Rong Lao raised a few sparse eyebrows, crossed his hands on his waist, and shouted angrily: "Old boy, you can't get along with me, right?" You are a great expert and a university scholar, and you have also carved out a decent carving for us to open our eyes! ”

Hahaha

Rong Lao's words caused everyone to laugh.

Chu Lao is also helpless to use his hand to point to Rong Lao, for so many years, the two of them quarrel when they meet, but they are still not separated from Meng, Meng is not out of focus, and they can't be separated.

Fortunately, all the experts present were real, everyone was very well-behaved, and no one tried to get started with the jade dzi, which made Liu Yuhao breathe a sigh of relief.

Today, Rong Lao proposed to let him take out the jade dzi for everyone to enjoy, and replace it with someone else, Liu Yuhao will definitely not easily take the dzi off his wrist.

"Teachers, today the younger generation will be the east, and the teachers will be the leader."

Liu Yuhao saw that the time was almost up, so he made a suggestion to eat.

The scholars are not as pretending to be businessmen as they are, and after listening to Liu Yuhao's words, they all nodded in agreement, and walked towards the restaurant under the guidance of Fuji Yi.

Chu Lao stayed until the end, and when he saw that everyone was almost gone, he turned around and smiled: "Yu Hao, this time there will definitely be some people who will get real and fake high-imitation objects, you have to keep your eyes open and don't embarrass us old men." ”

Liu Yuhao smiled and said, "With Chu Lao, you are the gatekeeper, I can't be wrong!" ”

"You kid, if you don't learn, how can you learn to go to the oil cavity and slip the tone."

Chu Lao smiled and nodded Liu Yuhao with his fingers, as if he meant to blame, but his tone was full of love for cherishing talents.

This kind of cultural exchange meeting is generally held once every three years, when Chu Lao encountered the kind of situation he said, a man who didn't know where to come, came with a black clay pot to ask an expert to identify himself.

The black clay pot is close to the black pottery of Longshan culture in terms of material, knife feel, and shape, which almost made the nine experts collectively eye-catching, and also became the biggest laughing stock of the last cultural exchange meeting.

Chu Lao wants to remind Liu Yuhao first today, so that he should not easily jump to conclusions about any object.

After all, in the eyes of Chu Lao, Liu Yuhao is already close to his own disciple.

It's nothing to make a joke by slapping his eyes, but Liu Yuhao can't, he is still very young, and the road ahead is very long, Chu Lao feels that he has the obligation to protect this young man who has a strong talent in antique appreciation.

But what Chu Lao didn't expect was that a kind reminder of his own would really come true the next day

The cultural exchange was held at a Chaoshan clan in Toronto's Chinatown.

Probably influenced by foreign culture, the Chinese in Toronto no longer have the habit of ushering in the send-off, and it was not until the beginning of the cultural exchange meeting that the "experts" from both sides came to the Chaoshan Hall to meet one after another.

"Elder Zhang, we haven't seen each other for three years."

When Chu Lao saw his acquaintance, he stepped forward to say hello with a smile.

The man known as Zhang Lao looked about sixty years old, with a dark complexion and a serious face, and he didn't seem to buy Chu Lao's account, sneered, and said, "Lao Chu, I hope you won't make the same low-level mistake as last time this year." ”

As soon as the words fell, the experts from China were slightly stunned.

How?

And those who directly provoked as soon as they met? It's too faceless!

Chu Lao was not affected by Zhang Lao's words, his smile was still full of spring breeze, nodded, and said: "What Zhang Lao said is that if you fall twice in one place, even if you lose face, you are not worthy of sympathy. ”

"It's good to know!"

Zhang Lao nodded as if he was dealing with an errand, and glanced at Liu Yuhao, who had been following Chu Lao.

Chu Lao understood and said with a smile: "Elder Zhang, this is Liu Yuhao, a domestic ancient jade expert, and he is half my student. ”

For Liu Yuhao's love, Chu Lao did not hide it in front of anyone, if Liu Yuhao hadn't been brought into the Zhongbao Association by Old Man Qi back then, Chu Lao would definitely give him all his original body.

After Zhang Lao heard that Liu Yuhao was an expert in ancient jade, he smiled, shook his head and sneered: "It seems that the talent in China has indeed withered in recent years, how can I send out this doll that has been weaned for a few days." ”

Liu Yuhao frowned secretly when he heard this, glanced at the old Zhang lightly, and said: "Old Zhang, this is called the talented people of the country, unlike you, who are already green and unsustainable." ”

The implication is that Liu Yuhao is telling the old Zhang who has no one in his eyes that there are almost no young people overseas who can understand antique appreciation, so he can only send people like him who are old and twilight to come out to fill the scene.

"You're full of nonsense!"

Zhang Lao's face turned blue suddenly, but he held that his identity was not good and he was not good at arguing with Liu Yuhao, so he had to throw his sleeves away with anger.

"Chu Lao, I"

When the old man walked away, Liu Yuhao confessed his mistake to Old Chu with an apologetic face.

Chu Lao smiled faintly, waved his hand, and said: "This old man is famous for his bad temper, you don't have to worry about anything with him at all, in fact, he is still very good at ancient porcelain identification, this cultural exchange will also be an opportunity, you can secretly learn some knowledge from him, it is good for yourself." ”

Learn from that kind of arrogant person?

