treasure hunter

Pei Miao said: "Zhengde and Xuande are six or seventy years apart. In six or seventy years, the craftsmanship and style of the court craftsmen will change a lot. Although this is an official copy of the Xuande furnace, the craftsmanship is very superb. The imitation is quite similar, but there are still many differences that can be seen.”

"Authentic Xuande furnaces have secret marks, and these secret marks are hidden in the base payment. In the six characters of the Ming Xuande annual system in the base payment, the day in the Ming characters is open, and the lower left corner of the month is marked with There is a small corner, as for the character De, there is no horizontal line on the heart, and a side is exposed on the left; there is also a secret mark in the year character, and the vertical line on the right is a bit curved."

Hearing Pei Miao tell these proofs, Huang Lao nodded happily and said, "That's very good, then how do you know that this is a copy made during the Zhengde period?"

Pei Miao said: "Because the craftsmanship of this Xuande furnace is quite similar to that of the Zhengde period. Besides, this is an official imitation. Although there are official imitations in all dynasties, even the base payment is signed in the year of Xuande. This is like It was copying other people's test papers, including their names. Such a thing was nothing in the Qing Dynasty, but in the Ming Dynasty, it was ridiculous. It is impossible for craftsmen to make such low-level mistakes, otherwise they will lose their heads. , unless it was an order from the emperor, why would the emperor give such absurd orders? Among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhengde is the most absurd.

"Hahahaha..." Mr. Huang couldn't help clapping his hands in praise when he heard the words, "Well, the analysis is excellent, it's really scary for future generations, it's amazing, it's amazing!"

Pei Miao hurriedly said modestly: "Old Huang is too much, I'm talking nonsense, don't take offense."

Huang Lao turned his head to look at Fan Wenhai, and said, "Xiao Fan, I didn't expect you to have a bad eye for antiques, but you have a first-rate eye for picking people."

Fan Wenhai scratched his head and laughed, "Haha, Mr. Huang, you're praising me on the surface, but you're actually praising Pei Miao. I don't even know how to answer you."

Huang Lao was still thinking, and said to Pei Miao: "Come on, Xiao Pei, you continue to look at the others, and then comment on one or two, if you can't see clearly, start to read carefully, don't be cautious, continue."

"Then I'll make a fool of myself." Pei Miao nodded and smiled, and continued watching.

After watching for a while, Pei Miao stopped in front of a bogu, and his eyes fell on a blue and white bowl.

This is a blue-and-white porcelain bowl with twining branches and lotus flowers. The workmanship is very exquisite. Pei Miao directly held the bowl in his hand, and saw that the bottom model was made in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty.

Pei Miao frowned slightly, activated the ability of her right hand, examined the bowl carefully, and found that it was a high-quality imitation.

Pei Miao turned to look at Huang Lao, Huang Lao was also quite puzzled, and asked, "Why, is there something wrong with this bowl?"

Pei Miao said, "Old Huang, this bowl seems to be Zhu Fang."

"Zhu Fang?" Elder Huang was startled when he heard the words, "How is this possible?"

What Zhu Fang said was that 30 years ago, a man named Zhu Changshun was good at firing porcelain. Then he took the risk and began to imitate ancient porcelain. It's not entirely for making money, but it seems to be to prove himself. Every porcelain he burns will leave a hidden signature - the word "Zhu Fang".

But even if he left a secret money, there are still countless antique collectors who can't tell the truth from the fake, and are frequently fooled. Later, many well-known appraisal experts were cheated by Zhu Changshun's porcelain. It can be seen that Zhu Changshun's counterfeiting technology on porcelain is How amazing.

During that period, it was really a low period in the antique porcelain industry. No one dared to trade porcelain antiques, and all collectors turned pale when they talked about "Zhu".

Fortunately, in order to eradicate this phenomenon, the Palace Museum mobilized a lot of force, searched and hunted, and finally found Zhu Changshun and arrested him. It is said that Zhu Changshun is still in prison.

After so many years, the Zhu imitation porcelain has been found out one by one by the Palace Museum with instruments, and destroyed in a unified way. Unexpectedly, there is still a fish that slipped through the net here.

