As soon as the two left, Yu Fei stood up, picked up the small blue and white jar, and said to Qi Zhi, "Hurry up and get some water." ”

After thinking about it, he said, "I'll go out of Lu, and you wait here for Brother Qi to come back." ”

Yu Fei poured out all the cigarette butts in the blue and white cans and wiped them a few times with his hands, but fortunately there were no traces of smoke. He found a few newspapers from the store, wrapped the small jar and lid in a few layers, and went straight to Uncle Dong's Ningdu pawn shop, ten minutes away, Yu Fei arrived in seven or eight minutes.

When Yu Fei entered the door, Dong Dechang was appraising a pawn, so he asked him to go to the office and wait for a while.

After sitting down, Yu Fei calmed down. How do you tell Uncle Dong? Tell him he's picked up another leak? But it's only been a few days? First it was Zigang Zhilian Tongzi, and then Wang Wei's Fusheng scripture teaching map, and now there is such a small jar, although Yu Fei doesn't know what this small jar is and the specific value, but it must be expensive. It looks as if these leaks are lined up in front of you, waiting for yourself to pick them up.

However, since I'm already in the house, it's too late to go back.

"Yu Fei, are you in a hurry?" While thinking about it, Dong Dechang walked in, followed by Wen Xuan.

"No, no." Yu Fei stood up with a smile and said, "It's that Uncle Dong is so busy with work, and the kid always comes over to disturb, so I don't want to go." ”

Dong Dechang waved his hand and said: "I also have a rare job, just now there was a green skin who took an incense burner to say that it was a Xuande furnace, it was really whimsical." Dong Dechang shook his head, he was telling the truth, as the chief appraiser of the pawnshop, there are two appraisers below, and there are not many items that he usually needs to personally identify.

It's okay today, I heard that someone was a Xuande furnace, Dong Dechang wanted to go and see it, but he thought that it was an incense burner at all, and there were a few mouths missing. That green-skinned scoundrel actually said that he wanted to be 200,000 yuan, and he didn't know where he picked it up, he really wanted to get rich and wanted to go crazy.

"Oh? Yu Fei, won't you find any more objects? Dong Dechang sat down and saw two objects wrapped in newspaper on the table.

Yu Fei opened the newspaper and said: "I saw it in the Confucius Temple Antique City today, I don't know what kind of object Lu Dao is, it feels like an old thing, take it to Uncle Dong to see if it is missing." ”

Wen Xuan, who was standing on the side, sneered and muttered in a low voice, "Do you think the leaks are all raised by your family?" ”

Regarding Wenxuan's attitude, although Yu Fei was a little disliked, he didn't care.

Dong Dechang coughed and said: "Although Wen Xuan's words are ugly, there is some truth in them, the most important thing in the antique business is to always have the mentality of picking up leaks. ”

Yu Fei nodded and said, "Uncle Dong's lesson is that the kid wrote it down. ”

The newspaper opened, revealing the small blue and white jar and lid inside, which looked dirty and had unwiped soot on it.

Dong Dechang frowned, and he didn't see what it was for a while.

Wen Xuan said with some schadenfreude: "Yu Fei, you won't take someone's ashtray, right?" ”

"Wen Xuan, go get a piece of cloth." Dong Dechang said, and turned his head again: "Yu Fei, the quality of this thing is not good, how much did you spend?" ”

"A million smaller." Yu Fei said. He couldn't say that it was given when he was in the shop, and it didn't cost money. It's not wrong to say one million, after all, if you don't want to buy this blue and white tin, you won't spend one million to go to that store. If this small jar can be worth hundreds of thousands, then the price of that store is not high.

Dong Dechang took a breath of cold air, the price of one million is not low, unless he knows the value of the thing, it is unlikely that he will spend one million to buy such a small can.

"You......" Dong Dechang sighed, he didn't know what to say, he felt that Yu Fei's gambling was too big.

At this time, Wen Xuan brought a piece of cloth over. Dong Dechang took the cloth and began to slowly wipe the stains on the small can.

Fortunately, these stains are not difficult to wipe, and after a while, the small can will reveal its true face.

