"Huh!"

Zhao Xueyi hurriedly took the piece of ancient ink pointed out by Zhu Dafu in his hand and looked at it carefully. But after a while, he couldn't help but sigh softly, his brows tightened, and the expression on his face began to become complicated. After a few moments, he took out his magnifying glass and looked at the ink ingot, bit by bit.

Seeing that Zhao Xueyi would be okay for a while, Uncle Wu asked with some curiosity: "Xiao Chen, where did you get this piece of ancient ink?" ”

Chu Chen smiled slightly, and repeated what happened just now, and Uncle Wu and Zhu Dafu couldn't help but shake their heads again and again when they heard it, sighing.

At this time, Zhao Xueyi had already finished reading Gu Mo, and he said: "If you want me to say, Xiaochen, you are good at talking, since he is doing such an inauthentic thing, you should also take down that jade plate." ”

Chu Chen scratched his head and said with a smile: "It's not that I don't want to be in the same league with them!" ”

Zhu Dafu disagreed with this, and said: "Xiaochen, I'm going to talk about you about this, you are not doing this to pity him, but to harm him!" ”

Chu Chen was stunned, and then asked, "What do you say?" ”

Zhu Dafu replied: "I know, you think that this piece of ancient ink should be very unusual, and you feel that you have taken advantage of it, so you will spare the other party." But then again, the other party definitely couldn't see the quality of this piece of ancient ink, that is to say, in his heart, he felt that he had exchanged it for hundreds of thousands of dollars. This kind of profitable thing, do you think he will do it again in the future? ”

Hearing this, Chu Chen couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, the reason why he put this matter down gently before was indeed as Zhu Dafu said, because he felt that he had taken a big advantage. In addition, the old man looked really pitiful, so he didn't care about it anymore.

But now he understood. Compassion overflowing is not a good thing either, good intentions do bad things. It's a portrayal of myself now. Just like Zhu Dafu said, with a small price in exchange for high profits, I think this is for many people, there is no resistance! If the other party does this kind of thing again in the future, can he be regarded as adding fuel to the fire?

Seeing Chu Chen's tangled look, Uncle Wu said: "Okay, Xiaochen, don't think about it too much, if he can do his duty, he won't come up with such an idea." Even if it weren't for you. Since he has come up with this method, he will still implement it when he has the opportunity in the future. As the old saying goes, it is forgivable to do sins in heaven, but you can't live if you do sins yourself, and what the ending will be, it is all in his thoughts. ”

Zhu Dafu took over and said: "Yes, don't worry about this kind of thing, let's study what period of work this ancient ink is." That's right. Lao Zhao, do you see what's going on? ”

"This piece of ancient ink must be old." Zhao Xueyi replied.

"What else?" Zhu Dafu then asked.

Zhao Xueyi spread his hands and said, "I just think that the texture of this piece of ancient ink is very good now, as for the rest." I'm not sure! ”

Hearing this, Zhu Dafu said angrily: "After talking for a long time, you just said some such nonsense." Replace me! ”

After speaking, he took Gu Mo in his hand. I also looked closely at it with a magnifying glass, but I looked at it at a moment's notice. His face showed surprise and hesitation, and his brows were tightly knit, as if he had encountered some problem.

Seeing the above situation, Uncle Wu said a little strangely: "Lao Zhao, although you don't have a deep study of stationery, but you have some understanding of the identification of ancient ink, can you not see anything other than that it is old ink?" ”

Zhao Xueyi shook his head: "The gold painting on the surface of this ancient ink has almost worn out, and this ancient ink has no lacquer clothing, so it is really difficult for me to judge how old it is." ”

"Can't you tell the approximate date?" Uncle Wu asked with a frown.

Zhao Xueyi shook his head and said: "You should also know the time when lacquer clothes were popular, in terms of the hardness of this piece of ancient ink, I think the time to make zuò should only be able to reach the late Qing Dynasty at the earliest, but judging from the traces of precipitation over the years, it makes me think that the age of this piece of ancient ink should be at least more than 500 years......"

Hearing this, Uncle Wu also frowned and pondered, and after a while, he said: "Could it be that the materials and craftsmanship of ancient ink are particularly good, so this piece of ancient ink can be so hard after hundreds of years." ”

Zhao Xueyi nodded: "This is indeed possible, but such ancient ink is generally made by famous artists, and now the gold painting and style knowledge are worn so strictly, it is impossible to see who made it." ”

"How about the comparison with the ink maker? Is there a similar way to make zuò? Uncle Wu asked again.

"Anyway, in my memory, there is no similar ink maker in the Ming Dynasty!"

"Actually, I think ......"

"Brother Chen, what are you doing here?"

As soon as Chu Chen spoke, he saw Liu Sizhe walk in: "Uncle Wu, you are also here!" ”

Uncle Wu smiled: "Xiao Liu, why are you here?" ”

Liu Sizhe said with a smile: "We came over together after eating with Brother Chen at noon. Just now, Brother Chen followed an old man in, and he left us next door, and he couldn't be seen left and right, so everyone sent me here to see if Brother Chen was abducted by the old man! ”

Chu Chen scolded with a smile when he heard this: "Go!" I'm not a three-year-old child, am I so easily abducted? ”

"I can't tell!" Liu Sizhe grinned, and then asked, "By the way, what are you doing here?" ”

"Isn't this what you said about the old man who left behind......" Chu Chen smiled and repeated the experience.

