I didn’t know what Xu Qing was going to do, so I replied with a nice word and put the phone on the table.

When Fatty Xiao and Xiaozhu clinked glasses, their hands shook a little and the wine in the glasses overflowed.

When Xiaozhu saw this, he should have guessed that Fatty Xiao was afraid of him.

This damn girl started to become naughty, and shouted loudly and arrogantly: "Brother Xiao, don't shake the wine when you are toasting!"

"Clang" sound.

Fatty Xiao was so frightened that he dropped his cup on the table and all the wine was poured out in an instant.

The whole audience laughed.

Fatty Xiao looked embarrassed and said, "No... Miss Zhu, I didn't drink."

I thought it was funny.

Fatty Xiao has always been fearless, but he was so afraid of Xiaozhu.

Later I found out the reason.

When Fatty Xiao first debuted in Ganbao Army.

One morning when I went to the western goods yard to pick up the goods, I found several baggage soldiers looking at a corpse with its back spine suddenly picked out. They all showed fear. After asking, I found out that the deceased had slept with someone else's wife.

He was killed by others.

Fatty Xiao was very puzzled and asked them who was so cruel.

Several baggage soldiers told Fatty Xiao that the woman's husband was said to be from the Suoming Sect.

That incident left Fatty Xiao with a serious psychological shadow on the people of Suomingmen.

However, by the end of the meal, Fatty Xiao drank too much and was no longer afraid of Xiaozhu. He even dared to play guessing games with Xiaozhu. But what was surprising was that Fatty Xiao lost miserably. He drank too much and got up to go to the toilet.

When I was there, I broke my mobile phone on the table.

But at this moment, the phone suddenly rang.

I picked up the phone and found that the screen was cracked. I couldn't see who was calling and couldn't answer the call.

Xu Qing said: "Go west for half an hour along the street. There is a mobile phone store on the street. You can repair it or buy one."

I nodded: "I'm almost done eating. You continue, I'll go fix the phone."

Xiaozhu asked: "Brother, do you want me to accompany you?"

I replied no need.

Arrive at the mobile phone store.

A shop owner about forty years old was sitting on his computer chair with his legs up and swinging on the counter. He was concentrating on playing Age of Empires. Maybe the game was not playing smoothly, but this guy was still swearing.

When he saw me coming in, he just raised his eyelids and asked me to wait angrily.

There weren't many mobile phones in the store, the counter floor was all dirty, and the smelly feet of the boss made it very uncomfortable.

I guess this mobile phone store is not doing very well.

I originally wanted to change to another store, but because the distance was quite far, I didn't want to go any further.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the store owner finally finished the game.

He glanced at the phone, and in less than a second, he threw it on the counter and said very impatiently: "Your phone can be repaired, but the parts will take two or three days to arrive."

After he finished speaking, he ignored me and wanted to go back and continue playing games.

This is because the money is too little and I am not willing to do this business at all.

No wonder there were so many people outside the store.

I was too lazy to repair the broken phone, so I replied: "I can't wait any longer, just get a new one."

When the store owner heard this, he just got up from the computer chair, pointed at the counter, and asked me to choose.

On the way, the store owner answered a phone call.

"Brother Wang, my store has not had much business, and the rent has been postponed for a few days... This time I must keep my word. If not, can I use the old man's pension to pay the rent? Business is hard to do and shit is hard to eat. I can't do it either.

Have no idea……"

When I was picking out my mobile phone, I glanced sideways at the small incense burner that the shop owner placed on the spot of the God of Wealth, and my eyes suddenly lit up.

The small incense burner has an open mouth, a short and thin neck, a flat and bulging belly, three legs and two ears, and a thick pulp. Under the sunlight, bursts of precious energy overflow.

Ming Xuande copper small incense burner?

I'm not sure because I didn't get my hands on it to look closely, and I couldn't see the design underneath the small incense burner.

The Xuande furnace is very famous, but it has always been a legendary thing, and no real product has yet appeared.

The so-called authentic Xuande stoves specifically refer to the first batch of stoves cast in the third year of Xuande. The bottom of the stove has the words "Made in the Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty" written in regular script on the bottom.

Why is this batch alone said to be authentic?

Because the incense burner from the 3rd year of Xuande's reign is rare in the world for its exquisite shape, precious materials and complex craftsmanship.

It is said that in order to ensure the quality of this batch of incense burners, Emperor Xuande selected a group of top casters in the country, required that the copper should be refined no less than twelve times, and selected dozens of precious metals such as gold and silver to be quenched together with the red copper.

It takes a hundred refinements to make it.

This batch of authentic products contains a total of three thousand incense burners.

After the finished products were finished, most of them were displayed in the Ming court, and a few were given to the emperor's relatives, important ministers or temples.

However, due to internal and external troubles in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, continuous wars, and an empty treasury, Emperor Chongzhen sent all the copper stored in the imperial palace to the Baoyuan Bureau to use it to melt coins. Most of the authentic incense burners made in the Xuande three years were destroyed.

once.

A very small amount is scattered among the people, but no real product has been seen in the world.

So, how did some Ming and Xuande furnaces in public and private collections come from?

All are imitations.

The incense burner from the Xuande Period was extremely exquisite, and it was only during the Xuande Period that imitations began to be made.

The most famous one is Wu Bangzuo, one of the casters of Xuande III incense burners. After the Xuande furnace was sealed, he summoned the same group of casters and used the remaining raw materials to imitate the Xuande III incense burners. Objectively speaking, these incense burners he cast

, the workmanship is fine and beautiful, but due to insufficient raw materials, there is still a big gap between it and the real thing.

until now.

Imitations of incense burners made in the Xuande 3rd year have emerged one after another, and are even divided into Northern Casting, Southern Casting, Su Casting and other factions, which is a wonder.

Sister Jiuer and I once saw a shop on Qianmen Street in Kyoto that specialized in replicating incense burners from the Xuande period. The shop owner purchased a large number of old broken copper stoves from the Ming Dynasty, polished off the original color, and applied them with earthy red, tiles, pork liver and other colors.

, pretending to be a Xuande three-year incense burner, and many people were deceived.

I can responsibly tell you that if someone sells you an incense burner from the Xuande Period of the Ming Dynasty, slap him in the face and there will be absolutely nothing wrong with him.

"You can use the new Nokia model, but it's more expensive!" The store owner still had no expression on his face.

Probably he was still thinking about the Age of Empires and hoped that I would buy it and leave quickly.

I asked: "Have you ever been thrown?"

The shop owner frowned and said, "Nokia is famously indestructible, didn't you know?"

My mind was focused on the small incense burner in front of the shrine.

Judging from the aura of treasure exuding from the thing, I can tell that if it is not made in the third year of Xuande's reign in the Ming Dynasty, it is also made during the Xuande's reign in the Ming Dynasty.

Antique antique.

Also worth a lot of money.

But this is not a market stall, and those methods of rounding, squeezing, punching, and catching chestnuts from the fire cannot be used.

You can't buy it directly.

People who open shops are mostly shrewd and vigilant. Secondly, superstition says that things placed in the God of Wealth should not be touched arbitrarily, otherwise they will easily lose money.

There is no other way but to steal something.

Stealing something is not stealing, but cheating.

The original meaning was that a clerk in an antique store secretly took away valuable antiques from the store. Later, it meant to deceive someone else into taking something with nothing.

There are no fixed rules for this thing, and the methods vary from person to person, so it is quite a test of skills and adaptability.

While looking at my phone, I quickly formed a secret dinner party in my mind.
Chapter completed!