World Tibet Bureau

This statue of the landlord Lao Cai carrying a rice bag is about [-] centimeters high and [-] centimeters wide. It is carved into one piece and exudes Qi Nan's unique fragrance. It smells refreshing and a thin layer of oil can be seen on the surface.

Qi Nan's oil is not something you can touch with your hands, but a visual experience.

In other words, a sheen that overflows with treasure.

Many people may not know what oily shine is.

In fact, you can refer to the kraft cloth used by the barber in the past. Because the kraft cloth has been scraped on the surface for many years, there will be a layer of oil on the cloth, but it does not feel oily to the touch.

The reason for the oily sheen of Ji Nan is complicated, mainly because it is a dense fragrant tree species, which is crawled and retained by small insects and wild bees, and various honeys such as formic acid, manna or stone honey secreted by animals, Absorbed by the scent glands of living trees, after thousands of years of natural creation, it will emit fragrance and become oily.

For this reason, the ancients took a very poetic name for it, agar.

The landlord Lao Cai is curvy, potbellied, and his fat face is full of joy after a bumper harvest.

The rice bag on his shoulder occupies half of the whole statue.

In reality, if a person carries such a bag of rice, let alone walking, he will be crushed out of shit on the spot.

This is just an exaggerated artistic technique, and the statue doesn't look awkward.

My eyes turned to the place where the landlord Lao Caipang was holding the rice bag, and between his two fingers, a soybean grain protruded out of the bag skin.

When I didn't deduce that this bean was a mechanism cover before, no matter how I looked at it, I thought it was normal.

But looking at it now, the more I look at it, the more I feel that it is completely different from the protruding rice and bean grains elsewhere.

Lu Cenyin said: "I looked with a high-gloss flashlight and a magnifying glass. The oil on the surface of this bean is indeed very dim, which is completely inconsistent with other places, but it seems that a thin layer of wax has been specially applied on the outside, so that the gap in the mechanism cover cannot be seen. If To open the lid of this bean mechanism, you must find a gap. To find the gap, you must use a knife to scrape off the thin layer of wax on the surface, but I dare not scrape."

I asked, "Why don't you dare to shave?"

Lu Cenyin replied: "After all, agar is a kind of top-quality agarwood formed by ants crawling and bee phagocytosis. Occasionally, there will be bacteria cracks in it. As time goes by, the spread of bacteria cracks will cause the whole piece of Qi Nan to fall apart. Gu Sometimes, in order to prevent the bacteriostasis, it will be covered with a thin wax, which is an excellent way to preserve the agar."

"I was worried that there might be a slight bacteriostasis problem in this bean grain, so I applied a thin wax shallowly. If we can't be sure that there must be a vacuum mechanism inside, and scrape off the thin wax on the surface, the statue of the landlord Laocai carrying a rice bag may be dead for decades. The inside is destroyed by bacterial rupture."

Lu Cenyin's worries were very reasonable.

I appreciated: "You really understand."

When Lu Cenyin heard this, she gave me a blank look: "I am the head of the Lu family, not a big vase."

I said: "That is to say, now we must use a method to verify that the rice bag is indeed vacuum, and at the same time verify that the thin layer of wax on the surface of the bean is not sealed because of bacterial cracks, but to make others afraid of bacteria." Lie didn't dare to scrape the wax, but deliberately applied it on to confuse people."

Lu Cenyin nodded: "Yes."

This must be done.

As a practitioner in the antique industry, once you make a mistake in your judgment, destroying treasures will undoubtedly cut your heart out with a sharp knife.

Neither Lu Cenyin nor I can accept such a result.

I asked, "Do you have a way to verify it?"

Lu Cenyin scolded: "If I had it, I would have opened it in advance, and still have to stand here helpless? You must have a way, don't keep it up."

I said, "Okay, go and get a strong silk cloth."

