Rebirth 93: Break off the engagement at the beginning and marry Bai Fumei

Looking at the jade plume tube placed in the middle of the countertop in front of me, the plume tube is cylindrical and hollow, with a semicircular button at one end and a hole in the middle, without any lines. The color of the green material is uniform,

Chen Yang narrowed his eyes slightly. This thing looks similar to a jade cigarette holder, but it is much larger than the cigarette holder. Judging from the jade quality, it seems to be very good. He seems to have never seen this kind of thing. What is this thing like? What is it used for?

While Chen Yang was touching his chin and thinking about it, Song Qingyun smacked his lips a few times, "Oh, this is a good item. A jade plume tube of this quality must be at least a third-grade official."

"Uncle Master, what is this thing for?"

Chen Yang asked Song Qingyun. Song Qingyun turned to look at Chen Yang with a puzzled look on his face, "You don't know this thing?"

Chen Yang shook his head and said he had never seen it before.

“The Cui Ling Guan is an ornament decorated with flower feathers on the hats of officials in the Qing Dynasty!”

The feather tube is an ornament decorated with flower feathers on the hats of officials in the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, if officials and members of the clan had meritorious service, the emperor would give them feathers to show their honor. The flower feathers are made of peacock feathers, inserted into a tube and worn on the back of the head. They are divided into one, two, and three eyes, with the third eye being the highest. The texture of the plume tube includes jade, white jade, tourmaline, enamel, ceramics, etc., with jade and jade being the best.

"To put it bluntly, this thing is used to fix the flower feathers on officials' hats." Song Qingyun explained to Chen Yang, "According to historical records, Heshen's family property totaled about 8-11 million yuan in silver, which is equivalent to the amount of the Qing Dynasty government. The total annual fiscal revenue includes 11 full green feather tubes and 835 various colored feather tubes, a total of 846. Unfortunately, there are only records of these things, but none of them are actually seen in the Forbidden City. "

"The Capital Museum has a collection of jade quills, which came from Ronglu, a powerful official in the late Qing Dynasty. It is extremely valuable. Although the jade quills have no practical value now, they have considerable collection value."

Chen Yang nodded after hearing this, finally understanding what this thing was used for, "It's understandable that there aren't any in the Forbidden City. It's been so many years since Jiaqing. Even though there are more than 800 of such small objects, today You take one, and I’ll take one tomorrow. It’s probably been taken away by the palace people.”

"You are not," Song Qingyun shook his head after listening, "It is said that my second uncle said that he heard from friends in the Forbidden City that the documents record that a lot of things were indeed seized at that time, but except for the items that Emperor Jiaqing paid attention to, the rest The items were all stolen in batches and exchanged for money.”

"Just such a small thing, according to the archived records of the Qing Palace, it can only go in and not out!" Song Qingyun smiled lightly when he said this, "You have to know that at that time, only high-ranking officials were qualified to wear plumes, let alone civilians. You know how valuable this thing is!”

After hearing this, Chen Yang nodded slightly, and he finally understood what Song Qingyun meant, that is, Emperor Jiaqing had inspected it here, and someone else had kept it under wraps there. Haha, this is simply ridiculous!

As Song Qingyun said, the value of this thing is indeed very high. It was auctioned for more than 90 yuan. For this number, it is definitely not low. Seeing the people in Shen Cheng clasping their fists at Ye Hui, Chen Yang and Song Qingyun also understood that it turned out that this object actually belonged to Ye Hui. This was not surprising, and he could only take it out.

Such a gadget cost Ye Hui more than 90 yuan in vain! However, this is also the item with the highest auction price in Shencheng so far. It can be regarded as earning back face for Shencheng. At least it leaves Jincheng behind. The items sent by antique dealers like Jincheng are currently either unsold or only auctioned. After spending tens of thousands of dollars, Ye Hui's jade feather pipe simply threw them away.

"Congratulations to my Eight Immortals of Agarwood!" Boss Chu said slowly as he watched a wooden ornament come up on the auction table.

