Chapter 87: Xishan Paper is Expensive

A lunch, eaten ambiguously.

After dinner, after the two separated from Huang Xiaolin, they drove back to the dormitory and rested for a while, Wu Chen took out the black token and studied it with Daya, but not only did they not see anything, but even Du Niang was rotten, and she still had no clue.

Big Tooth was angry, so he proposed to simply send this black bump to the appraisal center to drill a hole, and first identify what material it was.

Wu Chen glared at him angrily for a long time, where would he be willing to do this kind of bad thing, so he only carefully cleaned it up again, and turned around and took out the map.

"What are you doing with a piece of torn paper? It can't be a treasure map, right? Daya saw Wu Chen take out a piece of torn paper, on which many lines were drawn in a mess, neither realistic nor abstract, and he didn't know what to say at all.

"This is not broken paper, it is likely to be Xishan paper." After comparing this period of time, Wu Chen felt that this paper was very likely to be the so-called Xishan paper. This kind of paper is produced in Longfeng Mountain, Jiangle County, Fuhai Province, next to the Chaoshan area, where the wood carving is located, the two appear together, it is not outrageous, and the history of Longfeng Mountain papermaking can be traced back to the Song Dynasty, from the point of view of time, it is also consistent.

To say that this Xishan paper is famous in history. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Xiang went to Fuhai as an official, and once banned bamboo paper because "the lawsuit is pending, and the case has been scattered". In the Southern Song Dynasty, the quality of bamboo paper produced by Fuhai began to be better than that of paper produced in other places.

Bibliophiles know that the paper of Fuhai Jianyang Mashaben is made of bamboo paper produced in Shaowu, Sanming and Yanping. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Jianyang became one of the three major engraving centers of the Celestial Empire.

In the Qing dynasty Guo Baicang's "Fujian Production Records", the Beijing paper of Yangjiashan and the Xishan paper of Longqi Mountain were rated as the best in the world. Xishan paper is known for its flexibility and delicacy, white as snow, and long-term non-decay.

It is said that when the "Siku Quanshu" was engraved, the imperial court once sent a commissioner to Jiangle County to buy Xishan paper produced in Longqi Mountain, which was specially used for engraving books.

Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Xishan paper is expensive". It's just that this Xishan paper is as white as snow, but the one in front of me is yellow, is it caused by being left for too long?

Daya has no interest in the paper itself, he doesn't even know what the relationship between Cai Xiang and Cai Jing is, and he is not interested in who Cai in the "Four Families" refers to.

He looked at the pattern for a long time, went straight to the point, pointed to a wavy line in the painting and said, "This is a lake?" Or the mountains? "The lines look like abstract mountain peaks superimposed, like waves in a lake, but they are lonely there, surrounded by blanks, and definitely not rivers or seas.

"I've checked the ancient marching maps, and a symbol like this should be the mountain peak pass." Wu Chen looked at it and said, the strange thing about this map is that there are many mountain shapes, but they are scattered and there are no roads to connect them.

"Well, I don't think this shape looks familiar." Big Tooth stared at the "mountain peak" and pondered, he put a cigarette in his left hand, making a thinking motion, the fiery red cigarette butt shook and trembled, and Wu Chen's heart trembled.

"Take it easy! I've watched it N times. You won't be playing RPG games too much, and you will be familiar with any map you see. Wu Chen didn't believe in this product, during this time, he occasionally went online, searched for some ancient maps, and after reading too much, he really felt that everything was familiar.

"No, you want me to think about it?" Daya simply lit a cigarette and looked into the distance with a thoughtful look, "Hey, wood, do you think this seems to be Lotus Mountain?" ”

"Huh?" Wu Chen carefully looked at the strokes, which did resemble a lotus, but it was not so complicated.

"If you count, is there only five strokes? Up, two, down, three? Big Tooth took a puff of cigarette and said faintly, "Don't believe it, when I was in preschool, my brother painted this mountain!" Once the teacher assigned to paint, other children were painting pandas or something, only my brother gave full play to his imagination and drew such a picture of Lotus Mountain, which is exactly the same as this, so my brother has the potential to abstract when he is young......"

"Ha Luha, you are really a genius child!" Wu Chen laughed, interrupting Big Tooth's leisurely contemplation.

After he said this, it was really a bit like, this lotus mountain is not far from their village, from the village gatehouse, the mountain color is precipitated, only the shape of the mountain peak can be seen, it is indeed like this! "It can't be such a coincidence, can it?"

"Or say you're a piece of wood! I've got proof! Big Tooth laughed, took another puff of cigarette, and then said: "Look at the left, is there a bright peak, looking at the steep peak?" Isn't that Lei Gongfeng! It's just that I don't know how the road is on the left, this Lei Gongfeng is on the east side of Lotus Mountain, up and down to the south, left west and right east, shouldn't it be on the right? ”

"Hehe, do you remember this mantra? Rare! It seems that the geography teacher of the elementary school has to thank you! Wu Chen felt more and more reliable when he said this, and said jokingly while comparing on the map.

"What do you mean! Not to mention such a simple formula, even the multiplication formula is so complicated, now I can recite it! Do you want me to recite it to you now? "Big Tooth is a little eager to try.

