After explaining the characteristics of this beeswax Buddha statue, Chu Chen finally said: "Therefore, I think this Buddha statue should be carved in the Yongle period." ”

"Bang Bang ......"

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, the three of them all puffed up their hands in unison, and Zhu Dafu said with a smile: "Xiaochen, I don't know how your brain grows, fortunately, I only meet one person like you, if there are a few more, I can only retire!" ”

Hearing this, Chu Chen hurriedly smiled and waved his hand, and said modestly: "Uncle Fu, you are now old and strong, how can it be time to retire!" Besides, I have a lot to learn from you! ”

Meng Yixian said with a smile: "Xiao Chu, don't be modest, I see that many experts are not as good as you!" ”

Chu Chen scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "You guys are trying to kill me!" ”

Everyone laughed, and then after Meng Yi saw the Buddha statue first, he smiled and said: "It's really okay to be a fool, but you actually take the real as a fake, and the fake as a real, and you really don't lose the title of 'Dasha'!" ”

"Xiao Meng, why did you get this nickname?" Zhu Dafu asked with some curiosity.

"When I think about it, I think it's funny now...... Meng Yixian smiled and briefly told everyone about Nian Dasha.

When everyone heard that this was the case, they all cried and laughed, and it was really strange to be able to say such things at that time.

"By the way, Xiao Chen, how did you come up with the idea of accepting this wooden statue?" After laughing, Zhu Dafu turned his gaze to the statue that Chu Chen had just bought.

Chu Chen smiled slightly: "At first, I thought this wooden statue was a bit extraordinary. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Meng Yixian felt a little strange about Chu Chen's statement. Because in terms of the material used in this statue, it is not at all compatible with the word "extraordinary".

Chu Chen explained: "First of all, this wooden statue was treated with lacquer gilt at that time. Also, look at the carving. ”

"Carvers?"

Everybody hears here. Hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, the more they looked at it, the more surprised they became, and finally their faces showed puzzled looks.

"It's really strange, why didn't such a good carver choose a better piece of wood?" Qiao Qingtai muttered.

"Yes, and who is the craftsman on behalf of the wooden statue?" Meng Yixian also asked with a frown.

Zhu Dafu, who turned to the back of the statue, suddenly said loudly: "Come and see, there is a poem engraved here!" ”

Meng Yixian's Qiao Qingtai hurriedly stepped up, only to see that there were indeed words engraved on the back of the statue. It's just that because of the age and the fact that there is still some dirt on the handwriting, except for a few handwritings, the others are not very clear.

At this time, Chu Chen took a basin of water, found a piece of cloth, dipped it in water, and wiped it gently, and after a while, those handwritings appeared.

"Copper stove, please. Cui Wei is like Nanshan. The upper branch resembles a pine and cypress, and the lower branch is according to the copper plate. The glyphs are of all kinds, and they are connected from Lou. ”

At the end of reading, Qiao Qingtai said in surprise: "Isn't this a paragraph in the Han Dynasty's introduction to Boshan Furnace's "Four Sits and Don't Talk"! Could it be that this craftsman is Lu Ban? ”

That's why he said that. is also because at the end of this verse, there is also "Who can use this instrument, lose to Luban." "One sentence. It is generally believed that Gongyi and Luban are one person. That's why he asked.

Zhu Dafu directly denied: "It's not that you haven't seen the image of Lu Ban, how can this be Lu Ban?" ”

Meng Qiao Qingtai thought about it. also felt that the character it represented should not be Lu Ban, so he asked again: "Then is this person a public loser?" ”

"Aren't Gong Yi and Lu Ban just one person!" Meng Yi spoke first.

Qiao Qingtai spread his hands and said: "Someone doesn't also say that Gongyi and Luban are not the same person, and if the two are really the same person, why would the poem separate Gongyi and Luban?" ”

Zhu Dafu smiled and said: "We don't need to discuss this kind of problem, don't you think this person's clothing should be the style of the Han Dynasty, even if Gongyi and Lu Ban are not the same person, they will not wear this kind of clothing, right?" Besides, if this statue really represents one of these two people, why is the following verse not engraved? ”

Meng Yixian muttered: "This is also the case, so who is this person?" What skilled craftsmen were there in the Han Dynasty......"

Just as Meng Yi said this, Zhu Dafu turned his head and asked Chu Chen, "Xiaochen, is there anything special about this statue?" ”

"Aren't the two points I said special?" Chu Chen asked with a smile.

Zhu Dafu also said with a smile: "You kid, you don't see a rabbit and don't scatter an eagle, I don't believe that there is nothing special about this statue, you will buy it." ”

Chu Chen shook his head and said, "To be honest, I bought this thing with the purpose of research at the beginning, but well, I really found a strange place later." ”

"What's weird?" The three of them asked in unison.

Chu Chen said: "The weight of the statue is wrong! ”

"The weight is wrong?"

