Jiang Weiwen's wife served tea to the two, and Jiang Weiwen smiled and said, "Xiao Meng, I heard Elder Zheng say a few days ago that you have made good things again?"

"What are you talking about?" Meng Zitao asked with a smile.

"Yo, it looks like I've got a lot of good things during this time. Jiang Weiwen laughed.

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "It's nothing, compared with your old collection, it must be a big house." ”

"You......"

The two laughed a few words, and Jiang Weiwen asked, "Listen to what Elder Zheng means, do you want to copy the Chengxintang paper?"

Meng Zitao nodded and said: "There is this idea, if such a good paper cannot be passed on, it would be a pity." ”

Jiang Weiwen smiled: "It's very good that you have this idea, if you want my help, you can say it directly." Also, if the imitation is successful, can you notify me as soon as possible?"

"No problem......"

The two chatted for a while, and then got down to business.

Jiang Weiwen said: "Xiao Meng, after all, the tin pot that Lao Bao bought was many years ago, and the seller is still there, so it's hard to say." ”

Meng Zitao said: "It's okay, for me, I just need to do my best." ”

"Hehe, you don't have to be too pessimistic, I'm just giving you a primer first. Jiang Weiwen smiled, then looked at the time, and said, "Let's wait a while, Xiaowei should be almost there." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "I'm not in a hurry. ”

As soon as the words fell, the doorman called and said that someone was visiting, Jiang Weiwen smiled and said, "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive", and went to answer the phone.

After a while, Jiang Weiwen walked in with a middle-aged man with dark skin, honest appearance, and his temples were already a little white, and he looked a little dusty.

Jiang Weiwen first introduced the two sides, the middle-aged man is named Wei Changyu, and his profession is an antique broker. But sometimes I make a cameo appearance as a shovel.

After greeting for a while, Wei Changyu said: "Shopkeeper Meng, you are really a little unfortunate about this, the person who sold my tin pot in the first place." He died three months ago. ”

Although Meng Zitao was prepared not to get the news he wanted, when he heard the news, he was still very depressed in his heart, and muttered, there are many good things.

Jiang Weiwen asked, "Does his family know the origin of the tin pot?"

Wei Changyu shook his head: "I don't know much about this. However, among his children and younger generations, none of them like antiques, and it is estimated that it is very unlikely that they know the origin. ”

Jiang Weiwen looked at Meng Zitao: "Xiao Meng, what do you say about this?"

Meng Zitao was silent for a moment and said, "Brother Wei, I don't know if it's convenient for you to take me over?"

Wei Changyu smiled: "Of course there is no problem with taking you there, and now you may be able to get some leftovers." ”

Jiang Weiwen was surprised: "Why, his children have already dealt with everything so quickly?"

Wei Changyu said: "It's like this if you have many children, if you don't sell it." It's not easy to distribute the inheritance. ”

Jiang Weiwen looked a little emotional when he heard this, and said: "If it were me, I would donate all the collections before I die, so as not to waste my hard work." ”

Wei Changyu said with a smile: "The key is that some families don't have successful sons and daughters like you, and of course they are reluctant to donate all their collections." ”

"Yes, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. ”

Jiang Weiwen sighed, then waved his hand, and said with a smile: "People are sentimental when they get old, Xiaowei, where is that person's home?"

Wei Changyu said: "It's in Langya, Lu Province." If you want to hurry, let's take a night flight. ”

Meng Zitao nodded and said, "No problem." ”

Jiang Weiwen said: "Okay, I'll ask someone to book a ticket for you." ”

stayed at Jiang Weiwen's house until the afternoon, and Meng Zitao and Wei Changyu took a car to the airport together. boarded the plane to Langya.

More than an hour later, the plane landed smoothly at the airport in Langya, and because it was late, Meng Zitao and his team went to the hotel in the city, and then went to the house that Wei Changyu said tomorrow.

The next day, Meng Zitao got up early. After washing and exercising, he admired this historical and cultural city in Lu Province through the window.

Speaking of which, Langya is indeed a place with a strong cultural atmosphere, there are not only one of the top ten archaeological discoveries of the Yinque Mountain Han Tomb, but also the former residence of Wang Xizhi, the Confucian Temple, the Five Sages Temple, Wang Xiang's hometown, Baoquan Temple, Jiliu Tablet and many other cultural attractions.

As for the well-known historical celebrities, there are many people, such as Zengzi, Xunzi, Zhuge Liang, Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Xiao Daocheng and so on.

Overall, Langya can be described as a city with outstanding people.

Standing in front of the window for a bird's-eye view of Langya, a city that he had heard of for a while, Meng Zitao and Wei Changyu went downstairs to have breakfast together, and then took the car to the destination together.

