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

After Mr. Du left, Yunzhou continued to observe the remaining purple clay pots.

Looking from the front to the rear, the purple clay pots in the collection are almost all made by famous masters, and the value is at least hundreds of thousands, or even tens of millions. It can be seen that Mr. Du is very fond of purple clay pots, and the money and energy spent are evident. .

He found that in Mr. Du's collection, there were five or six ball pots alone.There are "Bing Xin Taoist", and there are also ball pots made by Gu Jingzhou, a master of modern purple sand pot crafts. The latter enjoys the reputation of "an inch pot is as expensive as a bucket of rice".

Among them, "Bing Xin Taoist" Cheng Shouzhen made more than one ball pot, but the bottom style is slightly different.

There is only one pot with the seal of 'Bing Xin Taoist', and the rest of the pots have very long bottoms, which read: 82 old people made this tea pot, and won excellent prizes in Panama and domestic product exhibitions.

Yun Zhou searched with his mobile phone, and found that the 24-character seal seal inscription was made by Cheng Shouzhen after he won the award. After he became famous, he made a lot of teapots, but not many before that.

Mr. Du slept for more than two hours this time, and when he woke up, Yun Zhou had almost seen it.He came to Duobao Pavilion and asked his little apprentice: "How is it, do you have any clues?"

The young man pointed at the jug with the seal of 'Taoist Bing Xin' engraved on it, with a confident smile: "Grandpa Du, is this the one?"

Mr. Du couldn't help being stunned, and then he looked surprised: "How did you guess it?"

He has 92 purple clay teapots here, and the probability of picking one he likes the most is not so low, and the other party guessed it right!

He originally wanted to give two more chances to guess, but now it seems that he doesn't need it.

Yun Zhou's eyes slightly curved: "First of all, the pots you introduced to me, whether it is Shi Dabin's pot or this one, must be your favorite. Secondly, there are various styles of purple sand pots. You only collect one of this style, but there are several of this kind of ball pot.

Finally, I lifted the lid and checked the traces inside each purple sand pot in turn. There are six that you often use because there are piles of tea in it. This is one of them, and the patina is rich and beautiful.

So I believe that your favorite must be this purple clay teapot engraved with the seal of 'Bing Xin Taoist'. "

"That's right, I guessed everything right." Mr. Du sighed, "Xiaozhou, your observation ability is really good." I didn't expect to solve my own problem so quickly.

And it is well-founded, not only from one aspect, but from multiple aspects to demonstrate, and finally draw a conclusion, it is not easy.

"There are indeed six of them that I often use. Zisha teapots need to be maintained, and the best way is to match one teapot with one teapot.

For example, I drink Pu'er tea, Wuyishan Dahongpao, Longjing, Biluochun, Xinyang Maojian, etc. all use different tea sets. The ball pot you mentioned is for drinking Pu'er.

Pu’er is a tea cake, which needs to be brewed at high temperature, so it is necessary to choose a pot with a big belly and a closed mouth. This pot is just right; if I drink green tea, I use this flat-bellied pot made by Gu Jingzhou, with a wide opening. "Mr. Du talked eloquently.

"It turns out that there is still so much knowledge about the use of purple sand teapots." Yun Zhou usually does not drink tea much, even if he drinks tea, he uses the same purple sand teapot, which is not as particular as the old man.

"That's natural. Okay, since you guessed it right, just pick one out of here and take it away." Mr. Du said with a smile, but his eyes were a little more nervous. Some of the pieces of purple sand are his favorites. , It's not that I can't give it, but it will be a bit painful.

Naturally, it was impossible for Yun Zhou to pick up the old man's favorite styles, so he quickly skipped over the previous ones, and picked a Quhu in the middle, which was made by Wang Yinxian, a contemporary master of purple clay teapots.

The shape of this pot is very unique. Its handle draws an ellipse directly from the top to connect with the lower part of the pot lid, forming a curved lifting beam, which subtly outlines the outline of the pot body and has a strong sense of three-dimensionality.

The purple sand mud it uses is relatively fine, with no sand grains on it, the color is warm, simple and elegant, and it has been polished, with a unique curvilinear beauty, which is extraordinarily delicate.

"You have a good vision. This 'Quhu' by Wang Yinxian once won the first prize in the International Grand Prix. Several people asked me for it and didn't give it to you. Now it's cheaper for you." Mr. Du chuckled, and took the purple clay teapot in his hand. After rubbing it with my hands a few times, I put it on.

At that time, he spent 40 yuan when he bought this pot, and now it has risen to more than 100 million yuan.However, he has other curved pots and beam-lifting pots, so he doesn't feel distressed.

After chatting for a while about the use and maintenance of the purple clay teapot, Yunzhou looked at the time, and before he knew it, it was already past 5 o'clock, and there was still a whole room of collections left that he hadn't finished reading. There must be not enough time, so he planned to leave.

