Shi Bao was obviously very unforgiving to hear what Liu Yuhao said just now.

Without waiting for Liu Yuhao to step forward to look at the capital, Shi Bao's face was already slightly gloomy, and his face was very unhappy with anger, and said: "Sure enough, he is a businessman, and he will not leave the bank in three sentences." ”

Well, my brother admits that what my brother said just now is a bit vulgar.

Liu Yuhao's old face was slightly red, and he immediately realized that what he said just now was indeed inappropriate, and said with a sneer: "I'm sorry, let Brother Shi laugh, I also felt it just now, and I didn't mean anything else." ”

In fact, I really don't wonder Liu Yuhao would say such abrupt words.

In today's sky-high era when a string of artificially cultivated Hainan Huanghuali bracelets can sell for tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, Shi Bao has a Hainan Huanghuali antique made of whole logs in his hand, but he can endure it, but he is willing to live a poor life, and he is afraid that anyone who sees it will not be able to understand.

Shi Bao snorted coldly, rubbed his hands carefully on the capital plate, and sneered: "This capital plate was handed down by my old Shi family ancestors, and now it is the ninth generation in my hands, is it possible that I can sell my ancestors with a little money?" ”

In Shi Bao's eyes, the capital city plate seems to be the history of their Shi family, is their family's culture, standing in his position, the capital city plate is alive, it can speak, can tell Shi Bao how brilliant the Shi family was in the past, how can it be auctioned?

Liu Yuhao was shocked and speechless, and didn't know how to express his inner feelings for a while.

What makes him speechless is that Shi Bao has been mixed up like this, and it is said that there is a foolish daughter, in this case, most people will choose to sell the dead things in their hands to treat their daughter first, but he is good, he sticks to the so-called old objects and does not know how to be flexible, and he is stubborn and wastes food due to choking.

But what shocked Liu Yuhao at the same time was that the capital plate of Hainan Huanghuali was actually a treasure that had been passed down from Shi Bao's family for several generations, which was really unexpected by Liu Yuhao.

In the eyes of modern people, having one or two pieces of hardwood furniture at home, or even many pieces of hardwood furniture is actually nothing, at most it can only be said that the life of this family is not bad, but four or five hundred years ago, there was a Huanghuali capital city at home, and the meaning is completely different.

First of all, the capital city is not a real sense of furniture, it is actually a special object that only scholars will use, you must know that four or five hundred years ago, the reader was not as unbearable as written in the novel, so to speak, at that time, people who could read, no matter where they went, they would be respected by people.

Children of ordinary small families want to study?

Hmph, there are no doors!

Secondly, the political corruption of the Ming Dynasty, the expropriation and expropriation were commonplace, and it was a very luxurious thing to have hardwood furniture in the family during that period, and after hundreds of years, the Shi family was still able to retain the original capital, which is enough to show that the Shi family was not only a rare wealthy family at that time, but also in the next three or four hundred years, the Shi family was not necessarily really decadent, and the real unsatisfactory life probably started from Shi Bao's father.

"Brother Shi's ancestral home should be Suzhou, right?"

Liu Yuhao chose to ignore Shi Bao's anger, and cleverly avoided the topic that was embarrassing for both parties just now.

Shi Bao's anger came and went quickly, and now he couldn't see any anger, but his tone was still a little cold, "How can you see it?" ”

"I guess."

Liu Yuhao smiled, pointed to the capital, and explained: "Actually, the workmanship of the capitalcity has already told me. ”

Hearing this, Shi Bao's eyebrows raised slightly, and there was a strange look on his face, "Brother Liu has good eyesight, this capital city is indeed a Suzhou worker, and our Shi family ancestor is indeed from Suzhou." ”

Jade carving is divided into north and south, and similarly, wood is also different from Beijing and Suzhou.

Although people can tell lies, but the old objects can't tell, the unique tooth-saving secret drawer in Suzhou on the capital plate has told Liu Yuhao the mystery of his life experience.

The use of the secret drawer is that there is no additional copper jewelry handle, but the principle of internal rocker is used, and one drawer can be pushed out by pushing either of the two drawers.

The literati in Suzhou often did not take the public's aesthetic standards as the standard, but had their own unique aesthetic standards, so they personally participated in the design and production of furniture.

Some of them design drawings according to their own requirements and hand them over to craftsmen to make; Some supervise and instruct craftsmen to make according to their own ideas; Some even design and make furniture by themselves; There are also various ways to influence the design and production of furniture through tasting, appreciation, collection, and use.

The secret drawer of the capital plate in Shi Bao's hand is the crystallization of the wisdom of the literati in Suzhou.

The unique lifestyle and aesthetic taste of the literati influenced and influenced the form and temperament of the furniture, greatly enriched the aesthetic level of the furniture of the Ming Dynasty, and endowed it with elegant mood and profound culture.

History says that handicrafts "come out of the hands of vulgar workers, and then cheap skills and cheap industries; This is the key to the difference between Ming-style furniture and furniture in the past dynasties, it is completed under the guidance of the literati, and the design reflects a strong literati temperament, highlighting the aesthetic interest of the literati, so that the Ming-style furniture has the reputation of "literati furniture" and "art furniture".

