Master Tan agrees with this, "Only works with profound artistic connotations can stand the test of time and aesthetic vision." But the premise is the quality of the material, just a piece of chalcedony quality thing, even if it is not carved, it has its art and vitality. Market test is the touchstone, often through the market selection and enduring classics, all of which are excellent materials, exemplary and authoritative, the best representative of the essence of the industry, naturally the most valuable. ”

Kindness is like water, virtue in the world, jade collection, jade quality first, jade carving masters and jade carving masters carefully carved classics, is lingering in history and reality to intertwine the magnificent feast, Master Tan's remarks, let Li Xin convinc.

The jade material is just like the unmodified person, the character is the true beauty of the person, the jade virtue is the beauty of the jade texture, the jade virtue is mainly based on the superiority of the jade quality, and it is also another version of the beautiful stone for the jade.

Jade is not copiable, good jade is scarce, good jade is warm and shiny, tough and meticulous, pure color, flawless cracks, so the jade itself has a gentleman's style, Confucian style like oriental charm, should try to preserve its naturalness.

What Master Tan said is also from this, the so-called good jade is not cut, even if it is not carved, it is still very valuable, if there is no absolute certainty that it can be icing on the cake, it is okay not to move.

On the contrary, low-quality jade with a dry and coarse texture, impure color, and more flaws and cracks, no matter how plastic surgery is modified, cannot get rid of the innate value level.

Master Tan took out a round cat's eye, "Just like this bead, this kind of cat's eye has a strange phenomenon, when the cat's eye is placed under two spotlight beams, as the gem rotates, the cat's eye will open and close." Its luster is smart and gorgeous, and it is as flexible and colorful as a real cat's eye with the intensity and angle of the light, which is very cute. But the market thinks it's spiritually lifelike, but we know that it's nowhere near as old and scarce as chalcedony. When the stone essence liquid you have is the most spiritual and the most substantial chalcedony, you can know that the spirit of chalcedony is not visible to the naked eye, which is the reason why it is not as pleasing as this cat's eye. ”

"Therefore, value preservation and appreciation is only a law of market value, so as to ignore the hardness, delicateness, softness, transparency, rich color and other characteristics of chalcedony, but I don't know that such treasures are truly heirloom treasures?" Li Zhi gradually understood the master's good intentions.

Master Tan casually took out a carefully carved natural chalcedony, although it is only the color of turquoise jadeite, but its extravagance, wax-like luster is almost clear, compared to the color of the cat's eye psychedelic and attractive, its color is more pure and thick, the texture is delicate to as crystal clear as ice.

"Putting the two together, the transparency and brightness that ordinary jadeite in chalcedony does not have, is not much worse than the cat's eye with flexible and bright light intensity changes, but it is more of another kind of historical heaviness and awe deposited by nature over the endless years. With this kind of chalcedony like a sacred object, it is the exclusive enjoyment of princes and nobles, businessmen and wealthy people, and it is difficult to enter the homes of ordinary people, and it does not have the jade varieties that have become popular among the public, but our jade craftsmen regard it as an ancestral tablet, full of prestige and nobility. ”

Rong Hongran responded with a deep heart, "The real heirloom will not be popular in the market, but will only be blocked by the thick palace wall in the golden roof red gate, and the deep palace is eroded in the drunken gold fan, and has been submerged in the traces of the piano sound and song, the warbler and the green Luo jade belt." ”

Master Tan didn't have his solemn sigh, but said with a smile: "Brother Rong only saw the situation of the treasure at that time, but once it is released, it will be famous all over the world, and after more years, everything has long been unrecognizable, only it can still last for centuries and last forever!" Text, how much more interested can I be in my more than 100 so-called treasures? Our starting point is very high, Zhengqing Wenqitang is even in danger of some categories due to the lack of the most ordinary jade, which may also be the hypocrisy of the teacher who does not know the blessing in the blessing, right? Hehehe! ”

Li Zhi didn't care about what he said, "Zhengqing Wenqitang only takes the most high-quality route, and it can't be regarded as a pure business nature, even if it can only be furnished with a jade artifact in the store, it must be guaranteed to be unique, and it will not deliberately bring in some ordinary textures to fill the number!" But there is no way, I am only at the beginning of the business, need more channels to obtain benefits, the only guarantee is that the jade shop has not yet opened, so I will try my best to maintain its world-class quality, even if it is not open for half a year, it will not affect the maintenance of the quality of the jade shop for the insistence! ”

"Good!" Master Tan slammed the table, causing the two genuine items on the table to almost fall to the ground, so nervous that Gu Moran and Rong Hongran hurriedly reached out to support them.

"This is the real ingenuity, perseverance, not completely confused by interests! As a teacher, I will do my best for the rest of my life, accompany you willfully, keep the profit, and be cautious until the end. ”

Li Zhi made his face full of philistines in a blink of an eye, "Of course, commercial interests such as snuff bottles can't be given up for the time being, I just casually express my determination, it can't be true, hundreds of people under my command still have to eat, right?" ”

Gu Moran and Rong Hongran laughed so much that they almost couldn't breathe, only Master Tan blew his beard and stared at him on the spot!

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At dinner, the three girls personally brought the meal and accompanied the three old people to eat, and Li Zhi did not forget to show off the white jade pendant he had just carved.

With the help of his true insight, his knife work is not much immature, but the pattern design is obviously only simple and clear, not much connotation.

However, this was enough to attract Pang Qi to shout on the side, only Qingqi rubbed it in his hand, and Master Tan couldn't put down the palm-sized snuff box specially made for Li Zhi.