While chatting all the way, the car stopped in front of a separate courtyard.

"Knock Knock ......"

Wei Changyu went and knocked on the door, and after a while, a young man in his twenties came and opened the door: "Boss Wei, you are here." ”

After saying hello, Wei Changyu pointed to the car parked next to him and asked, "I don't know who arrived so early." ”

"It's Boss Song from Quancheng. The young man smiled and said, "Boss Song also just arrived, I heard that you are coming, and said that I will see it together when you come, and now I am drinking tea with my father." ”

"Then he really has a heart. ”

Wei Changyu smiled and followed the young man into the house.

Under the guidance of the young man, Meng Zitao came to the living room and saw two middle-aged men in the house, as well as a young man who looked like a driver, drinking tea and chatting.

Seeing Wei Changyu and them coming in, everyone stood up and greeted each other politely.

Wei Changyu first introduced the two sides, two middle-aged men, one is the owner here, named Zhou Chunsheng, and the other is Boss Song from Quancheng, whose real name is Song Peng.

Zhou Chunsheng heard that Meng Zitao was actually Zheng Anzhi's disciple, he was surprised, but also a little strange, he had almost handled everything here, why did Wei Changyu bring Meng Zitao over, what does this mean?

Wei Changyu immediately gave the answer and said, "The reason why I brought Shopkeeper Meng over this time is mainly because he has a question I want to ask you." ”

Song Peng was also interested, and when he heard this, he immediately said hello and walked out of the door.

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, I have a question about the origin of your father's collection of antiques before, I want to ask you, I don't know if it is convenient for you to answer?"

"This ......"

Zhou Chunsheng looked a little embarrassed: "Shopkeeper Meng, it's not that I don't want to say, it's really that I know nine out of ten about antiques, and I don't know anything, as for the things my father collects, I have never asked, and as for the origin of things, I don't know." ”

Zhou Chunsheng's son also shook his head, saying that he didn't know anything about the origin of the collection.

Zhou Chunsheng continued: "If my mother is still alive, you may be able to ask her, but my mother also passed away last year, so I can't do anything about it." ”

"Excuse me. Meng Zitao was very sorry for this result, and he was also a little depressed in his heart, he finally got the clue, and now that he is so broken, do he have to rely on luck to get the next clue like before?

"Hey, it's a good thing. ”

After the question was asked, everyone called Song Peng back again. After a few words of gossip, Zhou Chunsheng led everyone to a very tight-looking room.

Zhou Chunsheng opened the security door with the key, turned on the light inside, and invited everyone into the room.

Meng Zitao looked around and found that there were some Bogu shelves and counters in the room, but most of them were empty, and the rest of the things looked very inconspicuous.

In addition, there are a few tables and chairs in the room, but they are basically missing arms and legs, and everything is known at a glance that it is left over from the previous candidate.

Song Peng shook his head: "Hey! It was still a little late when I got the news, and it seemed that I could only find a soup to drink." ”

Zhou Chunsheng just smiled slightly, and then said: "You take your time, if you like it, tell me again, everyone is a friend, you can rest assured in terms of price." ”

Meng Zitao smiled and said in his heart, just the rest of these things, if there is no advantage in terms of price, how can anyone buy them.

Everyone parted ways, and Meng Zitao walked to a Bogu shelf with stationery supplies, picked up a seal on it, and looked at it.

This seal is carved with Shoushan stone, and the seal button is a Rui beast, but because the material of Shoushan stone used is too poor, and the level of carving is not very good, but there is a little collection value, and the average antique lover will not buy.

After looking at some of the remaining collections, the best ones were not much different from seals, not to mention the worst ones, and Mencius Tao didn't find anything that could make him feel excited.

Meng Zitao walked to a corner of the room, where there were some small collections, but these collections all have a characteristic, each one has more or less problems, only because of their own characteristics, so they were collected by the owner.

After looking at it casually, Meng Zitao lost interest, but at this time, something in the peripheral vision of his eyes caught his attention.

It was a piece of jade pendant, not only mutilated, but also had obvious traces of chicken bone white on the surface.

As mentioned earlier, chicken bone white is a calcification phenomenon of jade in the ground. Because it is a characteristic of unearthed ancient jade, of course, there is no shortage of means to make counterfeits.

In the past, there were generally two methods of making chicken bone white, one was to put it directly in the fire for barbecue, and splash it with cold water when it was about to burn through, which could show the characteristics of "chicken bone white";

Of course, these two methods are still relatively easy to identify, such as the piece of residual jade in Meng Zitao's hand, which is the first method used.

In fact, the reason why Meng Zitao paid attention to this piece of residual jade was because its shape was very much like the remaining part of the piece of residual jade that he had obtained earlier. )