Learn to yarn!

Liu Yuhao despised Zhang Lao in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, nodded with a smile and said, "Don't worry, Chu Lao, I will pay attention to learning." ”

Although this is a cultural exchange meeting, Liu Yuhao knows that this kind of exchange meeting is actually with the purpose of buying back cultural boutiques for the country.

Therefore, as soon as he walked up to the second floor of the Chaoshan Hall, Liu Yuhao saw that there were already dozens of antique objects neatly placed, waiting for them, domestic experts, to come forward to appreciate them.

"Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup!"

Although there were many objects on the second floor of the hall, Chu Lao still saw the two chicken cups placed in a glass cover at a glance, and his eyes suddenly narrowed, and his eyebrows frowned with the word "Sichuan".

As the name suggests, the chicken bowl cup is shaped like a cylinder, painted male and female chicks, etc., and is popular for a while. It is popular in the antique world to this day. Whoever owns the Chenghua chicken bowl cup, only one piece can be proud of its peers.

Today's people may not understand why this small cup is so attractive.

The answer is not that difficult. One is that the Chenghua chicken bowl cup is small and thin, fragile, for more than 500 years, a little carelessness is a thousand years of hatred, so there are few survivors in the world, and it is a subversive law that is not broken to be rare and expensive.

The second is that this small cup was born in the Ming Dynasty with royal blood and has never fallen into the people's family. The emperors of all dynasties are highly respected, according to the record of "Shenzong Record": Wanli Emperor is very fond of chicken bowl cups, and there are "a pair of cups, worth 100,000 yuan", which is the price at that time, and it has been more than 100 years ago. "Records of Shenzong" is the life file of Emperor Wanli, which must be accurate.

Due to the fame of Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup, there are many imitations in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Especially during the Yongzheng Qianlong period, imitations abounded, some of them were wonderful, and some were digressive.

In any case, the value and fame of Chenghua chicken bowl cup have been in the first place in the country, and it has led colored porcelain for hundreds of years. It is a pity that after the Ming Dynasty became a self-cheng, Doucai did not develop, and the later emperors of the seven or eight dynasties did not have the intention of transcendence.

If you can't surpass yourself, you will always be surpassed by others in the end.

A small chicken bowl cup is a witness to the history of a generation, and it tells people a simple truth all the time with its own existence.

"Lao Chu, how about you come to see these two chicken cups of mine?"

Seeing Chu Lao's shocked face, Zhang Lao was very proud, and stood there shaking his head with his hands behind his back, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, with a hint of deliberate exaggeration.

"This, Mr. Zhang, don't tell me that these two chicken cups are yours?"

Old Chu asked in surprise.

There are only eleven in the museum on Taiwan Island, but I didn't expect such a rare treasure Zhang Lao to have two by himself, and it makes sense for Chu Lao to be surprised.

"I got one twenty years ago, and the other one was only recently."

Zhang Lao's vanity was greatly satisfied, and he pointed to the chicken bowl cup in the glass cover and looked up and laughed.

Chu Lao nodded, first looked carefully around the chicken bowl cup for a while, and then slowly raised his head, at this time Chu Lao's face had slowly calmed down, and said indifferently: "Zhang Lao, can I get my hands on this chicken bowl cup?" ”

"Yes, I'll arrange it."

Zhang Lao originally deliberately wanted to take out this chicken bowl cup to show off, how could he let go of this opportunity, and agreed without hesitation.

After a while, two security guards with guns approached, and after entering the code, the glass cover was opened.

Liu Yuhao felt curious, and also surrounded him.

The shape of the chicken bowl cup is open, oblique straight wall, lying foot, and the bottom of the blue and white square frame is written in the six-character double-line regular book "Ming Chenghua Year".

After getting the agreement, Liu Yuhao put on gloves, picked up one of the chicken bowl cups, and looked at it carefully.

The inner and outer walls of the chicken bowl cup in the hand are tooth yellow, the blue and white sink, and the fetal quality is delicate and pure; The colorful slightly open piece, the blue and white multicolored ornament of the outer wall can be seen through the light, the enamel is flesh red, and the jade texture is very strong under the illumination of the light.

"The enamel is as fat as phospholipids, delicate and warm as jade."

Liu Yuhao couldn't help but think of such a sentence that Old Man Qi often said in praise of Chenghua Doucai.

Look at the past again, the outer wall of the chicken bowl cup is painted with blue and white and painted hens, the outer wall mouth and near the foot are painted with two blue and white string patterns, two groups of mountain stone flowers are painted between the string patterns, one group is the travertine peony pattern, the other group is the mountain stone daylily pattern, the rooster and the hen between the mountain and the stone lead the chicks to forage in the grass, and the insects fly to come.

"Yu Hao, this is called the Hen Picture!"

Chu Lao didn't forget to point out Liu Yuhao on the side while looking at it, introducing the picture of the hen on the chicken bowl cup.

The sub-hen figure has been around for a long time.

The pattern on the Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup originates from the Song people's painting of mother and son chicken shafts. The ancients believed that chickens have "five virtues", five virtues, literary, martial, brave, benevolent, and faithful, and called them "virtuous birds".