Chapter Twenty-Eight: Yongle Blue and White

In the old Beijing dialect, "Guo'er" means girl, and "Jianguo'er" means beautiful girl.

"Forget it, you can keep it for yourself." Meng Songhai smiled faintly.

To be honest, Meng Songhai now wants to find a beautiful girlfriend to make his life more nourishing, but he is not in a hurry, he prefers to go with the flow, he believes that when fate comes, the peach blossoms will naturally bloom.

"Don't just think about falling in love, your eldest sister's restaurant is about to open, and you won't help."

"Dad, didn't the eldest sister say it, looking for a decoration team to decorate, what is the matter for us to help in the past?!" Meng Guoqiang smiled, "When the restaurant opens, we will help her attract more customers." ”

"You see you're trying to eat and drink for nothing." Meng Dongyao said with a straight face, "I have been to that place on Gui Street, but it is not lively yet, and if you open a restaurant in that place, at the beginning, the business will definitely not be good, and it will inevitably be operated at a loss for a period of time." You go to your eldest sister to eat, at the beginning, you must give money, even if your eldest sister does not accept it, you have to keep the money, and when the restaurant is on the right track and has a stable income, you will consider eating and drinking. ”

"I went over to eat, and I should have paid." Meng Guoqiang muttered and asked, "Xiao Wuzi went to eat, and he also paid?" ”

"Second brother, I really feel that I have to pay, didn't I say it, brother, settle the account." Meng Songhai smiled, "The eldest sister's restaurant makes money early, and we can do our part, which is also good." ”

"I don't have much money on me, if you let me make more money, I'm naturally willing to pay for food."

"Tomorrow, you will go to a stall to sell walnuts, one-to-one dollars, no matter how much you sell, it will be your own."

"Set up a stall to sell walnuts?" Meng Guoqiang smiled bitterly, "No, didn't you ask me to do the stamp business?" ”

"Just kidding." Meng Songhai said, "Tomorrow morning, let's go to Yuetan Park to have a look, I heard that there are people there who set up stalls to sell stamps." ”

"Take the bus, or do you go by bike?"

"Take the bus." Meng Songhai said, "Dad, tomorrow at noon, my second brother and I will deal with it outside, and we won't come back to eat." ”

"You don't have to come back for lunch, you have to go home for dinner, and come back early." Meng Dongyao instructed.

"Got it." Meng Songhai made a pair of good walnuts and put them in front of his father's eyes: "Dad, look at it, how about this pair?" ”

Meng Dongyao took it into his hand, glanced at it a few times, and said with a smile: "It's quite big, and the shape and texture are worthy of it...... This pair can be regarded as the best walnut? ”

"So to speak." Meng Songhai said with a smile, "Dad, wait a while, I'll pick a few pairs that are passable, and you can take them to those old brothers who give them to you, one by one." ”

"Someone you know, but don't know well, ask me for it, do you want it?" Meng Dongyao asked.

"Give it or not, you have an idea. After the match, I left some good ones, and with these good ones, the rest, even if they are thrown on the road, we will not lose money. ”

Meng Dongyao put down the walnuts in his hand, stood up, and said, "I won't accompany you with walnuts, I'll go out to buy vegetables." ”

Meng Guoqiang said with a smile: "Dad, buy more good dishes, don't be reluctant to spend money, Xiao Wuzi now spends hundreds a day!" ”

"I'm not spending money in a waste, I'm making money!"

Meng Songhai glanced at the second brother, he didn't like the tone of the second brother's speech just now.

"Whether it's making money or spending money, I can't control it." Meng Dongyao smiled slightly and asked, "What do you want to eat?" ”

Meng Guoqiang hurriedly replied: "I want to eat hairtail, fried hairtail." ”

Meng Songhai said: "Since there is fish, let's buy some more meat, don't buy pork, mutton and beef." ”

Meng Dongyao asked, "How about beef stewed potatoes?" ”

"Okay!" Meng Songhai said with a smile, "At noon today, I'll cook!" ”

"Okay, having you cook will save me a lot of trouble. Without further ado, I'm out. ”

Less than ten minutes after Meng Dongyao went out, Meng Songhai heard a knock on the door.

"Do you want me to open the door?" Meng Guoqiang asked with a smile.

"You want to open the door, and I won't stop you!"

"It's more likely to be looking for you."

