Chi Bugui looked at the seal of the meeting, and Xiu Ran seemed to remember something, turned around and walked inside.

After a while, he took out an old book that had been covered with dust from the back, and the front was impressively printed with the words "Siloin Miscellaneous Sayings".

Sirloin is the old abbreviation of the Sirloin Printing Society.

In the thirtieth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1904), four people, including Ding Fuzhi, Wang Fu'an, Ye Weiming, and Wu Yin, who were seal carvers of the Zhejiang School, bought land and built a room next to the Shufeng Pavilion of the Lonely Mountain in West Lake, and founded the Seal Society. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Jinshi research and development was in its heyday. Many famous scholars of gold and stone, aspiring to carry forward and develop the quintessence of the country, so they formed an association on the side of Xiling Bridge at the southern foot of the lonely mountain, "people to seal the collection, the society to the name of the place", so named "Xiling Seal Society". The Sirloin Miscellaneous Theory is a record of many seals in the Sirloin Printing Society.

Chi Bugui cautiously turned the pages of the book, followed the memory to the page, and saw that it was written: "The queen of the former Southern Tang Dynasty has a superb silver wrapped in Jintian Yellow Jelly, and the hermit of the peak of the quarter of an hour, it is rumored that the words can be synthesized into Yu characters, I don't know whether it is true or false." After the death of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the seal was returned to the Song Dynasty, and the Song Taizu regarded it as a plaything, threw it, and was later obtained by the eunuchs, and flowed outside the palace, without a trace. In the Ming Dynasty, someone saw this seal in Shen Wansan's house, and then the Shen family was copied, and the seal died, and he was no longer found. ”

"Look at it, look at it, the inheritance is orderly, the inheritance is orderly!" Chi Bugui pointed to the words on the book and said excitedly.

The "orderly inheritance" in antiques is like a family tree, on which the main and side branches are bifurcated, recorded one by one, and passed down from generation to generation. Until the change of dynasty, things are not people. In the antique business, an item with an orderly heritage is far more popular than an antique without any records.

"Then we have to prove that this is the seal." Cang Guoxiong said on the side.

"This"

It is also said that if it cannot be proved that this seal is the one used by Li Yu, no matter how many records there are, it will be useless. Who knows if it's a counterfeit from a bad vendor, today's people's hearts are so black, and they dare to say that it is a hosta used by Yang Guifei when they come out of a random imitation thing, which is really a hell of a life.

Suddenly. Chi Bugui thought of the record in the book and hurriedly picked up the seal.

The seal was too old and the ink on it was dry, so he took out a box of printing colors from the counter, dipped it with a little seal, and printed it on the white paper on the counter.

Take a closer look. I saw that between the four characters printed with Zhong Feng's hermit, a small word was faintly hooked, and the people behind took a breath of cold air when they saw it. This is really the seal that Li Yu used.

Cai Hongming didn't understand this, just watched the excitement from the sidelines.

Cang Bohu, who had been following a few old people, looked at it, turned around suddenly, took out a business card from his pocket and said to Cai Hongming: "Hello Mr. Cai, I am Cang Bohu, the business manager of Shendu Auction House, our company is preparing for an autumn auction, I don't know if you are willing to hand over this seal to our company for auction." You can rest assured. Our company is the top auction company in China, with a professional promotion team, and will definitely make your things auction at a good price. ”

Cai Hongming glanced at him, and I have to say that this guy is very discerning.

The Chinese people have always been very interested in this kind of emperor's seal, because the emperor is the true dragon son, and the seal is the dragon seal. Otherwise, it can also be used to keep the town house safe. Of course, there are also people who have ambitions. Feel like you're holding this. It's not for nothing that there is the smell of that emperor. If you use this as a gimmick to promote, you don't have to worry about no one buying it. However, he didn't know what the strength of this auction house was, and it was impossible to give it to him with a few words.

Seeing his hesitant look, Cang Bohu added a fire, "Originally, according to the rules of our auction house, a commission of 18% will be charged for consignment auction items like this. If you are willing to give something to our auction house for auction, then I will reduce my personal commission commission by 3%. ”

Cang Guoxiong listened to it next to him, and said to his son: "Don't worry, Bohu will never let you suffer, if anything happens." You can come to me. After speaking, he took out a business card and handed it to Cai Hongming.

Cai Hongming took a look, and it was impressively printed with titles such as "Vice President of Nanjing Antique Association, General Manager of Famous Ware Pavilion, Honorary Director of Nanjing Museum" and so on.

He has been a little short of money recently, so he was a little moved to hear Cang Bohu's words, and there are also some good things in the jade beads, such as the antiques found in the sea last time, the red coral dug up and the mutton fat jade found in Hotan, etc., these can be auctioned, after thinking about it, he made an appointment with Cang Bohu to meet in Shencheng, because their auction house headquarters is in Shencheng. And during this time, he has to tidy up his treasures and see what he takes out for auction.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong, he took the seal back.

Several old men stared at his hand holding the seal, and he felt a little chilled. They didn't give up and wanted to invite Cai Hongming to dinner, but he didn't want to, so he ran away with his things.

Leaving Nanjing, he did not rush to Shencheng, but went to Yangzhou. His plum dug out from the bottom of the sea still lacks a base, so he wants to ask Master Yu Feihong, who helped carve the black jade gourd last time, to carve one with Hetian jade, believing that the fiery red coral lined with the white jade bottom basin must be very pleasing to the eye, and he may be able to fetch a high price when the time comes.

Arriving in Yangzhou, Cai Hongming did not go directly to Yu Feihong's house, but made a call at the hotel to ask him to come over.

He took out the red coral in the shape of a tall plum and some Hetian jade from the jade beads, and waited in the room.

After a while, Yu Feihong arrived, and Cai Hongming welcomed him into the room.

"I'm really sorry to trouble Master Yu to make a trip."

"It's nothing, why don't you go to the house, the old man is still nagging when he hears you coming?"

"It's inconvenient for me to carry things, I'll go over to see the old man another day."

As soon as he sat down, Yu Feihong saw the plum coral on the table, and was instantly attracted by the bright red, and couldn't help but reach out and touch it gently. Don't dare to push too hard, because the coral branches are brittle, and I am afraid of hurting them.

"You're not going to let me carve this coral! That's not good, it's too tyrannical, absolutely not. ”

"Why, I want to make this coral into an ornament, and I plan to ask you to help me use these jade carvings to make a pedestal, what do you think?" Cai Hongming explained

"That's pretty much it."

Yu Feihong nodded, and looked carefully at the Hetian Baiyu on the table. These are the finest of Hetian's white jade, but they are a little worse than the famous top sheep fat jade in Hetian, but they are more than enough to carve a base. Yu Feihong is also an occupational diseaser, and after seeing the white jade, he took out a mini tape measure from his pocket and measured it under the coral. It took a while to measure everything.

"Master Yu, come, drink tea."

Cai Hongming presented a cup of hot tea with both hands, and Yu Feihong took it and thanked him.

"I wonder when this base will be good?"

"This is not technical, if you are in a hurry, I will rush it, and it should be done in three days."

"That's hard work."

"It's all so familiar, what's polite, you really don't go to sit at home."

"I still have something to do, so I'm not going."

"Alright, that's it, I'll go first."

"No more sitting still."

"No, I'll have to go back and help you make it." After speaking, Yu Feihong hugged the Hetian jade given by Cai Hongming and left.

Seeing Yu Feihong away, Cai Hongming put away the red coral on the table, feeling bored in the room alone, so he walked out and planned to go to the old streets and alleys of Yangzhou. (To be continued......)