Chapter 21: Treasure Appreciation (—)
After everyone left in the evening, Guo Yi told Guo's father and Guo's mother that he was going to go with Zhao Chao tomorrow, and because Guo's father arranged similar things at home, there was nothing to help, and the biggest problem was that with the 10 million that Guo Yi handed over, there was no problem. Besides, Guo Yi went out to help Zhao Chao instead of going back to Zhonghai, so he agreed. The next morning, Guo Yi got up as usual, sat down cross-legged in the courtyard, and continued to practice the family exercises. "Xiao Yi" Guo Yi, who had just gotten up, heard Zhao Chao's shout in front of the door, the time was really accurate, there was no way, go and open the courtyard door. "When you got up, I thought you weren't up?" "As soon as I opened the door, I saw Zhao Chao's fat body squeezing in." Come into the house and wait for me, I change my clothes. Guo Yi said, "It's okay, don't worry." Zhao Chao and Guo Yi walked into the house together: "Uncle, good morning." I saw that Guo's father was pushing open the door of the house and walking out. hurriedly greeted. "Xiaochao is here, let's go inside and sit." Guo's father greeted Zhao Chao. "Uncle, in the past two days since Xiaoyi came back, your old face has been getting better and better." Zhao Chao patted the horse and said, "Hehe, you kid, you have become the boss, and it still hasn't changed." Guo's father said. Hehe" Zhao Chao just smirked, Guo's father didn't speak, he set up a Tai Chi posture in the courtyard and fought, Zhao Chao had also practiced before, but he didn't have perseverance, he didn't stick to it, and now it's just a show, and he doesn't even have some actual combat ability, and it's not as good as his own fist. "Mom and Dad, I went with Xiaochao." After a while, Guo Yi changed his clothes and came out to say hello to his parents. "Let's go back after breakfast." Guo's mother said, "Auntie, no need." Zhao Chao said hello and pulled Guo Yi out. Do you need to be in such a hurry? When he got to the car, Guo Yi asked, "I just called and asked, the boss got off the plane in Quancheng half an hour later, and it would take an hour to take the highway at the airport, and it would take two hours for us to rush over now, otherwise it would be rude." Zhao Chao didn't say anything, fastened his seat belt, and Zhao Chao started the car and set off. When they arrived at the county seat, the two bought a few meat buns. "It's been a long time since I've eaten such authentic meat buns, and I can't eat them on the other side of Zhonghai." Guo Yi said while eating, "You also know that Zhonghai's food is not delicious, so where are you far away." Zhao Chao replied, "You don't know, it's okay to come back from my major, but I don't want to stay there." Guo Yi said, "Really, I don't know what kind of auction house you are looking for, but fortunately, now you have the benefit." Zhao Chao shook his head and said. Guo Yi didn't speak, everyone has their own preferences, although his family was poor at that time, his father and mother were very open-minded and never restricted themselves, no one thought that a car accident would have made him, otherwise maybe he might really come back to do a job he didn't like. After an hour's trip, we came to the city. Zhao Chao drove the car directly to the "Yuan Pavilion" next to Qi Bao Zhai. "This is Boss Liu's own industry, every time I come, I will meet friends here, if I didn't come to the door with this small bowl this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to enter this place." After stopping the car, Zhao Chao said to Guo Yi. Holding the box containing the glaze red three-fruit pattern bowl of Qing Kangxi imitating Ming Xuande, when I walked to the door, I saw someone holding something that could not be seen wrapped in red silk cloth, and a person holding the same box as Zhao Chao walked inside. "There are so many people coming," Zhao Chao muttered and led Guo Yi to continue walking inside. "Hello sir! Do you have an invitation? When we walked to the door, we were stopped by the waiter and asked, "We called, and Assistant Liu informed us to come here." Zhao Chao "Zhao Chao said: "Then you wait a minute, I will ask for instructions." The waiter said, "I've kept you waiting for a long time, Mr. Zhao, please come in." After a while, the waiter said to Zhao Chao and Guo Yi, and the waiter took Zhao Chao and Guo Yi to the door of a box on the second floor, knocked on the door, went in, and then exited. A man followed. "Assistant Liu, hello." As soon as he saw the person, Zhao Chao hurriedly walked over and stretched out his hands and said. "Mr. Zhao." Assistant Liu reserved his hand and shook it. "Come in with me," "Assistant Liu, this is my friend, he is also a collector of antiques, I heard that Boss Liu is everyone, I don't want to come with me and want to learn from Boss Liu." You see? Zhao Chao pointed at Guo Yi and said, "Mr. Zhao, you are embarrassing me." Assistant Liu's face changed and said, "Wait a minute, I'll ask the boss," and after speaking, he pushed open the door and went in. "These bosses are like that, don't mind." Zhao Chao said to Guo Yi, "It's okay" Guo Yi said, "Come in" After a while, I don't know what Assistant Liu said, open the door and let Zhao Chao Guo Yi in" The box of the Yuan Pavilion is very distinctive, with small lattice doors, small lattice windows, and a bar made of lattice at the door, and there are antique shelves made of lattice around the wall, on which are placed some ceramic clay pots, in the middle of the box, there is a long pear wood square table, around which are placed six chairs made of yellow pear zuò, The whole room is filled with a style of Ming and Qing architecture.
The area in the box is very large, there are seventy or eighty square meters, near the door bar, there is also a small living room, a circle of red leather sofa around a glass coffee table in a circle, facing the wall of the sofa, hanging a large screen 80-inch high-definition LCD TV, in each corner of the room is placed an inconspicuous small speaker, set up a bit like a movie theater, but it is well integrated into the room as a whole, this is estimated to be a combination of old and new, Chinese and Western merger.
