Chapter Eighty-Four: The Carved Chopping Board
Following the direction pointed by Zhao Peng, Yu Li flew away for a few minutes before he heard the sound of running water. At this time, it was almost eleven o'clock, and this small river, several hundred meters away from Chen Village, except for the sound of rushing water, there was silence all around. Yu Lifei saw that there was no one around, so he stripped off his clothes and jumped into the river.
Yu Lifei swam happily in the water, and it took half an hour to come up. After getting dressed on the shore, there is an indescribable comfort. It was as if all the 36,000 pores in his body were open, and it was as if his body had become so light that he would fly into the sky.
On the way back, except for the occasional croaking of frogs and insects, there was silence all around. Yu Lifei walked on the country road, feeling very relaxed, like a bird can fly freely in the air and a fish can swim around in the water. His heart seemed to fly out of the clouds. Suddenly, Yu Lifei felt as if his hands, eyes, and ears had suddenly extended out, and they had left his body, allowing his five senses to enter a new range.
This feeling is very mysterious, he feels as if his whole body is full of antennae, and he is in control of the situation around him at all times. For example, in the past, when a person walked within 30 meters, he could only hear the footsteps of the other person. But now, maybe fifty meters away, he could hear it.
At a fork in the road, Yu Lifei suddenly hesitated, he knew that the left side of the road was the place to return to the burial place, and the right side led to Chen Village. At this time, he naturally wanted to go back. But when he wanted to go to the left, there was an invisible attraction on the right side, which was deeply attracted to him, and he couldn't help but go to the right.
When Yu Li quickly approached Chen Village, there was a sudden sound of dogs barking in the village. At first, it was one. Soon the dogs of the whole village began to bark wildly.
Yu Lifei was bitter. He knew that if he didn't leave. I'm afraid the whole village will be boiling later. But he looked carefully at the direction that attracted him, and he was sure that if it was daytime, he would have found it.
"At this time, go down to the river to take a bath, but don't get cold." Xuanyuan Tao saw Yu Lifei coming back and said with concern.
"It's okay, Section Chief Xuanyuan, I'm a little eager to try it now. Why don't you let Zhao Peng rest early. Yu Lifei looked at the time, it was already half past twelve, Zhao Peng sat there yawning for a long time, even if he was asked to inspect again, it would have no effect.
"Section Chief, I really can't hold on." When Zhao Peng heard this, he cast a grateful look at Yu Lifei. People here are unfamiliar with the place, and with a single person patrolling, the responsibility is greater. You have to raise 120,000 spirits. Although the working hours are only half of the time in the museum, he feels that it is much harder than in the museum.
"Okay then." Xuanyuan Tao felt that Zhao Peng's state was indeed a little bad, and it seemed that he would have to adjust it tomorrow. Let Yu Lifei be in a group with Zhao Peng, or simply let Yu Lifei be in a group alone.
When Yu Lifei got off work the next day, it happened to be the archaeological team entering the site. During the day, they are guarded by police and militia from the local police station. Basically, there won't be any problems. Yu Lifei was about to go to Chen Village to have a look, but he ran into Wu Wengu. Although the excavation work is not yet in focus. But Wu Wengu has been staring at the construction site.
"Less, were you here last night?" Wu Wengu saw Yu Lifei. It seemed unexpected. Yesterday, he just watched the Hainan Huanghuali Pen Sea collected by Yu Lifei here in the late Ming Dynasty, but he didn't expect Yu Lifei to come today.
"Yes, I, Section Chief Xuanyuan Tao and Zhao Peng, keep vigil here at night." Yu Lifei said.
"That's hard work, the mosquitoes here are big and fierce, and it's a big bag when you stare at it." Wu Wengu said with a smile that he wanted to work overtime at night a few times, but in such an environment, it was impossible to work overtime. Those mosquito armies will not give you the opportunity to work with peace of mind at all.
"We're used to thick skin." Yu Lifei said with a smile.
"I'm off work, do you want to go back?" Wu Wengu asked, he came with the car of the archaeological team, but Yu Lifei wanted to go back, so he had to take the car back, and if he had to transfer and wait for the car, it would take at least two hours to get to the museum.
"I finally came down for a trip, I have to go around the village to see if I can collect some goods." Yu Lifei said with a smile.
"Yes, this is the quality of an antique dealer, and he will not miss any opportunity." Wu Wengu praised.
"Elder Wu, Yan Liqiang also came here yesterday?" Yu Lifei asked.
"Yes, I saw your big sea of Huanghuali, it is very beautiful, it is Hainan Huanghuali, it should be an object in the late Ming Dynasty." Wu Wengu said.
"That's good, I'm worried that I will make Mr. Yan suffer." Yu Lifei said.
"He's missing it." Wu Wengu said with a smile, such a large sea of Huanghuali is very rare. Although Yan Liqiang seems to be giving the market price now, in a few years, this Hainan Huanghuali pen sea at the end of the Ming Dynasty will be three or five times, which will definitely not be surprising.
