Chapter 20: The Barn (1) Visitors
We lingered on the bed for a while, and after a long time, we sat up from the bed.
"Are you tired? I don't think it's better to go to Yun Ye, right? Mengya asked as she gently stroked my face.
"Well, I really don't want to bother with this anymore."
Mengya was very happy to hear my words, looked at me and smiled, and lay down beside me.
"Dangdangdang." There was a knock at the door.
I was just stunned, thinking to myself, could it be that Master Yun came to me uninvited? Thinking of this, I raised my vigilance and did not respond to the knock outside the door.
"Dangdangdang." Another knock came in.
I motioned for Mengya to put on her clothes, and asked vigilantly, "Who?" ”
"Brother Qiu, it's me, Xiao Shao."
As soon as I heard that it was an acquaintance from the antique city, I hurriedly walked to the door and opened the door, and when I looked closely, I saw a man about thirty years old standing outside the door. The young man was dressed in a floral casual suit and wore a pair of black and white flip-flops on his feet. Small flat head, small eyes, high cheekbones, and a frustrated chin are more popular.
"Xiao Shao, we were just going out, come in."
Xiao Shao was just about to come in, and when he heard me say this, an embarrassed look appeared on his face and said, "Oh, will I disturb you when you go out to do errands?" ”
"It's okay, just go to the store, come in."
Xiao Shao, a young antique dealer in the antique city, mainly engaged in the research of porcelain and bronze, a few years ago worked in the porcelain department of an auction company for a period of time, experience and vision are very unique. Not only does he have good eyesight, but this person also has a very modest personality and has no temper. He is also very particular about doing things and is very honest. So he is also a good person with a good reputation in the industry.
Xiao Shao and I sat on the sofa, Mengya made a cup of tea and handed it to him, Xiao Shao thanked him and took a sip. We exchanged pleasantries, and I asked with a smile, "Brother Shao, how about going to the field with your old cousin this time?" ”
When Xiao Shao heard me say this, a strange sense of fear appeared on his face inexplicably, and he looked a little stupid, as if he was possessed by something unclean, and it made me feel cold behind my back.
"Xiao Shao, you ...... What's wrong? I asked tentatively.
Rows of cold sweat dripped from Xiao Shao's head, and suddenly, he raised his head, looked at me with a look of horror, and his face was already colorless
"Brother Qiu, Brother Qiu. What should I do, what should I do? ”
I looked puzzled: "What's wrong?" What happened in the past half a month that scared you like this? ”
Xiao Shao sighed, a man about thirty years old was already in tears.
Half a month ago, Xiao Shao, like other antique merchants, sat bored in the store. While lighting a cigarette and holding it to his mouth, he played the game CF on the computer.
"What the fuck are you doing?" The sound of scolding the street came from the headset.
When Xiao Shao heard someone scolding him, he was angry, closed the laptop in front of him, sat on the chair and smoked and vomited.
"Xiao Shao, who are you vomiting with?"
Xiao Shao heard someone talking, looked up, and saw a middle-aged man in his thirties walking in and sitting on the sofa in the store. It turned out to be his Hong Kong cousin and his colleague.
"Cousin, why are you here?"
Xiao Shao's cousin smiled, took a cigarette out of the cigarette case on the table, lit it and took a puff: "I've bought it for you." ”
Xiao Shao was stunned, and said in his heart that he had a business, he didn't do it himself, so he had to pull me? It's confusing to think of this.
"Cousin, what kind of business?" Xiao Shao asked tentatively.
The Hong Kong cousin took another puff of cigarette, took out a small brocade box from the pocket of his suit, and pushed it in front of Xiao Shao's eyes.
"Xiao Shao, look at this."
Xiao Shao opened the box, and as soon as he opened it, he was attracted by the objects in the box.
I saw that the box contained a fragment of a plate with a diameter of 15 centimeters, and a third of it was still preserved. The color is beige, the surface is covered with a layer of cracks, and the porcelain tire is black, and the weight is much heavier than ordinary porcelain.
Xiao Shao was very surprised when he saw it, and carefully took the porcelain out of the box.
"Cousin, where did this thing come from? This is a fragment of a kiln in the Song Dynasty. ”
Among the porcelain of the Song Dynasty, it is the "five famous kilns" in terms of rarity and value. The saying of the five famous kilns was first seen in the record of the Ming Dynasty royal collection catalogue "Xuande Ding Yi Spectrum", saying: "The firewood, Ru, official, brother, Jun, and named kiln utensils in the inner library, the style is elegant, and the picture is submitted." It can be seen that the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the five famous kilns.