"Hey!" Liu Sizhe slapped his hands: "Brother Chen, I didn't say you, your heart is too soft, in that case, why don't you take the jade card down?" Let me tell you, if you do this, the old man's son will definitely only laugh at you for being stupid, and will not think of you at all! ”

Chu Chen smiled and said, "Don't talk about it, I'm at ease anyway!" ”

"That's too!" Liu Sizhe smiled slightly, and then asked, "Then what do you say about this piece of ancient ink now?" Do you know the age and the system? ”

"Oh, Lao Zhao has seen it, but I don't know if I ask three questions!" Uncle Wu laughed and said.

Zhao Xueyi smiled when he heard this: "Old Wu, we are a hundred steps and fifty steps, there is so little information left by this piece of ancient ink, I don't believe it, how much better can you be than me!" ”

After listening to the conversation between the two, Liu Sizhe understood what was going on, which made him feel a little surprised in his heart, although Zhao Xueyi's main attack was not the Four Treasures of the Study, but with Zhao Xueyi's many years of appraisal experience, a piece of ancient ink could also see a little way, but now he didn't know what was going on, how could he not feel strange?

At this time, Zhu Dafu also put the piece of ancient ink back in the box, his expression was a little solemn at this time, seeing this situation, Liu Sizhe was curious, and hurriedly looked at the piece of ancient ink.

"Hey, this piece of ancient ink has a lacquer coat, and the broken lines of the lacquer clothes look like the lines of rhino horns, which is really strange!"

"Its pattern is like a rhino?!" Listening to Liu Sizhe's exclamation, Zhao Xueyi pondered, and after half a sound, his face suddenly changed, and his mouth let out an exclamation.

Uncle Wu and Zhu Dafu, who are not well-informed people, when they heard Zhao Xueyi's exclamation, they immediately understood the meaning, and their expressions were quite shocked.

Although Chu Chen had already guessed this from the results given by the ability, when everyone thought in the direction he guessed, they couldn't help but get excited.

"What's wrong with you?"

At this time, Liu Sizhe was a little unclear, he really couldn't understand why he just said a word, which caused such a big reaction from everyone.

Chu Chen smiled: "Haven't you also read several books on ancient ink, and you can't imagine that 'its pattern is like a rhino' is a compliment to which famous artist made ancient ink?" ”

"Its pattern is like a rhino?" Liu Sizhe pondered for a moment before he remembered: "It is as hard as jade, its lines are like rhinos, and it doesn't take a minute or two to write dozens of paintings, isn't this the praise of the ancients for Li Tingqi's ink!" Wait a minute! You don't mean to say that this piece of ink is the famous Li Tingqi ink, right? ”

In the end, Liu Sizhe almost jumped up excitedly, this is also because Li Tingqi's ink is too famous, he is also a person who loves calligraphy, and sometimes he dreams of having such a good ink, but this kind of ink is now in addition to the Treasure Island Forbidden City, and it can be said that it is more difficult to find another piece than to climb to the sky.

Now, a piece of ancient ink that is close at hand is very likely to be Li Tingqi's ink, how can he not be extremely excited?

The early inks were all natural graphite, which was very easy to fall off after writing. Artificial ink production began around the Western Zhou Dynasty. Large-scale ink production was made after the Han Dynasty. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, ink-making technology had been perfected.

The representative figure of ink making in the Tang Dynasty was called Xi Nai. It is said that the ink he made was not only black and shiny, but also scented, so it became a brand. At that time, the domestic calligraphy and painting circles were eager to do so. In order to maintain the brand, Xi Nai's ink body is printed with the word "Xi Nai" on the ink body he made.

Xi Nai's ink factory is a well-known family business, which has been in operation for three generations and has continuously improved its technology. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, due to social turmoil, the Xi family moved to She. State residency. There are Huangshan pines all over the mountains, which is the best raw material for making ink, and the family continues to do their old business here, and the production is still unfading, and the fame is getting bigger and bigger.

Because the ink of the Xi family is superior and easy to use, it was highly praised by Li Yu, the queen of Li in the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was fine at calligraphy, good at painting, and Tongyin at that time, and the queen Li gave his surname Li to the Xi Nai family.

Xi Nai's ink-making technology was transmitted to his grandson Li Tingjue, and there was a greater development. While inheriting the technology of his ancestors, Li Tingjun also strives to innovate.

After repeated research and countless practical practices, he invented a new formula: one pound of pine smoke, three taels of pearls, one tael of jade shavings, one tael of borneol, and one tael of borneol, and pounded 100,000 times with raw lacquer, deer horn gum, pearls, rhino horn, garcinia cambogia, croton, tung seed oil, musk, borneol, ash, wood veneer, pomegranate skin and other things.

Therefore, the ink he made, the glue does not deteriorate, the ink does not deform, the quality greatly exceeds that of his grandfather and father, and reaches the peak of Cheng dù, so a new brand "Li Tingqi ink", referred to as "Li Mo". (To be continued......)