Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1085 Hua Tian
"Is this the treasure of 'Hua Tiantang'?" Cao Yong looked at the things in the tray in the hands of the man in blue behind the table in the inner hall, and asked Yidu Lidao.

It was a purple grasshopper gourd the size of an adult's palm. Because it was far away, I couldn't see what material it was made of.It's just that the steward has spoken just now, and the base price of this gourd is 600 taels.

According to Yiduri's introduction, if a guest from a private room takes a fancy to it, he will be called to take a closer look, and if he likes it, he can write a hidden bid, and the one with the highest price will get it in the end.

Yiduri smiled and said, "These are all warm-up things, and the grand finale will come later."

At this time, the steward in Tsing Yi, who was waiting outside Zhengbei's elegant room, gestured to the man in the middle, and the man carried the tray over.

Seeing that Cao Yong was paying attention, Yi Duli greeted the steward outside the box here.

After about half a cup of tea, there was a knock on the door, and then the steward ushered in the man in blue.

Yi Duli took the gourd, handed it to Cao Yong, and introduced: "Look, this gourd looks like agate, with purple, moist, firm and thick. If you don't have it for three or 50 years, it won't be so good. It's ivory mouth again, but the gourd lacks carvings, so it's not enough after all, it can only be regarded as the top grade. Such an object can be worth thousands or hundreds of taels of silver in Liulichang. If Furuo looks at it Once it’s on, buy it and enjoy it.”

He was born and raised in Beijing, a child of the Eight Banners, and he just casually talked about these little things.

Cao Yong didn't play with insects, so he was not dissatisfied with the grasshopper cage, so he smiled and waved his hands.

Seeing him like this, Yi Duli stopped persuading him and sent the man in blue out.He himself picked a few from the ivory plaques on the table, dipped them in inkpad, and printed them on white paper.

Then he took out a brush and wrote the word "Li" on the white paper.

Cao Yong knew that this was the end of the hidden bid.The ivory brand is printed at 1000 two hundred taels, signed by Yi Duli himself, and the price of this bid will not be replaced or changed at will, which can reduce disputes.

The set in front of me is a little familiar. The Bank of the Ministry of Internal Affairs does this when it auctions hidden bids.

The people in charge here, even if they are not from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, have borrowed from the Bank of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

At this moment, the man in blue put the gourd aside, and attracted a cardamom girl to sit behind the table.

The girl was only thirteen or fourteen years old, she was wearing a Chinese-style pink gauze dress, her skin was like snow, and she had two braids hanging down to her chest.There is no jewelry beside the belt, only a thin chain hanging on the forehead, and under the chain is a bead the size of the cap of a little finger.

This single bead added a lot of splendor to the girl.

In front of the table, a qin has been placed at some point.

The girl played the piano lightly, and the melodious sound of the piano reached everyone's ears immediately.

If she hadn't appeared in the wrong place, she would have looked like the daughter of a wealthy family.Because she has an elegant temperament and is not dusty.

But Cao Yong knew that this girl was not a lady, because he saw a familiar shadow from this girl. "Three-inch golden lotus" is weak and beautiful, and proficient in talent, which is the characteristic of "Yangzhou thin horse".

Cao Yong retracted his gaze and glanced at Yi Duli.

Yi Du stood at attention, squinting his eyes, looking at the girl intently, his face full of ecstasy.

Seeing this, Cao Yong couldn't help but rolled his eyes.This Yi Duli suffered from women's sex a few years ago, looking at his appearance, he really doesn't know him and has a long memory.

The asking price for this girl is 4000 taels of silver.

Even when Cao Yong was slandering Yiduli, Yiduli looked away, poured a cup of fragrant tea by himself, and drank it all in one gulp, but he didn't mean to call people to look at him.

At this moment, a man in Tsing Yi knocked on the door and came in, holding the grasshopper gourd in his hand.The only difference is that there is an empty brocade box next to it, which seems to be used to hold the grasshopper cage.

With a bit of joy on Yi Duli's face, he smiled and took out two bank notes from his purse, added an ingot weighing twelve taels, and handed it to the Tsing Yi steward.

The steward in Tsing Yi collected the banknotes and ingots, bowed and said, "Thank you, sir, for your reward!" After speaking, he lightly closed the door and went out.

"Since it is not enough, how can you still buy it?" Cao Yong asked when he saw that he put the gourd into the brocade box without looking at it.

"It's for Baizhu, that kid is just a mallet. It's not that kind of material at all, and he plays with bugs like others. Last time I saw my grasshopper gourd, I missed it and ground my teeth several times." Yi Duli snorted. Twice, with a bit of disdain: "The good things in my place, he has scratched less these years.? If it weren't for this fight with him this time, my brother-in-law would feel a little bit unbearable. Don't say yes A good gourd worth thousands of taels of silver is even a street stall worth ten fen, and I won’t take it easy on him.”

