Chapter 82 Wang Laoqin made a tall monk with a grasshopper gourd
Zhang Junping smiled bitterly, studied his manuscript for a long time, and discussed for a long time about publishing a book together, but in the end he still didn't know what his name was.
"Mr. Wang, my name is Zhang Junping, you can just call me Xiao Zhang!"
"Oh, yes! Xiao Zhang!
The old man took advantage of you this time.
Let's do this, you choose something in my office as a meeting gift from me!
You can't choose those things, they are national things!" Wang Shixiang said to Zhang Junping with a smile.
Zhang Junping admired Mr. Wang Shixiang even more. Mr. Wang felt that he had taken advantage of his young age, so he prepared to send something to make up for it.
As Wang Shixiang's number one player in the capital, each of his things, especially those placed in his office that can be viewed at any time, has a unique meaning.
"Mr. Wang, this is not appropriate. To publish a book together is for me to borrow your light and become famous! How can I take away your love again?" Zhang Junping quickly refused.
"Why do you look down on me? I'll give it away if I say so. If you don't choose, then the matter of co-publishing a book will be over!" Wang Shixiang said with a straight face.
Zhang Junping felt happy because he didn't expect that the famous Mr. Wang would cheat. He was indeed the number one player in the capital, and his childlike innocence would never grow old.
"Okay, let's take this gourd!" Zhang Junping pointed at a grasshopper gourd placed on the desk.
"hiss……
You really know how to choose!" Wang Shixiang bared his teeth in distress and said with a smile.
"Hahaha, Xiao Zhang, is it okay if I call you that?" Boss Shi Shuqing asked with a smile.
"No problem!"
"Xiao Zhang, since you chose this gourd, let me test you. If you are right, I will give you your choice of something as a meeting gift!
If you are wrong, then I will have to choose one as a meeting gift for you!" Mr. Shi said with a smile.
Shi Shuqing Shi Lao is an old man who likes to support young people.
"Thank you Mr. Shi for your support. I don't know much about antiques. I'm basically a layman!
Let me just make a random guess!" Zhang Junping said modestly.
"This grasshopper gourd is a model gourd, with sparkling landscapes, distant mountains and rivers, and boats and people, showing the leisurely interest. Although it is a fire painting, it is like an ink rendering, without the smell of fireworks. The gourd is inlaid with ivory mouth, and the floating cover is also so
Ivory is the frame, with a tortoiseshell heart. The high ivory heart is hollowed out with lotus and heron birds. The carving is exquisite, the polishing is exquisite, and the animal shapes are lifelike. It is obviously the work of a famous artist, and it looks very much like the work of Mikawa Liu.
"Tall monk-headed grasshopper gourd!" Zhang Junping commented while holding the grasshopper gourd.
"Haha, are you sure this is Sanhe Liu's tall monk's head?" Shi Shuqing asked calmly.
"No, I just said they are very similar. To be precise, they are very similar. Basically, the look, shape, and color of Mikawa Liu are imitated to the extreme!
It's a pity that one of the most critical points was ignored!
The gourds of Sanheliu are all made of tile molds. When making the tile molds, the wooden molds are first wrapped in paper to cover up the mold marks. Therefore, the "Sanheliu" gourds will have shallow paper marks. Even if rubbed for a hundred years, the marks will remain.
It is also vaguely visible.
But this tall monk-headed grasshopper gourd has no paper marks."
"Then why can't it be that Lao Wang likes this gourd and plays with it for many years, so that the paper mark is worn away?"
"If that's the case, how can we explain these pattern marks? Such obvious flaws are enough to prove that this is an imitation of a Sanheliu high-body monk's head grasshopper gourd.
Looking at the patina on the top, it is obvious that it was left over from playing with it for a long time.
It is an imitation, but Mr. Wang regards it as his favorite thing and has admired it for a long time, so I guess this should be the grasshopper gourd that Mr. Wang imitated in his early years!" Zhang Junping said with the final word.
"Bah bang bang!" Wang Shixiang clapped beside him and said, "Okay, what a scary young man! This tall monk's head is indeed a copy of Sanhe Liu's work when I was young!
But it is also my most proud work, thousands of gourds, and finally I got this one gourd.
When I went to the May 7th Cadre School, I didn’t bring anything else with me except this gourd, which accompanied me throughout my time at the May 7th Cadre School..."
In the end, only one gourd was obtained from thousands of gourds. Zhang Junping was speechless when he heard this.
The luxury of players is really incomprehensible to outsiders.
Guo Degang made fun of Yu Qian in a cross talk, saying that three gourds fell on fifty acres of land. Most people thought it was an exaggeration.
In fact, during the Qing Dynasty, it is not an exaggeration at all. The princes and princes of the Qing Dynasty were so extravagant in playing this game that ordinary people can hardly imagine.
Wang Shixiang was called the number one player in the capital by later generations. Compared with Prince Baylor during the Qing Dynasty, he was nothing compared to the big one. There was a huge gap between him and Wang Shixiang.
Prince Baylor of the Qing Dynasty had already industrialized eating, drinking, and having fun, and elevated it to the realm of art. He wrote a book and biography about it, and regarded eating, drinking, and having fun as a lifelong career and pursuit.
It is said that during the Republic of China, a down-and-out Baylor came to Donglaishun to eat mutton dumplings.
I ordered dumplings made with lamb shank and cabbage.
When the dumplings were served, Belle took one bite and banged the table and cursed.
Because Dong Laishun did not use hind leg meat to make dumplings according to his request, but used tenderloin meat.
After just one bite, you can tell that the meat used in the dumplings is not the hind leg meat, but the tenderloin. This is just a small thing.
But through this little thing, we can get a glimpse of the Manchu prince Baylor's particularity in eating, drinking and having fun.
"Mr. Wang, this tall monk's head grasshopper gourd is your favorite thing. How dare this junior take it from you? Why don't you exchange it for another one?" Mr. Wang Shixiang admitted the origin of this gourd, and Zhang Junping was too embarrassed to ask for it again.
This gourd.
"Hahaha! It doesn't matter, little friend, just take it!
The highest level of this game is sharing. Having fun alone is not as good as having fun with everyone!
If you can fall in love with this gourd at first sight, it means that you are destined to be with me. Take it!" Wang Shixiang rubbed the gourd lovingly for a moment, then stuffed the gourd into Zhang Junping's hand.
"Why don't I, junior, ask for that pen holder!" Zhang Junping couldn't bear to take away Mr. Wang's beloved thing and casually pointed to a pen holder on the desk.
"No, that's a Ming Dynasty ivory-inlaid brown wood pen holder, which is much more valuable than the grasshopper gourd in your hand! You picked the least valuable one yourself, don't even think about going back on it!" Wang Shixiang shook his big head and refused directly.
Zhang Junping burst out laughing. He didn't expect that the most worthless object he picked at random would turn out to be Mr. Wang's favorite thing. At the same time, he admired Mr. Wang Shixiang's character.
Although this tall monk-headed gourd is not the work of Sanhe Liu, it can be passed down in an orderly manner. It was made by Wang Shixiang himself. If measured in terms of money, it is no lower than the tooth-inlaid brown wood pen holder.
"Okay, little friend, don't refuse. As long as you cherish it and pass this gourd on, it's better than anything else!" Shi Shuqing was trying to smooth things over.