In the Qing Dynasty, the famous porcelain artist Xu Zhiheng wrote "Drinking Liuzhai Saying Porcelain" and said: "Wuhua porcelain can be divided into three periods: Song, Ming and Qing. There are five most famous in the Song Dynasty, the so-called Chai, Ru, Guan, Brother, and Ding. There are also Jun kilns, which are also very valuable. Because the firewood kiln has not been found so far, and there is no physical reference, the Jun kiln is usually included, and Ru, Guan, Ge, Ding, together with the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty. In Sotheby's "Ancient Rhyme Tiancheng - Linyu Shanren" porcelain special sale by the famous Japanese collector Masataka Tomita, a piece of about 10 centimeters of "Song Dynasty Ge Kiln Kwai Mouth Plate" was sold at a sky-high price of 48 million yuan.
The old cousin smiled and nodded. Xiao Shaoxin said don't look at this as a fragment, the fragment of the kiln in such a good condition can be worth at least hundreds of thousands. After thinking about it, he carefully looked at the fragment of the kiln plate with a microscope. After confirming that there was no problem, he asked tentatively, "Cousin, do you sell, sell?" ”
When the old cousin heard Xiao Shao say this, he smiled again and shook his head: "Not for sale." ”
When Xiao Shao heard this, he shook his head very regretfully, took this piece of the fragment of the kiln and looked at it again very reluctantly, sighed and put it in the box, and pushed the box back to the old cousin.
The old cousin looked at Xiao Shao's reluctant expression, took another puff of cigarette and laughed, stretched out his hand and pushed the box back.
"Xiao Shao, you misunderstood, this porcelain piece is not meant to be sold for you, it is for you."
When Xiao Shao heard him say this, he was very happy and confused, and hurriedly waved his hand: "This is not good, it is useless to suffer from sleep and food, how can I accept such an expensive thing casually?" No, no, no. As he spoke, he pushed the porcelain back again.
The old cousin smiled again: "Xiao Shao, this porcelain piece naturally can't be taken away for nothing, I said when I came in just now, I came here to bring you a ticket business, you see if you can cooperate with me." ”
Xiao Shao was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly poured a cup of tea for his old cousin and handed it over: "Cousin, you drink water first." ”
The old cousin nodded, took the cup, took a sip of water and said, "This piece of porcelain from the Song Dynasty brother kiln plate was collected from a farmer who farmed the land when we traveled to Zhejiang, and it didn't cost anything. That old farmer still has three pieces of celadon barns from the Warring States period at home, but I can't tell whether it's true or not, and I want to ask you to come over and help palm your eyes, what do you think? This piece of porcelain is a thank you gift. ”
Xiao Shao listened to it, and laughed secretly in his heart, what kind of money can the Warring States celadon barn be worth, one is tens of thousands of yuan at most, what's the point.
Thinking of this, he smiled and said to his old cousin: "Cousin, this kind of funeral goods of the war man are not worth much money, that thing is an ancient object and cannot be auctioned, and it is not very good-looking and has no selling point, so it is difficult to realize." ”
The old cousin waved his hand: "No, I just think those three barns are very close, if it is true, I will buy them back and use them as vases." ”
"Cousin, those kinds of things are unearthed, it's better to use a ......"
Xiao Shao was interrupted before he finished speaking: "Xiao Shao, I just asked you to help you palm, as for whether to buy it or not, I don't think you have to worry about it, right?" The old cousin looked displeased.
Xiao Shao saw that he was telling the truth, but it aroused his cousin's disgust, and said in his heart that I don't need to spend money anyway, you can buy it if you want to. Thinking of this, he hurriedly smiled: "Cousin, if you like it, of course you can buy it, when will you leave?" ”
"We'll leave this afternoon, and we'll take the train."
"In such a hurry? I'd like to say hello to your siblings and nephew. ”
The old cousin thought about it for a while and nodded: "Okay, we'll meet here tomorrow morning." ”
Xiao Shao nodded.
"Cousin, you're not an outsider anyway, you go to live at my house, ...... tomorrow morning"
"No need! No need......" The old cousin's abrupt interruption frightened Xiao Shao almost dropped the teacup to the ground. My cousin's expression was very abnormal, as if he was frightened. After being stunned for a while, he returned to his original calm expression: "I'm going to have dinner with a client in the evening, forget it." ”
Xiao Shao nodded slowly, and looked at his cousin carefully, and always felt a little strange. The two agreed to meet at the train station tomorrow morning and take the train to Zhejiang.