Chapter 0066 confuses the real with the false

Just as he was in a hurry, the phone rang, and it was the shopkeeper who called, saying that the person who made the imitation had found it, and that he would meet him in his shop at seven o'clock this evening.

Hurriedly ate a bowl of fresh meat soup dumplings and a few spring rolls and rushed to Wuzhai Antique Street, but when he arrived at the agreed place, he only saw the shopkeeper. When he was depressed, the shopkeeper hurriedly apologized, saying that the person who had made an appointment before called, saying that a distant customer had come and wanted to catch up with the goods, and he was not available to come over for the time being, and hoped that I would wait here for a while, and he would contact the customer after he settled the customer.

Although he was a little dissatisfied, he couldn't show it, so he got into a conversation with the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper told me that the high imitations of Liangzhu culture jade mainly appeared in the nineties, when people just knew the ancient jade of Liangzhu culture, and there were many collections of Liangzhu culture jade from abroad, especially Taiwan and Hong Kong, and at that time there were a few old craftsmen who made jade, and made a batch of jade that was almost chaotic and real, which was purchased by Taiwan's Hong Kong people at a high price, and it is said that the Taipei National Palace also acquired a batch.

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, after the death of those old jade craftsmen, many crafts have been lost, and now people are impetuous, how can they have the effort to refine and grind slowly, plus now people are refined, who is willing to pay a lot of money to buy the so-called Liangzhu ancient jade, so what you see on the market are all handicrafts with these mechanisms.

While chatting, the shopkeeper's phone rang, and after whispering in Wu Nong's soft voice for a while, the shopkeeper looked at me with embarrassed eyes, saying that the person who made the imitation asked if he could meet near his house. Although I was a little depressed, I had to let him go, so I went to him with the shopkeeper.

This is a skinny middle-aged man who shakes hands with calluses on his hands, doesn't talk much, and speaks so poor Mandarin that the owner occasionally makes a cameo appearance as a translator.

I showed him the drawings of the scepter first, and said that I would make a copy of this as a sample first, and the man looked at the drawings for a while, and promised to do it, but the price was very high, and I asked how much, and he stretched out five fingers, and I thought he wanted fifty thousand, and thought it was indeed a bit expensive.

When he was hesitating, the shopkeeper spoke, saying that 5,000 is already very cheap, because I told him that your school has to do a lot of things, and he agreed.

The imitation man listened to the shopkeeper and kept nodding. Hearing that they offered 5,000 yuan, which was much lower than psychological expectations, he agreed, but asked for at least nine images.

Finally, I asked if I could go to his workshop to learn about the process of jade making, so that it could be more vivid during the class.

The person who made the imitation was a little hesitant, and the shopkeeper immediately did the work of persuasion, and the man agreed, saying that he would go again in three days, and he would concentrate on making this thing in these three days, and by the time I went, it would be almost done, and if there were any problems, it would be solved in person. I agreed to his suggestion and paid him two thousand dollars in advance.

When leaving, the shopkeeper introduced himself as Chen, the one who made the imitation was an orphan, who was adopted by a jade craftsman surnamed Zhao since he was a child, and his master's surname was Zhao, nicknamed calluses.

When I got out of the taxi, I gave Boss Chen 1,000 yuan, and said that I would give him another 1,000 yuan when I picked up the goods, and Boss Chen happily accepted it, saying that I was a cheerful person.

I was fine for the past three days, one day I went to Liangzhu Cultural Village, one day I went to West Lake, and one day I ate all the snacks in Hangzhou.

When I was visiting the West Lake, I missed Tang Wanli again, so I called her, Tang Wanli was pretending to be angry at the beginning, and when she saw that my attitude was more sincere, she said to give me another chance. Then I chattered a lot of interesting stories about Thailand, and I laughed in my heart, this little girl, in fact, missed me for a long time, and finally poured out.

On the fourth day, according to Boss Chen's agreement, I went to the calloused workshop with him.

The calloused workshop is in a broken yard at the junction of urban and rural areas, and Boss Chen said that the calloused master left it to him. The yard is not big, and there are a lot of sundries piled up everywhere.

The calloused led us into the workshop, where there was a lathe, a water stool, and some jars and jars, and two shelves against the inner wall, on which were many imitations of Liangzhu ancient jade, but I didn't see the scepter I wanted.

The callus sat us down, poured two cups of tea with pimpled hands, and looked at me.