Huang Lao walked up to Pei Miao and excitedly took the porcelain bowl from Pei Miao's hand. He was so excited that he even forgot the basic rules of using porcelain.

Mr. Huang searched carefully with a magnifying glass. After looking at it for a long time, he didn't find any clues. He asked, "You said this is Zhu Fang, did you see the hidden money?"

Pei Miao nodded.

"Where is it, show me."

Pei Miao pointed to the bottom of the bowl, and said, "It's on the lotus heart at the bottom of the bowl. The lotus heart is blue, and his dark money is also written in blue. The color difference is very small, so you have to look carefully."

Hearing this, Huang Lao hurriedly observed the lotus heart at the bottom of the bowl carefully with a magnifying glass. With Pei Miao's reminder, he saw that there were indeed two characters in the lotus heart—Zhu Fang. These two characters were very small. It is only one millimeter long, and the color is not much different from the surrounding colors. If you don't look carefully, you can't find it at all.

"It's really Zhu Fang!" Huang Lao froze on the spot, and lost his voice in disbelief, "I actually punched my eyes out."

Fan Wenhai and others on the side stared dumbfounded at everything in front of them, and couldn't believe their own eyes. Huang Lao actually opened his eyes, and he only discovered it with Pei Miao's prompt. This is simply unbelievable.

Pei Miao said before that he would not dare to play big swords in front of Guan Gong, but now he not only did it, but also stabbed Guan Gong.

Huang Lao looked at the porcelain bowl in his hand, and was silent for a long time, then suddenly raised it high, intending to drop the bowl.

Pei Miao hurriedly stretched out her hand to stop her, and said urgently, "Old Huang, don't do this."

Huang Lao said: "Fakes, what's the use of keeping them, it's better to drop them."

Pei Miao said: "In terms of craftsmanship, Zhu Fang is absolutely incomparable to many contemporary porcelains. It is a pity that it fell like this. Why don't you get an authentication certificate for it to prove that it is Zhu Fang porcelain for people to visit. After all The craftsmanship of Zhu imitation porcelain is also very superb, maybe decades later, Zhu imitation porcelain will also be sought after by collectors."

Huang Lao thought for a while, and felt that Pei Miao's suggestion was not bad, put the bowl back on the shelf, and said, "Okay, I will do as you said."

At this time, the sound of a car came from outside. Mr. Huang went to the window and took a look outside. He returned to the book case and said, "Old Han is here. You are not allowed to tell him about my hole-in-the-wall later. This old Han, He just loves to compete with me, and he said a long time ago that he wanted to see me punch his eyes once, and wait to see my jokes."

Seeing Mr. Huang's appearance, Pei Miao and the others thought it was quite amusing, so they all nodded in agreement.

Soon, there was a knock on the door: "Old Huang, I'm here."

"come in."

The door opened, and a half-century-old man in a Chinese tunic suit, with gray temples and a few wrinkles on his face, walked in.

"Professor Han?"

"Pei Miao?"

Pei Miao and the visitors were all stunned.

"You...know each other?" Elder Huang looked at the two of them suspiciously.

Pei Miao hurriedly explained: "This is the professor of my professional class when I was in school."

Professor Han stepped forward and said with a smile: "Why are you here with Lao Huang?"

Pei Miao said, "I'm here to ask Mr. Huang to appraise a painting."

Huang Lao pointed to the painting on the table and said, "The painting I asked you to restore belongs to Xiao Pei."

"Suspect it's Zhang Daqian's painting? Let me have a look." Professor Han walked quickly to the desk, put down his handbag, took out a magnifying glass, and carefully observed the painting.

"Hey, it's really a bit like Zhang Daqian's painter..." Professor Han's face was a little excited.

After he finished reading, Huang Lao said: "Now it's up to you to repair the blurred seal. Whether you can witness a miracle is up to you."

"Don't worry, leave it to me!" Professor Han excitedly opened his handbag and began to take tools from it.

Huang Lao said: "Come on, children, let's go out for tea and don't disturb him. This restoration work must not be sloppy."

Fan Wenhai and the others were both 40 years old, and they were still called children by Huang Lao, and they blushed for a while.