The sky in winter always gets dark earlier. If you go out at this point, it will be dark when you get home.

"Stay here for dinner tonight, and watch it after we're done eating, at worst, go back tomorrow." Old Man Du asked to stay.

"No, Grandpa Du, my mother is still waiting for me at home." Yun Zhou smiled apologetically. He has absorbed too much knowledge today, and he needs to digest it urgently.

"Since that's the case, I won't force it. I'll ask the driver to take you back." Mr. Du wrapped the inside and outside of the blue and white teapot and let the boy take it away.

When he got home, Yun Zhou carefully put this 'Yuan blue and white cloud dragon pattern eight-fang jade pot and spring bottle' into the cabinet of Duobao Pavilion, and admired it through the glass.

Unexpectedly, less than a year after entering the collection world, he would own a precious Yuan blue and white, which is simply unimaginable for other people.

Many people may have been collecting for a lifetime, only to come into contact with a piece of Yuan blue and white at the end, or even not at all, or unable to collect it. After all, the value of Yuan blue and white is not affordable for ordinary people, and it requires strong financial support.

At this moment, Yun Zhou really had a real sense of becoming a collector, this will be the first milestone in his collecting career!

As for the purple sand pot brought back, it was placed in the living room.

Zisha teapots must be used to reflect their value, not to mention that the process of use is also maintenance, and the moisture of tea will become brighter and brighter.

"Zhou Zhou, where did you bring the new purple clay pot? It's really beautiful." After Yu Xinlan finished cooking, she saw the purple clay pot on the table at a glance. She had never seen this shape before, and it was novel and Beautiful, and fell in love with it almost immediately.

Yun Zhou: "It was given by Grandpa Du. The quality of the purple clay is very good. From now on, our green tea and black tea will be separated. Let this be used to make black tea."

"Okay, winter is just right for drinking black tea. Some time ago, a friend gave me a few packs of premium Jinjunmei. I'll try making a pot tomorrow." Yu Xinlan touched the handle of the teapot with her hands, and she couldn't wait.

This curved pot has not been used yet, so Yun Zhou needs to open it first.

He first rinsed the purple clay pot inside and out with boiling hot water, then put the washed purple clay pot into a large pot, added clean water until it was about twice as deep as the purple clay pot, and then heated it slowly until it boiled.Cook on low heat for about 30 minutes, so that the impurities in the purple sand pot can be removed.

Turn off the stove, and when the water became warm, Yun Zhou took out the purple sand pot, put in black tea, poured boiling water into it, and covered the pot.

Pour out the water and tea leaves before going to bed, and the tea that has been soaked for four or five hours can nourish the teapot, so that it can be used the next day after drying.

This method of opening the pot was also learned by Yun Zhou from Mr. Du, and the steps are relatively cumbersome.Before, he saw that his mother made tea directly after rinsing, but the tea made the first two times would be thrown away, so he didn't pay that much attention.

Before going to bed at night, Yunzhou cleaned the teapot and put it in a ventilated place to dry.

Before falling asleep, he seemed to feel the sudden drop in temperature in the room, and asked in a daze, "Emperor?"

"It's me." Emperor Fengdu's deep voice sounded, and a thick black mist instantly filled the room. The tall figure gradually approached, and he slightly adjusted the hem of his clothes, and then a piece of the soft bedding was dented.

"Well, do you want to sleep together?" Yun Zhou was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, and buried half of his face in the soft pillow, completely unaware of what he said.

Just as Bei Ji was about to put the young man's exposed wrists back under the quilt, when he heard this, his movements froze, his ears suddenly turned red, and his heart beat violently.

He felt that he shouldn't agree to this request, it was so unreasonable; but at the same time, this request was so tempting that he couldn't bear to refuse—

"Still...no need." Time passed by, the words of refusal rolled in his throat a few times, Bei Ji uttered these words in a difficult tone, his cello-like voice became a little hoarse.

It took almost all of his self-control to refuse this tempting request, and he regretted it as soon as he said the words.

However, when he raised his eyes, the boy buried his fair face under the quilt, his slender eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes, his chest rose and fell slightly with his breathing, and he was obviously asleep.

Bei Ji: "..." It turns out that everything just now was the other party's drowsiness.

He quietly looked at Yunzhou's sleeping face, and kept silent for a long time with his eyes downcast.This is the first time he has tasted such a complicated taste. A word from the other party can shake his mind and make him feel at a loss. This situation has never happened in thousands of years.

The strong Yin Qi gradually enveloped Yun Zhou's whole body, but when the young man shrank himself into the quilt coldly, he shrank back immediately.

