Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Great Work of Art
Out of the alley, Ye Yu immediately got into a taxi and left with Yaoyao.
There are taxis waiting for customers at the entrance of the alley, this is an old market, and taxi operators know that it is easier to pick up work here.
In this way, the taxi drove away, and when the old man chased after him, he only saw the back of the taxi.
"Get behind the wheel and keep up with him!"
The old man shouted, but unfortunately when his car came, the taxi Ye Yu was sitting in had long since disappeared, and he didn't know where he went.
"Xiaoyu, where did you come from about this?
As soon as he got home, Dad Ye took Ye Yu to the study, and Mom Ye immediately came to Yaoyao's side and whispered to her.
Her appearance made Ye Yu a little worried, for fear that his mother would say the wrong thing, but he had changed Yaoyao's memory and made Yaoyao forget the sad things before, but her mother didn't know, don't mention it today.
Ye Dad pulled Ye Yu and walked directly to the desk, the words given to him by Zhang Benxing had been opened, and there was actually a magnifying glass next to him.
When Ye Yu was not at home, Ye Dad found this character by himself, and when he opened it, he was shocked, and he liked it very much, and he saw it until Ye Yu came back.
He didn't react until Ye Yu came back, and immediately asked.
"A friend I met today gave it to me, didn't you read it that it was given to me?"
Ye Yu said proudly, originally he had the intention of coming back to show off, who made calligraphy his father's biggest hobby, and this aspect can make his father care, so that he can get a sigh of relief.
"What friend of yours can write so well, and with his own style?"
Dad Ye looked at Ye Yu in disbelief, this calligraphy is really good, wildly angry, it is the best modern calligrapher he has ever seen.
Even some of the works of ancient masters he had seen with his own eyes could not compare to this one, including what he saw in Wang Jian.
There are some ancient masters' characters that can be compared, but they are all seen in museums, and only a few authentic works are possible, and many copies are not qualified.
He was shocked that such words were written by a name he had never heard before, and it was directly written as a gift to his son.
What made him even more unbelievable was the content written in the gift, 'It is rare to find a confidant in life, and it is the most difficult to find a bosom friend through the ages', which is clearly written by people who regard Ye Yu as a confidant and friend.
His son is actually a confidant and friend with such a calligrapher?
"Tell me, how did you know someone like this master, and how did you deceive someone to send you such a picture?"
Dad Ye said again, in his opinion, Ye Yu must have used some deceptive means, or bragging, to make people write such a picture.
"Dad, it's okay to have a little confidence in your son, I don't have any deception!"
Ye Yu was drinking water, almost choked on his father's words, put down the water glass, he said that he participated in the calligraphy and painting exhibition today and saw a strange word, and finally said Zhang Benxing.
"How can you say that your son is also a generation of grandmasters, isn't it better than him? Don't think of your son so badly!"
After speaking, Ye Yu lay on the chair, very angry.
"That's what I said, but I don't understand your jade carving, this word is really good, didn't you say that you didn't give me anything for your sixtieth birthday last time, give me this word as a gift, it's decided!!"
Dad Ye went over to look at the words again, and directly brought the ownership of the words under himself, and used the reason of the 60th birthday ceremony, so that Ye Yu couldn't say a word.
Ye's father's sixtieth birthday, Ye Yu wanted to celebrate him well, but he didn't want to, Ye Yu promised a gift at that time, but he also refused.
I didn't expect that today he would be used as a reason to ask for this word, which made Ye Yu really helpless.
Forget it, who let this be his father, it's rare to like this kind of thing, if you want it, if you have the opportunity in the future, let Zhang Benxing write a special one for him, and it's a big deal to exchange the jade carving himself.
Dad Ye didn't know how powerful his jade carving was, and Zhang Benxing always knew it.
"By the way, Dad, there is something I have to tell you, I just took Yaoyao out and found a friend to help her hypnotize her, so that she forgot what happened before!"
Before Ye Yu finished speaking, as soon as he talked about Yaoyao, Father Ye turned around.
This made Ye Yu roll his eyes again, if he didn't know Yaoyao's memory, he would have wondered if this was the sister born to the two of them behind his back.
They cared more about Yaoyao than they did about him.
"How's the hypnotic effect, what did your friend say?" Dad Ye sat up straight and asked quickly.
"The effect is very good, Yaoyao has forgotten about her father's death and her mother's madness, she only remembers that her father went to a far away place, and her mother went to work abroad, and it will take several years to come back, so you must not mention the past in front of her!"
The excuse of hypnosis came to him when he was almost home, and he couldn't say that he erased Yaoyao's memory.
Although hypnosis is mysterious, it can at least be accepted by everyone, and there is indeed hypnosis in psychotherapy.
Father Ye nodded and said softly: "That's good, this child is sick today, but it frightens us, so that she won't get sick again in the future, right?"
"The root of the illness is gone, of course not, but you must pay attention in the future, don't say it and let her remember it again!"
Ye Yu told again, and asked his father to call his mother, and also told him.
The mother was very curious about hypnosis, and kept asking Ye Yu where his friend was, and finally Ye Yu prevaricated for other reasons, and he hid in the room.