Chen Yang and Song Qingyun glanced at the ornaments on the table, and they both glanced at Boss Chu at the same time. Many wooden products in front of them had been passed up for auction. This was Boss Chu's first auction item. Looking at his expression now, Not nervous at all, on the contrary, very relaxed.

"Boss Chu, there are many wooden items that have failed to be auctioned. This is agarwood. It's okay to say it failed to auction, but if the price is not high, you..." Chen Yang asked from the side.

Boss Chu laughed and said that this is what playing with woodware is like. Woodware is different from porcelain, calligraphy and painting, gold and silverware, bronzeware, etc. In the eyes of others, it is just wood. Which national treasure have you seen that is wooden? It cannot be said that there is no such thing, but once it touches the woodenware that is a national treasure, it must be made of good materials, good craftsmanship, and large in size.

"Think about it, good wood and good craftsmanship are hard to come by, let alone large in size," Boss Chu said with a calm smile, "So, we play with wood. Unlike you, we mainly play with mentality.”

"So, whether it's wood lacquer or wood carving, what matters is the ingenuity, the silence of the mind, the magic that is carved out with each stroke of a knife and a stroke of the sun and the moon!"

"It's the kind of state of mind that craftsmen have, neither impatient nor impatient, neither crazy nor insane, and accumulated over time!"

After hearing what Boss Chu said, Chen Yang couldn't help but think about it. In his own memory, it seemed that there were very few woodware auctions that fetched high prices in later generations. In the Kuang Shiqiu auction in 2006, there was an agarwood auction - "Ming Dynasty" "Agarwood Carved Landscape Figure Pen Holder" was sold for 143 million yuan, which was said to have broken the record for wood auctions at the time.

Later, in 2009, at an auction in Subi Port City, a rosewood throne carved from imperial Qianlong Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty with an eight-treasure cloud bat pattern and "Water Waves and Cloud Dragon" sold for more than 7000 million yuan; in 2017, the United States Federal International auctioned a Qinan carved Guanyin ornaments from the Qing Dynasty, that one was more than 3940 centimeters tall, weighed 7000g, and was hammered down for more than million yuan. Both of these caused quite a sensation at the time, and the others were some guqin, wooden seals and the like. , strictly speaking, is not considered wooden.

"So," Song Qingyun turned sideways and looked at Boss Chu, "This is the main reason why most antique dealers play with wood. To be honest, this is the first time I have seen someone like Boss Chu who plays with wood professionally."

"Boss Chu, how much do you think this sunken wood ornament of yours can fetch?"

Boss Chu shook his head and said that he didn't know. It depends on whether any of the people participating in the auction like wood. If so, he might be able to bid more. If not, the auction might be unsuccessful.

"Anyway, I estimate it's 20,000!"

"Twenty thousand?" Chen Yang turned back and glanced at Boss Chu, "Boss Chu, is this agarwood or white fragrant wood? If it is really agarwood, if it is sold for more than 20,000 yuan, you will suffer a big loss!"

Boss Chu smiled slightly, "Serious Agarwood!"

From ancient times to the present, the name of agarwood has not been regulated. In the ancient and early markets, there was no distinction between agarwood and agarwood, such as dense incense, stacked incense, agarwood, agar agar, etc. The two names of agarwood (white wood incense) and agarwood are usually not specifically distinguished.

White wood incense and agarwood are both called agarwood, and some are also called agarwood, but they are not the same thing. The biggest difference is that agarwood is the white trunk of the agarwood tree that has no incense; while agarwood is the incense-bearing part of the agarwood tree, which contains the innermost material of the resin. Even though they are all wood taken from the same tree, , but the price difference can be thousands of miles away! In later generations, many people sold agarwood, that is, white wood incense, as agarwood. There is no problem in theory, but it is not the same thing at all.

"This agarwood ornament has a high degree of fragrance. The fragrance is so fragrant to me here. I believe the auctioneers in front must have smelled it." Just as Chen Yang asked the question, the auctioneer Wang Gang smiled and said to the auctioneers below. Said, the auctioneers also nodded, indicating that there was indeed a fragrance coming out.