Cao Yong listened, but did not answer.

Having been together for more than ten years, he can be considered to know Yiduri well.Although he is a bit lustful, he is very loyal and kind-hearted in his dealings with others.

Although Baizhu is not a bad person, but his age doesn't matter, even if Yi Duli looks down on him, he won't care about him.

I don't know how much money this girl was sold for, but after a while, the man in blue took out two more treasures, the reserve price was over ten thousand.

Yi Duli didn't pay attention to it, and when he put out five hundred arhats carved out of whole ivory for 2 taels, he became interested and asked people to send the ivory carvings into the private room.

This ivory sculpture is five feet long, placed on a red sandalwood base, and on it are five hundred arhats of different shapes.

Not to mention that such a thick ivory is rare, but the carving craftsmanship is also admirable.

"This is something that was left in the palace of the previous dynasty, and it's rare." Yi Duli is a person who knows the goods, and after looking at him for a while, he said to Cao Yong.

Although the Cao Mansion also has ivory ornaments, but compared with the one in front of it, it seems a bit petty.

This is really a good thing, whether you keep it at home or give it as a gift, you can take it out.It's just that although the asking price of [-] is not high, if you want to get it, you may have to double it.

Yi Duli didn't rush to write the standard silver, but got up and stood in front of the window, watching the man in blue walk a few private rooms with the ivory sculpture.Then, from the time he sat down again, he wrote 5 taels.

Cao Yong is also paying attention. Four of the ten private rooms have seen this ivory carving. It seems that many people pay attention to this thing.

At this moment, another man in blue has changed, and he brought out a painting scroll, which is the authentic work of Zhang Xu, the sage of grass, with a reserve price of 5000 taels.

Together with this pair of cursive scripts, there is also a pair of silk paintings, which are "Mrs.

It seems that Yi Duli is not very interested in these calligraphy and paintings, while Cao Yong is listening to the familiar names, sighing the energy of this Huatian.

These two calligraphy and paintings, for future generations, are both national treasure-level cultural relics.

Any item, if you get it from Liulichang's antique calligraphy and painting shop, it can also be used as a treasure of the store.Here, there are only two items at once. I can't complain that Huatiantang's gold posts are so popular. This is indeed a good place for Taobao.

It has been less than a year since I left the capital, and I am a bit like a "earth leopard" who has just arrived in the capital.

After another cup of tea, I saw the man in blue holding the long box and went to the box opposite Cao Yong and the others.

Yi Duli sighed, and said wistfully: "Let someone else get it. It's because I wrote less. If I write [-], I might get it."

Seeing him frustrated, Cao Yong comforted him: "Let's look at the back, maybe things are better."

While speaking, the Tsing Yi steward who was in charge of serving the box here had already knocked on the door and came in. On the tray in his hand was the bid written first by Yi Duli.

Even if it is not photographed, the deed of bidding still has to be returned to the original owner.

After the next thing was put out, Cao Yong couldn't help standing up and walking to the window, his eyes could not be moved away.

That thing is as white as jade, which he has seen in later generations, in the Treasure Hall of the Forbidden City, the child pillow of Dingyao in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The man in blue who introduced the treasure also said something, nothing more than introducing the year and place of origin of this thing, with a base price of [-].

This baby pillow is already the last treasure sold tonight.

Seeing Cao Yong's solemnity, Yi Duli also stood up, stood at Cao Yong and looked at him for a few moments, then motioned to the steward at the door.

After a while, the steward led the man in blue over.

Yi Du stood around the Dingyao boy's pillow, his eyes became brighter the more he looked, but he refused to say a word.

It wasn't until the man in blue went out that he let out a long breath, and said in a low voice, "There are quite a few things from Ding Kiln in the market, and there have also been porcelain pillows, but they can't compare with this at all."

Just like before, he paid attention to the man in blue who held the treasure.Among the ten private rooms, eight of them were passed on to the man in blue.

Yi Du stood by the table, frowning for a while, before he wrote a bid of 12 taels of silver.

Seeing that he was struggling, Cao Yong said: "If you really like it, you might as well write more. I still have a banknote of tens of thousands of taels of silver here."

Yi Duli shook his head, and said, "12 taels is already more than I expected. I'm lucky if I get it, but if I lose my life, I'll come back in ten days at most." After finishing speaking, he handed the bid to the Tsing Yi steward at the door .

When Cao Yong heard what he said, he stopped talking.

Yi Duli spoke happily, but he still cared, lost his mind, got up and looked outside after taking two sips of tea.

Faintly, I heard footsteps, as if someone was leaving.

Yidu fidgeted, shaking Cao Yong a little dizzy.