Boss Chen asked what was made for me? The callus said that he would have to wait a while to take it out, so he didn't say anything again. Boss Chen looked at me and said, "He's like this, don't mind." "I said it's okay, people with specialties are a bit weird.

The callus suddenly spoke: "Didn't this boss say that he wanted to understand the production process?"

"Yes, yes, I'm tired of Master Zhao to introduce me. "I immediately responded and eased the awkward situation.

"This machine is used for cutting and rough processing jade, and the water stool is used for finishing, demanding imitations, which are slowly ground in the old way. Most of the imitations on the market are processed by machine tools, with regular dimensions and straight lines, such as this cong-shaped pipe, just like a hardware pipe fitting. "The callus that doesn't talk much, when it comes to the jade craft, suddenly the head is the way.

"Look at this piece again, although the appearance is irregular, and the surface is still pitted, but it is the appearance of the real thing, because the ancients were very stingy with materials, and they were generally reluctant to cut too much, and you see that even these potholes are carved with ornaments. "The callus continues to show the difference between its high-imitation and the low-quality imitation outside, and it is no longer inhibited.

"Look at the lines of this jade mask, smooth and round, you can tell at a glance that it was carved by a tubular tool. And the real Liangzhu ancient jade, the lines are carved out with shark teeth, the bottom is sharp and narrow, the surface is open, and the carving is all based on wrist strength, like this round and relatively long lines, it generally takes several times to carve completely, so the lines have obvious boundaries. "The comparison of calluses one by one shows me, like a number of treasures.

"Ancient jade is generally the easiest to find problems when looking at the holes, because the perforations of the ancient artifacts are drilled out with a sharp aperone, the thin ware is a horseshoe shape with a large end and a small end, and the thick ware is an hourglass-shaped, or also known as a trumpet-shaped hole, and the low imitation is generally drilled through with a pipe at one time, and the edge of the mouth is slightly polished, but the inside is straight. The callus opened the conversation, and it was uncontrollable.

Boss Chen finally couldn't help it: "Who wants to come to listen to your class, Teacher Meng still doesn't understand, so don't hurry up and bring something." ”

"Out of the way, out of the way, benefited a lot, benefited a lot. I hurriedly stopped Boss Chen, but the callus stopped talking, put down the objects in his hand, and went to the back room to bring out a large medicine jar, which made us baffled.

The callus did not speak, and brought a pair of tongs, and pulled out of the jar a bone-like thing, which was exactly what the scepter looked like. Then the callus spoke again: "When you came, this object had just been burned and was very hot, and now it can barely be taken." ”

"Why should a good thing be thrown in a medicine jar. "I don't know.

"This object of yours, judging from the pictures, is at least a few thousand years old, it is very calcified, like acorn roots and white bones, and it is not boiled in plaster. When the callus had finished speaking, he brought another wet handkerchief, wrapped it around the scepter and wiped it.

Let's take a closer look, the shape and ornamentation are quite in place, but the surface is slightly smooth, but a little new jade texture.

"It's good, but the erosion of this jade watch is not enough. "I give my opinion.

"There's no need to worry about this, just stay for a while and mix and stick it with jade shavings, and then treat it with this potion. With that, he took out a medicine bottle from the cabinet, and inside was a light brown liquid.

"Also, look at this bead, I got it down from an old Tibetan object, it's exactly the same as the bead on your thing." The calloused picked up a green bead from the plate, which did not resemble the bead in the photo.

After listening to the callus's demonstration and confession, I really benefited a lot. knotted, and watched him paste jade chips according to the picture, the processing mechanism, meticulous, completely regarded the two of us as air, this is the master realm of ingenuity.

After almost two hours, the callus said that it was basically okay, just apply this process, if you apply it now, this potion is corrosive, and it will be dry tomorrow to take it, if you are in a hurry to leave, you can also apply it yourself, in fact, the rest of this process is the simplest, just be careful not to apply it too evenly, and look at me without saying anything after speaking.

I was afraid that I would have a long night and a lot of dreams, so I took the bottle and said that I would take it back and apply it, and experience it by the way.

When he said goodbye, he gave the callus 4,000 yuan, and the callus took the money, and he didn't say much, counting out a thousand of them and handing them to Boss Chen, so that Boss Chen didn't pick it up, and it didn't push it, which was very embarrassing.

