After breakfast, Zheng Zheng took Bai Xiaoxue around the Western Capital for most of the day. The Western Capital City is also a city with a lot of history, and there are many ancient ruins and attractions in the city, so Zheng Zheng took Bai Xiaoxue all the way around. After lunch, Zheng Zheng took Bai Xiaoxue to play in places like amusement parks for an afternoon. I usually don't have time to accompany Bai Xiaoxue, but this is finally a little free, Zheng Zheng naturally wants to have fun with Bai Xiaoxue.

Approaching evening, Zheng Zheng pondered that he should also call Zheng Yonghe to inform him. I'm back now, and it's really a bit inappropriate not to call Zheng Yonghe.

After making a phone call, Zheng Yonghe didn't react much before, so he talked to Zheng Zheng a little gossip. But when he knew that Zheng Zheng was in the Western Capital, he immediately asked Zheng Zheng to go to the Yonghe Teahouse under his name to find him, he wanted to have a good chat with Zheng Zheng, as for what to talk about, Zheng Yonghe didn't say anything on the phone.

Zheng Zheng was thinking about taking Bai Xiaoxue over with him, although Zheng Yonghe didn't have an elder in front of him, but when it came to seniority, he had to call him uncle, and he was also the only elder in the Zheng family in the Western Capital who had a good relationship with him, and it was good to take Bai Xiaoxue to meet the elders. However, Bai Xiaoxue felt a little inappropriate, saying that she had been playing outside for a day, she was tired, her condition was not very good, and her clothes were too casual, so it was really not suitable to see her elders, so it was better to talk about it another day.

Zheng Zheng was not reluctant, so he accompanied Bai Xiaoxue to dinner and sent her to the hotel, and then rushed to the "Yonghe Teahouse" under Zheng Yonghe's name.

When he arrived at the teahouse, he exchanged his name with Yingbin, and the long-legged bee-waisted Yingbin took Zheng Zheng to the third floor, led Zheng Zheng to a private room, and then swung his waist and left.

Pushing open the private room, Zheng Yonghe was sitting in the private room serving a pot of tea, and when he saw Zheng Zheng arrive, he hurriedly beckoned Zheng Zheng to come in and sit down.

Sitting down, Zheng Zheng smiled evilly and made fun of Zheng Yonghe: "I said, are you opening a teahouse or your harem?

It's gorgeous...... The greeting waiters all have thin waists, long legs and hips, and the forks of the cheongsam can't wait to open to the thighs...... Tsk, it's thanks to the heating in your teahouse that is turned on enough, otherwise you have to freeze everyone to death. ”

Zheng Zheng followed the beautiful woman all the way up to greet the guest just now, and met with the waiter who went upstairs and downstairs. The waiter's eyes were wandering, his eyebrows were full of affection, and Zheng Zheng's heart was beating a little messily.

"Look at your filthy death. ”

Zheng Yonghe pointed at Zheng Zheng with disgust and said, "How can I open a harem in this serious teahouse...... There's a reason why they dress up nicely. ”

"Hmm. Zheng Zheng plucked out his ears and nodded to Zheng Yonghe: "Okay, you say, I'll listen." ”

"First, it's eye-catching. Zheng Yonghe snapped his fingers.

"Well, you go on. ”

"Second...... Hmm......" Zheng Yonghe pondered for a while, and held back a word: "Hmm...... Pretty. ”

"Uh-huh-hmm...... Okay, you go ahead. Zheng Zheng tried to hold back a smile and motioned for Zheng Yonghe to continue.

Zheng Yonghe's face was also a little unbearable, he waved his hand and said: "Anyway, it's good-looking, the selling point is not in the hue but in the service and overall atmosphere of the soft-spoken beauties, understand?"

"The point is that you look pretty eye-catching yourself, right?" Zheng Zheng smiled.

Zheng Yonghe waved his hand and said, "This is a matter of details...... How is it, isn't it quite tempting to look at it just now?" Zheng Yonghe winked at Zheng Zheng like an elder, and said with a wicked smile: "Why don't you hook up with one first......?" Popular. ”

"Don't make a fuss. Zheng Zheng waved his hand again and again and said, "Don't hurt me, I'm coming back with my girlfriend." ”

"My nephew and daughter-in-law also came back with you?" Zheng Yonghe slapped his thigh and said, "Look at you, why don't you bring anyone over?" I haven't seen my nephew and daughter-in-law yet!"

Zheng Zheng squinted at Zheng Yonghe and said, "You don't look like an elder?" Forget it, if you bring it over and scare her again, what can you do? Come on, let's get down to business, why are you looking for me?"

"Well......" Zheng Yonghe looked at Zheng Zheng, nodded and shook his head, and said, "Before I get down to business, I have to let you look at something......

Saying that, Zheng Yonghe stood up, took a square box from the side, opened it, pushed it in front of Zheng Zheng, and said, "...... Let's take a look. ”

There was a row of snuff bottles in the box, which were padded with cotton to prevent collisions, and at a glance there were about twenty smaller ones.

Zheng Zheng looked at the box of snuff bottles and said with a smile: "I've started playing this recently, haven't you? It's good, it's much better than smoking." ”

"Mao. Zheng Yonghe lit a cigarette, glared at Zheng Zheng with squinted eyes, and said, "I don't play with this, but I want you to look at these snuff bottles and tell me about them." ”

Zheng Zheng was happy, looked at Zheng Yonghe, and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?"