This also made Ye Yu wonder if his mother had reached menopause, otherwise why would she be so verbose.
After closing the door, Ye Yu took out the carved lacquer box he had bought before and carefully placed it on the table.
As for the gall wood tea tray and the imitation Tang Sancai horse of the Republic of China, they were all thrown directly into the study by him, and he didn't bring them in at all.
The carved lacquer box is a round box shape, not small, the diameter is almost 30 centimeters, red lacquer, there are figure figures on the surface, only from the appearance, it belongs to the ordinary hand-carved lacquer works in the late Qing Dynasty.
If calculated according to the carved lacquer works in the late Qing Dynasty, 4,005 is neither high nor low, and it is still a normal market price.
It's just that from the first glance, Ye Yu knew that this was not a carved lacquer in the late Qing Dynasty, or even an ordinary carved lacquer, this was a piece of red, and it was also a Ming Dynasty red, or an excellent red cut made in the Ming Dynasty.
Ticking red is a kind of lacquer carving, which sounds similar to carved lacquer, but the meaning is completely different.
Ordinary carved lacquer is a layer of lacquer on the picture on the wooden box, and a layer of painting is painted, but the red is not, the red is made of wood ash or gold shell as the tire, and then the paint is piled on it.
It's not paint, it's a pile of paint, it's not a layer of paint, it's a lot of layers, layer by layer, the more layers of the pile, the more difficult it is.
This is not only that, the early red is thin, and the red paint will soon become hard after brushing, and it is necessary to quickly complete the carving before it hardens, which is all manual work, which is not easy.
A real master has to be carved even when the paint is half hard and half soft.
Only when it is completed at this time will the ornamentation be clearer and more beautiful.
The lacquer applied will harden quickly, and the half-soft and half-hard will only take half the normal time, so it is even more difficult to complete the carving on it in such a short time.
It's not a layer, it's just a layer, it's not too difficult, it's hard to cut red, it's not a layer, it's every layer to be carved like this, every time it has to be fast, every time it has to be the same, this is its most difficult point.
There are seventy or eighty layers of ordinary red, which is already a boutique among the best, and not a famous master can't do it, and it will be at least millions if it is auctioned.
And the one that Ye Yu bought has one hundred and sixty-nine layers.
One hundred and sixty-nine layers is equivalent to one hundred and sixty-nine times of lacquer and one hundred and sixty-nine times of carving the same ornament, and each time must be limited to the time when the lacquer is half soft and half hard.
There is more time, the paint surface is hard and can not be stacked so many layers, there is less time, the paint surface is soft, the decoration can not be clear, the time control, the carving of each layer is basically controlled within three seconds.
It's a full 169 floors, all the same.
Technically, it's a great work of art, not to mention that it's so well done and so beautifully decorated.
"How do I remove this layer of glue?"
After looking around before and after, Ye Yu was suddenly stunned, and he was in a daze.
The reason why this beautiful red piece is regarded as a carved lacquer in the late Qing Dynasty is because someone has coated a layer of dark glue on it, which conceals the real red inside.
If it weren't for the extreme eye that could see all the subtle differences, the existence of the glue layer, and the real reddish appearance under the glue layer, I am afraid that even he would be hidden.
Ye Yu is also rejoicing, fortunately, this layer of dark glue is translucent, if it is completely opaque, then he can't see the inside, even if he doesn't see it right, he knows what is inside, he won't buy it so resolutely, and he may miss this real treasure.
However, if it is completely black, the appearance will not be a dark red lacquer box, but a black box.
In any case, this piece of exquisite workmanship, as many as one hundred and sixty-nine layers of redwood box, finally came to his hands, he will uncover this layer of dark glue, can restore the true face of this mahogany box.
"Let's go visit Master Zhang or Master Liu another day!"
Ye Yu watched it for a long time, and even experimented with a phantom hand, but in the end he failed to uncover this layer of dark glue.
The phantom hand was able to penetrate it and forcibly remove the dark glue, but when he tried, he found that forcibly removing the dark glue in this way would damage the paint inside.
Damaging the paint surface is equivalent to destroying this rare work of art, and Ye Yu would rather not uncover it than do so.
In the end, he didn't dare to act rashly, and carefully put the mahogany box away.
Last time he was in the antique city, he had a relationship with Master Zhang and Master Liu, and the two masters had a good impression of him, and they both invited him, so they found an opportunity to visit him, and asked them about this question by the way.
Although they have all hit the jadeite, the real foundation of the antique is not covered, maybe they have seen such things and know what to deal with.
Even if they don't know, there should always be people in the country who understand, this will Ye Yu remembered the old man he met in the Jade Buddha Temple Lane, the old man also wanted this red, but he was preempted by Ye Yu, and Ye Yu didn't give him a chance at all, he paid directly when he got his hands on it, and left after paying.
Even his request to 'borrow a step' to speak was directly rejected by Ye Yu.
This Ye Yu regretted it a little, he suspected that the old man also saw something, maybe the old man knew how to deal with this kind of dark glue, and he knew that the dark glue was so difficult to remove, and he should have left the old man's contact information at that time.