antique on the run

Xia Chuanqingquan's house is not far from the cherry blossom forest, just turn around a residential street.

He lived at the end of the street, not next to other people's houses, but a lonely log cabin, which looked old and very deserted.

"I never expected that Xia Chuan Qingquan would lead such a simple life."

Saiwei originally thought that Xia Chuan Qingquan's family was the largest maritime merchant in the Netherlands, not to mention rich as an enemy, at least a wealth of wealth. Although Xia Chuan Qingquan lived alone in Japan, the family should not treat him badly, but it can be obtained from memory sharing. Judging from the information, he actually had no contact with his family after parting with him that year, not even a letter.

"He has severed ties with his family. Even though he lived in poverty at the beginning, he couldn't even eat, and he refused to accept the family's gold coins." Sai Wei sighed, "He hopes that he can become a Japanese thoroughly, can You don’t need to depend on your family to survive.…The way the Dutch think is really strange, isn’t it, Qi Xiao?”

At least for Seville, as a nobleman, he has received higher education since he was a child, has the title of Viscount, and will inherit his father's title of Duke in the future.

There were some unknown flowers and plants planted in front of the wooden house, most of which hadn't bloomed yet. Sai Wei held Qi Xiao in his arms and pushed open the door of the wooden house. Inside...it was hard to describe.

Poor, really poor, it is hard to imagine that a generation of famous pottery masters would be so poor.

The size of the wooden house is small, and the interior decoration is very simple. The stove occupies a corner near the door, and there is a dining table beside it; the easel occupies another corner, and there is a half-painted oil painting on it.

In the corner farthest from the door, there is a narrow tatami mat, the width of which can only accommodate one person to lie on. Next to the tatami mat is a low table with ink cartridges, brushes and rice paper on it, which should be used by Qingquan Xia Chuan to practice calligraphy The place.

Sai Wei took a closer look at the unfinished oil painting. The colors are not complete, but it can be seen that the painting is a mountain path, and the two sides of the road are full of blooming cherry blossoms.The lines of the whole painting are delicate and smooth, and the objects are realistic. Although the painting is not exquisite, it should be able to sell for a good price in Japan where oil paintings are scarce.

There is also a south-facing window in the room, with good lighting. There is a long table in front of the window. The table is very dirty, with tan clods everywhere, and there are several molds with strange shapes on it. making pottery.

But here comes the problem, as a generation of pottery master Xia Chuan Qingquan, Sai Wei can't make pottery...

Qi Xiao nestled in Sai Wei's arms, and after waiting for a long time, he did not see any movement from Sai Wei. When he looked up, he saw that he was looking blankly at the pottery tools on the table.

Qi Xiao: "..."

This guy almost had the words "I don't know how" written on his face.

Qi Xiao sighed, tugged Sai Wei's skirt with his paws, and raised his chin at the thick stack of books at the corner of the table, which meant: If you don't know it, just learn.

Sai Wei also knows to learn, but who to learn from?

He was lost in thought, and suddenly felt light in his arms, and Qi Xiao jumped to the ground while he was not paying attention.

"what happened?"

Saiwei didn't know what Qi Xiao wanted to do, he ran to the tatami quickly, jumped onto the low table, and waved his paw at Saiwei, which meant: come here.

The little cat stepped on the table, dipped one of its front paws into the ink cartridge, and then used its black paws to write large characters on the rice paper.

Claws are not as good as hands, and they can't hold a brush, so Qi Xiao can only communicate with Sai Wei in this way.

A string of crooked Chinese characters soon appeared on the rice paper, horizontal is not horizontal, vertical is not vertical, and there are several balls of ink stuck together, which is not as good as even a child who is writing calligraphy for the first time.

However, Sai Wei miraculously understood.

【Find a teacher】

Qi Xiao wrote it like this.

"You mean Hiroya Ito?"

Saiwei frowned. At this moment, Xia Chuanqingquan had already learned from Hiroya Ito and became a teacher. How could he go back to the teacher and ask him to remake it.

Qi Xiao obviously thought of his worries, and Qi Xiao thought more about it.

Qi Xiao thought about it, and it is really impossible to find Hiroshi Ito. Just imagine, if Saiwei finds Hiroya Ito and lies to him that he has lost his memory and needs to be rebuilt, what will Hiroshi Ito do?

His best and most proud student has completely forgotten how to make pottery. As a teacher, Ito Hiroshi is also afraid that he will be furious. Qi Xiao has every reason to believe that he will lock up people and start training from scratch until the shocking moment. Until the bright potter leaves his job again.

The time spent in the middle is endless...

So he waved his paw and wrote again:

【another】

Hiroya Ito is not the only potter in Kyoto. Although other people's craftsmanship may not be as top-notch as Hiroya Ito, Saiwei doesn't really want to learn pottery. enough.

Pursuing Antiques is not an antique creation. The “audience” in Void only wants to see the process of being created rather than what he looks like. Therefore, as long as the antiques can be fooled, it doesn’t need to be highly imitated.

