The years when I was reborn as a giant in the antique world

After Yunzhou got the broken porcelain pieces, he immediately took a taxi back home.

The porcelain pieces inside are priceless, he dare not put them in the dormitory, there are still five days until the next weekend, and he can't afford it if something happens.

After the door opened, Yu Xinlan looked at him in surprise: "Zhouzhou, didn't you go to school, why are you back?"

Yun Zhou held the sandalwood box tightly with both hands, "Mom, I forgot something, I'll be leaving in a while."

"Do you want to eat before leaving?"

"No mother, I still have some things to deal with when I go back to school."

"Okay then." Yu Xinlan happened to have a yoga class on Sunday afternoon, said hello to her son and went out.

Yun Zhou returned to his room, put the wooden box on the table, locked the door, opened the red sandalwood box, and began to piece together the broken porcelain pieces.

The little jade dragon had already appeared on the young man's left wrist, and his body, as white as jade, stood upright, with two small dragon horns sticking out, eagerly waiting for the aura on the broken porcelain pieces, and gave a baby whimper. , obviously acting like a baby.

When Yunzhou's fingers touched these priceless pieces of porcelain, it opened its mouth happily, and three rows of dragon scales lit up on its body in an instant, shining silver and beautiful.

Seeing that the other party started to yawn after sucking up the spiritual energy, Yun Zhou gently pinched his cold body with his fingertips, raised his wrist and held it in front of his eyes, "Don't sleep yet, help me."

Thinking of the 'bad guy' who clenched the boy's wrist red, Xiao Yulong flicked his tail angrily and shook his head violently.

Hmph, it doesn't want to help the bad guys.

Yun Zhou was doting and helpless with a smile. He had absorbed so much aura just now, why did he immediately turn his face and deny him?

But seeing Xiao Yulong curled up with his head resting on his wrists and about to fall asleep little by little, he couldn't bear to force him, so let him sleep well.

He put the box containing the broken porcelain pieces in the bottom drawer of Duobao Pavilion, locked it, and waited until he got home next weekend to dispose of it.

When he got up, Yunzhou saw more than 20 pieces of broken porcelain placed in the grid of Duobao Pavilion, and thought that he would collect broken pieces of porcelain frequently in the future, and if he was lucky, he might be able to restore them into complete pieces of porcelain.

The days to come are still long, he can't rely too much on Xiao Yulong, he has to learn porcelain restoration skills.

Besides, the jade pendant belongs to the emperor, if the other party wants to take it back, he can take it back at any time, he can't rely on it for a lifetime.

Yunzhou thought of Master Feng.

Master Feng is not only a famous collector in Huaguo, but also a well-known master of porcelain restoration.

In his autobiography, he mentioned some of the contents of porcelain restoration, which are relatively basic steps, which can be used as a reference and study.

As for the most important "stainless repair" is the foundation of Master Feng, naturally it will not be written in the books, otherwise this skill will not be lost.

Yun Zhou put all Master Feng's books into his backpack and closed the door.

After returning to the dormitory, he told Xu Ze that he had handed over the broken porcelain pieces to the master, and the restoration could be completed in about a month.

The broken pieces of porcelain brought by Xu Ze are very complete, there is nothing missing, and there is no need to fill in the incomplete parts of the porcelain. The only trouble is that the enamel color on the cracks needs to be filled, which is also the most difficult process in porcelain restoration—"coloring '.

The level of coloring directly determines the restoration level of the whole piece of porcelain.

Most of the colors on porcelain are very rich, and the corresponding colors must be blended to obtain the corresponding colors, and only when the blended colors are consistent with the original, can the restored porcelain be realistic.

The first is the choice of paint.

Try to choose materials with good adhesion, high aging resistance, bright color and easy deployment. The chemical coatings of Japan and Hong Kong Island are better.

Secondly, different processing methods should be adopted for monochrome glaze, underglaze color and overglaze color.

Such as single-color glaze, the color pigment must first be adjusted and applied on the glaze surface for trial application, and the color can only be painted after the color is adjusted to be completely consistent with the glaze color.

The coloring method can be painted with a traditional brush or dyed with bullets, or painted with a spray gun. The characteristics are all extremely fine, and the color should be as consistent as possible with the glaze. ①

Sometimes it is very common that the color difference will be caused by the difference of light, or the corresponding color cannot be adjusted after a long time of debugging.