I smiled, asked him to take it, and counted him another thousand yuan, and Boss Chen was even more embarrassed. I said, "It's okay to delay your business for half a day today." ”

Now that the handle of the scepter is in hand, the body of the scepter is considered.

So he immediately returned to Chongqing to make a complete scepter.

According to the situation at that time, the era in which the Emperor lived should have not entered the Bronze Age in the wilderness, so the part of the staff body should be made of solid wood. The wood is the most hard and precious to red sandalwood, huanghuali, sour branches, chicken wings, etc., but these are foreign wood, the Ming Dynasty only began to enter China, and it is impossible to have it in the era of the Emperor. Then the only hard and precious wood in the vast southern region of that era was boxwood.

So I decided to find a boxwood stick.

I drove to the hometown of Jinyun Houshan to visit, and I found a boxwood fork rod for the material, which was very suitable, and gave the villager 200 yuan, and I was actually very happy, saying that it is now a useless thing, and it was almost burned when the material.

After two days of reprocessing, a scepter full of vicissitudes was born.

And Tang Wanli also called, saying that the plane had just arrived in Chongqing and asked me to pick her up at the airport.

Tang Wanli actually wore a fur, and when she saw me, she was very surprised, and explained: Taking customers to jewelry stores to shop, the boss rewarded her as a kickback, and it is worth tens of thousands of dollars in China. I praised my good looks, like a noblewoman, but I am not a nobleman, and I don't match each other very well.

Tang Wanli said: "If you don't like it, I don't wear it, I feel a little awkward wearing this." ”

I quickly said, "Don't, I like it very much, but I'm a little afraid to touch you." ”

"If you say that, I won't wear it anymore. After Tang Wanli finished speaking, she took off the fur, threw it in the back seat, leaned over, and put her arms around my waist with both hands.

I hurriedly stopped: "Don't, no, the police brother saw it and wanted to be fined." ”

Tang Wanli then pursed her lips and said dissatisfiedly: "We are affectionate, what does it matter to them, and it is not in the hotel, besides, it is illegal for them to break in like this in the hotel." ”

"Whether it's illegal or not, it's not up to us to have the final say. "I also concealed a fine of 5,000 yuan that day, if Tang Wanli knew, she wouldn't be distressed and cry.

"It seems that in the future, a man and a woman will have to bring a marriage certificate to live in a hotel. Tang Wanli said this, seemingly unintentionally, but actually intentionally.

"It's okay if you don't have a unit certificate with you. I smiled at her and rolled her eyes.

"School is on winter vacation, what are your plans, husband?" Tang Wanli still put one hand around my waist and leaned her face on her chest, so I had to slow down.

"What are your arrangements?" I asked her.

"It's the peak season for Southeast Asian tourism, and I'm now switching to a Thai luxury group, and the food and accommodation are basically more than four-star hotels, or you can go to Thailand with me." Tang Wanli actually had an idea.

"Well, that's a good idea, but ......" I hesitated.

"What's the matter? I'm dying!" Tang Wanli was dissatisfied.

"This year's winter vacation is relatively long, do I want to visit a few old friends before I go to Thailand with you?" I replied cautiously as much as I could.

"You only have friends and relatives all day, and you can't worry about our affairs. Tang Wanli began to mumble again.

"Naturally, I was relieved, because we were a family, so I didn't particularly mind. "I made a very reluctant excuse.

"Then how about I go with you to visit my friends?" Tang Wanli suddenly changed her mind.

"Didn't you say it's the tourist season? You're not happy with the way you work and the travel community. "I tried to find a reason to get rid of her.

"Now it's all a contract system anyway, and it's a big deal to change a travel agency. Tang Wanli made a reason for herself.

"That's not good. "I started to hesitate.

"What's so good, do you want to?" Tang Wanli rubbed me vigorously with one hand.

"It's dangerous to be with me. "I panicked.

"What's the danger of visiting friends, are you really doing something bad?" Tang Wanli's eyes became alert.

"You're thinking nonsense again, I mean go on an expedition with a friend, it's a dangerous place to go. I explained, afraid she would misunderstand.

"I love adventure the most, as long as you're there, I'm not afraid of anything. Tang Wanli did not retreat, and her emotions rose.

"I'm really not afraid, even my life is in danger. A thought crossed my mind.

"Don't be afraid, as long as it's with you. Tang Wanli's determined eyes.

"Then you are ready for the most thrilling journey of your life!" I looked at Tang Wanli, as if I saw Liya, and a thrilling plan surfaced.