Lin Yuan saw that this big man had talked to this point, and there was nothing to say, he had an idea, thought about it, and said: "Please give Cheng Jiuye a gift, and say that a person named Lin Yuan will bring a generous gift to his old man tomorrow." ”

The big man smiled and agreed, Lin Yuan returned to the Beijing ship and asked Han Mingguang: "Political commissar, do you remember the gift that overseas Chinese gave us when we were in Indonesia?" ”

Han Mingguang sighed and said, "How can you not remember?" Didn't you see that old overseas Chinese holding my hand and crying, he told me that in '98, his wife and son were killed, and if we had an aircraft carrier at that time, his family would not have died tragically no matter what. ”

In 98, with the acquiescence of the Indonesian government, there was a large-scale anti-Chinese incident in Indonesia, in which more than 1,000 Chinese were killed, and many Chinese women were raped and killed.

Lin Yuan said: "In this era, that thing will never happen. Where is that thing there? ”

Han Mingguang said: "It's in our showroom. ”

The next day, Lin Yuan took the gift and came to Beishan again, and sure enough, he met the big man from yesterday again, and the big man was happy when he saw Lin Yuan, and said, "Yo, isn't this Lin Yuan Lin Ye?" You're really punctual. ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Visiting the Ninth Master is a big event for me Lin, how can I not be on time?" As he spoke, he handed over the gift box and said, "This gift is bothersome for you to hand over to the ninth master." ”

Dahan took the gift box with one hand and said with a smile: "The rules of the Ninth Master, the gifts of outsiders, all look at them first and then give them, if they don't meet the appetite of the Ninth Master, they will smash your gift for a while, Lin Ye is not to blame for being small." ”

Saying that, the big man put the gift box on the stone platform, opened the gift box, and took out the cotton stuffed in the box, revealing the true body of the gift.

In the gift box, lying on a crystal clear porcelain bowl, the wall of the porcelain bowl is as thin as cicada wings, the pattern on the bowl wall is a butterfly wearing flowers, the butterfly and flowers are lifelike, the most rare thing is: in the pattern is actually inlaid with more than a dozen translucent dots, the finishing touch generally revitalizes the whole pattern! Sunlight shines through the dots, setting off the porcelain bowl like a dream.

The big man's hand holding the gift box trembled a little, and he hurriedly put the cotton back into the box respectfully, held the box with both hands, handed it to Lin Yuan, turned sideways, bowed down and made a gesture of invitation, and said: "Master Lin, please first, the little one will show you the way behind." ”

Climbing the stone steps, Lin Yuan came to the Zhuangzi, not so much Zhuangzi, it is better to say that this is a village, as soon as you enter the village, it is like returning to the Ming Dynasty, and the people inside are still the costumes of the Ming Dynasty. Lin Yuan thought that Cheng Jiuzhen's house would be so magnificent and luxurious, but he didn't expect the big man to take him to a small courtyard behind the village, this small courtyard has a bamboo gate and a bamboo fence, chickens and ducks in the yard, and a thatched house in the middle of the courtyard.

Dahan stopped at the door and shouted at the door, "Ninth Grandfather, there is a distinguished guest!" ”

As soon as the door opened, a spirited old man walked out, opened the courtyard door, and said with a smile: "The flower path has never been swept by guests, and the pengmen is now open for you." When the distinguished guests came to the door, they never greeted them from afar, and they hoped to forgive their sins. ”

Lin Yuan thought that this Cheng Jiuye would be so arrogant, but he didn't expect it to be such a polite and easy-going old man, the big man smiled: "Our Jiuye was annoyed by the Japanese, so he thought of such a method, and he didn't see the vulgar." ”

Lin Yuan didn't care, presented the gift box, Cheng Jiuye invited Lin Yuan into the courtyard, sat on the bamboo table in the courtyard, opened the gift box, saw the porcelain bowl, couldn't help but cry, he held the bowl, knelt down to the north, held the porcelain bowl high above his head, touched his forehead to the ground, and cried and said: "Ancestors and ancestors!" God forbid! I, Cheng Jiuzhen, finally saw the exquisite bowl in my lifetime! ”

Lin Yuan saw Cheng Jiuye kneeling on the ground, crying bitterly like a child, and hurriedly persuaded: "Ninth Master, get up quickly." ”

Cheng Jiuye cried for a while before he stood up again, sat back on the chair, looked at the bowl, and said: "Our ancestors followed the country surname to Taiwan back then, and later Taiwan was also occupied by the Tartars, so we fled here, and we want to recast this exquisite bowl for generations!" But it has not been successful, and today I saw it, and the wish of my ancestors is over! ”

Lin Yuan understood that for a person who had studied Linglong bowls all his life, seeing the real thing would help him a lot. It can also be understood that Cheng Jiuye is so excited.

In the 21st century, China's ceramic masters re-elaborated on the craftsmanship of this exquisite bowl, and the manufacture of this bowl is extremely difficult: first of all, it is as thin as cicada wings, as light as silk yarn The bowl wall, the rough embryo of the bowl wall is only two millimeters thick, carved out of the shape on such a thin embryo, there is a slight uneven breathing, or a slight shake of the hand, the embryo will fail!

Lin Yuan knew that he had completely moved Cheng Jiuye, so he said: "Ninth Master, my name is Lin Yuan, but I came here this time, but I have something important to ask for. ”

Cheng Jiuye said with a smile: "Honorable guest, please speak, if you say a word, I will never give up!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "No, no, I want to ask, is there saltpeter on your mountain?" ”

Cheng Jiuye said: "It's not a secret, our Cheng family can burn out the glaze of malachite green, all with the power of saltpeter!" Does the honorable guest want this saltpeter? ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Exactly! ”

Cheng Jiuye smiled heartily and said: "The saltpeter in our Zhuangzi is almost exhausted, we will go to mining saltpeter tomorrow, if you don't dislike it, you might as well go with us tomorrow." ”

Lin Yuan was about to resign, but Cheng Jiuye had already arranged for someone to let him stay, so Lin Yuan had no choice but to agree. That night, at about three o'clock in the morning, Cheng Jiuye personally came to call Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan followed everyone along the mountain road to the mountain, and turned a few more corners, and suddenly, the eyes suddenly opened up, only to see a large open space in front of him, and the open space seemed to be as white as a thick layer of snow.

Lin Yuan took a closer look, and saw that the "snow" was full of small pieces like rock sugar, and these small pieces were stuck together, Cheng Jiuye smiled: "This is our saltpeter." ”

The so-called saltpeter, whose chemical composition is potassium nitrate, will automatically precipitate on saline-alkali ground.

So everyone began to sweep the saltpeter on the ground into the basket, and Cheng Jiuye smiled: "These are just nitrate, we have to process it again when we go back to get saltpeter." ”

A sense of disappointment suddenly shrouded Lin Yuan's heart, he originally thought that there would be a lot of saltpeter here, but he didn't expect that the scale of saltpeter here was far from enough for industrial production.

At this moment, a woman came crying, and found a man crying, "The head of the house, but the child is gone." ”

The man said, "Why is it gone?" ”

The woman said, "If the boy loses the sheep and I scold him twice, he must be so angry that he goes out to find the sheep!" ”

The man asked, "Where did he leave his sheep?" ”

The woman's face changed, and she pointed to the mountain beyond the clearing, and said, "He must have gone to the ghost land!" ”