Chapter 4: Encounters
About half a year ago, he didn't know Mo Xuan.
The acquaintance between the two originated from a school library encounter before his internship at Ginkgo Hospital, when Xu Zhuo pulled out an ancient book called "Notes on the South Kiln" from the shelf, and after flipping through it for a while, he put the book on his cart.
At this time, a beautiful woman wearing an orange dress and long hair suddenly patted him on the shoulder from behind him, and when he turned around, he smiled and pointed to the book on the cart and said: "This classmate, hello, my name is Mo Xuan, I am rushing a paper, I need to borrow this "Nanyao Notes" in your hand, I don't know if you are in a hurry, is it possible to lend me a week's time first?"
"Ah, no...... No problem, no problem, I actually just want to take it to the desk and rummage through it casually, it's not in a hurry at all, you can take it to the rivers and lakes to save the emergency first!" Xu Zhuo was a little flattered, and hurriedly pretended to be generous. In fact, he wanted to borrow the book and read it back, but the famous beauty in the school asked in person, and he must not be stingy.
"Thank you so much, a week later, I'll be back on time!"
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm really not in a hurry, you can study it slowly...... But Mo Xuan, you are a big celebrity in the school, if I remember correctly, you should be a major in clinical medicine, right? How can you write a paper on this? "Notes on the South Kiln" is a book about the ancient ceramics of Jingdezhen, and there are very few people in our school who are interested in it!"
"Hee-hee, it's actually a personal assignment given to me by my grandfather, who was an archaeology professor. He likes antiques and calligraphy and painting very much, and I don't want to please his old man, so I learned a little ......."
"Ah...... Coincidentally, my grandfather liked this too, so I also learned a little bit from a young age in order to please his old man......"
Originally, it was just a brief exchange of antique papers in the library, but then it was very coincidental that a month later, they entered Ginkgo Hospital for an internship at the same time, one in the obstetrics and gynecology department upstairs, and the other in the pediatrics department downstairs. Such various coincidences, after coming and going, are naturally extremely familiar.
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Half an hour later, the two of them went through the stalls that had not yet been closed, but found nothing.
As the sun sets further in the west, the sky gradually darkens, and the lights of the antique market are lit up one after another.
The odds of genuine and good goods on the stall are really small, and the two eventually end up in an antique store with a relatively large storefront. The house is old, the shop is lit with snow-white lights, many antiques are displayed on the shelves, and there are a few baskets by the door, in which a large number of bargains are piled up randomly.
The shopkeeper was a fat old man in his sixties, with gray hair and a blessed face, with his legs crossed, making a pot of tea, and lying comfortably on a chaise longue in the store, playing with a snuffbox. When he saw Xu Zhuo and Mo Xuan coming in, he just glanced at it slightly, and he didn't pay attention to it, probably thinking that young men and girls like Xu Zhuo and Mo Xuan were not like people who bought antiques, or people who bought expensive antiques, but more like a couple who came over to shop and have fun after shopping on the pedestrian street or Baidao Lake.
Xu Zhuo and Mo Xuan naturally didn't care, they turned around and flipped around at will.
Suddenly, Mo Xuan's eyes lit up, and he took a fancy to a rather beautiful blue and white porcelain vase on the shelf, with a seawater pattern painted on the edge of its mouth, six entwined lotus patterns on the shoulders, and a twined peony on the body of the can, but a Yanglian pattern near the foot. The whole layout is stacked in an orderly manner, the brushwork is hearty, the painted peony is full and huge, the pitch is elegant, and it is not a vulgar thing.
"Huh~, the bottom is a little cracked?" Mo Xuan sighed lightly, picked up the blue and white porcelain vase and looked at it, only to see that there was a crack at the bottom of the bottle, but it had been connected with a curium (a metal two-legged nail used to connect objects). Moreover, the shape of the curium is ancient, the age is very old, and there is a nine-in-a-nine probability that it is from the Yuan Dynasty. Mo Xuan's grandfather is a professor of archaeology, although Mo Xuan does not specialize in this, but he can see some clues from his ears and eyes.
"Xu Zhuo, what do you think of this blue and white porcelain vase?" Mo Xuan was a little unsure, hooked his white-skinned Qianqian jade fingers, and called Xu Zhuo to come over.
"This one?" Xu Zhuo took the bottle and looked at it carefully.
"Hehe~" At the same time, the shopkeeper's eyes lit up, put the snuff bottle into his pocket, and sat up with a "whoosh", as if a fly had smelled blood, and ran over, with a smile on his face, and said in an extremely exaggerated tone, "Two, this is the treasure of our store, a typical Yuan Qinghua!"
"Like this blue and white porcelain vase, although slightly damaged, but it is an authentic Yuan blue and white porcelain, in the history of the development of porcelain in the whole world, it is famous, and it is very valuable......!"
Xu Zhuoqu flicked the bottle with his fingers, listened to the sound, and then put it down.
"What's the matter? I don't like it? This is a good product, for the sake of the two of them who are so handsome, handsome, beautiful and moving, it is the first time to visit our store, old man, I will give you a 50% discount!" It's just that a hint of a thief's snickering inadvertently flashed in the depths of his eyes, and he said in his heart, these two young people don't understand at first glance, and the old man and I flickered around, guaranteeing that I can eat a big piece of meat!
"How much?" asked Xu Zhuo.
"300,000!" The shopkeeper stretched out three fingers, for fear that the two would be frightened, and said, "This is really not expensive, the price is at least 600,000, I am for the sake of the two destined people!"
Mo Xuan smiled slightly, not frightened by the price. She is a rich family, if the goods are really good, 300,000 yuan is really nothing. It's just that I'm not sure.
Xu Zhuo was naturally not frightened by the price, he was not rich, but, this is a fake!
"Boss, this young lady will never buy it, because she doesn't like fakes. I'd be interested in getting it, if it's two hundred yuan!" Xu Zhuo said.
"What? two hundred yuan?!" The shopkeeper suddenly exploded like a cat with its tail stepped on, "Hey, hey, I said young man, you can't spew blood, you just say it's a fake, you know, it's the most taboo in our business!"
"However, there are also the most fakes in this industry!" Xu Zhuo showed no mercy.
The shopkeeper was not convinced, pointed to the curium on the blue and white porcelain, looked so angry that his beard trembled, and said, "Do you think this is from the Yuan Dynasty?"