She thought that Lu Cenyin would go down to get the thick silk cloth, but instead of going down, she began to raise her hand to touch her hair, and untied a beautiful and fragrant silk headband from the top of her head.

After untying it, her black hair like a waterfall flowed down.

Lu Cenyin brushed her hair back with her hands, and handed the silk headband to me: "Is this okay?"

I saw the way her hair was hanging down, she was so beautiful at that moment, she was not only in a daze.

Seeing me in a daze, Lu Cenyin said, "I'm asking you something. If it doesn't work, I'll go down and look for it."

I immediately restrained my voice and replied, "Okay."

Stretched out the silk hairband in his hand, wrapped it around the statue of the landlord Laocai carrying rice twice, and tested the tightness.

Seeing this, Lu Cenyin's face paled immediately: "You want to pull the sky rope?!"

She wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

I quickly pulled up the statue of the landlord Lao Cai carrying rice with a silk hair band, and with a dexterous pull in my hand, the statue rolled and rotated in the middle of the band, like a juggler.

Lu Cenyin was dumbfounded, his face pale, with an expression that put his heart into his throat.

After half an hour.

The rotation speed starts to slow down and eventually stops gradually.

After the statue of the landlord Lao Cai carrying the rice bag moved repeatedly in the middle of the silk hairband several times, it showed a tilted angle from the shoulders up and down from the waist.

Lu Cenyin was relieved when he saw the statue stop.

I said to her, "The first point has been proven."

"There is a word called top-heavy. For this statue, the whole rice bag occupies half of its volume. If the rice bag is solid, plus a huge head. After the rotation stops, due to the weight problem, the shoulders go up. The position should be at a downward angle, not upward."

"Its shoulders are upturned and its waist is down, indicating that the weight of the lower half of the statue is heavier than the upper half, which is completely inconsistent with its shape and volume. This can only happen if the rice bag is hollow."

this identification method.

Just now Lu Cenyin said a nice word called pull the sky rope.

It is mainly used to identify some ancient gold, silver and copper coins.

The ancient coinage technology is not as sophisticated as modern ones. During the casting process, uneven air bubbles often appear in the ancient coins. When the coins are hoisted by cotton thread and rotated in the hands, after the coins stop, they will be tilted due to the uneven air bubbles inside.

Most of the modern fakes are solid inside. After the rotation stops, because of the uniform quality, they will appear unbiased in the middle of the rope.

To put it bluntly, it is the gravity principle of middle school physics.

Of course, most appraisers know this technique, but they don't know how to use it.

The main difficulty is that after the treasure rotates quickly and stops, the hand is unstable and the heart is still. It maintains an extremely subtle tension on the rope, and does not exert any force on the treasure in the middle of the rope, so that it shows a tilt in its natural state.

The method of pulling the sky rope must not be used on fragile treasures.

Once it falls, it will be unbearable loss.

Qi Nan is known as the porcelain in the wood, if it falls, it will shatter into pieces.

This is also the reason why Lu Cenyin was shocked when she saw me pulling the sky rope just now.

The landlord Lao Cai carrying rice bags is a rare treasure of the Lu family.

I played like a juggler, and she didn't faint from fright, and her mental quality was already quite strong.

Lu Cenyin let out a long sigh of relief: "Next time, can you explain before you do it?!"

I think that if you say it in advance, you will definitely disagree.

Pulling the sky rope should be done in one go.

Back and forth.

It will inevitably affect the mentality and technique, and it cannot be identified at all.

I said, "Okay, now I want to verify whether it's bacteriostasis sealing wax, you go and get some cotton swabs."

Hearing this, Lu Cenyin was very puzzled: "What are you doing again?"

I replied, "Bring it up and I'll explain it to you."

He watched Lu Cenyin go out the door.

I quickly took out the lighter and pointed it at the skin of the bean.

Unexpectedly, this girl was extremely clever, she played a dirty trick, and suddenly turned back.

When she saw me burning it with a lighter, she was terrified: "Su Chen!"