A moment later, Emperor Fengdu lowered his head, and kissed the young man's forehead lightly with his cold lips, "Good night." Then the tall figure gradually merged with the darkness, and gradually disappeared into the room.

Yunzhou woke up the next day and felt the air-conditioning in the room that hadn't dissipated, only to belatedly realize that the emperor had really come.

Only this time he didn't have that kind of dream, cough.So, the emperor was shy from the last kiss?

The boy's face was slightly red, and he didn't know whether to be grateful or regretful.

He put on his slippers and walked to the ancestral hall, standing in front of the portrait of Emperor Fengdu and looking at it for a while.No matter how many times you look at this handsome face, it is always so pleasing to the eye.

I just don't know when will be the next time to get close to each other. The emperor's kissing skills are so poor, shouldn't he improve as soon as possible?

Just as he was thinking, the portrait suddenly moved, and then a man in a black robe trimmed with gold silk appeared in front of him. He was tall, with a jade crown, and his facial features were so handsome that he did not look like a real person.

"Ah, Great Emperor, you're here." Yun Zhou's long eyelashes fluttered lightly like butterfly wings, with a feeling of embarrassment to be exposed. He just complained a little in his heart, it's really not——

The tall figure quickly came in front of him, the young man lowered his head guiltyly, but heard a deep and elegant voice above his head, "You said you wanted to sleep with me yesterday, does it still count now?"

Yun Zhou raised his head in surprise, his clear eyes widened suddenly, "! I didn't say that—hmm." He was kissed again.

A few minutes later, panting, he put his arms on the man's broad shoulders, and slightly opened his lips to accept him. Forget it, let's help the emperor practice his kissing skills.

**

The one-month winter vacation passed quickly, and Yun Zhou also returned to school.

"Xiao Zhouzhou, oops, I miss you so much. Young master, Yifan, you are finally back." Hong Hai rushed up to give everyone a bear hug, and was happy when he saw the air-conditioning from Xu Ze's body withdraw again. He yelled, with a big smile on his face.

The last time I went to the countryside to collect goods with my roommates, not only did I not spend any money, but I also brought a lot of items back to show my father and the shopkeeper. The authenticity rate was very high, and I earned a lot of business for the store.

This winter vacation, Hong Hai had a very comfortable life. He slept until he woke up naturally, and went to the antique shop when he had nothing to do. Even his nagging mother didn't say anything for the first time, and let him lie at home and get moldy.

It’s just that I gained ten catties during the Chinese New Year, so I have to lose weight.Hong Hai touched his waist, which had become thicker again, and sighed silently.

The classes that just started made everyone very uncomfortable. They are used to being lazy at home, and it is too difficult to adjust their biological clocks.Moreover, it was so cold that the alarm clock rang four or five times in the morning and he couldn't get up. Even Xu Ze gave up his morning exercise and went for a run at night instead.

Yun Zhou maintained a healthy schedule even during the holidays, so he opened his eyes when the alarm clock rang for the first time, took 30 seconds to adapt to the outside temperature, and then quickly put on his clothes and got up, which made Hong Hai admire him.

He also heard the alarm clock ringing, and told himself to sleep for another 5 minutes every time, and fell asleep until the class was about to start, so he could only crawl out of the warm bed with a bitter face, and went to the classroom reluctantly.

Except for attending classes, Yun Zhou spent almost all of his time in the library, continuing to study Master Feng's autobiography and other professional knowledge.

After the last time he went to the countryside to receive the goods and visited Mr. Du's collection, he felt that his basic knowledge was still too weak, and he needed to study it carefully and try to master it.

After returning home on weekends, Yunzhou began to learn how to make up porcelain restoration under the guidance of Master Feng, which is to make up for the incomplete parts of porcelain, which is a relatively difficult step.

What he is holding in his hand now is a blue and white dragon-pattern plate made in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty that has already been glued and cracked. He tried to splice it together when he bought a large number of broken porcelain pieces before, but the edge of the plate is missing more than the mineral water bottle cap. Even bigger gaps have not been dealt with yet.

Incompleteness of this size is easy for a restoration master like Master Feng to make up for, just use restoration materials directly, because he has a lot of contact with porcelain and rich experience, and he can control any curvature extremely accurately.

But it was not so easy for a novice like Yunzhou.

Master Feng: "Let's make the mold first."

To make a mold is to rub the radian of the notch part. You can use plasticine, paraffin wax and other softened and molded materials. Of course, the most commonly used is medical red proofing paste.

Yun Zhou soaked two pieces of red proofing paste in hot water to soften them, and pressed them on the intact edge of the blue and white platter, reproducing the curvature and texture like plasticine.

After it dries and takes shape, use a horn knife to scrape off the excess part, so that the mold for the defective part is ready, and then you only need to make up the mold on the mold.

