Xiao Changyi stretched out his hand to block Wang Ding's way. Wang Ding raised his eyes. Xiao Changyi realized that his action was a bit exaggerated and hurriedly put his arm down.
"Brother, it's not that I'm not telling you to leave. Don't misunderstand me. It's just that I want to make friends with my brother. Why don't we go to the back room for a cup of tea?..."
Wang Ding also considered that this guy was a weasel paying New Year greetings to the rooster, and did not appreciate it. "If we are destined, we can definitely become friends. Next time, let's forget it this time."
"Don't." Xiao Changyi was about to say something, but his assistant shouted first, "Brother, our boss Xiao doesn't make friends with everyone. He said he wants to be friends with you and you still don't appreciate it. You are really..."
"What are you talking about? Do you have the right to speak if I don't speak?" Xiao Changyi drank heavily at once, and the clerk immediately fell silent and hid in a corner.
However, Xiao Changyi still followed the guy's words and said, "Brother, to be honest, in Panjiayuan, if I, Xiao Changyi, want to make friends with anyone, they really want it, or even if I don't want to be with them,
I make friends, they don’t like my temper, but they have no choice but to make friends, they don’t dare to say no. But brother, you are really the first person to say no to me, but it doesn’t matter, we don’t have to be friends, but business
Will you please open the door? To tell you the truth, I am very interested in the pottery in your hand. I wonder if you can let me take a look at it? "
"It's useless to be interested in my pottery. I don't sell it. So..."
"If you don't sell it, I always think that it hasn't reached the price you have in mind, or that the price isn't attractive enough, but let's not talk about it for now. Isn't it okay for me to take a look at it? Even if I don't sell it, let me appreciate it. This should be
It’s nothing, right?”
Xiao Changyi expressed a lot of interest. To be honest, even if he didn't sell it, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to take it out and let him appreciate it.
At this time, if you want to leave rashly, Xiao Changyi will probably not let you go. For a face-saving person like him, if you don't give him face, you are causing trouble for yourself.
Wang Ding has also noticed through various signals that Xiao Changyi is in Panjiayuan. He is a powerful guy even in Beijing. Although Wang Ding does not like Xiao Changyi and does not want to be friends with him, there is no need at all.
Therefore he made an enemy.
"Okay, let's go into the house and talk. It's not as quiet as the crowds of people outside, so you can see clearly!"
"Okay, okay. Pony, serve tea. Invite guests!"
Wang Ding and Sally came to Xiao Changyi's reception room. The furnishings in the reception room were also very simple. There was a wooden table with flowing water and a large tabletop for drinking tea.
The tea seats are all wooden pillars, made of sandalwood, which gives off a faint fragrance, and the sandalwood is also covered with soft cotton cushions, so as to not look like a butt.
However, such decoration and style are totally wrong. Obviously, Xiao Changyi is a fake artist.
After brewing the tea and sending it to Wang Ding, Xiao Changyi said, "Brother, can you let me see your pottery now?"
"certainly."
Wang Ding took out the pottery and put it on the table, asking Xiao Changyi to appreciate it.
Xiao Changyi seemed to be very knowledgeable about pottery. As soon as he saw it, he calmed down. He picked up the black pottery and wiped it hard with his hands on the inside of the black pottery. The thin mud wall suddenly became black and shiny, and
This pottery is extremely thin, a bit like eggshell porcelain. Xiao Changyi is certain that this is a characteristic of Longshan's fine black pottery.
After taking a sip of tea, Xiao Changyi said, "This pottery is very particular. The earlier the pottery appears, the more valuable it is. The earlier pottery appears, if it is simpler to fire, the materials and workmanship are rough."
, even those unearthed in the Neolithic period are not very
They are so valuable, and no one wants pottery pots like those from the Han Dynasty. But red pottery and painted pottery from the Yangshao Culture period, black pottery from the Longshan Culture period, white pottery from the late Shang Dynasty, and glazed pottery from the Han Dynasty.
There are many exquisite items inside, which are of great collection value.”
"But then again, those that have survived are extremely rare. Moreover, no one is looking for pottery, so the price will naturally not go up. If you don't want to hear it, brother, this is the current situation of pottery.
Except for the genuine and rare pottery, no one cares about the rest."
"That's true, so I'm lucky." Wang Ding originally thought that his pottery might be black pottery from the Longshan period, but now that Xiao Changyi's words had something to say, it made Wang Ding even more convinced that the pottery he was holding now
, it is really pure black pottery from the Longshan Culture period.
Black pottery is unglazed, so if it is not wiped, it will look a bit dull. Xiao Changyi is sure that Wang Ding must have seen this object, so he bought it. However, just relying on this feature to say that it is
It's black pottery, so it's really a bit arbitrary.