In short, the process is very complicated, and it is a test of patience and painting skills.

Some porcelain restoration masters like Master Feng can make the color almost the same as the original, which is difficult to identify even under a magnifying glass; The difference in gloss can be distinguished, which greatly reduces the value of this porcelain.

This is also the most important ability to test a master of porcelain restoration.

But this is not a problem for Xiao Yulong's ability.

Yun Zhou stroked his icy wrist, and the sleeping little Yulong had disappeared in place, and he would wake up in a few days.

It's just that I can't rely too much on it in the future——

The boy came to the library with Master Feng's books on his back, and he will stay here to study when there is no class in the future.

"Xiao Zhouzhou, go to self-study again."

Hong Hai was playing the game with earphones and fingers crackling. He raised his head and gave him a wink when he heard the sound, "Big baby, help me bring a supper tonight~"

"Okay, what do you want to eat?" Yun Zhou was already used to it.

The library closes at 10 o'clock, and there are many small stalls at the south gate of the school, such as fried noodles, spicy soup, barbecue, fried skewers and other snacks.

Before Hong Hai could speak, Xu Ze gave him a cold look, "Bring it yourself, and don't yell."

"Hey, what's the matter, Yunzhou is the smallest in our dormitory, and he often helps bring meals, what's wrong with being called big baby?"

Hong Hai murmured, and then saw the game screen on the mobile phone almost jumped up. "I rely on! Xu Shao, don't hit your own person -lying down, finished, you get the box lunch again, ah ah ah ah."

The game interface displayed the words "End". Xu Ze took off his earphones, turned off his phone, and stood up with his hands in his pockets: "It's boring, Yunzhou, let's go, I'll go to self-study with you."

"Hey, Young Master Xu, are you leaving now? I'm still waiting for you to win with my brother." Hong Hai looked at the backs of the two leaving, and whispered BB, "Why do both of them love learning so much?"

Antique Appreciation is a niche major. Basically, people sign up for hobbies or family inheritance. The most important thing is the practice in the second semester of junior year.

These two people are really strange, why are they working so hard now?

There are a lot of seats in the library, most of them are occupied, Yunzhou managed to find two vacant seats, but they were not alone.The two girls next to them saw the two handsome guys sitting next to them, their faces flushed slightly, and they hurriedly moved the books inside.

Wherever First Young Master Xu walks, he is the focus of everyone's attention. His clothes are not ordinary people's attire, his face is full of heroism, outstanding temperament, and there are rumors that he is the grandson of Xu Lao. focus on.

And Yunzhou next to him is tall and slender, with a little youthful thinness on his shoulders. The white T-shirt and jeans are as clean and natural as the cool summer breeze. His clear eyes seem to reflect the lake light, and he smiles lightly It can make people's hearts calm, and their brows and eyebrows will be relieved.

The two have different temperaments but have their own charms. When they appeared, they attracted many people's attention.

After sitting on the seat, Yunzhou immediately took out Feng Lao's autobiography from his backpack and read it intently, taking notes in his notebook from time to time, completely unaware of the undercurrents around him.

An hour later, Young Master Xu looked at the girl in front of him irritably. This was already the third person who came to ask him for his contact information today. Although his voice was low, the boy on the opposite side still raised his head and took a look. Excuse me.

With a cold handsome face, Xu Ze opened the book beside him, and directly treated the other party as air, wishing he could put a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the table.

The library was originally a place for self-study, why did you come here to bother him and Yunzhou.

Also, he knew that there were several eyes on the boy opposite him, and it seemed that he would come over to strike up a conversation when the boy had a rest.Oh, it's a beautiful idea!

Seeing that Xu Ze ignored her, the girl left with embarrassment on her face, her eyes were a little red.

Seeing this, the people who had been paying attention to them immediately died down, not daring to act rashly, for fear of encountering the same rejection as the girls.

Xu Ze raised his head and glanced at the focused young man. His eyelashes were very long and thick. When he lowered his eyes, he closed and lifted them gently like a small fan, which made him feel itchy. He wanted to feel it with his hands. What does it feel like to have long eyelashes brushing your fingertips.

