Deng Kui is also a famous pot maker, he is a person before and after Daoguang, character sheng, more cooperation with purple sand artists, he also participated in the design and supervision of purple sand pots, wrote inscriptions, or carved flowers, bamboo, and the bottom of the pot was printed "Fu Sheng Deng Kui supervised". The various pots he made www.biquge.info were also very popular among literati and artists at that time.

Specific to the tin pot taken out by the mouse, it is a tea pot, the surface of which has been naturally oxidized over the years, calm and moist. The pot is made of gourd type, drum belly, flat bottom, round high neck of the shoulder, the top of the lid is inlaid with white jade gourd buttons, the pot flow is three bent type, and the round half is embedded in the jade carving double dragon for pearls, which is a typical "three inlaid jade" tin pot. One side of the body of the pot is inscribed with "Baiyan rain, Jinsha Spring." An Ou talks about the pot in the sky", and the left sign "Fu Sheng engraved".

Meng Zitao observed, the tin pot should be genuine, but the value is about seventy or eighty thousand at most, if the mouse wants to rely on this to escape, it is too simple.

So, he looked at the mouse with a smile: "Just such a thing?"

The mouse smiled bitterly: "Shopkeeper Meng, I'm just making a small fuss, for us people, such a thing is already incomparable, and it must not be comparable to your level." ”

Meng Zitao's face fell: "Then you just said that you want to compensate for something, just such a thing, and you want to solve the matter? Who are you and me! Or do you deliberately use such a thing to perfunctory me?"

The mouse said in a low voice: "I don't dare to perfunctory you no matter what you say! The most valuable thing I have here is really only this tin pot, if you don't believe me, you can follow me to see the things in my house." ”

"Then let's go check it out. ”

"Uh......" Seeing that Meng Zitao agreed to his words, the mouse couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and he wanted to slap himself in his heart.

"Why, don't you dare to take me there?" Meng Zitao's face began to be a little hideous.

The mouse hurriedly waved his hand: "How can this be, it's just that my room is a little messy." ”

Meng Zitao smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of chaos, lead the way." ”

The mouse was helpless, so he had to take Meng Zitao into his room where the collection was placed.

The situation in the room is completely different from the living room, there are several Bogu cabinets around, and the things are also placed in an orderly manner, compared with the living room, one is in the sky and one is underground.

"Yo, it's a mess here. Meng Zitao glanced back at the mouse.

The rat is also thick-skinned, and he smiled: "I just cleaned it up." ”

Meng Zitao said: "Ha, your movements are fast enough, change your name and call you 'Three Seconds Jun', what do you think?"

The mouse smiled and scolded in his heart: "You are the 'three-second king', and your whole family is the 'three-second king'!"

Meng Zitao set his eyes on the Bogu cabinet in the room, but the things on it made him a little disappointed, most of them were just 10,000 yuan things, and he didn't know the authenticity, he didn't have any ideas about such things.

After glancing around, Meng Zitao said lightly: "Don't tell me, you don't have any safes." ”

The mouse was very helpless, so he had to go to a Bogu cabinet on the side and open the door below, and there was a safe inside.

The mouse didn't shy away from Meng Zitao, and opened the box directly, and there were two things inside, both of which were porcelain, and both of them were Qinghua porcelain.

The rat took them out of the safe and carefully brought them to the table for Mencius to watch.

The two pieces of porcelain are the Qing Kangxi blue and white entwined branch lotus plate, and the Qing Yongzheng blue and white folded branch Ruiguo pattern vase.

Looking at the two pieces of porcelain, the workmanship is very exquisite, and the decoration pays attention to "civil, elegant, fine and fine", and ordinary people will think that this is a fine work.

However, Meng Zitao was not an ordinary person, and he knew at a glance that both pieces of porcelain were problematic, and they were both made of high-imitation green materials.

"Mouse, where did you get these two pieces of porcelain?" Meng Zitao asked.

"I bought them all in Yangcheng. The mouse said.

"Write me the seller's address. Meng Zitao said.

The mouse was stunned, then went to get a pen and paper, wrote the seller's information, and said with a painful face: "I bought it in this person's hands, and it cost me most of my savings." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "Okay, don't pretend, these two things, where they came from, put them there." ”

The mouse was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Shopkeeper Meng, do you mean that these two things are wrong?"

"What do you think?" Meng Zitao asked rhetorically.

