Chapter 79: Four Plum Bottles

Wang Lele continued: "For more than a year, we have investigated in many ways but have no results, and only analyzed that the skinless person in the picture may be a bloody corpse. But what this ghostly green face is, we don't know. Just when we were hesitating to send another expedition team, you showed up with a plum bottle. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Lele glanced at Chen Ziyang, who was sitting beside him, "After our identification, this Baishou plum bottle of yours and the Baixi plum bottle in the picture should be of the same origin and the same ancestry, thank you very much for providing us with clues, let us know that this tomb has a lot to do with the Qing Dynasty." ”

"Following the clue of the plum bottle, we continued to track down, from the time you sold us the plum bottle to the present, in the past few months, we finally traced the origin of this plum bottle."

"Sets?" Chen Ziyang asked in surprise, if the word set is used, then it means that there are not only two plum bottles, if it is two, then Wang Lele will use "right" as a measure word.

"Yes, it is a set, there are four plum bottles, and the words on them are blessing, lu, joy, and longevity. Look at this plum vase again. After Wang Lele finished speaking, he handed the Baishou plum bottle to Chen Ziyang.

Since he got the plum bottle, because he was afraid of damaging the bottle, Chen Ziyang didn't look at the bottle carefully at all. At this time, he took over the treasure he had exchanged for nine deaths from Wang Lele's hands, and he took a serious look at it for the first time.

"Look at the words on the surface of this bottle, what's so special." Under Wang Lele's guidance, Chen Ziyang discovered that every blue and white longevity character on the bottle was convex. How is the word longevity written, how much the outline of this word is raised, not a penny, not a lot. It seems that this plum vase should have been made of blue and white material coated on it after the longevity character was repaired with clay.

I don't know how these words are raised, whether they are glued with mud strips, or whether they are repaired by hand to make them look like this. Although Chen Ziyang knows very little about porcelain, he can also see that the workmanship of this plum vase is absolutely extraordinary.

"This kind of handmade embossing method has been lost for hundreds of years, even if there are imitations, they are all made by machine molding, and the traces of the machine on the bottle are obvious, and the natural beauty of this handmade embossing is incomparable. The craftsmen who can achieve this level of craftsmanship will definitely not exceed three people in the Qing Dynasty. We searched for a long time before my father found clues about these plum vases from the classics in the Forbidden City. ”

"When Kangxi got married, all the well-known craftsmen in Jingdezhen took out their housekeeping skills, hoping to take this opportunity to become an instant hit and become Kangxi's imperial porcelain firinger. However, because the color of the blue and white plum vase was too simple and did not meet the requirements of Kangxi's wedding, this set of plum vases was not selected. It is precisely for this reason that this set of porcelain does not have a base. ”

However, Kangxi, who has been fond of porcelain since childhood, was deeply attracted by the exquisiteness of this set of porcelain, so he kept these bottles. According to classic records, in the middle of the Kangxi Dynasty, Kangxi organized a competition of imperial craftsmen. The competition encompasses everything from architecture to crafts. Among them, four people stood out, and their skills were the top in all aspects, so Kangxi, who was thirsty for talent, tied all four for the first place. ”

Kangxi gave this set of plum vases to each of the four of them, these four people are Cardinal Wang, the first craftsman of the Qing Dynasty, Yu Yunlu, the first skillful hand of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Qianliang, the first genius of the Qing Dynasty, and Li Weidong, the first carving knife of the Qing Dynasty. However, what is more strange is that these four people seem to have disappeared out of thin air in the late Kangxi period, and there is no record of them in all kinds of classics. ”

Hearing this, Chen Ziyang knew that the clue Wang Lele got should be true. This coincides with the clues he found in the shallow waters of the Ichthyoscopod Crypt. "According to what you said, this plum vase means a lot to you! If I knew I would have asked you for an extra 2 million. ”

"You just want 20 million, and I will give it to you." Wang Lele said with a smile, Chen Ziyang saw in his eyes that he was cheap and obedient to show off.

With this clue, we deduced that one of these four craftsmen was assigned to the Eastern Dynasty in the late Kangxi period and helped the Eastern Dynasty build this mausoleum. After all, at that time, the Eastern Dynasty was a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"But you've said so much, what does all this have to do with me?" Chen Ziyang didn't understand why Wang Lele told him these secrets.

"In the past few months, I have investigated you, and I didn't expect that you were actually a disciple of Daoist Bochi."

Chen Ziyang, who was originally a little impatient, was interested again when he heard Wang Lele mention the old way of eating for nothing, this was the first time he heard about his master from other people's mouths.

"Bochi Daoist is known as the first in Guangdong in Guangdong, famous far and near, he is proficient in the art of finding dragon points, the art of subduing demons and eliminating ghosts, and Zhou Yi hexagram, how many people spend a lot of money just to get his guidance, but no one expected that the career is like the day of Bochi Daochang, suddenly disappeared, I didn't expect him to go to your hometown to live in seclusion, and accepted you as an apprentice."

"As far as we know, you have studied with Daoist Bochi for 10 years, and you are his only successor, so you must have obtained his true inheritance. We plan to excavate this tomb again, and you have also seen how dangerous this tomb is in the video, and we want to borrow your skills, and we can discuss any conditions you can mention. ”

Hearing this, Chen Ziyang smiled and said, "It seems that your investigation is not so detailed, and you also want to borrow my half-baked level?" Are you really unavailable, or are others aware of the dangers of this tomb and don't want to help you? I'm not married yet, and I still want to keep this little life to marry a daughter-in-law, not to mention that you don't have anything to buy me. ”

"Daochang Chen is modest, you can get this Baishou plum bottle out of the tomb, presumably your ability is not like what you said, only half-hanging! I know that Daochang Chen is detached from things, nothing can buy you, and your father's illness has been cured, and you have no worries, but aren't you curious about this whole thing? ”

Chen Ziyang knew that since they could even find out that their master was Bochi Daoist, it was normal for them to know that he came to Beijing to treat his father's illness.

The first time he heard someone call himself Taoist, Chen Ziyang had a fluttering feeling. But when I remembered the danger of shallow water in the tomb of the fish-turned dragon. He quickly got up and shook his head and said:

"It's not worth losing your life because of curiosity, you're right, that skinless person is a blood corpse, the blood corpse is powerful, you must know very well, and that green human face, that is a hundred times more powerful than a blood corpse, I advise you, you should not go to this tomb. Believe me, this is a thank you for helping me with my father's medical expenses, please consider my advice carefully. ”

After saying this, Chen Ziyang turned around and left, leaving Wang Lele with a blank face.