Yun Zhou's skin is also very white, so white that it almost glows under the light, even under the sun of military training, there is no sign of tanning at all, and his complexion is as smooth and delicate as suet white jade.

If you touch it with your hands, is it the same smooth touch?

When he came back to his senses, he realized that a long time had passed, and the book in front of him hadn't turned a page yet.

Sensing the gaze projected from all directions, First Young Master Xu felt guilty for the first time, and his heartbeat was much faster than other times. Fortunately, the boy opposite didn't notice.

**

The days soon came to the weekend, and after a week of theoretical knowledge learning, Yunzhou had a basic understanding of repairing porcelain.

There are several major steps in the restoration of ancient ceramics: cleaning, matching, bonding, matching, polishing and coloring.

The first three steps are relatively easy, as long as you have a little patience, you can get started slowly, while the next few steps require superb skills and rich practical experience, which will not be achieved in a day.

The current Yunzhou is a novice in everything, so naturally he has to start with the simplest ones.

It starts with collecting a lot of shards and trying to clean, align and glue them.

So early on Saturday morning, he came to the antique market, looking for a stall selling broken porcelain pieces.

He intends to remove the ones that are not burnt, those that are faded due to improper preservation, and those that are too mutilated, and take away all the others, and purchase them in large quantities.

The glaze color of porcelain is the color displayed by the metal ions in the glaze after oxidation or reduction at high temperature, commonly known as metal ions as colorants.

For example, the cobalt material is blue, which is the common blue and white;

Copper and iron are red, and red glaze is common, showing different colors of red according to the amount of metal content.

When the iron content in the medium is less than 1%, white porcelain appears, and white porcelain is the glaze color produced after removing metal impurities.

The color in the porcelain is not fired, basically because the metal content and temperature in the glaze are not handled properly.

The stall owner saw that the young man had picked out some tiles, and planned to buy all the rest, so he smiled happily: "Well, don't pick any more, I'll sell them all to you, how about it? Seems like a lot more Come on, it can be cheaper."

He poured out all the broken porcelain pieces from the cloth bag under his feet, "There are more than 100 pieces here, and I haven't counted the exact number. Anyway, if you want them all, you can take them for 1000 yuan."

"Okay." Yun Zhou flipped through it casually. About [-]% of the glaze color inside is acceptable. Judging from the tire quality, most of them are folk kilns, but even this is half the price, which is still a good deal.

He went to two other stalls and took away more than 700 pieces of broken porcelain, which cost about [-] yuan.These broken pieces of porcelain filled a big bag, and the young man struggled to hold it.

It was also the first time that the people around had seen people buying so many pieces of broken porcelain, and they all shook their heads.A few thousand yuan can buy two good things in the antique market, and maybe you can pick up a small leak. Who would buy this thing.

In the past few years, some people also dreamed of making a fortune by piecing together porcelain pieces from broken porcelain pieces. They purchased large quantities of broken porcelain pieces from the antique market and spent thousands of dollars.

As a result, this person picked and picked among so many pieces of broken porcelain, cleaned and pieced them together. It took him a month to put together a complete folk kiln porcelain, and he had to find someone to repair and repair the porcelain It cost thousands more.

It's a pity that the restored porcelain is easily spotted by insiders, and no one buys it at all.

It would be fine if it was a fine piece of official kiln, but who cares about a piece of folk kiln porcelain, it is still broken.

In the end, this person not only worked in vain for two months, but also paid more than 1 yuan to get in. It became a joke in the antique market for a while, and broken porcelain pieces became something that few people care about.

If you have the time and money, why not visit the antique market more and pick two complete pieces of porcelain from the stalls, maybe you can come across a genuine one.

But Yun Zhou's purpose is completely different from this person's.

Now he is more to learn the technology of restoring porcelain, and whether he can spell out complete porcelain is the second.

It would be best if he had it, and he wouldn't be disappointed if he didn't.

Yun Zhou took these pieces of porcelain home, placed them on the carpet, and began to sift through them.

Picking out some 600 or [-] pieces of broken porcelain that were obviously flawed and badly burned, the young man sat cross-legged on the carpet and began to classify the remaining [-] pieces of porcelain.