Yunzhou put the mold on the missing edge, tied it tightly with a white cloth tape and fixed it, and after ensuring that there was no error in the arc, he began to prepare supplementary materials.

General masters of porcelain restoration use gypsum powder mixed with super glue, but the storage time of gypsum is limited, and it may crack after decades. Therefore, Master Feng made improvements on this basis to ensure that the repair will come out The part is as consistent as possible with the original porcelain, so as to achieve perfect restoration.

"Mix according to the ratio I said, half part of tooth filling powder, one part of fine porcelain clay, half part of natural lacquer... add two parts of water, stir evenly, and there must be no air bubbles."

Yunzhou prepared the restoration material according to the proportion, and applied it on the mold with a utility knife.But it is easy to paint out the range of the mold when painting, which requires scraping off the excess.

"Too little, if there is more, the edges will be painted."

"Uneven coating, another coat on the left side."

"Okay, take a hair dryer to dry, repair the extra part, and remove the mold."

After Yun Zhou dried it, he untied the white cloth belt and took off the mold.

However, the repaired part is not smooth at all, and must be repaired with a horn knife.Scrape off a little here, scrape off a little bit there, and accidentally dig out a little more when repairing, and have to make up again, and maintain the smoothness of the arc, which is very energy-consuming.

"Don't worry, take your time. This is a delicate job. It must be made up neither too much nor too little, so that it is exactly the same. It forms a complete whole with other parts, otherwise an expert will be able to see it at a glance."

"Okay, Master Feng." Yunzhou took a deep breath, and scraped along the edge with the horn knife, feeling that his fingers were not his own.

He inexplicably thought of sculpture. Although his current production is far less complicated than sculpture, it is still shaping the missing part.

After countless repairs, the radian and surface are finally smoothed out. The next step is to scrape putty to make it as smooth as a glazed surface.

Yun Zhou pressed the finger that was covered with a red mark because of holding the knife, and continued after resting for a while.

He has to use fine water sandpaper to polish each corner back and forth until it is smoothed. Such a boring action has to be repeated thousands of times, and any unevenness can be felt out.

After patching up a piece the size of the mineral water bottle cap, Yun Zhou's forearm was so sore that he could hardly straighten up, so he had to rest out of breath.

Master Feng nodded: "It's not bad, it can be glazed after grinding for a while tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Yun Zhou wiped the sweat from his forehead with a tissue, and his fair complexion was even more radiant under the infiltration of sweat.

He looked at the time displayed on his phone at 12 o'clock in the morning, went to the bathroom to take a shower, and prepared to continue tomorrow.

The next day, Yunzhou finally polished the supplementary part extremely smooth, and could not feel the slightest bumps and blemishes with his hands. Master Feng smiled with satisfaction after seeing it: "Very good, the next step is glazing. First use a brush to outline the edges of the blue and white, and then apply the glaze."

Only then did Yun Zhou realize that the outermost part of the plate was outlined with blue and white double lines, and he couldn't help being stunned, "But master, I don't know how to do this..."

Master Feng: "No one is born good at it. How can you do it if you don't try? This is the simplest hook line, without layers. In the future, there will be shades of blue and white, as well as exquisite character patterns. It will only be more difficult.

You can test the color on paper and other pieces of porcelain first, and then paint on the porcelain after you have sketched it, don't worry. "

"Okay, Master Feng." Yunzhou felt that this was a big test for him. He has no foundation in art, and it will indeed be more difficult in the future as the other party said.

Even in ancient times, the kiln workers who burned porcelain and the painters who drew patterns were separated, but for masters of porcelain restoration, they must be able to restore, have superb painters and artistic qualities, so that they can be called masters.

However, since he decided to embark on the road of restoring porcelain, Yunzhou will not regret it.

After drawing on paper many times, the young man dipped a small amount of glaze with a thin pen tip to draw on the repaired porcelain. The moment the pen tip touched the porcelain, he held his breath.

Fortunately, his hands didn't shake, and he outlined the simplest underglaze blue and white double lines.This line is very thin, so don't dip too much glaze, or the glaze will solidify into dark dots; you can't dip too little, otherwise the color will be light, and it needs to be drawn in one stroke, because repeated application will inevitably leave traces. trace.

Master Feng took a closer look: "It's a little shallow, and ordinary people can't see it. But it's neatly aligned with the contour line next to it, and it's done very well. Look, isn't this possible?"

"Yeah!" Yunzhou nodded heavily, his eyes sparkling, so what if he hasn't done it?After dozens of tries, he could do it too.

After spraying the prepared glaze evenly with an airbrush, the complete 'Ming Wanli Blue and White Cloud and Dragon Pattern Plate' finally appeared in front of the two of them. Judging from the appearance, there is no trace of flaw at all, almost perfect!