They followed Mr. Huang out of the study and came to the living room to drink tea. The nanny made tea for them. Several people started chatting with teacups. Pei Miao asked the question in his heart: "Mr. Huang, you don't have a TV, air conditioner, refrigerator, etc. Electric appliances, don’t you feel unaccustomed to life?”

"No." Huang Lao said, "Mobile phones now have so many functions. If you want to watch TV, you can just watch it on your phone. It's very convenient. As for the refrigerator, Xiao Wang (the nanny) and I can eat together without much food. I buy the food on the same day and eat it on the same day, so I don’t need a refrigerator. As for the air conditioner, haha, I wear more during the day, and I have an electric blanket at night.”

Pei Miao couldn't accept the god damn electric blanket, and there was such a coquettish operation.

Wang Changyou suddenly asked: "When the summer is too hot, what do you do? Jinling is one of the furnace cities."

"It's easy." Huang Lao smiled triumphantly and said, "I'm a cunning rabbit, and I don't live here in summer."

Pei Miao was completely convinced by the God damn Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit.

Fan Wenhai and the others were all amused by Mr. Huang. Before, they always felt that Mr. Huang was too majestic, and they were very cautious in front of Mr. Huang, but today they saw Mr. Huang's approachable side. Miao related, it seems that after Huang Lao saw Pei Miao, his mood became happy and he liked to joke.

They chatted outside for more than an hour, the door of the study was opened, and Professor Han waved to them excitedly: "Come and see, it is really Zhang Daqian's painting, and the seal is Zhang Yuan in Shuzhong!"

"Really!?" Huang Lao seemed to have a spring on his buttocks, he jumped up and ran into the study, his vigorous movements stunned Pei Miao and the others.

Pei Miao and the others rushed into the study room, only to see Mr. Huang and Professor Han surrounding the desk, staring at the paintings on the desk with bright eyes. Their excited looks were probably no different than seeing the top-notch beauties who are protruding from the front and back.

They also gathered around to watch, only to see that the original blurred seal disappeared, replaced by a very clear seal, the color has not changed, the four characters - Shu Zhong Zhang Yuan.

Fan Wenhai and the others also shouted excitedly: "It turned out to be Zhang Daqian's painting, my God, I'm so lucky, I actually saw Zhang Daqian's painting!"

Pei Miao asked Huang Lao: "Huang Lao, how much is this painting... worth?"

"Money?" Elder Huang said displeased when he heard the words, "Can money measure this thing? This is Zhang Daqian's painting. You don't want to sell it for money, do you?"

Pei Miao blinked and asked, "Can't you sell it?"

"You..." Huang Lao said bitterly, "You are going to piss me off, you are lucky, you got Zhang Daqian's painting, you should treasure it, you actually want to sell it for money, Ouch, where is my heart-saving pill..."

Huang Lao covered his chest with his hands, feeling his blood pressure rising steadily.

Pei Miao hurriedly said: "Not for sale, of course not. I just want to know how precious this painting is. It is more intuitive to measure it in terms of money."

This sounded good, Huang Lao finally calmed down, and Professor Han said: "If this painting is put up for auction, the starting price can be set at 2000 million. As for how much you can get in the end, it's really hard to say .”

Knowing that this painting is worth more than [-] million, Pei Miao seemed to be reassured. Well, I am now a serious person worth more than [-] million.

But Pei Miao did not forget the business, looked at Huang Lao with a smile, and said, "Huang Lao, can you issue me a certificate of authenticity? I am afraid that others will not believe that this is Zhang Daqian's work, after all not everyone has as good eyesight as you. "

Huang Lao nodded without hesitation: "Okay, this is no problem."

As Huang Lao said, he began to take pictures of the painting, then took out a blank certificate, and began to fill in the content. The content was very detailed, almost detailing all the parameters and specifications of the painting, and then came the identification results and signature.

After finishing it, Huang Lao said: "The certificate has to be processed at the Bureau of Cultural Relics and then stamped. I can't give it to you today. Give me your contact information and address, and I'll have someone mail it to you another day."

"Okay." Pei Miao reported his phone number, Huang Lao called Pei Miao, and the two parties exchanged contact information, then Pei Miao edited the residential address into a message and sent it to Huang Lao.