Sorting porcelain tiles is also a very difficult task. It is very difficult to distinguish layers of tiles.

First of all, it is classified according to the glaze color, such as white glaze, green glaze, red glaze, blue and white glaze, etc. are classified into one category;

Then each category is classified according to the type of utensils, such as bowls, plates, cups, cans, bottles, jugs, etc., and those that cannot be distinguished are placed aside;

Then classify according to the ornamentation, such as dragon pattern, flower pattern, geometric pattern, landscape, figure and so on.

……

"Zhouzhou, it's time to eat—"

"Okay mom, I'll be right there!" Yun Zhou responded, and then felt his throat a little dry.

He looked up at the sky outside. It turned out that it was already night. He stayed in the room all afternoon, but he simply classified the tiles according to the glaze color, and did not subdivide them.

Among the more than 600 pieces of broken porcelain, blue and white porcelain accounted for nearly half, followed by green glaze and white glaze, and only a dozen pieces of yellow glaze, black glaze, red glaze, etc., and only one or two pieces of fighting color and pastel porcelain. There is not even a piece of enamel.

As for the classification according to the type, decoration, inscription, etc., he has not had time.

After a hasty meal, Yun Zhou immediately returned to the room.

Yu Xinlan turned down the volume of the TV at the right time, not wanting to disturb her son.

At two o'clock in the middle of the night, she felt a little thirsty, so she went to the kitchen to drink a glass of water, only to find that the room light in Duobao Pavilion was still on.

'Why isn't my son asleep? Yu Xinlan walked over and knocked lightly on the door, "Zhouzhou, hurry up and go to sleep."

"Immediately——" Yun Zhou rubbed his sore eyes, and when he got up, his eyes went dark, and he almost fell to the ground.

He hurriedly supported the bookcase, closed his eyes and took a long time to restrain the dizziness in his head. Seeing that there were still most of the untreated broken porcelain on the carpet, he decided to continue tomorrow.

Maybe it was something on his mind, Yunzhou woke up before six o'clock.

When he opened his eyes, he felt very sore, and had to drip a few drops of eye drops to relieve them.

Until around 12 noon, he finally subdivided more than 300 pieces of broken porcelain except blue and white.However, there were too many blue and white porcelain pieces, and he really didn't have time to subdivide them. He had to rush back to school at night, so he had to wait until next week to continue processing.

Yun Zhou let out a long breath, stood up and moved his sore arm.

Fortunately, all the pieces of porcelain here are genuine and there is no sign of forgery.

Among the blue-glazed and white-glazed porcelain pieces inside, nearly [-] pieces can be formed into half pieces or spliced ​​with each other, and almost all others are single pieces.

Among them, nine pieces of white porcelain can form a complete diamond-shaped wash, which should be the white porcelain of Xing Kiln in the Tang Dynasty. Generally speaking, the harvest is not bad, at least one piece is complete.

When Yun Zhou touched the tile, Little Yulong emerged from his left wrist, happily absorbing the aura on the tile.

Although these porcelain fragments are not high-quality porcelain fragments, they cannot stand up to the large number. Among the more than 600 porcelain fragments, more than 40 auras flew into Xiao Yulong's wide-open mouth, and nearly two rows of scales lit up, which was a surprise.

Little Yulong's slender tail was tightly wrapped around the young man's white wrist, and he stood up curiously watching the other party clean the broken porcelain pieces batch by batch, which is also the first process of porcelain restoration.

Yun Zhou didn't plan to clean all the tiles, but only cleaned the more than 60 broken tiles that could be spliced ​​first.

Porcelain cleaning also requires great care and patience.

He put these pieces of broken porcelain in a plastic basin to avoid scratches, first washed off the dust and mud on them with clean water, and used a diluted alkaline solution (such as 84 disinfectant) to clean the broken pieces of porcelain that were stained with stains and rust. ) for soaking.

After the stains are dissolved, use a bristle brush to gently scrub along the outside of the tiles, especially the part where the fractured ballast is located, otherwise it will affect the adhesion of the tiles.Finally, rinse with warm water until the stain is removed, and then dry it piece by piece with a soft cloth. ②

Of course, this wash is not suitable for delicate glazes such as pastels.

