treasure hunter

Zhang Yan turned her head and glanced at the pen container he was pointing at, and said coldly, "This morning I just installed it."

Pei Miao said: "Take it out, I want to take a look."

"What are you doing!" Zhang Yan said angrily, "This is something from the Ming Dynasty. Can you afford it? Do you still want to try?"

Hearing this, Pei Miao frowned, stared and shouted, "I said I want to have a look at it, take it out!"

Seeing that Pei Miao seemed to be going mad, Zhang Yan didn't want to quarrel with Pei Miao, after all, Pei Miao is now a customer, if there was a quarrel, it would be bad for the store's reputation.

She could only reluctantly open the glass counter, took out the carved bamboo pen holder, and placed it on the counter.

Pei Miao held the bamboo carving pen holder with his right hand, and at the same time activated the right hand's ability, the three-dimensional picture of the bamboo carving pen holder immediately appeared in his mind, and every detail was extremely clear.

This bamboo carving pen holder is engraved with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. It is indeed a good idea to carve the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest on bamboo. Moreover, this is not a decoration, but a stationery. In addition, bamboo has been very popular among literati since ancient times. The content of the carving is the same as that of the pen holder. It seems very suitable.

Looking at the carvers, they seem to be the Su School carvers in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, but they don't look like the Su School, which makes people puzzled. Even so, he can still see the level of carving skills. The carving skills of this pen holder are extremely high-quality, exquisite, and delicate. The details of the bamboo leaves are also carved very well, and the stems in the middle of the bamboo leaves can still be seen on the bamboo leaves.

Such exquisite carving proves that this bamboo carving pen holder was definitely not made by an unknown person. Unfortunately, there is no money left on the pen holder, so it is not known which carver it came from.

Feeling something was wrong, Pei Miao zoomed in on the picture in his mind, and his perspective entered the inside of the bamboo carving. He was taken aback for a moment, and saw something familiar—cotton wadding.

"Could it be the hidden universe again?" Pei Miao felt excited. He noticed that this was a dark layer. Inside the bamboo tube, there was a false bottom. The distance between the false bottom and the real bottom was almost two centimeters. distance, which forms the dark layer.

The most important thing is that inside the real bottom of the pen holder, there are three characters engraved - Zhu Songlin.

Seeing the words Zhu Songlin, Pei Miao suddenly realized why he couldn't see the school of bamboo carving.

Zhu Songlin, surnamed Zhu, first name He, courtesy name Ziming, and nickname Songlin, was a famous bamboo carver in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and the founder of the bamboo carving technique of the Jiading (Modu) School. The artistic level and charm of bamboo carving have been greatly improved. Since then, traditional bamboo carving has entered the palace of literati art. It can be said that the emergence of Jiading School has a profound impact on bamboo carving art.

But this bamboo brush holder of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove is not a bamboo carving of the Jiading School, but a bit like a bamboo carving of the Su School, but not all of them. This also shows that this is the work of Zhu He before he formed his own school.

Zhu He was born in Jiading (Magic City), and studied art in Suzhou, so his early works were all in the sculpture style of the Su School, and then he slowly studied and formed his own school. This pen holder is the master Zhu from the Su School to the Jiading School A piece of work in the process of transformation, so it looks like Su Pai, but it is not like Su Pai, which is unpredictable.

If you are not sure who the sculptor is for such a beautifully carved bamboo pen holder, you can sell it for about 10 to 15 yuan, but if you are sure that it is the work of Master Zhu Songlin, the value can be increased by at least ten times.

Pei Miao guessed now that Boss Shen probably didn't see who the author of this pen holder was, otherwise he wouldn't have put it in the glass counter, but should have put it on the antique shelf.

Just when Pei Miao was about to zoom in on the picture in his mind to see what was wrapped in the cotton wool.

A cold drink came: "What are you doing here!"

Pei Miao came back to her senses, turned her head to look, and saw that Shen Ming had already entered the shop door, walking towards him angrily.

Shen Ming walked up to Pei Miao, pointed at the door of the shop, stared angrily and said, "Go out, I don't welcome you here!"

Pei Miao raised her eyebrows and said, "I'm a customer now. It's not what a shopkeeper should do if you drive away customers like this. It's not good for your shop's reputation. Believe it or not, I'll go out and yell twice for everyone to watch the fun?"

