Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes

  Chapter 234 The originator of the purple sand pot

  Ji Xiaolan’s inkstone has been confirmed to be authentic, and now only Cao Xueqin’s inscription needs to be re-authenticated and confirmed. Fortunately, Professor Wu is proficient in history and can recall many key details.

  At noon, I had a hot pot meal at Professor Zhu’s house. Eat the mutton with your stomach free. It’s the enjoyment in the world to enjoy the hot pot in a snowy day.

   In the afternoon, Li Mo chatted with the four professors for a while, then left and went home. When he walked to the gate of the community, he felt someone watching him again. He stood on the spot and jumped, shaking off the white snow from his body. Taking the opportunity to look around, he found a white car parked across the road, and his eyes seemed to be piercing through that car.

  Calmly walked into the community, he edited a text message and sent it, the content of the message was a license plate number.

  The next day, Sunday, after eight o'clock in the morning, the snow had stopped. The cleaning uncles and aunts in the community have already cleared the snow on the main passage, and there are several cars on the road outside to clear the snow.

  Li Mo's destination today is Liulichang. Because of the weather, Liulichang is also deserted. Except for a few workers who cleared the snow on the road, many shops are not open yet.

  He was not in a hurry, he went in one by one to browse the open shops, the longest time was more than ten minutes, and the shortest time was two or three minutes.

   Visited eight shops in a row, but I didn’t come across a single eye-catching thing. The best one is the inkstone from the late Qing Dynasty. Unfortunately, it is very worn out and has no collection value.

  At around 10:30, Li Mo received a text message, which read: There are two people who are suspected to be following you, and they have been anti-monitored.

   replied: Don't startle the snake, collect all the information related to them.

  Li Mo held a cup of milk tea and walked into a shop again. This shop made tea and various styles of tea sets. The decoration was light and luxurious, giving people a very high-end impression.

  There are three young women standing at the counter in the store. There are seven customers who buy tea. The business looks good. On the other side of the tea set area, an old man in his sixties was negotiating with the men in the shop, his voice was quite loud.

"Boss, my purple clay teapot has been passed down from my grandparents. I usually use it at home and take good care of it. You can see that the entire appearance is not damaged at all. Then look at the thick layer of tea stains on the inner wall of the teapot. Smell it. There is still a faint tea fragrance, at least it has existed for more than a hundred years."

   "Look at the unique shape of this purple clay teapot, you only bid five thousand, which is much lower than the price in my heart."

The man is at most forty years old, bald and slightly fat. He turned around and pointed to the several types of purple sand teapots displayed on the Bogu shelf and said, "Look, there are quite a few more exquisite and distinctive ones on the Bogu shelf than the one in your hand. You The purple clay teapot is also because it has been a little longer, so I only asked for 5,000. If it is in our shop, it is estimated that the price can be 2,000. If you are not willing to sell, please go to other places to inquire Inquiry, I believe my asking price must be the highest."

  The old man's face showed a tangled look, and after a while he sighed and said, "Okay, five thousand is five thousand, I want cash."

  As the boss said, he had already inquired about the price in other shops, and five thousand was indeed the highest price offered.

   "No problem, I have a sales contract here, I will give you five thousand cash immediately after you sign it."

  Li Mo heard the reputation, the old man and the shop owner were already going through the formalities, and the purple clay pot on the counter was blocked by his body. He didn't take it seriously either, and began to look around the shop.

   "Hello, sir, what kind of tea do you want to buy?" A female shop assistant smiled and greeted Li Mo. She reached out and handed Li Mo a price list. Different teas have different prices for different grades.

   To be honest, the price of famous tea is not much higher than that of magic tea. If the quality is really good, it doesn’t matter if you buy some for yourself.

   "I'll take a look first, and I'll tell you when I choose."

  Li Mo took the price list and began to walk towards the tea set. The old man was counting cash.

   "Boss, exactly five thousand."

   "Pleasant cooperation."

  The old man put the cash in his arms and left the shop with a smile on his face. Only then did Li Mo see the true face of the purple clay pot that had survived for more than a hundred years.

  The body of the pot resembles the knotted branches of a peach tree. It is old and strong. The spout and the handle are matched with twigs, which is natural. There are peach blossoms and slender peach leaves in full bloom on both sides of the pot, which is so lifelike that it can almost be faked. Coupled with dark purple sand, the tone is simple and elegant, and it has the artistic conception of returning to nature.

  Li Mo once found a pair of tea sets from Gu Jingzhou’s collection. Compared with the purple sand pot in front of him, the former is simple and the latter is simple.

  If it really has a history of more than 100 years, then the price of this purple clay pot is definitely more than 5,000 yuan, at least 50,000 yuan.

