Yu Yao really didn't think about this question, in his opinion, there is not much difference between an antique shop and an art company, and his "business" is no longer focused on this aspect, but he can't say it to Shen Ge's parents.

"Let's take a look!"

Shen's mother was about to speak again, but Shen's father waved his hand, "Young people have young people's plans, so what can't you do with Yu Yao's eyesight?"

When Shen's mother heard this, she couldn't help glaring at Shen's father, "Yu Yao hasn't said anything yet." ”

Shen Chongyuan immediately said, "There are some things that really need to be considered in the long run. Then he looked at Yu Yao again, "Shen Ge's mother is worried that Shen Ge will be unstable with you, haha." ”

"Dad. Shen's mother said to Shen Zhongyuan, "I don't want to know more about Xiaoyu." ”

Shen Ge smiled at this time, "Okay, Mom, I will often bring him to the house in the future, and you have a chance to understand." ”

After that, he got up and pulled Yu Yao up, "Let's go, take you to see my father's collection." ”

"Huh?" Father Shen was stunned for a moment, and then got up, "This girl, has I agreed?"

Then he showed a wry smile, "Then I'll accompany you." ”

Mother Shen frowned slightly, and then showed a helpless expression, Shen Chongyuan looked at her daughter-in-law, "I'll go and accompany me too." ”

When Shen's mother saw Shen Chongyuan get up, she also hurriedly got up, "Have you all eaten well?"

"Alright, alright. Shen Ge replied first, and as he spoke, he pulled Yu Yao away from the table.

Entering Shen Ge's father's study, Yu Yao found that there were not many things on display, just a Bogu shelf, with a few pieces of porcelain, a few pieces of jade, and a few miscellaneous items.

"Don't look at these big road goods, the other things in the safe probably can't get into your eyes, what makes you look at something special. After Shen Ge finished speaking, he winked at his father, "Dad, take it out, aren't you and grandpa a little confused?"

Shen Chongyuan showed a smile that didn't mean anything at this time.

Shen Ge's father laughed, "Girls are outgoing, and the ancients don't deceive me." ”

However, he turned around and said, "It's rare to meet a top master like Yu Yao, even if he doesn't know Xiaoge, he can discuss it." ”

Yu Yao didn't speak, Xindao had never heard Shen Ge and Shen Chongyuan talk about anything special, it seemed that this thing was indeed extraordinary.

"Sit!" Shen's father beckoned Yu Yao to sit down, and then ordered the nanny to serve tea, and after the nanny withdrew, he closed the door of the study and opened a cabinet under the bookcase, which seemed to have a secret compartment inside, and after opening, there was a small safe.

What Shen's father took out of the safe was a very ordinary paulownia box, but it was relatively well-made.

Then he took out a clean piece of white paper, spread it on the desk, opened the wooden box, and took out a black object from it.

Yu Yao fixed his eyes and saw that this was an ink ingot.

The ingot is rectangular in shape, about eighteen centimeters in length, nine centimeters in width, and about two centimeters thick.

Shen's father put it on the table, and the side facing up was carved with landscape ornaments. It is a molded bas-relief, exquisite and concise.

Yu Yao examined it and asked, "Can you get started?"

"Please!"

Yu Yao started his hand, feeling heavy.

And after the other side, there are four big characters in Lishu in the middle of the upper part of the other side: Jiuxi Xuanxiang. Cloud dragon pattern on both sides.

And the lower part, there are vertical rows of small characters: a hundred refining Wujin, helping the scholar to climb the clouds and fold the laurels; a thousand pounds of Xuanyu, Fuxian attached to the phoenix and climbing the dragon.

This "Nine Tin Xuanxiang", which sounds relatively lofty, is actually another name for the literati's ink, and is often used on ink ingots.

The tin of "Jiuxi", Tongci, refers to the nine kinds of ritual vessels rewarded by the ancient emperors, indicating a kind of treatment and status; Xuanxiang is another name for ink.

The workmanship of this ink ingot is very good, and the texture is not ordinary, and Yu Yao's gaze is finally fixed on the last two sides of the small print.

These two inscriptions, one is "Luo" and the other is "Xiaohuashanren".

"Luo Xiaohua?" Yu Yao muttered.

"Yes. Father Shen nodded slightly, "I have the same opinion as my father, and it is no problem to know, but it is difficult to determine whether it is Luo Xiaohua's personal worker." ”

The name Luo Xiaohua is a shining star in the history of Chinese ink making.

He is a representative of Shemo.

Generally speaking, Lao Shemo is mostly made of pine smoke, and the famous "Li Mo" is pine smoke ink. The Huangshan area is rich in ancient pine, which is suitable for making pine smoke ink, so many ink-making masters gathered here in ancient times.

But Luo Xiaohua mainly makes tung smoke ink. This side of "Nine Tin Xuanxiang" is Tong Yanmo. Shen's father used a paulownia box to match, perhaps for a psychological "matching".

In the late Ming Dynasty, Luo Xiaohua's ink-making became famous for a while, known as "solid as stone, as rhinoceros, black as lacquer, and a snail is worth ten thousand dollars". There were also people in the dynasty who commented, "If I am in the court, I will definitely take Luo Xiaohua antler glue as the first." Antler gum is an ink-making adjunct used to refer to ink ingots.

The name Luo Xiaohua is very outstanding in the history of ink making, but in fact, "Xiaohua" is not his name, and it can also be seen from the seal of "Xiaohua Shanren" that "Xiaohua" is his number.

And when it comes to his name, he is actually quite famous, but not in terms of ink making.

His name is Luo Longwen, his words contain chapters, and his name is Xiaohua and Xiaohuashan.

Luo Longwen's experience is actually a bit legendary, he was originally a fellow villager of Hu Zongxian, an important minister who resisted the Japanese, and he also worked as an undercover agent for the extermination of the great pirate Xu Hai, which was a meritorious service.

After the fall of Hu Zongxian, he took refuge in Yan Shifan's door in a very timely manner.

At that time, Yan Song was in power in the Jiajing Dynasty, and Luo Longwen became Yan Shifan's guest and was a member of the Zhongshu House at that time.

Later, Yan Song was overthrown by Xu Jie, Yan Shifan was reinforced, and Luo Longwen was also reinforced.

However, when Yan Song had just fallen, in fact, the power was still very large, the people were not there, and the interest groups were still entrenched in the DPRK, so Yan Shifan did not go to the army, and fled back to his hometown to live happily;

Luo Longwen is a first-class master in ink making, but on the other hand, he is really not very good. His defection to the Japanese Kou this time became an opportunity for Xu Jie to really kill Yan Shifan, and it also became an opportunity for him to be killed himself.

At the same time, he also talked nonsense, and while robbing with the Japanese robbers, he said that he wanted to take revenge.

In the end, the crime of nailing Yan Shifan was not how much money he was greedy, not how many people he had harmed, not how many people he had killed, not that he had escaped halfway to avoid the army, but that he had colluded with the Japanese bandits, had colluded with foreign countries, and united with Jiangyang thieves to plot misdeeds.

As long as Emperor Jiajing doesn't care about the previous crimes, no matter how serious they are, it's not a, but in the back, Emperor Jiajing can't care less, because this has threatened the imperial power.

But in fact, how could Yan Shifan rebel? Well, the idiotic behavior of Luo Longwen, the master of ink making, is very important.

One day in March of the 44th year of Jiajing, Yan Shifan and Luo Longwen were escorted to the execution ground together and executed.