Chapter 331: Birthday Gift for Visiting Relatives
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After the construction of the Xijing Sewage Treatment Plant began, because Fangxia Ceramic Chemical Group hired a professional supervision team from eastern Guangdong to supervise the project, Bao Feiyang and Meng Shuang did not have to stay at the construction site all day.
At this time, Meng Shuang happened to receive a call from home, saying that Meng Shuang's grandfather Meng Xiangwei was about to celebrate his seventieth birthday, and asked Meng Shuang to go home to congratulate Meng Xiangwei on his birthday.
Because Bao Feiyang stayed in Xijing City to treat Tu Xiaoming during the lip festival and did not go back to Zhongjiang, Meng Shuang's original plan to take Bao Feiyang to his home to pay New Year's greetings during the lip festival was in vain. Now just in time for his grandfather Meng Xiangwei to celebrate his seventieth birthday, Meng Shuang discussed with Bao Feiyang and asked him to go back with Amethyst to congratulate his grandfather Meng Xiangwei on his birthday, and also took this opportunity to let Bao Feiyang appear in front of his parents and determine the relationship between the two.
Bao Feiyang originally felt that he owed Meng Shuang a lot, and Meng Shuang proposed to take him back to Zhongjiang Province to pay tribute to his grandfather, how could Bao Feiyang refuse? Besides, for him, he also wants to visit Meng Shuang's parents and elders as soon as possible, although it is clear that he and Meng Shuang are in a relationship, but without the willingness of Meng Shuang's parents and elders, Bao Feiyang always feels a little unjustified. With this opportunity, Bao Feiyang was naturally busy agreeing.
Since he was going to Meng's house to pay his birthday to Meng Shuang's grandfather Meng Xiangwei, Bao Feiyang naturally couldn't go empty-handed, especially since it was the first time he went to Meng's house, which was equivalent to saying that the future son-in-law was making his first appearance at the Meng family. So after asking Meng Shuang in detail about Meng Xiangwei's habits and hobbies, he decided to go to the antique street in Xijing City to buy a good birthday gift for Meng Shuang's grandfather.
After lunch, Bao Feiyang drove Meng Shuang to the antique street.
The antique street of Xijing City is famous throughout the country, and countless legendary stories have been born here and are widely spread. It is not uncommon to go bankrupt overnight and get rich in one day.
"You want to buy my grandfather a birthday gift here?" Holding Bao Feiyang's hand, Meng Shuang asked curiously while looking left and right. There was a hint of skepticism in his tone.
There are hundreds of shops on both sides of the street, and the storefronts and warehouses of each store are full of goods, and all kinds of goods add up to not a million pieces, and they will not be much worse.
In addition to the regular shops, there is also an alley dedicated to the stalls of small traders and hawkers.
Trying to pick out the real thing out of so many products is as difficult as buying a million-dollar jackpot.
"Try your luck." Bao Feiyang smiled lightly, "For players like your grandfather who don't aim to make money and don't take collecting as a hobby, good things are not necessarily old and genuine, valuable treasures." ”
"You'll say." Meng Shuang said with a smile.
"This little brother said it very well." An old white man beside him spoke.
The old man, in his seventies, had white hair, but he was in good spirits, his eyes were bright, his body was erect, and he looked very strong.
"Antiques, this thing, just make it fun and interesting." Old Man Bai smiled: "Little brother, you are young and have extraordinary knowledge. ”
"Old man, are you Xue Lao from the School of History of Xijing University?" Meng Shuang saw the old man Bai, his eyes flashed with a hint of brightness, and he hurriedly asked respectfully.
"Yes, you're also students at Saikyo University?" Old Man Bai nodded and said.
"It's not." Meng Shuang replied. "We're here to have a look and feel the history and culture."
"It's okay to come here and have a look, increase your knowledge, but don't indulge, let alone fantasize about getting rich one day, otherwise you will go astray." Xue Lao couldn't help but remind.
