Chapter 10: The Broken Circle Chair

"It's a set of circle chairs, which have been handed down by the ancestors of a family in Luochuan City, and they can be more than 100 years old. Look at it, it's all broken, oh, the three upper circles have to be repaired, and there is one missing leg, and the two lower support mud has also fallen off, and it has to be repaired. ”

Speaking of supporting mud, he pointed to the wooden strip under a circle chair that was attached to the ground to connect the chair legs, and Ye Xiaochi understood what it was.

Although he was full of questions about Ye Xiaochi's transformation, Luo Xiangdong still answered his niece's question seriously.

"I didn't expect you to repair these old furniture?" Ye Xiaochi knew that her brother-in-law was a carpenter, but he didn't expect that he could repair this kind of antique furniture, and there were still people who were willing to ask him to do this kind of work, so he was not an ordinary craftsman.

"Of course it will? I earn a lot of money by cultivating this, and I pay a lot of attention to it, but it's a pity that this kind of work doesn't happen often. ”

Luo Xiangdong said, gently moved a chair that was not too badly broken, pointed to the upper circle of wood and said: "Look at the upper circle, right? It is not a piece of wood made of hot pressing, you see, there are interfaces here, which are connected by several pieces of wood, because of these interfaces, it is easy to break when you fall." ”

"Oh, isn't this wood very precious? I don't look like red sandalwood, could it be made of huanghuali or wenge?"

"Rosewood, yellow pear, wenge, heh, you know a lot. Luo Xiangdong shook his head and told Ye Xiaochi: "How can you have that kind of precious wood casually? These are not, they are made of locust wood." It's been a bit old, and it's worth a lot to repair. ”

The two uncles intended to eliminate the sense of alienation between each other at the beginning, so they had nothing to say.

After chatting for a while, it is much more natural to talk again. Speaking of wood, Luo Xiangdong mentioned it casually: "I have seen the wenge furniture you mentioned in our village...... Forget it, what are you talking about?"

Luo Xiangdong realized that he was a little speechless, so he stopped the topic in time.

Ye Xiaochi protested: "Why don't you say it halfway, what's wrong with our village? Why can't you say it?" Halfway through speaking, obedient people are very uncomfortable.

"Okay, if you want to know, I'll tell you. It was last year that I saw a set of furniture made of wenge wood in a lower house in our village, with a brazier stand, an incense table, a table and two chairs. It's better than this one. Truly, they don't know the goods, they are all blind, so they put them in a mess with hoes and shovels. ”

People here often build a simple small house around the house where they live, put sundries and farm tools, and are used to calling the house down.

"Then what can't you say?Oh, I understand, that family won't be surnamed Xue, right?" Ye Xiaochi thought about it and figured out why Luo Xiangdong stopped in the middle of the first sentence?

Ye Xiaochi said this to make Luo Xiangdong strange, when it came to the Xue family, she didn't have any special reaction, if it wasn't pretended, it meant that she had come out of this matter. If that's the case, that's a great thing.

"yes, you guessed it, are you okay?"

"What can it be? It's been a long time. Ye Xiaochi brought this matter over vaguely, and she had already changed her core, what influence could the Xue family have on her?

Ye Xiaochi was on crutches at this time, walked over to carefully check the openwork dragon pattern on the back of the circle chair, and muttered: "Why is it so beautiful? It's so exquisite......"

Luo Xiangdong looked at her legs, his eyes felt a little tingling, thinking of the things he took out of the box in the morning, he thought, he should take some time to sell that thing, no matter how good things are, they are not as important as her legs. The leg is broken, and there are really too many ups and downs in this life.

"Qiuqiu, I have something here, do you want to take a look?" he wanted to let Ye Xiaochi see it before selling it, at least let her know that her ancestors had passed down such an object.

Ye Xiaochi looked up, she knew this nickname because the original owner was born in autumn, and everyone called her that when she was a child. It's just that when she grew up, she told people that she didn't like this nickname, and slowly everyone stopped calling it much. As soon as Luo Xiangdong mentioned it, she remembered.

"Something, of course, I want to see it, is it with you? Luo Xiangdong's words successfully aroused Ye Xiaochi's interest.

Luo looked out the window and saw that no one was coming, so he took the key, opened the old-fashioned box, and took out the wooden box he had just put in from inside.

That kind of behavior made Ye Xiaochi suddenly think of the guests in the treasure appreciation show carefully taking out the treasures they brought.

Luo Xiangdong just said that this was handed down by his father, and it can be sold for money, is it an antique?

At this time, Luo Xiangdong had already opened the wooden box, and held out a bottle with ears with both hands, moon-white, about thirty centimeters high. There are countless cracks crisscrossing the bottle, which she knows and should be called an open piece.

"This is a piercing ear bottle, made in the Daoguang period, imitating the practice of the Song Dynasty brother kiln. It can be sold for a lot of money. ”

There are still many things that Luo Xiangdong didn't say, he didn't tell her that he wanted to sell this bottle, and he didn't tell her that his father's father, that is, his grandfather had several pierced ear bottles at home when he was a child, and at that time, the grandfather who was a child used these piercing ear bottles as toys, and he often used this bottle to imitate the ancients to play pitching pot archery.

These words were told to him by his father, and the reason why he didn't tell Ye Xiaochi was because he didn't want her to have too much psychological gap. It's a little disappointing to think about this kind of thing.

My niece's mood has just improved, and there is no need to increase her psychological burden.

"I, can I pick it up and take a look?" Ye Xiaochi had a voice in her heart asking her to take the bottle in her hand.

"Take it, take it out for you. When Ye Xiaochi heard this, he reached out and held the bottle, and while observing it carefully, he said to Luo Xiangdong: "This is really from the Daoguang period?"

"Of course it's true, it's been passed down for many years, and it's not bought blindly from a stall outside. ”

"Oh, I didn't expect you to have such a good thing here, if it was true, it would be worth it. Uncle, you don't want to sell it, do you? It's not that you can't live, what are you doing if you sell it? I really sold that so-called loser and kept it as a family heirloom. ”

Hearing Ye Xiaochi's words, Luo Xiangdong was speechless, if he really sold it, would Ye Xiaochi blame him?

Will the relationship that was so hard to be repaired deteriorate as a result?

But if she doesn't sell it, when will she have money to treat her leg? He bought the car last year, and he didn't have much money at this time. Ye Xiaochi's parents have sent away the old man and built a house in the past few years, and then used some for her legs, and now she still owes debts. Where is the money if you don't sell?

Luo Xiangdong was fighting in his mind and heard Ye Xiaochi talking to him.

"What's wrong?"

"I just asked you if I could see the pictures in that box. Ye Xiaochi had already put down the Qing Dynasty imitation brother kiln ear bottle at this time.