To put it more bluntly, the meow claw pottery plate can be made ugly and frustrating, as long as all the necessary elements are complete, it can pass the test smoothly.

For example, cat paw prints.

- This is best done.

Another example is the engraved book and private seal on the back.

——This is not difficult.

Another example is the hollowed-out painted cherry blossom pattern.

——This is simply fatal!

Qi Xiao and Sai Wei have just arrived in this time and space, and they are very unfamiliar with everything. As Xia Chuan Qingquan's "player", Sai Wei has not even sorted out Xia Chuan Qingquan's basic interpersonal network, except for Ito Hiroya. Know any potter.

So the matter of finding a teacher has to be slowed down first.

Fortunately, they still have plenty of time and are not in a hurry.

Qi Xiao put this matter aside for the time being, seeing that writing big characters is a feasible communication method, with a wave of his paw, he waved the rice paper on the table aside, replaced it with a new one, and slowly wrote:

【Time meteorite】

If it weren't for being unable to speak, he would have wanted to ask Sewei about the whereabouts of the meteorite.

Saiwei just remembered this, slapped his head, and pulled out a chain from the skirt. The black and gold stone hanging on it was Qi Xiao's time meteorite.

"It's been on my neck, do you want me to untie it for you?"

Sai Wei stretched his hand behind his neck to untie the chain, but was stopped by Qi Xiao.

Qi Xiao yelled "Meow Meow" twice, and pointed at Sai Wei with the tip of his claw, which meant to tell him to put away the time meteorite.

It's not that Qi Xiao doesn't want to take it back, but that he really can't wear it right now—can you imagine a small milk cat with a big heavy rock hanging around its neck?

So it's better to let Saiwei keep it first.

Saiwei obviously thought of this, and put the time meteorite back into his collar, saying: "It's okay, it's not convenient for you to wear the necklace now, and I will return it to you when we leave this time and space."

Qi Xiao nodded in agreement. He was about to write on another piece of rice paper, but suddenly his ears moved.

He heard footsteps outside, intermittent, as if they were running, approaching the house quickly.

"Meow!"

someone is coming!

Saiwei couldn't understand what Qi Xiao was meowing about, but there was no need to explain, because the door was pulled open the next moment, and then a crisp voice shouted: "Mr. Xia Chuan, Mr. Xia Chuan, I'm here to see you!"

Looking along the source of the sound, the person who came was a little girl of six or seven years old, carrying a small cloth bag, tied in two small buns, and showing sweet dimples when she smiled.

Qi Xiao was taken aback, isn't this the little girl among the children he met in the grass?

He remembered that the little girl's name was Xiao Yaxizi.

The little girl obviously recognized Qi Xiao, her eyes widened and she exclaimed in surprise, "Ah! Little cat! It's you! Why are you here?"

She ran to a place three steps away from Qi Xiao, blinking at it with a pair of beautiful big eyes, wanting to touch the soft fur but afraid that she would scare the cat away.

"Hello, little Akiko, welcome to play."

Sai Wei had already received all Xia Chuan Qingquan's memories of Xiao Yaxizi in his mind, he greeted Xiao Yaxizi in Xiachuan Qingquan's usual way, hugged Qi Xiao, touched his head lovingly, and said: " This is my cat."

He smiled brightly, but Qi Xiao slapped him hard on the back of Xiao Yaxizi's invisible head——

Don't touch my head casually!

This is what Saiwei read from Qi Xiao's warning eyes.

He bared his teeth, but he didn't move his hand from Qi Xiao's head. Instead, he put his cheek against Qi Xiao's head and rubbed it against Qi Xiao's head. Akiko: "How about it, isn't he cute?"

"Yeah! Very cute!"

Little Akiko kept nodding, and looked at Saiwei with envy—she also wanted to hug the kitten!

She seemed to be very familiar with Xia Chuan Qingquan, surrounded Saiwei and said: "Mr. Xia Chuan, I really didn't expect it to be your cat. We saw it on the grass before, and we thought it was wild."

As she said that, she lowered her head in embarrassment, and grabbed her skirt with both hands: "I'm sorry, little cat, Mr. Zhongshan didn't bully you on purpose, don't be angry..."

Zhongshan Jun was the soaring braid at that time.

Qi Xiao yawned a little in Sai Wei's arms. He didn't know how to react at this time. It stands to reason that a cat can't understand human words, so he can only apologize for Xiao Yaxizi's apology. ignore.

Fortunately, Xiao Yaxizi also knew that she could not get a response from the kitten, so she quickly asked Sai Wei with a smile: "Mr. Xia Chuan, what's its name?"

"Uh, his name is..."

What is your name?

Of course it's Qi Xiao!

But little Akiko obviously couldn't understand Chinese.

Sewei stuck in his shell and didn't know what name to give Qi Xiao, but Qi Xiao was lazily nestled in his arms, as if he had nothing to do with him.

He was rather curious about what good name Sewell could come up with for him.