Jianbao life

Chapter 709 Topaz Crab

After listening to Liu Sizhe's explanation, Fatty Dong and Zhang Yanbin finally understood what kind of jade Huang Yu was.

Then, Zhang Yanbin observed the crab with a bright flashlight, and then he suddenly thought of a question, and asked, "I said Xiao Chu, how did you know just now that the material of this crab is topaz? "

Chu Chen smiled slightly. He had already thought about his speech. After begging for the jade crab, he pointed to a joint of the crab's foot and said, "Look here!"

The three of them hurried up and found that the color of the place Chu Chen was pointing at was different from the color next to it, it was the color of authentic topaz.

"This...Brother Chu, your eyesight is really good, you can actually find this?" Fatty Dong said a little stunned.

Chu Chen smiled and waved his hands: "Of course I didn't discover it all at once. You didn't see that when I picked up this crab just now, I stopped for a while!"

Hearing what Chu Chen said, the three of them thought about it, and they all felt that there was such a thing, which made them sigh a little, that opportunities are really for those who are prepared.

"Oh!"

Liu Sizhe stared at that place and pondered for a moment, then suddenly said excitedly: "I see, this jade crab must have been treated. I said why this jade crab doesn't have the texture of jade to the touch, so it is so What's going on!"

Fatty Dong and Zhang Yanbin also realized that if there is no treatment, it is impossible for the two places to have such different performances. This is obviously caused by the fact that the potion and the like were not applied properly when the treatment layer was made.

Chu Chen nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, it should be coated with a layer of material, and then buried in the soil, which makes the appearance of the soil look so serious. Later, let's go buy something and deal with this jade article. , should be able to show its true colors."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go!" Fatty Dong said impatiently.

Seeing his eagerness, Chu Chen smiled teasingly and said, "Fatty, why aren't you hungry?"

"Gollum!"

Fatty Dong chuckled, and when he was about to say something, his stomach growled, which immediately caused everyone to burst into laughter.

"Well, let's go to dinner first, let's talk about this after dinner..."

Burmese food is closer to South Asian style. The main dishes are stews, curry stews, and lettuce, accompanied by fried small fish, and a lot of onions and lemons are used.There are few stir-fries.Cutlery is mainly plates and spoons.

Meals in restaurants are divided into dishes, one point per person, and a shared plate of lettuce.The lettuces are all local specialties, which are quite tropical rainforest style, and there is no oil or salt seasoning, raw chewing.

If this is the case, Chu Chen and others may not be used to eating. Fortunately, the restaurant that Zhang Yanbin took everyone to is a Chinese restaurant. The Chinese restaurant in Yangon will creatively combine Chinese food and Burmese food. In this way, both The characteristics of Burmese food, and the habit of Chu Chen and others to eat, are also very comfortable to eat.

However, when Chu Chen was eating, he also noticed a phenomenon. During the nearly one hour they ate, there were only Chu Chen and the others at a table of nine people in such a big restaurant.There are more waiters serving food, and restaurant accompanying singers and dancers than them.

This made Chu Chen feel a little strange. After asking, he found out that this situation is a common phenomenon because of the low local income. Generally speaking, the restaurant's occupancy rate is only [-]% to [-]%.

Moreover, the price of the restaurant is not expensive. The group of them ordered a lot of dishes, but the cost per person was only [-] to [-] RMB. With such an attendance rate and such a low price, Chu Chen really couldn't understand , how these restaurants are maintained.

After the meal, under the guidance of the young man who picked them up at the airport, Chu Chen bought raw materials for cleaning jade crabs at a chemical store, and then the group returned to the hotel.

"Hey! Why don't you play for a while?"

As soon as the group walked to the door of the hotel, they met Zhao Qirui and others who had also just returned from dinner.

"You don't know, brother Chen has picked up a big leak again!" Liu Sizhe told everyone what happened just now with a little exaggeration.

Zhao Qirui heard that Chu Chen had bought something from Lu Zigang, so he couldn't wait to say, "Ah Chen, where are the things? Show me quickly!"

"It still looks a bit inconspicuous now, I hope you won't be disappointed!" After saying that, Chu Chen took out the things.

The unprocessed jade was indeed as inconspicuous as Chu Chen said. After Zhao Qirui and others saw it, they felt that it was not something made by Lu Zigang, until Liu Sizhe stepped forward and pointed out the place Chu Chen just pointed out After pointing it out to them, everyone found out that this piece of jade was actually made of high-quality topaz.

This made Yihong Guoda dare to be interested, and hurriedly urged: "Let's go! Let's go and wash off the things on it..."

Next, everyone came to Chu Chen's room, and then Chu Chen took out the bottles and cans he bought just now, and used tools to prepare a cup of translucent green-looking liquid according to a certain proportion, and put the The jade crab threw it in.

