When Meng Zitao walked into the house, he saw that the decoration here was antique, and there were some cultural works of art everywhere, and exquisite ornamental stone bonsai were also common. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "It seems that Jin Lao also has a soft spot for all kinds of ornamental stones." ”

Jin Afu said with a smile: "People are like grass and trees, helpless to reincarnate in the red dust, and experience all kinds of hardships that people are. Stone, on the other hand, is immortal and transcendent. So between man and stone, there is a kind of fate between the future and the past. It is for this reason that I fell in love with all kinds of ornamental stones. ”

Meng Zitao nodded, since the Tang and Song dynasties, scholars and scholars have been more affectionate about the landscape, and the landscape is not easy to be moved, so the ornamental stone of "a thousand miles away" has quietly appeared on the book case since then, in the elegant room.

In the noisy market, people calm down, play with all kinds of stones, a kind of "a lot of work, three peaks out of the group, look at the suspicion in the wild, secluded place meaning clouds" charm will suddenly haunt the heart, "it is better to go back", and the desire to be one with nature will be satisfied. And some of the reasons may be as Jin Afu said.

Seeing that Meng Zitao was interested in his collection of ornamental stones, Jin Afu carefully introduced the origin of his ornamental stone bonsai to Meng Zitao.

After some introduction, Jin Afu said: "Mr. Meng, I don't know how to appreciate ornamental stones from a professional point of view? I used to buy ornamental stones only based on my own preferences, but it is rare to have you as a professional today, so I still want to ask for advice." ”

Meng Zitao nodded and said, "At present, there are several opinions in the stone appreciation world. According to many years of experience in seeking, hiding, playing and appreciating, some people divide the appreciation of ornamental stones into four ways of appreciating stones, which can enable people to reach four different realms: one is to view the stone, the second is to taste, the third is to appreciate the pen, and the fourth is to realize the appreciation. There are some people in the stone appreciation industry who believe that eye, hand, ear, and heart are very important for ornamental stone appreciation. ”

"For example, visual inspection is to see with the eyes, which can be seen with joy, or it can be studied with inquiry and questions. Visual appreciation is mainly to appreciate the shape, color, texture and volume of ornamental stones. Taste its thinness, leakage and wrinkle show, colorful colors, infinite lines, large and small majestic body, and coordination of points, lines and surfaces. ”

In the final analysis, ornamental stones still require connoisseurs to start from their own knowledge level, hobbies and tastes, and take the objective things such as quality, shape, color, and pattern inherent in ornamental stones as objects of observation, and form some direct perception impressions. For example, the texture is hard, the color is beautiful and clear, and the image of people and landscapes. ”

"As you said, if you rely on your own preferences, and then be good at synthesizing the views of various schools and use them flexibly, you will realize the way to appreciate stones. ”

Jin Afu said with a smile: "Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years, and an expert is an expert." ”

Meng Zitao waved his hand and was polite.

Everyone came to the living room and sat down, and Jin Afu said to Jin You: "You go to my room and bring the stone viewing bonsai in my box." ”

"Okay. ”

When Jin You left, Jin Afu said: "Teacher Meng, thank you so much for this time, I won't say anything superfluous, I have a more peculiar ornamental stone bonsai, I want to use it as a thank you gift, please don't shirk." ”

Meng Zitao had already put on his attitude before, and he didn't want to say anything more polite, so he euphemistically said that he would look at things first.

After a while, Jin You came with an ornamental stone bonsai, which seemed nothing strange at a rough glance, but when he looked at it closely, Meng Zitao couldn't help but be surprised.

This ornamental stone is dark green all over, the appearance is moist, the volume is not large, more than 30 centimeters high, about 20 centimeters wide, the shape seems to be a straight mountain peak.

Seeing this, most people will not feel much surprise, but if there are large and small connected peaks and ravines on the mountain peaks, combined into a magnificent picture of mountains and rivers, everyone who sees it will be shocked!

Amazing, amazing!

Meng Zitao carefully looked at this ornamental stone bonsai, and sighed in his heart, if this ornamental stone was to say that it was generated by nature, he couldn't believe it in his heart, because it was too amazing.

But then again, if it is artificial, then it is definitely not possible for ordinary people to express such a thick picture of mountains and rivers on such a small stone. If you want to talk about shape, maybe many carvers can do it, but the momentum it shows is difficult for even some peerless masters to do.

