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After tossing for half an hour, I finally took out a white silk bag from it. When I opened the bag, there was cotton inside.

Wrapped in cotton, it is a not thick ink ingot!

The ingot was less than twenty centimeters long, about seven or eight centimeters wide, and at most two centimeters thick.

On the front of the ink ingot, from top to bottom, there are four characters engraved with lacquer gold: Fengge Dragon Tower.

On the back, a column of small letters is carved vertically on the right side of the bottom, but it is too small and has become blurry and illegible.

In the middle of the bottom, there is a side of the inscription, because there is cinnabar paving, so it can still be vaguely recognized.

Sun Zhongyuan was waiting to take a closer look, and the shopkeeper smiled, "Mr. Ancestor is a scholarly family, and one side of the ink ingot is also protected with old red sandalwood materials." ”

In his opinion, what is an ink ingot? It is not as valuable as this piece of red sandalwood!

Sun Zhongyuan smiled, continued to identify, and finally recognized:

Tingqi ink!

This ink ingot, carefully examining Baoguang, should be something from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, with the four words of Tingqi ink making, that is Li Mo!

The ink made by Li Tingjue!

Sun Zhongyuan's heart shook, and he actually met Li Mo! Judging from the year of the red sandalwood paperweight, this is someone who got it during the Kangxi period, and then sealed and treasured it like this, and a pair of paperweights was only hidden in one piece!

Of course, it is unlikely that an incomparably precious thing like Li Mo will get two pieces.

"Shall we process the beads first?" the shopkeeper asked again.

"Okay!" Sun Zhongyuan nodded and paid the money directly, "I'll pick it up in an hour." ”

Re-wrapped this Li Mo in cotton, put it in a white silk bag, carefully stuffed it into the inner pocket of his coat, buttoned it, and Sun Zhongyuan left.

He needed to go out and take two steps to calm down.

Pen, ink, paper, inkstone, four treasures of the study, there are many collectors. It is said that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was only one piece of Li Mo that could be found in the world, which was collected and treasured by the Qianlong Emperor. And that piece of Li Mo, now in the National Palace Museum on Taiwan Island, is the only heirloom Li Mo recognized by the collection community.

On the front of that piece of Li Mo, there are also four characters in lacquer gold: Hanlin Fengyue.

In addition, Li Mo is only left with legends.

Li Tingqi was originally called Xi Tingjue, and the Xi family was an ink-making family, and later Xi Tingjue became an ink-making official in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, asked how much sorrow he could have, just like a river flowing eastward, he couldn't be the king, but he was an elegant literati and attached great importance to ink making, so he gave Xi Tingjun the surname of the country, and Xi Tingqi became Li Tingjue.

Li Mo is pine smoke ink. Basically, pine wood is put in a kiln and ignited, and after cooling, the bituminous coal attached to the kiln wall is scraped off, which is called pine smoke. The pine smoke is washed, then it has to be stirred with glue to form something like dough, and then various spices are added to pound, and finally pressed and dried with molds.

It's kind of like making the kind of steamed buns that come in various shapes.

From this process, it is not difficult to see that the quality of ink is nothing more than materials and technology.

The pine smoke used by Li Mo is made of old pines from Huangshan, and at the same time, when beating, pearls, borneol, lacquer, rhino horn, musk and other things will be added.

Also, the number of beatings is very large, and some historical sources say that it is more than 100,000 times. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it is easy to see a problem from the number of times, that is, it must contain a certain special technology, otherwise it does not need to be so complicated.

The era in which Li Tingqi lived was from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the early Northern Song Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Mo was very valuable, and sometimes Li Mo was among the emperor's imperial gifts.

Ink is a consumable, so Li Mo has gradually run out of ink in the long course of history. Later, there was a saying: Gold is easy to obtain, but Li Mo is hard to find.

So much so that later in the Song Dynasty, there was a famous ink maker named Pan Gu, who got half of Li Mo, and actually knelt down and kowtowed, shouting the treasure of the world.

There is another thing that has to be mentioned here, before Li Mo, or Xi Tingqi's Xi family made ink, ink was generally made into balls and pills, and the Xi family made ink, which can be regarded as creating a precedent for strip-shaped ink ingots.

The piece of Li Mo that Sun Zhongyuan obtained, if according to the available information, is the second piece of Li Mo in the world in addition to the Forbidden City on Taiwan Island!

Sun Zhongyuan carried this piece of Li Mo in his arms, and thought to himself, this thing must not be sold, and it must be treasured. Because of the special material and exquisite production, Li Mo is known as harder than stone, and it is delicate and tough, it can be broken wood and cut paper, as long as it is not wet, it is relatively easy to preserve.

Gradually, Sun Zhongyuan Debao's mood calmed down a little, after all, it was not the first time he had missed it, although it was precious, it had been safely carried with him. Since you have come to Panjiayuan, let's take a stroll.

After turning around, Sun Zhongyuan realized that it was not a weekend, and there was no one in the stall area!

I just wanted to get rid of that paperweight before, but I really didn't pay much attention to it.

Sun Zhongyuan bypassed the stall area and walked back to the shop area, but found that under a gable, there were actually two or three scattered stalls.

Among them, there is also a middle-aged man who is a little bald, who has just opened his suitcase and is opening newspapers while putting things on the stall.

Sun Zhongyuan stepped forward. At this time, the man happened to remove the newspaper on a piece of porcelain and put things on the stall.

This is a dragon pattern blue and white jar, not big, and the picture is a double dragon playing with pearls. The reason why Sun Zhongyuan looked at it twice was because this dragon pattern was a five-clawed dragon.

This thing, at a glance, will know that it is from the late Qing Dynasty, and the year is shallow.

However, no matter how young the year is, it is also a five-clawed dragon! When the official kiln comes out, it may be something used in the palace. If, in the market, the court porcelain in the late Qing Dynasty was used, it was also difficult to see.

However, when Sun Zhongyuan passed, he was a step late, and a man in sportswear had already slipped up.

Sun Zhongyuan squatted on the side of the sportswear, and followed the rummaging of the sportswear, and took a closer look at the blue and white dragon pattern jar.

The bottom is Guangxu's style, this jar is no problem, and the Guangxu official kiln is not cheap now.

This stall owner has two hits!

After the sportswear was optimistic, he began to negotiate with the stall owner. The stall owner is really knowledgeable, "There aren't many people today, this is the best piece of my porcelain, the price is 200,000 yuan, don't talk about it." ”

After inking for a while, I really didn't talk about it. Suddenly, the sportswear looked at Sun Zhongyuan, "This friend, are you also interested, why don't you take a look?"

Sun Zhongyuan couldn't help but be stunned. However, he found that despite saying this, the two hands were firmly grasping the rim and bottom of the jar, respectively, and he understood.

He smiled, "I've finished reading it, I'm not interested in porcelain." ”

The stall owner also smiled and said to the sportswear, "If you really think it's expensive, then put it down, it's really a fixed price." ”