Tianyan Jianbao

Chapter 197

Today was the weekend, and there happened to be a Taoist temple. Wang Haoming and Tongtong held the freshly bought steamed buns and spiced beans in their hands. While eating, they watched with relish the Taoist priests setting up the teaching hall.

It was also the first time for Wang Haoming to see a dojo being held.Dozens of Taoist priests were seen walking back and forth around the open space at the gate of the Chenglong Hall, chanting scriptures and confessions, singing praises and praying, walking around in circles, stepping on gangsters, sending the wishes of believers to the heaven, and calling the gods to visit the altar.

There are many believers singing in harmony on both sides, and the scene is quite grand.

"It's boring, like a dancer, let's go." After watching it for a while, Tongtong felt dull, and pulled Wang Haoming to leave.

"Then let's go to the flower and bird antique market?" Wang Haoming asked for Tongtong's opinion.

"Okay, let's go see what's good here."

All the antique markets across the country are actually similar. There are new and old Dongyang woodcarvings on the stalls, and large and small Tibetan antiques such as thangkas, Tibetan Buddhist instruments, calligraphy and painting, jade, ceramics, etc. are everywhere.

If there are some special features, those old or newly printed month cards, old record players, old Bakelite records, old telephones, etc. made Wang Haoming and Tongtong stop for a long time.

"Brother Haoming, you are a professional. Do you think this piece of jade is ancient jade? The boss said it is from the Ming Dynasty, and I look like it."

Tongtong held a dragon-shaped jade pendant in her hand, and happily asked Wang Haoming.

"He said it's from the Warring States period, you can believe it, the color is artificially made old."

Wang Haoming looked at Tongtong and said helplessly, Tongtong is also a layman, his level is about the same as that of Li Zhi, everything looks real.

Putting down the jade pendant in her hand, Tongtong ran to the next booth.

Wang Haoming shook his head and hurriedly followed.Wang Haoming found it out. If he wanted to find treasures at these stalls, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. He passed thirty or forty stalls along the way, and there was nothing inside that Wang Haoming could catch his eye.

"What are you doing, why do you always follow us? Do you want to steal something!"

"Hey, grandma, please be gentle, my arm is about to break, I'm not a thief, I'm really not, this big stall owner can testify."

Wang Haoming squatted on the ground and was looking at a pair of jade unicorn paperweights. Although there was no aura in the pair of paperweights, the shape and craftsmanship were very beautiful, which attracted Wang Haoming's attention.

It's amazing.Suddenly, there was a bright voice from beside him, and there was also a man crying for mercy.

"What's going on?" Wang Haoming turned his face and asked.

"Since we came in, this man has followed. When you squatted down just now, I saw him walking behind you. He was sneaky and didn't seem like a good person." Tongtong said.

"I'm really not a thief, big brother, tell me something, let's not look up and look down, you can't watch me being wronged." The young man looked at the stall owner next to him and begged.

"Young man, he is indeed not a thief. He also makes a living in this market. Let him go." The stall owner in front of Wang Haoming spoke, but there was a hint of disdain in his tone.

"Really? Don't follow us anymore." Tongtong saw that several stall owners next to him seemed to know the young man, so he didn't pursue it further.

Wang Haoming smiled, he was very clear about the origin of the young man, and he must have regarded the two of them as rich men again, but seeing that Tongtong was not affected, he was still watching happily at the stalls of each family, Wang Haoming I didn't say much.

After passing a corner, Wang Haoming also forgot what happened just now.

"Brother, I'm really sorry just now, my little brother can't do things."

Wang Haoming suddenly felt someone pat him on the shoulder behind him, and turned his head quickly.But it was a middle-aged man with an honest appearance. Standing beside him was the young man who was grabbed by Tongtong just now.

"What are you doing? Do you want revenge?" Tongtong also saw the two, put down the object she was looking at, and walked over.

The young man quickly said: "You two, don't get me wrong, my elder brother has business to talk to you about."

