Chapter 0568 – Brick and Inkstone (I)

“A douchebag? I think he’s just a douchebag, taking a treasure and selling it as trash.”

Zhuang Rui sneered, opened his mouth to call out to Daxiong, reached out and picked up the heavy ancient city brick on the table, inspecting it carefully.

“Treasure? Boss Zhuang, this city brick to make an ink stone, although it is very common, but this piece should not be, right?”

Zhao Hanxuan in the opening of the “Shu Ya Zhai” before, did seven or eight years of stationery business, asked in the garden for the inkstone Xuan paper and other objects is a connoisseur, at the moment, how he looked at this inkstone, are not like the ancient inkstone ah!

“Yes! Boss, this city bricks and tomb bricks are almost the same, we Pengcheng antique market there, thirty to fifty dollars a piece, that will dig the Turtle Hill Tomb of the Han Dynasty, I and Xiong brother back then also.”

A side of the monkey said the words of the general, fiercely by the big Xiong to cover the mouth, this experience is not worth going around to proclaim, although they are not to go to the tomb raiding, but stealing tomb bricks is not what a good line of work.

“You two boys, hi ……”

Zhuang Rui was amused by the monkey’s words, he didn’t expect these two brothers to be quite rich in experience, even this line of work has been done.

“Uncle De, come and take a look at this.”

Zhuang Rui saw Uncle De accompanying Qi Zhu out from the inner preparation, and hurriedly handed over the brick in his hand.

“It’s an ancient city brick, it’s not fake! Wait, I’ll take another look.”

After Uncle De got his hands on it, his initial judgment was similar to Zhao Hanxuan’s, but after rubbing on that city brick for a while, his face changed and he put the ancient city brick on the table, took out a magnifying glass and carefully inspected it, almost putting his face on it.

“This thing, rather like an old object made new ah?”

After Uncle Te looked at this ancient city brick over and over again, he muttered, “It doesn’t make sense! Look at this place to study the ink, should have been done inkstone, but why next to have not gone through any salary facets, it is impossible to make a single ink surface, right? And this pulp is not enough, not many years.”

“Uncle De, this brick inkstone is what is going on ah?”

Qin Xuan Bing looked a little curious, Master Qin would often write some words at home, also used the inkstone pen and ink, but she was not very clear about the origin of these things.

“Oh, brick inkstone is an inkstone carved from ancient bricks, ancient bricks have a long history and have a high historical value in themselves. Because the ancient brick texture is fine, so the effect of this ink study, no less than the clarified mud production of the inkstone, and the ancient brick ancient color, more can add a few points of the elegant cultural atmosphere of the literati room.”

Uncle Te smiled to the store a few people popularized the knowledge of the ancient inkstone, in addition to Zhao Hanxuan slightly understand, even Zhuang Rui are listening to the interest, although he followed Uncle Te to learn a miscellaneous appraisal, but the scope of miscellaneous is too wide, and the inkstone belongs to a niche harvest of items, so Zhuang Rui also do not know the inheritance of the brick inkstone origin.

In fact, brick inkstone was first seen in the Tang and Song dynasties, prevalent in the Qing dynasty Qianlong, Jiaqing period, most of the literati scholars engraved, some for practical purposes, some for pleasure, as long as the brick inkstone passed down before the Qing dynasty, are worth a lot of money, by the hobby of calligraphy and stationery collectors are sought after.

Ancient brick text and other bronze inscriptions, stone carving text has a different flavor, our history of scholars and scholars recorded ancient brick strange text is quite a lot.

Especially in the late Qing Dynasty, the prevalence of the wind of goldstone evidence, many literati, the evidence of scientists to find another way to the broken and eroded brick and tile text is a favorite, heavy search and purchase, trying hard to seek, so the “Qin Brick Han Tile” is known in the world.

“Uncle De, you are right, this thing is really old objects to make new objects, I’m afraid that in the war for fear of loss, estimated to make out.”

Zhuang Rui smiled and took the brick block in the hands of Uncle De, pointing to the ink surface, said, “This ink surface is smooth and neat, it should be often used, but and next to it is a bit out of tune, just like jadeite in general, just based on the outer skin, it is very difficult to find the inside of the jade.”

Zhuang Rui held this ancient city brick and talked eloquently, the eyes of all the people in the store were attracted to him, even some of the customers who were originally picking out brushes and rice paper, also stopped and listened attentively.

Qin Xuan Bing for this thing is an ancient ink stone or ancient city brick, not the slightest interest, but see Zhuang Rui radiant look, but deeply intoxicated, said the work of the men and women is the most charming, at the moment the Zhuang Rui, in the eyes of Qin Xuan Bing that is the look than Pan An, the talent wins the perfect man of Tong Pak Fu.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Zhuang, to interrupt, you see this bead flower, can we trade now?”

Have always called Zhuang Rui for the boss of the Qi Zhu, at this moment is also shouted a Zhuang teacher, as the saying goes that learning is not before and after, the master is the teacher, just Zhuang Rui this comment, it is worthwhile for her to shout on a teacher.