"Hmph! What kind of guest are you!" Shen Ming snorted angrily, but his attitude was obviously not as tough as before.

"Why am I not a guest?" Pei Miao shook the pen holder in his hand and said, "How much is this bamboo carving pen holder from the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest? I bought it."

Shen Ming glanced at the pen holder, raised his eyebrows and said, "If others want to buy it, it's 18, and you want to buy it, it's 25, even if it's less."

Pei Miao smiled lightly when she heard the words, and said, "It's only 25, Zhang Yan, please make an order, I'll buy it."

Zhang Yan was stunned when she heard this. From her point of view, Pei Miao was just a poor man. How could he possibly be able to afford 25 yuan? Views.

Shen Ming said coldly: "Bill him!"

Shen Ming seemed to have no expression on his face, but in fact he was ecstatic in his heart. Although this bamboo tube was exquisitely carved and resembled a master's work, but there was no money reserved, and he couldn't even understand the school of carving. The market price of imitating the master's works is between 10 and 15. Now it is sold to Pei Miao for 25, which is a small revenge for yesterday's revenge.

Zhang Yan quickly billed Pei Miao, and after paying by card, Pei Miao took the pen holder and the receipt, and said to Shen Ming, "How about it, am I a customer?"

"Hehe." Shen Ming sneered and sneered, "I have seen the face of a nouveau riche today. You were lucky yesterday and got a fortune, and you start to squander today. The market price of this pen holder is at most 15. You have to spend I bought it for 25, people are stupid and have a lot of money, I’m talking about you, do you really think that you relied on your own ability to pick up the big leak yesterday? (curse)."

"I think you are only two hundred and five." Pei Miao chuckled, picked up a pen on the counter, put it into the pen holder, and saw that the tip of the pen was one centimeter beyond the edge of the pen holder, he took the pen out again, and put it against the pen holder. The tail is aligned with the bottom of the pen holder, but the nib is [-] cm shorter than the pen holder.

When Shen Ming saw this scene, his eyelids twitched for no reason, and he had a very bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, Pei Miao said leisurely: "The bottom of the pen holder made of bamboo should not be that thick. There seems to be something wrong with the bottom of this pen holder, so there must be something good hidden."

After he finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Shen Ming, and said, "Boss Shen, what do you think?"

Although Shen Ming also had the same thoughts as Pei Miao, how could he embarrass himself in front of Pei Miao, and said stiffly: "What's the problem? Do you think that such a good thing as yesterday can be encountered every day? I just think about it all day long. Good thing about the pie!"

Pei Miao grinned mischievously, picked up the pen and put it into the pen holder, but his hands were a bit heavy, the pen hit the bottom of the pen holder, made a crisp sound, and bounced a bit, then he picked up the pen again, put it into the pen holder again, and the pen hit the bottom of the pen holder again. Bounced.

Pei Miao repeatedly took out the pen like this, put it in heavily, and tapped the bottom of the pen holder with the end of the pen, after 10 minutes, Pei Miao looked into the mouth of the pen holder and couldn't help grinning: "It's really a fake bottom. "

Shen Ming's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.

Pei Miao intentionally got angry with Shen Ming, pointed the mouth of the pen container at Shen Ming, and said, "Look."

Shen Ming took a closer look, and saw a circle of neat cracks around the inner bottom of the pen holder, and his heart sank. He couldn't believe that the inner bottom of this pen holder was fake, and there was a dark layer inside, but he didn't Find.

But if he thinks about it carefully, he will know that who cares about the difference between the inner depth and outer depth (the length of the pen holder) of this pen holder, and the difference is only a little more than two centimeters. A stainless steel thermos cup is placed in front of you. Do you know the distance between the inner bottom and the outer bottom?

Even if an antique expert sees this bamboo carving pen holder, it is difficult to find this dark layer, because the more proficient in antiques, the more attention will be paid to the carvings on the pen holder, and then they will admire its exquisite carving work and study which school it is The carving technique, from which master, will never be boring enough to measure the inner depth and outer length.

Pei Miao put his hand into the pen container, lightly touched the inner bottom with his fingers to completely separate it from the wall of the container, then covered the mouth of the pen container with his hand, with the mouth facing down, a round bamboo knot and a lump of cotton wool fell into the palm of Pei Miao's hand .