The middle-aged man pretended to be mysterious and looked around, and said in a low voice: "It's not convenient to talk here, let's talk in another place, there are fewer people over there, you two have to work hard, move a step."

Wang Haoming became impatient when he heard the words. This is like walking with a monkey. The level of this answer is not as good as that of a monkey. When he was about to leave, Tongtong asked excitedly: "What business do you have?"

While talking, he dragged Wang Haoming to the place pointed by the man.

I came to the secluded place that the man pointed out, which was actually a place where no one was setting up a stall between the two shops.

The middle-aged man approached Wang Haoming and the two with a serious expression, and said, "You two, do you want an antique? It was just dug out from the tomb, and it is guaranteed to be genuine, and the earthy smell has not been removed."

Wang Haoming raised his brows when he heard the words, but when he was about to speak, Tong Tong snatched him away and said, "Where is it? Take it out and have a look first. If it's true, we want it."

"Sister, it's inconvenient here. The items unearthed in the tomb are strictly inspected. If you really want to see it, you can walk a few steps with me. It's not far from the side. I promise to let you two come here." Not false."

After hearing Tongtong's words, the middle-aged man was slightly excited, and leaned forward again.

Wang Haoming was in a hurry, he pulled Tongtong back, leaned his upper body forward, put his mouth almost to the ear of the middle-aged man, and said in a voice that only Tongtong and the middle-aged man around him could hear: "Get out of here!" Damn it, if you play tricks on me again, I will take you all into the bureau."

As soon as the words fell, the middle-aged man's complexion changed drastically, he turned his head and pulled the puzzled young man standing beside him, turned around and left, Tongtong shouted a few words behind him, but the man didn't dare to stop, in a blink of an eye disappeared into the crowd.

Looking at the two people who disappeared into the crowd, Tongtong stomped her feet angrily.

Wang Haoming looked at the angry Tongtong, couldn't help but smiled wryly, and said, "Tongtong, your mother never told you about this kind of person? Is this the first time I've heard of this today?"

"No, my mother never told me about this, what does this have to do with what happened today?" Tongtong was confused by Wang Haoming's question.

Wang Haoming said: "In Beijing dialect, these people are called followers. We came to Taobao. They specialize in slaughtering people. They specialize in making fake objects to deceive tourists. The antiques he said are true. It’s just that those things were buried by themselves, and then dug out by themselves.”

"What you said is true?" Tongtong looked at Wang Haoming suspiciously.

"Let's go to that teahouse and sit down. I'll tell you later, and you'll understand." Wang Haoming looked around. The two of them standing in the corner were actually quite eye-catching, and people passing by He would take a look at it, so he dragged Tongtong into a nearby teahouse.

Like the buildings on the street, this teahouse is an antique building, and the waiters inside are all wearing nondescript ancient clothes.

Seeing someone coming in, a clerk at the door immediately shouted loudly with a long voice: "A guest has arrived..."

Immediately came a girl in her early twenties wearing a cheongsam, but the sneakers on her feet were quite unpleasant, Wang Haoming smiled secretly.

The two went up to the second floor, found a seat by the window and sat down. Wang Haoming ordered a pot of Pu'er tea and some snacks.

It's just that the ordinary tea served in this teahouse has a bit of bitterness in the mouth, but it lacks a bit of strong fragrance. Compared with the tea cake that Uncle Rong took yesterday, it is far different.

"Brother Haoming, you haven't told me what happened just now, how do you know that those two are not grave robbers?"

Whether the tea is good or not is not important to Tong Tong, while eating snacks and drinking Pu'er tea, her eyes are fixed on Wang Haoming.

Seeing Tongtong's persistence, Wang Haoming sighed and said, "Tongtong, let me tell you a story, it was born in this antique market, but I don't know if there are those two people in the story." Dare to be sure."

"Okay, okay, tell me quickly." Tongtong was holding the steamed bun in one hand and stuffing it into his mouth, and holding the teacup in the other, looking at Wang Haoming with bright eyes, as if he suddenly looked younger by several years.