“Aigoo, I forgot about this, sister Qi Zhu, no problem, let’s trade now, do you want to transfer money, or what?”

After Zhuang Rui heard Qi Zhu’s words, he stopped his mouth in a hurry, but it made some of the guests in the store very dissatisfied, he just heard the excitement, how did he stop talking about it!

“Transfer the money! Your store should be able to swipe cards, right? This is my husband, husband, transfer 900,000 to them.”

This will Zhuang Rui only saw in Qi Zhu next to stand a middle-aged man, looks although it is good-looking, but the words are very little, after hearing Qi Zhu’s words, took out a card from the bag, looking at Zhuang Rui.

Look at this Qi Zhu husband’s appearance, maybe it is the son-in-law of the backward door, this luxury daughter-in-law is difficult to do, luxury son-in-law does not see how much easier, and a follower is almost the same.

“Old Zhao, you do it for them! That bead flower, 9O million RMB, transfer the money and then give them a certificate.”

Since Xuan Rui Zhai had redecorated and opened, this was Zhuang Rui’s first time here, where did he know where to transfer money ah! He had no choice but to let Zhao Hanxuan handle it.

“Ah? Oh, good, good.”

Zhao Hanxuan heard Zhuang Rui’s words, as if waking up from a dream, he agreed, he had been Zhuang Rui and Qi Zhu’s conversation to the stupid, which just went in not much work, actually made 9O million yuan of business, catching up with their own usual off-season when the turnover of several months.

“This gentleman, let’s transfer money over here!”

Zhao Hanxuan and Qi Zhu’s husband greeted, still as in a dream, he now understands why Zhuang Rui so easily agreed to dish out his store, dare I say that antiques this thing, so lucrative ah?

“This boss, tell me more about this brick! How is it a treasure?”

A curious customer in the store couldn’t help but ask.

“Well, according to my judgment, this is an ancient city brick that was split in half from the center, and then after hollowing out the inside, the ink stone was inlaid into it, but I don’t know why, but this inking surface was left outside.”

Zhuang Rui heart is really some puzzlement, his judgment conclusion is of course through the eyes of the aura to see out, this is clearly an ancient inkstone inside, and the aura is full of, but this city brick is clearly can be the whole inkstone all in, I do not know that person left the ink surface at the beginning is what is the meaning of?

“Xiao Rui, can you be sure? In the past, there were people who used fake paintings to cover onto real paintings for framing, but I really haven’t heard of anything that happened to an inkstone.”

Uncle De frowned, he knew that in the pre-liberation period and during the decade of the Cultural Revolution in China, there were many people who tried all kinds of ways to cover up their beloved objects in order to protect them, so I can’t say that it was really guessed by Zhuang Rui!

“Uncle De, you see the middle of this brick, with a magnifying glass can be seen, there are traces of being polished, must be in order to cover up the butt joints, is it true or false, we are careful to crack the brick will know.”

In fact, the butt joint of this city brick, was handled extremely well, even with a magnifying glass, it is also very difficult to see, but uncle De after Zhuang Rui’s reminder, under special attention, really see a little bit of clues, and then nodded and said: “The ancients were using glutinous rice and pulp instead of cement, excellent adhesion, but this piece of city brick does not look like with these things sticky, Xiao Zhuang, you be careful. It’s best to soak it with water first, then scrape it open with a knife to see if there’s really an object inside, don’t damage it.”

Generally made of inkstone stone, are relatively brittle, vibration too huge sometimes will be broken, so uncle De has so said.

“Oh, uncle De, we chiseled from the edge to see not on the line.”

Zhuang Rui knows that Uncle De is right, but he did not have time to wait, just now he scolded that Kong Shixian is a dilettante, it is possible that this store people still think that he is a child, Zhuang Rui is now trying to get inside the ink stone to pull out, proving who is a dilettante.

Zhuang Rui called the store inside a fellow, let him find a small hammer, because there is no chisel, can only find a flat screwdriver instead.

Zhuang Rui put the brick on the ground, squatted down, used his aura to distinguish where the adhesive gap was, aligned the flat mouth of the screwdriver there, and gently tapped the handle of the screwdriver with the hammer.

Zhuang Rui’s movements were very gentle, he was also afraid that if he exerted too much force, he would shock the inkstone inside, but the city bricks were fired a bit roughly, and under the screwdriver’s hammering, a gap visible to the naked eye was revealed where it had originally been polished.

“Huh, it’s still true, Brother Zhuang, you’re divine!”

Squatting next to the dead stare at the city bricks of the monkey, a glimpse of that gap, can not help but to Zhuang Rui cocked a thumb, this will be the store guests tend to that sell inkstone is douchebag mentality, for the first time above the Zhuang Rui is stupid guess.

Whether it’s something in this world, when destroying, must be easier than creating, not much time, that piece of city brick has been in Zhuang Rui’s violence to break down, divided into two halves, and inside a party of ancient and simple ZhuoYa’s ink stone, also presented in front of the crowd.

“This …… this is actually Wu Changshuo’s Huangwu Yuannian brick inkstone.”

Uncle De recognized the origin of this inkstone at a glance after it revealed its true face.