As soon as Yu Lifei walked into Chen Village, he immediately sensed that something was attracting him. He knew that after his ancient jade skill was upgraded last night, the sensing distance of antiques should have increased a lot. It can be seen from Zigang Yu that it will only appear in his mind when he has to hold it in his hand or carry the ancient jade skill. But now, even if you touch it with your hand through your clothes, it can appear in your mind. In other words, even if he touches an antique, he can sense it through something.
When Yu Lifei walked to the gate of a family's courtyard, he stopped. If your feelings are not wrong, the things that call you should come from this house. There is a peasant woman in the yard who is cutting chili peppers, and this is the time when the chili peppers are produced, and if you can't finish eating them, you have to chop them or chili peppers. There are also people who can cook white peppers.
"Eldest sister, do you have eggs for sale at home?" Yu Lifei saw a few hens eating in the yard, stood at the gate of the yard, and asked.
"You're from the archaeological team, right?" The peasant woman saw Yu Lifei wearing a security uniform and asked.
"Yes, I want to buy some eggs for the team, I wonder if you have one at home?" Yu Lifei walked in smoothly.
"How much do you want?" The peasant woman asked.
"A hundred." Yu Lifei thought for a while and said.
"I don't have that many in my family, only twenty or thirty." The peasant woman said.
"That's done, it's a big deal, I'll run a few more. Eldest sister, why is your chopping board so thin? Yu Lifei was quickly attracted by the cutting board under the peasant woman's knife, if his expectations were good, it should be this thing that attracted him. But at the same time, he sensed that there seemed to be something in this backyard.
"Don't look at this board as thin, but it's very strong, no worse than those thick cutting boards." The peasant woman said.
"Can I take a look?" Yu Lifei asked.
"Look, I'll go get you eggs." The peasant woman said.
He reached into the pepper pile and pulled out two sheets larger than the pages. As the peasant woman said, the board was very light, and indeed very strong. Because when used as a cutting board, the originally smooth side has been cut and scarred. Yu Lifei felt that there were some uneven places on the other side of the board, turned the board around, and saw that it was full of printed fonts. What kind of cutting board is this, it's just a woodcut engraving.
Yu Lifei has a certain understanding of woodcut engraving. Engraving printing is the earliest printing method in the world, about 600 A.D. in the Sui Dynasty, people were inspired by the engraving of seals, so as to invent the earliest engraving printing in human history.
Engraving printing is on a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness, pasted on the copy of the neat manuscript, the thin and almost transparent manuscript paper front and the wooden board are attached, the characters become the reverse body, the strokes are clear and legible. The engraver uses a carving knife to cut off the part of the layout without handwriting, which becomes the yang script with the font convex, which is completely different from the stele yin script with the font recessed. When printing, ink is applied to the raised font, and then the paper is covered on top of it, and the back of the paper is gently wiped so that the handwriting is left on the paper.
The font on this engraving plate is square and beautiful, the carving is delicate and powerful, very exquisite, and the pen is very good. He took it in his hand, and immediately the three-dimensional figure of these two engravings appeared in his mind. Although it is Yangwen, it does not affect Yu Lifei's "reading". In your mind, you just have to turn it around and you'll see the font on the front right away. This engraving is engraved with Ouyang Xiu's "The Story of the Drunken Man's Pavilion"
"That's twenty-six eggs." The peasant woman put the eggs in a small cardboard box and asked Yu Li to fly the points.
"It's good. Eldest sister, there are words on this cutting board, I like it very much, can you sell it to me? Yu Lifei asked the peasant woman with the carved side of the engraving.
"Take it if you want, we have a sack behind us." The peasant woman said casually.
"A sack?" Yu Lifei said in surprise, but he immediately came to his senses, wasn't he attracted by these things last night?
"yes, these boards are light and dry, and they're good for starting fires." The peasant woman said.
"Ignition ?!!! Eldest sister, there are words on it, isn't it good to take a look? That's it, I want all these boards of yours, you can make a price. "Yu Lifei is like a deflated ball, although this thing may not be very valuable, after all, it is not from the hands of a famous artist, but it is very valuable for research.
"I didn't expect you to be a scholar, if you want it, give ten yuan." The peasant woman thought for a moment and said.
"Ten dollars is enough for you to buy a cutting board? I let you have no chopping board, you have to pay a cutting board to you, so let's connect the egg, count it as a hundred, do you think it's okay? Yu Lifei said.
One hundred yuan is enough to buy two cutting boards, but the peasant woman naturally won't tell Yu Lifei, go to the backyard and find a dusty sack in the house, and give it to Yu Lifei. Yu Lifei wanted to leave with his things, he was worried that the peasant woman would have other ideas. But in fact, the peasant woman's thoughts are the same as his, she is still afraid that Yu Lifei will regret it, and buy a pile of firewood for a total of dozens of yuan, and she will regret it when the time comes. (To be continued......)