  Different pupils looked at it, and their eyes penetrated the purple sand pot. Suddenly, a blue light was emitted from the body of the pot, and then blue light circles spread out.

  Damn it, it’s not just a hundred years, it’s at least five hundred years old. The originator of the purple clay pot came from the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. He vaguely felt that he had seen an introduction to the shape of a purple clay pot in some book.

   In the first year, this purple clay pot was not simple.

   "Sir, do you want to see the tea set?"

  The boss was about to store the purple clay teapot he had just received, when he saw Li Mo walking towards him, he hurriedly smiled and asked.

"Well, it's the end of the year, and I'm going to buy some good tea and go back with a few sets of tea sets. Boss, do you have any high-end tea sets here? Don't recommend ordinary ones. The elders in the family have high vision, and ordinary ones can't enter his Fayan."

  Business people like such customers, as long as they are good and straightforward.

   "Sir, the best tea set here costs 38,000 yuan. It is made of top-quality Burmese teak wood and is handmade by famous teachers. Would you like to see it?"

  Li Mo nodded without hesitation and said, "Take out one set for the best one, and two sets for the slightly cheaper one. I will choose which one is more suitable first."

   "Okay, sir, wait a moment."

   Soon the three sets of tea sets were placed on the counter one by one. Li Mo just glanced at them and despised the boss. He also said that the famous masters made them by hand, and he knew that they were carved by machines. But he didn't bother to care about it. The other two sets were also made of teak wood, but the specifications were slightly smaller.

   "What's the price of these two sets?"

   "The middle set is 33,000, and the rest is 16,000."

"Boss, I need seven sets. You can give me a real price for the sixty thousand tea sets. First of all, I am not buying tea sets for the first time. If you want to do my business sincerely, don't be sloppy with me. As for you It's purely handmade, you can just fool those who don't know how to do it. Give me a real price, and I'll pick some top famous tea from you."

   "Yes, sir is a straightforward person to say so. If others buy this tea set, the price will not be lower than 12,000. If you order seven sets in one go, I will give you a real price. How about 8,000 for each tea set?"

"Almost, give me a cheaper price for the famous tea later." Li Mo took out the black gold card from his wallet, the store owner's eyes became brighter, and he said with a brighter smile under his eyes, "Sir, your tea set is Those who are going to give it away, if you want to say how precious they are, there are still shortcomings, after all, they have not experienced the precipitation of time. If you want to give an elder as a gift, I will recommend you a better ancient pot with a century-old heritage."

  Li Mo raised his eyebrows. He was thinking about how to bring the topic to the Ming Dynasty purple sand pot. Unexpectedly, the boss had a good eye and recommended it to him.

   "Oh, a hundred-year-old purple sand teapot is really rare. If you can let me see it, money is not a problem, as long as the things are good."

  The store owner is more cheerful, and he likes to hear such words.

"Sir, this purple sand teapot is what I want to recommend to you. It has a history of a hundred years and has been passed down for three generations. You can see that the appearance of this purple clay teapot is very well preserved, without any wear and tear. Look inside the teapot, a layer of tea has already condensed You, don’t underestimate this tea stain, no matter what kind of tea you brew in this pot, the tea’s fragrance will increase by 30%, which is very precious. Look at this shape again, it’s simple and elegant, it’s an extremely rare top-quality purple clay pot.”

  The owner of the store began to speak with a three-inch tongue, saying that this purple clay pot is unique in the world.

   "Boss, I'll get started."

  Li Mo picked up the purple clay pot on the table and slowly admired it. His eyes moved around the mouth of the pot, the bottom of the pot, and the handle, and suddenly his eyes focused on the inner circle of the handle, where there were two small italic characters engraved: Gongchun.

   Whoops, Li Mo finally remembered whose work this is. It is really Gongchun, who is known as the originator of the purple sand pot.

  The legend of Gongchun was originally named Gongchun, who was from Zhengde to Jiajing in Ming Dynasty. Gong Chun was an official's bookboy, when

  When I accompanied my master to study at Jinsha Temple in Yixing, an old monk in the temple was very good at making purple clay pots, and Gongchun learned it secretly.

  Later, he used the pottery mud deposited at the bottom of the tank by the old monk's hands, and made a pot in the shape of the gall of the big ginkgo tree next to the Jinsha Temple, which is the shape of the tree tumor, and engraved the pattern on the gall. After firing, this pot is very simple and lovely, so this kind of purple sand pot that imitates the natural shape has become famous all of a sudden, and people call it a spring pot.

   There are very few gongchun pots in existence, very rare, and there is only one collection in the Kyoto Museum.

   This kind of purple sand teapot is famous for its simple and exquisite shape, elegant and natural, pure and thin quality.

  There is such a comment in history: A pot for spring is better than gold and jade.

  (end of this chapter)