Shi Bao seemed to have forgotten the unhappiness just now, opened the secret drawer of teeth, and said, "Brother Liu, I don't know what you think of this object. ”

As he spoke, Shi Bao opened his palm, and there was an extra dzi in his palm that was obviously played with.

Liu Yuhao's eyes narrowed, he was stunned for a moment, and said in a lost voice: "Nine-eyed dzi? This should be the culture of the Tibetan people, why does Brother Shi like these objects? ”

Tibetan cultural beads generally began in the Tang Dynasty and continued into the Qing Dynasty. The materials are roughly bone beads, dzi, agate, turquoise, clams, coral, beeswax, etc. Most of their beads are related to religion, have their own system, and have the function of amulets. And because of the mobility of the nomads, most of the wealth of the Tibetans has become these jewels to wear.

In the eyes of Tibetans, red coral represents the sun, light, and fire; The green turquoise represents the sky, the water, and the grassland; The yellow beeswax represents the land; The white clams represent white clouds, purity, nobility, and justice.

Dzi is the most precious type of beads, in the hearts of Tibetans believe that it has powerful energy, is a treasure descended by the gods, has a lofty religious significance, can dispel disasters and transport. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "a pearl is a good horse".

If it is now, in the eyes of Tibetans, a dzi can be exchanged for a BMW or Mercedes-Benz.

Shi Bao nodded and said, "I don't know much about Tibetan dzi, so I want to ask Brother Liu for advice." ”

said that he was asking for advice, but Shi Bao obviously didn't have the meaning of longing in his eyes, but wanted to hear Liu Yuhao tell him what secret was hidden behind the dzi.

Liu Yuhao sighed for a moment and said: "Now a more scientific theory is that the material of the dzi is a mineral formed by the changes in the earth's crust when an alien meteorite hits the earth. ”

Shi Bao nodded and said, "I've also heard of this statement. ”

Liu Yuhao continued: "Those who hold the theory just now believe that this mineral contains a variety of Martian elements, making it have a strong magnetic field energy in the universe, and later some people made various patterns on this ore, representing different religious meanings. ”

Dzi is not something that has only been taken seriously in the last few hundred years.

Liu Yuhao remembers that there is a clear written record of dzi as a dowry when Princess Wencheng married Songtsan Gampo in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty.

Now the statue of Sakyamuni enshrined in the Jokhang Temple in Tibet is brought to Tibet by Princess Wencheng from Chang'an, and it is inlaid with 3 nine-eyed dzi and other dzi with various patterns.

Due to its scarcity and unique cultural connotation, dzi is a treasure worth collecting, and it is rapidly increasing in price from month to month. The higher the price, the more people will make fakes, and the dzi that can be seen on the market now are basically imitations.

Therefore, Tibetans have always believed in their hearts that only those who have great good fortune can invite a pure old dzi and worship it as a treasure.

Shi Bao frowned and asked, "Brother Liu, you help me to increase my eyes to see if this nine-eyed dzi is genuine." ”

Liu Yuhao smiled bitterly in embarrassment and said, "Well, okay, I'll try it, but it's also possible that it won't be true." ”

It's not that Liu Yuhao is modest, in fact, he can definitely identify the authenticity of the nine-eyed dzi by releasing his ability, but Liu Yuhao is very strange, Shi Bao obviously knows his original intention of coming to him, but why did he get entangled in the dzi after he separated the vine yi.

Although his heart was full of doubts, Liu Yuhao still picked up the nine-eyed dzi and carefully examined it with a magnifying glass.

To identify the old dzi, first of all, we must look at its craftsmanship, the production process of the old dzi is now lost, and the current imitation is very different, Liu Yuhao has heard the old man Qi talk about some of the dzi technology before, so it is not difficult to identify, and there is no need to release the ability.

"Well, Brother Shi, this dzi is indeed an old product from a thousand years ago."

After a long time, Liu Yuhao put down the dzi with a cautious face, since he agreed to the guarantee, Liu Yuhao naturally used the knowledge he knew to appraise it first, and confirmed it with the release ability before giving his own answer.

"Please give me some more advice."

Shi Bao's face turned red, and there was a strong glint in his eyes.

Liu Yuhao smiled and said, "Brother, you see, the old dzi is opaque or semi-permeable when illuminated with strong light, the middle hole is white, and the line texture is deep into the body of the bead, unlike the lines of the imitation dzi that float on the surface." "Uh-huh!" Shi Bao nodded repeatedly.

Liu Yuhao didn't mean to be perfunctory at all, and compared while explaining, "The surface of the old dzi generally has traces left by the use of bumps, mostly called "weathering lines", which looks like many irregular small pits such as half-moon concaves, which are smooth to touch with your hands, and imitations are jerky to the touch. Some dzi have some small red dots like the tip of a needle, which we call cinnabar dots, and people think that dzi with cinnabar dots is more pearlless. ”

It is best to choose the old dzi in relatively complete condition, with fewer traces left by the medicine, the lines are black and white, the surface is smooth and warm, and the ones with cinnabar dots are of course more beautiful.