"Little Black - Little Black - It's time to eat!" Yang Kang heard an old man shouting loudly.

Then, he saw the cat swoop into a house in the west chamber. When I walked over, I saw an old woman in her seventies and eighties, carrying an enamel plate to feed the cat.

And the one-eyed chinchilla actually jumped on a chair and was licking his paws.

When the old woman saw Yang Kang, she was stunned at first, and then asked, "Young man, who are you looking for?" ”

"Huh?" Yang Kang was a little embarrassed, and was busy laughing, "Grandma, your cat is so cute!" ”

"You say Xiao Hei?" When the old woman heard this, she grinned and said, "Xiao Hei was picked up by me in the vegetable field in the spring, and it is very cute. ”

By this time, the one-eyed chinchilla had jumped to the ground and was eating happily in the enamel plate. Yang Kang looked cute, immediately squatted down, and reached out to touch it.

Who knew that the cat looked up at him, and suddenly the hair on his whole body exploded, and he immediately grabbed his hand with a paw.

"Ahh

"Are you alright, young man?" When the old woman saw this, she immediately became anxious, shouted at the one-eyed chinchilla twice, and said, "The cat is wild and afraid of life, so don't touch it." ”

"Hmm!" Yang Kang said as he sat down on the chair that the cat had climbed on just now.

"Young man, you're looking for Teacher Tong, right?" The old woman pulled another stool and sat down beside her.

"yes, how did your old man know?" Yang Kang asked curiously.

"In the past few days, several groups of people have come back and forth. I'm looking at it all! The old woman sighed softly and said. Teacher Tong wants to sell everything and follow his son to enjoy happiness abroad. Our old house will become more and more deserted in the future, young man, have you eaten? ”

"Not yet, I followed my uncle to see the excitement, I don't know how long I will be busy?" Yang Kang said, but he sighed secretly in his heart, if there were already several groups of people who had seen the goods before them, I was afraid that there would be nothing good left.

was picked up by Zhou Bomin again. Waiting for him to see, that is, picking up some leftover soup and water.

To tell the truth, he didn't have much interest in ordinary things, and his vision was raised by Guo Fatzi from the beginning. Moreover, ordinary things are indeed not so easy to sell, even if they can be bought, the price will not be too high, there is no profit, and Mr. Tong is not the kind of person who does not know how to do it. There is no leakage to pick up.

"Young man, why don't you eat at my side?" The old woman laughed.

"Grandma, what's so embarrassing?" Yang Kang was stunned. The old woman was very hospitable, but he was too embarrassed to eat.

"You don't want to dislike grandma for being dirty. You eat at grandma's place, if you don't like it, forget it! The old woman said. I know that you children in the city hate our dirty place. ”

"Grandma. What are you talking about? Yang Kang said busily, "I'm afraid I'll eat all my grandma's dinner." His grandmother had this habit of cooking a big pot of rice at noon, and then stopped cooking at night, and just ate the leftovers from noon.

Grandma once said that their older generation lived like this.

"Nonsense, grandma is still afraid that you will eat me?" When the old woman saw this, she was very happy and said, "Sit down, and grandma will bring you dinner." ”

As she spoke, she really turned back and went in—

Yang Kang scratched his head, he came to see the one-eyed chinchilla, why did he come to eat at someone's house? He was really interested in the cat, and even at first, he thought that if the owner of the cat was willing to sell it, he would buy it back and keep it for fun.

He's grown so big, he's never seen such a cute cat.

Not long after, the old woman held a big bowl of rice in one hand and an enamel jar in the other, handed it to Yang Kang and said, "Eat it quickly, it's still hot!" ”

Yang Kang's gaze fell on the bowl, and he was a little sluggish for a moment—it was a large bowl of fine white porcelain pastel, with hand-painted ink lotus leaves and pink lotus flowers on it, plus two large black dragonflies.

When Yang Kang took over the bowl, the aura spread......

From the point of view of technology, this large bowl should belong to the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng period of pastel boutique - pastel was invented in the Kangxi period, to the Yongzheng period, has developed to a quite delicate Cheng dù. Most of the patterns are dominated by flower butterflies, among which peonies, moon seasons, begonias, and lotus flowers are very common.

"Hurry up, young man!" The old woman sat down beside him and said with a smile.

"Grandma, your bowl?" Yang Kang asked stunned.

"Bowl?" The old woman was stunned for a moment and said, "It's not clean, I washed it just now, won't it be unclean?" ”

"It's not!" Yang Kang hurriedly shook his head and said, "The bowl is very clean, I mean your bowl is very beautiful!" ”

"Pretty!" When the old woman heard that it was not that the bowl was unclean, she immediately laughed and said, "I just found it for you." ”

"Really?" Yang Kang was very curious, this old woman actually had such a treasure hidden in her house?

"Let's eat!" The old woman urged again.

Yang Kang was also polite, although there were only white rice, green vegetables, loofahs and green beans, but first, he was hungry, and secondly, probably because of that bowl, he ate with relish and finished all the bowls.

