Chapter 115: Strange Seals
As soon as he entered the door, Cai Hongming saw a plaque engraved with the three characters "Runxinzhai" hanging above the lobby of the store, and an old man in his sixties and seventies below was holding a newspaper and leaning on a chair to read.
Seeing someone come in, the old man glanced at it, then turned back and continued to read the newspaper.
Cai Hongming didn't care, so he looked around.
Counting up, Runxinzhai mainly sells not fans, but the four treasures of the study, and sells calligraphy and paintings, and fans are just one of the ones that are sold at the same time.
The fans here are divided into several types, there are paper, cloth, silk, even the fan bones are different, plastic, bone, bamboo, wood are available, some of the fan surface is painted, some are written, and some are left blank. The blank fan is mainly for some talented guests to write by themselves, or to help guests write and draw their favorite things.
He looked at it and bought a silk fan with a blank side, made of sandalwood as a bone, and embroidered on the other side with a famous graceful and gentle lady.
He had also learned calligraphy from his grandfather before, and although the handwriting was not very good, it was not ugly. So, he borrowed pen and ink from the shopkeeper and wrote on the blank fan himself. After writing it, I read it and felt weird. I looked at a few fans next to me, and it turned out that there was a missing red seal.
So, he asked the shopkeeper, "Boss, do you have any engraved seals here?" ”
Just kidding, on the antique street, how can there be no engraved seals?
The shopkeeper glanced at him again, and casually pointed to a wooden cabinet beside him, which contained some of the stamps he had received. There are also carved wrong, but the condition is good, I think it's a pity to throw it away, so I put it there to sell.
Cai Hongming walked to the cabinet and found that the seals inside were messy, and he didn't take care of them. There was a thick layer of dust. But he had come to buy something, and it was none of his business, so he picked up a seal and looked at it. The words on the seal were all engraved on the reverse side, some of which he knew, some of which he didn't, so he had to consult the shopkeeper. He looked at it a few times with disdain. I guess I'm saying in my heart, it's really not level!
After reading a few, I didn't like the seals, so I didn't want to waste any more time, so I planned to pick a random one.
Who knew that at this moment, the jade bead between his eyebrows suddenly reacted. It's just that this reaction is very bland, almost nothing, if he wasn't careful, I'm afraid he would have missed it.
After the previous jade pixiu and the marrow of the earth. He found that if he encountered something containing aura, the jade beads would glow. The more aura there is, the brighter the light it emits. Instead, it will remain motionless. Looking at Yuzhu's reaction now, it should be very rare for the item to contain aura this time, otherwise it should have reacted before entering the store.
He didn't know which seal contained aura, so he picked them up one by one to identify them, and finally found an aura on a strange seal that made the jade beads react.
This seal is rather eccentric. Underneath is a seal stone, but one centimeter is covered with copper. The copper skin is covered with patina and looks very weird. This time, he recognized the words on the seal, which was "Eight-foot man." "Wow, what a broken seal. It's such a strange name, but it fits his handwriting very well.
Thereupon. So he took it and asked the shopkeeper, "How do you sell this seal?" ”
When the shopkeeper saw the seal he was holding, he couldn't help but glance at him again, "Five hundred." ”
"It's too expensive, boss, you see that the stone under this seal is not good, and there is a layer of copper skin on it. It's all rusted like this, and the price is so high, can it be cheaper? ”
Of course, the shopkeeper knew that this seal was not a good product, and he would not still let it grow dust over there, so he gave him a twenty reduction in conscience.
Cai Hongming had a toothache when he heard it, what kind of thing is twenty yuan.
"Boss, you're too picky, you're embarrassed to say it minus twenty. Two hundred, two hundred at most, if you want I'll buy it, if you don't want it, forget it. After Cai Hongming finished speaking, he was about to put the seal back. When the shopkeeper saw it, he quickly stopped him. It's rare to have a stupid hat to buy his pile of, wouldn't he be sorry for the conscience of the industry if he didn't sell it.
Cai Hongming paid the money, and then borrowed the printing color from him, and printed it on the few words he wrote, and the fan surface really looked much better.
After the seal, he suddenly felt that the seal in his hand was strange, and the outer layer of copper seemed to move.