Although there are some master carvers in Meng Zitao's memory who can reach such a level, the style is not the same, not to mention, he did not see any traces of carving from this ornamental stone, obviously, this should be a natural formation.

Since it is naturally formed, with the characteristics it shows, it should be a famous stone, Mencius recalled it carefully, and finally turned out a strange stone in his memory.

"Teacher Meng, I don't know if you recognize what kind of stone this is?" Jin Afu asked.

Meng Zitao tapped the stone with his finger and nodded: "If I am not mistaken, it should be Lin Shishi." ”

"What kind of stone is this, I've never heard of it before. Jin Afu said in surprise.

Meng Zitao said: "This kind of strange stone is actually rare, only in the "Yunlin Stone Spectrum" there is a description, said to be from Xiangzhou, in fact, it is the Taihang Mountain area, where the mountain stones, river pebbles in its geological origin and the action of nature, formed a large number of simple and rough and rich picture Taihang strange stones. ”

"Although it does not have the beauty and delicacy of the southern strange stone and the bright color, but the characteristics of the Taihang strange stone make it full of the beauty of the northern region, which is an indispensable part of our Chinese strange stone, and Lin Shu stone is one of the relatively rare Taihang strange stones. ”

"I see. Jin Afu finally understood, and said with a smile: "In the end, the expert is knowledgeable, I have searched for a lot of information but have not found what kind of strange stone this is, if I haven't met you, I don't know the Year of the Monkey to know." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "As the old saying goes, there is a specialization in the art industry, and everyone has their own areas of expertise, such as the field you are good at, maybe I need to ask you." ”

"Humble. Jin Afu smiled and continued, "Teacher Meng, since you can recognize its variety, it is only fitting to hand it over to you." ”

"No, no, it's too expensive. Meng Zitao waved his hand again and again, the value of special strange stones is very high, such as the best Taihu stone, which is now worth millions, not to mention the rare and superb Lin Shu stone, don't look at it small, in the eyes of people who love curious stones, even if there are no millions, a conservative estimate of 500,000 is there.

Seeing that the father and son were about to persuade, Meng Zitao hurriedly said: "In this way, I will buy it for 500,000 yuan, even then I have already taken a big advantage, if you don't agree, then I can't accept it." ”

The father and son persuaded a few words, but Meng Zitao's attitude was resolute, and they could only agree.

The father and son were very relieved of Meng Zitao, and it was not their intention to ask for money, so they just let Meng Zitao transfer money directly to the bank card.

After that, Jin Afu wrote a note to Meng Zitao: "Lin Shushi was bought in the hands of this person, and he has a bigger piece in his hand, with a height of fifty or sixty centimeters, if you are interested, you can call him and ask him, if the thing is still there, just say that I introduced it, and ask him if he is not interested in transferring." ”

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Jin. Meng Zitao took the note and looked at it and expressed his gratitude.

After sitting at Jin's house for a while, Meng Zitao got up and said goodbye.

Under Jin You's eyes, Meng Zitao drove away, and when the car passed by a unit building, he suddenly saw a familiar and unfamiliar figure in the corner of his eyes, and when he looked at it, it was none other than the long-disappeared mouse.

Speaking of rats, after he cheated Li Xianle at the beginning, he never saw a figure again, Meng Zitao once thought that he was the same as Xue Wenguang, leaving Lingshi to go to other cities, and it was likely that he would never see him in his life, but he didn't expect to meet this guy here.

"It's really hard to find a place to step on iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there!"

Meng Zitao remembered what the mouse had done at the beginning, and anger rose in his stomach, although he also made a fortune from Shi Laoda that time, but this kind of behavior of blackmailing him with his relatives and friends was the thing he hated the most, so he hurriedly pulled over and parked the car, pushed the car door, and shouted to the mouse not far away: "Mouse!"

The rat just went out to buy half a roast duck, half a pound of peanuts and two vegetarian dishes, ready to go home for the sake of food, whistling, suddenly heard someone shouting him, stopped and looked back, almost not scared half to death, came back to his senses, turned around and prepared to escape.

"Mouse, you have the ability to run out of Ling City immediately, otherwise I will see where you can run this time!" Meng Zitao shouted as he ran.

