Tang Yi and Wen Jia sent Jiang Yingnian and Gao Taiming away, then came to the private room again, called Xiao Gu, and went to find the manager.

The manager thought for a while, "That's it, Mr. Tang, since Xiao Gu has told you, I won't say anything about it." Xiao Gu can have a better place to go, I won't stop it, but I don't know you after all, I'll take the time to go to your store with Xiao Gu tomorrow and make a decision, do you think it's okay? ”

"Absolutely." Tang Yi took out two business cards and handed them to the manager and Xiao Gu respectively, "Then let's contact again?" ”

Xiao Gu took the business card, thought for a while, and then plucked up the courage to say to the manager, "Manager, I want to take Brother Tang to my place to have a look now, can you see it?" ”

The manager has been in the market for a long time, and he can see that Xiao Gu really wants to leave. The reason why he wanted to take Tang Yi to the place where he lived was to let Tang Yi see what he had done, and not to regret it when the time came, thinking that what he had done was not good and had recruited the wrong person.

"Okay, you go and hand it over." Manager diǎndiǎn head.

Wen Jia and Tang Yi went out first and waited for Xiao Gu at the door.

"Do you want to expand your purple clay pot business? Does this person do? Wen Jia asked.

"Zisha is very popular in the south, and the tea culture in Hangzhou is very deep. Zhang Lu's eyesight is far from enough in Zisha, so it is necessary to match him with a helper. In addition, in the long run, Xiao Gu can definitely grow into a master of pot making. There is also a diǎn, I think his foundation and understanding are very good, maybe his future achievements will not only be in Zisha. ”

"Not only in Zisha? You mean porcelain? ”

"Hmm." Tang Yi diǎndiǎn head, "I don't know, Lu Zhixing wants to accept an apprentice." ”

"You're thinking far ahead. A person like Lu Zhixing, even if he accepts apprentices, may not be able to look down on this young man. ”

"Don't worry about this, let him do it first, and then talk about it when I have the opportunity to meet Lu Zhixing."

After a while, Xiao Gu came out.

The three of them arrived at the place. This is an old neighborhood, and the house is probably thirty years younger. went upstairs and entered the room, Tang Yi found that it was a two-room house, but the living room and bedroom were very small.

In a bedroom with a large diǎner, there is only a small marching bed, but there is a large operating table, and then there are all kinds of ∷dǐng∷diǎn∷small∷ said, .2≥3.△os_(); tools, and some well-made purple clay pots.

"Where are you ready?" Tang Yi picked up a handful of finished pots.

"There is a kiln factory in the suburbs, which was built by experts in Yixing, where my grandfather used to burn, and where I bought the clay. knows the roots, and is an old acquaintance. ”

Tang Yi looked at the few pots made by Xiao Gu, "There is nothing to say about your craftsmanship, it is definitely a first-class level." I think what your master asked you to temper is your vision, after all, to make purple sand, craftsmanship is only a foundation, and artistic level is the key to a higher grade. ”

"Yes, my master said something like that! Brother Tang, how do you think this aspect can be improved faster? ”

"When you go to the antique shop, you will see all kinds of ancient artworks, and the art is interconnected, so it is very helpful to learn more."

"Brother Tang, wait." Xiao Gu said, walked out of this bedroom, and ran to another bedroom. Tang Yi and Wen Jia came to the living room and didn't follow in. After a squirming sound, Xiao Gu came out with a jujube box.

The box is shiny, already a little blackened, and it looks like it's not a short time. Xiao Gu gently put the box on the small square table in the living room, opened it carefully, and took out a purple mud monk's hat pot from it.

The monk's hat pot, as the name suggests, has a unique shape, especially the lid, which resembles a monk's hat and lies inside the rim of the mouth. This monk's hat pot is a duckbill-shaped "flow", the body of the pot is multi-edged, the foot is circled, and the aesthetic sense is very strong.

At the earliest, the shape of the monk's hat pot appeared on some blue and white porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty, and there were also porcelain in the Ming and Qing dynasties, with more blue and white and red glaze things. The purple clay pot later also had this shape.

Tang Yi looked at the teapot on the square table, his eyes changed, "Can I get started and take a look?" ”

"Hehe, that's for you to see." Xiao Gu rubbed his hands.

Tang Yi gently took off the lid of the pot, looked at it for a while, put it on the small square table, and then picked up the body of the pot, looked at it carefully, and finally looked at the bottom of the pot, and there was a seal at the bottom of the pot: Jingshan Huyin.

"This is what your grandfather left behind?"

"Well, that's what his mentor gave him."

"It's rare, there is such a treasure, and you can abide by your grandfather's explanation and work as a waiter with peace of mind." Tang Yi thought for a while, "If you are not an official disciple, you can still give your grandfather this pot, it seems that I also appreciate your grandfather very much." ”

Xiao Gu scratched his head embarrassedly, "My grandfather said that even if you die poor, you can't sell this pot." ”

Wen Jia looked at it, "Judging from the pulp, this pot is decades old, and this modern work is also so expensive?" ”

"It's progress!" Tang Yi smiled, "It can be seen that it is a modern work." However, in the purple clay pot industry, there is a person's pot, which is more valuable than the pots of many famous pot makers in the Ming and Qing dynasties. ”

"Is this Jingshan Huyin?"

"Yes, he is Master Gu Jingzhou!"

Wen Jia suddenly realized, "Oh, Xiao Gu's grandfather gave Xiao Gu this name just to thank Master Gu for his kindness!" ”

Gu Jingzhou was born in the early days of the Republic of China, and has been dead for 20 years now. His official disciples are all national master-level figures, and as for those who have been instructed, it is difficult to verify and count. Xiao Gu's grandfather, Sui Donglin, is probably one of them.

Gu Jingzhou, among the famous purple sand in the past dynasties, can be regarded as the most famous, Jingshan Huyin, is one of his pot-making models. Gu Jingzhou's achievements in purple sand pot art are too high, and he can be regarded as the only one in modern times who can be compared with the famous masters of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"It's not easy to understand, I'll give you an example." Tang Yi said to Wen Jia with a smile: "In the thirties of the last century, Gu Jingzhou was only twenty years old, that is, Xiao Gu's current age, he imitated Chen Mingyuan, a master of the Qing Dynasty, and brought money to make a dragon and phoenix spout pot and a bamboo shoot cup. Later, it was collected by the Palace Museum and Jinling Museum as Chen Mingyuan's genuine work! ”

"Huh?" Wen Jia was really taken aback, "Twenty years old? ”

"It wasn't until decades later that Gu Jingzhou was invited to the Palace Museum and Jinling Museum to do the appraisal of the purple sand collection, and he actually found that his works were collected as genuine works of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Wen Jia stared at the monk's hat pot again, "Then how much can this pot be worth now?" ”

In recent years, Gu Jingzhou's works have risen in auctions year after year. There is a Wu Hufan calligraphy and painting Xiangmingshi scoop pot, which was photographed for more than 12 million. There is a set of nine-headed Yongmei tea sets, which cost more than 20 million, and a ten-head tea set of squirrel grapes, which cost more than 90 million, nearly 100 million! ”