The mouse waved to Meng Zitao and said, "Shopkeeper Meng, I still want to ask you for advice, just say it casually." ”

Meng Zitao didn't want to be verbose with him, and he had other ideas, so he said: "No matter how much I say, you won't necessarily believe it, just go and do a green material appraisal yourself." ”

Seeing that Meng Zitao made it clear that he didn't want to tell himself, the mouse scolded in his heart, and put the things back in the safe with some anger.

The mouse walked back and said to Meng Zitao: "Shopkeeper Meng, you must have seen everything I have here, it's not that I don't want to give you better compensation, it's just that there is nothing better here." ”

"Then I'll have to choose a few more from these. Meng Zitao smiled.

Even if the mouse disagreed, he could only agree, so he let Meng Zitao choose for himself.

Meng Zitao turned around the room, and when he looked at about two-thirds of the things, his eyes were attracted by a purple sand tea pet.

In the process of tasting tea, many people will put some small objects on the tea tray, which is what people often call tea pets. Tea pets It can be pigs, dogs, frogs and other animal shape porcelain, according to the hobby of the tea user.

Tea pets all have one thing in common, and that is that they only have mouths. This determines that it can only eat in and out, and people express the traditional concept of "wealth is abundant, and every drop of water does not leak" in this way. It is raised with discarded tea, and under the long-term watering of tea, the color of the surface of the tea pet can slowly change.

The tea pet that was noticed by Meng Zitao is also a traditional theme, but it is relatively rare among tea pets, but it is an elephant, which is what people usually say "Taiping has elephants".

"Taiping Elephant" is also known as "Taiping Scene" and "Happy Elephant Shengping", describing Heqing Haiyan and Minkang Wufu. Elephants have a long lifespan, up to more than 200 years, and have always been regarded as gentle and peaceful beasts. Emperors often compared the white elephant to a symbol of peace in the world to sing praises and express it in the form of art.

The tea pet three-dimensional round carving elephant for walking. The body is fat, the whole body is gorgeously decorated, the body is covered with a carpet, the carpet is painted with treasure patterns, the branches and leaves are layered, slowly stretched, and the pattern expresses the shallowness of eating knives, like dark lines, but it is more fun to savor.

The elephant has a strong body, a gentle expression, and is extremely honest and charming. The use of round and shallow carving is skillful, the shape is graceful and dignified, the curve is tactful and smooth, the structure is rigorous and moderate, and there should be the level of a master carver.

In addition, Meng Zitao found a sign printed with "Lao Zhi" on the elephant's body, and after a little recollection, he remembered that this was Qu Ziye's number.

Qu Ziye's real name is Ying Shao, the word Majesty Spring, the first number of the moon pot, the late number Qu Fu, and the number of Lao Ye. In the Qing Dynasty, Gongsheng was born in the Daoguang room, and the official Yuhuan was also known. Good at painting bamboo, the shade is sparse, and it is scattered. Gong poems and poems, calligraphy and painting seal carving, Shi Yun Shou Ping law.

Qu Ziye was a well-known literati pot maker in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, and after Chen Mansheng, he was another literati who was closely integrated with the art of purple clay pots. He is fond of pot art, especially good at sand tire tin pots, often cooperates with Yang Pengnian, and inscribes on the pot by himself. The title pot is mostly made of calligraphy, and the regular script is interspersed; it depicts the double clear of plum and bamboo, and is known as the 'three uniques' of poetry, calligraphy and painting.

Qu also asked his friend Deng Kui to Yixing to customize and supervise the making of sand pots, which were called 'Qu Ziye Pots' or 'Qu Pots' for short.

In the past, it was found that the works with Qu Ziye's knowledge were mostly pots, and it was the first time Meng Zitao had seen such a tea pet with his own eyes, which was extremely novel, so he used the ability.

When Meng Zitao looked at the antiques in the house, the mouse had been watching from the side, and his heart was up and down, and when he saw Meng Zitao pick up the things he liked, his whole heart was lifted, and when Meng Zitao put it back, he breathed a sigh of relief, so back and forth several times, he felt that he was about to have a heart attack, and hoped that Meng Zitao would finish reading it quickly.

Meng Zitao took down the utensils he chose from the Bogu shelf: "Seeing that your performance is quite good today, in addition to the tin pot, I will choose these few pieces, no problem, right?"

The mouse saw Meng Zitao's choice, and his heart ached faintly, but he had to agree, and also helped Meng Zitao pack up, wanting him to leave quickly.

Meng Zitao took his things and was about to leave, and when he left, he said: "Even if the past is over, but if I find out that you are making trouble again in the future, I don't need to say more about how to deal with it." ”

"Rest assured, I'm going to change my ways. The mouse patted his chest and promised, and said in his heart: "Plague God, go quickly, I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore!"