Xiao Changyi suddenly shook his head in frustration, "It's a bit hard to tell about this thing. The quality of the fetus is quite thin, a bit like Longkou black pottery, but the color of the glaze is a bit uncertain..."
Xiao Changyi took a magnifying glass and walked around the wide-rimmed pot for a long time, then tapped it with his hand. His face was a little disappointed. He had never seen the real Longshan black pottery, but this thing looked a bit like it.
The later imitation is not very consistent with the legendary black pottery's "black as paint, thin as paper" characteristics.
The "black as lacquer" quality of Longshan black pottery does not refer to pure black, but black and shiny. However, this black pottery is dull in color, and even the patina is not that solid.
After Wang Ding saw Xiao Changyi's expression, although he was not sure whether he didn't understand or he was pretending not to understand, he just laughed a few times and said: "Boss Xiao, you should have tung oil and white gauze, right?
Please bring some over here, I will clean this black pottery and you will know."
"Tung oil? Isn't that used to maintain furniture?"
Xiao Changyi was really unsure. He was a little confused when he heard this. He had been immersed in the porcelain shop for decades and had never heard that tung oil could clean ceramics. However, since Wang Ding said so, he must have a reason.
Xiao Changyi hurriedly asked his assistant to find tung oil.
"Brother, I kept you waiting for a long time. I don't store this thing in my store. I had to go to the furniture store to get it."
In general furniture stores, some tung oil will be stored for later use, but antique stores may not have it. After the clerk brought the tung oil, Wang Ding asked Boss Xiao to prepare two large bowls.
Xiao Changyi was already in a fog, and he couldn't understand what Wang Ding was doing. However, Xiao Changyi became more and more sure that this young man was not simple.
Xiao Changyi even shifted his attention from the pottery to Wang Ding, thinking that if he could recruit Wang Ding as the shopkeeper of his antique shop, the business would be prosperous!
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Sally also became more and more fond of this boy Wang Ding. He didn't know what he had in his head, but he could tinker with such novel things.
But Sally didn't know that Wang Ding had learned a lot of secret recipes from brother Liu Tiezhu, such as the garlic sauce gluing method, plaster gluing, and tung oil cleaning. There is nothing you can't think of that he can't do.
So there is a reason why Wang Ding asked Xiao Changyi to prepare two bowls. Although tung oil is transparent, there are some impurities in it and must be filtered before use. Wang Ding took the big bowl and used it.
White gauze covered the mouth of the bowl, and slowly poured the tung oil in another small bowl.
Wang Ding could see with the naked eye that there were some impurities left on the gauze. Then quickly, Wang Ding changed another gauze and filtered the tung oil in the big bowl again. After three times, the impurities were cleared.
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After filtering the tung oil, Wang Ding took a clean large bowl, filled it with two-thirds of the water, and then poured a little of the filtered tung oil into it, about a spoonful of root. The tung oil will not dissolve when it enters the water. Wang Ding took
I kept stirring with a chopstick, and after three or four minutes, the tung oil, which was like egg white, melted into the water.
Wang Ding continued to mix tung oil and water, and then took a piece of clean white gauze and soaked it in it. Since tung oil evaporates quickly and dries easily, the gauze can only be taken out when it is in use.
Seeing this, Xiao Changyi understood, but Sally still didn't understand. After doing these tasks, Wang Ding took out the gauze and started cleaning the black pottery.
Seeing that after cleaning the black pottery jar, the surface of the black pottery became brighter and brighter, Sally finally understood.
"Wow, so awesome!"
Wang Ding did not stop. After cleaning the black pottery, Wang Ding wiped it with a dry cloth and placed the black pottery in a place where the sun could shine in the room.
"This is nothing, it will be dried for a while."
The density of pottery is not as high as that of porcelain. Water will penetrate into the pottery, so just wiping the outside is not enough. However, the weather in late September is still very sunny, and it is estimated that the water inside can be dried out after leaving it for a while.
Done.
"Brother, I really admire you. I, Xiao Changyi, have really learned a lot today. It turns out that tung oil can be used in this way?"
After Wang Ding finished this series of actions, Xiao Changyi couldn't help but applaud. He had firmly memorized every move Wang Ding made just now, no matter how subtle it was. You know, usually
It is said that people who know these skills keep it secret. For Wang Ding to be willing to use this method in front of him, it is a huge opportunity for him.
This is because he does not regard himself as an outsider, and how can he still want to seize the black pottery of Wang Ding? It is really treating a gentleman with the courtesy of a villain.
Wang Ding was still so humble and said with a smile, "It's just a little trick to make Boss Xiao laugh..."
"What the hell, you are better than the shopkeeper in my store. By the way, I don't know what your surname is, brother, who are you?"
Wang Ding was also remembering to verify that the black pottery was authentic. At this moment, he also remembered that he didn't introduce himself. He said apologetically, "Boss Xiao, my surname is Wang, and my single name is Ding!" (To be continued, please search
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