405 The Past of Wengu Zhai
This Uncle Wang is also bright.
As soon as I heard that they mentioned Liuli Factory, I immediately knew what they wanted to ask.
It's no wonder that their brothers and sisters were just unknown junior apprentices in "Wengu Zhai".
Who can remember them?
It is nothing more than that he participated in that incident back then, so he will be "remembered" by people decades later as the little Fuzi of the Liuli Factory.
After a few people exchanged a few words, Uncle Wang completely opened the conversation.
"Counting back to the past is decades, at the beginning, Haizi and I were sent to the 'Wengu Zhai' apprenticeship.
At that time, our Chinese land had just stopped.
The two of us thought that we could learn some real skills in the capital, and we would be able to do some business by ourselves after a few years of apprenticeship.
At that time, our 'Wengu Zhai' still had a number one in Liulichang, although it was famous, but the shopkeeper did have work in his hands, your grandfather should have told you about it, right?
As long as it is something that comes out of Wen Gu Zhai, you should be old, ordinary people can't see the problem at all, and if you want to find fault, it has to be, in the antique industry, the shopkeeper who has been crawling for some years has the eyesight. ”
Speaking of the past, Uncle Wang's eyes were shining.
It is not difficult to judge from his words that he was quite proud of the "fake" behavior of "Wengu Zhai" back then.
And it's no wonder.
In the antique shop, pay attention to "taking the thief on the other side", and if you have a problem, you will say it to your face.
I took this thing from you, and after reading it, I felt that there was nothing wrong, pulled hands, negotiated the price, negotiated and paid the money, and bought it and left.
From this point on, whether this thing is new or old, broken or broken, it has nothing to do with the seller.
You pick up the leaks, count the ones you have fished, and make a fortune in a muffled voice;
If you hit the eye, you will give yourself both mouths, and you should be a lesson.
The entire Liuli Factory knows that "Wengu Zhai" is a mixture of new and old and sold, it depends on your own eyesight.
It's a bit of a wish to take the bait.
"Later, according to our shopkeeper, the reason why the 'Longmen Shibi Case' was turned out was because someone bought something from him, but when he went back, he couldn't get over his face, so he found out about the incident back then."
Hearing him take the initiative to propose the "Longmen Treasure Theft Case", Lin Yi hurriedly followed his words and handed over a sentence:
"Listen to my husband, what the shopkeeper Yue sent to Lao Mei back then were two old things?"
Uncle Wang was silent for a long time without speaking, and finally let out a sigh.
"Well, it depends on what is going on.
Back then, the warlords were fighting, the people were not making a living, and the whole country was fighting, and Henan Province was the territory of 'Yushuai', and his base camp was in Luojing, so what could it do?
Isn't the Longmen Grottoes dug full of holes? At that time, not only Lao Mei, but also little devils and old hairy people all came to join in the fun.
You've also heard the old saying, "buy antiques in prosperous times, buy gold in troubled times".
At that time, it wasn't a prosperous time, was it?
The glaze factory can't hold up many shops, and it's closed.
The price of that old beauty is high, 14,000 yuan is now the ocean.
Even if 'Wenguzhai' doesn't do this, other bosses will do it. Even if the entire glaze factory doesn't do it, Jinmen, Jinling, there are always people who take this job.
In the end, our shopkeeper gave this job to the end, and you should know the rest of the matter, after going to Luojing, open up the joints, from the chief to the stonemason, and was knocked on the bamboo pole by several local bandit leaders, this matter is not mentioned, and in the end, these two reliefs were indeed knocked into pieces and brought back to Shangjing.
However, the two pieces of relief that were finally handed over to the foreign devils to bring back to them were not the two pieces brought back from Luo Jing at all. ”
"How can you be so sure it's not? Did the shopkeeper Yue tell you the truth later? ”
"What's the use of him telling the truth? After he was taken away, he told everything he could say about the year, and when he sent someone down to check the situation with the two of us, we only knew about the situation here.
But no one believed him at all.
What really worked was Mr. Zhang Boju, who looked at the photos sent back by our reporter from there, and said a word, saying that he had seen the real work of this relief when he went to the scene, and the old beauty was hanging in the museum, not like the original.
Because of this sentence, our shopkeeper was originally sentenced to death, but in the end it was changed to a two-year reprieve. ”
"Zhang Boju? Mr. Zhang Boju, one of the "Four Sons of the Republic of China" that year? ”
"Yes, when others speak, they don't have this amount!"
Zhang Boju, a famous collector during the Republic of China, later donated a number of antiques from his personal collection to the country free of charge, many of which are national treasures.
Including the Western Jin Dynasty Lu Ji's "Pingfu Post" volume, Sui Zhanziqian's "Spring Tour", Du Mu's "Gift Zhang Haohao Poem" volume, Song Fan Zhongyan's "Taoist Praise" volume, Cai Xiang's self-written poems, Huang Tingjian's "Zhuzao Post", Yuan Zhao Mengfu's "Thousand Character Text" and so on.
His words back then could indeed make Boss Yue's case turn around.
"What have you been doing for the past two years? It is for you to spell out the original relief, if you can restore it, this thing is still slow, if you can't spell it, then no one can speak.
The project was so big that the stonemasons were not particular about their work at all, and they were ruthless, and the stones that were knocked down were large and small, the big ones were as big as heads, and the small ones were about the same as walnuts.
It is said that when the box was packed later, the emperor and the latter two murals were also mixed together, and when they were transported out from the dragon gate, there was a box that was turned over, and the things that were picked up in the end were not complete.
There was such a long time in the middle, even if we made the shopkeeper guilty and meritorious service, he couldn't spell it all at that time.
Later, Haizi and I came back for a while, and we received a letter from my mother, saying that the shopkeeper was gone, and he died of illness in prison. ”
After talking about this dusty past for decades, Uncle Wang's eyes were still full of tears.
Bai Lu took a tissue and handed it over, the old man waved his hand and didn't answer it, got up and went back to the study, and took a photo frame out.
This frame, which looks old, contains a black-and-white photograph with a slight yellowing mark on it.
The photo was taken in a photo studio in Liulichang, and there is also the payment and time of the photo studio below.
An old man with a serious face wearing a long robe sat in the middle, and two hairy boys also stood behind him with timid expressions.
"The one in the middle is our old shopkeeper, this is my senior brother, Yu Zhaohai, and the one next to me is me."
Bai Lu got up, took the photo with both hands, looked at it, handed it to Lin Yi, and asked casually:
"Then do you still have contact with your senior brother?"
Uncle Wang was stunned at first, and then slowly shook his head.
"He's in Luanzhou, you're in Cangzhou, it's not too far away, don't you have to walk around more between your brothers and sisters?"
Uncle Wang still didn't answer, but shouted loudly outside:
"Is the table ready, it's time to serve!" (End of chapter)