"Let's not talk about the name now, let's just say that this person is considered a successful person in the mall and has a big business. I don't know what happened in the past few years, but I like to collect it. You know, he has strong financial resources. To be a backer, to play this business, is to start much higher than the average person.”

"However, this man has a high spirit. He has read a lot of books and pictures about antique appraisal. When he entered the industry, he said that he must rely on his ability to pick up treasures. Therefore, he often goes to antique markets like Liulichang and Panjiayuan. I bought a whole house of things, but there are only a handful of real items, and last year, that person wandered around to Chenglong Temple."

"Like us, when this guy was shopping at the street stall, two people struck up a conversation with him. He said that he had an antique unearthed in his hand. If he had been hanging out in the mall for many years, he knew countless people. "

"Looking at the words and deeds of these two people, it seems that they are looking for something wrong. Maybe they have something good in their hands. In addition, his ears are a little soft. He couldn't stand the persuasion of the two people, so he followed. Guess, what's the result?"

Wang Haoming made a fool of himself when he said this, and refilled himself a cup of tea.

"What's the matter? Could it be that the gang of tomb robbers changed their careers and started kidnapping, did they kidnap that person?" Tongtong thought about it seriously, and then said seriously.

Hearing Wang Haoming's head was full of black lines, this young lady's association power is too rich.

"Where did you follow? That person followed the two of them and went into a small hotel. It's not too far from here, but the inside
The environment was a little bad, the smell inside almost made that Xun faint at that time, and after entering a room, Li Mian was already waiting for two people. "

"The two people waiting in the room are very thin. What's more important is that they have an earthy smell all over their bodies, just like those who dig coal mines. It can be seen at a glance, so my elder feels I believed it seven or eight points, and when the object was taken out, my eyes were even brighter, it was a Xuande stove, it should have come out of the soil not long ago, and it was covered with mud."

"What is a Xuande stove? For burning incense?" Tongtong interrupted Wang Haoming's words.

"Thanks to your mother being a famous antique collector, why don't you know anything about it?"

Wang Haoming slandered in his heart, and explained: "You are right, the Xuande furnace was indeed used for incense burning in ancient times, but the origin of this is a bit big."

The story shows that when Emperor Xuande was in power, in order to satisfy his personal hobby of enjoying incense burners, he ordered to import a batch of red copper from what is now Thailand.

Instruct the court royal craftsman Lu Zhen and the minister of the Ministry of Industry Wu Bangzuo to refer to the styles of famous porcelains from the Chai Kiln, Ru Kiln, Official Kiln, Ge Kiln, Jun Kiln, and Ding Kiln in the Imperial Palace, as well as "Xuanhe Bogu Illustrated Catalog", "Archaeological "Picture" and other historical books, designed and supervised the production of incense burners.

In order to ensure the quality of the incense burner, the most skilled craftsmen at that time selected dozens of precious metals such as gold and silver, and went through more than ten careful smelting together with red copper...

"Then what you mean is that the Xuande furnace that you saw is fake? It's not certain. It has been hundreds of years since the Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty to the present. Maybe those tomb robbers came from A real one was dug out of his tomb."

Tong Tong interjected that she had determined that group of people were tomb robbers with all her heart.

Wang Haoming rolled his eyes angrily, and said angrily: "Xuande furnace is made of exquisite materials and extremely well-made. In the early years of the Republic of China, the asking price for an exquisite Xuande furnace was often as high as hundreds of thousands, which can be called a priceless treasure.

"If it is put in the present, it can be verified that it is the real Xuande furnace, and it is not surprising that it sells for tens of millions. Do you think that thing is Chinese cabbage, which is everywhere in the street, and you can find it by digging an ancient tomb?"

After the reign of Xuande, the Xuande furnace is not only the incense burner cast in the third year of Xuande, but the collective name of all copper furnaces with Xuande models.

It can also generally refer to copper furnaces without or with other models that are similar in shape to Xuande furnaces. The real Xuande furnace for three years has become a mystery. Most of the Xuande furnaces we can see now are not Xuande's.

(End of this chapter)