Chapter 138: Snuffbox
Two bottles of yellowed and slightly old green bottles were placed on the table, and Pu Ye rubbed his hands back and forth around the table, "That's right, this is the 55-degree Erwotou produced by the Imperial Capital Line, this kind of wine is difficult to find now, how did you find it?"
As he spoke, he put his nose close to the cap and sniffed hard, but from his lost expression, he could tell that he didn't smell the wine. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After Lu Ming put the things in place, he sat next to the chair and looked at him and replied with a smile, "You should be happy, just when I went to the store today, there were two bottles at the counter selling wine, I thought you were the old imperial capital, you should be good at this mouthful, so I will take it for you! I didn't expect it, I really guessed right."
"Or you kid has a heart, let's say, what's the matter with me this time?" Pu Ye walked behind his long case with the two bottles of Erwotou on the table, and then turned around and put it into a small mahogany cabinet behind the chair, before returning to the center of the living room again.
Lu Ming was stunned by his words, "I'm okay to come this time, isn't it almost the Gregorian year, come and visit you, there is no other meaning!"
Seeing his sincere expression, Pu Ye nodded thoughtfully, and then pointed to his teacup, Lu Ming hurriedly got up to make tea for him, but after opening the tea barrel, he found that it was empty, so he had to open the newly bought tea.
Seeing his state, Pu Ye sat on the chair and laughed, "I drink tea, three times a day, three times a day, I like glamorous tea, so this pound of tea may not be able to resist the second half of the month!"
Hearing this, Lu Ming patted his head with his hand, "Look, I'm still too careless, if I had known about your tea-drinking habits, I should have come over earlier" As he spoke, the tea leaves were put into the cup, and then more than half a cup of boiling water was poured in, and as the boiling water and tea blended with each other, the strong jasmine fragrance filled the whole room.
"Drinking tea, I have to say that I drink Wu Yutai's tea from a century-old shop, and the jasmine of the small tea house is in front of him, it is simply impossible to mention, and it is the taste of the end when I drink it" After taking the teacup, Pu Ye tasted a small sip with a pleasant expression, this expression is like a person who is addicted to smoking, and suddenly took a puff of cigarettes, which is very addictive.
After drinking three cups in a row, put the teacup pier in the corner of the long case, "It's rare that you have a heart, I can't let you come in vain, you can take this" said, Pu Ye picked up an item from the long case and handed it to Lu Ming, after seeing this, Lu Ming hurriedly walked over, after taking it with both hands, he saw that this thing was a snuff box with a relief pattern on one side, held in the hand first to tie the cool, and then slowly warmed up, held in the hand, so that the palm has a sense of fullness, and the bottom of the 'Tongzhi year' carved is extraordinary.
Then Lu Ming came to the window with the snuff bottle, through the scattered sunlight to see the texture of the snuff box is smooth, the color is more changeable, count it carefully, there are three colors, the carving at the relief is exquisite, the relief on the front uses the technique of skillfully carving and borrowing colors, there is a brown pine tree growing above the yellow rock, the branches stretch vigorously and powerfully, three red-headed and white-bodied cranes hover on it, and reflect each other, the luster on the back of the snuff bottle is like jade, and the yellow-brown mass is superimposed on each other, very beautiful.
After some appreciation, Lu Ming walked back to Pu Ye with his snuff bottle, holding it in both hands and gently putting it back on Chang'an.
Lu Ming hurriedly shook his head and signaled, "Master Pu, your thing is too precious, I don't want it, I see that you are a part of my heart, I definitely don't want to take advantage of you, I can't ask for this jade snuff bottle, it's too precious, and I think the pulp on it is thick enough, it must be the effect of your long-term play, the gentleman doesn't take the love of others, I understand your kindness."
Pu Ye was amused by his words, "What did you kid learn from Old Man Yang, where is this jade? It's just an agate, the pulp on it is thick, it's not my credit, but these five pieces are indeed some years, and the market is about four, it's not as valuable as you think, take it, it's good to be a specimen!"
As soon as he heard that this snuff box was not jade, Lu Ming's heart was relieved, and then he picked up the snuff box with one hand, and said with a smile, "If that's the case, I'll take it!" As he spoke, he stroked the outer wall of the snuff box with his thumb again, only to find that the outer wall was smooth and smooth, no wonder he felt a little slippery when he held it in his hand.
Pu Ye sat on the Taishi chair and waved at him, "Take it, if you want to put snuff, go to Dashilar in the imperial capital to buy, there is an old store there, but unfortunately it is not good now, there is only an old brand left, if you go for the first time, it is estimated that it will be difficult to find a place, but the approximate address is on the opposite side of Tongrentang, just leave a snack!"
Hearing him say this, Lu Ming shook his head, he didn't even smoke cigarettes, how could he smoke this kind of snuff, although he often saw various introductions to snuff bottles in treasure hunting programs on TV, but he didn't seem to mention snuff very much, at least he hadn't seen it.
"Pu Ye, this snuff bottle is quite famous, but what is the use of this snuff? Is it like a cigarette? If you smoke it, you will be addicted, right?" This series of questions made Pu Ye's brows furrow.
"It's really not wrong to say that you are a mallet, this old man Yang is good enough, as long as he is stained with hair, it is more ghostly than two monkeys tied together, how can he accept you as an apprentice?" Although the words are not good, they are not too derogatory.
"Hey, you don't know, Uncle Yang is not my master, it's just that there have been some cultural and entertainment transactions between us, and after a long time, even if we know each other, last time he brought me to your place to open my eyes, and temporarily found such a name, but although I don't have a master-apprentice relationship with Uncle Yang, I did learn something from him, it's a pity..."
Seeing his expression like this, Pu Ye frowned slightly, looked at him suspiciously, and asked, "What is a pity?"
"It's a pity that the old man just diagnosed cancer some time ago, and it is in an advanced stage, and now it is a thousand years of yew sapwood boiled water for treatment."
Pu Ye nodded, "I have seen in the medical books that flowed out of the Qing Palace, although the thousand-year-old yew sapwood cannot cure cancer, but it can also hinder its development, but if you want to get the best effect, you still need to add dragon scale powder and water chestnut to these two adjuvants."
"Dragon scale powder, is it to grind the scales of pangolins into powder?" Since he was in the space before, he happened to have received relevant training, so after Pu Ye said his name, Lu Ming immediately responded.