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

Chen Yang drove back to the hotel with Zhu Yuyan. After opening the door, Zhu Yuyan's petite body pulled her suitcase, then put it directly on the ground, opened the suitcase and rummaged inside. After some rummaging, Zhu Yuyan found a flat mother-of-pearl octagonal mirror in the compartment of her luggage bag.

"Huh, luckily I found it," Zhu Yuyan sat down on the bed, "Master really didn't even tell me. If it's broken, it will be troublesome."

"I need to tell you," Chen Yang curled his lips and pointed at the suitcase, "Look at your suitcase, you don't have a few clothes, it's all food!"

"Didn't you pay attention when you put these snacks in there?"

Zhu Yuyan casually picked up a bag of snacks, opened it and started stuffing it into her mouth, "Who noticed it? I just watched the delicious ones and don't throw them away. I'm not willing to eat them."

"Here, these are for my siblings!"

"I..." Chen Yang looked at Zhu Yuyan with a playful face and was speechless. This girl shouldn't be playing with antiques, she should be doing a live broadcast of food! Forget it, there is no live broadcast now. When there is a live broadcast, she probably won't be able to eat it.

"Okay, show me that mirror. What a good object it is." Chen Yang reached out to Zhu Yuyan and asked her to hand him the octagonal mirror with a mother-of-pearl back.

"No!" Zhu Yuyan hugged the bag with the mirror tightly, "This is an object that the master protects with all his strength. I can't show it to you. I will give it to Master Song later!"

Chen Yang curled his lips in dissatisfaction, "You little girl, let me take a look first. It's not like I won't give it to you, so what are you afraid of!"

"No!" Zhu Yuyan held the bag and pouted, "Unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Hehe," Zhu Yuyan chuckled, "I want to eat Jiangcheng's delicious food!"

"Buy! Whatever you want to eat, I'll buy it for you when I go out!" Chen Yang promised with a smile and patted his chest.

"Pull the hook!" Zhu Yuyan stretched out her little finger while still holding the bag tightly with her other hand, and said to Chen Yang with a smile.

"I'm so old, I can still lie to you!" Chen Yang glanced at Zhu Yuyan with disgust. Zhu Yuyan shook the bag in her hand, and Chen Yang helplessly stretched out his little finger.

"Hang yourself with a hook, a hundred years..." After finishing speaking, Zhu Yuyan handed the bag to Chen Yang with satisfaction, "Let me show it to you, don't be scared!"

Chen Yang was a little surprised when he took out the octagonal mirror with a mother-of-pearl back from the bag.

Yes, I have a mother-of-pearl octagonal mirror from the Tang Dynasty, and it is almost exactly the same as the one in Zhengcang Courtyard. However, judging from its appearance, this mother-of-pearl octagonal mirror should have been unearthed less than ten years ago.

The mother-of-pearl craft of the Tang Dynasty was first seen in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It refers to thinning the pearlescent layer of shells and then inlaying them on utensils. This Tang Ping mother-of-pearl octagonal mirror is decorated with flowers and birds made of mother-of-pearl. The red part of the center of the flower is decorated with amber, and the blue stars between the patterns are made of lapis lazuli. The colorful pearls of mother-of-pearl combined with the unique flower and bird patterns of the Tang Dynasty are extremely gorgeous and can give a glimpse of the splendor of the Tang Dynasty.

The mother-of-pearl mirror is exquisitely made. Various patterns are carved from clam shells, which are pasted on the back of the plain mirror according to the design requirements, then painted, ground, and finally the patterns are carved on the mother-of-pearl. The lacquer floor is black and the mother-of-pearl is white. The black and white are distinct, shiny, delicate, gorgeous and beautiful.

"Holy shit!" Even though Chen Yang had seen the octagonal mirror with a mother-of-pearl back from the information in his previous life, he was still surprised when he held the object in his hand and looked at it. The craftsmanship was simply amazing. Let's put it this way, this kind of craftsmanship is not difficult at all to complete with modern craftsmanship. The difficulty is that during the Tang Dynasty, handcrafts had already reached the level of craftsmanship that could only be produced by modern machines.

There is no need to identify the authenticity of this kind of object at all. There are fake mother-of-pearls. After all, mother-of-pearl is a natural thing, but it is relatively difficult to fake. Not to mention that there will be no such thing on the market now, even in the future. People resort to counterfeiting because the cost is too high.

The craftsmanship of traditional mother-of-pearl lacquerware is extremely cumbersome, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the market price of the genuine product itself is very limited. It often happens that the financial resources spent to imitate an ancient mother-of-pearl artwork are several times or even dozens of times the value of the original.

An expert from the National Palace Museum once mentioned that Ryukyu used ancient techniques to copy a mother-of-pearl lacquer table, which cost a total of more than 200 million yuan, equivalent to 20 times the market price of the original. Therefore, imitating ancient mother-of-pearl art is not worth the gain. There are no imitations of soft mother-of-pearl works from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties on the market, let alone those from the Tang Dynasty. Of course, there is no way to identify authenticity.

