Uncle Lu saw Chu Chen and Uncle Wu looking at each other, and the two cups he had just taken out felt very strange, and finally couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you?" ”

After careful observation, Uncle Wu and Chu Chen affirmed that this pair of cups was indeed a pair of Yongzheng blue and white Sanskrit cups, and they had encountered such a good thing when they begged for a cup of water to drink, which undoubtedly made them very excited, but both of them were also old rivers and lakes, and they were very good at controlling their own feelings.

Therefore, in Uncle Lu's eyes, there was only a faint joy on the faces of the two.

Uncle Wu didn't respond directly, but asked rhetorically, "Uncle, I don't know where you got this pair of cups?" ”

Uncle Lu said with some displeasure: "Where did you get it, these cups of mine are all heirloom!" If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have taken them out! ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to understand something, and said in a firm tone: "Oh, you want to buy it, right?" This is something that my ancestors have handed down, and I won't sell it! ”

In the decades of antique career, Uncle Wu has encountered a lot of this situation, and often the owner resolutely does not sell it at first, but as long as the conditions are enough, the thing can still be obtained in the end.

Judging from the decoration of the home, Uncle Lu's family background should be good, so Uncle Wu first tentatively opened the price and said:

"Uncle, you put this cup at home, and it can only be used for tea, if it is exchanged for money, it will be more useful, don't you say? In this way, we will not let you suffer, this pair of cups, we bought it for 5,000 yuan, what do you think? ”

Although Uncle Lu knows that antiques are quite valuable. But a pair of cups can be sold for 5,000 yuan, which is really beyond his expectations. For a while, it seemed a little moved, but after all, this is something handed down from the ancestors. In the end, he shook his head and refused to agree.

For Uncle Wu, as long as Uncle Lu hesitates, it proves that there is a play, and if he doesn't agree now, it's just that the money hasn't been in place yet, so he began to persuade him to "move with affection and reason".

At the same time, Chu Chen also took another blue and white cup and looked at it, this cup and diameter were about the same as the pair of blue and white cups just now.

Cup stroke, curved belly. Lap foot. The carcass is light and thin, the white glaze is shiny, and the outer wall of the cup is decorated with blue and white colors.

This cup is decorated with chrysanthemum as the theme, embellished with grass and trees, butterflies, the picture composition is sparse, rich in layers, chrysanthemum petals are more layered, the flower shape is full, and the chrysanthemum leaves are delicate. Painted green, brown hooks, there is a backward division.

Although the butterfly pattern is small, the depiction of details is by no means ambiguous. Even the butterfly's slender and curved tentacles are vivid.

Flowers and plants are swaying in the wind, and butterflies are dancing. This delicate and delicate picture is full of natural interest, giving people a kind of beautiful enjoyment.

On the other side, there is an inscription in blue and white regular script: "Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence." Leisurely see Nanshan". The poem is taken from two sentences in Tao Yuanming's "Drinking Its Five". At the end, there is a blue and white seal text "reward" word seal, and the outer bottom book has a blue and white "Kangxi year system of the Qing Dynasty" six-character two-line double-circle regular script. The writing specification should be this paragraph.

Chu Chen quietly put the cup back, at this time Uncle Wu had already opened the price to eight thousand, and Uncle Lu had already begun to waver, bowing his head and groaning.

Chu Chen and Uncle Wu glanced at each other, and both of them could see what they wanted to express from each other's eyes.

Nodding slightly, Chu Chen opened his mouth and said, "Uncle, if not, I bought all three cups, a total of fifteen thousand, what do you think?" ”

Uncle Lu was already wavering, and the price offered by Chu Chen was undoubtedly like the last straw, directly pressing his mental defense.

In the era when the minimum wage was only three or five hundred yuan a month, fifteen thousand yuan was not a small amount, but these money could be exchanged for only three small cups, Uncle Lu didn't think much about it at all, so he agreed.

"Okay! But you're not going to lie to me, are you? ”

Hearing this, Chu Chen directly took out the money, put it on the table, and gestured: "How can we lie to you about this, we can sign a contract now." ”

When Uncle Lu saw the stack of money that Chu Chen took out, his eyes immediately lit up, and he hurriedly went to get the paper and pen......

After the money and goods were cleared, Uncle Wu asked, "Uncle, do you have any other ancestral old objects in your house?" If the goods are good, we will still accept them, and the price will be satisfactory to you. ”

"An old heirloom?"

Uncle Lu was happily putting the money in the envelope, and when he heard what Uncle Wu said, he frowned and thought about it, and after half a ring, he might have thought of something, and hurriedly said: "You wait, I'll go get it......"

After a while, Uncle Lu took another pair of cups and walked out of the house.

As he put the cups on the table, he said, "These cups are a rarity, and they can only be shallow when filled with water, and if there are too many, they will leak out of oneself." ”

Chu Chen and Uncle Wu listened to the old man's introduction, and immediately understood what it was, and then looked at it, and it was indeed just as they thought, Uncle Lu brought a pair of fair cups.