Hearing Chu Chen say this, Meng Yixian hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the wooden statue, and then said, "Isn't the weight about the same, I don't think it's wrong!" ”

Chu Chen said with a smile: "But don't forget jì, this wooden statue is a long time ago, the old Cheng dù and the carving process of the material, it should be made in the early Ming Dynasty, after such a long time, how can the wood still be as heavy?" ”

Under normal circumstances, if the wood is left for a long time, the weight will definitely be light, so when Chu Chen said this, everyone immediately realized the problem.

Zhu Dafu's brain reacted quickly, and he hurriedly asked, "Xiao Chen, do you mean to say that there is something hidden in this statue?" ”

Chu Chen nodded: "I think it should be like this, as for whether it is right or not, we will only know after watching it." ”

Among the four people at the scene, Qiao Qingtai was the most anxious, and said: "I looked around just now, except for those naturally occurring cracks, there are no artificial traces, what should I do now, smash it open?" ”

Zhu Dafu said angrily: "Why do you guys have bad ideas, such a good statue, just smashed it like this, don't you think it's a pity, I still think it's a pity!" ”

Qiao Qingtai was also a little embarrassed when he heard this, he smiled and asked again, "What should I do then?" ”

Zhu Dafu said: "Stupid, have you ever seen the base of the statue?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! I almost forgot about it......"

Seeing Qiao Qingtai's sudden realization, Chu Chen smiled and carefully put the statue on the ground. However, there was dirt under the statue, and it was impossible to see what was going on underneath, so Chu Chen began to clean it again, but the dirt was gone, revealing a layer of black paint.

"There's a play!"

Seeing this, everyone showed a look of surprise, because they felt that under normal circumstances, there was no need to paint the bottom with black paint, which clearly had some taste of three hundred taels of silver here.

Sure enough, after Chu Chen scraped off the layer of black paint with a knife, a square gap was immediately revealed.

Seeing that there was indeed something in the statue, Zhu Dafu and the others were extremely excited and excited, but this statue did not use a mechanism similar to the "belly hall", and the wooden board in the middle was glued with something like glue, which made Chu Chen bitter, so he could only use a knife to cut it along the gap little by little.

Because he was afraid of hurting the statue, Chu Chen didn't dare to use too much force, so he scratched it for a while, and the wooden board in the middle was a little loose, and then Chu Chen used the knife slightly, only to hear the sound of "pop", and the wooden board fell down.

Everyone hurriedly looked inside, and the first thing that caught their eyes was some unknown filler, which looked like something like hay. After cleaning up these things, Chu Chen took out something wrapped in ancient kraft paper from inside, which looked like it was not small, and the height alone was more than forty centimeters.

Seeing this, Qiao Qingtai couldn't wait to say: "Xiao Chu, open it up and see, what is inside?" ”

Zhu Dafu said angrily: "What are you anxious about, how can you be in a hurry at this time, what if you accidentally mess with the things inside?" ”

Qiao Qingtai also thought that since it was such a tightly hidden thing, eighty percent of it was a treasure, if it was because of his words, the thing was broken, then he was really embarrassed, so he hurriedly explained with some embarrassment:

"Xiaochen, I'm just too anxious, don't take it to heart!"

Chu Chen shook his head with a smile, saying that it didn't matter, and then he slowly cleaned up the kraft paper, and the contents were immediately revealed.

In the center of a circular copper plate, there is a straight handle that bears the furnace body, and the top is a hemispherical shape that rises upward, and the upper cover is a pointed cone-shaped mountain, and there are many small holes for smoke. The cover is exquisitely carved and ornamented, and the heavy peaks are stacked, and the birds and beasts are haunted in the forest. It is a Boshan furnace.

Although it is only a Boshan furnace, the whole body of the wrong gold can show its extraordinary, especially the wrong gold is basically well preserved, it is even more rare.

Just when everyone wanted to step forward to take a closer look, Meng Yixian first exclaimed: "I know! The person represented by this craftsman should be Ding Zhuan of the Han Dynasty! ”

The Boshan furnace of the Han Dynasty is difficult to make because of exquisite craftsmanship, and it is not the ability of ordinary craftsmen, so the ancient craftsmen are used in ancient poems to refer to contemporary craftsmen, saying: "Who can use this instrument to lose and Luban!" ”

In fact, there is a famous furnace maker in the Han Dynasty, and the name of one of them has been handed down, that is, Chang'an skillful craftsman Ding Zhuan.

According to the record of Ding Zhuan in the "Xijing Miscellaneous Records": "For the constant full of lights, seven dragons and five phoenixes, it is difficult to hide the wonder of lotus root, and it is also used as a lying mattress incense burner, a incense burner in the middle of the incense burner, this is out of the room style, and its law is absolutely extinct, and it is even more slow at the beginning...... It is also made of a nine-layer Boshan incense burner, carved into strange birds and monsters, poor spirits, all natural movement ......" (to be continued......