After going downstairs, Meng Zitao put his things back in the car, made a phone call, and after a few words, he drove home to prepare for home.

Halfway through the car, Meng Zitao received a call from Shu Ze, saying that he had arrived in Lingshi and was now at Zheng Anzhi, so if he was fine, let him go back quickly.

Meng Zitao drove back to his home community and came to Zheng Anzhi's house with a box containing a tea pet.

Shu Ze saw Meng Zitao, said hello, and said with a smile: "Yes, here is the treasure again! Tell me, what is it?"

"It's just a purple sand tea pet. Meng Zitao said with a smile.

"Tea pet?" Shu Ze is a little strange, and the reason is simple, ordinary people don't know how to make tea pets with too good materials.

Meng Zitao took out the tea pet, and everyone's eyes lit up.

Shu Ze said: "Taiping has a tea pet, this is really rare! And this tea pet is big enough, a little abnormal!"

To say that the Taiping elephant tea pet in front of you is not big in the ordinary eye, but compared with the existing tea pet, it is a little big, and the tea pet generally chooses the shape of the moderate, not too big, because it is also necessary to consider letting most of its body play the function of storing water. So Shu Ze said that it is not common.

Shu Ze continued: "And this bag of pulp also looks a little black, the master has not taken care of it! If this is a treasure, ordinary people will not do this!"

In fact, it is a very laborious and laborious thing to raise the tea pet pulp, because after watering with tea every day, it is necessary to rub the surface of the tea pet with a clean towel, which is used to remove the dirty color of the surface and re-polish. Don't leave the tea soup on the tea pet surface, so that over time, the tea pet surface will be full of tea dirt, and there will be a broken phase, which is more taboo for players.

In this way, after a week, there will be red traces on the surface of the tea pet, which gradually forms the bottom layer of the slurry, and the color of the tea pet becomes lighter over time. Let it be left naturally for another week to let the tea pet dry naturally, and at the same time, the surface is evenly in contact with the air to form a fine and uniform oxidation protective layer.

At this time, I began to use the hand pan, the hand must have just been washed and has been dried.

Repeat 5 to 6 times, that is, 3 months, you will see that the tea pet is very aura luster, and the pulped tea pet will show a strong reflection, some like glass luster.

It's not usually a high-quality tea pet, and who would do that? That's why Shu Ze said that.

"No, this tea pet is made with azure mud. Zheng Anzhi said with a serious face.

"What, Azure Mud, it's unlikely!" Shu Ze said in surprise.

"Do you think that the works made of azure mud are azure, but in fact, it is completely wrong!"

Zheng Anzhi said: "Ming Zhou Gaoqi's "Yangxian Tea Pot Record" wrote: 'Azure mud comes out of the dark liver color of Lishu pottery. It means that the color after roasting is like the color of a deep pig's liver. Why is this mineral soil called azure, the basis for exploration, 1. azure, dyeing name. Deep black and reddish; the so-called deep blue with red cyanine; second, the predecessors were accustomed to call it because of the similarity between this mud and azure.

In fact, the purple sand industry has always called purple mud green mud. The azure mud is the best of the purple muds, and the color is deep after roasting. Gentle and elegant. The specific physical object can be seen in Xu Sihai's collection of 'tycoon pots'.

In the old days, the mud used by the purple sand industry was considered to be cost, and half of the mud used in the purple sand pot was ordinary purple sand mud. In order to achieve visual beauty, it is necessary to have low cost and small shrinkage, and the mud used is commonly known as medium mud or red mud. In order to achieve beauty, the surface of the blank is painted with red clay or green clay, the term is cosmetic soil, and the same is true for ordinary teapots with large capacity.

The real azure mud, due to the scarcity of raw materials, is not used by non-masters, and is not made by non-high-quality products. Because of the scarcity of azure mud, in the seventies of the last century, Yixing Zisha Craft Factory made an artificial synthesis method to make azure mud in the present. Hence the emergence of purple mud. However, due to factors such as base ore and formula-based mass production, it failed to do so. But occasionally it has been effective, but it is less. ”

Seeing the master looking at him, Meng Zitao took over and said: "So the azure mud, the green word is the color of the mineral, such as the green mud of this mountain, the ore is green, and the firing is yellow, if someone takes it, cyan, gray, green to tell you that this is azure mud, then he is a layman who has never even seen the purple sand mine, a fake brick family." Now many of these pseudo-brick families, not to mention that they have been to Taodu, and don't even know what the purple sand mine is, are just spreading falsehoods. ”