Liu Sheng returned home and took out the lockbox in his package, skillfully entered the password, and took out a delicate small box, in which more than a dozen test tubes were placed, each test tube contained colorful liquids, which was a prop used by Liu Sheng to crack some secret concealment techniques, but he didn't expect it to be used at home today.

"How can there be no one at home?"

Liu Sheng took out a test tube containing vermilion liquid, only to find that the house was quiet, but he didn't think much about it, closed the door and returned directly to his uncle's house.

Eh, this mouth is a little too big, as soon as Liu Sheng entered the door, his forehead was full of black lines, and after a while, the people from the front and back courtyards gathered over, and there were dozens of black pressures, so he had to lift the test tube in his hand high, and it took a lot of effort to squeeze it in.

"Uncle, why are there so many people?" Liu Sheng lowered his voice and muttered in his uncle's ear.

"That, that..." The old uncle hesitated for a long time, scratched his head in embarrassment, and looked at Liu Sheng embarrassedly, he also felt that he had a big mouth.

"Forget it, you can pour vinegar into the pot." Liu Sheng was defeated, and said weakly, no wonder his father called him a little trumpet.

"Okay."

When the old uncle heard this, he hurriedly poured vinegar into the pot, then put the marble basin on the iron grate that had prepared the scorpion, covered the pot, and the old aunt, who had already prepared the skull, began to set up the firewood and start to burn the fire.

"Call me when the pot is boiling." Liu Sheng cautiously finished his instructions before coming out of the kitchen and following the greetings of his uncle and aunt.

"Xiaosheng, what kind of treasure is there." The eldest lady asked curiously.

"How do I know the way, and I can't see through the eyes." Liu Sheng was depressed for a while, and only the eldest lady could ask such a strange question.

"Xiaosheng, how can you tell, you go around house after a while to see if we have any there." Uncle Nine interjected on the side, causing the uncles next to him to nod their heads in agreement.

"How can there be so many treasures, our family is eight times poorer peasants, my father is here, I don't believe you ask him." Liu Sheng pointed to the old man who was sitting on the sofa and was a little sleepy.

"Forget it." Uncle Nine said curtly.

The old man is a violent temper, the juniors basically don't see a trace of love from him, wherever it is not pleasing to the eye, he has to say it, and even scold, when Uncle Nine was a child, the old man just looked at him unpleasantly, and was often pulled aside for ideological education, so that he saw the old man like a mouse and a cat.

"Xiaosheng, the pot is boiling." After about eight or nine minutes, the old man suddenly shouted excitedly outside.

Liu Sheng heard his uncle's reminder, as if he heard the sound of heaven, and fled into the kitchen. He sighed softly, and finally got rid of the bombardment of his uncles for a while.

Seeing Liu Sheng coming in, the old aunt didn't need to command, she immediately lifted the lid of the pot, and a hot air with a strong vinegar sour smell rose from the sky and drained down the skylight of the roof, but Liu Sheng couldn't help frowning.

After getting used to it for a while, Liu Sheng held his breath, came to the front of the pot stove, and found that the broken marble pieces at the bottom of the basin that were seamlessly glued by the adhesive had cracked, and nodded with satisfaction, he knew that the Tao was one step closer to taking out the treasure inside, and without hesitation, he carefully injected eight or nine drops of the vermilion liquid in the test tube in his hand into the bottom of the marble basin, and then quickly closed the lid, and a trace of flesh pain appeared on his face.

"Auntie, just keep the fire burning for another ten minutes." After speaking, Liu Sheng hurriedly retreated.

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Ten minutes later, Liu Sheng instructed his aunt to extinguish the fire in the stove, lift the lid of the pot, and let the strong acetic acid steam escape through the skylight on the roof.

"Uncle, you prepare a basin of warm water." Liu Sheng turned to his uncle and said.

Under normal circumstances, jade cannot be exposed to acid and alkali substances, even a weak acid such as vinegar has a certain corrosive effect, and the sudden cold and heat are more destructive to jade.

Liu Sheng took the thick towel handed over by his aunt, carefully took the marble basin out of the pot, and put it on the coffee table in the living room.

"Hey, you see the pelvic floor is cracked." Uncle Nine pointed to the cracks in the pelvic floor and said.

"Xiaosheng, what's going on?" The second uncle next to him raised his head and asked, he had seen the marble basin in the first place.

"In fact, the bottom of this pot is hollow in order to facilitate the concealment of things deliberately made like this, and then glued with a special adhesive, the gap is exactly the same as the natural crack, inexperienced people can not find the clue at all, with vinegar steamed adhesive failure, naturally it becomes like this." Liu Sheng pointed to the pelvic floor and explained.

"Xiaosheng, hurry up and clean up those stones." The old man said anxiously there, fidgeting back and forth.

"Okay, it'll be fine right away." Liu Sheng gave the uncle a slightly calm look, put on the white gloves prepared in advance, and began to clean up the rubble inside.