In Cao Yong's heart, he was interested in antiques for the first time.In his mind, there is still a white jade pillow as white as jade.If it wasn't for the fact that he came here with Yi Duli today, he would have wanted to strike.

When the Museum of Treasures of Later Generations introduced this baby pillow, it said it was "peerless in the world".

However, if you buy a piece of porcelain with more than one hundred thousand taels of silver, it is still too ostentatious.Even if you buy it, it will be a disaster unless you never show it again.

This thing is not something that ordinary people can have.

This time the waiting time was long, it took a full two quarters of an hour before the steward in Tsing Yi led the man in blue in.

Looking at the brocade box held by the man in blue, Yi Duli jumped up from the chair all of a sudden, excited like a child: "We won the bid!"

The steward in Tsing Yi was already full of congratulations and a string of auspicious words.

The man in blue carefully placed the brocade box on the table and asked Yi Duli to check it.

When I got the gourd just now, only the steward in Tsing Yi came in, but now even the man in blue who presides over the "Appraisal of Treasures" also entered the private room.In addition to explaining the preciousness of this treasure and making the stewards here value it, it also meant to come to receive the reward.

Yi Duli was already smiling from ear to ear, stroking the baby's pillow, fascinated.

The manager in green and the man in blue didn't rush him, they just stood aside respectfully.

Still Cao Yong, seeing that it was getting late, coughed lightly, awakening the intoxicated Yiduli.

Yi Du stood at attention before he regained his composure, took out a bank note from his purse, counted out 12 taels and handed it to the man in blue.Two more small denominations popped out, and they were given to the steward in Tsing Yi and the man in blue as rewards.

The man in blue retreated, the steward in green stayed behind, took back the golden post, and led Cao Yong and Yi Duli out.During this process, there was no charge for dinner.It seems that it has been included in this golden post.

It was already the second quarter of the first lunar month (09:30 in the evening), and there were already housekeepers and guards from the Yidu Li family leading the outside.

The two families walked to the intersection and went to their respective homes.

Because of this experience, Cao Yong was also very careful about this Hua Tiantang, and when he saw Brother Sixteen one day, he mentioned it.

Elder Sixteen heard this, but he couldn't laugh or cry, and said: "What's so rare, if you are rare, I will leave you a gold post every ten days! It's not someone else's business, it's the business under the name of the Wangfu."

When Cao Yong heard this, he was very surprised: "Isn't it said that it is the business of Prince Kang's mansion? How did it become the mansion of Prince Zhuang?"

Brother Sixteen laughed and said: "You have forgotten the disposition of the late old prince, he is the most obsessed with money. Depending on his seniority, he often takes advantage of his clan relatives. Although I don't care about these things, Tai Fujin does. She kept her confidant in control, so I didn't ask. Otherwise, she thought I was going to grab money from her. Although I didn't care, there were many people rushing to curry favor, including the manager of "Hua Tiantang" He [-]. For the monthly account books, the one he handed over to Tai Fujin also handed over to me."

Taifu Jin is a person who is old and late; the sixteenth elder brother is in his prime, and he is the legitimate master of the palace.He San was smart enough to make such a choice.

Cao Yong did not expect that Hua Tiantang was actually the business of Zhuang Wangfu.

Let’s not talk about the usual, let’s just say that on the night he participated in the auction, ten items were auctioned, and the asking price was more than 15 taels. If the selling price was double, the money flow that night would be 30 taels.Hua Tiantang draws [-]%, which is [-].

One time 27, three times a month, [-], this is a shocking number.

Cao Yong suppressed the smile on his face, and said solemnly: "Master Shiliu, isn't it too ostentatious to do this business in the capital? Even if Tai Fujin decides, if something goes wrong, others will hold the crime to Shiliu on Grandpa."

Elder Sixteen waved his hand and said: "It's not a problem, even if I go to the imperial court to file a lawsuit, I'm not afraid. Taifujin alone, how can the hall be so prosperous? It's Li Si'er who made it upside down, and it's auctioned every ten days Half of the belongings were gifts from the uncle's house. The silver did not fall into my pocket, so how could I bear this false name for her. As early as when she urged Tai Fujin to start this matter, I reported it in front of the emperor. Ignore the emperor's intentions for the time being. Since then, the account book in my hand has been sent directly to the imperial court. It was March, and you hadn't returned to Beijing, so you didn't hear me mention this matter."

"Excellent, so, the monthly income of the uncle's mansion is more than 40 taels, which is a huge number in a year!" Cao Yong said after calculating.

Brother Sixteen nodded and said: "Longkodo is really hot, this Li Si'er is also good at making money..."

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Hoho, this month Xiaojiu has voted for six monthly tickets for herself, but the monthly tickets are still ups and downs, please support me.Thank you Xiaojiu.

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