Chapter 183: The Past Is Like Smoke, I Can't Argue
"Yes. This thing only came to me last week. Li Yiyan nodded, "That's why I said that there happened to be something interesting." ”
Li Yiyan then put the things away and put them back in their place, "Go over and sit down and talk, it's a bit long, and listen to my chatter." ”
"In the summer of 1947, when I was not yet fifteen years old, I was apprenticed to an antique shop in Liulichang. The owner of this shop is good to me because he has a relationship with my father. One day, he received four things, all bronze. ”
"One of them is this bronze knight. ”
At that time, the boss was determined to have received the bronzes in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, and in addition to the bronze jue, the other three pieces were also of the same age, all of which were from the Shang Dynasty. At that time, the bronzes of the last three generations were very valuable, and now the hot Ming and Qing official kilns were not worth much at that time, and there was no comparison with the bronzes of the last three generations. The owner didn't charge much and was happy. ”
"There were three things, and they came out one after another very quickly. The bronze jue is the smallest and the last one left. ”
"After half a month, the person who gave the bronze lord came to deliver things again. Last time he gave the bronze knight, I was not in the store, but this time I came to know that this person was a tomb robber. This time, he brought not only new goods, but also a silk book. ”
"This silk book is from the same tomb as the bronze jue, and he forgot to bring it last time. ”
"This tomb robber used to work with relatives, and this tomb is the first time he has ventured alone, and he is lucky. But his level of education is limited, and the font on this silk book is a small seal, so he does not recognize it. But the boss is knowledgeable, and when he saw this silk book, he was surprised. ”
In fact, the Eastern Han Dynasty was popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but he still used a small seal on the silk book, and this cannot be examined for the reason; but the tomb owner made it very clear in the silk book that he was a craftsman who cast bronze during his lifetime, and he liked to imitate antiques.
When the tomb owner was dying, he told his son to select four Shang Dynasty bronzes that seemed to be the most proudly imitated for burial, and recorded the matter in the silk book, and buried them together. ”
The boss was surprised because he didn't control his emotions at the time, and the tomb robber found out the clues, and thought that the silk book was very valuable, so he called a high price. ”
"But the high-priced boss also has to buy it, otherwise the silk book will be spread, and the buyer who bought the other three bronzes will not do it. Among them, there is also a 'Shang Dynasty bronze tripod', which is large in size and sells at a very high price. The so-called 'high price' of silk books is far less profitable than the sale of bronzes. ”
"After buying the silk book and sending it away, the boss immediately burned the silk book and gave me the bronze jue. He gave it to me to gag me. Because he knew that I had been learning the small seal at the age of twelve, and I had already recognized the contents of the silk book at that time. At first, we didn't expect this, so he read the silk book with me. ”
"I had no choice but to accept this bronze jue, but I didn't dare to sell it myself, so I kept it forever. In 1950, I was admitted to Yenching University, and later stayed on to teach. More than ten years later, during the special period, this bronze jue was copied from my house along with many things. ”
"That's more than 50 years. Just last week, a Mr. Zhang came to visit me, took out this bronze knight, and returned it to me. It turned out that his father was also involved in raiding the house back then, and at the same time secretly hid several things in private. These things were sold one after another, but fortunately, this bronze jue was left. ”
"Last month, Mr. Zhang's father died, and on his deathbed, he told me about the past, and he always wanted to apologize to me, but he didn't have the face or dare. In the end, I had to tell my son to return the only remaining bronze knight, and kowtow to me on behalf of my father to apologize. ”
"The past is like smoke, and I don't remember who came to raid the house at that time. So, I took the bronze juke, and at the same time wrote a 'letter of forgiveness' for Mr. Zhang to take and burn in front of his father's grave······"
After talking about the whole process before and after, Li Yiyan suddenly smiled, "Isn't this a coincidence? ”
In the process of Li Yiyan's narration, the three of them were embarrassed, but Li Yiyan suddenly smiled at the end, and the three of them couldn't help but be stunned.
"Mr. Li, the chef said that the food is on the table, you see ······" At this time, the nanny stepped forward and asked.
"Okay!" Li Yiyan got up, "Let's go, let's go to the restaurant." ”
The meal was very rich, six dishes and two soups, but no wine was prepared, only homemade sour plum soup.
"Xiao Wu! You are really amazing! If it weren't for the teacher telling such a past, who would have seen that it was a bronze lord of the Shang Dynasty imitated by the Eastern Han Dynasty?" After Shen Yunzhou sat down at the dining table, he couldn't hold back anymore and sighed again and again, "Unbelievable! Unbelievable!"
Wu Duo waved his hand to defend, "Mr. Shen, you misunderstood, you have an intuition that you can't do it accurately, but this time it's just the right one." If I feel that it is from the Wei and Jin dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties, then I would be wrong!"
"But you're right!" Ning Shuang's face was smiling, showing a slight smug look.
Li Yiyan nodded at Ning Shuang, "Well, you girl, you Lang Jun's vision is better than Xiao Wu's ability to see things!"
Ning Shuang bowed her head and was silent, but she still had a light smile on her face.
"The intuition of ordinary people, perhaps, is to touch. But I know Ning Shuang's eyesight, you can be stronger than her, your intuition, then it is not a touch, but a sublimation of identification! So, don't be modest, although you can't tell the truth, but the result is right, it's right!"
After Li Yiyan finished speaking to Wu Duo, he then greeted, "Come, if you don't prepare wine, just eat more, don't be restrained." ”
After starting to eat, Li Yiyan rarely spoke. It wasn't until the end, when everyone finished eating, that Li Yiyan asked Wu Duo again, "Xiao Wu, your eyesight has been ······ with your grandfather since childhood."
"Not really. I love antiques myself, and then I mainly rely on self-education. And my grandfather didn't approve of me getting into the antique shop. Wu Duo responded truthfully.
"Oh, did he tell you what he did before he retired?"
"I've talked about it a bit, mainly to go south and north······ Let's do business. ”
"Go south and north, do business?" Li Yiyan was silent for a moment, "Xiao Wu, when you contact your grandfather, don't forget to reply to me! Just call home, I'm at home today." ”
"Don't worry, I will reply to you as soon as possible. ”
After the meal, the three of them sat down for a while, and then said goodbye together. During this period, Shen Yunzhou has not mentioned the matter of Mi Fu's bamboo and stone map.
Ning Shuang drove Wu Duo back to the hotel, and she went to work, and she only took half a day off.
Back in the room, Wu Duo changed his shoes and washed his hands, then sat down and lit a cigarette, combed through the front and back again, and directly dialed the old rich man's phone.