Zheng Yonghe swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog: "Just think it's ...... Hurry up, there's something serious about reading this. ”

Zheng Zheng nodded, didn't say much, picked a snuffbox casually, held it in his hand, and looked at it carefully.

Snuff is a foreign product, introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and some people began to play in the Ming Dynasty, but it did not form a trend. It really began to be popularized in the Qing Dynasty, at first it was the children of the Eight Banners as playthings, and then it slowly spread, and the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties were considered to be in their heyday. The treasures in the snuff bottles are basically from these three eras.

In terms of materials, it can basically be divided into glass, porcelain, jade, coral, agate, jade, crystal, lacquerware, Zheng Zheng is holding a snuff box made of coral.

"This ......"

Zheng Zheng took the snuffbox and looked at the light in the room, and rarely hesitated. He shook his head, pulled out the button-shaped magnifying glass he had hung on the keychain, pointed his snuffbox at the light, and looked at it carefully.

After watching for two or three minutes, Zheng Zheng put down the snuffbox and magnifying glass in his hand, looked at Zheng Yonghe, shook his head and said, "You're ready to make things difficult for me, aren't you?" ”

Zheng Yonghe sipped his cigarette and said with a smile: "Tell me." ”

"At first, I thought the snuffbox was made from a whole piece of coral, and I almost got mixed up. Thanks to me, I thought it was a little wrong, and I looked at it with a magnifying glass......" Zheng Zheng pointed to the snuff box and said: "But this snuff bottle is rare enough, two pieces of coral are put together, and the splicing is quite in place, I was almost blinded." ”

A snuff box is basically two inches high and low, and one and a half inches wide and narrow. If you use coral, then the coral raw material has to be larger, and the overall shape must be good, there should be no big potholes, otherwise it will not be used. Therefore, it is not easy to get the whole piece of coral that can be used to make snuff bottles, and the general coral snuff bottles are carved with several small pieces of coral, and then put together, and a snuff box made of two pieces of coral is incomparable with a snuff box made of whole materials.

The bonding part of this snuff box is handled quite well, Zheng Zheng thought that Zheng Yonghe had obtained this whole coral snuff bottle, if it wasn't for the sake of caution and looked at it again with a magnifying glass, then Zheng Zheng would have been fooled.

"Okay...... Let's take a look at the next one. Zheng Yonghe nodded and smiled, and didn't say much.

"This ......"

Zheng Zheng picked up a verdant snuff box, looked at it for a while, and said, "Jadeite ...... The value of pure green is high, and the lighter the color, the lower the value. This is the most expensive emerald snuff box, dark green in color, crystal pure...... Good stuff. ”

Zheng Yonghe smiled and nodded, but did not speak.

"You are so calm...... Zheng Zheng scolded Zheng Yonghe with a smile, picked up a snuffbox again, looked at it over and over again, and said: "This is glass, and it is not worth much in terms of materials." However, the key to the frit snuff bottle is the workmanship, and the materials are all the same...... This is Gu Yuexuan's payment, and the snuff bottles made by Gu Yuexuan are only available in Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, and the number is not much. ”

Putting the snuffbox down, Zheng Zheng picked up another one and looked at it, laughed "hey", and said, "This is an agate ...... It's embarrassing. Originally, agate was very expensive, but there were too many cigarette bottles made from it, and not many people paid attention to agate snuff bottles. If you want to talk about the price of this kind of snuff bottle, the difficulty, the price depends on the preference, if you like it, it is expensive, and if you don't like this material, it is too small to play cigarette ash. ”

After reading all the snuff bottles in a row, Zheng Zheng picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea to moisten his throat, then looked at the smiling Zheng Yonghe and asked, "Come on, I've finished reading all the snuff bottles, can you tell you about your business?" You old bones, I guess you can't bear my black hands a few times. ”

"Hey, you won't ......" Zheng Yonghe smiled and said, "I just want to see if your ability has fallen, don't be busy with your black market every day and put this down...... It seems to be pretty good now, but I didn't leave your skills behind. ”

"How can this mean that if you forget it, you will forget it......" Zheng Zheng pointed to his head and said with a smile: "It's all here, you can't forget it." ”

"If you don't forget, if you don't forget, you can......"

Zheng Yonghe smiled, refilled the tea for Zheng Zheng, and asked unintentionally, "How many days are you going to stay here this time?"

Hearing Zheng Yonghe ask, Zheng Zheng didn't think much about it, and said casually: "Where...... I want to go back to my dad's for the New Year. But the old man said, let me spend the New Year here, and then go back after the New Year. ”

Zheng Yonghe, who was pouring tea for himself, shook his hands, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Zheng Zheng with a somewhat strange expression. Zheng Zheng didn't know what he meant, so he blinked and looked at Zheng Yonghe.

looked at Zheng Zheng for a minute or two before Zheng Yonghe withdrew his gaze. He closed his eyes slightly, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and when he opened his eyes again, he was still staring at Zheng Zheng, and asked, "What about worshipping ancestors this year...... Did your dad tell you?"

"Said it......" Zheng Zheng didn't understand why Zheng Yonghe reacted so much, but he also said truthfully: "My old man said that it was because of the important event of worshipping ancestors that he let me come back." ”