Chapter 123: Bricks of the Tower

Wu Di smiled and hugged the glass bottle and walked out of the store, suddenly, he stopped and said to Song Ying:

"Give the boss another ten euros, how can you not pay for breaking other people's things?"

"No, no, sir, you better go quickly, I don't want compensation, really!"

"Don't want to compensate? Really don't? What's so embarrassing about that? Boss, I have to say that you are such a nice person, I will introduce my friends to your shop more often......"

"Oh! God, terrible devil, don't introduce me to any clients, I won't see you again......"

Song Ying accompanied Wu Di to the entrance of the antique street, Wu Di wanted to put the bronze mirror and the glass bottle back, it was a little inconvenient to go shopping with so many things, especially this glass bottle was still very delicate and fragile. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This bottle is worth fifty thousand euros? Why do I think the boss seems to be so happy when he sells it to you? ”

"Hehe, this bottle is an ancient Islamic glass, very similar to the pear-shaped glass bottle of the German Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, Germany, and a plate mouth thin neck plastic light yellow glass bottle unearthed in the Tang Tower Underground Palace of Famen Temple in Baoji, Shaanxi Province in 1987, the boss is probably not sure about the age and authenticity of this thing, so he will feel that he has taken advantage, otherwise, even if I blackmail him, he would rather go to jail than sell!"

"I said how kind you were just now, slowly adding it to 50,000! That boss is so hateful, he dares to blackmail me! Now it's okay, the old villain met the little villain, but was blackmailed by the little villain! ”

"Dare to call me a little villain? I'll let you know how powerful the villains are later! ”

"You have the ability! Who let who know that it is not necessarily powerful! ”

“……”

In the taxi, the full fan of small wealth began to inquire about the value of the glass bottle again, Wu Di thought for a while, and said:

"This thing won't have much market in China, but if it is auctioned by Islamic countries, I estimate that it will cost 50 million US dollars, right?"

"Fifty million? Oh my God, isn't this the glass of ancient times? ”

"You are wrong, glass is glass, glass is glass, although the main component of both is silica, but the contemporary national authoritative monograph "Research on Ancient Chinese Glass" records: the proportion of silica in ancient Egypt "Fians" (that is, the ancestor of Western crystal glass) is 92% (impermeable) -99%, and the proportion of silica in our glass in the Zhou Dynasty is only slightly greater than 90% (transparent). This 9% difference is the biggest difference between glass and glass. The Tang Dynasty poet Wei Yingwu once wrote the poem "Yongliuli":

"Colored and cold, nothing separates jade. The elephant feast can't be seen, and it can be seen to the jade people"!

It is the most appropriate description of glass. ”

Because of the discoverer of the glaze, that is, Fan Li, in the eyes of the ancestors, people believe that the glaze has the same memory and inheritance functions as crystal. What's more, the glaze can bless the owner of "the home is to the daughter, the official is to the prime minister", so in ancient times, the glazed products are particularly precious!

Around the Yuan Dynasty, with the emergence of artificial faults in Han culture, many skills of the Han royal family were also lost, and glaze was among them, so in the Ming and Qing dynasties, glaze was only available in myths and legends. In "Journey to the West", Sha Seng was originally the general of the Heavenly Palace, but he was demoted to the mortal world because he accidentally broke a glass cup, which shows the preciousness of glass.

Song Ying's eyes when he looked at Wu Di were full of complicated things,

"Adi, you know so much, you must have read a lot of books, right?"

"Yes, there are two big bookcases, and I have to take exams every month, but I still have to be boarded! The second senior brother was beaten, and said that it hurt very much! Don't you see that I still have more than a dozen books in my bag? ”

"That's all a lie, and I haven't seen you see it!"

"I read a book when some people are asleep. Fortunately, I saw that some people would take off their clothes in their dreams...... Yes! ”

Wu Di screamed, and the soft flesh on his waist was twisted 360 degrees by Song Ying's two fingers!

"Don't you want to know what this pack is? It's beautiful, you women can't do without! ”

Song Ying's attention was indeed successfully diverted, she let go of her fingers twisting the tender meat, and symbolically blew two breaths from afar, and asked:

"What baby?"

"The bronze mirrors of the Jin and Song dynasties are very exquisite!"

Wu Di took out the best looking side and handed it to Song Ying.

"Ah, you can see my face! Oh my God, all these years! Hey, why are some of these big piles dull yellow and some blue? ”

"In the Jin Dynasty, because of the strict ban on copper in the government, the tin content in the alloy composition was significantly reduced, the copper content increased, and the proportion of zinc also increased, so the gold bronze mirror turned yellow. The economy of the Song Dynasty was poorer, so the copper content decreased, and the mirror turned blue. You see, the early Jin Dynasty was strongly influenced by the Central Plains culture, so the mirror-making has many Tang mirror relics, and the decoration of the mirror is mainly a character story painting. But Song Jing is similar. The most important thing is that these bronze mirrors are also famous, and they are definitely treasures among the ancient mirrors. ”

Song Ying took a dark brass mirror handed to him by Wu Di, looked at it carefully for a long time, and shook his head. Wu Di pointed to a pattern on the edge of the mirror and said:

"Take a closer look."