In fact, the fair cup is the same as the backflow pot, which is a special wine cup that adopts the principle of physical siphon absorption in ancient times, which was first seen in the products of the Liao cylinder tile kiln, and is also seen in the Yuan blue and white flowers.

Generally, there is a one-person (mostly an old birthday star) or a dragon-shaped ornament in the middle of the fair cup, which is actually composed of two cylinders, and there is a dark hole at the junction between the outer cylinder and the cup, when the water in the cup exceeds a certain position, the water will flow out of the small hole until the water in the cup is exhausted.

Therefore, in the banquet, the drinker can only pour the same amount of wine into the drinker, so it is called "fair cup", "ring cup", "flat cup" or "nine dragon cup". The fair cup has "full of losses." Humility and benefit", enlightening people to pay attention to fairness in doing things, and not to be insatiable.

The diameter of these two cups is slightly larger than the cup just now, and the shape is basically the same. The fetal bone is firm and sophisticated, the glaze is full of orange peel, the color is bright green, thick and natural, the blue and white hair color is strong, and the rust spots are natural. However, the ornamentation on the outer walls of the two cups is not the same as the figure standing in the middle.

One of the fair cups has no decoration on the inner wall, and the outer wall is full of painted branches and moon patterns, the lines are smooth and free, the form is beautiful and pleasant, and the deformed lotus petal pattern is painted near the foot of the circle. The mouth is written along the double circle "Ming Xuande Year" six-character regular paragraph, simple and clumsy, full of antiquity.

Its composition is sparse and natural, the blank space is appropriate, avoiding the common dense and cramped disadvantages of twig ornamentation, the brushstrokes are delicate, the brushwork is meticulous but does not feel kitsch, and the heroic spirit of Xuande blue and white is unique in the shade of the smear.

In addition, in the middle of the cup stands a civil official figure, who wears a civil official hat, holds a guard plate in his right hand, and his left hand naturally droops, looking ahead, his expression is solemn and solemn, his firing process is exquisite, and the character's demeanor is realistic, which is breathtaking.

The rest of the fair cup, the inside of the vessel is also plain and no lines, the outer pattern of the vessel is decorated with blue and white flowers, the mouth edge is decorated with string patterns, the outer wall is painted with entwined branches of crocus lotus, lotus flower decorated with each other, the painting is exquisite and delicate, the lines are smooth and free, the form is beautiful and pleasant, and the foot of the circle is painted and decorated with a deformed lotus petal pattern.

The mouth is the same book along the double string line, and the Xuande Emperor's imperial pen is written by Fan from the six-character block of the "Xuande Year System of the Ming Dynasty".

The craftsman who made this fair cup should be someone else, and his ornamental painting is quite art-ked, outlined with a soft brush, the lines are smooth, and the boneless painting method is mostly used, that is, there is no need to hook the line to fill in the color, and the brushes used are all small brushes, so the phenomenon of repeated brushstrokes can be distinguished everywhere on the blue and white ornament.

In the cup of this cup stands an old man, whose face is naturally open, his smile is often slightly upturned, his beard is depicted in detail, and the figure can be described as vivid, which is not inferior to the former.

Chu Chen and Uncle Wu didn't think that these two cups were actually blue and white porcelain fair cups in the Xuande period, and the workmanship was so exquisite, and among the blue and white porcelain in the Xuande period, they had never seen even a similar type of fair cup, which made the two of them surprised at the same time, and their hearts were undoubtedly extremely excited and excited.

"Uncle, I don't know how you are going to sell this pair of cups?" Chu Chen asked.

Uncle Lu said with a smile: "This pair of cups is a rare object, but it can't be as expensive as just now." ”

Chu Chen smiled and said: "Uncle, the principle it uses is the siphon principle taught in junior high school, when the liquid level exceeds a certain height in the cup, it will flow out of the small hole at the bottom of the cup, so this thing is really not too rare." ”

Uncle Lu was slightly stunned, thinking, is this really according to the curriculum system taught in junior high school? But he immediately reacted, there was no junior high school in ancient times, and he was almost taken to the ditch by this kid, so he said:

"Young man, what you said is not right, where did ancient technology come from to be so developed now, how can you know what kind of siphon principle you are talking about?"

Chu Chen spread his hands and said, "There is nothing impossible about this, if the ancients didn't know, it would be impossible to make these two cups, right?" ”

Uncle Lu thought about it and felt that this was indeed the truth, if the ancients really didn't know the principle, these two cups would not exist, but he always felt that something was wrong, and it took half a sound before he reacted, and said speechlessly:

"I said young man, we're talking about how much this cup is, and what does it have to do with us?"

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Uncle, just now I was also discussing whether this thing is a particularly rare object, now please make a price first!" ”

Uncle Lu pondered for a while and said: "It doesn't matter if you think it's not rare, I think my pair of cups is very rare, at least I've never seen this kind of cup anywhere else, and you see that the pattern of this pair of cups is much more beautiful than the three cups just now, if you want it, the price is 50,000 yuan!" (To be continued......)