At the door of the room for Guan Gong's residence, there are three sandalwood sticks lit on it, and the faint smoke fills the entire box, as soon as you enter the room, you can smell the refreshing fragrance, coupled with the sound of the guzheng surrounding the ears, making people feel relaxed and happy.
"Hello Boss Liu, please forgive me for taking the liberty of disturbing you." As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Chao greeted a very elegant man about forty years old in the center. "Xiao Zhao, why do you look down on my brother or do you still do this, don't you just make a phone call when you see me." The man waited for Zhao Chao to enter the door and said After saying this, Assistant Liu changed suddenly, I didn't expect him to know the boss, Guo Yi's face also changed suddenly, and then returned to his original state, Zhao Chao is just a small person, if he didn't know Boss Liu, how could people see him in such a place casually. "Brother Liu, aren't I afraid of disturbing your work?" Zhao Chao licked his face and said, "Fart, I don't know you yet, I guard that little stall all day long, and I don't come out." I don't know what bad is holding back in my heart" Boss Liu scolded with a smile, "Brother Liu, Uncle Liu, pay attention to your image, what do you say about a big man and my little person, can I compare with you, how big is your industry, my guard is my one-third of an acre of land, otherwise let others insert it, what else do I use to raise children." Zhao Chao shot back: "Okay, then sit down, put the box for me, they said you gave me a gift, I still don't believe it, look at you carrying things, now I believe it, since you are here, sit down first, we will talk later" Boss Liu said with a face facing Zhao Chao. Zhao Chao didn't speak again, pulled Guo Yi to find a seat and sat down around the tea table. After sitting down, Guo Yi began to look at the layout of the room. After the two sat down, Boss Liu beckoned to the door, two slender and good-looking waiters walked in, one person held a tea set in his hand and placed it on the square table, and the other person was holding a small red clay stove, placed on a round wooden pier next to the square table, the red clay small stove is long, about six or seven inches high, the charcoal fire in the furnace has been lit, the small stove has a lid and a door, and the making is very exquisite. The tea set is also very elegant, it is the Yixing purple clay pot, the whole pot is about the size of a fist, it is ancient iron chestnut color, there are six small teacups distributed on the four sides, the color is as white as jade, the quality is as thin as paper, Zhuang Rui is very suspicious that when he picks up this thing, if he makes a little more force, he will be able to crush it. "There are no outsiders here, to be honest, don't look at me opening a teahouse, in fact, I drink tea with a big teacup, not so much exquisite, just some time ago I found the best Tieguanyin in Anxi, today let's also taste the popular kung fu tea in Guangdong." Boss Liu greeted everyone while signaling the two waiters to boil water to make tea, taste tea and appreciate treasures, naturally they want to taste tea first, except for Zhuang Rui, these people here are all rolling in the society for many years, quite a city people, no one is in a hurry to move the antiques brought by everyone on the square table, they all watched the two waiters make tea with interest, only Guo Yi was a little impatient in his heart, but he was immediately attracted by the action of the two waiters making tea. Although the small red clay stove is very small, but the fire is very strong, in an instant, the water is boiled, after the water boils, a waiter picked up a small kettle, and another waiter immediately put a kettle on it, to introduce to everyone: "The water used in our teahouse to make tea is taken from the natural mountain spring water on Lu Mountain, Su Dongpo once said, "living water must be cooked by live fire", which means that the mountain spring water in the pot should be boiled with a strong fire. The waiter first took the appropriate amount of tea leaves with a teaspoon and put it in the tea tray, and then brought it to everyone to taste one by one, and introduced the origin of Tieguanyin, after everyone saw a circle, the waiter did not put the tea into the purple clay pot, but lifted the kettle, poured the empty pot with boiling water, according to the waiter's words, the purpose of this behavior is to warm the body of the pot, that is, the so-called "warm pot", also called Mengchen Linlin. After the "warm pot", the waiter uses a teaspoon to dial the tea leaves into the purple sand pot, first fine and then thick after the tea stem, this is called oolong into the palace, and then pour water into the pot, the water stops when the mouth of the pot is full, the waiter stretches out two fingers, picks up the lid of the pot and scrapes off the foam of the mouth of the pot, and then covers the lid of the pot, and washes off the top of the pot with boiling water to produce foam, the action is extremely elegant, and it is pleasing to the eye. According to the waiter, this process is called pouring the pot, and the purpose of pouring the pot is to clean the body of the pot, and the second is to make the pot hot inside and outside, so as to facilitate the waving of the tea fragrance. Guo Yi's nose twitched, and he could already smell the rich fragrance of tea at the tip of his nose, thinking to himself, now he can finally drink it, but unexpectedly, the waiter directly poured out all the water in the purple clay pot, saying that this is called tea washing, the purpose is to wash away the dust on the surface of the tea leaves, and Zhuang Ruilian, who was watching, rolled his eyes. When Guo Yi was working in the auction house, he often made tea with Uncle Hai, but Uncle De didn't pay so much attention to tea, and the tea set was only a pot or two cups, unlike it had been almost half an hour, and he hadn't drunk it yet. After pouring boiling water into the purple clay pot again, but scalding the cup with the first cup of tea, the waiter turned the cup with two fingers, which was called "warm cup", and naturally it was poured out in the end, and Guo Yi still couldn't drink it.