Song Ying struggled to identify it for a long time, and then hesitated:

"This ...... Seems like two words? ”

"That's right, it's two golden texts, Zhenyi. Empress Dowager Zhenyi's royal mirror, there are actually four sides in this pile! Empress Dowager Zhenyi was the mother of Wan Yan Yong, the fifth emperor of the Jin Kingdom. The Nine Emperors of the Kingdom of Kim are the most virtuous in Sejong, so these mirrors are of excellent quality! In addition, there are a few Song mirrors, although they are also the things of the imperial concubine, but they are slightly worse. It is very much in line with the national strength of the two dynasties at that time. ”

Wu Di picked up a cyan Song mirror and pointed it to Song Ying, and sure enough, there were two seals on the side of the mirror, Concubine Rong.

Song Ying sighed,

"It seems that I still don't want to learn antiques, this huge amount of knowledge is really desperate!"

"Hehe, the world only sees the scenery of picking up leaks, who wants to get how much hard work we have to put in behind it!"

Relying on the Book of Heaven to run rampant in antiques and gambling on stones, someone in the world shamelessly taught Song Ying a lesson......

After a trip back to the hotel, I put away the morning's harvest, and the two of them nibbled on a hot dog and went shopping.

Wu Di shook for two minutes, his eyes lit up, and he picked up a gray relief brick placed in a corner of the room.

This brick is square in shape, with a length and width of 30 centimeters and a thickness of about 11 centimeters. The deep recess in the middle is a circular Buddha shrine, and the relief portrait is a high nose, deep eyes, big ears, and is a bearded monk. The monk carried a prayer basket and held a whisk in his hand, and a tiger followed closely beside him. Wu Di knew that this was a relatively common picture of "walking monks" in the Tang and Song dynasties, which should depict the scene when Hu monks from the Western Regions came to the east to teach the scriptures.

Wu Di carefully looked at the bricks a few times, nodded secretly, and identified it with the Book of Heaven, sure enough, this is an ancient brick of the Tianqing Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty! After nearly a thousand years of ups and downs, it can still be preserved so well, in Wu Di's eyes, this simple ancient brick is precious!

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Tianqing Temple had a great reputation, and it was called the four famous temples in Kyoto together with Xiangguo Temple, Kaibao Temple, and Taiping Xingguo Temple at that time. During the Song Kaibao period, when the Tianqing Temple was rebuilt, a brick tower was built in the temple at the same time, named Xingci Tower, also known as the Tianqing Temple Tower, because it is located on the Fantai, so it is commonly known as the Fanta. The Fan Pagoda is an equilateral hexagonal pagoda, the original pagoda is nine stories high, and it is the highest pagoda in Bianjing at that time. The Yuan Dynasty was partially destroyed by lightning strikes, and the Qing Dynasty built a six-story small tower on the basis of the third floor. Each brick of the ancient pagoda is carved with exquisite Buddha statues, a total of 108 shapes, more than 7,000 patterns. There are 178 pieces of Song Dynasty Buddhist scripture inscriptions in the tower, all of which are precious Buddhist scripture inscriptions.

Wu Di carefully put the brick on the counter and asked:

"Boss, how do you sell this brick?"

The boss was a middle-aged fat woman, who glanced at it when she heard the words and said with a smile:

"This is a Buddha brick from the Middle Ages in India, which is very valuable for the study of Buddhism in ancient India, and it is not expensive, 10,000 euros."

Song Ying is speechless, this broken brick costs 10,000 euros, which is almost a year's living expenses for her, and it is not expensive?

Wu Di shook his head and said:

"The Middle Ages? Can medieval bricks be so well preserved? This thing is not like other antiques, it is always exposed to the wind and the sun, and the things at that time are only afraid of turning into powder now, right? ”

The fat woman smiled and said:

"Sir, it seems that you are very proficient in antiques, although I can't say anything, but the price of this brick is 10,000 euros, and you can give you a nine-percent discount at most, and I won't sell it if you bargain again." This kind of brick is rare, and if you meet a Buddhist one day, you may be able to sell it more expensive! ”

Wu Di shook his head and told Song Ying to be optimistic about this brick first, and to do business for fear of encountering someone who admits death, whether it is a seller or a buyer, whatever you say, I will only say a word to the past, even if you are the Buddha, you have no choice!

Wu Di walked around the store for a while, and then fell in love with a ivory carving product. This is an ivory statue of Guanyin, standing on a black base, the whole statue is about ten centimeters high, the lines are slender, the characters are vivid, the whole ivory carving is beige, the texture is delicate, the oil is moist and bright, just the right embodiment of the image and temperament of the holy god of Guanyin.

Wu Di pushed the surface of the tooth carving with his thumb and fingers, and asked:

"Boss, how much does this thing cost?"

"This ivory carving is even more precious, it costs 50,000 euros."

Wu Di remembered that there was a similar ivory carving in China that had been auctioned for 20 million yuan, that is, a sky-high price of 2 million euros, and this ivory carving was only 50,000 euros, could there be any problems? He picked up the ivory carving and looked at it again, it should be from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, yes, it is also the high-quality ivory carved by adult elephants, how can there be such a big price difference?

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