When the mouse heard Meng Zitao's words, he sadly found that if he was hit by Meng Zitao, it would be difficult to escape. He was also very decisive, and immediately stopped, turned around, and when Mencius came to him, he gave himself two mouths.

"Shopkeeper Meng, the previous thing was that I was not good, I was a bastard, and I was an animal! I died a thousand times and ten thousand times, it is not an exaggeration! But you are a decent person, dealing with me like this, and doing it yourself is also dirty for your hands, and you will let me fend for myself!"

Meng Zitao was amused by his words, and directly gave him a brain: "It's quite slippery, in this case, how did you have the courage to pit Li Xianle in the first place!"

The mouse snorted in pain, and said with a shy face: "I wasn't a ghost at the time, and I regretted it afterwards, and I was timid and didn't dare to stay in Ling City. ”

Meng Zitao sneered: "Hehe, you mean to say that we are to blame?"

"That's not what I meant!" The mouse waved his hand again and again: "In the final analysis, this matter is really not good for me, I admit punishment!"

"Oh, how do you think I should punish you?" Meng Zitao put his hands around his chest, looking at what kind of answer the mouse could give.

The mouse gritted his teeth: "I'll compensate you with antiques, what do you think?"

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Yo, it seems that you have made a fortune with a mouse." ”

The mouse waved his hand: "It's not, it's just a small fight and earn some living expenses, which can't be compared with a big boss like you." ”

Meng Zitao said: "You will also be modest, rat, and buy a house here in a 'little fight'?"

The mouse smiled: "Rented, how can I afford to buy a house." ”

The words in the mouse's mouth, half of the ten sentences are already terrible, but Meng Zitao didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said: "You wait for me here, I'll park the car, by the way, you can try to run." ”

"Look at what you said, how can I run!" the mouse patted his chest to indicate that he would definitely not run.

Meng Zitao was not afraid of him running, so he went to park the car: "Take it away." ”

"Okay!" With a flattering smile on his face, the mouse took Meng Zitao upstairs.

The mouse now lives in three rooms and one living room, the house is in a mess, stinky socks, dirty underwear, etc. are thrown all over the ground, and there is a bad smell, Meng Zitao covered his nose before walking in.

"I said you don't know how to clean it, and it's comfortable to live like a pig's nest?"

The mouse didn't care: "Hehe, I will ask the housekeeper to come over every two weeks to clean up, and tomorrow is the day to call the housekeeper over." ”

"As you are, the housekeeping company must not lose money. ”

"How can they lose, these people are shrewd to death, they have to negotiate the price before they start, they can't miss a penny, they are simply profiteers among profiteers!"

"Are you old profiteers still afraid of them?" Meng Zitao sneered: "Okay, don't be verbose, take out your things quickly." ”

"Okay, you sit down and wait a while, I'll be right over. ”

Meng Zitao looked at the tables and chairs in the room, most of them were piled with clothes, and there was only one stool that looked fairly clean, but if you looked closely, there were still some oil stains on it, and it was really unacceptable to sit on it.

After a while, the mouse came back with something: "Shopkeeper Meng, this is the tin pot made by Deng Kui that I got by chance, can you show me if you like it?"

China is one of the world's largest countries in tin ore resources and one of the earliest countries to use tin, and the daily utensils made of tin have long existed, such as the Song Dynasty poet Zeng Ji said in the "Tea Mountain Collection": "The valley is both to the bamboo lady for the bamboo woman, and the Yu is also called the foot woman for the tin slave." The "tin slave" here is a tin foot warmer filled with hot water, commonly known as "soup woman".

The production and popularity of tin pots were relatively late, and they began to form a scale in the Ming Dynasty, with the emergence of craft pots, literati pots and tricky pots. The production of tin pots in the Qing Dynasty reached its peak, and there were successively combined tin pots with purple sand, porcelain, jade, lacquerware, sandalwood, coconut shell, etc.

Generally speaking, tin kettles are dominated by wine pots, followed by teapots. Tin is easy to heat, malleable, shiny as silver, and hand-made by individuals, so the shape of the pot is strange. In ancient folk workshops, the process of making tin pots was also relatively cumbersome, including more than ten processes such as tin melting, molding, cutting, welding, and polishing.

In ancient times, the best tin pots were also quite precious, and some famous works even "cost five or six gold".