"Here, drink some water!" The old woman said, pointing to the enamel jar.

"Oh?" Yang Kang picked up the enamel jar, looked at the milky white water inside, smelled it, and it seemed to have a rice fragrance, not like soy milk, not like milk, not like milk, curious, and couldn't help asking, "Grandma, what kind of water is this?" ”

"It's rice soup!" The old woman laughed.

"Rice water?" Yang Kang was full of suspicions, he looked at some cosmetics advertisements now, and it was said that rice washing water is rich in a variety of minerals and can whiten the skin. Could it be that this old woman has a special hobby and let him drink this rice water? Still don't want it, he really doesn't need to whiten his skin.

"It's the water that comes out when you are cooking, waiting for the rice to boil." The old woman saw his suspicious look and immediately explained.

"The rice is boiling, what do you need to scoop water for?" Yang Kang said he didn't understand. I couldn't help but ask, and said in my mouth. I took a small sip, and the entrance was very smooth. It has a bit of a thick texture with a hint of rice.

"Now all the rice cookers in the city cook rice, so naturally there is no need to scoop water!" The old woman explained, "But we still burn clay stoves here, so when we cook rice, we usually put a little more water, and when it boils, we scoop off a little water to ensure that the rice is soft and hard." Grandma is old. This rice is hard to cook, but it can't be chewed. ”

Poor Yang Kang grew so big, he really didn't know that there were so many mysteries in cooking rice, but he felt that the rice soup was very delicious, and he drank it all in one go.

"Grandma, I want you to sell this bowl, can you sell it to me?" Yang Kang picked up the beautiful pastel dragonfly playing lotus bowl, looked at the old woman and said.

The old woman was very curious and asked puzzledly, "What do you want this bowl for?" ”

Yang Kang didn't know how to explain it to her. said: "I just want it, grandma, can you sell it to me?" ”

"It's hard to see if grandma used it, and you're going to take it back. Borrow some grandma's birthday? The old woman said, "But Grandma is not dead?" You have to wait for grandma to die before it works! ”

"What?" Yang Kang even had cold sweat running down his head. "Grandma, what nonsense are you talking about? Where is this saying? ”

"Haven't you heard of it?" The old woman asked curiously.

Yang Kang shook his head. He had never heard such a ridiculous statement.

"We have this custom in some parts of the countryside to the south." The old woman said, "The blessed old man has passed away. At the time of the funeral, after a meal was eaten, most of the bowls on the table were gone. ”

"And this kind of thing?" Yang Kang really doesn't know, where is this custom?

"Yes, it's a custom in many places." The old woman said.

"Grandma, I want to buy your bowl, not just take it away!" Yang Kang said, "This bowl is very beautiful. ”

The old woman just smiled, stood up, picked up the bowl and the enamel jar, and was about to go inside.

"Grandma!" Yang Kang was immediately anxious, the pastel dragonfly and lotus porcelain bowl in the Yongzheng period were good things, and they were not often seen outside.

"Grandma washed you!" The old woman laughed and said, "I have never seen you child, alas, a bowl, what is there to see?" Now with the money, there are more good-looking bowls in the store. ”

Yang Kang thought for a while, but still said, "Grandma, this bowl is an antique. ”

"Antiques?" The old woman was stunned for a moment, then asked, "You mean that this bowl is still worth a price?" ”

"Hmm!" Yang Kang said, "If you sell it to me, I'll give you 200,000?" ”

"Two hundred thousand?" The old woman was obviously stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, she beckoned to Yang Kang and said, "Young man, come here-"

Yang Kang followed her and walked inside, the outside was a hall, and the back was separated into a kitchen, with an earthen stove that Yang Kang had never seen before.

The old woman opened a bamboo cupboard, pointed to the pots and pots inside, and said, "You pick and choose, but there is still what you want?" ”

Only then did Yang Kang know that the old woman asked him to come over, so he immediately squatted on the ground and first found it in a stack of plates.

Originally, when the old woman asked him to look for it, he still thought in his heart, there is an antique is already a fluke, where is there a second one? But when he flipped it inside the plate, a Yongzheng pastel peony flower jade butterfly plate came into his eyes.

"Damn, really?" Yang Kang was extremely strange in his heart, what did this woman's family do, why was there pastel porcelain in the Yongzheng period?

Turning over a stack of bowls, he turned out a porcelain bowl with pastel folded branches and moon flowers, this bowl is not big, but the pattern is exquisite, next to the bright red moon flowers, there are two yellow jade butterflies, dancing.

Moreover, whether it is a dragonfly playing lotus or a broken branch moon flower, including the pastel peony pattern jade butterfly plate, it is obviously a hand-drawn pattern, symbolizing the extraordinary origin of these porcelain.

I searched for something else, but found nothing again. At this time, the old woman also washed the pastel ink lotus porcelain bowl in the Yongzheng period, and wiped it clean with water stains.

"Grandma, I want these two things too." Yang Kang said.

"Okay, good, all of them!" The old woman smiled and said, "Grandma will help you find something to put it on." (To be continued......)