The tank is cylindrical, and the edge and bottom are slightly convergent. The diameter of the mouth of the can is about 14 or 5 centimeters, the abdominal diameter is longer, and the bottom diameter is shorter, and the height is about 11 or 2 centimeters. Shallow disc lid, when the lid and the tank body are interlocked, it is trapped in the sub-mouth of the can, forming a "seat lid type". There is a small hole in the middle of the lid that can be used for tying buttons and ventilation. The circle foot is shallow and wide, the tire is exposed, and the flint red line can be seen at the junction of the tire glaze. The carcass of the utensils is thick, the glaze layer is thick, and the white is blue.

Dong Dechang's expression suddenly became serious, and he muttered: "Impossible, this is the characteristic of Xuande artifacts." ”

He went on to look at the blue and white patterns on the can. The lid of the jar is painted with a melon pattern, and the lush leaves are entwined with a total of 3 fruits, one large and two small. Two clumps of melons are painted on the belly of the can, with 4 in each bush, with a total of 8 fruits. The leaves and vines are covered and fruitful, showing a full of vitality.

Dong Dechang carefully put the small blue and white jar on the table. I don't know if Lu Dao is Yu Fei's illusion, he feels that Dong Dechang's hand trembles slightly.

"Yu Fei, did you use it as an ashtray just now?" Dong Dechang asked.

"Yes." Yu Fei blushed slightly, just now in order not to make Xiao Liu's shopkeeper suspicious, he also flicked the cigarette ash into the jar a few times, but the cigarette butt was not willing to be snuffed inside.

"You, you, I really don't know what to say about you." Dong Dechang pointed at Yu Fei's head with his hand, as if Yu Fei had done something heinous. This made Wen Xuan secretly happy in his heart.

"Uncle Dong, what the hell is going on?" Although Yu Fei knew that the small jar was an old object, he didn't know the origin of it. Looking at it like this, Dong Dechang should know its origin, but if he doesn't say it, he is about to die.

"This jar should be the blue and white cricket jar of Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty."

"Cricket cans?" Yu Fei was stunned for a moment, "You said this thing is a cricket?" ”

"That's right. Don't look at the uneven bottom of the can, this is the need for the bucket, deliberately made like this. The shape of the cricket jar was only available in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, because the Xuande Emperor liked to fight crickets, so it was also called the Cricket Emperor. At that time, the official kiln in Jingdezhen used to make many cricket jars, but they were very rare. Look at this tangled gourd pattern, blue and green, is it different from other blue and white? This is painted with imported Su Ma mud green material. Dong Dechang explained.

"Uncle Dong, I don't understand, since the official kiln in Jingdezhen made a lot of cricket cans, why are they so scarce?" Yu Fei asked.

"That's because after the death of Emperor Xuande, the Queen Mother ordered all the cricket jars in the palace to be smashed. In ninety-three years, when the Jingdezhen Ceramic Archaeology Institute excavated the ruins of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Kiln Factory in Zhushan, a large number of broken porcelain pieces were unearthed and a batch of cricket jars were restored. Among them, there are cloud dragon patterns, double phoenix patterns, pine, bamboo and plum patterns and other ornaments. But a complete cricket jar has never been seen. I didn't expect to see one today. The tangled gourd pattern on this jar is also called the gourd pattern, the big one is the melon, the small one is the gourd, which is called the melon gourd, and it has the meaning of prosperity of the descendants......"

"But master, this cricket jar is so small, even if it is really an official kiln in the Xuande period, I'm afraid it's not worth a million, right?" Wenxuan said.

This is also a question that Yu Fei is concerned about, and he talked about how much this cricket can be worth for a long time. If you want to say that this small jar can be worth one million, Yu Fei doesn't believe it, as long as it can be sold for more than 100,000 yuan, then Yu Fei will not lose money. Yu Fei picked up the water cup on the table and took a sip very leisurely.

Dong Dechang was very dissatisfied with Wen Xuan's interruption, glared at him and said: "What do you know, in the first year, a Xuande cricket jar without a lid was auctioned for 1.8 million, this one with a lid, and the condition is so good, if it is auctioned, I am afraid it will not be less than three million." ”

"Poof-" Yu Fei just squirted out a mouthful of water that he had just taken into his mouth.