In order to strengthen the communication with Shiyou and achieve information exchange, President Xu installed the first private hand-cranked telephone in the Yugou "Bridge Hotel", and the use of such a phone must first be shaken to Lingbi, and then transferred to Shanghai by Lingbi's operator.

And it is this ancient telephone that enables a large number of stone friends such as Li Jixiang, Zhang Jiafu, Yan Wu, Champion, Ma Xiang, Lao Wan, and Fu to get the message from Shanghai, catch up with the good time for the development of stone appreciation, and also achieve one after another stone myths.

I remember one time, President Xu saw a very beautiful stone in the house of Zhang Jiafu in Lingbi Yugou, this strange stone like a phoenix, with full wings, full of wings, condescending, maverick, standing proudly on the rock, demeanor, dynamics are very in place.

At that time, in Yugou, any piece of Lingbi stone generally only needed to spend 300-500 yuan to buy a standard stone with a very good quality and a specification of 60-70 cm.

And because the owner really likes this stone, he didn't want to sell it, so the price was 5,000 yuan, which was a sky-high price for the market at that time, especially when President Xu saw this stone, the 1-20,000 yuan money prepared for the purchase had been basically used up (10,000 yuan in the early 90s meant that it was 10,000 yuan households), so President Xu carefully considered it and carefully studied it on the phone with his partner Gaoxin Village, and finally decided that such a good stone must not be missed, and the stone must be brought back to Shanghai with the car.

So I discussed with the stone owner, and the stone was sent together this time, and the money was paid in Shanghai.

This was also a feat at the time, President Xu has never asked the Zhang Jiafu brothers what he thinks to this day, but the news that a stone was sold for 5,000 yuan instantly lit up the passion of Yugou stone farmers, and since then the enthusiasm of Yugou Tibetan stone has been unprecedentedly high, and President Xu has also re-acquainted with the price of Lingbi stone.

And this is just the beginning of the legend of this stone.

In order to make this stone stand up, President Xu found the mahogany craft factory in Zhao Xing through the manager of the Shanghai Cultural Relics Store on Guangdong Road, and the master there allocated the base according to the requirements of President Xu.

So President Xu erected the stones in the lobby of the "Tao Lu" art store on the new opposite side of Changle Road.

At that time, the "Tao Lu" art store mainly sold antiques, but it also often sold some ancient stones to Taiwanese and Japanese, so it was also famous in the collecting world, so it was often patronized by overseas customers.

At this time, Mr. Zhu, a colleague who collects ancient stones, came to the store and took a fancy to this stone, and finally he bid 80,000 yuan to buy it and sold it to the American collector Rosen Bloom.

Of course, President Xu also remembered that when Fushouyuan was built in 93, he really wrote a heavy stroke for the big Lingbi stone of Yugou to go out of the ravine.

At that time, President Xu picked more than a dozen large Lingbi stones of more than 3 meters in Yugou Town in one go, brought mountains of stones, and dozens of vehicles were mighty, which really made Yugou a fire.

Therefore, the courtyard stone works that can be seen in Fushou Garden are typical representatives of Lingbi surface stones, and the stones erected in this famous cemetery have now become the landmark components of the garden.

Every time he recalls this, President Xu misses Shi Friend who helped him in this way.

In addition, President Xu still remembers very clearly the adventure of the "heavenly chicken".

During the 95th and 96th years, President Xu went to Lingbi Xiayugou almost once a quarter, and at that time, there were occasional farmers selling stones in the Lingbi County vegetable market setting up stalls.

Once President Xu went to the countryside and returned to the county seat, after eating early to walk to the vegetable market on the road, he met a Shanghai educated youth who was setting up a stall to sell stones, he found that we were fellow villagers, so he was very enthusiastic and repeatedly invited President Xu to his home to choose stones, although the stones selected by President Xu in Yugou at that time had met the purpose of the trip, but it was difficult to be warm, President Xu specially took the time to go to his house.

When I arrived, I saw that the shelves were full of pictograms.

The locals are honest and think that the pictogram stone is easier to sell, but there are relatively few that can catch President Xu's eyes, and out of politeness, President Xu symbolically bought a few pieces.

Just as he was about to leave, Chairman Xu suddenly noticed a very interesting pictogram shaped like a chicken on the windowsill.

This piece of surface stone with remarkable characteristics, the stone skin and stone skin are particularly outstanding, as long as the complete mellow skin shell pulp is gently stroked, there is a natural oiliness out, and dynamic, full of charm, the only problem is that President Xu at that time to understand the matching skills, this stone into the tenon is very difficult.

Limited by the level of seating at that time, there will be some places where the stone is not very tightly wrapped after entering the tenon, and even unstable, but President Xu is still deeply attracted by its charm, especially this kind of tension that seems to be rising, ready to go, and ready to fly, and the artistic connotation that can be expressed is very rich, so President Xu did not hesitate to buy it at his offer price of 300 yuan.

Back to Shanghai, in order to perfectly stand up this stone or face the problem of matching and positioning, according to the conventional practice on the market, some people suggested that the bottom surface of the strange stone should be repaired and chiseled, and President Xu thought again and again, he was really reluctant to do it, for fear of destroying its natural form, causing it to become a commercial stone with a bottom.

So President Xu used a bunch of plasticine, repeatedly pressed, plastic, trying, suddenly inspiration flashed, if you break the traditional concept, the edge of the base is made into a rich and fluctuating mouth, although the material is a little more expensive, but after the seat of the stone can be completely under the condition of not showing the roots, the charm of the style is fully revealed. Therefore, President Xu immediately set about it, supervised the construction while designing, and carefully pondered and created a work entitled "Heavenly Chicken", which became a classic in President Xu's early collection and won many awards.

Recalling this adventure, it can really be said that there is nowhere to find it when you step on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

Therefore, once he recalls the time in Lingbi, President Xu always has a lot of emotion, nostalgia and enjoyment of those processes.

Especially when I see the prosperity of Yugou now, I think about the journey we have gone through together, and my heart is always full of excitement and passion.

For Tibetans who have only now begun to collect Lingbi stones, this kind of opportunity is very rare, especially for the surface stones that can be seen on all sides.

I would like to say a few more words to the surface stone: this kind of surface stone is almost completely exposed to the surface in the natural environment, with the least contact with the earth, and its epidermis has unique changes under the weathering of nature, especially in the transition area of the surface handover, which is particularly moisturizing, natural in transition, and feels particularly good to play.