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Chapter 14 Xu Datou

Xu Yunhan walked for a while, and saw a lot of people gathered around a small stall, she thought it was something rare, so she also went to see the excitement.

"Hey~ I said Xu Datou, I can give you 1000 yuan to buy your blue and white porcelain vase, but I have taken a lot of risks. I am really not sure about this blue and white porcelain. Most of them are blind. If I don't want to help you One, I won't spend a penny."

A middle-aged fat man with a huge beer belly standing in front of the stall was talking to the stall owner.

Xu Yunhan took a look and found that there was only a blue and white porcelain vase on the booth, which was too far away to see clearly.This is really the crudest stall she has seen after walking around, and it doesn't even meet the minimum standard of "a horse, a box, and a rag to go around".

"2000 yuan? Fatty Li, you really think I'm being taken advantage of. Even if I starve to death, I won't sell it for 1000 yuan. If you don't know the goods, just leave. Don't stand in the way." The stall owner called Xu Datou shouted angrily. Then, waved again and again to let the fat man leave.

"Haha~ It's a joke, you are not the big head, who is it? Who in this business doesn't know that you lost your fortune playing stone gambling, and your mother-in-law left you with her son. Xu Datou's name is very famous. I can't live now. , I brought some fake goods from who I don’t know to come here to deceive people.” Fatty Li sneered, shouted loudly, and repeatedly gestured to the surrounding audience, introducing Xu Datou’s life.

It turned out that Xu Datou was named Xu Da, and his family got rich thanks to national policies. With some family background, Xu Da himself was good at collecting, he had quite good eyesight, and he was quite famous in the collection circle.

A few years ago, Xu Da suddenly fell in love with gambling stones. Perhaps it was the excitement and novelty that attracted him more than collecting, and it has been out of control since then.

The so-called "one knife is poor, one knife is rich" is to describe the entertainment and investment of "gambling stones".Stone gambling is a contest of experience, strength and luck.Gambling up a fortune and getting rich overnight, but most of them end in failure.

Xu Da is one of those failures. When the gambling is up, the enthusiasm is higher, and the gambling is even worse when the gambling is ruined. Such a vicious circle, if you lose money, you will fill it up with money, and if you have no money, you will sell assets. In the end, Xu Dalian, his former favorite Antiques can't be kept.

Unable to persuade him to gamble with stones, his wife filed a lawsuit for divorce and left with her son.

Hearing these things, Xu Yunhan sighed in his heart. The word "gambling" has harmed countless people since ancient times, but people cannot get rid of it.

Seeing people pointing and pointing at him, Xu Da showed embarrassment, wrapped the blue and white porcelain vase with the cloth on the floor, and turned away regardless of Fatty Li's obstruction and ridicule.

The owner has left, the crowd has gradually dispersed, and the sky is gradually getting brighter after six o'clock. The agreed closing time is approaching, and the sellers and buyers are preparing to leave one after another.

After strolling around, Xu Yunhan didn't find anything she could buy that was genuine, so she also left the market, planning to take a taxi back to the hotel for a rest.

Xu Yunhan crossed the road and went to wait for the car under the shade of a tree, but not far away, he saw a skinny man with a slightly hunched back, carrying a cloth package, walking along the side of the road.Isn't that the big head Xu just now? !
Looking at Xu Da's desolate back, Xu Yunhan's heart trembled, and he thought of his father, who also described it in the same way when his grandfather passed away.

"Hello, Uncle, I just came out of the market. There were too many people in the stall before. Can you let me see the blue and white porcelain vase now?" Xu Yunhan walked towards Xu Da and said with a smile.

Xu Da was startled by the sudden appearance of Xu Yunhan, couldn't help tightening the cloth bag in his hand, stepped back, looked at her intently for a while, and made sure that Xu Yunhan had no malicious intentions, so Xu Da said, "You can look at it, but this time It’s not very convenient to be on the side of the road, so let’s go and have a look under that big tree.”

Blue and white porcelain, often referred to as blue and white porcelain, is one of the mainstream varieties of Chinese porcelain and belongs to underglaze colored porcelain.The original blue and white porcelain appeared in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the mature blue and white porcelain appeared in the Hutian kiln of JDZ in the Yuan Dynasty.Blue and white porcelain became the mainstream of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

In front of Xu Yunhan's eyes is a blue and white plum vase with cloud and dragon patterns, the bottom of the foot is unglazed, flint red.The outer wall is divided into five layers with blue and white double string lines from top to bottom.Beautiful in shape, exquisite in workmanship, and vividly depicted with cloud and dragon patterns, it is a typical utensil in the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty.The blue and white decorations of the Yuan Dynasty borrowed from some patterns of silk fabrics in the Yuan Dynasty, and the widely used vertical cloud patterns and wishful cloud head patterns were evolved from shawls.

As soon as Xu Yunhan touched the porcelain bottle, Xu Yunhan immediately felt a sense of inner peace and tranquility. There were no other pictures and sounds, but the heat coming from the bottle was unexpectedly different from that of the Yuan Dynasty.

Xu Yunhan was a little puzzled, and carefully examined the blue-and-white plum vase with cloud and dragon patterns. This porcelain, no matter the material used, or the color of the external decoration, was the characteristic of Yuan blue-and-white porcelain, but the temperature at which it was obtained showed that it was far from being as old as it was in the world.This level of temperature should be in the Qing Dynasty, and the temperature of the entire bottle is not consistent. She can feel that there are several places in the lower right corner of the bottle that have no temperature at all.

"Uncle, I'm sorry, I'm just in this business, I'm not very sure, I'm a little confused, don't be angry if you don't speak well." Xu Yunhan carefully put the blue and white plum vase with cloud and dragon patterns back on the ground, looked at Xu Da and said .

To the polite young man, Xu Da's attitude is also much more kind, and it's up to him whether to buy it or not, but he doesn't care if he says a few more words, "It's okay, it's not uncommon for such old things to be inaccurate. "

"Uncle, your blue and white is not Yuan blue and white, right? And there seems to be some traces of repair?" Xu Yunhan said in a tentative tone with uncertainty. So far, she has not been verified many times to prove the accuracy of her ability. For this Xu Yunhan is still a little uncertain about the treacherous ability. Another key point is that her understanding of various types of antiques from various dynasties is still very shallow, and she can only give a rough idea.

Xu Da was shocked. Originally, the girl called him to express that he wanted to see porcelain. He thought it was just because the young people were curious.This blue-and-white plum vase with cloud and dragon pattern attracted many people's attention, and they all thought it was a rare and extremely precious Yuan blue-and-white vase.

To be honest, if it hadn’t been broken in a quarrel with his ex-wife two years ago, this is one of his favorite works. After taking it for repair, he took the fragment to do a carbon-14 identification, anyway, keep it The shattered porcelain slag is useless, and the appraisal certificate after the appraisal is not bad.

Unexpectedly, the result of the appraisal was unexpected. This so-called Yuan blue and white was actually an imitation in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. The rumors of Xu Da's eye-catching immediately spread all over the place. As a result, the antiques he later sold could not be sold at a high price even if they were genuine ones. , maliciously lowering the price, coupled with his frequent cuts in the stone gambling field, that's how he got the title of Xu Datou.

(End of this chapter)