"Yes." Meng Shuang and Bao Feiyang hurriedly nodded in response.
After chatting with Bao Feiyang and the others, Xue Lao left. "This is one of the few remaining masters of Xijing University."
Looking at Xue Lao's back, Bao Feiyang said with some excitement.
"Hmm." Bao Feiyang nodded in response. Masters, worthy of respect in any era. They are the wealth of the nation, the treasure of the nation.
The two continued shopping.
"Go to Taobao Street first, and then come to these stores." Meng Shuangjian said.
"Okay." Bao Feiyang has always followed Meng Shuang and replied without thinking.
Neither of them is proficient in antiques, Meng Shuang because she has been influenced by her grandfather, she knows a little about calligraphy and painting, Bao Feiyang has basically never touched antiques, at most she has only watched some treasure appreciation programs on TV and computers.
Bao Feiyang came here, not suddenly, he doesn't know antiques, but he often reads some professional knowledge in the field of antiques, but with his memory, Bao Feiyang can also judge the authenticity and quality of antiques.
Because some things are interconnected, such as true and false, such as good and bad. A real antique will inevitably leave traces of the passage of time and the charm of history.
Bao Feiyang didn't want to be an antique expert, he came here just to buy a birthday gift that he could give. He just needs to know whether the thing he buys is real or fake, what the quality is, as for the origin of the thing, its historical value, he is not interested.
In addition to buying things, he also took Meng Shuang to go shopping, and these days he has been busy with the Bayi Paper Mill and the sewage treatment plant, and the skeleton has become a machine.
Can you pick up a leak and find a baby, Bao Feiyang doesn't have too high expectations, you can find it, it's best, you can't find it, it's nothing. The deposit in his bank card is enough for him to buy a good thing as a birthday gift.
Anyway, he didn't know how to spend the money.
Seeing all kinds of strange objects, Meng Shuang was greatly interested, and pulled Bao Feiyang to take a look here and there. Letting those stall owners talk wildly, Meng Shuang never had the idea of buying.
"Wait." Bao Feiyang suddenly pulled Meng Shuang and said.
"What's wrong?"
"I'll look at something." Bao Feiyang showed the breath of a prey like a seasoned hunter, and his eyes radiated essence.
"Boss, what kind of inkstone is this? How much does it cost? Coming to a stall, Bao Feiyang pointed to a black Yantai and asked.
"I don't know, this inkstone was placed here by someone else, and the master said it would cost 20,000 yuan." The shopkeeper saw that two young couples had taken a fancy to this broken inkstone, and hurriedly came over to talk.
Bao Feiyang is carefully examining this inkstone.
Chengni inkstone is made of precipitating thousands of years of Yellow River mud as raw material, smelted by a special furnace, the quality is hard and wear-resistant, the view is like jasper, the skin is like a child, the ink is not dry, the ink is not rotten, the cold is not icy, the breath can be studied, the pen is not hurt, it is not damaged, it is highly respected by the emperors and literati of the past dynasties, and the Tang and Song dynasties are all tributes.
Because of the hard texture, easy to ink, no damage to the pen and no loss of ink, compared to those stone inkstones are not bad at all, and the manufacturing process is quite exquisite, its complexity and difficulty can even be comparable to porcelain. Because the Chengni inkstone needs to be beaten repeatedly, then shaped, then carved, and finally calcined in the furnace, it is more precious, and there are fewer high-quality products handed down.
Bao Feiyang heard that in the past, a few thousand yuan could be sold for a good or even inherited inkstone for a maximum of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. But now it has risen a lot, and an inkstone with no inheritance can cost seventy or eighty thousand or more, and it is normal for those with good quality and inheritance to shout hundreds of thousands.
This piece of Chengni inkstone is considered to be of the highest grade, in good condition, very rare, and the market price should be about five or six hundred thousand. And the inkstone is engraved with a fisherman's idle fishing picture, lifelike, delicate and meticulous, put it on the table, idle to grind some ink and write Braille or something to have a different taste.