It is relatively easy to identify the age of mother-of-pearl art, because before the Tang Dynasty, hard mother-of-pearl was more popular, which was to polish the shells produced in my country's offshore seas and directly inlay them; while in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the "colorful" soft mother-of-pearl was very popular. Mother-of-pearl" uses "Salamander Conch" imported from the West Coast of the Pacific, Ryukyu, and Southeast Asia. This kind of conch is more colorful.

The main method is to boil the scallops in a pot for 4 days and 4 nights, use tweezers to peel off the scallops layer by layer, and then soak them in white vinegar and radish juice to make the scallops soft and pliable so that they will not appear when attached to the curved lacquerware. rupture situation. The colorful mother-of-pearl lacquerware has exquisite and vivid patterns, which will emit a radiant light at night. Senior technicians will also work with the colors, classify the colors, and use the natural luster of the conch flakes to replace the pigments, and paste the red walls, green tiles, green mountains and green waters on the lacquer body. , hats, beards, etc., finally embellished with a detailed mother-of-pearl artwork.

"How is it? It looks good!" Chen Yang was watching, and Zhu Yuyan looked at Chen Yang's silly eyes and asked beside her with a smile.

Chen Yang nodded, "If I make it clear, I can still see some. Things like this from the Tang Dynasty are almost impossible to see now. They are really good things."

After Chen Yang finished speaking, he saw a small hand stretched out directly in front of Chen Yang, "Give it to me, let's go find Uncle Master and buy me something delicious on the way!"

I really don’t know if Zhu Yuyan died of hunger or greed in her last life, because she only knew how to eat every day!

When Chen Yang walked into the store carrying a plastic bag of snacks and Zhu Yuyan had a stick of ice cream in her mouth, smiling, Qin Haofeng couldn't help but twitch his throat. Good guy, it's much better than what he bought for Zhang Ting last time. Is this the evacuation of non-staple food stores?

When Song Qingyun saw the octagonal mirror with a mother-of-pearl back, his face was filled with surprise and a hint of excitement. Song Qingyun also saw that the octagonal mirror with a mother-of-pearl back was not only almost identical to the little devil's one, it was even better than the one of the little devil. The bronze mirror inlaid with mother-of-pearl and flower and bird patterns placed in the Sun Never Sets Museum is even more exquisite. No wonder people from both sides want it!

Putting the mirror on the table next to it, Song Qingyun asked Zhu Yuyan how he got this object.

"A farmer brought it to me, and I was in the store that day," Zhu Yuyan said while eating ice cream. "The man said it was dug out during construction at the construction site, and the master took it back for 500 yuan."

Song Qingyun nodded. Senior Brother really made a big mistake this time. Then Song Qingyun asked Chen Yang to put the items away first, and then told Chen Yang the purpose of coming to him.

"There is a place in Jincheng called Bao Pavilion." Song Qingyun took a sip of water and glanced at Chen Yang, "Recently, a few colleagues over there told me that a Xuande stove appeared in their place, and it was in the Bao Pavilion black market. , it just so happens that they open the market today, and I wanted you to come with me to have a look."

Chen Yang hesitated slightly after hearing this. He had mentioned Jincheng several times but never went there. Now, a treasure loft suddenly appeared from Song Qingyun's mouth. It didn't sound like a serious place. So Chen Yang asked Song Qingyun what Bao Pavilion was like.

"This is the Bao Loft," Song Qingyun hesitated slightly as he spoke, "Let me tell you, I don't know who the boss behind the Bao Pavilion is, and I've never been there."

"What?"

Song Qingyun told Chen Yang not to be so surprised, "The reason why I won't go is because this place doesn't open very often. Bao Loft opens every three months, and it's also the second Saturday of the month."

"Think about it, first, it opens once every three months, and not every time there are particularly good items; second, it has a specific time, and sometimes you may not find good items if you go there; then you When I’m not there, it comes out with good items again, so it always gives people a very magical feeling.”

"Also, its trading method is rather special."

Chen Yang and Zhu Yuyan were both stunned after hearing this. What could be so special about the transaction method?

Song Qingyun glanced at the two of them and said, "First, you can buy the objects you have chosen through normal bidding; second, you can also exchange objects for objects that you don't want to keep in your hands. It can be exchanged. This object can be handed down from ancient times or made from the pit, but it must be of equal value."

"Third..." Song Qingyun said this and smacked his lips.

"What's third?" Zhu Yuyan asked curiously from the side.

"Third, you can help him find an item he needs, and set a time limit. Within the specified time, you can take the item he needs and exchange it with him. No waiting after the expiration date!"

Chen Yang blinked a few times after hearing this. This transaction method is quite special! It's understandable to exchange things for things, but this third kind... is quite interesting!