The work of cleaning up the gravel is very simple, but it is just to take out the gravel from the bottom of the basin, and the jade is much harder than expected, at least harder than marble, and it is not afraid of slight bumps.

Soon the marble fragments were cleaned up by Liu Sheng, and a hollow part slightly larger than an adult's palm was immediately exposed, which was stuffed with soft rags, and there was no gap at all, it seemed to be used to prevent the contents from colliding, Liu Sheng carefully cleaned up the rags inside, a rectangular thing, wrapped in a piece of bright red silk.

Liu Sheng carefully took out the things, slowly opened the wrapped satin, and a delicate brush wash was displayed in front of everyone.

"Whew, it's a green and white jade toad tung leaf brush, and the carving should be the handwriting of the Qing Dynasty." Liu Sheng gently placed the green and white jade pen wash on the coffee table and breathed a sigh of relief.

This square brush wash is simply natural, the body of the vessel is carved into a piece of involuted paulownia leaf shape dragged by the broken branches, the upper veins are wisps, and a toad inhabits the leaves. This jade brush wash is not only vivid in shape, but also realistic in carving, along with the traces of the edge of the leaf being eaten by small insects.

"Pen wash, what is pen wash?" The second uncle is over 60 years old, he was a high school student back then, so it can be said that we are still alumni, and the first thing that comes to mind is not money.

"Pen washing, can be said to be the fifth treasure of the study, is used to hold water to wash the pen utensils, with the shape of well-behaved, varied, elegant and exquisite and widely favored, among which porcelain pen wash and jade pen wash are the most common, in addition to agate, ivory, enamel, rhino horn and other precious materials carved into the pen wash." Liu Sheng explained.

"Well, how much is that worth?" Uncle is most concerned about the price, and he doesn't understand the rest, and he no longer cares about it.

"It's not easy to say, because there are basically no two pieces of the same shape of the jade brush wash, in general, it is necessary to consider from its shape, carving and material, I remember that Christie's once auctioned a Qing Qianlong green jade brush wash, the size and carving are similar to this one, and the auction cost less than 240,000." Liu Sheng said with a frown.

"240,000."

The uncle's eyes widened in surprise, he didn't expect that this small jade pen wash could be worth so much money, you must know that even if life in the countryside is better now, more than 200,000 is not a small amount.

"Well, it's pretty much the same, if you meet something you like, it might be more expensive." Liu Sheng nodded.

"But, uncle, you're thinking about what to do with this jade penwash." Liu Sheng immediately raised a crucial question.

"This..." The old man began to hesitate, looking at this pen wash as if it was a hot potato.

"Think about it yourself, it's not safe for you to keep it at home anyway, it's better to make a move as soon as possible than to keep it for appreciation." Liu Sheng gave a pertinent opinion.

"So, do you have a way?" The old uncle asked worriedly, and he also knew that it was a tricky problem to keep at home.

"It depends on whether you are on the auction or in private, if you are on the auction, it will definitely not exceed 280,000, and there will be a certain fee, the periodicity is relatively strong, if you trade privately, I can contact my mentor, he has been looking for a pen wash." Liu Sheng said.

"That's a private deal." Uncle gritted his teeth and said.

"Okay, in that case, I'll contact my mentor." Liu Sheng nodded.

"Hey, Uncle Kong, my uncle at home has a Qing Dynasty toad tung leaf green and white jade pen wash, the carving and materials are first-class, I looked carefully, it should be the Qianlong period, are you interested." Liu Sheng dialed Professor Kong's phone under the attention of all his uncles and aunts.

"Since you look right, that's it, you send the photo over, and I'll estimate the price." Professor Kong said with a smile over there, he knew that Liu Sheng was still a little lacking in his valuation, and he had to check it himself.

"Okay." Liu Sheng agreed, and then asked his little brother to come to the house and bring his bag.

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"Liu Sheng, it's just 270,000, you pay the money for me first, let the bank consign it, you better go back to Nanli to sit in town, the matter is a little eyebrow-raising." Professor Kong said over there.

"Okay, I'll ask my uncle if he agrees, and I'll buy it for you." Liu Sheng nodded and put down the phone.

"How about 270,000 uncle?" Liu Sheng asked.

"270,000, good." The uncle was shocked when he heard this, but it was 30,000 yuan higher than Liu Sheng's estimate, how could he be dissatisfied, he still gave Liu Sheng face and added money to it.

"Okay, you drive the car, let's go to the bank to transfer money, and then I'll ask the bank to help with the consignment." Seeing that the old uncle agreed, Liu Sheng said while the iron was hot, and then took out a contract for him.

Valuables must sign a transaction contract when trading, so as to avoid economic disputes in the future, even if it is a nephew, Liu Sheng must follow the rules.

"Okay, let's go, let your eldest brother drive." The uncle still maintains a trace of clarity, and knows that he is not suitable for driving now.

"Okay." Liu Sheng naturally has no opinion, when this is the case, he still has to go to Nanri, but he doesn't want anything to happen.

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