Chu Chen took off his gloves and said with a smile, "Okay, we just need to wait another two hours."

"It's still two hours!" Fatty Dong seemed a little impatient when he heard that it would be two hours.

Seeing this, Liu Sizhe smiled and said, "Why are you so anxious, fat man? This is something worth millions of dollars. What if the potion is too thick and the thing is damaged? Could it be you to pay for it?"

Fatty Dong scratched his head in embarrassment when he heard this.

Zhao Qirui said with a smile: "Okay, we have nothing to do anyway, just wait..."

Because of the jade in front of me, and the two topics of tomorrow's jadeite public offering, a group of young and old didn't feel that there was nothing they couldn't talk about. They talked and laughed like this, and two hours passed in a flash.

Chu Chen poured a basin of clear water first, then used tweezers to fish out the jade wares from the already muddy potion, and threw them into the clear water again.

In an instant, everyone put their eyes into the clear water, and saw a touch of sweet yellow pure and beautiful color as delicate as a stamen, reflecting the clear water in a different kind of scenery.

And the crab as the protagonist is even fatter. This crab has round eyes, eight legs slightly upright, and two big pincers raised slightly upwards. , and make it look very playful and cute.

Seeing this at first glance, Chu Chen couldn't help but feel a feeling of love.

"This is the top-quality chicken oil yellow that is rarer than suet white jade!" After a while, Yi Hongguo sighed involuntarily.

Hearing this, Fatty Dong elbowed Liu Sizhe who was next to him, and asked softly, "Why is it chicken oil yellow? Didn't you just say it was yellow bridle steamed chestnut?"

Liu Sizhe smiled and said: "Fatty, you should read more books. In ancient times, we didn't use words like chicken oil, but used 'steamed chestnut'. Wei Emperor Cao Pi wrote in the "Book of Dali with Zhong": "Stealing jade The book calls it beautiful jade, white as cut fat, black like pure lacquer, red like cockscomb, yellow bridle and steamed chestnut.’, so, what I mean is the same as what Uncle Yi said.”

At this moment, Chu Chen fished the jade out of the clear water and wiped it clean carefully. Seeing the lifelike crab in his hand and the wonderful quality of the jade, he was filled with admiration again and again.

"let me see……"

Zhao Qirui took the crab into his hand, appraised it carefully, and couldn't help sighing: "The image is agile, and the grinding is delicate, which fully reflects the style of Lu Zigang's imitation of Han Dynasty and the style of Song Dynasty. It is quite ancient, and there is also his style. The empty, floating and detailed artistic features, I think it is indeed the authentic work of Lu Zigang!"

The emptiness mentioned here means that the virtual and the real are matched, and the density is appropriate, so that people do not feel cumbersome, but have a sense of emptiness.Gone with the wind, is to make sitting vivid, with smooth lines, so that people don't feel sluggish but have a sense of elegance.Thinness refers to the meticulous workmanship and exquisite design, which makes people feel ingenious and ingenious.

It's like the most famous water-like hairpin among the jade wares carved by Lu Zigang. of.

And the crab in front of me is obviously the same. Don't look at it from a distance, even if you look at it from a close distance, if you don't pay attention, you won't think that this crab is carved out of jade. This all reflects the ingenious carving skills of the creator .

The management of the handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty was very strict, and there was a strict hierarchy. Even at the end of the Ming Dynasty when the "master system" was abolished, there were still legacy.From the carving of this crab, we can know why, under that social background, Lu Zigang, a humble craftsman engaged in jade carving, can still be regarded as a distinguished guest by literati and refined scholars.

Next, everyone took turns to appreciate it, and they were all shocked by the extreme carving of this jade crab, and the pure color of jade, as smooth as fat, and the quality of steamed chestnut with yellow bridle.

"Hey!"

Everyone expressed their views on Lu Zigang's ingenious skills, and at the end of the talk, Yi Hongguo let out a long sigh.

Seeing this situation, Zhao Qirui smiled and said: "I said Grasshopper, what are you doing sobbing and sighing?"

Yi Hongguo spread his hands and said: "What else can I do, I am greedy for this crab of my junior brother, you are okay, I live in the capital, I can go to see it whenever I want, I live in Shanghai, I flew to the capital just to see this jade crab, if you don’t know, you might think I’m out of my mind!”

"According to what you say, am I worse than you?" Wan Chengjun said with a smile.

Zhao Qirui laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Then come to the capital to play if you have nothing to do, or simply open a branch in the capital. Anyway, the population of the capital is so large, and you don't have to be afraid of running out of business. Isn't there a reason to come here then? !"

Yi Hongguo said with a smile: "It's not impossible, but why do I feel that it's a bit foolish to open a store just to see a crab..."

(End of this chapter)