He pinched it, perhaps because of too much strength, the copper skin was loosened, and the stone on it fell from the inside. He hurriedly caught it with his hand, but found that this seal was really, really wrong. The seal stone, which was originally covered with a layer of copper skin, was like ordinary bluestone, with traces of time on it, and it was mottled. However, after taking off the copper skin, except for the bottom two centimeters, which is the same as the front, the top exposes a completely different stone from the bottom.
The stone on it is golden in color, as crystal clear as amber, and you can see a nameless aura rolling in it when you shine in the sun, as if it is aura.
However, this aura is very small, and it is dispensable for him.
Since absorbing the piece of earth marrow obtained from the Western Frontier, the jade bead has basically returned to normal, and there is no longer a danger of shattering, so he doesn't have to worry about finding a way to absorb the aura, so even if he knows that the jade bead will glow when it comes close to something with aura, he doesn't bother to look for it.
Looking at the seal stone in his hand, he felt that the cyan stone below and the golden stone above were connected together, which looked awkward.
So, he grabbed the two stones and tried to separate them.
"Stop."
He just wanted to exert himself, but the dumbfounded boss next to him finally came to his senses and shouted as if his father and mother were dead.
The shopkeeper is called Chi Bugui, and this family business is passed down from the ancestors.
There is a generation gap between the elderly and the young. So when Cai Hongming came in stupidly, he was not very happy, and he was even more unhappy when he recklessly bought a fan to write and a seal. Who knew that it was this kid he didn't like who actually found the treasure from his pile of unused seals. Just now, when Cai Hongming took the seal stone to shine on the sun, he also saw it. The light really blinded him. With his decades of experience, he still doesn't know what the stone in Cai Hongming's hand is.
Chi Bugui can be said to have come to Cai Hongming's side at a flying speed, and asked sharply, "What do you kid want to do?" ”
"Separate them!"
"Can it be divided like that? Do you know what this thing is? Do you know that doing so will break it? What if it breaks? Don't you feel distressed? ”
Regarding the crackling questions of Chi Bugui, Cai Hongming didn't know what to say. I don't know if this old man has eaten rat poison and has such a rushing breath.
After speaking, Chi Bugui seemed to know that he had a problem with his speech, so he quickly softened his tone and said, "Young man, come, put things on the table and let me see." ”
Cai Hongming thought: There is nothing to lose by taking a look at himself, and it is impossible for this old man to snatch things from his hands, so he put the seal stone in his hand on the table.
Chi didn't return and didn't take it, but took out a magnifying glass from the side and watched it over there. This seal stone is not an ordinary seal stone, but Tianhuang in the stone, and it is not an ordinary Tianhuang stone, but the best in Tianhuang stone, Tianhuang jelly. Look carefully, Tianhuang frozen stone crystal clear, warm and pure, contains fine light, in line with the six virtues of the stone fine, clean, moist, greasy, warm, condensation, worthy of the "emperor stone".
Although Chi Bugui opened a store, he has only seen this kind of superb Tianhuang jelly twice, once at an old friend's house, and once today.
He had the heart to buy Tian Huangshi in Cai Hongming's hands, but unfortunately he had more than enough heart but not enough strength, and he couldn't do it with his financial resources. That said, it's not bad to show off to your old friends. Thinking about it, he picked up the phone and called his old friend.
"Hey, old man! Why come to me quickly, I have good things to show you, and I don't care if you miss it. ”
"Lao Shou, at home! Come here, I'm sure there's one thing here that's better than your bunch of, and you'll not see it when it's too late. ”
"Old Tang, drink tea again! Come to me, I'll show you some good things, and make sure that you can drink the fairy flavor when you drink tea. ”
After the fight, when he saw Cai Hongming by his side, he remembered that this seal stone was his, and hurriedly said: "Young man, you wait a while, I will ask someone to come and take them off for you, this thing can't be done casually, it's a pity if it breaks." After speaking, he went to make tea to entertain Cai Hongming.
From coming in and ignoring it to being attentive now, Cai Hongming feels that the speed of change of this old man is comparable to the change of face in Sichuan Opera. (To be continued......)