Pastel can only be scrubbed with a cotton swab dipped in dilute nitric acid little by little, and then rinsed with clean water, otherwise it is easy to damage the glaze on it.

It took Yunzhou more than two hours to clean the 60 pieces of broken porcelain.

The long-term cleaning caused the pain in both arms, and I couldn't even lift them. I could only use my fingers to massage and knead them. It may take a long time to get over.

However, the young man looked at the pieces of porcelain that had been cleaned and exuded a warm glaze color, the corners of his lips were slightly raised, and his clear eyes were curved into beautiful arcs, giving him an indescribable sense of accomplishment.

It was finally cleaned, and the hard work of the past two days was not in vain.

Xiao Yulong kept watching Yunzhou's movements, watching him laboriously clean the tiles, and almost cut his fingers several times while wiping.

It doesn't understand why the other party wants to clean up these dirty things, obviously it can help.

While Yun Zhou was resting, Xiao Yulong shook off the water splashed on his body just now, straightened up tall and tried to get closer to each other, the two white little dragons protruded and yelled at him,' Aww——aww—! '

It's no longer that kind of baby voice, but with a bit of ferocious dragon chant.

"What's the matter with you?" Yun Zhou raised it to his eyes regardless of the soreness in his arm, stroked the cold scales on the dragon's body, and looked at it worriedly.

The last time Xiao Yulong uttered this cry was in front of the bronze statue of Emperor Fengdu, and it seemed that he would only do this when he was particularly angry. Usually, it was a cute and soft voice.

The all-white little dragon looked at the broken porcelain and then at him, flicked his tail violently, rolled Yunzhou's wrist and dragged him to Duobao Pavilion with all his strength, because the scales were too hard Turned red.

The boy was startled, and immediately followed the direction it pointed, lest the little jade dragon would be hurt.

Yun Zhou came to the cabinet in Duobao Pavilion and squatted down as instructed.

"Want me to open it?" Isn't this... the place where he stores the fragments of the Yuhuchun vase?Could it be... Xiao Yulong wants to restore this piece of porcelain?

But it was still very reluctant last time——

Before he could think too much, Xiao Yulong straightened his body and nodded, flicking his tail to urge him.

Yunzhou opened the drawer and opened the red sandalwood box. Thirteen pieces of broken porcelain were neatly placed in the box. out of its extraordinary.

He assembled pieces of broken pieces of porcelain into a complete piece of porcelain. Little Yulong couldn't wait a long time ago, and immediately opened his mouth. More than 30 spiritual energy emitted white light, and at the same time they sank into the broken gaps, and kept repairing the porcelain. on the crack.

The dozen or so cracks on the length of the thumb gradually shortened and thinned until they disappeared, and the flawless jade pot spring bottle appeared in front of Yun Zhou, which was too beautiful to behold.

At the same time, the more than 30 gleaming silver scales on Xiao Yulong's body also dimmed, and more than a row of scales turned back to white, losing their dazzling luster.

Little Yulong withdrew his cold body, bowed his head and rolled himself into a ball around Yunzhou's wrist, opened his mouth and yawned listlessly, looking listless.

Yun Zhou did not appreciate the tens of millions of jade pots and spring vases, but kept his eyes on Xiao Yulong, his eyes full of worry.

He even faintly regretted his decision to help Xu Ze repair the porcelain. If Xiao Yulong was injured because of this, he would die of guilt.

"You were feeling sorry for me just now, weren't you?"

Thinking that Xiao Yulong's change of attitude happened after he cleaned the tiles, was he worried that he was too tired?

In fact, he is fine, but his arm is a little sore, and he will be fine after a short rest.

Xiao Yulong rested his cool chin on the palm of Yunzhou, and called out to him in a milky voice, his voice was soft, as if he was agreeing or acting like a baby.

Yun Zhou raised his wrist, made his eyes level with it, and said seriously: "I can't always rely on you, I will work hard to grow, don't worry."

Xiao Yulong tilted his head to look at him, and opened his mouth to show his baby teeth, "Aww~ (I'm fine, I'm just a little sleepy)."

Yun Zhou lowered his eyes and approached slowly, gently kissed Xiao Yulong's head with his soft lips, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

Little Yulong curled up shyly, his scales turned red, and fell asleep contentedly under the young man's gaze.