Yu Ran intimately poured Xifeng wine for the three old people, compared with monkey wine and wine, the old man preferred the mellow content of pure ethanol in liquor.

That kind of high-grade Xifeng wine, once it was delivered, was regarded as a treasure by the three of them, and those people in the backyard warehouse smelled the smell and asked for it, and they were like calves guarding, and they were only willing to share a small glass each.

In fact, Li Zhi brought them dozens of bottles, and they were all two-pound bottles, they are still so stingy, obviously the high quality of Xifeng wine, it is a better wine that has surpassed the times.

The white jade wine jug in their hands attracted Pang Ti's attention: "Master Tan, didn't you say that the irritation of wine will corrode the jade?" How can you afford to use it to make wine jugs? ”

The production of the three flasks can be called a masterpiece, and the most precious thing is its exquisite craftsmanship, although this kind of flask has a large bore, but the wall is very thin, and the contents of the jug can be seen from the outside.

"It is brushed with a layer of gelatin, which is prepared by Master Tan's exclusive secret method, which has no toxicity and will not dissolve in any water quality, including irritating liquids such as wine, and it is difficult to corrode it!" Gu Moran introduced it quite conspicuously.

Master Tan echoed casually, "This is just a prototype, and when I have time, I will inlay it with silver enamel." The jade is very delicate, often taken in the hand is very easy to add scratches, under the special mirror to expand, the scratches will criss-cross, long lost its delicate and crystalline nature, so I also brushed a layer of glue on the outside of the pot body. Using jade as a wine jug is already full of weirdness, but these two people insisted on doing so, and they had no choice but to fulfill their wish! ”

Rong Hongran pursed his lips and retorted to him, "Didn't you make one for yourself after it was made?" Haven't you tasted the benefits? ”

"What are the benefits of jade wine?" Pang Qi asked strangely.

"Especially for spirits, you need to heat your hands to warm the wine and help the aroma to spread, jade is the most sensitive thing in all stones, and the liquor contained in jade wine utensils has a richer taste and excellent taste! They're all masters of wine, and I couldn't bear to be so extravagant before! ”

Master Tan stretched out his hand and pointed at the two, showing that in just a few days, the friendship between the three of them was already very deep.

Li Zhi is even more happy to see this situation, "How do you think about it, how do you come, anyway, we are not short of jade, no matter how precious things are, they are also the first to be enjoyed, seeing that the carved objects are replaced with silver, you don't want to strike for me!" ”

"It's good to know!" Master Tan was very satisfied with the intimacy of his apprentice, "I will come to pick up these jade objects in two days, and I can't miss the laying of our jade products!" Those glass snuff bottles in the palace glass factory should be the mainstream of sales, and the white jade pots will only be purchased by the princes and nobles, and the sales of pots made of chalcedony will be lower, so there is no need to stock too much! ”

After the meal, a few people left and went back to the store, and the road was full of pedestrians, and at this time, it was the time when the people in the east and west cities gathered.

Returning to the East Mountains tonight, on the carriage, Yuran played with Li Zhi's snuffbox.

"That kind of chalcedony carving, although it will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to sell one, but Cry hopes that the jade bottle containing plant essential oil will be more popular, although snuff is not much harmful to the human body, but it is far less refreshing than the jade bottle with jade liquid!"

Pang expressed her dissatisfaction, she was born because of nature, she liked the quality of the natural products themselves, and always maintained a cherishing and loving mentality.

"Nature gives birth to human beings, which shows that it is an act of respecting human beings, and human beings need all things in nature to recuperate, which is also a kind of ecological balance control allowed by nature."

Li Zhi took her into his arms and explained carefully, Pang said with a smile: "Brother, of course I understand this truth, I just can't get used to seeing you big men smoking and drinking, just find a reason to vent!" ”

"Killing the enemy and building the palace is also the main contribution of our men! Therefore, men and women have their own existence essence, and they cannot only be interpreted in a one-sided way. ”

Pang Si fell into deep thought thoughtfully, at her young age, only with Li Zhi's patient guidance would she listen to her heart.

Qingqi leaned half of his body on him, "From tomorrow, there will be a steady stream of fruits from the mountains, but our wine jars are far from enough, even if we free up dozens of jars, it is not enough to brew the fruits sent by the mountains in a day, right?" ”

"The Ming Wangfu came forward to buy a wine jar for us, there is a huge wine jar in the palace that is several people high, and there are dozens of them, which have been idle in the corner of the East Palace for a long time, and they are purchased and placed in our underground wine cellar! I'm worried about oak barrels, Tong Lao Liu ran all over the large and small wooden workshops in Chang'an City today, there are wooden barrels, but oak, oak wood material is not a finished product! Although oak wood is more common, and a batch can be made as soon as possible, but there is a process for eliminating odors in brand new barrels, isn't it? ”

Pang Qi in his arms suddenly smiled and pointed, "What's there to worry about, aren't we planning to dig deep into the ground for wine?" Tomorrow, we will send someone to buy all the wine jars in Chang'an City, and with our spiritual energy water quality added, it should be better than the special wooden barrel. When Cry and her sisters were in Lishan, in a random mountain grape forest, the wild grapes on the ground would still waft out bursts of wine fragrance after being fermented in combination with rainwater, and there was a thin aura in the rain, and the fermentation effect of our aura water quality was not better? ”

Yu Ran responded, "Cry is right, the spiritual water we took from the deep well in the mountain is actually not of much use to the four of us, there is Shi Yuan liquid, and the water quality is mostly used for wine making, which is enough for several years of sales, and then the water in the deep well will condense again." ”