Chapter 76: The Silver Kettle

Wu Duo looked at Wu Dazhi's old face, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.

Since Wu Dazhi came, he has been able to use the topic to play from time to time, and although Wu Duo is young and vigorous, he can also understand his hard work.

It's just that he has already embarked on the road of antique treasures, and he can't give up halfway.

"Okay, let's go to Mak Kee. Wu Duo then took Wu Dazhi to a nearby McDonald's.

In the next two days, Wu Dazhi didn't deliberately mention it again. The grandfather and grandson go out to visit the attractions during the day, sometimes go to the vegetable market, and chat at home at night.

Early on Friday morning, the two went out again.

Go to the Heavenly Palace.

Tiangong is a town, located in the southern mountainous area of Qizhou City, every Friday, there is a large collection of Tiangong, the goods are mostly local products, Wu Dazhi is very interested after hearing about it.

Tiangong Daji has a certain reputation in Qizhou, surrounded by mountains and rivers, just on the edge of the provincial highway, very lively.

Wu Duo is also very interested in such a large set, some local specialties are very delicious, such as persimmons, pecans or something, and besides, there are some old objects on the big set, not necessarily antiques, but it is also very interesting to see.

The two of them came to the market and walked around.

At the stall where a middle-aged couple sells begonia fruits, there is also a small wicker basket with half a basket of copper coins piled inside.

When Wu Duo saw it, he squatted down in front of the stall.

The begonia fruit is red, and the copper coin is green and rusty, and the combination of red, red, green and green is quite attractive.

These copper coins were all dug out of their fields, and Wu Duoxun thought that they might not understand, maybe they could find a leak.

Wu Dazhi saw Wu Duo squatting down and began to pick copper coins, smiled, and asked about the price of begonia fruit.

It's a pity that Wu Duo turned over for a long time, and he didn't get any good things.

Don't look at a lot of Song money, but they are all varieties and versions with a large number of surviving generations.

When he left, Wu grabbed a copper coin and didn't buy it, but Wu Dazhi weighed two catties of begonia fruit.

The two left the stall, and Wu Dazhi opened his mouth, "Do you know the money of the Chunhua Ingot Buddha statue?"

"That's for sure, the ancient springs are rare, each one can cost millions. ”

"In 1988, this thing was also sold on a stall for a few dollars a piece. ”

"Huh?" Wu Duoying said, "Isn't this thing found under the pagoda of Wutai Mountain?"

In fact, there are many versions of the Chunhua Yuanbao Buddha statue, and the most expensive version is the batch that Zhao Guangyi, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, personally planned and wrote the imperial book after conquering Taiyuan in the north, and was enshrined in the Yanjiao Temple on Wutai Mountain.

And the later version, many powerful people followed suit and minted, in addition to money, there were also silver coins.

Wu Duo heard Wu Dazhi say this, then it must be the batch enshrined in Wutai Mountain.

"Yes. Wu Dazhi nodded, "After the pagoda collapsed, the base of the pagoda was cleaned up during the repair, and more than a thousand Buddha statues were dug up, but they were quietly divided by migrant workers. ”

Wu Duo roughly knew about this situation, otherwise, the money from the Chunhua Ingot Buddha statue would not have flowed to the market.

"But migrant workers don't know the goods!" Wu Dazhi sighed, "Some people take the money of this Buddha statue and go to the nearby market, and sell the three melons and two dates, and some even use it to exchange for daily necessities such as towels and soap." ”

"You know that in such detail, huh?"

Wu Dazhi continued, "The stall owner who received the goods sold it for a few yuan at first, and then the price increased, but it did not exceed ten yuan. During this period, tourists from Guangdong Province bought them, so some Buddha statues went to the Hong Kong Island market and the international market. ”

Later, an old comrade from the cultural relics department found the Buddha statue money in the stall, was shocked, and immediately reported it, and the relevant departments took action and began to recycle. However, it is impossible to take it all back. ”

"Whew!" Wu Duo, "I didn't expect to dig out such a valuable thing from that basket, so I thought that it would be okay to have something of a little value, but I didn't find a single one, it was all the kind of money that was used to carry a sack to the street to buy things in the Song Dynasty." ”

There were several inflations in the Song Dynasty, and the copper coin version of such a period is naturally not interesting.

Wu Dazhi smiled and didn't speak, and the two continued to walk forward.

I bought a lot of things in bits and pieces. Wu Dazhi also helped Wu Duo pick a vegetable pier, saying that it was good to use this to cut vegetables.

But this thing is too heavy, it's just a thick log, and Wu Duo really doesn't want to carry it.

"I'm almost done, so let's go back directly!" Wu Dazhi said as he paid.

"Walking out of the bazaar, this is not a short road. Wu Duo complained, "You can buy log vegetables from the Internet, and they also deliver them to your door." ”

"Isn't this just the right time to come across a piece of good material? If you're young and gentle, it's time to exercise! At my age, I'm still carrying a few bags!"

Wu Duo grinned, "I see, you just deliberately tossed me!"

"Then you'll have to stand the toss, too. Wu Dazhi raised his hand, "Carry it." ”

At this time, the man selling vegetables didn't react, but an aunt in the stall next door was amused and couldn't help laughing.

Wu Duo couldn't help but look at this aunt and smiled bitterly.

Just between these casual glances, Wu Duo suddenly found something.

This aunt's stall sells dried fruits, and there is a row of open bags, melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, walnuts, etc., these things are nothing, but when she laughs, she picks up a kettle that she has just placed behind her.

This kettle had been sitting behind the side of her body, so neither Wu Duo nor Wu Dazhi noticed it.

The kettle should be silver, wrapped in a blackened leather shell, and by no means new.

It is less than twenty centimeters tall and oblate, like a pouch.

The upper part of the body is concave with a spout at one end, and above the concave is a thin bowed handle. There is also a round cap-shaped lid on the spout with a silver chain attached to the other end of the bow handle.

The body of the pot is not smooth, and there is a horse on each side of the body. The horse is not carved, but is protruding from the surface of the pot by hammering, and the work is very detailed.

This silver kettle is very special!

Wu Duo couldn't help but walk to her stall and squat down, straight to the point, "Auntie, your kettle is very good-looking, is it for sale?"

This is not an antique market, so Wu Duo did not bend around.

"Kettle?" the aunt couldn't help but be stunned, she went back to Shangdaji to bring this jug, and for the first time someone asked.

"yes. Wu Duo nodded, "This kettle is very good-looking, and it is much lighter than Caidun!"

The aunt was happy again, "Young man, my pot is silver, it's not cheap!"

"You bought this?"

"No, this is an old pot in the family, and I don't know which generation passed it down to hold wine. ”

"Huh, so you're drinking with wine?"

The aunt showed a little embarrassment on her face, she really likes to drink, this hobby is normal, but she also brings a wine jug to take a sip from time to time, it's a bit of that.