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Chapter 622 Sanhe Liu, Dong Sanbao

Yu Yao just smiled slightly after hearing what Shen Zhongyuan said.

Father Shen seemed to understand Yu Yao's smile, it was neither self-satisfaction nor modesty, it was a natural reaction.

Only real masters have a reaction.

The three chatted in the study for a long time, but Shen Ge didn't come in until Yu Yao was about to leave.

When leaving, Shen Ge sent Yu Yao out, walked on the corridor in the villa area, and said to Yu Yao, "My mother is an official, so she talks like that, don't mind."

"Auntie, if she is very casual, it will be troublesome!" Yu Yao smiled, "It means that she is seriously examining me."

"My dad has changed from normal." Shen Ge couldn't help but smile.

Yu Yao lightly shook Shen Ge's hand, and didn't say much.Shen Ge's father is a businessman, so he will naturally be very accommodating.However, his admiration for Yu Yao's eyesight is for sure.

After a few minutes of what should happen, Yu Yao went home.

As soon as Yu Yao woke up the next day, he received a call from Galder Auctioneer, informing him that a spring auction would be held in three weeks. His six-shot star pigeon blood red would be auctioned in a special sale of rare gemstones. Was the field card issued to him, or did he pick it up in advance on Hong Kong Island?

"Why did it take so long?" This was Yu Yao's first reaction.

Indeed, it's late spring and early summer in three weeks.Moreover, Gardner's overseas spring auctions have long since ended, and the spring auctions in Yanjing and Shanghai have also been held, but the spring auctions in Hong Kong Island have been delayed for too long.

"This..." the other party hesitated.

Because Yu Yao just got up, he was a little confused at first, but after chatting for a few words, he suddenly understood, and said, "I see. I'll go get it myself, and you don't need to send it to me."

If you don't go, it's useless to ask for the invitation letter and admission card; if you go, just pick it up one day in advance.

There are a lot of things going on lately, Yu Yao slowly sorted things out at home in the morning, and at the end he suddenly felt like a world away.

At noon, he boiled some scallion oil briefly at home, made noodles with scallion oil, and after eating, Yu Yao went to Geguzhai.

Yu Yao walked to the door, saw that it was locked, and was about to take out the key to open the door, when he suddenly heard the sound of a sudden brake, turned his head, and saw an old lady lying on the side of the road, next to a delivery man riding an electric scooter boy.

The young man stopped the car and walked up to the old lady, but he didn't dare to help, but said to Yu Yao, "Sir, you saw that, I didn't touch her, she fell down by herself!"

Yu Yao nodded.Indeed, there is still a distance between the electric car and the old lady, and the original trajectory of the electric car was in the middle of the road, while the old lady walked along the side of the road.

While talking, the old lady propped herself up with one hand, and said in a weak voice, "It's none of your business, hurry up, I have medicine in my pocket, I have to take it right away."

The takeaway boy was still hesitant to go forward, Yu Yao looked at it, and couldn't care less, immediately stepped forward, followed the old lady's instructions, and helped her take out the medicine bottle, after unscrewing it, "How many pills? "

"One will do."

After swallowing the pill, less than a minute later, the old lady's expression eased a lot. Yu Yao slowly helped her up, "I'll take you to the hospital!"

"Thank you, no need, it's an old problem. I was confused and thought I took medicine before going out."

Yu Yao thought to himself, help people to the end, "Then you sit inside for a while, and I'll pour you a cup of hot water."

The old lady hesitated, "Okay, thank you then, young man."

"It's okay, so I'm leaving?" the delivery boy said quickly.

Yu Yao helped the old lady pick up a fabric bag that fell on the ground, helped her into the store, and poured her a cup of hot water.The old lady drank a few sips of hot water and felt better again.

The old lady looked to be in her 70s, dressed plainly, but tidied up very neatly, with short hair around her ears, a dignified appearance, and a gentle and gentle conversation.

"Young man, thank you today, are you the shop owner of this Geguzhai?"

"Well, for a small shop, there's no such thing as a boss or not."

"My surname is Wang, young man, what's your surname?"

"Grandma Wang, my surname is Yu, please call me Xiaoyu."

"Xiao Yu, you sell antiques here, do you still accept antiques?"

Hearing this, Yu Yao couldn't help but be taken aback, and thought that if he ran into an old lady at random, he would have antiques to sell?But thinking about it, it's not surprising that the old lady came to this old street with several antique shops, maybe she was here to sell things.

"Take it. In business, you have to go in and out." Yu Yao then responded.

"Then can you take what I bring?"

"It's not busy, you should rest first."

"I'll be fine after taking the medicine. I've recovered." As the old lady said, she opened the fabric bag.

The old lady took out a brocade box, and took out a gourd from it.

Not an ordinary gourd, but a grasshopper gourd.

The belly is slightly round, the waist is slightly thin, open, rosy and shiny.

The mouth is covered with a white mask, which looks like it should be made of teeth, and it is carved with lotus leaves and lotus flowers in the middle.

Grasshopper gourd, also known as chrysanthemum gourd, is used to raise grasshoppers to raise insects; the core is inlaid with a lid.The gourds for raising katydids naturally have air holes, and the cores are naturally free, with something like mesh for ventilation, and also for hearing the cries of katydids.

"I've done it?" Yu Yao's eyes couldn't help but light up after looking at it roughly.

"Look." The old lady said with a smile.

Yu Yao basically understood the gourd itself, and after getting started, he focused on the ivory carving core.

This Mongolian core is a two-story platform, that is, an extra layer of carving is added to the hollowed out base.This layer of engraving and decoration will greatly enhance the ornamental value.Grasshopper gourd covers a wide range of subjects, including animals, figures, plants and scenery.

This piece is carved with a lotus flower, Yu Yao inspected it carefully and couldn't help secretly praising it.

This lotus flower is carved delicately and vividly, cleverly using the texture of the teeth to express the layers of the lotus and lotus leaves, and there are two drops of dew, which are carved out of the most moist places in the heart of the teeth.

"This is the handicraft of the palace!" Yu Yao sighed in his heart, "Could it be that this grasshopper gourd was jointly made by Sanhe Liu and Dong Sanbao?"

Sanhe Liu was the top expert in making gourd and worm utensils in Xianfeng Dynasty of Qing Dynasty.Unlike Liang Jiugong, the great eunuch of the Kangxi Dynasty, Sanhe Liu was mainly active among the people.

He is from Sanhe, Jingdong. Although the gourd insects he makes are all plain, they are absolutely unique in shape and workmanship.In the late Qing Dynasty, the price of Sanhe liu gourd has surpassed that of the official model gourd.It is said that during the Guangxu period, it cost thousands of taels of silver to buy a grasshopper gourd from Sanheliu.

And Dong Sanbao was an ivory carver at the Ruyi Hall of the Xianfeng Dynasty Manufacturing Office.

Of course, after he arrived at the Ruyi Museum of the Manufacturing Office, it was probably impossible for him to make a grasshopper gourd together with Sanhe Liu.But before he entered the palace, he was an ivory carver, and a small number of folk works have been handed down.

(End of this chapter)