"Gotcha! You stop first! If you don't say that you don't learn and don't know how to do it, you still don't admit it! The mantra you just said is used in geography now, and the directions in ancient times were mostly based on the south and the north, which is completely reversed from the current direction, and the Bagua direction is like this. ”

Wu Chen was also a little excited, could it really be that it didn't take any effort to get it! "This top is called the main position, from the unearthed ancient map, there are even some east or west in the main position, it is not surprising, after the Song Dynasty, it is gradually diversified, after getting the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is basically fixed now this direction of going up and down the south, left and west and right east."

The more the two of them talked, the more excited they became, and they identified them one by one on the map, which had a direction to do things smoothly, and soon determined a few peaks, which were really similar to several famous peaks in the Chaoshan land, especially the place where the most ink was used, and there was a concave place on it, and it was the Tianchi on the Phoenix Mountain!

After arriving at the end of the day, the two had already determined that this painting was more than a dozen peaks in the eastern part of the province.

"Wood, what are you talking about people who have nothing to do when they are full, why are you painting this thing?" After a burst of excitement, Big Tooth began to use his imagination, "It can't be a treasure map, right?" So many mountains have treasures? ”

"Go, you might as well say it's a mine map, isn't it a legend that there is a coal mine in Lotus Mountain!" When I was a child, there were indeed such rumors, and the state sent people to investigate, but later said that the mineral deposits were too small and not worth mining, so they gave up.

Tossed until the evening, he couldn't figure out what the relationship between these mountains and rivers was, and Daya hypothesized all kinds of things, such as treasures, tombs, feng shui, etc., all of which Wu Chen denied them one by one.

Despite this, he was still a little excited, at least he could now be sure that this was a map of the eastern province between the Song and Yuan dynasties, which was a big improvement!

In the next two days, the two brothers were bored at home and frantically searched for information on the eastern land of the province during the Song and Yuan dynasties, and completely forgot that they were going to participate in the Pingzhou public market.

At first, Daya didn't believe it, why did it have to be from the Song and Yuan dynasties, it couldn't be the Ming and Qing dynasties, maybe it was after liberation! Wu Chen couldn't explain it to him, so he fooled around casually, anyway, Big Tooth never studied this thing in detail, and when he got in, he was more convinced than Wu Chen.

The two brothers gave full play to the spirit of cramming before the exam that year, and stuffed themselves in the room tinkering with things about maps. After two days, Big Tooth couldn't hold it back, looked at the room full of instant noodle boxes, and complained about what kind of life he had spent in the past two days, why did he look so much like a hacker! I have to go out to go out and go for a walk, see the sunshine and rain, and eat something delicious by the way.

After discussing it, it seems that there are still a lot of things, I asked the car first, and said that it would take two days to mention, and the big tooth on the other side of the house has already made the payment, waiting for the online sign, which is also a matter of one or two days.

The brothers remembered the Pingzhou public market, and made a call to Xia Ziming, Xia Ziming replied after a while, it turned out that today was the day when the public market ended, and now it was lively in the past, but it was someone else's, and there was basically no transaction.

I was worried about why I didn't know why I was going to the road, did the two of them go to the park? This is also too emotional, Wu Chen shuddered. The phone rang, and it turned out that Yang Jun had arrived in Guangfu, and the station was not far from here, so Wu Chen simply asked him to wait, drove a car with Daya to pick him up, found a small roadside restaurant, and ate a handful, which was regarded as picking him up.

Daya heard that Yang Jun was from a special forces, so he was very curious, and asked about a meal. Yang Jun is a taciturn person, and answering questions is also a standard "yes" or "no" military style, which makes Big Tooth very depressed. Wu Chen likes this kind of character.

After lunch, the weather outside was really hot and bluffing, so Big Tooth suggested finding a place to soak in the water. In the countryside, at this time, it was the time when the children were playing in the stream, Wu Chen and Yang Jun had no objections, and paid the bill to go out.

The restaurant was on the side of the street, there was no parking space in front of the door, and when they came, they parked their car under a tree in the alley across the road, and they had to walk across a bridge to get there. This overpass is quite large, because of the greenery and canopy, but it is not too hot inside.

When I came over just now, because I was hungry, I didn't take a closer look, and now I was full of food and wine, and walked back slowly, only to find that this place is like a small market, with stalls on both sides, clothing, food, housing, and transportation, jewelry, mobile phone films, everything, and even some antique jade devices, even if they are not fake, the texture is also extremely inferior.

"What are you doing?" Big Tooth was walking, and found someone pulling the hem of his back coat, he was the one who lost his wallet and was afraid, but now he didn't sleep, and when he turned around, he shouted, but it was a woman holding a child.

"Handsome guy, do you want a CD?!" When she said this, the woman also squeezed her eyes, with an expression that you know, big brother.

"I'll go! Brother is so handsome, do you need to look at this?! Seeing Wu Chen looking at him and smiling ill-willedly, Daya replied angrily. Speaking of the three of us, why don't you just pull me, is my brother really so obscene!

The woman's obvious face is black, you really say you pig, you are still gasping! walked away with a disapproving look, but he didn't chase after the sale, which was much more disciplined than the little girls who sold roses.