Seeing the cotton wool, Shen Ming's eyebrows twitched wildly. It was too familiar. Yesterday he personally saw Pei Miao strip a piece of Tianhuang stone worth millions from the almost identical cotton wool. What is in the cotton wool today.

Shen Ming was overly excited, his blood pressure rose slowly, his head felt dizzy, and his heart ached. He quickly reached into his arms, took out the bottle of Jiuxin Pill, and held it tightly in his hand.

Prepare in advance before it is too late.

Seeing that Shen Ming took out the heart-saving pill, Pei Miao couldn't help laughing, but he held back, and gently peeled off the cotton wool, revealing a blue and white porcelain snuff bottle with orchid pattern in front of him.

"Snuff bottle?" Shen Ming couldn't help being taken aback when he saw the snuff bottle. He had guessed about all kinds of things, but he never thought about the snuff bottle. Although snuff bottles are common items in the antique market, most of them are worthless. The size of the vessel is small, and the second reason is that there are too few high-quality goods, and this is a blue and white porcelain snuff bottle.

Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he realized that something was wrong. The blue and white color of this snuff bottle was very eye-catching and vivid, and the glaze was as white as snow, bright and attractive, and the craftsmanship seemed to be very good.

Pei Miao looked at the snuff bottle and couldn't help laughing, "It's actually a high-quality snuff bottle from the Qianlong official kiln. This is a rare item."

As he spoke, he deliberately showed Shen Ming the inscription on the bottom of the snuff bottle, and sure enough, he saw a row of vertical inscriptions at the bottom—made in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

When Shen Ming saw these six words, he immediately felt a throbbing pain in his heart. He quickly opened the lid of the Jiuxin Pill bottle, poured out a few pills, and stuffed them into his mouth.

The blue-and-white porcelain craftsmanship in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty reached the peak of the blue-and-white porcelain craftsmanship in the Qing Dynasty. Of course, we are talking about official kilns here.

Therefore, most of the blue-and-white porcelain in the Qianlong period was very valuable, but this snuff bottle has a delicate and thin body, and the orchid decoration on the other side of the pot can be seen in the sun. The standard has definitely reached the limit, it is simply the best of the best. If there is any shortcoming of this snuff bottle, it is that the shape of the snuff bottle is too small.

In order to anger Shen Ming, Pei Miao deliberately asked Shen Ming: "Boss Shen, this snuff bottle looks like something that opens the door. It is a high-quality official kiln from the Qianlong period. The market price should be 60."

After Shen Ming took the Jiuxin Pill, he took a few breaths, tried to calm down, and said angrily, "It's only 60, let's see how proud you are."

"Boss Shen's family has a big business, and he really speaks loudly!" Pei Miao smiled, seemingly casually glanced into the pen container, and then said in surprise, "Hey, there is a word on the bottom of this pen container, I don't know the word well, Boss Shen, help me find out, what is this word?"

As he spoke, he pointed the mouth of the pen holder at Shen Ming. Shen Ming knew that he had bad intentions, and he didn't want to read it, but his strong curiosity drove him to read it, so he read it.

When he saw the words Zhu Songlin, he suddenly pointed at Pei Miao: "You..."

Then he stopped talking, and quickly poured the bottle of Jiuxinwan to his mouth...

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When Pei Miao left the Ancient Porcelain Workshop, Boss Shen seemed to be in a bad condition, his eyes were dull, he sat motionless on the chair, and he didn't speak. Zhang Yansheng was afraid that something might happen to him, so he called the emergency center.

Pei Miao didn't bother to worry about him, he provoked all of this, even though Shen Ming was kind to him two years ago, in fact Shen Ming just wanted to find a cheap shop assistant, and he worked hard for him these two years, Being often deducted from wages by him can be regarded as repaying the kindness, so he doesn't feel any burden now.

After Pei Miao left the Ancient Porcelain Workshop, she walked around the antique market for half an hour. Xue Yang called and said she was coming. Pei Miao immediately trotted all the way to the parking lot outside the park.

As soon as Pei Miao arrived at the entrance of the parking lot, a Mercedes-Benz C-series car stopped in front of Pei Miao, the window was lowered, Xue Yang took off his sunglasses, and looked at Pei Miao with a smile: "Little brother, you are so handsome, how about a date?" ?”