Laocai. He immediately questioned Chu Chen, "How could such a good thing be a fake? You misread it!"

"Xiao Yu, don't be rude!"

Ma Laocai glared at Ma Xiaoqiang. Ma Xiaoqiang wanted to say something, but when he saw Ming Mazi's murderous eyes, his aura immediately dropped.

Afterwards, Ma Laocai turned his head and asked with a smile, "Young Master Chu, can you tell me the reason why your eyes don't match?"

"Okay, let's talk about this double crane ornament first."

Chu Chen nodded with a smile, then picked up the jade in the box.

The white jade texture of this device looks warm and delicate. It is made of round carved double cranes. One crane holds Ganoderma lucidum in its mouth, and its curved neck is in a lying shape when looking back. Walking is full of movement.

"Mr. Ma, this ornament is indeed in the style of the mid-Ming Dynasty, and in terms of the level of carving, it is indeed quite good, but the flaws are also very obvious."

Chu Chen explained: "Generally speaking, when the ancients were making jade, they didn't need to play with their hands like we do in modern times. There is no need for anything that gets brighter as it is played. This is because a jade craftsman is carving When making jade, he would play with and examine the jade for a long time, and the warmth of the jade has come out during this process, so there is no need for future generations to play with it."

"And to look at jade, you must look at the carver. Every line of the old jade carver is connected to the end, and there will never be a broken line, because the jade carver is carved one at a time. You may not have looked carefully before. You On this ornament, some of the feather threads on Shuanghe's body are broken, this is called Qikou in our fake jade business."

"The reason is that this jade is carved with a modern machine. During the carving process, the craftsman took a breath, and the jade shook on the grinding wheel, forming such a 'gas hole'. Ordinary people without experience can't see it. And This kind of situation is absolutely impossible in the Tuozigong used in ancient jadeware, or in manual methods."

Speaking of it, the ancients were very strict in making jade, and it often took a short time to complete a fine jade article, and ancient craftsmen would not process it carelessly.For example, on the jade walls with valley nail pattern in the Han Dynasty, the arrangement of the valley nails on it is very regular.
According to the formal method, the space should be calculated in advance by the craftsman. What is the diameter of the jade bi and how many pieces can be made?

If you see half of the valley nail patterns on a piece of jade wall, then it must be due to insufficient calculations in the production process by later generations, resulting in mistakes, that is to say, that piece of jade wall is not a fake or an imitation.

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, Ma Laocai quickly took the things into his hands, looked carefully, and found that the feathers on the two cranes did have a small amount of "air holes", which made him both heartbroken and annoyed, and kept on Blame myself, why didn't I pay more attention to this aspect at the beginning?

Not only Ma Laocai, but Ma Xiaoqiang was also very heartbroken. He muttered to himself: "How could such a fine jade be a fake? Could it be that the craftsman didn't pay attention when it was made?"

Chu Chen smiled slightly and said: "The quality of this piece of jade is still good. It was a relatively precious thing in the Ming Dynasty, so the possibility of the situation you mentioned is very small. In addition, apart from the 'qi mouth', The patina of this jade article should be formed by long-term grinding with special substances such as bran."

Ma Xiaoqiang directly denied it: "It's a bit wrong for you to say that, the patina of this jade is obviously very soft and natural, it's impossible for it to be ground with bran."

"Yes, most of the patina on the surface of this jade is indeed like this, but look here!" As he said, Chu Chen pointed to several inconspicuous places on the jade.

Ma Laocai and his son were dumbfounded when they saw it, because the patina there was indeed too bright and frivolous, and experienced people could tell that it was not formed naturally.

"How could this happen!" Ma Xiaoqiang exclaimed in shock.

"I think it's normal." Chu Chen said: "The previous owner of this jade pendulum probably didn't see that it was a fake, or he liked it very much after seeing the fake, so he bought it for a while. However, we Pan jade always has dead corners, especially the height of this jade is nearly eleven centimeters, and these remaining places should be the places where the original owner did not coil it."

There is also "air mouth", and the patina of the jade is not right. No matter how hard the father and son don't believe it, they also know that this jade is indeed a fake. Fortunately, the quality of this jade is good, and the carving is also good. My personal eyesight is as good as the young man in front of me, and it is very likely that I can sell it to others in the future.

What the father and son thought, Chu Chen didn't know. Anyway, for him, even if the quality of this jade was really good, he would definitely not buy it unless the carver could reach the level of a master.Instead of buying such a thing, he might as well carve one himself.

After a while, Ma Laocai came back to his senses, and asked Chu Chen with a wry smile, "Young Master Chu, what about this tri-colored Hu man riding a camel?"

Needless to say, Tang Sancai is famous and precious. There are pottery horses, pottery figurines and pottery camels, and their shapes are generally very particular.In particular, camels have been seen since the Han and Tang Dynasties, especially in the tombs of the Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)