"I'll go open the door!" Meng Songhai glanced at the second brother, took the two walnuts that had just been matched, walked to the door, opened the door, and saw Wang Liqiang, who had not been seen for many days.

"Brother Meng, you're at home!" Wang Liqiang smiled and said, "It's good to be at home!" ”

"Brother Wang." Meng Songhai smiled, he saw Wang Liqiang holding a leatherette travel bag in his hand, and asked curiously, "Did you receive anything good?" ”

Wang Liqiang didn't answer and asked, "Don't you invite me into the house for a cup of tea?" ”

"Sluggish, please come in!"

After Wang Liqiang entered the house, he saw Meng Guoqiang matching walnuts for Wen, and took the initiative to greet him: "Busy?" ”

"Busy, sit down." Meng Guoqiang said lightly.

After Wang Liqiang sat down, Meng Songhai asked, "What kind of tea do you drink?" ”

"Jasmine tea."

"Wait a minute."

When Meng Songhai was making tea, Wang Liqiang took out two pieces of blue and white porcelain from his travel bag, and introduced them with a smile: "Brother Meng, I received two good things this time, blue and white porcelain from the official kiln during the Yongle period. ”

Meng Songhai glanced at the two pieces of porcelain on the coffee table a few times, and said lightly: "If it is Yongle official kiln porcelain, it is really a good thing." ”

At this moment, Meng Songhai was not excited in his heart, he knew that the blue and white porcelain of the Yongle official kiln was very small in the world, not only in modern times, but as early as the end of the Ming Dynasty, some people imitated the blue and white porcelain of the Yongle official kiln, and in the Qing Dynasty, it was even more prosperous.

Meng Songhai made tea, brought it to Wang Liqiang, and put it on the coffee table, after that, he sat down and carefully picked up a Yongle blue and white dragon pattern celestial ball bottle.

Meng Songhai just opened a few eyes, Wang Liqiang began to show off the knowledge he had just learned, and said: "This blue and white material is definitely Su Ma Li Qingsu. ”

Wang Liqiang wanted to ask Meng Songhai if he knew "Su Ma Liqing", but he couldn't help but ask, making the customer unhappy, he couldn't do this kind of thing.

After a while, Meng Songhai muttered to himself: "Although it can't be 100% sure of Yongle official kiln porcelain, it's still 60% sure." ”

Meng Songhai put down the Tianqiu bottle in his hand and picked up the hand cup on the coffee table.

The hand cup is pressed, the mouth is flat and outward, the abdominal wall is nearly vertical, adducted from the lower abdominal wall, and the foot is circled. When held in the hand, the slightly outward skimming of the mouth edge is just pressed on the edge of the hand, the volume is moderate, the weight is moderate, and the hand is firmly fitted, so it has the reputation of "hand cup".

Meng Songhai knew that the blue and white porcelain of the Yongle official kiln, except for the "hand cup", the porcelain of other types could not be seen with the Yongle Year model at all, if he saw the Yongle Year model on the Tianqiu bottle just now, he was almost certainly an imitation of the later generations, and the level of imitation was very poor.

Yongle Hand Cup has been famous since ancient times.

"Press the hand cup, bend the waist with a frank mouth, and slip the bottom with sand feet. The center is painted with two lions rolling ball, and the ball is sealed with six or four characters of "Ming Yongle year", which is the top grade. Mandarin duck heart is second, flower heart is second, the blue and white outside the cup is deep and green, the style is exquisite, it can be handed down for a long time, and the price is also very high. ”

This is the description in Gu Yingtai's "Essentials of Naturalism" in the early Qing Dynasty. It has also been discussed in later generations.

The style of the Yongle hand cup is clearly recognizable. The arrangement on the picture is very ingenious, and the style and pattern are fused together, not simply for the sake of writing, but combined with the porcelain decoration, which not only informs the age of the object, but also makes people pleasing to the eye.

Because the Yongle blue and white hand cup is made neatly and well-made, it has been handed down very little, and it has been imitated as early as the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. The inside of the bowl is a pair of mandarin ducks, and the utensils have become significantly larger. Gu Yingtai's "Essentials of Naturalism" mentioned in the mandarin duck heart, because of the lack of Yongle works handed down, descendants suspect that it is the imitation of Yongle blue and white hand cup in the Ming Dynasty.

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