Tibetan play style

Chapter 89

When Najib and Eisen were chatting, Xu Yunhan glanced left and right. There was a row of glass cabinets in this store, and there were many kinds of things in the cabinets and on the top of the cabinets.Xu Yunhan casually flipped through a cabinet close to her, looking at the worn-out comic books, seals with ink pads, and even a military kettle from the Republic of China period with a red star on it.

Xu Yunhan squeezed everything and looked at it, touching this and touching that, many things are from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period.She murmured to herself, how can this be called an antique shop, but the Chinese name of the shop is very pragmatically called a miscellaneous play shop.

"Hanhan, don't you think this earring is beautiful?" Wen Ru, who has always been very fond of jewelry, once again took a pair of big hoop earrings made of turquoise and beeswax, and moved closer to Xu Yunhan.

"Yes, very beautiful, you can buy it and wear it." Xu Yunhan glanced at the earrings and knew that they were at most a few years old.However, because Tibetan silver itself is darker in color, it looks old and old to laymen, but it is not the case.

"I didn't expect to be able to pick an antique at random." Wen Ru said with a happy smile after hearing this, happily playing with the earrings in his hand. This style is very unique and the colors match well. Take off the earrings Putting on the earrings she was wearing, she put on this pair of earrings and shook them, "Xiao Bei, please help me to see, isn't it pretty?"

"Ah~ where did you find this? It's so beautiful!" Dai Xiaobei's female paper is also very feminine in some ways. Although she doesn't usually wear jewelry, there are several in the house that are specially used for jewelry. Xu Yunhan was lucky enough to see the box when he was helping her tidy up the house. There were four big wooden boxes!It's packed full!
Xu Yunhan was not interested in accessories. She was covered in clothes and didn't even wear a watch.Glancing at Wen Ru and Dai Xiaobei who were rummaging through the pile of accessories, Xu Yunhan moved a few steps and changed the counter.

Huh? !This root carving carved into an old birthday star is quite good. It is carved from bamboo roots. It is more than 40 centimeters high and about ten centimeters wide at its widest point.She has seen many carvings of birthday stars, but the structure is too ordinary, roughly the same, but this bamboo root carving is much more complicated, and its appearance is more distinctive. In addition to birthday stars, there are five boys leaning beside them, and the boys have different expressions. Different, distributed in different positions on the birthday star, posing in various poses, very cute, the five boys imply five blessings and birthday wishes.The whole carving is finely crafted, the lines are smooth and lifelike, the bamboo root material is tight, the pulp is old, and it has a lot of charm.

Xu Yunhan fell in love with it at the first sight before getting started. He picked up this old bamboo-root birthday star root carving with joy. It was quite heavy to start with. There was no temperature or abnormal phenomenon, so it is certain that this root carving would not last more than a hundred years.

Although it is not an old item, Xu Yunhan still wants to buy it. The carving of this item is particularly exquisite, and even some small details that are difficult to notice are handled beautifully.Her grandfather Xu Qingnian is a person who loves root carving. He can carve small objects in his spare time. Now Xu Yunhan loves to remember her grandfather sitting quietly under the eaves, concentrating on thinking about the time with a carving knife. demeanor.

With her childhood background and the influence of her elders, Xu Yunhan developed a strong interest in root carving art. When her grandfather was still alive, she also learned from her grandfather for a period of time, and still has the set of tools that Xu Qingnian used in those days.

Therefore, Xu Yunhan couldn't put it down for this exquisite root carving. Just as she moved her hand to the back of the birthday star, she seemed to feel something strange.Surprised, Xu Yunhan turned the root carving to the back side, covered it with his right hand, and felt every part carefully.

Sure enough...on the upper middle of the back of the root carving, there is a small area that emits a different temperature than other parts. At first she thought it was her own illusion, but after repeated comparisons, the temperature was indeed higher.

This discovery made Xu Yunhan very puzzled. This root carving was obviously carved from a complete bamboo root. How could this happen?It is impossible that only that small part of the bamboo root is more than a hundred years old.

Could it be...it wasn't the root carving that made her feel warm?But something else?Inside the root carving?Thinking of this, Xu Yunhan lifted the bamboo root birthday star and carefully checked its bottom. There was no trace of filling, and he shook it vigorously, but he didn't feel any foreign objects shaking inside.

But... Xu Yunhan tried to weigh the root carving in his hand. A bamboo root of this size should not be so heavy.Her eyes lit up, so it seemed that there must be another mystery inside this root carving. She stroked the surface with her hands and checked every part without falling off, but in the end she didn't find any gaps.

The surface of this root carving is covered with a thick layer of liquid wax. At first, Xu Yunhan didn't understand how such a superb sculptor would apply wax like a drawing of a snake.Most root art sculptors only polish the surface without adding anything, just to preserve its natural features.This method is deeply loved by root art collectors.

Perhaps this thick wax layer is to cover up the gap left when prying open the root carving to fill in the contents, otherwise there would be no such thick wax layer.

"Eisen, how much does this root carving cost?" Xu Yunhan couldn't wait to buy it, and after returning home, he tried to figure out what was stuffed inside.

Eisen, who was chatting with Najib about the thrilling experience he and his friends had when they climbed the cliffs in the deep mountains, was talking about the climax of the story. Hearing Xu Yunhan's question, he casually glanced at the bamboo root birthday star in her hand,
"Oh, the root carving old man, 5000 yuan." He stretched out a slap and made a five. In fact, he bought the root carving when he was wandering in a small town in the snowy area. , but not five thousand, but 50 yuan.

5000 yuan... This foreigner's hands are really bad. Although Xu Yunhan didn't know that Eisen bought it for only 50 yuan, he also knew the general market price. The size of this kind of root carving can only be regarded as a small piece.Although the craftsmanship is quite good, it is not produced by a famous artist and the thick layer of wax on the surface also makes this root carving a grade. It is definitely not worth a thousand yuan, at most a few hundred.

"No, no, it's too expensive, one hundred." Xu Yunhan stretched out a finger.Eisen asked for the price, and she could also sit down and bargain.

"What? One hundred? You bargain too hard, at least you have to give 1000 yuan." Eisen was surprised, and then said a so-called one-time price firmly.After living in China for three years, he has already developed a good bargaining skill.When he first arrived in China, he was treated like a fat sheep.But now he can also shine a knife, and earn as much as he can. This kind of fun of making money has never been experienced in the UK.

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